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diff --git a/4153.txt b/4153.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4d3b29f --- /dev/null +++ b/4153.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10179 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1664, by Samuel Pepys + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1664 + Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian + Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors + Bright + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Commentator: Lord Braybrooke + +Editor: Henry B. Wheatley + +Release Date: October 12, 2006 [EBook #4153] +Posting Date: March 22, 2009 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, 1664 *** + + + + +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 + +1964 + +By Samuel Pepys + +Edited With Additions By + +Henry B. Wheatley F.S.A. + + + + + LONDON + GEORGE BELL & SONS YORK ST. COVENT GARDEN + CAMBRIDGE DEIGHTON BELL & CO. + + + 1893 + + + + +JANUARY 1663-1664 + +January 1st, Went to bed between 4 and 5 in the morning with my mind +in good temper of satisfaction and slept till about 8, that many people +came to speak with me. Among others one came with the best New Year's +gift that ever I had, namely from Mr. Deering, with a bill of exchange +drawn upon himself for the payment of L50 to Mr. Luellin. It being for +my use with a letter of compliment. I am not resolved what or how to do +in this business, but I conclude it is an extraordinary good new year's +gift, though I do not take the whole, or if I do then give some of it to +Luellin. By and by comes Captain Allen and his son Jowles and his wife, +who continues pretty still. They would have had me set my hand to a +certificate for his loyalty, and I know not what his ability for any +employment. But I did not think it fit, but did give them a pleasing +denial, and after sitting with me an hour they went away. Several others +came to me about business, and then being to dine at my uncle Wight's +I went to the Coffee-house, sending my wife by Will, and there staid +talking an hour with Coll. Middleton, and others, and among other things +about a very rich widow, young and handsome, of one Sir Nicholas Gold's, +a merchant, lately fallen, and of great courtiers that already look +after her: her husband not dead a week yet. She is reckoned worth +L80,000. Thence to my uncle Wight's, where Dr. of-----, among others, +dined, and his wife, a seeming proud conceited woman, I know not what to +make of her, but the Dr's. discourse did please me very well about the +disease of the stone, above all things extolling Turpentine, which he +told me how it may be taken in pills with great ease. There was brought +to table a hot pie made of a swan I sent them yesterday, given me by Mr. +Howe, but we did not eat any of it. But my wife and I rose from table, +pretending business, and went to the Duke's house, the first play I have +been at these six months, according to my last vowe, and here saw the +so much cried-up play of "Henry the Eighth;" which, though I went with +resolution to like it, is so simple a thing made up of a great many +patches, that, besides the shows and processions in it, there is nothing +in the world good or well done. Thence mightily dissatisfied back at +night to my uncle Wight's, and supped with them, but against my stomach +out of the offence the sight of my aunt's hands gives me, and ending +supper with a mighty laugh, the greatest I have had these many months, +at my uncle's being out in his grace after meat, we rose and broke up, +and my wife and I home and to bed, being sleepy since last night. + +2nd. Up and to the office, and there sitting all the morning, and at +noon to the 'Change, in my going met with Luellin and told him how I had +received a letter and bill for L50 from Mr. Deering, and delivered it +to him, which he told me he would receive for me. To which I consented, +though professed not to desire it if he do not consider himself +sufficiently able by the service I have done, and that it is rather my +desire to have nothing till he be further sensible of my service. From +the 'Change I brought him home and dined with us, and after dinner I +took my wife out, for I do find that I am not able to conquer myself as +to going to plays till I come to some new vowe concerning it, and that I +am now come, that is to say, that I will not see above one in a month +at any of the publique theatres till the sum of 50s. be spent, and then +none before New Year's Day next, unless that I do become worth L1000 +sooner than then, and then am free to come to some other terms, and so +leaving him in Lombard Street I took her to the King's house, and there +met Mr. Nicholson, my old colleague, and saw "The Usurper," which is +no good play, though better than what I saw yesterday. However, we rose +unsatisfied, and took coach and home, and I to the office late writing +letters, and so to supper and to bed. + +3rd (Lord's day). Lay long in bed, and then rose and with a fire in my +chamber staid within all day, looking over and settling my accounts in +good order, by examining all my books, and the kitchen books, and I find +that though the proper profit of my last year was but L305, yet I did by +other gain make it up L444., which in every part of it was unforeseen +of me, and therefore it was a strange oversight for lack of examining my +expenses that I should spend L690 this year, but for the time to come +I have so distinctly settled all my accounts in writing and the +particulars of all my several layings out, that I do hope I shall +hereafter make a better judgment of my spendings than ever. I dined with +my wife in her chamber, she in bed, and then down again and till 11 at +night, and broke up and to bed with great content, but could not make +an end of writing over my vows as I purposed, but I am agreed in every +thing how to order myself for the year to come, which I trust in God +will be much for my good. So up to prayers and to bed. This evening Sir +W. Pen came to invite me against next Wednesday, being Twelfth day, to +his usual feast, his wedding day. + +4th. Up betimes, and my wife being ready, and her mayd Besse and the +girl, I carried them by coach and set them all down in Covent Garden and +there left them, and I to my Lord Sandwich's lodgings, but he not being +up, I to the Duke's chamber, and there by and by to his closett, where +since his lady was ill, a little red bed of velvet is brought for him to +lie alone, which is a very pretty one. After doing business here, I +to my Lord's again, and there spoke with him, and he seems now almost +friends again as he used to be. Here meeting Mr. Pierce, the chyrurgeon, +he told me among other Court newes, how the Queene is very well again, +and the King lay with her on Saturday night last; and that she speaks +now very pretty English, and makes her sense out now and then with +pretty phrazes: as among others this is mightily cried up; that, meaning +to say that she did not like such a horse so well as the rest, he being +too prancing and full of tricks, she said he did make too much +vanity. Thence to the Tennis Court, after I had spent a little time in +Westminster Hall, thinking to have met with Mrs. Lane, but I could not +and am glad of it, and there saw the King play at Tennis and others: but +to see how the King's play was extolled without any cause at all, was +a loathsome sight, though sometimes, indeed, he did play very well and +deserved to be commended; but such open flattery is beastly. Afterwards +to St. James's Parke, being unwilling to go to spend money at the +ordinary, and there spent an hour or two, it being a pleasant day, +seeing people play at Pell Mell; where it pleased me mightily to hear +a gallant, lately come from France, swear at one of his companions for +suffering his man (a spruce blade) to be so saucy as to strike a ball +while his master was playing on the Mall. + + [When Egerton was Bishop of Durham, he often played at bowls with + his guests on the public days. On an occasion of this sort, a + visitor happening to cross the lawn, one of the chaplains exclaimed, + "You must not shake the green, for the bishop is going to bowl."-B.] + +Thence took coach at White Hall and took up my wife, who is mighty sad +to think of her father, who is going into Germany against the Turkes; +but what will become of her brother I know not. He is so idle, and out +of all capacity, I think, to earn his bread. Home and at my office till +is at night making my solemn vowes for the next year, which I trust in +the Lord I shall keep, but I fear I have a little too severely bound +myself in some things and in too many, for I fear I may forget some. But +however, I know the worst, and shall by the blessing of God observe to +perform or pay my forfeits punctually. So home and to bed with my mind +at rest. + +5th. Up and to our office, where we sat all the morning, where my head +being willing to take in all business whatever, I am afraid I shall over +clogg myself with it. But however, it is my desire to do my duty and +shall the willinger bear it. At noon home and to the 'Change, where I +met with Luellin, who went off with me and parted to meet again at the +Coffeehouse, but missed. So home and found him there, and Mr. Barrow +came to speak with me, so they both dined with me alone, my wife +not being ready, and after dinner I up in my chamber with Barrow to +discourse about matters of the yard with him, and his design of leaving +the place, which I am sorry for, and will prevent if I can. He being +gone then Luellin did give me the L50 from Mr. Deering, which he do give +me for my pains in his business and what I may hereafter take for him, +though there is not the least word or deed I have yet been guilty of in +his behalf but what I am sure has been to the King's advantage and the +profit of the service, nor ever will. And for this money I never did +condition with him or expected a farthing at the time when I did do him +the service, nor have given any receipt for it, it being brought me by +Luellin, nor do purpose to give him any thanks for it, but will wherein +I can faithfully endeavour to see him have the privilege of his Patent +as the King's merchant. I did give Luellin two pieces in gold for a pair +of gloves for his kindness herein. Then he being gone, I to my +office, where busy till late at night, that through my room being over +confounded in business I could stay there no longer, but went home, and +after a little supper to bed. + +6th (Twelfth day). Up and to my office, where very busy all the morning, +being indeed over loaded with it through my own desire of doing all I +can. At noon to the 'Change, but did little, and so home to dinner with +my poor wife, and after dinner read a lecture to her in Geography, which +she takes very prettily and with great pleasure to her and me to teach +her, and so to the office again, where as busy as ever in my life, +one thing after another, and answering people's business, particularly +drawing up things about Mr. Wood's masts, which I expect to have a +quarrel about with Sir W. Batten before it be ended, but I care not. At +night home to my wife, to supper, discourse, prayers, and to bed. This +morning I began a practice which I find by the ease I do it with that I +shall continue, it saving me money and time; that is, to trimme myself +with a razer: which pleases me mightily. + +7th. Up, putting on my best clothes and to the office, where all the +morning we sat busy, among other things upon Mr. Wood's performance of +his contract for masts, wherein I was mightily concerned, but I think +was found all along in the right, and shall have my desire in it to the +King's advantage. At noon, all of us to dinner to Sir W. Pen's, where a +very handsome dinner, Sir J. Lawson among others, and his lady and his +daughter, a very pretty lady and of good deportment, with looking upon +whom I was greatly pleased, the rest of the company of the women were +all of our own house, of no satisfaction or pleasure at all. My wife was +not there, being not well enough, nor had any great mind. But to see +how Sir W. Pen imitates me in everything, even in his having his chimney +piece in his dining room the same with that in my wife's closett, and in +every thing else I perceive wherein he can. But to see again how he was +out in one compliment: he lets alone drinking any of the ladies' healths +that were there, my Lady Batten and Lawson, till he had begun with my +Lady Carteret, who was absent, and that was well enough, and then Mr. +Coventry's mistresse, at which he was ashamed, and would not have had +him have drunk it, at least before the ladies present, but his policy, +as he thought, was such that he would do it. After dinner by coach with +Sir G. Carteret and Sir J. Minnes by appointment to Auditor Beale's in +Salisbury Court, and there we did with great content look over some old +ledgers to see in what manner they were kept, and indeed it was in an +extraordinary good method, and such as (at least out of design to keep +them employed) I do persuade Sir J. Minnes to go upon, which will at +least do as much good it may be to keep them for want of something to do +from envying those that do something. Thence calling to see whether Mrs. +Turner was returned, which she is, and I spoke one word only to her, and +away again by coach home and to my office, where late, and then home to +supper and bed. + +8th. Up and all the morning at my office and with Sir J. Minnes, +directing him and Mr. Turner about keeping of their books according to +yesterday's work, wherein I shall make them work enough. At noon to the +'Change, and there long, and from thence by appointment took Luellin, +Mount, and W. Symons, and Mr. Pierce, the chirurgeon, home to dinner +with me and were merry. But, Lord! to hear how W. Symons do commend and +look sadly and then talk bawdily and merrily, though his wife was dead +but the other day, would make a dogg laugh. After dinner I did go in +further part of kindness to Luellin for his kindness about Deering's L50 +which he procured me the other day of him. We spent all the afternoon +together and then they to cards with my wife, who this day put on her +Indian blue gowne which is very pretty, where I left them for an hour, +and to my office, and then to them again, and by and by they went +away at night, and so I again to my office to perfect a letter to Mr. +Coventry about Department Treasurers, wherein I please myself and hope +to give him content and do the King service therein. So having done, I +home and to teach my wife a new lesson in the globes, and to supper, +and to bed. We had great pleasure this afternoon; among other things, to +talk of our old passages together in Cromwell's time; and how W. Symons +did make me laugh and wonder to-day when he told me how he had +made shift to keep in, in good esteem and employment, through eight +governments in one year (the dear 1659, which were indeed, and he did +name them all), and then failed unhappy in the ninth, viz. that of the +King's coming in. He made good to me the story which Luellin did tell +me the other day, of his wife upon her death-bed; how she dreamt of her +uncle Scobell, and did foretell, from some discourse she had with him, +that she should die four days thence, and not sooner, and did all along +say so, and did so. Upon the 'Change a great talke there was of one Mr. +Tryan, an old man, a merchant in Lyme-Streete, robbed last night (his +man and mayde being gone out after he was a-bed), and gagged and robbed +of L1050 in money and about L4000 in jewells, which he had in his house +as security for money. It is believed by many circumstances that his man +is guilty of confederacy, by their ready going to his secret till in his +desk, wherein the key of his cash-chest lay. + +9th. Up (my underlip being mightily swelled, I know not how but by +overrubbing it, it itching) and to the office, where we sat all the +morning, and at noon I home to dinner, and by discourse with my wife +thought upon inviting my Lord Sandwich to a dinner shortly. It will +cost me at least ten or twelve pounds; but, however, some arguments of +prudence I have, which however I shall think again upon before I proceed +to that expence. After dinner by coach I carried my wife and Jane to +Westminster, leaving her at Mr. Hunt's, and I to Westminster Hall, and +there visited Mrs. Lane, and by appointment went out and met her at +the Trumpet, Mrs. Hare's, but the room being damp we went to the Bell +tavern, and there I had her company, but could not do as I used to do +(yet nothing but what was honest)..... So I to talk about her having +Hawley, she told me flatly no, she could not love him. I took occasion +to enquire of Howlett's daughter, with whom I have a mind to meet a +little to see what mettle the young wench is made of, being very pretty, +but she tells me she is already betrothed to Mrs. Michell's son, and +she in discourse tells me more, that Mrs. Michell herself had a daughter +before marriage, which is now near thirty years old, a thing I could not +have believed. Thence leading her to the Hall, I took coach and called +my wife and her mayd, and so to the New Exchange, where we bought +several things of our pretty Mrs. Dorothy Stacy, a pretty woman, and +has the modestest look that ever I saw in my life and manner of speech. +Thence called at Tom's and saw him pretty well again, but has not been +currant. So homeward, and called at Ludgate, at Ashwell's uncle's, but +she was not within, to have spoke to her to have come to dress my +wife at the time my Lord dines here. So straight home, calling for +Walsingham's Manuals at my bookseller's to read but not to buy, +recommended for a pretty book by Sir W. Warren, whose warrant however +I do not much take till I do read it. So home to supper and to bed, +my wife not being very well since she came home, being troubled with a +fainting fit, which she never yet had before since she was my wife. + +10th (Lord's day). Lay in bed with my wife till 10 or 11 o'clock, having +been very sleepy all night. So up, and my brother Tom being come to +see me, we to dinner, he telling me how Mrs. Turner found herself +discontented with her late bad journey, and not well taken by them in +the country, they not desiring her coming down, nor the burials of Mr. +Edward Pepys's corps there. After dinner I to the office, where all the +afternoon, and at night my wife and I to my uncle Wight's, and there eat +some of their swan pie, which was good, and I invited them to my house +to eat a roasted swan on Tuesday next, which after I was come home did +make a quarrels between my wife and I, because she had appointed a wish +to-morrow. But, however, we were friends again quickly. So to bed. +All our discourse to-night was Mr. Tryan's late being robbed; and that +Collonell Turner (a mad, swearing, confident fellow, well known by all, +and by me), one much indebted to this man for his very livelihood, was +the man that either did or plotted it; and the money and things are +found in his hand, and he and his wife now in Newgate for it; of which +we are all glad, so very a known rogue he was. + +11th. Waked this morning by 4 o'clock by my wife to call the mayds to +their wash, and what through my sleeping so long last night and vexation +for the lazy sluts lying so long again and their great wash, neither my +wife nor I could sleep one winke after that time till day, and then I +rose and by coach (taking Captain Grove with me and three bottles of +Tent, which I sent to Mrs. Lane by my promise on Saturday night last) to +White Hall, and there with the rest of our company to the Duke and did +our business, and thence to the Tennis Court till noon, and there saw +several great matches played, and so by invitation to St. James's; +where, at Mr. Coventry's chamber, I dined with my Lord Barkeley, Sir G. +Carteret, Sir Edward Turner, Sir Ellis Layton, and one Mr. Seymour, a +fine gentleman; were admirable good discourse of all sorts, pleasant and +serious. Thence after dinner to White Hall, where the Duke being busy at +the Guinny business, the Duke of Albemarle, Sir W. Rider, Povy, Sir J. +Lawson and I to the Duke of Albemarle's lodgings, and there did some +business, and so to the Court again, and I to the Duke of York's +lodgings, where the Guinny company are choosing their assistants for +the next year by ballotting. Thence by coach with Sir J. Robinson, +Lieutenant of the Tower, he set me down at Cornhill, but, Lord! the +simple discourse that all the way we had, he magnifying his great +undertakings and cares that have been upon him for these last two years, +and how he commanded the city to the content of all parties, when +the loggerhead knows nothing almost that is sense. Thence to the +Coffee-house, whither comes Sir W. Petty and Captain Grant, and we fell +in talke (besides a young gentleman, I suppose a merchant, his name Mr. +Hill, that has travelled and I perceive is a master in most sorts of +musique and other things) of musique; the universal character; art +of memory; Granger's counterfeiting of hands and other most excellent +discourses to my great content, having not been in so good company a +great while, and had I time I should covet the acquaintance of that +Mr. Hill. This morning I stood by the King arguing with a pretty Quaker +woman, that delivered to him a desire of hers in writing. The King +showed her Sir J. Minnes, as a man the fittest for her quaking religion, +saying that his beard was the stiffest thing about him, and again +merrily said, looking upon the length of her paper, that if all she +desired was of that length she might lose her desires; she modestly +saying nothing till he begun seriously to discourse with her, arguing +the truth of his spirit against hers; she replying still with these +words, "O King!" and thou'd him all along. The general talke of the +towne still is of Collonell Turner, about the robbery; who, it is +thought, will be hanged. I heard the Duke of York tell to-night, how +letters are come that fifteen are condemned for the late plot by the +judges at York; and, among others, Captain Oates, against whom it was +proved that he drew his sword at his going out, and flinging away the +scabbard, said that he would either return victor or be hanged. So home, +where I found the house full of the washing and my wife mighty angry +about Will's being here to-day talking with her mayds, which she +overheard, idling of their time, and he telling what a good mayd my old +Jane was, and that she would never have her like again. At which I was +angry, and after directing her to beat at least the little girl, I went +to the office and there reproved Will, who told me that he went thither +by my wife's order, she having commanded him to come thither on Monday +morning. Now God forgive me! how apt I am to be jealous of her as to +this fellow, and that she must needs take this time, when she knows +I must be gone out to the Duke, though methinks had she that mind she +would never think it discretion to tell me this story of him, to let +me know that he was there, much less to make me offended with him, to +forbid him coming again. But this cursed humour I cannot cool in myself +by all the reason I have, which God forgive me for, and convince me of +the folly of it, and the disquiet it brings me. So home, where, God +be thanked, when I came to speak to my wife my trouble of mind soon +vanished, and to bed. The house foul with the washing and quite out of +order against to-morrow's dinner. + +12th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon +to the 'Change awhile, and so home, getting things against dinner ready, +and anon comes my uncle Wight and my aunt, with their cozens Mary and +Robert, and by chance my uncle Thomas Pepys. We had a good dinner, the +chief dish a swan roasted, and that excellent meate. At, dinner and all +day very merry. After dinner to cards, where till evening, then to the +office a little, and to cards again with them, and lost half-a-crowne. +They being gone, my wife did tell me how my uncle did this day accost +her alone, and spoke of his hoping she was with child, and kissing +her earnestly told her he should be very glad of it, and from all +circumstances methinks he do seem to have some intention of good to us, +which I shall endeavour to continue more than ever I did yet. So to my +office till late, and then home to bed, after being at prayers, which is +the first time after my late vowe to say prayers in my family twice in +every week. + +13th. Up and to my office a little, and then abroad to many several +places about business, among others to the geometrical instrument +makers, and through Bedlam (calling by the way at an old bookseller's +and there fell into looking over Spanish books and pitched upon some, +till I thought of my oathe when I was going to agree for them, and so +with much ado got myself out of the shop glad at my heart and so away) +to the African House to look upon their book of contracts for several +commodities for my information in the prices we give in the Navy. So to +the Coffee [house] where extraordinary good discourse of Dr. Whistler's' +upon my question concerning the keeping of masts, he arguing against +keeping them dry, by showing the nature of corruption in bodies and the +several ways thereof. So to the 'Change, and thence with Sir W. Rider to +the Trinity House to dinner, and then home and to my office till night, +and then with Mr. Bland to Sir T. Viner's about pieces of eight for Sir +J. Lawson, and so back to my office, and there late upon business, and +so home to supper and to bed. + +14th. Up and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon all +of us, viz., Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Batten at one end, and Mr. +Coventry, Sir J. Minnes and I (in the middle at the other end, being +taught how to sit there all three by my sitting so much the backwarder) +at the other end, to Sir G. Carteret's, and there dined well. Here I saw +Mr. Scott, the bastard that married his youngest daughter. Much pleasant +talk at table, and then up and to the office, where we sat long upon our +design of dividing the Controller's work into some of the rest of our +hands for the better doing of it, but he would not yield to it, though +the simple man knows in his heart that he do not do one part of it. So +he taking upon him to do it all we rose, I vexed at the heart to see the +King's service run after this manner, but it cannot be helped. Thence to +the Old James to the reference about Mr. Bland's business. Sir W. +Rider being now added to us, and I believe we shall soon come to some +determination in it. So home and to my office, did business, and then up +to Sir W. Pen and did express my trouble about this day's business, he +not being there, and plainly told him what I thought of it, and though I +know him a false fellow yet I adventured, as I have done often, to tell +him clearly my opinion of Sir W. Batten and his design in this business, +which is very bad. Hence home, and after a lecture to my wife in her +globes, to prayers and to bed. + +15th. Up and to my office, where all the morning, and among other things +Mr. Turner with me, and I did tell him my mind about the Controller his +master and all the office, and my mind touching himself too, as he did +carry himself either well or ill to me and my clerks, which I doubt not +but it will operate well. Thence to the 'Change, and there met my uncle +Wight, who was very kind to me, and would have had me home with him, and +so kind that I begin to wonder and think something of it of good to me. +Thence home to dinner, and after dinner with Mr. Hater by water, and +walked thither and back again from Deptford, where I did do something +checking the iron business, but my chief business was my discourse with +Mr. Hater about what had passed last night and to-day about the office +business, and my resolution to do him all the good I can therein. So +home, and my wife tells me that my uncle Wight hath been with her, and +played at cards with her, and is mighty inquisitive to know whether +she is with child or no, which makes me wonder what his meaning is, +and after all my thoughts, I cannot think, unless it be in order to the +making his will, that he might know how to do by me, and I would to God +my wife had told him that she was. + +16th. Up, and having paid some money in the morning to my uncle Thomas +on his yearly annuity, to the office, where we sat all the morning. +At noon I to the 'Change about some pieces of eight for Sir J. Lawson. +There I hear that Collonell Turner is found guilty of felony at the +Sessions in Mr. Tryan's business, which will save his life. So home and +met there J. Hasper come to see his kinswoman our Jane. I made much of +him and made him dine with us, he talking after the old simple manner +that he used to do. He being gone, I by water to Westminster Hall, and +there did see Mrs. Lane..... So by coach home and to my office, where +Browne of the Minerys brought me an Instrument made of a Spyral line +very pretty for all questions in Arithmetique almost, but it must be +some use that must make me perfect in it. So home to supper and to bed, +with my mind 'un peu troubled pour ce que fait' to-day, but I hope it +will be 'la dernier de toute ma vie.' + +17th (Lord's day). Up, and I and my wife to church, where Pembleton +appeared, which, God forgive me, did vex me, but I made nothing of it. +So home to dinner, and betimes my wife and I to the French church and +there heard a good sermon, the first time my wife and I were there ever +together. We sat by three sisters, all pretty women. It was pleasant to +hear the reader give notice to them, that the children to be catechized +next Sunday were them of Hounsditch and Blanche Chapiton. Thence home, +and there found Ashwell come to see my wife (we having called at her +lodging the other, day to speak with her about dressing my wife when +my Lord Sandwich dines here), and is as merry as ever, and speaks as +disconcerned for any difference between us on her going away as ever. +She being gone, my wife and I to see Sir W. Pen and there supped with +him much against my stomach, for the dishes were so deadly foule that I +could not endure to look upon them. So after supper home to prayers and +to bed. + +18th. Up, being troubled to find my wife so ready to have me go out of +doors. God forgive me for my jealousy! but I cannot forbear, though God +knows I have no reason to do so, or to expect her being so true to me +as I would have her. I abroad to White Hall, where the Court all in +mourning for the Duchesse of Savoy. We did our business with the Duke, +and so I to W. Howe at my Lord's lodgings, not seeing my Lord, he being +abroad, and there I advised with W. Howe about my having my Lord to +dinner at my house, who likes it well, though it troubles me that I +should come to need the advice of such a boy, but for the present it is +necessary. Here I found Mr. Mallard, and had from him a common tune set +by my desire to the Lyra Vyall, which goes most admirably. Thence home +by coach to the 'Change, after having been at the Coffee-house, where I +hear Turner is found guilty of felony and burglary; and strange stories +of his confidence at the barr, but yet great indiscretion in his +argueing. All desirous of his being hanged. So home and found that Will +had been with my wife. But, Lord! why should I think any evil of that; +and yet I cannot forbear it. But upon enquiry, though I found no reason +of doubtfulness, yet I could not bring my nature to any quiet or content +in my wife all day and night, nor though I went with her to divert +myself at my uncle Wight's, and there we played at cards till 12 at +night and went home in a great shower of rain, it having not rained +a great while before. Here was one Mr. Benson, a Dutchman, played and +supped with us, that pretends to sing well, and I expected great matters +but found nothing to be pleased with at all. So home and to bed, yet +troubled in my mind. + +19th. Up, without any kindness to my wife, and so to the office, where +we sat all the morning, and at noon I to the 'Change, and thence to Mr. +Cutler's with Sir W. Rider to dinner, and after dinner with him to the +Old James upon our reference of Mr. Bland's, and, having sat there upon +the business half an hour, broke up, and I home and there found Madame +Turner and her sister Dike come to see us, and staid chatting till +night, and so away, and I to my office till very late, and my eyes began +to fail me, and be in pain which I never felt to now-a-days, which I +impute to sitting up late writing and reading by candle-light. So home +to supper and to bed. + +20th. Up and by coach to my Lord Sandwich's, and after long staying till +his coming down (he not sending for me up, but it may be he did not know +I was there), he came down, and I walked with him to the Tennis Court, +and there left him, seeing the King play. At his lodgings this morning +there came to him Mr. W. Montague's fine lady, which occasioned my +Lord's calling me to her about some business for a friend of hers +preferred to be a midshipman at sea. My Lord recommended the whole +matter to me. She is a fine confident lady, I think, but not so pretty +as I once thought her. My Lord did also seal a lease for the house he +is now taking in Lincoln's Inn Fields, which stands him in 250 per annum +rent. Thence by water to my brother's, whom I find not well in bed, +sicke, they think, of a consumption, and I fear he is not well, but +do not complain, nor desire to take anything. From him I visited Mr. +Honiwood, who is lame, and to thank him for his visit to me the other +day, but we were both abroad. So to Mr. Commander's in Warwicke Lane, to +speak to him about drawing up my will, which he will meet me about in a +day or two. So to the 'Change and walked home, thence with Sir Richard +Ford, who told me that Turner is to be hanged to-morrow, and with what +impudence he hath carried out his trial; but that last night, when +he brought him newes of his death, he began to be sober and shed some +tears, and he hopes will die a penitent; he having already confessed all +the thing, but says it was partly done for a joke, and partly to get an +occasion of obliging the old man by his care in getting him his things +again, he having some hopes of being the better by him in his estate +at his death. Home to dinner, and after dinner my wife and I by water, +which we have not done together many a day, that is not since last +summer, but the weather is now very warm, and left her at Axe Yard, and +I to White Hall, and meeting Mr. Pierce walked with him an hour in the +Matted Gallery; among other things he tells me that my Lady Castlemaine +is not at all set by by the King, but that he do doat upon Mrs. Stewart +only; and that to the leaving of all business in the world, and to the +open slighting of the Queene; that he values not who sees him or stands +by him while he dallies with her openly; and then privately in her +chamber below, where the very sentrys observe his going in and out; and +that so commonly, that the Duke or any of the nobles, when they would +ask where the King is, they will ordinarily say, "Is the King above, or +below?" meaning with Mrs. Stewart: that the King do not openly disown +my Lady Castlemaine, but that she comes to Court; but that my Lord +FitzHarding and the Hambletons, + + [The three brothers, George Hamilton, James Hamilton, and the Count + Antoine Hamilton, author of the "Memoires de Grammont."] + +and sometimes my Lord Sandwich, they say, have their snaps at her. But +he says my Lord Sandwich will lead her from her lodgings in the darkest +and obscurest manner, and leave her at the entrance into the Queene's +lodgings, that he might be the least observed; that the Duke of Monmouth +the King do still doat on beyond measure, insomuch that the King only, +the Duke of York, and Prince Rupert, and the Duke of Monmouth, do now +wear deep mourning, that is, long cloaks, for the Duchesse of Savoy; so +that he mourns as a Prince of the Blood, while the Duke of York do no +more, and all the nobles of the land not so much; which gives great +offence, and he says the Duke of York do consider. But that the Duke +of York do give himself up to business, and is like to prove a noble +Prince; and so indeed I do from my heart think he will. He says that +it is believed, as well as hoped, that care is taken to lay up a hidden +treasure of money by the King against a bad day, pray God it be so! but +I should be more glad that the King himself would look after business, +which it seems he do not in the least. By and by came by Mr. Coventry, +and so we broke off; and he and I took a turn or two and so parted, and +then my Lord Sandwich came upon me, to speak with whom my business of +coming again to-night to this ende of the town chiefly was, in order to +the seeing in what manner he received me, in order to my inviting him to +dinner to my house, but as well in the morning as now, though I did +wait upon him home and there offered occasion of talk with him, yet he +treated me, though with respect, yet as a stranger, without any of the +intimacy or friendship which he used to do, and which I fear he will +never, through his consciousness of his faults, ever do again. Which I +must confess do trouble me above anything in the world almost, though I +neither do need at present nor fear to need to be so troubled, nay, and +more, though I do not think that he would deny me any friendship now if +I did need it, but only that he has not the face to be free with me, but +do look upon me as a remembrancer of his former vanity, and an espy upon +his present practices, for I perceive that Pickering to-day is great +with him again, and that he has done a great courtesy for Mr. Pierce, +the chirurgeon, to a good value, though both these and none but these +did I mention by name to my Lord in the business which has caused +all this difference between my Lord and me. However, I am resolved to +forbear my laying out my money upon a dinner till I see him in a better +posture, and by grave and humble, though high deportment, to make him +think I do not want him, and that will make him the readier to admit me +to his friendship again, I believe the soonest of anything but downright +impudence, and thrusting myself, as others do, upon him, which yet I +cannot do, not [nor] will not endeavour. So home, calling with my wife +to see my brother again, who was up, and walks up and down the house +pretty well, but I do think he is in a consumption. Home, troubled in +mind for these passages with my Lord, but am resolved to better my case +in my business to make my stand upon my owne legs the better and to +lay up as well as to get money, and among other ways I will have a good +fleece out of Creed's coat ere it be long, or I will have a fall. So +to my office and did some business, and then home to supper and to bed, +after I had by candlelight shaved myself and cut off all my beard clear, +which will make my worke a great deal the less in shaving. + +21st. Up, and after sending my wife to my aunt Wight's to get a place to +see Turner hanged, I to the office, where we sat all the morning, and +at noon going to the 'Change; and seeing people flock in the City, I +enquired, and found that Turner was not yet hanged. And so I went among +them to Leadenhall Street, at the end of Lyme Street, near where the +robbery was done; and to St. Mary Axe, where he lived. And there I got +for a shilling to stand upon the wheel of a cart, in great pain, above +an houre before the execution was done; he delaying the time by long +discourses and prayers one after another, in hopes of a reprieve; +but none came, and at last was flung off the ladder in his cloake. A +comely-looked man he was, and kept his countenance to the end: I was +sorry to see him. It was believed there were at least 12 or 14,000 +people in the street. So I home all in a sweat, and dined by myself, +and after dinner to the Old James, and there found Sir W. Rider and Mr. +Cutler at dinner, and made a second dinner with them, and anon came +Mr. Bland and Custos, and Clerke, and so we fell to the business of +reference, and upon a letter from Mr. Povy to Sir W. Rider and I telling +us that the King is concerned in it, we took occasion to fling off the +business from off our shoulders and would have nothing to do with it, +unless we had power from the King or Commissioners of Tangier, and I +think it will be best for us to continue of that mind, and to have +no hand, it being likely to go against the King. Thence to the +Coffee-house, and heard the full of Turner's discourse on the cart, +which was chiefly to clear himself of all things laid to his charge but +this fault, for which he now suffers, which he confesses. He deplored +the condition of his family, but his chief design was to lengthen time, +believing still a reprieve would come, though the sheriff advised him +to expect no such thing, for the King was resolved to grant none. After +that I had good discourse with a pretty young merchant with mighty +content. So to my office and did a little business, and then to my aunt +Wight's to fetch my wife home, where Dr. Burnett did tell me how poorly +the sheriffs did endeavour to get one jewell returned by Turner, after +he was convicted, as a due to them, and not to give it to Mr. Tryan, +the true owner, but ruled against them, to their great dishonour. +Though they plead it might be another jewell for ought they know and not +Tryan's. After supper home, and my wife tells me mighty stories of my +uncle's fond and kind discourses to her to-day, which makes me confident +that he has thoughts of kindness for us, he repeating his desire for her +to be with child, for it cannot enter into my head that he should have +any unworthy thoughts concerning her. After doing some business at my +office, I home to supper, prayers, and to bed. + +22nd. Up, and it being a brave morning, with a gaily to Woolwich, and +there both at the Ropeyarde and the other yarde did much business, and +thence to Greenwich to see Mr. Pett and others value the carved work +of the "Henrietta" (God knows in an ill manner for the King), and so +to Deptford, and there viewed Sir W. Petty's vessel; which hath an +odd appearance, but not such as people do make of it, for I am of the +opinion that he would never have discoursed so much of it, if it were +not better than other vessels, and so I believe that he was abused the +other day, as he is now, by tongues that I am sure speak before they +know anything good or bad of her. I am sorry to find his ingenuity +discouraged so. So home, reading all the way a good book, and so home to +dinner, and after dinner a lesson on the globes to my wife, and so to my +office till 10 or 11 o'clock at night, and so home to supper and to bed. + +23rd. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon home +to dinner, where Mr. Hawly came to see us and dined with us, and after +we had dined came Mr. Mallard, and after he had eat something, I brought +down my vyall which he played on, the first maister that ever touched +her yet, and she proves very well and will be, I think, an admirable +instrument. He played some very fine things of his owne, but I was +afeard to enter too far in their commendation for fear he should +offer to copy them for me out, and so I be forced to give or lend him +something. So to the office in the evening, whither Mr. Commander came +to me, and we discoursed about my will, which I am resolved to perfect +the next week by the grace of God. He being gone, I to write letters and +other business late, and so home to supper and to bed. + +24th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed, and then up, and being desirous to +perform my vowes that I lately made, among others, to be performed +this month, I did go to my office, and there fell on entering, out of +a bye-book, part of my second journall-book, which hath lain these two +years and more unentered. Upon this work till dinner, and after dinner +to it again till night, and then home to supper, and after supper to +read a lecture to my wife upon the globes, and so to prayers and to bed. +This evening also I drew up a rough draught of my last will to my mind. + +25th. Up and by coach to Whitehall to my Lord's lodgings, and seeing +that knowing that I was in the house, my Lord did not nevertheless send +for me up, I did go to the Duke's lodgings, and there staid while he was +making ready, in which time my Lord Sandwich came, and so all into his +closet and did our common business, and so broke up, and I homeward by +coach with Sir W. Batten, and staid at Warwicke Lane and there called +upon Mr. Commander and did give him my last will and testament to write +over in form, and so to the 'Change, where I did several businesses. +So home to dinner, and after I had dined Luellin came and we set him +something to eat, and I left him there with my wife, and to the office +upon a particular meeting of the East India Company, where I think I +did the King good service against the Company in the business of their +sending our ships home empty from the Indies contrary to their contract, +and yet, God forgive me! I found that I could be willing to receive a +bribe if it were offered me to conceal my arguments that I found against +them, in consideration that none of my fellow officers, whose duty it is +more than mine, had ever studied the case, or at this hour do understand +it, and myself alone must do it. That being done Mr. Povy and Bland came +to speak with me about their business of the reference, wherein I shall +have some more trouble, but cannot help it, besides I hope to make some +good use of Mr. Povy to my advantage. So home after business done at my +office, to supper, and then to the globes with my wife, and so to bed. +Troubled a little in mind that my Lord Sandwich should continue this +strangeness to me that methinks he shows me now a days more than while +the thing was fresh. + +26th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon to the +'Change, after being at the Coffee-house, where I sat by Tom Killigrew, +who told us of a fire last night in my Lady Castlemaine's lodging, where +she bid L40 for one to adventure the fetching of a cabinet out, which +at last was got to be done; and the fire at last quenched without doing +much wrong. To 'Change and there did much business, so home to dinner, +and then to the office all the afternoon. And so at night my aunt Wight +and Mrs. Buggin came to sit with my wife, and I in to them all the +evening, my uncle coming afterward, and after him Mr. Benson the +Dutchman, a frank, merry man. We were very merry and played at cards +till late and so broke up and to bed in good hopes that this my +friendship with my uncle and aunt will end well. + +27th. Up and to the office, and at noon to the Coffeehouse, where I sat +with Sir G. Ascue + + [Sir George Ayscue or Askew. After his return from his imprisonment + he declined to go to sea again, although he was twice afterwards + formally appointed. He sat on the court-martial on the loss of the + "Defiance" in 1668.] + +and Sir William Petty, who in discourse is, methinks, one of the most +rational men that ever I heard speak with a tongue, having all his +notions the most distinct and clear, and, among other things (saying, +that in all his life these three books were the most esteemed and +generally cried up for wit in the world "Religio Medici," "Osborne's +Advice to a Son," + + [Francis Osborne, an English writer of considerable abilities and + popularity, was the author of "Advice to a Son," in two parts, + Oxford, 1656-8, 8vo. He died in 1659. He is the same person + mentioned as "My Father Osborne," October 19th, 1661.--B.] + +and "Hudibras "), did say that in these--in the two first +principally--the wit lies, and confirming some pretty sayings, which are +generally like paradoxes, by some argument smartly and pleasantly urged, +which takes with people who do not trouble themselves to examine the +force of an argument, which pleases them in the delivery, upon a subject +which they like; whereas, as by many particular instances of mine, and +others, out of Osborne, he did really find fault and weaken the strength +of many of Osborne's arguments, so as that in downright disputation +they would not bear weight; at least, so far, but that they might be +weakened, and better found in their rooms to confirm what is there said. +He shewed finely whence it happens that good writers are not admired +by the present age; because there are but few in any age that do mind +anything that is abstruse and curious; and so longer before any body do +put the true praise, and set it on foot in the world, the generality +of mankind pleasing themselves in the easy delights of the world, as +eating, drinking, dancing, hunting, fencing, which we see the meanest +men do the best, those that profess it. A gentleman never dances so well +as the dancing master, and an ordinary fiddler makes better musique for +a shilling than a gentleman will do after spending forty, and so in all +the delights of the world almost. Thence to the 'Change, and after doing +much business, home, taking Commissioner Pett with me, and all alone +dined together. He told me many stories of the yard, but I do know him +so well, and had his character given me this morning by Hempson, as well +as my own too of him before, that I shall know how to value any thing he +says either of friendship or other business. He was mighty serious with +me in discourse about the consequence of Sir W. Petty's boat, as +the most dangerous thing in the world, if it should be practised by +endangering our losse of the command of the seas and our trade, while +the Turkes and others shall get the use of them, which, without doubt, +by bearing more sayle will go faster than any other ships, and, not +being of burden, our merchants cannot have the use of them and so will +be at the mercy of their enemies. So that I perceive he is afeard that +the honour of his trade will down, though (which is a truth) he pretends +this consideration to hinder the growth of this invention. He being gone +my wife and I took coach and to Covent Garden, to buy a maske at the +French House, Madame Charett's, for my wife; in the way observing the +streete full of coaches at the new play, "The Indian Queene;" which for +show, they say, exceeds "Henry the Eighth." Thence back to Mrs. Turner's +and sat a while with them talking of plays and I know not what, and +so called to see Tom, but not at home, though they say he is in a deep +consumption, and Mrs. Turner and Dike and they say he will not live two +months to an end. So home and to the office, and then to supper and to +bed. + +28th. Up and to the office, where all the morning sitting, and at noon +upon several things to the 'Change, and thence to Sir G. Carteret's +to dinner of my own accord, and after dinner with Mr. Wayth down to +Deptford doing several businesses, and by land back again, it being +very cold, the boat meeting me after my staying a while for him at an +alehouse by Redriffe stairs. So home, and took Will coming out of my +doors, at which I was a little moved, and told my wife of her keeping +him from the office (though God knows my base jealous head was the cause +of it), which she seemed troubled at, and that it was only to discourse +with her about finding a place for her brother. So I to my office late, +Mr. Commander coming to read over my will in order to the engrossing +it, and so he being gone I to other business, among others chiefly upon +preparing matters against Creed for my profit, and so home to supper and +bed, being mightily troubled with my left eye all this evening from some +dirt that is got into it. + +29th. Up, and after shaving myself (wherein twice now, one after +another, I have cut myself much, but I think it is from the bluntness of +the razor) there came Mr. Deane to me and staid with me a while talking +about masts, wherein he prepared me in several things against Mr. Wood, +and also about Sir W. Petty's boat, which he says must needs prove a +folly, though I do not think so unless it be that the King will not have +it encouraged. At noon, by appointment, comes Mr. Hartlibb and his wife, +and a little before them Messrs. Langley and Bostocke (old acquaintances +of mine at Westminster, clerks), and after shewing them my house and +drinking they set out by water, my wife and I with them down to Wapping +on board the "Crowne," a merchantman, Captain Floyd, a civil person. +Here was Vice-Admiral Goodson, whom the more I know the more I value for +a serious man and staunch. Here was Whistler the flagmaker, which vexed +me, but it mattered not. Here was other sorry company and the discourse +poor, so that we had no pleasure there at all, but only to see and bless +God to find the difference that is now between our condition and that +heretofore, when we were not only much below Hartlibb in all respects, +but even these two fellows above named, of whom I am now quite ashamed +that ever my education should lead me to such low company, but it is +God's goodness only, for which let him be praised. After dinner I. +broke up and with my wife home, and thence to the Fleece in Cornhill, +by appointment, to meet my Lord Marlborough, a serious and worthy +gentleman, who, after doing our business, about the company, he and they +began to talk of the state of the Dutch in India, which is like to be +in a little time without any controll; for we are lost there, and the +Portuguese as bad. Thence to the Coffee-house, where good discourse, +specially of Lt.-Coll. Baron touching the manners of the Turkes' +Government, among whom he lived long. So to my uncle Wight's, where late +playing at cards, and so home. + +30th. Up, and a sorry sermon of a young fellow I knew at Cambridge; but +the day kept solemnly for the King's murder, and all day within doors +making up my Brampton papers, and in the evening Mr. Commander came and +we made perfect and signed and sealed my last will and testament, which +is so to my mind, and I hope to the liking of God Almighty, that I take +great joy in myself that it is done, and by that means my mind in a good +condition of quiett. At night to supper and to bed. This evening, being +in a humour of making all things even and clear in the world, I tore +some old papers; among others, a romance which (under the title of "Love +a Cheate ") I begun ten years ago at Cambridge; and at this time reading +it over to-night I liked it very well, and wondered a little at myself +at my vein at that time when I wrote it, doubting that I cannot do so +well now if I would try. + +31st (Lord's day). Up, and in my chamber all day long (but a little +at dinner) settling all my Brampton accounts to this day in very good +order, I having obliged myself by oathe to do that and some other things +within this month, and did also perfectly prepare a state of my estate +and annexed it to my last will and testament, which now is perfect, and, +lastly, I did make up my monthly accounts, and find that I have gained +above L50 this month clear, and so am worth L858 clear, which is the +greatest sum I ever yet was master of, and also read over my usual +vowes, as I do every Lord's day, but with greater seriousness than +ordinary, and I do hope that every day I shall see more and more the +pleasure of looking after my business and laying up of money, and +blessed be God for what I have already been enabled by his grace to do. +So to supper and to bed with my mind in mighty great ease and content, +but my head very full of thoughts and business to dispatch this next +month also, and among others to provide for answering to the Exchequer +for my uncle's being Generall-Receiver in the year 1647, which I am at +present wholly unable to do, but I must find time to look over all his +papers. + + + + +FEBRUARY 1663-1664 + +February 1st. Up (my maids rising early this morning to washing), and +being ready I found Mr. Strutt the purser below with 12 bottles of +sacke, and tells me (which from Sir W. Batten I had heard before) how +young Jack Davis has railed against Sir W. Batten for his endeavouring +to turn him out of his place, at which for the fellow's sake, because it +will likely prove his ruin, I am sorry, though I do believe he is a very +arch rogue. I took Strutt by coach with me to White Hall, where I set +him down, and I to my Lord's, but found him gone out betimes to the +Wardrobe, which I am glad to see that he so attends his business, though +it troubles me that my counsel to my prejudice must be the cause of it. +They tell me that he goes into the country next week, and that the young +ladies come up this week before the old lady. Here I hear how two men +last night, justling for the wall about the New Exchange, did kill one +another, each thrusting the other through; one of them of the King's +Chappell, one Cave, and the other a retayner of my Lord Generall +Middleton's. Thence to White Hall; where, in the Duke's chamber, the +King came and stayed an hour or two laughing at Sir W. Petty, who was +there about his boat; and at Gresham College in general; at which poor +Petty was, I perceive, at some loss; but did argue discreetly, and bear +the unreasonable follies of the King's objections and other bystanders +with great discretion; and offered to take oddes against the King's best +boates; but the King would not lay, but cried him down with words +only. Gresham College he mightily laughed at, for spending time only +in weighing of ayre, and doing nothing else since they sat. Thence to +Westminster Hall, and there met with diverse people, it being terme +time. Among others I spoke with Mrs. Lane, of whom I doubted to hear +something of the effects of our last meeting about a fortnight or three +weeks ago, but to my content did not. Here I met with Mr. Pierce, who +tells me of several passages at Court, among others how the King, +coming the other day to his Theatre to see "The Indian Queene" (which he +commends for a very fine thing), my Lady Castlemaine was in the next box +before he came; and leaning over other ladies awhile to whisper to the +King, she rose out of the box and went into the King's, and set herself +on the King's right hand, between the King and the Duke of York; which, +he swears, put the King himself, as well as every body else, out of +countenance; and believes that she did it only to show the world that +she is not out of favour yet, as was believed. Thence with Alderman +Maynell by his coach to the 'Change, and there with several people busy, +and so home to dinner, and took my wife out immediately to the King's +Theatre, it being a new month, and once a month I may go, and there saw +"The Indian Queene" acted; which indeed is a most pleasant show, and +beyond my expectation; the play good, but spoiled with the ryme, which +breaks the sense. But above my expectation most, the eldest Marshall did +do her part most excellently well as I ever heard woman in my life; but +her voice not so sweet as Ianthe's; but, however, we came home mightily +contented. Here we met Mr. Pickering and his mistress, Mrs. Doll Wilde; +he tells me that the business runs high between the Chancellor and my +Lord Bristoll against the Parliament; and that my Lord Lauderdale and +Cooper open high against the Chancellor; which I am sorry for. In my +way home I 'light and to the Coffee-house, where I heard Lt. Coll. Baron +tell very good stories of his travels over the high hills in Asia above +the clouds, how clear the heaven is above them, how thicke like a mist +the way is through the cloud that wets like a sponge one's clothes, +the ground above the clouds all dry and parched, nothing in the world +growing, it being only a dry earth, yet not so hot above as below the +clouds. The stars at night most delicate bright and a fine clear blue +sky, but cannot see the earth at any time through the clouds, but the +clouds look like a world below you. Thence home and to supper, being +hungry, and so to the office, did business, specially about Creed, +for whom I am now pretty well fitted, and so home to bed. This day in +Westminster Hall W. Bowyer told me that his father is dead lately, and +died by being drowned in the river, coming over in the night; but he +says he had not been drinking. He was taken with his stick in his hand +and cloake over his shoulder, as ruddy as before he died. His horse was +taken overnight in the water, hampered in the bridle, but they were so +silly as not to look for his master till the next morning, that he was +found drowned. + +2nd. Up and to the office, where, though Candlemas day, Mr. Coventry +and Sir W. Pen and I all the morning, the others being at a survey at +Deptford. At noon by coach to the 'Change with Mr. Coventry, thence to +the Coffee-house with Captain Coeke, who discoursed well of the good +effects in some kind of a Dutch warr and conquest (which I did not +consider before, but the contrary) that is, that the trade of the world +is too little for us two, therefore one must down: 2ndly, that though +our merchants will not be the better husbands by all this, yet our wool +will bear a better price by vaunting of our cloths, and by that our +tenants will be better able to pay rents, and our lands will be more +worth, and all our owne manufactures, which now the Dutch outvie us in; +that he thinks the Dutch are not in so good a condition as heretofore +because of want of men always, and now from the warrs against the Turke +more than ever. Then to the 'Change again, and thence off to the Sun +Taverne with Sir W. Warren, and with him discoursed long, and had good +advice, and hints from him, and among other things he did give me a +payre of gloves for my wife wrapt up in paper, which I would not open, +feeling it hard; but did tell him that my wife should thank him, and so +went on in discourse. When I came home, Lord! in what pain I was to get +my wife out of the room without bidding her go, that I might see what +these gloves were; and, by and by, she being gone, it proves a payre of +white gloves for her and forty pieces in good gold, which did so cheer +my heart, that I could eat no victuals almost for dinner for joy to +think how God do bless us every day more and more, and more yet I hope +he will upon the increase of my duty and endeavours. I was at great +losse what to do, whether tell my wife of it or no, which I could hardly +forbear, but yet I did and will think of it first before I do, for fear +of making her think me to be in a better condition, or in a better way +of getting money, than yet I am. After dinner to the office, where doing +infinite of business till past to at night to the comfort of my mind, +and so home with joy to supper and to bed. This evening Mr. Hempson came +and told me how Sir W, Batten his master will not hear of continuing him +in his employment as Clerk of the Survey at Chatham, from whence of a +sudden he has removed him without any new or extraordinary cause, and I +believe (as he himself do in part write, and J. Norman do confess) for +nothing but for that he was twice with me the other day and did not wait +upon him. So much he fears me and all that have to do with me. Of this +more in the Mem. Book of my office upon this day, there I shall find it. + +3rd. Up, and after a long discourse with my cozen Thomas Pepys, the +executor, I with my wife by coach to Holborn, where I 'light, and she to +her father's, I to the Temple and several places, and so to the 'Change, +where much business, and then home to dinner alone; and so to the Mitre +Taverne by appointment (and there met by chance with W. Howe come to buy +wine for my Lord against his going down to Hinchingbroke, and I private +with him a great while discoursing of my Lord's strangeness to me; but +he answers that I have no reason to