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WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + MAY & JUNE + 1665 + + +May 1st. Up and to Mr. Povy's, and by his bedside talked a good while. +Among other things he do much insist I perceive upon the difficulty of +getting of money, and would fain have me to concur in the thinking of +some other way of disposing of the place of Treasurer to one Mr. Bell, +but I did seem slight of it, and resolved to try to do the best or to +give it up. Thence to the Duke of Albemarle, where I was sorry to find +myself to come a little late, and so home, and at noon going to the +'Change I met my Lord Brunkard, Sir Robert Murry, Deane Wilkins, and Mr. +Hooke, going by coach to Colonell Blunts to dinner. So they stopped and +took me with them. Landed at the Tower-wharf, and thence by water to +Greenwich; and there coaches met us; and to his house, a very stately +sight for situation and brave plantations; and among others, a vineyard, +the first that ever I did see. No extraordinary dinner, nor any other +entertainment good; but only after dinner to the tryall of some +experiments about making of coaches easy. And several we tried; but one +did prove mighty easy (not here for me to describe, but the whole body of +the coach lies upon one long spring), and we all, one after another, rid +in it; and it is very fine and likely to take. These experiments were +the intent of their coming, and pretty they are. Thence back by coach to +Greenwich, and in his pleasure boat to Deptford, and there stopped and in +to Mr. Evelyn's,--[Sayes Court, the well-known residence of John +Evelyn.]--which is a most beautiful place; but it being dark and late, I +staid not; but Deane Wilkins and Mr. Hooke and I walked to Redriffe; and +noble discourse all day long did please me, and it being late did take +them to my house to drink, and did give them some sweetmeats, and thence +sent them with a lanthorn home, two worthy persons as are in England, I +think, or the world. So to my Lady Batten, where my wife is tonight, and +so after some merry talk home and to bed. + + + +2nd. Up and to the office all day, where sat late, and then to the +office again, and by and by Sir W. Batten and my Lady and my wife and I +by appointment yesterday (my Lady Pen failed us, who ought to have been +with us) to the Rhenish winehouse at the Steelyard, and there eat a +couple of lobsters and some prawns, and pretty merry, especially to see +us four together, while my wife and my Lady did never intend ever to be +together again after a year's distance between one another. Hither by +and by come Sir Richard Ford and also Mrs. Esther, that lived formerly +with my Lady Batten, now well married to a priest, come to see my Lady. +Thence toward evening home, and to my office, where late, and then home +to supper and to bed. + + + +3rd. Up betimes and walked to Sir Ph. Warwicke's, where a long time with +him in his chamber alone talking of Sir G. Carteret's business, and the +abuses he puts on the nation by his bad payments to both our vexations, +but no hope of remedy for ought I see. Thence to my Lord Ashly to a +Committee of Tangier for my Lord Rutherford's accounts, and that done we +to my Lord Treasurer's, where I did receive my Lord's warrant to Sir R. +Long for drawing a warrant for my striking of tallys. So to the Inne +again by Cripplegate, expecting my mother's coming to towne, but she is +not come this weeke neither, the coach being too full. So to the 'Change +and thence home to dinner, and so out to Gresham College, and saw a cat +killed with the Duke of Florence's poyson, and saw it proved that the +oyle of tobacco + + ["Mr. Daniel Coxe read an account of the effects of tobacco-oil + distilled in a retort, by one drop of which given at the mouth he + had killed a lusty cat, which being opened, smelled strongly of the + oil, and the blood of the heart more strongly than the rest .... + One drop of the Florentine 'oglio di tobacco' being again given to a + dog, it proved stupefying and vomitive, as before" (Birch's "History + of the Royal Society," vol, ii., pp. 42, 43).] + +drawn by one of the Society do the same effect, and is judged to be the +same thing with the poyson both in colour and smell, and effect. I saw +also an abortive child preserved fresh in spirits of salt. Thence +parted, and to White Hall to the Councilchamber about an order touching +the Navy (our being empowered to commit seamen or Masters that do not, +being hired or pressed, follow their worke), but they could give us none. +So a little vexed at that, because I put in the memorial to the Duke of +Albemarle alone under my own hand, home, and after some time at the +office home to bed. My Lord Chief Justice Hide did die suddenly this +week, a day or two ago, of an apoplexy. + + + +4th. Up, and to the office, where we sat busy all the morning. At noon +home to dinner, and then to the office again all day till almost +midnight, and then, weary, home to supper and to bed. + + + +5th. Up betimes, and by water to Westminster, there to speak the first +time with Sir Robert Long, to give him my Privy Seal and my Lord +Treasurer's order for Tangier Tallys; he received me kindly enough. +Thence home by water, and presently down to Woolwich and back to +Blackewall, and there, viewed the Breach, in order to a Mast Docke, +and so to Deptford to the Globe, where my Lord Brunkard, Sir J. Minnes, +Sir W. Batten, and Commissioner Pett were at dinner, having been at the +Breach also, but they find it will be too great charge to make use of it. +After dinner to Mr. Evelyn's; he being abroad, we walked in his garden, +and a lovely noble ground he hath indeed. And among other rarities, a +hive of bees, so as being hived in glass, you may see the bees making +their honey and combs mighty pleasantly. Thence home, and I by and by to +Mr. Povy's to see him, who is yet in his chamber not well, and thence by +his advice to one Lovett's, a varnisher, to see his manner of new +varnish, but found not him at home, but his wife, a very beautiful woman, +who shewed me much variety of admirable work, and is in order to my +having of some papers fitted with his lines for my use for tables and the +like. I know not whether I was more pleased with the thing, or that I +was shewed it by her, but resolved I am to have some made. So home to my +office late, and then to supper and to bed. My wife tells me that she +hears that my poor aunt James hath had her breast cut off here in town, +her breast having long been out of order. This day, after I had suffered +my owne hayre to grow long, in order to wearing it, I find the +convenience of periwiggs is so great, that I have cut off all short +again, and will keep to periwiggs. + + + +6th. Up, and all day at the office, but a little at dinner, and there +late till past 12. So home to bed, pleased as I always am after I have +rid a great deal of work, it being very satisfactory to me. + + + +7th (Lord's day). Up, and to church with my wife. Home and dined. +After dinner come Mr. Andrews and spent the afternoon with me, about our +Tangier business of the victuals, and then parted, and after sermon comes +Mr. Hill and a gentleman, a friend of his, one Mr. Scott, that sings well +also, and then comes Mr. Andrews, and we all sung and supped, and then to +sing again and passed the Sunday very pleasantly and soberly, and so I to +my office a little, and then home to prayers and to bed. Yesterday begun +my wife to learn to, limn of one Browne, + + [Alexander Browne, a printseller, who taught drawing, and practised + it with success. He published in 1669, "Ars Pictoria, or an Academy + treating of Drawing, Painting, Limning and Etching."] + +which Mr. Hill helps her to, and, by her beginning upon some eyes, I +think she will [do] very fine things, and I shall take great delight in +it. + + + +8th. Up very betimes, and did much business before I went out with +several persons, among others Captain Taylor, who would leave the +management of most of his business now he is going to Harwich, upon me, +and if I can get money by it, which I believe it will, I shall take some +of it upon me. Thence with Sir W. Batten to the Duke of Albemarle's and +there did much business, and then to the 'Change, and thence off with Sir +W. Warren to an ordinary, where we dined and sat talking of most usefull +discourse till 5 in the afternoon, and then home, and very busy till +late, and so home and to bed. + + + +9th. Up betimes, and to my business at the office, where all the +morning. At noon comes Mrs. The. Turner, and dines with us, and my +wife's painting-master staid and dined; and I take great pleasure in +thinking that my wife will really come to something in that business. +Here dined also Luellin. So after dinner to my office, and there very +busy till almost midnight, and so home to supper and to bed. This day we +have newes of eight ships being taken by some of ours going into the +Texel, their two men of warr, that convoyed them, running in. They come +from about Ireland, round to the north. + + + +10th. Up betimes, and abroad to the Cocke-Pitt, where the Duke [of +Albemarle] did give Sir W. Batten and me an account of the late taking of +eight ships, and of his intent to come back to the Gunfleete--[The +Gunfleet Sand off the Essex coast.]--with the fleete presently; which +creates us much work and haste therein, against the fleete comes. So to +Mr. Povy, and after discourse with him home, and thence to the Guard in +Southwarke, there to get some soldiers, by the Duke's order, to go keep +pressmen on board our ships. So to the 'Change and did much business, +and then home to dinner, and there find my poor mother come out of the +country today in good health, and I am glad to see her, but my business, +which I am sorry for, keeps me from paying the respect I ought to her at +her first coming, she being grown very weak in her judgement, and doating +again in her discourse, through age and some trouble in her family. I +left her and my wife to go abroad to buy something, and then I to my +office. In the evening by appointment to Sir W. Warren and Mr. Deering +at a taverne hard by with intent to do some good upon their agreement in +a great bargain of planks. So home to my office again, and then to +supper and to bed, my mother being in bed already. + + + +11th. Up betimes, and at the office all the morning. At home dined, and +then to the office all day till late at night, and then home to supper, +weary with business, and to bed. + + + +12th. Up betimes, and find myself disappointed in my receiving presently +of my L50 I hoped for sure of Mr. Warren upon the benefit of my press +warrant, but he promises to make it good. So by water to the Exchequer, +and there up and down through all the offices to strike my tallys for +L17,500, which methinks is so great a testimony of the goodness of God to +me, that I, from a mean clerke there, should come to strike tallys myself +for that sum, and in the authority that I do now, is a very stupendous +mercy to me. I shall have them struck to-morrow. But to see how every +little fellow looks after his fees, and to get what he can for +everything, is a strange consideration; the King's fees that he must pay +himself for this L17,500 coming to above L100. Thence called my wife at +Unthanke's to the New Exchange and elsewhere to buy a lace band for me, +but we did not buy, but I find it so necessary to have some handsome +clothes that I cannot but lay out some money thereupon. To the 'Change +and thence to my watchmaker, where he has put it [i.e. the watch] in +order, and a good and brave piece it is, and he tells me worth L14 which +is a greater present than I valued it. So home to dinner, and after +dinner comes several people, among others my cozen, Thomas Pepys, of +Hatcham, + + [Thomas Pepys, of Hatcham Barnes, Surrey, Master of the Jewel House + to Charles II. and James