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WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + MARCH & APRIL + 1664-1665 + + +March 1st. Up, and this day being the day than: by a promise, a great +while ago, made to my wife, I was to give her L20 to lay out in clothes +against Easter, she did, notwithstanding last night's falling out, come +to peace with me and I with her, but did boggle mightily at the parting +with my money, but at last did give it her, and then she abroad to buy +her things, and I to my office, where busy all the morning. At noon I to +dinner at Trinity House, and thence to Gresham College, where Mr. Hooke +read a second very curious lecture about the late Comett; among other +things proving very probably that this is the very same Comett that +appeared before in the year 1618, and that in such a time probably it +will appear again, which is a very new opinion; but all will be in print. +Then to the meeting, where Sir G. Carteret's two sons, his owne, and Sir +N. Slaning, were admitted of the society: and this day I did pay my +admission money, 40s. to the society. Here was very fine discourses and +experiments, but I do lacke philosophy enough to understand them, and so +cannot remember them. Among others, a very particular account of the +making of the several sorts of bread in France, which is accounted the +best place for bread in the world. So home, where very busy getting an +answer to some question of Sir Philip Warwicke touching the expense of +the navy, and that being done I by coach at 8 at night with my wife and +Mercer to Sir Philip's and discoursed with him (leaving them in the +coach), and then back with them home and to supper and to bed. + + + +2nd. Begun this day to rise betimes before six o'clock, and, going down +to call my people, found Besse and the girle with their clothes on, lying +within their bedding upon the ground close by the fireside, and a candle +burning all night, pretending they would rise to scoure. This vexed me, +but Besse is going and so she will not trouble me long. Up, and by water +to Burston about my Lord's plate, and then home to the office, so there +all the morning sitting. At noon dined with Sir W. Batten (my wife being +gone again to-day to buy things, having bought nothing yesterday for lack +of Mrs. Pierces company), and thence to the office again, where very busy +till 12 at night, and vexed at my wife's staying out so late, she not +being at home at 9 o'clock, but at last she is come home, but the reason +of her stay I know not yet. So shut up my books, and home to supper and +to bed. + + + +3rd. Up, and abroad about several things, among others to see Mr. Peter +Honiwood, who was at my house the other day, and I find it was for +nothing but to pay me my brother John's Quarterage. Thence to see Mrs. +Turner, who takes it mighty ill I did not come to dine with the Reader, +her husband, which, she says, was the greatest feast that ever was yet +kept by a Reader, and I believe it was well. But I am glad I did not go, +which confirms her in an opinion that I am growne proud. Thence to the +'Change, and to several places, and so home to dinner and to my office, +where till 12 at night writing over a discourse of mine to Mr. Coventry +touching the Fishermen of the Thames upon a reference of the business by +him to me concerning their being protected from presse. Then home to +supper and to bed. + + + +4th. Up very betimes, and walked, it being bitter cold, to Ratcliffe, to +the plate-maker's and back again. To the office, where we sat all the +morning, I, with being empty and full of ayre and wind, had some pain +to-day. Dined alone at home, my wife being gone abroad to buy some more +things. All the afternoon at the office. William Howe come to see me, +being come up with my Lord from sea: he is grown a discreet, but very +conceited fellow. He tells me how little respectfully Sir W. Pen did +carry it to my Lord onboard the Duke's ship at sea; and that Captain +Minnes, a favourite of Prince Rupert's, do shew my Lord little respect; +but that every body else esteems my Lord as they ought. I am sorry for +the folly of the latter, and vexed at the dissimulation of the former. +At night home to supper and to bed. This day was proclaimed at the +'Change the war with Holland. + + + +5th (Lord's day). Up, and Mr. Burston bringing me by order my Lord's +plates, which he has been making this week. I did take coach and to my +Lord Sandwich's and dined with my Lord; it being the first time he hath +dined at home since his coming from sea: and a pretty odd demand it was +of my Lord to my Lady before me: "How do you, sweetheart? How have you +done all this week?" himself taking notice of it to me, that he had +hardly seen her the week before. At dinner he did use me with the +greatest solemnity in the world, in carving for me, and nobody else, and +calling often to my Lady to cut for me; and all the respect possible. +After dinner looked over the plates, liked them mightily, and indeed I +think he is the most exact man in what he do in the world of that kind. +So home again, and there after a song or two in the evening with Mr. +Hill, I to my office, and then home to supper and to bed. + + + +6th. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes by coach, being a most lamentable cold +day as any this year, to St. James's, and there did our business with the +Duke. Great preparations for his speedy return to sea. I saw him try on +his buff coat and hatpiece covered with black velvet. It troubles me +more to think of his venture, than of anything else in the whole warr. +Thence home to dinner, where I saw Besse go away; she having of all +wenches that ever lived with us received the greatest love and kindnesse +and good clothes, besides wages, and gone away with the greatest +ingratitude. I then abroad to look after my Hamaccoes, and so home, and +there find our new chamber-mayde, Mary, come, which instead of handsome, +as my wife spoke and still seems to reckon, is a very ordinary wench, I +think, and therein was mightily disappointed. To my office, where busy +late, and then home to supper and to bed, and was troubled all this night +with a pain in my left testicle, that run up presently into my left +kidney and there kept akeing all night. In great pain. + + + +7th. Up, and was pretty well, but going to the office, and I think it +was sitting with my back to the fire, it set me in a great rage again, +that I could not continue till past noon at the office, but was forced to +go home, nor could sit down to dinner, but betook myself to my bed, and +being there a while my pain begun to abate and grow less and less. Anon +I went to make water, not dreaming of any thing but my testicle that by +some accident I might have bruised as I used to do, but in pissing there +come from me two stones, I could feel them, and caused my water to be +looked into; but without any pain to me in going out, which makes me +think that it was not a fit of the stone at all; for my pain was asswaged +upon my lying down a great while before I went to make water. Anon I +made water again very freely and plentifully. I kept my bed in good ease +all the evening, then rose and sat up an hour or two, and then to bed and +lay till 8 o'clock, and then, + + + +8th. Though a bitter cold day, yet I rose, and though my pain and +tenderness in my testicle remains a little, yet I do verily think that my +pain yesterday was nothing else, and therefore I hope my disease of the +stone may not return to me, but void itself in pissing, which God grant, +but I will consult my physitian. This morning is brought me to the +office the sad newes of "The London," in which Sir J. Lawson's men were +all bringing her from Chatham to the Hope, and thence he was to go to sea +in her; but a little a'this side the buoy of the Nower, she suddenly blew +up. About 24 [men] and a woman that were in the round-house and coach +saved; the rest, being above 300, drowned: the ship breaking all in +pieces, with 80 pieces of brass ordnance. She lies sunk, with her round- +house above water. Sir J. Lawson hath a great loss in this of so many +good chosen men, and many relations among them. I went to the 'Change, +where the news taken very much to heart. So home to dinner, and Mr. +Moore with me. Then I to Gresham College, and there saw several pretty +experiments, and so home and to my office, and at night about I I home to +supper and to bed. + + + +9th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the afternoon. At noon to +dinner at home, and then abroad with my wife, left her at the New +Exchange and I to Westminster, where I hear Mrs. Martin is brought to bed +of a boy and christened Charles, which I am very glad of, for I was +fearful of being called to be a godfather to it. But it seems it was to +be done suddenly, and so I escaped. It is strange to see how a liberty +and going abroad without purpose of doing anything do lead a man to what +is bad, for I was just upon going to her, where I must of necessity +[have] broken my oath or made a forfeit. But I did not, company being (I +heard by my porter) with her, and so I home again, taking up my wife, and +was set down by her at Paule's Schoole, where I visited Mr. Crumlum at +his house; and, Lord! to see how ridiculous a conceited pedagogue he is, +though a learned man, he being so dogmaticall in all he do and says. But +among other discourse, we fell to the old discourse of Paule's Schoole; +and he did, upon my declaring my value of it, give me one of Lilly's +grammars of a very old impression, as it was in the Catholique times, +which I shall much set by. And so, after some small discourse, away and +called upon my wife at a linen draper's shop buying linen, and so home, +and to my office, where late, and home to supper and to bed. This night +my wife had a new suit of flowered ash-coloured silke, very noble. + + + +10th. Up, and to the office all the morning. At noon to the 'Change, +where very hot, people's proposal of the City giving the King' another +ship for "The London," that is lately blown up, which would be very +handsome, and if well managed, might be done; but I fear if it be put +into ill hands, or that the courtiers do solicit it, it will never be +done. Home to dinner, and thence to the Committee of Tangier at White +Hall, where my Lord Barkely and Craven and others; but, Lord! to see how +superficially things are done in the business of the Lottery, which will +be the disgrace of the Fishery, and without profit. Home, vexed at my +loss of time, and thereto my office. Late at night come the two +Bellamys, formerly petty warrant Victuallers of the Navy, to take my +advice about a navy debt of theirs for the compassing of which they offer +a great deal of money, and the thing most just. Perhaps I may undertake +it, and get something by it, which will be a good job. So home late to +bed. + + + +11th. Up and to the office, at noon home to dinner, and to the office +again, where very late, and then home to supper and to bed. This day +returned Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes from Lee Roade, where they have +been to see the wrecke of "The London," out of which, they say, the guns +may be got, but the hull of her will be wholly lost, as not being capable +of being weighed. + + + +12th (Lord's day). Up, and borrowing Sir J. Minnes's coach, to my Lord +Sandwich's, but he was gone abroad. I sent the coach back for my wife, +my Lord a second time dining at home on purpose to meet me, he having not +dined once at home but those times since his coming from sea. I sat down +and read over the Bishop of Chichester's' sermon upon the anniversary of +the King's death, much cried up, but, methinks, but a mean sermon. By +and by comes in my Lord, and he and I to talke of many things in the +Navy, one from another, in general, to see how the greatest things are +committed to very ordinary men, as to parts and experience, to do; among +others, my Lord Barkeley. We talked also of getting W. Howe to be put +into the Muster-Mastershipp in the roome of Creed, if Creed will give +way, but my Lord do it without any great gusto, calling Howe a proud +coxcomb in passion. Down to dinner, where my wife in her new lace +whiske, which, indeed, is very noble, and I much pleased with it, and so +my Lady also. Here very pleasant my Lord was at dinner, and after dinner +did look over his plate, which Burston hath brought him to-day, and is +the last of the three that he will have made. After satisfied with that, +he abroad, and I after much discourse with my Lady about Sir +G. Carteret's son, of whom she hath some thoughts for a husband for my +Lady Jemimah, we away home by coach again, and there sang a good while +very pleasantly with Mr. Andrews and Hill. They gone; we to supper, and +betimes to bed. + + + +13th. Up betimes, this being the first morning of my promise upon a +forfeite not to lie in bed a quarter of an hour after my first waking. +Abroad to St. James's, and there much business, the King also being with +us a great while. Thence to the 'Change, and thence with Captain Tayler +and Sir W. Warren dined at a house hard by for discourse sake, and so I +home, and there meeting a letter from Mrs. Martin desiring to speak with +me, I (though against my promise of visiting her) did go, and there found +her in her childbed dress desiring my favour to get her husband a place. +I staid not long, but taking Sir W. Warren up at White Hall home, and +among other discourse fell to a business which he says shall if +accomplished bring me L100. He gone, I to supper and to bed. This day +my wife begun to wear light-coloured locks, quite white almost, which, +though it makes her look very pretty, yet not being natural, vexes me, +that I will not have her wear them. This day I saw my Lord Castlemayne +at St. James's, lately come from France. + + + +14th. Up before six, to the office, where busy all the morning. At noon +dined with Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes, at the Tower, with Sir J. +Robinson, at a farewell dinner which he gives Major Holmes at his going +out of the Tower, where he hath for some time, since his coming from +Guinny, been a prisoner, and, it seems, had presented the Lieutenant with +fifty pieces yesterday. Here a great deale of good victuals and company. +Thence home to my office, where very late, and home to supper and to bed +weary of business. + + + +15th. Up and by coach with Sir W. Batten to St. James's, where among +other things before the Duke, Captain Taylor was called in, and, Sir J. +Robinson his accuser not appearing, was acquitted quite from his charge, +and declared that he should go to Harwich, which I was very well pleased +at. Thence I to Mr. Coventry's chamber, and there privately an houre +with him in discourse of the office, and did deliver to him many notes of +things about which he is to get the Duke's command, before he goes, for +the putting of business among us in better order. He did largely owne +his dependance as to the office upon my care, and received very great +expressions of love from him, and so parted with great satisfaction to +myself. So home to the 'Change, and thence home to dinner, where my wife +being gone down upon a sudden warning from my Lord Sandwich's daughters +to the Hope with them to see "The Prince," I dined alone. After dinner +to the office, and anon to Gresham College, where, among other good +discourse, there was tried the great poyson of Maccassa upon a dogg, + + ["The experiment of trying to poison a dog with some of the Macassar + powder in which a needle had been dipped was made, but without + success."--(The dog may have been of another opinion. D.W.)--Pepys + himself made a communication at this meeting of the information he + had received from the master of the Jersey ship, who had been in + company of Major Holmes in the Guinea voyage, concerning the + pendulum watches (Birch's "History," vol. ii., p. 23).] + +but it had no effect all the time we sat there. We anon broke up and I +home, where late at my office, my wife not coming home. I to bed, +troubled, about 12 or past. + + + +16th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, my wife coming +home from the water this morning, having lain with them on board "The +Prince" all night. At noon home to dinner, where my wife told me the +unpleasant journey she had yesterday among the children, whose fear upon +the water and folly made it very unpleasing to her. A good dinner, and +then to the office again. This afternoon Mr. Harris, the sayle-maker, +sent me a noble present of two large silver candlesticks and snuffers, +and a slice to keep them upon, which indeed is very handsome. At night +come Mr. Andrews with L36, the further fruits of my Tangier contract, and +so to bed late and weary with business, but in good content of mind, +blessing God for these his benefits. + + + +17th. Up and to my office, and then with Sir W. Batten to St. James's, +where many come to take leave, as was expected, of the Duke, but he do +not go till Monday. This night my Lady Wood died of the small-pox, and +is much lamented among the great persons for a good-natured woman and a +good wife, but for all that it was ever believed she was as others are. +The Duke did give us some commands, and so broke up, not taking leave of +him. But the best piece of newes is, that instead of a great many +troublesome Lords, the whole business is to be left with the Duke of +Albemarle to act as Admirall in his stead; which is a thing that do cheer +my heart. For the other would have vexed us with attendance, and never +done the business. Thence to the Committee of Tangier, where the Duke a +little, and then left us and we staid. A very great Committee, the Lords +Albemarle, Sandwich, Barkely, Fitzharding, Peterborough, Ashley, Sir +Thos. Ingram, Sir G. Carteret and others. The whole business was the +stating of Povy's accounts, of whom to say no more, never could man say +worse himself nor have worse said of him than was by the company to his +face; I mean, as to his folly and very reflecting words to his honesty. +Broke up without anything but trouble and shame, only I got my businesses +done to the signing of two bills for the Contractors and Captain Taylor, +and so come away well pleased, and home, taking up my wife at the +'Change, to dinner. After dinner out again bringing my wife to her +father's again at Charing Cross, and I to the Committee again, where a +new meeting of trouble about Povy, who still makes his business worse and +worse, and broke up with the most open shame again to him, and high words +to him of disgrace that they would not trust him with any more money till +he had given an account of this. So broke up. Then he took occasion to +desire me to step aside, and he and I by water to London together. In +the way, of his owne accord, he proposed to me that he would surrender +his place of Treasurer' to me to have half the profit. The thing is new +to me; but the more I think the more I like it, and do put him upon +getting it done by the Duke. Whether it takes or no I care not, but I +think at present it may have some convenience in it. Home, and there +find my wife come home and gone to bed, of a cold got yesterday by water. +At the office Bellamy come to me again, and I am in hopes something may +be got by his business. So late home to supper and bed. + + + +18th. Up and to the office, where all the morning. At noon to the +'Change, and took Mr. Hill along with me to Mr. Povy's, where we dined, +and shewed him the house to his good content, and I expect when we meet +we shall laugh at it. But I having business to stay, he went away, and +Povy and Creed and I to do some business upon Povy's accounts all the +afternoon till late at night, where, God help him! never man was so +confounded, and all his people about him in this world as he and his are. +After we had done something [to the] purpose we broke up, and Povy +acquainted me before Creed (having said something of it also this morning +at our office to me) what he had done in speaking to the Duke and others +about his making me Treasurer, and has carried it a great way, so as I +think it cannot well be set back. Creed, I perceive, envies me in it, +but I think as that will do me no hurte, so if it did I am at a great +losse to think whether it were not best for me to let it wholly alone, +for it will much disquiett me and my business of the Navy, which in this +warr will certainly be worth all my time to me. Home, continuing in this +doubtfull condition what to think of it, but God Almighty do his will in +it for the best. To my office, where late, and then home to supper and +to bed. + + + +19th (Lord's day). Mr. Povy sent his coach for me betimes, and I to him, +and there to our great trouble do find that my Lord FitzHarding do appear +for Mr. Brunkard + + [Henry Brouncker, younger brother of William, Viscount