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WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + JULY + 1665 + + +July 1st, 1665. Called up betimes, though weary and sleepy, by +appointment by Mr. Povy and Colonell Norwood to discourse about some +payments of Tangier. They gone, I to the office and there sat all the +morning. At noon dined at home, and then to the Duke of Albemarle's, by +appointment, to give him an account of some disorder in the Yarde at +Portsmouth, by workmen's going away of their owne accord, for lacke of +money, to get work of hay-making, or any thing else to earne themselves +bread. + + [There are several letters among the State Papers from Commissioner + Thomas Middleton relating to the want of workmen at Portsmouth + Dockyard. On June 29th Middleton wrote to Pepys, "The ropemakers + have discharged themselves for want of money, and gone into the + country to make hay." The blockmakers, the joiners, and the sawyers + all refused to work longer without money ("Calendar," 1664-65, p. + 453).] + +Thence to Westminster, where I hear the sicknesse encreases greatly, and +to the Harp and Ball with Mary talking, who tells me simply her losing of +her first love in the country in Wales, and coming up hither unknown to +her friends, and it seems Dr. Williams do pretend love to her, and I have +found him there several times. Thence by coach and late at the office, +and so to bed. Sad at the newes that seven or eight houses in Bazing +Hall street, are shut up of the plague. + + + +2nd (Sunday). Up, and all the morning dressing my closet at the office +with my plates, very neatly, and a fine place now it is, and will be a +pleasure to sit in, though I thank God I needed none before. At noon +dined at home, and after dinner to my accounts and cast them up, and find +that though I have spent above L90 this month yet I have saved L17, and +am worth in all above L1450, for which the Lord be praised! In the +evening my Lady Pen and daughter come to see, and supped with us, then a +messenger about business of the office from Sir G. Carteret at Chatham, +and by word of mouth did send me word that the business between my Lord +and him is fully agreed on, + + [The arrangements for the marriage of Lady Jemimah Montagu to Philip + Carteret were soon settled, for the wedding took place on July 31st] + +and is mightily liked of by the King and the Duke of Yorke, and that he +sent me this word with great joy; they gone, we to bed. I hear this +night that Sir J. Lawson was buried late last night at St. Dunstan's by +us, without any company at all, and that the condition of his family is +but very poor, which I could be contented to be sorry for, though he +never was the man that ever obliged me by word or deed. + + + +3rd. Up and by water with Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes to White Hall +to the Duke of Albemarle, where, after a little business, we parted, and +I to the Harp and Ball, and there staid a while talking to Mary, and so +home to dinner. After dinner to the Duke of Albemarle's again, and so to +the Swan, and there 'demeurais un peu'de temps con la fille', and so to +the Harp and Ball, and alone 'demeurais un peu de temps baisant la', and +so away home and late at the office about letters, and so home, resolving +from this night forwards to close all my letters, if possible, and end +all my business at the office by daylight, and I shall go near to do it +and put all my affairs in the world in good order, the season growing so +sickly, that it is much to be feared how a man can escape having a share +with others in it, for which the good Lord God bless me, or to be fitted +to receive it. So after supper to bed, and mightily troubled in my sleep +all night with dreams of Jacke Cole, my old schoolfellow, lately dead, +who was born at the same time with me, and we reckoned our fortunes +pretty equal. God fit me for his condition! + + + +4th. Up, and sat at the office all the morning. At noon to the 'Change +and thence to the Dolphin, where a good dinner at the cost of one Mr. +Osbaston, who lost a wager to Sir W. Batten, Sir W. Rider, and Sir R. +Ford, a good while since and now it is spent. The wager was that ten of +our ships should not have a fight with ten of the enemy's before +Michaelmas. Here was other very good company, and merry, and at last in +come Mr. Buckeworth, a very fine gentleman, and proves to be a +Huntingdonshire man. Thence to my office and there all the afternoon +till night, and so home to settle some accounts of Tangier and other +papers. I hear this day the Duke and Prince Rupert are both come back +from sea, and neither of them go back again. The latter I much wonder +at, but it seems the towne reports so, and I am very glad of it. This +morning I did a good piece of work with Sir W. Warren, ending the +business of the lotterys, wherein honestly I think I shall get above +L100. Bankert, it seems, is come home with the little fleete he hath +been abroad with, without doing any thing, so that there is nobody of an +enemy at sea. We are in great hopes of meeting with the Dutch East India +fleete, which is mighty rich, or with De Ruyter, who is so also. Sir +Richard Ford told me this day, at table, a fine account, how the Dutch +were like to have been mastered by the present Prince of Orange + + [The period alluded to is 1650, when the States-General disbanded + part of the forces which the Prince of Orange (William) wished to + retain. The prince attempted, but unsuccessfully, to possess + himself of Amsterdam. In the same year he died, at the early age of + twenty-four; some say of the small-pox; others, with Sir Richard + Ford, say of poison.--B.] + +his father to be besieged in Amsterdam, having drawn an army of foot into +the towne, and horse near to the towne by night, within three miles of +the towne, and they never knew of it; but by chance the Hamburgh post in +the night fell among the horse, and heard their design, and knowing the +way, it being very dark and rainy, better than they, went from them, and +did give notice to the towne before the others could reach the towne, and +so were saved. It seems this De Witt and another family, the Beckarts, +were among the chief of the familys that were enemys to the Prince, and +were afterwards suppressed by the Prince, and continued so till he was, +as they say, poysoned; and then they turned all again, as it was, against +the young Prince, and have so carried it to this day, it being about 12 +and 14 years, and De Witt in the head of them. + + + +5th. Up, and advised about sending of my wife's bedding and things to +Woolwich, in order to her removal thither. So to the office, where all +the morning till noon, and so to the 'Change, and thence home to dinner. +In the afternoon I abroad to St. James's, and there with Mr. Coventry a +good while, and understand how matters are ordered in the fleete: that +is, my Lord Sandwich goes Admiral; under him Sir G. Ascue, and Sir T. +Teddiman; Vice-Admiral, Sir W. Pen; and under him Sir W. Barkeley, and +Sir Jos. Jordan: Reere-Admiral, Sir Thomas Allen; and under him Sir +Christopher Mings, + + [The son of a shoemaker, bred to the sea-service; he rose to the + rank of an admiral, and was killed in the fight with the Dutch, + June, 1666.--B. See post, June 10th, 1666.] + +and Captain Harman. We talked in general of business of the Navy, among +others how he had lately spoken to Sir G. Carteret, and professed great +resolution of friendship with him and reconciliation, and resolves to +make it good as well as he can, though it troubles him, he tells me, that +something will come before him wherein he must give him offence, but I do +find upon the whole that Mr. Coventry do not listen to these complaints +of money with the readiness and resolvedness to remedy that he used to +do, and I think if he begins to draw in it is high time for me to do so +too. From thence walked round to White Hall, the Parke being quite +locked up; and I observed a house shut up this day in the Pell Mell, +where heretofore in Cromwell's time we young men used to keep our weekly +clubs. And so to White Hall to Sir G. Carteret, who is come this day +from Chatham, and mighty glad he is to see me, and begun to talk of our +great business of the match, which goes on as fast as possible, but for +convenience we took water and over to his coach to Lambeth, by which we +went to Deptford, all the way talking, first, how matters are quite +concluded with all possible content between my Lord and him and signed +and sealed, so that my Lady Sandwich is to come thither to-morrow or next +day, and the young lady is sent for, and all likely to be ended between +them in a very little while, with mighty joy on both sides, and the King, +Duke, Lord Chancellor, and all mightily pleased. Thence to newes, +wherein I