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+Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, September 1665, by Samuel Pepys
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+Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, September 1665
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+Author: Samuel Pepys
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+Release Date: November 30, 2004 [EBook #4159]
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, ***
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+
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+Produced by David Widger
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+
+                THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S.
+
+            CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY
+
+    TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY
+ MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW
+                      AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
+
+                              (Unabridged)
+
+                      WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES
+
+                        EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY
+
+                        HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A.
+
+                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
+                                SEPTEMBER
+                                  1665
+
+September 1st.  Up, and to visit my Lady Pen and her daughter at the
+Ropeyarde where I did breakfast with them and sat chatting a good while.
+Then to my lodging at Mr. Shelden's, where I met Captain Cocke and eat a
+little bit of dinner, and with him to Greenwich by water, having good
+discourse with him by the way.  After being at Greenwich a little while, I
+to London, to my house, there put many more things in order for my totall
+remove, sending away my girle Susan and other goods down to Woolwich, and
+I by water to the Duke of Albemarle, and thence home late by water.  At
+the Duke of Albemarle's I overheard some examinations of the late plot
+that is discoursed of and a great deale of do there is about it.  Among
+other discourses, I heard read, in the presence of the Duke, an
+examination and discourse of Sir Philip Howard's, with one of the plotting
+party.  In many places these words being, "Then," said Sir P. Howard, "if
+you so come over to the King, and be faithfull to him, you shall be
+maintained, and be set up with a horse and armes," and I know not what.
+And then said such a one, "Yes, I will be true to the King." "But, damn
+me," said Sir Philip, "will you so and so?"  And thus I believe twelve
+times Sir P. Howard answered him a "damn me," which was a fine way of
+rhetorique to persuade a Quaker or Anabaptist from his persuasion.  And
+this was read in the hearing of Sir P. Howard, before the Duke and twenty
+more officers, and they make sport of it, only without any reproach, or he
+being anything ashamed of it!
+
+     [This republican plot was described by the Lord Chancellor in a
+     speech delivered on October 9th, when parliament met at Oxford.]
+
+But it ended, I remember, at last, "But such a one (the plotter) did at
+last bid them remember that he had not told them what King he would be
+faithfull to."
+
+2nd.  This morning I wrote letters to Mr. Hill and Andrews to come to dine
+with me to-morrow, and then I to the office, where busy, and thence to
+dine with Sir J. Minnes, where merry, but only that Sir J. Minnes who hath
+lately lost two coach horses, dead in the stable, has a third now a dying.
+After dinner I to Deptford, and there took occasion to 'entrar a la casa
+de la gunaica de ma Minusier', and did what I had a mind .  .  . To
+Greenwich, where wrote some letters, and home in pretty good time.
+
+3rd (Lord's day).  Up; and put on my coloured silk suit very fine, and my
+new periwigg, bought a good while since, but durst not wear, because the
+plague was in Westminster when I bought it; and it is a wonder what will
+be the fashion after the plague is done, as to periwiggs, for nobody will
+dare to buy any haire, for fear of the infection, that it had been cut off
+of the heads of people dead of the plague.  Before church time comes Mr.
+Hill (Mr. Andrews failing because he was to receive the Sacrament), and to
+church, where a sorry dull parson, and so home and most excellent company
+with Mr. Hill and discourse of musique.  I took my Lady Pen home, and her
+daughter Pegg, and merry we were; and after dinner I made my wife show
+them her pictures, which did mad Pegg Pen, who learns of the same man and
+cannot do so well.  After dinner left them and I by water to Greenwich,
+where much ado to be suffered to come into the towne because of the
+sicknesse, for fear I should come from London, till I told them who I was.
+So up to the church, where at the door I find Captain Cocke in my Lord
+Brunker's coach, and he come out and walked with me in the church-yarde
+till the church was done, talking of the ill government of our Kingdom,
+nobody setting to heart the business of the Kingdom, but every body
+minding their particular profit or pleasures, the King himself minding
+nothing but his ease, and so we let things go to wracke.  This arose upon
+considering what we shall do for money when the fleete comes in, and more
+if the fleete should not meet with the Dutch, which will put a disgrace
+upon the King's actions, so as the Parliament and Kingdom will have the
+less mind to give more money, besides so bad an account of the last money,
+we fear, will be given, not half of it being spent, as it ought to be,
+upon the Navy.  Besides, it is said that at this day our Lord Treasurer
+cannot tell what the profit of Chimney money is, what it comes to per
+annum, nor looks whether that or any other part of the revenue be duly
+gathered as it ought; the very money that should pay the City the L200,000
+they lent the King, being all gathered and in the hands of the Receiver
+and hath been long and yet not brought up to pay the City, whereas we are
+coming to borrow 4 or L500,000 more of the City, which will never be lent
+as is to be feared.  Church being done, my Lord Bruncker, Sir J. Minnes,
+and I up to the Vestry at the desire of the justices of the Peace, Sir
+Theo. Biddulph and Sir W. Boreman and Alderman Hooker, in order to the
+doing something for the keeping of the plague from growing; but Lord! to
+consider the madness of the people of the town, who will (because they are
+forbid) come in crowds along with the dead corps to see them buried; but
+we agreed on some orders for the prevention thereof.  Among other stories,
+one was very passionate, methought, of a complaint brought against a man
+in the towne for taking a child from London from an infected house.