II.] + +to receive some money, of my Lord Sandwich's, and there I paid him what +was due to him upon my uncle's score, but, contrary to my expectation, +did get him to sign and seale to my sale of lands for payment of debts. +So that now I reckon myself in better condition by L100 in my content +than I was before, when I was liable to be called to an account and +others after me by my uncle Thomas or his children for every foot of land +we had sold before. This I reckon a great good fortune in the getting of +this done. He gone, come Mr. Povy, Dr. Twisden, and Mr. Lawson about +settling my security in the paying of the L4000 ordered to Sir J. Lawson. +So a little abroad and then home, and late at my office and closet +settling this day's disordering of my papers, then to supper and to bed. + + + +13th. Up, and all day in some little gruntings of pain, as I used to +have from winde, arising I think from my fasting so long, and want of +exercise, and I think going so hot in clothes, the weather being hot, +and the same clothes I wore all winter. To the 'Change after office, +and received my watch from the watchmaker, and a very fine [one] it is, +given me by Briggs, the Scrivener. Home to dinner, and then I abroad to +the Atturney Generall, about advice upon the Act for Land Carriage, which +he desired not to give me before I had received the King's and Council's +order therein; going home bespoke the King's works, will cost me 50s., I +believe. So home and late at my office. But, Lord! to see how much of +my old folly and childishnesse hangs upon me still that I cannot forbear +carrying my watch in my hand in the coach all this afternoon, and seeing +what o'clock it is one hundred times; and am apt to think with myself, +how could I be so long without one; though I remember since, I had one, +and found it a trouble, and resolved to carry one no more about me while +I lived. So home to supper and to bed, being troubled at a letter from +Mr. Gholmly from Tangier, wherein he do advise me how people are at worke +to overthrow our Victualling business, by which I shall lose L300 per +annum, I am much obliged to him for this, secret kindnesse, and concerned +to repay it him in his own concernments and look after this. + + + +14th (Lord's day). Up, and with my wife to church, it being Whitsunday; +my wife very fine in a new yellow bird's-eye hood, as the fashion is now. +We had a most sorry sermon; so home to dinner, my mother having her new +suit brought home, which makes her very fine. After dinner my wife and +she and Mercer to Thomas Pepys's wife's christening of his first child, +and I took a coach, and to Wanstead, the house where Sir H. Mildmay died, +and now Sir Robert Brookes lives, having bought it of the Duke of Yorke, +it being forfeited to him. A fine seat, but an old-fashioned house; and +being not full of people looks desolately. Thence to Walthamstow, where +(failing at the old place) Sir W. Batten by and by come home, I walking +up and down the house and garden with my Lady very pleasantly, then to +supper very merry, and then back by coach by dark night. I all the +afternoon in the coach reading the treasonous book of the Court of King +James, printed a great while ago, and worth reading, though ill intended. +As soon as I come home, upon a letter from the Duke of Albemarle, I took +boat at about 12 at night, and down the River in a gally, my boy and I, +down to the Hope and so up again, sleeping and waking, with great +pleasure, my business to call upon every one of + + + +15th. Our victualling ships to set them agoing, and so home, and after +dinner to the King's playhouse, all alone, and saw "Love's Maistresse." +Some pretty things and good variety in it, but no or little fancy in it. +Thence to the Duke of Albemarle to give him account of my day's works, +where he shewed me letters from Sir G. Downing, of four days' date, that +the Dutch are come out and joyned, well-manned, and resolved to board our +best ships, and fight for certain they will. Thence to the Swan at +Herbert's, and there the company of Sarah a little while, and so away and +called at the Harp and Ball, where the mayde, Mary, is very 'formosa'-- +[handsome]--; but, Lord! to see in what readiness I am, upon the +expiring of my vowes this day, to begin to run into all my pleasures and +neglect of business. Thence home, and being sleepy to bed. + + + +16th. Up betimes, and to the Duke of Albemarle with an account of my +yesterday's actions in writing. So back to the office, where all the +morning very busy. After dinner by coach to see and speak with Mr. Povy, +and after little discourse back again home, where busy upon letters till +past 12 at night, and so home to supper and to bed, weary. + + + +17th. Up, and by appointment to a meeting of Sir John Lawson and Mr. +Cholmly's atturney and Mr. Povy at the Swan taverne at Westminster to +settle their business about my being secured in the payment of money to +Sir J. Lawson in the other's absence. Thence at Langford's, where I +never was since my brother died there. I find my wife and Mercer, having +with him agreed upon two rich silk suits for me, which is fit for me to +have, but yet the money is too much, I doubt, to lay out altogether; but +it is done, and so let it be, it being the expense of the world that I +can the best bear with and the worst spare. Thence home, and after +dinner to the office, where late, and so home to supper and to bed. Sir +J. Minnes and I had an angry bout this afternoon with Commissioner Pett +about his neglecting his duty and absenting himself, unknown to us, from +his place at Chatham, but a most false man I every day find him more and +more, and in this very full of equivocation. The fleete we doubt not +come to Harwich by this time. Sir W. Batten is gone down this day +thither, and the Duchesse of Yorke went down yesterday to meet the Duke. + + + +18th. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes to the Duke of Albemarle, where we did +much business, and I with good content to myself; among other things we +did examine Nixon and Stanesby, about their late running from two +Dutchmen; + + [Captain Edward Nixon, of the "Elizabeth," and Captain John + Stanesby, of the "Eagle." John Lanyon wrote to the Navy + Commissioners from Plymouth, May 16th: "Understands from the seamen + that the conduct of Captains Nixon and Stanesby in their late + engagement with two Dutch capers was very foul; the night they left + the Dutch, no lights were put out as formerly, and though in sight + of them in the morning, they still kept on their way; the Eagle lay + by some time, and both the enemy's ships plied on her, but finding + the Elizabeth nearly out of sight she also made sail; it is true the + wind and sea were high, but there were no sufficient reasons for + such endeavours to get from them." ("Calendar of State Papers," + Domestic, 1664-65, p. 367). Both captains were tried; Nixon was + condemned to be shot but Stanesby was cleared, and Charnock asserts + that he was commander the "Happy Return" in 1672.] + +for which they are committed to a vessel to carry them to the fleete to +be tried. A most fowle unhandsome thing as ever was heard, for plain +cowardice on Nixon's part. Thence with the Duke of Albemarle in his +coach to my Lord Treasurer, and there was before the King (who ever now +calls me by my name) and Lord Chancellor, and many other great Lords, +discoursing about insuring of some of the King's goods, wherein the King +accepted of my motion that we should; and so away, well pleased. To the +office, and dined, and then to the office again, and abroad to speak with +Sir G. Carteret; but, Lord! to see how fraile a man I am, subject to my +vanities, that can hardly forbear, though pressed with never so much +business, my pursuing of pleasure, but home I got, and there very busy +very late. Among other things consulting with Mr. Andrews about our +Tangier business, wherein we are like to meet with some trouble, and my +Lord Bellasses's endeavour to supplant us, which vexes my mind; but, +however, our undertaking is so honourable that we shall stand a tug for +it I think. So home to supper and to bed. + + + +19th. Up, and to White Hall, where the Committee for Tangier met, and +there, though the case as to the merit of it was most plain and most of +the company favourable to our business, yet it was with much ado that I +got the business not carried fully against us, but put off to another +day, my Lord Arlington being the great man in it, and I was sorry to be +found arguing so greatly against him. The business I believe will in the +end be carried against us, and the whole business fall; I must therefore +endeavour the most I can to get money another way. It vexed me to see +Creed so hot against it, but I cannot much blame him, having never +declared to him my being concerned in it. But that that troubles me most +is my Lord Arlington calls to me privately and asks me whether I had ever +said to any body that I desired to leave this employment, having not time +to look after it. I told him, No, for that the thing being settled it +will not require much time to look after it. He told me then he would do +me right to the King, for he had been told so, which I desired him to do, +and by and by he called me to him again and asked me whether I had no +friend about the Duke, asking me (I making a stand) whether Mr. Coventry +was not my friend. I told him I had received many friendships from him. +He then advised me to procure that the Duke would in his next letter +write to him to continue me in my place and remove any obstruction; which +I told him I would, and thanked him. So parted, vexed at the first and +amazed at this business of my Lord Arlington's. Thence to the Exchequer, +and there got my tallys for L17,500, the first payment I ever had out of +the Exchequer, and at the Legg spent 14s. upon my old acquaintance, some +of them the clerks, and away home with my tallys in a coach, fearful +every step of having one of them fall out, or snatched from me. Being +come home, I much troubled out again by coach (for company taking Sir W. +Warren with me), intending to have spoke to my Lord Arlington to have +known the bottom of it, but missed him, and afterwards discoursing the +thing as a confidant to Sir W. Warren, he did give me several good hints +and principles not to do anything suddenly, but consult my pillow upon +that and every great thing of my life, before I resolve anything in it. +Away back home, and not being fit for business I took my wife and Mercer +down by water to Greenwich at 8 at night, it being very fine and cool and +moonshine afterward. Mighty pleasant passage it was; there eat a cake or +two, and so home by 10 or 11 at night, and then to bed, my mind not +settled what to think. + + + +20th. Up, and to my office, where busy all the morning. At noon dined +at home, and to my office, very busy. + + + +21st. Till past one, Lord's day, in the morning writing letters to the +fleete and elsewhere, and my mind eased of much business, home to bed and +slept till 8. So up, and this day is brought home one of my new silk +suits, the plain one, but very rich camelott and noble. I tried it and +it pleases me, but did not wear it, being I would not go out today to +church. So laid it by, and my mind changed, thinking to go see my Lady +Sandwich, and I did go a little way, but stopped and returned home to +dinner, after dinner up to my chamber to settle my Tangier accounts, and +then to my office, there to do the like with other papers. In the +evening home to supper and to bed. + + + +22nd. Up, and down to the ships, which now are hindered from going down +to the fleete (to our great sorrow and shame) with their provisions, the +wind being against them. So to the Duke of Albemarle, and thence down by +water to Deptford, it being Trinity Monday, and so the day of choosing +the Master of Trinity House for the next