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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, December 1664 + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Release Date: November 30, 2004 [EBook #4152] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY + MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + DECEMBER + 1664 + +December 1st. Up betimes and to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier, and +so straight home and hard to my business at my office till noon, then to +dinner, and so to my office, and by and by we sat all the afternoon, then +to my office again till past one in the morning, and so home to supper and +to bed. + +2nd. Lay long in bed. Then up and to the office, where busy all the +morning. At home dined. After dinner with my wife and Mercer to the +Duke's House, and there saw "The Rivalls," which I had seen before; but +the play not good, nor anything but the good actings of Betterton and his +wife and Harris. Thence homeward, and the coach broke with us in +Lincoln's Inn Fields, and so walked to Fleete Streete, and there took +coach and home, and to my office, whither by and by comes Captain Cocke, +and then Sir W. Batten, and we all to Sir J. Minnes, and I did give them a +barrel of oysters I had given to me, and so there sat and talked, where +good discourse of the late troubles, they knowing things, all of them, +very well; and Cocke, from the King's own mouth, being then entrusted +himself much, do know particularly that the King's credulity to Cromwell's +promises, private to him, against the advice of his friends and the +certain discovery of the practices and discourses of Cromwell in council +(by Major Huntington) + + [According to Clarendon the officer here alluded to was a major in + Cromwell's own regiment of horse, and employed by him to treat with + Charles I. whilst at Hampton Court; but being convinced of the + insincerity of the proceeding, communicated his suspicions to that + monarch, and immediately gave up his commission. We hear no more of + Huntington till the Restoration, when his name occurs with those of + many other officers, who tendered their services to the king. His + reasons for laying down his commission are printed in Thurloe's + "State Papers" and Maseres's "Tracts."--B.] + +did take away his life and nothing else. Then to some loose atheisticall +discourse of Cocke's, when he was almost drunk, and then about 11 o'clock +broke up, and I to my office, to fit up an account for Povy, wherein I +hope to get something. At it till almost two o'clock, then to supper and +to bed. + +3rd. Up, and at the office all the morning, and at noon to Mr. Cutler's, +and there dined with Sir W. Rider and him, and thence Sir W. Rider and I +by coach to White Hall to a Committee of the Fishery; there only to hear +Sir Edward Ford's proposal about farthings, wherein, O God! to see almost +every body interested for him; only my Lord Annesly, who is a grave, +serious man. My Lord Barkeley was there, but is the most hot, fiery man +in discourse, without any cause, that ever I saw, even to breach of +civility to my Lord Anglesey, in his discourse opposing to my Lord's. At +last, though without much satisfaction to me, it was voted that it should +be requested of the King, and that Sir Edward Ford's proposal is the best +yet made. Thence by coach home. The Duke of Yorke being expected +to-night with great joy from Portsmouth, after his having been abroad at +sea three or four days with the fleete; and the Dutch are all drawn into +their harbours. But it seems like a victory: and a matter of some +reputation to us it is, and blemish to them; but in no degree like what it +is esteemed at, the weather requiring them to do so. Home and at my +office late, and then to supper and to bed. + +4th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed, and then up and to my office, there to +dispatch a business in order to the getting something out of the Tangier +business, wherein I have an opportunity to get myself paid upon the score +of freight. I hope a good sum. At noon home to dinner, and then in the +afternoon to church. So home, and by and by comes Mr. Hill and Andrews, +and sung together long and with great content. Then to supper and broke +up. Pretty discourse, very pleasant and ingenious, and so to my office a +little, and then home (after prayers) to bed. This day I hear the Duke of +Yorke is come to towne, though expected last night, as I observed, but by +what hindrance stopped I can't tell. + +5th. Up, and to White Hall with Sir J. Minnes; and there, among an +infinite crowd of great persons, did kiss the Duke's hand; but had no time +to discourse. Thence up and down the gallery, and got my Lord of +Albemarle's hand to my bill for Povy, but afterwards was asked some scurvy +questions by Povy about my demands, which troubled [me], but will do no +great hurt I think. Thence vexed home, and there by appointment comes my +cozen Roger Pepys and Mrs. Turner, and dined with me, and very merry we +were. They staid all the afternoon till night, and then after I had +discoursed an hour with Sir W. Warren plainly declaring my resolution to +desert him if he goes on to join with Castle, who and his family I, for +great provocation, love not, which he takes with some trouble, but will +concur in everything with me, he says. Now I am loth, I confess, to lose +him, he having been the best friend I have had ever in this office. So he +being gone, we all, it being night, in Madam Turner's coach to her house, +there to see, as she tells us, how fat Mrs. The. is grown, and so I find +her, but not as I expected, but mightily pleased I am to hear the mother +commend her daughter Betty that she is like to be a great beauty, and she +sets much by her. Thence I to White Hall, and there saw Mr. Coventry come +to towne, and, with all my heart, am glad to see him, but could have no +talke with him, he being but just come. Thence back and took up my wife, +and home, where a while, and then home to supper and to bed. + +5th. Up, and in Sir W. Batten's coach to White Hall, but the Duke being +gone forth, I to Westminster Hall, and there spent much time till towards +noon to and fro with people. So by and by Mrs. Lane comes and plucks me +by the cloak to speak to me, and I was fain to go to her shop, and +pretending to buy some bands made her go home, and by and by followed her, +and there did what I would with her, and so after many discourses and her +intreating me to do something for her husband, which I promised to do, and +buying a little band of her, which I intend to keep to, I took leave, +there coming a couple of footboys to her with a coach to fetch her abroad +I know not to whom. She is great with child, and she says I must be +godfather, but I do not intend it. Thence by coach to the Old Exchange, +and there hear that the Dutch are fitting their ships out again, which +puts us to new discourse, and to alter our thoughts of the Dutch, as to +their want of courage or force. Thence by appointment to the White Horse +Taverne in Lumbard Streete, and there dined with my Lord Rutherford, Povy, +Mr. Gauden, Creed, and others, and very merry, and after dinner among +other things Povy and I withdrew, and I plainly told him that I was +concerned in profit, but very justly, in this business of the Bill that I +have been these two or three days about, and he consents to it, and it +shall be paid. He tells me how he believes, and in part knows, Creed to +be worth L10,000; nay, that now and then he [Povy] hath three or L4,000 in +his hands, for which he gives the interest that the King gives, which is +ten per cent., and that Creed do come and demand it every three months the +interest to be paid him, which Povy looks upon as a cunning and mean +tricke of him; but for all that, he will do and is very rich. Thence to +the office, where we sat and where Mr. Coventry came the first time after +his return from sea, which I was glad of. So after office to my office, +and then home to supper, and to my office again, and then late home to +bed. + +7th. Lay long, then up, and among others Bagwell's wife coming to speak +with me put new thoughts of folly into me which I am troubled at. Thence +after doing business at my office, I by coach to my Lady Sandwich's, and +there dined with her, and found all well and merry. Thence to White Hall, +and we waited on the Duke, who looks better than he did, methinks, before +his voyage; and, I think, a little more stern than he used to do. Thence +to the Temple to my cozen Roger Pepys, thinking to have met the Doctor to +have discoursed our business, but he came not, so I home, and there by +agreement came my Lord Rutherford, Povy, Gauden, Creed, Alderman +Backewell, about Tangier business of accounts between Rutherford and +Gauden. Here they were with me an hour or more, then after drinking away, +and Povy and Creed staid and eat with me; but I was sorry I had no better +cheer for Povy; for the foole may be useful, and is a cunning fellow in +his way, which is a strange one, and that, that I meet not in any other +man, nor can describe in him. They late with me, and when gone my boy and +I to musique, and then to bed. + +8th. Up, and to my office, where all the morning busy. At noon dined at +home, and then to the office, where we sat all the afternoon. In the +evening comes my aunt and uncle Wight, Mrs. Norbury, and her daughter, and +after them Mr. Norbury, where no great pleasure, my aunt being out of +humour in her fine clothes, and it raining hard. Besides, I was a little +too bold with her about her doating on Dr. Venner. Anon they went away, +and I till past 12 at night at my office, and then home to bed. + +9th. Up betimes and walked to Mr. Povy's, and there, not without some few +troublesome questions of his, I got a note, and went and received L117 5s. +of Alderman Viner upon my pretended freight of the "William" for Tangier, +which overbears me on one side with joy and on the other to think of my +condition if I shall be called into examination about it, and (though in +strictness it is due) not be able to give a good account of it. Home with +it, and there comes Captain Taylor to me, and he and I did set even the +business of the ship Union lately gone for Tangier, wherein I hope to get +L50 more, for all which the Lord be praised. At noon home to dinner, Mr. +Hunt and his wife with us, and very pleasant. Then in the afternoon I +carried them home by coach, and I to Westminster Hall, and thence to +Gervas's, and there find I cannot prevail with Jane to go forth with me, +but though I took a good occasion of going to the Trumpet she declined +coming, which vexed me. 