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WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + JANUARY + 1664-1665 + + +January 1st (Lord's day). Lay long in bed, having been busy late last +night, then up and to my office, where upon ordering my accounts and +papers with respect to my understanding my last year's gains and expense, +which I find very great, as I have already set down yesterday. Now this +day I am dividing my expense, to see what my clothes and every particular +hath stood me in: I mean all the branches of my expense. At noon a good +venison pasty and a turkey to ourselves without any body so much as +invited by us, a thing unusuall for so small a family of my condition: +but we did it and were very merry. After dinner to my office again, +where very late alone upon my accounts, but have not brought them to +order yet, and very intricate I find it, notwithstanding my care all the +year to keep things in as good method as any man can do. Past 11 o'clock +home to supper and to bed. + + + +2nd. Up, and it being a most fine, hard frost I walked a good way toward +White Hall, and then being overtaken with Sir W. Pen's coach, went into +it, and with him thither, and there did our usual business with the Duke. +Thence, being forced to pay a great deale of money away in boxes (that +is, basins at White Hall), I to my barber's, Gervas, and there had a +little opportunity of speaking with my Jane alone, and did give her +something, and of herself she did tell me a place where I might come to +her on Sunday next, which I will not fail, but to see how modestly and +harmlessly she brought it out was very pretty. Thence to the Swan, and +there did sport a good while with Herbert's young kinswoman without hurt, +though they being abroad, the old people. Then to the Hall, and there +agreed with Mrs. Martin, and to her lodgings which she has now taken to +lie in, in Bow Streete, pitiful poor things, yet she thinks them pretty, +and so they are for her condition I believe good enough. Here I did +'ce que je voudrais avec' her most freely, and it having cost 2s. in wine +and cake upon her, I away sick of her impudence, and by coach to my Lord +Brunker's, by appointment, in the Piazza, in Covent-Guarding; where I +occasioned much mirth with a ballet I brought with me, made from the +seamen at sea to their ladies in town; saying Sir W. Pen, Sir G. Ascue, +and Sir J. Lawson made them. Here a most noble French dinner and +banquet, the best I have seen this many a day and good discourse. +Thence to my bookseller's and at his binder's saw Hooke's book of +the Microscope, + + ["Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies + made by Magnifying Glasses. London, 1665," a very remarkable work + with elaborate plates, some of which have been used for lecture + illustrations almost to our own day. On November 23rd, 1664, the + President of the Royal Society was "desired to sign a licence for + printing of Mr. Hooke's microscopical book." At this time the book + was mostly printed, but it was delayed, much to Hooke's disgust, by + the examination of several Fellows of the Society. In spite of this + examination the council were anxious that the author should make it + clear that he alone was responsible for any theory put forward, and + they gave him notice to that effect. Hooke made this clear in his + dedication (see Birch's "History," vol. i., pp. 490-491)] + +which is so pretty that I presently bespoke it, and away home to the +office, where we met to do something, and then though very late by coach +to Sir Ph. Warwicke's, but having company with him could not speak with +him. So back again home, where thinking to be merry was vexed with my +wife's having looked out a letter in Sir Philip Sidney about jealousy for +me to read, which she industriously and maliciously caused me to do, +and the truth is my conscience told me it was most proper for me, and +therefore was touched at it, but tooke no notice of it, but read it out +most frankly, but it stucke in my stomach, and moreover I was vexed to +have a dog brought to my house to line our little bitch, which they make +him do in all their sights, which, God forgive me, do stir my jealousy +again, though of itself the thing is a very immodest sight. However, to +cards with my wife a good while, and then to bed. + + + +3rd. Up, and by coach to Sir Ph. Warwicke's, the streete being full of +footballs, it being a great frost, and found him and Mr. Coventry walking +in St. James's Parke. I did my errand to him about the felling of the +King's timber in the forests, and then to my Lord of Oxford, Justice in +Eyre, for his consent thereto, for want whereof my Lord Privy Seale stops +the whole business. I found him in his lodgings, in but an ordinary +furnished house and roome where he was, but I find him to be a man of +good discreet replys. Thence to the Coffee-house, where certain newes +that the Dutch have taken some of our colliers to the North; some say +four, some say seven. Thence to the 'Change a while, and so home to +dinner and to the office, where we sat late, and then I to write my +letters, and then to Sir W. Batten's, who is going out of towne to +Harwich to-morrow to set up a light-house there, which he hath lately got +a patent from the King to set up, that will turne much to his profit. +Here very merry, and so to my office again, where very late, and then +home to supper and to bed, but sat up with my wife at cards till past two +in the morning. + + + +4th. Lay long, and then up and to my Lord of Oxford's, but his Lordshipp +was in bed at past ten o'clock: and, Lord helpe us! so rude a dirty +family I never saw in my life. He sent me out word my business was not +done, but should against the afternoon. I thence to the Coffee-house, +there but little company, and so home to the 'Change, where I hear of +some more of our ships lost to the Northward. So to Sir W. Batten's, but +he was set out before I got thither. I sat long talking with my lady, +and then home to dinner. Then come Mr. Moore to see me, and he and I to +my Lord of Oxford's, but not finding him within Mr. Moore and I to "Love +in a Tubb," which is very merry, but only so by gesture, not wit at all, +which methinks is beneath the House. So walked home, it being a very +hard frost, and I find myself as heretofore in cold weather to begin to +burn within and pimples and pricks all over my body, my pores with cold +being shut up. So home to supper and to cards and to bed. + + + +5th. Up, it being very cold and a great snow and frost tonight. To the +office, and there all the morning. At noon dined at home, troubled at +my wife's being simply angry with Jane, our cook mayde (a good servant, +though perhaps hath faults and is cunning), and given her warning to be +gone. So to the office again, where we sat late, and then I to my +office, and there very late doing business. Home to supper and to the +office again, and then late home to bed. + + + +6th. Lay long in bed, but most of it angry and scolding with my wife +about her warning Jane our cookemayde to be gone and upon that she +desires to go abroad to-day to look a place. A very good mayde she is +and fully to my mind, being neat, only they say a little apt to scold, +but I hear her not. To my office all the morning busy. Dined at home. +To my office again, being pretty well reconciled to my wife, which I did +desire to be, because she had designed much mirthe to-day to end +Christmas with among her servants. At night home, being twelfenight, and +there chose my piece of cake, but went up to my viall, and then to bed, +leaving my wife and people up at their sports, which they continue till +morning, not coming to bed at all. + + + +7th. Up and to the office all the morning. At noon dined alone, my wife +and family most of them a-bed. Then to see my Lady Batten and sit with +her a while, Sir W. Batten being out of town, and then to my office doing +very much business very late, and then home to supper and to bed. + + + +8th (Lord's day). Up betimes, and it being a very fine frosty day, I and +my boy walked to White Hall, and there to the Chappell, where one Dr. +Beaumont' preached a good sermon, and afterwards a brave anthem upon the +150 Psalm, where upon the word "trumpet" very good musique was made. So +walked to my Lady's and there dined with her (my boy going home), where +much pretty discourse, and after dinner walked to Westminster, and there +to the house where Jane Welsh had appointed me, but it being sermon time +they would not let me in, and said nobody was there to speak with me. I +spent the whole afternoon walking into the Church and Abbey, and up and +down, but could not find her, and so in the evening took a coach and +home, and there sat discoursing with my wife, and by and by at supper, +drinking some cold drink I think it was, I was forced to go make water, +and had very great pain after it, but was well by and by and continued +so, it being only I think from the drink, or from my straining at stool +to do more than my body would. So after prayers to bed. + + + +9th. Up and walked to White Hall, it being still a brave frost, and I in +perfect good health, blessed be God! In my way saw a woman that broke +her thigh, in her heels slipping up upon the frosty streete. To the +Duke, and there did our usual worke. Here I saw the Royal Society bring +their new book, wherein is nobly writ their charter' and laws, and comes +to be signed by the Duke as a Fellow; and all the Fellows' hands are to +be entered there, and lie as a monument; and the King hath put his with +the word Founder. Thence I to Westminster, to my barber's, and found +occasion to see Jane, but in presence of her mistress, and so could not +speak to her of her failing me yesterday, and then to the Swan to +Herbert's girl, and lost time a little with her, and so took coach, and +to my Lord Crew's and dined with him, who receives me with the greatest +respect that could be, telling me that he do much doubt of the successe +of this warr with Holland, we going about it, he doubts, by the +instigation of persons that do not enough apprehend the consequences of +the danger of it, and therein I do think with him. Holmes was this day +sent to the Tower,--[For taking New York from the Dutch]--but I perceive +it is made matter of jest only; but if the Dutch should be our masters, +it may come to be of earnest to him, to be given over to them for a +sacrifice, as Sir W. Rawly [Raleigh] was. Thence to White Hall to a +Tangier Committee, where I was accosted and most highly complimented by +my Lord Bellasses, + + [John Belasyse, second son of Thomas, first Viscount Fauconberg, + created Baron Belasyse of Worlaby, January 27th, 1644, Lord + Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire, and Governor of Hull. + He was appointed Governor of Tangier, and Captain of the