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+Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, August 1665, by Samuel Pepys
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+Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, August 1665
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+Author: Samuel Pepys
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, AUGUST 1665 ***
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+Produced by David Widger
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+                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.
+                                 AUGUST
+                                  1665
+
+August 1st.  Slept, and lay long; then up and my Lord [Crew] and Sir G.
+Carteret being gone abroad, I first to see the bridegroom and bride, and
+found them both up, and he gone to dress himself.  Both red in the face,
+and well enough pleased this morning with their night's lodging.  Thence
+down and Mr. Brisband and I to billiards: anon come my Lord and Sir G.
+Carteret in, who have been looking abroad and visiting some farms that Sir
+G. Carteret hath thereabouts, and, among other things, report the greatest
+stories of the bigness of the calfes they find there, ready to sell to the
+butchers, as big, they say, as little Cowes, and that they do give them a
+piece of chalke to licke, which they hold makes them white in the flesh
+within.  Very merry at dinner, and so to talk and laugh after dinner, and
+up and down, some to [one] place, some to another, full of content on all
+sides.  Anon about five o'clock, Sir G. Carteret and his lady and I took
+coach with the greatest joy and kindnesse that could be from the two
+familys or that ever I saw with so much appearance, and, I believe,
+reality in all my life.  Drove hard home, and it was night ere we got to
+Deptford, where, with much kindnesse from them to me, I left them, and
+home to the office, where I find all well, and being weary and sleepy, it
+being very late, I to bed.
+
+2nd.  Up, it being a publique fast, as being the first Wednesday of the
+month, for the plague; I within doors all day, and upon my monthly
+accounts late, and there to my great joy settled almost all my private
+matters of money in my books clearly, and allowing myself several sums
+which I had hitherto not reckoned myself sure of, because I would not be
+over sure of any thing, though with reason I might do it, I did find
+myself really worth L1900, for which the great God of Heaven and Earth be
+praised!  At night to the office to write a few letters, and so home to
+bed, after fitting myself for tomorrow's journey.
+
+3rd.  Up, and betimes to Deptford to Sir G. Carteret's, where, not liking
+the horse that had been hired by Mr. Uthwayt for me, I did desire Sir G.
+Carteret to let me ride his new L40 horse, which he did, and so I left my
+'hacquenee'--[Haquenee = an ambling nag fitted for ladies'
+riding.]--behind, and so after staying a good while in their bedchamber
+while they were dressing themselves, discoursing merrily, I parted and to
+the ferry, where I was forced to stay a great while before I could get my
+horse brought over, and then mounted and rode very finely to Dagenhams;
+all the way people, citizens, walking to and again to enquire how the
+plague is in the City this week by the Bill; which by chance, at
+Greenwich, I had heard was 2,020 of the plague, and 3,000 and odd of all
+diseases; but methought it was a sad question to be so often asked me.
+Coming to Dagenhams, I there met our company coming out of the house,
+having staid as long as they could for me; so I let them go a little
+before, and went and took leave of my Lady Sandwich, good woman, who seems
+very sensible of my service in this late business, and having her
+directions in some things, among others, to get Sir G. Carteret and my
+Lord to settle the portion, and what Sir G. Carteret is to settle, into
+land, soon as may be, she not liking that it should lie long undone, for
+fear of death on either side.  So took leave of her, and then down to the
+buttery, and eat a piece of cold venison pie, and drank and took some
+bread and cheese in my hand; and so mounted after them, Mr. Marr very
+kindly staying to lead me the way.  By and by met my Lord Crew returning,
+after having accompanied them a little way, and so after them, Mr. Marr
+telling me by the way how a mayde servant of Mr. John Wright's (who lives
+thereabouts) falling sick of the plague, she was removed to an out-house,
+and a nurse appointed to look to her; who, being once absent, the mayde
+got out of the house at the window, and run away.  The nurse coming and
+knocking, and having no answer, believed she was dead, and went and told
+Mr. Wright so; who and his lady were in great strait what to do to get her
+buried. At last resolved to go to Burntwood hard by, being in the parish,
+and there get people to do it.  But they would not; so he went home full
+of trouble, and in the way met the wench walking over the common, which
+frighted him worse than before; and was forced to send people to take her,
+which he did; and they got one of the pest coaches and put her into it to
+carry her to a pest house.  And passing in a narrow lane, Sir Anthony
+Browne, with his brother and some friends in the coach, met this coach
+with the curtains drawn close.  The brother being a young man, and
+believing there might be some lady in it that would not be seen, and the
+way being narrow, he thrust his head out of his own into her coach, and to
+look, and there saw somebody look very ill, and in a sick dress, and stunk
+mightily; which the coachman also cried out upon.  And presently they come
+up to some people that stood looking after it, and told our gallants that
+it was a mayde of Mr. Wright's carried away sick of the plague; which put
+the young gentleman into a fright had almost cost him his life, but is now
+well again.  I, overtaking our young people, 'light, and into the coach to
+them, where mighty merry all the way; and anon come to the Blockehouse,
+over against Gravesend, where we staid a great while, in a little
+drinking-house.  Sent back our coaches to Dagenhams.  I, by and by, by
+boat to Gravesend, where no newes of Sir G. Carteret come yet; so back
+again, and fetched them all over, but the two saddle-horses that were to
+go with us, which could not be brought over in the horseboat, the wind and
+tide being against us, without towing; so we had some difference with some
+watermen, who would not tow them over under 20s., whereupon I swore to
+send one of them to sea and will do it.  Anon some others come to me and
+did it for 10s.  By and by comes Sir G. Carteret, and so we set out for
+Chatham: in my way overtaking some company, wherein was a lady, very
+pretty, riding singly, her husband in company with her.  We fell into
+talke, and I read a copy of verses which her husband showed me, and he
+discommended, but the lady commended: and I read them, so as to make the
+husband turn to commend them.  By and by he and I fell into acquaintance,
+having known me formerly at the Exchequer.  His name is Nokes, over
+against Bow Church.  He was servant to Alderman Dashwood. We promised to
+meet, if ever we come both to London again; and, at parting, I had a fair
+salute on horseback, in Rochester streets, of the lady, and so parted.
+Come to Chatham mighty merry, and anon to supper, it being near 9 o'clock
+ere we come thither.  My Lady Carteret come thither in a coach, by
+herself, before us.  Great mind they have to buy a little 'hacquenee' that
+I rode on from Greenwich, for a woman's horse. Mighty merry, and after
+supper, all being withdrawn, Sir G. Carteret did take an opportunity to
+speak with much value and kindness to me, which is of great joy to me.  So
+anon to bed.  Mr. Brisband and I together to my content.
+
+4th.  Up at five o'clock, and by six walked out alone, with my Lady
+Slanning, to the Docke Yard, where walked up and down, and so to Mr.
+Pett's, who led us into his garden, and there the lady, the best humoured
+woman in the world, and a devout woman (I having spied her on her knees
+half an houre this morning in her chamber), clambered up to the top of the
+banquetting-house to gather nuts, and mighty merry, and so walked back
+again through the new rope house, which is very usefull; and so to the
+Hill-house to breakfast and mighty merry.  Then they took coach, and Sir
+G. Carteret kissed me himself heartily, and my Lady several times, with
+great kindnesse, and then the young ladies, and so with much joy, bade
+"God be with you!" and an end I think it will be to my mirthe for a great
+while, it having been the passage of my whole life the most pleasing for
+the time, considering the quality and nature of the business, and my noble
+usage in the doing of it, and very many fine journys, entertainments and
+great company.  I returned into the house for a while to do business there
+with Commissioner Pett, and there with the officers of the Chest, where I
+saw more of Sir W. Batten's business than ever I did before, for whereas
+he did own once under his hand to them that he was accountable for L2200,
+of which he had yet paid but L1600, he writes them a letter lately that he
+hath but about L50 left that is due to the Chest, but I will do something
+in it and that speedily. That being done I took horse, and Mr. Barrow with
+me bore me company to Gravesend, discoursing of his business, wherein I
+vexed him, and he me, I seeing his frowardness, but yet that he is in my
+conscience a very honest man, and some good things he told me, which I
+shall remember to the King's advantage.  There I took boat alone, and, the
+tide being against me, landed at Blackwall and walked to Wapping, Captain
+Bowd whom I met with talking with me all the way, who is a sober man.  So
+home, and found all things well, and letters from Dover that my Lord
+Hinchingbroke is arrived at Dover, and would be at Scott's hall this
+night, where the whole company will meet.  I wish myself with them.  After
+writing a few letters I took boat and down to Woolwich very late, and
+there found my wife and her woman upon the key hearing a fellow in a
+barge, that lay by, fiddle.  So I to them and in, very merry, and to bed,
+I sleepy and weary.
+
+5th.  In the morning up, and my wife showed me several things of her
+doing, especially one fine woman's Persian head mighty finely done, beyond
+what I could expect of her; and so away by water, having ordered in the
+yarde six or eight bargemen to be whipped, who had last night stolen some
+of the King's cordage from out of the yarde.  I to Deptford, and there by
+agreement met with my Lord Bruncker, and there we kept our office, he and
+I, and did what there was to do, and at noon parted to meet at the office
+next week.  Sir W. Warren and I thence did walk through the rain to
+Half-Way House, and there I eat a piece of boiled beef and he and I talked
+over several businesses, among others our design upon the mast docke,
+which I hope to compass and get 2 or L300 by. Thence to Redriffe, where we
+parted, and I home, where busy all the afternoon.  Stepped to Colvill's to
+set right a business of money, where he told me that for certain De Ruyter
+is come home, with all his fleete, which is very ill newes, considering
+the charge we have been at in keeping a fleete to the northward so long,
+besides the great expectation of snapping him, wherein my Lord Sandwich
+will I doubt suffer some dishonour.  I am told also of a great ryott upon
+Thursday last in Cheapside; Colonell Danvers, a delinquent, having been
+taken, and in his way to the Tower was rescued from the captain of the
+guard, and carried away; only one of the rescuers being taken.  I am told
+also that the Duke of Buckingham is dead, but I know not of a certainty.
+So home and very late at letters, and then home to supper and to bed.
+
+6th (Lord's day).  Dressed and had my head combed by my little girle, to
+whom I confess 'que je sum demasiado kind, nuper ponendo mes mains in su
+des choses de son breast, mais il faut que je' leave it lest it bring me
+to 'alcun major inconvenience'.  So to my business in my chamber, look
+over and settling more of my papers than I could the two last days I have
+spent about them.  In the evening, it raining hard, down to Woolwich,
+where after some little talk to bed.
+
+7th.  Up, and with great pleasure looking over my wife's pictures, and
+then to see my Lady Pen, whom I have not seen since her coming hither, and
+after being a little merry with her, she went forth and I staid there
+talking with Mrs. Pegg and looking over her pictures, and commended them;
+but, Lord! so far short of my wife's, as no comparison.  Thence to my
+wife, and there spent, talking, till noon, when by appointment Mr. Andrews
+come out of the country to speake with me about their Tangier business,
+and so having done with him and dined, I home by water, where by
+appointment I met Dr. Twisden, Mr. Povy, Mr. Lawson, and Stockdale about
+settling their business of money; but such confusion I never met with, nor
+could anything be agreed on, but parted like a company of fools, I vexed
+to lose so much time and pains to no purpose.  They gone, comes Rayner,
+the boatmaker, about some business, and brings a piece of plate with him,
+which I refused to take of him, thinking indeed that the poor man hath no
+reason nor encouragement from our dealings with him to give any of us any
+presents.  He gone, there comes Luellin, about Mr. Deering's business of
+planke, to have the contract perfected, and offers me twenty pieces in
+gold, as Deering had done some time since himself, but I both then and now
+refused it, resolving not to be bribed to dispatch business, but will have
+it done however out of hand forthwith. So he gone, I to supper and to bed.
+
+8th.  Up and to the office, where all the morning we sat.  At noon I home
+to dinner alone, and after dinner Bagwell's wife waited at the door, and
+went with me to my office .  .  .  .  So parted, and I to Sir W. Batten's,
+and there sat the most of the afternoon talking and drinking too much with
+my Lord Bruncker, Sir G. Smith, G. Cocke and others very merry.  I drunk a
+little mixed, but yet more than I should do.  So to my office a little,
+and then to the Duke of Albemarle's about some business. The streets
+mighty empty all the way, now even in London, which is a sad sight.  And
+to Westminster Hall, where talking, hearing very sad stories from Mrs.
+Mumford; among others, of Mrs. Michell's son's family.  And poor Will,
+that used to sell us ale at the Hall-door, his wife and three children
+died, all, I think, in a day.  So home through the City again, wishing I
+may have taken no ill in going; but I will go, I think, no more thither.
+Late at the office, and then home to supper, having taken a pullet home
+with me, and then to bed.  The news of De Kuyter's coming home is certain;
+and told to the great disadvantage of our fleete, and the praise of De
+Kuyter; but it cannot be helped, nor do I know what to say to it.
+
+9th.  Up betimes to my office, where Tom Hater to the writing of letters
+with me, which have for a good while been in arreare, and we close at it
+all day till night, only made a little step out for half an houre in the
+morning to the Exchequer about striking of tallys, but no good done
+therein, people being most out of towne.  At noon T. Hater dined with me,
+and so at it all the afternoon.  At night home and supped, and after
+reading a little in Cowley's poems, my head being disturbed with overmuch
+business to-day, I to bed.