yeare, where, to my great +content, I find that, contrary to the practice and design of Sir W. +Batten, to breake the rule and custom of the Company in choosing their +Masters by succession, he would have brought in Sir W. Rider or Sir W. +Pen, over the head of Hurleston (who is a knave too besides, I believe), +the younger brothers did all oppose it against the elder, and with great +heat did carry it for Hurleston, which I know will vex him to the heart. +Thence, the election being over, to church, where an idle sermon from +that conceited fellow, Dr. Britton, saving that his advice to unity, and +laying aside all envy and enmity among them was very apposite. Thence +walked to Redriffe, and so to the Trinity House, and a great dinner, as +is usual, and so to my office, where busy all the afternoon till late, +and then home to bed, being much troubled in mind for several things, +first, for the condition of the fleete for lacke of provisions, the blame +this office lies under and the shame that they deserve to have brought +upon them for the ships not being gone out of the River, and then for my +business of Tangier which is not settled, and lastly for fear that I am +not observed to have attended the office business of late as much as I +ought to do, though there has been nothing but my attendance on Tangier +that has occasioned my absence, and that of late not much. + + + +23rd. Up, and at the office busy all the morning. At noon dined alone, +my wife and mother being gone by invitation to dine with my mother's old +servant Mr. Cordery, who made them very welcome. So to Mr. Povy's, where +after a little discourse about his business I home again, and late at the +office busy. Late comes Sir Arthur Ingram to my office, to tell me that, +by letters from Amsterdam of the 28th of this month (their style), + + [The new style was adopted by most of the countries of Europe long + before it was legalized in England, although Russia still retains + the old style.] + +the Dutch fleete, being about 100 men-of-war, besides fire-ships, &c., +did set out upon the 23rd and 24th inst. Being divided into seven +squadrons; viz., 1. Generall Opdam. 2. Cottenar, of Rotterdam. +3. Trump. 4. Schram, of Horne. 5. Stillingworth, of Freezland. +6. Everson. 7. One other, not named, of Zealand. + + + +24th. Up, and by 4 o'clock in the morning, and with W. Hewer, there till +12 without intermission putting some papers in order. Thence to the +Coffee-house with Creed, where I have not been a great while, where all +the newes is of the Dutch being gone out, and of the plague growing upon +us in this towne; and of remedies against it: some saying one thing, some +another. So home to dinner, and after dinner Creed and I to Colvill's, +thinking to shew him all the respect we could by obliging him in carrying +him 5 tallys of L5000 to secure him for so much credit he has formerly +given Povy to Tangier, but he, like an impertinent fool, cavills at it, +but most ignorantly that ever I heard man in my life. At last Mr. Viner +by chance comes, who I find a very moderate man, but could not persuade +the fool to reason, but brought away the tallys again, and so vexed to my +office, where late, and then home to my supper and to bed. + + + +25th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon dined at +home, and then to the office all the afternoon, busy till almost 12 at +night, and then home to supper and to bed. + + + +26th. Up at 4 o'clock, and all the morning in my office with W. Hewer +finishing my papers that were so long out of order, and at noon to my +bookseller's, and there bespoke a book or two, and so home to dinner, +where Creed dined with me, and he and I afterwards to Alderman +Backewell's to try him about supplying us with money, which he denied at +first and last also, saving that he spoke a little fairer at the end than +before. But the truth is I do fear I shall have a great deale of trouble +in getting of money. Thence home, and in the evening by water to the +Duke of Albemarle, whom I found mightily off the hooks, that the ships +are not gone out of the River; which vexed me to see, insomuch that I am +afeard that we must expect some change or addition of new officers +brought upon us, so that I must from this time forward resolve to make +myself appear eminently serviceable in attending at my office duly and no +where else, which makes me wish with all my heart that I had never +anything to do with this business of Tangier. After a while at my +office, home to supper vexed, and to bed. + + + +27th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning; at noon dined at +home, and then to my office again,, where late, and so to bed, with my +mind full of fears for the business of this office and troubled with that +of Tangier, concerning which Mr. Povy was with me, but do give me little +help, but more reason of being troubled. So that were it not for our +Plymouth business I would be glad to be rid of it. + + + +28th (Lord's day). By water to the Duke of Albemarle, where I hear that +Nixon is condemned to be shot to death, for his cowardice, by a Council +of War. Went to chapel and heard a little musique, and there met with +Creed, and with him a little while walking, and to Wilkinson's for me to +drink, being troubled with winde, and at noon to Sir Philip Warwicke's to +dinner, where abundance of company come in unexpectedly; and here I saw +one pretty piece of household stuff, as the company increaseth, to put a +larger leaf upon an oval table. After dinner much good discourse with +Sir Philip, who I find, I think, a most pious, good man, and a professor +of a philosophical manner of life and principles like Epictetus, whom he +cites in many things. Thence to my Lady Sandwich's, where, to my shame, +I had not been a great while before. Here, upon my telling her a story +of my Lord Rochester's running away on Friday night last with Mrs. +Mallett, the great beauty and fortune of the North, who had supped at +White Hall with Mrs. Stewart, and was going home to her lodgings with her +grandfather, my Lord Haly, by coach; and was at Charing Cross seized on +by both horse and foot men, and forcibly taken from him, and put into a +coach with six horses, and two women provided to receive her, and carried +away. Upon immediate pursuit, my Lord of Rochester (for whom the King +had spoke to the lady often, but with no successe) was taken at Uxbridge; +but the lady is not yet heard of, and the King mighty angry, and the Lord +sent to the Tower. Hereupon my Lady did confess to me, as a great +secret, her being concerned in this story. For if this match breaks +between my Lord Rochester and her, then, by the consent of all her +friends, my Lord Hinchingbroke stands fair, and is invited for her. She +is worth, and will be at her mother's death (who keeps but a little from +her), L2500 per annum. Pray God give a good success to it! But my poor +Lady, who is afeard of the sickness, and resolved to be gone into the +country, is forced to stay in towne a day or two, or three about it, to +see the event of it. Thence home and to see my Lady Pen, where my wife +and I were shown a fine rarity: of fishes kept in a glass of water, that +will live so for ever; and finely marked they are, being foreign.--[Gold- +fish introduced from China.]--So to supper at home and to bed, after +many people being with me about business, among others the two Bellamys +about their old debt due to them from the King for their victualling +business, out of which I hope to get some money. + + + +29th. Lay long in bed, being in some little pain of the wind collique, +then up and to the Duke of Albemarle, and so to the Swan, and there drank +at Herbert's, and so by coach home, it being kept a great holiday through +the City, for the birth and restoration of the King. To my office, where +I stood by and saw Symson the joyner do several things, little jobbs, to +the rendering of my closet handsome and the setting up of some neat +plates that Burston has for my money made me, and so home to dinner, and +then with my wife, mother, and Mercer in one boat, and I in another, down +to Woolwich. I walking from Greenwich, the others going to and fro upon +the water till my coming back, having done but little business. So home +and to supper, and, weary, to bed. We have every where taken some +prizes. Our merchants have good luck to come home safe: Colliers from +the North, and some Streights men just now. And our Hambrough ships, of +whom we were so much afeard, are safe in Hambrough. Our fleete resolved +to sail out again from Harwich in a day or two. + + + +30th. Lay long, and very busy all the morning, at noon to the 'Change, +and thence to dinner to Sir G. Carteret's, to talk upon the business of +insuring our goods upon the Hambrough [ships]. Here a very fine, neat +French dinner, without much cost, we being all alone with my Lady and one +of the house with her; thence home and wrote letters, and then in the +evening, by coach, with my wife and mother and Mercer, our usual tour by +coach, and eat at the old house at Islington; but, Lord! to see how my +mother found herself talk upon every object to think of old stories. +Here I met with one that tells me that Jack Cole, my old schoolefellow, +is dead and buried lately of a consumption, who was a great crony of +mine. So back again home, and there to my closet to write letters. Hear +to my great trouble that our Hambrough ships, + + [On May 29th Sir William Coventry wrote to Lord Arlington: "Capt. + Langhorne has arrived with seven ships, and reports the taking of + the Hamburg fleet with the man of war their convoy; mistaking the + Dutch fleet for the English, he fell into it" ("Calendar of State + Papers," Domestic, 1664-65, p. 393)] + +valued of the King's goods and the merchants' (though but little of the +former) to L200,000 [are lost]. By and by, about 11 at night, called +into the garden by my Lady Pen and daughter, and there walked with them +and my wife till almost twelve, and so in and closed my letters, and home +to bed. + + + +31st. Up, and to my office, and to Westminster, doing business till +noon, and then to the 'Change, where great the noise and trouble of +having our Hambrough ships lost; and that very much placed upon Mr. +Coventry's forgetting to give notice to them of the going away of our +fleete from the coast of Holland. But all without reason, for he did; +but the merchants not being ready, staid longer than the time ordered for +the convoy to stay, which was ten days. Thence home with Creed and Mr. +Moore to dinner. Anon we broke up, and Creed and I to discourse about +our Tangier matters of money, which vex me. So to Gresham College, staid +a very little while, and away and I home busy, and busy late, at the end +of the month, about my month's accounts, but by the addition of Tangier +it is rendered more intricate, and so (which I have not done these 12 +months, nor would willingly have done now) failed of having it done, but +I will do it as soon as I can. So weary and sleepy to bed. I +endeavoured but missed of seeing Sir Thomas Ingram at Westminster, so +went to Houseman's the Painter, who I intend shall draw my wife, but he +was not within, but I saw several very good pictures. + + + + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + JUNE + 1665 + + +June 1st. Up and to the office, where sat all the morning, at noon to +the 'Change, and there did some business, and home to dinner, whither +Creed comes, and after dinner I put on my new silke camelott sute; the +best that ever I wore in my life, the sute costing me above L24. In this +I went with Creed to Goldsmiths' Hall, to the burial of Sir Thomas Viner; +which Hall, and Haberdashers also, was so full of people, that we were +fain for ease and coolness to go forth to Pater Noster Row, to choose a +silke to make me a plain ordinary suit. That done, we walked to +Cornehill, and there at Mr. Cade's' stood