Band of + Gentlemen Pensioners. He was a Roman Catholic, and therefore was + deprived of all his appointments in 1672 by the provisions of the + Test Act, but in 1684 James II. made him First Commissioner of the + Treasury. He died 1689.] + +our new governor, beyond my expectation, or measure I could imagine he +would have given any man, as if I were the only person of business that +he intended to rely on, and desires my correspondence with him. This I +was not only surprized at, but am well pleased with, and may make good +use of it. Our patent is renewed, and he and my Lord Barkeley, and Sir +Thomas Ingram put in as commissioners. Here some business happened which +may bring me some profit. Thence took coach and calling my wife at her +tailor's (she being come this afternoon to bring her mother some apples, +neat's tongues, and wine); I home, and there at my office late with Sir +W. Warren, and had a great deal of good discourse and counsel from him, +which I hope I shall take, being all for my good in my deportment in my +office, yet with all honesty. He gone I home to supper and to bed. + + + +10th. Lay long, it being still very cold, and then to the office, where +till dinner, and then home, and by and by to the office, where we sat and +were very late, and I writing letters till twelve at night, and then +after supper to bed. + + + +11th. Up, and very angry with my boy for lying long a bed and forgetting +his lute. To my office all the morning. At noon to the 'Change, and so +home to dinner. After dinner to Gresham College to my Lord Brunker and +Commissioner Pett, taking, Mr. Castle with me there to discourse over his +draught of a ship he is to build for us. Where I first found reason to +apprehend Commissioner Pett to be a man of an ability extraordinary in +any thing, for I found he did turn and wind Castle like a chicken in his +business, and that most pertinently and mister-like, and great pleasure +it was to me to hear them discourse, I, of late having studied something +thereof, and my Lord Brunker is a very able person also himself in this +sort of business, as owning himself to be a master in the business of all +lines and Conicall Sections: Thence home, where very late at my office +doing business to my content, though [God] knows with what ado it was +that when I was out I could get myself to come home to my business, or +when I was there though late would stay there from going abroad again. +To supper and to bed. This evening, by a letter from Plymouth, I hear +that two of our ships, the Leopard and another, in the Straights, are +lost by running aground; and that three more had like to have been so, +but got off, whereof Captain Allen one: and that a Dutch fleete are gone +thither; which if they should meet with our lame ships, God knows what +would become of them. This I reckon most sad newes; God make us sensible +of it! This night, when I come home, I was much troubled to hear my poor +canary bird, that I have kept these three or four years, is dead. + + + +12th. Up, and to White Hall about getting a privy seal for felling of +the King's timber for the navy, and to the Lords' House to speak with my +Lord Privy Seale about it, and so to the 'Change, where to my last +night's ill news I met more. Spoke with a Frenchman who was taken, but +released, by a Dutch man-of-war of thirty-six guns (with seven more of +the like or greater ships), off the North Foreland, by Margett. Which is +a strange attempt, that they should come to our teeth; but the wind being +easterly, the wind that should bring our force from Portsmouth, will +carry them away home. God preserve us against them, and pardon our +making them in our discourse so contemptible an enemy! So home and to +dinner, where Mr. Hollyard with us dined. So to the office, and there +late till 11 at night and more, and then home to supper and to bed. + + + +13th. Up betimes and walked to my Lord Bellasses's lodgings in +Lincolne's Inne Fieldes, and there he received and discoursed with me in +the most respectfull manner that could be, telling me what a character of +my judgment, and care, and love to Tangier he had received of me, that he +desired my advice and my constant correspondence, which he much valued, +and in my courtship, in which, though I understand his designe very well, +and that it is only a piece of courtship, yet it is a comfort to me that +I am become so considerable as to have him need to say that to me, which, +if I did not do something in the world, would never have been. Here well +satisfied I to Sir Ph. Warwicke, and there did some business with him; +thence to Jervas's and there spent a little idle time with him, his wife, +Jane, and a sweetheart of hers. So to the Hall awhile and thence to the +Exchange, where yesterday's newes confirmed, though in a little different +manner; but a couple of ships in the Straights we have lost, and the +Dutch have been in Margaret [Margate] Road. Thence home to dinner and so +abroad and alone to the King's house, to a play, "The Traytor," where, +unfortunately, I met with Sir W. Pen, so that I must be forced to confess +it to my wife, which troubles me. Thence walked home, being ill- +satisfied with the present actings of the House, and prefer the other +House before this infinitely. To my Lady Batten's, where I find Pegg +Pen, the first time that ever I saw her to wear spots. Here very merry, +Sir W. Batten being looked for to-night, but is not yet come from +Harwich. So home to supper and to bed. + + + +14th. Up and to White Hall, where long waited in the Duke's chamber for +a Committee intended for Tangier, but none met, and so I home and to the +office, where we met a little, and then to the 'Change, where our late +ill newes confirmed in loss of two ships in the Straights, but are now +the Phoenix and Nonsuch! Home to dinner, thence with my wife to the +King's house, there to see "Vulpone," a most excellent play; the best I +think I ever saw, and well, acted. So with Sir W. Pen home in his coach, +and then to the office. So home, to supper, and bed, resolving by the +grace of God from this day to fall hard to my business again, after some +weeke or fortnight's neglect. + + + +15th (Lord's day). Up, and after a little at my office to prepare a +fresh draught of my vowes for the next yeare, I to church, where a most +insipid young coxcomb preached. Then home to dinner, and after dinner to +read in "Rushworth's Collections" about the charge against the late Duke +of Buckingham, in order to the fitting me to speak and understand the +discourse anon before the King about the suffering the Turkey merchants +to send out their fleete at this dangerous time, when we can neither +spare them ships to go, nor men, nor King's ships to convoy them. At +four o'clock with Sir W. Pen in his coach to my Lord Chancellor's, where +by and by Mr. Coventry, Sir W. Pen, Sir J. Lawson, Sir G. Ascue, and +myself were called in to the King, there being several of the Privy +Council, and my Lord Chancellor lying at length upon a couch (of the +goute I suppose); and there Sir W. Pen begun, and he had prepared heads +in a paper, and spoke pretty well to purpose, but with so much leisure +and gravity as was tiresome; besides, the things he said were but very +poor to a man in his trade after a great consideration, but it was to +purpose, indeed to dissuade the King from letting these Turkey ships to +go out: saying (in short) the King having resolved to have 130 ships out +by the spring, he must have above 20 of them merchantmen. Towards which, +he in the whole River could find but 12 or 14, and of them the five ships +taken up by these merchants were a part, and so could not be spared. +That we should need 30,000 [sailors] to man these 130 ships, and of them +in service we have not above 16,000; so we shall need 14,000 more. That +these ships will with their convoys carry above 2,000 men, and those the +best men that could be got; it being the men used to the Southward that +are the best men for warr, though those bred in the North among the +colliers are good for labour. That it will not be safe for the +merchants, nor honourable for the King, to expose these rich ships with +his convoy of six ships to go, it not being enough to secure them against +the Dutch, who, without doubt, will have a great fleete in the Straights. +This, Sir J. Lawson enlarged upon. Sir G. Ascue he chiefly spoke that +the warr and trade could not be supported together, and, therefore, that +trade must stand still to give way to them. This Mr. Coventry seconded, +and showed how the medium of the men the King hath one year with another +employed in his Navy since his coming, hath not been above 3,000 men, or +at most 4,000 men; and now having occasion of 30,000, the remaining +26,000 must be found out of the trade of the nation. He showed how the +cloaths, sending by these merchants to Turkey, are already bought and +paid for to the workmen, and are as many as they would send these twelve +months or more; so the poor do not suffer by their not going, but only +the merchant, upon whose hands they lit dead; and so the inconvenience is +the less. And yet for them he propounded, either the King should, if his +Treasure would suffer it, buy them, and showed the losse would not be so +great to him: or, dispense with the Act of Navigation, and let them be +carried out by strangers; and ending that he doubted not but when the +merchants saw there was no remedy, they would and could find ways of +sending them abroad to their profit. All ended with a conviction (unless +future discourse with the merchants should alter it) that it was not fit +for them to go out, though the ships be loaded. The King in discourse +did ask me two or three questions about my newes of Allen's loss in the +Streights, but I said nothing as to the business, nor am not much sorry +for it, unless the King had spoke to me as he did to them, and then I +could have said something to the purpose I think. So we withdrew, and +the merchants were called in. Staying without, my Lord Fitz Harding come +thither, and fell to discourse of Prince Rupert, and made nothing to say +that his disease was the pox and that he must be fluxed, telling the +horrible degree of the disease upon him with its breaking out on his +head. But above all I observed how he observed from the Prince, that +courage is not what men take it to be, a contempt of death; for, says he, +how chagrined the Prince was the other day when he thought he should die, +having no more mind to it than another man. But, says he, some men are +more apt to think they shall escape than another man in fight, while +another is doubtfull he shall be hit. But when the first man is sure he +shall die, as now the Prince is, he is as much troubled and apprehensive +of it as any man else; for, says he, since we told [him] that we believe +he would