+
+10th.  Up betimes, and called upon early by my she-cozen Porter, the
+turner's wife, to tell me that her husband was carried to the Tower, for
+buying of some of the King's powder, and would have my helpe, but I could
+give her none, not daring any more to appear in the business, having too
+much trouble lately therein.  By and by to the office, where we sat all
+the morning; in great trouble to see the Bill this week rise so high, to
+above 4,000 in all, and of them above 3,000 of the plague.  And an odd
+story of Alderman Bence's stumbling at night over a dead corps in the
+streete, and going home and telling his wife, she at the fright, being
+with child, fell sicke and died of the plague.  We sat late, and then by
+invitation my Lord Brunker, Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten and I to Sir G.
+Smith's to dinner, where very good company and good cheer.  Captain Cocke
+was there and Jacke Fenn, but to our great wonder Alderman Bence, and
+tells us that not a word of all this is true, and others said so too, but
+by his owne story his wife hath been ill, and he fain to leave his house
+and comes not to her, which continuing a trouble to me all the time I was
+there.  Thence to the office and, after writing letters, home, to
+draw-over anew my will, which I had bound myself by oath to dispatch by
+to-morrow night; the town growing so unhealthy, that a man cannot depend
+upon living two days to an end.  So having done something of it, I to bed.
+
+11th.  Up, and all day long finishing and writing over my will twice, for
+my father and my wife, only in the morning a pleasant rencontre happened
+in having a young married woman brought me by her father, old Delkes, that
+carries pins always in his mouth, to get her husband off that he should
+not go to sea, 'une contre pouvait avoir done any cose cum else, but I did
+nothing, si ni baisser her'.  After they were gone my mind run upon having
+them called back again, and I sent a messenger to Blackwall, but he
+failed.  So I lost my expectation.  I to the Exchequer, about striking new
+tallys, and I find the Exchequer, by proclamation, removing to
+Nonesuch.--[Nonsuch Palace, near Epsom, where the Exchequer money was kept
+during the time of the plague.]--Back again and at my papers, and putting
+up my books into chests, and settling my house and all things in the best
+and speediest order I can, lest it should please God to take me away, or
+force me to leave my house.  Late up at it, and weary and full of wind,
+finding perfectly that so long as I keepe myself in company at meals and
+do there eat lustily (which I cannot do alone, having no love to eating,
+but my mind runs upon my business), I am as well as can be, but when I
+come to be alone, I do not eat in time, nor enough, nor with any good
+heart, and I immediately begin to be full of wind, which brings my pain,
+till I come to fill my belly a-days again, then am presently well.
+
+12th.  The office now not sitting, but only hereafter on Thursdays at the
+office, I within all the morning about my papers and setting things still
+in order, and also much time in settling matters with Dr. Twisden.  At
+noon am sent for by Sir G. Carteret, to meet him and my Lord Hinchingbroke
+at Deptford, but my Lord did not come thither, he having crossed the river
+at Gravesend to Dagenhams, whither I dare not follow him, they being
+afeard of me; but Sir G. Carteret says, he is a most sweet youth in every
+circumstance.  Sir G. Carteret being in haste of going to the Duke of
+Albemarle and the Archbishop, he was pettish, and so I could not fasten
+any discourse, but take another time.  So he gone, I down to Greenwich and
+sent away the Bezan, thinking to go with my wife to-night to come back
+again to-morrow night to the Soveraigne at the buoy off the Nore.  Coming
+back to Deptford, old Bagwell walked a little way with me, and would have
+me in to his daughter's, and there he being gone 'dehors, ego had my
+volunte de su hiza'.  Eat and drank and away home, and after a little at
+the office to my chamber to put more things still in order, and late to
+bed.  The people die so, that now it seems they are fain to carry the dead
+to be buried by day-light, the nights not sufficing to do it in.  And my
+Lord Mayor commands people to be within at nine at night all, as they say,
+that the sick may have liberty to go abroad for ayre.  There is one also
+dead out of one of our ships at Deptford, which troubles us mightily; the
+Providence fire-ship, which was just fitted to go to sea.  But they tell
+me to-day no more sick on board. And this day W. Bodham tells me that one
+is dead at Woolwich, not far from the Rope-yard.  I am told, too, that a
+wife of one of the groomes at Court is dead at Salsbury; so that the King
+and Queene are speedily to be all gone to Milton.  God preserve us!
+
+13th (Lord's day).  Up betimes and to my chamber, it being a very wet day
+all day, and glad am I that we did not go by water to see "The Soveraigne"
+
+     ["The Sovereign of the Seas" was built at Woolwich in 1637 of timber
+     which had been stripped of its bark while growing in the spring, and
+     not felled till the second autumn afterwards; and it is observed by
+     Dr. Plot ("Phil.  Trans."  for 1691), in his discourse on the most
+     seasonable time for felling timber, written by the advice of Pepys,
+     that after forty-seven years, "all the ancient timber then remaining
+     in her, it was no easy matter to drive a nail into it" ("Quarterly
+     Review," vol. viii., p. 35).--B.]
+
+to-day, as I intended, clearing all matters in packing up my papers and
+books, and giving instructions in writing to my executors, thereby
+perfecting the whole business of my will, to my very great joy; so that I
+shall be in much better state of soul, I hope, if it should please the
+Lord to call me away this sickly time.  At night to read, being weary with
+this day's great work, and then after supper to bed, to rise betimes
+to-morrow, and to bed with a mind as free as to the business of the world
+as if I were not worth L100 in the whole world, every thing being evened
+under my hand in my books and papers, and upon the whole I find myself
+worth, besides Brampton estate, the sum of L2164, for which the Lord be
+praised!
+
+14th.  Up, and my mind being at mighty ease from the dispatch of my
+business so much yesterday, I down to Deptford to Sir G. Carteret, where
+with him a great while, and a great deale of private talke concerning my
+Lord Sandwich's and his matters, and chiefly of the latter, I giving him
+great deale of advice about the necessity of his having caution concerning
+Fenn, and the many ways there are of his being abused by any man in his
+place, and why he should not bring his son in to look after his business,
+and more, to be a Commissioner of the Navy, which he listened to and
+liked, and told me how much the King was his good Master, and was sure not
+to deny him that or any thing else greater than that, and I find him a
+very cunning man, whatever at other times he seems to be, and among other
+things he told me he was not for the fanfaroone
+
+     [Fanfaron, French, from fanfare, a sounding of trumpets; hence, a
+     swaggerer, or empty boaster.]
+
+to make a show with a great title, as he might have had long since, but
+the main thing to get an estate; and another thing, speaking of minding of
+business, "By God," says he, "I will and have already almost brought it to
+that pass, that the King shall not be able to whip a cat, but I must be at
+the tayle of it."  Meaning so necessary he is, and the King and my Lord
+Treasurer and all do confess it; which, while I mind my business, is my
+own case in this office of the Navy, and I hope shall be more, if God give
+me life and health.  Thence by agreement to Sir J. Minnes's lodgings,
+where I found my Lord Bruncker, and so by water to the ferry, and there
+took Sir W. Batten's coach that was sent for us, and to Sir W. Batten's,
+where very merry, good cheer, and up and down the garden with great
+content to me, and, after dinner, beat Captain Cocke at billiards, won
+about 8s. of him and my Lord Bruncker.  So in the evening after, much
+pleasure back again and I by water to Woolwich, where supped with my wife,
+and then to bed betimes, because of rising to-morrow at four of the clock
+in order to the going out with Sir G. Carteret toward Cranborne to my Lord
+Hinchingbrooke in his way to Court.  This night I did present my wife with
+the dyamond ring, awhile since given me by Mr. Dicke Vines's brother, for
+helping him to be a purser, valued at about L10, the first thing of that
+nature I did ever give her.  Great fears we have that the plague will be a
+great Bill this weeke.
+
+15th.  Up by 4 o'clock and walked to Greenwich, where called at Captain
+Cocke's and to his chamber, he being in bed, where something put my last
+night's dream into my head, which I think is the best that ever was
+dreamt, which was that I had my Lady Castlemayne in my armes and was
+admitted to use all the dalliance I desired with her, and then dreamt that
+this could not be awake, but that it was only a dream; but that since it
+was a dream, and that I took so much real pleasure in it, what a happy
+thing it would be if when we are in our graves (as Shakespeere resembles
+it) we could dream, and dream but such dreams as this, that then we should
+not need to be so fearful of death, as we are this plague time.  Here I
+hear that news is brought Sir G. Carteret that my Lord Hinchingbrooke is
+not well, and so cannot meet us at Cranborne to-night. So I to Sir G.
+Carteret's; and there was sorry with him for our disappointment.  So we
+have put off our meeting there till Saturday next. Here I staid talking
+with Sir G. Carteret, he being mighty free with me in his business, and
+among other things hath ordered Rider and Cutler to put into my hands
+copper to the value of L5,000 (which Sir G. Carteret's share it seems come
+to in it), which is to raise part of the money he is to layout for a
+purchase for my Lady Jemimah.  Thence he and I to Sir J. Minnes's by
+invitation, where Sir W. Batten and my Lady, and my Lord Bruncker, and all
+of us dined upon a venison pasty and other good meat, but nothing well
+dressed.  But my pleasure lay in getting some bills signed by Sir G.
+Carteret, and promise of present payment from Mr. Fenn, which do rejoice
+my heart, it being one of the heaviest things I had upon me, that so much
+of the little I have should lie (viz. near L1000) in the King's hands.
+Here very merry and (Sir G. Carteret being gone presently after dinner) to
+Captain Cocke's, and there merry, and so broke up and I by water to the
+Duke of Albemarle, with whom I spoke a great deale in private, they being
+designed to send a fleete of ships privately to the Streights.  No news
+yet from our fleete, which is much wondered at, but the Duke says for
+certain guns have been heard to the northward very much.  It was dark
+before I could get home, and so land at Church-yard stairs, where, to my
+great trouble, I met a dead corps of the plague, in the narrow ally just
+bringing down a little pair of stairs.  But I thank God I was not much
+disturbed at it.  However, I shall beware of being late abroad again.
+
+16th.  Up, and after doing some necessary business about my accounts at
+home, to the office, and there with Mr. Hater wrote letters, and I did
+deliver to him my last will, one part of it to deliver to my wife when I
+am dead.  Thence to the Exchange, where I have not been a great while.
+But, Lord! how sad a sight it is to see the streets empty of people, and
+very few upon the 'Change.  Jealous of every door that one sees shut up,
+lest it should be the plague; and about us two shops in three, if not
+more, generally shut up.  From the 'Change to Sir G. Smith's' with Mr.
+Fenn, to whom I am nowadays very complaisant, he being under payment of my
+bills to me, and some other sums at my desire, which he readily do. Mighty
+merry with Captain Cocke and Fenn at Sir G. Smith's, and a brave dinner,
+but I think Cocke is the greatest epicure that is, eats and drinks with
+the greatest pleasure and liberty that ever man did.  Very contrary newes
+to-day upon the 'Change, some that our fleete hath taken some of the Dutch
+East India ships, others that we did attaque it at Bergen and were
+repulsed, others that our fleete is in great danger after this attaque by
+meeting with the great body now gone out of Holland, almost 100 sayle of
+men of warr.  Every body is at a great losse and nobody can tell.  Thence
+among the goldsmiths to get some money, and so home, settling some new
+money matters, and to my great joy have got home L500 more of the money
+due to me, and got some more money to help Andrews first advanced.  This
+day I had the ill news from Dagenhams, that my poor lord of Hinchingbroke
+his indisposition is turned to the small-pox.  Poor gentleman! that he
+should be come from France so soon to fall sick, and of that disease too,
+when he should be gone to see a fine lady, his mistresse.  I am most
+heartily sorry for it.  So late setting papers to rights, and so home to
+bed.
+
+17th.  Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon
+dined together upon some victuals I had prepared at Sir W. Batten's upon
+the King's charge, and after dinner, I having dispatched some business and
+set things in order at home, we down to the water and by boat to Greenwich
+to the Bezan yacht, where Sir W. Batten, Sir J. Minnes, my Lord Bruncker
+and myself, with some servants (among others Mr. Carcasse, my Lord's
+clerk, a very civil gentleman), embarked in the yacht and down we went
+most pleasantly, and noble discourse I had with my Lord Bruneker, who is a
+most excellent person.  Short of Gravesend it grew calme, and so we come
+to an anchor, and to supper mighty merry, and after it, being moonshine,
+we out of the cabbin to laugh and talk, and then, as we grew sleepy, went
+in and upon velvet cushions of the King's that belong to the yacht fell to
+sleep, which we all did pretty well till 3 or 4 of the clock, having risen
+in the night to look for a new comet which is said to have lately shone,
+but we could see no such thing.
+
+18th.  Up about 5 o'clock and dressed ourselves, and to sayle again down
+to the Soveraigne at the buoy of the Nore, a noble ship, now rigged and
+fitted and manned; we did not stay long, but to enquire after her
+readinesse and thence to Sheernesse, where we walked up and down, laying
+out the ground to be taken in for a yard to lay provisions for cleaning
+and repairing of ships, and a most proper place it is for the purpose.