'Je avait grande envie envers elle, avec vrai +amour et passion'. Thence home and to my office till one in the morning, +setting to rights in writing this day's two accounts of Povy and Taylor, +and then quietly to bed. This day I had several letters from several +places, of our bringing in great numbers of Dutch ships. + +10th. Lay long, at which I am ashamed, because of so many people +observing it that know not how late I sit up, and for fear of Sir W. +Batten's speaking of it to others, he having staid for me a good while. At +the office all the morning, where comes my Lord Brunkard with his patent +in his hand, and delivered it to Sir J. Minnes and myself, we alone being +there all the day, and at noon I in his coach with him to the 'Change, +where he set me down; a modest civil person he seems to be, but wholly +ignorant in the business of the Navy as possible, but I hope to make a +friend of him, being a worthy man. Thence after hearing the great newes +of so many Dutchmen being brought in to Portsmouth and elsewhere, which it +is expected will either put them upon present revenge or despair, I with +Sir W. Rider and Cutler to dinner all alone to the Great James, where good +discourse, and, I hope, occasion of getting something hereafter. After +dinner to White Hall to the Fishery, where the Duke was with us. So home, +and late at my office, writing many letters, then home to supper and to +bed. Yesterday come home, and this night I visited Sir W. Pen, who +dissembles great respect and love to me, but I understand him very well. +Major Holmes is come from Guinny, and is now at Plymouth with great +wealth, they say. + +11th (Lord's day). Up and to church alone in the morning. Dined at home, +mighty pleasantly. In the afternoon I to the French church, where much +pleased with the three sisters of the parson, very handsome, especially in +their noses, and sing prettily. I heard a good sermon of the old man, +touching duty to parents. Here was Sir Samuel Morland and his lady very +fine, with two footmen in new liverys (the church taking much notice of +them), and going into their coach after sermon with great gazeing. So I +home, and my cozen, Mary Pepys's husband, comes after me, and told me that +out of the money he received some months since he did receive 18d. too +much, and did now come and give it me, which was very pretty. So home, +and there found Mr. Andrews and his lady, a well-bred and a tolerable +pretty woman, and by and by Mr. Hill and to singing, and then to supper, +then to sing again, and so good night. To prayers and tonight [bed]. It +is a little strange how these Psalms of Ravenscroft after 2 or 3 times +singing prove but the same again, though good. No diversity appearing at +all almost. + +12th. Up, and with Sir W. Batten by coach to White Hall, where all of us +with the Duke; Mr. Coventry privately did tell me the reason of his advice +against our pretences to the Prize Office (in his letter from Portsmouth), +because he knew that the King and the Duke had resolved to put in some +Parliament men that have deserved well, and that would needs be obliged, +by putting them in. Thence homeward, called at my bookseller's and +bespoke some books against the year's out, and then to the 'Change, and so +home to dinner, and then to the office, where my Lord Brunkard comes and +reads over part of our Instructions in the Navy--and I expounded it to +him, so he is become my disciple. He gone, comes Cutler to tell us that +the King of France hath forbid any canvass to be carried out of his +kingdom, and I to examine went with him to the East India house to see a +letter, but came too late. So home again, and there late till 12 at night +at my office, and then home to supper and to bed. This day (to see how +things are ordered in the world), I had a command from the Earle of +Sandwich, at Portsmouth, not to be forward with Mr. Cholmly and Sir J. +Lawson about the Mole at Tangier, because that what I do therein will +(because of his friendship to me known) redound against him, as if I had +done it upon his score. So I wrote to my Lord my mistake, and am +contented to promise never to pursue it more, which goes against my mind +with all my heart. + +13th. Lay long in bed, then up, and many people to speak with me. Then +to my office, and dined at noon at home, then to the office again, where +we sat all the afternoon, and then home at night to a little supper, and +so after my office again at 12 at night home to bed. + +14th. Up, and after a while at the office, I abroad in several places, +among others to my bookseller's, and there spoke for several books against +New Year's day, I resolving to lay out about L7 or L8, God having given me +some profit extraordinary of late; and bespoke also some plate, spoons, +and forks. I pray God keep me from too great expenses, though these will +still be pretty good money. Then to the 'Change, and I home to dinner, +where Creed and Mr. Caesar, my boy's lute master, who plays indeed mighty +finely, and after dinner I abroad, parting from Creed, and away to and +fro, laying out or preparing for laying out more money, but I hope and +resolve not to exceed therein, and to-night spoke for some fruit for the +country for my father against Christmas, and where should I do it, but at +the pretty woman's, that used to stand at the doore in Fanchurch Streete, +I having a mind to know her. So home, and late at my office, evening +reckonings with Shergoll, hoping to get money by the business, and so away +home to supper and to bed, not being very well through my taking cold of +late, and so troubled with some wind. + +15th. Called up very betimes by Mr. Cholmly, and with him a good while +about some of his Tangier accounts; and, discoursing of the condition of +Tangier, he did give me the whole account of the differences between +Fitzgerald and Norwood, which were very high on both sides, but most +imperious and base on Fitzgerald's, and yet through my Lord FitzHarding's +means, the Duke of York is led rather to blame Norwood and to speake that +he should be called home, than be sensible of the other. He is a creature +of FitzHarding's, as a fellow that may be done with what he will, and, +himself certainly pretending to be Generall of the King's armies, when +Monk dyeth, desires to have as few great or wise men in employment as he +can now, but such as he can put in and keep under, which he do this +coxcomb Fitzgerald. It seems, of all mankind there is no man so led by +another as the Duke is by Lord Muskerry and this FitzHarding. insomuch, as +when the King would have him to be Privy-Purse, the Duke wept, and said, +"But, Sir, I must have your promise, if you will have my dear Charles from +me, that if ever you have occasion for an army again, I may have him with +me; believing him to be the best commander of an army in the world." But +Mr. Cholmly thinks, as all other men I meet with do, that he is a very +ordinary fellow. It is strange how the Duke also do love naturally, and +affect the Irish above the English. He, of the company he carried with +him to sea, took above two-thirds Irish and French. He tells me the King +do hate my Lord Chancellor; and that they, that is the King and my Lord +FitzHarding, do laugh at him for a dull fellow; and in all this business +of the Dutch war do nothing by his advice, hardly consulting him. Only he +is a good minister in other respects, and the King cannot be without him; +but, above all, being the Duke's father-in-law, he is kept in; otherwise +FitzHarding were able to fling down two of him. This, all the wise and +grave lords see, and cannot help it; but yield to it. But he bemoans what +the end of it may be, the King being ruled by these men, as he hath been +all along since his coming; to the razing all the strong-holds in +Scotland, and giving liberty to the Irish in Ireland, whom Cromwell had +settled all in one corner; who are now able, and it is feared everyday a +massacre again among them. He being gone I abroad to the carrier's, to +see some things sent away to my father against Christmas, and thence to +Moorfields, and there up and down to several houses to drink to look for a +place 'pour rencontrer la femme de je sais quoi' against next Monday, but +could meet none. So to the Coffeehouse, where great talke of the Comet +seen in several places; and among our men at sea, and by my Lord Sandwich, +to whom I intend to write about it to-night. Thence home to dinner, and +then to the office, where all the afternoon, and in the evening home to +supper, and then to the office late, and so to bed. This night I begun to +burn wax candles in my closett at the office, to try the charge, and to +see whether the smoke offends like that of tallow candles. + +16th. Up, and by water to Deptford, thinking to have met 'la femme de' +Bagwell, but failed, and having done some business at the yard, I back +again, it being a fine fresh morning to walk. Back again, Mr. Wayth +walking with me to Half-Way House talking about Mr. Castle's fine knees +lately delivered in. In which I am well informed that they are not as +they should be to make them knees, and I hope shall make good use of it to +the King's service. Thence home, and having dressed myself, to the +'Change, and thence home to dinner, and so abroad by coach with my wife, +and bought a looking glasse by the Old Exchange, which costs me L5 5s. and +6s. for the hooks. A very fair glasse. So toward my cozen Scott's, but +meeting my Lady Sandwich's coach, my wife turned back to follow them, +thinking they might, as they did, go to visit her, and I 'light and to +Mrs. Harman, and there staid and talked in her shop with her, and much +pleased I am with her. We talked about Anthony Joyce's giving over trade +and that he intends to live in lodgings, which is a very mad, foolish +thing. She tells me she hears and believes it is because he, being now +begun to be called on offices, resolves not to take the new oathe, he +having formerly taken the Covenant or Engagement, but I think he do very +simply and will endeavour for his wife's sake to advise him therein. +Thence to my cozen Scott's, and there met my cozen Roger Pepys, and Mrs. +Turner, and The. and Joyce, and prated all the while, and so with the +"corps" to church and heard a very fine sermon of the Parson of the +parish, and so homeward with them in their coach, but finding it too late +to go home with me, I took another coach and so home, and after a while at +my office, home to supper and to bed. + +17th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon I to +the 'Change, and there, among others, had my first meeting with Mr. +L'Estrange, who hath endeavoured several times to speak with me. It is to +get, now and then, some newes of me, which I shall, as I see cause, give +him. He is a man of fine conversation, I think, but I am sure most +courtly and full of compliments. Thence home to dinner, and then come the +looking-glass man to set up the looking-glass I bought yesterday, in my +dining-room, and very handsome it is. So abroad by coach to White Hall, +and there to the Committee of Tangier, and then the Fishing. Mr. Povy did +in discourse give me a rub about my late bill for money that I did get of +him, which vexed me and stuck in my mind all this evening, though I know +very well how to cleare myself at the worst. So home and to my office, +where late, and then home to bed. Mighty talke there is of this Comet +that is seen a'nights; and the King and