overcome his disease, he is as merry, and swears and laughs and +curses, and do all the things of a [man] in health, as ever he did in his +life; which, methought, was a most extraordinary saying before a great +many persons there of quality. So by and by with Sir W. Pen home again, +and after supper to the office to finish my vows, and so to bed. + + + +16th. Up and with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen to White Hall, where we +did our business with the Duke. Thence I to Westminster Hall and walked +up and down. Among others Ned Pickering met me and tells me how active +my Lord is at sea, and that my Lord Hinchingbroke is now at Rome, and, by +all report, a very noble and hopefull gentleman. Thence to Mr. Povy's, +and there met Creed, and dined well after his old manner of plenty and +curiosity. But I sat in pain to think whether he would begin with me +again after dinner with his enquiry after my bill, but he did not, but +fell into other discourse, at which I was glad, but was vexed this +morning meeting of Creed at some bye questions that he demanded of me +about some such thing, which made me fear he meant that very matter, but +I perceive he did not. Thence to visit my Lady Sandwich and so to a +Tangier Committee, where a great company of the new Commissioners, Lords, +that in behalfe of my Lord Bellasses are very loud and busy and call for +Povy's accounts, but it was a most sorrowful thing to see how he answered +to questions so little to the purpose, but to his owne wrong. All the +while I sensible how I am concerned in my bill of L100 and somewhat more. +So great a trouble is fear, though in a case that at the worst will bear +enquiry. My Lord Barkeley was very violent against Povy. But my Lord +Ashly, I observe, is a most clear man in matters of accounts, and most +ingeniously did discourse and explain all matters. We broke up, leaving +the thing to a Committee of which I am one. Povy, Creed, and I staid +discoursing, I much troubled in mind seemingly for the business, but +indeed only on my own behalf, though I have no great reason for it, but +so painfull a thing is fear. So after considering how to order business, +Povy and I walked together as far as the New Exchange and so parted, and +I by coach home. To the office a while, then to supper and to bed. This +afternoon Secretary Bennet read to the Duke of Yorke his letters,, which +say that Allen + + [Among the State Papers is a letter from Captain Thomas Allin to Sir + Richard Fanshaw, dated from "The Plymouth, Cadiz Bay," December + 25th, 1664, in which he writes: "On the 19th attacked with his seven + ships left, a Dutch fleet of fourteen, three of which were men-of- + war; sunk two vessels and took two others, one a rich prize from + Smyrna; the others retired much battered. Has also taken a Dutch + prize laden with iron and planks, coming from Lisbon" ("Calendar," + Domestic, 1664-65, p. 122).] + +has met with the Dutch Smyrna fleet at Cales,--[The old form of the name +Cadiz.]--and sunk one and taken three. How true or what these ships are +time will show, but it is good newes and the newes of our ships being +lost is doubted at dales and Malaga. God send it false! + + + +17th. Up and walked to Mr. Povy's by appointment, where I found him and +Creed busy about fitting things for the Committee, and thence we to my +Lord Ashly's, where to see how simply, beyond all patience, Povy did +again, by his many words and no understanding, confound himself and his +business, to his disgrace, and rendering every body doubtfull of his +being either a foole or knave, is very wonderfull. We broke up all +dissatisfied, and referred the business to a meeting of Mr. Sherwin and +others to settle, but here it was mighty strange methought to find myself +sit herein Committee with my hat on, while Mr. Sherwin stood bare as a +clerke, with his hat off to his Lord Ashlyand the rest, but I thank God I +think myself never a whit the better man for all that. Thence with Creed +to the 'Change and Coffee-house, and so home, where a brave dinner, by +having a brace of pheasants and very merry about Povy's folly. So anon +to the office, and there sitting very late, and then after a little time +at Sir W. Batten's, where I am mighty great and could if I thought it fit +continue so, I to the office again, and there very late, and so home to +the sorting of some of my books, and so to bed, the weather becoming +pretty warm, and I think and hope the frost will break. + + + +18th. Up and by and by to my bookseller's, and there did give thorough +direction for the new binding of a great many of my old books, to make my +whole study of the same binding, within very few. Thence to my Lady +Sandwich's, who sent for me this morning. Dined with her, and it was to +get a letter of hers conveyed by a safe hand to my Lord's owne hand at +Portsmouth, which I did undertake. Here my Lady did begin to talk of +what she had heard concerning Creed, of his being suspected to be a +fanatique and a false fellow. I told her I thought he was as shrewd and +cunning a man as any in England, and one that I would feare first should +outwit me in any thing. To which she readily concurred. Thence to Mr. +Povy's by agreement, and there with Mr. Sherwin, Auditor Beale, and Creed +and I hard at it very late about Mr. Povy's accounts, but such accounts I +never did see, or hope again to see in my days. At night, late, they +gone, I did get him to put out of this account our sums that are in posse +[?? D.W.] only yet, which he approved of when told, but would never have +stayed it if I had been gone. Thence at 9 at night home, and so to +supper vexed and my head akeing and to bed. + + + +19th. Up, and it being yesterday and to-day a great thaw it is not for a +man to walk the streets, but took coach and to Mr. Povy's, and there +meeting all of us again agreed upon an answer to the Lords by and by, and +thence we did come to Exeter House, and there was a witness of most +[base] language against Mr. Povy, from my Lord Peterborough, who is most +furiously angry with him, because the other, as a foole, would needs say +that the L26,000 was my Lord Peterborough's account, and that he had +nothing to do with it. The Lords did find fault also with our answer, +but I think really my Lord Ashly would fain have the outside of an +Exchequer,--[This word is blotted, and the whole sentence is confused.]-- +but when we come better to be examined. So home by coach, with my Lord +Barkeley, who, by his discourse, I find do look upon Mr. Coventry as an +enemy, but yet professes great justice and pains. I at home after dinner +to the office, and there sat all the afternoon and evening, and then home +to supper and to bed. Memorandum. This day and yesterday, I think it is +the change of the weather, I have a great deal of pain, but nothing like +what I use to have. I can hardly keep myself loose, but on the contrary +am forced to drive away my pain. Here I am so sleepy I cannot hold open +my eyes, and therefore must be forced to break off this day's passages +more shortly than I would and should have done. This day was buried (but +I could not be there) my cozen Percivall Angier; and yesterday I received +the newes that Dr. Tom Pepys is dead, at Impington, for which I am but +little sorry, not only because he would have been troublesome to us, but +a shame to his family and profession; he was such a coxcomb. + + + +20th. Up and to Westminster, where having spoke with Sir Ph. Warwicke, +I to Jervas, and there I find them all in great disorder about Jane, her +mistress telling me secretly that she was sworn not to reveal anything, +but she was undone. At last for all her oath she told me that she had +made herself sure to a fellow that comes to their house that can only +fiddle for his living, and did keep him company, and had plainly told her +that she was sure to him never to leave him for any body else. Now they +were this day contriving to get her presently to marry one Hayes that was +there, and I did seem to persuade her to it. And at last got them to +suffer me to advise privately, and by that means had her company and +think I shall meet her next Sunday, but I do really doubt she will be +undone in marrying this fellow. But I did give her my advice, and so let +her do her pleasure, so I have now and then her company. Thence to the +Swan at noon, and there sent for a bit of meat and dined, and had my +baiser of the fille of the house there, but nothing plus. So took coach +and to my Lady Sandwich's, and so to my bookseller's, and there took home +Hooke's book of microscopy, a most excellent piece, and of which I am +very proud. So home, and by and by again abroad with my wife about +several businesses, and met at the New Exchange, and there to our trouble +found our pretty Doll is gone away to live they say with her father in +the country, but I doubt something worse. So homeward, in my way buying +a hare and taking it home, which arose upon my discourse to-day with Mr. +Batten, in Westminster Hall, who showed me my mistake that my hare's +foote hath not the joynt to it; and assures me he never had his cholique +since he carried it about him: and it is a strange thing how fancy works, +for I no sooner almost handled his foote but my belly began to be loose +and to break wind, and whereas I was in some pain yesterday and t'other +day and in fear of more to-day, I became very well, and so continue. At +home to my office a while, and so to supper, read, and to cards, and to +bed. + + + +21st. At the office all the morning. Thence my Lord Brunker carried me +as far as Mr. Povy's, and there I 'light and dined, meeting Mr. Sherwin, +Creed, &c., there upon his accounts. After dinner they parted and Mr. +Povy carried me to Somersett House, and there showed me the Queene- +Mother's chamber and closett, most beautiful places for furniture and +pictures; and so down the great stone stairs to the garden, and tried the +brave echo upon the stairs; which continues a voice so long as the +singing three notes, concords, one after another, they all three shall +sound in consort together a good while most pleasantly. Thence to a +Tangier Committee at White Hall, where I saw nothing ordered by judgment, +but great heat and passion and faction now in behalf of my Lord +Bellasses, and to the reproach of my Lord Tiviott, and dislike as it were +of former proceedings. So away with Mr. Povy, he carrying me homeward to +Mark Lane in his coach, a simple fellow I now find him, to his utter +shame in his business of accounts, as none but a sorry foole would have +discovered himself; and yet, in little, light, sorry things very cunning; +yet, in the principal, the most ignorant man I ever met with in so great +trust as he is. To my office till past 12, and then home to supper and +to bed, being now mighty well, and truly I cannot but impute