think any such thing, but that my +Lord is only in general a more reserved man than he was before) to +meet Sir W. Rider and Mr. Clerke, and there after much ado made an end, +giving Mr. Custos L202 against Mr. Bland, which I endeavoured to bring +down but could not, and think it is well enough ended for Mr. Bland for +all that. Thence by coach to fetch my wife from her brother's, and found +her gone home. Called at Sir Robert Bernard's about surrendering my +estate in reversion to the use of my life, which will be done, and at +Roger Pepys, who was gone to bed in pain of a boyle that he could not +sit or stand. So home, where my wife is full of sad stories of her +good-natured father and roguish brother, who is going for Holland and +his wife, to be a soldier. And so after a little at the office to bed. +This night late coming in my coach, coming up Ludgate Hill, I saw two +gallants and their footmen taking a pretty wench, which I have much +eyed, lately set up shop upon the hill, a seller of riband and gloves. +They seek to drag her by some force, but the wench went, and I believe +had her turn served, but, God forgive me! what thoughts and wishes I had +of being in their place. In Covent Garden to-night, going to fetch home +my wife, I stopped at the great Coffee-house' there, where I never was +before; where Dryden the poet (I knew at Cambridge), and all the wits of +the town, and Harris the player, and Mr. Hoole of our College. And had I +had time then, or could at ether times, it will be good coming thither, +for there, I perceive, is very witty and pleasant discourse. But I could +not tarry, and as it was late, they were all ready to go away. + +4th. Up and to the office, where after a while sitting, I left the board +upon pretence of serious business, and by coach to Paul's School, where +I heard some good speeches of the boys that were to be elected +this year. Thence by and by with Mr. Pullen and Barnes (a great +Non-Conformist) with several others of my old acquaintance to the Nag's +Head Taverne, and there did give them a bottle of sacke, and away again +and I to the School, and up to hear the upper form examined; and +there was kept by very many of the Mercers, Clutterbucke, a Barker, +Harrington, and others; and with great respect used by them all, and +had a noble dinner. Here they tell me, that in Dr. Colett's will he says +that he would have a Master found for the School that hath good skill in +Latin, and (if it could be) one that had some knowledge of the Greeke; +so little was Greeke known here at that time. Dr. Wilkins and one Mr. +Smallwood, Posers. After great pleasure there, and specially to Mr. +Crumlum, so often to tell of my being a benefactor to the School, I to +my bookseller's and there spent an hour looking over Theatrum Urbium +and Flandria illustrata, with excellent cuts, with great content. So +homeward, and called at my little milliner's, where I chatted with her, +her husband out of the way, and a mad merry slut she is. So home to +the office, and by and by comes my wife home from the burial of Captain +Grove's wife at Wapping (she telling me a story how her mayd Jane going +into the boat did fall down and show her arse in the boat), and alone +comes my uncle Wight and Mr. Maes with the state of their case, which he +told me very discreetly, and I believe is a very hard one, and so after +drinking a bottle of ale or two they gone, and I a little more to the +office, and so home to prayers and to bed. This evening I made an end of +my letter to Creed about his pieces of eight, and sent it away to him. +I pray God give good end to it to bring me some money, and that duly as +from him. + +5th. Up, and down by water, a brave morning, to Woolwich, and there +spent an houre or two to good purpose, and so walked to Greenwich and +thence to Deptford, where I found (with Sir W. Batten upon a survey) Sir +J. Minnes, Sir W. Pen, and my Lady Batten come down and going to dinner. +I dined with them, and so after dinner by water home, all the way going +and coming reading "Faber Fortunae," which I can never read too often. +At home a while with my wife, and so to my office, where till 8 o'clock, +and then home to look over some Brampton papers, and my uncle's accounts +as Generall-Receiver of the County for 1647 of our monthly assessment, +which, contrary to my expectation, I found in such good order and so, +thoroughly that I did not expect, nor could have thought, and that being +done, having seen discharges for every farthing of money he received, I +went to bed late with great quiett. + +6th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and so at noon +to the 'Change, where I met Mr. Coventry, the first time I ever saw him +there, and after a little talke with him and other merchants, I up and +down about several businesses, and so home, whither came one Father +Fogourdy, an Irish priest, of my wife's and her mother's acquaintance in +France, a sober, discreet person, but one that I would not have converse +with my wife for fear of meddling with her religion, but I like the man +well. Thence with my wife abroad, and left her at Tom's, while I abroad +about several businesses and so back to her, myself being vexed to find +at my first coming Tom abroad, and all his books, papers, and bills +loose upon the open table in the parlour, and he abroad, which I ranted +at him for when he came in. Then by coach home, calling at my cozen +Scott's, who (she) lies dying, they say, upon a miscarriage. My wife +could not be admitted to see her, nor anybody. At home to the office +late writing letters, and then home to supper and to bed. Father +Fogourdy confirms to me the newes that for certain there is peace +between the Pope and King of France. + +7th (Lord's day). Up and to church, and thence home, my wife being ill +... kept her bed all day, and I up and dined by her bedside, and then +all the afternoon till late at night writing some letters of business +to my father stating of matters to him in general of great import, and +other letters to ease my mind in the week days that I have not time +to think of, and so up to my wife, and with great mirth read Sir W. +Davenant's two speeches in dispraise of London and Paris, by way of +reproach one to another, and so to prayers and to bed. + +8th. Up, and by coach called upon Mr. Phillips, and after a little talk +with him away to my Lord Sandwich's, but he being gone abroad, I staid a +little and talked with Mr. Howe, and so to Westminster in term time, +and there met Mr. Pierce, who told me largely how the King still do doat +upon his women, even beyond all shame; and that the good Queen will of +herself stop before she goes sometimes into her dressing-room, till +she knows whether the King be there, for fear he should be, as she hath +sometimes taken him, with Mrs. Stewart; and that some of the best parts +of the Queen's joynture are, contrary to faith, and against the opinion +of my Lord Treasurer and his Council, bestowed or rented, I know not +how, to my Lord Fitz-Harding and Mrs. Stewart, and others of that crew +that the King do doat infinitely upon the Duke of Monmouth, apparently +as one that he intends to have succeed him. God knows what will be the +end of it! After he was gone I went and talked with Mrs. Lane about +persuading her to Hawly, and think she will come on, which I wish were +done, and so to Mr. Howlett and his wife, and talked about the same, and +they are mightily for it, and I bid them promote it, for I think it will +be for both their goods and my content. But I was much pleased to look +upon their pretty daughter, which is grown a pretty mayd, and will make +a fine modest woman. Thence to the 'Change by coach, and after some +business done, home to dinner, and thence to Guildhall, thinking to have +heard some pleading, but there were no Courts, and so to Cade's, the +stationer, and there did look upon some pictures which he promised to +give me the buying of, but I found he would have played the Jacke with +me, but at last he did proffer me what I expected, and I have laid aside +L10 or L12 worth, and will think of it, but I am loth to lay out so much +money upon them. So home a little vexed in my mind to think how to-day +I was forced to compliment W. Howe and admit myself to an equality with +Mr. Moore, which is come to challenge in his discourse with me, but I +will admit it no more, but let me stand or fall, I will show myself as +strange to them as my Lord do himself to me. After at the office till +9 o'clock, I home in fear of some pain by taking cold, and so to supper +and to bed. + +9th. Up and to the office, where sat all the morning. At noon by coach +with Mr. Coventry to the 'Change, where busy with several people. +Great talke of the Dutch proclaiming themselves in India, Lords of the +Southern Seas, and deny traffick there to all ships but their owne, upon +pain of confiscation; which makes our merchants mad. Great doubt of two +ships of ours, the "Greyhound" and another, very rich, coming from the +Streights, for fear of the Turkes. Matters are made up between the Pope +and the King of France; so that now all the doubt is, what the French +will do with their armies. Thence home, and there found Captain Grove in +mourning for his wife, and Hawly, and they dined with me. After dinner, +and Grove gone, Hawly and I talked of his mistress, Mrs. Lane, and I +seriously advising him and inquiring his condition, and do believe that +I shall bring them together. By and by comes Mr. Moore, with whom much +good discourse of my Lord, and among other things told me that my Lord +is mightily altered, that is, grown very high and stately, and do not +admit of any to come into his chamber to him, as heretofore, and that I +must not think much of his strangeness to me, for it was the same he +do to every body, and that he would not have me be solicitous in the +matter, but keep off and give him now and then a visit and no more, for +he says he himself do not go to him now a days but when he sends +for him, nor then do not stay for him if he be not there at the hour +appointed, for, says he, I do find that I can stand upon my own legs +and I will not by any over submission make myself cheap to any body and +contemptible, which was the doctrine of the world that I lacked most, +and shall follow it. I discoursed with him about my money that my Lord +hath, and the L1000 that I stand bound with him in, to my cozen Thomas +Pepys, in both which I will get myself at liberty as soon as I can; +for I do not like his being angry and in debt both together to me; and +besides, I do not perceive he looks after paying his debts, but runs +farther and farther in. He being gone, my wife and I did walk an houre +or two above in our chamber, seriously talking of businesses. I told +her my Lord owed me L700, and shewed her the bond, and how I intended +to carry myself to my Lord. She and I did cast about how to get Captain +Grove for my sister, in which we are mighty earnest at present, and I +think it would be a good match, and will endeavour it. So to my office a +while, then home to supper and to bed. + +10th. Up, and by coach to my Lord Sandwich, to his new house, a fine +house, but deadly dear, in Lincoln's Inne Fields, where I found and +spoke a little to him. He is high and strange still, but did ask me how +my wife did, and at parting remembered him to his cozen, which I thought +was pretty well, being willing to flatter myself that in time he will be +well again. Thence home straight and busy all the forenoon, and at noon +with Mr. Bland to Mr. Povy's, but he being at dinner and full of company +we retreated and went into Fleet Street to a friend of his, and after a +long stay, he telling me the long and most perplexed story of Coronell +and Bushell's business of sugars, wherein Parke and Green and Mr. Bland +and 40 more have been so concerned about the King of Portugal's duties, +wherein every party has laboured to cheat another, a most pleasant and +profitable story to hear, and in the close made me understand Mr. Maes' +business better than I did before. By and by dinner came, and after +dinner and good discourse that and such as I was willing for improvement +sake to hear, I went away too to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier, +where I took occasion to demand of Creed whether he had received my +letter, and he told me yes, and that he would answer it, which makes +me much wonder what he means to do with me, but I will be even with him +before I have done, let him make as light of it as he will. Thence to +the Temple, where my cozen Roger Pepys did show me a letter my Father +wrote to him last Terme to shew me, proposing such things about Sturtlow +and a portion for Pall, and I know not what, that vexes me to see him +plotting how to put me to trouble and charge, and not thinking to pay +our debts and legacys, but I will write him a letter will persuade him +to be wiser. So home, and finding my wife abroad (after her coming home +from being with my aunt Wight to-day to buy Lent provisions) gone with +Will to my brother's, I followed them by coach, but found them not, +for they were newly gone home from thence, which troubled me. I to +Sir Robert Bernard's chamber, and there did surrender my reversion in +Brampton lands to the use of my will, which I was glad to have done, my +will being now good in all parts. Thence homewards, calling a little at +the Coffee-house, where a little merry discourse, and so home, where I +found my wife, who says she went to her father's to be satisfied about +her brother, who I found at my house with her. He is going this next +tide with his wife into Holland to seek his fortune. He had taken his +leave of us this morning. I did give my wife 10s. to give him, and a +coat that I had by me, a close-bodied light-coloured cloth coat, with a +gold edgeing in each seam, that was the lace of my wife's best pettycoat +that she had when I married her. I staid not there, but to my office, +where Stanes the glazier was with me till to at night making up his +contract, and, poor man, I made him almost mad through a mistake of +mine, but did afterwards reconcile all, for I would not have the man +that labours to serve the King so cheap above others suffer too much. +He gone I did a little business more, and so home to supper and to bed, +being now pretty well again, the weather being warm. My pain do leave +me without coming to any great excesse, but my cold that I had got I +suppose was not very great, it being only the leaving of my wastecoat +unbuttoned one morning. + +11th. Up, after much pleasant discourse with my wife, and to the office, +where we sat all the morning, and did much business, and some much to +my content by prevailing against Sir W. Batten for the King's profit. At +noon home to dinner, my wife and I hand to fist to a very fine pig. This +noon Mr. Falconer came and visited my wife, and brought her a present, a +silver state-cup and cover, value about L3 or L4, for the courtesy I did +him the other day. He did not stay dinner with me. I am almost sorry +for this present, because I would have reserved him for a place to go in +summer a-visiting at Woolwich with my wife. + +12th. Up, and ready, did find below Mr. Creed's boy with a letter from +his master for me. So I fell to reading it, and it is by way of stating +the case between S. Pepys and J. Creed most excellently writ, both +showing his stoutness and yet willingness to peace, reproaching me yet +flattering me again, and in a word in as good a manner as I think the +world could have wrote, and indeed put me to a greater stand than ever +I thought I could have been in this matter. All the morning thinking +how to behave myself in the business, and at noon to the Coffee-house; +thence by his appointment met him upon the 'Change, and with him back to +the Coffee-house, where with great seriousness and strangeness on both +sides he said his part and I mine, he sometimes owning my favour and +assistance, yet endeavouring to lessen it, as that the success of his +business was not wholly or very much to be imputed to that assistance: I +to alledge the contrary, and plainly to tell him that from the beginning +I never had it in my mind to do him all that kindnesse for nothing, but +he gaining 5 or L600, I did expect a share of it, at least a real and +not a complimentary acknowledgment of it. In fine I said nothing all the +while that I need fear he can do me more hurt with them than before I +spoke them. The most I told him was after we were come to a peace, which +he asked me whether he should answer the Board's letter or no. I told +him he might forbear it a while and no more. Then he asked how the +letter could be signed by them without their much enquiry. I told him +it was as I worded it and nothing at all else of any moment, whether my +words be ever hereafter spoken of again or no. So that I have the same +neither better nor worse force over him that I had before, if he should +not do his part. And the peace between us was this: Says he after +all, well, says he, I know you will expect, since there must be some +condescension, that it do become me to begin it, and therefore, says he, +I do propose (just like the interstice between the death of the old and +the coming in of the present king, all the time is swallowed up as if +it had never been) so our breach of friendship may be as if it had never +been, that I should lay aside all misapprehensions of him or his first +letter, and that he would reckon himself obliged to show the same +ingenuous acknowledgment of my love and service to him as at the +beginning he ought to have done, before by my first letter I did (as he +well observed) put him out of a capacity of doing it, without seeming +to do it servilely, and so it rests, and I shall expect how he will deal +with me. After that I began to be free, and both of us to discourse of +other things, and he went home with me and dined with me and my wife +and very pleasant, having a good dinner and the opening of my lampry +(cutting a notch on one side), which proved very good. After dinner he +and I to Deptford, walking all the way, where we met Sir W. Petty and I +took him back, and I got him to go with me to his vessel and discourse +it over to me, which he did very well, and then walked back together to +the waterside at Redriffe, with good discourse all the way. So Creed and +I by boat to my house, and thence to coach with my wife and called at +Alderman Backewell's and there changed Mr. Falconer's state-cup, that he +did give us the other day, for a fair tankard. The cup weighed with the +fashion L5 16s., and another little cup that Joyce Norton did give us +17s., both L6 13s.; for which we had the tankard, which came to L6 10s., +at 5s. 7d. per oz., and 3s. in money, and with great content away thence +to my brother's, Creed going away there, and my brother bringing me +the old silk standard that I lodged there long ago, and then back again +home, and thence, hearing that my uncle Wight had been at my house, I +went to him to the Miter, and there with him and Maes, Norbury, and Mr. +Rawlinson till late eating some pot venison (where the Crowne earthen +pot pleased me mightily), and then homewards and met Mr. Barrow, so +back with him to the Miter and sat talking about his business of his +discontent in the yard, wherein sometimes he was very foolish and +pettish, till 12 at night, and so went away, and I home and up to my +wife a-bed, with my mind ill at ease whether I should think that I had +by this made myself a bad end by missing the certainty of L100 which +I proposed to myself so much, or a good one by easing myself of the +uncertain good effect but the certain trouble and reflection which must +have fallen on me if we had proceeded to a public dispute, ended besides +embarking myself against my Lord, who (which I had forgot) had given him +his hand for the value of the pieces of eight at his rates which were +all false, which by the way I shall take heed to the giving of my Lord +notice of it hereafter whenever he goes out again. + +13th. Up, and after I had told my wife in the morning in bed the +passages yesterday with Creed my head and heart was mightily lighter +than they were before, and so up and to the office, and thence, after +sitting, at 11 o'clock with Mr. Coventry to the African House, and +there with Sir W. Ryder by agreement we looked over part of my Lord +Peterborough's accounts, these being by Creed and Vernaty. Anon down +to dinner to a table which Mr. Coventry keeps here, out of his L300 +per annum as one of the Assistants to the Royall Company, a very pretty +dinner, and good company, and excellent discourse, and so up again to +our work for an hour till the Company came to having a meeting of their +own, and so we broke up and Creed and I took coach and to Reeves, +the perspective glass maker, and there did indeed see very excellent +microscopes, which did discover a louse or mite or sand most perfectly +and largely. Being sated with that we went away (yet with a good will +were it not for my obligation to have bought one) and walked to the New +Exchange, and after a turn or two and talked I took coach and home, and +so to my office, after I had been with my wife and saw her day's work +in ripping the silke standard, which we brought home last night, and it +will serve to line a bed, or for twenty uses, to our great content. And +there wrote fair my angry letter to my father upon that that he wrote +to my cozen Roger Pepys, which I hope will make him the more carefull +to trust to my advice for the time to come without so many needless +complaints and jealousys, which are troublesome to me because without +reason. + +14th (Lord's day). Up and to church alone, where a lazy sermon of Mr. +Mills, upon a text to introduce catechizing in his parish, which I +perceive he intends to begin. So home and very pleasant with my wife at +dinner. All the afternoon at my office alone doing business, and then +in the evening after a walk with my wife in the garden, she and I to my +uncle Wight's to supper, where Mr. Norbury, but my uncle out of tune, +and after supper he seemed displeased mightily at my aunt's desiring +[to] put off a copper kettle, which it seems with great study he had +provided to boil meat in, and now she is put in the head that it is not +wholesome, which vexed him, but we were very merry about it, and by and +by home, and after prayers to bed. + +15th. Up, and carrying my wife to my Lord's lodgings left her, and I to +White Hall, to the Duke; where he first put on a periwigg to-day; but +methought his hair cut short in order thereto did look very prettily of +itself, before he put on his periwigg. + + [Charles II. followed his brother in the use of the periwig in the + following April.] + +Thence to his closet and there did our business, and thence Mr. Coventry +and I down to his chamber and spent a little time, and so parted, and +I took my wife homeward, I stopping at the Coffee-house, and thence +a while to the 'Change, where great newes of the arrivall of two rich +ships, the Greyhound and another, which they were mightily afeard of, +and great insurance given, and so home to dinner, and after an houre +with my wife at her globes, I to the office, where very busy till 11 +at night, and so home to supper and to bed. This afternoon Sir Thomas +Chamberlin came to the office to me, and showed me several letters from +the East Indys, showing the height that the Dutch are come to there, +showing scorn to all the English, even in our only Factory there of +Surat, beating several men, and hanging the English Standard St. George +under the Dutch flagg in scorn; saying, that whatever their masters do +or say at home, they will do what they list, and will be masters of all +the world there; and have so proclaimed themselves Soveraigne of all the +South Seas; which certainly our King cannot endure, if the Parliament +will give him money. But I doubt and yet do hope they will not yet, till +we are more ready for it. + +16th. Up and to the office, where very busy all the morning, and most +with Mr. Wood, I vexing him about his masts. At noon to the 'Change a +little and thence brought Mr. Barrow to dinner with me, where I had +a haunch of venison roasted, given me yesterday, and so had a pretty +dinner, full of discourse of his business, wherein the poor man is +mightily troubled, and I pity him in it, but hope to get him some ease. +He being gone I to the office, where very busy till night, that my uncle +Wight and Mr. Maes came to me, and after discourse about Maes' business +to supper very merry, but my mind upon my business, and so they being +gone I to my Vyall a little, which I have not done some months, I think, +before, and then a little to my office, at 11 at night, and so home and +to bed. + +17th. Up, and with my wife, setting her down by her father's in Long +Acre, in so ill looked a place, among all the whore houses, that I was +troubled at it, to see her go thither. Thence I to White Hall and there +walked up and down talking with Mr. Pierce, who tells me of the King's +giving of my Lord Fitz-Harding two leases which belong indeed to the +Queene, worth L20,000 to him; and how people do talk of it, and other +things of that nature which I am sorry to hear. He and I walked round +the Park with great pleasure, and back again, and finding no time to +speak with my Lord of Albemarle, I walked to the 'Change and there met +my wife at our pretty Doll's, and so took her home, and Creed also whom +I met there, and sent her hose, while Creed and I staid on the 'Change, +and by and by home and dined, where I found an excellent mastiffe, his +name Towser, sent me by a chyrurgeon. After dinner I took my wife again +by coach (leaving Creed by the way going to Gresham College, of which he +is now become one of the virtuosos) and to White Hall, where I delivered +a paper about Tangier to my Lord Duke of Albemarle in the council +chamber, and so to Mrs. Hunt's to call my wife, and so by coach straight +home, and at my office till 3 o'clock in the morning, having spent much +time this evening in discourse with Mr. Cutler, who tells me how the +Dutch deal with us abroad and do not value us any where, and how he +and Sir W. Rider have found reason to lay aside Captain Cocke in their +company, he having played some indiscreet and unfair tricks with them, +and has lost himself every where by his imposing upon all the world with +the conceit he has of his own wit, and so has, he tells me, Sir R. Ford +also, both of whom are very witty men. He being gone Sir W. Rider came +and staid with me till about 12 at night, having found ourselves work +till that time, about understanding the measuring of Mr. Wood's masts, +which though I did so well before as to be thought to deal very hardly +against Wood, yet I am ashamed I understand it no better, and do hope +yet, whatever be thought of me, to save the King some more money, +and out of an impatience to breake up with my head full of confused +confounded notions, but nothing brought to a clear comprehension, I was +resolved to sit up and did till now it is ready to strike 4 o'clock, all +alone, cold, and my candle not enough left to light me to my owne house, +and so, with my business however brought to some good understanding, and +set it down pretty clear, I went home to bed with my mind at good quiet, +and the girl sitting up for me (the rest all a-bed). I eat and drank a +little, and to bed, weary, sleepy, cold, and my head akeing. + +18th. Called up to the office and much against my will I rose, my head +aching mightily, and to the office, where I did argue to good purpose +for the King, which I have been fitting myself for the last night +against Mr. Wood about his masts, but brought it to no issue. Very full +of business till noon, and then with Mr. Coventry to the African House, +and there fell to my Lord Peterborough's accounts, and by and by to +dinner, where excellent discourse, Sir G. Carteret and others of the +African Company with us, and then up to the accounts again, which were +by and by done, and then I straight home, my head in great pain, and +drowsy, so after doing a little business at the office I wrote to my +father about sending him the mastiff was given me yesterday. I home and +by daylight to bed about 6 o'clock and fell to sleep, wakened about 12 +when my wife came to bed, and then to sleep again and so till morning, +and then: + +19th. Up in good order in my head again and shaved myself, and then to +the office, whither Mr. Cutler came, and walked and talked with me a +great while; and then to the 'Change together; and it being early, did +tell me several excellent examples of men raised upon the 'Change by +their great diligence and saving; as also his owne fortune, and how +credit grew upon him; that when he was not really worth L1100, he had +credit for L100,000 of Sir W. Rider how he rose; and others. By and by +joyned with us Sir John Bankes; who told us several passages of the East +India Company; and how in his very case, when there was due to him and +Alderman Mico L64,000 from the Dutch for injury done to them in the East +Indys, Oliver presently after the peace, they delaying to pay them the +money, sent them word, that if they did not pay them by such a day, he +would grant letters of mark to those merchants against them; by which +they were so fearful of him, they did presently pay the money every +farthing. By and by, the 'Change filling, I did many businesses, and +about 2 o'clock went off with my uncle Wight to his house, thence by +appointment we took our wives (they by coach with Mr. Mawes) and we +on foot to Mr. Jaggard, a salter, in Thames Street, for whom I did a +courtesy among the poor victuallers, his wife, whom long ago I had seen, +being daughter to old Day, my uncle Wight's master, is a very plain +woman, but pretty children they have. They live methought at first in +but a plain way, but afterward I saw their dinner, all fish, brought in +very neatly, but the company being but bad I had no great pleasure in +it. After dinner I to the office, where we should have met upon business +extraordinary, but business not coming we broke up, and I thither again +and took my wife; and taking a coach, went to visit my Ladys Jemimah +and Paulina Montagu, and Mrs. Elizabeth Dickering, whom we find at their +father's new house + + [The Earl of Sandwich had just moved to a house in Lincoln's Inn + Fields. Elizabeth Dickering, who afterwards married John Creed, was + niece to Lord Sandwich.] + +in Lincolne's Inn Fields; but the house all in dirt. They received us +well enough; but I did not endeavour to carry myself over familiarly +with them; and so after a little stay, there coming in presently after +us my Lady Aberguenny and other ladies, we back again by coach, and +visited, my wife did, my she cozen Scott, who is very ill still, and +thence to Jaggard's again, where a very good supper and great store of +plate; and above all after supper Mrs. Jaggard did at my entreaty play +on the Vyall, but so well as I did not think any woman in England could +and but few Maisters, I must confess it did mightily surprise me, though +I knew heretofore that she could play, but little thought so well. After +her I set Maes to singing, but he did it so like a coxcomb that I was +sick of him. About 11 at night I carried my aunt home by coach, and then +home myself, having set my wife down at home by the way. My aunt tells +me they are counted very rich people, worth at least 10 or L12,000, and +their country house all the yeare long and all things liveable, which +mightily surprises me to think for how poore a man I took him when I +did him the courtesy at our office. So after prayers to bed, pleased at +nothing all the day but Mrs. Jaggard playing on the Vyall, and that was +enough to make me bear with all the rest that did not content me. + +20th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon to +the 'Change with Mr. Coventry and thence home to dinner, after dinner by +a gaily down to Woolwich, where with Mr. Falconer, and then at the other +yard doing some business to my content, and so walked to Greenwich, it +being a very fine evening and brought right home with me by water, and +so to my office, where late doing business, and then home to supper and +to bed. + +21st. (Lord's day). Up, and having many businesses at the office to-day +I spent all the morning there drawing up a letter to Mr. Coventry about +preserving of masts, being collections of my own, and at noon home to +dinner, whither my brother Tom comes, and after dinner I took him up and +read my letter lately of discontent to my father, and he is seemingly +pleased at it, and cries out of my sister's ill nature and lazy life +there. He being gone I to my office again, and there made an end of my +morning's work, and then, after reading my vows of course, home and back +again with Mr. Maes and walked with him talking of his business in the +garden, and he being gone my wife and I walked a turn or two also, and +then my uncle Wight fetching of us, she and I to his house to supper, +and by the way calling on Sir G. Carteret to desire his consent to my +bringing Maes to him, which he agreed to. So I to my uncle's, but staid +a great while vexed both of us for Maes not coming in, and soon he came, +and I with him from supper to Sir G. Carteret, and there did largely +discourse of the business, and I believe he may expect as much favour as +he can do him, though I fear that will not be much. So back, and after +sitting there a good while, we home, and going my wife told me how my +uncle when he had her alone did tell her that he did love her as well +as ever he did, though he did not find it convenient to show it publicly +for reasons on both sides, seeming to mean as well to prevent my +jealousy as his wife's, but I am apt to think that he do mean us well, +and to give us something if he should die without children. So home +to prayers and to bed. My wife called up the people to washing by four +o'clock in the morning; and our little girl Susan is a most admirable +Slut and pleases us mightily, doing more service than both the others +and deserves wages better. + +22nd. Up and shaved myself, and then my wife and I by coach out, and I +set her down by her father's, being vexed in my mind and angry with her +for the ill-favoured place, among or near the whore houses, that she is +forced to come to him. So left her there, and I to Sir Th. Warwick's but +did not speak with him. Thence to take a turn in St. James's Park, and +meeting with Anth. Joyce walked with him a turn in the Pell Mell and +so parted, he St. James's ward and I out to Whitehall ward, and so to +a picture-sellers by the Half Moone in the street over against the +Exchange, and there looked over the maps of several cities and did buy +two books of cities stitched together cost me 9s. 6d., and when I came +home thought of my vowe, and paid 5s. into my poor box for it, hoping +in God that I shall forfeit no more in that kind. Thence, meeting Mr. +Moore, and to the Exchange and there found my wife at pretty Doll's, +and thence by coach set her at my uncle Wight's, to go with my aunt to +market once more against Lent, and I to the Coffee-house, and thence +to the 'Change, my chief business being to enquire about the manner of +other countries keeping of their masts wet or dry, and got good advice +about it, and so home, and alone ate a bad, cold dinner, my people being +at their washing all day, and so to the office and all the afternoon +upon my letter to Mr. Coventry about keeping of masts, and ended it very +well at night and wrote it fair over. This evening came Mr. Alsopp the +King's brewer, with whom I spent an houre talking and bewailing the +posture of things at present; the King led away by half-a-dozen men, +that none of his serious servants and friends can come at him. These +are Lauderdale, Buckingham, Hamilton, Fitz-Harding (to whom he hath, it +seems, given L2,000 per annum in the best part of the King's estate); +and that that the old Duke of Buckingham could never get of the King. +Progers is another, and Sir H. Bennett. He loves not the Queen at all, +but is rather sullen to her; and she, by all reports, incapable of +children. He is so fond of the Duke of Monmouth, that every body admires +it; and he says the Duke hath said, that he would be the death of any +man that says the King was not married to his mother: though Alsopp +says, it is well known that she was a common whore before the King lay +with her. But it seems, he says, that the King is mighty kind to these +his bastard children; and at this day will go at midnight to my Lady +Castlemaine's nurses, and take the child and dance it in his arms: that +he is not likely to have his tables up again in his house,--[The tables +at which the king dined in public.-B.]--for the crew that are about +him will not have him come to common view again, but keep him obscurely +among themselves. He hath this night, it seems, ordered that the Hall +(which there is a ball to be in to-night before the King) be guarded, as +the Queen-Mother's is, by his Horse Guards; whereas heretofore they were +by the Lord Chamberlain or Steward, and their people. But it is feared +they will reduce all to the soldiery, and all other places taken away; +and what is worst of all, that he will alter the present militia, and +bring all to a flying army. That my Lord Lauderdale, being Middleton's +enemy, and one that scorns the Chancellor even to open affronts before +the King, hath got the whole power of Scotland into his hand; whereas +the other day he was in a fair way to have had his whole estate, and +honour, and life, voted away from him. That the King hath done himself +all imaginable wrong in the business of my Lord Antrim, in Ireland; +who, though he was the head of rebels, yet he by his letter owns to have +acted by his father's and mother's, and his commissions; but it seems +the truth is, he hath obliged himself, upon the clearing of his estate, +to settle it upon a daughter of the Queene-Mother's (by my Lord Germin, +I suppose,) in marriage, be it to whom the Queene pleases; which is a +sad story. It seems a daughter of the Duke of Lenox's was, by force, +going to be married the other day at Somerset House, to Harry Germin; +but she got away and run to the King, and he says he will protect her. +She is, it seems, very near akin to the King: Such mad doings there are +every day among them! The rape upon a woman at Turnstile the other day, +her husband being bound in his shirt, they both being in bed together, +it being night, by two Frenchmen, who did not only lye with her but +abused her with a linke, is hushed up for L300, being the Queen Mother's +servants. There was a French book in verse, the other day, translated +and presented to the Duke of Monmouth in such a high stile, that the +Duke of York, he tells me, was mightily offended at it. The Duke of +Monmouth's mother's brother hath a place at Court; and being a Welchman +(I think he told me) will talk very broad of the King's being married to +his sister. The King did the other day, at the Council, commit my Lord +Digby's' chaplin, and steward, and another servant, who went upon the +process begun there against their lord, to swear that they saw him at +church, end receive the Sacrament as a Protestant, (which, the judges +said, was sufficient to prove him such in the eye of the law); the King, +I say, did commit them all to the Gate-house, notwithstanding their +pleading their dependance upon him, and the faith they owed him as their +lord, whose bread they eat. And that the King should say, that he would +soon see whether he was King, or Digby. That the Queene-Mother hath +outrun herself in her expences, and is now come to pay very ill, or run +in debt; the money being spent that she received for leases. He believes +there is not any money laid up in bank, as I told him some did hope; +but he says, from the best informers he can assure me there is no such +thing, nor any body that should look after such a thing; and that there +is not now above L80,000 of the Dunkirke money left in stock. That +Oliver in the year when he spent L1,400,000 in the Navy, did spend in +the whole expence of the kingdom L2,600,000. That all the Court are +mad for a Dutch war; but both he and I did concur, that it was a thing +rather to be dreaded than hoped for; unless by the French King's falling +upon Flanders, they and the Dutch should be divided. That our Embassador +had, it is true, an audience; but in the most dishonourable way +that could be; for the Princes of the Blood (though invited by our +Embassador, which was the greatest absurdity that ever Embassador +committed these 400 years) were not there; and so were not said to give +place to our King's Embassador. And that our King did openly say, the +other day in the Privy Chamber, that he would not be hectored out of his +right and preeminencys by the King of France, as great as he was. That +the Pope is glad to yield to a peace with the French (as the newes-book +says), upon the basest terms that ever was. That the talke which these +people about our King, that I named before, have, is to tell him how +neither privilege of Parliament nor City is any thing; but his will is +all, and ought to be so: and their discourse, it seems, when they +are alone, is so base and sordid, that it makes the eares of the very +gentlemen of the back-stairs (I think he called them) to tingle to hear +it spoke in the King's hearing; and that must be very bad indeed. That +my Lord Digby did send to Lisbon a couple of priests, to search out what +they could against the Chancellor concerning the match, as to the point +of his knowing before-hand that the Queene was not capable of bearing +children; and that something was given her to make her so. But as +private as they were, when they came thither they were clapped up +prisoners. That my Lord Digby endeavours what he can to bring the +business into the House of Commons, hoping there to master the +Chancellor, there being many enemies of his there; but I hope the +contrary. That whereas the late King did mortgage 'Clarendon' to +somebody for L20,000, and this to have given it to the Duke of +Albemarle, and he sold it to my Lord Chancellor, whose title of Earldome +is fetched from thence; the King hath this day sent his order to the +Privy Seale for the payment of this L20,000 to my Lord Chancellor, to +clear the mortgage! Ireland in a very distracted condition about the +hard usage which the Protestants meet with, and the too good which the +Catholiques. And from altogether, God knows my heart, I expect nothing +but ruine can follow, unless things are better ordered in a little time. +He being gone my wife came and told me how kind my uncle Wight had been +to her to-day, and that though she says that all his kindness comes from +respect to her she discovers nothing but great civility from him, yet +but what she says he otherwise will tell me, but to-day he told her +plainly that had she a child it should be his heir, and that should I +or she want he would be a good friend to us, and did give my wife +instructions to consent to all his wife says at any time, she being a +pettish woman, which argues a design I think he has of keeping us in +with his wife in order to our good sure, and he declaring her jealous +of him that so he dares not come to see my wife as otherwise he would do +and will endeavour to do. It looks strange putting all together, but yet +I am in hopes he means well. My aunt also is mighty open to my wife and +tells her mighty plain how her husband did intend to double her portion +to her at his death as a jointure. That he will give presently L100 to +her niece Mary and a good legacy at his death, and it seems did as much +to the other sister, which vexed [me] to think that he should bestow so +much upon his wife's friends daily as he do, but it cannot be helped for +the time past, and I will endeavour to remedy it for the time to come. +After all this discourse with my wife at my office alone, she home to +see how the wash goes on and I to make an end of my work, and so home to +supper and to bed. + +23rd. Up, it being Shrove Tuesday, and at the office sat all the +morning, at noon to the 'Change and there met with Sir W. Rider, and of +a sudden knowing what I had at home, brought him and Mr. Cutler and Mr. +Cooke, clerk to Mr. Secretary Morrice, a sober and pleasant man, and one +that I knew heretofore, when he was my Lord 's secretary at Dunkirke. I +made much of them and had a pretty dinner for a sudden. We talked very +pleasantly, and they many good discourses of their travels abroad. After +dinner they gone, I to my office, where doing many businesses very late, +but to my good content to see how I grow in estimation every day +more and more, and have things given more oftener than I used to have +formerly, as to have a case of very pretty knives with agate shafts by +Mrs. Russell. So home and to bed. This day, by the blessing of God, I +have lived thirty-one years in the world; and, by the grace of God, I +find myself not only in good health in every thing, and particularly as +to the stone, but only pain upon taking cold, and also in a fair way of +coming to a better esteem and estate in the world, than ever I expected. +But I pray God give me a heart to fear a fall, and to prepare for it! + +24th (Ash-Wednesday). Up and by water, it being a very fine morning, to +White Hall, and there to speak with Sir Ph. Warwicke, but he was gone +out to chappell, so I spent much of the morning walking in the Park, and +going to the Queene's chappell, where I staid and saw their masse, till +a man came and bid me go out or kneel down: so I did go out. And thence +to Somerset House; and there into the chappell, where Monsieur d'Espagne +used to preach. But now it is made very fine, and was ten times more +crouded than the Queene's chappell at St. James's; which I wonder at. +Thence down to the garden of Somerset House, and up and down the new +building, which in every respect will be mighty magnificent and costly. +I staid a great while talking with a man in the garden that was sawing +of a piece of marble, and did give him 6d. to drink. He told me much of +the nature and labour of the worke, how he could not saw above 4 inches +of the stone in a day, and of a greater not above one or two, and after +it is sawed, then it is rubbed with coarse and then with finer and finer +sand till they come to putty, and so polish it as smooth as glass. Their +saws have no teeth, but it is the sand only which the saw rubs up and +down that do the thing. Thence by water to the Coffee-house, and there +sat with Alderman Barker talking of hempe and the trade, and thence to +the 'Change a little, and so home and dined with my wife, and then to +the office till the evening, and then walked a while merrily with my +wife in the garden, and so she gone, I to work again till late, and so +home to supper and to bed. + +25th. Up and to the office, where we sat, and thence with Mr. Coventry +by coach to the glasshouse and there dined, and both before and after +did my Lord Peterborough's accounts. Thence home to the office, and +there did business till called by Creed, and with him by coach (setting +my wife at my brother's) to my Lord's, and saw the young ladies, and +talked a little with them, and thence to White Hall, a while talking +but doing no business, but resolved of going to meet my Lord tomorrow, +having got a horse of Mr. Coventry to-day. So home, taking up my wife, +and after doing something at my office home, God forgive me, disturbed +in my mind out of my jealousy of my wife tomorrow when I am out of town, +which is a hell to my mind, and yet without all reason. God forgive me +for it, and mend me. So home, and getting my things ready for me, weary +to bed. + +26th. Up, and after dressing myself handsomely for riding, I out, and +by water to Westminster, to Mr. Creed's chamber, and after drinking +some chocolate, and playing on the vyall, Mr. Mallard being there, upon +Creed's new vyall, which proves, methinks, much worse than mine, and, +looking upon his new contrivance of a desk and shelves for books, we set +out from an inne hard by, whither Mr. Coventry's horse was carried, and +round about the bush through bad ways to Highgate. Good discourse in the +way had between us, and it being all day a most admirable pleasant day, +we, upon consultation, had stopped at the Cocke, a mile on this side +Barnett, being unwilling to put ourselves to the charge or doubtful +acceptance of any provision against my Lord's coming by, and there got +something and dined, setting a boy to look towards Barnett Hill, against +their coming; and after two or three false alarms, they come, and we met +the coach very gracefully, and I had a kind receipt from both Lord and +Lady as I could wish, and some kind discourse, and then rode by the +coach a good way, and so fell to discoursing with several of the people, +there being a dozen attending the coach, and another for the mayds and +parson. Among others talking with W. Howe, he told me how my Lord in +his hearing the other day did largely tell my Lord Peterborough and Povy +(who went with them down to Hinchinbrooke) how and when he discarded +Creed, and took me to him, and that since the Duke of York has several +times thanked him for me, which did not a little please me, and anon +I desiring Mr. Howe to tell me upon [what] occasion this discourse +happened, he desired me to say nothing of it now, for he would not +have my Lord to take notice of our being together, but he would tell me +another time, which put me into some trouble to think what he meant by +it. But when we came to my Lord's house, I went in; and whether it was +my Lord's neglect, or general indifference, I know not, but he made +me no kind of compliment there; and, methinks, the young ladies look +somewhat highly upon me. So I went away without bidding adieu to +anybody, being desirous not to be thought too servile. But I do hope and +believe that my Lord do yet value me as high as ever, though he dare not +admit me to the freedom he once did, and that my Lady is still the same +woman. So rode home and there found my uncle Wight. 'Tis an odd thing +as my wife tells me his caressing her and coming on purpose to give her +visits, but I do not trouble myself for him at all, but hope the best +and very good effects of it. He being gone I eat something and my +wife. I told all this day's passages, and she to give me very good +and rational advice how to behave myself to my Lord and his family, by +slighting every body but my Lord and Lady, and not to seem to have +the least society or fellowship with them, which I am resolved to do, +knowing that it is my high carriage that must do me good there, and to +appear in good clothes and garbe. To the office, and being weary, early +home to bed. + +27th. Up, but weary, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. +Before I went to the office there came Bagwell's wife to me to speak for +her husband. I liked the woman very well and stroked her under the chin, +but could not find in my heart to offer anything uncivil to her, she +being, I believe, a very modest woman. At noon with Mr. Coventry to the +African house, and to my Lord Peterborough's business again, and then to +dinner, where, before dinner, we had the best oysters I have seen this +year, and I think as good in all respects as ever I eat in my life. I +eat a great many. Great, good company at dinner, among others Sir Martin +Noell, who told us the dispute between him, as farmer of the Additional +Duty, and the East India Company, whether callicos be linnen or no; +which he says it is, having been ever esteemed so: they say it is made +of cotton woole, and grows upon trees, not like flax or hempe. But +it was carried against the Company, though they stand out against the +verdict. Thence home and to the office, where late, and so home to +supper and to bed, and had a very pleasing and condescending answer from +my poor father to-day in answer to my angry discontentful letter to him +the other day, which pleases me mightily. + +28th (Lord's day). Up and walked to Paul's; and by chance it was an +extraordinary day for the Readers of the Inns of Court and all the +Students to come to church, it being an old ceremony not used these +twenty-five years, upon the first Sunday in Lent. Abundance there was +of Students, more than there was room to seat but upon forms, and the +Church mighty full. One Hawkins preached, an Oxford man. A good sermon +upon these words: "But the wisdom from above is first pure, then +peaceable." Both before and after sermon I was most impatiently troubled +at the Quire, the worst that ever I heard. But what was extraordinary, +the Bishop of London, who sat there in a pew, made a purpose for him by +the pulpitt, do give the last blessing to the congregation; which +was, he being a comely old man, a very decent thing, methought. The +Lieutenant of the Tower, Sir J. Robinson, would needs have me by coach +home with him, and sending word home to my house I did go and dine +with him, his ordinary table being very good, and his lady a very +high-carriaged but comely big woman; I was mightily pleased with her. +His officers of his regiment dined with him. No discourse at table to +any purpose, only after dinner my Lady would needs see a boy which was +represented to her to be an innocent country boy brought up to towne a +day or two ago, and left here to the wide world, and he losing his way +fell into the Tower, which my Lady believes, and takes pity on him, and +will keep him; but though a little boy and but young, yet he tells his +tale so readily and answers all questions so wittily, that for certain +he is an arch rogue, and bred in this towne; but my Lady will not +believe it, but ordered victuals to be given him, and I think will keep +him as a footboy for their eldest son. After dinner to chappell in the +Tower with the Lieutenant, with the keyes carried before us, and +the Warders and Gentleman-porter going before us. And I sat with the +Lieutenant in his pew, in great state, but slept all the sermon. None, +it seems, of the prisoners in the Tower that are there now, though they +may, will come to prayers there. Church being done, I back to Sir John's +house and there left him and home, and by and by to Sir W. Pen, and +staid a while talking with him about Sir J. Minnes his folly in his +office, of which I am sicke and weary to speak of it, and how the King +is abused in it, though Pen, I know, offers the discourse only like a +rogue to get it out of me, but I am very free to tell my mind to him, in +that case being not unwilling he should tell him again if he will or any +body else. Thence home, and walked in the garden by brave moonshine with +my wife above two hours, till past 8 o'clock, then to supper, and after +prayers to bed. + +29th. Up and by coach with Sir W. Pen to Charing Cross, and there I +'light, and to Sir Phillip Warwick to visit him and discourse with him +about navy business, which I did at large and he most largely with me, +not only about the navy but about the general Revenue of England, above +two hours, I think, many staying all the while without, but he seemed +to take pains to let me either understand the affairs of the Revenue or +else to be a witness of his pains and care in stating it. He showed me +indeed many excellent collections of the State of the Revenue in former +Kings and the late times, and the present. He showed me how the very +Assessments between 1643 and 1659, which were taxes (besides Excise, +Customes, Sequestrations, Decimations, King and Queene's and Church +Lands, or any thing else but just the Assessments), come to above +fifteen millions. He showed me a discourse of his concerning the +Revenues of this and foreign States. How that of Spayne was great, but +divided with his kingdoms, and so came to little. How that of France +did, and do much exceed ours before for quantity; and that it is at the +will of the Prince to tax what he will upon his people; which is not +here. That the Hollanders have the best manner of tax, which is only +upon the expence of provisions, by an excise; and do conclude that no +other tax is proper for England but a pound-rate, or excise upon the +expence of provisions. He showed me every particular sort of payment +away of money, since the King's coming in, to this day; and told me, +from one to one, how little he hath received of profit from most of +them; and I believe him truly. That the L1,200,000 which the Parliament +with so much ado did first vote to give the King, and since hath been +reexamined by several committees of the present Parliament, is yet above +L300,000 short of making up really to the King the L1,200,000, as by +particulars he showed me. + + [A committee was appointed in September, 1660, to consider the + subject of the King's revenue, and they "reported to the Commons that + the average revenue of Charles I., from 1637 to 1641 inclusive, had + been L895,819, and the average expenditure about L1,110,000. At + that time prices were lower and the country less burthened with navy + and garrisons, among which latter Dunkirk alone now cost more than + L100,000 a year. It appeared, therefore, that the least sum to + which the King could be expected to 'conform his expense' was + L1,200,000." Burnet writes, "It was believed that if two millions + had been asked he could have carried it. But he (Clarendon) had no + mind to put the King out of the necessity of having recourse to his + Parliament."--Lister's Life of Clarendon, vol. ii., pp. 22, 23.] + +And in my Lord Treasurer's excellent letter to the King upon this +subject, he tells the King how it was the spending more than the revenue +that did give the first occasion of his father's ruine, and did since +to the rebels; who, he says, just like Henry the Eighth, had great and +sudden increase of wealth, but yet, by overspending, both died poor; and +further tells the King how much of this L1,200,000 depends upon the +life of the Prince, and so must be renewed by Parliament again to +his successor; which is seldom done without parting with some of the +prerogatives of the Crowne; or if denied and he persists to take it of +the people, it gives occasion to a civill war, which may, as it did in +the late business of tonnage and poundage, prove fatal to the Crowne. He +showed me how many ways the Lord Treasurer did take before he moved the +King to farme the Customes in the manner he do, and the reasons that +moved him to do it. He showed the a very excellent argument to prove, +that our importing lesse than we export, do not impoverish the kingdom, +according to the received opinion: which, though it be a paradox, and +that I do not remember the argument, yet methought there was a great +deale in what he said. And upon the whole I find him a most exact and +methodicall man, and of great industry: and very glad that he thought +fit to show me all this; though I cannot easily guess the reason why he +should do it to me, unless from the plainness that he sees I use to +him in telling him how much the King may suffer for our want of +understanding the case of our Treasury. Thence to White Hall (where +my Lord Sandwich was, and gave me a good countenance, I thought), +and before the Duke did our usual business, and so I about several +businesses in the house, and then out to the Mewes with Sir W. Pen. But +in my way first did meet with W. Howe, who did of himself advise me to +appear more free with my Lord and to come to him, for my own strangeness +he tells me he thinks do make my Lord the worse. At the Mewes Sir W. Pen +and Mr. Baxter did shew me several good horses, but Pen, which Sir W. +Pen did give the Duke of York, was given away by the Duke the other day +to a Frenchman, which Baxter is cruelly vexed at, saying that he was the +best horse that he expects a great while to have to do with. Thence I +to the 'Change, and thence to a Coffee-house with Sir W. Warren, and did +talk much about his and Wood's business, and thence homewards, and in my +way did stay to look upon a fire in an Inneyard in Lumbard Streete. But, +Lord! how the mercers and merchants who had warehouses there did carry +away their cloths and silks. But at last it was quenched, and I home to +dinner, and after dinner carried my wife and set her and her two mayds +in Fleete Streete to buy things, and I to White Hall to little purpose, +and so to Westminster Hall, and there talked with Mrs. Lane and Howlett, +but the match with Hawly I perceive will not take, and so I am resolved +wholly to avoid occasion of further ill with her. Thence by water to +Salsbury Court, and found my wife, by agreement, at Mrs. Turner's, +and after a little stay and chat set her and young Armiger down in +Cheapside, and so my wife and I home. Got home before our mayds, who by +and by came with a great cry and fright that they had like to have been +killed by a coach; but, Lord! to see how Jane did tell the story like a +foole and a dissembling fanatique, like her grandmother, but so like a +changeling, would make a man laugh to death almost, and yet be vexed to +hear her. By and by to the office to make up my monthly accounts, which +I make up to-night, and to my great content find myself worth eight +hundred and ninety and odd pounds, the greatest sum I ever yet knew, and +so with a heart at great case to bed. + + + + +MARCH 1663-1664 + +March 1st. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at +noon to the 'Change, and after much business and meeting my uncle Wight, +who told me how Mr. Maes had like to have been trapanned yesterday, but +was forced to run for it; so with Creed and Mr. Hunt home to dinner, and +after a good and pleasant dinner, Mr. Hunt parted, and I took Mr. Creed +and my wife and down to Deptford, it being most pleasant weather, and +there till night discoursing with the officers there about several +things, and so walked home by moonshine, it being mighty pleasant, and +so home, and I to my office, where late about getting myself a thorough +understanding in the business of masts, and so home to bed, my left eye +being mightily troubled with rheum. + +2nd. Up, my eye mightily out of order with the rheum that is fallen +down into it, however, I by coach endeavoured to have waited on my Lord +Sandwich, but meeting him in Chancery Lane going towards the City +I stopped and so fairly walked home again, calling at St. Paul's +Churchyarde, and there looked upon a pretty burlesque poem, called +"Scarronides, or Virgile Travesty;" extraordinary good. At home to the +office till dinner, and after dinner my wife cut my hair short, which +is growne pretty long again, and then to the office, and there till 9 +at night doing business. This afternoon we had a good present of tongues +and bacon from Mr. Shales, of Portsmouth. So at night home to supper, +and, being troubled with my eye, to bed. This morning Mr. Burgby, one of +the writing clerks belonging to the Council, was with me about business, +a knowing man, he complains how most of the Lords of the Council do look +after themselves and their own ends, and none the publique, unless Sir +Edward Nicholas. Sir G. Carteret is diligent, but all for his own ends +and profit. My Lord Privy Scale, a destroyer of every body's business, +and do no good at all to the publique. The Archbishop of Canterbury +speaks very little, nor do much, being now come to the highest pitch +that he can expect. He tells me, he believes that things will go very +high against the Chancellor by Digby, and that bad things will be +proved. Talks much of his neglecting the King; and making the King to +trot every day to him, when he is well enough to go to visit his cozen +Chief-Justice Hide, but not to the Council or King. He commends my Lord +of Ormond mightily in Ireland; but cries out cruelly of Sir G. Lane for +his corruption; and that he hath done my Lord great dishonour by selling +of places here, which are now all taken away, and the poor wretches +ready to starve. That nobody almost understands or judges of business +better than the King, if he would not be guilty of his father's fault +to be doubtfull of himself, and easily be removed from his own opinion. +That my Lord Lauderdale is never from the King's care nor council, and +that he is a most cunning fellow. Upon the whole, that he finds things +go very bad every where; and even in the Council nobody minds the +publique. + +3rd. Up pretty early and so to the office, where we sat all the morning +making a very great contract with Sir W. Warren for provisions for the +yeare coming, and so home to dinner, and there was W. Howe come to dine +with me, and before dinner he and I walked in the garden, and we did +discourse together, he assuring me of what he told me the other day of +my Lord's speaking so highly in my commendation to my Lord Peterborough +and Povy, which speaks my Lord having yet a good opinion of me, and also +how well my Lord and Lady both are pleased with their children's being +at my father's, and when the bigger ladies were there a little while +ago, at which I am very glad. After dinner he went away, I having +discoursed with him about his own proceedings in his studies, and I +observe him to be very considerate and to mind his book in order to +preferring himself by my Lord's favour to something, and I hope to +the outing of Creed in his Secretaryship. For he tells me that he is +confident my Lord do not love him nor will trust him in any secret +matter, he is so cunning and crafty in all he do. So my wife and I out +of doors thinking to have gone to have seen a play, but when we came to +take coach, they tell us there are none this week, being the first of +Lent. But, Lord! to see how impatient I found myself within to see a +play, I being at liberty once a month to see one, and I think it is the +best method I could have taken. But to my office, did very much business +with several people till night, and so home, being unwilling to stay +late because of my eye which is not yet well of the rheum that is fallen +down into it, but to supper and to bed. + +4th. Up, my eye being pretty well, and then by coach to my Lord +Sandwich, with whom I spoke, walking a good while with him in +his garden, which and the house is very fine, talking of my Lord +Peterborough's accounts, wherein he is concerned both for the foolery +as also inconvenience which may happen upon my Lord Peterborough's +ill-stating of his matters, so as to have his gaine discovered +unnecessarily. We did talk long and freely that I hope the worst is past +and all will be well. There were several people by trying a new-fashion +gun + + [Many attempts to produce a satisfactory revolver were made in + former centuries, but it was not till the present one that Colt's + revolver was invented. On February 18th, 1661, Edward, Marquis of + Worcester, obtained Letters Patent for "an invencon to make certeyne + guns or pistolls which in the tenth parte of one minute of an houre + may, with a flaske contrived to that purpose, be re-charged the + fourth part of one turne of the barrell which remaines still fixt, + fastening it as forceably and effectually as a dozen thrids of any + scrue, which in the ordinary and usual way require as many turnes." + On March 3rd, 1664, Abraham Hill obtained Letters Patent for a "gun + or pistoll for small shott, carrying seaven or eight charges of the + same in the stocke of the gun."] + +brought my Lord this morning, to shoot off often, one after another, +without trouble or danger, very pretty. Thence to the Temple, and there +taking White's boat down to Woolwich, taking Mr. Shish at Deptford in +my way, with whom I had some good discourse of the Navy business. At +Woolwich discoursed with him and Mr. Pett about iron worke and other +businesses, and then walked home, and at Greenwich did observe the +foundation laying of a very great house for the King, which will cost a +great deale of money. + + [Building by John Webb; now a part of Greenwich Hospital. Evelyn + wrote in his Diary, October 19th, 1661: "I went to London to visite + my Lord of Bristoll, having been with Sir John Denham (his Mates + surveyor) to consult with him about the placing of his palace at + Greenwich, which I would have had built between the river and the + Queene's house, so as a large cutt should have let in ye Thames like + a bay; but Sir John was for setting it in piles at the very brink of + the water, which I did not assent to and so came away, knowing Sir + John to be a better poet than architect, tho' he had Mr. Webb (Inigo + Jones's man) to assist him."] + +So home to dinner, and my uncle Wight coming in he along with my wife +and I by coach, and setting him down by the way going to Mr. Maes we +two to my Lord Sandwich's to visit my Lady, with whom I left my wife +discoursing, and I to White Hall, and there being met by the Duke of +Yorke, he called me to him and discoursed a pretty while with me about +the new ship's dispatch building at Woolwich, and talking of the charge +did say that he finds always the best the most cheape, instancing in +French guns, which in France you may buy for 4 pistoles, as good to look +to as others of 16, but not the service. I never had so much discourse +with the Duke before, and till now did ever fear to meet him. He found +me and Mr. Prin together talking of the Chest money, which we are to +blame not to look after. Thence to my Lord's, and took up my wife, whom +my Lady hath received with her old good nature and kindnesse, and so +homewards, and she home, I 'lighting by the way, and upon the 'Change +met my uncle Wight and told him my discourse this afternoon with Sir G. +Carteret in Maes' business, but much to his discomfort, and after a dish +of coffee home, and at my office a good while with Sir W. Warren talking +with great pleasure of many businesses, and then home to supper, my wife +and I had a good fowle to supper, and then I to the office again and so +home, my mind in great ease to think of our coming to so good a respect +with my Lord again, and my Lady, and that my Lady do so much cry up +my father's usage of her children, and the goodness of the ayre there, +found in the young ladies' faces at their return thence, as she says, as +also my being put into the commission of the Fishery, + + [There had been recently established, under the Great Seal of + England, a Corporation for the Royal Fishing, of which the Duke of + York was Governor, Lord Craven Deputy-Governor, and the Lord Mayor + and Chamberlain of London, for the time being, Treasurers, in which + body was vested the sole power of licensing lotteries ("The Newes," + October 6th, 1664). The original charter (dated April 8th, 1664), + incorporating James, Duke of York, and thirty-six assistants as + Governor and Company of the Royal Fishing of Great Britain and + Ireland, is among the State Papers. The duke was to be Governor + till February 26th, 1665] + +for which I must give my Lord thanks, and so home to bed, having a great +cold in my head and throat tonight from my late cutting my hair so close +to my head, but I hope it will be soon gone again. + +5th. Up and to the office, where, though I had a great cold, I was +forced to speak much upon a publique meeting of the East India Company, +at our office; where our own company was full, and there was also my +Lord George Barkeley, in behalfe of the company of merchants (I suppose +he is on that company), who, hearing my name, took notice of me, and +condoled my cozen Edward Pepys's death, not knowing whose son I was, nor +did demand it of me. We broke up without coming to any conclusion, for +want of my Lord Marlborough. We broke up and I to the 'Change, where +with several people and my uncle Wight to drink a dish of coffee, and so +home to dinner, and then to the office all the afternoon, my eye and my +throat being very bad, and my cold increasing so as I could not speak +almost at all at night. So at night home to supper, that is a posset, +and to bed. + +6th (Lord's day). Up, and my cold continuing in great extremity I could +not go out to church, but sat all day (a little time at dinner excepted) +in my closet at the office till night drawing up a second letter to Mr. +Coventry about the measure of masts to my great satisfaction, and so in +the evening home, and my uncle and aunt Wight came to us and supped with +us, where pretty merry, but that my cold put me out of humour. At night +with my cold, and my eye also sore still, to bed. + +7th. Up betimes, and the Duke being gone abroad to-day, as we heard by a +messenger, I spent the morning at my office writing fair my yesterday's +work till almost 2 o'clock (only Sir G. Carteret coming I went down a +little way by water towards Deptford, but having more mind to have my +business done I pretended business at the 'Change, and so went into +another boat), and then, eating a bit, my wife and I by coach to the +Duke's house, where we saw "The Unfortunate Lovers;" but I know not +whether I am grown more curious than I was or no, but I was not much +pleased with it, though I know not where to lay the fault, unless it +was that the house was very empty, by reason of a new play at the other +house. Yet here was my Lady Castlemayne in a box, and it was pleasant to +hear an ordinary lady hard by us, that it seems did not know her before, +say, being told who she was, that "she was well enough." Thence home, +and I ended and sent away my letter to Mr. Coventry (having first read +it and had the opinion of Sir W. Warren in the case), and so home to +supper and to bed, my cold being pretty well gone, but my eye remaining +still snare and rhumey, which I wonder at, my right eye ayling nothing. + +8th. Up with some little discontent with my wife upon her saying that +she had got and used some puppy-dog water, being put upon it by a desire +of my aunt Wight to get some for her, who hath a mind, unknown to her +husband, to get some for her ugly face. I to the office, where we +sat all the morning, doing not much business through the multitude of +counsellors, one hindering another. It was Mr. Coventry's own saying to +me in his coach going to the 'Change, but I wonder that he did give me +no thanks for my letter last night, but I believe he did only forget it. +Thence home, whither Luellin came and dined with me, but we made no long +stay at dinner; for "Heraclius" being acted, which my wife and I have a +mighty mind to see, we do resolve, though not exactly agreeing with the +letter of my vowe, yet altogether with the sense, to see another this +month, by going hither instead of that at Court, there having been none +conveniently since I made my vowe for us to see there, nor like to be +this Lent, and besides we did walk home on purpose to make this going +as cheap as that would have been, to have seen one at Court, and my +conscience knows that it is only the saving of money and the time also +that I intend by my oaths, and this has cost no more of either, so that +my conscience before God do after good consultation and resolution of +paying my forfeit, did my conscience accuse me of breaking my vowe, I do +not find myself in the least apprehensive that I have done any violence +to my oaths. The play hath one very good passage well managed in it, +about two persons pretending, and yet denying themselves, to be son +to the tyrant Phocas, and yet heire of Mauritius to the crowne. The +garments like Romans very well. The little girle is come to act very +prettily, and spoke the epilogue most admirably. But at the beginning, +at the drawing up of the curtaine, there was the finest scene of the +Emperor and his people about him, standing in their fixed and different +pastures in their Roman habitts, above all that ever I yet saw at any of +the theatres. Walked home, calling to see my brother Tom, who is in bed, +and I doubt very ill of a consumption. To the office awhile, and so home +to supper and to bed. + +9th. Up pretty betimes to my office, where all day long, but a little +at home at dinner, at my office finishing all things about Mr. Wood's +contract for masts, wherein I am sure I shall save the King L400 before +I have done. At night home to supper and to bed. + +10th. Up and to the office, where all the morning doing business, and at +noon to the 'Change and there very busy, and so home to dinner with my +wife, to a good hog's harslet, + + [Harslet or haslet, the entrails of an animal, especially of a hog, + as the heart, liver, &c.] + +a piece of meat I love, but have not eat of I think these seven years, +and after dinner abroad by coach set her at Mrs. Hunt's and I to White +Hall, and at the Privy Seale I enquired, and found the Bill come for +the Corporation of the Royall Fishery; whereof the Duke of Yorke is made +present Governor, and several other very great persons, to the number +of thirty-two, made his assistants for their lives: whereof, by my Lord +Sandwich's favour, I am one; and take it not only as a matter of honour, +but that, that may come to be of profit to me, and so with great content +went and called my wife, and so home and to the office, where busy late, +and so home to supper and to bed. + +11th. Up and by coach to my Lord Sandwich's, who not being up I staid +talking with Mr. Moore till my Lord was ready and come down, and went +directly out without calling for me or seeing any body. I know not +whether he knew I was there, but I am apt to think not, because if he +would have given me that slighting yet he would not have done it +to others that were there. So I went back again doing nothing but +discoursing with Mr. Moore, who I find by discourse to be grown rich, +and indeed not to use me at all with the respect he used to do, but as +his equal. He made me known to their Chaplin, who is a worthy, able +man. Thence home, and by and by to the Coffee-house, and thence to the +'Change, and so home to dinner, and after a little chat with my wife to +the office, where all the afternoon till very late at the office busy, +and so home to supper and to bed, hoping in God that my diligence, as it +is really very useful for the King, so it will end in profit to myself. +In the meantime I have good content in mind to see myself improve every +day in knowledge and being known. + +12th. Lay long pleasantly entertaining myself with my wife, and then up +and to the office, where busy till noon, vexed to see how Sir J. Minnes +deserves rather to be pitied for his dotage and folly than employed at +a great salary to ruin the King's business. At noon to the 'Change, and +thence home to dinner, and then down to Deptford, where busy a while, +and then walking home it fell hard a raining. So at Halfway house put +in, and there meeting Mr. Stacy with some company of pretty women, I +took him aside to a room by ourselves, and there talked with him about +the several sorts of tarrs, and so by and by parted, and I walked home +and there late at the office, and so home to supper and to bed. + +13th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed talking with my wife, and then up in +great doubt whether I should not go see Mr. Coventry or no, who hath +not been well these two or three days, but it being foul weather I staid +within, and so to my office, and there all the morning reading some +Common Law, to which I will allot a little time now and then, for I much +want it. At noon home to dinner, and then after some discourse with my +wife, to the office again, and by and by Sir W. Pen came to me after +sermon and walked with me in the garden and then one comes to tell me +that Anthony and Will Joyce were come to see me, so I in to them and +made mighty much of them, and very pleasant we were, and most of their +business I find to be to advise about getting some woman to attend my +brother Tom, whom they say is very ill and seems much to want one. To +which I agreed, and desired them to get their wives to enquire out one. +By and by they bid me good night, but immediately as they were gone out +of doors comes Mrs. Turner's boy with a note to me to tell me that my +brother Tom was so ill as they feared he would not long live, and that +it would be fit I should come and see him. So I sent for them back, and +they came, and Will Joyce desiring to speak with me alone I took him +up, and there he did plainly tell me to my great astonishment that my +brother is deadly ill, and that their chief business of coming was to +tell me so, and what is worst that his disease is the pox, which he hath +heretofore got, and hath not been cured, but is come to this, and that +this is certain, though a secret told his father Fenner by the Doctor +which he helped my brother to. This troubled me mightily, but however +I thought fit to go see him for speech of people's sake, and so walked +along with them, and in our way called on my uncle Fenner (where I have +not been these 12 months and more) and advised with him, and then to my +brother, who lies in bed talking idle. He could only say that he knew +me, and then fell to other discourse, and his face like a dying man, +which Mrs. Turner, who was here, and others conclude he is. The company +being gone, I took the mayde, which seems a very grave and serious +woman, and in W. Joyce's company' did inquire how things are with her +master. She told me many things very discreetly, and said she had all +his papers and books, and key of his cutting house, and showed me a bag +which I and Wm. Joyce told, coming to L5 14s. 0d., which we left with +her again, after giving her good counsel, and the boys, and seeing a +nurse there of Mrs. Holden's choosing, I left them, and so walked home +greatly troubled to think of my brother's condition, and the trouble +that would arise to me by his death or continuing sick. So at home, my +mind troubled, to bed. + +14th. Up, and walked to my brother's, where I find he hath continued +talking idly all night, and now knows me not; which troubles me +mightily. So I walked down and discoursed a great while alone with the +mayde, who tells me many passages of her master's practices, and how she +concludes that he has run behind hand a great while and owes money, +and has been dunned by several people, among others by one Cave, both +husband and wife, but whether it was for--[See April 6th]--money or +something worse she knows not, but there is one Cranburne, I think she +called him, in Fleete Lane with whom he hath many times been mighty +private, but what their dealings have been she knows not, but believes +these were naught, and then his sitting up two Saturday nights one after +another when all were abed doing something to himself, which she now +suspects what it was, but did not before, but tells me that he hath been +a very bad husband as to spending his time, and hath often told him of +it, so that upon the whole I do find he is, whether he lives or dies, a +ruined man, and what trouble will befall me by it I know not. Thence +to White Hall; and in the Duke's chamber, while he was dressing, two +persons of quality that were there did tell his Royal Highness how the +other night, in Holborne, about midnight, being at cards, a link-boy +come by and run into the house, and told the people the house was +a-falling. Upon this the whole family was frighted, concluding that the +boy had said that the house was a-fire: so they deft their cards above, +and one would have got out of the balcone, but it was not open; the +other went up to fetch down his children, that were in bed; so all +got clear out of the house. And no sooner so, but the house fell +down indeed, from top to bottom. It seems my Lord Southampton's +canaille--[sewer]--did come too near their foundation, and so weakened +the house, and down it came; which, in every respect, is a most +extraordinary passage. By and by into his closet and did our business +with him. But I did not speed as I expected in a business about the +manner of buying hemp for this year, which troubled me, but it proceeds +only from my pride, that I must needs expect every thing to be ordered +just as I apprehend, though it was not I think from my errour, but their +not being willing to hear and consider all that I had to propose. Being +broke up I followed my Lord Sandwich and thanked him for his putting me +into the Fishery, which I perceive he expected, and cried "Oh!" says he, +"in the Fishery you mean. I told you I would remember you in it," but +offered no other discourse. But demanding whether he had any commands +for me, methought he cried "No!" as if he had no more mind to discourse +with me, which still troubles me and hath done all the day, though +I think I am a fool for it, in not pursuing my resolution of going +handsome in clothes and looking high, for that must do it when all is +done with my Lord. Thence by coach with Sir W. Batten to the city, and +his son Castle, who talks mighty highly against Captain Tayler, calling +him knave, and I find that the old Boating father is led and talks just +as the son do, or the son as the father would have him. 'Light and to +Mr. Moxon's, and there saw our office globes in doing, which will be +very handsome but cost money. So to the Coffee-house, and there very +fine discourse with Mr. Hill the merchant, a pretty, gentile, young, and +sober man. So to the 'Change, and thence home, where my wife and I fell +out about my not being willing to have her have her gowne laced, but +would lay out the same money and more on a plain new one. At this +she flounced away in a manner I never saw her, nor which I could ever +endure. So I away to the office, though she had dressed herself to go +see my Lady Sandwich. She by and by in a rage follows me, and coming +to me tells me in spitefull manner like a vixen and with a look full of +rancour that she would go buy a new one and lace it and make me pay for +it, and then let me burn it if I would after she had done it, and so +went away in a fury. This vexed me cruelly, but being very busy I had, +not hand to give myself up to consult what to do in it, but anon, I +suppose after she saw that I did not follow her, she came again to the +office, where I made her stay, being busy with another, half an houre, +and her stomach coming down we were presently friends, and so after +my business being over at the office we out and by coach to my Lady +Sandwich's, with whom I left my wife, and I to White Hall, where I met +Mr. Delsety, and after an hour's discourse with him met with nobody to +do other business with, but back again to my Lady, and after half an +hour's discourse with her to my brother's, who I find in the same or +worse condition. The doctors give him over and so do all that see him. +He talks no sense two, words together now; and I confess it made me +weepe to see that he should not be able, when I asked him, to say who +I was. I went to Mrs. Turner's, and by her discourse with my brother's +Doctor, Mr. Powell, I find that she is full now of the disease which +my brother is troubled with, and talks of it mightily, which I am sorry +for, there being other company, but methinks it should be for her +honour to forbear talking of it, the shame of this very thing I confess +troubles me as much as anything. Back to my brother's and took my +wife, and carried her to my uncle Fenner's and there had much private +discourse with him. He tells me of the Doctor's thoughts of my brother's +little hopes of recovery, and from that to tell me his thoughts long +of my brother's bad husbandry, and from that to say that he believes he +owes a great deal of money, as to my cozen Scott I know not how much, +and Dr. Thos. Pepys L30, but that the Doctor confesses that he is paid +L20 of it, and what with that and what he owes my father and me I doubt +he is in a very sad condition, that if he lives he will not be able to +show his head, which will be a very great shame to me. After this I went +in to my aunt and my wife and Anthony Joyce and his wife, who were by +chance there, and drank and so home, my mind and head troubled, but I +hope it will [be] over in a little time one way or other. After doing a +little at my office of business I home to supper and to bed. From notice +that my uncle Fenner did give my father the last week of my brother's +condition, my mother is coming up to towne, which also do trouble me. +The business between my Lords Chancellor and Bristoll, they say, is +hushed up; and the latter gone or going, by the King's licence, to +France. + +15th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon +comes Madam Turner and her daughter The., her chief errand to tell me +that she had got Dr. Wiverly, her Doctor, to search my brother's mouth, +where Mr. Powell says there is an ulcer, from thence he concludes that +he hath had the pox. But the Doctor swears that there is not, nor ever +was any, and my brother being very sensible, which I was glad to hear, +he did talk with him about it, and he did wholly disclaim that ever +he had the disease, or that ever he said to Powell that he had it. All +which did put me into great comfort as to the reproach which was spread +against him. So I sent for a barrel of oysters, and they dined, and we +were very merry, I being willing to be so upon this news. After dinner +we took coach and to my brother's, where contrary to my expectation he +continues as bad or worse, talking idle, and now not at all knowing any +of us as before. Here we staid a great while, I going up and down the +house looking after things. In the evening Dr. Wiverley came again, +and I sent for Mr. Powell (the Doctor and I having first by ourselves +searched my brother again at his privities, where he was as clear as +ever he was born, and in the Doctor's opinion had been ever so), and we +three alone discoursed the business, where the coxcomb did give us his +simple reasons for what he had said, which the Doctor fully confuted, +and left the fellow only saying that he should cease to report any such +thing, and that what he had said was the best of his judgment from my +brother's words and a ulcer, as he supposed, in his mouth. I threatened +him that I would have satisfaction if I heard any more such discourse, +and so good night to them two, giving the Doctor a piece for his fee, +but the other nothing. I to my brother again, where Madam Turner and her +company, and Mrs. Croxton, my wife, and Mrs. Holding. About 8 o'clock my +brother began to fetch his spittle with more pain, and to speak as much +but not so distinctly, till at last the phlegm getting the mastery of +him, and he beginning as we thought to rattle, I had no mind to see +him die, as we thought he presently would, and so withdrew and led Mrs. +Turner home, but before I came back, which was in half a quarter of an +hour, my brother was dead. I went up and found the nurse holding his +eyes shut, and he poor wretch lying with his chops fallen, a most sad +sight, and that which put me into a present very great transport of +grief and cries, and indeed it was a most sad sight to see the poor +wretch lie now still and dead, and pale like a stone. I staid till he +was almost cold, while Mrs. Croxton, Holden, and the rest did strip and +lay him out, they observing his corpse, as they told me afterwards, to +be as clear as any they ever saw, and so this was the end of my poor +brother, continuing talking idle and his lips working even to his last +that his phlegm hindered his breathing, and at last his breath broke out +bringing a flood of phlegm and stuff out with it, and so he died. This +evening he talked among other talk a great deal of French very plain +and good, as, among others: 'quand un homme boit quand il n'a poynt +d'inclination a boire il ne luy fait jamais de bien.' I once begun to +tell him something of his condition, and asked him whither he thought he +should go. He in distracted manner answered me--"Why, whither should +I go? there are but two ways: If I go, to the bad way I must give God +thanks for it, and if I go the other way I must give God the more thanks +for it; and I hope I have not been so undutifull and unthankfull in my +life but I hope I shall go that way." This was all the sense, good or +bad, that I could get of him this day. I left my wife to see him laid +out, and I by coach home carrying my brother's papers, all I could find, +with me, and having wrote a letter to, my father telling him what hath +been said I returned by coach, it being very late, and dark, to my +brother's, but all being gone, the corpse laid out, and my wife at Mrs. +Turner's, I thither, and there after an hour's talk, we up to bed, my +wife and I in the little blue chamber, and I lay close to my wife, being +full of disorder and grief for my brother that I could not sleep nor +wake with satisfaction, at last I slept till 5 or 6 o'clock. + +16th. And then I rose and up, leaving my wife in bed, and to my +brother's, where I set them on cleaning the house, and my wife coming +anon to look after things, I up and down to my cozen Stradwicke's and +uncle Fenner's about discoursing for the funeral, which I am resolved +to put off till Friday next. Thence home and trimmed myself, and then +to the 'Change, and told my uncle Wight of my brother's death, and so by +coach to my cozen Turner's and there dined very well, but my wife.... in +great pain we were forced to rise in some disorder, and in Mrs. Turner's +coach carried her home and put her to bed. Then back again with my cozen +Norton to Mrs. Turner's, and there staid a while talking with Dr. Pepys, +the puppy, whom I had no patience to hear. So I left them and to my +brother's to look after things, and saw the coffin brought; and by and +by Mrs. Holden came and saw him nailed up. Then came W. Joyce to me half +drunk, and much ado I had to tell him the story of my brother's being +found clear of what was said, but he would interrupt me by some idle +discourse or other, of his crying what a good man, and a good speaker +my brother was, and God knows what. At last weary of him I got him away, +and I to Mrs. Turner's, and there, though my heart is still heavy to +think of my poor brother, yet I could give way to my fancy to hear +Mrs. The. play upon the Harpsicon, though the musique did not please me +neither. Thence to my brother's and found them with my mayd Elizabeth +taking an inventory of the goods of the house, which I was well pleased +at, and am much beholden to Mr. Honeywood's man in doing of it. His +name is Herbert, one that says he knew me when he lived with Sir Samuel +Morland, but I have forgot him. So I left them at it, and by coach home +and to my office, there to do a little business, but God knows my heart +and head is so full of my brother's death, and the consequences of it, +that I can do very little or understand it. So home to supper, and +after looking over some business in my chamber I to bed to my wife, who +continues in bed in some pain still. This day I have a great barrel of +oysters given me by Mr. Barrow, as big as 16 of others, and I took it in +the coach with me to Mrs. Turner's, and give them to her. This day the +Parliament met again, after a long prorogation, but what they have done +I have not been in the way to hear. + +17th. Up and to my brother's, where all the morning doing business +against to-morrow, and so to my cozen Stradwicke's about the same +business, and to the 'Change, and thence home to dinner, where my wife +in bed sick still, but not so bad as yesterday. I dined by her, and so +to the office, where we sat this afternoon, having changed this day our +sittings from morning to afternoons, because of the Parliament which +returned yesterday; but was adjourned till Monday next; upon pretence +that many of the members were said to be upon the road; and also the +King had other affairs, and so desired them to adjourn till then. But +the truth is, the King is offended at my Lord of Bristol, as they say, +whom he hath found to have been all this while (pretending a desire of +leave to go into France, and to have all the difference between him and +the Chancellor made up,) endeavouring to make factions in both Houses +to the Chancellor. So the King did this to keep the Houses from meeting; +and in the meanwhile sent a guard and a herald last night to have taken +him at Wimbleton, where he was in the morning, but could not find him: +at which the King was and is still mightily concerned, and runs up and +down to and from the Chancellor's like a boy: and it seems would make +Digby's articles against the Chancellor to be treasonable reflections +against his Majesty. So that the King is very high, as they say; and God +knows what will follow upon it! After office I to my brother's again, +and thence to Madam Turner's, in both places preparing things against +to-morrow; and this night I have altered my resolution of burying him +in the church yarde among my young brothers and sisters, and bury him +in the church, in the middle isle, as near as I can to my mother's pew. +This costs me 20s. more. This being all, home by coach, bringing my +brother's silver tankard for safety along with me, and so to supper, +after writing to my father, and so to bed. + +18th. Up betimes, and walked to my brother's, where a great while +putting things in order against anon; then to Madam Turner's and eat a +breakfast there, and so to Wotton, my shoemaker, and there got a pair of +shoes blacked on the soles against anon for me; so to my brother's and +to church, and with the grave-maker chose a place for my brother to lie +in, just under my mother's pew. But to see how a man's tombes are at the +mercy of such a fellow, that for sixpence he would, (as his owne words +were,) "I will justle them together but I will make room for him;" +speaking of the fulness of the middle isle, where he was to lie; and +that he would, for my father's sake, do my brother that is dead all the +civility he can; which was to disturb other corps that are not quite +rotten, to make room for him; and methought his manner of speaking it +was very remarkable; as of a thing that now was in his power to do a man +a courtesy or not. At noon my wife, though in pain, comes, but I being +forced to go home, she went back with me, where I dressed myself, and so +did Besse; and so to my brother's again: whither, though invited, as the +custom is, at one or two o'clock, they came not till four or five. +But at last one after another they come, many more than I bid: and my +reckoning that I bid was one hundred and twenty; but I believe there was +nearer one hundred and fifty. Their service was six biscuits apiece, and +what they pleased of burnt claret. My cosen Joyce Norton kept the wine +and cakes above; and did give out to them that served, who had white +gloves given them. But above all, I am beholden to Mrs. Holden, who was +most kind, and did take mighty pains not only in getting the house and +every thing else ready, but this day in going up and down to see, the +house filled and served, in order to mine, and their great content, +I think; the men sitting by themselves in some rooms, and women by +themselves in others, very close, but yet room enough. Anon to church, +walking out into the streete to the Conduit, and so across the streete, +and had a very good company along with the corps. And being come to the +grave as above, Dr. Pierson, the minister of the parish, did read the +service for buriall: and so I saw my poor brother laid into the grave; +and so all broke up; and I and my wife and Madam Turner and her family +to my brother's, and by and by fell to a barrell of oysters, cake, and +cheese, of Mr. Honiwood's, with him, in his chamber and below, being +too merry for so late a sad work. But, Lord! to see how the world makes +nothing of the memory of a man, an houre after he is dead! And, indeed, +I must blame myself; for though at the sight of him dead and dying, +I had real grief for a while, while he was in my sight, yet presently +after, and ever since, I have had very little grief indeed for him. +By and by, it beginning to be late, I put things in some order in the +house, and so took my wife and Besse (who hath done me very good service +in cleaning and getting ready every thing and serving the wine and +things to-day, and is indeed a most excellent good-natured and faithful +wench, and I love her mightily), by coach home, and so after being at +the office to set down the day's work home to supper and to bed. + +19th. Up and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon my +wife and I alone, having a good hen, with eggs, to dinner, with great +content. Then by coach to my brother's, where I spent the afternoon +in paying some of the charges of the buriall, and in looking over his +papers, among which I find several letters of my brother John's to him +speaking very foale words of me and my deportment to him here, and very +crafty designs about Sturtlow land and God knows what, which I am very +glad to know, and shall make him repent them. Anon my father and my +brother John came to towne by coach. I sat till night with him, giving +him an account of things. He, poor man, very sad and sickly. I in great +pain by a simple compressing of my cods to-day by putting one leg over +another as I have formerly done, which made me hasten home, and after a +little at the office in great disorder home to bed. + +20th (Lord's day). Kept my bed all the morning, having laid a poultice +to my cods last night to take down the tumour there which I got +yesterday, which it did do, being applied pretty warm, and soon after +the beginning of the swelling, and the pain was gone also. We lay +talking all the while, among other things of religion, wherein I am +sorry so often to hear my wife talk of her being and resolving to die a +Catholique, + + [Mrs. Pepys's leaning towards Roman Catholicism was a constant + trouble to her husband; but, in spite of his fears, she died a + Protestant (Dr. Milles's certificate.)] + +and indeed a small matter, I believe, would absolutely turn her, which +I am sorry for. Up at noon to dinner, and then to my chamber with a fire +till late at night looking over my brother Thomas's papers, sorting of +them, among which I find many base letters of my brother John's to him +against me, and carrying on plots against me to promote Tom's having +of his Banbury' Mistress, in base slighting terms, and in worse of my +sister Pall, such as I shall take a convenient time to make my father +know, and him also to his sorrow. So after supper to bed, our people +rising to wash to-morrow. + +21st. Up, and it snowing this morning a little, which from the mildness +of the winter and the weather beginning to be hot and the summer to come +on apace, is a little strange to us. I did not go abroad for fear of my +tumour, for fear it shall rise again, but staid within, and by and by +my father came, poor man, to me, and my brother John. After much talke +and taking them up to my chamber, I did there after some discourse bring +in any business of anger--with John, and did before my father read all +his roguish letters, which troubled my father mightily, especially to +hear me say what I did, against my allowing any thing for the time to +come to him out of my owne purse, and other words very severe, while +he, like a simple rogue, made very silly and churlish answers to me, not +like a man of any goodness or witt, at which I was as much disturbed as +the other, and will be as good as my word in making him to his cost know +that I will remember his carriage to me in this particular the longest +day I live. It troubled me to see my poor father so troubled, whose good +nature did make him, poor wretch, to yield, I believe, to comply with my +brother Tom and him in part of their designs, but without any ill intent +to me, or doubt of me or my good intentions to him or them, though it do +trouble me a little that he should in any manner do it. They dined with +me, and after dinner abroad with my wife to buy some things for her, +and I to the office, where we sat till night, and then, after doing some +business at my closet, I home and to supper and to bed. This day the +Houses of Parliament met; and the King met them, with the Queene with +him. And he made a speech to them: + + [March 16th, 1663-64. This day both Houses met, and on the gist the + king opened the session with a speech from the throne, in which + occurs this Passage: "I pray, Mr. Speaker, and you, gentlemen of the + House of Commons, give that Triennial Bill once a reading in your + house, and then, in God's name, do what you think fit for me and + yourselves and the whole kingdom. I need not tell you how much I + love parliaments. Never king was so much beholden to parliaments as + I have been, nor do I think the crown can ever be happy without + frequent parliaments" (Cobbett's "Parliamentary History," vol. iv., + cc. 290, 291).] + +among other things, discoursing largely of the plots abroad against +him and the peace of the kingdom; and, among other things, that the +dissatisfied party had great hopes upon the effect of the Act for a +Triennial Parliament granted by his father, which he desired them to +peruse, and, I think, repeal. So the Houses did retire to their own +House, and did order the Act to be read to-morrow before them; and I +suppose it will be repealed, though I believe much against the will of a +good many that sit there. + +22nd. Up, and spent the whole morning and afternoon at my office, +only in the evening, my wife being at my aunt Wight's, I went thither, +calling at my own house, going out found the parlour curtains drawn, +and inquiring the reason of it, they told me that their mistress had got +Mrs. Buggin's fine little dog and our little bitch, which is proud at +this time, and I am apt to think that she was helping him to line her, +for going afterwards to my uncle Wight's, and supping there with her, +where very merry with Mr. Woolly's drollery, and going home I found the +little dog so little that of himself he could not reach our bitch, which +I am sorry for, for it is the finest dog that ever I saw in my life, +as if he were painted the colours are so finely mixed and shaded. God +forgive me, it went against me to have my wife and servants look upon +them while they endeavoured to do something.... + +23rd. Up, and going out saw Mrs. Buggin's dog, which proves as I thought +last night so pretty that I took him and the bitch into my closet below, +and by holding down the bitch helped him to line her, which he did very +stoutly, so as I hope it will take, for it is the prettiest dog that +ever I saw. So to the office, where very busy all the morning, and so to +the 'Change, and off hence with Sir W. Rider to the Trinity House, and +there dined very well: and good discourse among the old men of Islands +now and then rising and falling again in the Sea, and that there is many +dangers of grounds and rocks that come just up to the edge almost of +the sea, that is never discovered and ships perish without the world's +knowing the reason of it. Among other things, they observed, that there +are but two seamen in the Parliament house, viz., Sir W. Batten and Sir +W. Pen, and not above twenty or thirty merchants; which is a strange +thing in an island, and no wonder that things of trade go no better nor +are better understood. Thence home, and all the afternoon at the office, +only for an hour in the evening my Lady Jemimah, Paulina, and Madam +Pickering come to see us, but my wife would not be seen, being unready. +Very merry with them; they mightily talking of their thrifty living +for a fortnight before their mother came to town, and other such simple +talk, and of their merry life at Brampton, at my father's, this winter. +So they being gone, to the office again till late, and so home and to +supper and to bed. + +24th. Called up by my father, poor man, coming to advise with me about +Tom's house and other matters, and he being gone I down by water to +Greenwich, it being very-foggy, and I walked very finely to Woolwich, +and there did very much business at both yards, and thence walked +back, Captain Grove with me talking, and so to Deptford and did the +like-there, and then walked to Redriffe (calling and eating a bit of +collops and eggs at Half-way house), and so home to the office, where we +sat late, and home weary to supper and to bed. + +25th (Lady-day). Up and by water to White Hall, and there to chappell; +where it was most infinite full to hear Dr. Critton. Being not knowne, +some great persons in the pew I pretended to, and went in, did question +my coming in. I told them my pretence; so they turned to the orders of +the chappell, which hung behind upon the wall, and read it; and were +satisfied; but they did not demand whether I was in waiting or no; and +so I was in some fear lest he that was in waiting might come and +betray me. The Doctor preached upon the thirty-first of Jeremy, and the +twenty-first and twenty-second verses, about a woman compassing a man; +meaning the Virgin conceiving and bearing our Saviour. It was the worst +sermon I ever heard him make, I must confess; and yet it was good, +and in two places very bitter, advising the King to do as the Emperor +Severus did, to hang up a Presbyter John (a short coat and a long gowne +interchangeably) in all the Courts of England. But the story of Severus +was pretty, that he hanged up forty senators before the Senate house, +and then made a speech presently to the Senate in praise of his owne +lenity; and then decreed that never any senator after that time should +suffer in the same manner without consent of the Senate: which he +compared to the proceeding of the Long Parliament against my Lord +Strafford. He said the greatest part of the lay magistrates in England +were Puritans, and would not do justice; and the Bishopps, their powers +were so taken away and lessened, that they could not exercise the power +they ought. He told the King and the ladies plainly, speaking of death +and of the skulls and bones of dead men and women, + + [The preacher appears to have had the grave scene in "Hamlet" in + his mind, as he gives the same illustration of Alexander as Hamlet + does.] + +how there is no difference; that nobody could tell that of the great +Marius or Alexander from a pyoneer; nor, for all the pains the ladies +take with their faces, he that should look in a charnels-house could not +distinguish which was Cleopatra's, or fair Rosamond's, or Jane Shoare's. +Thence by water home. After dinner to the office, thence with my wife to +see my father and discourse how he finds Tom's matters, which he do very +ill, and that he finds him to have been so negligent, that he used to +trust his servants with cutting out of clothes, never hardly cutting out +anything himself; and, by the abstract of his accounts, we find him to +owe above L290, and to be coming to him under L200. Thence home with +my wife, it being very dirty on foot, and bought some fowl in Gracious. +Streets and some oysters against our feast to-morrow. So home, and after +at the office a while, home to supper and to bed. + +26th. Up very betimes and to my office, and there read over some papers +against a meeting by and by at this office of Mr. Povy, Sir W. Rider, +Creed, and Vernaty, and Mr. Gauden about my Lord Peterborough's accounts +for Tangier, wherein we proceeded a good way; but, Lord! to see how +ridiculous Mr. Povy is in all he says or do; like a man not more fit for +to be in such employments as he is, and particularly that of Treasurer +(paying many and very great sums without the least written order) as he +is to be King of England, and seems but this day, after much discourse +of mine, to be sensible of that part of his folly, besides a great deal +more in other things. This morning in discourse Sir W. Rider [said], +that he hath kept a journals of his life for almost these forty years, +even to this day and still do, which pleases me mightily. That being +done Sir J. Minnes and I sat all the morning, and then I to the 'Change, +and there got away by pretence of business with my uncle Wight to put +off Creed, whom I had invited to dinner, and so home, and there found +Madam Turner, her daughter The., Joyce Norton, my father and Mr. +Honywood, and by and by come my uncle Wight and aunt. This being my +solemn feast for my cutting of the stone, it being now, blessed be God! +this day six years since the time; and I bless God I do in all respects +find myself free from that disease or any signs of it, more than +that upon the least cold I continue to have pain in making water, by +gathering of wind and growing costive, till which be removed I am at no +ease, but without that I am very well. One evil more I have, which is +that upon the least squeeze almost my cods begin to swell and come to +great pain, which is very strange and troublesome to me, though upon the +speedy applying of a poultice it goes down again, and in two days I am +well again. Dinner not being presently ready I spent some time myself +and shewed them a map of Tangier left this morning at my house by Creed, +cut by our order, the Commissioners, and drawn by Jonas Moore, which is +very pleasant, and I purpose to have it finely set out and hung up. Mrs. +Hunt coming to see my wife by chance dined here with us. After dinner +Sir W. Batten sent to speak with me, and told me that he had proffered +our bill today in the House, and that it was read without any +dissenters, and he fears not but will pass very well, which I shall +be glad of. He told me also how Sir [Richard] Temple hath spoke very +discontentfull words in the House about the Tryennial Bill; but it hath +been read the second time to-day, and committed; and, he believes, +will go on without more ado, though there are many in the House +are displeased at it, though they dare not say much. But above all +expectation, Mr. Prin is the man against it, comparing it to the idoll +whose head was of gold, and his body and legs and feet of different +metal. So this Bill had several degrees of calling of Parliaments, in +case the King, and then the Council, and then the Lord Chancellor, and +then the Sheriffes, should fail to do it. He tells me also, how, upon +occasion of some 'prentices being put in the pillory to-day for beating +of their masters, or some such like thing, in Cheapside, a company of +'prentices came and rescued them, and pulled down the pillory; and they +being set up again, did the like again. So that the Lord Mayor and Major +Generall Browne was fain to come and stay there, to keep the peace; and +drums, all up and down the city, was beat to raise the trained bands, +for to quiett the towne, and by and by, going out with my uncle and aunt +Wight by coach with my wife through Cheapside (the rest of the company +after much content and mirth being broke up), we saw a trained band +stand in Cheapside upon their guard. We went, much against my uncle's +will, as far almost as Hyde Park, he and my aunt falling out all the way +about it, which vexed me, but by this I understand my uncle more than +ever I did, for he was mighty soon angry, and wished a pox take her, +which I was sorry to hear. The weather I confess turning on a sudden to +rain did make it very unpleasant, but yet there was no occasion in the +world for his being so angry, but she bore herself very discreetly, and +I must confess she proves to me much another woman than I thought her, +but all was peace again presently, and so it raining very fast, we met +many brave coaches coming from the Parke and so we turned and set them +down at home, and so we home ourselves, and ended the day with great +content to think how it hath pleased the Lord in six years time to +raise me from a condition of constant and dangerous and most painfull +sicknesse and low condition and poverty to a state of constant health +almost, great honour and plenty, for which the Lord God of heaven make +me truly thankfull. My wife found her gowne come home laced, which is +indeed very handsome, but will cost me a great deal of money, more +than ever I intended, but it is but for once. So to the office and did +business, and then home and to bed. + +27th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed wrangling with my wife about the +charge she puts me to at this time for clothes more than I intended, and +very angry we were, but quickly friends again. And so rising and ready I +to my office, and there fell upon business, and then to dinner, and then +to my office again to my business, and by and by in the afternoon walked +forth towards my father's, but it being church time, walked to St. +James's, to try if I could see the belle Butler, but could not; only saw +her sister, who indeed is pretty, with a fine Roman nose. Thence walked +through the ducking-pond fields; but they are so altered since my father +used to carry us to Islington, to the old man's, at the King's Head, to +eat cakes and ale (his name was Pitts) that I did not know which was the +ducking-pond nor where I was. So through F[l]ee[t] lane to my father's, +and there met Mr. Moore, and discoursed with him and my father about who +should administer for my brother Tom, and I find we shall have trouble +in it, but I will clear my hands of it, and what vexed me, my father +seemed troubled that I should seem to rely so wholly upon the advice of +Mr. Moore, and take nobody else, but I satisfied him, and so home; and +in Cheapside, both coming and going, it was full of apprentices, who +have been here all this day, and have done violence, I think, to the +master of the boys that were put in the pillory yesterday. But, Lord! +to see how the train-bands are raised upon this: the drums beating every +where as if an enemy were upon them; so much is this city subject to be +put into a disarray upon very small occasions. But it was pleasant to +hear the boys, and particularly one little one, that I demanded the +business. He told me that that had never been done in the city since it +was a city, two prentices put in the pillory, and that it ought not to +be so. So I walked home, and then it being fine moonshine with my wife +an houre in the garden, talking of her clothes against Easter and about +her mayds, Jane being to be gone, and the great dispute whether Besse, +whom we both love, should be raised to be chamber-mayde or no. We have +both a mind to it, but know not whether we should venture the making +her proud and so make a bad chamber-mayde of a very good natured and +sufficient cook-mayde. So to my office a little, and then to supper, +prayers and to bed. + +28th. This is the first morning that I have begun, and I hope shall +continue to rise betimes in the morning, and so up and to my office, +and thence about 7 o'clock to T. Trice, and advised with him about our +administering to my brother Tom, and I went to my father and told him +what to do; which was to administer and to let my cozen Scott have a +letter of Atturny to follow the business here in his absence for him, +who by that means will have the power of paying himself (which we cannot +however hinder) and do us a kindness we think too. But, Lord! what a +shame, methinks, to me, that, in this condition, and at this age, I +should know no better the laws of my owne country! Thence to Westminster +Hall, and spent till noon, it being Parliament time, and at noon walked +with Creed into St. James's Parke, talking of many things, particularly +of the poor parts and great unfitness for business of Mr. Povy, and yet +what a show he makes in the world. Mr. Coventry not being come to his +chamber, I walked through the house with him for an hour in St. James's +fields' talking of the same subject, and then parted, and back and +with great impatience, sometimes reading, sometimes walking, sometimes +thinking that Mr. Coventry, though he invited us to dinner with him, was +gone with the rest of the office without a dinner. At last, at past 4 +o'clock I heard that the Parliament was not up yet, and so walked to +Westminster Hall, and there found it so, and meeting with Sir J. Minnes, +and being very hungry, went over with him to the Leg, and before we had +cut a bit, the House rises, however we eat a bit and away to St. James's +and there eat a second part of our dinner with Mr. Coventry and his +brother Harry, Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen. The great matter today in +the House hath been, that Mr. Vaughan, the great speaker, is this day +come to towne, and hath declared himself in a speech of an houre and a +half, with great reason and eloquence, against the repealing of the +Bill for Triennial Parliaments; but with no successe: but the House +have carried it that there shall be such Parliaments, but without any +coercive power upon the King, if he will bring this Act. But, Lord! to +see how the best things are not done without some design; for I perceive +all these gentlemen that I was with to-day were against it (though there +was reason enough on their side); yet purely, I could perceive, because +it was the King's mind to have it; and should he demand any thing else, +I believe they would give it him. But this the discontented Presbyters, +and the faction of the House will be highly displeased with; but it +was carried clearly against them in the House. We had excellent good +table-talke, some of which I have entered in my book of stories. So with +them by coach home, and there find (bye my wife), that Father Fogourdy +hath been with her to-day, and she is mightily for our going to hear a +famous Reule preach at the French Embassador's house: I pray God he do +not tempt her in any matters of religion, which troubles me; and +also, she had messages from her mother to-day, who sent for her old +morning-gown, which was almost past wearing; and I used to call it her +kingdom, from the ease and content she used to have in the wearing of +it. I am glad I do not hear of her begging any thing of more value, +but I do not like that these messages should now come all upon Monday +morning, when my wife expects of course I should be abroad at the +Duke's. To the office, where Mr. Norman came and showed me a design +of his for the storekeeper's books, for the keeping of them regular in +order to a balance, which I am mightily satisfied to see, and shall love +the fellow the better, as he is in all things sober, so particularly for +his endeavour to do something in this thing so much wanted. So late home +to supper and to bed, weary-with walking so long to no purpose in the +Park to-day. + +29th. Was called up this morning by a messenger from Sir G. Carteret to +come to him to Sir W. Batten's, and so I rose and thither to him, +and with him and Sir J. Minnes to, Sir G. Carteret's to examine his +accounts, and there we sat at it all the morning. About noon Sir W. +Batten came from the House of Parliament and told us our Bill for our +office was read the second time to-day, with great applause, and is +committed. By and by to dinner, where good cheere, and Sir G. Carteret +in his humour a very good man, and the most kind father and pleased +father in his children that ever I saw. Here is now hung up a picture +of my Lady Carteret, drawn by Lilly, a very fine picture, but yet not +so good as I have seen of his doing. After dinner to the business again +without any intermission till almost night, and then home, and took +coach to my father to see and discourse with him, and so home again and +to my office, where late, and then home to bed. + +30th. Up very betimes to my office, and thence at 7 o'clock to Sir G. +Carteret, and there with Sir J. Minnes made an end of his accounts, but +staid not dinner, my Lady having made us drink our morning draft there +of several wines, but I drank: nothing but some of her coffee, which was +poorly made, with a little sugar in it. Thence to the 'Change a great +while, and had good discourse with Captain Cocke at the Coffee-house +about a Dutch warr, and it seems the King's design is by getting +underhand the merchants to bring in their complaints to the Parliament, +to make them in honour begin a warr, which he cannot in honour declare +first, for fear they should not second him with money. Thence homewards, +staying a pretty while with my little she milliner at the end of Birchin +Lane, talking and buying gloves of her, and then home to dinner, and in +the afternoon had a meeting upon the Chest business, but I fear unless +I have time to look after it nothing will be done,, and that I fear I +shall not. In the evening comes Sir W. Batten, who tells us that the +Committee have approved of our bill with very few amendments in words, +not in matter. So to my office, where late with Sir W. Warren, and so +home to supper and to bed. + +31st. Up betimes, and to my office, where by and by comes Povy, Sir +W. Rider, Mr. Bland, Creed, and Vernatty, about my Lord Peterborough's +accounts, which we now went through, but with great difficulty, and many +high words between Mr. Povy and I; for I could not endure to see so +many things extraordinary put in, against truthe and reason. He was very +angry, but I endeavoured all I could to profess my satisfaction in my +Lord's part of the accounts, but not in those foolish idle things, they +say I said, that others had put in. Anon we rose and parted, both of us +angry, but I contented, because I knew all of them must know I was in +the right. Then with Creed to Deptford, where I did a great deal of +business enquiring into the business of canvas and other things with +great content, and so walked back again, good discourse between Creed +and I by the way, but most upon the folly of Povy, and at home found +Luellin, and so we to dinner, and thence I to the office, where we sat +all the afternoon late, and being up and my head mightily crowded with +business, I took my wife by coach to see my father. I left her at his +house and went to him to an alehouse hard by, where my cozen Scott was, +and my father's new tenant, Langford, a tailor, to whom I have promised +my custom, and he seems a very modest, carefull young man. Thence my +wife coming with the coach to the alley end I home, and after supper to +the making up my monthly accounts, and to my great content find myself +worth above L900, the greatest sum I ever yet had. Having done my +accounts, late to bed. My head of late mighty full of business, and +with good content to myself in it, though sometimes it troubles me that +nobody else but I should bend themselves to serve the King with that +diligence, whereby much of my pains proves ineffectual. + + + + +APRIL 1664 + +April 1st. Up and to my office, where busy till noon, and then to the +'Change, where I found all the merchants concerned with the presenting +their complaints to the Committee of Parliament appointed to receive +them this afternoon against the Dutch. So home to dinner, and thence by +coach, setting my wife down at the New Exchange, I to White Hall; and +coming too soon for the Tangier Committee walked to Mr. Blagrave for a +song. I left long ago there, and here I spoke with his kinswoman, he +not being within, but did not hear her sing, being not enough acquainted +with her, but would be glad to have her, to come and be at my house a +week now and then. Back to White Hall, and in the Gallery met the Duke +of Yorke (I also saw the Queene going to the Parke, and her Mayds +of Honour: she herself looks ill, and methinks Mrs. Stewart is grown +fatter, and not so fair as she was); and he called me to him, and +discoursed a good while with me; and after he was gone, twice or thrice +staid and called me again to him, the whole length of the house: and +at last talked of the Dutch; and I perceive do much wish that the +Parliament will find reason to fall out with them. He gone, I by and by +found that the Committee of Tangier met at the Duke of Albemarle's, and +so I have lost my labour. So with Creed to the 'Change, and there took +up my wife and left him, and we two home, and I to walk in the garden +with W. Howe, whom we took up, he having been to see us, he tells me +how Creed has been questioned before the Council about a letter that +has been met with, wherein he is mentioned by some fanatiques as a +serviceable friend to them, but he says he acquitted himself well in it, +but, however, something sticks against him, he says, with my Lord, at +which I am not very sorry, for I believe he is a false fellow. I walked +with him to Paul's, he telling me how my Lord is little at home, minds +his carding and little else, takes little notice of any body; but that +he do not think he is displeased, as I fear, with me, but is strange to +all, which makes me the less troubled. So walked back home, and late at +the office. So home and to bed. This day Mrs. Turner did lend me, as +a rarity, a manuscript of one Mr. Wells, writ long ago, teaching the +method of building a ship, which pleases me mightily. I was at it +to-night, but durst not stay long at it, I being come to have a great +pain and water in my eyes after candle-light. + +2nd. Up and to my office, and afterwards sat, where great contest with +Sir W. Batten and Mr. Wood, and that doating fool Sir J. Minnes, that +says whatever Sir W. Batten says, though never minding whether to the +King's profit or not. At noon to the Coffee-house, where excellent +discourse with Sir W. Petty, who proposed it as a thing that is truly +questionable, whether there really be any difference between waking +and dreaming, that it is hard not only to tell how we know when we do +a thing really or in a dream, but also to know what the difference [is] +between one and the other. Thence to the 'Change, but having at this +discourse long afterwards with Sir Thomas Chamberlin, who tells me +what I heard from others, that the complaints of most Companies were +yesterday presented to the Committee of Parliament against the Dutch, +excepting that of the East India, which he tells me was because they +would not be said to be the first and only cause of a warr with Holland, +and that it is very probable, as well as most necessary, that we fall +out with that people. I went to the 'Change, and there found most people +gone, and so home to dinner, and thence to Sir W. Warren's, and with +him past the whole afternoon, first looking over two ships' of Captain +Taylor's and Phin. Pett's now in building, and am resolved to learn +something of the art, for I find it is not hard and very usefull, and +thence to Woolwich, and after seeing Mr. Falconer, who is very ill, I +to the yard, and there heard Mr. Pett tell me several things of Sir W. +Batten's ill managements, and so with Sir W. Warren walked to Greenwich, +having good discourse, and thence by water, it being now moonshine and +9 or 10 o'clock at night, and landed at Wapping, and by him and his man +safely brought to my door, and so he home, having spent the day with him +very well. So home and eat something, and then to my office a while, and +so home to prayers and to bed. + +3rd (Lord's day). Being weary last night lay long, and called up by W. +Joyce. So I rose, and his business was to ask advice of me, he being +summonsed to the House of Lords to-morrow, for endeavouring to arrest my +Lady Peters + + [Elizabeth, daughter of John Savage, second Earl Rivers, and first + wife to William, fourth Lord Petre, who was, in 1678, impeached by + the Commons of high treason, and died under confinement in the + Tower, January 5th, 1683, s. p.