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WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + OCTOBER & NOVEMBER + 1664 + +October 1st. Up and at the office both forenoon and afternoon very busy, +and with great pleasure in being so. This morning Mrs. Lane (now Martin) +like a foolish woman, came to the Horseshoe hard by, and sent for me +while I was: at the office; to come to speak with her by a note sealed +up, I know to get me to do something for her husband, but I sent her an +answer that I would see her at Westminster, and so I did not go, and she +went away, poor soul. At night home to supper, weary, and my eyes sore +with writing and reading, and to bed. We go now on with great vigour in +preparing against the Dutch, who, they say, will now fall upon us without +doubt upon this high newes come of our beating them so, wholly in Guinny. + + + +2nd (Lord's day). My wife not being well to go to church I walked with +my boy through the City, putting in at several churches, among others at +Bishopsgate, and there saw the picture usually put before the King's +book, put up in the church, but very ill painted, though it were a pretty +piece to set up in a church. I intended to have seen the Quakers, who, +they say, do meet every Lord's day at the Mouth--[Tavern. D.W.]-- at +Bishopsgate; but I could see none stirring, nor was it fit to aske for +the place, so I walked over Moorefields, and thence to Clerkenwell +church, and there, as I wished, sat next pew to the fair Butler, who +indeed is a most perfect beauty still; and one I do very much admire +myself for my choice of her for a beauty, she having the best lower part +of her face that ever I saw all days of my life. After church I walked +to my Lady Sandwich's, through my Lord Southampton's new buildings in the +fields behind Gray's Inn; and, indeed, they are a very great and a noble +work. So I dined with my Lady, and the same innocent discourse that we +used to have, only after dinner, being alone, she asked me my opinion +about Creed, whether he would have a wife or no, and what he was worth, +and proposed Mrs. Wright for him, which, she says, she heard he was once +inquiring after. She desired I would take a good time and manner of +proposing it, and I said I would, though I believed he would love nothing +but money, and much was not to be expected there, she said. So away back +to Clerkenwell Church, thinking to have got sight of la belle Boteler +again, but failed, and so after church walked all over the fields home, +and there my wife was angry with me for not coming home, and for gadding +abroad to look after beauties, she told me plainly, so I made all peace, +and to supper. This evening came Mrs. Lane (now Martin) with her husband +to desire my helpe about a place for him. It seems poor Mr. Daniel is +dead of the Victualling Office, a place too good for this puppy to follow +him in. But I did give him the best words I could, and so after drinking +a glasse of wine sent them going, but with great kindnesse. Go to +supper, prayers, and to bed. + + + +3rd. Up with Sir J. Minnes, by coach, to St. James's; and there all the +newes now of very hot preparations for the Dutch: and being with the +Duke, he told us he was resolved to make a tripp himself, and that Sir W. +Pen should go in the same ship with him. Which honour, God forgive me! +I could grudge him, for his knavery and dissimulation, though I do not +envy much the having the same place myself. Talke also of great haste in +the getting out another fleete, and building some ships; and now it is +likely we have put one another by each other's dalliance past a retreate. +Thence with our heads full of business we broke up, and I to my barber's, +and there only saw Jane and stroked her under the chin, and away to the +Exchange, and there long about several businesses, hoping to get money by +them, and thence home to dinner and there found Hawly. But meeting +Bagwell's wife at the office before I went home I took her into the +office and there kissed her only. She rebuked me for doing it, saying +that did I do so much to many bodies else it would be a stain to me. But +I do not see but she takes it well enough, though in the main I believe +she is very honest. So after some kind discourse we parted, and I home to +dinner, and after dinner down to Deptford, where I found Mr. Coventry, +and there we made, an experiment of Holland's and our cordage, and ours +outdid it a great deale, as my book of observations tells particularly. +Here we were late, and so home together by water, and I to my office, +where late, putting things in order. Mr. Bland came this night to me to +take his leave of me, he going to Tangier, wherein I wish him good +successe. So home to supper and to bed, my mind troubled at the +businesses I have to do, that I cannot mind them as I ought to do and get +money, and more that I have neglected my frequenting and seeming more +busy publicly than I have done of late in this hurry of business, but +there is time left to recover it, and I trust in God I shall. + + + +4th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and this +morning Sir W. Pen went to Chatham to look: after the ships now going out +thence, and particularly that wherein the Duke and himself go. He took +Sir G. Ascue with: him, whom, I believe, he hath brought into play. At +noon to the 'Change and thence home, where I found my aunt James and the +two she joyces. They dined and were merry with us. Thence after dinner +to a play, to see "The Generall;" which is so dull and so ill-acted, that +I think it is the worst. I ever saw or heard in all my days. I happened +to sit near; to Sir Charles Sidly; who I find a very witty man, and he +did at every line take notice of the dullness of the poet and badness of +the action, that most pertinently; which I was mightily taken with; and +among others where by Altemire's command Clarimont, the Generall, is +commanded to rescue his Rivall, whom she loved, Lucidor, he, after a +great deal of demurre, broke out; "Well, I'le save my Rivall and make her +confess, that I deserve, while he do but possesse." "Why, what, pox," +says Sir Charles Sydly, "would he have him have more, or what is there +more to be had of a woman than the possessing her?" Thence-setting all +them at home, I home with my wife and Mercer, vexed at my losing my time +and above 20s. in money, and neglecting my business to see so bad a play. +To-morrow they told us should be acted, or the day after, a new play, +called "The Parson's Dreame," acted all by women. So to my office, and +there did business; and so home to supper and to bed. + + + +5th. Up betimes and to my office, and thence by coach to New Bridewell +to meet with Mr. Poyntz to discourse with him (being Master of the +Workhouse there) about making of Bewpers for us. But he was not within; +however his clerke did lead me up and down through all the house, and +there I did with great pleasure see the many pretty works, and the little +children employed, every one to do something, which was a very fine +sight, and worthy encouragement. I cast away a crowne among them, and so +to the 'Change and among the Linnen Wholesale Drapers to enquire about +Callicos, to see what can be done with them for the supplying our want of +Bewpers for flaggs, and I think I shall do something therein to good +purpose for the King. So to the Coffeehouse, and there fell in discourse +with the Secretary of the Virtuosi of Gresham College, and had very fine +discourse with him. He tells me of a new invented instrument to be tried +before the College anon, and I intend to see it. So to Trinity House, +and there I dined among the old dull fellows, and so home and to my +office a while, and then comes Mr. Cocker to see me, and I discoursed +with him about his writing and ability of sight, and how I shall do to +get some glasse or other to helpe my eyes by candlelight; and he tells me +he will bring me the helps he hath within a day or two, and shew me what +he do. Thence to the Musique-meeting at the Postoffice, where I was +once before. And thither anon come all the Gresham College, and a great +deal of noble company: and the new instrument was brought called the +Arched Viall, + + ["There seems to be a curious fate reigning over the instruments + which have the word 'arch' prefixed to their name. They have no + vitality, and somehow or other come to grief. Even the famous + archlute, which was still a living thing in the time of Handel, has + now disappeared from the concert room and joined Mr. Pepys's 'Arched + Viall' in the limbo of things forgotten . . . . Mr. Pepys's + verdict that it would never do . . . has been fully confirmed by + the event, as his predictions usually were, being indeed always + founded on calm judgment and close observation."--B. (Hueffer's + Italian and other Studies, 1883, p. 263).] + +where being tuned with lute-strings, and played on with kees like an +organ, a piece of parchment is always kept moving; and the strings, which +by the kees are pressed down upon it, are grated in imitation of a bow, +by the parchment; and so it is intended to resemble several vyalls played +on with one bow, but so basely and harshly, that it will never do. But +after three hours' stay it could not be fixed in tune; and so they were +fain to go to some other musique of instruments, which I am grown quite +out of love with, and so I, after some good discourse with Mr. Spong, +Hill, Grant, and Dr. Whistler, and others by turns, I home to my office +and there late, and so home, where I understand my wife has spoke to Jane +and ended matters of difference between her and her, and she stays with +us, which I am glad of; for her fault is nothing but sleepiness and +forgetfulness, otherwise a good-natured, quiet, well-meaning, honest +servant, and one that will do as she is bid, so one called upon her and +will see her do it. This morning, by three o'clock, the Prince +--[Rupert]-- and King, and Duke with him, went down the River, and the +Prince under sail the next tide after, and so is gone from the Hope. God +give him better successe than he used to have! This day Mr. Bland went +away hence towards his voyage to Tangier. This day also I had a letter +from an unknown hand that tells me that Jacke Angier, he believes, is +dead at Lisbon, for he left him there ill. + + + +6th. Up and to the office, where