find that Sir G. Carteret do now take all my Lord Sandwich's +business to heart, and makes it the same with his owne. He tells me how +at Chatham it was proposed to my Lord Sandwich to be joined with the +Prince in the command of the fleete, which he was most willing to; but +when it come to the Prince, he was quite against it; saying, there could +be no government, but that it would be better to have two fleetes, and +neither under the command of the other, which he would not agree to. So +the King was not pleased; but, without any unkindnesse, did order the +fleete to be ordered as above, as to the Admirals and commands: so the +Prince is come up; and Sir G. Carteret, I remember, had this word thence, +that, says he, by this means, though the King told him that it would be +but for this expedition, yet I believe we shall keepe him out for +altogether. He tells me how my Lord was much troubled at Sir W. Pen's +being ordered forth (as it seems he is, to go to Solebay, and with the +best fleete he can, to go forth), and no notice taken of my Lord Sandwich +going after him, and having the command over him. But after some +discourse Mr. Coventry did satisfy, as he says, my Lord, so as they +parted friends both in that point and upon the other wherein I know my +Lord was troubled, and which Mr. Coventry did speak to him of first +thinking that my Lord might justly take offence at, his not being +mentioned in the relation of the fight in the news book, and did clear +all to my Lord how little he was concerned in it, and therewith my Lord +also satisfied, which I am mightily glad of, because I should take it a +very great misfortune to me to have them two to differ above all the +persons in the world. Being come to Deptford, my Lady not being within, +we parted, and I by water to Woolwich, where I found my wife come, and +her two mayds, and very prettily accommodated they will be; and I left +them going to supper, grieved in my heart to part with my wife, being +worse by much without her, though some trouble there is in having the +care of a family at home in this plague time, and so took leave, and I in +one boat and W. Hewer in another home very late, first against tide, we +having walked in the dark to Greenwich. Late home and to bed, very +lonely. + + + +6th. Up and forth to give order to my pretty grocer's wife's house, who, +her husband tells me, is going this day for the summer into the country. +I bespoke some sugar, &c., for my father, and so home to the office, +where all the morning. At noon dined at home, and then by water to White +Hall to Sir G. Carteret about money for the office, a sad thought, for in +a little while all must go to wracke, winter coming on apace, when a +great sum must be ready to pay part of the fleete, and so far we are from +it that we have not enough to stop the mouths of poor people and their +hands from falling about our eares here almost in the office. God give a +good end to it! Sir G. Carteret told me one considerable thing: Alderman +Backewell is ordered abroad upon some private score with a great sum of +money; wherein I was instrumental the other day in shipping him away. It +seems some of his creditors have taken notice of it, and he was like to +be broke yesterday in his absence; Sir G. Carteret telling me that the +King and the kingdom must as good as fall with that man at this time; and +that he was forced to get L4000 himself to answer Backewell's people's +occasions, or he must have broke; but committed this to me as a great +secret and which I am heartily sorry to hear. Thence, after a little +merry discourse of our marrying business, I parted, and by coach to +several places, among others to see my Lord Brunkerd, who is not well, +but was at rest when I come. I could not see him, nor had much mind, one +of the great houses within two doors of him being shut up: and, Lord! +the number of houses visited, which this day I observed through the town +quite round in my way by Long Lane and London Wall. So home to the +office, and thence to Sir W. Batten, and spent the evening at supper; +and, among other discourse, the rashness of Sir John Lawson, for breeding +up his daughter so high and proud, refusing a man of great interest, Sir +W. Barkeley, to match her with a melancholy fellow, Colonell Norton's' +son, of no interest nor good nature nor generosity at all, giving her +L6000, when the other would have taken her with two; when he himself knew +that he was not worth the money himself in all the world, he did give her +that portion, and is since dead, and left his wife and two daughters +beggars, and the other gone away with L6000, and no content in it, +through the ill qualities of her father-in-law and husband, who, it +seems, though a pretty woman, contracted for her as if he had been buying +a horse; and, worst of all, is now of no use to serve the mother and two +little sisters in any stead at Court, whereas the other might have done +what he would for her: so here is an end of this family's pride, which, +with good care, might have been what they would, and done well. Thence, +weary of this discourse, as the act of the greatest rashness that ever I +heard of in all my little conversation, we parted, and I home to bed. +Sir W. Pen, it seems, sailed last night from Solebay with, about sixty +sail of ship, and my Lord Sandwich in "The Prince" and some others, it +seems, going after them to overtake them, for I am sure my Lord Sandwich +will do all possible to overtake them, and will be troubled to the heart +if he do it not. + + + +7th. Up, and having set my neighbour, Mr. Hudson, wine coopers, at work +drawing out a tierce of wine for the sending of some of it to my wife, +I abroad, only taking notice to what a condition it hath pleased God to +bring me that at this time I have two tierces of Claret, two quarter +casks of Canary, and a smaller vessel of Sack; a vessel of Tent, another +of Malaga, and another of white wine, all in my wine cellar together; +which, I believe, none of my friends of my name now alive ever had of his +owne at one time. To Westminster, and there with Mr. Povy and Creed +talking of our Tangier business, and by and by I drew Creed aside and +acquainted him with what Sir G. Carteret did tell me about Backewell the +other day, because he hath money of his in his hands. So home, taking +some new books, L5 worth, home to my great content. At home all the day +after busy. Some excellent discourse and advice of Sir W. Warren's in +the afternoon, at night home to look over my new books, and so late to +bed. + + + +8th. All day very diligent at the office, ended my letters by 9 at +night, and then fitted myself to go down to Woolwich to my wife, which I +did, calling at Sir G. Carteret's at Deptford, and there hear that my +Lady Sandwich is come, but not very well. By 12 o'clock to Woolwich, +found my wife asleep in bed, but strange to think what a fine night I had +down, but before I had been one minute on shore, the mightiest storm come +of wind and rain that almost could be for a quarter of an houre and so +left. I to bed, being the first time I come to her lodgings, and there +lodged well. + + + +9th (Lord's day). Very pleasant with her and among my people, while she +made her ready, and, about 10 o'clock, by water to Sir G. Carteret, and +there find my Lady [Sandwich] in her chamber, not very well, but looks +the worst almost that ever I did see her in my life. It seems her +drinking of the water at Tunbridge did almost kill her before she could +with most violent physique get it out of her body again. We are received +with most extraordinary kindnesse by my Lady Carteret and her children, +and dined most nobly. Sir G. Carteret went to Court this morning. After +dinner I took occasion to have much discourse with Mr. Ph. Carteret, and +find him a very modest man; and I think verily of mighty good nature, and +pretty understanding. He did give me a good account of the fight with +the Dutch. My Lady Sandwich dined in her chamber. About three o'clock +I, leaving my wife there, took boat and home, and there shifted myself +into my black silke suit, and having promised Harman yesterday, I to his +house, which I find very mean, and mean company. His wife very ill; I +could not see her. Here I, with her father and Kate Joyce, who was also +very ill, were godfathers and godmother to his boy, and was christened +Will. Mr. Meriton christened him. The most observable thing I found +there to my content, was to hear him and his clerk tell me that in this +parish of Michell's, Cornhill, one of the middlemost parishes and a great +one of the towne, there hath, notwithstanding this sickliness, been +buried of any disease, man, woman, or child, not one for thirteen months +last past; which [is] very strange. And the like in a good degree in +most other parishes, I hear, saving