it to my +fresh hare's foote. Before I went to bed I sat up till two o'clock in my +chamber reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopicall Observations, the most +ingenious book that ever I read in my life. + + + +22nd (Lord's day). Up, leaving my wife in bed, being sick of her months, +and to church. Thence home, and in my wife's chamber dined very merry, +discoursing, among other things, of a design I have come in my head this +morning at church of making a match between Mrs. Betty Pickering and Mr. +Hill, my friend the merchant, that loves musique and comes to me +a'Sundays, a most ingenious and sweet-natured and highly accomplished +person. I know not how their fortunes may agree, but their disposition +and merits are much of a sort, and persons, though different, yet +equally, I think, acceptable. After dinner walked to Westminster, and +after being at the Abbey and heard a good anthem well sung there, I as I +had appointed to the Trumpett, there expecting when Jane Welsh should +come, but anon comes a maid of the house to tell me that her mistress and +master would not let her go forth, not knowing of my being here, but to +keep her from her sweetheart. So being defeated, away by coach home, and +there spent the evening prettily in discourse with my wife and Mercer, +and so to supper, prayers, and to bed. + + + +23rd. Up, and with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen to White Hall; but there +finding the Duke gone to his lodgings at St. James's for all together, +his Duchesse being ready to lie in, we to him, and there did our usual +business. And here I met the great newes confirmed by the Duke's own +relation, by a letter from Captain Allen. First, of our own loss of two +ships, the Phoenix and Nonesuch, in the Bay of Gibraltar: then of his, +and his seven ships with him, in the Bay of Cales, or thereabouts, +fighting with the 34 Dutch Smyrna fleete; sinking the King Salamon, a +ship worth a L150,000 or more, some say L200,000, and another; and taking +of three merchant-ships. Two of our ships were disabled, by the Dutch +unfortunately falling against their will against them; the Advice, +Captain W. Poole, and Antelope, Captain Clerke: The Dutch men-of-war did +little service. Captain Allen did receive many shots at distance before +he would fire one gun, which he did not do till he come within pistol- +shot of his enemy. The Spaniards on shore at Cales did stand laughing at +the Dutch, to see them run away and flee to the shore, 34 or thereabouts, +against eight Englishmen at most. I do purpose to get the whole +relation, if I live, of Captain Allen himself. In our loss of the two +ships in the Bay of Gibraltar, it is observable how the world do comment +upon the misfortune of Captain Moone of the Nonesuch (who did lose, in +the same manner, the Satisfaction), as a person that hath ill-luck +attending him; without considering that the whole fleete was ashore. +Captain Allen led the way, and Captain Allen himself writes that all the +masters of the fleete, old and young, were mistaken, and did carry their +ships aground. But I think I heard the Duke say that Moone, being put +into the Oxford, had in this conflict regained his credit, by sinking one +and taking another. Captain Seale of the Milford hath done his part very +well, in boarding the King Salamon, which held out half an hour after she +was boarded; and his men kept her an hour after they did master her, and +then she sunk, and drowned about 17 of her men. Thence to Jervas's, my +mind, God forgive me, running too much after some folly, but 'elle' not +being within I away by coach to the 'Change, and thence home to dinner. +And finding Mrs. Bagwell waiting at the office after dinner, away she and +I to a cabaret where she and I have eat before, and there I had her +company 'tout' and had 'mon plaisir' of 'elle'. But strange to see how a +woman, notwithstanding her greatest pretences of love 'a son mari' and +religion, may be 'vaincue'. Thence to the Court of the Turkey Company at +Sir Andrew Rickard's to treat about carrying some men of ours to Tangier, +and had there a very civil reception, though a denial of the thing as not +practicable with them, and I think so too. So to my office a little and +to Jervas's again, thinking 'avoir rencontrais' Jane, 'mais elle n'etait +pas dedans'. So I back again and to my office, where I did with great +content 'ferais' a vow to mind my business, and 'laisser aller les +femmes' for a month, and am with all my heart glad to find myself able to +come to so good a resolution, that thereby I may follow my business, +which and my honour thereby lies a bleeding. So home to supper and to +bed. + + + +24th. Up and by coach to Westminster Hall and the Parliament House, and +there spoke with Mr. Coventry and others about business and so back to +the 'Change, where no news more than that the Dutch have, by consent of +all the Provinces, voted no trade to be suffered for eighteen months, but +that they apply themselves wholly to the warr. + + [This statement of a total prohibition of all trade, and for so long + a period as eighteen months, by a government so essentially + commercial as that of the United Provinces, seems extraordinary. + The fact was, that when in the beginning of the year 1665 the States + General saw that the war with England was become inevitable, they + took several vigorous measures, and determined to equip a formidable + fleet, and with a view to obtain a sufficient number of men to man + it, prohibited all navigation, especially in the great and small + fisheries as they were then called, and in the whale fishery. This + measure appears to have resembled the embargoes so commonly resorted + to in this country on similar occasions, rather than a total + prohibition of trade.--B.] + +And they say it is very true, but very strange, for we use to believe +they cannot support themselves without trade. Thence home to dinner and +then to the office, where all the afternoon, and at night till very late, +and then home to supper and bed, having a great cold, got on Sunday last, +by sitting too long with my head bare, for Mercer to comb my hair and +wash my eares. + + + +25th. Up, and busy all the morning, dined at home upon a hare pye, very +good meat, and so to my office again, and in the afternoon by coach to +attend the Council at White Hall, but come too late, so back with Mr. +Gifford, a merchant, and he and I to the Coffee-house, where I met Mr. +Hill, and there he tells me that he is to be Assistant to the Secretary +of the Prize Office (Sir Ellis Layton), which is to be held at Sir +Richard Ford's, which, methinks, is but something low, but perhaps may +bring him something considerable; but it makes me alter my opinion of his +being so rich as to make a fortune for Mrs. Pickering. Thence home and +visited Sir J. Minnes, who continues ill, but is something better; there +he told me what a mad freaking--[?? D.W.]--fellow Sir Ellis Layton hath +been, and is, and once at Antwerp was really mad. Thence to my office +late, my cold troubling me, and having by squeezing myself in a coach +hurt my testicles, but I hope will cease its pain without swelling. So +home out of order, to supper and to bed. + + + +26th. Lay, being in some pain, but not much, with my last night's +bruise, but up and to my office, where busy all the morning, the like +after dinner till very late, then home to supper and to bed. My wife +mightily troubled with the tooth ake, and my cold not being gone yet, but +my bruise yesterday goes away again, and it chiefly occasioned I think +now from the sudden change of the weather from a frost to a great rayne +on a sudden. + + + +27th. Called up by Mr. Creed to discourse about some Tangier business, +and he gone I made me ready and found Jane Welsh, Mr. Jervas his mayde, +come to tell me that she was gone from her master, and is resolved to +stick to this sweetheart of hers, one Harbing (a very sorry little +fellow, and poor), which I did in a word or two endeavour to dissuade her +from, but being unwilling to keep her long at my house, I sent her away +and by and by followed her to the Exchange, and thence led her about down +to the 3 Cranes, and there took boat for the Falcon, and at a house +looking into the fields there took up and sat an hour or two talking and +discoursing . . . . Thence having endeavoured to make her think of +making herself happy by staying out her time with her master and other +counsels, but she told me she could not do it, for it was her fortune to +have this man, though she did believe it would be to her ruine, which is +a strange, stupid thing, to a fellow of no kind of worth in the world and +a beggar to boot. Thence away to boat again and landed her at the Three +Cranes again, and I to the Bridge, and so home, and after shifting +myself, being dirty, I to the 'Change, and thence to Mr. Povy's and there +dined, and thence with him and Creed to my Lord Bellasses', and there +debated a great while how to put things in order against his going, and +so with my Lord in his coach to White Hall, and with him to my Lord Duke +of Albemarle, finding him at cards. After a few dull words or two, I +away to White Hall again, and there delivered a letter to the Duke of +Yorke about our Navy business, and thence walked up and down in the +gallery, talking with Mr. Slingsby, who is a very ingenious person, about +the Mint and coynage of money. Among other things, he argues that there +being L700,000 coined in the Rump time, and by all the Treasurers of that +time, it being their opinion that the Rump money was in all payments, one +with another, about a tenth part of all their money. Then, says he, to +my question, the nearest guess we can make is, that the money passing up +and down in business is L7,000,000. To another question of mine he made +me fully understand that the old law of prohibiting bullion to be +exported, is, and ever was a folly and an injury, rather than good. +Arguing thus, that if the exportations exceed importations, then the +balance must be brought home in money, which, when our merchants know +cannot be carried out again, they will forbear to bring home in money, +but let it lie abroad for trade, or keepe in foreign banks: or if our +importations exceed our exportations, then, to keepe credit, the +merchants will and must find ways of carrying out money by stealth, which +is a most easy thing to do, and is every where done; and therefore the +law against it signifies nothing in the world. Besides, that it is seen, +that where money is free, there is great plenty; where it is restrained, +as here, there is a great want, as in Spayne. These and many other fine +discourses I had from him. Thence by coach home (to see Sir J. Minnes +first), who is still sick, and I doubt worse than he seems to be. Mrs. +Turner here took me into her