busy all the morning, among other +things about this of the flags and my bringing in of callicos to oppose +Young and Whistler. At noon by promise Mr. Pierce and his wife and Madam +Clerke and her niece came and dined with me to a rare chine of beefe and +spent the afternoon very pleasantly all the afternoon, and then to my +office in the evening, they being gone, and late at business, and then +home to supper and to bed, my mind coming to itself in following of my +business. + + + +7th. Lay pretty while with some discontent abed, even to the having bad +words with my wife, and blows too, about the ill-serving up of our +victuals yesterday; but all ended in love, and so I rose and to my office +busy all the morning. At noon dined at home, and then to my office +again, and then abroad to look after callicos for flags, and hope to get +a small matter by my pains therein and yet save the King a great deal of +money, and so home to my office, and there came Mr. Cocker, and brought +me a globe of glasse, and a frame of oyled paper, as I desired, to show +me the manner of his gaining light to grave by, and to lessen the +glaringnesse of it at pleasure by an oyled paper. This I bought of him, +giving him a crowne for it; and so, well satisfied, he went away, and I +to my business again, and so home to supper, prayers, and to bed. + + + +8th. All the morning at the office, and after dinner abroad, and among +other things contracted with one Mr. Bridges, at the White Bear on +Cornhill, for 100 pieces of Callico to make flaggs; and as I know I shall +save the King money, so I hope to get a little for my pains and venture +of my own money myself. Late in the evening doing business, and then +comes Captain Tayler, and he and I till 12 o'clock at night arguing about +the freight of his ship Eagle, hired formerly by me to Tangier, and at +last we made an end, and I hope to get a little money, some small matter +by it. So home to bed, being weary and cold, but contented that I have +made an end of that business. + + + +9th (Lord's day). Lay pretty long, but however up time enough with my +wife to go to church. Then home to dinner, and Mr. Fuller, my Cambridge +acquaintance, coming to me about what he was with me lately, to release a +waterman, he told me he was to preach at Barking Church; and so I to +heare him, and he preached well and neatly. Thence, it being time +enough, to our owne church, and there staid wholly privately at the great +doore to gaze upon a pretty lady, and from church dogged her home, +whither she went to a house near Tower hill, and I think her to be one of +the prettiest women I ever saw. So home, and at my office a while busy, +then to my uncle Wight's, whither it seems my wife went after sermon and +there supped, but my aunt and uncle in a very ill humour one with +another, but I made shift with much ado to keep them from scolding, and +so after supper home and to bed without prayers, it being cold, and +to-morrow washing day. + + + +10th. Up and, it being rainy, in Sir W. Pen's coach to St. James's, and +there did our usual business with the Duke, and more and more +preparations every day appear against the Dutch, and (which I must +confess do a little move my envy) Sir W. Pen do grow every day more and +more regarded by the Duke, + + ["The duke had decided that the English fleet should consist of + three squadrons to be commanded by himself, Prince Rupert, and Lord + Sandwich, from which arrangement the two last, who were land + admirals; had concluded that Penn would have no concern in this + fleet. Neither the duke, Rupert, nor Sandwich had ever been engaged + in an encounter of fleets . . . . Penn alone of the four was + familiar with all these things. By the duke's unexpected + announcement that he should take Penn with him into his own ship, + Rupert and Sandwich at once discovered that they would be really and + practically under Penn's command in everything."] + +because of his service heretofore in the Dutch warr which I am confident +is by some strong obligations he hath laid upon Mr. Coventry; for Mr. +Coventry must needs know that he is a man of very mean parts, but only a +bred seaman: Going home in coach with Sir W. Batten he told me how Sir J. +Minnes by the means of Sir R. Ford was the last night brought to his +house and did discover the reason of his so long discontent with him, and +now they are friends again, which I am sorry for, but he told it me so +plainly that I see there is no thorough understanding between them, nor +love, and so I hope there will be no great combination in any thing, nor +do I see Sir J. Minnes very fond as he used to be. But: Sir W. Batten do +raffle still against Mr. Turner and his wife, telling me he is a false +fellow, and his wife a false woman, and has rotten teeth and false, set +in with wire, and as I know they are so, so I am glad he finds it so. To +the Coffee-house, and thence to the 'Change, and therewith Sir W. Warren +to the Coffee-house behind the 'Change, and sat alone with him till 4 +o'clock talking of his businesses first and then of business in general, +and discourse how I might get money and how to carry myself to advantage +to contract no envy and yet make the world see my pains; which was with +great content to me, and a good friend and helpe I am like to find him, +for which God be thanked! So home to dinner at 4 o'clock, and then to +the office, and there late, and so home to supper and to bed, having sat +up till past twelve at night to look over the account of the collections +for the Fishery, and the loose and base manner that monies so collected +are disposed of in, would make a man never part with a penny in that +manner, and, above all, the inconvenience of having a great man, though +never so seeming pious as my Lord Pembroke is. He is too great to be +called to an account, and is abused by his servants, and yet obliged to +defend them for his owne sake. This day, by the blessing of God, my wife +and I have been married nine years: but my head being full of business, I +did not think of it to keep it in any extraordinary manner. But bless +God for our long lives and loves and health together, which the same God +long continue, I wish, from my very heart! + + + +11th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning. My wife this +morning went, being invited, to my Lady Sandwich, and I alone at home at +dinner, till by and by Luellin comes and dines with me. He tells me what +a bawdy loose play this "Parson's Wedding" is, that is acted by nothing +but women at the King's house, and I am glad of it. Thence to the +Fishery in Thames Street, and there several good discourses about the +letting of the Lotterys, and, among others, one Sir Thomas Clifford, whom +yet I knew not, do speak very well and neatly. Thence I to my cozen Will +Joyce to get him to go to Brampton with me this week, but I think he will +not, and I am not a whit sorry for it, for his company both chargeable +and troublesome. So home and to my office, and then to supper and then +to my office again till late, and so home, with my head and heart full of +business, and so to bed. My wife tells me the sad news of my Lady +Castlemayne's being now become so decayed, that one would not know her; +at least far from a beauty, which I am sorry for. This day with great +joy Captain Titus told us the particulars of the French's expedition +against Gigery upon the Barbary Coast, in the Straights, with 6,000 +chosen men. They have taken the Fort of Gigery, wherein were five men +and three guns, which makes the whole story of the King of France's +policy and power to be laughed at. + + + +12th. This morning all the morning at my office ordering things against +my journey to-morrow. At noon to the Coffeehouse, where very good +discourse. For newes, all say De Ruyter is gone to Guinny before us. +Sir J. Lawson is come to Portsmouth; and our fleete is hastening all +speed: I mean this new fleete. Prince Rupert with his is got into the +Downes. At home dined with me W. Joyce and a friend of his. W. Joyce +will go with me to Brampton. After dinner I out to Mr. Bridges, the +linnen draper, and evened with (him) for 100 pieces of callico, and did +give him L208 18s., which I now trust the King for, but hope both to save +the King money and to get a little by it to boot. Thence by water up and +down all the timber yards to look out some Dram timber, but can find none +for our turne at the price I would have; and so I home, and there at my +office late doing business against my journey to clear my hands of every +thing for two days. So home and to supper and bed. + + + +13th. After being at the office all the morning, I home and dined, and +taking leave of my wife with my mind not a little troubled how she would +look after herself or house in my absence, especially, too, leaving a +considerable sum of money in the office, I by coach to the Red Lyon in +Aldersgate Street, and there, by agreement, met W. Joyce and Tom Trice, +and mounted, I upon a very fine mare that Sir W. Warren helps me to, and +so very merrily rode till it was very darke, I leading the way through +the darke to Welling, and there, not being very weary, to supper and to +bed. But very bad accommodation at the Swan. In this day's journey I +met with Mr. White, Cromwell's chaplin that was, and had a great deale of +discourse with him. Among others, he tells me that Richard is, and hath +long been, in France, and is now going into Italy. He owns publiquely +that he do correspond, and return him all his money. That Richard hath +been in some straits at the beginning; but relieved by his friends. That +he goes by another name, but do not disguise himself, nor deny himself to +any man that challenges him. He tells me, for certain, that offers had +been made to the old man, of marriage between the King and his daughter, +to have obliged him, but he would not. + + [The Protector wished the Duke of Buckingham to marry his daughter + Frances. She married, 1. Robert Rich, grandson and heir to Robert, + Earl of Warwick, on November 11th, 1657, who died in the following + February; 2. Sir John Russell, Bart. She died January 27th, + 1721-22, aged eighty-four. In T. Morrice's life of Roger, Earl of + Orrery, prefixed to Orrery's "State Letters" (Dublin, 1743, vol. + i., p. 40), there is a circumstantial account of an interview + between Orrery (then