--B.] + +for a debt. I did give him advice, and will assist him. He staid all the +morning, but would not dine with me. So to my office and did business. +At noon home to dinner, and being set with my wife in the kitchen my +father comes and sat down there and dined with us. After dinner gives me +an account of what he had done in his business of his house and goods, +which is almost finished, and he the next week expects to be going down +to Brampton again, which I am glad of because I fear the children of my +Lord that are there for fear of any discontent. He being gone I to my +office, and there very busy setting papers in order till late at night, +only in the afternoon my wife sent for me home, to see her new laced +gowne, that is her gown that is new laced; and indeed it becomes her +very nobly, and is well made. I am much pleased with it. At night to +supper, prayers, and to bed. + +4th. Up, and walked to my Lord Sandwich's; and there spoke with him +about W. Joyce, who told me he would do what was fit in so tender a +point. I can yet discern a coldness in him to admit me to any discourse +with him. Thence to Westminster, to the Painted Chamber, and there +met the two Joyces. Will in a very melancholy taking. After a little +discourse I to the Lords' House before they sat; and stood within it +a good while, while the Duke of York came to me and spoke to me a good +while about the new ship' at Woolwich. Afterwards I spoke with my Lord +Barkeley and my Lord Peterborough about it. And so staid without a good +while, and saw my Lady Peters, an impudent jade, soliciting all the +Lords on her behalf. And at last W. Joyce was called in; and by the +consequences, and what my Lord Peterborough told me, I find that he did +speak all he said to his disadvantage, and so was committed to the Black +Rod: which is very hard, he doing what he did by the advice of my Lord +Peters' own steward. But the Sergeant of the Black Rod did direct one of +his messengers to take him in custody, and so he was peaceably conducted +to the Swan with two Necks, in Tuttle Street, to a handsome dining-room; +and there was most civilly used, my uncle Fenner, and his brother +Anthony, and some other friends being with him. But who would have +thought that the fellow that I should have sworn could have spoken +before all the world should in this be so daunted, as not to know what +he said, and now to cry like a child. I protest, it is very strange to +observe. I left them providing for his stay there to-night and getting a +petition against tomorrow, and so away to Westminster Hall, and meeting +Mr. Coventry, he took me to his chamber, with Sir William Hickeman, a +member of their House, and a very civill gentleman. Here we dined very +plentifully, and thence to White Hall to the Duke's, where we all met, +and after some discourse of the condition of the Fleete, in order to a +Dutch warr, for that, I perceive, the Duke hath a mind it should +come to, we away to the office, where we sat, and I took care to rise +betimes, and so by water to Halfway House, talking all the way good +discourse with Mr. Wayth, and there found my wife, who was gone with her +mayd Besse to have a walk. But, Lord! how my jealous mind did make me +suspect that she might have some appointment to meet somebody. But I +found the poor souls coming away thence, so I took them back, and eat +and drank, and then home, and after at the office a while, I home to +supper and to bed. It was a sad sight, me thought, to-day to see my Lord +Peters coming out of the House fall out with his lady (from whom he is +parted) about this business; saying that she disgraced him. But she hath +been a handsome woman, and is, it seems, not only a lewd woman, but very +high-spirited. + +5th. Up very betimes, and walked to my cozen Anthony Joyce's, and thence +with him to his brother Will, in Tuttle Street, where I find him pretty +cheery over [what] he was yesterday (like a coxcomb), his wife being +come to him, and having had his boy with him last night. Here I staid +an hour or two and wrote over a fresh petition, that which was drawn by +their solicitor not pleasing me, and thence to the Painted chamber, and +by and by away by coach to my Lord Peterborough's, and there delivered +the petition into his hand, which he promised most readily to deliver to +the House today. Thence back, and there spoke to several Lords, and +so did his solicitor (one that W. Joyce hath promised L5 to if he be +released). Lord Peterborough presented a petition to the House from +W. Joyce: and a great dispute, we hear, there was in the House for and +against it. At last it was carried that he should be bayled till the +House meets again after Easter, he giving bond for his appearance. This +was not so good as we hoped, but as good as we could well expect. Anon +comes the King and passed the Bill for repealing the Triennial Act, and +another about Writs of Errour. I crowded in and heard the King's speech +to them; but he speaks the worst that ever I heard man in my life worse +than if he read it all, and he had it in writing in his hand. Thence, +after the House was up, and I inquired what the order of the House was, +I to W. Joyce,' with his brother, and told them all. Here was Kate come, +and is a comely fat woman. I would not stay dinner, thinking to go home +to dinner, and did go by water as far as the bridge, but thinking that +they would take it kindly my being there, to be bayled for him if there +was need, I returned, but finding them gone out to look after it, only +Will and his wife and sister left and some friends that came to visit +him, I to Westminster Hall, and by and by by agreement to Mrs. Lane's +lodging, whither I sent for a lobster, and with Mr. Swayne and his wife +eat it, and argued before them mightily for Hawly, but all would not do, +although I made her angry by calling her old, and making her know what +herself is. Her body was out of temper for any dalliance, and so after +staying there 3 or 4 hours, but yet taking care to have my oath safe of +not staying a quarter of an hour together with her, I went to W. Joyce, +where I find the order come, and bayle (his father and brother) given; +and he paying his fees, which come to above L2, besides L5 he is to give +one man, and his charges of eating and drinking here, and 10s. a-day +as many days as he stands under bayle: which, I hope, will teach him +hereafter to hold his tongue better than he used to do. Thence with +Anth. Joyce's wife alone home talking of Will's folly, and having set +her down, home myself, where I find my wife dressed as if she had been +abroad, but I think she was not, but she answering me some way that +I did not like I pulled her by the nose, indeed to offend her, though +afterwards to appease her I denied it, but only it was done in haste. +The poor wretch took it mighty ill, and I believe besides wringing her +nose she did feel pain, and so cried a great while, but by and by I made +her friends, and so after supper to my office a while, and then home to +bed. This day great numbers of merchants came to a Grand Committee of +the House to bring in their claims against the Dutch. I pray God guide +the issue to our good! + +6th. Up and to my office, whither by and by came John Noble, my father's +old servant, to speake with me. I smelling the business, took him home; +and there, all alone, he told me how he had been serviceable to my +brother Tom, in the business of his getting his servant, an ugly jade, +Margaret, with child. She was brought to bed in St. Sepulchre's parish +of two children; one is dead, the other is alive; her name Elizabeth, +and goes by the name of Taylor, daughter to John Taylor. It seems Tom +did a great while trust one Crawly with the business, who daily got +money of him; and at last, finding himself abused, he broke the matter +to J. Noble, upon a vowe of secresy. Tom's first plott was to go on +the other side the water and give a beggar woman something to take the +child. They did once go, but did nothing, J. Noble saying that seven +years hence the mother might come to demand the child and force him to +produce it, or to be suspected of murder. Then I think it was that they +consulted, and got one Cave, a poor pensioner in St. Bride's parish +to take it, giving him L5, he thereby promising to keepe it for ever +without more charge to them. The parish hereupon indite the man Cave +for bringing this child upon the parish, and by Sir Richard Browne he +is sent to the Counter. Cave thence writes to Tom to get him out. Tom +answers him in a letter of his owne hand, which J. Noble shewed me, but +not signed by him, wherein he speaks of freeing him and getting security +for him, but nothing as to the business of the child, or anything like +it: so that forasmuch as I could guess, there is nothing therein to my +brother's prejudice as to the main point, and therefore I did not labour +to tear or take away the paper. Cave being released, demands L5 more to +secure my brother for ever against the child; and he was forced to give +it him and took bond of Cave in L100, made at a scrivener's, one Hudson, +I think, in the Old Bayly, to secure John Taylor, and his assigns, &c. +(in consideration of L10 paid him), from all trouble, or charge of meat, +drink, clothes, and breeding of Elizabeth Taylor; and it seems, in +the doing of it, J. Noble was looked upon as the assignee of this John +Taylor. Noble says that he furnished Tom with this money, and is also +bound by another bond to pay him 20s. more this next Easter Monday; but +nothing for either sum appears under Tom's hand. I told him how I +am like to lose a great sum by his death, and would not pay any more +myself, but I would speake to my father about it against the afternoon. +So away he went, and I all the morning in my office busy, and at noon +home to dinner mightily oppressed with wind, and after dinner took coach +and to Paternoster Row, and there bought a pretty silke for a petticoate +for my wife, and thence set her down at the New Exchange, and I leaving +the coat at Unthanke's, went to White Hall, but the Councell meeting +at Worcester House I went thither, and there delivered to the Duke of +Albemarle a paper touching some Tangier business, and thence to the +'Change for my wife, and walked to my father's, who was packing up some +things for the country. I took him up and told him this business of Tom, +at which the poor wretch was much troubled, and desired me that I would +speak with J. Noble, and do what I could and thought fit in it without +concerning him in it. So I went to Noble, and saw the bond that Cave did +give and also Tom's letter that I mentioned above, and upon the whole I +think some shame may come, but that it will be hard from any thing I see +there to prove the child to be his. Thence to my father and told what I +had done, and how I had quieted Noble by telling him that, though we are +resolved to part with no more money out of our own purses, yet if he can +make it appear a true debt that it may be justifiable for us to pay it, +we will do our part to get it paid, and said that I would have it paid +before my own debt. So my father and I both a little satisfied, though +vexed to think what a rogue my brother was in all respects. I took my +wife by coach home, and to my office, where late with Sir W. Warren, and +so home to supper and to bed. I heard to-day that the Dutch have begun +with us by granting letters of marke against us; but I believe it not. + +7th. Up and to my office, where busy, and by and by comes Sir W. Warren +and old Mr. Bond in order to the resolving me some questions about masts +and their proportions, but he could say little to me to my satisfaction, +and so I held him not long but parted. So to my office busy till noon +and then to the 'Change, where high talke of the Dutch's protest against +our Royall Company in Guinny, and their granting letters of marke +against us there, and every body expects a warr, but I hope it will not +yet be so, nor that this is true. Thence to dinner, where my wife got +me a pleasant French fricassee of veal for dinner, and thence to +the office, where vexed to see how Sir W. Batten ordered things this +afternoon (vide my office book, for about this time I have begun, my +notions and informations encreasing now greatly every day, to enter all +occurrences extraordinary in my office in a book by themselves), and so +in the evening after long discourse and eased my mind by discourse with +Sir W. Warren, I to my business late, and so home to supper and to bed. + +8th. Up betimes and to the office, and anon, it begunn to be fair after +a great shower this morning, Sir W. Batten and I by water (calling his +son Castle by the way, between whom and I no notice at all of his letter +the other day to me) to Deptford, and after a turn in the yard, I went +with him to the Almes'-house to see the new building which he, with +some ambition, is building of there, during his being Master of Trinity +House; and a good worke it is, but to see how simply he answered +somebody concerning setting up the arms of the corporation upon the +door, that and any thing else he did not deny it, but said he would +leave that to the master that comes after him. There I left him and to +the King's yard again, and there made good inquiry into the business of +the poop lanterns, wherein I found occasion to correct myself mightily +for what I have done in the contract with the platerer, and am resolved, +though I know not how, to make them to alter it, though they signed it +last night, and so I took Stanes + + [Among the State Papers is a petition of Thomas Staine to the Navy + Commissioners "for employment as plateworker in one or two + dockyards. Has incurred ill-will by discovering abuses in the great + rates given by the king for several things in the said trade. Begs + the appointment, whereby it will be seen who does the work best and + cheapest, otherwise he and all others will be discouraged from + discovering abuses in future, with order thereon for a share of the + work to be given to him" ("Calendar," Domestic, 1663-64, p. 395)] + +home with me by boat and discoursed it, and he will come to reason when +I can make him to understand it. No sooner landed but it fell a mighty +storm of rain and hail, so I put into a cane shop and bought one to walk +with, cost me 4s. 6d., all of one joint. So home to dinner, and had an +excellent Good Friday dinner of peas porridge and apple pye. So to the +office all the afternoon preparing a new book for my contracts, and this +afternoon come home the office globes done to my great content. In the +evening a little to visit Sir W. Pen, who hath a feeling this day or two +of his old pain. Then to walk in the garden with my wife, and so to my +office a while, and then home to the only Lenten supper I have had of +wiggs--[Buns or teacakes.]--and ale, and so to bed. This morning betimes +came to my office to me boatswain Smith of Woolwich, telling me a +notable piece of knavery of the officers of the yard and Mr. Gold in +behalf of a contract made for some old ropes by Mr. Wood, and I believe +I shall find Sir W. Batten of the plot (vide my office daybook). + + [These note-books referred to in the Diary are not known to exist + now.] + +9th. The last night, whether it was from cold I got to-day upon the +water I know not, or whether it was from my mind being over concerned +with Stanes's business of the platery of the navy, for my minds was +mighty troubled with the business all night long, I did wake about one +o'clock in the morning, a thing I most rarely do, and pissed a little +with great pain, continued sleepy, but in a high fever all night, fiery +hot, and in some pain. Towards morning I slept a little and waking +found myself better, but.... with some pain, and rose I confess with my +clothes sweating, and it was somewhat cold too, which I believe might do +me more hurt, for I continued cold and apt to shake all the morning, but +that some trouble with Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten kept me warm. At +noon home to dinner upon tripes, and so though not well abroad with my +wife by coach to her Tailor's and the New Exchange, and thence to my +father's and spoke one word with him, and thence home, where I found +myself sick in my stomach and vomited, which I do not use to do. Then +I drank a glass or two of Hypocras, and to the office to dispatch +some business, necessary, and so home and to bed, and by the help of +Mithrydate slept very well. + +10th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed, and then up and my wife dressed +herself, it being Easter day, but I not being so well as to go out, she, +though much against her will, staid at home with me; for she had put +on her new best gowns, which indeed is very fine now with the lace; and +this morning her taylor brought home her other new laced silks gowns +with a smaller lace, and new petticoats, I bought the other day both +very pretty. We spent the day in pleasant talks and company one with +another, reading in Dr. Fuller's book what he says of the family of the +Cliffords and Kingsmills, and at night being myself better than I was +by taking a glyster, which did carry away a great deal of wind, I after +supper at night went to bed and slept well. + +11th. Lay long talking with my wife, then up and to my chamber preparing +papers against my father comes to lie here for discourse about country +business. Dined well with my wife at home, being myself not yet thorough +well, making water with some pain, but better than I was, and all my +fear of an ague gone away. In the afternoon my father came to see us, +and he gone I up to my morning's work again, and so in the evening a +little to the office and to see Sir W. Batten, who is ill again, and so +home to supper and to bed. + +12th. Up, and after my wife had dressed herself very fine in her new +laced gown, and very handsome indeed, W. Howe also coming to see us, I +carried her by coach to my uncle Wight's and set her down there, and W. +Howe and I to the Coffee-house, where we sat talking about getting of +him some place under my Lord of advantage if he should go to sea, and I +would be glad to get him secretary and to out Creed if I can, for he +is a crafty and false rogue. Thence a little to the 'Change, and thence +took him to my uncle Wight's, where dined my father, poor melancholy +man, that used to be as full of life as anybody, and also my aunt's +brother, Mr. Sutton, a merchant in Flanders, a very sober, fine man, and +Mr. Cole and his lady; but, Lord! how I used to adore that man's talke, +and now methinks he is but an ordinary man, his son a pretty boy indeed, +but his nose unhappily awry. Other good company and an indifferent, +and but indifferent dinner for so much company, and after dinner got +a coach, very dear, it being Easter time and very foul weather, to my +Lord's, and there visited my Lady, and leaving my wife there I and W. +Howe to Mr. Pagett's, and there heard some musique not very good, but +only one Dr. Walgrave, an Englishman bred at Rome, who plays the best +upon the lute that I ever heard man. Here I also met Mr. Hill + + [Thomas Hill, a man whose taste for music caused him to be a very + acceptable companion to Pepys. In January, 1664-65, he became + assistant to the secretary of the Prize Office.] + +the little merchant, and after all was done we sung. I did well enough a +Psalm or two of Lawes; he I perceive has good skill and sings well, and +a friend of his sings a good base. Thence late walked with them two as +far as my Lord's, thinking to take up my wife and carry them home, +but there being no coach to be got away they went, and I staid a great +while, it being very late, about 10 o'clock, before a coach could be +got. I found my Lord and ladies and my wife at supper. My Lord seems +very kind. But I am apt to think still the worst, and that it is only in +show, my wife and Lady being there. So home, and find my father come to +lie at our house; and so supped, and saw him, poor man, to bed, my heart +never being fuller of love to him, nor admiration of his prudence and +pains heretofore in the world than now, to see how Tom hath carried +himself in his trade; and how the poor man hath his thoughts going to +provide for his younger children and my mother. But I hope they shall +never want. So myself and wife to bed. + +13th. Though late, past 12, before we went to bed, yet I heard my poor +father up, and so I rang up my people, and I rose and got something to +eat and drink for him, and so abroad, it being a mighty foul day, by +coach, setting my father down in Fleet Streete and I to St. James's, +where I found Mr. Coventry (the Duke being now come thither for the +summer) with a goldsmith, sorting out his old plate to change for new; +but, Lord! what a deale he hath! I staid and had two or three hours +discourse with him, talking about the disorders of our office, and I +largely to tell him how things are carried by Sir W. Batten and Sir J. +Minnes to my great grief. He seems much concerned also, and for all the +King's matters that are done after the same rate every where else, and +even the Duke's household matters too, generally with corruption, but +most indeed with neglect and indifferency. I spoke very loud and clear +to him my thoughts of Sir J. Minnes and the other, and trust him with +the using of them. Then to talk of our business with the Dutch; he tells +me fully that he believes it will not come to a warr; for first, he +showed me a letter from Sir George Downing, his own hand, where he +assures him that the Dutch themselves do not desire, but above all +things fear it, and that they neither have given letters of marke +against our shipps in Guinny, nor do De Ruyter + + [Michael De Ruyter, the Dutch admiral, was born 1607. He served + under Tromp in the war against England in 1653, and was Lieutenant + Admiral General of Holland in 1665. He died April 26th, 1676, of + wounds received in a battle with the French off Syracuse. Among the + State Papers is a news letter (dated July 14th, 1664) containing + information as to the views of the Dutch respecting a war with + England. "They are preparing many ships, and raising 6,000 men, and + have no doubt of conquering by sea." "A wise man says the States + know how to master England by sending moneys into Scotland for them + to rebel, and also to the discontented in England, so as to place + the King in the same straits as his father was, and bring him to + agree with Holland" ("Calendar," 1663-64, p. 642).] + +stay at home with his fleet with an eye to any such thing, but for want +of a wind, and is now come out and is going to the Streights. He tells +me also that the most he expects is that upon the merchants' complaints, +the Parliament will represent them to the King, desiring his securing of +his subjects against them, and though perhaps they may not directly +see fit, yet even this will be enough to let the Dutch know that the +Parliament do not oppose the King, and by that means take away their +hopes, which was that the King of England could not get money or do +anything towards a warr with them, and so thought themselves free from +making any restitution, which by this they will be deceived in. He +tells me also that the Dutch states are in no good condition themselves, +differing one with another, and that for certain none but the states of +Holland and Zealand will contribute towards a warr, the others reckoning +themselves, being inland, not concerned in the profits of warr or peace. +But it is pretty to see what he says, that those here that are forward +for a warr at Court, they are reported in the world to be only designers +of getting money into the King's hands, they that elsewhere are for +it have a design to trouble the kingdom and to give the Fanatiques an +opportunity of doing hurt, and lastly those that are against it (as +he himself for one is very cold therein) are said to be bribed by the +Dutch. After all this discourse he carried me in his coach, it raining +still, to, Charing Cross, and there put me into another, and I calling +my father and brother carried them to my house to dinner, my wife +keeping bed all day..... All the afternoon at the office with W. Boddam +looking over his particulars about the Chest of Chatham, which shows +enough what a knave Commissioner Pett hath been all along, and how Sir +W. Batten hath gone on in getting good allowance to himself and others +out of the poors' money. Time will show all. So in the evening to see +Sir W. Pen, and then home to my father to keep him company, he being to +go out of town, and up late with him and my brother John till past 12 +at night to make up papers of Tom's accounts fit to leave with my cozen +Scott. At last we did make an end of them, and so after supper all to +bed. + +14th. Up betimes, and after my father's eating something, I walked out +with him as far as Milk Streete, he turning down to Cripplegate to take +coach; and at the end of the streete I took leave, being much afeard I +shall not see him here any more, he do decay so much every day, and so +I walked on, there being never a coach to be had till I came to Charing +Cross, and there Col. Froud took me up and carried me to St. James's, +where with Mr. Coventry and Povy, &c., about my Lord Peterborough's +accounts, but, Lord! to see still what a puppy that Povy is with all his +show is very strange. Thence to Whitehall and W. C[oventry] and I and +Sir W. Rider resolved upon a day to meet and make an end of all the +business. Thence walked with Creed to the Coffee-house in Covent Garden, +where no company, but he told me many fine experiments at Gresham +College; and some demonstration that the heat and cold of the weather +do rarify and condense the very body of glasse, as in a bolt head' with +cold water in it put into hot water, shall first by rarifying the glasse +make the water sink, and then when the heat comes to the water makes +that rise again, and then put into cold water makes the water by +condensing the glass to rise, and then when the cold comes to the water +makes it sink, which is very pretty and true, he saw it tried. Thence by +coach home, and dined above with my wife by her bedside, she keeping her +bed..... So to the office, where a great conflict with Wood and Castle +about their New England masts? So in the evening my mind a little vexed, +but yet without reason, for I shall prevail, I hope, for the King's +profit, and so home to supper and to bed. + +15th. Up and all the morning with Captain Taylor at my house talking +about things of the Navy, and among other things I showed him my letters +to Mr. Coventry, wherein he acknowledges that nobody to this day +did ever understand so much as I have done, and I believe him, for I +perceive he did very much listen to every article as things new to him, +and is contented to abide by my opinion therein in his great contest +with us about his and Mr. Wood's masts. At noon to the 'Change, where I +met with Mr. Hill, the little merchant, with whom, I perceive, I +shall contract a musical acquaintance; but I will make it as little +troublesome as I can. Home and dined, and then with my wife by coach +to the Duke's house, and there saw "The German Princess" acted, by the +woman herself; but never was any thing so well done in earnest, worse +performed in jest upon the stage; and indeed the whole play, abating the +drollery of him that acts her husband, is very simple, unless here and +there a witty sprinkle or two. We met and sat by Dr. Clerke. Thence +homewards, calling at Madam Turner's, and thence set my wife down at +my aunt Wight's and I to my office till late, and then at to at night +fetched her home, and so again to my office a little, and then to supper +and to bed. + +16th. Up and to the office, where all the morning upon the dispute of +Mr. Wood's masts, and at noon with Mr. Coventry to the African House; +and after a good and pleasant dinner, up with him, Sir W. Rider, the +simple Povy, of all the most ridiculous foole that ever I knew to +attend to business, and Creed and Vernatty, about my Lord Peterborough's +accounts; but the more we look into them, the more we see of them that +makes dispute, which made us break off, and so I home, and there found +my wife and Besse gone over the water to Half-way house, and after them, +thinking to have gone to Woolwich, but it was too late, so eat a cake +and home, and thence by coach to have spoke with Tom Trice about a +letter I met with this afternoon from my cozen Scott, wherein he seems +to deny proceeding as my father's attorney in administering for him +in my brother Tom's estate, but I find him gone out of town, and so +returned vexed home and to the office, where late writing a letter to +him, and so home and to bed. + +17th (Lord's day). Up, and I put on my best cloth black suit and my +velvet cloake, and with my wife in her best laced suit to church, where +we have not been these nine or ten weeks. The truth is, my jealousy hath +hindered it, for fear she should see Pembleton. He was here to-day, but +I think sat so as he could not see her, which did please me, God help +me! mightily, though I know well enough that in reason this is nothing +but my ridiculous folly. Home to dinner, and in the afternoon, after +long consulting whether to go to Woolwich or no to see Mr. Falconer, but +indeed to prevent my wife going to church, I did however go to church +with her, where a young simple fellow did preach: I slept soundly all +the sermon, and thence to Sir W. Pen's, my wife and I, there she talking +with him and his daughter, and thence with my wife walked to my uncle +Wight's and there supped, where very merry, but I vexed to see what +charges the vanity of my aunt puts her husband to among her friends and +nothing at all among ours. Home and to bed. Our parson, Mr. Mills, his +owne mistake in reading of the service was very remarkable, that instead +of saying, "We beseech thee to preserve to our use the kindly fruits +of the earth," he cries, "Preserve to our use our gracious Queen +Katherine." + +18th. Up and by coach to Westminster, and there solicited W. Joyce's +business again; and did speake to the Duke of Yorke about it, who did +understand it very well. I afterwards did without the House fall in +company with my Lady Peters, and endeavoured to mollify her; but she +told me she would not, to redeem her from hell, do any thing to release +him; but would be revenged while she lived, if she lived the age of +Methusalem. I made many friends, and so did others. At last it was +ordered by the Lords that it should be referred to the Committee of +Privileges to consider. So I, after discoursing with the Joyces, away by +coach to the 'Change; and there, among other things, do hear that a Jew +hath put in a policy of four per cent. to any man, to insure him against +a Dutch warr for four months; I could find in my heart to take him at +this offer, but however will advise first, and to that end took coach +to St. James's, but Mr. Coventry was gone forth, and I thence to +Westminster Hall, where Mrs. Lane was gone forth, and so I missed of +my intent to be with her this afternoon, and therefore meeting Mr. +Blagrave, went home with him, and there he and his kinswoman sang, but +I was not pleased with it, they singing methought very ill, or else I +am grown worse to please than heretofore. Thence to the Hall again, and +after meeting with several persons, and talking there, I to Mrs. Hunt's +(where I knew my wife and my aunt Wight were about business), and they +being gone to walk in the parke I went after them with Mrs. Hunt, who +staid at home for me, and finding them did by coach, which I had agreed +to wait for me, go with them all and Mrs. Hunt and a kinswoman of +theirs, Mrs. Steward, to Hide Parke, where I have not been since last +year; where I saw the King with his periwigg, but not altered at all; +and my Lady Castlemayne in a coach by herself, in yellow satin and a +pinner on; and many brave persons. And myself being in a hackney and +full of people, was ashamed to be seen by the world, many of them +knowing me. Thence in the evening home, setting my aunt at home, and +thence we sent for a joynt of meat to supper, and thence to the office +at 11 o'clock at night, and so home to bed. + +19th. Up and to St. James's, where long with Mr. Coventry, Povy, &c., in +their Tangier accounts, but such the folly of that coxcomb Povy that we +could do little in it, and so parted for the time, and I to walk with +Creed and Vernaty in the Physique Garden in St. James's Parke; where I +first saw orange-trees, and other fine trees. So to Westminster Hall, +and thence by water to the Temple, and so walked to the 'Change, and +there find the 'Change full of news from Guinny, some say the Dutch have +sunk our ships and taken our fort, and others say we have done the same +to them. But I find by our merchants that something is done, but is yet +a secret among them. So home to dinner, and then to the office, and +at night with Captain Tayler consulting how to get a little money by +letting him the Elias to fetch masts from New England. So home to supper +and to bed. + +20th. Up and by coach to Westminster, and there solicited W. Joyce's +business all the morning, and meeting in the Hall with Mr. Coventry, he +told me how the Committee for Trade have received now all the complaints +of the merchants against the Dutch, and were resolved to report very +highly the wrongs they have done us (when, God knows! it is only our +owne negligence and laziness that hath done us the wrong) and this to be +made to the House to-morrow. I went also out of the Hall with Mrs. Lane +to the Swan at Mrs. Herbert's in the Palace Yard to try a couple of +bands, and did (though I had a mind to be playing the fool with her) +purposely stay but a little while, and kept the door open, and called +the master and mistress of the house one after another to drink and talk +with me, and showed them both my old and new bands. So that as I did +nothing so they are able to bear witness that I had no opportunity there +to do anything. Thence by coach with Sir W. Pen home, calling at the +Temple for Lawes's Psalms, which I did not so much (by being against my +oath) buy as only lay down money till others be bound better for me, and +by that time I hope to get money of the Treasurer of the Navy by bills, +which, according to my oath, shall make me able to do it. At home dined, +and all the afternoon at a Committee of the Chest, and at night comes +my aunt and uncle Wight and Nan Ferrers and supped merrily with me, +my uncle coming in an hour after them almost foxed. Great pleasure by +discourse with them, and so, they gone, late to bed. + +21st. Up pretty betimes and to my office, and thither came by and by Mr. +Vernaty and staid two hours with me, but Mr. Gauden did not come, and so +he went away to meet again anon. Then comes Mr. Creed, and, after some +discourse, he and I and my wife by coach to Westminster (leaving her at +Unthanke's, her tailor's) Hall, and there at the Lords' House heard that +it is ordered, that, upon submission upon the knee both to the House and +my Lady Peters, W. Joyce shall be released. I forthwith made him submit, +and aske pardon upon his knees; which he did before several Lords. But +my Lady would not hear it; but swore she would post the Lords, that the +world might know what pitifull Lords the King hath; and that revenge was +sweeter to her than milk; and that she would never be satisfied unless +he stood in a pillory, and demand pardon there. But I perceive the Lords +are ashamed of her, and so I away calling with my wife at a place or two +to inquire after a couple of mayds recommended to us, but we found +both of them bad. So set my wife at my uncle Wight's and I home, and +presently to the 'Change, where I did some business, and thence to my +uncle's and there dined very well, and so to the office, we sat all the +afternoon, but no sooner sat but news comes my Lady Sandwich was come to +see us, so I went out, and running up (her friend however before me) I +perceive by my dear Lady blushing that in my dining-room she was doing +something upon the pott, which I also was ashamed of, and so fell to +some discourse, but without pleasure through very pity to my Lady. She +tells me, and I find true since, that the House this day have voted that +the King be desired to demand right for the wrong done us by the Dutch, +and that they will stand by him with their lives fortunes: which is a +very high vote, and more than I expected. What the issue will be, God +knows! My Lady, my wife not being at home, did not stay, but, poor, good +woman, went away, I being mightily taken with her dear visitt, and so to +the office, where all the afternoon till late, and so to my office, and +then to supper and to bed, thinking to rise betimes tomorrow. + +22nd. Having directed it last night, I was called up this morning before +four o'clock. It was full light enough to dress myself, and so by water +against tide, it being a little coole, to Greenwich; and thence, only +that it was somewhat foggy till the sun got to some height, walked with +great pleasure to Woolwich, in my way staying several times to listen +to the nightingales. I did much business both at the Ropeyarde and the +other, and on floate I discovered a plain cheat which in time I shall +publish of Mr. Ackworth's. Thence, having visited Mr. Falconer also, +who lies still sick, but hopes to be better, I walked to Greenwich, Mr. +Deane with me. Much good discourse, and I think him a very just man, +only a little conceited, but yet very able in his way, and so he by +water also with me also to towne. I home, and immediately dressing +myself, by coach with my wife to my Lord Sandwich's, but they having +dined we would not 'light but went to Mrs. Turner's, and there got +something to eat, and thence after reading part of a good play, Mrs. +The., my wife and I, in their coach to Hide Parke, where great plenty of +gallants, and pleasant it was, only for the dust. Here I saw Mrs. Bendy, +my Lady Spillman's faire daughter that was, who continues yet very +handsome. Many others I saw with great content, and so back again to +Mrs. Turner's, and then took a coach and home. I did also carry them +into St. James's Park and shewed them the garden. To my office awhile +while supper was making ready, and so home to supper and to bed. + +23rd (Coronation day). Up, and after doing something at my office, and, +it being a holiday, no sitting likely to be, I down by water to Sir +W. Warren's, who hath been ill, and there talked long with him good +discourse, especially about Sir W. Batten's knavery and his son Castle's +ill language of me behind my back, saying that I favour my fellow +traytours, but I shall be even with him. So home and to the 'Change, +where I met with Mr. Coventry, who himself is now full of talke of a +Dutch warr; for it seems the Lords have concurred in the Commons' +vote about it; and so the next week it will be presented to the King, +insomuch that he do desire we would look about to see what stores we +lack, and buy what we can. Home to dinner, where I and my wife much +troubled about my money that is in my Lord Sandwich's hand, for fear of +his going to sea and be killed; but I will get what of it out I can. +All the afternoon, not being well, at my office, and there doing much +business, my thoughts still running upon a warr and my money. At night +home to supper and to bed. + +24th (Lord's day). Up, and all the morning in my chamber setting some +of my private papers in order, for I perceive that now publique business +takes up so much of my time that I must get time a-Sundays or a-nights +to look after my owne matters. Dined and spent all the afternoon talking +with my wife, at night a little to the office, and so home to supper and +to bed. + +25th. Up, and with Sir W. Pen by coach to St. James's and there up to +the Duke, and after he was ready to his closet, where most of our talke +about a Dutch warr, and discoursing of things indeed now for it. The +Duke, which gives me great good hopes, do talk of setting up a good +discipline in the fleete. In the Duke's chamber there is a bird, given +him by Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, comes from the East Indys, black the +greatest part, with the finest collar of white about the neck; but talks +many things and neyes like the horse, and other things, the best almost +that ever I heard bird in my life. Thence down with Mr. Coventry and Sir +W. Rider, who was there (going along with us from the East Indya house +to-day) to discourse of my Lord Peterborough's accounts, and then walked +over the Parke, and in Mr. Cutler's coach with him and Rider as far +as the Strand, and thence I walked to my Lord Sandwich's, where by +agreement I met my wife, and there dined with the young ladies; my Lady, +being not well, kept her chamber. Much simple discourse at table among +the young ladies. After dinner walked in the garden, talking, with Mr. +Moore about my Lord's business. He told me my Lord runs in debt every +day more and more, and takes little care how to come out of it. He +counted to me how my Lord pays use now for above L9000, which is a sad +thing, especially considering the probability of his going to sea, in +great danger of his life, and his children, many of them, to provide +for. Thence, the young ladies going out to visit, I took my wife by +coach out through the city, discoursing how to spend the afternoon; and +conquered, with much ado, a desire of going to a play; but took her out +at White Chapel, and to Bednal Green; so to Hackney, where I have +not been many a year, since a little child I boarded there. Thence to +Kingsland, by my nurse's house, Goody Lawrence, where my brother Tom and +I was kept when young. Then to Newington Green, and saw the outside of +Mrs. Herbert's house, where she lived, and my Aunt Ellen with her; +but, Lord! how in every point I find myself to over-value things when +a child. Thence to Islington, and so to St. John's to the Red Bull, +and there: saw the latter part of a rude prize fought, but with good +pleasure enough; and thence back to Islington, and at the King's Head, +where Pitts lived, we 'light and eat and drunk for remembrance of the +old house sake, and so through Kingsland again, and so to Bishopsgate, +and so home with great pleasure. The country mighty pleasant, and we +with great content home, and after supper to bed, only a little troubled +at the young ladies leaving my wife so to-day, and from some passages +fearing my Lady might be offended. But I hope the best. + +26th. Up, and to my Lord Sandwich's, and coming a little too early, I +went and saw W. Joyce, and by and by comes in Anthony, they both owning +a great deal of kindness received from me in their late business, and +indeed I did what I could, and yet less I could not do. It has cost the +poor man above L40; besides, he is likely to lose his debt. Thence to my +Lord's, and by and by he comes down, and with him (Creed with us) I rode +in his coach to St. James's, talking about W. Joyce's business mighty +merry, and my Lady Peters, he says, is a drunken jade, he himself having +seen her drunk in the lobby of their House. I went up with him to the +Duke, where methought the Duke did not shew him any so great fondness as +he was wont; and methought my Lord was not pleased that I should see the +Duke made no more of him, not that I know any thing of any unkindnesse, +but I think verily he is not as he was with him in his esteem. By and +by the Duke went out and we with him through the Parke, and there I left +him going into White Hall, and Creed and I walked round the Parke, +a pleasant walk, observing the birds, which is very pleasant; and so +walked to the New Exchange, and there had a most delicate dish of curds +and creame, and discourse with the good woman of the house, a discreet +well-bred woman, and a place with great delight I shall make it now and +then to go thither. Thence up, and after a turn or two in the 'Change, +home to the Old Exchange by coach, where great newes and true, I saw by +written letters, of strange fires seen at Amsterdam in the ayre, and not +only there, but in other places thereabout. The talke of a Dutch warr +is not so hot, but yet I fear it will come to it at last. So home and +to the office, where we sat late. My wife gone this afternoon to +the buriall of my she-cozen Scott, a good woman; and it is a sad +consideration how the Pepys's decay, and nobody almost that I know in a +present way of encreasing them. At night late at my office, and so home +to my wife to supper and to bed. + +27th. Up, and all the morning very busy with multitude of clients, till +my head began to be overloaded. Towards noon I took coach and to the +Parliament house door, and there staid the rising of the House, and with +Sir G. Carteret and Mr. Coventry discoursed of some tarr that I have +been endeavouring to buy, for the market begins apace to rise upon us, +and I would be glad first to serve the King well, and next if I could I +find myself now begin to cast how to get a penny myself. Home by coach +with Alderman Backewell in his coach, whose opinion is that the Dutch +will not give over the business without putting us to some trouble to +set out a fleete; and then, if they see we go on well, will seek to +salve up the matter. Upon the 'Change busy. Thence home to dinner, and +thence to the office till my head was ready to burst with business, and +so with my wife by coach, I sent her to my Lady Sandwich and myself to +my cozen Roger Pepys's chamber, and there he did advise me about our +Exchequer business, and also about my brother John, he is put by my +father upon interceding for him, but I will not yet seem the least to +pardon him nor can I in my heart. However, he and I did talk how to get +him a mandamus for a fellowship, which I will endeavour. Thence to my +Lady's, and in my way met Mr. Sanchy, of Cambridge, whom I have not met +a great while. He seems a simple fellow, and tells me their master, Dr. +Rainbow, is newly made Bishop of Carlisle. To my Lady's, and she not +being well did not see her, but straight home with my wife, and late to +my office, concluding in the business of Wood's masts, which I have +now done and I believe taken more pains in it than ever any Principall +officer in this world ever did in any thing to no profit to this day. +So, weary, sleepy, and hungry, home and to bed. This day the Houses +attended the King, and delivered their votes to him: upon the business +of the Dutch; and he thanks them, and promises an answer in writing. + +28th. Up and close at my office all the morning. To the 'Change busy +at noon, and so home to dinner, and then in the afternoon at the office +till night, and so late home quite tired with business, and without joy +in myself otherwise than that I am by God's grace enabled to go through +it and one day, hope to have benefit by it. So home to supper and to +bed. + +29th. Up betimes, and with Sir W. Rider and Cutler to White Hall. Rider +and I to St. James's, and there with Mr. Coventry did proceed strictly +upon some fooleries of Mr. Povy's in my Lord Peterborough's accounts, +which will touch him home, and I am glad of it, for he is the most +troublesome impertinent man that ever I met with. Thence to the 'Change, +and there, after some business, home to dinner, where Luellin and Mount +came to me and dined, and after dinner my wife and I by coach to see my +Lady Sandwich, where we find all the children and my Lord removed, and +the house so melancholy that I thought my Lady had been dead, knowing +that she was not well; but it seems she hath the meazles, and I fear the +small pox, poor lady. It grieves me mightily; for it will be a sad +houre to the family should she miscarry. Thence straight home and to the +office, and in the evening comes Mr. Hill the merchant and another with +him that sings well, and we sung some things, and good musique it seemed +to me, only my mind too full of business to have much pleasure in it. +But I will have more of it. They gone, and I having paid Mr. Moxon for +the work he has done for the office upon the King's globes, I to my +office, where very late busy upon Captain Tayler's bills for his masts, +which I think will never off my hand. Home to supper and to bed. + +30th. Up and all the morning at the office. At noon to the 'Change, +where, after business done, Sir W. Rider and Cutler took me to the Old +James and there did give me a good dish of mackerell, the first I have +seen this year, very good, and good discourse. After dinner we fell to +business about their contract for tarr, in which and in another business +of Sir W. Rider's, canvas, wherein I got him to contract with me, I held +them to some terms against their wills, to the King's advantage, which I +believe they will take notice of to my credit. Thence home, and by water +by a gally down to Woolwich, and there a good while with Mr. Pett upon +the new ship discoursing and learning of him. Thence with Mr. Deane +to see Mr. Falconer, and there find him in a way to be well. So to the +water (after much discourse with great content with Mr. Deane) and home +late, and so to the office, wrote to, my father among other things my +continued displeasure against my brother John, so that I will give him +nothing more out of my own purse, which will trouble the poor man, but +however it is fit that I should take notice of my brother's ill carriage +to me. Then home and till 12 at night about my month's accounts, wherein +I have just kept within compass, this having been a spending month. So +my people being all abed I put myself to bed very sleepy. All the newes +now is what will become of the Dutch business, whether warr or peace. +We all seem to desire it, as thinking ourselves to have advantages at +present over them; for my part I dread it. The Parliament promises to +assist the King with lives and fortunes, and he receives it with thanks +and promises to demand satisfaction of the Dutch. My poor Lady Sandwich +is fallen sick three days since of the meazles. My Lord Digby's business +is hushed up, and nothing made of it; he is gone, and the discourse +quite ended. Never more quiet in my family all the days of my life than +now, there being only my wife and I and Besse and the little girl Susan, +the best wenches to our content that we can ever expect. + + + + +MAY 1664 + +May 1st (Lord's day). Lay long in bed. Went not to church, but staid at +home to examine my last night's accounts, which I find right, and that +I am L908 creditor in the world, the same I was last month. Dined, and +after dinner down by water with my wife and Besse with great pleasure +as low as Greenwich and so back, playing as it were leisurely upon the +water to Deptford, where I landed and sent my wife up higher to land +below Half-way house. I to the King's yard and there spoke about several +businesses with the officers, and so with Mr. Wayth consulting about +canvas, to Half-way house where my wife was, and after eating there we +broke and walked home before quite dark. So to supper, prayers, and to +bed. + +2nd. Lay pretty long in bed. So up and by water to St. James's, and +there attended the Duke with Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes, and having +done our work with him walked to Westminster Hall, and after walking +there and talking of business met Mr. Rawlinson and by coach to the +'Change, where I did some business, and home to dinner, and presently by +coach to the King's Play-house to see "The Labyrinth," but, coming too +soon, walked to my Lord's to hear how my Lady do, who is pretty well; +at least past all fear. There by Captain Ferrers meeting with an +opportunity of my Lord's coach, to carry us to the Parke anon, we +directed it to come to the play-house door; and so we walked, my wife +and I and Madamoiselle. I paid for her going in, and there saw "The +Labyrinth," the poorest play, methinks, that ever I saw, there being +nothing in it but the odd accidents that fell out, by a lady's being +bred up in man's apparel, and a man in a woman's. Here was Mrs. Stewart, +who is indeed very pretty, but not like my Lady Castlemayne, for all +that. Thence in the coach to the Parke, where no pleasure; there being +much dust, little company, and one of our horses almost spoiled +by falling down, and getting his leg over the pole; but all mended +presently, and after riding up and down, home. Set Madamoiselle at home; +and we home, and to my office, whither comes Mr. Bland, and pays me the +debt he acknowledged he owed me for my service in his business of +the Tangier Merchant, twenty pieces of new gold, a pleasant sight. It +cheered my heart; and he being gone, I home to supper, and shewed them +my wife; and she, poor wretch, would fain have kept them to look on, +without any other design but a simple love to them; but I thought it not +convenient, and so took them into my own hand. So, after supper, to bed. + +3rd. Up, and being ready, went by agreement to Mr. Bland's and there +drank my morning draft in good chocollatte, and slabbering my band sent +home for another, and so he and I by water to White Hall, and walked to +St. James's, where met Creed and Vernatty, and by and by Sir W. Rider, +and so to Mr. Coventry's chamber, and there upon my Lord Peterborough's +accounts, where I endeavoured to shew the folly and punish it as much as +I could of Mr. Povy; for, of all the men in the world, I never knew any +man of his degree so great a coxcomb in such imployments. I see I have +lost him forever, but I value it not; for he is a coxcomb, and, I doubt, +not over honest, by some things which I see; and yet, for all his folly, +he hath the good lucke, now and then, to speak his follies in as +good words, and with as good a show, as if it were reason, and to the +purpose, which is really one of the wonders of my life. Thence walked to +Westminster Hall; and there, in the Lords' House, did in a great crowd, +from ten o'clock till almost three, hear the cause of Mr. Roberts, my +Lord Privy Seal's son, against Win, who by false ways did get the +father of Mr. Roberts's wife (Mr. Bodvill) to give him the estate and +disinherit his daughter. The cause was managed for my Lord Privy Seal by +Finch the Solicitor [General]; but I do really think that he is truly a +man of as great eloquence as ever I heard, or ever hope to hear in all +my life. Thence, after long staying to speak with my Lord Sandwich, at +last he coming out to me and speaking with me about business of my Lord +Peterborough, I by coach home to the office, where all the afternoon, +only stept home to eat one bit and to the office again, having eaten +nothing before to-day. My wife abroad with my aunt Wight and Norbury. I +in the evening to my uncle Wight's, and not finding them come home, they +being gone to the Parke and the Mulberry garden, I went to the 'Change, +and there meeting with Mr. Hempson, whom Sir W. Batten has lately turned +out of his place, merely because of his coming to me when he came to +town before he went to him, and there he told me many rogueries of Sir +W. Batten, how he knows and is able to prove that Captain Cox of Chatham +did give him L10 in gold to get him to certify for him at the King's +coming in, and that Tom Newborne did make [the] poor men give him L3 to +get Sir W. Batten to cause them to be entered in the yard, and that Sir +W. Batten had oftentimes said: "by God, Tom, you shall get something and +I will have some on't." His present clerk that is come in Norman's' room +has given him something for his place; that they live high and (as +Sir Francis Clerk's lady told his wife) do lack money as well as other +people, and have bribes of a piece of sattin and cabinetts and other +things from people that deal with him, and that hardly any body goes to +see or hath anything done by Sir W. Batten but it comes with a bribe, +and that this is publickly true that his wife was a whore, and that +he had libells flung within his doors for a cuckold as soon as he was +married; that he received L100 in money and in other things to the value +of L50 more of Hempson, and that he intends to give him back but L50; +that he hath abused the Chest and hath now some L1000 by him of it. +I met also upon the 'Change with Mr. Cutler, and he told me how for +certain Lawson hath proclaimed warr again with Argier, though they had +at his first coming given back the ships which they had taken, and all +their men; though they refused afterwards to make him restitution for +the goods which they had taken out of them. Thence to my uncle Wight's, +and he not being at home I went with Mr. Norbury near hand to the +Fleece, a mum house in Leadenhall, and there drunk mum and by and by +broke up, it being about 11 o'clock at night, and so leaving them also +at home, went home myself and to bed. + +4th. Up, and my new Taylor, Langford, comes and takes measure of me +for a new black cloth suit and cloake, and I think he will prove a +very carefull fellow and will please me well. Thence to attend my Lord +Peterborough in bed and give him an account of yesterday's proceeding +with Povy. I perceive I labour in a business will bring me little +pleasure; but no matter, I shall do the King some service. To my Lord's +lodgings, where during my Lady's sickness he is, there spoke with him +about the same business. Back and by water to my cozen Scott's. There +condoled with him the loss of my cozen, his wife, and talked about his +matters, as atturney to my father, in his administering to my brother +Tom. He tells me we are like to receive some shame about the business +of his bastarde with Jack Noble; but no matter, so it cost us no money. +Thence to the Coffee-house and to the 'Change a while. News uncertain +how the Dutch proceed. Some say for, some against a war. The plague +increases at Amsterdam. So home to dinner, and after dinner to my +office, where very late, till my eyes (which begin to fail me nowadays +by candlelight) begin to trouble me. Only in the afternoon comes Mr. +Peter Honiwood to see me and gives me 20s., his and his friends' pence +for my brother John, which, God forgive my pride, methinks I think +myself too high to take of him; but it is an ungratefull pitch of pride +in me, which God forgive. Home at night to supper and to bed. + +5th. Up betimes to my office, busy, and so abroad to change some plate +for my father to send to-day by the carrier to Brampton, but I observe +and do fear it may be to my wrong that I change spoons of my uncle +Robert's into new and set a P upon them that thereby I cannot claim them +hereafter, as it was my brother Tom's practice. However, the matter of +this is not great, and so I did it. So to the 'Change, and meeting Sir +W. Warren, with him to a taverne, and there talked, as we used to do, of +the evils the King suffers in our ordering of business in the Navy, as +Sir W. Batten now forces us by his knavery. So home to dinner, and to +the office, where all the afternoon, and thence betimes home, my eyes +beginning every day to grow less and less able to bear with long reading +or writing, though it be by daylight; which I never observed till now. +So home to my wife, and after supper to bed. + +6th. This morning up and to my office, where Sympson my joyner came +to work upon altering my closet, which I alter by setting the door in +another place, and several other things to my great content. Busy at it +all day, only in the afternoon home, and there, my books at the office +being out of order, wrote letters and other businesses. So at night with +my head full of the business of my closet home to bed, and strange it is +to think how building do fill my mind and put out all other things out +of my thoughts. + +7th. Betimes at my office with the joyners, and giving order for other +things about it. By and by we sat all the morning. At noon to dinner, +and after dinner comes Deane of Woolwich, and I spent, as I had +appointed, all the afternoon with him about instructions which he +gives me to understand the building of a ship, and I think I shall soon +understand it. In the evening a little to my office to see how the work +goes forward there, and then home and spent the evening also with Mr. +Deane, and had a good supper, and then to bed, he lying at my house. + +8th (Lord's day). This day my new tailor, Mr. Langford, brought me home +a new black cloth suit and cloake lined with silk moyre, and he being +gone, who pleases me very well with his work