closet, and there did give me a glass of +most pure water, and shewed me her Rocke, which indeed is a very noble +thing but a very bawble. So away to my office, where late, busy, and +then home to supper and to bed. + + + +28th. Up and to my office, where all the morning, and then home to +dinner, and after dinner abroad, walked to Paul's Churchyard, but my +books not bound, which vexed me. So home to my office again, where very +late about business, and so home to supper and to bed, my cold continuing +in a great degree upon me still. This day I received a good sum of money +due to me upon one score or another from Sir G. Carteret, among others to +clear all my matters about Colours,--[Flags]--wherein a month or two +since I was so embarrassed and I thank God I find myself to have got +clear, by that commodity, L50 and something more; and earned it with dear +pains and care and issuing of my owne money, and saved the King near L100 +in it. + + + +29th (Lord's day). Up and to my office, where all the morning, putting +papers to rights which now grow upon my hands. At noon dined at home. +All the afternoon at my business again. In the evening come Mr. Andrews +and Hill, and we up to my chamber and there good musique, though my great +cold made it the less pleasing to me. Then Mr. Hill (the other going +away) and I to supper alone, my wife not appearing, our discourse upon +the particular vain humours of Mr. Povy, which are very extraordinary +indeed. After supper I to Sir W. Batten's, where I found him, Sir W. +Pen, Sir J. Robinson, Sir R. Ford and Captain Cocke and Mr. Pen, junior. +Here a great deal of sorry disordered talk about the Trinity House men, +their being exempted from land service. But, Lord! to see how void of +method and sense their discourse was, and in what heat, insomuch as Sir +R. Ford (who we judged, some of us, to be a little foxed) fell into very +high terms with Sir W. Batten, and then with Captain Cocke. So that I +see that no man is wise at all times. Thence home to prayers and to bed. + + + +30th. This is solemnly kept as a Fast all over the City, but I kept my +house, putting my closett to rights again, having lately put it out of +order in removing my books and things in order to being made clean. At +this all day, and at night to my office, there to do some business, and +being late at it, comes Mercer to me, to tell me that my wife was in bed, +and desired me to come home; for they hear, and have, night after night, +lately heard noises over their head upon the leads. Now it is strange to +think how, knowing that I have a great sum of money in my house, this +puts me into a most mighty affright, that for more than two hours, I +could not almost tell what to do or say, but feared this and that, and +remembered that this evening I saw a woman and two men stand suspiciously +in the entry, in the darke; I calling to them, they made me only this +answer, the woman said that the men came to see her; but who she was I +could not tell. The truth is, my house is mighty dangerous, having so +many ways to be come to; and at my windows, over the stairs, to see who +goes up and down; but, if I escape to-night, I will remedy it. God +preserve us this night safe! So at almost two o'clock, I home to my +house, and, in great fear, to bed, thinking every running of a mouse +really a thiefe; and so to sleep, very brokenly, all night long, and +found all safe in the morning. + + + +31st. Up and with Sir W. Batten to Westminster, where to speak at the +House with my Lord Bellasses, and am cruelly vexed to see myself put upon +businesses so uncertainly about getting ships for Tangier being ordered, +a servile thing, almost every day. So to the 'Change, back by coach with +Sir W. Batten, and thence to the Crowne, a taverne hard by, with Sir W. +Rider and Cutler, where we alone, a very good dinner. Thence home to the +office, and there all the afternoon late. The office being up, my wife +sent for me, and what was it but to tell me how Jane carries herself, and +I must put her away presently. But I did hear both sides and find my +wife much in fault, and the grounds of all the difference is my wife's +fondness of Tom, to the being displeased with all the house beside to +defend the boy, which vexes me, but I will cure it. Many high words +between my wife and I, but the wench shall go, but I will take a course +with the boy, for I fear I have spoiled him already. Thence to the +office, to my accounts, and there at once to ease my mind I have made +myself debtor to Mr. Povy for the L117 5s. got with so much joy the last +month, but seeing that it is not like to be kept without some trouble and +question, I do even discharge my mind of it, and so if I come now to +refund it, as I fear I shall, I shall now be ne'er a whit the poorer for +it, though yet it is some trouble to me to be poorer by such a sum than I +thought myself a month since. But, however, a quiet mind and to be sure +of my owne is worth all. The Lord be praised for what I have, which is +this month come down to L1257. I staid up about my accounts till almost +two in the morning. + + + + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + FEBRUARY + 1664-1665 + + +February 1st. Lay long in bed, which made me, going by coach to St. +James's by appointment to have attended the Duke of Yorke and my Lord +Bellasses, lose the hopes of my getting something by the hire of a ship +to carry men to Tangier. But, however, according to the order of the +Duke this morning, I did go to the 'Change, and there after great pains +did light of a business with Mr. Gifford and Hubland [Houblon] for +bringing me as much as I hoped for, which I have at large expressed in my +stating the case of the "King's Fisher," which is the ship that I have +hired, and got the Duke of Yorke's agreement this afternoon after much +pains and not eating a bit of bread till about 4 o'clock. Going home I +put in to an ordinary by Temple Barr and there with my boy Tom eat a +pullet, and thence home to the office, being still angry with my wife for +yesterday's foolery. After a good while at the office, I with the boy to +the Sun behind the Exchange, by agreement with Mr. Young the flag-maker, +and there was met by Mr. Hill, Andrews, and Mr. Hubland, a pretty serious +man. Here two very pretty savoury dishes and good discourse. After +supper a song, or three or four (I having to that purpose carried Lawes's +book), and staying here till 12 o'clock got the watch to light me home, +and in a continued discontent to bed. After being in bed, my people come +and say there is a great stinke of burning, but no smoake. We called up +Sir J. Minnes's and Sir W. Batten's people, and Griffin, and the people +at the madhouse, but nothing could be found to give occasion to it. At +this trouble we were till past three o'clock, and then the stinke +ceasing, I to sleep, and my people to bed, and lay very long in the +morning. + + + +2nd. Then up and to my office, where till noon and then to the 'Change, +and at the Coffee-house with Gifford, Hubland, the Master of the ship, +and I read over and approved a charter-party for carrying goods for +Tangier, wherein I hope to get some money. Thence home, my head akeing +for want of rest and too much business. So to the office. At night +comes, Povy, and he and I to Mrs. Bland's to discourse about my serving +her to helpe her to a good passage for Tangier. Here I heard her +kinswoman sing 3 or 4 very fine songs and in good manner, and then home +and to supper. My cook mayd Jane and her mistresse parted, and she went +away this day. I vexed to myself, but was resolved to have no more +trouble, and so after supper to my office and then to bed. + + + +3rd. Up, and walked with my boy (whom, because of my wife's making him +idle, I dare not leave at home) walked first to Salsbury court, there to +excuse my not being at home at dinner to Mrs. Turner, who I perceive is +vexed, because I do not serve her in something against the great feasting +for her husband's Reading--[On his appointment as Reader in Law.]--in +helping her to some good penn'eths, but I care not. She was dressing +herself by the fire in her chamber, and there took occasion to show me +her leg, which indeed is the finest I ever saw, and she not a little +proud of it. Thence to my Lord Bellasses; thence to Mr. Povy's, and so +up and down at that end of the town about several businesses, it being a +brave frosty day and good walking. So back again on foot to the 'Change, +in my way taking my books from binding from my bookseller's. My bill for +the rebinding of some old books to make them suit with my study, cost me, +besides other new books in the same bill, L3; but it will be very +handsome. At the 'Change did several businesses, and here I hear that +newes is come from Deale, that the same day my Lord Sandwich sailed +thence with the fleete, that evening some Dutch men of warr were seen on +the back side of the Goodwin, and, by all conjecture, must be seen by my +Lord's fleete; which, if so, they must engage. Thence, being invited, to +my uncle Wight's, where the Wights all dined; and, among the others, +pretty Mrs. Margaret, who indeed is a very pretty lady; and though by my +vowe it costs me 12d. a kiss after the first, yet I did adventure upon a +couple. So home, and among other letters found one from Jane, that is +newly gone, telling me how her mistresse won't pay her her Quarter's +wages, and withal tells me how her mistress will have the boy sit 3 or 4 +hours together in the dark telling of stories, but speaks of nothing but +only her indiscretion in undervaluing herself to do it, but I will remedy +that, but am vexed she should get some body to write so much because of +making it publique. Then took coach and to visit my Lady Sandwich, where +she discoursed largely to me her opinion of a match, if it could be +thought fit by my Lord, for my Lady Jemimah, with Sir G. Carteret's +eldest son; but I doubt he hath yet no settled estate in land. But I +will inform myself, and give her my opinion. Then Mrs. Pickering (after +private discourse ended, we going into the other room) did, at my Lady's +command, tell me the manner of a masquerade + + + [The masquerade at Court took place on the 2nd, and is referred to + by Evelyn, who was present, in his Diary. Some amusing incidents + connected with the entertainment are related in the "Grammont + Memoirs" (chapter vii.).] + +before the King and Court the other day. Where six women (my Lady +Castlemayne and Duchesse of Monmouth being two of them) and six men (the +Duke of Monmouth and Lord Arran and Monsieur Blanfort, being three of +them) in vizards, but most rich and antique dresses, did dance admirably +and most gloriously. God give us cause to continue the mirthe! So home, +and after awhile at my office to supper and to bed. + + + +4th. Lay long in bed discoursing