+Thence with great pleasure up the Meadeway, our yacht contending with
+Commissioner Pett's, wherein he met us from Chatham, and he had the best
+of it.  Here I come by, but had not tide enough to stop at Quinbrough, a
+with mighty pleasure spent the day in doing all and seeing these places,
+which I had never done before.  So to the Hill house at Chatham and there
+dined, and after dinner spent some time discoursing of business.  Among
+others arguing with the Commissioner about his proposing the laying out so
+much money upon Sheerenesse, unless it be to the slighting of Chatham
+yarde, for it is much a better place than Chatham, which however the King
+is not at present in purse to do, though it were to be wished he were.
+Thence in Commissioner Pett's coach (leaving them there).  I late in the
+darke to Gravesend, where great is the plague, and I troubled to stay
+there so long for the tide.  At 10 at night, having supped, I took boat
+alone, and slept well all the way to the Tower docke about three o'clock
+in the morning.  So knocked up my people, and to bed.
+
+19th.  Slept till 8 o'clock, and then up and met with letters from the
+King and Lord Arlington, for the removal of our office to Greenwich. I
+also wrote letters, and made myself ready to go to Sir G. Carteret, at
+Windsor; and having borrowed a horse of Mr. Blackbrough, sent him to wait
+for me at the Duke of Albemarle's door: when, on a sudden, a letter comes
+to us from the Duke of Albemarle, to tell us that the fleete is all come
+back to Solebay, and are presently to be dispatched back again. Whereupon
+I presently by water to the Duke of Albemarle to know what news; and there
+I saw a letter from my Lord Sandwich to the Duke of Albemarle, and also
+from Sir W. Coventry and Captain Teddiman; how my Lord having commanded
+Teddiman with twenty-two ships
+
+     [A news letter of August 19th (Salisbury), gives the following
+     account of this affair:--"The Earl of Sandwich being on the Norway
+     coast, ordered Sir Thomas Teddeman with 20 ships to attack 50 Dutch
+     merchant ships in Bergen harbour; six convoyers had so placed
+     themselves that only four or five of the ships could be reached at
+     once.  The Governor of Bergen fired on our ships, and placed 100
+     pieces of ordnance and two regiments of foot on the rocks to attack
+     them, but they got clear without the loss of a ship, only 500 men
+     killed or wounded, five or six captains among them. The fleet has
+     gone to Sole Bay to repair losses and be ready to encounter the
+     Dutch fleet, which is gone northward" ("Calendar of State Papers,"
+     1664-65, pp. 526, 527).  Medals were struck in Holland, the
+     inscription in Dutch on one of these is thus translated: "Thus we
+     arrest the pride of the English, who extend their piracy even
+     against their friends, and who insulting the forts of Norway,
+     violate the rights of the harbours of King Frederick; but, for the
+     reward of their audacity, see their vessels destroyed by the balls
+     of the Dutch" (Hawkins's "Medallic Illustrations of the History of
+     Great Britain and Ireland," ed.  Franks and Grueber, 1885, vol. i.,
+     p. 508).  Sir Gilbert Talbot's "True Narrative of the Earl of
+     Sandwich's Attempt upon Bergen with the English Fleet on the 3rd of
+     August, 1665, and the Cause of his Miscarriage thereupon," is in the
+     British Museum (Harl. MS., No. 6859).  It is printed in
+     "Archaeologia," vol.  xxii., p. 33.  The Earl of Rochester also gave
+     an account of the action in a letter to his mother (Wordsworth's
+     "Ecclesiastical Biography," fourth edition, vol. iv., p. 611).  Sir
+     John Denham, in his "Advice to a Painter," gives a long satirical
+     account of the affair.  A coloured drawing of the attack upon
+     Bergen, on vellum, showing the range of the ships engaged, is in the
+     British Museum.  Shortly after the Bergen affair forty of the Dutch
+     merchant vessels, on their way to Holland, fell into the hands of
+     the English, and in Penn's "Memorials of Sir William Penn," vol.
+     ii., p. 364, is a list of the prizes taken on the 3rd and 4th
+     September.  The troubles connected with these prizes and the
+     disgrace into which Lord Sandwich fell are fully set forth in
+     subsequent pages of the Diary.  Evelyn writes in his Diary (November
+     27th, 1665): "There was no small suspicion of my Lord Sandwich
+     having permitted divers commanders who were at ye taking of ye East
+     India prizes to break bulk and take to themselves jewels, silkes,
+     &c., tho' I believe some whom I could name fill'd their pockets, my
+     Lo. Sandwich himself had the least share.  However, he underwent the
+     blame, and it created him enemies, and prepossess'd ye Lo. Generall
+     [Duke of Albemarle], for he spake to me of it with much zeale and
+     concerne, and I believe laid load enough on Lo.  Sandwich at
+     Oxford."]
+
+(of which but fifteen could get thither, and of those fifteen but eight or
+nine could come up to play) to go to Bergen; where, after several messages
+to and fro from the Governor of the Castle, urging that Teddiman ought not
+to come thither with more than five ships, and desiring time to think of
+it, all the while he suffering the Dutch ships to land their guns to their
+best advantage; Teddiman on the second pretence, began to play at the
+Dutch ships, (wherof ten East India-men,) and in three hours' time (the
+town and castle, without any provocation, playing on our ships,) they did
+cut all our cables, so as the wind being off the land, did force us to go
+out, and rendered our fire-ships useless; without doing any thing, but
+what hurt of course our guns must have done them: we having lost five
+commanders, besides Mr. Edward Montagu, and Mr. Windham.
+
+     [This Mr. Windham had entered into a formal engagement with the Earl
+     of Rochester, "not without ceremonies of religion, that if either of
+     them died, he should appear, and give the other notice of the future
+     state, if there was any."  He was probably one of the brothers of
+     Sir William Wyndham, Bart.  See Wordsworth's "Ecclesiastical
+     Biography," fourth.  edition, vol. iv., p. 615.--B.]
+
+Our fleete is come home to our great grief with not above five weeks' dry,
+and six days' wet provisions: however, must out again; and the Duke hath
+ordered the Soveraigne, and all other ships ready, to go out to the fleete
+to strengthen them.  This news troubles us all, but cannot be helped.
+Having read all this news, and received commands of the Duke with great
+content, he giving me the words which to my great joy he hath several
+times said to me, that his greatest reliance is upon me.  And my Lord
+Craven also did come out to talk with me, and told me that I am in mighty
+esteem with the Duke, for which I bless God.  Home, and having given my
+fellow-officers an account hereof, to Chatham, and wrote other letters, I
+by water to Charing-Cross, to the post-house, and there the people tell me
+they are shut up; and so I went to the new post-house, and there got a
+guide and horses to Hounslow, where I was mightily taken with a little
+girle, the daughter of the master of the house (Betty Gysby), which, if
+she lives, will make a great beauty.  Here I met with a fine fellow who,
+while I staid for my horses, did enquire newes, but I could not make him
+remember Bergen in Norway, in 6 or 7 times telling, so ignorant he was.
+So to Stanes, and there by this time it was dark night, and got a guide
+who lost his way in the forest, till by help of the moone (which
+recompenses me for all the pains I ever took about studying of her
+motions,) I led my guide into the way back again; and so we made a man
+rise that kept a gate, and so he carried us to Cranborne.  Where in the
+dark I perceive an old house new building with a great deal of rubbish,
+and was fain to go up a ladder to Sir G. Carteret's chamber.  And there in
+his bed I sat down, and told him all my bad newes, which troubled him
+mightily; but yet we were very merry, and made the best of it; and being
+myself weary did take leave, and after having spoken with Mr. Fenn in bed,
+I to bed in my Lady's chamber that she uses to lie in, and where the
+Duchesse of York, that now is, was born.  So to sleep; being very well,
+but weary, and the better by having carried with me a bottle of strong
+water; whereof now and then a sip did me good.
+
+20th (Lord's day).  Sir G. Carteret come and walked by my bedside half an
+houre, talking and telling me how my Lord is in this unblameable in all
+this ill-successe, he having followed orders; and that all ought to be
+imputed to the falsenesse of the King of Denmarke, who, he told me as a
+secret, had promised to deliver up the Dutch ships to us, and we expected
+no less; and swears it will, and will easily, be the ruine of him and his
+kingdom, if we fall out with him, as we must in honour do; but that all
+that can be, must be to get the fleete out again to intercept De Witt, who
+certainly will be coming home with the East India ships, he being gone
+thither.  He being gone, I up and with Fenn, being ready to walk forth to
+see the place; and I find it to be a very noble seat in a noble forest,
+with the noblest prospect towards Windsor, and round about over many
+countys, that can be desired; but otherwise a very melancholy place, and
+little variety save only trees.  I had thoughts of going home by water,
+and of seeing Windsor Chappell and Castle, but finding at my coming in
+that Sir G. Carteret did prevent me in speaking for my sudden return to
+look after business, I did presently eat a bit off the spit about 10
+o'clock, and so took horse for Stanes, and thence to Brainford to Mr.
+Povy's, the weather being very pleasant to ride in.  Mr. Povy not being at
+home I lost my labour, only eat and drank there with his lady, and told my
+bad newes, and hear the plague is round about them there. So away to
+Brainford; and there at the inn that goes down to the water-side, I 'light
+and paid off my post-horses, and so slipped on my shoes, and laid my
+things by, the tide not serving, and to church, where a dull sermon, and
+many Londoners.  After church to my inn, and eat and drank, and so about
+seven o'clock by water, and got between nine and ten to Queenhive, very
+dark.  And I could not get my waterman to go elsewhere for fear of the
+plague.  Thence with a lanthorn, in great fear of meeting of dead corpses,
+carried to be buried; but, blessed be God, met none, but did see now and
+then a linke (which is the mark of them) at a distance. So got safe home
+about 10 o'clock, my people not all abed, and after supper I weary to bed.
+
+21st.  Called up, by message from Lord Bruncker and the rest of my
+fellows, that they will meet me at the Duke of Albemarle's this morning;
+so I up, and weary, however, got thither before them, and spoke with my
+Lord, and with him and other gentlemen to walk in the Parke, where, I
+perceive, he spends much of his time, having no whither else to go; and
+here I hear him speake of some Presbyter people that he caused to be
+apprehended yesterday, at a private meeting in Covent Garden, which he
+would have released upon paying L5 per man to the poor, but it was
+answered, they would not pay anything; so he ordered them to another
+prison from the guard.  By and by comes my fellow-officers, and the Duke
+walked in, and to counsel with us; and that being done we departed, and
+Sir W. Batten and I to the office, where, after I had done a little
+business, I to his house to dinner, whither comes Captain Cocke, for whose
+epicurisme a dish of partriges was sent for, and still gives me reason to
+think is the greatest epicure in the world.  Thence, after dinner, I by
+water to Sir W. Warren's and with him two hours, talking of things to his
+and my profit, and particularly good advice from him what use to make of
+Sir G. Carteret's kindnesse to me and my interest in him, with exceeding
+good cautions for me not using it too much nor obliging him to fear by
+prying into his secrets, which it were easy for me to do. Thence to my
+Lord Bruncker, at Greenwich, and Sir J. Minnes by appointment, to looke
+after the lodgings appointed for us there for our office, which do by no
+means please me, they being in the heart of all the labourers and workmen
+there, which makes it as unsafe as to be, I think, at London.  Mr. Hugh
+May, who is a most ingenuous man, did show us the lodgings, and his
+acquaintance I am desirous of.  Thence walked, it being now dark, to Sir
+J. Minnes's, and there staid at the door talking with him an hour while
+messengers went to get a boat for me, to carry me to Woolwich, but all to
+no purpose; so I was forced to walk it in the darke, at ten o'clock at
+night, with Sir J. Minnes's George with me, being mightily troubled for
+fear of the doggs at Coome farme, and more for fear of rogues by the way,
+and yet more because of the plague which is there, which is very strange,
+it being a single house, all alone from the towne, but it seems they use
+to admit beggars, for their owne safety, to lie in their barns, and they
+brought it to them; but I bless God I got about eleven of the clock well
+to my wife, and giving 4s. in recompence to George, I to my wife, and
+having first viewed her last piece of drawing since I saw her, which is
+seven or eight days, which pleases me beyond any thing in the world, to
+bed with great content but weary.