and I hope will use me +pretty well, then Deane and I to my chamber, and there we repeated my +yesterday's lesson about ships all the morning, and I hope I shall soon +understand it. At noon to dinner, and strange how in discourse he cries +up chymistry from some talk he has had with an acquaintance of his, +a chymist, when, poor man, he understands not one word of it. But +I discern very well that it is only his good nature, but in this of +building ships he hath taken great pains, more than most builders I +believe have. After dinner he went away, and my wife and I to church, +and after church to Sir W. Pen, and there sat and talked with him, +and the perfidious rogue seems, as he do always, mightily civil to us, +though I know he hates and envies us. So home to supper, prayers, and to +bed. + +9th. Up and to my office all the morning, and there saw several things +done in my work to my great content, and at noon home to dinner, and +after dinner in Sir W. Pen's coach he set my wife and I down at the New +Exchange, and after buying some things we walked to my Lady Sandwich's, +who, good lady, is now, thanks be to God! so well as to sit up, and sent +to us, if we were not afeard, to come up to her. So we did; but she was +mightily against my wife's coming so near her; though, poor wretch! she +is as well as ever she was, as to the meazles, and nothing can I see +upon her face. There we sat talking with her above three hours, till six +o'clock, of several things with great pleasure and so away, and home +by coach, buying several things for my wife in our way, and so after +looking what had been done in my office to-day, with good content home +to supper and to bed. But, strange, how I cannot get any thing to take +place in my mind while my work lasts at my office. This day my wife and +I in our way to Paternoster Row to buy things called upon Mr. Hollyard +to advise upon her drying up her issue in her leg, which inclines of +itself to dry up, and he admits of it that it should be dried up. + +10th. Up and at my office looking after my workmen all the morning, and +after the office was done did the same at night, and so home to supper +and to bed. + +11th. Up and all day, both forenoon and afternoon, at my office to see +it finished by the joyners and washed and every thing in order, and +indeed now my closet is very convenient and pleasant for me. My uncle +Wight came to me to my office this afternoon to speak with me about Mr. +Maes's business again, and from me went to my house to see my wife, and +strange to think that my wife should by and by send for me after he was +gone to tell me that he should begin discourse of her want of children +and his also, and how he thought it would be best for him and her to +have one between them, and he would give her L500 either in money or +jewells beforehand, and make the child his heir. He commended her body, +and discoursed that for all he knew the thing was lawful. She says she +did give him a very warm answer, such as he did not excuse himself by +saying that he said this in jest, but told her that since he saw what +her mind was he would say no more to her of it, and desired her to make +no words of it. It seemed he did say all this in a kind of counterfeit +laugh, but by all words that passed, which I cannot now so well set +down, it is plain to me that he was in good earnest, and that I fear +all his kindness is but only his lust to her. What to think of it of a +sudden I know not, but I think not to take notice yet of it to him till +I have thought better of it. So with my mind and head a little troubled +I received a letter from Mr. Coventry about a mast for the Duke's yacht, +which with other business makes me resolve to go betimes to Woolwich +to-morrow. So to supper and to bed. + +12th. Up by 4 o'clock and by water to Woolwich, where did some business +and walked to Greenwich, good discourse with Mr. Deane best part of +the way; there met by appointment Commissioner Pett, and with him to +Deptford, where did also some business, and so home to my office, and at +noon Mrs. Hunt and her cozens child and mayd came and dined with me. My +wife sick ... in bed. I was troubled with it, but, however, could not +help it, but attended them till after dinner, and then to the office and +there sat all the afternoon, and by a letter to me this afternoon from +Mr. Coventry I saw the first appearance of a warr with Holland. So home; +and betimes to bed because of rising to-morrow. + +13th. Up before three o'clock, and a little after upon the water, it +being very light as at noon, and a bright sunrising; but by and by a +rainbow appeared, the first that ever in a morning I saw, and then it +fell a-raining a little, but held up again, and I to Woolwich, where +before all the men came to work I with Mr. Deane spent two hours upon +the new ship, informing myself in the names and natures of many parts +of her to my great content, and so back again, without doing any thing +else, and after shifting myself away to Westminster, looking after +Mr. Maes's business and others. In the Painted Chamber I heard a +fine conference between some of the two Houses upon the Bill for +Conventicles. The Lords would be freed from having their houses searched +by any but the Lord Lieutenant of the County; and upon being found +guilty, to be tried only by their peers; and thirdly, would have it +added, that whereas the Bill says, "That that, among other things, +shall be a conventicle wherein any such meeting is found doing any thing +contrary to the Liturgy of the Church of England," they would have it +added, "or practice." The Commons to the Lords said, that they knew not +what might hereafter be found out which might be called the practice of +the Church of England; for there are many things may be said to be the +practice of the Church, which were never established by any law, either +common, statute, or canon; as singing of psalms, binding up prayers at +the end of the Bible, and praying extempore before and after sermon: +and though these are things indifferent, yet things for aught they at +present know may be started, which may be said to be the practice of the +Church which would not be fit to allow. For the Lords' priviledges, +Mr. Walter told them how tender their predecessors had been of the +priviledges of the Lords; but, however, where the peace of the kingdom +stands in competition with them, they apprehend those priviledges must +give place. He told them that he thought, if they should owne all to be +the priviledges of the Lords which might be demanded, they should be led +like the man (who granted leave to his neighbour to pull off his horse's +tail, meaning that he could not do it at once) that hair by hair had his +horse's tail pulled off indeed: so the Commons, by granting one thing +after another, might be so served by the Lords. Mr. Vaughan, whom I +could not to my grief perfectly hear, did say, if that they should be +obliged in this manner to, exempt the Lords from every thing, it would +in time come to pass that whatever (be [it] never so great) should be +voted by the Commons as a thing penall for a commoner, the contrary +should be thought a priviledge to the Lords: that also in this business, +the work of a conventicle being but the work of an hour, the cause of +a search would be over before a Lord Lieutenant, who may be many miles +off, can be sent for; and that all this dispute is but about L100; for +it is said in the Act, that it shall be banishment or payment of L100. +I thereupon heard the Duke of Lenox say, that there might be Lords who +could not always be ready to lose L100, or some such thing: They broke +up without coming to any end in it. There was also in the Commons' House +a great quarrel about Mr. Prin, and it was believed that he should have +been sent to the Towre, for adding something to a Bill (after it was +ordered to be engrossed) of his own head--a Bill for measures for wine +and other things of that sort, and a Bill of his owne bringing in; but +it appeared he could not mean any hurt in it. But, however, the King was +fain to write in his behalf, and all was passed over. But it is worth my +remembrance, that I saw old Ryly the Herald, and his son; and spoke to +his son, who told me in very bad words concerning Mr. Prin, that the +King had given him an office of keeping the Records; but that he never +comes thither, nor had been there these six months: so that I perceive +they expect to get his imployment from him. Thus every body is liable to +be envied and supplanted. At noon over to the Leg, where Sir G. Ascue, +Sir Robt. Parkhurst and Sir W. Pen dined. A good dinner and merry. +Thence to White Hall walking up and down a great while, but the Council +not meeting soon enough I went homeward, calling upon my cozen Roger +Pepys, with whom I talked and heard so much from him of his desire that +I would see my brother's debts paid, and things still of that nature +tending to my parting with what I get with pain to serve others' +expenses that I was cruelly vexed. Thence to Sir R. Bernard, and there +heard something of Pigott's delay of paying our money, that that also +vexed me mightily. So home and there met with a letter from my cozen +Scott, which tells me that he is resolved to meddle no more with our +business, of administering for my father, which altogether makes me +almost distracted to think of the trouble that I am like to meet with by +other folks' business more than ever I hope to have by my owne. So with +great trouble of mind to bed. + +14th. Up, full of pain, I believe by cold got yesterday. So to the +office, where we sat, and after office home to dinner, being in +extraordinary pain. After dinner my pain increasing I was forced to go +to bed, and by and by my pain rose to be as great for an hour or two as +ever I remember it was in any fit of the stone, both in the lower +part of my belly and in my back also. No wind could I break. I took +a glyster, but it brought away but a little, and my height of pain +followed it. At last after two hours lying thus in most extraordinary +anguish, crying and roaring, I know not what, whether it was my great +sweating that may do it, but upon getting by chance, among my other +tumblings, upon my knees, in bed, my pain began to grow less and less, +till in an hour after I was in very little pain, but could break no +wind, nor make any water, and so continued, and slept well all night. + +15th (Lord's day). Rose, and as I had intended without reference to this +pain, took physique, and it wrought well with me, my wife lying from me +to-night, the first time she did in the same house ever since we were +married, I think (unless while my father was in town, that he lay with +me). She took physique also to-day, and both of our physiques wrought +well, so we passed our time to-day, our physique having done working, +with some pleasure talking, but I was not well, for I could make no +water yet, but a drop or two with great pain, nor break any wind. In +the evening came Mr. Vernatty to see me and discourse about my Lord +Peterborough's business, and also my uncle Wight and Norbury, but I took +no notice nor showed any different countenance to my uncle Wight, or +he to me, for all that he carried himself so basely to my wife the last +week, but will take time to make my use of it. So, being exceeding hot, +to bed, and slept well. + +16th. Forced to rise because of going to the Duke to St. James's, where +we did our usual business, and thence by invitation to Mr. Pierces the +chyrurgeon, where I saw his wife, whom I had not seen in many months +before. She holds her complexion still, but in everything else, even in +this her new house and the best rooms in it, and her closet which +her husband with some vainglory took me to show me, she continues the +eeriest slattern that ever I knew in my life. By and by we to see an +experiment of killing a dogg by letting opium into his hind leg. He and +Dr. Clerke did fail mightily in hitting the vein, and in effect did not +do the business after many trials; but with the little they got in, the +dogg did presently fall asleep, and so lay till we cut him up, and a +little dogg also, which they put it down his throate; he also staggered +first, and then fell asleep, and so continued. Whether he recovered or +no, after I was gone, I know not, but it is a strange and sudden effect. +Thence walked to Westminster Hall, where the King was expected to come +to prorogue the House, but it seems, afterwards I hear, he did not +come. I promised to go again to Mr. Pierce's, but my pain grew so great, +besides a bruise I got to-day in my right testicle, which now vexes me +as much as the other, that I was mighty melancholy, and so by coach +home and there took another glyster, but find little good by it, but +by sitting still my pain of my bruise went away, and so after supper to +bed, my wife and I having talked and concluded upon sending my father an +offer of having Pall come to us to be with us for her preferment, if by +any means I can get her a husband here, which, though it be some trouble +to us, yet it will be better than to have her stay there till nobody +will have her and then be flung upon my hands. + +17th. Slept well all night and lay long, then rose and wrote my letter +to my father about Pall, as we had resolved last night. So to dinner +and then to the office, finding myself better than I was, and making +a little water, but not yet breaking any great store of wind, which I +wonder at, for I cannot be well till I do do it. After office home and +to supper and with good ease to bed, and endeavoured to tie my hands +that I might not lay them out of bed, by which I believe I have got +cold, but I could not endure it. + +18th. Up and within all the morning, being willing to keep as much as +I could within doors, but receiving a very wakening letter from Mr. +Coventry about fitting of ships, which speaks something like to be done, +I went forth to the office, there to take order in things, and after +dinner to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier, but did little. So home +again and to Sir W. Pen, who, among other things of haste in this new +order for ships, is ordered to be gone presently to Portsmouth to look +after the work there. I staid to discourse with him, and so home to +supper, where upon a fine couple of pigeons, a good supper; and here I +met a pretty cabinet sent me by Mr. Shales, which I give my wife, the +first of that sort of goods I ever had yet, and very conveniently it +comes for her closett. I staid up late finding out the private boxes, +but could not do some of them, and so to bed, afraid that I have been +too bold to-day in venturing in the cold. This day I begun to drink +butter-milke and whey, and I hope to find great good by it. + +19th. Up, and it being very rayny weather, which makes it cooler than +it was, by coach to Charing Cross with Sir W. Pen, who is going to +Portsmouth this day, and left him going to St. James's to take leave +of the Duke, and I to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier; where God +forgive how our Report of my Lord Peterborough's accounts was read over +and agreed to by the Lords, without one of them understanding it! And +had it been what it would, it had gone: and, besides, not one thing +touching the King's profit in it minded or hit upon. Thence by coach +home again, and all the morning at the office, sat, and all the +afternoon till 9 at night, being fallen again to business, and I hope +my health will give me leave to follow it. So home to supper and to bed, +finding myself pretty well. A pretty good stool, which I impute to my +whey to-day, and broke wind also. + +20th. Up and to my office, whither by and by comes Mr. Cholmely, and +staying till the rest of the company come he told me how Mr. Edward +Montagu is turned out of the Court, not [to] return again. His fault, +I perceive, was his pride, and most of all his affecting to seem great +with the Queene and it seems indeed had more of her eare than any body +else, and would be with her talking alone two or three hours together; +insomuch that the Lords about the King, when he would be jesting with +them about their wives, would tell the King that he must have a care +of his wife too, for she hath now the gallant: and they say the King +himself did once ask Montagu how his mistress (meaning the Queene) did. +He grew so proud, and despised every body, besides suffering nobody, he +or she, to get or do any thing about the Queene, that they all laboured +to do him a good turn. They also say that he did give some affront to +the Duke of Monmouth, which the King himself did speak to him of. But +strange it is that this man should, from the greatest negligence in the +world, come to be the miracle of attendance, so as to take all offices +from everybody, either men or women, about the Queene. Insomuch that he +was observed as a miracle, but that which is the worst, that which in +a wise manner performed [would] turn to his greatest advantage, was by +being so observed employed to his greatest wrong, the world concluding +that there must be something more than ordinary to cause him to do this. +So he is gone, nobody pitying but laughing at him; and he pretends only +that he is gone to his father, that is sick in the country. By and by +comes Povy, Creed, and Vernatty, and so to their accounts, wherein more +trouble and vexation with Povy. That being done, I sent them going and +myself fell to business till dinner. So home to dinner very pleasant. +In the afternoon to my office, where busy again, and by and by came a +letter from my father so full of trouble for discontents there between +my mother and servants, and such troubles to my father from hence from +Cave that hath my brother's bastard that I know not what in the world to +do, but with great trouble, it growing night, spent some time walking, +and putting care as much as I could out of my head, with my wife in the +garden, and so home to supper and to bed. + +21st. Up, called by Mr. Cholmely, and walked with him in the garden till +others came to another Committee of Tangier, as we did meet as we did +use to do, to see more of Povy's folly, and so broke up, and at the +office sat all the morning, Mr. Coventry with us, and very hot we are +getting out some ships. At noon to the 'Change, and there did some +business, and thence home to dinner, and so abroad with my wife by coach +to the New Exchange, and there laid out almost 40s. upon her, and so +called to see my Lady Sandwich, whom we found in her dining-room, which +joyed us mightily; but she looks very thin, poor woman, being mightily +broke. She told us that Mr. Montagu is to return to Court, as she hears, +which I wonder at, and do hardly believe. So home and to my office, +where late, and so home to supper and to bed. + +22nd (Lord's day). Up and by water to White Hall to my Lord's lodgings, +and with him walked to White Hall without any great discourse, nor do I +find that he do mind business at all. Here the Duke of Yorke called me +to him, to ask me whether I did intend to go with him to Chatham or no. +I told him if he commanded, but I did believe there would be business +here for me, and so he told me then it would be better to stay, which +I suppose he will take better than if I had been forward to go. Thence, +after staying and seeing the throng of people to attend the King to +Chappell (but, Lord! what a company of sad, idle people they are) I +walked to St. James's with Colonell Remes, where staid a good while and +then walked to White Hall with Mr. Coventry, talking about business. So +meeting Creed, took him with me home and to dinner, a good dinner, +and thence by water to Woolwich, where mighty kindly received by Mrs. +Falconer and her husband, who is now pretty well again, this being the +first time I ever carried my wife thither. I walked to the Docke, where +I met Mrs. Ackworth alone at home, and God forgive me! what thoughts +I had, but I had not the courage to stay, but went to Mr. Pett's +and walked up and down the yard with him and Deane talking about the +dispatch of the ships now in haste, and by and by Creed and my wife and +a friend of Mr. Falconer's came with the boat and called me, and so by +water to Deptford, where I landed, and after talking with others walked +to Half-way house with Mr. Wayth talking about the business of his +supplying us with canvas, and he told me in discourse several instances +of Sir W. Batten's cheats. So to Half-way house, whither my wife and +them were gone before, and after drinking there we walked, and by water +home, sending Creed and the other with the boat home. Then wrote a +letter to Mr. Coventry, and so a good supper of pease, the first I eat +this year, and so to bed. + +23rd. Up and to the office, where Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, and +myself met and did business, we being in a mighty hurry. The King is +gone down with the Duke and a great crew this morning by break of day +to Chatham. Towards noon I and my wife by water to Woolwich, leaving my +wife at Mr. Falconer's, and Mr. Hater and I with some officers of the +yard on board to see several ships how ready they are. Then to Mr. +Falconer's to a good dinner, having myself carried them a vessel of +sturgeon and a Lamprey pie, and then to the Yarde again, and among +other things did at Mr. Ackworth's obtain a demonstration of his being +a knave; but I did not discover it, till it be a little more seasonable. +So back to the Ropeyard and took my wife and Mr. Hater back, it raining +mighty hard of a sudden, but we with the tilt + + [Tilt (A.S. teld) represents a tent or awning. It was used for a + cloth covering for a cart or waggon, or for a canopy or awning over + a portion of a boat.] + +kept ourselves dry. So to Deptford, did some business there; but, Lord! +to see how in both places the King's business, if ever it should come to +a warr, is likely to be done, there not being a man that looks or speaks +like a man that will take pains, or use any forecast to serve the King, +at which I am heartily troubled. So home, it raining terribly, but we +still dry, and at the office late discoursing with Sir J. Minnes and +Sir W. Batten, who like a couple of sots receive all I say but to little +purpose. So late home to supper and to bed. + +24th. Up and to the office, where Sir J. Minnes and I sat all the +morning, and after dinner thither again, and all the afternoon hard at +the office till night, and so tired home to supper and to bed. This day +I heard that my uncle Fenner is dead, which makes me a little sad, to +see with what speed a great many of my friends are gone, and more, I +fear, for my father's sake, are going. + +25th. Took physique betimes and to sleep, then up, it working all the +morning. At noon dined, and in the afternoon in my chamber spending +two or three hours to look over some unpleasant letters and things of +trouble to answer my father in, about Tom's business and others, that +vexed me, but I did go through it and by that means eased my mind very +much. This afternoon also came Tom and Charles Pepys by my sending for, +and received of me L40 in part towards their L70 legacy of my uncle's. +Spent the evening talking with my wife, and so to bed. + +26th. Up to the office, where we sat, and I had some high words with Sir +W. Batten about canvas, wherein I opposed him and all his experience, +about seams in the middle, and the profit of having many breadths and +narrow, which I opposed to good purpose, to the rejecting of the whole +business. At noon home to dinner, and thence took my wife by coach, and +she to my Lady Sandwich to see her. I to Tom Trice, to discourse about +my father's giving over his administration to my brother, and thence to +Sir R. Bernard, and there received L19 in money, and took up my father's +bond of L21, that is L40, in part of Piggot's L209 due to us, which +L40 he pays for 7 roods of meadow in Portholme. Thence to my wife, and +carried her to the Old Bayly, and there we were led to the Quest House, +by the church, where all the kindred were by themselves at the buriall +of my uncle Fenner; but, Lord! what a pitiful rout of people there was +of them, but very good service and great company the whole was. And so +anon to church, and a good sermon, and so home, having for ease put +my L19 into W. Joyce's hand, where I left it. So to supper and to bed, +being in a little pain from some cold got last night lying without +anything upon my feet. + +27th. Up, not without some pain by cold, which makes me mighty +melancholy, to think of the ill state of my health. To the office, where +busy till my brains ready to drop with variety of business, and vexed +for all that to see the service like to suffer by other people's +neglect. Vexed also at a letter from my father with two troublesome ones +enclosed from Cave and Noble, so that I know not what to do therein. At +home to dinner at noon. But to comfort my heart, Captain Taylor this day +brought me L20 he promised me for my assistance to him about his masts. +After dinner to the office again, and thence with Mr. Wayth to St. +Catherine's to see some variety of canvas's, which indeed was worth +my seeing, but only I was in some pain, and so took not the delight I +should otherwise have done. So home to the office, and there busy till +late at night, and so home to supper and to bed. This morning my taylor +brought me a very tall mayde to be my cook-mayde; she asked L5, but my +wife offered her but L3 10s.--whether she will take it or no I know not +till to-morrow, but I am afeard she will be over high for us, she having +last been a chamber mayde, and holds up her head, as my little girle Su +observed. + +28th. Up pretty well as to pain and wind, and to the office, where we +sat close and did much business. At noon I to the 'Change, and thence +to Mr. Cutler's, where I heard Sir W. Rider was, where I found them at +dinner and dined with them, he having yesterday and to-day a fit of a +pain like the gout, the first time he ever had it. A good dinner. Good +discourse, Sir W. Rider especially much fearing the issue of a Dutch +warr, wherein I very highly commend him. Thence home, and at the +office a while, and then with Mr. Deane to a second lesson upon my +Shipwrightry, wherein I go on with great pleasure. He being gone I to +the office late, and so home to supper and to bed. But, Lord! to see +how my very going to the 'Change, and being without my gowne, presently +brought me wind and pain, till I came home and was well again; but I am +come to such a pass that I shall not know what to do with myself, but +I am apt to think that it is only my legs that I take cold in from my +having so long worn a gowne constantly. + +29th (Whitsunday. King's Birth and Restauration day). Up, and having +received a letter last night desiring it from Mr. Coventry, I walked +to St. James's, and there he and I did long discourse together of the +business of the office, and the warr with the Dutch; and he seemed to +argue mightily with the little reason that there is for all this. For +first, as to the wrong we pretend they have done us: that of the East +Indys, for their not delivering of Poleron, it is not yet known whether +they have failed or no; that of their hindering the Leopard cannot +amount to above L3,000 if true; that of the Guinny Company, all they had +done us did not amount to above L200 or L300 he told me truly; and that +now, from what Holmes, without any commission, hath done in taking an +island and two forts, hath set us much in debt to them; and he believes +that Holmes will have been so puffed up with this, that he by this time +hath been enforced with more strength than he had then, hath, I say, +done a great deale more wrong to them. He do, as to the effect of the +warr, tell me clearly that it is not any skill of the Dutch that can +hinder our trade if we will, we having so many advantages over them, of +winds, good ports, and men; but it is our pride, and the laziness of the +merchant. He seems to think that there may be some negotiation which may +hinder a warr this year, but that he speaks doubtfully as unwilling I +perceive to be thought to discourse any such thing. The main thing he +desired to speake with me about was, to know whether I do understand my +Lord Sandwich's intentions as to going to sea with this fleete; saying, +that the Duke, if he desires it, is most willing to it; but thinking +that twelve ships is not a fleete fit for my Lord to be troubled to +go out with, he is not willing to offer it to him till he hath some +intimations of his mind to go, or not. He spoke this with very great +respect as to my Lord, though methinks it is strange they should not +understand one another better at this time than to need another's +mediation. Thence walked over the Parke to White Hall, Mr. Povy with me, +and was taken in a very great showre in the middle of the Parke that we +were very wet. So up into, the house and with him to the King's closett, +whither by and by the King came, my Lord Sandwich carrying the sword. +A Bishopp preached, but he speaking too low for me to hear behind the +King's closett, I went forth and walked and discoursed with Colonell +Reames, who seems a very willing man to be informed in his business of +canvas, which he is undertaking to strike in with us to serve the Navy. +By and by my Lord Sandwich came forth, and called me to him: and we fell +into discourse a great while about his business, wherein he seems to +be very open with me, and to receive my opinion as he used to do; and +I hope I shall become necessary to him again. He desired me to think of +the fitness, or not, for him to offer himself to go to sea; and to give +him my thoughts in a day or two. Thence after sermon among the ladies on +the Queene's side; where I saw Mrs. Stewart, very fine and pretty, but +far beneath my Lady Castlemayne. Thence with Mr. Povy home to dinner; +where extraordinary cheer. And after dinner up and down to see his +house. And in a word, methinks, for his perspective upon his wall in +his garden, and the springs rising up with the perspective in the little +closett; his room floored above with woods of several colours, like but +above the best cabinet-work I ever saw; his grotto and vault, with his +bottles of wine, and a well therein to keep them cool; his furniture +of all sorts; his bath at the top of his house, good pictures, and his +manner of eating and drinking; do surpass all that ever I did see of one +man in all my life. Thence walked home and found my uncle Wight and Mr. +Rawlinson, who supped with me. They being gone, I to bed, being in some +pain from my being so much abroad to-day, which is a most strange thing +that in such warm weather the least ayre should get cold and wind in me. +I confess it makes me mighty sad and out of all content in the world. + +30th. Lay long, the bells ringing, it being holiday, and then up and +all the day long in my study at home studying of shipmaking with great +content till the evening, and then came Mr. Howe and sat and then supped +with me. He is a little conceited, but will make a discreet man. He +being gone, a little to my office, and then home to bed, being in much +pain from yesterday's being abroad, which is a consideration of mighty +sorrow to me. + +31st. Up, and called upon Mr. Hollyard, with whom I advised and shall +fall upon some course of doing something for my disease of the +wind, which grows upon me every day more and more. Thence to my Lord +Sandwich's, and while he was dressing I below discoursed with Captain +Cooke, and I think if I do find it fit to keep a boy at all I had as +good be supplied from him with one as any body. By and by up to my Lord, +and to discourse about his going to sea, and the message I had from Mr. +Coventry to him. He wonders, as he well may, that this course should +be taken, and he every day with the Duke, who, nevertheless, seems +most friendly to him, who hath not yet spoke one word to my Lord of his +desire to have him go to sea. My Lord do tell me clearly that were it +not that he, as all other men that were of the Parliament side, are +obnoxious to reproach, and so is forced to bear what otherwise he would +not, he would never suffer every thing to be done in the Navy, and he +never be consulted; and it seems, in the naming of all these commanders +for this fleete, he hath never been asked one question. But we concluded +it wholly inconsistent with his honour not to go with this fleete, nor +with the reputation which the world hath of his interest at Court; +and so he did give me commission to tell Mr. Coventry that he is most +willing to receive any commands from the Duke in this fleete, were +it less than it is, and that particularly in this service. With +this message I parted, and by coach to the office, where I found Mr. +Coventry, and told him this. Methinks, I confess, he did not seem so +pleased with it as I expected, or at least could have wished, and asked +me whether I had told my Lord that the Duke do not expect his going, +which I told him I had. But now whether he means really that the Duke, +as he told me the other day, do think the Fleete too small for him +to take or that he would not have him go, I swear I cannot tell. But +methinks other ways might have been used to put him by without going in +this manner about it, and so I hope it is out of kindness indeed. Dined +at home, and so to the office, where a great while alone in my office, +nobody near, with Bagwell's wife of Deptford, but the woman seems so +modest that I durst not offer any courtship to her, though I had it in +my mind when I brought her in to me. But I am resolved to do her husband +a courtesy, for I think he is a man that deserves very well. So abroad +with my wife by coach to St. James's, to one Lady Poultny's, where I +found my Lord, I doubt, at some vain pleasure or other. I did give him a +short account of what I had done with Mr. Coventry, and so left him, and +to my wife again in the coach, and with her to the Parke, but the Queene +being gone by the Parke to Kensington, we staid not but straight home +and to supper (the first time I have done so this summer), and so to +my office doing business, and then to my monthly accounts, where to my +great comfort I find myself better than I was still the last month, and +now come to L930. I was told to-day, that upon Sunday night last, being +the King's birth-day, the King was at my Lady Castlemayne's lodgings +(over the hither-gates at Lambert's lodgings) dancing with fiddlers all +night almost; and all the world coming by taking notice of it, which I +am sorry to hear. The discourse of the town is only whether a warr with +Holland or no, and we are preparing for it all we can, which is but +little. Myself subject more than ordinary to pain by winde, which makes +me very sad, together with the trouble which at present lies upon me in +my father's behalf, rising from the death of my brother, which are many +and great. Would to God they were over! + + + + +JUNE 1664 + +June 1st. Up, having lain long, going to bed very late after the ending +of my accounts. Being up Mr. Hollyard came to me, and to my great +sorrow, after his great assuring me that I could not possibly have the +stone again, he tells me that he do verily fear that I have it again, +and has brought me something to dissolve it, which do make me very +much troubled, and pray to God to ease me. He gone, I down by water to +Woolwich and Deptford to look after the dispatch of the ships, all the +way reading Mr. Spencer's Book of Prodigys, which is most ingeniously +writ, both for matter and style. Home at noon, and my little girl got me +my dinner, and I presently out by water and landed at Somerset stairs, +and thence through Covent Garden, where I met with Mr. Southwell (Sir W. +Pen's friend), who tells me the very sad newes of my Lord Tiviott's and +nineteen more commission officers being killed at Tangier by the Moores, +by an ambush of the enemy upon them, while they were surveying their +lines; which is very sad, and, he says, afflicts the King much. Thence +to W. Joyce's, where by appointment I met my wife (but neither of them +at home), and she and I to the King's house, and saw "The Silent Woman;" +but methought not so well done or so good a play as I formerly thought +it to be, or else I am nowadays out of humour. Before the play was done, +it fell such a storm of hayle, that we in the middle of the pit were +fain to rise; + + [The stage was covered in by a tiled roof, but the pit was open to + the sky. "The pit lay open to the weather for sake of light, but + was subsequently covered in with a glazed cupola, which, however, + only imperfectly protected the audience, so that in stormy weather + the house was thrown into disorder, and the people in the pit were + fain to rise" (Cunningham's "Story of Nell Gwyn," ed. 1893, p. 33).] + +and all the house in a disorder, and so my wife and I out and got into a +little alehouse, and staid there an hour after the play was done before +we could get a coach, which at last we did (and by chance took up Joyce +Norton and Mrs. Bowles, and set them at home), and so home ourselves, +and I, after a little to my office, so home to supper and to bed. + +2nd. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and then to +the 'Change, where after some stay by coach with Sir J. Minnes and Mr. +Coventry to St. James's, and there dined with Mr. Coventry very finely, +and so over the Parke to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier about +providing provisions, money, and men for Tangier. At it all the +afternoon, but it is strange to see how poorly and brokenly things are +done of the greatest consequence, and how soon the memory of this great +man is gone, or, at least, out of mind by the thoughts of who goes next, +which is not yet knowne. My Lord of Oxford, Muskerry, and several others +are discoursed of. It seems my Lord Tiviott's design was to go a mile +and half out of the towne, to cut down a wood in which the enemy did use +to lie in ambush. He had sent several spyes; but all brought word that +the way was clear, and so might be for any body's discovery of an enemy +before you are upon them. There they were all snapt, he and all his +officers, and about 200 men, as they say; there being left now in the +garrison but four captains. This happened the 3d of May last, being not +before that day twelvemonth of his entering into his government there: +but at his going out in the morning he said to some of his officers, +"Gentlemen, let us look to ourselves, for it was this day three years +that so many brave Englishmen were knocked on the head by the Moores, +when Fines made his sally out." Here till almost night, and then home +with Sir J. Minnes by coach, and so to my office a while, and home to +supper and bed, being now in constant pain in my back, but whether it be +only wind or what it is the Lord knows, but I fear the worst. + +3rd. Up, still in a constant pain in my back, which much afflicts me +with fear of the consequence of it. All the morning at the office, we +sat at the office extraordinary upon the business of our stores, but, +Lord! what a pitiful account the Surveyor makes of it grieves my heart. +This morning before I came out I made a bargain with Captain Taylor for +a ship for the Commissioners for Tangier, wherein I hope to get L40 or +L50. To the 'Change, and thence home and dined, and then by coach to +White Hall, sending my wife to Mrs. Hunt's. At the Committee for Tangier +all the afternoon, where a sad consideration to see things of so great +weight managed in so confused a manner as it is, so as I would not +have the buying of an acre of land bought by the Duke of York and Mr. +Coventry, for ought I see, being the only two that do anything like men; +Prince Rupert do nothing but swear and laugh a little, with an oathe or +two, and that's all he do. Thence called my wife and home, and I late +at my office, and so home to supper and to bed, pleased at my hopes of +gains by to-day's work, but very sad to think of the state of my health. + +4th. Up and to St. James's by coach, after a good deal of talk before +I went forth with J. Noble, who tells me that he will secure us against +Cave, that though he knows, and can prove it, yet nobody else can +prove it, to be Tom's child; that the bond was made by one Hudson, a +scrivener, next to the Fountaine taverne, in the Old Bayly; that the +children were born, and christened, and entered in the parish-book of +St. Sepulchre's, by the name of Anne and Elizabeth Taylor and he will +give us security against Cave if we pay him the money. And then up to +the Duke, and was with him giving him an account how matters go, and +of the necessity there is of a power to presse seamen, without which we +cannot really raise men for this fleete of twelve sayle, besides that it +will assert the King's power of pressing, which at present is somewhat +doubted, and will make the Dutch believe that we are in earnest. Thence +by water to the office, where we sat till almost two o'clock. This +morning Captain Ferrer came to the office to tell me that my Lord hath +given him a promise of Young's place in the Wardrobe, and hearing that I +pretend a promise to it he comes to ask my consent, which I denied him, +and told him my Lord may do what he pleases with his promise to me, but +my father's condition is not so as that I should let it go if my Lord +will stand to his word, and so I sent him going, myself being troubled +a little at it. After office I with Mr. Coventry by water to St. James's +and dined with him, and had excellent discourse from him. So to the +Committee for Tangier all afternoon, where still the same confused +doings, and my Lord Fitz-Harding now added to the Committee; which will +signify much. It grieves me to see how brokenly things are ordered. So +by coach home, and at my office late, and so to supper and to bed, my +body by plenty of breaking of wind being just now pretty well again, +having had a constant akeing in my back these 5 or 6 days. Mr. Coventry +discoursing this noon about Sir W. Batten (what a sad fellow he is!) +told me how the King told him the other day how Sir W. Batten, being +in the ship with him and Prince Rupert when they expected to fight with +Warwick, did walk up and down sweating with a napkin under his throat to +dry up his sweat; and that Prince Rupert being a most jealous man, and +particularly of Batten, do walk up and down swearing bloodily to the +King, that Batten had a mind to betray them to-day, and that the napkin +was a signal; "but, by God," says he, "if things go ill, the first thing +I will do is to shoot him." He discoursed largely and bravely to me +concerning the different sort of valours, the active and passive valour. +For the latter, he brought as an instance General Blake; who, in the +defending of Taunton and Lime for the Parliament, did through his +stubborn sort of valour defend it the most 'opiniastrement' that ever +any man did any thing; and yet never was the man that ever made +any attaque by land or sea, but rather avoyded it on all, even fair +occasions. On the other side, Prince Rupert, the boldest attaquer in the +world for personal courage; and yet, in the defending of Bristol, no man +ever did anything worse, he wanting the patience and seasoned head to +consult and advise for defence, and to bear with the evils of a siege. +The like he says is said of my Lord Tiviott, who was the boldest +adventurer of his person in the world, and from a mean man in few years +was come to this greatness of command and repute only by the death +of all his officers, he many times having the luck of being the only +survivor of them all, by venturing upon services for the King of France +that nobody else would; and yet no man upon a defence, he being all fury +and no judgment in a fight. He tells me above all of the Duke of Yorke, +that he is more himself and more of judgement is at hand in him in the +middle of a desperate service, than at other times, as appeared in the +business of Dunkirke, wherein no man ever did braver things, or was in +hotter service in the close of that day, being surrounded with enemies; +and then, contrary to the advice of all about him, his counsel carried +himself and the rest through them safe, by advising that he might make +his passage with but a dozen with him; "For," says he, "the enemy cannot +move after me so fast with a great body, and with a small one we shall +be enough to deal with them;" and though he is a man naturally martiall +to the highest degree, yet a man that never in his life talks one word +of himself or service of his owne, but only that he saw such or such a +thing, and lays it down for a maxime that a Hector can have no courage. +He told me also, as a great instance of some men, that the Prince of +Condo's excellence is, that there not being a more furious man in the +world, danger in fight never disturbs him more than just to make him +civill, and to command in words of great obligation to his officers and +men; but without any the least disturbance in his judgment or spirit. + +5th (Lord's day). About one in the morning I was knocked up by my mayds +to come to my wife who is very ill. I rose, and from some cold she got +to-day, or from something else, she is taken with great gripings, a +looseness, and vomiting. I lay a while by her upon the bed, she being +in great pain, poor wretch, but that being a little over I to bed again, +and lay, and then up and to my office all the morning, setting matters +to rights in some accounts and papers, and then to dinner, whither +Mr. Shepley, late come to town, came to me, and after dinner and +some pleasant discourse he went his way, being to go out of town +to Huntington again to-morrow. So all the afternoon with my wife +discoursing and talking, and in the evening to my office doing business, +and then home to supper and to bed. + +6th. Up and found my wife very ill again, which troubles me, but I was +forced to go forth. So by water with Mr. Gauden and others to see a ship +hired by me for the Commissioners of Tangier, and to give order therein. +So back to the office, and by coach with Mr. Gauden to White Hall, and +there to my Lord Sandwich, and here I met Mr. Townsend very opportunely +and Captain Ferrer, and after some discourse we did accommodate the +business of the Wardrobe place, that he shall have the reversion if he +will take it out by giving a covenant that if Mr. Young' dyes before my +father my father shall have the benefit of it for his life. So home, and +thence by water to Deptford, and there found our Trinity Brethren come +from their election to church, where Dr. Britton made, methought, an +indifferent sermon touching the decency that we ought to observe in +God's house, the church, but yet to see how ridiculously some men will +carry themselves. Sir W. Batten did at open table anon in the name of +the whole Society desire him to print his sermon, as if the Doctor could +think that they were fit judges of a good sermon. Then by barge with Sir +W. Batten to Trinity House. It seems they have with much ado carried +it for Sir G. Carteret against Captain Harrison, poor man, who by +succession ought to have been it, and most hands were for him, but only +they were forced to fright the younger Brethren by requiring them to set +their hands (which is an ill course) and then Sir G. Carteret carryed +it. Here was at dinner my Lord Sandwich, Mr. Coventry, my Lord Craven, +and others. A great dinner, and good company. Mr. Prin also, who would +not drink any health, no, not the King's, but sat down with his hat on +all the while; + + [William Prynne had published in 1628 a small book against the + drinking of healths, entitled, "Healthes, Sicknesse; or a + compendious and briefe Discourse, prouing, the Drinking and Pledging + of Healthes to be sinfull and utterly unlawfull unto Christians + ... wherein all those ordinary objections, excuses or pretences, + which are made to justifie, extenuate, or excuse the drinking or + pledging of Healthes are likewise cleared and answered." The + pamphlet was dedicated to Charles I. as "more interessed in the + theame and subject of this compendious discourse then any other that + I know," and "because your Majestie of all other persons within your + owne dominions, are most dishonoured, prejudiced, and abused by + these Healthes."] + +but nobody took notice of it to him at all; but in discourse with +the Doctor he did declare himself that he ever was, and has expressed +himself in all his books for mixt communion against the Presbyterian +examination. Thence after dinner by water, my Lord Sandwich and all +us Tangier men, where at the Committee busy till night with great +confusion, and then by coach home, with this content, however, that I +find myself every day become more and more known, and shall one day hope +to have benefit by it. I found my wife a little better. A little to my +office, then home to supper and to bed. + +7th. Up and to the office (having by my going by water without any +thing upon my legs yesterday got some pain upon me again), where all the +morning. At noon a little to the 'Change, and thence home to dinner, my +wife being ill still in bed. Thence to the office, where busy all the +afternoon till 9 at night, and so home to my wife, to supper, and to +bed. + +8th. All day before dinner with Creed, talking of many things, among +others, of my Lord's going so often to Chelsy, and he, without my +speaking much, do tell me that his daughters do perceive all, and do +hate the place, and the young woman there, Mrs. Betty Becke; for my +Lord, who sent them thither only for a disguise for his going thither, +will come under pretence to see them, and pack them out of doors to the +Parke, and stay behind with her; but now the young ladies are gone to +their mother to Kensington. To dinner, and after dinner till 10 at night +in my study writing of my old broken office notes in shorthand all in +one book, till my eyes did ake ready to drop out. So home to supper and +to bed. + +9th. Up and at my office all the morning. At noon dined at home, Mr. +Hunt and his kinswoman (wife in the country), after dinner I to the +office, where we sat all the afternoon. Then at night by coach to attend +the Duke of Albemarle about the Tangier ship. Coming back my wife spied +me going home by coach from Mr. Hunt's, with whom she hath gained much +in discourse to-day concerning W. Howe's discourse of me to him. That he +was the man that got me to be secretary to my Lord; and all that I have +thereby, and that for all this I never did give him 6d. in my life. +Which makes me wonder that this rogue dare talk after this manner, and I +think all the world is grown false. But I hope I shall make good use +of it. So home to supper and to bed, my eyes aching mightily since last +night. + +10th. Up and by water to White Hall, and there to a Committee of +Tangier, and had occasion to see how my Lord Ashworth--[Lord Ashworth +is probably a miswriting for Lord Ashley (afterwards Earl of +Shaftesbury).]--deports himself, which is very fine indeed, and it joys +my heart to see that there is any body looks so near into the King's +business as I perceive he do in this business of my Lord Peterborough's +accounts. Thence into the Parke, and met and walked with Captain Sylas +Taylor, my old acquaintance while I was of the Exchequer, and Dr. Whore, +talking of musique, and particularly of Mr. Berckenshaw's way, which +Taylor magnifies mightily, and perhaps but what it deserves, but not +so easily to be understood as he and others make of it. Thence home +by water, and after dinner abroad to buy several things, as a map, and +powder, and other small things, and so home to my office, and in the +evening with Captain Taylor by water to our Tangier ship, and so home, +well pleased, having received L26 profit to-day of my bargain for this +ship, which comforts me mightily, though I confess my heart, what with +my being out of order as to my health, and the fear I have of the money +my Lord oweth me and I stand indebted to him in, is much cast down of +late. In the evening home to supper and to bed. + +11th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, where some +discourse arose from Sir G. Carteret and Mr. Coventry, which gives me +occasion to think that something like a war is expected now indeed, +though upon the 'Change afterwards I hear too that an Embassador is +landed from Holland, and one from their East India Company, to treat +with ours about the wrongs we pretend to. Mr. Creed dined with me, and +thence after dinner by coach with my wife only to take the ayre, it +being very warm and pleasant, to Bowe and Old Ford; and thence to +Hackney. There 'light, and played at shuffle-board, eat cream and good +churies; and so with good refreshment home. Then to my office vexed with +Captain Taylor about the delay of carrying down the ship hired by me for +Tangier, and late about that and other things at the office. So home to +supper and to bed. + +12th (Lord's day). All the morning in my chamber consulting my lesson of +ship building, and at noon Mr. Creed by appointment came and dined with +us, and sat talking all the afternoon till, about church time, my +wife and I began our great dispute about going to Griffin's child's +christening, where I was to have been godfather, but Sir J. Minnes +refusing, he wanted an equal for me and my Lady Batten, and so sought +for other. Then the question was whether my wife should go, and she +having dressed herself on purpose, was very angry, and began to talk +openly of my keeping her within doors before Creed, which vexed me to +the guts, but I had the discretion to keep myself without passion, and +so resolved at last not to go, but to go down by water, which we did +by H. Russell--[a waterman]--to the Half-way house, and there eat and +drank, and upon a very small occasion had a difference again broke out, +where without any the least cause she had the cunning to cry a great +while, and talk and blubber, which made me mighty angry in mind, but +said nothing to provoke her because Creed was there, but walked home, +being troubled in my mind also about the knavery and neglect of Captain +Fudge and Taylor, who were to have had their ship for Tangier ready by +Thursday last, and now the men by a mistake are come on board, and not +any master or man or boy of the ship's company on board with them when +we came by her side this afternoon, and also received a letter from Mr. +Coventry this day in complaint of it. We came home, and after supper +Creed went home, and I to bed. My wife made great means to be friends, +coming to my bedside and doing all things to please me, and at last I +could not hold out, but seemed pleased, and so parted, and I with much +ado to sleep, but was easily wakened by extraordinary great rain, and +my mind troubled the more to think what the soldiers would do on board +tonight in all this weather. + +13th. So up at 5 o'clock, and with Captain Taylor on board her at +Deptford, and found all out of order, only the soldiers civil, and Sir +Arthur Bassett a civil person. I rated at Captain Taylor, whom, contrary +to my expectation, I found a lying and a very stupid blundering fellow, +good for nothing, and yet we talk of him in the Navy as if he had been +an excellent officer, but I find him a lying knave, and of no judgment +or dispatch at all. After finding the condition of the ship, no master, +not above four men, and many ship's provisions, sayls, and other things +wanting, I went back and called upon Fudge, whom I found like a lying +rogue unready to go on board, but I did so jeer him that I made him get +every thing ready, and left Taylor and H. Russell to quicken him, and so +away and I by water on to White Hall, where I met his Royal Highnesse at +a Tangier Committee about this very thing, and did there satisfy him how +things are, at which all was pacified without any trouble, and I hope +may end well, but I confess I am at a real trouble for fear the rogue +should not do his work, and I come to shame and losse of the money I did +hope justly to have got by it. Thence walked with Mr. Coventry to St. +James's, and there spent by his desire the whole morning reading of some +old Navy books given him of old Sir John Cooke's by the Archbishop of +Canterbury that now is; wherein the order that was observed in the Navy +then, above what it is now, is very observable, and fine things we did +observe in our reading. Anon to dinner, after dinner to discourse of the +business of the Dutch warr, wherein he tells me the Dutch do in every +particular, which are but few and small things that we can demand +of them, whatever cry we unjustly make, do seem to offer at an +accommodation, for they do owne that it is not for their profit to have +warr with England. We did also talk of a History of the Navy of England, +how fit it were to be writ; and he did say that it hath been in his +mind to propose to me the writing of the History of the late Dutch +warr, which I am glad to hear, it being a thing I much desire, and sorts +mightily with my genius; and, if well done, may recommend me much. So he +says he will get me an order for making of searches to all records, &c., +in order thereto, and I shall take great delight in doing of it. Thence +by water down to the Tower, and thither sent for Mr. Creed to my house, +where he promised to be, and he and I down to the ship, and find all +things in pretty good order, and I hope will end to my mind. Thence +having a gaily down to Greenwich, and there saw the King's works, which +are great, a-doing there, and so to the Cherry Garden, and so carried +some cherries home, and after supper to bed, my wife lying with me, +which from my not being thoroughly well, nor she, we have not done above +once these two or three weeks. + +14th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and had great +conflict about the flags again, and am vexed methought to see my Lord +Berkely not satisfied with what I said, but however I stop the King's +being abused by the flag makers for the present. I do not know how it +may end, but I will do my best to preserve it. So home to dinner, and +after dinner by coach to Kensington. In the way overtaking Mr. Laxton, +the apothecary, with his wife and daughters, very fine young lasses, +in a coach; and so both of us to my Lady Sandwich, who hath lain this +fortnight here at Deane Hodges's. Much company came hither to-day, my +Lady Carteret, &c., Sir William Wheeler and his lady, and, above all, +Mr. Becke, of Chelsy, and wife and daughter, my Lord's mistress, and one +that hath not one good feature in her face, and yet is a fine lady, of +a fine taille, and very well carriaged, and mighty discreet. I took all +the occasion I could to discourse with the young ladies in her company +to give occasion to her to talk, which now and then she did, and that +mighty finely, and is, I perceive, a woman of such an ayre, as I wonder +the less at my Lord's favour to her, and I dare warrant him she hath +brains enough to entangle him. Two or three houres we were in her +company, going into Sir H. Finche's garden, and seeing the fountayne, +and singing there with the ladies, and a mighty fine cool place it is, +with a great laver of water in the middle and the bravest place for +musique I ever heard. After much mirthe, discoursing to the ladies +in defence of the city against the country or court, and giving them +occasion to invite themselves to-morrow to me to dinner, to my venison +pasty, I got their mother's leave, and so good night, very well +pleased with my day's work, and, above all, that I have seen my Lord's +mistresse. So home to supper, and a little at my office, and to bed. + +15th. Up and by appointment with Captain Witham (the Captain that +brought the newes of the disaster at Tangier, where my Lord Tiviott was +slain) and Mr. Tooker to Beares Quay, and there saw and more afterward +at the several grannarys several parcels of oates, and strange it is to +hear how it will heat itself if laid up green and not often turned. We +came not to any agreement, but did cheapen several parcels, and thence +away, promising to send again to them. So to the Victualling office, and +then home. And in our garden I got Captain Witham to tell me the whole +story of my Lord Tiviott's misfortune; for he was upon the guard with +his horse neare the towne, when at a distance he saw the enemy appear +upon a hill, a mile and a half off, and made up to them, and with much +ado escaped himself; but what became of my Lord he neither knows nor +thinks that any body but the enemy can tell. Our losse was about four +hundred. But he tells me that the greater wonder is that my Lord Tiviott +met no sooner with such a disaster; for every day he did commit himself +to more probable danger than this, for now he had the assurance of all +his scouts that there was no enemy thereabouts; whereas he used every +day to go out with two or three with him, to make his discoveries, in +greater danger, and yet the man that could not endure to have anybody +else to go a step out of order to endanger himself. He concludes him to +be the man of the hardest fate to lose so much honour at one blow that +ever was. His relation being done he parted; and so I home to look after +things for dinner. And anon at noon comes Mr. Creed by chance, and by +and by the three young ladies:--[Lord Sandwich's daughters.]--and +very merry we were with our pasty, very well baked; and a good dish of +roasted chickens; pease, lobsters, strawberries. And after dinner to +cards: and about five o'clock, by water down to Greenwich; and up to the +top of the hill, and there played upon the ground at cards. And so to +the Cherry Garden, and then by water singing finely to the Bridge, and +there landed; and so took boat again, and to Somersett House. And by +this time, the tide being against us, it was past ten of the clock; and +such a troublesome passage, in regard of my Lady Paulina's fearfullness, +that in all my life I never did see any poor wretch in that condition. +Being come hither, there waited for them their coach; but it being so +late, I doubted what to do how to get them home. After half an hour's +stay in the street, I sent my wife home by coach with Mr. Creed's boy; +and myself and Creed in the coach home with them. But, Lord! the fear +that my Lady Paulina was in every step of the way; and indeed at this +time of the night it was no safe thing to go that road; so that I was +even afeard myself, though I appeared otherwise.