only of the plague in them, but in +this neither the plague nor any other disease. So back again home and +reshifted myself, and so down to my Lady Carteret's, where mighty merry +and great pleasantnesse between my Lady Sandwich and the young ladies and +me, and all of us mighty merry, there never having been in the world sure +a greater business of general content than this match proposed between +Mr. Carteret and my Lady Jemimah. But withal it is mighty pretty to +think how my poor Lady Sandwich, between her and me, is doubtfull whether +her daughter will like of it or no, and how troubled she is for fear of +it, which I do not fear at all, and desire her not to do it, but her fear +is the most discreet and pretty that ever I did see. Late here, and then +my wife and I, with most hearty kindnesse from my Lady Carteret by boat +to Woolwich, come thither about 12 at night, and so to bed. + + + +10th. Up, and with great pleasure looking over a nest of puppies of Mr. +Shelden's, with which my wife is most extraordinary pleased, and one of +them is promised her. Anon I took my leave, and away by water to the +Duke of Albemarle's, where he tells me that I must be at Hampton Court +anon. So I home to look over my Tangier papers, and having a coach of +Mr. Povy's attending me, by appointment, in order to my coming to dine at +his country house at Brainford, where he and his family is, I went and +Mr. Tasbrough with me therein, it being a pretty chariot, but most +inconvenient as to the horses throwing dust and dirt into one's eyes and +upon one's clothes. There I staid a quarter of an houre, Creed being +there, and being able to do little business (but the less the better). +Creed rode before, and Mr. Povy and I after him in the chariot; and I was +set down by him at the Parke pale, where one of his saddle horses was +ready for me, he himself not daring to come into the house or be seen, +because that a servant of his, out of his horse, happened to be sicke, +but is not yet dead, but was never suffered to come into his house after +he was ill. But this opportunity was taken to injure Povy, and most +horribly he is abused by some persons hereupon, and his fortune, I +believe, quite broke; but that he hath a good heart to bear, or a cunning +one to conceal his evil. There I met with Sir W. Coventry, and by and by +was heard by my Lord Chancellor and Treasurer about our Tangier money, +and my Lord Treasurer had ordered me to forbear meddling with the L15,000 +he offered me the other day, but, upon opening the case to them, they did +offer it again, and so I think I shall have it, but my Lord General must +give his consent in it, this money having been promised to him, and he +very angry at the proposal. Here though I have not been in many years, +yet I lacke time to stay, besides that it is, I perceive, an unpleasing +thing to be at Court, everybody being fearful one of another, and all so +sad, enquiring after the plague, so that I stole away by my horse to +Kingston, and there with trouble was forced, to press two sturdy rogues +to carry me to London, and met at the waterside with Mr. Charnocke, Sir +Philip Warwicke's clerke, who had been in company and was quite foxed. +I took him with me in my boat, and so away to Richmond, and there, by +night, walked with him to Moreclacke, a very pretty walk, and there staid +a good while, now and then talking and sporting with Nan the servant, who +says she is a seaman's wife, and at last bade good night. + + + +11th. And so all night down by water, a most pleasant passage, and come +thither by two o'clock, and so walked from the Old Swan home, and there +to bed to my Will, being very weary, and he lodging at my desire in my +house. At 6 o'clock up and to Westminster (where and all the towne +besides, I hear, the plague encreases), and, it being too soon to go to +the Duke of Albemarle, I to the Harp and Ball, and there made a bargain +with Mary to go forth with me in the afternoon, which she with much ado +consented to. So I to the Duke of Albemarle's, and there with much ado +did get his consent in part to my having the money promised for Tangier, +and the other part did not concur. So being displeased with this, I back +to the office and there sat alone a while doing business, and then by a +solemn invitation to the Trinity House, where a great dinner and company, +Captain Dobbin's feast for Elder Brother. But I broke up before the +dinner half over and by water to the Harp and Ball, and thence had Mary +meet me at the New Exchange, and there took coach and I with great +pleasure took the ayre to Highgate, and thence to Hampstead, much pleased +with her company, pretty and innocent, and had what pleasure almost I +would with her, and so at night, weary and sweaty, it being very hot +beyond bearing, we back again, and I set her down in St. Martin's Lane, +and so I to the evening 'Change, and there hear all the towne full that +Ostend is delivered to us, and that Alderman Backewell + + [Among the State Papers is a letter from the king to the Lord + General (dated August 8th, 1665): "Alderman Backwell being in great + straits for the second payment he has to make for the service in + Flanders, as much tin is to be transmitted to him as will raise the + sum. Has authorized him and Sir George Carteret to treat with the + tin farmers for 500 tons of tin to be speedily transported under + good convoy; but if, on consulting with Alderman Backwell, this plan + of the tin seems insufficient, then without further difficulty he is + to dispose for that purpose of the L10,000 assigned for pay of the + Guards, not doubting that before that comes due, other ways will be + found for supplying it; the payment in Flanders is of such + importance that some means must be found of providing for it" + ("Calendar," Domestic, 1664-65, pp. 508, 509)] + +did go with L50,000 to that purpose. But the truth of it I do not know, +but something I believe there is extraordinary in his going. So to the +office, where I did what I could as to letters, and so away to bed, +shifting myself, and taking some Venice treakle, feeling myself out of +order, and thence to bed to sleep. + + + +12th. After doing what business I could in the morning, it being a +solemn fast-day + + ["A form of Common Prayer; together with an order for fasting for + the averting of God's heavy visitation upon many places of this + realm. The fast to be observed within the cities of London and + Westminster and places adjacent, on Wednesday the twelfth of this + instant July, and both there and in all parts of this realm on the + first Wednesday in every month during the visitation" ("Calendar of + State Papers," Domestic, 1664-65, p. 466).] + +for the plague growing upon us, I took boat and down to Deptford, where I +stood with great pleasure an houre or two by my Lady Sandwich's bedside, +talking to her (she lying prettily in bed) of my Lady Jemimah's being +from my Lady Pickering's when our letters come to that place; she being +at my Lord Montagu's, at Boughton. The truth is, I had received letters +of it two days ago, but had dropped them, and was in a very extraordinary +straite what to do for them, or what account to give my Lady, but sent to +every place; I sent to Moreclacke, where I had been the night before, and +there they were found, which with mighty joy come safe to me; but all +ending with satisfaction to my Lady and me, though I find my Lady +Carteret not much pleased with this delay, and principally because of the +plague, which renders it unsafe to stay long at Deptford. I eat a bit +(my Lady Carteret being the most kind lady in the world), and so took +boat, and a fresh boat at the Tower, and so up the river, against tide +all the way, I having lost it by staying prating to and with my Lady, +and, from before one, made it seven ere we got to Hampton Court; and when +I come there all business was over, saving my finding Mr. Coventry at his +chamber, and with him a good while about several businesses at his +chamber, and so took leave, and away to my boat, and all night upon the +water, staying a while with Nan at Moreclacke, very much pleased and +merry with her, and so on homeward, and come home by two o'clock, +shooting the bridge at that time of night, and so to bed, where I find +Will is not, he staying at Woolwich to come with my wife to dinner +tomorrow to my Lady Carteret's. Heard Mr. Williamson repeat at Hampton +Court to-day how the King of France hath lately set out a most high +arrest against the Pope, which is reckoned very lofty and high. + + [Arret. The rupture between Alexander VII. and Louis XIV. was + healed in 1664, by the treaty signed at Pisa, on February 12th. On + August 9th, the pope's nephew, Cardinal Chigi, made his entry into + Paris, as legate, to give the king satisfaction for the insult + offered at Rome by the Corsican guard to the Duc de Crequi, the + French ambassador; (see January 25th, 1662-63). Cardinal Imperiali, + Governor of Rome, asked pardon of the king in person, and all the + hard conditions of the treaty were fulfilled. But no arret against + the pope was set forth in 1665. On the contrary, Alexander, now + wishing to please the king, issued a constitution on February 2nd, + 1665, ordering all the clergy of France, without any exception, to + sign a formulary condemning the famous five propositions extracted + from the works of Jansenius; and on April 29th, the king in person + ordered the parliament to register the bull. The Jansenist party, + of course, demurred to this proceeding; the Bishops of Alais, + Angers, Beauvais, and Pamiers, issuing mandates calling upon their + clergy to refuse. It was against these mandates, as being contrary + to the king's declaration and the pope's intentions, that the arret + was directed.