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diff --git a/4157.txt b/4157.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..166d1a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/4157.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1461 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, July 1665, by Samuel Pepys + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, July 1665 + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Release Date: November 30, 2004 [EBook #4157] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, JULY 1665 *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY + MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. 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. 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, 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 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 Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, July 1665, by Samuel Pepys + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, JULY 1665 *** + +***** This file should be named 4157.txt or 4157.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/5/4157/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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