--We came safe, however, +to their house, where all were abed; we knocked them up, my Lady and all +the family being in bed. So put them into doors; and leaving them with +the mayds, bade them good night, and then into the towne, Creed and I, +it being about twelve o'clock and past; and to several houses, inns, but +could get no lodging, all being in bed. At the last house, at last, +we found some people drinking and roaring; and there got in, and after +drinking, got an ill bed, where + +16th. I lay in my drawers and stockings and wastecoate till five of the +clock, and so up; and being well pleased with our frolique, walked to +Knightsbridge, and there eat a messe of creame, and so to St. James's, +and there walked a little, and so I to White Hall, and took coach, and +found my wife well got home last night, and now in bed. So I to the +office, where all the morning, and at noon to the 'Change, so home and +to my office, where Mr. Ackworth came to me (though he knows himself +and I know him to be a very knave), yet he came to me to discover the +knavery of other people like the most honest man in the world. However, +good use I shall make of his discourse, for in this he is much in the +right. He being gone I to the 'Change, Mr. Creed with me, after we had +been by water to see a vessell we have hired to carry more soldiers to +Tangier, and also visited a rope ground, wherein I learnt several useful +things. The talk upon the 'Change is, that De Ruyter is dead, with +fifty men of his own ship, of the plague, at Cales: that the Holland +Embassador here do endeavour to sweeten us with fair words; and things +likely to be peaceable. Home after I had spoke with my cozen Richard +Pepys upon the 'Change, about supplying us with bewpers from Norwich, +which I should be glad of, if cheap. So home to supper and bed. + +17th. Up, and to my office, where I dispatched much business, and then +down by water to Woolwich to make a discovery of a cheate providing for +us in the working of some of our own ground Tows into new cordage, to be +sold to us for Riga cordage. Thence to Mr. Falconer's, where I met Sir +W. Batten and Lady, and Captain Tinker, and there dined with them, +and so to the Dockyarde and to Deptford by water, and there very long +informing myself in the business of flags and bewpers and other things, +and so home late, being weary, and full of good information to-day, but +I perceive the corruptions of the Navy are of so many kinds that it is +endless to look after them, especially while such a one as Sir W. Batten +discourages every man that is honest. So home to my office, there very +late, and then to supper and to bed mightily troubled in my mind to hear +how Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes do labour all they can to abuse or +enable others to abuse the King. + +18th. From morning till 11 at night (only a little at dinner at home) +at my office very busy, setting many businesses in order to my great +trouble, but great content in the end. So home to supper and to bed. +Strange to see how pert Sir W. Pen is to-day newly come from Portsmouth +with his head full of great reports of his service and the state of the +ships there. When that is over he will be just as another man again or +worse. But I wonder whence Mr. Coventry should take all this care for +him, to send for him up only to look after his Irish business with my +Lord Ormond and to get the Duke's leave for him to come with so much +officiousness, when I am sure he knows him as well as I do as to his +little service he do. + +19th (Lord's day). Up, and all the morning and afternoon (only at dinner +at home) at my office doing many businesses for want of time on the week +days. In the afternoon the greatest shower of rain of a sudden and the +greatest and most continued thunder that ever I heard I think in my +life. In the evening home to my wife, and there talked seriously of +several of our family concernments, and among others of bringing Pall +out of the country to us here to try to put her off, which I am very +desirous, and my wife also of. So to supper, prayers, which I have of +late too much omitted. So to bed. + +20th. It having been a very cold night last night I had got some cold, +and so in pain by wind, and a sure precursor of pain is sudden letting +off farts, and when that stops, then my passages stop and my pain +begins. Up and did several businesses, and so with my wife by water to +White Hall, she to her father's, I to the Duke, where we did our usual +business. And among other discourse of the Dutch, he was merrily saying +how they print that Prince Rupert, Duke of Albemarle, and my Lord +Sandwich, are to be Generalls; and soon after is to follow them "Vieux +Pen;" and so the Duke called him in mirth Old Pen. They have, it seems, +lately wrote to the King, to assure him that their setting-out ships +were only to defend their fishing-trade, and to stay near home, not to +annoy the King's subjects; and to desire that he would do the like with +his ships: which the King laughs at, but yet is troubled they should +think him such a child, to suffer them to bring home their fish and East +India Company's ships, and then they will not care a fart for us. Thence +to Westminster Hall, it being term time, meeting Mr. Dickering, he tells +me how my Lady last week went to see Mrs. Becke, the mother; and by and +by the daughter came in, but that my Lady do say herself, as he says, +that she knew not for what reason, for she never knew they had a +daughter, which I do not believe. She was troubled, and her heart did +rise as soon as she appeared, and seems the most ugly woman that ever +she saw. This if true were strange, but I believe it is not. Thence to +my Lord's lodgings; and were merry with the young ladies, who make a +great story of their appearing before their mother the morning after we +carried them, the last week, home so late; and that their mother took it +very well, at least without any anger. Here I heard how the rich widow, +my Lady Gold, is married to one Neale, after he had received a box on +the eare by her brother (who was there a sentinel, in behalf of some +courtier) at the door; but made him draw, and wounded him. She called +Neale up to her, and sent for a priest, married presently, and went to +bed. The brother sent to the Court, and had a serjeant sent for Neale; +but Neale sent for him up to be seen in bed, and she owned him for her +husband: and so all is past. It seems Sir H. Bennet did look after her. +My Lady very pleasant. After dinner came in Sir Thomas Crew and Mr. +Sidney, lately come from France, who is growne a little, and a pretty +youth he is; but not so improved as they did give him out to be, but +like a child still. But yet I can perceive he hath good parts and good +inclinations. Thence with Creed, who dined here, to Westminster to find +out Mr. Hawly, and did, but he did not accept of my offer of his being +steward to my Lord at sea. Thence alone to several places about my law +businesses, and with good success; at last I to Mr. Townsend at the +Wardrobe, and received kind words from him to be true to me against +Captain Ferrers his endeavours to get the place from my father as my +Lord hath promised him. Here met Will. Howe, and he went forth with me; +and by water back to White Hall to wait on my Lord, who is come back +from Hinchinbroke; where he has been about 4 or 5 days. But I was never +more vexed to see how an over-officious visitt is received, for +he received me with as little concernment as in the middle of his +discontent, and a fool I am to be of so servile a humour, and vexed with +that consideration I took coach home, and could not get it off my mind +all night. To supper and to bed, my wife finding fault with Besse for +her calling upon Jane that lived with us, and there heard Mrs. Harper +and her talk ill of us and not told us of it. With which I was also +vexed, and told her soundly of it till she cried, poor wench, and I hope +without dissimulation, and yet I cannot tell; however, I was glad to see +in what manner she received it, and so to sleep. + +21st. Being weary yesterday with walking I sleep long, and at last up +and to the office, where all the morning. At home to dinner, Mr. Deane +with me. After dinner I to White Hall (setting down my wife by the +way) to a Committee of Tangier, where the Duke of Yorke, I perceive, do +attend the business very well, much better than any man there or most +of them, and my [mind] eased of some trouble I lay under for fear of his +thinking ill of me from the bad successe in the setting forth of these +crew men to Tangier. Thence with Mr. Creed, and walked in the Parke, and +so to the New Exchange, meeting Mr. Moore, and he with us. I shewed him +no friendly look, but he took no notice to me of the Wardrobe business, +which vexes me. I perceive by him my Lord's business of his family and +estate goes very ill, and runs in debt mightily. I would to God I were +clear of it, both as to my owne money and the bond of L1000, which I +stand debtor for him in, to my cozen Thomas Pepys. Thence by coach home +and to my office a little, and so to supper and to bed. + +22nd. Up and I found Mr. Creed below, who staid with me a while, +and then I to business all the morning. At noon to the 'Change and +Coffee-house, where great talke of the Dutch preparing of sixty sayle of +ships. The plague grows mightily among them, both at sea and land. From +the 'Change to dinner to Trinity House with Sir W. Rider and Cutler, +where a very good dinner. Here Sir G. Ascue dined also, who I perceive +desires to make himself known among the seamen. Thence home, there +coming to me my Lord Peterborough's Sollicitor with a letter from him to +desire present dispatch in his business of freight, and promises me L50, +which is good newes, and I hope to do his business readily for him. This +much rejoiced me. All the afternoon at his business, and late at night +comes the Sollicitor again, and I with him at 9 o'clock to Mr. Povy's, +and there acquainted him with the business. The money he won't pay +without warrant, but that will be got done in a few days. So home by +coach and to bed. + +23rd. Up, and to the office, and there we sat all the morning. So to +the 'Change, and then home to dinner and to my office, where till 10 +at night very busy, and so home to supper and to bed. My cozen, Thomas +Pepys, was with me yesterday and I took occasion to speak to him about +the bond I stand bound for my Lord Sandwich to him in L1000. I did very +plainly, obliging him to secrecy, tell him how the matter stands, yet +with all duty to my Lord my resolution to be bound for whatever he +desires me for him, yet that I would be glad he had any other security. +I perceive by Mr. Moore today that he hath been with my Lord, and my +Lord how he takes it I know not, but he is looking after other security +and I am mighty glad of it. W. Howe was with me this afternoon, to +desire some things to be got ready for my Lord against his going down to +his ship, which will be soon; for it seems the King and both the Queenes +intend to visit him. The Lord knows how my Lord will get out of this +charge; for Mr. Moore tells me to-day that he is L10,000 in debt and +this will, with many other things that daily will grow upon him (while +he minds his pleasure as he do), set him further backward. But it was +pretty this afternoon to hear W. Howe mince the matter, and say that he +do believe that my Lord is in debt L2000 or L3000, and then corrected +himself and said, No, not so, but I am afraid he is in debt L1000. I +pray God gets me well rid of his Lordship as to his debt, and I care +not. + +24th. Up and out with Captain Witham in several places again to look for +oats for Tangier, and among other places to the City granarys, where +it seems every company have their granary and obliged to keep such a +quantity of corne always there or at a time of scarcity to issue so much +at so much a bushell: and a fine thing it is to see their stores of +all sorts, for piles for the bridge, and for pipes, a thing I never saw +before. + + [From the commencement of the reign of Henry VIII., or perhaps + earlier, it was the custom of the City of London to provide against + scarcity, by requiring each of the chartered Companies to keep in + store a certain quantity of corn, which was to be renewed from time + to time, and when required for that purpose, produced in the market + for sale, at such times and prices, and in such quantities, as the + Lord Mayor or Common Council should direct. See the report of a + case in the Court of Chancery, "Attorney-General v. Haberdashers' + Company" (Mylne and Keens "Reports," vol. i., p. 420).--B.] + +Thence to the office, and there busy all the morning. At noon to my +uncle Wight's, and there dined, my wife being there all the morning. +After dinner to White Hall; and there met with Mr. Pierce, and he showed +me the Queene's bed-chamber, and her closett, where she had nothing but +some pretty pious pictures, and books of devotion; and her holy water at +her head as she sleeps, with her clock by her bed-side, wherein a lamp +burns that tells her the time of the night at any time. Thence with him +to the Parke, and there met the Queene coming from Chappell, with her +Mayds of Honour, all in silver-lace gowns again: which is new to me, and +that which I did not think would have been brought up again. Thence he +carried me to the King's closett: where such variety of pictures, and +other things of value and rarity, that I was properly confounded and +enjoyed no pleasure in the sight of them; which is the only time in my +life that ever I was so at a loss for pleasure, in the greatest plenty +of objects to give it me. Thence home, calling in many places and doing +abundance of errands to my great content, and at night weary home, where +Mr. Creed waited for me, and he and I walked in the garden, where +he told me he is now in a hurry fitting himself for sea, and that it +remains that he deals as an ingenuous man with me in the business I wot +of, which he will do before he goes. But I perceive he will have me do +many good turns for him first, both as to his bills coming to him in +this office, and also in his absence at the Committee of Tangier, which +I promise, and as he acquits himself to me I will willingly do. I would +I knew the worst of it, what it is he intends, that so I may either quit +my hands of him or continue my kindness still to him. + +25th. We staid late, and he lay with me all night and rose very merry +talking, and excellent company he is, that is the truth of it, and a +most cunning man. He being gone I to the office, where we sat all the +morning. At noon to dinner, and then to my office busy, and by and by +home with Mr. Deane to a lesson upon raising a Bend of Timbers, + + [This seems to refer to knee timber, of which there was not a + sufficient supply. A proposal was made to produce this bent wood + artificially: "June 22, 1664. Sir William Petty intimated that it + seemed by the scarcity and greater rate of knee timber that nature + did not furnish crooked wood enough for building: wherefore he + thought it would be fit to raise by art, so much of it in + proportion, as to reduce it to an equal rate with strait timber" + (Birch's "History of the Royal Society,")] + +and he being gone I to the office, and there came Captain Taylor, and he +and I home, and I have done all very well with him as to the business of +the last trouble, so that come what will come my name will be clear of +any false dealing with him. So to my office again late, and then to bed. + +26th (Lord's day). Up, and Sir J. Minnes set me down at my Lord +Sandwich's, where I waited till his coming down, when he came, too, +could find little to say to me but only a general question or two, and +so good-bye. Here his little daughter, my Lady Katharine was brought, +who is lately come from my father's at Brampton, to have her cheek +looked after, which is and hath long been sore. But my Lord will rather +have it be as it is, with a scarr in her face, than endanger it being +worse by tampering. He being gone, I went home, a little troubled to see +he minds me no more, and with Creed called at several churches, which, +God knows, are supplied with very young men, and the churches very +empty; so home and at our owne church looked in, and there heard one +preach whom Sir W. Pen brought, which he desired us yesterday to hear, +that had been his chaplin in Ireland, a very silly fellow. So home +and to dinner, and after dinner a frolique took us, we would go this +afternoon to the Hope; so my wife dressed herself, and, with good +victuals and drink, we took boat presently and the tide with us got +down, but it was night, and the tide spent by the time we got to +Gravesend; so there we stopped, but went not on shore, only Creed, to +get some cherries, + + [Pliny tells us that cherries were introduced into Britain by the + Romans, and Lydgate alludes to them as sold in the London streets. + Richard Haines, fruiterer to Henry VI IL, imported a number of + cherry trees from Flanders, and planted them at Tenham, in Kent. + Hence the fame of the Kentish cherries.] + +and send a letter to the Hope, where the Fleete lies. And so, it being +rainy, and thundering mightily, and lightning, we returned. By and +by the evening turned mighty clear and moonshine; we got with great +pleasure home, about twelve o'clock, which did much please us, Creed +telling pretty stories in the boat. He lay with me all night. + +27th. Up, and he and I walked to Paul's Church yard, and there saw Sir +Harry Spillman's book, and I bespoke it and others, and thence we took +coach, and he to my Lord's and I to St. James's, where we did our usual +business, and thence I home and dined, and then by water to Woolwich, +and there spent the afternoon till night under pretence of buying +Captain Blackman's house and grounds, and viewing the ground took notice +of Clothiers' cordage with which he, I believe, thinks to cheat the +King. That being done I by water home, it being night first, and there I +find our new mayd Jane come, a cook mayd. So to bed. + +28th. Up, and this day put on a half shirt first this summer, it being +very hot; and yet so ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afeard I shall +catch cold, while all the world is ready to melt away. To the office +all the morning, at noon to dinner at home, then to my office till the +evening, then out about several businesses and then by appointment to +the 'Change, and thence with my uncle Wight to the Mum house, and there +drinking, he do complain of his wife most cruel as the most troublesome +woman in the world, and how she will have her will, saying she brought +him a portion and God knows what. By which, with many instances more, I +perceive they do live a sad life together. Thence to the Mitre and there +comes Dr. Burnett to us and Mr. Maes, but the meeting was chiefly to +bring the Doctor and me together, and there I began to have his advice +about my disease, and then invited him to my house: and I am resolved +to put myself into his hands. Here very late, but I drank nothing, nor +will, though he do advise me to take care of cold drinks. So home and to +bed. + +29th. Up, and Mr. Shepley came to me, who is lately come to town; among +other things I hear by him how the children are sent for away from my +father's, but he says without any great discontent. I am troubled there +should be this occasion of difference, and yet I am glad they are gone, +lest it should have come to worse. He tells me how my brave dogg I did +give him, going out betimes one morning to Huntington, was set upon by +five other doggs, and worried to pieces, of which I am a little, and +he the most sorry I ever saw man for such a thing. Forth with him and +walked a good way talking, then parted and I to the Temple, and to +my cozen Roger Pepys, and thence by water to Westminster to see Dean +Honiwood, whom I had not visited a great while. He is a good-natured, +but a very weak man, yet a Dean, and a man in great esteem. Thence +walked to my Lord Sandwich's, and there dined, my Lord there. He was +pleasant enough at table with me, but yet without any discourse of +business, or any regard to me when dinner was over, but fell to cards, +and my Lady and I sat two hours alone, talking of the condition of +her family's being greatly in debt, and many children now coming up to +provide for. I did give her my sense very plain of it, which she took +well and carried further than myself, to the bemoaning their condition, +and remembering how finely things were ordered about six years ago, when +I lived there and my Lord at sea every year. Thence home, doing several +errands by the way. So to my office, and there till late at night, Mr. +Comander coming to me for me to sign and seal the new draft of my will, +which I did do, I having altered something upon the death of my brother +Tom. So home to supper and to bed. + +30th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon home +to dinner, Mr. Wayth with me, and by and by comes in Mr. Falconer and +his wife and dined with us, the first time she was ever here. We had a +pretty good dinner, very merry in discourse, sat after dinner an hour or +two, then down by water to Deptford and Woolwich about getting of some +business done which I was bound to by my oath this month, and though +in some things I have not come to the height of my vow of doing all my +business in paying all my petty debts and receipt of all my petty monies +due to me, yet I bless God I am not conscious of any neglect in me that +they are not done, having not minded my pleasure at all, and so being +resolved to take no manner of pleasure till it be done, I doubt not God +will forgive me for not forfeiting the L10 promised. Walked back from +Woolwich to Greenwich all alone, save a man that had a cudgell in his +hand, and, though he told me he laboured in the King's yarde, and many +other good arguments that he is an honest man, yet, God forgive me! I +did doubt he might knock me on the head behind with his club. But I got +safe home. Then to the making up my month's accounts, and find myself +still a gainer and rose to L951, for which God be blessed. I end the +month with my mind full of business and some sorrow that I have not +exactly performed all my vowes, though my not doing is not my fault, and +shall be made good out of my first leisure. Great doubts yet whether the +Dutch wary go on or no. The Fleet ready in the Hope, of twelve sayle. +The King and Queenes go on board, they say, on Saturday next. Young +children of my Lord Sandwich gone with their mayds from my mother's, +which troubles me, it being, I hear from Mr. Shepley, with great +discontent, saying, that though they buy good meate, yet can never have +it before it stinks, which I am ashamed of. + + + + +JULY 1664 + +July 1st. Up and within all the morning, first bringing down my Tryangle +to my chamber below, having a new frame made proper for it to stand on. +By and by comes Dr. Burnett, who assures me that I have an ulcer either +in the kidneys or bladder, for my water, which he saw yesterday, he is +sure the sediment is not slime gathered by heat, but is a direct pusse. +He did write me down some direction what to do for it, but not with the +satisfaction I expected. + + Dr. Burnett's advice to mee. + + The Originall is fyled among my letters. + + Take of ye Rootes of Marsh-Mallows foure ounces, of Cumfry, of + Liquorish, of each two ounces, of ye Mowers of St. John's Wort two + Handsfull, of ye Leaves of Plantan, of Alehoofe, of each three + handfulls, of Selfeheale, of Red Roses, of each one Handfull, of + Cynament, of Nutmegg, of each halfe an ounce. Beate them well, then + powre upon them one Quart of old Rhenish wine, and about Six houres + after strayne it and clarify it with ye white of an Egge, and with a + sufficient quantity of sugar, boyle it to ye consistence of a Syrrup + and reserve it for use. + + Dissolve one spoonefull of this Syrrup in every draught of Ale or + beere you drink. + + Morning and evening swallow ye quantity of an hazle-nutt of Cyprus + Terebintine. + + If you are bound or have a fit of ye Stone eate an ounce of Cassia + new drawne, from ye poynt of a knife. + + Old Canary or Malaga wine you may drinke to three or 4 glasses, but + noe new wine, and what wine you drinke, lett it bee at meales.-[From + a slip of paper inserted in the Diary at this place.] + +I did give him a piece, with good hopes, however, that his advice will +be of use to me, though it is strange that Mr. Hollyard should never say +one word of this ulcer in all his life to me. He being gone, I to the +'Change, and thence home to dinner, and so to my office, busy till +the evening, and then by agreement came Mr. Hill and Andrews and one +Cheswicke, a maister who plays very well upon the Spinette, and we sat +singing Psalms till 9 at night, and so broke up with great pleasure, +and very good company it is, and I hope I shall now and then have their +company. They being gone, I to my office till towards twelve o'clock, +and then home and to bed. Upon the 'Change, this day, I saw how +uncertain the temper of the people is, that, from our discharging of +about 200 that lay idle, having nothing to do, upon some of our ships, +which were ordered to be fitted for service, and their works are now +done, the towne do talk that the King discharges all his men, 200 +yesterday and 800 to-day, and that now he hath got L100,000 in his hand, +he values not a Dutch warr. But I undeceived a great many, telling them +how it is. + +2nd. Up and to the office, where all the morning. At noon to the +'Change, and there, which is strange, I could meet with nobody that +I could invite home to my venison pasty, but only Mr. Alsopp and Mr. +Lanyon, whom I invited last night, and a friend they brought along with +them. So home and with our venison pasty we had other good meat and good +discourse. After dinner sat close to discourse about our business of +the victualling of the garrison of Tangier, taking their prices of all +provisions, and I do hope to order it so that they and I also may get +something by it, which do much please me, for I hope I may get nobly and +honestly with profit to the King. They being gone came Sir W. Warren, +and he and I discoursed long about the business of masts, and then in +the evening to my office, where late writing letters, and then home to +look over some Brampton papers, which I am under an oathe to dispatch +before I spend one half houre in any pleasure or go to bed before 12 +o'clock, to which, by the grace of God, I will be true. Then to bed. +When I came home I found that to-morrow being Sunday I should gain +nothing by doing it to-night, and to-morrow I can do it very well +and better than to-night. I went to bed before my time, but with a +resolution of doing the thing to better purpose to-morrow. + +3rd (Lord's day). Up and ready, and all the morning in my chamber +looking over and settling some Brampton businesses. At noon to dinner, +where the remains of yesterday's venison and a couple of brave green +geese, which we are fain to eat alone, because they will not keepe, +which troubled us. After dinner I close to my business, and before the +evening did end it with great content, and my mind eased by it. Then up +and spent the evening walking with my wife talking, and it thundering +and lightning all the evening, and this yeare have had the most of +thunder and lightning they say of any in man's memory, and so it is, it +seems, in France and everywhere else. So to prayers and to bed. + +4th. Up, and many people with me about business, and then out to several +places, and so at noon to my Lord Crew's, and there dined and very much +made of there by him. He offered me the selling of some land of his in +Cambridgeshire, a purchase of about L1000, and if I can compass it I +will. After dinner I walked homeward, still doing business by the way, +and at home find my wife this day of her owne accord to have lain +out 25s. upon a pair of pendantes for her eares, which did vex me and +brought both me and her to very high and very foule words from her +to me, such as trouble me to think she should have in her mouth, and +reflecting upon our old differences, which I hate to have remembered. I +vowed to breake them, or that she should go and get what she could for +them again. I went with that resolution out of doors; the poor wretch +afterwards in a little while did send out to change them for her money +again. I followed Besse her messenger at the 'Change, and there +did consult and sent her back; I would not have them changed, being +satisfied that she yielded. So went home, and friends again as to that +business; but the words I could not get out of my mind, and so went to +bed at night discontented, and she came to bed to me, but all would not +make me friends, but sleep and rise in the morning angry. This day the +King and the Queene went to visit my Lord Sandwich and the fleete, going +forth in the Hope. + + ["Their Majesties were treated at Tilbury Hope by the Earl of + Sandwich, returning the same day, abundantly satisfied both with the + dutiful respects of that honourable person and with the excellent + condition of all matters committed to his charge" ("The Newes," July + 7th, 1664).--B.] + +5th. Up and to the office, where all the morning. At noon to the 'Change +a little, then with W. Howe home and dined. So after dinner to my +office, and there busy till late at night, having had among other things +much discourse with young Gregory about the Chest business, wherein Sir +W. Batten is so great a knave, and also with Alsop and Lanyon about the +Tangier victualling, wherein I hope to get something for myself. Late +home to supper and to bed, being full of thoughts of a sudden resolution +this day taken upon the 'Change of going down to-morrow to the Hope. + +6th. Up very betimes, and my wife also, and got us ready; and about +eight o'clock, having got some bottles of wine and beer and neat's +tongues, we went to our barge at the Towre, where Mr. Pierce and his +wife, and a kinswoman and his sister, and Mrs. Clerke and her sister and +cozen were to expect us; and so set out for the Hope, all the way down +playing at cards and other sports, spending our time pretty merry. Come +to the Hope about one and there showed them all the ships, and had a +collacion of anchovies, gammon, &c., and after an houre's stay or more, +embarked again for home; and so to cards and other sports till we came +to Greenwich, and there Mrs. Clerke and my wife and I on shore to an +alehouse, for them to do their business, and so to the barge again, +having shown them the King's pleasure boat; and so home to the Bridge, +bringing night home with us; and it rained hard, but we got them on foot +to the Beare, and there put them into a boat, and I back to my wife in +the barge, and so to the Tower Wharf and home, being very well pleased +today with the company, especially Mrs. Pierce, who continues her +complexion as well as ever, and hath, at this day, I think, the best +complexion that ever I saw on any woman, young or old, or child either, +all days of my life. Also Mrs. Clerke's kinswoman sings very prettily, +but is very confident in it; Mrs. Clerke herself witty, but spoils all +in being so conceited and making so great a flutter with a few fine +clothes and some bad tawdry things worne with them. But the charge of +the barge lies heavy upon me, which troubles me, but it is but once, and +I may make Pierce do me some courtesy as great. Being come home, I weary +to bed with sitting. The reason of Dr. Clerke's not being here was the +King's being sicke last night and let blood, and so he durst not come +away to-day. + +7th. Up, and this day begun, the first day this year, to put off my +linnen waistcoat, but it happening to be a cool day I was afraid of +taking cold, which troubles me, and is the greatest pain I have in the +world to think of my bad temper of my health. At the office all the +morning. Dined at home, to my office to prepare some things against a +Committee of Tangier this afternoon. So to White Hall, and there found +the Duke and twenty more reading their commission (of which I am, and +was also sent to, to come) for the Royall Fishery, which is very large, +and a very serious charter it is; but the company generally so ill +fitted for so serious a worke that I do much fear it will come to +little. That being done, and not being able to do any thing for lacke +of an oathe for the Governor and Assistants to take, we rose. Then our +Committee for the Tangier victualling met and did a little, and so up, +and I and Mr. Coventry walked in the garden half an hour, talking of +the business of our masts, and thence away and with Creed walked half an +hour or more in the Park, and thence to the New Exchange to drink some +creame, but missed it and so parted, and I home, calling by the way +for my new bookes, viz., Sir H. Spillman's "Whole Glossary," "Scapula's +Lexicon," and Shakespeare's plays, which I have got money out of my +stationer's bills to pay for. So home and to my office a while, and then +home and to bed, finding myself pretty well for all my waistecoate being +put off to-day. The king is pretty well to-day, though let blood the +night before yesterday. + +8th. Up and called out by my Lord Peterborough's gentleman to Mr. Povy's +to discourse about getting of his money, wherein I am concerned in hopes +of the L50 my Lord hath promised me, but I dare not reckon myself sure +of it till I have it in my main,--[hand.]--for these Lords are hard to +be trusted. Though I well deserve it. I staid at Povy's for his +coming in, and there looked over his stables and every thing, but +notwithstanding all the times I have been there I do yet find many fine +things to look on. Thence to White Hall a little, to hear how the King +do, he not having been well these three days. I find that he is pretty +well again. So to Paul's Churchyarde about my books, and to the binder's +and directed the doing of my Chaucer, + + [This was Speght's edition of 1602, which is still in the Pepysian + Library. The book is bound in calf, with brass clasps and bosses. + It is not lettered.] + +though they were not full neate enough for me, but pretty well it is; +and thence to the clasp-maker's to have it clasped and bossed. So to the +'Change and home to dinner, and so to my office till 5 o'clock, and then +came Mr. Hill and Andrews, and we sung an houre or two. Then broke +up and Mr. Alsop and his company came and consulted about our Tangier +victualling and brought it to a good head. So they parted, and I to +supper and to bed. + +9th. Up, and at the office all the morning. In the afternoon by coach +with Sir J. Minnes to White Hall, and there to a Committee for Fishing; +but the first thing was swearing to be true to the Company, and we +were all sworne; but a great dispute we had, which, methought, is very +ominous to the Company; some, that we should swear to be true to the +best of our power, and others to the best of our understanding; and +carried in the last, though in that we are the least able to serve the +Company, because we would not be obliged to attend the business when we +can, but when we list. This consideration did displease me, but it was +voted and so went. We did nothing else, but broke up till a Committee +of Guinny was set and ended, and then met again for Tangier, and there +I did my business about my Lord Peterborough's order and my own for my +expenses for the garrison lately. So home, by the way calling for my +Chaucer and other books, and that is well done to my mind, which pleased +me well. So to my office till late writing letters, and so home to my +wife to supper and bed, where we have not lain together because of the +heat of the weather a good while, but now against her going into the +country. + +10th (Lord's day). Up and by water, towards noon, to Somersett House, +and walked to my Lord Sandwich's, and there dined with my Lady and the +children. And after some ordinary discourse with my Lady, after dinner +took our leaves and my wife hers, in order to her going to the country +to-morrow. But my Lord took not occasion to speak one word of my father +or mother about the children at all, which I wonder at, and begin I will +not. Here my Lady showed us my Lady Castlemayne's picture, finely done; +given my Lord; and a most beautiful picture it is. Thence with my Lady +Jemimah and Mr. Sidney to St. Gyles's Church, and there heard a long, +poore sermon. Thence set them down and in their coach to Kate Joyce's +christening, where much company, good service of sweetmeates; and after +an houre's stay, left them, and in my Lord's coach--his noble, rich +coach--home, and there my wife fell to putting things in order against +her going to-morrow, and I to read, and so to bed, where I not well, and +so had no pleasure at all with my poor wife. + +11th. But betimes up this morning, and, getting ready, we by coach to +Holborne, where, at nine o'clock, they set out, and I and my man Will on +horseback, by my wife, to Barnett; a very pleasant day; and there dined +with her company, which was very good; a pretty gentlewoman with her, +that goes but to Huntington, and a neighbour to us in towne. Here we +staid two hours and then parted for all together, and my poor wife I +shall soon want I am sure. Thence I and Will to see the Wells, half a +mile off, + + [The mineral springs at Barnet Common, nearly a mile to the west of + High Barnet. The discovery of the wells was announced in the + "Perfect Diurnall" of June 5th, 1652, and Fuller, writing in 1662, + says that there are hopes that the waters may "save as many lives as + were lost in the fatal battle at Barnet" ("Worthies," Herts). A + pamphlet on "The Barnet Well Water" was published by the Rev. W. M. + Trinder, M.D., as late as the year 1800, but in 1840 the old well- + house was pulled down.] + +and there I drank three glasses, and went and walked and came back and +drunk two more; the woman would have had me drink three more; but I +could not, my belly being full, but this wrought very well, and so we +rode home, round by Kingsland, Hackney, and Mile End till we were quite +weary, and my water working at least 7 or 8 times upon the road, which +pleased me well, and so home weary, and not being very well, I betimes +to bed, and there fell into a most mighty sweat in the night, about +eleven o'clock, and there, knowing what money I have in the house and +hearing a noyse, I begun to sweat worse and worse, till I melted almost +to water. I rung, and could not in half an houre make either of the +wenches hear me, and this made me fear the more, lest they might be +gaga; and then I begun to think that there was some design in a stone +being flung at the window over our stayres this evening, by which the +thiefes meant to try what looking there would be after them and know +our company. These thoughts and fears I had, and do hence apprehend the +fears of all rich men that are covetous and have much money by them. +At last Jane rose, and then I understand it was only the dogg wants a +lodging and so made a noyse. So to bed, but hardly slept, at last did, +and so till morning, + +12th. And so rose, called up by my Lord Peterborough's gentleman about +getting his Lord's money to-day of Mr. Povy, wherein I took such order, +that it was paid, and I had my L50 brought me, which comforts my heart. +We sat at the office all the morning, then at home. Dined alone; sad for +want of company and not being very well, and know not how to eat alone. +After dinner down with Sir G. Carteret, Sir J. Minnes, and Sir W. Batten +to view, and did like a place by Deptford yard to lay masts in. By +and by comes Mr. Coventry, and after a little stay he and I down to +Blackwall, he having a mind to see the yarde, which we did, and fine +storehouses there are and good docks, but of no great profit to him that +oweth them for ought we see. + + [For "owneth." This sense is very common in Shakespeare. In the + original edition of the authorized version of the Bible we read: "So + shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that oweth this girdle" + (Acts xxi. I i) Nares's Glossary.] + +So home by water with him, having good discourse by the way, and so I to +the office a while, and late home to supper and to bed. + +13th. Up and to my office, at noon (after having at an alehouse hard +by discoursed with one Mr. Tyler, a neighbour, and one Captain Sanders +about the discovery of some pursers that have sold their provisions) I +to my Lord Sandwich, thinking to have dined there, but they not dining +at home, I with Captain Ferrers to Mr. Barwell the King's Squire Sadler, +where about this time twelvemonths I dined before at a good venison +pasty. The like we had now, and very good company, Mr. Tresham and +others. Thence to White Hall to the Fishery, and there did little. So +by water home, and there met Lanyon, &c., about Tangier matters, and +so late to my office, and thence home and to bed. Mr. Moore was with me +late to desire me to come to my Lord Sandwich tomorrow morning, which I +shall, but I wonder what my business is. + +14th. My mind being doubtful what the business should be, I rose a +little after four o'clock, and abroad. Walked to my Lord's, and nobody +up, but the porter rose out of bed to me so I back again to Fleete +Streete, and there bought a little book of law; and thence, hearing a +psalm sung, I went into St. Dunstan's, and there heard prayers read, +which, it seems, is done there every morning at six o'clock; a thing I +never did do at a chappell, but the College Chappell, in all my life. +Thence to my Lord's again, and my Lord being up, was sent for up, and +he and I alone. He did begin with a most solemn profession of the same +confidence in and love for me that he ever had, and then told me what a +misfortune was fallen upon me and him: in me, by a displeasure which my +Lord Chancellor did show to him last night against me, in the highest +and most passionate manner that ever any man did speak, even to the not +hearing of any thing to be said to him: but he told me, that he did say +all that could be said for a man as to my faithfullnesse and duty to his +Lordship, and did me the greatest right imaginable. And what should the +business be, but that I should be forward to have the trees in Clarendon +Park marked and cut down, which he, it seems, hath bought of my Lord +Albemarle; when, God knows! I am the most innocent man in the world in +it, and did nothing of myself, nor knew of his concernment therein, but +barely obeyed my Lord Treasurer's warrant for the doing thereof. And +said that I did most ungentlemanlike with him, and had justified the +rogues in cutting down a tree of his; and that I had sent the veriest +Fanatique [Deane] that is in England to mark them, on purpose to +nose--[provoke]--him. All which, I did assure my Lord, was most properly +false, and nothing like it true; and told my Lord the whole passage. My +Lord do seem most nearly affected; he is partly, I believe, for me, and +partly for himself. So he advised me to wait presently upon my Lord, and +clear myself in the most perfect manner I could, with all submission and +assurance that I am his creature both in this and all other things; and +that I do owne that all I have, is derived through my Lord Sandwich from +his Lordship. So, full of horror, I went, and found him busy in tryals +of law in his great room; and it being Sitting-day, durst not stay, but +went to my Lord and told him so: whereupon he directed me to take him +after dinner; and so away I home, leaving my Lord mightily concerned for +me. I to the office, and there sat busy all the morning. At noon to the +'Change, and from the 'Change over with Alsopp and the others to the +Pope's Head tavern, and there staid a quarter of an hour, and concluded +upon this, that in case I got them no more than 3s. per week per man +I should have of them but L150 per ann., but to have it without any +adventure or charge, but if I got them 3s. 2d., then they would give me +L300 in the like manner. So I directed them to draw up their tender in +a line or two against the afternoon, and to meet me at White Hall. So +I left them, and I to my Lord Chancellor's; and there coming out after +dinner I accosted him, telling him that I was the unhappy Pepys that +had fallen into his high displeasure, and come to desire him to give me +leave to make myself better understood to his Lordship, assuring him +of my duty and service. He answered me very pleasingly, that he was +confident upon the score of my Lord Sandwich's character of me, but that +he had reason to think what he did, and desired me to call upon him some +evening: I named to-night, and he accepted of it. So with my heart light +I to White Hall, and there after understanding by a stratagem, and yet +appearing wholly desirous not to understand Mr. Gauden's price when he +desired to show it me, I went down and ordered matters in our tender +so well that at the meeting by and by I was ready with Mr. Gauden's +and his, both directed him a letter to me to give the board their two +tenders, but there being none but the Generall Monk and Mr. Coventry and +Povy and I, I did not think fit to expose them to view now, but put it +off till Saturday, and so with good content rose. Thence I to the Half +Moone, against the 'Change, to acquaint Lanyon and his friends of our +proceedings, and thence to my Lord Chancellor's, and there heard several +tryals, wherein I perceive my Lord is a most able and ready man. After +all done, he himself called, "Come, Mr. Pepys, you and I will take a +turn in the garden." So he was led down stairs, having the goute, and +there walked with me, I think, above an houre, talking most friendly, +yet cunningly. I told him clearly how things were; how ignorant I was +of his Lordship's concernment in it; how I did not do nor say one word +singly, but what was done was the act of the whole Board. He told me by +name that he was more angry with Sir G. Carteret than with me, and also +with the whole body of the Board. But thinking who it was of the Board +that knew him least, he did place his fear upon me; but he finds that +he is indebted to none of his friends there. I think I did thoroughly +appease him, till he thanked me for my desire and pains to satisfy him; +and upon my desiring to be directed who I should of his servants advise +with about this business, he told me nobody, but would be glad to hear +from me himself. He told me he would not direct me in any thing, that it +might not be said that the Lord Chancellor did labour to abuse the King; +or (as I offered) direct the suspending the Report of the Purveyors but +I see what he means, and I will make it my worke to do him service +in it. But, Lord! to see how he is incensed against poor Deane, as a +fanatique rogue, and I know not what: and what he did was done in spite +to his Lordship, among all his friends and tenants. He did plainly say +that he would not direct me in any thing, for he would not put himself +into the power of any man to say that he did so and so; but plainly +told me as if he would be glad I did something. Lord! to see how we poor +wretches dare not do the King good service for fear of the greatness of +these men. He named Sir G. Carteret, and Sir J. Minnes, and the rest; +and that he was as angry with them all as me. But it was pleasant to +think that, while he was talking to me, comes into the garden Sir G. +Carteret; and my Lord avoided speaking with him, and made him and many +others stay expecting him, while I walked up and down above an houre, I +think; and would have me walk with my hat on. And yet, after all this, +there has been so little ground for this his jealousy of me, that I am +sometimes afeard that he do this only in policy to bring me to his side +by scaring me; or else, which is worse, to try how faithfull I would +be to the King; but I rather think the former of the two. I parted with +great assurance how I acknowledged all I had to come from his Lordship; +which he did not seem to refuse, but with great kindness and respect +parted. So I by coach home, calling at my Lord's, but he not within. At +my office late, and so home to eat something, being almost starved for +want of eating my dinner to-day, and so to bed, my head being full of +great and many businesses of import to me. + +15th. Up, and to my Lord Sandwich's; where he sent for me up, and I +did give my Lord an account of what had passed with my Lord Chancellor +yesterday; with which he was well pleased, and advised me by all means +to study in the best manner I could to serve him in this business. After +this discourse ended, he begun to tell me that he had now pitched upon +his day of going to sea upon Monday next, and that he would now give me +an account how matters are with him. He told me that his work now in the +world is only to keep up his interest at Court, having little hopes +to get more considerably, he saying that he hath now about L8,000 per +annum. It is true, he says, he oweth about L10,000; but he hath been at +great charges in getting things to this pass in his estate; besides his +building and good goods that he hath bought. He says he hath now evened +his reckonings at the Wardrobe till Michaelmas last, and hopes to finish +it to Ladyday before he goes. He says now there is due, too, L7,000 to +him there, if he knew how to get it paid, besides L2000 that Mr. Montagu +do owe him. As to his interest, he says that he hath had all the injury +done him that ever man could have by another bosom friend that knows +all his secrets, by Mr. Montagu; but he says that the worst of it all +is past, and he gone out and hated, his very person by the King, and he +believes the more upon the score of his carriage to him; nay, that the +Duke of Yorke did say a little while since in his closett, that he did +hate him because of his ungratefull carriage to my Lord of Sandwich. He +says that he is as great with the Chancellor, or greater, than ever in +his life. That with the King he is the like; and told me an instance, +that whereas he formerly was of the private council to the King before +he was last sicke, and that by the sickness an interruption was made +in his attendance upon him; the King did not constantly call him, as he +used to do, to his private council, only in businesses of the sea and +the like; but of late the King did send a message to him by Sir Harry +Bennet, to excuse the King to my Lord that he had not of late sent for +him as he used to do to his private council, for it was not out of any +distaste, but to avoid giving offence to some others whom he did not +name; but my Lord supposes it might be Prince Rupert, or it may be only +that the King would rather pass it by an excuse, than be thought unkind: +but that now he did desire him to attend him constantly, which of late +he hath done, and the King never more kind to him in his life than now. +The Duke of Yorke, as much as is possible; and in the business of late, +when I was to speak to my Lord about his going to sea, he says that he +finds the Duke did it with the greatest ingenuity and love in the world; +"and whereas," says my Lord, "here is a wise man hard by that thinks +himself so, and would be thought so, and it may be is in a degree so +(naming by and by my Lord Crew), would have had me condition with him +that neither Prince Rupert nor any body should come over his head, and I +know not what." The Duke himself hath caused in his commission, that he +be made Admirall of this and what other ships or fleets shall hereafter +be put out after these; which is very noble. He tells me in these cases, +and that of Mr. Montagu's, and all others, he finds that bearing of them +patiently is his best way, without noise or trouble, and things wear out +of themselves and come fair again. But, says he, take it from me, never +to trust too much to any man in the world, for you put yourself into his +power; and the best seeming friend and real friend as to the present may +have or take occasion to fall out with you, and then out comes all. Then +he told me of Sir Harry Bennet, though they were always kind, yet now +it is become to an acquaintance and familiarity above ordinary, that for +these months he hath done no business but with my Lord's advice in his +chamber, and promises all faithfull love to him and service upon all +occasions. My Lord says, that he hath the advantage of being able by his +experience to helpe and advise him; and he believes that that chiefly +do invite Sir Harry to this manner of treating him. "Now," says my Lord, +"the only and the greatest embarras that I have in the world is, how +to behave myself to Sir H. Bennet and my Lord Chancellor, in case that +there do lie any thing under the embers about my Lord Bristoll, which +nobody can tell; for then," says he, "I must appear for one or other, +and I will lose all I have in the world rather than desert my Lord +Chancellor: so that," says he, "I know not for my life what to do in +that case." For Sir H. Bennet's love is come to the height, and his +confidence, that he hath given my Lord a character, and will oblige my +Lord to correspond with him. "This," says he, "is the whole condition of +my estate and interest; which I tell you, because I know not whether I +shall see you again or no." Then as to the voyage, he thinks it will be +of charge to him, and no profit; but that he must not now look after nor +think to encrease, but study to make good what he hath, that what is due +to him from the Wardrobe or elsewhere may be paid, which otherwise would +fail, and all a man hath be but small content to him. So we seemed to +take leave one of another; my Lord of me, desiring me that I would +write to him and give him information upon all occasions in matters that +concern him; which, put together with what he preambled with yesterday, +makes me think that my Lord do truly esteem me still, and desires to +preserve my service to him; which I do bless God for. In the middle of +our discourse my Lady Crew came in to bring my Lord word that he hath +another son, my Lady being brought to bed just now, I did not think her +time had been so nigh, but she's well brought to bed, for which God be +praised! and send my Lord to study the laying up of something the more! +Then with Creed to St. James's, and missing Mr. Coventry, to White Hall; +where, staying for him in one of the galleries, there comes out of the +chayre-room Mrs. Stewart, in a most lovely form, with her hair all +about her eares, having her picture taking there. There was the King and +twenty more, I think, standing by all the while, and a lovely creature +she in this dress seemed to be. Thence to the 'Change by coach, and so +home to dinner and then to my office. In the evening Mr. Hill, Andrews +and I to my chamber to sing, which we did very pleasantly, and then to +my office again, where very late and so home, with my mind I bless God +in good state of ease and body of health, only my head at this juncture +very full of business, how to get something. Among others what this +rogue Creed will do before he goes to sea, for I would fain be rid of +him and see what he means to do, for I will then declare myself his firm +friend or enemy. + +16th. Up in the morning, my head mightily confounded with the great +deale of business I have upon me to do. But to the office, and there +dispatched Mr. Creed's business pretty well about his bill; but then +there comes W. Howe for my Lord's bill of Imprest for L500 to carry with +him this voyage, and so I was at a loss how to carry myself in it, Creed +being there, but there being no help I delivered it to them both, and +let them contend, when I perceive they did both endeavour to have it, +but W. Howe took it, and the other had the discretion to suffer it. But +I think I cleared myself to Creed that it past not from any practice +of mine. At noon rose and did some necessary business at the 'Change. +Thence to Trinity House to a dinner which Sir G. Carteret makes there +as Maister this year. Thence to White Hall to the Tangier Committee, and +there, above my expectation, got the business of our contract for the +victualling carried for my people, viz., Alsopp, Lanyon, and Yeabsly; +and by their promise I do thereby get L300 per annum to myself, which +do overjoy me; and the matter is left to me to draw up. Mr. Lewes was in +the gallery and is mightily amazed at it, and I believe Mr. Gauden will +make some stir about it, for he wrote to Mr. Coventry to-day about it to +argue why he should for the King's convenience have it, but Mr. Coventry +most justly did argue freely for them that served cheapest. Thence +walked a while with Mr. Coventry in the gallery, and first find that he +is mighty cold in his present opinion of Mr. Peter Pett for his flagging +and doing things so lazily there, and he did also surprise me with +a question why Deane did not bring in their report of the timber of +Clarendon. What he means thereby I know not, but at present put him off; +nor do I know how to steer myself: but I must think of it, and advise +with my Lord Sandwich. Thence with Creed by coach to my Lord Sandwich's, +and there I got Mr. Moore to give me my Lord's hand for my receipt of +L109 more of my money of Sir G. Carteret, so that then his debt to me +will be under L500, I think. This do ease my mind also. Thence carried +him and W. Howe into London, and set them down at Sir G. Carteret's to +receive some money, and I home and there busy very late, and so home to +supper and to bed, with my mind in pretty good ease, my business being +in a pretty good condition every where. + +17th (Lord's day). All the morning at my office doing business there, it +raining hard. So dined at home alone. After dinner walked to my Lord's, +and there found him and much other guests at table at dinner, and it +seems they have christened his young son to-day-called him James. I got +a piece of cake. I got my Lord to signe and seale my business about my +selling of Brampton land, which though not so full as I would, yet is as +full as I can at present. Walked home again, and there fell to read, and +by and by comes my uncle Wight, Dr. Burnett, and another gentleman, +and talked and drank, and the Doctor showed me the manner of eating, +turpentine, which pleases me well, for it is with great ease. So they +being gone, I to supper and to bed. + +18th. Up, and walked to my Lord's, and there took my leave of him, he +seeming very friendly to me in as serious a manner as ever in his life, +and I believe he is very confident of me. He sets out this morning +for Deale. Thence to St. James's to the Duke, and there did our usual +business. He discourses very freely of a warr with Holland, to begin +about winter, so that I believe we shall come to it. Before we went up +to the Duke, Sir G. Carteret and I did talk together in the Parke about +my Lord Chancellor's business of the timber; he telling me freely that +my Lord Chancellor was never so angry with him in all his life, as he +was for this business, in great passion; and that when he saw me there, +he knew what it was about. And plots now with me how we may serve my +Lord, which I am mightily glad of; and I hope together we may do it. +Thence to Westminster to my barber's, to have my Periwigg he lately made +me cleansed of its nits, which vexed me cruelly that he should put such +a thing into my hands. Here meeting his mayd Jane, that has lived with +them so long, I talked with her, and sending her of an errand to Dr. +Clerk's, did meet her, and took her into a little alehouse in Brewers +Yard, and there did sport with her, without any knowledge of her though, +and a very pretty innocent girl she is. Thence to my Lord Chancellor's, +but he being busy I went away to the 'Change, and so home to dinner. By +and by comes Creed, and I out with him to Fleet Street, and he to Mr. +Povy's, I to my Lord Chancellor's, and missing him again walked to +Povy's, and there saw his new perspective in his closet. Povy, to my +great surprise and wonder, did here attacque me in his own and Mr. +Bland's behalf that I should do for them both for the new contractors +for the victualling of the garrison. Which I am ashamed that he should +ask of me, nor did I believe that he was a man that did seek benefit in +such poor things. Besides that he professed that he did not believe that +I would have any hand myself in the contract, and yet here declares that +he himself would have profit by it, and himself did move me that Sir W. +Rider might join, and Ford with Gauden. I told him I had no interest +in them, but I fear they must do something to him, for he told me that +those of the Mole did promise to consider him. Thence home and Creed +with me, and there he took occasion to owne his obligations to me, and +did lay down twenty pieces in gold upon my shelf in my closett, which +I did not refuse, but wish and expected should have been more. But, +however, this is better than nothing, and now I am out of expectation, +and shall henceforward know how to deal with him. After discourse of +settling his matters here, we went out by coach, and he 'light at the +Temple, and there took final leave of me, in order to his following my +Lord to-morrow. I to my Lord Chancellor, and discoursed his business +with him. I perceive, and he says plainly, that he will not have any man +to have it in his power to say that my Lord Chancellor did contrive the +wronging the King of his timber; but yet I perceive, he would be glad to +have service done him therein; and told me Sir G. Carteret hath told him +that he and I would look after his business to see it done in the best +manner for him. Of this I was glad, and so away. Thence home, and late +with my Tangier men about drawing up their agreement with us, wherein I +find much trouble, and after doing as much as we could to-night, broke +up and I to bed. + +19th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon +dined alone at home. After dinner Sir W. Batten and I down by water to +Woolwich, where coming to the ropeyarde we are told that Mr. Falconer, +who hath been ill of a relapse these two days, is just now dead. We +went up to his widow, who is sicke in bed also. The poor woman in great +sorrow, and entreats our friendship, which we shall, I think, in every +thing do for her. I am sure I will. Thence to the Docke, and there in +Sheldon's garden eat some fruit; so to Deptford a little, and thence +home, it raining mightily, and being cold I doubted my health after it. +At the office till 9 o'clock about Sir W. Warren's contract for masts, +and then at home with Lanyon and Yeabsly till 12 and past about their +contract for Tangier, wherein they and I differed, for I would have it +drawn to the King's advantage, as much as might be, which they did not +like, but parted good friends; however, when they were gone, I wished +that I had forborne any disagreement till I had had their promise to me +in writing. They being gone, I to bed. + +20th. Up, and a while to my office, and then home with Mr. Deane till +dinner, discoursing upon the business of my Lord Chancellor's timber in +Clarendon Parke, and how to make a report therein without offending him; +which at last I drew up, and hope it will please him. But I would to +God neither I nor he ever had had any thing to have done with it! Dined +together with a good pig, and then out by coach to White Hall, to the +Committee for Fishing; but nothing done, it being a great day to-day +there upon drawing at the Lottery of Sir Arthur Slingsby. I got in and +stood by the two Queenes and the Duchesse of Yorke, and just behind my +Lady Castlemayne, whom I do heartily adore; and good sport it was to +see how most that did give their ten pounds did go away with a pair of +globes only for their lot, and one gentlewoman, one Mrs. Fish, with the +only blanke. And one I staid to see drew a suit of hangings valued at +L430, and they say are well worth the money, or near it. One other suit +there is better than that; but very many lots of three and fourscore +pounds. I observed the King and Queenes did get but as poor lots as any +else. But the wisest man I met with was Mr. Cholmley, who insured as +many as would, from drawing of the one blank for 12d.; in which case +there was the whole number of persons to one, which I think was three or +four hundred. And so he insured about 200 for 200 shillings, so that he +could not have lost if one of them had drawn it, for there was enough +to pay the L10; but it happened another drew it, and so he got all the +money he took. I left the lottery, and went to a play, only a piece of +it, which was the Duke's house, "Worse and Worse;" just the same manner +of play, and writ, I believe, by the same man as "The Adventures of Five +Hours;" very pleasant it was, and I begin to admire Harris more than +ever. Thence to Westminster to see Creed, and he and I took a walk in +the Parke. He is ill, and not able yet to set out after my Lord, but +will do to-morrow. So home, and late at my office, and so home to bed. +This evening being moonshine I played a little late upon my flageolette +in the garden. But being at Westminster Hall I met with great news that +Mrs. Lane is married to one Martin, one that serves Captain Marsh. She +is gone abroad with him to-day, very fine. I must have a bout with her +very shortly to see how she finds marriage. + +21st. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, among other +things making a contract with Sir W. Warren for almost 1000 Gottenburg +masts, the biggest that ever was made in the Navy, and wholly of my +compassing and a good one I hope it is for the King. Dined at Sir W. +Batten's, where I have not eat these many months. Sir G. Carteret, Mr. +Coventry, Sir J. Minnes, and myself there only, and my Lady. A good +venison pasty, and very merry, and pleasant I made myself with my +Lady, and she as much to me. This morning to the office comes Nicholas +Osborne, Mr. Gauden's clerke, to desire of me what piece of plate I +would choose to have a L100, or thereabouts, bestowed upon me in, he +having order to lay out so much; and, out of his freedom with me, do +of himself come to make this question. I a great while urged my +unwillingnesse to take any, not knowing how I could serve Mr. Gauden, +but left it wholly to himself; so at noon I find brought home in fine +leather cases, a pair of the noblest flaggons that ever I saw all the +days of my life; whether I shall keepe them or no I cannot tell; for +it is to oblige me to him in the business of the Tangier victualling, +wherein I doubt I shall not; but glad I am to see that I shall be sure +to get something on one side or other, have it which will: so, with a +merry heart, I looked upon them, and locked them up. After dinner to +[give] my Lord Chancellor a good account of his business, and he is very +well pleased therewith, and carries himself with great discretion to me, +without seeming over glad or beholding to me; and yet I know that he do +think himself very well served by me. Thence to Westminster and to Mrs. +Lane's lodgings, to give her joy, and there suffered me to deal with +her as I hoped to do, and by and by her husband comes, a sorry, simple +fellow, and his letter to her which she proudly showed me a simple, +nonsensical thing. A man of no discourse, and I fear married her to make +a prize of, which he is mistaken in, and a sad wife I believe she will +prove to him, for she urged me to appoint a time as soon as he is gone +out of town to give her a meeting next week. So by water with a couple +of cozens of Mrs. Lane's, and set them down at Queenhive, and I through +Bridge home, and there late at business, and so home to supper and to +bed. + +22nd. Up and to my office, where busy all the morning. At noon to the +'Change, and so home to dinner, and then down by water to Deptford, +where coming too soon, I spent an houre in looking round the yarde, and +putting Mr. Shish + + [Jonas Shish, master-shipwright at Deptford. There are several + papers of his among the State Papers. "I was at the funeral of old + Mr. Shish, Master Shipwright of His Majesty's Yard here, an honest + and remarkable man, and his death a public loss, for his excellent + success in building ships (though altogether illiterate) and for + bringing up so many of his children to be able artists. I held up + the pall with three knights who did him that honour, and he was + worthy of it. It was the custom of this good man to rise in the + night and pray, kneeling in his own coffin, which he had lying by + him for many years. He was born that famous year, the Gunpowder- + plot, 1605" (Evelyn's "Diary," May 13th, 1680).] + +to measure a piece or two of timber, which he did most cruelly wrong, +and to the King's losse 12 or 13s. in a piece of 28 feet in contents. +Thence to the Clerke of the Cheques, from whose house Mr. Falconer was +buried to-day; Sir J. Minnes and I the only principal officers that +were there. We walked to church with him, and then I left them without +staying the sermon and straight home by water, and there find, as I +expected, Mr. Hill, and Andrews, and one slovenly and ugly fellow, +Seignor Pedro, who sings Italian songs to the theorbo most neatly, +and they spent the whole evening in singing the best piece of musique +counted of all hands in the world, made by Seignor Charissimi, the +famous master in Rome. Fine it was, indeed, and too fine for me to judge +of. They have spoke to Pedro to meet us every weeke, and I fear it +will grow a trouble to me if we once come to bid judges to meet us, +especially idle Masters, which do a little displease me to consider. +They gone comes Mr. Lanyon, who tells me Mr. Alsopp is now become +dangerously ill, and fears his recovery, covery, which shakes my +expectation of L630 per annum by the business; and, therefore, bless God +for what Mr. Gauden hath sent me, which, from some discourse to-day with +Mr. Osborne, swearing that he knows not any thing of this business of +the victualling; but, the contrary, that it is not that moves Mr. Gauden +to send it me, for he hath had order for it any time these two months. +Whether this be true or no, I know not; but I shall hence with the more +confidence keepe it. To supper and to the office a little, and to walk +in the garden, the moon shining bright, and fine warm fair weather, and +so home to bed. + +23rd. Up, and all the morning at the office. At noon to the 'Change, +where I took occasion to break the business of my Lord Chancellor's +timber to Mr. Coventry in the best manner I could. He professed to me, +that, till, Sir G. Carteret did speake of it at the table, after our +officers were gone to survey it, he did not know that my Lord Chancellor +had any thing to do with it; but now he says that he had been told by +the Duke that Sir G. Carteret had spoke to him about it, and that he had +told the Duke that, were he in my Lord Chancellor's case, if he were his +father, he would rather fling away the gains of two or L3,000, than have +it said that the timber, which should have been the King's, if it had +continued the Duke of Albemarle's, was concealed by us in favour of my +Lord Chancellor; for, says he, he is a great man, and all such as he, +and he himself particularly, have a great many enemies that would be +glad of such an advantage against him. When I told him it was strange +that Sir J. Minnes and Sir G. Carteret, that knew my Lord Chancellor's +concernment therein, should not at first inform us, he answered me that +for Sir J. Minnes, he is looked upon to be an old good companion, but by +nobody at the other end of the towne as any man of business, and that +my Lord Chancellor, he dares say, never did tell him of it, only Sir G. +Carteret, he do believe, must needs know it, for he and Sir J. Shaw are +the greatest confidants he hath in the world. So for himself, he said, +he would not mince the matter, but was resolved to do what was fit, and +stand upon his owne legs therein, and that he would speak to the +Duke, that he and Sir G. Carteret might be appointed to attend my Lord +Chancellor in it. All this disturbs me mightily. I know not what to say +to it, nor how to carry myself therein; for a compliance will discommend +me to Mr. Coventry, and a discompliance to my Lord Chancellor. But I +think to let it alone, or at least meddle in it as little more as I can. +From thence walked toward Westminster, and being in an idle and wanton +humour, walked through Fleet Alley, and there stood a most pretty wench +at one of the doors, so I took a turn or two, but what by sense of +honour and conscience I would not go in, but much against my will took +coach and away, and away to Westminster Hall, and there 'light of Mrs. +Lane, and plotted with her to go over the water. So met at White's +stairs in Chanel Row, and over to the old house at Lambeth Marsh, and +there eat and drank, and had my pleasure of her twice, she being the +strangest woman in talk of love to her husband sometimes, and sometimes +again she do not care for him, and yet willing enough to allow me a +liberty of doing what I would with her. So spending 5s. or 6s. upon her, +I could do what I would, and after an hour's stay and more back again +and set her ashore there again, and I forward to Fleet Street, and +called at Fleet Alley, not knowing how to command myself, and went in +and there saw what formerly I have been acquainted with, the wickedness +of these houses, and the forcing a man to present expense. The woman +indeed is a most lovely woman, but I had no courage to meddle with her +for fear of her not being wholesome, and so counterfeiting that I had +not money enough, it was pretty to see how cunning she was, would not +suffer me to have to do in any manner with her after she saw I had no +money, but told me then I would not come again, but she now was sure I +would come again, but I hope in God I shall not, for though she be +one of the prettiest women I ever saw, yet I fear her abusing me. So +desiring God to forgive me for this vanity, I went home, taking some +books from my bookseller, and taking his lad home with me, to whom I +paid L10 for books I have laid up money for, and laid out within these +three weeks, and shall do no more a great while I hope. So to my office +writing letters, and then home and to bed, weary of the pleasure I have +had to-day, and ashamed to think of it. + +24th (Lord's day). Up, in some pain all day from yesterday's passages, +having taken cold, I suppose. So staid within all day reading of two +or three good plays. At night to my office a little, and so home, after +supper to bed. + +25th. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten by coach to St. +James's, but there the Duke being gone out we to my Lord Berkeley's +chamber, Mr. Coventry being there, and among other things there met with +a printed copy of the King's commission for the repair of Paul's, which +is very large, and large power for collecting money, and recovering of +all people that had bought or sold formerly any thing belonging to the +Church. And here I find my Lord Mayor of the City set in order before +the Archbishopp or any nobleman, though all the greatest officers of +state are there. But yet I do not hear by my Lord Berkeley, who is +one of them, that any thing is like to come of it. Thence back again +homewards, and Sir W. Batten and I to the Coffee-house, but no newes, +only the plague is very hot still, and encreases among the Dutch. Home +to dinner, and after dinner walked forth, and do what I could I could +not keep myself from going through Fleet Lane, but had the sense of +safety and honour not to go in, and the rather being a holiday I feared +I might meet with some people that might know me. Thence to Charing +Cross, and there called at Unthanke's to see what I owed, but found +nothing, and here being a couple of pretty ladies, lodgers in the +kitchen, I staid a little there. Thence to my barber Gervas, who this +day buries his child, which it seems was born without a passage behind, +so that it never voided any thing in the week or fortnight that it has +been born. Thence to Mr. Reeves, it coming just now in my head to buy a +microscope, but he was not within, so I walked all round that end of the +town among the loathsome people and houses, but, God be thanked! had no +desire to visit any of them. So home, where I met Mr. Lanyon, who tells +me Mr. Alsop is past hopes, which will mightily disappoint me in my +hopes there, and yet it may be not. I shall think whether it will be +safe for me to venture myself or no, and come in as an adventurer. He +gone, Mr. Cole (my old Jack Cole) comes to see and speak with me, and +his errand in short to tell me that he is giving over his trade; he can +do no good in it, and will turn what he has into money and go to sea, +his father being dead and leaving him little, if any thing. This I was +sorry to hear, he being a man of good parts, but, I fear, debauched. I +promised him all the friendship I can do him, which will end in little, +though I truly mean it, and so I made him stay with me till 11 at night, +talking of old school stories, and very pleasing ones, and truly I find +that we did spend our time and thoughts then otherwise than I think boys +do now, and I think as well as methinks that the best are now. He supped +with me, and so away, and I to bed. And strange to see how we are all +divided that were bred so long at school together, and what various +fortunes we have run, some good, some bad. + +26th. All the morning at the office, at noon to Anthony Joyce's, to +our gossip's dinner. I had sent a dozen and a half of bottles of wine +thither, and paid my double share besides, which is 18s. Very merry we +were, and when the women were merry and rose from table, I above +with them, ne'er a man but I, I began discourse of my not getting of +children, and prayed them to give me their opinions and advice, and they +freely and merrily did give me these ten, among them (1) Do not hug my +wife too hard nor too much; (2) eat no late suppers; (3) drink juyce +of sage; (4) tent and toast; (5) wear cool holland drawers; (6) keep +stomach warm and back cool; (7) upon query whether it was best to do at +night or morn, they answered me neither one nor other, but when we had +most mind to it; (8) wife not to go too straight laced; (9) myself to +drink mum and sugar; (10) Mrs. Ward did give me, to change my place. +The 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, and 10th they all did seriously declare, and lay +much stress upon them as rules fit to be observed indeed, and especially +the last, to lie with our heads where our heels do, or at least to make +the bed high at feet and low at head. Very merry all, as much as I +could be in such sorry company. Great discourse of the fray yesterday +in Moorefields, how the butchers at first did beat the weavers (between +whom there hath been ever an old competition for mastery), but at last +the weavers rallied and beat them. At first the butchers knocked down +all for weavers that had green or blue aprons, till they were fain to +pull them off and put them in their breeches. At last the butchers were +fain to pull off their sleeves, that they might not be known, and were +soundly beaten out of the field, and some deeply wounded and bruised; +till at last the weavers went out tryumphing, calling L100 for a +butcher. I to Mr. Reeves to see a microscope, he having been with me +to-day morning, and there chose one which I will have. Thence back and +took up young Mrs. Harman, a pretty bred and pretty humoured woman whom +I could love well, though not handsome, yet for her person and carriage, +and black. By the way met her husband going for her, and set them both +down at home, and so home to my office a while, and so to supper and +bed. + +27th. Up, and after some discourse with Mr. Duke, who is to be Secretary +to the Fishery, and is now Secretary to the Committee for Trade, who +I find a very ingenious man, I went to Mr. Povy's, and there heard a +little of his empty discourse, and fain he would have Mr. Gauden been +the victualler for Tangier, which none but a fool would say to me when +he knows he hath made it his request to me to get him something of these +men that now do it. Thence to St. James's, but Mr. Coventry being ill +and in bed I did not stay, but to White Hall a little, walked up and +down, and so home to fit papers against this afternoon, and after dinner +to the 'Change a little, and then to White Hall, where anon the Duke +of Yorke came, and a Committee we had of Tangier, where I read over my +rough draught of the contract for Tangier victualling, and acquainted +them with the death of Mr. Alsopp, which Mr. Lanyon had told me this +morning, which is a sad consideration to see how uncertain a thing +our lives are, and how little to be presumed of in our greatest +undertakings. The words of the contract approved of, and I home and +there came Mr. Lanyon to me and brought my neighbour, Mr. Andrews, to +me, whom he proposes for his partner in the room of Mr. Alsopp, and +I like well enough of it. We read over the contract together, and +discoursed it well over and so parted, and I am glad to see it once over +in this condition again, for Mr. Lanyon and I had some discourse to-day +about my share in it, and I hope if it goes on to have my first hopes of +L300 per ann. They gone, I to supper and to bed. This afternoon came my +great store of Coles in, being to Chaldron, so that I may see how long +they will last me. + +28th. At the office all the morning, dined, after 'Change, at home, and +then abroad, and seeing "The Bondman" upon the posts, I consulted my +oaths and find I may go safely this time without breaking it; I went +thither, notwithstanding my great desire to have gone to Fleet Alley, +God forgive me, again. There I saw it acted. It is true, for want +of practice, they had many of them forgot their parts a little; but +Betterton and my poor Ianthe outdo all the world. There is nothing more +taking in the world with me than that play. Thence to Westminster to my +barber's, and strange to think how when I find that Jervas himself did +intend to bring home my periwigg, and not Jane his maid, I did desire +not to have it at all, for I had a mind to have her bring it home. I +also went to Mr. Blagrave's about speaking to him for his kinswoman to +come live with my wife, but they are not come to town, and so I home +by coach and to my office, and then to supper and to bed. My present +posture is thus: my wife in the country and my mayde Besse with her and +all quiett there. I am endeavouring to find a woman for her to my mind, +and above all one that understands musique, especially singing. I am the +willinger to keepe one because I am in good hopes to get 2 or L300 per +annum extraordinary by the business of the victualling of Tangier, and +yet Mr. Alsopp, my chief hopes, is dead since my looking after it, +and now Mr. Lanyon, I fear, is, falling sicke too. I am pretty well in +health, only subject to wind upon any cold, and then immediate and great +pains. All our discourse is of a Dutch warr and I find it is likely to +come to it, for they are very high and desire not to compliment us at +all, as far as I hear, but to send a good fleete to Guinny to oppose us +there. My Lord Sandwich newly gone to sea, and I, I think, fallen into +his very good opinion again, at least he did before his going, and by +his letter since, show me all manner of respect and confidence. I am +over-joyed in hopes that upon this month's account I shall find myself +worth L1000, besides the rich present of two silver and gilt flaggons +which Mr. Gauden did give me the other day. I do now live very prettily +at home, being most seriously, quietly, and neatly served by my two +mayds Jane and the girle Su, with both of whom I am mightily well +pleased. My greatest trouble is the settling of Brampton Estate, that I +may know what to expect, and how to be able to leave it when I die, so +as to be just to my promise to my uncle Thomas and his son. The next +thing is this cursed trouble my brother Tom is likely to put us to by +his death, forcing us to law with his creditors, among others Dr. Tom +Pepys, and that with some shame as trouble, and the last how to know in +what manner as to saving or spending my father lives, lest they should +run me in debt as one of my uncle's executors, and I never the wiser +nor better for it. But in all this I hope shortly to be at leisure to +consider and inform myself well. + +29th. At the office all the morning dispatching of business, at noon +to the 'Change after dinner, and thence to Tom Trice about Dr. Pepys's +business, and thence it raining turned into Fleet Alley, and there was +with Cocke an hour or so. The jade, whether I would not give her money +or not enough; she would not offer to invite to do anything, but on the +contrary saying she had no time, which I was glad of, for I had no mind +to meddle with her, but had my end to see what a cunning jade she was, +to see her impudent tricks and ways of getting money and raising the +reckoning by still calling for things, that it come to 6 or 7 shillings +presently. So away home, glad I escaped without any inconvenience, +and there came Mr. Hill, Andrews and Seignor Pedro, and great store of +musique we had, but I begin to be weary of having a master with us, for +it spoils, methinks, the ingenuity of our practice. After they were +gone comes Mr. Bland to me, sat till 11 at night with me, talking of +the garrison of Tangier and serving them with pieces of eight. A mind he +hath to be employed there, but dares not desire any courtesy of me, and +yet would fain engage me to be for him, for I perceive they do all find +that I am the busy man to see the King have right done him by inquiring +out other bidders. Being quite tired with him, I got him gone, and so to +bed. + +30th. All the morning at the office; at noon to the 'Change, where great +talke of a rich present brought by an East India ship from some of the +Princes of India, worth to the King L70,000 in two precious stones. +After dinner to the office, and there all the afternoon making an end +of several things against the end of the month, that I may clear all my +reckonings tomorrow; also this afternoon, with great content, I finished +the contracts for victualling of Tangier with Mr. Lanyon and the rest, +and to my comfort got him and Andrews to sign to the giving me L300 per +annum, by which, at least, I hope to be a L100 or two the better. Wrote +many letters by the post to ease my mind of business and to clear my +paper of minutes, as I did lately oblige myself to clear every thing +against the end of the month. So at night with my mind quiet and +contented to bed. This day I sent a side of venison and six bottles of +wine to Kate Joyce. + +31st (Lord's day). Up, and to church, where I have not been these many +weeks. So home, and thither, inviting him yesterday, comes Mr. Hill, at +which I was a little troubled, but made up all very well, carrying him +with me to Sir J. Minnes, where I was invited and all our families to a +venison pasty. Here good cheer and good discourse. After dinner Mr. +Hill and I to my house, and there to musique all the afternoon. He being +gone, in the evening I to my accounts, and to my great joy and with +great thanks to Almighty God, I do find myself most clearly worth L1014, +the first time that ever I was worth L1000 before, which is the height +of all that ever I have for a long time pretended to. But by the +blessing of God upon my care I hope to lay up something more in a little +time, if this business of the victualling of Tangier goes on as I hope +it will. So with praise to God for this state of fortune that I am +brought to as to wealth, and my condition being as I have at large set +it down two days ago in this book, I home to supper and to bed, desiring +God to give me the grace to make good use of what I have and continue my +care and diligence to gain more. + + + + +AUGUST 1664 + +August 1st. Up, my mind very light from my last night's accounts, and so +up and with Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, and Sir W. Pen to St. James's, +where among other things having prepared with some industry every man a +part this morning and no sooner (for fear they should either consider of +it or discourse of it one to another) Mr. Coventry did move the Duke and +obtain it that one of the clerkes of the Clerke of the Acts should have +an addition of L30 a year, as Mr. Turner hath, which I am glad of, that +I may give T. Hater L20 and keep L10 towards a boy's keeping. Thence Mr. +Coventry and I to the Attorney's chamber at the Temple, but not being +there we parted, and I home, and there with great joy told T. Hater what +I had done, with which the poor wretch was very glad, though his modesty +would not suffer him to say much. So to the Coffee-house, and there all +the house full of the victory Generall Soushe + + [General Soushe was Louis Ratuit, Comte de Souches. The battle was + fought at Lewenz (or Leva), in Hungary.--B.] + +(who is a Frenchman, a soldier of fortune, commanding part of the German +army) hath had against the Turke; killing 4,000 men, and taking most +extraordinary spoil. Thence taking up Harman and his wife, carried them +to Anthony Joyce's, where we had my venison in a pasty well done; but, +Lord! to see how much they made of, it, as if they had never eat any +before, and very merry we were, but Will most troublesomely so, and I +find he and his wife have a most wretched life one with another, but we +took no notice, but were very merry as I could be in such company. But +Mrs. Harman is a very pretty-humoured wretch, whom I could love with all +my heart, being so good and innocent company. Thence to Westminster to +Mr. Blagrave's, and there, after singing a thing or two over, I spoke to +him about a woman for my wife, and he offered me his kinswoman, which I +was glad of, but she is not at present well, but however I hope to have +her. Thence to my Lord Chancellor's, and thence with Mr. Coventry, who +appointed to meet me there, and with him to the Attorney General, and +there with Sir Ph. Warwicke consulted of a new commission to be had +through the Broad Seale to enable us to make this contract for Tangier +victualling. So home, and there talked long with Will about the young +woman of his family which he spoke of for to live with my wife, but +though she hath very many good qualitys, yet being a neighbour's child +and young and not very staid, I dare not venture of having her, because +of her being able to spread any report of our family upon any discontent +among the heart of our neighbours. So that my dependance is upon Mr. +Blagrave, and so home to supper and to bed. Last night, at 12 o'clock, +I was waked with knocking at Sir W. Pen's door; and what was it but +people's running up and down to bring him word that his brother, + + [George Penn, the elder brother of Sir W. Penn, was a wealthy + merchant at San Lucar, the port of Seville. He was seized as a + heretic by the Holy Office, and cast into a dungeon eight feet + square and dark as the grave. There he remained three years, every + month being scourged to make him confess his crimes. At last, after + being twice put to the rack, he offered to confess whatever they + would suggest. His property, L12,000, was then confiscated, his + wife, a Catholic, taken from him, and he was banished from Spain for + ever.--M. B.] + +who hath been a good while, it seems, sicke, is dead. + +2nd. At the office all the morning. At noon dined, and then to, the +'Change, and there walked two hours or more with Sir W. Warren, who +after much discourse in general of Sir W. Batten's dealings, he fell to +talk how every body must live by their places, and that he was willing, +if I desired it, that I should go shares with him in anything that he +deals in. He told me again and again, too, that he confesses himself +my debtor too for my service and friendship to him in his present great +contract of masts, and that between this and Christmas he shall be in +stocke and will pay it me. This I like well, but do not desire to become +a merchant, and, therefore, put it off, but desired time to think of +it. Thence to the King's play-house, and there saw "Bartholomew Fayre," +which do still please me; and is, as it is acted, the best comedy in the +world, I believe. I chanced to sit by Tom Killigrew, who tells me +that he is setting up a Nursery; that is, is going to build a house in +Moorefields, wherein he will have common plays acted. But four operas it +shall have in the year, to act six weeks at a time; where we shall +have the best scenes and machines, the best musique, and every thing as +magnificent as is in Christendome; and to that end hath sent for voices +and painters and other persons from Italy. Thence homeward called upon +my Lord Marlborough, and so home and to my office, and then to Sir W. +Pen, and with him and our fellow officers and servants of the house and +none else to Church to lay his brother in the ground, wherein nothing +handsome at all, but that he lays him under the Communion table in the +chancel, about nine at night? So home and to bed. + +3rd. Up betimes and set some joyners on work to new lay my floor in our +wardrobe, which I intend to make a room for musique. Thence abroad to +Westminster, among other things to Mr. Blagrave's, and there had his +consent for his kinswoman to come to be with my wife for her woman, at +which I am well pleased and hope she may do well. Thence to White Hall +to meet with Sir G. Carteret about hiring some ground to make our mast +docke at Deptford, but being Council morning failed, but met with Mr. +Coventry, and he and I discoursed of the likeliness of a Dutch warr, +which I think is very likely now, for the Dutch do prepare a fleet to +oppose us at Guinny, and he do think we shall, though neither of us have +a mind to it, fall into it of a sudden, and yet the plague do increase +among them, and is got into their fleet, and Opdam's own ship, which +makes it strange they should be so high. Thence to the 'Change, and +thence home to dinner, and down by water to Woolwich to the rope yard, +and there visited Mrs. Falconer, who tells me odd stories of how Sir W. +Pen was rewarded by her husband with a gold watch (but seems not certain +of what Sir W. Batten told me, of his daughter having a life given her +in L80 per ann.) for his helping him to his place, and yet cost him L150 +to Mr. Coventry besides. He did much advise it seems Mr. Falconer not +to marry again, expressing that he would have him make his daughter his +heire, or words to that purpose, and that that makes him, she thinks, so +cold in giving her any satisfaction, and that W. Boddam hath publickly +said, since he came down thither to be clerke of the ropeyard, that it +hath this week cost him L100, and would be glad that it would cost him +but half as much more for the place, and that he was better before than +now, and that if he had been to have bought it, he would not have given +so much for it. Now I am sure that Mr. Coventry hath again and again +said that he would take nothing, but would give all his part in it +freely to him, that so the widow might have something. What the meaning +of this is I know not, but that Sir W. Pen do get something by +it. Thence to the Dockeyard, and there saw the new ship in great +forwardness. So home and to supper, and then to the office, where late, +Mr. Bland and I talking about Tangier business, and so home to bed. + +4th. Up betimes and to the office, fitting myself against a great +dispute about the East India Company, which spent afterwards with us all +the morning. At noon dined with Sir W. Pen, a piece of beef only, and I +counterfeited a friendship and mirth which I cannot have with him, yet +out with him by his coach, and he did carry me to a play and pay for me +at the King's house, which is "The Rivall Ladys," a very innocent and +most pretty witty play. I was much pleased with it, and it being given +me, I look upon it as no breach to my oathe. Here we hear that Clun, one +of their best actors, was, the last night, going out of towne (after he +had acted the Alchymist, wherein was one of his best parts that he acts) +to his country-house, set upon and murdered; one of the rogues taken, an +Irish fellow. It seems most cruelly butchered and bound. The house will +have a great miss of him. Thence visited my Lady Sandwich, who tells me +my Lord FitzHarding is to be made a Marquis. Thence home to my office +late, and so to supper and to bed. + +5th. Up very betimes and set my plaisterer to work about whiting and +colouring my musique roome, which having with great pleasure seen done, +about ten o'clock I dressed myself, and so mounted upon a very pretty +mare, sent me by Sir W. Warren, according to his promise yesterday. And +so through the City, not a little proud, God knows, to be seen upon so +pretty a beast, and to my cozen W. Joyce's, who presently mounted too, +and he and I out of towne toward Highgate; in the way, at Kentish-towne, +showing me the place and manner of Clun's being killed and laid in a +ditch, and yet was not killed by any wounds, having only one in his arm, +but bled to death through his struggling. He told me, also, the manner +of it, of his going home so late [from] drinking with his whore, and +manner of having it found out. Thence forward to Barnett, and there +drank, and so by night to Stevenage, it raining a little, but not much, +and there to my great trouble, find that my wife was not come, nor any +Stamford coach gone down this week, so that she cannot come. So vexed +and weary, and not thoroughly out of pain neither in my old parts, I +after supper to bed, and after a little sleep, W. Joyce comes in his +shirt into my chamber, with a note and a messenger from my wife, that +she was come by Yorke coach to Bigglesworth, and would be with us +to-morrow morning. So, mightily pleased at her discreete action in this +business, I with peace to sleep again till next morning. So up, and + +6th. Here lay Deane Honiwood last night. I met and talked with him this +morning, and a simple priest he is, though a good, well-meaning man. W. +Joyce and I to a game at bowles on the green there till eight o'clock, +and then comes my wife in the coach, and a coach full of women, only one +man riding by, gone down last night to meet a sister of his coming to +town. So very joyful drank there, not 'lighting, and we mounted and away +with them to Welling, and there 'light, and dined very well and merry +and glad to see my poor-wife. Here very merry as being weary I could be, +and after dinner, out again, and to London. In our way all the way the +mightiest merry, at a couple of young gentlemen, come down to meet the +same gentlewoman, that ever I was in my life, and so W. Joyce too, to +see how one of them was horsed upon a hard-trotting sorrell horse, and +both of them soundly weary and galled. But it is not to be set down how +merry we were all the way. We 'light in Holborne, and by another coach +my wife and mayde home, and I by horseback, and found all things well +and most mighty neate and clean. So, after welcoming my wife a little, +to the office, and so home to supper, and then weary and not very well +to bed. + +7th (Lord's day). Lay long caressing my wife and talking, she telling me +sad stories of the ill, improvident, disquiett, and sluttish manner that +my father and mother and Pall live in the country, which troubles me +mightily, and I must seek to remedy it. So up and ready, and my wife +also, and then down and I showed my wife, to her great admiration and +joy, Mr. Gauden's present of plate, the two flaggons, which indeed are +so noble that I hardly can think that they are yet mine. So blessing God +for it, we down to dinner mighty pleasant, and so up after dinner for a +while, and I then to White Hall, walked thither, having at home met with +a letter of Captain Cooke's, with which he had sent a boy for me to see, +whom he did intend to recommend to me. I therefore went and there met +and spoke with him. He gives me great hopes of the boy, which pleases +me, and at Chappell I there met Mr. Blagrave, who gives a report of the +boy, and he showed me him, and I spoke to him, and the boy seems a good +willing boy to come to me, and I hope will do well. I am to speak to +Mr. Townsend to hasten his clothes for him, and then he is to come. So I +walked homeward and met with Mr. Spong, and he with me as far as the +Old Exchange talking of many ingenuous things, musique, and at last of +glasses, and I find him still the same ingenuous man that ever he was, +and do among other fine things tell me that by his microscope of his +owne making he do discover that the wings of a moth is made just as the +feathers of the wing of a bird, and that most plainly and certainly. +While we were talking came by several poor creatures carried by, by +constables, for being at a conventicle. They go like lambs, without any +resistance. I would to God they would either conform, or be more wise, +and not be catched! Thence parted with him, mightily pleased with his +company, and away homeward, calling at Dan Rawlinson, and supped there +with my uncle Wight, and then home and eat again for form sake with her, +and then to prayers and to bed. + +8th. Up and abroad with Sir W. Batten, by coach to St. James's, where +by the way he did tell me how Sir J. Minnes would many times arrogate +to himself the doing of that that all the Board have equal share in, +and more that to himself which he hath had nothing to do in, and +particularly the late paper given in by him to the Duke, the translation +of a Dutch print concerning the quarrel between us and them, which he +did give as his own when it was Sir Richard Ford's wholly. Also he told +me how Sir W. Pen (it falling in our discourse touching Mrs. Falconer) +was at first very great for Mr. Coventry to bring him in guests, and +that at high rates for places, and very open was he to me therein. After +business done with the Duke, I home to the Coffee-house, and so home to +dinner, and after dinner to hang up my fine pictures in my dining room, +which makes it very pretty, and so my wife and I abroad to the King's +play-house, she giving me her time of the last month, she having not +seen any then; so my vowe is not broke at all, it costing me no more +money than it would have done upon her, had she gone both her times that +were due to her. Here we saw "Flora's Figarys." I never saw it before, +and by the most ingenuous performance of the young jade Flora, it seemed +as pretty a pleasant play as ever I saw in my life. So home to supper, +and then to my office late, Mr. Andrews and I to talk about our +victualling commission, and then he being gone I to set down my four +days past journalls and expenses, and so home to bed. + +9th. Up, and to my office, and there we sat all the morning, at noon +home, and there by appointment Mr. Blagrave came and dined with me, and +brought a friend of his of the Chappell with him. Very merry at dinner, +and then up to my chamber and there we sung a Psalm or two of Lawes's, +then he and I a little talke by ourselves of his kinswoman that is to +come to live with my wife, who is to come about ten days hence, and I +hope will do well. They gone I to my office, and there my head being a +little troubled with the little wine I drank, though mixed with beer, +but it may be a little more than I used to do, and yet I cannot say so, +I went home and spent the afternoon with my wife talking, and then in +the evening a little to my office, and so home to supper and to bed. +This day comes the newes that the Emperour hath beat the Turke; + + [This was the battle of St. Gothard, in which the Turks were + defeated with great slaughter by the imperial forces under + Montecuculli, assisted by the confederates from the Rhine, and by + forty troops of French cavalry under Coligni. St. Gothard is in + Hungary, on the river Raab, near the frontier of Styria; it is about + one hundred and twenty miles south of Vienna, and thirty east of + Gratz. The battle took place on the 9th Moharrem, A.H. 1075, or + 23rd July, A.D. 1664 (old style), which is that used by Pepys.--B.] + +killed the Grand Vizier and several great Bassas, with an army of 80,000 +men killed and routed; with some considerable loss of his own side, +having lost three generals, and the French forces all cut off almost. +Which is thought as good a service to the Emperour as beating the Turke +almost, for had they conquered they would have been as troublesome to +him. + + [The fact is, the Germans were beaten by the Turks, and the French + won the battle for them.--B.] + +10th. Up, and, being ready, abroad to do several small businesses, among +others to find out one to engrave my tables upon my new sliding rule +with silver plates, it being so small that Browne that made it cannot +get one to do it. So I find out Cocker, the famous writing-master, and +get him to do it, and I set an hour by him to see him design it all; and +strange it is to see him with his natural eyes to cut so small at his +first designing it, and read it all over, without any missing, when for +my life I could not, with my best skill, read one word or letter of it; +but it is use. But he says that the best light for his life to do a very +small thing by (contrary to Chaucer's words to the Sun, "that he should +lend his light to them that small seals grave"), it should be by an +artificial light of a candle, set to advantage, as he could do it. +I find the fellow, by his discourse, very ingenuous; and among other +things, a great admirer and well read in all our English poets, and +undertakes to judge of them all, and that not impertinently. Well +pleased with his company and better with his judgement upon my Rule, I +left him and home, whither Mr. Deane by agreement came to me and dined +with me, and by chance Gunner Batters's wife. After dinner Deane and I +[had] great discourse again about my Lord Chancellor's timber, out of +which I wish I may get well. Thence I to Cocker's again, and sat by him +with good discourse again for an hour or two, and then left him, and +by agreement with Captain Silas Taylor (my old acquaintance at the +Exchequer) to the Post Officer to hear some instrument musique of Mr. +Berchenshaw's before my Lord Brunkard and Sir Robert Murray. I must +confess, whether it be that I hear it but seldom, or that really voice +is better, but so it is that I found no pleasure at all in it, and +methought two voyces were worth twenty of it. So home to my office a +while, and then to supper and to bed. + +11th. Up, and through pain, to my great grief forced to wear my gowne +to keep my legs warm. At the office all the morning, and there a high +dispute against Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen about the breadth of canvas +again, they being for the making of it narrower, I and Mr. Coventry and +Sir J. Minnes for the keeping it broader. So home to dinner, and by and +by comes Mr. Creed, lately come from the Downes, and dined with me. I +show him a good countenance, but love him not for his base ingratitude +to me. However, abroad, carried my wife to buy things at the New +Exchange, and so to my Lady Sandwich's, and there merry, talking with +her a great while, and so home, whither comes Cocker with my rule, which +he hath engraved to admiration, for goodness and smallness of work: it +cost me 14s. the doing, and mightily pleased I am with it. By and by, he +gone, comes Mr. Moore and staid talking with me a great while about +my Lord's businesses, which I fear will be in a bad condition for his +family if my Lord should miscarry at sea. He gone, I late to my office, +and cannot forbear admiring and consulting my new rule, and so home to +supper and to bed. This day, for a wager before the King, my Lords of +Castlehaven and Arran (a son of my Lord of Ormond's), they two alone did +run down and kill a stoute bucke in St. James's parke. + +12th. Up, and all the morning busy at the office with Sir W. Warren +about a great contract for New England masts, where I was very hard with +him, even to the making him angry, but I thought it fit to do it as well +as just for my owne [and] the King's behalf. At noon to the 'Change +a little, and so to dinner and then out by coach, setting my wife and +mayde down, going to Stevens the silversmith to change some old silver +lace and to go buy new silke lace for a petticoat; I to White Hall and +did much business at a Tangier Committee; where, among other things, +speaking about propriety of the houses there, and how we ought to let +the Portugeses I have right done them, as many of them as continue, or +did sell the houses while they were in possession, and something further +in their favour, the Duke in an anger I never observed in him before, +did cry, says he, "All the world rides us, and I think we shall never +ride anybody." Thence home, and, though late, yet Pedro being there, he +sang a song and parted. I did give him 5s., but find it burdensome and +so will break up the meeting. At night is brought home our poor Fancy, +which to my great grief continues lame still, so that I wish she had not +been brought ever home again, for it troubles me to see her. + +13th. Up, and before I went to the office comes my Taylor with a coate +I have made to wear within doors, purposely to come no lower than my +knees, for by my wearing a gowne within doors comes all my tenderness +about my legs. There comes also Mr. Reeve, with a microscope and +scotoscope. + + [An optical instrument used to enable objects to be seen in the + dark. The name is derived from the Greek.] + +For the first I did give him L5 10s., a great price, but a most curious +bauble it is, and he says, as good, nay, the best he knows in England, +and he makes the best in the world. The other he gives me, and is of +value; and a curious curiosity it is to look objects in a darke room +with. Mightly pleased with this I to the office, where all the morning. +There offered by Sir W. Pen his coach to go to Epsum and carry my wife, +I stept out and bade my wife make her ready, but being not very well and +other things advising me to the contrary, I did forbear going, and so +Mr. Creed dining with me I got him to give my wife and me a play this +afternoon, lending him money to do it, which is a fallacy that I have +found now once, to avoyde my vowe with, but never to be more practised I +swear, and to the new play, at the Duke's house, of "Henry the Fifth;" a +most noble play, writ by my Lord Orrery; wherein Betterton, Harris, and +Ianthe's parts are most incomparably wrote and done, and the whole +play the most full of height and raptures of wit and sense, that ever +I heard; having but one incongruity, or what did, not please me in it, +that is, that King Harry promises to plead for Tudor to their Mistresse, +Princesse Katherine of France, more than when it comes to it he seems +to do; and Tudor refused by her with some kind of indignity, not with a +difficulty and honour that it ought to have been done in to him. Thence +home and to my office, wrote by the post, and then to read a little in +Dr. Power's book of discovery by the Microscope to enable me a little +how to use and what to expect from my glasse. So to supper and to bed. + +14th (Lord's day). After long lying discoursing with my wife, I up, +and comes Mr. Holliard to see me, who concurs with me that my pain is +nothing but cold in my legs breeding wind, and got only by my using to +wear a gowne, and that I am not at all troubled with any ulcer, but my +thickness of water comes from my overheat in my back. He gone, comes Mr. +Herbert, Mr. Honiwood's man, and dined with me, a very honest, plain, +well-meaning man, I think him to be; and by his discourse and manner of +life, the true embleme of an old ordinary serving-man. After dinner up +to my chamber and made an end of Dr. Power's booke of the Microscope, +very fine and to my content, and then my wife and I with great pleasure, +but with great difficulty before we could come to find the manner of +seeing any thing by my microscope. At last did with good content, though +not so much as I expect when I come to understand it better. By and by +comes W. Joyce, in his silke suit, and cloake lined with velvett: +staid talking with me, and I very merry at it. He supped with me; but a +cunning, crafty fellow he is, and dangerous to displease, for his tongue +spares nobody. After supper I up to read a little, and then to bed. + +15th. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes by coach to St. James's, and there did +our business with the Duke, who tells us more and more signs of a Dutch +warr, and how we must presently set out a fleete for Guinny, for the +Dutch are doing so, and there I believe the warr will begin. Thence home +with him again, in our way he talking of his cures abroad, while he was +with the King as a doctor, and above all men the pox. And among others, +Sir J. Denham he told me he had cured, after it was come to an ulcer +all over his face, to a miracle. To the Coffee-house I, and so to the +'Change a little, and then home to dinner with Creed, whom I met at the +Coffee-house, and after dinner by coach set him down at the Temple, and +I and my wife to Mr. Blagrave's. They being none of them at home; I to +the Hall, leaving her there, and thence to the Trumpett, whither came +Mrs. Lane, and there begins a sad story how her husband, as I feared, +proves not worth a farthing, and that she is with child and undone, if I +do not get him a place. I had my pleasure here of her, and she, like an +impudent jade, depends upon my kindness to her husband, but I will have +no more to do with her, let her brew as she has baked, seeing she would +not take my counsel about Hawly. After drinking we parted, and I to +Blagrave's, and there discoursed with Mrs. Blagrave about her kinswoman, +who it seems is sickly even to frantiqueness sometimes, and among +other things chiefly from love and melancholy upon the death of her +servant,--[Servant = lover.]--insomuch that she telling us all most +simply and innocently I fear she will not be able to come to us with any +pleasure, which I am sorry for, for I think she would have pleased us +very well. In comes he, and so to sing a song and his niece with us, +but she sings very meanly. So through the Hall and thence by coach home, +calling by the way at Charing Crosse, and there saw the great Dutchman +that is come over, under whose arm I went with my hat on, and could not +reach higher than his eye-browes with the tip of my fingers, reaching as +high as I could. He is a comely and well-made man, and his wife a very +little, but pretty comely Dutch woman. It is true, he wears pretty +high-heeled shoes, but not very high, and do generally wear a turbant, +which makes him show yet taller than really he is, though he is very +tall, as I have said before. Home to my office, and then to supper, and +then to my office again late, and so home to bed, my wife and I troubled +that we do not speed better in this business of her woman. + +16th. Wakened about two o'clock this morning with the noise of thunder, +which lasted for an houre, with such continued lightnings, not flashes, +but flames, that all the sky and ayre was light; and that for a great +while, not a minute's space between new flames all the time; such a +thing as I never did see, nor could have believed had ever been in +nature. And being put into a great sweat with it, could not sleep till +all was over. And that accompanied with such a storm of rain as I never +heard in my life. I expected to find my house in the morning overflowed +with the rain breaking in, and that much hurt must needs have been done +in the city with this lightning; but I find not one drop of rain in my +house, nor any newes of hurt done. But it seems it has been here and +all up and down the countrie hereabouts the like tempest, Sir W. Batten +saying much of the greatness thereof at Epsum. Up and all the morning at +the office. At noon busy at the 'Change about one business or other, and +thence home to dinner, and so to my office all the afternoon very busy, +and so to supper anon, and then to my office again a while, collecting +observations out of Dr. Power's booke of Microscopes, and so home to +bed, very stormy weather to-night for winde. This day we had newes that +my Lady Pen is landed and coming hither, so that I hope the family will +be in better order and more neate than it hath been. + +17th. Up, and going to Sir W. Batten to speak to him about business, +he did give me three, bottles of his Epsum water, which I drank and +it wrought well with me, and did give me many good stools, and I found +myself mightily cooled with them and refreshed. Thence I to Mr. Honiwood +and my father's old house, but he was gone out, and there I staid +talking with his man Herbert, who tells me how Langford and his wife are +very foul-mouthed people, and will speak very ill of my father, calling +him old rogue in reference to the hard penniworths he sold him of his +goods when the rogue need not have bought any of them. So that I am +resolved he shall get no more money by me, but it vexes me to think that +my father should be said to go away in debt himself, but that I will +cause to be remedied whatever comes of it. Thence to my Lord Crew, and +there with him a little while. Before dinner talked of the Dutch war, +and find that he do much doubt that we shall fall into it without the +money or consent of Parliament, that is expected or the reason of it +that is fit to have for every warr. Dined with him, and after dinner +talked with Sir Thomas Crew, who told me how Mr. Edward Montagu is +for ever blown up, and now quite out with his father again; to whom +he pretended that his going down was, not that he was cast out of the +Court, but that he had leave to be absent a month; but now he finds the +truth. Thence to my Lady Sandwich, where by agreement my wife dined, and +after talking with her I carried my wife to Mr. Pierce's and left her +there, and so to Captain Cooke's, but he was not at home, but I there +spoke with my boy Tom Edwards, and directed him to go to Mr. Townsend +(with whom I was in the morning) to have measure taken of his clothes to +be made him there out of the Wardrobe, which will be so done, and then +I think he will come to me. Thence to White Hall, and after long staying +there was no Committee of the Fishery as was expected. Here I walked +long with Mr. Pierce, who tells me the King do still sup every night +with my Lady Castlemayne, who he believes has lately slunk a great belly +away, for from very big she is come to be down again. Thence to Mrs. +Pierce's, and with her and my wife to see Mrs. Clarke, where with him +and her very merry discoursing of the late play of Henry the 5th, which +they conclude the best that ever was made, but confess with me that +Tudor's being dismissed in the manner he is is a great blemish to the +play. I am mightily pleased with the Doctor, for he is the only man I +know that I could learn to pronounce by, which he do the best that ever +I heard any man. Thence home and to the office late, and so to supper +and to bed. My Lady Pen came hither first to-night to Sir W. Pen's +lodgings. + +18th. Lay too long in bed, till 8 o'clock, then up and Mr. Reeve came +and brought an anchor and a very fair loadstone. He would have had me +bought it, and a good stone it is, but when he saw that I would not +buy it he said he [would] leave it for me to sell for him. By and by he +comes to tell me that he had present occasion for L6 to make up a sum, +and that he would pay me in a day or two, but I had the unusual wit to +deny him, and so by and by we parted, and I to the office, where busy +all the morning sitting. Dined alone at home, my wife going to-day to +dine with Mrs. Pierce, and thence with her and Mrs. Clerke to see a new +play, "The Court Secret." I busy all the afternoon, toward evening +to Westminster, and there in the Hall a while, and then to my barber, +willing to have any opportunity to speak to Jane, but wanted it. So to +Mrs. Pierces, who was come home, and she and Mrs. Clerke busy at cards, +so my wife being gone home, I home, calling by the way at the Wardrobe +and met Mr. Townsend, Mr. Moore and others at the Taverne thereby, and +thither I to them and spoke with Mr. Townsend about my boy's clothes, +which he says shall be soon done, and then I hope I shall be settled +when I have one in the house that is musicall. So home and to supper, +and then a little to my office, and then home to bed. My wife says the +play she saw is the worst that ever she saw in her life. + +19th. Up and to the office, where Mr. Coventry and Sir W. Pen and I sat +all the morning hiring of ships to go to Guinny, where we believe the +warr with Holland will first break out. At noon dined at home, and after +dinner my wife and I to Sir W. Pen's, to see his Lady, the first time, +who is a well-looked, fat, short, old Dutchwoman, but one that hath been +heretofore pretty handsome, and is now very discreet, and, I believe, +hath more wit than her husband. Here we staid talking a good while, and +very well pleased I was with the old woman at first visit. So away home, +and I to my office, my wife to go see my aunt Wight, newly come to town. +Creed came to me, and he and I out, among other things, to look out a +man to make a case, for to keep my stone, that I was cut of, in, and he +to buy Daniel's history, which he did, but I missed of my end. So parted +upon Ludgate Hill, and I home and to the office, where busy till supper, +and home to supper to a good dish of fritters, which I bespoke, and were +done much to my mind. Then to the office a while again, and so home +to bed. The newes of the Emperour's victory over the Turkes is by some +doubted, but by most confessed to be very small (though great) of what +was talked, which was 80,000 men to be killed and taken of the Turke's +side. + +20th. Up and to the office a while, but this day the Parliament meeting +only to be adjourned to November (which was done, accordingly), we did +not meet, and so I forth to bespeak a case to be made to keep my stone +in, which will cost me 25s. Thence I walked to Cheapside, there to see +the effect of a fire there this morning, since four o'clock; which I +find in the house of Mr. Bois, that married Dr. Fuller's niece, who are +both out of towne, leaving only a mayde and man in towne. It begun in +their house, and hath burned much and many houses backward, though none +forward; and that in the great uniform pile of buildings in the middle +of Cheapside. I am very sorry for them, for the Doctor's sake. Thence +to the 'Change, and so home to dinner. And thence to Sir W. Batten's, +whither Sir Richard Ford came, the Sheriffe, who hath been at this fire +all the while; and he tells me, upon my question, that he and the Mayor +were there, as it is their dutys to be, not only to keep the peace, but +they have power of commanding the pulling down of any house or houses, +to defend the whole City. By and by comes in the Common Cryer of the +City to speak with him; and when he was gone, says he, "You may see +by this man the constitution of the Magistracy of this City; that this +fellow's place, I dare give him (if he will be true to me) L1000 for +his profits every year, and expect to get L500 more to myself thereby. +When," says he, "I in myself am forced to spend many times as much." By +and by came Mr. Coventry, and so we met at the office, to hire ships for +Guinny, and that done broke up. I to Sir W. Batten's, there to discourse +with Mrs. Falconer, who hath been with Sir W. Pen this evening, after +Mr. Coventry had promised her half what W. Bodham had given him for his +place, but Sir W. Pen, though he knows that, and that Mr. Bodham hath +said that his place hath cost him L100 and would L100 more, yet is he +so high against the poor woman that he will not hear to give her a +farthing, but it seems do listen after a lease where he expects Mr. +Falconer hath put in his daughter's life, and he is afraid that that is +not done, and did tell Mrs. Falconer that he would see it and know what +is done therein in spite of her, when, poor wretch, she neither do nor +can hinder him the knowing it. Mr. Coventry knows of this business of +the lease, and I believe do think of it as well as I. But the poor woman +is gone home without any hope, but only Mr. Coventry's own nobleness. So +I to my office and wrote many letters, and so to supper and to bed. + +21st (Lord's day). Waked about 4 o'clock with my wife, having a +looseness, and peoples coming in the yard to the pump to draw water +several times, so that fear of this day's fire made me fearful, and +called Besse and sent her down to see, and it was Griffin's maid for +water to wash her house. So to sleep again, and then lay talking till +9 o'clock. So up and drunk three bottles of Epsum water, which wrought +well with me. I all the morning and most of the afternoon after dinner +putting papers to rights in my chamber, and the like in the evening till +night at my office, and renewing and writing fair over my vowes. So home +to supper, prayers, and to bed. Mr. Coventry told us the Duke was gone +ill of a fit of an ague to bed; so we sent this morning to see how he +do. + + [Elizabeth Falkener, wife of John Falkener, announced to Pepys the + death of "her dear and loving husband" in a letter dated July 19th, + 1664 "begs interest that she may be in something considered by the + person succeeding her husband in his employment, which has + occasioned great expenses." ("Calendar of State Papers," Domestic, + 1663-64, p. 646)] + +22nd. Up and abroad, doing very many errands to my great content which +lay as burdens upon my mind and memory. Home to dinner, and so to +White Hall, setting down my wife at her father's, and I to the Tangier +Committee, where several businesses I did to my mind, and with hopes +thereby to get something. So to Westminster Hall, where by appointment +I had made I met with Dr. Tom Pepys, but avoided all discourse of +difference with him, though much against my will, and he like a doating +coxcomb as he is, said he could not but demand his money, and that he +would have his right, and that let all anger be forgot, and such sorry +stuff, nothing to my mind, but only I obtained this satisfaction, that +he told me about Sturbridge last was 12 months or 2 years he was at +Brampton, and there my father did tell him that what he had done for my +brother in giving him his goods and setting him up as he had done was +upon condition that he should give my brother John L20 per ann., which +he charged upon my father, he tells me in answer, as a great deal of +hard measure that he should expect that with him that had a brother so +able as I am to do that for him. This is all that he says he can say as +to my father's acknowledging that he had given Tom his goods. He says +his brother Roger will take his oath that my father hath given him +thanks for his counsel for his giving of Tom his goods and setting him +up in the manner that he hath done, but the former part of this he did +not speak fully so bad nor as certain what he could say. So we walked +together to my cozen Joyce's, where my wife staid for me, and then I +home and her by coach, and so to my office, then to supper and to bed. + +23rd. Lay long talking with my wife, and angry awhile about her desiring +to have a French mayde all of a sudden, which I took to arise from +yesterday's being with her mother. But that went over and friends again, +and so she be well qualitied, I care not much whether she be French or +no, so a Protestant. Thence to the office, and at noon to the 'Change, +where very busy getting ships for Guinny and for Tangier. So home to +dinner, and then abroad all the afternoon doing several errands, to +comply with my oath of ending many businesses before Bartholomew's day, +which is two days hence. Among others I went into New Bridewell, in my +way to Mr. Cole, and there I saw the new model, and it is very handsome. +Several at work, among others, one pretty whore brought in last night, +which works very lazily. I did give them 6d. to drink, and so away. To +Graye's Inn, but missed Mr. Cole, and so homeward called at Harman's, +and there bespoke some chairs for a room, and so home, and busy late, +and then to supper and to bed. The Dutch East India Fleete are now +come home safe, which we are sorry for. Our Fleets on both sides are +hastening out to Guinny. + +24th. Up by six o'clock, and to my office with Tom Hater dispatching +business in haste. At nine o'clock to White Hall about Mr. Maes's +business at the Council, which stands in an ill condition still. Thence +to Graye's Inn, but missed of Mr. Cole the lawyer, and so walked home, +calling among the joyners in Wood Streete to buy a table and bade in +many places, but did not buy it till I come home to see the place where +it is to stand, to judge how big it must be. So after 'Change home and a +good dinner, and then to White Hall to a Committee of the