with my wife about her mayds, which by +Jane's going away in discontent and against my opinion do make some +trouble between my wife and me. But these are but foolish troubles and +so not to be set to heart, yet it do disturb me mightily these things. +To my office, and there all the morning. At noon being invited, I to the +Sun behind the 'Change, to dinner to my Lord Belasses, where a great deal +of discourse with him, and some good, among others at table he told us a +very handsome passage of the King's sending him his message about holding +out the town of Newarke, of which he was then governor for the King. +This message he sent in a sluggbullet, being writ in cypher, and wrapped +up in lead and swallowed. So the messenger come to my Lord and told him +he had a message from the King, but it was yet in his belly; so they did +give him some physique, and out it come. This was a month before the +King's flying to the Scotts; and therein he told him that at such a day, +being the 3d or 6th of May, he should hear of his being come to the +Scotts, being assured by the King of France that in coming to them he +should be used with all the liberty, honour, and safety, that could be +desired. And at the just day he did come to the Scotts. He told us +another odd passage: how the King having newly put out Prince Rupert of +his generallshipp, upon some miscarriage at Bristoll, and Sir Richard +Willis + + [Sir Richard Willis, the betrayer of the Royalists, was one of the + "Sealed Knot." When the Restoration had become a certainty, he + wrote to Clarendon imploring him to intercede for him with the king + (see Lister's "Life of Clarendon," vol. iii., p. 87).] + +of his governorship of Newarke, at the entreaty of the gentry of the +County, and put in my Lord Bellasses, the great officers of the King's +army mutinyed, and come in that manner with swords drawn, into the +market-place of the towne where the King was; which the King hearing, +says, "I must to horse." And there himself personally, when every body +expected they should have been opposed, the King come, and cried to the +head of the mutineers, which was Prince Rupert, "Nephew, I command you to +be gone." So the Prince, in all his fury and discontent, withdrew, and +his company scattered, which they say was the greatest piece of mutiny in +the world. Thence after dinner home to my office, and in the evening was +sent to by Jane that I would give her her wages. So I sent for my wife +to my office, and told her that rather than be talked on I would give her +all her wages for this Quarter coming on, though two months is behind, +which vexed my wife, and we begun to be angry, but I took myself up and +sent her away, but was cruelly vexed in my mind that all my trouble in +this world almost should arise from my disorders in my family and the +indiscretion of a wife that brings me nothing almost (besides a comely +person) but only trouble and discontent. She gone I late at my business, +and then home to supper and to bed. + + + +5th (Lord's day). Lay in bed most of the morning, then up and down to my +chamber, among my new books, which is now a pleasant sight to me to see +my whole study almost of one binding. So to dinner, and all the +afternoon with W. Hewer at my office endorsing of papers there, my +business having got before me much of late. In the evening comes to see +me Mr. Sheply, lately come out of the country, who goes away again +to-morrow, a good and a very kind man to me. There come also Mr. Andrews +and Hill, and we sang very pleasantly; and so, they being gone, I and my +wife to supper, and to prayers and bed. + + + +6th. Up and with Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Pen to St. James's, but the +Duke is gone abroad. So to White Hall to him, and there I spoke with +him, and so to Westminster, did a little business, and then home to the +'Change, where also I did some business, and went off and ended my +contract with the "Kingfisher" I hired for Tangier, and I hope to get +something by it. Thence home to dinner, and visited Sir W. Batten, who +is sick again, worse than he was, and I am apt to think is very ill. So +to my office, and among other things with Sir W. Warren 4 hours or more +till very late, talking of one thing or another, and have concluded a +firm league with him in all just ways to serve him and myself all I can, +and I think he will be a most usefull and thankfull man to me. So home +to supper and to bed. This being one of the coldest days, all say, they +ever felt in England; and I this day, under great apprehensions of +getting an ague from my putting a suit on that hath lain by without +ayring a great while, and I pray God it do not do me hurte. + + + +7th. Up and to my office, where busy all the morning, and at home to +dinner. It being Shrove Tuesday, had some very good fritters. All the +afternoon and evening at the office, and at night home to supper and to +bed. This day, Sir W. Batten, who hath been sicke four or five days, is +now very bad, so as people begin to fear his death; and I am at a loss +whether it will be better for me to have him die, because he is a bad +man, or live, for fear a worse should come. + + + +8th. Up and by coach to my Lord Peterborough's, where anon my Lord Ashly +and Sir Thomas Ingram met, and Povy about his accounts, who is one of the +most unhappy accountants that ever I knew in all my life, and one that if +I were clear in reference to my bill of L117 he should be hanged before I +would ever have to do with him, and as he understands nothing of his +business himself, so he hath not one about him that do. Here late till I +was weary, having business elsewhere, and thence home by coach, and after +dinner did several businesses and very late at my office, and so home to +supper and to bed. + + + +9th. Up and to my office, where all the morning very busy. At noon home +to dinner, and then to my office again, where Sir William Petty come, +among other things to tell me that Mr. Barlow + + [Thomas Barlow, Pepys's predecessor as Clerk of the Acts, to whom he + paid part of the salary. Barlow held the office jointly with Dennis + Fleeting.] + +is dead; for which, God knows my heart, I could be as sorry as is +possible for one to be for a stranger, by whose death he gets L100 per +annum, he being a worthy, honest man; but after having considered that +when I come to consider the providence of God by this means unexpectedly +to give me L100 a year more in my estate, I have cause to bless God, and +do it from the bottom of my heart. So home late at night, after twelve +o'clock, and so to bed. + + + +10th. Up and abroad to Paul's Churchyard, there to see the last of my +books new bound: among others, my "Court of King James," + + ["The Court and Character of King James, written and taken by Sir + Anthony Weldon, being an eye and eare witnesse," was published in + 1650, and reprinted in 1651 under the title of "Truth brought to + Light" Weldon's book was answered in a work entitled "Aulicus + Coquinariae." Both the original book and the answer were reprinted + in "The Secret History of the Court of King James," Edinburgh, 1811, + two vols. (edited by Sir Walter Scott).] + +and "The Rise and Fall of the Family of the Stewarts;" and much pleased I +am now with my study; it being, methinks, a beautifull sight. Thence (in +Mr. Grey's coach, who took me up), to Westminster, where I heard that +yesterday the King met the Houses to pass the great bill for the +L2,500,000. After doing a little business I home, where Mr. Moore dined +with me, and evened our reckonings on my Lord Sandwich's bond to me for +principal and interest. So that now on both there is remaining due to me +L257. 7s., and I bless God it is no more. So all the afternoon at my +office, and late home to supper, prayers, and to bed. + + + +11th. Up and to my office, where all the morning. At noon to 'Change by +coach with my Lord Brunkard, and thence after doing much business home to +dinner, and so to my office all the afternoon till past 12 at night very +busy. So home to bed. + + + +12th (Lord's day). Up and to church to St. Lawrence to hear Dr. Wilkins, +the great scholar, for curiosity, I having never heard him: but was not +satisfied with him at all, only a gentleman sat in the pew I by chance +sat in, that sang most excellently, and afterward I found by his face +that he had been a Paul's scholler, but know not his name, and I was also +well pleased with the church, it being a very fine church. So home to +dinner, and then to my office all the afternoon doing of business, and in +the evening comes Mr. Hill (but no Andrews) and we spent the evening very +finely, singing, supping and discoursing. Then to prayers and to bed. + + + +13th. Up and to St. James's, did our usual business before the Duke. +Thence I to Westminster and by water (taking Mr. Stapely the rope-maker +by the way), to his rope-ground and to Limehouse, there to see the manner +of stoves and did excellently inform myself therein, and coming home did +go on board Sir W. Petty's "Experiment," which is a brave roomy vessel, +and I hope may do well. So went on shore to a Dutch [house] to drink +some mum, and there light upon some Dutchmen, with whom we had good +discourse touching stoveing + + [Stoveing, in sail-making, is the heating of the bolt-ropes, so as + to make them pliable.