+
+22nd.  Up, and after much pleasant talke and being importuned by my wife
+and her two mayds, which are both good wenches, for me to buy a necklace
+of pearle for her, and I promising to give her one of L60 in two years at
+furthest, and in less if she pleases me in her painting, I went away and
+walked to Greenwich, in my way seeing a coffin with a dead body therein,
+dead of the plague, lying in an open close belonging to Coome farme, which
+was carried out last night, and the parish have not appointed any body to
+bury it; but only set a watch there day and night, that nobody should go
+thither or come thence, which is a most cruel thing: this disease making
+us more cruel to one another than if we are doggs.  So to the King's
+House, and there met my Lord Bruncker and Sir J. Minnes, and to our
+lodgings again that are appointed for us, which do please me better to day
+than last night, and are set a doing.  Thence I to Deptford, where by
+appointment I find Mr. Andrews come, and to the Globe, where we dined
+together and did much business as to our Plymouth gentlemen; and after a
+good dinner and good discourse, he being a very good man, I think verily,
+we parted and I to the King's yard, walked up and down, and by and by out
+at the back gate, and there saw the Bagwell's wife's mother and daughter,
+and went to them, and went in to the daughter's house with the mother, and
+'faciebam le cose que ego tenebam a mind to con elle', and drinking and
+talking, by and by away, and so walked to Redriffe, troubled to go through
+the little lane, where the plague is, but did and took water and home,
+where all well; but Mr. Andrews not coming to even accounts, as I
+expected, with relation to something of my own profit, I was vexed that I
+could not settle to business, but home to my viall, though in the evening
+he did come to my satisfaction.  So after supper (he being gone first) I
+to settle my journall and to bed.
+
+23rd.  Up, and whereas I had appointed Mr. Hater and Will to come betimes
+to the office to meet me about business there, I was called upon as soon
+as ready by Mr. Andrews to my great content, and he and I to our Tangier
+accounts, where I settled, to my great joy, all my accounts with him, and,
+which is more, cleared for my service to the contractors since the last
+sum I received of them, L222 13s. profit to myself, and received the money
+actually in the afternoon.  After he was gone comes by a pretence of mine
+yesterday old Delks the waterman, with his daughter Robins, and several
+times to and again, he leaving her with me, about the getting of his son
+Robins off, who was pressed yesterday again .  .  .  .  All the afternoon
+at my office mighty busy writing letters, and received a very kind and
+good one from my Lord Sandwich of his arrival with the fleete at Solebay,
+and the joy he has at my last newes he met with, of the marriage of my
+Lady Jemimah; and he tells me more, the good newes that all our ships,
+which were in such danger that nobody would insure upon them, from the
+Eastland,
+
+     [Eastland was a name given to the eastern countries of Europe.  The
+     Eastland Company, or Company of Merchants trading to the East
+     Country, was incorporated in Queen Elizabeth's reign (anno 21), and
+     the charter was confirmed 13 Car. II. They were also called "The
+     Merchants of Elbing."]
+
+were all safe arrived, which I am sure is a great piece of good luck,
+being in much more danger than those of Hambrough which were lost, and
+their value much greater at this time to us.  At night home, much
+contented with this day's work, and being at home alone looking over my
+papers, comes a neighbour of ours hard by to speak with me about business
+of the office, one Mr. Fuller, a great merchant, but not my acquaintance,
+but he come drunk, and would have had me gone and drunk with him at home,
+or have let him send for wine hither, but I would do neither, nor offered
+him any, but after some sorry discourse parted, and I up to [my] chamber
+and to bed.
+
+24th.  Up betimes to my office, where my clerks with me, and very busy all
+the morning writing letters.  At noon down to Sir J. Minnes and Lord
+Bruncker to Greenwich to sign some of the Treasurer's books, and there
+dined very well; and thence to look upon our rooms again at the King's
+house, which are not yet ready for us.  So home and late writing letters,
+and so, weary with business, home to supper and to bed.
+
+25th.  Up betimes to the office, and there, as well as all the afternoon,
+saving a little dinner time, all alone till late at night writing letters
+and doing business, that I may get beforehand with my business again,
+which hath run behind a great while, and then home to supper and to bed.
+This day I am told that Dr. Burnett, my physician, is this morning dead of
+the plague; which is strange, his man dying so long ago, and his house
+this month open again.  Now himself dead.  Poor unfortunate man!
+
+26th.  Up betimes, and prepared to my great satisfaction an account for
+the board of my office disbursements, which I had suffered to run on to
+almost L120.  That done I down by water to Greenwich, where we met the
+first day my Lord Bruncker, Sir J. Minnes, and I, and I think we shall do
+well there, and begin very auspiciously to me by having my account
+abovesaid passed, and put into a way of having it presently paid.  When we
+rose I find Mr. Andrews and Mr. Yeabsly, who is just come from Plymouth,
+at the door, and we walked together toward my Lord Brunker's, talking
+about their business, Yeabsly being come up on purpose to discourse with
+me about it, and finished all in a quarter of an hour, and is gone again.
+I perceive they have some inclination to be going on with their
+victualling-business for a while longer before they resign it to Mr.
+Gauden, and I am well contented, for it brings me very good profit with
+certainty, yet with much care and some pains.  We parted at my Lord
+Bruncker's doore, where I went in, having never been there before, and
+there he made a noble entertainment for Sir J. Minnes, myself, and Captain
+Cocke, none else saving some painted lady that dined there, I know not who
+she is.  But very merry we were, and after dinner into the garden, and to
+see his and her chamber, where some good pictures, and a very handsome
+young woman for my lady's woman.  Thence I by water home, in my way seeing
+a man taken up dead, out of the hold of a small catch that lay at
+Deptford.  I doubt it might be the plague, which, with the thought of Dr.
+Burnett, did something disturb me, so that I did not what I intended and
+should have done at the office, as to business, but home sooner than
+ordinary, and after supper, to read melancholy alone, and then to bed.
+
+27th (Lord's day).  Very well in the morning, and up and to my chamber all
+the morning to put my things and papers yet more in order, and so to
+dinner.  Thence all the afternoon at my office till late making up my
+papers and letters there into a good condition of order, and so home to
+supper, and after reading a good while in the King's works,--[Charles I.'s
+Works, now in the Pepysian Library]--which is a noble book, to bed.
+
+28th.  Up, and being ready I out to Mr. Colvill, the goldsmith's, having
+not for some days been in the streets; but now how few people I see, and
+those looking like people that had taken leave of the world.  I there, and
+made even all accounts in the world between him and I, in a very good
+condition, and I would have done the like with Sir Robert Viner, but he is
+out of towne, the sicknesse being every where thereabouts.  I to the
+Exchange, and I think there was not fifty people upon it, and but few more
+like to be as they told me, Sir G. Smith and others.  Thus I think to take
+adieu to-day of the London streets, unless it be to go again to Viner's.
+Home to dinner, and there W. Hewer brings me L119 he hath received for my
+office disbursements, so that I think I have L1800 and more in the house,
+and, blessed be God! no money out but what I can very well command and
+that but very little, which is much the best posture I ever was in in my
+life, both as to the quantity and the certainty I have of the money I am
+worth; having most of it in my own hand.  But then this is a trouble to me
+what to do with it, being myself this day going to be wholly at Woolwich;
+but for the present I am resolved to venture it in an iron chest, at least
+for a while.  In the afternoon I sent down my boy to Woolwich with some
+things before me, in order to my lying there for good and all, and so I
+followed him.  Just now comes newes that the fleete is gone, or going this
+day, out again, for which God be praised!  and my Lord Sandwich hath done
+himself great right in it, in getting so soon out again.  I pray God, he
+may meet the enemy.  Towards the evening, just as I was fitting myself,
+comes W. Hewer and shows me a letter which Mercer had wrote to her mother
+about a great difference between my wife and her yesterday, and that my
+wife will have her go away presently.  This, together with my natural
+jealousy that some bad thing or other may be in the way, did trouble me
+exceedingly, so as I was in a doubt whether to go thither or no, but
+having fitted myself and my things I did go, and by night got thither,
+where I met my wife walking to the waterside with her paynter, Mr. Browne,
+and her mayds.  There I met Commissioner Pett, and my Lord Brunker, and
+the lady at his house had been thereto-day, to see her.  Commissioner Pett
+staid a very little while, and so I to supper with my wife and Mr.
+Shelden, and so to bed with great pleasure.
+
+29th.  In the morning waking, among other discourse my wife begun to tell
+me the difference between her and Mercer, and that it was only from
+restraining her to gad abroad to some Frenchmen that were in the town,
+which I do not wholly yet in part believe, and for my quiet would not
+enquire into it.  So rose and dressed myself, and away by land walking a
+good way, then remembered that I had promised Commissioner Pett to go with
+him in his coach, and therefore I went back again to him, and so by his
+coach to Greenwich, and called at Sir Theophilus Biddulph's, a sober,
+discreet man, to discourse of the preventing of the plague in Greenwich,
+and Woolwich, and Deptford, where in every place it begins to grow very
+great.  We appointed another meeting, and so walked together to Greenwich
+and there parted, and Pett and I to the office, where all the morning, and
+after office done I to Sir J. Minnes and dined with him, and thence to
+Deptford thinking to have seen Bagwell, but did not, and so straight to
+Redriffe, and home, and late at my business to dispatch away letters, and
+then home to bed, which I did not intend, but to have staid for altogether
+at Woolwich, but I made a shift for a bed for Tom, whose bed is gone to
+Woolwich, and so to bed.
+
+30th.  Up betimes and to my business of settling my house and papers, and
+then abroad and met with Hadley, our clerke, who, upon my asking how the
+plague goes, he told me it encreases much, and much in our parish; for,
+says he, there died nine this week, though I have returned but six: which
+is a very ill practice, and makes me think it is so in other places; and
+therefore the plague much greater than people take it to be.  Thence, as I
+intended, to Sir R. Viner's, and there found not Mr. Lewes ready for me,
+so I went forth and walked towards Moorefields to see (God forbid my
+presumption!) whether I could see any dead corps going to the grave; but,
+as God would have it, did not.  But, Lord! how every body's looks, and
+discourse in the street is of death, and nothing else, and few people
+going up and down, that the towne is like a place distressed and forsaken.
+After one turne there back to Viner's, and there found my business ready
+for me, and evened all reckonings with them to this day to my great
+content.  So home, and all day till very late at night setting my Tangier
+and private accounts in order, which I did in both, and in the latter to
+my great joy do find myself yet in the much best condition that ever I was
+in, finding myself worth L2180 and odd, besides plate and goods, which I
+value at L250 more, which is a very great blessing to me. The Lord make me
+thankfull! and of this at this day above L1800 in cash in my house, which
+speaks but little out of my hands in desperate condition, but this is very
+troublesome to have in my house at this time. So late to bed, well pleased
+with my accounts, but weary of being so long at them.
+
+31st.  Up and, after putting several things in order to my removal, to
+Woolwich; the plague having a great encrease this week, beyond all
+expectation of almost 2,000, making the general Bill 7,000, odd 100; and
+the plague above 6,000.  I down by appointment to Greenwich, to our
+office, where I did some business, and there dined with our company and
+Sir W. Boreman, and Sir The. Biddulph, at Mr. Boreman's, where a good
+venison pasty, and after a good merry dinner I to my office, and there
+late writing letters, and then to Woolwich by water, where pleasant with
+my wife and people, and after supper to bed.  Thus this month ends with
+great sadness upon the publick, through the greatness of the plague every
+where through the kingdom almost.  Every day sadder and sadder news of its
+encrease.  In the City died this week 7,496 and of them 6,102 of the
+plague.  But it is feared that the true number of the dead, this week is
+near 10,000; partly from the poor that cannot be taken notice of, through
+the greatness of the number, and partly from the Quakers and others that
+will not have any bell ring for them.  Our fleete gone out to find the
+Dutch, we having about 100 sail in our fleete, and in them the Soveraigne
+one; so that it is a better fleete than the former with the Duke was. All
+our fear is that the Dutch should be got in before them; which would be a
+very great sorrow to the publick, and to me particularly, for my Lord
+Sandwich's sake.  A great deal of money being spent, and the kingdom not
+in a condition to spare, nor a parliament without much difficulty to meet
+to give more.  And to that; to have it said, what hath been done by our
+late fleetes?  As to myself I am very well, only in fear of the plague,
+and as much of an ague by being forced to go early and late to Woolwich,
+and my family to lie there continually.  My late gettings have been very
+great to my great content, and am likely to have yet a few more profitable
+jobbs in a little while; for which Tangier, and Sir W. Warren I am wholly
+obliged to.
+
+
+
+
+     ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:
+
+     A fair salute on horseback, in Rochester streets, of the lady
+     Bagwell's wife waited at the door, and went with me to my office
+     Because I would not be over sure of any thing
+     Being the first Wednesday of the month
+     Bottle of strong water; whereof now and then a sip did me good
+     Copper to the value of L5,000
+     Disease making us more cruel to one another than if we are doggs
+     Every body is at a great losse and nobody can tell
+     Every body's looks, and discourse in the street is of death
+     First thing of that nature I did ever give her (L10 ring)
+     For my quiet would not enquire into it
+     Give the other notice of the future state, if there was any
+     His wife and three children died, all, I think, in a day
+     How sad a sight it is to see the streets empty of people
+     I met a dead corps of the plague, in the narrow ally
+     In our graves (as Shakespeere resembles it) we could dream
+     King is not at present in purse to do
+     King shall not be able to whip a cat
+     Not liking that it should lie long undone, for fear of death
+     Ordered in the yarde six or eight bargemen to be whipped
+     Pest coaches and put her into it to carry her to a pest house
+     Quakers and others that will not have any bell ring for them
+     Resolving not to be bribed to dispatch business
+     Two shops in three, if not more, generally shut up
+     Well enough pleased this morning with their night's lodging
+
+
+
+
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+                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.
+                                 AUGUST
+                                  1665
+
+
+August 1st.  Slept, and lay long; then up and my Lord [Crew] and Sir G.