Queene did sit up last night to +see it, and did, it seems. And to-night I thought to have done so too; +but it is cloudy, and so no stars appear. But I will endeavour it. Mr. +Gray did tell me to-night, for certain, that the Dutch, as high as they +seem, do begin to buckle; and that one man in this Kingdom did tell the +King that he is offered L40,000 to make a peace, and others have been +offered money also. It seems the taking of their Bourdeaux fleete thus, +arose from a printed Gazette of the Dutch's boasting of fighting, and +having beaten the English: in confidence whereof (it coming to Bourdeaux), +all the fleete comes out, and so falls into our hands. + +18th (Lord's day). To church, where, God forgive me! I spent most of my +time in looking [on] my new Morena--[a brunette]--at the other side of the +church, an acquaintance of Pegg Pen's. So home to dinner, and then to my +chamber to read Ben Johnson's Cataline, a very excellent piece, and so to +church again, and thence we met at the office to hire ships, being in +great haste and having sent for several masters of ships to come to us. +Then home, and there Mr. Andrews and Hill come and we sung finely, and by +and by Mr. Fuller, the Parson, and supped with me, he and a friend of his, +but my musique friends would not stay supper. At and after supper Mr. +Fuller and I told many storys of apparitions and delusions thereby, and I +out with my storys of Tom Mallard. He gone, I a little to my office, and +then to prayers and to bed. + +19th. Going to bed betimes last night we waked betimes, and from our +people's being forced to take the key to go out to light a candle, I was +very angry and begun to find fault with my wife for not commanding her +servants as she ought. Thereupon she giving me some cross answer I did +strike her over her left eye such a blow as the poor wretch did cry out +and was in great pain, but yet her spirit was such as to endeavour to bite +and scratch me. But I coying--[stroking or caressing]--with her made her +leave crying, and sent for butter and parsley, and friends presently one +with another, and I up, vexed at my heart to think what I had done, for +she was forced to lay a poultice or something to her eye all day, and is +black, and the people of the house observed it. But I was forced to rise, +and up and with Sir J. Minnes to White Hall, and there we waited on the +Duke. And among other things Mr. Coventry took occasion to vindicate +himself before the Duke and us, being all there, about the choosing of +Taylor for Harwich. Upon which the Duke did clear him, and did tell us +that he did expect, that, after he had named a man, none of us shall then +oppose or find fault with the man; but if we had anything to say, we ought +to say it before he had chose him. Sir G. Carteret thought himself +concerned, and endeavoured to clear himself: and by and by Sir W. Batten +did speak, knowing himself guilty, and did confess, that being pressed by +the Council he did say what he did, that he was accounted a fanatique; but +did not know that at that time he had been appointed by his Royal +Highness. To which the Duke [replied] that it was impossible but he must +know that he had appointed him; and so it did appear that the Duke did +mean all this while Sir W. Batten. So by and by we parted, and Mr. +Coventry did privately tell me that he did this day take this occasion to +mention the business to give the Duke an opportunity of speaking his mind +to Sir W. Batten in this business, of which I was heartily glad. Thence +home, and not finding Bagwell's wife as I expected, I to the 'Change and +there walked up and down, and then home, and she being come I bid her go +and stay at Mooregate for me, and after going up to my wife (whose eye is +very bad, but she is in very good temper to me), and after dinner I to the +place and walked round the fields again and again, but not finding her I +to the 'Change, and there found her waiting for me and took her away, and +to an alehouse, and there I made much of her, and then away thence and to +another and endeavoured to caress her, but 'elle ne voulait pas', which +did vex me, but I think it was chiefly not having a good easy place to do +it upon. So we broke up and parted and I to the office, where we sat +hiring of ships an hour or two, and then to my office, and thence (with +Captain Taylor home to my house) to give him instructions and some notice +of what to his great satisfaction had happened to-day. Which I do because +I hope his coming into this office will a little cross Sir W. Batten and +may do me good. He gone, I to supper with my wife, very pleasant, and then +a little to my office and to bed. My mind, God forgive me, too much +running upon what I can 'ferais avec la femme de Bagwell demain', having +promised to go to Deptford and 'a aller a sa maison avec son mari' when I +come thither. + +20th. Up and walked to Deptford, where after doing something at the yard +I walked, without being observed, with Bagwell home to his house, and +there was very kindly used, and the poor people did get a dinner for me in +their fashion, of which I also eat very well. After dinner I found +occasion of sending him abroad, and then alone 'avec elle je tentais a +faire ce que je voudrais et contre sa force je le faisais biens que passe +a mon contentment'. By and by he coming back again I took leave and +walked home, and then there to dinner, where Dr. Fayrebrother come to see +me and Luellin. We dined, and I to the office, leaving them, where we sat +all the afternoon, and I late at the office. To supper and to the office +again very late, then home to bed. + +21st. Up, and after evening reckonings to this day with Mr. Bridges, the +linnen draper, for callicos, I out to Doctors' Commons, where by agreement +my cozen Roger and I did meet my cozen Dr. Tom Pepys, and there a great +many and some high words on both sides, but I must confess I was troubled; +first, to find my cozen Roger such a simple but well-meaning man as he is; +next to think that my father, out of folly and vain glory, should now and +then (as by their words I gather) be speaking how he had set up his son +Tom with his goods and house, and now these words are brought against +him--I fear to the depriving him of all the profit the poor man intended +to make of the lease of his house and sale of his owne goods. I intend to +make a quiet end if I can with the Doctor, being a very foul-tounged fool +and of great inconvenience to be at difference with such a one that will +make the base noise about it that he will. Thence, very much vexed to find +myself so much troubled about other men's matters, I to Mrs. Turner's, in +Salsbury Court, and with her a little, and carried her, the porter staying +for me, our eagle, which she desired the other day, and we were glad to be +rid of her, she fouling our house of office mightily. They are much +pleased with her. And thence I home and after dinner to the office, where +Sir W. Rider and Cutler come, and in dispute I very high with them against +their demands, I hope to no hurt to myself, for I was very plain with them +to the best of my reason. So they gone I home to supper, then to the +office again and so home to bed. My Lord Sandwich this day writes me word +that he hath seen (at Portsmouth) the Comet, and says it is the most +extraordinary thing that ever he saw. + +22nd. Up and betimes to my office, and then out to several places, among +others to Holborne to have spoke with one Mr. Underwood about some English +hemp, he lies against Gray's Inn. Thereabouts I to a barber's shop to +have my hair cut, and there met with a copy of verses, mightily commended +by some gentlemen there, of my Lord Mordaunt's, in excuse of his going to +sea this late expedition, with the Duke of Yorke. But, Lord! they are but +sorry things; only a Lord made them. Thence to the 'Change; and there, +among the merchants, I hear fully the news of our being beaten to dirt at +Guinny, by De Ruyter with his fleete. The particulars, as much as by Sir +G. Carteret afterwards I heard, I have said in a letter to my Lord +Sandwich this day at Portsmouth; it being most wholly to the utter ruine +of our Royall Company, and reproach and shame to the whole nation, as well +as justification to them in their doing wrong to no man as to his private +[property], only takeing whatever is found to belong to the Company, and +nothing else. Dined at the Dolphin, Sir G. Carteret, Sir J. Minnes, Sir +W. Batten, and I, with Sir W. Boreman and Sir Theophilus Biddulph and +others, Commissioners of the Sewers, about our place below to lay masts +in. But coming a little too soon, I out again, and tooke boat down to +Redriffe; and just in time within two minutes, and saw the new vessel of +Sir William Petty's launched, the King and Duke being there. + + [Pepys was wrong as to the name of Sir William Petty's new + doublekeeled boat. On February 13th, 1664-65, he gives the correct + title, which was "The Experiment."] + +It swims and looks finely, and I believe will do well. The name I think +is Twilight, but I do not know certainly. Coming away back immediately to +dinner, where a great deal of good discourse, and Sir G. Carteret's +discourse of this Guinny business, with great displeasure at the losse of +our honour there, and do now confess that the trade brought all these +troubles upon us between the Dutch and us. Thence to the office and there +sat late, then I to my office and there till 12 at night, and so home to +bed weary. + +23rd. Up and to my office, then come by appointment cozen Tom Trice to +me, and I paid him the L20 remaining due to him upon the bond of L100 +given him by agreement November, 1663, to end the difference between us +about my aunt's, his mother's, money. And here, being willing to know the +worst, I told him, "I hope now there is nothing remaining between you and +I of future dispute." "No," says he, "nothing at all that I know of, but +only a small matter of about 20 or 30s. that my father Pepys received for +me of rent due to me in the country, which I will in a day or two bring +you an account of," and so we parted. Dined at home upon a good turkey +which Mr. Sheply sent us, then to the office all the afternoon, Mr. Cutler +and others coming to me about business. I hear that the Dutch have +prepared a fleete to go the backway to the Streights, where without doubt +they will master our fleete. This put to that of Guinny makes me fear +them mightily, and certainly they are a most wise people, and careful of +their business. The King of France, they say, do declare himself obliged +to defend them, and lays claim by his Embassador to the wines we have +taken from the Dutch Bourdeaux men, and more, it is doubted whether the +Swede will be our friend or no. Pray God deliver us out of these +troubles! This day Sir W. Batten sent and afterwards spoke to me, to have +me and my wife come and dine with them on Monday next: which is a mighty +condescension in them, and for some great reason I am sure, or else it +pleases God by my late care of business to make me