Lord Broghill) and Cromwell, in which the + former suggested to the latter that Charles II. should marry Frances + Cromwell. Cromwell gave great attention to the reasons urged, "but + walking two or three turns, and pondering with himself, he told Lord + Broghill the king would never forgive him the death of his father. + His lordship desired him to employ somebody to sound the king in + this matter, to see how he would take it, and offered himself to + mediate in it for him. But Cromwell would not consent, but again + repeated, 'The king cannot and will not forgive the death of his + father;' and so he left his lordship, who durst not tell him he had + already dealt with his majesty in that affair. Upon this my lord + withdrew, and meeting Cromwell's wife and daughter, they inquired + how he had succeeded; of which having given them an account, he + added they must try their interest in him, but none could prevail."] + +He thinks (with me) that it never was in his power to bring in the King +with the consent of any of his officers about him; and that he scorned to +bring him in as Monk did, to secure himself and deliver every body else. +When I told him of what I found writ in a French book of one Monsieur +Sorbiere, that gives an account of his observations herein England; among +other things he says, that it is reported that Cromwell did, in his +life-time, transpose many of the bodies of the Kings of England from one +grave to another, and that by that means it is not known certainly +whether the head that is now set up upon a post be that of Cromwell, or +of one of the Kings; Mr. White tells me that he believes he never had so +poor a low thought in him to trouble himself about it. He says the hand +of God is much to be seen; that all his children are in good condition +enough as to estate, and that their relations that betrayed their family +are all now either hanged or very miserable. + + + +14th. Up by break of day, and got to Brampton by three o'clock, where my +father and mother overjoyed to see me, my mother, ready to weepe every +time she looked upon me. After dinner my father and I to the Court, and +there did all our business to my mind, as I have set down in a paper +particularly expressing our proceedings at this court. So home, where W. +Joyce full of talk and pleased with his journey, and after supper I to +bed and left my father, mother, and him laughing. + + + +15th. My father and I up and walked alone to Hinchingbroke; and among +the other late chargeable works that my Lord hath done there, we saw his +water-works and the Oral which is very fine; and so is the house all +over, but I am sorry to think of the money at this time spent therein. +Back to my father's (Mr. Sheply being out of town) and there breakfasted, +after making an end with Barton about his businesses, and then my mother +called me into the garden, and there but all to no purpose desiring me to +be friends with John, but I told her I cannot, nor indeed easily shall, +which afflicted the poor woman, but I cannot help it. Then taking leave, +W. Joyce and I set out, calling T. Trice at Bugden, and thence got by +night to Stevenage, and there mighty merry, though I in bed more weary +than the other two days, which, I think, proceeded from our galloping so +much, my other weariness being almost all over; but I find that a coney +skin in my breeches preserves me perfectly from galling, and that eating +after I come to my Inne, without drinking, do keep me from being stomach +sick, which drink do presently make me. We lay all in several beds in +the same room, and W. Joyce full of his impertinent tricks and talk, +which then made us merry, as any other fool would have done. So to +sleep. + + + +16th (Lord's day). It raining, we set out, and about nine o'clock got to +Hatfield in church-time; and I 'light and saw my simple Lord Salsbury sit +there in his gallery. Staid not in the Church, but thence mounted again +and to Barnett by the end of sermon, and there dined at the Red Lyon very +weary again, but all my weariness yesterday night and to-day in my thighs +only, the rest of my weariness in my shoulders and arms being quite gone. +Thence home, parting company at my cozen Anth. Joyce's, by four o'clock, +weary, but very well, to bed at home, where I find all well. Anon my +wife came to bed, but for my ease rose again and lay with her woman. + + + +17th. Rose very well and not weary, and with Sir W. Batten to St. +James's; there did our business. I saw Sir J. Lawson since his return +from sea first this morning, and hear that my Lord Sandwich is come from +Portsmouth to town. Thence I to him, and finding him at my Lord Crew's, I +went with him home to his house and much kind discourse. Thence my Lord +to Court, and I with Creed to the 'Change, and thence with Sir W. Warren +to a cook's shop and dined, discoursing and advising him about his great +contract he is to make tomorrow, and do every day receive great +satisfaction in his company, and a prospect of a just advantage by his +friendship. Thence to my office doing some business, but it being very +cold, I, for fear of getting cold, went early home to bed, my wife not +being come home from my Lady Jemimah, with whom she hath been at a play +and at Court to-day. + + + +18th. Up and to the office, where among other things we made a very +great contract with Sir W. Warren for 3,000 loade of timber. At noon +dined at home. In the afternoon to the Fishery, where, very confused and +very ridiculous, my Lord Craven's proceedings, especially his finding +fault with Sir J. Collaton and Colonell Griffin's' report in the accounts +of the lottery-men. Thence I with Mr. Gray in his coach to White Hall, +but the King and Duke being abroad, we returned to Somersett House. In +discourse I find him a very worthy and studious gentleman in the business +of trade, and among-other things he observed well to me, how it is not +the greatest wits, but the steady man, that is a good merchant: he +instanced in Ford and Cocke, the last of whom he values above all men as +his oracle, as Mr. Coventry do Mr. Jolliffe. He says that it is +concluded among merchants, that where a trade hath once been and do +decay, it never recovers again, and therefore that the manufacture of +cloath of England will never come to esteem again; that, among other +faults, Sir Richard Ford cannot keepe a secret, and that it is so much +the part of a merchant to be guilty of that fault that the Duke of Yoke +is resolved to commit no more secrets to the merchants of the Royall +Company; that Sir Ellis Layton is, for a speech of forty words, the +wittiest man that ever he knew in his life, but longer he is nothing, his +judgment being nothing at all, but his wit most absolute. At Somersett +House he carried me in, and there I saw the Queene's new rooms, which are +most stately and nobly furnished; and there I saw her, and the Duke of +Yorke and Duchesse were there. The Duke espied me, and came to me, and +talked with me a very great while about our contract this day with Sir W. +Warren, and among other things did with some contempt ask whether we did +except Polliards, which Sir W. Batten did yesterday (in spite, as the +Duke I believe by my Lord Barkely do well enough know) among other things +in writing propose. Thence home by coach, it raining hard, and to my +office, where late, then home to supper and to bed. This night the Dutch +Embassador desired and had an audience of the King. What the issue of it +was I know not. Both sides I believe desire peace, but neither will +begin, and so I believe a warr will follow. The Prince is with his fleet +at Portsmouth, and the Dutch are making all preparations for warr. + + + +19th. Up and to my office all the morning. At noon dined at home; then +abroad by coach to buy for the office "Herne upon the Statute of +Charitable Uses," in order to the doing something better in the Chest +than we have done, for I am ashamed to see Sir W. Batten possess himself +so long of so much money as he hath done. Coming home, weighed, my two +silver flaggons at Stevens's. They weigh 212 oz. 27 dwt., which is about +L50, at 5s. per oz., and then they judge the fashion to be worth above +5s. per oz. more--nay, some say 10s. an ounce the fashion. But I do not +believe, but yet am sorry to see that the fashion is worth so much, and +the silver come to no more. So home and to my office, where very busy +late. My wife at Mercer's mother's, I believe, W. Hewer with them, which +I do not like, that he should ask my leave to go about business, and then +to go and spend his time in sport, and leave me here busy. To supper and +to bed, my wife coming in by and by, which though I know there was no +hurt in it; I do not like. + + + +20th. Up and to the office, where all the morning. At noon my uncle +Thomas came, dined with me, and received some money of me. Then I to my +office, where I took in with me Bagwell's wife, and there I caressed her, +and find her every day more and more coming with good words and promises +of getting her husband a place, which I will do. So we parted, and I to +my Lord Sandwich at his lodgings, and after a little stay away with Mr. +Cholmely to Fleete Streete; in the way he telling me that Tangier is like +to be in a bad condition with this same Fitzgerald, he being a man of no +honour, nor presence, nor little honesty, and endeavours: to raise the +Irish and suppress the English interest there; and offend every body, and +do nothing that I hear of well, which I am sorry for. Thence home, by the +way taking two silver tumblers home, which I have bought, and so home, +and there late busy at my office, and then home to supper and to bed. + + + +21st. Up and by coach to Mr. Cole's, and there conferred with him about +some law business, and so to Sir W. Turner's, and there bought my cloth, +coloured, for a suit and cloake, to line with plush the cloak, which will +cost me money, but I find that I must go handsomely, whatever it costs +me, and the charge will be made up in the fruit it brings. Thence to the +Coffee-house and 'Change, and so home to dinner, and then to the office +all the afternoon, whither comes W. Howe to see me, being come from, and +going presently back to sea with my Lord. Among other things he tells me +Mr. Creed is much out of favour with my Lord from his freedom of talke +and bold carriage, and other things with which my Lord is not pleased, +but most I doubt his not lending my Lord money, and Mr. Moore's reporting +what his answer was I doubt in the worst manner. But, however, a very +unworthy rogue he is, and, therefore, let him go for one good for +nothing, though wise to the height above most men I converse with. In +the evening (W. Howe being gone) comes Mr. Martin, to trouble me again to +get him a Lieutenant's place for which he is as fit as a foole can be. +But I put him off like an arse, as he is, and so setting my papers and +books in order: I home to supper and to bed. + + + +22nd. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon comes +my uncle Thomas and his daughter Mary about getting me to pay them the +L30 due now, but payable in law to her husband. I did give them the best +answer I could, and so parted, they not desiring to stay to dinner. +After dinner I down to Deptford, and there did business, and so back to +my office, where very late busy, and so home to supper and to bed. + + + +23rd (Lord's day). Up and to church. At noon comes unexpected Mr. +Fuller, the minister, and dines with me, and also I had invited Mr. +Cooper with one I judge come from sea, and he and I spent the whole +afternoon together, he teaching me some things in understanding of +plates. At night to the office, doing business, and then home to supper. +Then a psalm, to prayers, and to bed. + + + +24th. Up and in Sir J. Minnes' coach (alone with Mrs. Turner as far as +Paternoster Row, where I set her down) to St. James's, and there did our +business, and I had the good lucke to speak what pleased the Duke about +our great contract in hand with Sir W. Warren against Sir W. Batten, +wherein the Duke is very earnest for our contracting. Thence home to the +office till noon, and then dined and to the 'Change and off with Sir W. +Warren for a while, consulting about managing his contract. Thence to a +Committee at White Hall of Tangier, where I had the good lucke to speak +something to very good purpose about the Mole at Tangier, which was well +received even by Sir J. Lawson and Mr. Cholmely, the undertakers, against +whose interest I spoke; that I believe I shall be valued for it. Thence +into the galleries to talk with my Lord Sandwich; among other things, +about the Prince's writing up to tell us of the danger he and his fleete +lie in at Portsmouth, of receiving affronts from the Dutch; which, my +Lord said, he would never have done, had he lain there with one ship +alone: nor is there any great reason for it, because of the sands. +However, the fleete will be ordered to go and lay themselves up at the +Cowes. Much beneath the prowesse of the Prince, I think, and the honour +of the nation, at the first to be found to secure themselves. My Lord is +well pleased to think, that, if the Duke and the Prince go, all the blame +of any miscarriage will not light on him; and that if any thing goes +well, he hopes he shall have the share of the glory, for the Prince is by +no means well esteemed of by any body. Thence home, and though not very +well yet up late about the Fishery business, wherein I hope to give an +account how I find the Collections to have been managed, which I did +finish to my great content, and so home to supper and to bed. This day +the great O'Neale died; I believe, to the content of all the Protestant +pretenders in Ireland. + + + +25th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and finished +Sir W. Warren's great contract for timber, with great content to me, +because just in the terms I wrote last night to Sir W. Warren and against +the terms proposed by Sir W. Batten. At noon home to dinner, and there +found Creed and Hawley. After dinner comes in Mrs. Ingram, the first time +to make a visit to my wife. After a little stay I left them and to the +Committee of the Fishery, and there did make my report of the late public +collections for the Fishery, much to the satisfaction of the Committee, +and I think much to my reputation, for good notice was taken of it and +much it was commended. So home, in my way taking care of a piece of +plate for Mr. Christopher Pett, against the launching of his new great +ship tomorrow at Woolwich, which I singly did move to His Royall +Highness, and did obtain it for him, to the value of twenty pieces. And +he, under his hand, do acknowledge to me that he did never receive so +great a kindness from any man in the world as from me herein. So to my +office, and then to supper, and then to my office again, where busy late, +being very full now a days of business to my great content, I thank God, +and so home to bed, my house being full of a design, to go to-morrow, my +wife and all her servants, to see the new ship launched. + + + +26th. Up, my people rising mighty betimes, to fit themselves to go by +water; and my boy, he could not sleep, but wakes about four o'clock, and +in bed lay playing on his lute till daylight, and, it seems, did the like +last night till twelve o'clock. About eight o'clock, my wife, she and +her woman, and Besse and Jane, and W. Hewer and the boy, to the +water-side, and there took boat, and by and by I out of doors, to look +after the flaggon, to get it ready to carry to Woolwich. That being not +ready, I stepped aside and found out Nellson, he that Whistler buys his +bewpers of, and did there buy 5 pieces at their price, and am in hopes +thereby to bring them down or buy ourselves all we spend of Nellson at +the first hand. This jobb was greatly to my content, and by and by the +flaggon being finished at the burnisher's, I home, and there fitted +myself, and took a hackney-coach I hired, it being a very cold and foule +day, to Woolwich, all the way reading in a good book touching the +fishery, and that being done, in the book upon the statute of charitable +uses, mightily to my satisfaction. At Woolwich; I there up to the King +and Duke, and they liked the plate well. Here I staid above with them +while the ship was launched, which was done with great success, and the +King did very much like the ship, saying, she had the best bow that ever +he saw. But, Lord! the sorry talke and discourse among the great +courtiers round about him, without any reverence in the world, but with +so much disorder. By and by the Queene comes and her Mayds of Honour; +one whereof, Mrs. Boynton, and the Duchesse of Buckingham, had been very +siclee coming by water in the barge (the water being very rough); but +what silly sport they made with them in very common terms, methought, was +very poor, and below what people think these great people say and do. +The launching being done, the King and company went down to take barge; +and I sent for Mr. Pett, and put the flaggon into the Duke's hand, and +he, in the presence of the King, did give it, Mr. Pett taking it upon his +knee. This Mr. Pett is wholly beholding to me for, and he do know and I +believe will acknowledge it. Thence I to Mr. Ackworth, and there eat and +drank with Commissioner Pett and his wife, and thence to Shelden's, where +Sir W. Batten and his Lady were. By and by I took coach after I had +enquired for my wife or her boat, but found none. Going out of the gate, +an ordinary woman prayed me to give her room to London, which I did, but +spoke not to her all the way, but read, as long as I could see, my book +again. Dark when we came to London, and a stop of coaches in Southwarke. +I staid above half an houre and then 'light, and finding Sir W. Batten's +coach, heard they were gone into the Beare at the Bridge foot, and +thither I to them. Presently the stop is removed, and then going out to +find my coach, I could not find it, for it was gone with the rest; so I +fair to go through the darke and dirt over the bridge, and my leg fell in +a hole broke on the bridge, but, the constable standing there to keep +people from it, I was catched up, otherwise I had broke my leg; for which +mercy the Lord be praised! So at Fanchurch I found my coach staying for +me, and so home, where the little girle hath looked to the house well, +but no wife come home, which made me begin to fear [for] her, the water +being very rough, and cold and darke. But by and by she and her company +come in all well, at which I was glad, though angry. Thence I to Sir W. +Batten's, and there sat late with him, Sir R. Ford, and Sir John +Robinson; the last of whom continues still the same foole he was, crying +up what power he has in the City, in knowing their temper, and being able +to do what he will with them. It seems the City did last night very +freely lend the King L100,000 without any security but the King's word, +which was very noble. But this loggerhead and Sir R. Ford would make us +believe that they did it. Now Sir R. Ford is a cunning man, and makes a +foole of the other, and the other believes whatever the other tells him. +But, Lord! to think that such a man should be Lieutenant of the Tower, +and so great a man as he is, is a strange thing to me. With them late +and then home and with my wife to bed, after supper. + + + +27th. Up and to the office, where all the morning busy. At noon, Sir G. +Carteret, Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, Sir W. Pen, and myself, were +treated at the Dolphin by Mr. Foly, the ironmonger, where a good plain +dinner, but I expected musique, the missing of which spoiled my dinner, +only very good merry discourse at dinner. Thence with Sir G. Carteret by +coach to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier, and thence back to London, +and 'light in Cheapside and I to Nellson's, and there met with a rub at +first, but took him out to drink, and there discoursed to my great +content so far with him that I think I shall agree with him for Bewpers +to serve the Navy with. So with great content home and to my office, +where late, and having got a great cold in my head yesterday home to +supper and to bed. + + + +28th. Slept ill all night, having got a very great cold the other day at +Woolwich in [my] head, which makes me full of snot. Up in the morning, +and my tailor brings me home my fine, new, coloured cloth suit, my cloake +lined with plush, as good a suit as ever I wore in my life, and mighty +neat, to my great content. To my office, and there all the morning. At +noon to Nellson's, and there bought 20 pieces more of Bewpers, and hope +to go on with him to a contract. Thence to the 'Change