Fishery, where +my Lord Craven and Mr. Gray mightily against Mr. Creed's being joined +in the warrant for Secretary with Mr. Duke. However I did get it put +off till the Duke of Yorke was there, and so broke up doing nothing. So +walked home, first to the Wardrobe, and there saw one suit of clothes +made for my boy and linen set out, and I think to have him the latter +end of this week, and so home, Mr. Creed walking the greatest part +of the way with me advising what to do in his case about his being +Secretary to us in conjunction with Duke, which I did give him the best +I could, and so home and to my office, where very much business, and +then home to supper and to bed. + +25th. Up and to the office after I had spoke to my taylor, Langford (who +came to me about some work), desiring to know whether he knew of any +debts that my father did owe of his own in the City. He tells me, "No, +not any." I did on purpose try him because of what words he and his wife +have said of him (as Herbert told me the other day), and further did +desire him, that if he knew of any or could hear of any that he should +bid them come to me, and I would pay them, for I would not that because +he do not pay my brother's debts that therefore he should be thought +to deny the payment of his owne. All the morning at the office busy. At +noon to the 'Change, among other things busy to get a little by the hire +of a ship for Tangier. So home to dinner, and after dinner comes +Mr. Cooke to see me; it is true he was kind to me at sea in carrying +messages to and fro to my wife from sea, but I did do him kindnesses +too, and therefore I matter not much to compliment or make any regard +of his thinking me to slight him as I do for his folly about my brother +Tom's mistress. After dinner and some talk with him, I to my office; +there busy, till by and by Jacke Noble came to me to tell me that he had +Cave in prison, and that he would give me and my father good security +that neither we nor any of our family should be troubled with the child; +for he could prove that he was fully satisfied for him; and that if the +worst came to the worst, the parish must keep it; that Cave did bring +the child to his house, but they got it carried back again, and that +thereupon he put him in prison. When he saw that I would not pay him +the money, nor made anything of being secured against the child, he then +said that then he must go to law, not himself, but come in as a witness +for Cave against us. I could have told him that he could bear witness +that Cave is satisfied, or else there is no money due to himself; but +I let alone any such discourse, only getting as much out of him as I +could. I perceive he is a rogue, and hath inquired into everything and +consulted with Dr. Pepys, and that he thinks as Dr. Pepys told him that +my father if he could would not pay a farthing of the debts, and yet I +made him confess that in all his lifetime he never knew my father to be +asked for money twice, nay, not once, all the time he lived with him, +and that for his own debts he believed he would do so still, but he +meant only for those of Tom. He said now that Randall and his wife and +the midwife could prove from my brother's own mouth that the child was +his, and that Tom had told them the circumstances of time, upon November +5th at night, that he got it on her. I offered him if he would secure +my father against being forced to pay the money again I would pay him, +which at first he would do, give his own security, and when I asked more +than his own he told me yes he would, and those able men, subsidy men, +but when we came by and by to discourse of it again he would not then do +it, but said he would take his course, and joyne with Cave and release +him, and so we parted. However, this vexed me so as I could not be +quiet, but took coach to go speak with Mr. Cole, but met him not within, +so back, buying a table by the way, and at my office late, and then home +to supper and to bed, my mind disordered about this roguish business--in +every thing else, I thank God, well at ease. + +26th. Up by 5 o'clock, which I have not been many a day, and down by +water to Deptford, and there took in Mr. Pumpfield the rope-maker, and +down with him to Woolwich to view Clothier's cordage, which I found bad +and stopped the receipt of it. Thence to the ropeyard, and there among +other things discoursed with Mrs. Falconer, who tells me that she has +found the writing, and Sir W. Pen's daughter is not put into the +lease for her life as he expected, and I am glad of it. Thence to the +Dockyarde, and there saw the new ship in very great forwardness, and so +by water to Deptford a little, and so home and shifting myself, to the +'Change, and there did business, and thence down by water to White Hall, +by the way, at the Three Cranes, putting into an alehouse and eat a bit +of bread and cheese. There I could not get into the Parke, and so was +fain to stay in the gallery over the gate to look to the passage into +the Parke, into which the King hath forbid of late anybody's coming, to +watch his coming that had appointed me to come, which he did by and by +with his lady and went to Guardener's Lane, and there instead of meeting +with one that was handsome and could play well, as they told me, she is +the ugliest beast and plays so basely as I never heard anybody, so that +I should loathe her being in my house. However, she took us by and by +and showed us indeed some pictures at one Hiseman's, a picture drawer, a +Dutchman, which is said to exceed Lilly, and indeed there is both of +the Queenes and Mayds of Honour (particularly Mrs. Stewart's in a buff +doublet like a soldier) as good pictures, I think, as ever I saw. +The Queene is drawn in one like a shepherdess, in the other like St. +Katharin, most like and most admirably. I was mightily pleased with this +sight indeed, and so back again to their lodgings, where I left them, +but before I went this mare that carried me, whose name I know not but +that they call him Sir John, a pitiful fellow, whose face I have long +known but upon what score I know not, but he could have the confidence +to ask me to lay down money for him to renew the lease of his house, +which I did give eare to there because I was there receiving a civility +from him, but shall not part with my money. There I left them, and I by +water home, where at my office busy late, then home to supper, and so to +bed. This day my wife tells me Mr. Pen, + + [William Penn, afterwards the famous Quaker. P. Gibson, writing to + him in March, 1711-12, says: "I remember your honour very well, + when you newly came out of France and wore pantaloon breeches"] + +Sir William's son, is come back from France, and come to visit her. A +most modish person, grown, she says, a fine gentleman. + +27th. Up and to the office, where all the morning. At noon to the +'Change, and there almost made my bargain about a ship for Tangier, +which will bring me in a little profit with Captain Taylor. Off the +'Change with Mr. Cutler and Sir W. Rider to Cutler's house, and there +had a very good dinner, and two or three pretty young ladies of their +relations there. Thence to my case-maker for my stone case, and had it +to my mind, and cost me 24s., which is a great deale of money, but it is +well done and pleases me. So doing some other small errands I home, and +there find my boy, Tom Edwards, come, sent me by Captain Cooke, having +been bred in the King's Chappell these four years. I propose to make a +clerke of him, and if he deserves well, to do well by him. Spent much +of the afternoon to set his chamber in order, and then to the office +leaving him at home, and late at night after all business was done I +called Will and told him my reason of taking a boy, and that it is +of necessity, not out of any unkindness to him, nor should be to his +injury, and then talked about his landlord's daughter to come to my +wife, and I think it will be. So home and find my boy a very schoole +boy, that talks innocently and impertinently, but at present it is a +sport to us, and in a little time he will leave it. So sent him to bed, +he saying that he used to go to bed at eight o'clock, and then all of +us to bed, myself pretty well pleased with my choice of a boy. All the +newes this day is, that the Dutch are, with twenty-two sayle of ships +of warr, crewsing up and down about Ostend; at which we are alarmed. My +Lord Sandwich is come back into the Downes with only eight sayle, +which is or may be a prey to the Dutch, if they knew our weakness and +inability to set out any more speedily. + +28th (Lord's day). Up the first time I have had great while. Home to +dined, and with my boy alone to church anybody to attend me to church a +dinner, and there met Creed, who, and we merry together, as his learning +is such and judgment that I cannot but be pleased with it. After dinner +I took him to church, into our gallery, with me, but slept the best part +of the sermon, which was a most silly one. So he and I to walk to the +'Change a while, talking from one pleasant discourse to another, and +so home, and thither came my uncle Wight and aunt, and supped with us +mighty merry. And Creed lay with us all night, and so to bed, very merry +to think how Mr. Holliard (who came in this evening to see me) makes +nothing, but proving as a most clear thing that Rome is Antichrist. + +29th. Up betimes, intending to do business at my office, by 5 o'clock, +but going out met at my door Mr. Hughes come to speak with me about +office business, and told me that as he came this morning from Deptford +he left the King's yarde a-fire. So I presently took a boat and down, +and there found, by God's providence, the fire out; but if there had +been any wind it must have burned all our stores, which is a most +dreadfull consideration. But leaving all things well I home, and out +abroad doing many errands, Mr. Creed also out, and my wife to her +mother's, and Creed and I met at my Lady Sandwich's and there dined; but +my Lady is become as handsome, I think, as ever she was; and so good and +discreet a woman I know not in the world. After dinner I to Westminster +to Jervas's a while, and so doing many errands by the way, and necessary +ones, I home, and thither came the woman with her mother which our Will +recommends to my wife. I like her well, and I think will please us. My +wife and they agreed, and she is to come the next week. At which I am +very well contented, for then I hope we shall be settled, but I must +remember that, never since I was housekeeper, I ever lived so quietly, +without any noise or one angry word almost, as I have done since my +present mayds Besse, Jane, and Susan came and were together. Now I have +taken a boy and am taking a woman, I pray God we may not be worse, but I +will observe it. After being at my office a while, home to supper and to +bed. + +30th. Up and to the office, where sat long, and at noon to dinner at +home; after dinner comes Mr. Pen to visit me, and staid an houre talking +with me. I perceive something of learning he hath got, but a great +deale, if not too much, of the vanity of the French garbe and affected +manner of speech and gait. I fear all real profit he hath made of his +travel will signify little. So, he gone, I to my office and there very +busy till late at night, and so home to supper and to bed. + +31st. Up by five o'clock and to my office, where T. Hater and Will met +me, and so we dispatched a great deal of my business as to the ordering +my papers and books which were behindhand. All the morning very busy at +my office. At noon home to dinner, and there my wife hath got me some +pretty good oysters, which is very soon and the soonest, I think, I ever +eat any. After dinner I up to hear my boy play upon a lute, which I have +this day borrowed of Mr. Hunt; and indeed the boy would, with little +practice, play very well upon the lute, which pleases me well. So by +coach to the Tangier Committee, and there have another small business by +which I may get a little small matter of money. Staid but little there, +and so home and to my office, where late casting up my monthly accounts, +and, blessed be God! find myself worth L1020, which is still the most I +ever was worth. So home and to bed. Prince Rupert I hear this day is to +go to command this fleete going to Guinny against the Dutch. I doubt few +will be pleased with his going, being accounted an unhappy' man. My mind +at good rest, only my father's troubles with Dr. Pepys and my brother +Tom's creditors in general do trouble me. I have got a new boy that +understands musique well, as coming to me from the King's Chappell, and +I hope will prove a good boy, and my wife and I are upon having a woman, +which for her content I am contented to venture upon the charge of +again, and she is one that our' Will finds out for us, and understands +a little musique, and I think will please us well, only her friends live +too near us. Pretty well in health, since I left off wearing of a gowne +within doors all day, and then go out with my legs into the cold, which +brought me daily pain. + + + + +SEPTEMBER 1664 + +Sept. 1st. A sad rainy night, up and to the office, where busy all +the morning. At noon to the 'Change and thence brought Mr. Pierce, the +Surgeon, and Creed, and dined very merry and handsomely; but my wife +not being well of those she not with us; and we cut up the great cake +Moorcocke lately sent us, which is very good. They gone I to my office, +and there very busy till late at night, and so home to supper and to +bed. + +2nd. Up very betimes and walked (my boy with me) to Mr. Cole's, and +after long waiting below, he being under the barber's hands, I spoke +with him, and he did give me much hopes of getting my debt that my +brother owed me, and also that things would go well with my father. But +going to his attorney's, that he directed me to, they tell me both that +though I could bring my father to a confession of a judgment, yet he +knowing that there are specialties out against him he is bound to plead +his knowledge of them to me before he pays me, or else he must do it in +his own wrong. I took a great deal of pains this morning in the thorough +understanding hereof, and hope that I know the truth of our case, though +it be but bad, yet better than to run spending money and all to no +purpose. However, I will inquire a little more. Walked home, doing very +many errands by the way to my great content, and at the 'Change met +and spoke with several persons about serving us with pieces of eight at +Tangier. So home to dinner above stairs, my wife not being well of those +in bed. I dined by her bedside, but I got her to rise and abroad with +me by coach to Bartholomew Fayre, and our boy with us, and there shewed +them and myself the dancing on the ropes, and several other the best +shows; but pretty it is to see how our boy carries himself so innocently +clownish as would make one laugh. Here till late and dark, then up and +down, to buy combes for my wife to give her mayds, and then by coach +home, and there at the office set down my day's work, and then home to +bed. + +3rd. I have had a bad night's rest to-night, not sleeping well, as my +wife observed, and once or twice she did wake me, and I thought myself +to be mightily bit with fleas, and in the morning she chid her mayds for +not looking the fleas a-days. But, when I rose, I found that it is only +the change of the weather from hot to cold, which, as I was two winters +ago, do stop my pores, and so my blood tingles and itches all day all +over my body, and so continued to-day all the day long just as I was +then, and if it continues to be so cold I fear I must come to the same +pass, but sweating cured me then, and I hope, and am told, will this +also. At the office sat all the morning, dined at home, and after dinner +to White Hall, to the Fishing Committee, but not above four of us met, +which could do nothing, and a sad thing it is to see so great a work so +ill followed, for at this pace it can come to any thing at first sight. +Mr. Hill came to tell me that he had got a gentlewoman for my wife, one +Mrs. Ferrabosco, that sings most admirably. I seemed glad of it; but +I hear she is too gallant for me, and I am not sorry that I misse her. +Thence to the office, setting some papers right, and so home to supper +and to bed, after prayers. + +5th. Up and to St. James's, and there did our business with the Duke; +where all our discourse of warr in the highest measure. Prince Rupert +was with us; who is fitting himself to go to sea in the Heneretta. And +afterwards in White Hall I met him and Mr. Gray, and he spoke to me, +and in other discourse, says he, "God damn me, I can answer but for +one ship, and in that I will do my part; for it is not in that as in an +army, where a man can command every thing." By and by to a Committee +for the Fishery, the Duke of Yorke there, where, after Duke was made +Secretary, we fell to name a Committee, whereof I was willing to be one, +because I would have my hand in the business, to understand it and be +known in doing something in it; and so, after cutting out work for the +Committee, we rose, and I to my wife to Unthanke's, and with her from +shop to shop, laying out near L10 this morning in clothes for her. +And so I to the 'Change, where a while, and so home and to dinner, and +thither came W. Bowyer and dined with us; but strange to see how he +could not endure onyons in sauce to lamb, but was overcome with the +sight of it, and so-was forced to make his dinner of an egg or two. He +tells us how Mrs. Lane is undone, by her marrying so bad, and desires to +speak with me, which I know is wholly to get me to do something for her +to get her husband a place, which he is in no wise fit for. After dinner +down to Woolwich with a gaily, and then to Deptford, and so home, all +the way reading Sir J. Suck[l]ing's "Aglaura," which, methinks, is but a +mean play; nothing of design in it. Coming home it is strange to see how +I was troubled to find my wife, but in a necessary compliment, expecting +Mr. Pen to see her, who had been there and was by her people denied, +which, he having been three times, she thought not fit he should be any +more. But yet even this did raise my jealousy presently and much vex me. +However, he did not come, which pleased me, and I to supper, and to the +office till 9 o'clock or thereabouts, and so home to bed. My aunt James +had been here to-day with Kate Joyce twice to see us. The second time my +wife was at home, and they it seems are going down to Brampton, which I +am sorry for, for the charge that my father will be put to. But it must +be borne with, and my mother has a mind to see them, but I do condemn +myself mightily for my pride and contempt of my aunt and kindred that +are not so high as myself, that I have not seen her all this while, nor +invited her all this while. + +6th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon home +to dinner, then to my office and there waited, thinking to have had +Bagwell's wife come to me about business, that I might have talked with +her, but she came not. So I to White Hall by coach with Mr. Andrews, +and there I got his contract for the victualling of Tangier signed and +sealed by us there, so that all the business is well over, and I hope +to have made a good business of it and to receive L100 by it the next +weeke, for which God be praised! Thence to W. Joyce's and Anthony's, to +invite them to dinner to meet my aunt James at my house, and the rather +because they are all to go down to my father the next weeke, and so I +would be a little kind to them before they go. So home, having called +upon Doll, our pretty 'Change woman, for a pair of gloves trimmed with +yellow ribbon, to [match the] petticoate my wife bought yesterday, which +cost me 20s.; but she is so pretty, that, God forgive me! I could not +think it too much--which is a strange slavery that I stand in to beauty, +that I value nothing near it. So going home, and my coach stopping in +Newgate Market over against a poulterer's shop, I took occasion to buy +a rabbit, but it proved a deadly old one when I came to eat it, as I did +do after an hour being at my office, and after supper again there till +past 11 at night. So home,, and to bed. This day Mr. Coventry did tell +us how the Duke did receive the Dutch Embassador the other day; by +telling him that, whereas they think us in jest, he believes that the +Prince (Rupert) which goes in this fleete to Guinny will soon tell them +that we are in earnest, and that he himself will do the like here, in +the head of the fleete here at home, and that for the meschants, which +he told the Duke there were in England, which did hope to do themselves +good by the King's being at warr, says he, the English have ever united +all this private difference to attend foraigne, and that Cromwell, +notwithstanding the meschants in his time, which were the Cavaliers, did +never find them interrupt him in his foraigne businesses, and that he +did not doubt but to live to see the Dutch as fearfull of provoking the +English, under the government of a King, as he remembers them to have +been under that of a Coquin. I writ all this story to my Lord Sandwich +tonight into the Downes, it being very good and true, word for word from +Mr. Coventry to-day. + +7th. Lay long to-day, pleasantly discoursing with my wife about the +dinner we are to have for the Joyces, a day or two hence. Then up and +with Mr. Margetts to Limehouse to see his ground and ropeyarde there, +which is very fine, and I believe we shall employ it for the Navy, for +the King's grounds are not sufficient to supply our defence if a warr +comes. Thence back to the 'Change, where great talke of the forwardnesse +of the Dutch, which puts us all to a stand, and particularly myself for +my Lord Sandwich, to think him to lie where he is for a sacrifice, if +they should begin with us. So home and Creed with me, and to dinner, and +after dinner I out to my office, taking in Bagwell's wife, who I knew +waited for me, but company came to me so soon that I could have no +discourse with her, as I intended, of pleasure. So anon abroad with +Creed walked to Bartholomew Fayre, this being the last day, and there +saw the best dancing on the ropes that I think I ever saw in my life, +and so all say, and so by coach home, where I find my wife hath had her +head dressed by her woman, Mercer, which is to come to her to-morrow, +but my wife being to go to a christening tomorrow, she came to do her +head up to-night. So a while to my office, and then to supper and to +bed. + +8th. Up and to the office, where busy all the morning. At noon dined at +home, and I by water down to Woolwich by a galley, and back again in the +evening. All haste made in setting out this Guinny fleete, but yet not +such as will ever do the King's business if we come to a warr. My wife +this afternoon being very well dressed by her new woman, Mary Mercer, +a decayed merchant's daughter that our Will helps us to, did go to the +christening of Mrs. Mills, the parson's wife's child, where she never +was before. After I was come home Mr. Povey came to me and took me out +to supper to Mr. Bland's, who is making now all haste to be gone for +Tangier. Here pretty merry, and good discourse, fain to admire the +knowledge and experience of Mrs. Bland, who I think as good a merchant +as her husband. I went home and there find Mercer, whose person I like +well, and I think will do well, at least I hope so. So to my office a +while and then to bed. + +9th. Up, and to put things in order against dinner. I out and bought +several things, among others, a dozen of silver salts; home, and to the +office, where some of us met a little, and then home, and at noon comes +my company, namely, Anthony and Will Joyce and their wives, my aunt +James newly come out of Wales, and my cozen Sarah Gyles. Her husband did +not come, and by her I did understand afterwards, that it was because he +was not yet able to pay me the 40s. she had borrowed a year ago of me. + + [Pepys would have been more proud of his cousin had he anticipated + her husband's becoming a knight, for she was probably the same + person whose burial is recorded in the register of St. Helen's, + Bishopsgate, September 4th, 1704: "Dame Sarah Gyles, widow, relict + of Sir John Gyles."--B.] + +I was as merry as I could, giving them a good dinner; but W. Joyce did +so talk, that he made every body else dumb, but only laugh at him. I +forgot there was Mr. Harman and his wife, my aunt, a very good harmlesse +woman. All their talke is of her and my two she-cozen Joyces and Will's +little boy Will (who was also here to-day), down to Brampton to my +father's next week, which will be trouble and charge to them, but +however my father and mother desire to see them, and so let them. They +eyed mightily my great cupboard of plate, I this day putting my two +flaggons upon my table; and indeed it is a fine sight, and better than +ever I did hope to see of my owne. Mercer dined with us at table, this +being her first dinner in my house. After dinner left them and to White +Hall, where a small Tangier Committee, and so back again home, and there +my wife and Mercer and Tom and I sat till eleven at night, singing and +fiddling, and a great joy it is to see me master of so much pleasure in +my house, that it is and will be still, I hope, a constant pleasure to +me to be at home. The girle plays pretty well upon the harpsicon, but +only ordinary tunes, but hath a good hand; sings a little, but hath a +good voyce and eare. My boy, a brave boy, sings finely, and is the most +pleasant boy at present, while his ignorant boy's tricks last, that ever +I saw. So to supper, and with great pleasure to bed. + +10th. Up and to the office, where we sate all the morning, and I much +troubled to think what the end of our great sluggishness will be, for we +do nothing in this office like people able to carry on a warr. We must +be put out, or other people put in. Dined at home, and then my wife and +I and Mercer to the Duke's house, and there saw "The Rivalls," which is +no excellent play, but good acting in it; especially Gosnell comes and +sings and dances finely, but, for all that, fell out of the key, so that +the musique could not play to her afterwards, and so did Harris also go +out of the tune to agree with her. Thence home and late writing letters, +and this night I received, by Will, L105, the first-fruits of my +endeavours in the late contract for victualling of Tangier, for which +God be praised! for I can with a safe conscience say that I have therein +saved the King L5000 per annum, and yet got myself a hope of L300 per +annum without the least wrong to the King. So to supper and to bed. + +11th (Lord's day). Up and to church in the best manner I have gone a +good while, that is to say, with my wife, and her woman, Mercer, along +with us, and Tom, my boy, waiting on us. A dull sermon. Home, dined, +left my wife to go to church alone, and I walked in haste being late to +the Abbey at Westminster, according to promise to meet Jane Welsh, and +there wearily walked, expecting her till 6 o'clock from three, but no +Jane came, which vexed me, only part of it I spent with Mr. Blagrave +walking in the Abbey, he telling me the whole government and discipline +of White Hall Chappell, and the caution now used against admitting any +debauched persons, which I was glad to hear, though he tells me there +are persons bad enough. Thence going home went by Jarvis's, and there +stood Jane at the door, and so I took her in and drank with her, her +master and mistress being out of doors. She told me how she could not +come to me this afternoon, but promised another time. So I walked home +contented with my speaking with her, and walked to my uncle Wight's, +where they were all at supper, and among others comes fair Mrs. +Margarett Wight, who indeed is very pretty. So after supper home to +prayers and to bed. This afternoon, it seems, Sir J. Minnes fell sicke +at church, and going down the gallery stairs fell down dead, but came to +himself again and is pretty well. + +12th. Up, and to my cozen Anthony Joyce's, and there took leave of my +aunt James, and both cozens, their wives, who are this day going down to +my father's by coach. I did give my Aunt 20s., to carry as a token to my +mother, and 10s. to Pall. Thence by coach to St. James's, and there did +our business as usual with the Duke; and saw him with great pleasure +play with his little girle,--[Afterwards Queen Mary II.]--like an +ordinary private father of a child. Thence walked to Jervas's, where +I took Jane in the shop alone, and there heard of her, her master and +mistress were going out. So I went away and came again half an hour +after. In the meantime went to the Abbey, and there went in to see the +tombs with great pleasure. Back again to Jane, and there upstairs and +drank with her, and staid two hours with her kissing her, but nothing +more. Anon took boat and by water to the Neat Houses over against Fox +Hall to have seen Greatorex dive, which Jervas and his wife were gone to +see, and there I found them (and did it the rather for a pretence for +my having been so long at their house), but being disappointed of some +necessaries to do it I staid not, but back to Jane, but she would not +go out with me. So I to Mr. Creed's lodgings, and with him walked up +and down in the New Exchange, talking mightily of the convenience and +necessity of a man's wearing good clothes, and so after eating a messe +of creame I took leave of him, he walking with me as far as Fleete +Conduit, he offering me upon my request to put out some money for me +into Backewell's hands at 6 per cent. interest, which he seldom gives, +which I will consider of, being doubtful of trusting any of these great +dealers because of their mortality, but then the convenience of having +one's money, at an houre's call is very great. Thence to my uncle +Wight's, and there supped with my wife, having given them a brave barrel +of oysters of Povy's giving me. So home and to bed. + +13th. Up and, to the office, where sat busy all morning, dined at home +and after dinner to Fishmonger's Hall, where we met the first time upon +the Fishery Committee, and many good things discoursed of concerning +making of farthings, which was proposed as a way of raising money for +this business, and then that of lotterys, + + [Among the State Papers is a "Statement of Articles in the Covenant + proposed by the Commissioners for the Royal Fishing to, Sir Ant. + Desmarces & Co. in reference to the regulation of lotteries; which + are very unreasonable, and of the objections thereto" ("Calendar of + State Papers," Domestic, 1663-64, p. 576.)] + +but with great confusion; but I hope we shall fall into greater order. +So home again and to my office, where after doing business home and to a +little musique, after supper, and so to bed. + +14th. Up, and wanting some things that should be laid ready for my +dressing myself I was angry, and one thing after another made my wife +give Besse warning to be gone, which the jade, whether out of fear or +ill-nature or simplicity I know not, but she took it and asked leave +to go forth to look a place, and did, which vexed me to the heart, she +being as good a natured wench as ever we shall have, but only forgetful. +At the office all the morning and at noon to the 'Change, and there went +off with Sir W. Warren and took occasion to desire him to lend me L100, +which he said he would let the have with all his heart presently, as he +had promised me a little while ago to give me for my pains in his two +great contracts for masts L100, and that this should be it. To which end +I did move it to him, and by this means I hope to be, possessed of the +L100 presently within 2 or 3 days. So home to dinner, and then to the +office, and down to Blackwall by water to view a place found out for +laying of masts, and I think it will be most proper. So home and there +find Mr. Pen come to visit my wife, and staid with them till sent for to +Mr. Bland's, whither by appointment I was to go to supper, and against +my will left them together, but, God knows, without any reason of fear +in my conscience of any evil between them, but such is my natural folly. +Being thither come they would needs have my wife, and so Mr. Bland and +his wife (the first time she was ever at my house or my wife at hers) +very civilly went forth and brought her and W. Pen, and there Mr. Povy +and we supped nobly and very merry, it being to take leave of Mr. Bland, +who is upon going soon to Tangier. So late home and to bed. + +15th. At the office all the morning, then to the 'Change, and so home to +dinner, where Luellin dined with us, and after dinner many people came +in and kept me all the afternoon, among other the Master and Wardens +of Chyrurgeon's Hall, who staid arguing their cause with me; I did give +them the best answer I could, and after their being two hours with me +parted, and I to my office to do business, which is much on my hands, +and so late home to supper and to bed. + +16th. Up betimes and to my office, where all the morning very busy +putting papers to rights. And among other things Mr. Gauden coming to +me, I had a good opportunity to speak to him about his present, which +hitherto hath been a burden: to me, that I could not do it, because I +was doubtfull that he meant it as a temptation to me to stand by him in +the business of Tangier victualling; but he clears me it was not, and +that he values me and my proceedings therein very highly, being but +what became me, and that what he did was for my old kindnesses to him in +dispatching of his business, which I was glad to hear, and with my heart +in good rest and great joy parted, and to my business again. At noon to +the 'Change, where by appointment I met Sir W. Warren, and afterwards to +the Sun taverne, where he brought to me, being all alone; L100 in a bag, +which I offered him to give him my receipt for, but he told me, no, it +was my owne, which he had a little while since promised me and was glad +that (as I had told him two days since) it would now do me courtesy; and +so most kindly he did give it me, and I as joyfully, even out of myself, +carried it home in a coach, he himself expressly taking care that +nobody might see this business done, though I was willing enough to have +carried a servant with me to have received it, but he advised me to do +it myself. So home with it and to dinner; after dinner I forth with my +boy to buy severall things, stools and andirons and candlesticks, &c., +household stuff, and walked to the mathematical instrument maker in +Moorefields and bought a large pair of compasses, and there met Mr. +Pargiter, and he would needs have me drink a cup of horse-radish ale, +which he and a friend of his troubled with the stone have been drinking +of, which we did and then walked into the fields as far almost as Sir +G. Whitmore's, all the way talking of Russia, which, he says, is a +sad place; and, though Moscow is a very great city, yet it is from the +distance between house and house, and few people compared with this, and +poor, sorry houses, the Emperor himself living in a wooden house, his +exercise only flying a hawk at pigeons and carrying pigeons ten or +twelve miles off and then laying wagers which pigeon shall come soonest +home to her house. All the winter within doors, some few playing at +chesse, but most drinking their time away. Women live very slavishly +there, and it seems in the Emperor's court no room hath above two or +three windows, and those the greatest not a yard wide or high, for +warmth in winter time; and that the general cure for all diseases there +is their sweating houses, or people that are poor they get into their +ovens, being heated, and there lie. Little learning among things of +any sort. Not a man that speaks Latin, unless the Secretary of State +by chance. Mr. Pargiter and I walked to the 'Change together and there +parted, and so I to buy more things and then home, and after a little +at my office, home to supper and to bed. This day old Hardwicke came and +redeemed a watch he had left with me in pawne for 40s. seven years ago, +and I let him gave it. Great talk that the Dutch will certainly be out +this week, and will sail directly to Guinny, being convoyed out of the +Channel with 42 sail of ships. + +17th. Up and to the office, where Mr. Coventry very angry to see things +go so coldly as they do, and I must needs say it makes me fearful every +day of having some change of the office, and the truth is, I am of late +a little guilty of being remiss myself of what I used to be, but I hope +I shall come to my old pass again, my family being now settled again. +Dined at home, and to the office, where late busy in setting all my +businesses in order, and I did a very great and a very contenting +afternoon's work. This day my aunt Wight sent my wife a new scarfe, with +a compliment for the many favours she had received of her, which is the +several things we have sent her. I am glad enough of it, for I see my +uncle is so given up to the Wights that I hope for little more of them. +So home to supper and to bed. + +18th (Lord's day). Up and to church all of us. At noon comes Anthony +and W. Joyce (their wives being in the country with my father) and dined +with me very merry as I can be in such company. After dinner walked +to Westminster (tiring them by the way, and so left them, Anthony +in Cheapside and the other in the Strand), and there spent all the +afternoon in the Cloysters as I had agreed with Jane Welsh, but she came +not, which vexed me, staying till 5 o'clock, and then walked homeward, +and by coach to the old Exchange, and thence to my aunt Wight's, and +invited her and my uncle to supper, and so home, and by and by they +came, and we eat a brave barrel of oysters Mr. Povy sent me this +morning, and very merry at supper, and so to prayers and to bed. Last +night it seems my aunt Wight did send my wife a new scarfe, laced, as a +token for her many givings to her. It is true now and then we give them +some toys, as oranges, &c., but my aime is to get myself something more +from my uncle's favour than this. + +19th. Up, my wife and I having a little anger about her woman already, +she thinking that I take too much care of her at table to mind her (my +wife) of cutting for her, but it soon over, and so up and with Sir W. +Batten and Sir W. Pen to St. James's, and there did our business with +the Duke, and thence homeward straight, calling at the Coffee-house, and +there had very good discourse with Sir----Blunt and Dr. Whistler about +Egypt and other things. So home to dinner, my wife having put on to-day +her winter new suit of moyre, which is handsome, and so after dinner I +did give her L15 to lay out in linen and necessaries for the house +and to buy a suit for Pall, and I myself to White Hall to a Tangier +Committee, where Colonell Reames hath brought us so full and methodical +an account of all matters there, that I never have nor hope to see the +like of any publique business while I live again. The Committee up, I to +Westminster to Jervas's, and spoke with Jane; who I find cold and not +so desirous of a meeting as before, and it is no matter, I shall be +the freer from the inconvenience that might follow thereof, besides +offending God Almighty and neglecting my business. So by coach home and +to my office, where late, and so to supper and to bed. I met with Dr. +Pierce to-day, who, speaking of Dr. Frazier's being so earnest to have +such a one (one Collins) go chyrurgeon to the Prince's person will have +him go in his terms and with so much money put into his hands, he tells +me (when I was wondering that Frazier should order things with the +Prince in that confident manner) that Frazier is so great with my Lady +Castlemayne, and Stewart, and all the ladies at Court, in helping to +slip their calfes when there is occasion, and with the great men in +curing of their claps that he can do what he please with the King, in +spite of any man, and upon the same score with the Prince; they all +having more or less occasion to make use of him. Sir G. Carteret tells +me this afternoon that the Dutch are not yet ready to set out; and by +that means do lose a good wind which would carry them out and keep us +in, and moreover he says that they begin to boggle in the business, and +he thinks may offer terms of peace for all this, and seems to argue +that it will be well for the King too, and I pray God send it. Colonell +Reames did, among other things, this day tell me how it is clear that, +if my Lord Tiviott had lived, he would have quite undone Tangier, or +designed himself to be master of it. He did put the King upon most +great, chargeable, and unnecessary works there, and took the course +industriously to deter, all other merchants but himself to deal there, +and to make both King and all others pay what he pleased for all that +was brought thither. + +20th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, at noon to the +'Change, and there met by appointment with Captain Poyntz, who hath some +place, or title to a place, belonging to gameing, and so I discoursed +with him about the business of our improving of the Lotterys, to the +King's benefit, and that of the Fishery, and had some light from him in +the business, and shall, he says, have more in writing from him. So home +to dinner and then abroad to the Fishing Committee at Fishmongers' Hall, +and there sat and did some business considerable, and so up and home, +and there late at my office doing much business, and I find with great +delight that I am come to my good temper of business again. God continue +me in it. So home to supper, it being washing day, and to bed. + +21st. Up, and by coach to Mr. Povy's, and there got him to signe the +payment of Captain Tayler's bills for the remainder of freight for +the Eagle, wherein I shall be gainer about L30, thence with him to +Westminster by coach to Houseman's [Huysman] the great picture drawer, +and saw again very fine pictures, and have his promise, for Mr. Povy's +sake, to take pains in what picture I shall set him about, and I think +to have my wife's. But it is a strange thing to observe and fit for me +to remember that I am at no time so unwilling to part with money as when +I am concerned in the getting of it most, as I thank God of late I have +got more in this month, viz. near 0250, than ever I did in half a year +before in my life, I think. Thence to White Hall with him, and so walked +to the old Exchange and back to Povy's to dinner, where great and good +company; among others Sir John Skeffington, whom I knew at Magdalen +College, a fellow-commoner, my fellow-pupil, but one with whom I had no +great acquaintance, he being then, God knows, much above me. Here I +was afresh delighted with Mr. Povy's house and pictures of perspective, +being strange things to think how they do delude one's eye, that +methinks it would make a man doubtful of swearing that ever he saw any +thing. Thence with him to St. James's, and so to White Hall to a Tangier +Committee, and hope I have light of another opportunity of getting a +little money if Sir W. Warren will use me kindly for deales to Tangier, +and with the hopes went joyfully home, and there received Captain +Tayler's money, received by Will to-day, out of which (as I said above) +I shall get above L30. So with great comfort to bed, after supper. By +discourse this day I have great hopes from Mr. Coventry that the Dutch +and we shall not fall out. + +22nd. Up and at the office all the morning. To the 'Change at noon, and +among other things discoursed with Sir William Warren what I might do +to get a little money by carrying of deales to Tangier, and told him the +opportunity I have there of doing it, and he did give me some advice, +though not so good as he would have done at any other time of the year, +but such as I hope to make good use of, and get a little money by. So to +Sir G. Carteret's to dinner, and he and I and Captain Cocke all alone, +and good discourse, and thence to a Committee of Tangier at White Hall, +and so home, where I found my wife not well, and she tells me she thinks +she is with child, but I neither believe nor desire it. But God's will +be done! So to my office late, and home to supper and to bed; having got +a strange cold in my head, by flinging off my hat at dinner, and sitting +with the wind in my neck. + + [In Lord Clarendon's Essay, "On the decay of respect paid to Age," + he says that in his younger days he never kept his hat on before + those older than himself, except at dinner.--B.] + +23rd. My cold and pain in my head increasing, and the palate of my mouth +falling, I was in great pain all night. My wife also was not well, +so that a mayd was fain to sit up by her all night. Lay long in the +morning, at last up, and amongst others comes Mr. Fuller, that was the +wit of Cambridge, and Praevaricator + + [At the Commencement (Comitia Majora) in July, the Praevaricator, or + Varier, held a similar position to the Tripos at the Comitia Minora. + He was so named from varying the question which he proposed, either + by a play upon the words or by the transposition of the terms in + which it was expressed. Under the pretence of maintaining some + philosophical question, he poured out a medley of absurd jokes and + 'personal ridicule, which gradually led to the abolition of the + office. In Thoresby's "Diary" we read, "Tuesday, July 6th. The + Praevaricator's speech was smart and ingenious, attended with + vollies of hurras" (see Wordsworth's "University Life in the + Eighteenth Century ").--M. B.] + +in my time, and staid all the morning with me discoursing, and his +business to get a man discharged, which I did do for him. Dined with +little heart at noon, in the afternoon against my will to the office, +where Sir G. Carteret and we met about an order of the Council for the +hiring him a house, giving him L1000 fine, and L70 per annum for +it. Here Sir J. Minnes took occasion, in the most childish and most +unbeseeming manner, to reproach us all, but most himself, that he was +not valued as Comptroller among us, nor did anything but only set his +hand to paper, which is but too true; and every body had a palace, and +he no house to lie in, and wished he had but as much to build him a +house with, as we have laid out in carved worke. It was to no end to +oppose, but all bore it, and after laughed at him for it. So home, and +late reading "The Siege of Rhodes" to my wife, and then to bed, my head +being in great pain and my palate still down. + +24th. Up and to the office, where all the morning busy, then home to +dinner, and so after dinner comes one Phillips, who is concerned in +the Lottery, and from him I collected much concerning that business. I +carried him in my way to White Hall and set him down at Somersett House. +Among other things he told me that Monsieur Du Puy, that is so great a +man at the Duke of Yorke's, and this man's great opponent, is a knave +and by quality but a tailor. To the Tangier Committee, and there I +opposed Colonell Legg's estimate of supplies of provisions to be sent +to Tangier till all were ashamed of it, and he fain after all his good +husbandry and seeming ignorance and joy to have the King's money saved, +yet afterwards he discovered all his design to be to keep the furnishing +of these things to the officers of the Ordnance, but Mr. Coventry +seconded me, and between us we shall save the King some money in the +year. In one business of deales in L520, I offer to save L172, and yet +purpose getting money, to myself by it. So home and to my office, and +business being done home to supper and so to bed, my head and throat +being still out of order mightily. This night Prior of Brampton came and +paid me L40, and I find this poor painful man is the only thriving and +purchasing man in the town almost. We were told to-day of a Dutch ship +of 3 or 400 tons, where all the men were dead of the plague, and the +ship cast ashore at Gottenburgh. + +25th (Lord's day). Up, and my throat being yet very sore, and, my head +out of order, we went not to church, but I spent all the morning reading +of "The Madd Lovers," a very good play, and at noon comes Harman and his +wife, whom I sent for to meet the Joyces, but they came not. It seems +Will has got a fall off his horse and broke his face. However, we were +as merry as I could in their company, and we had a good chine of beef, +but I had no taste nor stomach through my cold, and therefore little +pleased with my dinner. It raining, they sat talking with us all the +afternoon. So anon they went away; and then I to read another play, "The +Custome of the Country," which is a very poor one, methinks. Then to +supper, prayers, and bed. + +26th. Up pretty well again, but my mouth very scabby, my cold being +going away, so that I was forced to wear a great black patch, but that +would not do much good, but it happens we did not go to the Duke to-day, +and so I staid at home busy all the morning. At noon, after dinner, +to the 'Change, and thence home to my office again, where busy, well +employed till 10 at night, and so home to supper and to bed, my mind +a little troubled that I have not of late kept up myself so briske in +business; but mind my ease a little too much and my family upon the +coming of Mercer and Tom. So that I have not kept company, nor appeared +very active with Mr. Coventry, but now I resolve to settle to it again, +not that I have idled all my time, but as to my ease something. So I +have looked a little too much after Tangier and the Fishery, and that +in the sight of Mr. Coventry, but I have good reason to love myself for +serving Tangier, for it is one of the best flowers in my garden. + +27th. Lay long, sleeping, it raining and blowing very hard. Then up and +to the office, my mouth still being scabby and a patch on it. At the +office all the morning. At noon dined at home, and so after dinner +(Lewellin dining with me and in my way talking about Deering) to the +Fishing Committee, and had there very many fine things argued, and I +hope some good will cone of it. So home, where my wife having (after all +her merry discourse of being with child) her months upon her is gone to +bed. I to my office very late doing business, then home to supper and +to bed. To-night Mr. T. Trice and Piggot came to see me, and desire my +going down to Brampton Court, where for Piggot's sake, for whom it is +necessary, I should go, I would be glad to go, and will, contrary to my +purpose, endeavour it, but having now almost L1000, if not above, in my +house, I know not what to do with it, and that will trouble my mind to +leave in the house, and I not at home. + +28th. Up and by water with Mr. Tucker down to Woolwich, first to do +several businesses of the King's, then on board Captain Fisher's ship, +which we hire to carry goods to Tangier. All the way going and coming +I reading and discoursing over some papers of his which he, poor man, +having some experience, but greater conceit of it than is fit, did at +the King's first coming over make proposals of, ordering in a new manner +the whole revenue of the kingdom, but, God knows, a most weak thing; +however, one paper I keep wherein he do state the main branches of the +publick revenue fit to consider and remember. So home, very cold, and +fearfull of having got some pain, but, thanks be to God! I was well +after it. So to dinner, and after dinner by coach to White Hall, +thinking to have met at a Committee of Tangier, but nobody being there +but my Lord Rutherford, he would needs carry me and another Scotch Lord +to a play, and so we saw, coming late, part of "The Generall," my Lord +Orrery's (Broghill) second play; but, Lord! to see how no more either in +words, sense, or design, it is to his "Harry the 5th" is not imaginable, +and so poorly acted, though in finer clothes, is strange. And here I +must confess breach of a vowe in appearance, but I not desiring it, but +against my will, and my oathe being to go neither at my own charge nor +at another's, as I had done by becoming liable to give them another, as +I am to Sir W. Pen and Mr. Creed; but here I neither know which of them +paid for me, nor, if I did, am I obliged ever to return the like, or did +it by desire or with any willingness. So that with a safe conscience I +do think my oathe is not broke and judge God Almighty will not think it +other wise. Thence to W. Joyce's, and there found my aunt and cozen Mary +come home from my father's with great pleasure and content, and thence +to Kate's and found her also mighty pleased with her journey and their +good usage of them, and so home, troubled in my conscience at my being +at a play. But at home I found Mercer playing on her Vyall, which is a +pretty instrument, and so I to the Vyall and singing till late, and so +to bed. My mind at a great losse how to go down to Brampton this weeke, +to satisfy Piggott; but what with the fears of my house, my money, my +wife, and my office, I know not how in the world to think of it, Tom +Hater being out of towne, and I having near L1000 in my house. + +29th. Up and to the office, where all the morning, dined at home and +Creed with me; after dinner I to Sir G. Carteret, and with him to his +new house he is taking in Broad Streete, and there surveyed all the +rooms and bounds, in order to the drawing up a lease thereof; and that +done, Mr. Cutler, his landlord, took me up and down, and showed me all +his ground and house, which is extraordinary great, he having bought +all the Augustine Fryers, and many, many a L1000 he hath and will bury +there. So home to my business, clearing my papers and preparing my +accounts against tomorrow for a monthly and a great auditt. So to supper +and to bed. Fresh newes come of our beating the Dutch at Guinny quite +out of all their castles almost, which will make them quite mad here +at home sure. And Sir G. Carteret did tell me, that the King do joy +mightily at it; but asked him laughing, "But," says he, "how shall I do +to answer this to the Embassador when he comes?" Nay they say that we +have beat them out of the New Netherlands too; + + [Captain (afterwards Sir Robert) Holmes' expedition to attack the + Dutch settlements in Africa eventuated in an important exploit. + Holmes suddenly left the coast of Africa, sailed across the + Atlantic, and reduced the Dutch settlement of New Netherlands to + English rule, under the title of New York. "The short and true + state of the matter is this: the country mentioned was part of the + province of Virginia, and, as there is no settling an extensive + country at once, a few Swedes crept in there, who surrendered the + plantations they could not defend to the Dutch, who, having bought + the charts and papers of one Hudson, a seaman, who, by the + commission from the crown of England, discovered a river, to which + he gave his name, conceited they had purchased a province. + Sometimes, when we had strength in those parts, they were English + subjects; at others, when that strength declined, they were subjects + of the United Provinces. However, upon King Charles's claim the + States disowned the title, but resumed it during our confusions. On + March 12th, 1663-64, Charles II. granted it to the Duke of York + ... The King sent Holmes, when he returned, to the Tower, and did + not discharge him; till he made it evidently appear that he had not + infringed the law of nations ". (Campbell's "Naval History," vol. + ii, p., 89). How little did the King or Holmes himself foresee + the effects of the capture,--B.] + +so that we have been doing them mischief for a great while in several +parts of the world; without publique knowledge or reason. Their fleete +for Guinny is now, they say, ready, and abroad, and will be going +this week. Coming home to-night, I did go to examine my wife's house +accounts, and finding things that seemed somewhat doubtful, I was angry +though she did make it pretty plain, but confessed that when she do +misse a sum, she do add something to other things to make it, and, upon +my being very angry, she do protest she will here lay up something for +herself to buy her a necklace with, which madded me and do still trouble +me, for I fear she will forget by degrees the way of living cheap and +under a sense of want. + +30th. Up, and all day, both morning and afternoon, at my accounts, it +being a great month, both for profit and layings out, the last being L89 +for kitchen and clothes for myself and wife, and a few extraordinaries +for the house; and my profits, besides salary, L239; so that I have this +weeke, notwithstanding great layings out, and preparations for laying +out, which I make as paid this month, my balance to come to L1203, for +which the Lord's name be praised! Dined at home at noon, staying long +looking for Kate Joyce and my aunt James and Mary, but they came not. So +my wife abroad to see them, and took Mary Joyce to a play. Then in +the evening came and sat working by me at the office, and late home +to supper and to bed, with my heart in good rest for this day's work, +though troubled to think that my last month's negligence besides the +making me neglect business and spend money, and lessen myself both as +to business and the world and myself, I am fain to preserve my vowe by +paying 20s. dry--[ Dry = hard, as "hard cash." ]--money into the poor's +box, because I had not fulfilled all my memorandums and paid all my +petty debts and received all my petty credits, of the last month, but I +trust in God I shall do so no more. + + + + +OCTOBER 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 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. 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. + + + + +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. + + + + +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, PEPY'S DIARY 1664, COMPLETE: + + A real and not a complimentary acknowledgment + A mad merry slut she is + About several businesses, hoping to get money by them + After many protestings by degrees I did arrive at what I would + All divided that were bred so long at school together + All ended in love + All the men were dead of the plague, and the ship cast ashore + And with the great men in curing of their claps + At least 12 or 14,000 people in the street (to see the hanging) + Bath at the top of his house + Bearing more sayle will go faster than any other ships (multihull) + Began discourse of my not getting of children + Below what people think these great people say and do + But the wench went, and I believe had her turn served + Came to bed to me, but all would not make me friends + Chatted with her, her husband out of the way + Could not saw above 4 inches of the stone in a day + Do look upon me as a remembrancer of his former vanity + Doubtfull of himself, and easily be removed from his own opinion + Drink a dish of coffee + Even to the having bad words with my wife, and blows too + Expected musique, the missing of which spoiled my dinner + Expressly taking care that nobody might see this business done + Fear of making her think me to be in a better condition + Fear all his kindness is but only his lust to her + Feared I might meet with some people that might know me + Fetch masts from New England + Few in any age that do mind anything that is abstruse + Find myself to over-value things when a child + Gadding abroad to look after beauties + Generally with corruption, but most indeed with neglect + God forgive me! what thoughts and wishes I had + Good writers are not admired by the present + Greatest businesses are done so superficially + Had no mind to meddle with her + Having some experience, but greater conceit of it than is fit + Hear something of the effects of our last meeting (pregnancy?) + Helping to slip their calfes when there is occasion + Her months upon her is gone to bed + Her impudent tricks and ways of getting money + How little to be presumed of in our greatest undertakings + I had agreed with Jane Welsh, but she came not, which vexed me + I do not like his being angry and in debt both together to me + I will not by any over submission make myself cheap + I slept soundly all the sermon + Ill from my late cutting my hair so close to my head + In my dining-room she was doing something upon the pott + In a hackney and full of people, was ashamed to be seen + Ireland in a very distracted condition + Irish in Ireland, whom Cromwell had settled all in one corner + Jane going into the boat did fall down and show her arse + King is mighty kind to these his bastard children + King still do doat upon his women, even beyond all shame + Lay long caressing my wife and talking + Let her brew as she has baked + Little children employed, every one to do something + Mankind pleasing themselves in the easy delights of the world + Meazles, we fear, or, at least, of a scarlett feavour + Methought very ill, or else I am grown worse to please + Mind to have her bring it home + Mrs. Lane was gone forth, and so I missed of my intent + My wife was angry with me for not coming home, and for gadding + My leg fell in a hole broke on the bridge + My wife made great means to be friends, coming to my bedside + Never to trust too much to any man in the world + New Netherlands to English rule, under the title of New York + Not well, and so had no pleasure at all with my poor wife + Not when we can, but when we list + Not the greatest wits, but the steady man + Nothing of the memory of a man, an houre after he is dead! + Now against her going into the country (lay together) + Periwigg he lately made me cleansed of its nits + Play good, but spoiled with the ryme, which breaks the sense + Pleased to look upon their pretty daughter + Pray God give me a heart to fear a fall, and to prepare for it! + Presse seamen, without which we cannot really raise men + Pretty sayings, which are generally like paradoxes + Reduced the Dutch settlement of New Netherlands to English rule + Rotten teeth and false, set in with wire + Ryme, which breaks the sense + Saw "The German Princess" acted, by the woman herself + Sent my wife to get a place to see Turner hanged + Shakespeare's plays + She had the cunning to cry a great while, and talk and blubber + She had got and used some puppy-dog water + Sheriffs did endeavour to get one jewell + Slabbering my band sent home for another + So home to prayers and to bed + Staid two hours with her kissing her, but nothing more + Strange slavery that I stand in to beauty + Subject to be put into a disarray upon very small occasions + Such open flattery is beastly + Talked with Mrs. Lane about persuading her to Hawly + Tear all that I found either boyish or not to be worth keeping + That hair by hair had his horse's tail pulled off indeed + Their saws have no teeth, but it is the sand only + There eat and drank, and had my pleasure of her twice + There did see Mrs. Lane..... + These Lords are hard to be trusted + Things wear out of themselves and come fair again + Thinks she is with child, but I neither believe nor desire it + Till 12 at night, and then home to supper and to bed + To my Lord Sandwich, thinking to have dined there + Travels over the high hills in Asia above the clouds + Up, my mind very light from my last night's accounts + Upon a very small occasion had a difference again broke out + Very angry we were, but quickly friends again + Very high and very foule words from her to me + We do nothing in this office like people able to carry on a warr + Went against me to have my wife and servants look upon them + What wine you drinke, lett it bee at meales + 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 + Wherein every party has laboured to cheat another + Willing to receive a bribe if it were offered me + Would either conform, or be more wise, and not be catched! 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