more considerable even +with them than I am sure they would willingly owne me to be. God make me +thankfull and carefull to preserve myself so, for I am sure they hate me +and it is hope or fear that makes them flatter me. It being a bright +night, which it has not been a great while, I purpose to endeavour to be +called in the morning to see the Comet, though I fear we shall not see it, +because it rises in the east but 16 degrees, and then the houses will +hinder us. + +24th. Having sat up all night to past two o'clock this morning, our +porter, being appointed, comes and tells us that the bellman tells him +that the star is seen upon Tower Hill; so I, that had been all night +setting in order all my old papers in my chamber, did leave off all, and +my boy and I to Tower Hill, it being a most fine, bright moonshine night, +and a great frost; but no Comet to be seen. So after running once round +the Hill, I and Tom, we home and then to bed. Rose about 9 o'clock and +then to the office, where sitting all the morning. At noon to the +'Change, to the Coffee-house; and there heard Sir Richard Ford tell the +whole story of our defeat at Guinny. Wherein our men are guilty of the +most horrid cowardice and perfidiousness, as he says and tells it, that +ever Englishmen were. Captain Raynolds, that was the only commander of +any of the King's ships there, was shot at by De Ruyter, with a bloody +flag flying. He, instead of opposing (which, indeed, had been to no +purpose, but only to maintain honour), did poorly go on board himself, to +ask what De Ruyter would have; and so yielded to whatever Ruyter would +desire. The King and Duke are highly vexed at it, it seems, and the +business deserves it. Thence home to dinner, and then abroad to buy some +things, and among others to my bookseller's, and there saw several books I +spoke for, which are finely bound and good books to my great content. So +home and to my office, where late. This evening I being informed did look +and saw the Comet, which is now, whether worn away or no I know not, but +appears not with a tail, but only is larger and duller than any other +star, and is come to rise betimes, and to make a great arch, and is gone +quite to a new place in the heavens than it was before: but I hope in a +clearer night something more will be seen. So home to bed. + +25th (Lord's day and Christmas day). Up (my wife's eye being ill still of +the blow I did in a passion give her on Monday last) to church alone, +where Mr. Mills, a good sermon. To dinner at home, where very pleasant +with my wife and family. After dinner I to Sir W. Batten's, and there +received so much good usage (as I have of late done) from him and my Lady, +obliging me and my wife, according to promise, to come and dine with them +to-morrow with our neighbours, that I was in pain all the day, and night +too after, to know how to order the business of my wife's not going, and +by discourse receive fresh instances of Sir J. Minnes's folly in +complaining to Sir G. Carteret of Sir W. Batten and me for some family +offences, such as my having of a stopcock to keepe the water from them, +which vexes me, but it would more but that Sir G. Carteret knows him very +well. Thence to the French church, but coming too late I returned and to +Mr. Rawlinson's church, where I heard a good sermon of one that I remember +was at Paul's with me, his name Maggett; and very great store of fine +women there is in this church, more than I know anywhere else about us. +So home and to my chamber, looking over and setting in order my papers and +books, and so to supper, and then to prayers and to bed. + +26th. Up, and with Sir W. Pen to White Hall, and there with the rest did +our usual business before the Duke, and then with Sir W. Batten back and +to his house, where I by sicknesse excused my wife's coming to them +to-day. Thence I to the Coffeehouse, where much good discourse, and all +the opinion now is that the Dutch will avoid fighting with us at home, but +do all the hurte they can to us abroad; which it may be they may for a +while, but that, I think, cannot support them long. Thence to Sir W. +Batten's, where Mr. Coventry and all our families here, women and all, and +Sir R. Ford and his, and a great feast and good discourse and merry, there +all the afternoon and evening till late, only stepped in to see my wife, +then to my office to enter my day's work, and so home to bed, where my +people and wife innocently at cards very merry, and I to bed, leaving them +to their sport and blindman's buff. + +27th. My people came to bed, after their sporting, at four o'clock in the +morning; I up at seven, and to Deptford and Woolwich in a gally; the Duke +calling to me out of the barge in which the King was with him going down +the river, to know whither I was going. I told him to Woolwich, but was +troubled afterward I should say no farther, being in a gally, lest he +think me too profuse in my journeys. Did several businesses, and then +back again by two o'clock to Sir J. Minnes's to dinner by appointment, +where all yesterday's company but Mr. Coventry, who could not come. Here +merry, and after an hour's chat I down to the office, where busy late, and +then home to supper and to bed. The Comet appeared again to-night, but +duskishly. I went to bed, leaving my wife and all her folks, and Will +also, too, come to make Christmas gambolls to-night. + +28th. I waked in the morning about 6 o'clock and my wife not come to bed; +I lacked a pot, but there was none, and bitter cold, so was forced to rise +and piss in the chimney, and to bed again. Slept a little longer, and +then hear my people coming up, and so I rose, and my wife to bed at eight +o'clock in the morning, which vexed me a little, but I believe there was +no hurt in it all, but only mirthe, therefore took no notice. I abroad +with Sir W. Batten to the Council Chamber, where all of us to discourse +about the way of measuring ships and the freight fit to give for them by +the tun, where it was strange methought to hear so poor discourses among +the Lords themselves, and most of all to see how a little empty matter +delivered gravely by Sir W. Pen was taken mighty well, though nothing in +the earth to the purpose. But clothes, I perceive more and more every +day, is a great matter. Thence home with Sir W. Batten by coach, and I +home to dinner, finding my wife still in bed. After dinner abroad, and +among other things visited my Lady Sandwich, and was there, with her and +the young ladies, playing at cards till night. Then home and to my office +late, then home to bed, leaving my wife and people up to more sports, but +without any great satisfaction to myself therein. + +29th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning. Then whereas I +should have gone and dined with Sir W. Pen (and the rest of the officers +at his house), I pretended to dine with my Lady Sandwich and so home, +where I dined well, and began to wipe and clean my books in my chamber in +order to the settling of my papers and things there thoroughly, and then +to the office, where all the afternoon sitting, and in the evening home to +supper, and then to my work again. + +30th. Lay very long in bed with my wife, it being very cold, and my wife +very full of a resolution to keepe within doors, not so much as to go to +church or see my Lady Sandwich before Easter next, which I am willing +enough to, though I seem the contrary. This and other talke kept me a-bed +till almost 10 a'clock. Then up and made an end of looking over all my +papers and books and taking everything out of my chamber to have all made +clean. At noon dined, and after dinner forth to several places to pay +away money, to clear myself in all the world, and, among others, paid my +bookseller L6 for books I had from him this day, and the silversmith L22 +18s. for spoons, forks, and sugar box, and being well pleased with seeing +my business done to my mind as to my meeting with people and having my +books ready for me, I home and to my office, and there did business late, +and then home to supper, prayers, and to bed. + +31st. At the office all the morning, and after dinner there again, +dispatched first my letters, and then to my accounts, not of the month but +of the whole yeare also, and was at it till past twelve at night, it being +bitter cold; but yet I was well satisfied with my worke, and, above all, +to find myself, by the great blessing of God, worth L1349, by which, as I +have spent very largely, so I have laid up above L500 this yeare above +what I was worth this day twelvemonth. The Lord make me for ever thankful +to his holy name for it! Thence home to eat a little and so to bed. Soon +as ever the clock struck one, I kissed my wife in the kitchen by the +fireside, wishing her a merry new yeare, observing that I believe I was +the first proper wisher of it this year, for I did it as soon as ever the +clock struck one. + +So ends the old yeare, I bless God, with great joy to me, not only from my +having made so good a yeare of profit, as having spent L420 and laid up +L540 and upwards; but I bless God I never have been in so good plight as +to my health in so very cold weather as this is, nor indeed in any hot +weather, these ten years, as I am at this day, and have been these four or +five months. But I am at a great losse to know whether it be my hare's +foote, or taking every morning of a pill of turpentine, or my having left +off the wearing of a gowne. My family is, my wife, in good health, and +happy with her; her woman Mercer, a pretty, modest, quiett mayde; her +chambermayde Besse, her cook mayde Jane, the little girl Susan, and my +boy, which I have had about half a yeare, Tom Edwards, which I took from +the King's chappell, and a pretty and loving quiett family I have as any +man in England. My credit in the world and my office grows daily, and I +am in good esteeme with everybody, I think. My troubles of my uncle's +estate pretty well over; but it comes to be but of little profit to us, my +father being much supported by my purse. But great vexations remain upon +my father and me from my brother Tom's death and ill condition, both to +our disgrace and discontent, though no great reason for either. Publique +matters are all in a hurry about a Dutch warr. Our preparations great; +our provocations against them great; and, after all our presumption, we +are now afeard as much of them, as we lately contemned them. Every thing +else in the State quiett, blessed be God! My Lord Sandwich at sea with +the fleete at Portsmouth; sending some about to cruise for taking of +ships, which we have done to a great number. This Christmas I judged it +fit to look over all my papers and books; and to tear all that I found +either boyish or not to be worth keeping, or fit to be seen, if it should +please God to take me away suddenly. 