+Carteret being gone abroad, I first to see the bridegroom and bride, and
+found them both up, and he gone to dress himself.  Both red in the face,
+and well enough pleased this morning with their night's lodging.  Thence
+down and Mr. Brisband and I to billiards: anon come my Lord and Sir G.
+Carteret in, who have been looking abroad and visiting some farms that
+Sir G. Carteret hath thereabouts, and, among other things, report the
+greatest stories of the bigness of the calfes they find there, ready to
+sell to the butchers, as big, they say, as little Cowes, and that they do
+give them a piece of chalke to licke, which they hold makes them white in
+the flesh within.  Very merry at dinner, and so to talk and laugh after
+dinner, and up and down, some to [one] place, some to another, full of
+content on all sides.  Anon about five o'clock, Sir G. Carteret and his
+lady and I took coach with the greatest joy and kindnesse that could be
+from the two familys or that ever I saw with so much appearance, and, I
+believe, reality in all my life.  Drove hard home, and it was night ere
+we got to Deptford, where, with much kindnesse from them to me, I left
+them, and home to the office, where I find all well, and being weary and
+sleepy, it being very late, I to bed.
+
+
+
+2nd.  Up, it being a publique fast, as being the first Wednesday of the
+month, for the plague; I within doors all day, and upon my monthly
+accounts late, and there to my great joy settled almost all my private
+matters of money in my books clearly, and allowing myself several sums
+which I had hitherto not reckoned myself sure of, because I would not be
+over sure of any thing, though with reason I might do it, I did find
+myself really worth L1900, for which the great God of Heaven and Earth be
+praised!  At night to the office to write a few letters, and so home to
+bed, after fitting myself for tomorrow's journey.
+
+
+
+3rd.  Up, and betimes to Deptford to Sir G. Carteret's, where, not liking
+the horse that had been hired by Mr. Uthwayt for me, I did desire Sir G.
+Carteret to let me ride his new L40 horse, which he did, and so I left my
+'hacquenee'--[Haquenee = an ambling nag fitted for ladies' riding.]--
+behind, and so after staying a good while in their bedchamber while they
+were dressing themselves, discoursing merrily, I parted and to the ferry,
+where I was forced to stay a great while before I could get my horse
+brought over, and then mounted and rode very finely to Dagenhams; all the
+way people, citizens, walking to and again to enquire how the plague is
+in the City this week by the Bill; which by chance, at Greenwich, I had
+heard was 2,020 of the plague, and 3,000 and odd of all diseases; but
+methought it was a sad question to be so often asked me.  Coming to
+Dagenhams, I there met our company coming out of the house, having staid
+as long as they could for me; so I let them go a little before, and went
+and took leave of my Lady Sandwich, good woman, who seems very sensible
+of my service in this late business, and having her directions in some
+things, among others, to get Sir G. Carteret and my Lord to settle the
+portion, and what Sir G. Carteret is to settle, into land, soon as may
+be, she not liking that it should lie long undone, for fear of death on
+either side.  So took leave of her, and then down to the buttery, and eat
+a piece of cold venison pie, and drank and took some bread and cheese in
+my hand; and so mounted after them, Mr. Marr very kindly staying to lead
+me the way.  By and by met my Lord Crew returning, after having
+accompanied them a little way, and so after them, Mr. Marr telling me by
+the way how a mayde servant of Mr. John Wright's (who lives thereabouts)
+falling sick of the plague, she was removed to an out-house, and a nurse
+appointed to look to her; who, being once absent, the mayde got out of
+the house at the window, and run away.  The nurse coming and knocking,
+and having no answer, believed she was dead, and went and told Mr. Wright
+so; who and his lady were in great strait what to do to get her buried.
+At last resolved to go to Burntwood hard by, being in the parish, and
+there get people to do it.  But they would not; so he went home full of
+trouble, and in the way met the wench walking over the common, which
+frighted him worse than before; and was forced to send people to take
+her, which he did; and they got one of the pest coaches and put her into
+it to carry her to a pest house.  And passing in a narrow lane, Sir
+Anthony Browne, with his brother and some friends in the coach, met this
+coach with the curtains drawn close.  The brother being a young man, and
+believing there might be some lady in it that would not be seen, and the
+way being narrow, he thrust his head out of his own into her coach, and
+to look, and there saw somebody look very ill, and in a sick dress, and
+stunk mightily; which the coachman also cried out upon.  And presently
+they come up to some people that stood looking after it, and told our
+gallants that it was a mayde of Mr. Wright's carried away sick of the
+plague; which put the young gentleman into a fright had almost cost him
+his life, but is now well again.  I, overtaking our young people, 'light,
+and into the coach to them, where mighty merry all the way; and anon come
+to the Blockehouse, over against Gravesend, where we staid a great while,
+in a little drinking-house.  Sent back our coaches to Dagenhams.  I, by
+and by, by boat to Gravesend, where no newes of Sir G. Carteret come yet;
+so back again, and fetched them all over, but the two saddle-horses that
+were to go with us, which could not be brought over in the horseboat, the
+wind and tide being against us, without towing; so we had some difference
+with some watermen, who would not tow them over under 20s., whereupon I
+swore to send one of them to sea and will do it.  Anon some others come
+to me and did it for 10s.  By and by comes Sir G. Carteret, and so we set
+out for Chatham: in my way overtaking some company, wherein was a lady,
+very pretty, riding singly, her husband in company with her.  We fell
+into talke, and I read a copy of verses which her husband showed me, and
+he discommended, but the lady commended: and I read them, so as to make
+the husband turn to commend them.  By and by he and I fell into
+acquaintance, having known me formerly at the Exchequer.  His name is
+Nokes, over against Bow Church.  He was servant to Alderman Dashwood.
+We promised to meet, if ever we come both to London again; and, at
+parting, I had a fair salute on horseback, in Rochester streets, of the
+lady, and so parted.  Come to Chatham mighty merry, and anon to supper,
+it being near 9 o'clock ere we come thither.  My Lady Carteret come
+thither in a coach, by herself, before us.  Great mind they have to buy a
+little 'hacquenee' that I rode on from Greenwich, for a woman's horse.
+Mighty merry, and after supper, all being withdrawn, Sir G. Carteret did
+take an opportunity to speak with much value and kindness to me, which is
+of great joy to me.  So anon to bed.  Mr. Brisband and I together to my
+content.
+
+
+
+4th.  Up at five o'clock, and by six walked out alone, with my Lady
+Slanning, to the Docke Yard, where walked up and down, and so to Mr.
+Pett's, who led us into his garden, and there the lady, the best humoured
+woman in the world, and a devout woman (I having spied her on her knees
+half an houre this morning in her chamber), clambered up to the top of
+the banquetting-house to gather nuts, and mighty merry, and so walked
+back again through the new rope house, which is very usefull; and so to
+the Hill-house to breakfast and mighty merry.  Then they took coach, and
+Sir G. Carteret kissed me himself heartily, and my Lady several times,
+with great kindnesse, and then the young ladies, and so with much joy,
+bade "God be with you!" and an end I think it will be to my mirthe for a
+great while, it having been the passage of my whole life the most
+pleasing for the time, considering the quality and nature of the
+business, and my noble usage in the doing of it, and very many fine
+journys, entertainments and great company.  I returned into the house for
+a while to do business there with Commissioner Pett, and there with the
+officers of the Chest, where I saw more of Sir W. Batten's business than
+ever I did before, for whereas he did own once under his hand to them
+that he was accountable for L2200, of which he had yet paid but L1600,
+he writes them a letter lately that he hath but about L50 left that is
+due to the Chest, but I will do something in it and that speedily.
+That being done I took horse, and Mr. Barrow with me bore me company to
+Gravesend, discoursing of his business, wherein I vexed him, and he me,
+I seeing his frowardness, but yet that he is in my conscience a very
+honest man, and some good things he told me, which I shall remember to
+the King's advantage.  There I took boat alone, and, the tide being
+against me, landed at Blackwall and walked to Wapping, Captain Bowd whom
+I met with talking with me all the way, who is a sober man.  So home, and
+found all things well, and letters from Dover that my Lord Hinchingbroke
+is arrived at Dover, and would be at Scott's hall this night, where the
+whole company will meet.  I wish myself with them.  After writing a few
+letters I took boat and down to Woolwich very late, and there found my
+wife and her woman upon the key hearing a fellow in a barge, that lay by,
+fiddle.  So I to them and in, very merry, and to bed, I sleepy and weary.
+
+
+
+5th.  In the morning up, and my wife showed me several things of her
+doing, especially one fine woman's Persian head mighty finely done,
+beyond what I could expect of her; and so away by water, having ordered
+in the yarde six or eight bargemen to be whipped, who had last night
+stolen some of the King's cordage from out of the yarde.  I to Deptford,
+and there by agreement met with my Lord Bruncker, and there we kept our
+office, he and I, and did what there was to do, and at noon parted to
+meet at the office next week.  Sir W. Warren and I thence did walk
+through the rain to Half-Way House, and there I eat a piece of boiled
+beef and he and I talked over several businesses, among others our design
+upon the mast docke, which I hope to compass and get 2 or L300 by.
+Thence to Redriffe, where we parted, and I home, where busy all the
+afternoon.  Stepped to Colvill's to set right a business of money, where
+he told me that for certain De Ruyter is come home, with all his fleete,
+which is very ill newes, considering the charge we have been at in
+keeping a fleete to the northward so long, besides the great expectation
+of snapping him, wherein my Lord Sandwich will I doubt suffer some
+dishonour.  I am told also of a great ryott upon Thursday last in
+Cheapside; Colonell Danvers, a delinquent, having been taken, and in his
+way to the Tower was rescued from the captain of the guard, and carried
+away; only one of the rescuers being taken.  I am told also that the Duke
+of Buckingham is dead, but I know not of a certainty.  So home and very
+late at letters, and then home to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+6th (Lord's day).  Dressed and had my head combed by my little girle, to
+whom I confess 'que je sum demasiado kind, nuper ponendo mes mains in su
+des choses de son breast, mais il faut que je' leave it lest it bring me
+to 'alcun major inconvenience'.  So to my business in my chamber, look
+over and settling more of my papers than I could the two last days I have
+spent about them.  In the evening, it raining hard, down to Woolwich,
+where after some little talk to bed.
+
+
+
+7th.  Up, and with great pleasure looking over my wife's pictures, and
+then to see my Lady Pen, whom I have not seen since her coming hither,
+and after being a little merry with her, she went forth and I staid there
+talking with Mrs. Pegg and looking over her pictures, and commended them;
+but, Lord! so far short of my wife's, as no comparison.  Thence to my
+wife, and there spent, talking, till noon, when by appointment Mr.
+Andrews come out of the country to speake with me about their Tangier
+business, and so having done with him and dined, I home by water, where
+by appointment I met Dr. Twisden, Mr. Povy, Mr. Lawson, and Stockdale
+about settling their business of money; but such confusion I never met
+with, nor could anything be agreed on, but parted like a company of
+fools, I vexed to lose so much time and pains to no purpose.  They gone,
+comes Rayner, the boatmaker, about some business, and brings a piece of
+plate with him, which I refused to take of him, thinking indeed that the
+poor man hath no reason nor encouragement from our dealings with him to
+give any of us any presents.  He gone, there comes Luellin, about Mr.
+Deering's business of planke, to have the contract perfected, and offers
+me twenty pieces in gold, as Deering had done some time since himself,
+but I both then and now refused it, resolving not to be bribed to
+dispatch business, but will have it done however out of hand forthwith.
+So he gone, I to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+8th.  Up and to the office, where all the morning we sat.  At noon I home
+to dinner alone, and after dinner Bagwell's wife waited at the door, and
+went with me to my office .  .  .  .  So parted, and I to Sir W.
+Batten's, and there sat the most of the afternoon talking and drinking
+too much with my Lord Bruncker, Sir G. Smith, G. Cocke and others very
+merry.  I drunk a little mixed, but yet more than I should do.  So to my
+office a little, and then to the Duke of Albemarle's about some business.
+The streets mighty empty all the way, now even in London, which is a sad
+sight.  And to Westminster Hall, where talking, hearing very sad stories
+from Mrs. Mumford; among others, of Mrs. Michell's son's family.  And
+poor Will, that used to sell us ale at the Hall-door, his wife and three
+children died, all, I think, in a day.  So home through the City again,
+wishing I may have taken no ill in going; but I will go, I think, no more
+thither.  Late at the office, and then home to supper, having taken a
+pullet home with me, and then to bed.  The news of De Kuyter's coming
+home is certain; and told to the great disadvantage of our fleete, and
+the praise of De Kuyter; but it cannot be helped, nor do I know what to
+say to it.
+
+
+
+9th.  Up betimes to my office, where Tom Hater to the writing of letters
+with me, which have for a good while been in arreare, and we close at it
+all day till night, only made a little step out for half an houre in the
+morning to the Exchequer about striking of tallys, but no good done
+therein, people being most out of towne.  At noon T. Hater dined with me,
+and so at it all the afternoon.  At night home and supped, and after
+reading a little in Cowley's poems, my head being disturbed with overmuch
+business to-day, I to bed.