Brouncker, + President of the Royal Society. He was Groom of the Bedchamber to + the Duke of York, and succeeded to the office of Cofferer on the + death of William Ashburnham in 1671. His character was bad, and his + conduct in the sea-fight of 1665 was impugned. He was expelled from + the House of Commons, but succeeded to his brother's title in 1684. + He died in January, 1687.] + +to be Paymaster upon Povy's going out, by a former promise of the Duke's, +and offering to give as much as any for it. This put us all into a great +dumpe, and so we went to Creed's new lodging in the Mewes, and there we +found Creed with his parrot upon his shoulder, which struck Mr. Povy +coming by just by the eye, very deep, which, had it hit his eye, had put +it out. This a while troubled us, but not proving very bad, we to our +business consulting what to do; at last resolved, and I to Mr. Coventry, +and there had his most friendly and ingenuous advice, advising me not to +decline the thing, it being that that will bring me to be known to great +persons, while now I am buried among three or four of us, says he, in the +Navy; but do not make a declared opposition to my Lord FitzHarding. +Thence I to Creed, and walked talking in the Park an hour with him, and +then to my Lord Sandwich's to dinner, and after dinner to Mr. Povy's, who +hath been with the Duke of Yorke, and, by the mediation of Mr. Coventry, +the Duke told him that the business shall go on, and he will take off +Brunkerd, and my Lord FitzHarding is quiett too. But to see the +mischief, I hear that Sir G. Carteret did not seem pleased, but said +nothing when he heard me proposed to come in Povy's room, which may learn +me to distinguish between that man that is a man's true and false friend. +Being very glad of this news Mr. Povy and I in his coach to Hyde Parke, +being the first day of the tour there. Where many brave ladies; among +others, Castlemayne lay impudently upon her back in her coach asleep, +with her mouth open. There was also my Lady Kerneguy, + + [Daughter of William, Duke of Hamilton, wife of Lord Carnegy, who + became Earl of Southesk on his father's death. She is frequently + mentioned in the "Memoires de Grammont," and in the letters of the + second Earl of Chesterfield.--B.] + +once my Lady Anne Hambleton, that is said to have given the Duke a clap +upon his first coming over. Here I saw Sir J. Lawson's daughter and +husband, a fine couple, and also Mr. Southwell and his new lady, very +pretty. Thence back, putting in at Dr. Whore's, where I saw his lady, +a very fine woman. So home, and thither by my desire comes by and by +Creed and lay with me, very merry and full of discourse, what to do +to-morrow, and the conveniences that will attend my having of this place, +and I do think they may be very great. + + + +20th. Up, Creed and I, and had Mr. Povy's coach sent for us, and we to +his house; where we did some business in order to the work of this day. +Povy and I to my Lord Sandwich, who tells me that the Duke is not only a +friend to the business, but to me, in terms of the greatest love and +respect and value of me that can be thought, which overjoys me. Thence +to St. James's, and there was in great doubt of Brunkerd, but at last I +hear that Brunkerd desists. The Duke did direct Secretary Bennet, who +was there, to declare his mind to the Tangier Committee, that he approves +of me for Treasurer; and with a character of me to be a man whose +industry and discretion he would trust soon as any man's in England: and +did the like to my Lord Sandwich. So to White Hall to the Committee of +Tangier, where there were present, my Lord of Albemarle, my Lord +Peterborough, Sandwich, Barkeley, FitzHarding, Secretary Bennet, Sir +Thomas Ingram, Sir John Lawson, Povy and I. Where, after other business, +Povy did declare his business very handsomely; that he was sorry he had +been so unhappy in his accounts, as not to give their Lordships the +satisfaction he intended, and that he was sure his accounts are right, +and continues to submit them to examination, and is ready to lay down in +ready money the fault of his account; and that for the future, that the +work might be better done and with more quiet to him, he desired, by +approbation of the Duke, he might resign his place to Mr. Pepys. +Whereupon, Secretary Bennet did deliver the Duke's command, which was +received with great content and allowance beyond expectation; the +Secretary repeating also the Duke's character of me. And I could discern +my Lord FitzHarding was well pleased with me, and signified full +satisfaction, and whispered something seriously of me to the Secretary. +And there I received their constitution under all their hands presently; +so that I am already confirmed their Treasurer, and put into a condition +of striking of tallys; + + [The practice of striking tallies at the Exchequer was a curious + survival of an ancient method of keeping accounts. The method + adopted is described in Hubert Hall's "Antiquities and Curiosities + of the Exchequer," 1891. The following account of the use of + tallies, so frequently alluded to in the Diary, was supplied by Lord + Braybrooke. Formerly accounts were kept, and large sums of money + paid and received, by the King's Exchequer, with little other form + than the exchange or delivery of tallies, pieces of wood notched or + scored, corresponding blocks being kept by the parties to the + account; and from this usage one of the head officers of the + Exchequer was called the tallier, or teller. These tallies were + often negotiable; Adam Smith, in his "Wealth of Nations," book ii., + ch. xi., says that "in 1696 tallies had been at forty, and fifty, + and sixty per cent. discount, and bank-notes at twenty per cent." + The system of tallies was discontinued in 1824; and the destruction + of the old Houses of Parliament, in the night of October 16th, 1834, + is thought to have been occasioned by the overheating of the flues, + when the furnaces were employed to consume the tallies rendered + useless by the alteration in the mode of keeping the Exchequer + accounts.] + +and all without one harsh word or word of dislike, but quite the +contrary; which is a good fortune beyond all imagination. Here we rose, +and Povy and Creed and I, all full of joy, thence to dinner, they setting +me down at Sir J. Winter's, by promise, and dined with him; and a worthy +fine man he seems to be, and of good discourse, our business was to +discourse of supplying the King with iron for anchors, if it can be +judged good enough, and a fine thing it is to see myself come to the +condition of being received by persons of this rank, he being, and having +long been, Secretary to the Queene-Mother. Thence to Povy's, and there +sat and considered of business a little and then home, where late at it, +W. Howe being with me about his business of accounts for his money laid +out in the fleet, and he gone, I home to supper and to bed. Newes is +this day come of Captain Allen's being come home from the Straights, as +far as Portland, with eleven of the King's ships, and about twenty-two of +merchantmen. + + + +21st. Up, and my taylor coming to me, did consult all my wardrobe how to +order my clothes against next summer. Then to the office, where busy all +the morning. At noon to the 'Change, and brought home Mr. Andrews, and +there with Mr. Sheply dined and very merry, and a good dinner. Thence to +Mr. Povy's to discourse about settling our business of Treasurer, and I +think all things will go very fayre between us and to my content, but the +more I see the more silly the man seems to me. Thence by coach to the +Mewes, but Creed was not there. In our way the coach drove through a +lane by Drury Lane, where abundance of loose women stood at the doors, +which, God forgive me, did put evil thoughts in me, but proceeded no +further, blessed be God. So home, and late at my office, then home and +there found a couple of state cups, very large, coming, I suppose, each +to about L6 a piece, from Burrows the slopseller. + + + +22nd. Up, and to Mr. Povy's about our business, and thence I to see Sir +Ph. Warwicke, but could not meet with him. So to Mr. Coventry, whose +profession of love and esteem for me to myself was so large and free that +I never could expect or wish for more, nor could have it from any man in +England, that I should value it more. Thence to Mr. Povy's, and with +Creed to the 'Change and to my house, but, it being washing day, dined +not at home, but took him (I being invited) to Mr. Hubland's, the +merchant, where Sir William Petty, and abundance of most ingenious men, +owners and freighters of "The Experiment," now going with her two bodies +to sea. Most excellent discourse. Among others, Sir William Petty did +tell me that in good earnest he hath in his will left such parts of his +estate to him that could invent such and such things. As among others, +that could discover truly the way of milk coming into the breasts of a +woman; and he that could invent proper characters to express to another +the mixture of relishes and tastes. And says, that to him that invents +gold, he gives nothing for the philosopher's stone; for (says he) they +that find out that, will be able to pay themselves. But, says he, by +this means it is better than to give to a lecture; for here my executors, +that must part with this, will be sure to be well convinced of the +invention before they do part with their money. After dinner Mr. Hill +took me with Mrs. Hubland, who is a fine gentlewoman, into another room, +and there made her sing, which she do very well, to my great content. +Then to Gresham College, and there did see a kitling killed almost quite, +but that we could not quite kill her, with such a way; the ayre out of a +receiver, wherein she was put, and then the ayre being let in upon her +revives her immediately; + + ["Two experiments were made for the finding out a way to breathe + under water, useful for divers." The first was on a bird and the + second on "a kitling" (Birch's "History," vol. ii., p. 25).] + +nay, and this ayre is to be made by putting together a liquor and some +body that ferments, the steam of that do do the work. Thence home, and +thence to White Hall, where the house full of the Duke's going to-morrow, +and thence to St. James's, wherein these things fell out: (1) I saw the +Duke, kissed his hand, and had his most kind expressions of his value and +opinion of me, which comforted me above all things