in the balcon and saw all the +funeral, which was with the blue-coat boys and old men, all the Aldermen, +and Lord Mayor, &c., and the number of the company very great; the +greatest I ever did see for a taverne. Hither come up to us Dr. Allen, +and then Mr. Povy and Mr. Fox. The show being over, and my discourse +with Mr. Povy, I took coach and to Westminster Hall, where I took the +fairest flower, and by coach to Tothill Fields for the ayre till it was +dark. I 'light, and in with the fairest flower to eat a cake, and there +did do as much as was safe with my flower, and that was enough on my +part. Broke up, and away without any notice, and, after delivering the +rose where it should be, I to the Temple and 'light, and come to the +middle door, and there took another coach, and so home to write letters, +but very few, God knows, being by my pleasure made to forget everything +that is. The coachman that carried [us] cannot know me again, nor the +people at the house where we were. Home to bed, certain news being come +that our fleete is in sight of the Dutch ships. + + + +2nd. Lay troubled in mind abed a good while, thinking of my Tangier and +victualling business, which I doubt will fall. Up and to the Duke of +Albemarle, but missed him. Thence to the Harp and Ball and to +Westminster Hall, where I visited "the flowers" in each place, and so met +with Mr. Creed, and he and I to Mrs. Croft's to drink and did, but saw +not her daughter Borroughes. I away home, and there dined and did +business. In the afternoon went with my tallys, made a fair end with +Colvill and Viner, delivering them L5000 tallys to each and very quietly +had credit given me upon other tallys of Mr. Colvill for L2000 and good +words for more, and of Mr. Viner too. Thence to visit the Duke of +Albemarle, and thence my Lady Sandwich and Lord Crew. Thence home, and +there met an expresse from Sir W. Batten at Harwich, that the fleete is +all sailed from Solebay, having spied the Dutch fleete at sea, and that, +if the calmes hinder not, they must needs now be engaged with them. +Another letter also come to me from Mr. Hater, committed by the Council +this afternoon to the Gate House, upon the misfortune of having his name +used by one, without his knowledge or privity, for the receiving of some +powder that he had bought. Up to Court about these two, and for the +former was led up to my Lady Castlemayne's lodgings, where the King and +she and others were at supper, and there I read the letter and returned; +and then to Sir G. Carteret about Hater, and shall have him released +to-morrow, upon my giving bail for his appearance, which I have promised +to do. Sir G. Carteret did go on purpose to the King to ask this, and it +was granted. So home at past 12, almost one o'clock in the morning. To +my office till past two, and then home to supper and to bed. + + + +3rd. Up and to White Hall, where Sir G. Carteret did go with me to +Secretary Morris, and prevailed with him to let Mr. Hater be released +upon bail for his appearance. So I at a loss how to get another besides +myself, and got Mr. Hunt, who did patiently stay with me all the morning +at Secretary Morris's chamber, Mr. Hater being sent for with his keeper, +and at noon comes in the Secretary, and upon entering [into] +recognizances, he for L200, and Mr. Hunt and I for L100 each for his +appearance upon demand, he was released, it costing him, I think, above +L3. I thence home, vexed to be kept from the office all the morning, +which I had not been in many months before, if not some years. At home +to dinner, and all the afternoon at the office, where late at night, and +much business done, then home to supper and to bed. All this day by all +people upon the River, and almost every where else hereabout were heard +the guns, our two fleets for certain being engaged; which was confirmed +by letters from Harwich, but nothing particular: and all our hearts full +of concernment for the Duke, and I particularly for my Lord Sandwich and +Mr. Coventry after his Royall Highnesse. + + + +4th (Sunday). Up and at my chamber all the forenoon, at evening my +accounts, which I could not do sooner, for the last month, and, blessed +be God! am worth L1400 odd money, something more than ever I was yet in +the world. Dined very well at noon, and then to my office, and there and +in the garden discoursed with several people about business, among others +Mr. Howell, the turner, who did give me so good a discourse about the +practices of the Paymaster J. Fenn that I thought fit to recollect all +when he was gone, and have entered it down to be for ever remembered. +Thence to my chamber again to settle my Tangier accounts against tomorrow +and some other things, and with great joy ended them, and so to supper, +where a good fowl and tansy, and so to bed. Newes being come that our +fleete is pursuing the Dutch, who, either by cunning, or by being +worsted, do give ground, but nothing more for certain. Late to bed upon +my papers being quite finished. + + + +5th. Up very betimes to look some other papers, and then to White Hall +to a Committee of Tangier, where I offered my accounts with great +acceptation, and so had some good words and honour by it, and one or two +things done to my content in my business of Treasurer, but I do clearly +see that we shall lose our business of victualling, Sir Thomas Ingram +undertaking that it shall be done by persons there as cheap as we do it, +and give the seamen their full allowance and themselves give good +security here for performance of contract, upon which terms there is no +opposing it. This would trouble me, but that I hope when that fails to +spend my time to some good advantage other ways, and so shall permit it +all to God Almighty's pleasure. Thence home to dinner, after 'Change, +where great talke of the Dutch being fled and we in pursuit of them, and +that our ship Charity + + [Sir William Coventry and Sir William Penn to the Navy + Commissioners, June 4th: "Engaged yesterday with the Dutch; they + began to stand away at 3 p.m. Chased them all the rest of the day + and night; 20 considerable ships are destroyed and taken; we have + only lost the Great Charity. The Earl of Marlborough, Rear-Admiral + Sansum, and Captain Kirby are slain, and Sir John Lawson wounded" + ("Calendar of State Papers," Domestic, 1664-65, p. 406).] + +is lost upon our Captain's, Wilkinson, and Lieutenant's yielding, but of +this there is no certainty, save the report of some of the sicke men of +the Charity, turned adrift in a boat out of the Charity and taken up and +brought on shore yesterday to Sole Bay, and the newes hereof brought by +Sir Henry Felton. Home to dinner, and Creed with me. Then he and I down +to Deptford, did some business, and back again at night. He home, and I +to my office, and so to supper and to bed. This morning I had great +discourse with my Lord Barkeley about Mr. Hater, towards whom from a +great passion reproaching him with being a fanatique and dangerous for me +to keepe, I did bring him to be mighty calme and to ask me pardons for +what he had thought of him and to desire me to ask his pardon of Hater +himself for the ill words he did give him the other day alone at White +Hall (which was, that he had always thought him a man that was no good +friend to the King, but did never think it would breake out in a thing of +this nature), and did advise him to declare his innocence to the Council +and pray for his examination and vindication. Of which I shall consider +and say no more, but remember one compliment that in great kindness to me +he did give me, extolling my care and diligence, that he did love me +heartily for my owne sake, and more that he did will me whatsoever I +thought for Mr. Coventry's sake, for though the world did think them +enemies, and to have an ill aspect, one to another, yet he did love him +with all his heart, which was a strange manner of noble compliment, +confessing his owning me as a confidant and favourite of Mr. Coventry's. + + + +6th. Waked in the morning before 4 o'clock with great pain to piss, and +great pain in pissing by having, I think, drank too great a draught of +cold drink before going to bed. But by and by to sleep again, and then +rose and to the office, where very busy all the morning, and at noon to +dinner with Sir G. Carteret to his house with all our Board, where a good +pasty and brave discourse. But our great fear was some fresh news of the +fleete, but not from the fleete, all being said to be well and beaten the +Dutch, but I do not give much belief to it, and indeed the news come from +Sir W. Batten at Harwich, and writ so simply that we all made good mirth +of it. Thence to the office, where upon Sir G. Carteret's accounts, to +my great vexation there being nothing done by the Controller to right the +King therein. I thence to my office and wrote letters all the afternoon, +and in the evening by coach to Sir Ph. Warwicke's about my Tangier +business to get money, and so to my Lady Sandwich's, who, poor lady, +expects every hour to hear of my Lord; but in the best temper, neither +confident nor troubled with fear, that I ever did see in my life. She +tells me my Lord Rochester is now declaredly out of hopes of Mrs. +Mallett, and now she is to receive notice in a day or two how the King +stands inclined to the giving leave for my Lord Hinchingbroke to look +after her, and that being done to bring it to an end shortly. Thence by +coach home, and to my office a little, and so before 12 o'clock home and +to bed. + + + +7th. This morning my wife and mother rose about two o'clock; and with +Mercer, Mary, the boy, and W. Hewer, as they had designed, took boat and +down to refresh themselves on the water to Gravesend. Lay till 7 +o'clock, then up and to the office upon Sir G. Carteret's accounts again, +where very busy; thence abroad and to the 'Change, no news of certainty +being yet come from the fleete. Thence to the Dolphin Taverne, where Sir +J. Minnes, Lord Brunkard, Sir Thomas Harvy, and myself dined, upon Sir G. +Carteret's charge, and very merry we were, Sir Thomas Harvy being a very +drolle. Thence to the office, and meeting Creed away with him to my Lord +Treasurer's, there thinking to have met the goldsmiths, at White Hall, +but did not, and so appointed another time for my Lord to speak to them +to advance us some money. Thence, it being the hottest day that ever I +felt in my life, and it is confessed so by all other people the hottest +they ever knew in England in the beginning of June, we to the New +Exchange, and there drunk whey, with much entreaty getting it for our +money, and [they] would not be entreated to let us have one glasse more. +So took water and to Fox-Hall, to the Spring garden, and there walked an +houre or two with great pleasure, saving our minds ill at ease concerning +the fleete and my Lord Sandwich, that we have no newes of them, and ill +reports run up and down of his being killed, but without ground. Here +staid pleasantly walking and spending but 6d. till nine at night, and +then by water to White Hall, and there I stopped to hear news of the +fleete, but none come, which is strange, and so by water home, where, +weary with walking and with the mighty heat of the weather, and for my +wife's not coming home, I staying walking in the garden till twelve at +night, when it begun to lighten exceedingly, through the greatness of the +heat. Then despairing of her coming home, I to bed. This day, much +against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with +a red cross upon the doors, and "Lord have mercy upon us" writ there; +which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my +remembrance, I ever saw. It put me into an ill conception of myself and +my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco to smell to and +chaw, which took away the apprehension. + + + +8th. About five o'clock my wife come home, it having