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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, August 1665 + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Release Date: November 30, 2004 [EBook #4158] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, AUGUST 1665 *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY + MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + 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 + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, August 1665, by Samuel Pepys + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, AUGUST 1665 *** + +***** This file should be named 4158.txt or 4158.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/5/4158/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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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 + diff --git a/old/sp43g10.zip b/old/sp43g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..3c38f06 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp43g10.zip |