in the world, (2) the +like from Mr. Coventry most heartily and affectionately. (3) Saw, among +other fine ladies, Mrs. Middleton, + + [Jane, daughter to Sir Robert Needham, is frequently mentioned in + the "Grammont Memoirs," and Evelyn calls her "that famous and indeed + incomparable beauty" ("Diary," August 2nd, 1683). Her portrait is + in the Royal Collection amongst the beauties of Charles II.'s Court. + Sir Robert Needham was related to John Evelyn.] + +a very great beauty I never knew or heard of before; (4) I saw Waller the +poet, whom I never saw before. So, very late, by coach home with W. Pen, +who was there. To supper and to bed, with my heart at rest, and my head +very busy thinking of my several matters now on foot, the new comfort of +my old navy business, and the new one of my employment on Tangier. + + + +23rd. Up and to my Lord Sandwich, who follows the Duke this day by water +down to the Hope, where "The Prince" lies. He received me, busy as he +was, with mighty kindness and joy at my promotions; telling me most +largely how the Duke hath expressed on all occasions his good opinion of +my service and love for me. I paid my thanks and acknowledgement to him; +and so back home, where at the office all the morning. At noon to the +'Change. Home, and Lewellin dined with me. Thence abroad, carried my +wife to Westminster by coach, I to the Swan, Herbert's, and there had +much of the good company of Sarah and to my wish, and then to see Mrs. +Martin, who was very kind, three weeks of her month of lying in is over. +So took up my wife and home, and at my office a while, and thence to +supper and to bed. Great talk of noises of guns heard at Deale, but +nothing particularly whether in earnest or not. + + + +24th. Up betimes, and by agreement to the Globe taverne in Fleet Street +to Mr. Clerke, my sollicitor, about the business of my uncle's accounts, +and we went with one Jefferys to one of the Barons (Spelman), and there +my accounts were declared and I sworn to the truth thereof to my +knowledge, and so I shall after a few formalities be cleared of all. +Thence to Povy's, and there delivered him his letters of greatest import +to him that is possible, yet dropped by young Bland, just come from +Tangier, upon the road by Sittingburne, taken up and sent to Mr. Pett, at +Chatham. Thus everything done by Povy is done with a fatal folly and +neglect. Then to our discourse with him, Creed, Mr. Viner, myself and +Poyntz about the business of the Workehouse at Clerkenwell, and after +dinner went thither and saw all the works there, and did also consult the +Act concerning the business and other papers in order to our coming in to +undertake it with Povy, the management of the House, but I do not think +we can safely meddle with it, at least I, unless I had time to look after +it myself, but the thing is very ingenious and laudable. Thence to my +Lady Sandwich's, where my wife all this day, having kept Good Friday very +strict with fasting. Here we supped, and talked very merry. My Lady +alone with me, very earnest about Sir G. Carteret's son, with whom I +perceive they do desire my Lady Jemimah may be matched. Thence home and +to my office, and then to bed. + + + +25th (Lady day). Up betimes and to my office, where all the morning. +At noon dined alone with Sir W. Batten, where great discourse of Sir +W. Pen, Sir W. Batten being, I perceive, quite out of love with him, +thinking him too great and too high, and began to talk that the world do +question his courage, upon which I told him plainly I have been told that +he was articled against for it, and that Sir H. Vane was his great friend +therein. This he was, I perceive, glad to hear. Thence to the office, +and there very late, very busy, to my great content. This afternoon of a +sudden is come home Sir W. Pen from the fleete, but upon what score I +know not. Late home to supper and to bed. + + + +26th (Lord's day and Easter day). Up (and with my wife, who has not been +at church a month or two) to church. At noon home to dinner, my wife and +I (Mercer staying to the Sacrament) alone. This is the day seven years +which, by the blessing of God, I have survived of my being cut of the +stone, and am now in very perfect good health and have long been; and +though the last winter hath been as hard a winter as any have been these +many years, yet I never was better in my life, nor have not, these ten +years, gone colder in the summer than I have done all this winter, +wearing only a doublet, and a waistcoate cut open on the back; abroad, a +cloake and within doors a coate I slipped on. Now I am at a losse to +know whether it be my hare's foot which is my preservative against wind, +for I never had a fit of the collique since I wore it, and nothing but +wind brings me pain, and the carrying away of wind takes away my pain, or +my keeping my back cool; for when I do lie longer than ordinary upon my +back in bed, my water the next morning is very hot, or whether it be my +taking of a pill of turpentine every morning, which keeps me always +loose, or all together, but this I know, with thanks to God Almighty, +that I am now as well as ever I can wish or desire to be, having now and +then little grudgings of wind, that brings me a little pain, but it is +over presently, only I do find that my backe grows very weak, that I +cannot stoop to write or tell money without sitting but I have pain for a +good while after it. Yet a week or two ago I had one day's great pain; +but it was upon my getting a bruise on one of my testicles, and then I +did void two small stones, without pain though, and, upon my going to bed +and bearing up of my testicles, I was well the next. But I did observe +that my sitting with my back to the fire at the office did then, as it do +at all times, make my back ake, and my water hot, and brings me some +pain. I sent yesterday an invitation to Mrs. Turner and her family to +come to keep this day with me, which she granted, but afterward sent me +word that it being Sunday and Easter day she desired to choose another +and put off this. Which I was willing enough to do; and so put it off as +to this day, and will leave it to my own convenience when to choose +another, and perhaps shall escape a feast by it. At my office all the +afternoon drawing up my agreement with Mr. Povy for me to sign to him +tomorrow morning. In the evening spent an hour in the garden walking +with Sir J. Minnes, talking of the Chest business, wherein Sir W. Batten +deals so unfairly, wherein the old man is very hot for the present, but +that zeal will not last nor is to be trusted. So home to supper, +prayers, and to bed. + + + +27th. Up betimes to Mr. Povy's, and there did sign and seal my agreement +with him about my place of being Treasurer for Tangier, it being the +greatest part of it drawnout of a draught of his own drawing up, only I +have added something here and there in favour of myself. Thence to the +Duke of Albemarle, the first time that we officers of the Navy have +waited upon him since the Duke of Yorke's going, who hath deputed him to +be Admirall in his absence. And I find him a quiet heavy man, that will +help business when he can, and hinder nothing, and am very well pleased +with our attendance on him. I did afterwards alone give him thanks for +his favour to me about my Tangier business, which he received kindly, and +did speak much of his esteem of me. Thence, and did the same to Sir H. +Bennet, who did the like to me very fully, and did give me all his +letters lately come from hence for me to read, which I returned in the +afternoon to him. Thence to Mrs. Martin, who, though her husband is gone +away, as he writes, like a fool into France, yet is as simple and wanton +as ever she was, with much I made myself merry and away. So to my Lord +Peterborough's; where Povy, Creed, Williamson, Auditor Beale, and myself, +and mighty merry to see how plainly my Lord and Povy did abuse one +another about their accounts, each thinking the other a foole, and I +thinking they were not either of them, in that point, much in the wrong, +though in everything, and even in this manner of reproaching one another, +very witty and pleasant. Among other things, we had here the genteelest +dinner and the neatest house that I have seen many a day, and the latter +beyond anything I ever saw in a nobleman's house. Thence visited my Lord +Barkeley, and did sit discoursing with him in his chamber a good while, +and [he] mighty friendly to me about the same business of Tangier. From +that to other discourse of the times and the want of money, and he said +that the Parliament must be called again soon, and more money raised, not +by tax, for he said he believed the people could not pay it, but he would +have either a general excise upon everything, or else that every city +incorporate should pay a toll into the King's revenue, as he says it is +in all the cities in the world; for here a citizen hath no more laid on +them than their neighbours in the country, whereas, as a city, it ought +to pay considerably to the King for their charter; but I fear this will +breed ill blood. Thence to Povy, and after a little talk home to my +office late. Then to supper and to bed. + + + +28th. Up betimes and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and I +did most of the business there, God wot. Then to the 'Change, and thence +to the Coffee-house with Sir W. Warren, where much good discourse for us +both till 9 o'clock with great pleasure and content, and then parted and +I home to dinner, having eat nothing, and so to my office. At night +supped with my wife at Sir W. Pen's, who is to go back for good and all +to the fleete to-morrow. Took leave and to my office, where till 12 at +night, and then home to bed. + + + +29th. Up betimes and to Povy's, where a good while talking about our +business; thence abroad into the City, but upon his tally could not get +any money in Lumbard Streete, through the disrepute which he suffers, +I perceive, upon his giving up his place, which people think was not +choice, but necessity, as indeed it was. So back to his house, after we +had been at my house to taste my wine, but my wife being abroad nobody +could come at it, and so we were defeated. To his house, and before +dinner he and I did discourse of the business of freight, wherein I am so +much concerned, above L100 for myself, and in my over hasty making a bill +out for the rest for him, but he resolves to move Creed in