a little, and +thence home with Luellin to dinner, where Mr. Deane met me by +appointment, and after dinner he and I up to my chamber, and there hard +at discourse, and advising him what to do in his business at Harwich, and +then to discourse of our old business of ships and taking new rules of +him to my great pleasure, and he being gone I to my office a little, and +then to see Sir W. Batten, who is sick of a greater cold than I, and +thither comes to me Mr. Holliard, and into the chamber to me, and, poor +man (beyond all I ever saw of him), was a little drunk, and there sat +talking and finding acquaintance with Sir W. Batten and my Lady by +relations on both sides, that there we staid very long. At last broke +up, and he home much overcome with drink, but well enough to get well +home. So I home to supper and to bed. + + + +29th. Up, and it being my Lord Mayor's show, my boy and three mayds went +out; but it being a very foule, rainy day, from morning till night, I was +sorry my wife let them go out. All the morning at the office. At dinner +at home. In the afternoon to the office again, and about 9 o'clock by +appointment to the King's Head tavern upon Fish Street Hill, whither Mr. +Wolfe (and Parham by his means) met me to discourse about the Fishery, +and great light I had by Parham, who is a little conceited, but a very +knowing man in his way, and in the general fishing trade of England. +Here I staid three hours, and eat a barrel of very fine oysters of +Wolfe's giving me, and so, it raining hard, home and to my office, and +then home to bed. All the talke is that De Ruyter is come over-land +home with six or eight of his captaines to command here at home, and +their ships kept abroad in the Straights; which sounds as if they had a +mind to do something with us. + + + +30th (Lord's day). Up, and this morning put on my new, fine, coloured +cloth suit, with my cloake lined with plush, which is a dear and noble +suit, costing me about L17. + + [Let us remember the exchange rate of between 500 to 1000 dollars, + US (year 2000), per Pound. This was then a most expensive suit of + clothes at $8000 to $17,000. The annual wage for some of Pepy's + servants was L2 or L3 per annum. D.W.] + +To church, and then home to dinner, and after dinner to a little musique +with my boy, and so to church with my wife, and so home, and with her all +the evening reading and at musique with my boy with great pleasure, and +so to supper, prayers, and to bed. + + + +31st. Very busy all the morning, at noon Creed to me and dined with me, +and then he and I to White Hall, there to a Committee of Tangier, where +it is worth remembering when Mr. Coventry proposed the retrenching some +of the charge of the horse, the first word asked by the Duke of Albemarle +was, "Let us see who commands them," there being three troops. One of +them he calls to mind was by Sir Toby Bridges. "Oh!" says he, "there is a +very good man. If you must reform + + [Reform, i.e. disband. See "Memoirs of Sir John Reresby," + September 2nd, 1651. "A great many younger brothers and reformed + officers of the King's army depended upon him for their meat and + drink." So reformado, a discharged or disbanded officer.--M. B.] + +two of them, be sure let him command the troop that is left." Thence +home, and there came presently to me Mr. Young and Whistler, who find +that I have quite overcome them in their business of flags, and now they +come to intreat my favour, but I will be even with them. So late to my +office and there till past one in the morning making up my month's +accounts, and find that my expense this month in clothes has kept me from +laying up anything; but I am no worse, but a little better than I was, +which is L1205, a great sum, the Lord be praised for it! So home to bed, +with my mind full of content therein, and vexed for my being so angry in +bad words to my wife to-night, she not giving me a good account of her +layings out to my mind to-night. This day I hear young Mr. Stanly, a +brave young [gentleman], that went out with young Jermin, with Prince +Rupert, is already dead of the small-pox, at Portsmouth. All +preparations against the Dutch; and the Duke of Yorke fitting himself +with all speed, to go to the fleete which is hastening for him; being now +resolved to go in the Charles. + + + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + NOVEMBER + 1664 + +November 1st. Up and to the office, where busy all the morning, at noon +(my wife being invited to my Lady Sandwich's) all alone dined at home +upon a good goose with Mr. Wayth, discussing of business. Thence I to +the Committee of the Fishery, and there we sat with several good +discourses and some bad and simple ones, and with great disorder, and yet +by the men of businesse of the towne. But my report in the business of +the collections is mightily commended and will get me some reputation, +and indeed is the only thing looks like a thing well done since we sat. +Then with Mr. Parham to the tavern, but I drank no wine, only he did give +me another barrel of oysters, and he brought one Major Greene, an able +fishmonger, and good discourse to my information. So home and late at +business at my office. Then to supper and to bed. + + + +2nd. Up betimes, and down with Mr. Castle to Redriffe, and there walked +to Deptford to view a parcel of brave knees--[Knees of timber]-- of his, +which indeed are very good, and so back again home, I seeming very +friendly to him, though I know him to be a rogue, and one that hates me +with his heart. Home and to dinner, and so to my office all the +afternoon, where in some pain in my backe, which troubled me, but I think +it comes only with stooping, and from no other matter. At night to +Nellson's, and up and down about business, and so home to my office, then +home to supper and to bed. + + + +3rd. Up and to the office, where strange to see how Sir W. Pen is +flocked to by people of all sorts against his going to sea. At the +office did much business, among other an end of that that has troubled me +long, the business of the bewpers and flags. At noon to the 'Change, and +thence by appointment was met with Bagwell's wife, and she followed me +into Moorfields, and there into a drinking house, and all alone eat and +drank together. I did there caress her, but though I did make some offer +did not receive any compliance from her in what was bad, but very +modestly she denied me, which I was glad to see and shall value her the +better for it, and I hope never tempt her to any evil more. Thence back +to the town, and we parted and I home, and then at the office late, where +Sir W. Pen came to take his leave of me, being to-morrow, which is very +sudden to us, to go on board to lie on board, but I think will come +ashore again before the ship, the Charles, + + ["The Royal Charles" was the Duke of York's ship, and Sir William + Penn, who hoisted his flag in the "Royal James" on November 8th, + shifted to the "Royal Charles" on November 30th. The duke gave Penn + the command of the fleet immediately under himself. On Penn's + monument he is styled "Great Captain Commander under His Royal + Highness" (Penn's "Memorials of Sir William Penn," vol. ii., + p. 296).] + +can go away. So home to supper and to bed. This night Sir W. Batten +did, among other things, tell me strange newes, which troubles me, that +my Lord Sandwich will be sent Governor to Tangier, which, in some +respects, indeed, I should be glad of, for the good of the place and the +safety of his person; but I think his honour will suffer, and, it may be, +his interest fail by his distance. + + + +4th. Waked very betimes and lay long awake, my mind being so full of +business. Then up and to St. James's, where I find Mr. Coventry full of +business, packing up for his going to sea with the Duke. Walked with +him, talking, to White Hall, where to the Duke's lodgings, who is gone +thither to lodge lately. I appeared to the Duke, and thence Mr. Coventry +and I an hour in the Long Gallery, talking about the management of our +office, he tells me the weight of dispatch will lie chiefly on me, and +told me freely his mind touching Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes, the +latter of whom, he most aptly said, was like a lapwing; that all he did +was to keepe a flutter, to keepe others from the nest that they would +find. He told me an old story of the former about the light-houses, how +just before he had certified to the Duke against the use of them, and +what a burden they are to trade, and presently after, at his being at +Harwich, comes to desire that he might have the setting one up there, and +gets the usefulness of it certified also by the Trinity House. After +long discoursing and considering all our stores and other things, as how +the King hath resolved upon Captain Taylor + + [Coventry, writing to Secretary Bennet (November 14th, 1664), refers + to the objections made to Taylor, and adds: "Thinks the King will + not easily consent to his rejection, as he is a man of great + abilities and dispatch, and was formerly laid aside at Chatham on + the Duchess of Albemarle's earnest interposition for another. He is + a fanatic, it is true, but all hands will be needed for the work cut + out; there is less danger of them in harbour than at sea, and profit + will convert most of them" (" Calendar of State Papers," Domestic, + 1664-65, p. 68).] + +and Colonell Middleton, the first to be Commissioner for Harwich and the +latter for Portsmouth, I away to the 'Change, and there did very much +business, so home to dinner, and Mr. Duke, our Secretary for the Fishery, +dined with me. After dinner to discourse of our business, much to my +content, and then he away, and I by water among the smiths on the other +side, and to the alehouse with one and was near buying 4 or 5 anchors, +and learned something worth my knowing of them, and so home and to my +office, where late, with my head very full of business, and so away home +to supper and to bed. + + + +5th. Up and to the office, where all the morning, at noon to the +'Change, and thence home to dinner, and so with my wife to the Duke's +house to a play, "Macbeth," a pretty good play, but admirably acted. +Thence home; the coach being forced to go round by London Wall home, +because of the bonefires; the day being mightily observed in the City. +To my office late at business, and