--B.] + + + +13th. Lay long, being sleepy, and then up to the office, my Lord Brunker +(after his sickness) being come to the office, and did what business +there was, and so I by water, at night late, to Sir G. Carteret's, but +there being no oars to carry me, I was fain to call a skuller that had a +gentleman already in it, and he proved a man of love to musique, and he +and I sung together the way down with great pleasure, and an incident +extraordinary to be met with. There come to dinner, they haveing dined, +but my Lady caused something to be brought for me, and I dined well and +mighty merry, especially my Lady Slaning and I about eating of creame and +brown bread, which she loves as much as I. Thence after long discourse +with them and my Lady alone, I and [my] wife, who by agreement met here, +took leave, and I saw my wife a little way down (it troubling me that +this absence makes us a little strange instead of more fond), and so +parted, and I home to some letters, and then home to bed. Above 700 died +of the plague this week. + + + +14th. Up, and all the morning at the Exchequer endeavouring to strike +tallys for money for Tangier, and mightily vexed to see how people attend +there, some out of towne, and others drowsy, and to others it was late, +so that the King's business suffers ten times more than all their service +is worth.--[All government's business have been and are yet conducted in +the same wasteful and desultory way. D.W.]--So I am put off to +to-morrow. Thence to the Old Exchange, by water, and there bespoke two +fine shirts of my pretty seamstress, who, she tells me, serves Jacke +Fenn. Upon the 'Change all the news is that guns have been heard and +that news is come by a Dane that my Lord was in view of De Ruyter, and +that since his parting from my Lord of Sandwich he hath heard guns, but +little of it do I think true. So home to dinner, where Povy by +agreement, and after dinner we to talk of our Tangier matters, about +keeping our profit at the pay and victualling of the garrison, if the +present undertakers should leave it, wherein I did [not] nor will do any +thing unworthy me and any just man, but they being resolved to quit it, +it is fit I should suffer Mr. Povy to do what he can with Mr. Gauden +about it to our profit. Thence to the discoursing of putting some sums +of money in order and tallys, which we did pretty well. So he in the +evening gone, I by water to Sir G. Carteret's, and there find my Lady +Sandwich and her buying things for my Lady Jem.'s wedding; and my Lady +Jem. is beyond expectation come to Dagenhams, where Mr. Carteret is to go +to visit her to-morrow; and my proposal of waiting on him, he being to go +alone to all persons strangers to him, was well accepted, and so I go +with him. But, Lord! to see how kind my Lady Carteret is to her! Sends +her most rich jewells, and provides bedding and things of all sorts most +richly for her, which makes my Lady and me out of our wits almost to see +the kindnesse she treats us all with, as if they would buy the young +lady. Thence away home and, foreseeing my being abroad two days, did sit +up late making of letters ready against tomorrow, and other things, and +so to bed, to be up betimes by the helpe of a larum watch, which by +chance I borrowed of my watchmaker to-day, while my owne is mending. + + + +15th. Up, and after all business done, though late, I to Deptford, but +before I went out of the office saw there young Bagwell's wife returned, +but could not stay to speak to her, though I had a great mind to it, and +also another great lady, as to fine clothes, did attend there to have a +ticket signed; which I did do, taking her through the garden to my +office, where I signed it and had a salute--[kiss]--of her, and so I away +by boat to Redriffe, and thence walked, and after dinner, at Sir +G. Carteret's, where they stayed till almost three o'clock for me, and +anon took boat, Mr. Carteret and I to the ferry-place at Greenwich, and +there staid an hour crossing the water to and again to get our coach and +horses over; and by and by set out, and so toward Dagenhams. But, Lord! +what silly discourse we had by the way as to love-matters, he being the +most awkerd man I ever met with in my life as to that business. Thither +we come, by that time it begun to be dark, and were kindly received by +Lady Wright and my Lord Crew. And to discourse they went, my Lord +discoursing with him, asking of him questions of travell, which he +answered well enough in a few words; but nothing to the lady from him at +all. To supper, and after supper to talk again, he yet taking no notice +of the lady. My Lord would have had me have consented to leaving the +young people together to-night, to begin their amours, his staying being +but to be little. But I advised against it, lest the lady might be too +much surprised. So they led him up to his chamber, where I staid a +little, to know how he liked the lady, which he told me he did mightily; +but, Lord! in the dullest insipid manner that ever lover did. So I bid +him good night, and down to prayers with my Lord Crew's family, and after +prayers, my Lord, and Lady Wright, and I, to consult what to do; and it +was agreed at last to have them go to church together, as the family used +to do, though his lameness was a great objection against it. But at last +my Lady Jem. sent me word by my Lady Wright that it would be better to do +just as they used to do before his coming; and therefore she desired to +go to church, which was yielded then to. + + + +16th (Lord's day). I up, having lain with Mr. Moore in the chaplin's +chamber. And having trimmed myself, down to Mr. Carteret; and he being +ready we down and walked in the gallery an hour or two, it being a most +noble and pretty house that ever, for the bigness, I saw. Here I taught +him what to do: to take the lady always by the hand to lead her, and +telling him that I would find opportunity to leave them two together, he +should make these and these compliments, and also take a time to do the +like to Lord Crew and Lady Wright. After I had instructed him, which he +thanked me for, owning that he needed my teaching him, my Lord Crew come +down and family, the young lady among the rest; and so by coaches to +church four miles off; where a pretty good sermon, and a declaration of +penitence of a man that had undergone the Churches censure for his wicked +life. Thence back again by coach, Mr. Carteret having not had the +confidence to take his lady once by the hand, coming or going, which I +told him of when we come home, and he will hereafter do it. So to +dinner. My Lord excellent discourse. Then to walk in the gallery, and +to sit down. By and by my Lady Wright and I go out (and then my Lord +Crew, he not by design), and lastly my Lady Crew come out, and left the +young people together. And a little pretty daughter of my Lady Wright's +most innocently come out afterward, and shut the door to, as if she had +done it, poor child, by inspiration; which made us without, have good +sport to laugh at. They together an hour, and by and by church-time, +whither he led her into the coach and into the church, and so at church +all the afternoon, several handsome ladies at church. But it was most +extraordinary hot that ever I knew it. So home again and to walk in the +gardens, where we left the young couple a second time; and my Lady Wright +and I to walk together, who to my trouble tells me that my Lady Jem. +must have something done to her body by Scott before she can be married, +and therefore care must be had to send him, also that some more new +clothes must of necessity be made her, which and other things I took care +of. Anon to supper, and excellent discourse and dispute between my Lord +Crew and the chaplin, who is a good scholler, but a nonconformist. Here +this evening I spoke with Mrs. Carter, my old acquaintance, that