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WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + DECEMBER + 1664 + + +December 1st. Up betimes and to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier, +and so straight home and hard to my business at my office till noon, then +to dinner, and so to my office, and by and by we sat all the afternoon, +then to my office again till past one in the morning, and so home to +supper and to bed. + + + +2nd. Lay long in bed. Then up and to the office, where busy all the +morning. At home dined. After dinner with my wife and Mercer to the +Duke's House, and there saw "The Rivalls," which I had seen before; but +the play not good, nor anything but the good actings of Betterton and his +wife and Harris. Thence homeward, and the coach broke with us in +Lincoln's Inn Fields, and so walked to Fleete Streete, and there took +coach and home, and to my office, whither by and by comes Captain Cocke, +and then Sir W. Batten, and we all to Sir J. Minnes, and I did give them +a barrel of oysters I had given to me, and so there sat and talked, where +good discourse of the late troubles, they knowing things, all of them, +very well; and Cocke, from the King's own mouth, being then entrusted +himself much, do know particularly that the King's credulity to +Cromwell's promises, private to him, against the advice of his friends +and the certain discovery of the practices and discourses of Cromwell in +council (by Major Huntington) + + [According to Clarendon the officer here alluded to was a major in + Cromwell's own regiment of horse, and employed by him to treat with + Charles I. whilst at Hampton Court; but being convinced of the + insincerity of the proceeding, communicated his suspicions to that + monarch, and immediately gave up his commission. We hear no more of + Huntington till the Restoration, when his name occurs with those of + many other officers, who tendered their services to the king. His + reasons for laying down his commission are printed in Thurloe's + "State Papers" and Maseres's "Tracts."--B.] + +did take away his life and nothing else. Then to some loose atheisticall +discourse of Cocke's, when he was almost drunk, and then about 11 o'clock +broke up, and I to my office, to fit up an account for Povy, wherein I +hope to get something. At it till almost two o'clock, then to supper and +to bed. + + + +3rd. Up, and at the office all the morning, and at noon to Mr. Cutler's, +and there dined with Sir W. Rider and him, and thence Sir W. Rider and I +by coach to White Hall to a Committee of the Fishery; there only to hear +Sir Edward Ford's proposal about farthings, wherein, O God! to see almost +every body interested for him; only my Lord Annesly, who is a grave, +serious man. My Lord Barkeley was there, but is the most hot, fiery man +in discourse, without any cause, that ever I saw, even to breach of +civility to my Lord Anglesey, in his discourse opposing to my Lord's. At +last, though without much satisfaction to me, it was voted that it should +be requested of the King, and that Sir Edward Ford's proposal is the best +yet made. Thence by coach home. The Duke of Yorke being expected +to-night with great joy from Portsmouth, after his having been abroad at +sea three or four days with the fleete; and the Dutch are all drawn into +their harbours. But it seems like a victory: and a matter of some +reputation to us it is, and blemish to them; but in no degree like what +it is esteemed at, the weather requiring them to do so. Home and at my +office late, and then to supper and to bed. + + + +4th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed, and then up and to my office, there +to dispatch a business in order to the getting something out of the +Tangier business, wherein I have an opportunity to get myself paid upon +the score of freight. I hope a good sum. At noon home to dinner, and +then in the afternoon to church. So home, and by and by comes Mr. Hill +and Andrews, and sung together long and with great content. Then to +supper and broke up. Pretty discourse, very pleasant and ingenious, and +so to my office a little, and then home (after prayers) to bed. This day +I hear the Duke of Yorke is come to towne, though expected last night, as +I observed, but by what hindrance stopped I can't tell. + + + +5th. Up, and to White Hall with Sir J. Minnes; and there, among an +infinite crowd of great persons, did kiss the Duke's hand; but had no +time to discourse. Thence up and down the gallery, and got my Lord of +Albemarle's hand to my bill for Povy, but afterwards was asked some +scurvy questions by Povy about my demands, which troubled [me], but will +do no great hurt I think. Thence vexed home, and there by appointment +comes my cozen Roger Pepys and Mrs. Turner, and dined with me, and very +merry we were. They staid all the afternoon till night, and then after I +had discoursed an hour with Sir W. Warren plainly declaring my resolution +to desert him if he goes on to join with Castle, who and his family I, +for great provocation, love not, which he takes with some trouble, but +will concur in everything with me, he says. Now I am loth, I confess, to +lose him, he having been the best friend I have had ever in this office. +So he being gone, we all, it being night, in Madam Turner's coach to her +house, there to see, as she tells us, how fat Mrs. The. is grown, and so +I find her, but not as I expected, but mightily pleased I am to hear the +mother commend her daughter Betty that she is like to be a great beauty, +and she sets much by her. Thence I to White Hall, and there saw Mr. +Coventry come to towne, and, with all my heart, am glad to see him, but +could have no talke with him, he being but just come. Thence back and +took up my wife, and home, where a while, and then home to supper and to +bed. + + + +5th. Up, and in Sir W. Batten's coach to White Hall, but the Duke being +gone forth, I to Westminster Hall, and there spent much time till towards +noon to and fro with people. So by and by Mrs. Lane comes and plucks me +by the cloak to speak to me, and I was fain to go to her shop, and +pretending to buy some bands made her go home, and by and by followed +her, and there did what I would with her, and so after many discourses +and her intreating me to do something for her husband, which I promised +to do, and buying a little band of her, which I intend to keep to, I took +leave, there coming a couple of footboys to her with a coach to fetch her +abroad I know not to whom. She is great with child, and she says I must +be godfather, but I do not intend it. Thence by coach to the Old +Exchange, and there hear that the Dutch are fitting their ships out +again, which puts us to new discourse, and to alter our thoughts of the +Dutch, as to their want of courage or force. Thence by appointment to +the White Horse Taverne in Lumbard Streete, and there dined with my Lord +Rutherford, Povy, Mr. Gauden, Creed, and others, and very merry, and +after dinner among other things Povy and I withdrew, and I plainly told +him that I was concerned in profit, but very justly, in this business of +the Bill that I have been these two or three days about, and he consents +to it, and it shall be paid. He tells me how he believes, and in part +knows, Creed to be worth L10,000; nay, that now and then he [Povy] hath +three or L4,000 in his hands, for which he gives the interest that the +King gives, which is ten per cent., and that Creed do come and demand it +every three months the interest to be paid him, which Povy looks upon as +a cunning and mean tricke of him; but for all that, he will do and is +very rich. Thence to the office, where we sat and where Mr. Coventry +came the first time after his return from sea, which I was glad of. So +after office to my office, and then home to supper, and to my office +again, and then late home to bed. + + + +7th. Lay long, then up, and among others Bagwell's wife coming to speak +with me put new thoughts of folly into me which I am troubled at. Thence +after doing business at my office, I by coach to my Lady Sandwich's, and +there dined with her, and found all well and merry. Thence to White +Hall, and we waited on the Duke, who looks better than he did, methinks, +before his voyage; and, I think, a little more stern than he used to do. +Thence to the Temple to my cozen Roger Pepys, thinking to have met the +Doctor to have discoursed our business, but he came not, so I home, and +there by agreement came my Lord Rutherford, Povy, Gauden, Creed, Alderman +Backewell, about Tangier business of accounts between Rutherford and +Gauden. Here they were with me an hour or more, then after drinking +away, and Povy and Creed staid and eat with me; but I was sorry I had no +better cheer for Povy; for the foole may be useful, and is a cunning +fellow in his way, which is a strange one, and that, that I meet not in +any other man, nor can describe in him. They late with me, and when gone +my boy and I to musique, and then to bed. + + + +8th. Up, and to my office, where all the morning busy. At noon dined at +home, and then to the office, where we sat all the afternoon. In the +evening comes my aunt and uncle Wight, Mrs. Norbury, and her daughter, +and after them Mr. Norbury, where no great pleasure, my aunt being out of +humour in her fine clothes, and it raining hard. Besides, I was a little +too bold with her about her doating on Dr. Venner. Anon they went away, +and I till past 12 at night at my office, and then home to bed. + + + +9th. Up betimes and walked to Mr. Povy's, and there, not without some +few troublesome questions of his, I got a note, and went and received +L117 5s. of Alderman Viner upon my pretended freight of the "William" for +Tangier, which overbears me on one side with joy and on the other to +think of my condition if I shall be called into examination about it, +and (though in strictness it is due) not be able to give a good account +of it. Home with it, and there comes Captain Taylor to me, and he and I +did set even the business of the ship Union lately gone for Tangier, +wherein I hope to get L50 more, for all which the Lord be praised. At +noon home to dinner, Mr. Hunt and his wife with us, and very pleasant. +Then in the afternoon I carried them home by coach, and I to Westminster +Hall, and thence to Gervas's, and there find I cannot prevail with Jane +to go forth with me, but though I took a good occasion of going to the +Trumpet she declined coming, which vexed me. 