it. Which +troubled me much, and Creed by and by comes, and after dinner he did, but +in the most cunning ingenious manner, do his business with Creed by +bringing it in by the by, that the most subtile man in the world could +never have done it better, and I must say that he is a most witty, +cunning man and one that I (am) most afeard of in my conversation, though +in all serious matters of business the eeriest foole that ever I met +with. The bill was produced and a copy given Creed, whereupon he wrote +his Intratur upon the originall, and I hope it will pass, at least I am +now put to it that I must stand by it and justify it, but I pray God it +may never come to that test. Thence between vexed and joyed, not knowing +what yet to make of it, home, calling for my Lord Cooke's 3 volumes at my +bookseller's, and so home, where I found a new cook mayd, her name is +----- that promises very little. So to my office, where late about +drawing up a proposal for Captain Taylor, for him to deliver to the City +about his building the new ship, which I have done well, and I hope will +do the business, and so home to supper and to bed. + + + +30th. Up, and to my Lord Ashly, but did nothing, and to Sir Ph. +Warwicke and spoke with him about business, and so back to the office, +where all the morning. At noon home to dinner, and thence to the Tangier +Committee, where, Lord! to see how they did run into the giving of Sir J. +Lawson (who is come to towne to-day to get this business done) L4000 +about his Mole business, and were going to give him 4s. per yarde more, +which arises in the whole Mole to L36,000, is a strange thing, but the +latter by chance was stopped, the former was given. Thence to see Mrs. +Martin, whose husband being it seems gone away, and as she is informed he +hath another woman whom he uses, and has long done, as a wife, she is +mighty reserved and resolved to keep herself so till the return of her +husband, which a pleasant thing to think of her. Thence home, and to my +office, where late, and to bed. + + + +31st. Up betimes and walked to my Lord Ashly, and there with Creed after +long waiting spoke with him, and was civilly used by him; thence to Sir +Ph. Warwicke, and then to visit my Lord of Falmouth, who did also receive +me pretty civilly, but not as I expected; he, I perceive, believing that +I had undertaken to justify Povy's accounts, taking them upon myself, but +I rectified him therein. So to my Lady Sandwich's to dinner, and up to +her chamber after dinner, and there discoursed about Sir G. Carteret's +son, in proposition between us two for my Lady Jemimah. So to Povy, and +with him spent the afternoon very busy, till I was weary of following +this and neglecting my navy business. So at night called my wife at my +Lady's, and so home. To my office and there made up my month's account, +which, God be praised! rose to L1300. Which I bless God for. So after +12 o'clock home to supper and to bed. I find Creed mightily transported +by my Lord of Falmouth's kind words to him, and saying that he hath a +place in his intention for him, which he believes will be considerable. +A witty man he is in every respect, but of no good nature, nor a man +ordinarily to be dealt with. My Lady Castlemayne is sicke again, people +think, slipping her filly. + + + + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + APRIL + 1665 + + +April 1st. All the morning very busy at the office preparing a last +half-year's account for my Lord Treasurer. At noon eat a bit and stepped +to Sir Ph. Warwicke, by coach to my Lord Treasurer's, and after some +private conference and examining of my papers with him I did return into +the City and to Sir G. Carteret, whom I found with the Commissioners of +Prizes dining at Captain Cocke's, in Broad Streete, very merry. Among +other tricks, there did come a blind fiddler to the doore, and Sir G. +Carteret did go to the doore and lead the blind fiddler by the hand in. +Thence with Sir G. Carteret to my Lord Treasurer, and by and by come Sir +W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes, and anon we come to my Lord, and there did +lay open the expence for the six months past, and an estimate of the +seven months to come, to November next: the first arising to above +L500,000, and the latter will, as we judge, come to above L1,000,000. +But to see how my Lord Treasurer did bless himself, crying he could do no +more than he could, nor give more money than he had, if the occasion and +expence were never so great, which is but a sad story. And then to hear +how like a passionate and ignorant asse Sir G. Carteret did harangue upon +the abuse of Tickets did make me mad almost and yet was fain to hold my +tongue. Thence home, vexed mightily to see how simply our greatest +ministers do content themselves to understand and do things, while the +King's service in the meantime lies a-bleeding. At my office late +writing letters till ready to drop down asleep with my late sitting up of +late, and running up and down a-days. So to bed. + + + +2nd (Lord's day). At my office all the morning, renewing my vowes in +writing and then home to dinner. All the afternoon, Mr. Tasborough, one +of Mr. Povy's clerks, with me about his master's accounts. In the +evening Mr. Andrews and Hill sang, but supped not with me, then after +supper to bed. + + + +3rd. Up and to the Duke of Albemarle and White Hall, where much +business. Thence home and to dinner, and then with Creed, my wife, and +Mercer to a play at the Duke's, of my Lord Orrery's, called "Mustapha," +which being not good, made Betterton's part and Ianthe's but ordinary +too, so that we were not contented with it at all. Thence home and to +the office a while, and then home to supper and to bed. All the pleasure +of the play was, the King and my Lady Castlemayne were there; and pretty +witty Nell,--[Nell Gwynne]--at the King's house, and the younger Marshall +sat next us; which pleased me mightily. + + + +4th. All the morning at the office busy, at noon to the 'Change, and +then went up to the 'Change to buy a pair of cotton stockings, which I +did at the husband's shop of the most pretty woman there, who did also +invite me to buy some linnen of her, and I was glad of the occasion, and +bespoke some bands of her, intending to make her my seamstress, she being +one of the prettiest and most modest looked women that ever I did see. +Dined at home and to the office, where very late till I was ready to fall +down asleep, and did several times nod in the middle of my letters. + + + +5th. This day was kept publiquely by the King's command, as a fast day +against the Dutch warr, and I betimes with Mr. Tooker, whom I have +brought into the Navy to serve us as a husband to see goods timely +shipped off from hence to the Fleete and other places, and took him with +me to Woolwich and Deptford, where by business I have been hindered a +great while of going, did a very great deale of business, and home, and +there by promise find Creed, and he and my wife, Mercer and I by coach to +take the ayre; and, where we had formerly been, at Hackney, did there eat +some pullets we carried with us, and some things of the house; and after +a game or two at shuffle-board, home, and Creed lay with me; but, being +sleepy, he had no mind to talk about business, which indeed I intended, +by inviting him to lie with me, but I would not force it on him, and so +to bed, he and I, and to sleep, being the first time I have been so much +at my ease and taken so much fresh ayre these many weeks or months. + + + +6th. At the office sat all the morning, where, in the absence of Sir W. +Batten, Sir G. Carteret being angry about the business of tickets, spoke +of Sir W. Batten for speaking some words about the signing of tickets, +and called Sir W. Batten in his discourse at the table to us (the clerks +being withdrawn) "shitten foole," which vexed me. At noon to the +'Change, and there set my business of lighters' buying for the King, to +Sir W. Warren, and I think he will do it for me to very great advantage, +at which I am mightily rejoiced. Home and after a mouthfull of dinner to +the office, where till 6 o'clock, and then to White Hall, and there with +Sir G. Carteret and my Lord Brunkerd attended the Duke of Albemarle about +the business of money. I also went to Jervas's, my barber, for my +periwigg that was mending there, and there do hear that Jane is quite +undone, taking the idle fellow for her husband yet not married, and lay +with him several weeks that had another wife and child, and she is now +going into Ireland. So called my wife at the 'Change and home, and at my +office writing letters till one o'clock in the morning, that I was ready +to fall down asleep again. Great talke of a new Comett; and it is +certain one do now appear as bright as the late one at the best; but I +have not seen it myself. + + + +7th. Up betimes to the Duke of Albemarle about money to be got for the +Navy, or else we must shut up shop. Thence to Westminster Hall and up +and down, doing not much; then to London, but to prevent Povy's dining +with me (who I see is at the 'Change) I went back again and to Herbert's +at Westminster, there sent for a bit of meat and dined, and then to my +Lord Treasurer's, and there with Sir Philip Warwicke, and thence to White +Hall in my Lord Treasurer's chamber with Sir Philip Warwicke till dark +night, about fower hours talking of the business of the Navy Charge, and +how Sir G. Carteret do order business, keeping us in ignorance what he do +with his money, and also Sir Philip did shew me nakedly the King's +condition for money for the Navy; and he do assure me, unless the King +can get some noblemen or rich money-gentlemen to lend him money, or to +get the City to do it, it is impossible to find money: we having already, +as he says, spent one year's share of the three-years' tax, which comes +to L2,500,000. Being very glad of this day's discourse in all but that I +fear I shall quite lose Sir G. Carteret, who knows that I have been +privately here all this day with Sir Ph. Warwicke. However, I will order +it so as to give him as little offence as I can. So home to my office, +and then to supper and to bed. + + + +8th. Up, and all the morning full of business at the office. At noon +dined with Mr. Povy, and then to the getting some business looked over of +his, and then I to my Lord Chancellor's, where to have spoke with the +Duke of Albemarle, but the King and Council busy, I could not; then to +the Old Exchange and there of my new pretty seamstress bought four bands, +and so home, where I found my house mighty neat and clean. Then to my +office late, till past 12, and so home to bed. The French Embassadors + + [The French ambassadors were Henri de Bourbon, Duc de Verneuil, + natural son of Henry IV. and brother of Henrietta Maria, and M. de + Courtin.