hath +lived with my Lady these twelve or thirteen years, the sum of all whose +discourse and others for her, is, that I would get her a good husband; +which I have promised, but know not when I shall perform. After Mr. +Carteret was carried to his chamber, we to prayers again and then to bed. + + + +17th. Up all of us, and to billiards; my Lady Wright, Mr. Carteret, +myself, and every body. By and by the young couple left together. Anon +to dinner; and after dinner Mr. Carteret took my advice about giving to +the servants, and I led him to give L10 among them, which he did, by +leaving it to the chief man-servant, Mr. Medows, to do for him. Before +we went, I took my Lady Jem. apart, and would know how she liked this +gentleman, and whether she was under any difficulty concerning him. She +blushed, and hid her face awhile; but at last I forced her to tell me. +She answered that she could readily obey what her father and mother had +done; which was all she could say, or I expect. So anon I took leave, +and for London. But, Lord! to see, among other things, how all these +great people here are afeard of London, being doubtfull of anything that +comes from thence, or that hath lately been there, that I was forced to +say that I lived wholly at Woolwich. In our way Mr. Carteret did give me +mighty thanks for my care and pains for him, and is mightily pleased, +though the truth is, my Lady Jem. hath carried herself with mighty +discretion and gravity, not being forward at all in any degree, but +mighty serious in her answers to him, as by what he says and I observed, +I collect. To London to my office, and there took letters from the +office, where all well, and so to the Bridge, and there he and I took +boat and to Deptford, where mighty welcome, and brought the good newes of +all being pleased to them. Mighty mirth at my giving them an account of +all; but the young man could not be got to say one word before me or my +Lady Sandwich of his adventures, but, by what he afterwards related to +his father and mother and sisters, he gives an account that pleases them +mightily. Here Sir G. Carteret would have me lie all night, which I did +most nobly, better than ever I did in my life, Sir G. Carteret being +mighty kind to me, leading me to my chamber; and all their care now is, +to have the business ended, and they have reason, because the sicknesse +puts all out of order, and they cannot safely stay where they are. + + + +18th. Up and to the office, where all the morning, and so to my house +and eat a bit of victuals, and so to the 'Change, where a little business +and a very thin Exchange; and so walked through London to the Temple, +where I took water for Westminster to the Duke of Albemarle, to wait on +him, and so to Westminster Hall, and there paid for my newes-books, and +did give Mrs. Michell, who is going out of towne because of the +sicknesse, and her husband, a pint of wine, and so Sir W. Warren coming +to me by appointment we away by water home, by the way discoursing about +the project I have of getting some money and doing the King good service +too about the mast docke at Woolwich, which I fear will never be done if +I do not go about it. After dispatching letters at the office, I by +water down to Deptford, where I staid a little while, and by water to my +wife, whom I have not seen 6 or 5 days, and there supped with her, and +mighty pleasant, and saw with content her drawings, and so to bed mighty +merry. I was much troubled this day to hear at Westminster how the +officers do bury the dead in the open Tuttle-fields, pretending want of +room elsewhere; whereas the New Chappell churchyard was walled-in at the +publick charge in the last plague time, merely for want of room and now +none, but such as are able to pay dear for it, can be buried there. + + + +19th. Up and to the office, and thence presently to the Exchequer, and +there with much trouble got my tallys, and afterwards took Mr. Falconer, +Spicer, and another or two to the Leg and there give them a dinner, and +so with my tallys and about 30 dozen of bags,--[?? D.W.]-- which it +seems are my due, having paid the fees as if I had received the money I +away home, and after a little stay down by water to Deptford, where I +find all full of joy, and preparing to go to Dagenhams to-morrow. To +supper, and after supper to talk without end. Very late I went away, it +raining, but I had a design 'pour aller a la femme de Bagwell' and did so +. . . . So away about 12, and it raining hard I back to Sir G. +Carteret and there called up the page, and to bed there, being all in a +most violent sweat. + + + +20th. Up, in a boat among other people to the Tower, and there to the +office, where we sat all the morning. So down to Deptford and there +dined, and after dinner saw my Lady Sandwich and Mr. Carteret and his two +sisters over the water, going to Dagenhams, and my Lady Carteret towards +Cranburne. + + [The royal lodge of that name in Windsor Forest, occupied by Sir + George Carteret as Vice-Chamberlain to the King.--B.] + +So all the company broke up in most extraordinary joy, wherein I am +mighty contented that I have had the good fortune to be so instrumental, +and I think it will be of good use to me. So walked to Redriffe, where I +hear the sickness is, and indeed is scattered almost every where, there +dying 1089 of the plague this week. My Lady Carteret did this day give +me a bottle of plague-water home with me. So home to write letters late, +and then home to bed, where I have not lain these 3 or 4 nights. I +received yesterday a letter from my Lord Sandwich, giving me thanks for +my care about their marriage business, and desiring it to be dispatched, +that no disappointment may happen therein, which I will help on all I +can. This afternoon I waited on the Duke of Albemarle, and so to Mrs. +Croft's, where I found and saluted + + [Erasmus noted and enjoyed at every opportunity this pleasant + English custom (a century before) of 'saluting' all attractive women + on arrival and exit--as he says no matter how many times on the same + day. D.W.] + +Mrs. Burrows, who is a very pretty woman for a mother of so many +children. But, Lord! to see how the plague spreads. It being now all +over King's Streete, at the Axe, and next door to it, and in other +places. + + + +21st. Up and abroad to the goldsmiths, to see what money I could get +upon my present tallys upon the advance of the Excise, and I hope I shall +get L10,000. I went also and had them entered at the Excise Office. +Alderman Backewell is at sea. Sir R. Viner come to towne but this +morning. So Colvill was the only man I could yet speak withal to get any +money of. Met with Mr. Povy, and I with him and dined at the Custom +House Taverne, there to talk of our Tangier business, and Stockedale and +Hewet with us. So abroad to several places, among others to Anthony +Joyce's, and there broke to him my desire to have Pall married to Harman, +whose wife, poor woman, is lately dead, to my trouble, I loving her very +much, and he will consider it. So home and late at my chamber, setting +some papers in order; the plague growing very raging, and my +apprehensions of it great. So very late to bed. + + + +22nd. As soon as up I among my goldsmiths, Sir Robert Viner and Colvill, +and there got L10,000 of my new tallys accepted, and so I made it my work +to find out Mr. Mervin and sent for others to come with their bills of +Exchange, as Captain Hewett, &c., and sent for Mr. Jackson, but he was +not in town. So all the morning at the office, and after dinner, which +was very late, I to Sir R. Viner's, by his invitation in the morning, and +got near L5000 more accepted, and so from this day the whole, or near, +L15,000, lies upon interest. Thence I by water to Westminster, and the +Duke of Albemarle being gone to dinner to my Lord of Canterbury's, I +thither, and there walked and viewed the new hall, a new old-fashion hall +as much as possible. Begun, and means left for the ending of it, by +Bishop Juxon. Not coming proper to speak with him, I to Fox-hall, where +to the Spring garden; but I do not see one guest there, the town being so +empty of any body to come thither. Only, while I was there, a poor woman +come to scold with the master of the house that a kinswoman, I think, of +hers, that was newly dead of the plague, might be buried in the church- +yard; for, for her part, she should not be buried in the commons, as they +said she should. Back to White Hall, and by and by comes the Duke of +Albemarle, and there, after a little discourse, I by coach home, not +meeting with but two coaches, and but two carts from White Hall to my own +house, that I could observe; and the streets mighty thin of people. I +met this noon with Dr. Burnett, who told me, and I find in the newsbook +this week that he posted upon