+
+
+
+10th.  Up betimes, and called upon early by my she-cozen Porter, the
+turner's wife, to tell me that her husband was carried to the Tower, for
+buying of some of the King's powder, and would have my helpe, but I could
+give her none, not daring any more to appear in the business, having too
+much trouble lately therein.  By and by to the office, where we sat all
+the morning; in great trouble to see the Bill this week rise so high, to
+above 4,000 in all, and of them above 3,000 of the plague.  And an odd
+story of Alderman Bence's stumbling at night over a dead corps in the
+streete, and going home and telling his wife, she at the fright, being
+with child, fell sicke and died of the plague.  We sat late, and then by
+invitation my Lord Brunker, Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten and I to Sir G.
+Smith's to dinner, where very good company and good cheer.  Captain Cocke
+was there and Jacke Fenn, but to our great wonder Alderman Bence, and
+tells us that not a word of all this is true, and others said so too, but
+by his owne story his wife hath been ill, and he fain to leave his house
+and comes not to her, which continuing a trouble to me all the time I was
+there.  Thence to the office and, after writing letters, home, to draw-
+over anew my will, which I had bound myself by oath to dispatch by
+to-morrow night; the town growing so unhealthy, that a man cannot depend
+upon living two days to an end.  So having done something of it, I to
+bed.
+
+
+
+11th.  Up, and all day long finishing and writing over my will twice, for
+my father and my wife, only in the morning a pleasant rencontre happened
+in having a young married woman brought me by her father, old Delkes,
+that carries pins always in his mouth, to get her husband off that he
+should not go to sea, 'une contre pouvait avoir done any cose cum else,
+but I did nothing, si ni baisser her'.  After they were gone my mind run
+upon having them called back again, and I sent a messenger to Blackwall,
+but he failed.  So I lost my expectation.  I to the Exchequer, about
+striking new tallys, and I find the Exchequer, by proclamation, removing
+to Nonesuch.--[Nonsuch Palace, near Epsom, where the Exchequer money was
+kept during the time of the plague.]--Back again and at my papers, and
+putting up my books into chests, and settling my house and all things in
+the best and speediest order I can, lest it should please God to take me
+away, or force me to leave my house.  Late up at it, and weary and full
+of wind, finding perfectly that so long as I keepe myself in company at
+meals and do there eat lustily (which I cannot do alone, having no love
+to eating, but my mind runs upon my business), I am as well as can be,
+but when I come to be alone, I do not eat in time, nor enough, nor with
+any good heart, and I immediately begin to be full of wind, which brings
+my pain, till I come to fill my belly a-days again, then am presently
+well.
+
+
+
+12th.  The office now not sitting, but only hereafter on Thursdays at the
+office, I within all the morning about my papers and setting things still
+in order, and also much time in settling matters with Dr. Twisden.  At
+noon am sent for by Sir G. Carteret, to meet him and my Lord
+Hinchingbroke at Deptford, but my Lord did not come thither, he having
+crossed the river at Gravesend to Dagenhams, whither I dare not follow
+him, they being afeard of me; but Sir G. Carteret says, he is a most
+sweet youth in every circumstance.  Sir G. Carteret being in haste of
+going to the Duke of Albemarle and the Archbishop, he was pettish, and so
+I could not fasten any discourse, but take another time.  So he gone, I
+down to Greenwich and sent away the Bezan, thinking to go with my wife
+to-night to come back again to-morrow night to the Soveraigne at the buoy
+off the Nore.  Coming back to Deptford, old Bagwell walked a little way
+with me, and would have me in to his daughter's, and there he being gone
+'dehors, ego had my volunte de su hiza'.  Eat and drank and away home,
+and after a little at the office to my chamber to put more things still
+in order, and late to bed.  The people die so, that now it seems they are
+fain to carry the dead to be buried by day-light, the nights not
+sufficing to do it in.  And my Lord Mayor commands people to be within at
+nine at night all, as they say, that the sick may have liberty to go
+abroad for ayre.  There is one also dead out of one of our ships at
+Deptford, which troubles us mightily; the Providence fire-ship, which was
+just fitted to go to sea.  But they tell me to-day no more sick on board.
+And this day W. Bodham tells me that one is dead at Woolwich, not far
+from the Rope-yard.  I am told, too, that a wife of one of the groomes at
+Court is dead at Salsbury; so that the King and Queene are speedily to be
+all gone to Milton.  God preserve us!
+
+
+
+13th (Lord's day).  Up betimes and to my chamber, it being a very wet day
+all day, and glad am I that we did not go by water to see
+"The Soveraigne"
+
+     ["The Sovereign of the Seas" was built at Woolwich in 1637 of timber
+     which had been stripped of its bark while growing in the spring, and
+     not felled till the second autumn afterwards; and it is observed by
+     Dr. Plot ("Phil.  Trans."  for 1691), in his discourse on the most
+     seasonable time for felling timber, written by the advice of Pepys,
+     that after forty-seven years, "all the ancient timber then remaining
+     in her, it was no easy matter to drive a nail into it" ("Quarterly
+     Review," vol. viii., p. 35).--B.]
+
+to-day, as I intended, clearing all matters in packing up my papers and
+books, and giving instructions in writing to my executors, thereby
+perfecting the whole business of my will, to my very great joy; so that I
+shall be in much better state of soul, I hope, if it should please the
+Lord to call me away this sickly time.  At night to read, being weary
+with this day's great work, and then after supper to bed, to rise betimes
+to-morrow, and to bed with a mind as free as to the business of the world
+as if I were not worth L100 in the whole world, every thing being evened
+under my hand in my books and papers, and upon the whole I find myself
+worth, besides Brampton estate, the sum of L2164, for which the Lord be
+praised!
+
+
+
+14th.  Up, and my mind being at mighty ease from the dispatch of my
+business so much yesterday, I down to Deptford to Sir G. Carteret, where
+with him a great while, and a great deale of private talke concerning my
+Lord Sandwich's and his matters, and chiefly of the latter, I giving him
+great deale of advice about the necessity of his having caution
+concerning Fenn, and the many ways there are of his being abused by any
+man in his place, and why he should not bring his son in to look after
+his business, and more, to be a Commissioner of the Navy, which he
+listened to and liked, and told me how much the King was his good Master,
+and was sure not to deny him that or any thing else greater than that,
+and I find him a very cunning man, whatever at other times he seems to
+be, and among other things he told me he was not for the fanfaroone
+
+     [Fanfaron, French, from fanfare, a sounding of trumpets; hence, a
+     swaggerer, or empty boaster.]
+
+to make a show with a great title, as he might have had long since, but
+the main thing to get an estate; and another thing, speaking of minding
+of business, "By God," says he, "I will and have already almost brought
+it to that pass, that the King shall not be able to whip a cat, but I
+must be at the tayle of it."  Meaning so necessary he is, and the King
+and my Lord Treasurer and all do confess it; which, while I mind my
+business, is my own case in this office of the Navy, and I hope shall be
+more, if God give me life and health.  Thence by agreement to Sir J.
+Minnes's lodgings, where I found my Lord Bruncker, and so by water to the
+ferry, and there took Sir W. Batten's coach that was sent for us, and to
+Sir W. Batten's, where very merry, good cheer, and up and down the garden
+with great content to me, and, after dinner, beat Captain Cocke at
+billiards, won about 8s. of him and my Lord Bruncker.  So in the evening
+after, much pleasure back again and I by water to Woolwich, where supped
+with my wife, and then to bed betimes, because of rising to-morrow at
+four of the clock in order to the going out with Sir G. Carteret toward
+Cranborne to my Lord Hinchingbrooke in his way to Court.  This night I
+did present my wife with the dyamond ring, awhile since given me by Mr.
+Dicke Vines's brother, for helping him to be a purser, valued at about
+L10, the first thing of that nature I did ever give her.  Great fears we
+have that the plague will be a great Bill this weeke.
+
+
+
+15th.  Up by 4 o'clock and walked to Greenwich, where called at Captain
+Cocke's and to his chamber, he being in bed, where something put my last
+night's dream into my head, which I think is the best that ever was
+dreamt, which was that I had my Lady Castlemayne in my armes and was
+admitted to use all the dalliance I desired with her, and then dreamt
+that this could not be awake, but that it was only a dream; but that
+since it was a dream, and that I took so much real pleasure in it, what a
+happy thing it would be if when we are in our graves (as Shakespeere
+resembles it) we could dream, and dream but such dreams as this, that
+then we should not need to be so fearful of death, as we are this plague
+time.  Here I hear that news is brought Sir G. Carteret that my Lord
+Hinchingbrooke is not well, and so cannot meet us at Cranborne to-night.
+So I to Sir G. Carteret's; and there was sorry with him for our
+disappointment.  So we have put off our meeting there till Saturday next.
+Here I staid talking with Sir G. Carteret, he being mighty free with me
+in his business, and among other things hath ordered Rider and Cutler to
+put into my hands copper to the value of L5,000 (which Sir G. Carteret's
+share it seems come to in it), which is to raise part of the money he is
+to layout for a purchase for my Lady Jemimah.  Thence he and I to Sir J.
+Minnes's by invitation, where Sir W. Batten and my Lady, and my Lord
+Bruncker, and all of us dined upon a venison pasty and other good meat,
+but nothing well dressed.  But my pleasure lay in getting some bills
+signed by Sir G. Carteret, and promise of present payment from Mr. Fenn,
+which do rejoice my heart, it being one of the heaviest things I had upon
+me, that so much of the little I have should lie (viz. near L1000) in the
+King's hands.  Here very merry and (Sir G. Carteret being gone presently
+after dinner) to Captain Cocke's, and there merry, and so broke up and I
+by water to the Duke of Albemarle, with whom I spoke a great deale in
+private, they being designed to send a fleete of ships privately to the
+Streights.  No news yet from our fleete, which is much wondered at, but
+the Duke says for certain guns have been heard to the northward very
+much.  It was dark before I could get home, and so land at Church-yard
+stairs, where, to my great trouble, I met a dead corps of the plague, in
+the narrow ally just bringing down a little pair of stairs.  But I thank
+God I was not much disturbed at it.  However, I shall beware of being
+late abroad again.
+
+
+
+16th.  Up, and after doing some necessary business about my accounts at
+home, to the office, and there with Mr. Hater wrote letters, and I did
+deliver to him my last will, one part of it to deliver to my wife when I
+am dead.  Thence to the Exchange, where I have not been a great while.
+But, Lord! how sad a sight it is to see the streets empty of people, and
+very few upon the 'Change.  Jealous of every door that one sees shut up,
+lest it should be the plague; and about us two shops in three, if not
+more, generally shut up.  From the 'Change to Sir G. Smith's' with Mr.
+Fenn, to whom I am nowadays very complaisant, he being under payment of
+my bills to me, and some other sums at my desire, which he readily do.
+Mighty merry with Captain Cocke and Fenn at Sir G. Smith's, and a brave
+dinner, but I think Cocke is the greatest epicure that is, eats and
+drinks with the greatest pleasure and liberty that ever man did.  Very
+contrary newes to-day upon the 'Change, some that our fleete hath taken
+some of the Dutch East India ships, others that we did attaque it at
+Bergen and were repulsed, others that our fleete is in great danger after
+this attaque by meeting with the great body now gone out of Holland,
+almost 100 sayle of men of warr.  Every body is at a great losse and
+nobody can tell.  Thence among the goldsmiths to get some money, and so
+home, settling some new money matters, and to my great joy have got home
+L500 more of the money due to me, and got some more money to help Andrews
+first advanced.  This day I had the ill news from Dagenhams, that my poor
+lord of Hinchingbroke his indisposition is turned to the small-pox.  Poor
+gentleman! that he should be come from France so soon to fall sick, and
+of that disease too, when he should be gone to see a fine lady, his
+mistresse.  I am most heartily sorry for it.  So late setting papers to
+rights, and so home to bed.
+
+
+
+17th.  Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon
+dined together upon some victuals I had prepared at Sir W. Batten's upon
+the King's charge, and after dinner, I having dispatched some business
+and set things in order at home, we down to the water and by boat to
+Greenwich to the Bezan yacht, where Sir W. Batten, Sir J. Minnes, my Lord
+Bruncker and myself, with some servants (among others Mr. Carcasse, my
+Lord's clerk, a very civil gentleman), embarked in the yacht and down we
+went most pleasantly, and noble discourse I had with my Lord Bruneker,
+who is a most excellent person.  Short of Gravesend it grew calme, and so
+we come to an anchor, and to supper mighty merry, and after it, being
+moonshine, we out of the cabbin to laugh and talk, and then, as we grew
+sleepy, went in and upon velvet cushions of the King's that belong to the
+yacht fell to sleep, which we all did pretty well till 3 or 4 of the
+clock, having risen in the night to look for a new comet which is said to
+have lately shone, but we could see no such thing.
+
+
+
+18th.  Up about 5 o'clock and dressed ourselves, and to sayle again down
+to the Soveraigne at the buoy of the Nore, a noble ship, now rigged and
+fitted and manned; we did not stay long, but to enquire after her
+readinesse and thence to Sheernesse, where we walked up and down, laying
+out the ground to be taken in for a yard to lay provisions for cleaning
+and repairing of ships, and a most proper place it is for the purpose.