lightened all night +hard, and one great shower of rain. She come and lay upon the bed; I up +and to the office, where all the morning. Alone at home to dinner, my +wife, mother, and Mercer dining at W. Joyce's; I giving her a caution to +go round by the Half Moone to his house, because of the plague. I to my +Lord Treasurer's by appointment of Sir Thomas Ingram's, to meet the +Goldsmiths; where I met with the great news at last newly come, brought +by Bab May' from the Duke of Yorke, that we have totally routed the +Dutch; that the Duke himself, the Prince, my Lord Sandwich, and Mr. +Coventry are all well: which did put me into such joy, that I forgot +almost all other thoughts. The particulars I shall set down by and by. +By and by comes Alderman Maynell and Mr. Viner, and there my Lord +Treasurer did intreat them to furnish me with money upon my tallys, Sir +Philip Warwicke before my Lord declaring the King's changing of the hand +from Mr. Povy to me, whom he called a very sober person, and one whom the +Lord Treasurer would owne in all things that I should concern myself with +them in the business of money. They did at present declare they could +not part with money at present. My Lord did press them very hard, and I +hope upon their considering we shall get some of them. Thence with great +joy to the Cocke-pitt; where the Duke of Albemarle, like a man out of +himself with content, new-told me all; and by and by comes a letter from +Mr. Coventry's own hand to him, which he never opened (which was a +strange thing), but did give it me to open and read, and consider what +was fit for our office to do in it, and leave the letter with Sir +W. Clerke; which upon such a time and occasion was a strange piece of +indifference, hardly pardonable. I copied out the letter, and did also +take minutes out of Sir W. Clerke's other letters; and the sum of the +newes is: + + VICTORY OVER THE DUTCH, JUNE 3RD, 1665. + +This day they engaged; the Dutch neglecting greatly the opportunity of +the wind they had of us, by which they lost the benefit of their fire- +ships. The Earl of Falmouth, Muskerry, and Mr. Richard Boyle killed on +board the Duke's ship, the Royall Charles, with one shot: their blood and +brains flying in the Duke's face; and the head of Mr. Boyle striking down +the Duke, as some say. Earle of Marlborough, Portland, Rear-Admirall +Sansum (to Prince Rupert) killed, and Capt. Kirby and Ableson. Sir John +Lawson wounded on the knee; hath had some bones taken out, and is likely +to be well again. Upon receiving the hurt, he sent to the Duke for +another to command the Royall Oake. The Duke sent Jordan + + [Afterwards Sir Joseph Jordan, commander of the "Royal Sovereign," + and Vice-Admiral of the Red, 1672. He was knighted on July 1st, + 1665.--B.] + +out of the St. George, who did brave things in her. Capt. Jer. Smith of +the Mary was second to the Duke, and stepped between him and Captain +Seaton of the Urania (76 guns and 400 men), who had sworn to board the +Duke; killed him, 200 men, and took the ship; himself losing 99 men, and +never an officer saved but himself and lieutenant. His master indeed is +saved, with his leg cut off: Admirall Opdam blown up, Trump killed, and +said by Holmes; all the rest of their admiralls, as they say, but Everson +(whom they dare not trust for his affection to the Prince of Orange), are +killed: we having taken and sunk, as is believed, about 24 of their best +ships; killed and taken near 8 or 10,000 men, and lost, we think, not +above 700. A great[er] victory never known in the world. They are all +fled, some 43 got into the Texell, and others elsewhere, and we in +pursuit of the rest. Thence, with my heart full of joy; home, and to my +office a little; then to my Lady Pen's, where they are all joyed and not +a little puffed up at the good successe of their father; + + [In the royal charter granted by Charles II. in 1680 to William Penn + for the government of his American province, to be styled + Pennsylvania, special reference is made to "the memory and merits of + Sir William Penn in divers services, and particularly his conduct, + courage, and discretion under our dearest brother, James, Duke of + York, in that signal battle and victory fought and obtained against + the Dutch fleet commanded by Heer van Opdam in 1665"(Penn's + "Memorials of Sir W. Penn," vol. ii., p. 359).] + +and good service indeed is said to have been done by him. Had a great +bonefire at the gate; and I with my Lady Pen's people and others to Mrs. +Turner's great room, and then down into the streete. I did give the boys +4s. among them, and mighty merry. So home to bed, with my heart at great +rest and quiett, saving that the consideration of the victory is too +great for me presently to comprehend. + + [Mrs. Ady (Julia Cartwright), in her fascinating life of Henrietta, + Duchess of Orleans, gives an account of the receipt of the news of + the great sea-fight in Paris, and quotes a letter of Charles II. to + his sister, dated, "Whitehall, June 8th, 1665" The first report + that reached Paris was that "the Duke of York's ship had been blown + up, and he himself had been drowned." "The shock was too much for + Madame . . . she was seized with convulsions, and became so + dangerously ill that Lord Hollis wrote to the king, 'If things had + gone ill at sea I really believe Madame would have died.'" Charles + wrote: "I thanke God we have now the certayne newes of a very + considerable victory over the Duch; you will see most of the + particulars by the relation my Lord Hopis will shew you, though I + have had as great a losse as 'tis possible in a good frinde, poore + C. Barckely. It troubles me so much, as I hope you will excuse the + shortnesse of this letter, haveing receaved the newes of it but two + houres agoe" ("Madame," 1894, pp. 215, 216).] + + +9th. Lay long in bed, my head akeing with too much thoughts I think last +night. Up and to White Hall, and my Lord Treasurer's to Sir Ph. +Warwicke, about Tangier business, and in my way met with Mr. Moore, who +eases me in one point wherein I was troubled; which was, that I heard of +nothing said or done by my Lord Sandwich: but he tells me that Mr. +Cowling, my Lord Chamberlain's secretary, did hear the King say that my +Lord Sandwich had done nobly and worthily. The King, it seems, is much +troubled at the fall of my Lord of Falmouth; but I do not meet with any +man else that so much as wishes him alive again, the world conceiving him +a man of too much pleasure to do the King any good, or offer any good +office to him. But I hear of all hands he is confessed to have been a +man of great honour, that did show it in this his going with the Duke, +the most that ever any man did. Home, where my people busy to make ready +a supper against night for some guests, in lieu of my stonefeast. +At noon eat a small dinner at home, and so abroad to buy several things, +and among others with my taylor to buy a silke suit, which though I had +one lately, yet I do, for joy of the good newes we have lately had of our +victory over the Dutch, which makes me willing to spare myself something +extraordinary in clothes; and after long resolution of having nothing but +black, I did buy a coloured silk ferrandin. So to the Old Exchange, and +there at my pretty seamstresses bought a pair of stockings of her +husband, and so home, where by and by comes Mr. Honiwood and Mrs. Wilde, +and Roger Pepys and, after long time spent, Mrs. Turner, The. and Joyce. +We had a very good venison pasty, this being instead of my stone-feast +the last March, and very merry we were, and the more I know the more I +like Mr. Honiwood's conversation. So after a good supper they parted, +walking to the 'Change for a coach, and I with them to see them there. +So home and to bed, glad it was over. + + + +10th. Lay long in bed, and then up and at the office all the morning. +At noon dined at home, and then to the office busy all the afternoon. In +the evening home to supper; and there, to my great trouble, hear that the +plague is come into the City (though it hath these three or four weeks +since its beginning been wholly out of the City); but where should it +begin but in my good friend and neighbour's, Dr. Burnett, in Fanchurch +Street: which in both points troubles me mightily. To the office to +finish my letters and then home to bed, being troubled at the sicknesse, +and my head filled also with other business enough, and particularly how +to put my things and estate in order, in case it should please God to +call me away, which God dispose of to his glory! + + + +11th (Lord's day). Up, and expected long a new suit; but, coming not, +dressed myself in my late new black silke camelott suit; and, when fully +ready, comes my new one of coloured ferrandin, which my wife puts me out +of love with, which vexes me, but I think it is only my not being used to +wear colours which makes it look a little unusual upon me. To my chamber +and there spent the morning reading. At noon, by invitation, comes my +two cozen Joyces and their wives, my aunt James and he-cozen Harman, his +wife being ill. I had a good dinner for them, and as merry as I could be +in such company. They being gone, I out of doors a little, to shew, +forsooth, my new suit, and back again, and in going I saw poor Dr. +Burnett's door shut; but he hath, I hear, gained great goodwill among his +neighbours; for he discovered it himself first, and caused himself to be +shut up of his own accord: which was very handsome. In the evening comes +Mr. Andrews and his wife and Mr. Hill, and staid and played, and sung and +supped, most excellent pretty company, so pleasant, ingenious, and +harmless, I cannot desire better. They gone we to bed, my mind in great +present ease. + + + +12th. Up, and in my yesterday's new suit to the Duke of Albemarle, and +after a turne in White Hall, and then in Westminster Hall, returned, and +with my taylor bought some gold lace for my sleeve hands in Pater Noster +Row. So home to dinner, and then to the office, and down the River to +Deptford, and then back again and to my Lord Treasurer's, and up and down +to look after my Tangier business, and so home to my office, then to +supper and to bed. The Duke of Yorke is sent for last night and expected +to be here to-morrow. + + + +13th. Up and to the office, where all the morning doing business. At +noon with Sir G. Carteret to my Lord Mayor's to dinner, where much +company in a little room, and though a good, yet no extraordinary table. +His name, Sir John Lawrence, whose father, a very ordinary old man, sat +there at table, but it seems a very rich man. Here were at table three +Sir Richard Brownes, viz.: he of the Councill, a clerk, and the Alderman, +and his son; and there was a little grandson also Richard, who will +hereafter be Sir Richard Browne. The Alderman did here openly tell in +boasting how he had, only upon suspicion of disturbances, if there had +been any bad newes from sea, clapped up several persons that he was +afeard of; and that he had several times done the like and would do, and +take no bail where he saw it unsafe for the King. But by and by he said +that he was now sued in the Exchequer by a man for false imprisonment, +that he had, upon the same score, imprisoned while he was Mayor four +years ago, and asked advice upon it. I told him I believed there was +none, and told my story of Field, at which he was troubled, and said. +that it was then unsafe for any man to serve the King, and, I believed, +knows not what to do therein; but that Sir Richard Browne, of the +Councill, advised him to speak with my Lord Chancellor about it. My Lord +Mayor very respectfull to me; and so I after dinner away and found Sir J. +Minnes ready with his coach and four horses at our office gate, for him +and me to go out of towne to meet the Duke of Yorke coming from Harwich +to-night, and so as far as Ilford, and there 'light. By and by