the 'Change, that whoever did spread the +report that, instead of the plague, his servant was by him killed, it was +forgery, and shewed me the acknowledgment of the master of the pest- +house, that his servant died of a bubo on his right groine, and two spots +on his right thigh, which is the plague. To my office, where late +writing letters, and getting myself prepared with business for Hampton +Court to-morrow, and so having caused a good pullet to be got for my +supper, all alone, I very late to bed. All the news is great: that we +must of necessity fall out with France, for He will side with the Dutch +against us. That Alderman Backewell is gone over (which indeed he is) +with money, and that Ostend is in our present possession. But it is +strange to see how poor Alderman Backewell is like to be put to it in his +absence, Mr. Shaw his right hand being ill. And the Alderman's absence +gives doubts to people, and I perceive they are in great straits for +money, besides what Sir G. Carteret told me about fourteen days ago. +Our fleet under my Lord Sandwich being about the latitude 55 (which is +a great secret) to the Northward of the Texell. So to bed very late. In +my way I called upon Sir W. Turner, and at Mr. Shelcrosse's (but he was +not at home, having left his bill with Sir W. Turner), that so I may +prove I did what I could as soon as I had money to answer all bills. + + + +23rd (Lord's day). Up very betimes, called by Mr. Cutler, by +appointment, and with him in his coach and four horses over London Bridge +to Kingston, a very pleasant journey, and at Hampton Court by nine +o'clock, and in our way very good and various discourse, as he is a man, +that though I think he be a knave, as the world thinks him, yet a man of +great experience and worthy to be heard discourse. When we come there, +we to Sir W. Coventry's chamber, and there discoursed long with him, he +and I alone, the others being gone away, and so walked together through +the garden to the house, where we parted, I observing with a little +trouble that he is too great now to expect too much familiarity with, and +I find he do not mind me as he used to do, but when I reflect upon him +and his business I cannot think much of it, for I do not observe anything +but the same great kindness from him. I followed the King to chappell, +and there hear a good sermon; and after sermon with my Lord Arlington, +Sir Thomas Ingram and others, spoke to the Duke about Tangier, but not to +much purpose. I was not invited any whither to dinner, though a +stranger, which did also trouble me; but yet I must remember it is a +Court, and indeed where most are strangers; but, however, Cutler carried +me to Mr. Marriott's the house-keeper, and there we had a very good +dinner and good company, among others Lilly, the painter. Thence to the +councill-chamber, where in a back room I sat all the afternoon, but the +councill begun late to sit, and spent most of the time upon Morisco's +Tarr businesse. They sat long, and I forced to follow Sir Thomas Ingram, +the Duke, and others, so that when I got free and come to look for +Cutler, he was gone with his coach, without leaving any word with any +body to tell me so; so that I was forced with great trouble to walk up +and down looking of him, and at last forced to get a boat to carry me to +Kingston, and there, after eating a bit at a neat inne, which pleased me +well, I took boat, and slept all the way, without intermission, from +thence to Queenhive, where, it being about two o'clock, too late and too +soon to go home to bed, I lay and slept till about four, + + + +24th. And then up and home, and there dressed myself, and by appointment +to Deptford, to Sir G. Carteret's, between six and seven o'clock, where I +found him and my Lady almost ready, and by and by went over to the ferry, +and took coach and six horses nobly for Dagenhams, himself and lady and +their little daughter, Louisonne, and myself in the coach; where, when we +come, we were bravely entertained and spent the day most pleasantly with +the young ladies, and I so merry as never more. Only for want of sleep, +and drinking of strong beer had a rheum in one of my eyes, which troubled +me much. Here with great content all the day, as I think I ever passed a +day in my life, because of the contentfulnesse of our errand, and the +noblenesse of the company and our manner of going. But I find Mr. +Carteret yet as backward almost in his caresses, as he was the first day. +At night, about seven o'clock, took coach again; but, Lord! to see in +what a pleasant humour Sir G. Carteret hath been both coming and going; +so light, so fond, so merry, so boyish (so much content he takes in this +business), it is one of the greatest wonders I ever saw in my mind. But +once in serious discourse he did say that, if he knew his son to be a +debauchee, as many and, most are now-a-days about the Court, he would +tell it, and my Lady Jem. should not have him; and so enlarged both he +and she about the baseness and looseness of the Court, and told several +stories of the Duke of Monmouth, and Richmond, and some great person, my +Lord of Ormond's second son, married to a lady of extraordinary quality +(fit and that might have been made a wife for the King himself), about +six months since, that this great person hath given the pox to ------; +and discoursed how much this would oblige the Kingdom if the King would +banish some of these great persons publiquely from the Court, and wished +it with all their hearts. We set out so late that it grew dark, so as we +doubted the losing of our way; and a long time it was, or seemed, before +we could get to the water-side, and that about eleven at night, where, +when we come, all merry (only my eye troubled me, as I said), we found no +ferryboat was there, nor no oares to carry us to Deptford. However, +afterwards oares was called from the other side at Greenwich; but, when +it come, a frolique, being mighty merry, took us, and there we would +sleep all night in the coach in the Isle of Doggs. So we did, there +being now with us my Lady Scott, and with great pleasure drew up the +glasses, and slept till daylight, and then some victuals and wine being +brought us, we ate a bit, and so up and took boat, merry as might be; and +when come to Sir G. Carteret's, there all to bed. + + + +25th. Our good humour in every body continuing, and there I slept till +seven o'clock. Then up and to the office, well refreshed, my eye only +troubling me, which by keeping a little covered with my handkercher and +washing now and then with cold water grew better by night. At noon to +the 'Change, which was very thin, and thence homeward, and was called in +by Mr. Rawlinson, with whom I dined and some good company very harmlessly +merry. But sad the story of the plague in the City, it growing mightily. +This day my Lord Brunker did give me Mr. Grant's' book upon the Bills of +Mortality, new printed and enlarged. Thence to my office awhile, full of +business, and thence by coach to the Duke of Albemarle's, not meeting one +coach going nor coming from my house thither and back again, which is +very strange. One of my chief errands was to speak to Sir W. Clerke +about my wife's brother, who importunes me, and I doubt he do want +mightily, but I can do little for him there as to employment in the army, +and out of my purse I dare not for fear of a precedent, and letting him +come often to me is troublesome and dangerous too, he living in the +dangerous part of the town, but I will do what I can possibly for him and +as soon as I can. Mightily troubled all this afternoon with masters +coming to me about Bills of Exchange and my signing them upon my +Goldsmiths, but I did send for them all and hope to ease myself this +weeke of all the clamour. These two or three days Mr. Shaw at Alderman +Backewell's hath lain sick, like to die, and is feared will not live a +day to an end. At night home and to bed, my head full of business, and +among others, this day come a letter to me from Paris from my Lord +Hinchingbroke, about his coming over; and I have sent this night an order +from the Duke of Albemarle for a ship of 36 guns to [go] to Calais to +fetch him. + + + +26th. Up, and after doing a little business, down to Deptford with Sir +W. Batten, and there left him, and I to Greenwich to the Park, where I +hear the King and Duke are come by water this morn from Hampton Court. +They asked me several questions. The King mightily pleased with his new +buildings there. I followed them to Castle's ship in building, and +there, met Sir W. Batten, and thence to Sir G. Carteret's, where all the +morning with them; they not having any but the Duke of Monmouth, and Sir +W. Killigrew, and one gentleman, and a page more. Great variety of talk, +and was often led to speak to the King and Duke. By and