'Je avait grande envie +envers elle, avec vrai amour et passion'. Thence home and to my office +till one in the morning, setting to rights in writing this day's two +accounts of Povy and Taylor, and then quietly to bed. This day I had +several letters from several places, of our bringing in great numbers of +Dutch ships. + + + +10th. Lay long, at which I am ashamed, because of so many people +observing it that know not how late I sit up, and for fear of Sir W. +Batten's speaking of it to others, he having staid for me a good while. +At the office all the morning, where comes my Lord Brunkard with his +patent in his hand, and delivered it to Sir J. Minnes and myself, we +alone being there all the day, and at noon I in his coach with him to the +'Change, where he set me down; a modest civil person he seems to be, but +wholly ignorant in the business of the Navy as possible, but I hope to +make a friend of him, being a worthy man. Thence after hearing the great +newes of so many Dutchmen being brought in to Portsmouth and elsewhere, +which it is expected will either put them upon present revenge or +despair, I with Sir W. Rider and Cutler to dinner all alone to the Great +James, where good discourse, and, I hope, occasion of getting something +hereafter. After dinner to White Hall to the Fishery, where the Duke was +with us. So home, and late at my office, writing many letters, then home +to supper and to bed. Yesterday come home, and this night I visited Sir +W. Pen, who dissembles great respect and love to me, but I understand him +very well. Major Holmes is come from Guinny, and is now at Plymouth with +great wealth, they say. + + + +11th (Lord's day). Up and to church alone in the morning. Dined at +home, mighty pleasantly. In the afternoon I to the French church, where +much pleased with the three sisters of the parson, very handsome, +especially in their noses, and sing prettily. I heard a good sermon of +the old man, touching duty to parents. Here was Sir Samuel Morland and +his lady very fine, with two footmen in new liverys (the church taking +much notice of them), and going into their coach after sermon with great +gazeing. So I home, and my cozen, Mary Pepys's husband, comes after me, +and told me that out of the money he received some months since he did +receive 18d. too much, and did now come and give it me, which was very +pretty. So home, and there found Mr. Andrews and his lady, a well-bred +and a tolerable pretty woman, and by and by Mr. Hill and to singing, and +then to supper, then to sing again, and so good night. To prayers and +tonight [bed]. It is a little strange how these Psalms of Ravenscroft +after 2 or 3 times singing prove but the same again, though good. No +diversity appearing at all almost. + + + +12th. Up, and with Sir W. Batten by coach to White Hall, where all of us +with the Duke; Mr. Coventry privately did tell me the reason of his +advice against our pretences to the Prize Office (in his letter from +Portsmouth), because he knew that the King and the Duke had resolved to +put in some Parliament men that have deserved well, and that would needs +be obliged, by putting them in. Thence homeward, called at my +bookseller's and bespoke some books against the year's out, and then to +the 'Change, and so home to dinner, and then to the office, where my Lord +Brunkard comes and reads over part of our Instructions in the Navy--and I +expounded it to him, so he is become my disciple. He gone, comes Cutler +to tell us that the King of France hath forbid any canvass to be carried +out of his kingdom, and I to examine went with him to the East India +house to see a letter, but came too late. So home again, and there late +till 12 at night at my office, and then home to supper and to bed. This +day (to see how things are ordered in the world), I had a command from +the Earle of Sandwich, at Portsmouth, not to be forward with Mr. Cholmly +and Sir J. Lawson about the Mole at Tangier, because that what I do +therein will (because of his friendship to me known) redound against him, +as if I had done it upon his score. So I wrote to my Lord my mistake, +and am contented to promise never to pursue it more, which goes against +my mind with all my heart. + + + +13th. Lay long in bed, then up, and many people to speak with me. Then +to my office, and dined at noon at home, then to the office again, where +we sat all the afternoon, and then home at night to a little supper, and +so after my office again at 12 at night home to bed. + + + +14th. Up, and after a while at the office, I abroad in several places, +among others to my bookseller's, and there spoke for several books +against New Year's day, I resolving to lay out about L7 or L8, God having +given me some profit extraordinary of late; and bespoke also some plate, +spoons, and forks. I pray God keep me from too great expenses, though +these will still be pretty good money. Then to the 'Change, and I home +to dinner, where Creed and Mr. Caesar, my boy's lute master, who plays +indeed mighty finely, and after dinner I abroad, parting from Creed, and +away to and fro, laying out or preparing for laying out more money, but I +hope and resolve not to exceed therein, and to-night spoke for some fruit +for the country for my father against Christmas, and where should I do +it, but at the pretty woman's, that used to stand at the doore in +Fanchurch Streete, I having a mind to know her. So home, and late at my +office, evening reckonings with Shergoll, hoping to get money by the +business, and so away home to supper and to bed, not being very well +through my taking cold of late, and so troubled with some wind. + + + +15th. Called up very betimes by Mr. Cholmly, and with him a good while +about some of his Tangier accounts; and, discoursing of the condition of +Tangier, he did give me the whole account of the differences between +Fitzgerald and Norwood, which were very high on both sides, but most +imperious and base on Fitzgerald's, and yet through my Lord FitzHarding's +means, the Duke of York is led rather to blame Norwood and to speake that +he should be called home, than be sensible of the other. He is a +creature of FitzHarding's, as a fellow that may be done with what he +will, and, himself certainly pretending to be Generall of the King's +armies, when Monk dyeth, desires to have as few great or wise men in +employment as he can now, but such as he can put in and keep under, which +he do this coxcomb Fitzgerald. It seems, of all mankind there is no man +so led by another as the Duke is by Lord Muskerry and this FitzHarding. +insomuch, as when the King would have him to be Privy-Purse, the Duke +wept, and said, "But, Sir, I must have your promise, if you will have my +dear Charles from me, that if ever you have occasion for an army again, I +may have him with me; believing him to be the best commander of an army +in the world." But Mr. Cholmly thinks, as all other men I meet with do, +that he is a very ordinary fellow. It is strange how the Duke also do +love naturally, and affect the Irish above the English. He, of the +company he carried with him to sea, took above two-thirds Irish and +French. He tells me the King do hate my Lord Chancellor; and that they, +that is the King and my Lord FitzHarding, do laugh at him for a dull +fellow; and in all this business of the Dutch war do nothing by his +advice, hardly consulting him. Only he is a good minister in other +respects, and the King cannot be without him; but, above all, being the +Duke's father-in-law, he is kept in; otherwise FitzHarding were able to +fling down two of him. This, all the wise and grave lords see, and +cannot help it; but yield to it. But he bemoans what the end of it may +be, the King being ruled by these men, as he hath been all along since +his coming; to the razing all the strong-holds in Scotland, and giving +liberty to the Irish in Ireland, whom Cromwell had settled all in one +corner; who are now able, and it is feared everyday a massacre again +among them. He being gone I abroad to the carrier's, to see some things +sent away to my father against Christmas, and thence to Moorfields, and +there up and down to several houses to drink to look for a place 'pour +rencontrer la femme de je sais quoi' against next Monday, but could meet +none. So to the Coffeehouse, where great talke of the Comet seen in +several places; and among our men at sea, and by my Lord Sandwich, to +whom I intend to write about it to-night. Thence home to dinner, and +then to the office, where all the afternoon, and in the evening home to +supper, and then to the office late, and so to bed. This night I begun +to burn wax candles in my closett at the office, to try the charge, and +to see whether the smoke offends like that of tallow candles. + + + +16th. Up, and by water to Deptford, thinking to have met 'la femme de' +Bagwell, but failed, and having done some business at the yard, I back +again, it being a fine fresh morning to walk. Back again, Mr. Wayth +walking with me to Half-Way House talking about Mr. Castle's fine knees +lately delivered in. In which I am well informed that they are not as +they should be to make them knees, and I hope shall make good use of it +to the King's service. Thence home, and having dressed myself, to the +'Change, and thence home to dinner, and so abroad by coach with my wife, +and bought a looking glasse by the Old Exchange, which costs me L5 5s. +and 6s. for the hooks. A very fair glasse. So toward my cozen Scott's, +but meeting my Lady Sandwich's coach, my wife turned back to follow them, +thinking they might, as they did, go to visit her, and I 'light and to +Mrs. Harman, and there staid and talked in her shop with her, and much +pleased I am with her. We talked about Anthony Joyce's giving over trade +and that he intends to live in lodgings, which is a very mad, foolish +thing. She tells me she hears and believes it is because he, being now +begun to be called on offices, resolves not to take the new oathe, he +having formerly taken the Covenant or Engagement, but I think he do very +simply and will endeavour for his wife's sake to advise him therein. +Thence to my cozen Scott's, and there met my cozen Roger Pepys, and Mrs. +Turner, and The. and Joyce, and prated all the while, and so with the +"corps" to church and heard a very fine sermon of the Parson of the +parish, and so homeward with them in their coach, but finding it too late +to go home with me, I took another coach and so home, and after a while +at my office, home to supper and to bed. + + + +17th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon I to +the 'Change, and there, among others, had my first meeting with Mr. +L'Estrange, who hath endeavoured several times to speak with me. It is +to get, now and then, some newes of me, which I shall, as I see cause, +give him. He is a man of fine conversation, I think, but I am sure most +courtly and full of compliments. Thence home to dinner, and then come +the looking-glass man to set up the looking-glass I bought yesterday, in +my dining-room, and very handsome it is. So abroad by coach to White +Hall, and there to the Committee of Tangier, and then the Fishing. Mr. +Povy did in discourse give me a rub about my late bill for money that I +did get of him, which vexed me and stuck in my mind all this evening, +though I know very well how to cleare myself at the worst. So home and +to my office, where late, and then home to bed. Mighty talke there is of +this Comet that is seen a'nights; and the King and Queene did sit up last +night to see it, and did, it seems. And to-night I thought to have done +so too; but it is cloudy, and so no stars appear. But I will endeavour +it. Mr. Gray did tell me to-night, for certain, that the Dutch, as high +as they seem, do begin to buckle; and that one man in this Kingdom did +tell the King that he is offered L40,000 to make a peace, and others have +been