then home to supper, and to bed. + + + +6th (Lord's day). Up and with my wife to church. Dined at home. And I +all the afternoon close at my office drawing up some proposals to present +to the Committee for the Fishery to-morrow, having a great good intention +to be serviceable in the business if I can. At night, to supper with my +uncle Wight, where very merry, and so home. To prayers and to bed. + + + +7th. Up and with Sir W. Batten to White Hall, where mighty thrusting +about the Duke now upon his going. We were with him long. He advised us +to follow our business close, and to be directed in his absence by the +Committee of the Councell for the Navy. By and by a meeting of the +Fishery, where the Duke was, but in such haste, and things looked so +superficially over, that I had not a fit opportunity to propose my paper +that I wrote yesterday, but I had chewed it to Mr. Gray and Wren before, +who did like it most highly, as they said, and I think they would not +dissemble in that manner in a business of this nature, but I see the +greatest businesses are done so superficially that I wonder anything +succeeds at all among us, that is publique. Thence somewhat vexed to see +myself frustrated in the good I hoped to have done and a little +reputation to have gained, and thence to my barber's, but Jane not being +in the way I to my Lady Sandwich's, and there met my wife and dined, but +I find that I dine as well myself, that is, as neatly, and my meat as +good and well-dressed, as my good Lady do, in the absence of my Lord. +Thence by water I to my barber's again, and did meet in the street my +Jane, but could not talk with her, but only a word or two, and so by +coach called my wife, and home, where at my office late, and then, it +being washing day, to supper and to bed. + + + +8th. Up and to the office, where by and by Mr. Coventry come, and after +doing a little business, took his leave of us, being to go to sea with +the Duke to-morrow. At noon, I and Sir J. Minnes and Lord Barkeley (who +with Sir J. Duncum, and Mr. Chichly, are made Masters of the Ordnance), +to the office of the Ordnance, to discourse about wadding for guns. +Thence to dinner, all of us to the Lieutenant's of the Tower; where a +good dinner, but disturbed in the middle of it by the King's coming into +the Tower: and so we broke up, and to him, and went up and down the +store-houses and magazines; which are, with the addition of the new great +store-house, a noble sight. He gone, I to my office, where Bagwell's +wife staid for me, and together with her a good while, to meet again +shortly. So all the afternoon at my office till late, and then to bed, +joyed in my love and ability to follow my business. This day, Mr. Lever +sent my wife a pair of silver candlesticks, very pretty ones. The first +man that ever presented me, to whom I have not only done little service, +but apparently did him the greatest disservice in his business of +accounts, as Purser-Generall, of any man at the board. + + + +9th. Called up, as I had appointed, by H. Russell, between two and three +o'clock, and I and my boy Tom by water with a gally down to the Hope, it +being a fine starry night. Got thither by eight o'clock, and there, as +expected, found the Charles, her mainmast setting. Commissioner Pett +aboard. I up and down to see the ship I was so well acquainted with, and +a great worke it is, the setting so great a mast. Thence the +Commissioner and I on board Sir G. Ascue, in the Henery, who lacks men +mightily, which makes me think that there is more believed to be in a man +that hath heretofore been employed than truly there is; for one would +never have thought, a month ago, that he would have wanted 1000 men at +his heels. Nor do I think he hath much of a seaman in him: for he told +me, says he, "Heretofore, we used to find our ships clear and ready, +everything to our hands in the Downes. Now I come, and must look to see +things done like a slave, things that I never minded, nor cannot look +after." And by his discourse I find that he hath not minded anything in +her at all. Thence not staying, the wind blowing hard, I made use of the +Jemmy yacht and returned to the Tower in her, my boy being a very droll +boy and good company. Home and eat something, and then shifted myself, +and to White Hall, and there the King being in his Cabinet Council (I +desiring to speak with Sir G. Carteret), I was called in, and demanded by +the King himself many questions, to which I did give him full answers. +There were at this Council my Lord Chancellor, Archbishop of Canterbury, +Lord Treasurer, the two Secretarys, and Sir G. Carteret. Not a little +contented at this chance of being made known to these persons, and called +often by my name by the King, I to Mr. Pierces to take leave of him, but +he not within, but saw her and made very little stay, but straight home +to my office, where I did business, and then to supper and to bed. The +Duke of York is this day gone away to Portsmouth. + + + +10th. Up, and not finding my things ready, I was so angry with Besse as +to bid my wife for good and all to bid her provide herself a place, for +though she be very good-natured, she hath no care nor memory of her +business at all. So to the office, where vexed at the malice of Sir W. +Batten and folly of Sir J. Minnes against Sir W. Warren, but I prevented, +and shall do, though to my own disquiet and trouble. At noon dined with +Sir W. Batten and the Auditors of the Exchequer at the Dolphin by Mr. +Wayth's desire, and after dinner fell to business relating to Sir G. +Carteret's account, and so home to the office, where Sir W. Batten +begins, too fast, to shew his knavish tricks in giving what price he +pleases for commodities. So abroad, intending to have spoke with my Lord +Chancellor about the old business of his wood at Clarendon, but could +not, and so home again, and late at my office, and then home to supper +and bed. My little girle Susan is fallen sicke of the meazles, we fear, +or, at least, of a scarlett feavour. + + + +11th. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten to the Council +Chamber at White Hall, to the Committee of the Lords for the Navy, where +we were made to wait an houre or two before called in. In that time +looking upon some books of heraldry of Sir Edward Walker's making, which +are very fine, there I observed the Duke of Monmouth's armes are neatly +done, and his title, "The most noble and high-born Prince, James Scott, +Duke of Monmouth, &c.;" nor could Sir J. Minnes, nor any body there, tell +whence he should take the name of Scott? And then I found my Lord +Sandwich, his title under his armes is, "The most noble and mighty Lord, +Edward, Earl of Sandwich, &c." Sir Edward Walker afterwards coming in, +in discourse did say that there was none of the families of princes in +Christendom that do derive themselves so high as Julius Caesar, nor so +far by 1000 years, that can directly prove their rise; only some in +Germany do derive themselves from the patrician familys of Rome, but that +uncertainly; and, among other things, did much inveigh against the +writing of romances, that 500 years hence being wrote of matters in +general, true as the romance of Cleopatra, the world will not know which +is the true and which the false. Here was a gentleman attending here that +told us he saw the other day (and did bring the draught of it to Sir +Francis Prigeon) of a monster born of an hostler's wife at Salisbury, two +women children perfectly made, joyned at the lower part of their bellies, +and every part perfect as two bodies, and only one payre of legs coming +forth on one side from the middle where they were joined. It was alive 24 +hours, and cried and did as all hopefull children do; but, being showed +too much to people, was killed. By and by we were called in, where a +great many lords: Annesly in the chair. But, Lord! to see what work +they will make us, and what trouble we shall have to inform men in a +business they are to begin to know, when the greatest of our hurry is, is +a thing to be lamented; and I fear the consequence will be bad to us. +Thence I by coach to the 'Change, and thence home to dinner, my head +akeing mightily with much business. Our little girl better than she was +yesterday. After dinner out again by coach to my Lord Chancellor's, but +could not speak with him, then up and down to seek Sir Ph. Warwicke, Sir +G. Carteret, and my Lord Berkely, but failed in all, and so home and +there late at business. Among other things Mr. Turner making his +complaint to me how my clerks do all the worke and get all the profit, +and he hath no comfort, nor cannot subsist, I did make him apprehend how +he is beholding to me more than to any body for my suffering him to act +as Pourveyour of petty provisions, and told him so largely my little +value of any body's favour, that I believe he will make no complaints +again a good while. So home to supper and to bed, after prayers, and +having my boy and Mercer give me some, each of them some, musique. + + + +12th. Up, being frighted that Mr. Coventry was come to towne and now at +the office, so I run down without eating or drinking or washing to the +office and it proved my Lord Berkeley. There all the morning, at noon to +the 'Change, and so home to dinner, Mr. Wayth with me, and then to the +office, where mighty busy till very late, but I bless God I go through +with it very well and hope I shall. + + + +13th (Lord's day). This morning to church, where mighty sport, to hear +our clerke sing out of tune, though his master sits by him that begins +and keeps the tune aloud for the parish. Dined at home very well, and +spent all the afternoon with my wife within doors, and getting a speech +out of Hamlett, "To bee or not to bee,"' without book. In the evening to +sing psalms, and in come Mr. Hill to see me, and then he and I and the +boy finely to sing, and so anon broke up after much pleasure, he gone I +to supper, and so prayers and to bed. + + + +14th. Up, and with Sir W. Batten to White Hall, to the Lords of the +Admiralty, and there did our business betimes. Thence to Sir Philip +Warwicke about Navy business: and my Lord Ashly; and afterwards to my +Lord Chancellor, who is very well pleased with me, and my carrying of his +business. And so to the 'Change, where mighty busy; and so home to +dinner, where Mr. Creed and