by they to +dinner, and all to dinner and sat down to the King saving myself, which, +though I could not in modesty expect, yet, God forgive my pride! I was +sorry I was there, that Sir W. Batten should say that he could sit down +where I could not, though he had twenty times more reason than I, but +this was my pride and folly. I down and walked with Mr. Castle, who told +me the design of Ford and Rider to oppose and do all the hurt they can to +Captain Taylor in his new ship "The London," and how it comes, and that +they are a couple of false persons, which I believe, and withal that he +himself is a knave too. He and I by and by to dinner mighty nobly, and +the King having dined, he come down, and I went in the barge with him, I +sitting at the door. Down to Woolwich (and there I just saw and kissed +my wife, and saw some of her painting, which is very curious; and away +again to the King) and back again with him in the barge, hearing him and +the Duke talk, and seeing and observing their manner of discourse. And +God forgive me! though I admire them with all the duty possible, yet the +more a man considers and observes them, the less he finds of difference +between them and other men, though (blessed be God!) they are both +princes of great nobleness and spirits. The barge put me into another +boat that come to our side, Mr. Holder with a bag of gold to the Duke, +and so they away and I home to the office. The Duke of Monmouth is the +most skittish leaping gallant that ever I saw, always in action, vaulting +or leaping, or clambering. Thence mighty full of the honour of this day, +I took coach and to Kate Joyce's, but she not within, but spoke with +Anthony, who tells me he likes well of my proposal for Pall to Harman, +but I fear that less than L500 will not be taken, and that I shall not be +able to give, though I did not say so to him. After a little other +discourse and the sad news of the death of so many in the parish of the +plague, forty last night, the bell always going, I back to the Exchange, +where I went up and sat talking with my beauty, Mrs. Batelier, a great +while, who is indeed one of the finest women I ever saw in my life. +After buying some small matter, I home, and there to the office and saw +Sir J. Minnes now come from Portsmouth, I home to set my Journall for +these four days in order, they being four days of as great content and +honour and pleasure to me as ever I hope to live or desire, or think any +body else can live. For methinks if a man would but reflect upon this, +and think that all these things are ordered by God Almighty to make me +contented, and even this very marriage now on foot is one of the things +intended to find me content in, in my life and matter of mirth, methinks +it should make one mightily more satisfied in the world than he is. This +day poor Robin Shaw at Backewell's died, and Backewell himself now in +Flanders. The King himself asked about Shaw, and being told he was dead, +said he was very sorry for it. The sicknesse is got into our parish this +week, and is got, indeed, every where; so that I begin to think of +setting things in order, which I pray God enable me to put both as to +soul and body. + + + +27th. Called up at 4 o'clock. Up and to my preparing some papers for +Hampton Court, and so by water to Fox Hall, and there Mr. Gauden's coach +took me up, and by and by I took up him, and so both thither, a brave +morning to ride in and good discourse with him. Among others he begun +with me to speak of the Tangier Victuallers resigning their employment, +and his willingness to come on. Of which I was glad, and took the +opportunity to answer him with all kindness and promise of assistance. +He told me a while since my Lord Berkeley did speak of it to him, and +yesterday a message from Sir Thomas Ingram. When I come to Hampton Court +I find Sir T. Ingram and Creed ready with papers signed for the putting +of Mr. Gawden in, upon a resignation signed to by Lanyon and sent to Sir +Thos. Ingram. At this I was surprized but yet was glad, and so it passed +but with respect enough to those that are in, at least without any thing +ill taken from it. I got another order signed about the boats, which I +think I shall get something by. So dispatched all my business, having +assurance of continuance of all hearty love from Sir W. Coventry, and so +we staid and saw the King and Queene set out toward Salisbury, and after +them the Duke and Duchesse, whose hands I did kiss. And it was the first +time I did ever, or did see any body else, kiss her hand, and it was a +most fine white and fat hand. But it was pretty to see the young pretty +ladies dressed like men, in velvet coats, caps with ribbands, and with +laced bands, just like men. Only the Duchesse herself it did not become. +They gone, we with great content took coach again, and hungry come to +Clapham about one o'clock, and Creed there too before us, where a good +dinner, the house having dined, and so to walk up and down in the +gardens, mighty pleasant. By and by comes by promise to me Sir G. +Carteret, and viewed the house above and below, and sat and drank there, +and I had a little opportunity to kiss and spend some time with the +ladies above, his daughter, a buxom lass, and his sister Fissant, +a serious lady, and a little daughter of hers, that begins to sing +prettily. Thence, with mighty pleasure, with Sir G. Carteret by coach, +with great discourse of kindnesse with him to my Lord Sandwich, and to me +also; and I every day see more good by the alliance. Almost at Deptford +I 'light and walked over to Half-way House, and so home, in my way being +shown my cozen Patience's house, which seems, at distance, a pretty +house. At home met the weekly Bill, where above 1000 encreased in the +Bill, and of them, in all about 1,700 of the plague, which hath made the +officers this day resolve of sitting at Deptford, which puts me to some +consideration what to do. Therefore home to think and consider of every +thing about it, and without determining any thing eat a little supper and +to bed, full of the pleasure of these 6 or 7 last days. + + + +28th. Up betimes, and down to Deptford, where, after a little discourse +with Sir G. Carteret, who is much displeased with the order of our +officers yesterday to remove the office to Deptford, pretending other +things, but to be sure it is with regard to his own house (which is much +because his family is going away). I am glad I was not at the order +making, and so I will endeavour to alter it. Set out with my Lady all +alone with her with six horses to Dagenhams; going by water to the Ferry. +And a pleasant going, and good discourse; and when there, very merry, and +the young couple now well acquainted. But, Lord! to see in what fear all +the people here do live would make one mad, they are afeard of us that +come to them, insomuch that I am troubled at it, and wish myself away. +But some cause they have; for the chaplin, with whom but a week or two +ago we were here mighty high disputing, is since fallen into a fever and +dead, being gone hence to a friend's a good way off. A sober and a +healthful man. These considerations make us all hasten the marriage, and +resolve it upon Monday next, which is three days before we intended it. +Mighty merry all of us, and in the evening with full content took coach +again and home by daylight with great pleasure, and thence I down to +Woolwich, where find my wife well, and after drinking and talking a +little we to bed. + + + +29th. Up betimes, and after viewing some of my wife's pictures, which +now she is come to do very finely to my great satisfaction beyond what I +could ever look for, I went away and by water to the office, where nobody +to meet me, but busy all the morning. At noon to dinner, where I hear +that my Will is come in thither and laid down upon my bed, ill of the +headake, which put me into extraordinary fear; and I studied all I could +to get him out of the house, and set my people to work to do it without +discouraging him, and myself went forth to the Old Exchange to pay my +fair Batelier for some linnen, and took leave of her, they breaking up +shop for a while; and so by coach to Kate Joyce's, and there used all the +vehemence and rhetorique I could to get her husband to let her go down to +Brampton, but I could not prevail with him; he urging some simple +reasons, but most that of profit, minding the house, and the distance, +if either of them should be ill. However, I did my best, and more than +I had a mind to do, but that I saw him so resolved against it, while she +was mightily troubled at it. At last he yielded she should go to +Windsor, to some friends there. So I took my leave of them, believing +that it is great odds that we ever all see one another again; for I dare +not go any more to that end of the towne. So