comes to +us Sir John Shaw and Mr. Neale, that married the rich widow Gold, upon +the same errand. After eating a dish of creame, we took coach again, +hearing nothing of the Duke, and away home, a most pleasant evening and +road. And so to my office, where, after my letters wrote, to supper and +to bed. All our discourse in our way was Sir J. Minnes's telling me +passages of the late King's and his father's, which I was mightily +pleased to hear for information, though the pride of some persons and +vice of most was but a sad story to tell how that brought the whole +kingdom and King to ruine. + + + +14th. Up, and to Sir Ph. Warwicke's and other places, about Tangier +business, but to little purpose. Among others to my Lord Treasurer's, +there to speak with him, and waited in the lobby three long hours for to +speake with him, to the trial of my utmost patience, but missed him at +last, and forced to go home without it, which may teach me how I make +others wait. Home to dinner and staid Mr. Hater with me, and after +dinner drew up a petition for Mr. Hater to present to the Councill about +his troublesome business of powder, desiring a trial that his absence may +be vindicated, and so to White Hall, but it was not proper to present it +to-day. Here I met with Mr. Cowling, who observed to me how he finds +every body silent in the praise of my Lord Sandwich, to set up the Duke +and the Prince; but that the Duke did both to the King and my Lord +Chancellor write abundantly of my Lord's courage and service. + + [Charles II.'s letter of thanks to Lord Sandwich, dated "Whitehall, + June 9th, 1665," written entirely in the king's hand, is printed in + Ellis's "Original Letters," 1st series, vol. iii., p. 327.] + +And I this day met with a letter of Captain Ferrers, wherein he tells +[us] my Lord was with his ship in all the heat of the day, and did most +worthily. Met with Creed, and he and I to Westminster; and there saw my +Lord Marlborough + + [Of the four distinguished men who died after the late action with + the Dutch and were buried in Westminster Abbey, the Earl of + Marlborough was interred on June 14th, Viscount Muskerry on the + 19th, the Earl of Falmouth on the 22nd, and Sir Edward Broughton on + the 26th. After the entries in the Abbey Registers is this note: + "These four last Honble Persons dyed in his Majy's service against + the Dutch, excepting only that ST Ed Br received his death's wound + at sea, but dyed here at home" (Chester's "Westminster Abbey + Registers," p. 162).] + +brought to be buried, several Lords of the Council carrying him, and with +the herald in some state. Thence, vexed in my mind to think that I do so +little in my Tangier business, and so home, and after supper to bed. + + + +15th. Up, and put on my new stuff suit with close knees, which becomes +me most nobly, as my wife says. At the office all day. At noon, put on +my first laced band, all lace; and to Kate Joyce's to dinner, where my +mother, wife, and abundance of their friends, and good usage. Thence, +wife and Mercer and I to the Old Exchange, and there bought two lace +bands more, one of my semstresse, whom my wife concurs with me to be a +pretty woman. So down to Deptford and Woolwich, my boy and I. At +Woolwich, discoursed with Mr. Sheldon about my bringing my wife down for +a month or two to his house, which he approves of, and, I think, will be +very convenient. So late back, and to the office, wrote letters, and so +home to supper and to bed. This day the Newes book upon Mr. Moore's +showing L'Estrange + + ["The Public Intelligencer," published by Roger L'Estrange, the + predecessor of the "London Gazette."] + +(Captain Ferrers's letter) did do my Lord Sandwich great right as to the +late victory. The Duke of Yorke not yet come to towne. The towne grows +very sickly, and people to be afeard of it; there dying this last week of +the plague 112, from 43 the week before, whereof but [one] in Fanchurch- +streete, and one in Broad-streete, by the Treasurer's office. + + + +16th. Up and to the office, where I set hard to business, but was +informed that the Duke of Yorke is come, and hath appointed us to attend +him this afternoon. So after dinner, and doing some business at the +office, I to White Hall, where the Court is full of the Duke and his +courtiers returned from sea. All fat and lusty, and ruddy by being in +the sun. I kissed his hands, and we waited all the afternoon. By and by +saw Mr. Coventry, which rejoiced my very heart. Anon he and I, from all +the rest of the company, walked into the Matted Gallery; where after many +expressions of love, we fell to talk of business. Among other things, +how my Lord Sandwich, both in his counsells and personal service, hath +done most honourably and serviceably. Sir J. Lawson is come to +Greenwich; but his wound in his knee yet very bad. Jonas Poole, in the +Vantguard, did basely, so as to be, or will be, turned out of his ship. +Captain Holmes + + [Captain Robert Holmes (afterwards knighted). Sir William Coventry, + in a letter to Lord Arlington (dated from "The Royal Charles," + Southwold Bay, June 13th), writes: "Capt. Holmes asked to be rear + admiral of the white squadron in place of Sansum who was killed, but + the Duke gave the place to Captain Harman, on which he delivered up + his commission, which the Duke received, and put Captain Langhorne + in his stead" ("Calendar of State Papers," Domestic, 1664-65, p. + 423).] + +expecting upon Sansum's death to be made Rear-admirall to the Prince (but +Harman is + + [John Harman, afterwards knighted. He had served with great + reputation in several naval fights, and was desperately wounded in + 1673, while] + +put in) hath delivered up to the Duke his commission, which the Duke took +and tore. He, it seems, had bid the Prince, who first told him of +Holmes's intention, that he should dissuade him from it; for that he was +resolved to take it if he offered it. Yet Holmes would do it, like a +rash, proud coxcombe. But he is rich, and hath, it seems, sought an +occasion of leaving the service. Several of our captains have done ill. +The great ships are the ships do the business, they quite deadening the +enemy. They run away upon sight of "The Prince." + + ["The Prince" was Lord Sandwich's ship; the captain was Roger + Cuttance. It was put up at Chatham for repair at this date.] + +It is strange to see how people do already slight Sir William Barkeley, + + [Sir William Berkeley, see note, vol. iii., p. 334. His behaviour + after the death of his brother, Lord Falmouth, is severely commented + on in "Poems on State Affairs," vol. i., p. 29 + + "Berkeley had heard it soon, and thought not good + To venture more of royal Harding's blood; + To be immortal he was not of age, + And did e'en now the Indian Prize presage; + And judged it safe and decent, cost what cost, + To lose the day, since his dear brother's lost. + With his whole squadron straight away he bore, + And, like good boy, promised to fight no more."--B.] + +my Lord FitzHarding's brother, who, three months since, was the delight +of the Court. Captain Smith of "The Mary" the Duke talks mightily of; +and some great thing will be done for him. Strange to hear how the Dutch +do relate, as the Duke says, that they are the conquerors; and bonefires +are made in Dunkirke in their behalf; though a clearer victory can never +be expected. Mr. Coventry thinks they cannot have lost less than 6000 +men, and we not dead above 200, and wounded about 400; in all about 600. +Thence home and to my office till past twelve, and then home to supper +and to bed, my wife and mother not being yet come home from W. Hewer's +chamber, who treats my mother tonight. Captain Grovel the Duke told us +this day, hath done the basest thing at Lowestoffe, in hearing of the +guns, and could not (as others) be got out, but staid there; for which he +will be tried; and is reckoned a prating coxcombe, and of no courage. + + + +17th. My wife come to bed about one in the morning. I up and abroad +about Tangier business, then back to the office, where we sat, and at +noon home to dinner, and then abroad to Mr. Povy's, after I and Mr. +Andrews had been with Mr. Ball and one Major Strange, who looks after the +getting of money for tallys and is helping Mr. Andrews. I had much +discourse with Ball, and it may be he may prove a necessary man for our +turns. With Mr. Povy I spoke very freely my indifference as to my place +of Treasurer, being so much troubled in it, which he took with much +seeming trouble, that I should think of letting go so lightly the place, +but if the place can't be held I will. So hearing that my Lord Treasurer +was gone out of town with his family because of the sicknesse, I returned +home without staying there, and at the office find Sir W. Pen come home, +who looks very well; and I am gladder to see him than otherwise I should +be because of my hearing so well of him for his serviceablenesse in this +late great action. To the office late, and then home to bed. It struck +me very deep this afternoon going with a hackney coach from my Lord +Treasurer's down Holborne, the coachman I found to drive easily and +easily, at last stood still, and come down hardly able to stand, and told +me that he was suddenly struck very sicke, and almost blind, he could not +see; so I 'light and went into another coach, with a sad heart for the +poor man and trouble for myself, lest he should have been struck with the +plague, being at the end of the towne that I took him up; but God have +mercy upon us all! Sir John Lawson, I hear, is worse than yesterday: the +King went to see him to-day most kindly. It seems his wound is not very +bad; but he hath a fever, a thrush, and a hickup, all three together, +which are, it seems, very bad symptoms. + + + +18th (Lord's day). Up, and to church, where Sir W. Pen was the first +time [since he] come from sea, after the battle. Mr. Mills made a sorry +sermon to prove that there was a world to come after this. Home and +dined and then to my chamber, where all the afternoon. Anon comes Mr. +Andrews to see and sing with me, but Mr. Hill not coming, and having +business, we soon parted, there coming Mr. Povy and Creed to discourse +about our Tangier business of money. They gone, I hear Sir W. Batten and +my Lady are returned from Harwich. I went to see them, and it is pretty +to see how we appear kind one to another, though neither of us care 2d. +one for another. Home to supper, and there coming a hasty letter from +Commissioner Pett for pressing of some calkers (as I would ever on his +Majesty's service), with all speed, I made a warrant presently and issued +it. So to my office a little, and then home to bed. + + + +19th. Up, and to White Hall with Sir W. Batten (calling at my Lord +Ashly's, but to no purpose, by the way, he being not up), and there had +our usual meeting before the Duke with the officers of the Ordnance with +us, which in some respects I think will be the better for us, for +despatch sake. Thence home to the 'Change and dined alone (my wife gone +to her mother's), after dinner to my little new goldsmith's, + + [John Colvill of Lombard Street, see ante, May 24th. He lost + L85,832 17s. 2d. by the closing of the Exchequer in 1672, and he + died between 1672 and 1677 (Price's "Handbook of London Bankers ").] + +whose wife indeed is one of the prettiest, modest black women that ever I +saw. I paid for a dozen of silver salts L6 14s. 6d. Thence with Sir W. +Pen from the office down to Greenwich to see Sir J. Lawson, who is +better, but continues ill; his hickupp not being yet gone, could have +little discourse with him. So thence home and to supper, a while to the +office, my head and mind mightily vexed to see the multitude of papers +and business before [me] and so little time to do it in. So to bed. + + + +20th. Thankes-giving-day for victory over ye Dutch. Up, and to the +office, where very busy alone all the morning