--B.] + +and making of cables. But to see how despicably they speak of us for our +using so many hands more to do anything than they do, they closing a +cable with 20, that we use 60 men upon. Thence home and eat something, +and then to my office, where very late, and then to supper and to bed. +Captain Stokes, it seems, is at last dead at Portsmouth. + + + +14th (St. Valentine). This morning comes betimes Dicke Pen, to be my +wife's Valentine, and come to our bedside. By the same token, I had him +brought to my side, thinking to have made him kiss me; but he perceived +me, and would not; so went to his Valentine: a notable, stout, witty boy. +I up about business, and, opening the door, there was Bagwell's wife, +with whom I talked afterwards, and she had the confidence to say she came +with a hope to be time enough to be my Valentine, and so indeed she did, +but my oath preserved me from loosing any time with her, and so I and my +boy abroad by coach to Westminster, where did two or three businesses, +and then home to the 'Change, and did much business there. My Lord +Sandwich is, it seems, with his fleete at Alborough Bay. So home to +dinner and then to the office, where till 12 almost at night, and then +home to supper and to bed. + + + +15th. Up and to my office, where busy all the morning. At noon with +Creed to dinner to Trinity-house, where a very good dinner among the old +sokers, where an extraordinary discourse of the manner of the loss of the +"Royall Oake" coming home from Bantam, upon the rocks of Scilly, many +passages therein very extraordinary, and if I can I will get it in +writing. Thence with Creed to Gresham College, where I had been by Mr. +Povy the last week proposed to be admitted a member; + + [According to the minutes of the Royal Society for February 15th, + 1664-65, "Mr. Pepys was unanimously elected and admitted." Notes of + the experiments shown by Hooke and Boyle are given in Birch's + "History of the Royal Society," vol. ii., p. 15.] + +and was this day admitted, by signing a book and being taken by the hand +by the President, my Lord Brunkard, and some words of admittance said to +me. But it is a most acceptable thing to hear their discourse, and see +their experiments; which were this day upon the nature of fire, and how +it goes out in a place where the ayre is not free, and sooner out where +the ayre is exhausted, which they showed by an engine on purpose. After +this being done, they to the Crowne Taverne, behind the 'Change, and +there my Lord and most of the company to a club supper; Sir P. Neale, +Sir R. Murrey, Dr. Clerke, Dr. Whistler, Dr. Goddard, and others of most +eminent worth. Above all, Mr. Boyle to-day was at the meeting, and above +him Mr. Hooke, who is the most, and promises the least, of any man in +the world that ever I saw. Here excellent discourse till ten at night, +and then home, and to Sir W. Batten's, where I hear that Sir Thos. Harvy +intends to put Mr. Turner out of his house and come in himself, which +will be very hard to them, and though I love him not, yet for his +family's sake I pity him. So home and to bed. + + + +16th. Up, and with Mr. Andrews to White Hall, where a Committee of +Tangier, and there I did our victuallers' business for some more money, +out of which I hope to get a little, of which I was glad; but, Lord! to +see to what a degree of contempt, nay, scorn, Mr. Povy, through his +prodigious folly, hath brought himself in his accounts, that if he be not +a man of a great interest, he will be kicked out of his employment for a +foole, is very strange, and that most deservedly that ever man was, for +never any man, that understands accounts so little, ever went through so +much, and yet goes through it with the greatest shame and yet with +confidence that ever I saw man in my life. God deliver me in my owne +business of my bill out of his hands, and if ever I foul my fingers with +him again let me suffer for it! Back to the 'Change, and thence home to +dinner, where Mrs. Hunt dined with me, and poor Mrs. Batters; who brought +her little daughter with her, and a letter from her husband, wherein, as +a token, the foole presents me very seriously with his daughter for me to +take the charge of bringing up for him, and to make my owne. But I took +no notice to her at all of the substance of the letter, but fell to +discourse, and so went away to the office, where all the afternoon till +almost one in the morning, and then home to bed. + + + +17th. Up, and it being bitter cold, and frost and snow, which I had +thought had quite left us, I by coach to Povy's, where he told me, as I +knew already, how he was handled the other day, and is still, by my Lord +Barkeley, and among other things tells me, what I did not know, how my +Lord Barkeley will say openly, that he hath fought more set fields-- +[Battles or actions]--than any man in England hath done. I did my +business with him, which was to get a little sum of money paid, and so +home with Mr. Andrews, who met me there, and there to the office. At +noon home and there found Lewellin, which vexed me out of my old jealous +humour. So to my office, where till 12 at night, being only a little +while at noon at Sir W. Batten's to see him, and had some high words with +Sir J. Minnes about Sir W. Warren, he calling him cheating knave, but +I cooled him, and at night at Sir W. Pen's, he being to go to Chatham +to-morrow. So home to supper and to bed. + + + +18th. Up, and to the office, where sat all the morning; at noon to the +'Change, and thence to the Royall Oake taverne in Lumbard Streete, where +Sir William Petty and the owners of the double-bottomed boat (the +Experiment) did entertain my Lord Brunkard, Sir R. Murrey, myself, and +others, with marrow bones and a chine of beefe of the victuals they have +made for this ship; and excellent company and good discourse: but, above +all, I do value Sir William Petty. Thence home; and took my Lord +Sandwich's draught of the harbour of Portsmouth down to Ratcliffe, to one +Burston, to make a plate for the King, and another for the Duke, and +another for himself; which will be very neat. So home, and till almost +one o'clock in the morning at my office, and then home to supper and to +bed. My Lord Sandwich, and his fleete of twenty-five ships in the +Downes, returned from cruising, but could not meet with any Dutchmen. + + + +19th. Lay in bed, it being Lord's day, all the morning talking with my +wife, sometimes pleased, sometimes displeased, and then up and to dinner. +All the afternoon also at home, and Sir W. Batten's, and in the evening +comes Mr. Andrews, and we sung together, and then to supper, he not +staying, and at supper hearing by accident of my mayds their letting in a +rogueing Scotch woman that haunts the office, to helpe them to washe and +scoure in our house, and that very lately, I fell mightily out, and made +my wife, to the disturbance of the house and neighbours, to beat our +little girle, and then we shut her down into the cellar, and there she +lay all night. So we to bed. + + + +20th. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes to attend the Duke, and then we back +again and rode into the beginning of my Lord Chancellor's new house, near +St. James's; which common people have already called Dunkirke-house, from +their opinion of his having a good bribe for the selling of that towne. +And very noble I believe it will be. Near that is my Lord Barkeley +beginning another on one side, and Sir J. Denham on the other. Thence I +to the House of Lords and spoke with my Lord Bellasses, and so to the +'Change, and there did business, and so to the Sun taverne, haling in the +morning had some high words with Sir J. Lawson about his sending of some +bayled goods to Tangier, wherein the truth is I did not favour him, but +being conscious that some of my profits may come out by some words that +fell from him, and to be quiet, I have accommodated it. Here we dined +merry; but my club and the rest come to 7s. 6d., which was too much. +Thence to the office, and there found Bagwell's wife, whom I directed to +go home, and I would do her business, which was to write a letter to my +Lord Sandwich for her husband's advance into a better ship as there +should be occasion. Which I did, and by and by did go down by water to +Deptford, and then down further, and so landed at the lower end of the +town, and it being dark 'entrer en la maison de la femme de Bagwell', +and there had 'sa compagnie', though with a great deal of difficulty, +'neanmoins en fin j'avais ma volont d'elle', and being sated therewith, +I walked home to Redriffe, it being now near nine o'clock, and there I +did drink some strong waters and eat some bread and cheese, and so home. +Where at my office my wife comes and tells me that she hath hired a +chamber mayde, one of the prettiest maydes that ever she saw in her life, +and that she is really jealous of me for her, but hath ventured to hire +her from month to month, but I think she means merrily. So to supper and +to bed. + + + +21st. Up, and to the office (having a mighty pain in my forefinger of my +left hand, from a strain that it received last night) in struggling 'avec +la femme que je' mentioned yesterday, where busy till noon, and then my +wife being busy in going with her woman to a hot-house to bathe herself, +after her long being within doors in the dirt, so that she now pretends +to a resolution of being hereafter very clean. How long it will hold I +can guess. I dined with Sir W. Batten and my Lady, they being now a'days +very fond of me. So to the 'Change, and off of the 'Change with Mr. +Wayth to a cook's shop, and there dined again for discourse with him +about Hamaccos + + [Or hammock-battens: cleats or battens nailed to the sides of a + vessel's beams, from which to suspend the seamen's hammocks.] + +and the abuse now practised in tickets, and more like every day to be. +Also of the great profit Mr. Fen makes of his place, he being, though he +demands but 5 per cent. of all he pays, and that is easily computed, but +very little pleased with any man that gives him no more. So to the +office, and after office my Lord Brunkerd carried me to Lincolne's Inne +Fields, and there I with my Lady Sandwich (good lady) talking of innocent +discourse of good housewifery and husbands for her daughters, and the +luxury and looseness of the times and other such things till past 10 +o'clock at night, and so by coach home, where a little at my office, and +so to supper and to bed. My Lady tells me how my Lord Castlemayne is +coming over from France, and is believed will be made friends with his +Lady again. What mad freaks the Mayds of Honour at Court have: that Mrs. +Jenings, one of the Duchesses mayds, the other day dressed herself like +an orange wench, and went up and down and cried oranges; till falling +down, or by such accident, though in the evening, her fine shoes were +discerned, and she put to a great deale of shame; that such as these +tricks being ordinary, and worse among them, thereby few will venture +upon them for wives: my Lady Castlemayne will in merriment say that her +daughter (not above a year old or two) will be the first mayde in the +Court that will be married. This day my Lord Sandwich writ me word from +the Downes, that he is like to be in towne this week. + + + +22nd. Lay last night alone, my wife after her bathing lying alone in +another bed. So cold all night. Up and to the office, where busy all +the morning. At noon at the 'Change, busy; where great talk of a Dutch +ship in the North put on shore, and taken by a troop of horse. Home to +dinner and Creed with me. Thence to Gresham College, where very noble +discourse, and thence home busy till past 12 at night, and then home to +supper and to bed. Mrs. Bland come this night to take leave of me and my +wife, going to Tangier. + + + +23rd. This day, by the blessing of Almighty God, I have lived thirty-two +years in the world, and am in the best degree of health at this minute +that I have been almost in my life time, and at this time in the best +condition of estate that ever I was in-the Lord make me thankfull. Up, +and to the office, where busy all the morning. At noon to the 'Change, +where I hear the most horrid and astonishing newes that ever was yet told +in my memory, that De Ruyter with his fleete in Guinny hath proceeded to +the taking of