home, and to writing of +letters--hard, and then at night home, and fell to my Tangier papers till +late, and then to bed, in some ease of mind that Will is gone to his +lodging, and that he is likely to do well, it being only the headake. + + + +30th (Lord's day). Up, and in my night gowne, cap and neckcloth, +undressed all day long, lost not a minute, but in my chamber, setting my +Tangier accounts to rights. Which I did by night to my very heart's +content, not only that it is done, but I find every thing right, and even +beyond what, after so long neglecting them, I did hope for. The Lord of +Heaven be praised for it! Will was with me to-day, and is very well +again. It was a sad noise to hear our bell to toll and ring so often +to-day, either for deaths or burials; I think five or six times. At +night weary with my day's work, but full of joy at my having done it, I +to bed, being to rise betimes tomorrow to go to the wedding at Dagenhams. +So to bed, fearing I have got some cold sitting in my loose garments all +this day. + + + +31st. Up, and very betimes by six o'clock at Deptford, and there find +Sir G. Carteret, and my Lady ready to go: I being in my new coloured silk +suit, and coat trimmed with gold buttons and gold broad lace round my +hands, very rich and fine. By water to the Ferry, where, when we come, +no coach there; and tide of ebb so far spent as the horse-boat could not +get off on the other side the river to bring away the coach. So we were +fain to stay there in the unlucky Isle of Doggs, in a chill place, the +morning cool, and wind fresh, above two if not three hours to our great +discontent. Yet being upon a pleasant errand, and seeing that it could +not be helped, we did bear it very patiently; and it was worth my +observing, I thought, as ever any thing, to see how upon these two +scores, Sir G. Carteret, the most passionate man in the world, and that +was in greatest haste to be gone, did bear with it, and very pleasant all +the while, at least not troubled much so as to fret and storm at it. +Anon the coach comes: in the mean time there coming a News thither with +his horse to go over, that told us he did come from Islington this +morning; and that Proctor the vintner of the Miter in Wood-street, and +his son, are dead this morning there, of the plague; he having laid out +abundance of money there, and was the greatest vintner for some time in +London for great entertainments. We, fearing the canonicall hour would +be past before we got thither, did with a great deal of unwillingness +send away the license and wedding ring. So that when we come, though we +drove hard with six horses, yet we found them gone from home; and going +towards the church, met them coming from church, which troubled us. +But, however, that trouble was soon over; hearing it was well done: they +being both in their old cloaths; my Lord Crew giving her, there being +three coach fulls of them. The young lady mighty sad, which troubled me; +but yet I think it was only her gravity in a little greater degree than +usual. All saluted her, but I did not till my Lady Sandwich did ask me +whether I had saluted her or no. So to dinner, and very merry we were; +but yet in such a sober way as never almost any wedding was in so great +families: but it was much better. After dinner company divided, some to +cards, others to talk. My Lady Sandwich and I up to settle accounts, +and pay her some money. And mighty kind she is to me, and would fain +have had me gone down for company with her to Hinchingbroke; but for my +life I cannot. At night to supper, and so to talk; and which, methought, +was the most extraordinary thing, all of us to prayers as usual, and the +young bride and bridegroom too and so after prayers, soberly to bed; only +I got into the bridegroom's chamber while he undressed himself, and there +was very merry, till he was called to the bride's chamber, and into bed +they went. I kissed the bride in bed, and so the curtaines drawne with +the greatest gravity that could be, and so good night. But the modesty +and gravity of this business was so decent, that it was to me indeed ten +times more delightfull than if it had been twenty times more merry and +joviall. Whereas I feared I must have sat up all night, we did here all +get good beds, and I lay in the same I did before with Mr. Brisband, who +is a good scholler and sober man; and we lay in bed, getting him to give +me an account of home, which is the most delightfull talke a man can have +of any traveller: and so to sleep. My eyes much troubled already with +the change of my drink. Thus I ended this month with the greatest joy +that ever I did any in my life, because I have spent the greatest part of +it with abundance of joy, and honour, and pleasant journeys, and brave +entertainments, and without cost of money; and at last live to see the +business ended with great content on all sides. This evening with Mr. +Brisband, speaking of enchantments and spells; I telling him some of my +charms; he told me this of his owne knowledge, at Bourdeaux, in France. +The words these: + + Voyci un Corps mort, + Royde come un Baston, + Froid comme Marbre, + Leger come un esprit, + Levons to au nom de Jesus Christ. + +He saw four little girles, very young ones, all kneeling, each of them, +upon one knee; and one begun the first line, whispering in the eare of +the next, and the second to the third, and the third to the fourth, and +she to the first. Then the first begun the second line, and so round +quite through, and, putting each one finger only to a boy that lay flat +upon his back on the ground, as if he was dead; at the end of the words, +they did with their four fingers raise this boy as high as they could +reach, and he [Mr. Brisband] being there, and wondering at it, as also +being afeard to see it, for they would have had him to have bore a part +in saying the words, in the roome of one of the little girles that was so +young that they could hardly make her learn to repeat the words, did, for +feare there might be some sleight used in it by the boy, or that the boy +might be light, call the cook of the house, a very lusty fellow, as Sir +G. Carteret's cook, who is very big, and they did raise him in just the +same manner. This is one of the strangest things I ever heard, but he +tells it me of his owne knowledge, and I do heartily believe it to be +true. I enquired of him whether they were Protestant or Catholique +girles; and he told me they were Protestant, which made it the more +strange to me. Thus we end this month, as I said, after the greatest +glut of content that ever I had; only under some difficulty because of +the plague, which grows mightily upon us, the last week being about 1700 +or 1800 of the plague. My Lord Sandwich at sea with a fleet of about 100 +sail, to the Northward, expecting De Ruyter, or the Dutch East India +fleet. My Lord Hinchingbroke coming over from France, and will meet his +sister at Scott's-hall. Myself having obliged both these families in +this business very much; as both my Lady, and Sir G. Carteret and his +Lady do confess exceedingly, and the latter do also now call me cozen, +which I am glad of. So God preserve us all friends long, and continue +health among us. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +About two o'clock, too late and too soon to go home to bed +And all to dinner and sat down to the King saving myself +Baseness and looseness of the Court +Being able to do little business (but the less the better) +Contracted for her as if he had been buying a horse +Did bear with it, and very pleasant all the while +Doubtfull whether her daughter will like of it or no +Endeavouring to strike tallys for money for Tangier +For, for her part, she should not be buried in the commons +Had what pleasure almost I would with her +Hath a good heart to bear, or a cunning one to conceal his evil +I have promised, but know not when I shall perform +I kissed the bride in bed, and so the curtaines drawne +Less he finds of difference between them and other men +Lord! in the dullest insipid manner that ever lover did +Nan at Moreclacke, very much pleased and merry with her +Not had the confidence to take his lady once by the hand +Out of my purse I dare not for fear of a precedent +Plague, forty last night, the bell always going +Pretty to see the young pretty ladies dressed like men +So to bed, to be up betimes by the helpe of a larum watch +This absence makes us a little strange instead of more fond +What silly discourse we had by the way as to love-matters + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v41 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + diff --git a/old/sp42g10.zip b/old/sp42g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..3e7a657 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp42g10.zip |