Moore: and after dinner I to my Lord +Treasurer's, to Sir Philip Warwicke there, and then to White Hall, to the +Duke of Albemarle, about Tangier; and then homeward to the Coffee-house +to hear newes. And it seems the Dutch, as I afterwards found by Mr. +Coventry's letters, have stopped a ship of masts of Sir W. Warren's, +coming for us in a Swede's ship, which they will not release upon Sir G. +Downing's claiming her: which appears as the first act of hostility; and +is looked upon as so by Mr. Coventry. The Elias,' coming from New +England (Captain Hill, commander), is sunk; only the captain and a few +men saved. She foundered in the sea. So home, where infinite busy till +12 at night, and so home to supper and to bed. + + + +15th. That I might not be too fine for the business I intend this day, I +did leave off my fine new cloth suit lined with plush and put on my poor +black suit, and after office done (where much business, but little done), +I to the 'Change, and thence Bagwell's wife with much ado followed me +through Moorfields to a blind alehouse, and there I did caress her and +eat and drink, and many hard looks and sooth the poor wretch did give me, +and I think verily was troubled at what I did, but at last after many +protestings by degrees I did arrive at what I would, with great pleasure, +and then in the evening, it raining, walked into town to where she knew +where she was, and then I took coach and to White Hall to a Committee of +Tangier, where, and every where else, I thank God, I find myself growing +in repute; and so home, and late, very late, at business, nobody minding +it but myself, and so home to bed, weary and full of thoughts. +Businesses grow high between the Dutch and us on every side. + + + +16th. My wife not being well, waked in the night, and strange to see how +dead sleep our people sleep that she was fain to ring an hour before any +body would wake. At last one rose and helped my wife, and so to sleep +again. Up and to my business, and then to White Hall, there to attend +the Lords Commissioners, and so directly home and dined with Sir W. +Batten and my Lady, and after dinner had much discourse tending to profit +with Sir W. Batten, how to get ourselves into the prize office + + [The Calendars of State Papers are full of references to + applications for Commissionerships of the Prize Office. In + December, 1664, the Navy Committee appointed themselves the + Commissioners for Prize Goods, Sir Henry Bennet being appointed + comptroller, and Lord Ashley treasurer.] + +or some other fair way of obliging the King to consider us in our +extraordinary pains. Then to the office, and there all the afternoon +very busy, and so till past 12 at night, and so home to bed. This day my +wife went to the burial of a little boy of W. Joyce's. + + + +17th. Up and to my office, and there all the morning mighty busy, and +taking upon me to tell the Comptroller how ill his matters were done, and +I think indeed if I continue thus all the business of the office will +come upon me whether I will or no. At noon to the 'Change, and then home +with Creed to dinner, and thence I to the office, where close at it all +the afternoon till 12 at night, and then home to supper and to bed. This +day I received from Mr. Foley, but for me to pay for it, if I like it, an +iron chest, having now received back some money I had laid out for the +King, and I hope to have a good sum of money by me, thereby, in a few +days, I think above L800. But when I come home at night, I could not +find the way to open it; but, which is a strange thing, my little girle +Susan could carry it alone from one table clear from the ground and set +upon another, when neither I nor anyone in my house but Jane the +cook-mayde could do it. + + + +18th. Up and to the office, and thence to the Committee of the Fishery +at White Hall, where so poor simple doings about the business of the +Lottery, that I was ashamed to see it, that a thing so low and base +should have any thing to do with so noble an undertaking. But I had the +advantage this day to hear Mr. Williamson discourse, who come to be a +contractor with others for the Lotterys, and indeed I find he is a very +logicall man and a good speaker. But it was so pleasant to see my Lord +Craven, the chaireman, before many persons of worth and grave, use this +comparison in saying that certainly these that would contract for all the +lotteries would not suffer us to set up the Virginia lottery for plate +before them, "For," says he, "if I occupy a wench first, you may occupy +her again your heart out you can never have her maidenhead after I have +once had it," which he did more loosely, and yet as if he had fetched a +most grave and worthy instance. They made mirth, but I and others were +ashamed of it. Thence to the 'Change and thence home to dinner, and +thence to the office a good while, and thence to the Council chamber at +White Hall to speake with Sir G. Carteret, and here by accident heard a +great and famous cause between Sir G. Lane and one Mr. Phill. Whore, an +Irish business about Sir G. Lane's endeavouring to reverse a decree of +the late Commissioners of Ireland in a Rebells case for his land, which +the King had given as forfeited to Sir G. Lane, for whom the Sollicitor +did argue most angell like, and one of the Commissioners, Baron, did +argue for the other and for himself and his brethren who had decreed it. +But the Sollicitor do so pay the Commissioners, how four all along did +act for the Papists, and three only for the Protestants, by which they +were overvoted, but at last one word (which was omitted in the +Sollicitor's repeating of an Act of Parliament in the case) being +insisted on by the other part, the Sollicitor was put to a great stop, +and I could discern he could not tell what to say, but was quite out. +Thence home well pleased with this accident, and so home to my office, +where late, and then to supper and to bed. This day I had a letter from +Mr. Coventry, that tells me that my Lord Brunkard is to be one of our +Commissioners, of which I am very glad, if any more must be. + + + +19th. All the morning at the office, and without dinner down by galley +up and down the river to visit the yards and ships now ordered forth with +great delight, and so home to supper, and then to office late to write +letters, then home to bed. + + + +20th (Lord's day). Up, and with my wife to church, where Pegg Pen very +fine in her new coloured silk suit laced with silver lace. Dined at +home, and Mr. Sheply, lately come to town, with me. A great deal of +ordinary discourse with him. Among other things praying him to speak to +Stankes to look after our business. With him and in private with Mr. +Bodham talking of our ropeyarde stores at Woolwich, which are mighty low, +even to admiration. They gone, in the evening comes Mr. Andrews and +sings with us, and he gone, I to Sir W. Batten's, where Sir J. Minnes and +he and I to talk about our letter to my Lord Treasurer, where his folly +and simple confidence so great in a report so ridiculous that he hath +drawn up to present to my Lord, nothing of it being true, that I was +ashamed, and did roundly and in many words for an houre together talk +boldly to him, which pleased Sir W. Batten and my Lady, but I was in the +right, and was the willinger to do so before them, that they might see +that I am somebody, and shall serve him so in his way another time. So +home vexed at this night's passage, for I had been very hot with him, so +to supper and to bed, out of order with this night's vexation. + + + +21st. Up, and with them to the Lords at White Hall, where they do single +me out to speake to and to hear, much to my content, and received their +commands, particularly in several businesses. Thence by their order to +the Attorney General's about a new warrant for Captain Taylor which I +shall carry for him to be Commissioner in spite of Sir W. Batten, and yet +indeed it is not I, but the ability of the man, that makes the Duke and +Mr. Coventry stand by their choice. I to the 'Change and there staid long +doing business, and this day for certain newes is come that Teddiman hath +brought in eighteen or twenty Dutchmen, merchants, their Bourdeaux +fleete, and two men of wary to Portsmouth. + + [Captain Sir Thomas Teddiman (or Tyddiman) had been appointed + Rear-Admiral of Lord Sandwich's squadron of the English fleet. In a + letter from Sir William Coventry to Secretary Bennet, dated November + 13th, 1664, we read, "Rear Admiral Teddeman with four or five ships + has gone to course in the Channel, and if he meet any refractory + Dutchmen will teach them their duty" ("Calendar of State Papers," + Domestic, 1664.-65, p. 66).] + +And I had letters this afternoon, that three are brought into the Downes +and Dover; so that the warr is begun: God give a good end to it! After +dinner at home all the afternoon busy, and at night with Sir W. Batten +and Sir J. Minnes looking over the business of stating the accounts of +the navy charge to my Lord Treasurer, where Sir J. Minnes's paper served +us in no stead almost, but was all false, and after I had done it with +great pains, he being by, I am confident he understands not one word in +it. At it till 10 at night almost. Thence by coach to Sir Philip +Warwicke's, by his desire to have conferred with him, but he being in +bed, I to White Hall to the Secretaries, and there wrote to Mr. Coventry, +and so home by coach again, a fine clear moonshine night, but very cold. +Home to my office awhile, it being past 12 at night; and so to supper and +to bed. + + + +22nd. At the office all the morning. Sir G. Carteret, upon a motion of +Sir W. Batten's, did promise, if we would write a letter to him, to shew +it to the King on our behalf touching our desire of being Commissioners +of the Prize office. I wrote a letter to my mind and, after eating a bit +at home (Mr. Sheply dining and taking his leave of me), abroad and to Sir +G. Carteret with the letter and thence to my Lord Treasurer's; wherewith +Sir Philip Warwicke long studying all we could to make the last year +swell as high as we could. And it is much to see how he do study for the +King, to do it to get all the money from the Parliament all he can: and I +shall be serviceable to him therein, to help him to heads upon which to +enlarge the report of the expense. He did observe to me how