+Thence with great pleasure up the Meadeway, our yacht contending with
+Commissioner Pett's, wherein he met us from Chatham, and he had the best
+of it.  Here I come by, but had not tide enough to stop at Quinbrough,
+a with mighty pleasure spent the day in doing all and seeing these
+places, which I had never done before.  So to the Hill house at Chatham
+and there dined, and after dinner spent some time discoursing of
+business.  Among others arguing with the Commissioner about his proposing
+the laying out so much money upon Sheerenesse, unless it be to the
+slighting of Chatham yarde, for it is much a better place than Chatham,
+which however the King is not at present in purse to do, though it were
+to be wished he were.  Thence in Commissioner Pett's coach (leaving them
+there).  I late in the darke to Gravesend, where great is the plague, and
+I troubled to stay there so long for the tide.  At 10 at night, having
+supped, I took boat alone, and slept well all the way to the Tower docke
+about three o'clock in the morning.  So knocked up my people, and to bed.
+
+
+
+19th.  Slept till 8 o'clock, and then up and met with letters from the
+King and Lord Arlington, for the removal of our office to Greenwich.
+I also wrote letters, and made myself ready to go to Sir G. Carteret,
+at Windsor; and having borrowed a horse of Mr. Blackbrough, sent him to
+wait for me at the Duke of Albemarle's door: when, on a sudden, a letter
+comes to us from the Duke of Albemarle, to tell us that the fleete is all
+come back to Solebay, and are presently to be dispatched back again.
+Whereupon I presently by water to the Duke of Albemarle to know what
+news; and there I saw a letter from my Lord Sandwich to the Duke of
+Albemarle, and also from Sir W. Coventry and Captain Teddiman; how my
+Lord having commanded Teddiman with twenty-two ships
+
+     [A news letter of August 19th (Salisbury), gives the following
+     account of this affair:-" The Earl of Sandwich being on the Norway
+     coast, ordered Sir Thomas Teddeman with 20 ships to attack 50 Dutch
+     merchant ships in Bergen harbour; six convoyers had so placed
+     themselves that only four or five of the ships could be reached at
+     once.  The Governor of Bergen fired on our ships, and placed 100
+     pieces of ordnance and two regiments of foot on the rocks to attack
+     them, but they got clear without the loss of a ship, only 500 men
+     killed or wounded, five or six captains among them. The fleet has
+     gone to Sole Bay to repair losses and be ready to encounter the
+     Dutch fleet, which is gone northward" ("Calendar of State Papers,"
+     1664-65, pp. 526, 527).  Medals were struck in Holland, the
+     inscription in Dutch on one of these is thus translated: "Thus we
+     arrest the pride of the English, who extend their piracy even
+     against their friends, and who insulting the forts of Norway,
+     violate the rights of the harbours of King Frederick; but, for the
+     reward of their audacity, see their vessels destroyed by the balls
+     of the Dutch" (Hawkins's "Medallic Illustrations of the History of
+     Great Britain and Ireland," ed.  Franks and Grueber, 1885, vol. i.,
+     p. 508).  Sir Gilbert Talbot's "True Narrative of the Earl of
+     Sandwich's Attempt upon Bergen with the English Fleet on the 3rd of
+     August, 1665, and the Cause of his Miscarriage thereupon," is in the
+     British Museum (Harl. MS., No. 6859).  It is printed in
+     "Archaeologia," vol.  xxii., p. 33.  The Earl of Rochester also gave
+     an account of the action in a letter to his mother (Wordsworth's
+     "Ecclesiastical Biography," fourth edition, vol. iv., p. 611).  Sir
+     John Denham, in his "Advice to a Painter," gives a long satirical
+     account of the affair.  A coloured drawing of the attack upon
+     Bergen, on vellum, showing the range of the ships engaged, is in the
+     British Museum.  Shortly after the Bergen affair forty of the Dutch
+     merchant vessels, on their way to Holland, fell into the hands of
+     the English, and in Penn's "Memorials of Sir William Penn," vol.
+     ii., p. 364, is a list of the prizes taken on the 3rd and 4th
+     September.  The troubles connected with these prizes and the
+     disgrace into which Lord Sandwich fell are fully set forth in
+     subsequent pages of the Diary.  Evelyn writes in his Diary (November
+     27th, 1665): "There was no small suspicion of my Lord Sandwich
+     having permitted divers commanders who were at ye taking of ye East
+     India prizes to break bulk and take to themselves jewels, silkes,
+     &c., tho' I believe some whom I could name fill'd their pockets, my
+     Lo. Sandwich himself had the least share.  However, he underwent the
+     blame, and it created him enemies, and prepossess'd ye Lo. Generall
+     [Duke of Albemarle], for he spake to me of it with much zeale and
+     concerne, and I believe laid load enough on Lo.  Sandwich at
+     Oxford."]
+
+(of which but fifteen could get thither, and of those fifteen but eight
+or nine could come up to play) to go to Bergen; where, after several
+messages to and fro from the Governor of the Castle, urging that Teddiman
+ought not to come thither with more than five ships, and desiring time to
+think of it, all the while he suffering the Dutch ships to land their
+guns to their best advantage; Teddiman on the second pretence, began to
+play at the Dutch ships, (wherof ten East India-men,) and in three hours'
+time (the town and castle, without any provocation, playing on our
+ships,) they did cut all our cables, so as the wind being off the land,
+did force us to go out, and rendered our fire-ships useless; without
+doing any thing, but what hurt of course our guns must have done them: we
+having lost five commanders, besides Mr. Edward Montagu, and Mr. Windham.
+
+     [This Mr. Windham had entered into a formal engagement with the Earl
+     of Rochester, "not without ceremonies of religion, that if either of
+     them died, he should appear, and give the other notice of the future
+     state, if there was any."  He was probably one of the brothers of
+     Sir William Wyndham, Bart.  See Wordsworth's "Ecclesiastical
+     Biography," fourth.  edition, vol. iv., p. 615.--B.]
+
+
+Our fleete is come home to our great grief with not above five weeks'
+dry, and six days' wet provisions: however, must out again; and the Duke
+hath ordered the Soveraigne, and all other ships ready, to go out to the
+fleete to strengthen them.  This news troubles us all, but cannot be
+helped.  Having read all this news, and received commands of the Duke
+with great content, he giving me the words which to my great joy he hath
+several times said to me, that his greatest reliance is upon me.  And my
+Lord Craven also did come out to talk with me, and told me that I am in
+mighty esteem with the Duke, for which I bless God.  Home, and having
+given my fellow-officers an account hereof, to Chatham, and wrote other
+letters, I by water to Charing-Cross, to the post-house, and there the
+people tell me they are shut up; and so I went to the new post-house, and
+there got a guide and horses to Hounslow, where I was mightily taken with
+a little girle, the daughter of the master of the house (Betty Gysby),
+which, if she lives, will make a great beauty.  Here I met with a fine
+fellow who, while I staid for my horses, did enquire newes, but I could
+not make him remember Bergen in Norway, in 6 or 7 times telling, so
+ignorant he was.  So to Stanes, and there by this time it was dark night,
+and got a guide who lost his way in the forest, till by help of the moone
+(which recompenses me for all the pains I ever took about studying of her
+motions,) I led my guide into the way back again; and so we made a man
+rise that kept a gate, and so he carried us to Cranborne.  Where in the
+dark I perceive an old house new building with a great deal of rubbish,
+and was fain to go up a ladder to Sir G. Carteret's chamber.  And there
+in his bed I sat down, and told him all my bad newes, which troubled him
+mightily; but yet we were very merry, and made the best of it; and being
+myself weary did take leave, and after having spoken with Mr. Fenn in
+bed, I to bed in my Lady's chamber that she uses to lie in, and where the
+Duchesse of York, that now is, was born.  So to sleep; being very well,
+but weary, and the better by having carried with me a bottle of strong
+water; whereof now and then a sip did me good.
+
+
+
+20th (Lord's day).  Sir G. Carteret come and walked by my bedside half an
+houre, talking and telling me how my Lord is in this unblameable in all
+this ill-successe, he having followed orders; and that all ought to be
+imputed to the falsenesse of the King of Denmarke, who, he told me as a
+secret, had promised to deliver up the Dutch ships to us, and we expected
+no less; and swears it will, and will easily, be the ruine of him and his
+kingdom, if we fall out with him, as we must in honour do; but that all
+that can be, must be to get the fleete out again to intercept De Witt,
+who certainly will be coming home with the East India ships, he being
+gone thither.  He being gone, I up and with Fenn, being ready to walk
+forth to see the place; and I find it to be a very noble seat in a noble
+forest, with the noblest prospect towards Windsor, and round about over
+many countys, that can be desired; but otherwise a very melancholy place,
+and little variety save only trees.  I had thoughts of going home by
+water, and of seeing Windsor Chappell and Castle, but finding at my
+coming in that Sir G. Carteret did prevent me in speaking for my sudden
+return to look after business, I did presently eat a bit off the spit
+about 10 o'clock, and so took horse for Stanes, and thence to Brainford
+to Mr. Povy's, the weather being very pleasant to ride in.  Mr. Povy not
+being at home I lost my labour, only eat and drank there with his lady,
+and told my bad newes, and hear the plague is round about them there.
+So away to Brainford; and there at the inn that goes down to the water-
+side, I 'light and paid off my post-horses, and so slipped on my shoes,
+and laid my things by, the tide not serving, and to church, where a dull
+sermon, and many Londoners.  After church to my inn, and eat and drank,
+and so about seven o'clock by water, and got between nine and ten to
+Queenhive, very dark.  And I could not get my waterman to go elsewhere
+for fear of the plague.  Thence with a lanthorn, in great fear of meeting
+of dead corpses, carried to be buried; but, blessed be God, met none, but
+did see now and then a linke (which is the mark of them) at a distance.
+So got safe home about 10 o'clock, my people not all abed, and after
+supper I weary to bed.
+
+
+
+21st.  Called up, by message from Lord Bruncker and the rest of my
+fellows, that they will meet me at the Duke of Albemarle's this morning;
+so I up, and weary, however, got thither before them, and spoke with my
+Lord, and with him and other gentlemen to walk in the Parke, where,
+I perceive, he spends much of his time, having no whither else to go;
+and here I hear him speake of some Presbyter people that he caused to be
+apprehended yesterday, at a private meeting in Covent Garden, which he
+would have released upon paying L5 per man to the poor, but it was
+answered, they would not pay anything; so he ordered them to another
+prison from the guard.  By and by comes my fellow-officers, and the Duke
+walked in, and to counsel with us; and that being done we departed, and
+Sir W. Batten and I to the office, where, after I had done a little
+business, I to his house to dinner, whither comes Captain Cocke, for
+whose epicurisme a dish of partriges was sent for, and still gives me
+reason to think is the greatest epicure in the world.  Thence, after
+dinner, I by water to Sir W. Warren's and with him two hours, talking of
+things to his and my profit, and particularly good advice from him what
+use to make of Sir G. Carteret's kindnesse to me and my interest in him,
+with exceeding good cautions for me not using it too much nor obliging
+him to fear by prying into his secrets, which it were easy for me to do.
+Thence to my Lord Bruncker, at Greenwich, and Sir J. Minnes by
+appointment, to looke after the lodgings appointed for us there for our
+office, which do by no means please me, they being in the heart of all
+the labourers and workmen there, which makes it as unsafe as to be, I
+think, at London.  Mr. Hugh May, who is a most ingenuous man, did show us
+the lodgings, and his acquaintance I am desirous of.  Thence walked, it
+being now dark, to Sir J. Minnes's, and there staid at the door talking
+with him an hour while messengers went to get a boat for me, to carry me
+to Woolwich, but all to no purpose; so I was forced to walk it in the
+darke, at ten o'clock at night, with Sir J. Minnes's George with me,
+being mightily troubled for fear of the doggs at Coome farme, and more
+for fear of rogues by the way, and yet more because of the plague which
+is there, which is very strange, it being a single house, all alone from
+the towne, but it seems they use to admit beggars, for their owne safety,
+to lie in their barns, and they brought it to them; but I bless God I got
+about eleven of the clock well to my wife, and giving 4s. in recompence
+to George, I to my wife, and having first viewed her last piece of
+drawing since I saw her, which is seven or eight days, which pleases me
+beyond any thing in the world, to bed with great content but weary.
+
+
+
+22nd.  Up, and after much pleasant talke and being importuned by my wife
+and her two mayds, which are both good wenches, for me to buy a necklace
+of pearle for her, and I promising to give her one of L60 in two years at
+furthest, and in less if she pleases me in her painting, I went away and
+walked to Greenwich, in my way seeing a coffin with a dead body therein,
+dead of the plague, lying in an open close belonging to Coome farme,
+which was carried out last night, and the parish have not appointed any
+body to bury it; but only set a watch there day and night, that nobody
+should go thither or come thence, which is a most cruel thing: this
+disease making us more cruel to one another than if we are doggs.  So to
+the King's House, and there met my Lord Bruncker and Sir J. Minnes, and
+to our lodgings again that are appointed for us, which do please me
+better to day than last night, and are set a doing.  Thence I to
+Deptford, where by appointment I find Mr. Andrews come, and to the Globe,
+where we dined together and did much business as to our Plymouth
+gentlemen; and after a good dinner and good discourse, he being a very
+good man, I think verily, we parted and I to the King's yard, walked up
+and down, and by and by out at the back gate, and there saw the Bagwell's
+wife's mother and daughter, and went to them, and went in to the
+daughter's house with the mother, and 'faciebam le cose que ego tenebam a
+mind to con elle', and drinking and talking, by and by away, and so
+walked to Redriffe, troubled to go through the little lane, where the
+plague is, but did and took water and home, where all well; but Mr.