till church time, and there +heard a mean sorry sermon of Mr. Mills. Then to the Dolphin Taverne, +where all we officers of the Navy met with the Commissioners of the +Ordnance by agreement, and dined: where good musique at my direction. +Our club--[share] + + ["Next these a sort of Sots there are, + Who crave more wine than they can bear, + Yet hate, when drunk, to pay or spend + Their equal Club or Dividend, + But wrangle, when the Bill is brought, + And think they're cheated when they're not." + + The Delights of the Bottle, or the Compleat Vintner, 3rd ed., 1721, + p. 29.] + +--come to 34s. a man, nine of us. Thence after dinner, to White Hall +with Sir W. Berkely in his coach, and so walked to Herbert's and there +spent a little time . . . . Thence by water to Fox-hall, and there +walked an hour alone, observing the several humours of the citizens that +were there this holyday, pulling of cherries,--[The game of bob-cherry]-- +and God knows what, and so home to my office, where late, my wife not +being come home with my mother, who have been this day all abroad upon +the water, my mother being to go out of town speedily. So I home and to +supper and to bed, my wife come home when I come from the office. This +day I informed myself that there died four or five at Westminster of the +plague in one alley in several houses upon Sunday last, Bell Alley, over +against the Palace-gate; yet people do think that the number will be +fewer in the towne than it was the last weeke! The Dutch are come out +again with 20 sail under Bankert; supposed gone to the Northward to meete +their East India fleete. + + + +21st. Up, and very busy all the morning. At noon with Creed to the +Excise Office, where I find our tallys will not be money in less than +sixteen months, which is a sad thing for the King to pay all that +interest for every penny he spends; and, which is strange, the goldsmiths +with whom I spoke, do declare that they will not be moved to part with +money upon the increase of their consideration of ten per cent. which +they have, and therefore desire I would not move in it, and indeed the +consequence would be very ill to the King, and have its ill consequences +follow us through all the King's revenue. Home, and my uncle Wight and +aunt James dined with me, my mother being to go away to-morrow. So to +White Hall, and there before and after Council discoursed with Sir Thomas +Ingram about our ill case as to Tangier for money. He hath got the King +to appoint a meeting on Friday, which I hope will put an end one way or +other to my pain. So homewards and to the Cross Keys at Cripplegate, +where I find all the towne almost going out of towne, the coaches and +waggons being all full of people going into the country. Here I had some +of the company of the tapster's wife a while, and so home to my office, +and then home to supper and to bed. + + + +22nd. Up pretty betimes, and in great pain whether to send my another +into the country to-day or no, I hearing, by my people, that she, poor +wretch, hath a mind to stay a little longer, and I cannot blame her, +considering what a life she will through her own folly lead when she +comes home again, unlike the pleasure and liberty she hath had here. At +last I resolved to put it to her, and she agreed to go, so I would not +oppose it, because of the sicknesse in the towne, and my intentions of +removing my wife. So I did give her money and took a kind leave of her, +she, poor wretch, desiring that I would forgive my brother John, but I +refused it to her, which troubled her, poor soul, but I did it in kind +words and so let the discourse go off, she leaving me though in a great +deal of sorrow. So I to my office and left my wife and people to see her +out of town, and I at the office all the morning. At noon my wife tells +me that she is with much ado gone, and I pray God bless her, but it seems +she was to the last unwilling to go, but would not say so, but put it off +till she lost her place in the coach, and was fain to ride in the waggon +part. After dinner to the office again till night, very busy, and so +home not very late to supper and to bed. + + + +23rd. Up and to White Hall to a Committee for Tangier, where his Royal +Highness was. Our great design was to state to them the true condition +of this Committee for want of money, the want whereof was so great as to +need some sudden help, and it was with some content resolved to see it +supplied and means proposed towards the doing of it. At this Committee, +unknown to me, comes my Lord of Sandwich, who, it seems, come to towne +last night. After the Committee was up, my Lord Sandwich did take me +aside, and we walked an hour alone together in the robe-chamber, the door +shut, telling me how much the Duke and Mr. Coventry did, both in the +fleete and here, make of him, and that in some opposition to the Prince; +and as a more private message, he told me that he hath been with them +both when they have made sport of the Prince and laughed at him: yet that +all the discourse of the towne, and the printed relation, should not give +him one word of honour my Lord thinks mighty strange; he assuring me, +that though by accident the Prince was in the van the beginning of the +fight for the first pass, yet all the rest of the day my Lord was in the +van, and continued so. That notwithstanding all this noise of the +Prince, he had hardly a shot in his side nor a man killed, whereas he +hath above 30 in her hull, and not one mast whole nor yard; but the most +battered ship of the fleet, and lost most men, saving Captain Smith of +"The Mary." That the most the Duke did was almost out of gun-shot; but +that, indeed, the Duke did come up to my Lord's rescue after he had a +great while fought with four of them. How poorly Sir John Lawson +performed, notwithstanding all that was said of him; and how his ship +turned out of the way, while Sir J. Lawson himself was upon the deck, to +the endangering of the whole fleete. It therefore troubles my Lord that +Mr. Coventry should not mention a word of him in his relation. I did, in +answer, offer that I was sure the relation was not compiled by Mr. +Coventry, but by L'Estrange, out of several letters, as I could witness; +and that Mr. Coventry's letter that he did give the Duke of Albemarle did +give him as much right as the Prince, for I myself read it first and then +copied it out, which I promised to show my Lord, with which he was +somewhat satisfied. From that discourse my Lord did begin to tell me how +much he was concerned to dispose of his children, and would have my +advice and help; and propounded to match my Lady Jemimah to Sir G. +Carteret's eldest son, which I approved of, and did undertake the +speaking with him about it as from myself, which my Lord liked. So +parted, with my head full of care about this business. Thence home to +the 'Change, and so to dinner, and thence by coach to Mr. Povy's. Thence +by appointment with him and Creed to one Mr. Finch; one of the +Commissioners for the Excise, to be informed about some things of the +Excise, in order to our settling matters therein better for us for our +Tangier business. I find him a very discreet, grave person. Thence well +satisfied I and Creed to Mr. Fox at White Hall to speak with him about +the same matter, and having some pretty satisfaction from him also, he +and I took boat and to Fox Hall, where we spent two or three hours +talking of several matters very soberly and contentfully to me, which, +with the ayre and pleasure of the garden, was a great refreshment to me, +and, 'methinks, that which we ought to joy ourselves in. Thence back to +White Hall, where we parted, and I to find my Lord to receive his farther +direction about his proposal this morning. Wherein I did that I should +first by another hand break my intentions to Sir G. Carteret. I pitched +upon Dr. Clerke, which my Lord liked, and so I endeavoured but in vain to +find him out to-night. So home by hackney-coach, which is become a very +dangerous passage now-a-days, the sickness increasing mightily, and to +bed. + + + +24th (Midsummer-day). Up very betimes, by six, and at Dr. Clerke's at +Westminster by 7 of the clock, having over night by a note acquainted him +with my intention of coming, and there I, in the best manner I could, +broke my errand about a match between Sir G. Carteret's eldest son and my +Lord Sandwich's eldest daughter, which he (as I knew he would) took with +great content: and we both agreed that my Lord and he, being both men +relating to the sea, under a kind aspect of His Majesty, already good +friends, and both virtuous and good familys, their allyance might be of +good use to us; and he did undertake to find out Sir George this morning, +and put the business in execution. So being both well pleased with the +proposition, I saw his niece there and made her sing me two or three +songs very prettily, and so home to the office, where to my great trouble +I found Mr. Coventry and the board met before I come. I excused my late +coming by having been on the River about office business. So to business +all the morning. At noon Captain Ferrers and Mr. Moore dined with me, +the former of them the first time I saw him since his corning from sea, +who do give me the best conversation in general, and as good an account +of the particular service of the Prince and my Lord of Sandwich in the +late sea-fight that I could desire. After dinner they parted. So I to +White Hall, where I with Creed and Povy attended my Lord Treasurer, and +did prevail with him to let us have an assignment for 15 or L20,000, +which, I hope, will do our business for Tangier. So to Dr. Clerke, and +there found that he had broke the business to Sir G. Carteret, and that +he takes the thing mighty well. Thence I to Sir G. Carteret at his +chamber, and in the best manner I could, and most obligingly, moved the +business: he received it with great respect and content, and thanks to +me, and promised that he would do what he could possibly for his son, to +render him fit for my Lord's daughter, and shewed great kindness to me, +and sense of my kindness to him herein. Sir William Pen told me this day +that Mr. Coventry is to be sworn a Privy Counsellor, at which my soul is +glad. So home and to my letters by the post, and so home to supper and +bed. + + + +25th (Lord's day). Up, and several people about business come to me by +appointment relating to the office. Thence I to my closet about my +Tangier papers. At noon dined, and then I abroad by water, it raining +hard, thinking to have gone down to Woolwich, but I did not, but back +through bridge to White Hall, where, after I had again visited Sir G. +Carteret, and received his (and now his Lady's) full content in my +proposal, I went to my Lord Sandwich, and having told him how Sir G. +Carteret received it, he did direct me to return to Sir G. Carteret, and +give him thanks for his kind reception of this offer, and that he would +the next day be willing to enter discourse with him about the business. +Which message I did presently do, and so left the business with great joy +to both sides. My Lord, I perceive, intends to give L5000 with her, and +expects about L800 per annum joynture. So by water home and to supper +and bed, being weary with long walking at Court, but had a Psalm or two +with my boy and Mercer before bed, which pleased me mightily. This night +Sir G. Carteret told me with great kindnesse that the order of the +Council did run for the making of Hater and Whitfield incapable of any +serving the King again, but that he had stopped the entry of it, which he +told me with great kindnesse, but the thing troubles me. After dinner, +before I went to White Hall, I went down to Greenwich by water, thinking +to have visited Sir J. Lawson, where, when I come, I find that he is +dead, and died this morning, at which I was much surprized; and indeed +the nation hath a great