--B.] + +are come incognito before their train, which will hereafter be very +pompous. It is thought they come to get our King to joyne with the King +of France in helping him against Flanders, and they to do the like to us +against Holland. We have laine a good while with a good fleete at +Harwich. The Dutch not said yet to be out. We, as high as we make our +shew, I am sure, are unable to set out another small fleete, if this +should be worsted. Wherefore, God send us peace! I cry. + + + +9th (Lord's day). To church with my wife in the morning, in her new +light-coloured silk gowne, which is, with her new point, very noble. +Dined at home, and in the afternoon to Fanchurch, the little church in +the middle of Fanchurch Streete, where a very few people and few of any +rank. Thence, after sermon, home, and in the evening walking in the +garden, my Lady Pen and her daughter walked with my wife and I, and so to +my house to eat with us, and very merry, and so broke up and to bed. + + + +10th. Up, and to the Duke of Albemarle's, and thence to White Hall to a +Committee for Tangier, where new disorder about Mr. Povy's accounts, that +I think I shall never be settled in my business of Treasurer for him. +Here Captain Cooke met me, and did seem discontented about my boy Tom's +having no time to mind his singing nor lute, which I answered him fully +in, that he desired me that I would baste his coate. So home and to the +'Change, and thence to the "Old James" to dine with Sir W. Rider, Cutler, +and Mr. Deering, upon the business of hemp, and so hence to White Hall to +have attended the King and Lord Chancellor about the debts of the navy +and to get some money, but the meeting failed. So my Lord Brunkard took +me and Sir Thomas Harvy in his coach to the Parke, which is very +troublesome with the dust; and ne'er a great beauty there to-day but Mrs. +Middleton, and so home to my office, where Mr. Warren proposed my getting +of L100 to get him a protection for a ship to go out, which I think I +shall do. So home to supper and to bed. + + + +11th. Up and betimes to Alderman Cheverton to treat with him about +hempe, and so back to the office. At noon dined at the Sun, behind the +'Change, with Sir Edward Deering and his brother and Commissioner Pett, +we having made a contract with Sir Edward this day about timber. Thence +to the office, where late very busy, but with some trouble have also some +hopes of profit too. So home to supper and to bed. + + + +12th. Up, and to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier, where, contrary +to all expectation, my Lord Ashly, being vexed with Povy's accounts, did +propose it as necessary that Povy should be still continued Treasurer of +Tangier till he had made up his accounts; and with such arguments as, I +confess, I was not prepared to answer, but by putting off of the +discourse, and so, I think, brought it right again; but it troubled me so +all the day after, and night too, that I was not quiet, though I think it +doubtfull whether I shall be much the worse for it or no, if it should +come to be so. Dined at home and thence to White Hall again (where I +lose most of my time now-a-days to my great trouble, charge, and loss of +time and benefit), and there, after the Council rose, Sir G. Carteret, my +Lord Brunkard, Sir Thomas Harvy, and myself, down to my Lord Treasurer's +chamber to him and the Chancellor, and the Duke of Albemarle; and there I +did give them a large account of the charge of the Navy, and want of +money. But strange to see how they held up their hands crying, "What +shall we do?" Says my Lord Treasurer, "Why, what means all this, Mr. +Pepys? This is true, you say; but what would you have me to do? I have +given all I can for my life. Why will not people lend their money? Why +will they not trust the King as well as Oliver? Why do our prizes come +to nothing, that yielded so much heretofore?" And this was all we could +get, and went away without other answer, which is one of the saddest +things that, at such a time as this, with the greatest action on foot +that ever was in England, nothing should be minded, but let things go on +of themselves do as well as they can. So home, vexed, and going to my +Lady Batten's, there found a great many women with her, in her chamber +merry, my Lady Pen and her daughter, among others; where my Lady Pen +flung me down upon the bed, and herself and others, one after another, +upon me, and very merry we were, and thence I home and called my wife +with my Lady Pen to supper, and very merry as I could be, being vexed as +I was. So home to bed. + + + +13th. Lay long in bed, troubled a little with wind, but not much. So to +the office, and there all the morning. At noon to Sheriff Waterman's ' +to dinner, all of us men of the office in towne, and our wives, my Lady +Carteret and daughters, and Ladies Batten, Pen, and my wife, &c., and +very good cheer we had and merry; musique at and after dinner, and a +fellow danced a jigg; but when the company begun to dance, I came away +lest I should be taken out; and God knows how my wife carried herself, +but I left her to try her fortune. So home, and late at the office, and +then home to supper and to bed. + + + +14th. Up, and betimes to Mr. Povy, being desirous to have an end of my +trouble of mind touching my Tangier business, whether he hath any desire +of accepting what my Lord Ashly offered, of his becoming Treasurer again; +and there I did, with a seeming most generous spirit, offer him to take +it back again upon his owne terms; but he did answer to me that he would +not above all things in the world, at which I was for the present +satisfied; but, going away thence and speaking with Creed, he puts me in +doubt that the very nature of the thing will require that he be put in +again; and did give me the reasons of the auditors, which, I confess, are +so plain, that I know not how to withstand them. But he did give me most +ingenious advice what to do in it, and anon, my Lord Barkeley and some of +the Commissioners coming together, though not in a meeting, I did procure +that they should order Povy's payment of his remain of accounts to me; +which order if it do pass will put a good stop to the fastening of the +thing upon me. At noon Creed and I to a cook's shop at Charing Cross, +and there dined and had much discourse, and his very good upon my +business, and upon other things, among the rest upon Will Howe's +dissembling with us, we discovering one to another his carriage to us, +present and absent, being a very false fellow. Thence to White Hall +again, and there spent the afternoon, and then home to fetch a letter for +the Council, and so back to White Hall, where walked an hour with Mr. +Wren, of my Lord Chancellor's, and Mr. Ager, and then to Unthanke's and +called my wife, and with her through the city to Mile-End Greene, and eat +some creame and cakes and so back home, and I a little at the office, and +so home to supper and to bed. This morning I was saluted with newes that +the fleetes, ours and the Dutch, were engaged, and that the guns were +heard at Walthamstow to play all yesterday, and that Captain Teddiman's +legs were shot off in the Royall Katherine. But before night I hear the +contrary, both by letters of my owne and messengers thence, that they +were all well of our side and no enemy appears yet, and that the Royall +Katherine is come to the fleete, and likely to prove as good a ship as +any the King hath, of which I am heartily glad, both for Christopher +Pett's sake and Captain Teddiman that is in her. + + + +15th. Up, and to White Hall about several businesses, but chiefly to see +the proposals of my warrants about Tangier under Creed, but to my trouble +found them not finished. So back to the office, where all the morning, +busy, then home to dinner, and then all the afternoon till very late at +my office, and then home to supper and to bed, weary. + + + +16th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed, then up and to my chamber and my +office, looking over some plates which I find necessary for me to +understand pretty well, because of the Dutch warr. Then home to dinner, +where Creed dined with us, and so after dinner he and I walked to the +Rolls' Chappell, expecting to hear the great Stillingfleete preach, but +he did not; but a very sorry fellow, which vexed me. The sermon done, we +parted, and I home, where I find Mr. Andrews, and by and by comes Captain +Taylor, my old acquaintance at Westminster, that understands musique very +well and composes mighty bravely; he brought us some things of two parts +to sing, very hard; but that that is the worst, he is very conceited of +them, and that though they are good makes them troublesome to one, to see +him every note commend and admire them. He supped with me, and a good +understanding man he is and a good scholler, and, among other things, a +great antiquary, and among other things he can, as he says, show the very +originall Charter to Worcester, of King Edgar's, wherein he stiles +himself, Rex Marium Brittanniae, &c.; which is the great text that Mr. +Selden and others do quote, but imperfectly and upon trust. But he hath +the very originall, which he says he will shew me. He gone we to bed. +This night I am told that newes is come of our taking of three Dutch men- +of-warr, with the loss of one of our Captains. + + + +17th. Up and to the Duke of Albemarle's, where he shewed me Mr. +Coventry's letters, how three Dutch privateers are taken, in one whereof +Everson's' son is captaine. But they have killed poor Captaine Golding +in The Diamond. Two of them, one of 32 and the other of 20 odd guns, did +stand stoutly up against her, which hath 46, and the Yarmouth that hath +52 guns, and as many more men as they. So that they did more than we +could expect, not yielding till many of their men were killed. And +Everson, when he was brought before the Duke of Yorke, and was observed +to be shot through the hat, answered, that he wished it had gone through +his head, rather than been taken. One thing more is written: that two of +our ships the other