+Andrews not coming to even accounts, as I expected, with relation to
+something of my own profit, I was vexed that I could not settle to
+business, but home to my viall, though in the evening he did come to my
+satisfaction.  So after supper (he being gone first) I to settle my
+journall and to bed.
+
+
+
+23rd.  Up, and whereas I had appointed Mr. Hater and Will to come betimes
+to the office to meet me about business there, I was called upon as soon
+as ready by Mr. Andrews to my great content, and he and I to our Tangier
+accounts, where I settled, to my great joy, all my accounts with him,
+and, which is more, cleared for my service to the contractors since the
+last sum I received of them, L222 13s. profit to myself, and received the
+money actually in the afternoon.  After he was gone comes by a pretence
+of mine yesterday old Delks the waterman, with his daughter Robins, and
+several times to and again, he leaving her with me, about the getting of
+his son Robins off, who was pressed yesterday again .  .  .  . [We are
+left to wonder how the daughter convinced Pepy's to release her pressed
+brother.  D.W.]--All the afternoon at my office mighty busy writing
+letters, and received a very kind and good one from my Lord Sandwich of
+his arrival with the fleete at Solebay, and the joy he has at my last
+newes he met with, of the marriage of my Lady Jemimah; and he tells me
+more, the good newes that all our ships, which were in such danger that
+nobody would insure upon them, from the Eastland,
+
+     [Eastland was a name given to the eastern countries of Europe.  The
+     Eastland Company, or Company of Merchants trading to the East
+     Country, was incorporated in Queen Elizabeth's reign (anno 21), and
+     the charter was confirmed 13 Car. II. They were also called "The
+     Merchants of Elbing."]
+
+were all safe arrived, which I am sure is a great piece of good luck,
+being in much more danger than those of Hambrough which were lost, and
+their value much greater at this time to us.  At night home, much
+contented with this day's work, and being at home alone looking over my
+papers, comes a neighbour of ours hard by to speak with me about business
+of the office, one Mr. Fuller, a great merchant, but not my acquaintance,
+but he come drunk, and would have had me gone and drunk with him at home,
+or have let him send for wine hither, but I would do neither, nor offered
+him any, but after some sorry discourse parted, and I up to [my] chamber
+and to bed.
+
+
+
+24th.  Up betimes to my office, where my clerks with me, and very busy
+all the morning writing letters.  At noon down to Sir J. Minnes and Lord
+Bruncker to Greenwich to sign some of the Treasurer's books, and there
+dined very well; and thence to look upon our rooms again at the King's
+house, which are not yet ready for us.  So home and late writing letters,
+and so, weary with business, home to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+25th.  Up betimes to the office, and there, as well as all the afternoon,
+saving a little dinner time, all alone till late at night writing letters
+and doing business, that I may get beforehand with my business again,
+which hath run behind a great while, and then home to supper and to bed.
+This day I am told that Dr. Burnett, my physician, is this morning dead
+of the plague; which is strange, his man dying so long ago, and his house
+this month open again.  Now himself dead.  Poor unfortunate man!
+
+
+
+26th.  Up betimes, and prepared to my great satisfaction an account for
+the board of my office disbursements, which I had suffered to run on to
+almost L120.  That done I down by water to Greenwich, where we met the
+first day my Lord Bruncker, Sir J. Minnes, and I, and I think we shall do
+well there, and begin very auspiciously to me by having my account
+abovesaid passed, and put into a way of having it presently paid.  When
+we rose I find Mr. Andrews and Mr. Yeabsly, who is just come from
+Plymouth, at the door, and we walked together toward my Lord Brunker's,
+talking about their business, Yeabsly being come up on purpose to
+discourse with me about it, and finished all in a quarter of an hour, and
+is gone again.  I perceive they have some inclination to be going on with
+their victualling-business for a while longer before they resign it to
+Mr. Gauden, and I am well contented, for it brings me very good profit
+with certainty, yet with much care and some pains.  We parted at my Lord
+Bruncker's doore, where I went in, having never been there before, and
+there he made a noble entertainment for Sir J. Minnes, myself, and
+Captain Cocke, none else saving some painted lady that dined there, I
+know not who she is.  But very merry we were, and after dinner into the
+garden, and to see his and her chamber, where some good pictures, and a
+very handsome young woman for my lady's woman.  Thence I by water home,
+in my way seeing a man taken up dead, out of the hold of a small catch
+that lay at Deptford.  I doubt it might be the plague, which, with the
+thought of Dr. Burnett, did something disturb me, so that I did not what
+I intended and should have done at the office, as to business, but home
+sooner than ordinary, and after supper, to read melancholy alone, and
+then to bed.
+
+
+
+27th (Lord's day).  Very well in the morning, and up and to my chamber
+all the morning to put my things and papers yet more in order, and so to
+dinner.  Thence all the afternoon at my office till late making up my
+papers and letters there into a good condition of order, and so home to
+supper, and after reading a good while in the King's works,--[Charles
+I.'s Works, now in the Pepysian Library]--which is a noble book, to bed.
+
+
+
+28th.  Up, and being ready I out to Mr. Colvill, the goldsmith's, having
+not for some days been in the streets; but now how few people I see, and
+those looking like people that had taken leave of the world.  I there,
+and made even all accounts in the world between him and I, in a very good
+condition, and I would have done the like with Sir Robert Viner, but he
+is out of towne, the sicknesse being every where thereabouts.  I to the
+Exchange, and I think there was not fifty people upon it, and but few
+more like to be as they told me, Sir G. Smith and others.  Thus I think
+to take adieu to-day of the London streets, unless it be to go again to
+Viner's.  Home to dinner, and there W. Hewer brings me L119 he hath
+received for my office disbursements, so that I think I have L1800 and
+more in the house, and, blessed be God! no money out but what I can very
+well command and that but very little, which is much the best posture I
+ever was in in my life, both as to the quantity and the certainty I have
+of the money I am worth; having most of it in my own hand.  But then this
+is a trouble to me what to do with it, being myself this day going to be
+wholly at Woolwich; but for the present I am resolved to venture it in an
+iron chest, at least for a while.  In the afternoon I sent down my boy to
+Woolwich with some things before me, in order to my lying there for good
+and all, and so I followed him.  Just now comes newes that the fleete is
+gone, or going this day, out again, for which God be praised!  and my
+Lord Sandwich hath done himself great right in it, in getting so soon out
+again.  I pray God, he may meet the enemy.  Towards the evening, just as
+I was fitting myself, comes W. Hewer and shows me a letter which Mercer
+had wrote to her mother about a great difference between my wife and her
+yesterday, and that my wife will have her go away presently.  This,
+together with my natural jealousy that some bad thing or other may be in
+the way, did trouble me exceedingly, so as I was in a doubt whether to go
+thither or no, but having fitted myself and my things I did go, and by
+night got thither, where I met my wife walking to the waterside with her
+paynter, Mr. Browne, and her mayds.  There I met Commissioner Pett, and
+my Lord Brunker, and the lady at his house had been thereto-day, to see
+her.  Commissioner Pett staid a very little while, and so I to supper
+with my wife and Mr. Shelden, and so to bed with great pleasure.
+
+
+
+29th.  In the morning waking, among other discourse my wife begun to tell
+me the difference between her and Mercer, and that it was only from
+restraining her to gad abroad to some Frenchmen that were in the town,
+which I do not wholly yet in part believe, and for my quiet would not
+enquire into it.  So rose and dressed myself, and away by land walking a
+good way, then remembered that I had promised Commissioner Pett to go
+with him in his coach, and therefore I went back again to him, and so by
+his coach to Greenwich, and called at Sir Theophilus Biddulph's, a sober,
+discreet man, to discourse of the preventing of the plague in Greenwich,
+and Woolwich, and Deptford, where in every place it begins to grow very
+great.  We appointed another meeting, and so walked together to Greenwich
+and there parted, and Pett and I to the office, where all the morning,
+and after office done I to Sir J. Minnes and dined with him, and thence
+to Deptford thinking to have seen Bagwell, but did not, and so straight
+to Redriffe, and home, and late at my business to dispatch away letters,
+and then home to bed, which I did not intend, but to have staid for
+altogether at Woolwich, but I made a shift for a bed for Tom, whose bed
+is gone to Woolwich, and so to bed.
+
+
+
+30th.  Up betimes and to my business of settling my house and papers, and
+then abroad and met with Hadley, our clerke, who, upon my asking how the
+plague goes, he told me it encreases much, and much in our parish; for,
+says he, there died nine this week, though I have returned but six: which
+is a very ill practice, and makes me think it is so in other places; and
+therefore the plague much greater than people take it to be.  Thence, as
+I intended, to Sir R. Viner's, and there found not Mr. Lewes ready for
+me, so I went forth and walked towards Moorefields to see (God forbid my
+presumption!) whether I could see any dead corps going to the grave; but,
+as God would have it, did not.  But, Lord! how every body's looks, and
+discourse in the street is of death, and nothing else, and few people
+going up and down, that the towne is like a place distressed and
+forsaken.  After one turne there back to Viner's, and there found my
+business ready for me, and evened all reckonings with them to this day to
+my great content.  So home, and all day till very late at night setting
+my Tangier and private accounts in order, which I did in both, and in the
+latter to my great joy do find myself yet in the much best condition that
+ever I was in, finding myself worth L2180 and odd, besides plate and
+goods, which I value at L250 more, which is a very great blessing to me.
+The Lord make me thankfull! and of this at this day above L1800 in cash
+in my house, which speaks but little out of my hands in desperate
+condition, but this is very troublesome to have in my house at this time.
+So late to bed, well pleased with my accounts, but weary of being so long
+at them.
+
+
+
+31st.  Up and, after putting several things in order to my removal, to
+Woolwich; the plague having a great encrease this week, beyond all
+expectation of almost 2,000, making the general Bill 7,000, odd 100;
+and the plague above 6,000.  I down by appointment to Greenwich, to our
+office, where I did some business, and there dined with our company and
+Sir W. Boreman, and Sir The. Biddulph, at Mr. Boreman's, where a good
+venison pasty, and after a good merry dinner I to my office, and there
+late writing letters, and then to Woolwich by water, where pleasant with
+my wife and people, and after supper to bed.  Thus this month ends with
+great sadness upon the publick, through the greatness of the plague every
+where through the kingdom almost.  Every day sadder and sadder news of
+its encrease.  In the City died this week 7,496 and of them 6,102 of the
+plague.  But it is feared that the true number of the dead, this week is
+near 10,000; partly from the poor that cannot be taken notice of, through
+the greatness of the number, and partly from the Quakers and others that
+will not have any bell ring for them.  Our fleete gone out to find the
+Dutch, we having about 100 sail in our fleete, and in them the Soveraigne
+one; so that it is a better fleete than the former with the Duke was.
+All our fear is that the Dutch should be got in before them; which would
+be a very great sorrow to the publick, and to me particularly, for my
+Lord Sandwich's sake.  A great deal of money being spent, and the kingdom
+not in a condition to spare, nor a parliament without much difficulty to
+meet to give more.  And to that; to have it said, what hath been done by
+our late fleetes?  As to myself I am very well, only in fear of the
+plague, and as much of an ague by being forced to go early and late to
+Woolwich, and my family to lie there continually.  My late gettings have
+been very great to my great content, and am likely to have yet a few more
+profitable jobbs in a little while; for which Tangier, and Sir W. Warren
+I am wholly obliged to.
+
+
+
+
+ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:
+
+A fair salute on horseback, in Rochester streets, of the lady
+Bagwell's wife waited at the door, and went with me to my office
+Because I would not be over sure of any thing
+Being the first Wednesday of the month
+Bottle of strong water; whereof now and then a sip did me good
+Copper to the value of L5,000
+Disease making us more cruel to one another than if we are doggs
+Every body is at a great losse and nobody can tell
+Every body's looks, and discourse in the street is of death
+First thing of that nature I did ever give her (L10 ring)
+For my quiet would not enquire into it
+Give the other notice of the future state, if there was any
+His wife and three children died, all, I think, in a day
+How sad a sight it is to see the streets empty of people
+I met a dead corps of the plague, in the narrow ally
+In our graves (as Shakespeere resembles it) we could dream
+King is not at present in purse to do
+King shall not be able to whip a cat
+Not liking that it should lie long undone, for fear of death
+Ordered in the yarde six or eight bargemen to be whipped
+Pest coaches and put her into it to carry her to a pest house
+Quakers and others that will not have any bell ring for them
+Resolving not to be bribed to dispatch business
+Two shops in three, if not more, generally shut up
+Well enough pleased this morning with their night's lodging
+
+
+
+
+End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v42
+by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley
+
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