whatever we have, forts, goods, ships, and men, and tied +our men back to back, and thrown them all into the sea, even women and +children also. This a Swede or Hamburgher is come into the River and +tells that he saw the thing done. + + [Similar reports of the cruelty of the English to the Dutch in + Guinea were credited in Holland, and were related by Downing in a + letter to Clarendon from the Hague, dated April 14th, 1665 (Lister's + "Life of Clarendon," vol. iii., p. 374).] + +But, Lord! to see the consternation all our merchants are in is +observable, and with what fury and revenge they discourse of it. But I +fear it will like other things in a few days cool among us. But that +which I fear most is the reason why he that was so kind to our men at +first should afterward, having let them go, be so cruel when he went +further. What I fear is that there he was informed (which he was not +before) of some of Holmes's dealings with his countrymen, and so was +moved to this fury. God grant it be not so! But a more dishonourable +thing was never suffered by Englishmen, nor a more barbarous done by man, +as this by them to us. Home to dinner, and then to the office, where we +sat all the afternoon, and then at night to take my finall leave of Mrs. +Bland, who sets out to-morrow for Tangier, and then I back to my office +till past 12, and so home to supper and to bed. + + + +24th. Up, and to my office, where all the morning upon advising again +with some fishermen and the water bayliffe of the City, by Mr. Coventry's +direction, touching the protections which are desired for the fishermen +upon the River, and I am glad of the occasion to make me understand +something of it. At noon home to dinner, and all the afternoon till 9 at +night in my chamber, and Mr. Hater with me (to prevent being disturbed at +the office), to perfect my contract book, which, for want of time, hath a +long time lain without being entered in as I used to do from month to +month. Then to my office, where till almost 12, and so home to bed. + + + +25th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon to the +'Change; where just before I come, the Swede that had told the King and +the Duke so boldly this great lie of the Dutch flinging our men back to +back into the sea at Guinny, so particularly, and readily, and +confidently, was whipt round the 'Change: he confessing it a lie, and +that he did it in hopes to get something. It is said the judges, upon +demand, did give it their opinion that the law would judge him to be +whipt, to lose his eares, or to have his nose slit but I do not hear that +anything more is to be done to him. They say he is delivered over to the +Dutch Embassador to do what he pleased with him. But the world do think +that there is some design on one side or other, either of the Dutch or +French, for it is not likely a fellow would invent such a lie to get +money whereas he might have hoped for a better reward by telling +something in behalf of us to please us. Thence to the Sun taverne, and +there dined with Sir W. Warren and Mr. Gifford, the merchant: and I hear +how Nich. Colborne, that lately lived and got a great estate there, is +gone to live like a prince in the country, and that this Wadlow, that did +the like at the Devil by St. Dunstane's, did go into the country, and +there spent almost all he had got, and hath now choused this Colborne out +of his house, that he might come to his old trade again. But, Lord! to +see how full the house is, no room for any company almost to come into +it. Thence home to the office, where dispatched much business; at night +late home, and to clean myself with warm water; my wife will have me, +because she do herself, and so to bed. + + + +26th (Sunday). Up and to church, and so home to dinner, and after dinner +to my office, and there busy all the afternoon, till in the evening comes +Mr. Andrews and Hill, and so home and to singing. Hill staid and supped +with me, and very good discourse of Italy, where he was, which is always +to me very agreeable. After supper, he gone, we to prayers and to bed. + + + +27th. Up and to St. James's, where we attended the Duke as usual. This +morning I was much surprized and troubled with a letter from Mrs. Bland, +that she is left behind, and much trouble it cost me this day to find out +some way to carry her after the ships to Plymouth, but at last I hope I +have done it. At noon to the 'Change to inquire what wages the Dutch +give in their men-of-warr at this day, and I hear for certain they give +but twelve guilders at most, which is not full 24s., a thing I wonder at. +At home to dinner, and then in Sir J. Minnes's coach, my wife and I with +him, and also Mercer, abroad, he and I to White Hall, and he would have +his coach to wait upon my wife on her visits, it being the first time my +wife hath been out of doors (but the other day to bathe her) several +weeks. We to a Committee of the Council to discourse concerning pressing +of men; but, Lord! how they meet; never sit down: one comes, now another +goes, then comes another; one complaining that nothing is done, another +swearing that he hath been there these two hours and nobody come. At +last it come to this, my Lord Annesly, says he, "I think we must be +forced to get the King to come to every committee; for I do not see that +we do any thing at any time but when he is here." And I believe he said +the truth and very constant he is at the council table on council-days; +which his predecessors, it seems, very rarely did; but thus I perceive +the greatest affair in the world at this day is likely to be managed by +us. But to hear how my Lord Barkeley and others of them do cry up the +discipline of the late times here, and in the former Dutch warr is +strange, wishing with all their hearts that the business of religion were +not so severely carried on as to discourage the sober people to come +among us, and wishing that the same law and severity were used against +drunkennesse as there was then, saying that our evil living will call the +hand of God upon us again. Thence to walk alone a good while in St. +James's Parke with Mr. Coventry, who I perceive is grown a little +melancholy and displeased to see things go as they do so carelessly. +Thence I by coach to Ratcliffe highway, to the plate-maker's, and he has +begun my Lord Sandwich's plate very neatly, and so back again. Coming +back I met Colonell Atkins, who in other discourse did offer to give me a +piece to receive of me 20 when he proves the late news of the Dutch, +their drowning our men, at Guinny, and the truth is I find the generality +of the world to fear that there is something of truth in it, and I do +fear it too. Thence back by coach to Sir Philip Warwicke's; and there he +did contract with me a kind of friendship and freedom of communication, +wherein he assures me to make me understand the whole business of the +Treasurer's business of the Navy, that I shall know as well as Sir G. +Carteret what money he hath; and will needs have me come to him +sometimes, or he meet me, to discourse of things tending to the serving +the King: and I am mighty proud and happy in becoming so known to such a +man. And I hope shall pursue it. Thence back home to the office a +little tired and out of order, and then to supper and to bed. + + + +28th: At the office all the morning. At noon dined at home. After +dinner my wife and I to my Lady batten's, it being the first time my wife +hath been there, I think, these two years, but I had a mind in part to +take away the strangenesse, and so we did, and all very quiett and kind. +Come home, I to the taking my wife's kitchen accounts at the latter end +of the month, and there find 7s. wanting, which did occasion a very high +falling out between us, I indeed too angrily insisting upon so poor a +thing, and did give her very provoking high words, calling her beggar, +and reproaching her friends, which she took very stomachfully and +reproached me justly with mine; and I confess, being myself, I cannot see +what she could have done less. I find she is very cunning, and when she +least shews it hath her wit at work; but it is an ill one, though I think +not so bad but with good usage I might well bear with it, and the truth +is I do find that my being over-solicitous and jealous and froward and +ready to reproach her do make her worse. However, I find that now and +then a little difference do no hurte, but too much of it will make her +know her force too much. We parted after many high words very angry, and +I to my office to my month's accounts, and find myself worth L1270, for +which the Lord God be praised! So at almost 2 o'clock in the morning I +home to supper and to bed, and so ends this month, with great expectation +of the Hollanders coming forth, who are, it seems, very high and rather +more ready than we. God give a good issue to it! + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +Accounts I never did see, or hope again to see in my days +At a loss whether it will be better for me to have him die +By his many words and no understanding, confound himself +Church, where a most insipid young coxcomb preached +Clean myself with warm water; my wife will have me +Costs me 12d. a kiss after the first +Find that now and then a little difference do no hurte +Going with her woman to a hot-house to bathe herself +Good discourse and counsel from him, which I hope I shall take +Great thaw it is not for a man to walk the streets +Heard noises over their head upon the leads +His disease was the pox and that he must be fluxed (Rupert) +I know not how their fortunes may agree +If the exportations exceed importations +It is a strange thing how fancy works +Law against it signifies nothing in the world +Law and severity were used against drunkennesse +Luxury and looseness of the times +Must be forced to confess it to my wife, which troubles me +My wife after her bathing lying alone in another bed +No man is wise at all times +Offer to give me a piece to receive of me 20 +Pretends to a resolution of being hereafter very clean +Sat an hour or two talking and discoursing . . . . +So great a trouble is fear +Those bred in the North among the colliers are good for labour +Tied our men back to back, and thrown them all into the sea +Too much of it will make her know her force too much +Up, leaving my wife in bed, being sick of her months +When she least shews it hath her wit at work +Where money is free, there is great plenty +Who is the most, and promises the least, of any man +Wife that brings me nothing almost (besides a comely person) + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v38 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + diff --git a/old/sp39g10.zip b/old/sp39g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..67e5b74 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp39g10.zip |