day appearing upon the coast of Holland, they +presently fired their beacons round the country to give notice. And +newes is brought the King, that the Dutch Smyrna fleete is seen upon the +back of Scotland; and thereupon the King hath wrote to the Duke, that he +do appoint a fleete to go to the Northward to try to meet them coming +home round: which God send! Thence to White Hall; where the King seeing +me, did come to me, and calling me by name, did discourse with me about +the ships in the River: and this is the first time that ever I knew the +King did know me personally; so that hereafter I must not go thither, but +with expectation to be questioned, and to be ready to give good answers. +So home, and thence with Creed, who come to dine with me, to the Old +James, where we dined with Sir W. Rider and Cutler, and, by and by, being +called by my wife, we all to a play, "The Ghosts," at the Duke's house, +but a very simple play. Thence up and down, with my wife with me, to +look [for] Sir Ph. Warwicke (Mr. Creed going from me), but missed of him +and so home, and late and busy at my office. So home to supper and to +bed. This day was left at my house a very neat silver watch, by one +Briggs, a scrivener and sollicitor, at which I was angry with my wife for +receiving, or, at least, for opening the box wherein it was, and so far +witnessing our receipt of it, as to give the messenger 5s. for bringing +it; but it can't be helped, and I will endeavour to do the man a +kindnesse, he being a friend of my uncle Wight's. + + + +18th. Up and to Sir Philip Warwicke, and walked with him an houre with +great delight in the Parke about Sir G. Carteret's accounts, and the +endeavours that he hath made to bring Sir G. Carteret to show his +accounts and let the world see what he receives and what he pays. Thence +home to the office, where I find Sir J. Minnes come home from Chatham, +and Sir W. Batten both this morning from Harwich, where they have been +these 7 or 8 days. At noon with my wife and Mr. Moore by water to +Chelsey about my Privy Seale for Tangier, but my Lord Privy Seale was +gone abroad, and so we, without going out of the boat, forced to return, +and found him not at White Hall. So I to Sir Philip Warwicke and with +him to my Lord Treasurer, who signed my commission for Tangier-Treasurer +and the docquet of my Privy Seale, for the monies to be paid to me. +Thence to White Hall to Mr. Moore again, and not finding my Lord I home, +taking my wife and woman up at Unthanke's. Late at my office, then to +supper and to bed. + + + +19th. Up by five o'clock, and by water to White Hall; and there took +coach, and with Mr. Moore to Chelsy; where, after all my fears what +doubts and difficulties my Lord Privy Seale would make at my Tangier +Privy Seale, he did pass it at first reading, without my speaking with +him. And then called me in, and was very civil to me. I passed my time +in contemplating (before I was called in) the picture of my Lord's son's +lady, a most beautiful woman, and most like to Mrs. Butler. Thence very +much joyed to London back again, and found out Mr. Povy; told him this; +and then went and left my Privy Seale at my Lord Treasurer's; and so to +the 'Change, and thence to Trinity-House; where a great dinner of Captain +Crisp, who is made an Elder Brother. And so, being very pleasant at +dinner, away home, Creed with me; and there met Povy; and we to Gresham +College, where we saw some experiments upon a hen, a dogg, and a cat, of +the Florence poyson. + + ["Sir Robert Moray presented the Society from the King with a phial + of Florentine poison sent for by his Majesty from Florence, on + purpose to have those experiments related of the efficacy thereof, + tried by the Society." The poison had little effect upon the kitten + (Birch's "History;" vol. ii., p. 31).] + +The first it made for a time drunk, but it come to itself again quickly; +the second it made vomitt mightily, but no other hurt. The third I did +not stay to see the effect of it, being taken out by Povy. He and I +walked below together, he giving me most exceeding discouragements in the +getting of money (whether by design or no I know not, for I am now come +to think him a most cunning fellow in most things he do, but his +accounts), and made it plain to me that money will be hard to get, and +that it is to be feared Backewell hath a design in it to get the thing +forced upon himself. This put me into a cruel melancholy to think I may +lose what I have had so near my hand; but yet something may be hoped for +which to-morrow will shew. He gone, Creed and I together a great while +consulting what to do in this case, and after all I left him to do what +he thought fit in his discourse to-morrow with my Lord Ashly. So home, +and in my way met with Mr. Warren, from whom my hopes I fear will fail of +what I hoped for, by my getting him a protection. But all these troubles +will if not be over, yet we shall see the worst of there in a day or two. +So to my office, and thence to supper, and my head akeing, betimes, that +is by 10 or 11 o'clock, to bed. + + + +20th. Up, and all the morning busy at the office. At noon dined, and +Mr. Povy by agreement with me (where his boldness with Mercer, poor +innocent wench, did make both her and me blush, to think how he were able +to debauch a poor girl if he had opportunity) at a dish or two of plain +meat of his own choice. After dinner comes Creed and then Andrews, where +want of money to Andrews the main discourse, and at last in confidence of +Creed's judgement I am resolved to spare him 4 or L500 of what lies by me +upon the security of some Tallys. This went against my heart to begin, +but when obtaining Mr. Creed to joyne with me we do resolve to assist Mr. +Andrews. Then anon we parted, and I to my office, where late, and then +home to supper and to bed. This night I am told the first play is played +in White Hall noon-hall, which is now turned to a house of playing. I +had a great mind, but could not go to see it. + + + +21st. Up and to my office about business. Anon comes Creed and Povy, +and we treat about the business of our lending money, Creed and I, upon a +tally for the satisfying of Andrews, and did conclude it as in papers is +expressed, and as I am glad to have an opportunity of having 10 per cent. +for my money, so I am as glad that the sum I begin this trade with is no +more than L350. We all dined at Andrews' charge at the Sun behind the +'Change, a good dinner the worst dressed that ever I eat any, then home, +and there found Kate Joyce and Harman come to see us. With them, after +long talk, abroad by coach, a tour in the fields, and drunk at Islington, +it being very pleasant, the dust being laid by a little rain, and so home +very well pleased with this day's work. So after a while at my office to +supper and to bed. This day we hear that the Duke and the fleete are +sailed yesterday. Pray God go along with them, that they have good speed +in the beginning of their worke. + + + +22nd. Up, and Mr. Caesar, my boy's lute-master, being come betimes to +teach him, I did speak with him seriously about the boy, what my mind +was, if he did not look after his lute and singing that I would turn him +away; which I hope will do some good upon the boy. All the morning busy +at the office. At noon dined at home, and then to the office again very +busy till very late, and so home to supper and to bed. My wife making +great preparation to go to Court to Chappell to-morrow. This day I have +newes from Mr. Coventry that the fleete is sailed yesterday from Harwich +to the coast of Holland to see what the Dutch will do. God go along with +them! + + + +23rd (Lord's day). Mr. Povy, according to promise, sent his coach +betimes, and I carried my wife and her woman to White Hall Chappell and +set them in the Organ Loft, and I having left to untruss went to the Harp +and Ball and there drank also, and entertained myself in talke with the +mayde of the house, a pretty mayde and very modest. Thence to the +Chappell and heard the famous young Stillingfleete, whom I knew at +Cambridge, and is now newly admitted one of the King's chaplains; and was +presented, they say, to my Lord Treasurer for St. Andrew's, Holborne, +where he is now minister, with these words: that they (the Bishops of +Canterbury, London, and another) believed he is the ablest young man to +preach the Gospel of any since the Apostles. He did make the most plain, +honest, good, grave sermon, in the most unconcerned and easy yet +substantial manner, that ever I heard in my life, upon the words of +Samuell to the people, "Fear the Lord in truth with all your heart, and +remember the great things that he hath done for you." It being proper to +this day, the day of the King's Coronation. Thence to Mr. Povy's, where +mightily treated, and Creed with us. But Lord! to see how Povy overdoes +every thing in commending it, do make it nauseous to me, and was not (by +reason of my large praise of his house) over acceptable to my wife. +Thence after dinner Creed and we by coach took the ayre in the fields +beyond St. Pancras, it raining now and then, which it seems is most +welcome weather, and then all to my house, where comes Mr. Hill, Andrews, +and Captain Taylor, and good musique, but at supper to hear the arguments +we had against Taylor concerning a Corant, he saying that the law of a +dancing Corant is to have every barr to end in a pricked crochet and +quaver, which I did deny, was very strange. It proceeded till I vexed +him, but all parted friends, for Creed and I to laugh at when he was +gone. After supper, Creed and I together to bed, in Mercer's bed, and so +to sleep. + + + +24th. Up and with Creed in Sir W. Batten's coach to White Hall. Sir W. +Batten and I to the Duke of Albemarle, where very busy. Then I to +Creed's chamber, where I received with much ado my two orders about +receiving Povy's monies and answering his credits, and it is strange how +he will preserve his constant humour of delaying all business that comes +before him. Thence he and I to London to my office, and back again to my +Lady Sandwich's to dinner, where my wife by agreement. After dinner +alone, my Lady told me, with the prettiest kind of doubtfullnesse, +whether it would be fit for her with respect to Creed to do it, that is, +in the world, that Creed had broke his desire to her of being a servant +to Mrs. Betty Pickering, and placed it upon encouragement which he had +from some discourse of