offered money also. It seems the taking of their Bourdeaux fleete +thus, arose from a printed Gazette of the Dutch's boasting of fighting, +and having beaten the English: in confidence whereof (it coming to +Bourdeaux), all the fleete comes out, and so falls into our hands. + + + +18th (Lord's day). To church, where, God forgive me! I spent most of my +time in looking [on] my new Morena--[a brunette]-- at the other side of +the church, an acquaintance of Pegg Pen's. So home to dinner, and then +to my chamber to read Ben Johnson's Cataline, a very excellent piece, and +so to church again, and thence we met at the office to hire ships, being +in great haste and having sent for several masters of ships to come to +us. Then home, and there Mr. Andrews and Hill come and we sung finely, +and by and by Mr. Fuller, the Parson, and supped with me, he and a friend +of his, but my musique friends would not stay supper. At and after +supper Mr. Fuller and I told many storys of apparitions and delusions +thereby, and I out with my storys of Tom Mallard. He gone, I a little to +my office, and then to prayers and to bed. + + + +19th. Going to bed betimes last night we waked betimes, and from our +people's being forced to take the key to go out to light a candle, I was +very angry and begun to find fault with my wife for not commanding her +servants as she ought. Thereupon she giving me some cross answer I did +strike her over her left eye such a blow as the poor wretch did cry out +and was in great pain, but yet her spirit was such as to endeavour to +bite and scratch me. But I coying--[stroking or caressing]-- with her +made her leave crying, and sent for butter and parsley, and friends +presently one with another, and I up, vexed at my heart to think what I +had done, for she was forced to lay a poultice or something to her eye +all day, and is black, and the people of the house observed it. But I +was forced to rise, and up and with Sir J. Minnes to White Hall, and +there we waited on the Duke. And among other things Mr. Coventry took +occasion to vindicate himself before the Duke and us, being all there, +about the choosing of Taylor for Harwich. Upon which the Duke did clear +him, and did tell us that he did expect, that, after he had named a man, +none of us shall then oppose or find fault with the man; but if we had +anything to say, we ought to say it before he had chose him. Sir G. +Carteret thought himself concerned, and endeavoured to clear himself: and +by and by Sir W. Batten did speak, knowing himself guilty, and did +confess, that being pressed by the Council he did say what he did, that +he was accounted a fanatique; but did not know that at that time he had +been appointed by his Royal Highness. To which the Duke [replied] that +it was impossible but he must know that he had appointed him; and so it +did appear that the Duke did mean all this while Sir W. Batten. So by +and by we parted, and Mr. Coventry did privately tell me that he did this +day take this occasion to mention the business to give the Duke an +opportunity of speaking his mind to Sir W. Batten in this business, of +which I was heartily glad. Thence home, and not finding Bagwell's wife +as I expected, I to the 'Change and there walked up and down, and then +home, and she being come I bid her go and stay at Mooregate for me, and +after going up to my wife (whose eye is very bad, but she is in very good +temper to me), and after dinner I to the place and walked round the +fields again and again, but not finding her I to the 'Change, and there +found her waiting for me and took her away, and to an alehouse, and there +I made much of her, and then away thence and to another and endeavoured +to caress her, but 'elle ne voulait pas', which did vex me, but I think +it was chiefly not having a good easy place to do it upon. So we broke +up and parted and I to the office, where we sat hiring of ships an hour +or two, and then to my office, and thence (with Captain Taylor home to my +house) to give him instructions and some notice of what to his great +satisfaction had happened to-day. Which I do because I hope his coming +into this office will a little cross Sir W. Batten and may do me good. +He gone, I to supper with my wife, very pleasant, and then a little to my +office and to bed. My mind, God forgive me, too much running upon what I +can 'ferais avec la femme de Bagwell demain', having promised to go to +Deptford and 'a aller a sa maison avec son mari' when I come thither. + + + +20th. Up and walked to Deptford, where after doing something at the yard +I walked, without being observed, with Bagwell home to his house, and +there was very kindly used, and the poor people did get a dinner for me +in their fashion, of which I also eat very well. After dinner I found +occasion of sending him abroad, and then alone 'avec elle je tentais a +faire ce que je voudrais et contre sa force je le faisais biens que passe +a mon contentment'. By and by he coming back again I took leave and +walked home, and then there to dinner, where Dr. Fayrebrother come to see +me and Luellin. We dined, and I to the office, leaving them, where we +sat all the afternoon, and I late at the office. To supper and to the +office again very late, then home to bed. + + + +21st. Up, and after evening reckonings to this day with Mr. Bridges, the +linnen draper, for callicos, I out to Doctors' Commons, where by +agreement my cozen Roger and I did meet my cozen Dr. Tom Pepys, and there +a great many and some high words on both sides, but I must confess I was +troubled; first, to find my cozen Roger such a simple but well-meaning +man as he is; next to think that my father, out of folly and vain glory, +should now and then (as by their words I gather) be speaking how he had +set up his son Tom with his goods and house, and now these words are +brought against him--I fear to the depriving him of all the profit the +poor man intended to make of the lease of his house and sale of his owne +goods. I intend to make a quiet end if I can with the Doctor, being a +very foul-tounged fool and of great inconvenience to be at difference +with such a one that will make the base noise about it that he will. +Thence, very much vexed to find myself so much troubled about other men's +matters, I to Mrs. Turner's, in Salsbury Court, and with her a little, +and carried her, the porter staying for me, our eagle, which she desired +the other day, and we were glad to be rid of her, she fouling our house +of office mightily. They are much pleased with her. And thence I home +and after dinner to the office, where Sir W. Rider and Cutler come, and +in dispute I very high with them against their demands, I hope to no hurt +to myself, for I was very plain with them to the best of my reason. So +they gone I home to supper, then to the office again and so home to bed. +My Lord Sandwich this day writes me word that he hath seen (at +Portsmouth) the Comet, and says it is the most extraordinary thing that +ever he saw. + + + +22nd. Up and betimes to my office, and then out to several places, among +others to Holborne to have spoke with one Mr. Underwood about some +English hemp, he lies against Gray's Inn. Thereabouts I to a barber's +shop to have my hair cut, and there met with a copy of verses, mightily +commended by some gentlemen there, of my Lord Mordaunt's, in excuse of +his going to sea this late expedition, with the Duke of Yorke. But, +Lord! they are but sorry things; only a Lord made them. Thence to the +'Change; and there, among the merchants, I hear fully the news of our +being beaten to dirt at Guinny, by De Ruyter with his fleete. The +particulars, as much as by Sir G. Carteret afterwards I heard, I have +said in a letter to my Lord Sandwich this day at Portsmouth; it being +most wholly to the utter ruine of our Royall Company, and reproach and +shame to the whole nation, as well as justification to them in their +doing wrong to no man as to his private [property], only takeing whatever +is found to belong to the Company, and nothing else. Dined at the +Dolphin, Sir G. Carteret, Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, and I, with Sir +W. Boreman and Sir Theophilus Biddulph and others, Commissioners of the +Sewers, about our place below to lay masts in. But coming a little too +soon, I out again, and tooke boat down to Redriffe; and just in time +within two minutes, and saw the new vessel of Sir William Petty's +launched, the King and Duke being there. + + [Pepys was wrong as to the name of Sir William Petty's new + doublekeeled boat. On February 13th, 1664-65, he gives the correct + title, which was "The Experiment."] + +It swims and looks finely, and I believe will do well. The name I think +is Twilight, but I do not know certainly. Coming away back immediately +to dinner, where a great deal of good discourse, and Sir G. Carteret's +discourse of this Guinny business, with great displeasure at the losse of +our honour there, and do now confess that the trade brought all these +troubles upon us between the Dutch and us. Thence to the office and +there sat late, then I to my office and there till 12 at night, and so +home to bed weary. + + + +23rd. Up and to my office, then come by appointment cozen Tom Trice to +me, and I paid him the L20 remaining due to him upon the bond of L100 +given him by agreement November, 1663, to end the difference between us +about my aunt's, his mother's, money. And here, being willing to know +the worst, I told him, "I hope now there is nothing remaining between you +and I of future dispute." "No," says he, "nothing at all that I know of, +but only a small matter of about 20 or 30s. that my father Pepys received +for me of rent due to me in the country, which I will in a day or two +bring you an account of," and so we parted. Dined at home upon a good +turkey which Mr. Sheply sent us, then to the office all the afternoon, +Mr. Cutler and others coming to me about business. I hear that the Dutch +have prepared a fleete to go the backway to the Streights, where without +doubt they will master our fleete. This put to that of Guinny makes me +fear them mightily, and certainly they are a most wise people, and +careful of their business. The King of France, they say, do declare +himself obliged to defend them, and lays claim by his Embassador to the +wines we have taken from the Dutch Bourdeaux men, and more, it is doubted +whether the Swede will be our friend or no. Pray God deliver us out of +these troubles! This day Sir W. Batten sent and afterwards spoke to me, +to have me and my wife come and dine with them on Monday next: which is a +mighty condescension in them, and for some great reason I am sure, or +else it pleases God by my late care of business to make me more +considerable even with them than I am sure they would willingly owne me +to be. God make me thankfull and carefull to preserve myself so, for I +am sure they hate me and it is hope or fear that makes them flatter me. +It being a bright night, which it has not been a great while, I purpose +to endeavour to be called in the morning to