loss; though I cannot, without dissembling, say +that I am sorry for it, for he was a man never kind to me at all. Being +at White Hall, I visited Mr. Coventry, who, among other talk, entered +about the great question now in the House about the Duke's going to sea +again; about which the whole House is divided. He did concur with me +that, for the Duke's honour and safety, it were best, after so great a +service and victory and danger, not to go again; and, above all, that the +life of the Duke cannot but be a security to the Crowne; if he were away, +it being more easy to attempt anything upon the King; but how the fleete +will be governed without him, the Prince--[Rupert]--being a man of no +government and severe in council, that no ordinary man can offer any +advice against his; saying truly that it had been better he had gone to +Guinny, and that were he away, it were easy to say how matters might be +ordered, my Lord Sandwich being a man of temper and judgment as much as +any man he ever knew, and that upon good observation he said this, and +that his temper must correct the Prince's. But I perceive he is much +troubled what will be the event of the question. And so I left him. + + + +26th. Up and to White Hall with Sir J. Minnes, and to the Committee of +Tangier, where my Lord Treasurer was, the first and only time he ever was +there, and did promise us L15,000 for Tangier and no more, which will be +short. But if I can pay Mr. Andrews all his money I care for no more, +and the bills of Exchange. Thence with Mr. Povy and Creed below to a new +chamber of Mr. Povy's, very pretty, and there discourse about his +business, not to his content, but with the most advantage I could to him, +and Creed also did the like. Thence with Creed to the King's Head, and +there dined with him at the ordinary, and good sport with one Mr. +Nicholls, a prating coxcombe, that would be thought a poet, but would not +be got to repeat any of his verses. Thence I home, and there find my +wife's brother and his wife, a pretty little modest woman, where they +dined with my wife. He did come to desire my assistance for a living, +and, upon his good promises of care, and that it should be no burden to +me, I did say and promise I would think of finding something for him, and +the rather because his wife seems a pretty discreet young thing, and +humble, and he, above all things, desirous to do something to maintain +her, telling me sad stories of what she endured with him in Holland, and +I hope it will not be burdensome. So down by water to Woolwich, walking +to and again from Greenwich thither and back again, my business being to +speak again with Sheldon, who desires and expects my wife coming thither +to spend the summer, and upon second thoughts I do agree that it will be +a good place for her and me too. So, weary, home, and to my office a +while, till almost midnight, and so to bed. The plague encreases +mightily, I this day seeing a house, at a bitt-maker's over against St. +Clement's Church, in the open street, shut up; which is a sad sight. + + + +27th. Up and to the office, where all the morning. At noon dined by +chance at my Lady Batten's, and they sent for my wife, and there was my +Lady Pen and Pegg. Very merry, and so I to my office again, where till +12 o'clock at night, and so home to supper and to bed. + + + +28th. Sir J. Minnes carried me and my wife to White Hall, and thence his +coach along with my wife where she would. There after attending the Duke +to discourse of the navy. We did not kiss his hand, nor do I think, for +all their pretence, of going away to-morrow. Yet I believe they will not +go for good and all, but I did take my leave of Sir William Coventry, +who, it seems, was knighted and sworn a Privy-Counsellor two days since; +who with his old kindness treated me, and I believe I shall ever find +[him] a noble friend. Thence by water to Blackfriars, and so to Paul's +churchyard and bespoke severall books, and so home and there dined, my +man William giving me a lobster sent him by my old maid Sarah. This +morning I met with Sir G. Carteret, who tells me how all things proceed +between my Lord Sandwich and himself to full content, and both sides +depend upon having the match finished presently, and professed great +kindnesse to me, and said that now we were something akin. I am +mightily, both with respect to myself and much more of my Lord's family, +glad of this alliance. After dinner to White Hall, thinking to speak +with my Lord Ashly, but failed, and I whiled away some time in +Westminster Hall against he did come, in my way observing several plague +houses in King's Street and [near] the Palace. Here I hear Mrs. Martin +is gone out of town, and that her husband, an idle fellow, is since come +out of France, as he pretends, but I believe not that he hath been. I +was fearful of going to any house, but I did to the Swan, and thence to +White Hall, giving the waterman a shilling, because a young fellow and +belonging to the Plymouth. Thence by coach to several places, and so +home, and all the evening with Sir J. Minnes and all the women of the +house (excepting my Lady Batten) late in the garden chatting. At 12 +o'clock home to supper and to bed. My Lord Sandwich is gone towards the +sea to-day, it being a sudden resolution, I having taken no leave of him. + + + +29th. Up and by water to White Hall, where the Court full of waggons and +people ready to go out of towne. To the Harp and Ball, and there drank +and talked with Mary, she telling me in discourse that she lived lately +at my neighbour's, Mr. Knightly, which made me forbear further discourse. +This end of the towne every day grows very bad of the plague. The +Mortality Bill is come to 267; + + [According to the Bills of Mortality, the total number of deaths in + London for the week ending June 27th was 684, of which number 267 + were deaths from the plague. The number of deaths rose week by week + until September 19th, when the total was 8,297, and the deaths from + the plague 7,165. On September 26th the total had fallen to 6,460, + and deaths from the plague to 5,533 The number fell gradually, week + by week, till October 31st, when the total was 1,388, and deaths + from the plague 1,031. On November 7th there was a rise to 1,787 + and 1,414 respectively. On November 14th the numbers had gone down + to 1,359 and 1,050 respectively. On December 12th the total had + fallen to 442, and deaths from the plague to 243. On December 19th + there was a rise to 525 and 281 respectively. The total of burials + in 1665 was 97,506, of which number the plague claimed 68,596 + victims.] + +which is about ninety more than the last: and of these but four in the +City, which is a great blessing to us. Thence to Creed, and with him up +and down about Tangier business, to no purpose. Took leave again of Mr. +Coventry; though I hope the Duke has not gone to stay, and so do others +too. So home, calling at Somersett House, where all are packing up too: +the Queene-Mother setting out for France this day to drink Bourbon waters +this year, she being in a consumption; and intends not to come till +winter come twelvemonths. + + [The Queen-Mother never came to England again. She retired to her + chateau at Colombes, near Paris, where she died in August, 1669, + after a long illness; the immediate cause of her death being an + opiate ordered by her physicians. She was buried, September 12th, + in the church of St. Denis. Her funeral sermon was preached by + Bossuet. Sir John Reresby speaks of Queen Henrietta Maria in high + terms. He says that in the winter, 1659-60, although the Court of + France was very splendid, there was a greater resort to the Palais + Royal, "the good humour and wit of our Queen Mother, and the beauty + of the Princess [Henrietta] her daughter, giving greater invitation + than the more particular humour of the French Queen, being a + Spaniard." In another place he says: "Her majesty had a great + affection for England, notwithstanding the severe usage she and hers + had received from it. Her discourse was much with the great men and + ladies of France in praise of the people and of the country; of + their courage, generosity, good nature; and would excuse all their + miscarriages in relation to unfortunate effects of the late war, as + if it were a convulsion of some desperate and infatuated persons, + rather than from the genius and temper of the kingdom" ("Memoirs of + Sir John Reresby," ed. Cartwright, pp. 43, 45).] + +So by coach home, where at the office all the morning, and at noon Mrs. +Hunt dined with us. Very merry, and she a very good woman. To the +office, where busy a while putting some things in my office in order, and +then to letters till night. About 10 a'clock home, the days being +sensibly shorter before I have once kept a summer's day by shutting up +office by daylight; but my life hath been still as it was in winter +almost. But I will for a month try what I can do by daylight. So home +to supper and to bed. + + + +30th. Up and to White Hall, to the Duke of Albemarle, who I find at +Secretary Bennet's, there being now no other great Statesman, I think, +but my Lord Chancellor, in towne. I received several commands from them; +among others, to provide some bread and cheese for the garrison at +Guernsey, which they promised to see me paid for. So to the 'Change, and +home to dinner. In the afternoon I down to Woolwich and after me my wife +and Mercer, whom I led to Mr. Sheldon's to see his house, and I find it a +very pretty place for them to be at. So I back again, walking both +forward and backward, and left my wife to come by water. I straight to +White Hall, late, to Secretary Bennet's to give him an account of the +business I received from him to-day, and there staid weary and sleepy +till past 12 at night. Then writ my mind to him, and so back by water +and in the dark and against tide shot the bridge, groping with their pole +for the way, which troubled me before I got through. So home, about one +or two o'clock in the morning, my family at a great losse what was become +of me. To supper, and to bed. Thus this book of two years ends. Myself +and family in good health, consisting of myself and wife, Mercer, her +woman, Mary, Alice, and Susan our maids, and Tom my boy. In a sickly +time of the plague growing on. Having upon my hands the troublesome care +of the Treasury of Tangier, with great sums drawn upon me, and nothing to +pay them with: also the business of the office great. Consideration of +removing my wife to Woolwich; she lately busy in learning to paint, with +great pleasure and successe. All other things well; especially a new +interest I am making, by a match in hand between the eldest son of Sir G. +Carteret, and my Lady Jemimah Montage. The Duke of Yorke gone down to +the fleete, but all suppose not with intent to stay there, as it is not +fit, all men conceive, he should. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +A vineyard, the first that ever I did see +All the towne almost going out of towne (Plague panic) +Buy some roll-tobacco to smell to and chaw +Consult my pillow upon that and every great thing of my life +Convenience of periwiggs is so great +Dying this last week of the plague 112, from 43 the week before +Hear that the plague is come into the City +Houses marked with a red cross upon the doors +My old folly and childishnesse hangs upon me still +Plague claimed 68,596 victims (in 1665) +Pride of some persons and vice of most was but a sad story +The coachman that carried [us] cannot know me again +Though neither of us care 2d. one for another +Which may teach me how I make others wait + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v40 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + diff --git a/old/sp41g10.zip b/old/sp41g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..90e63d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp41g10.zip |