obedient this +Parliament was for awhile, and the last sitting how they begun to differ, +and to carp at the King's officers; and what they will do now, he says, +is to make agreement for the money, for there is no guess to be made of +it. He told me he was prepared to convince the Parliament that the +Subsidys are a most ridiculous tax (the four last not rising to L40,000), +and unequall. He talks of a tax of Assessment of L70,000 for five years; +the people to be secured that it shall continue no longer than there is +really a warr; and the charges thereof to be paid. He told me, that one +year of the late Dutch warr cost L1,623,000. Thence to my Lord +Chancellor's, and there staid long with Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes, +to speak with my lord about our Prize Office business; but, being sicke +and full of visitants, we could not speak with him, and so away home. +Where Sir Richard Ford did meet us with letters from Holland this day, +that it is likely the Dutch fleete will not come out this year; they have +not victuals to keep them out, and it is likely they will be frozen +before they can get back. Captain Cocke is made Steward for sick and +wounded seamen. So home to supper, where troubled to hear my poor boy +Tom has a fit of the stone, or some other pain like it. I must consult +Mr. Holliard for him. So at one in the morning home to bed. + + + +23rd. Up and to my office, where close all the morning about my Lord +Treasurer's accounts, and at noon home to dinner, and then to the office +all the afternoon very busy till very late at night, and then to supper +and to bed. This evening Mr. Hollyard came to me and told me that he hath +searched my boy, and he finds he hath a stone in his bladder, which +grieves me to the heart, he being a good-natured and well-disposed boy, +and more that it should be my misfortune to have him come to my house. +Sir G. Carteret was here this afternoon; and strange to see how we plot +to make the charge of this warr to appear greater than it is, because of +getting money. + + + +24th. Up and to the office, where all the morning busy answering of +people. About noon out with Commissioner Pett, and he and I to a +Coffee-house, to drink jocolatte, very good; and so by coach to +Westminster, being the first day of the Parliament's meeting. After the +House had received the King's speech, and what more he had to say, +delivered in writing, the Chancellor being sicke, it rose, and I with Sir +Philip Warwicke home and conferred our matters about the charge of the +Navy, and have more to give him in the excessive charge of this year's +expense. I dined with him, and Mr. Povy with us and Sir Edmund Pooly, a +fine gentleman, and Mr. Chichly, and fine discourse we had and fine +talke, being proud to see myself accepted in such company and thought +better than I am. After dinner Sir Philip and I to talk again, and then +away home to the office, where sat late; beginning our sittings now in +the afternoon, because of the Parliament; and they being rose, I to my +office, where late till almost one o'clock, and then home to bed. + + + +25th. Up and at my office all the morning, to prepare an account of the +charge we have been put to extraordinary by the Dutch already; and I have +brought it to appear L852,700; but God knows this is only a scare to the +Parliament, to make them give the more money. Thence to the Parliament +House, and there did give it to Sir Philip Warwicke; the House being hot +upon giving the King a supply of money, and I by coach to the 'Change and +took up Mr. Jenings along with me (my old acquaintance), he telling me +the mean manner that Sir Samuel Morland lives near him, in a house he +hath bought and laid out money upon, in all to the value of L1200, but is +believed to be a beggar; and so I ever thought he would be. From the +'Change with Mr. Deering and Luellin to the White Horse tavern in Lombard +Street, and there dined with them, he giving me a dish of meat to +discourse in order to my serving Deering, which I am already obliged to +do, and shall do it, and would be glad he were a man trusty that I might +venture something along with him. Thence home, and by and by in the +evening took my wife out by coach, leaving her at Unthanke's while I to +White Hall and to Westminster Hall, where I have not been to talk a great +while, and there hear that Mrs. Lane and her husband live a sad life +together, and he is gone to be a paymaster to a company to Portsmouth to +serve at sea. She big with child. Thence I home, calling my wife, and at +Sir W. Batten's hear that the House have given the King L2,500,000 to be +paid for this warr, only for the Navy, in three years' time; which is a +joyfull thing to all the King's party I see, but was much opposed by Mr. +Vaughan and others, that it should be so much. So home and to supper and +to bed. + + + +26th. Up and to the office, where busy all the morning. Home a while to +dinner and then to the office, where very late busy till quite weary, but +contented well with my dispatch of business, and so home to supper and to +bed. + + + +27th (Lord's day). To church in the morning, then dined at home, and to +my office, and there all the afternoon setting right my business of +flaggs, and after all my pains find reason not to be sorry, because I +think it will bring me considerable profit. In the evening come Mr. +Andrews and Hill, and we sung, with my boy, Ravenscroft's 4-part psalms, +most admirable musique. Then (Andrews not staying) we to supper, and +after supper fell into the rarest discourse with Mr. Hill about Rome and +Italy; but most pleasant that I ever had in my life. At it very late and +then to bed. + + + +28th. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes and W. Batten to White Hall, but no +Committee of Lords (which is like to do the King's business well). So to +Westminster, and there to Jervas's and was a little while with Jane, and +so to London by coach and to the Coffee-house, where certain news of our +peace made by Captain Allen with Argier, which is good news; and that the +Dutch have sent part of their fleete round by Scotland; and resolve to +pay off the rest half-pay, promising the rest in the Spring, hereby +keeping their men. But how true this, I know not. Home to dinner, then +come Dr. Clerke to speak with me about sick and wounded men, wherein he +is like to be concerned. After him Mr. Cutler, and much talk with him, +and with him to White Hall, to have waited on the Lords by order, but no +meeting, neither to-night, which will spoil all. I think I shall get +something by my discourse with Cutler. So home, and after being at my +office an hour with Mr. Povy talking about his business of Tangier, +getting him some money allowed him for freight of ships, wherein I hope +to get something too. He gone, home hungry and almost sick for want of +eating, and so to supper and to bed. + + + +29th. Up, and with Sir W. Batten to the Committee of Lords at the +Council Chamber, where Sir G. Carteret told us what he had said to the +King, and how the King inclines to our request of making us Commissioners +of the Prize office, but meeting him anon in the gallery, he tells me +that my Lord Barkely is angry we should not acquaint him with it, so I +found out my Lord and pacified him, but I know not whether he was so in +earnest or no, for he looked very frowardly. Thence to the Parliament +House, and with Sir W. Batten home and dined with him, my wife being gone +to my Lady Sandwich's, and then to the office, where we sat all the +afternoon, and I at my office till past 12 at night, and so home to bed. +This day I hear that the King should say that the Dutch do begin to +comply with him. Sir John Robinson told Sir W. Batten that he heard the +King say so. I pray God it may be so. + + + +30th. Up, and with Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes to the Committee of +the Lords, and there did our business; but, Lord! what a sorry dispatch +these great persons give to business. Thence to the 'Change, and there +hear the certainty and circumstances of the Dutch having called in their +fleete and paid their men half-pay, the other to be paid them upon their +being ready upon beat of drum to come to serve them again, and in the +meantime to have half-pay. This is said. Thence home to dinner, and so +to my office all the afternoon. In the evening my wife and Sir W. Warren +with me to White Hall, sending her with the coach to see her father and +mother. He and I up to Sir G. Carteret, and first I alone and then both +had discourse with him about things of the Navy, and so I and he calling +my wife at Unthanke's, home again, and long together talking how to order +things in a new contract for Norway goods, as well to the King's as to +his advantage. He gone, I to my monthly accounts, and, bless God! I +find I have increased my last balance, though but little; but I hope ere +long to get more. In the meantime praise God for what I have, which is +L1209. So, with my heart glad to see my accounts fall so right in this +time of mixing of monies and confusion, I home to bed. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +About several businesses, hoping to get money by them +After many protestings by degrees I did arrive at what I would +All ended in love +Below what people think these great people say and do +Even to the having bad words with my wife, and blows too +Expected musique, the missing of which spoiled my dinner +Gadding abroad to look after beauties +Greatest businesses are done so superficially +Little children employed, every one to do something +Meazles, we fear, or, at least, of a scarlett feavour +My leg fell in a hole broke on the bridge +My wife was angry with me for not coming home, and for gadding +Not the greatest wits, but the steady man +Rotten teeth and false, set in with wire +Till 12 at night, and then home to supper and to bed +What a sorry dispatch these great persons give to business +What is there more to be had of a woman than the possessing her +Where a trade hath once been and do decay, it never recovers + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v35 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + diff --git a/old/sp36g10.zip b/old/sp36g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..af9aa71 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp36g10.zip |