see the Comet, though I fear +we shall not see it, because it rises in the east but 16 degrees, and +then the houses will hinder us. + + + +24th. Having sat up all night to past two o'clock this morning, our +porter, being appointed, comes and tells us that the bellman tells him +that the star is seen upon Tower Hill; so I, that had been all night +setting in order all my old papers in my chamber, did leave off all, and +my boy and I to Tower Hill, it being a most fine, bright moonshine night, +and a great frost; but no Comet to be seen. So after running once round +the Hill, I and Tom, we home and then to bed. Rose about 9 o'clock and +then to the office, where sitting all the morning. At noon to the +'Change, to the Coffee-house; and there heard Sir Richard Ford tell the +whole story of our defeat at Guinny. Wherein our men are guilty of the +most horrid cowardice and perfidiousness, as he says and tells it, that +ever Englishmen were. Captain Raynolds, that was the only commander of +any of the King's ships there, was shot at by De Ruyter, with a bloody +flag flying. He, instead of opposing (which, indeed, had been to no +purpose, but only to maintain honour), did poorly go on board himself, to +ask what De Ruyter would have; and so yielded to whatever Ruyter would +desire. The King and Duke are highly vexed at it, it seems, and the +business deserves it. Thence home to dinner, and then abroad to buy some +things, and among others to my bookseller's, and there saw several books +I spoke for, which are finely bound and good books to my great content. +So home and to my office, where late. This evening I being informed did +look and saw the Comet, which is now, whether worn away or no I know not, +but appears not with a tail, but only is larger and duller than any other +star, and is come to rise betimes, and to make a great arch, and is gone +quite to a new place in the heavens than it was before: but I hope in a +clearer night something more will be seen. So home to bed. + + + +25th (Lord's day and Christmas day). Up (my wife's eye being ill still +of the blow I did in a passion give her on Monday last) to church alone, +where Mr. Mills, a good sermon. To dinner at home, where very pleasant +with my wife and family. After dinner I to Sir W. Batten's, and there +received so much good usage (as I have of late done) from him and my +Lady, obliging me and my wife, according to promise, to come and dine +with them to-morrow with our neighbours, that I was in pain all the day, +and night too after, to know how to order the business of my wife's not +going, and by discourse receive fresh instances of Sir J. Minnes's folly +in complaining to Sir G. Carteret of Sir W. Batten and me for some family +offences, such as my having of a stopcock to keepe the water from them, +which vexes me, but it would more but that Sir G. Carteret knows him very +well. Thence to the French church, but coming too late I returned and to +Mr. Rawlinson's church, where I heard a good sermon of one that I +remember was at Paul's with me, his name Maggett; and very great store of +fine women there is in this church, more than I know anywhere else about +us. So home and to my chamber, looking over and setting in order my +papers and books, and so to supper, and then to prayers and to bed. + + + +26th. Up, and with Sir W. Pen to White Hall, and there with the rest did +our usual business before the Duke, and then with Sir W. Batten back and +to his house, where I by sicknesse excused my wife's coming to them +to-day. Thence I to the Coffeehouse, where much good discourse, and all +the opinion now is that the Dutch will avoid fighting with us at home, +but do all the hurte they can to us abroad; which it may be they may for +a while, but that, I think, cannot support them long. Thence to Sir W. +Batten's, where Mr. Coventry and all our families here, women and all, +and Sir R. Ford and his, and a great feast and good discourse and merry, +there all the afternoon and evening till late, only stepped in to see my +wife, then to my office to enter my day's work, and so home to bed, where +my people and wife innocently at cards very merry, and I to bed, leaving +them to their sport and blindman's buff. + + + +27th. My people came to bed, after their sporting, at four o'clock in +the morning; I up at seven, and to Deptford and Woolwich in a gally; the +Duke calling to me out of the barge in which the King was with him going +down the river, to know whither I was going. I told him to Woolwich, but +was troubled afterward I should say no farther, being in a gally, lest he +think me too profuse in my journeys. Did several businesses, and then +back again by two o'clock to Sir J. Minnes's to dinner by appointment, +where all yesterday's company but Mr. Coventry, who could not come. Here +merry, and after an hour's chat I down to the office, where busy late, +and then home to supper and to bed. The Comet appeared again to-night, +but duskishly. I went to bed, leaving my wife and all her folks, and +Will also, too, come to make Christmas gambolls to-night. + + + +28th. I waked in the morning about 6 o'clock and my wife not come to +bed; I lacked a pot, but there was none, and bitter cold, so was forced +to rise and piss in the chimney, and to bed again. Slept a little +longer, and then hear my people coming up, and so I rose, and my wife to +bed at eight o'clock in the morning, which vexed me a little, but I +believe there was no hurt in it all, but only mirthe, therefore took no +notice. I abroad with Sir W. Batten to the Council Chamber, where all of +us to discourse about the way of measuring ships and the freight fit to +give for them by the tun, where it was strange methought to hear so poor +discourses among the Lords themselves, and most of all to see how a +little empty matter delivered gravely by Sir W. Pen was taken mighty +well, though nothing in the earth to the purpose. But clothes, +I perceive more and more every day, is a great matter. Thence home +with Sir W. Batten by coach, and I home to dinner, finding my wife still +in bed. After dinner abroad, and among other things visited my Lady +Sandwich, and was there, with her and the young ladies, playing at cards +till night. Then home and to my office late, then home to bed, leaving +my wife and people up to more sports, but without any great satisfaction +to myself therein. + + + +29th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning. Then whereas +I should have gone and dined with Sir W. Pen (and the rest of the +officers at his house), I pretended to dine with my Lady Sandwich and so +home, where I dined well, and began to wipe and clean my books in my +chamber in order to the settling of my papers and things there +thoroughly, and then to the office, where all the afternoon sitting, and +in the evening home to supper, and then to my work again. + + + +30th. Lay very long in bed with my wife, it being very cold, and my wife +very full of a resolution to keepe within doors, not so much as to go to +church or see my Lady Sandwich before Easter next, which I am willing +enough to, though I seem the contrary. This and other talke kept me a- +bed till almost 10 a'clock. Then up and made an end of looking over all +my papers and books and taking everything out of my chamber to have all +made clean. At noon dined, and after dinner forth to several places to +pay away money, to clear myself in all the world, and, among others, paid +my bookseller L6 for books I had from him this day, and the silversmith +L22 18s. for spoons, forks, and sugar box, and being well pleased with +seeing my business done to my mind as to my meeting with people and +having my books ready for me, I home and to my office, and there did +business late, and then home to supper, prayers, and to bed. + + + +31st. At the office all the morning, and after dinner there again, +dispatched first my letters, and then to my accounts, not of the month +but of the whole yeare also, and was at it till past twelve at night, it +being bitter cold; but yet I was well satisfied with my worke, and, above +all, to find myself, by the great blessing of God, worth L1349, by which, +as I have spent very largely, so I have laid up above L500 this yeare +above what I was worth this day twelvemonth. The Lord make me for ever +thankful to his holy name for it! Thence home to eat a little and so to +bed. Soon as ever the clock struck one, I kissed my wife in the kitchen +by the fireside, wishing her a merry new yeare, observing that I believe +I was the first proper wisher of it this year, for I did it as soon as +ever the clock struck one. + +So ends the old yeare, I bless God, with great joy to me, not only from +my having made so good a yeare of profit, as having spent L420 and laid +up L540 and upwards; but I bless God I never have been in so good plight +as to my health in so very cold weather as this is, nor indeed in any hot +weather, these ten years, as I am at this day, and have been these four +or five months. But I am at a great losse to know whether it be my +hare's foote, or taking every morning of a pill of turpentine, or my +having left off the wearing of a gowne. My family is, my wife, in good +health, and happy with her; her woman Mercer, a pretty, modest, quiett +mayde; her chambermayde Besse, her cook mayde Jane, the little girl +Susan, and my boy, which I have had about half a yeare, Tom Edwards, +which I took from the King's chappell, and a pretty and loving quiett +family I have as any man in England. My credit in the world and my +office grows daily, and I am in good esteeme with everybody, I think. +My troubles of my uncle's estate pretty well over; but it comes to be but +of little profit to us, my father being much supported by my purse. But +great vexations remain upon my father and me from my brother Tom's death +and ill condition, both to our disgrace and discontent, though no great +reason for either. Publique matters are all in a hurry about a Dutch +warr. Our preparations great; our provocations against them great; and, +after all our presumption, we are now afeard as much of them, as we +lately contemned them. Every thing else in the State quiett, blessed be +God! My Lord Sandwich at sea with the fleete at Portsmouth; sending some +about to cruise for taking of ships, which we have done to a great +number. This Christmas I judged it fit to look over all my papers and +books; and to tear all that I found either boyish or not to be worth +keeping, or fit to be seen, if it should please God to take me away +suddenly. Among others, I found these two or three notes, which I +thought fit to keep. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +Irish in Ireland, whom Cromwell had settled all in one corner +Tear all that I found either boyish or not to be worth keeping + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v36 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + diff --git a/old/sp37g10.zip b/old/sp37g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..0507dac --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp37g10.zip |