her ladyship, commending of her virtues to him, +which, poor lady, she meant most innocently. She did give him a cold +answer, but not so severe as it ought to have been; and, it seems, as the +lady since to my Lady confesses, he had wrote a letter to her, which she +answered slightly, and was resolved to contemn any motion of his therein. +My Lady takes the thing very ill, as it is fit she should; but I advise +her to stop all future occasions of the world's taking notice of his +coming thither so often as of late he hath done. But to think that he +should have this devilish presumption to aime at a lady so near to my +Lord is strange, both for his modesty and discretion. Thence to the +Cockepitt, and there walked an houre with my Lord Duke of Albemarle alone +in his garden, where he expressed in great words his opinion of me; that +I was the right hand of the Navy here, nobody but I taking any care of +any thing therein; so that he should not know what could be done without +me. At which I was (from him) not a little proud. Thence to a Committee +of Tangier, where because not a quorum little was done, and so away to my +wife (Creed with me) at Mrs. Pierce's, who continues very pretty and is +now great with child. I had not seen her a great while. Thence by coach +to my Lord Treasurer's, but could not speak with Sir Ph. Warwicke. So by +coach with my wife and Mercer to the Parke; but the King being there, and +I now-a-days being doubtfull of being seen in any pleasure, did part from +the tour, and away out of the Parke to Knightsbridge, and there eat and +drank in the coach, and so home, and after a while at my office, home to +supper and to bed, having got a great cold I think by my pulling off my +periwigg so often. + + + +25th. At the office all the morning, and the like after dinner, at home +all the afternoon till very late, and then to bed, being very hoarse with +a cold I did lately get with leaving off my periwigg. This afternoon W. +Pen, lately come from his father in the fleete, did give me an account +how the fleete did sayle, about 103 in all, besides small catches, they +being in sight of six or seven Dutch scouts, and sent ships in chase of +them. + + + +26th. Up very betimes, my cold continuing and my stomach sick with the +buttered ale that I did drink the last night in bed, which did lie upon +me till I did this morning vomitt it up. So walked to Povy's, where +Creed met me, and there I did receive the first parcel of money as +Treasurer of Tangier, and did give him my receipt for it, which was about +L2,800 value in Tallys; we did also examine and settle several other +things, and then I away to White Hall, talking, with Povy alone, about my +opinion of Creed's indiscretion in looking after Mrs. Pickering, desiring +him to make no more a sport of it, but to correct him, if he finds that +he continues to owne any such thing. This I did by my Lady's desire, and +do intend to pursue the stop of it. So to the Carrier's by Cripplegate, +to see whether my mother be come to towne or no, I expecting her to-day, +but she is not come. So to dinner to my Lady Sandwich's, and there after +dinner above in the diningroom did spend an houre or two with her talking +again about Creed's folly; but strange it is that he should dare to +propose this business himself of Mrs. Pickering to my Lady, and to tell +my Lady that he did it for her virtue sake, not minding her money, for he +could have a wife with more, but, for that, he did intend to depend upon +her Ladyshipp to get as much of her father and mother for her as she +could; and that, what he did, was by encouragement from discourse of her +Ladyshipp's: he also had wrote to Mrs. Pickering, but she did give him a +slighting answer back again. But I do very much fear that Mrs. +Pickering's honour, if the world comes to take notice of it, may be +wronged by it. Thence home, and all the afternoon till night at my +office, then home to supper and to bed. + + + +27th. Up, and to my office, where all the morning, at noon Creed dined +with me; and, after dinner, walked in the garden, he telling me that my +Lord Treasurer now begins to be scrupulous, and will know what becomes of +the L26,000 saved by my Lord Peterborough, before he parts with any more +money, which puts us into new doubts, and me into a great fear, that all +my cake will be doe still. + + [An obsolete proverb, signifying to lose one's hopes, a cake coming + out of the oven in a state of dough being considered spoiled. + + "My cake is dough; but I'll in among the rest; + Out of hope of all, but my share in the feast." + Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, act v., sc. i.-M. B.] + +But I am well prepared for it to bear it, being not clear whether it will +be more for my profit to have it, or go without it, as my profits of the +Navy are likely now to be. All the afternoon till late hard at the +office. Then to supper and to bed. This night William Hewer is returned +from Harwich, where he hath been paying off of some ships this fortnight, +and went to sea a good way with the fleete, which was 96 in company then, +men of warr, besides some come in, and following them since, which makes +now above 100, whom God bless! + + + +28th. Up by 5 o'clock, and by appointment with Creed by 6 at his +chamber, expecting Povy, who come not. Thence he and I out to Sir Philip +Warwicke's, but being not up we took a turn in the garden hard by, and +thither comes Povy to us. After some discourse of the reason of the +difficulty that Sir Philip Warwicke makes in issuing a warrant for my +striking of tallys, namely, the having a clear account of the L26,000 +saved by my Lord of Peterborough, we parted, and I to Sir P. Warwicke, +who did give me an account of his demurr, which I applied myself to +remove by taking Creed with me to my Lord Ashly, from whom, contrary to +all expectation, I received a very kind answer, just as we could have +wished it, that he would satisfy my Lord Treasurer. Thence very well +satisfied I home, and down the River to visit the victualling-ships, +where I find all out of order. And come home to dinner, and then to +write a letter to the Duke of Albemarle about the victualling-ships, and +carried it myself to the Council-chamber, where it was read; and when +they rose, my Lord Chancellor passing by stroked me on the head, and told +me that the Board had read my letter, and taken order for the punishing +of the watermen for not appearing on board the ships. + + [Among the State Papers are lists of watermen impressed and put on + board the victualling ships. Attached to one of these is a "note of + their unfitness and refractory conduct; also that many go ashore to + sleep, and are discontent that they, as masters of families, are + pressed, while single men are excused on giving money to the + pressmen" ("Calendar," Domestic, 1664-65, p. 323).] + +And so did the King afterwards, who do now know me so well, that he never +sees me but he speaks to me about our Navy business. Thence got my Lord +Ashly to my Lord Treasurer below in his chamber, and there removed the +scruple, and by and by brought Mr. Sherwin to Sir Philip Warwicke and did +the like, and so home, and after a while at my office, to bed. + + + +29th. All the morning busy at the office. In the afternoon to my Lord +Treasurer's, and there got my Lord Treasurer to sign the warrant for my +striking of tallys, and so doing many jobbs in my way home, and there +late writeing letters, being troubled in my mind to hear that Sir W. +Batten and Sir J. Minnes do take notice that I am now-a-days much from +the office upon no office business, which vexes me, and will make me mind +my business the better, I hope in God; but what troubles me more is, that +I do omit to write, as I should do, to Mr. Coventry, which I must not do, +though this night I minded it so little as to sleep in the middle of my +letter to him, and committed forty blotts and blurrs in my letter to him, +but of this I hope never more to be guilty, if I have not already given +him sufficient offence. So, late home, and to bed. + + + +30th (Lord's day). Up and to my office alone all the morning, making up +my monthly accounts, which though it hath been very intricate, and very +great disbursements and receipts and odd reckonings, yet I differed not +from the truth; viz.: between my first computing what my profit ought to +be and then what my cash and debts do really make me worth, not above +10s., which is very much, and I do much value myself upon the account, +and herein I with great joy find myself to have gained this month above +L100 clear, and in the whole to be worth above L1400, the greatest sum I +ever yet was worth. Thence home to dinner, and there find poor Mr. Spong +walking at my door, where he had knocked, and being told I was at the +office staid modestly there walking because of disturbing me, which +methinks was one of the most modest acts (of a man that hath no need of +being so to me) that ever I knew in my life. He dined with me, and then +after dinner to my closet, where abundance of mighty pretty discourse, +wherein, in a word, I find him the man of the world that hath of his own +ingenuity obtained the most in most things, being withall no scholler. +He gone, I took boat and down to Woolwich and Deptford, and made it late +home, and so to supper and to bed. Thus I end this month in great +content as to my estate and gettings: in much trouble as to the pains I +have taken, and the rubs I expect yet to meet with, about the business of +Tangier. The fleete, with about 106 ships upon the coast of Holland, in +sight of the Dutch, within the Texel. Great fears of the sickenesse here +in the City, it being said that two or three houses are already shut up. +God preserve as all! + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +Castlemayne is sicke again, people think, slipping her filly +Desired me that I would baste his coate +Did put evil thoughts in me, but proceeded no further +France, which is accounted the best place for bread +How Povy overdoes every thing in commending it +Never could man say worse himself nor have worse said +Wanton as ever she was, with much I made myself merry and away + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v39 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + diff --git a/old/sp40g10.zip b/old/sp40g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..b81f71a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp40g10.zip |