+Alderman Hooker told us it was the child of a very able citizen in
+Gracious Street, a saddler, who had buried all the rest of his children of
+the plague, and himself and wife now being shut up and in despair of
+escaping, did desire only to save the life of this little child; and so
+prevailed to have it received stark-naked into the arms of a friend, who
+brought it (having put it into new fresh clothes) to Greenwich; where upon
+hearing the story, we did agree it should be permitted to be received and
+kept in the towne.  Thence with my Lord Bruncker to Captain Cocke's, where
+we mighty merry and supped, and very late I by water to Woolwich, in great
+apprehensions of an ague. Here was my Lord Bruncker's lady of pleasure,
+who, I perceive, goes every where with him; and he, I find, is obliged to
+carry her, and make all the courtship to her that can be.
+
+4th.  Writing letters all the morning, among others to my Lady Carteret,
+the first I have wrote to her, telling her the state of the city as to
+health and other sorrowfull stories, and thence after dinner to Greenwich,
+to Sir J. Minnes, where I found my Lord Bruncker, and having staid our
+hour for the justices by agreement, the time being past we to walk in the
+Park with Mr. Hammond and Turner, and there eat some fruit out of the
+King's garden and walked in the Parke, and so back to Sir J. Minnes, and
+thence walked home, my Lord Bruncker giving me a very neat cane to walk
+with; but it troubled me to pass by Coome farme where about twenty-one
+people have died of the plague, and three or four days since I saw a dead
+corps in a coffin lie in the Close unburied, and a watch is constantly
+kept there night and day to keep the people in, the plague making us
+cruel, as doggs, one to another.
+
+5th.  Up, and walked with some Captains and others talking to me to
+Greenwich, they crying out upon Captain Teddiman's management of the
+business of Bergen, that he staid treating too long while he saw the Dutch
+fitting themselves, and that at first he might have taken every ship, and
+done what he would with them.  How true I cannot tell.  Here we sat very
+late and for want of money, which lies heavy upon us, did nothing of
+business almost.  Thence home with my Lord Bruncker to dinner where very
+merry with him and his doxy.  After dinner comes Colonell Blunt in his new
+chariot made with springs; as that was of wicker, wherein a while since we
+rode at his house.  And he hath rode, he says, now this journey, many
+miles in it with one horse, and out-drives any coach, and out-goes any
+horse, and so easy, he says.  So for curiosity I went into it to try it,
+and up the hill to the heath, and over the cart-rutts and found it pretty
+well, but not so easy as he pretends, and so back again, and took leave of
+my Lord and drove myself in the chariot to the office, and there ended my
+letters and home pretty betimes and there found W. Pen, and he staid
+supper with us and mighty merry talking of his travells and the French
+humours, etc., and so parted and to bed.
+
+6th.  Busy all the morning writing letters to several, so to dinner, to
+London, to pack up more things thence; and there I looked into the street
+and saw fires burning in the street, as it is through the whole City, by
+the Lord Mayor's order.  Thence by water to the Duke of Albemarle's: all
+the way fires on each side of the Thames, and strange to see in broad
+daylight two or three burials upon the Bankeside, one at the very heels of
+another: doubtless all of the plague; and yet at least forty or fifty
+people going along with every one of them.  The Duke mighty pleasant with
+me; telling me that he is certainly informed that the Dutch were not come
+home upon the 1st instant, and so he hopes our fleete may meet with them,
+and here to my great joy I got him to sign bills for the several sums I
+have paid on Tangier business by his single letter, and so now I can get
+more hands to them.  This was a great joy to me: Home to Woolwich late by
+water, found wife in bed, and yet late as [it] was to write letters in
+order to my rising betimes to go to Povy to-morrow.  So to bed, my wife
+asking me to-night about a letter of hers I should find, which indeed Mary
+did the other day give me as if she had found it in my bed, thinking it
+had been mine, brought to her from a man without name owning great
+kindness to her and I know not what.  But looking it over seriously, and
+seeing it bad sense and ill writ, I did believe it to be her brother's and
+so had flung it away, but finding her now concerned at it and vexed with
+Mary about it, it did trouble me, but I would take no notice of it
+to-night, but fell to sleep as if angry.
+
+7th.  Up by 5 of the clock, mighty full of fear of an ague, but was
+obliged to go, and so by water, wrapping myself up warm, to the Tower, and
+there sent for the Weekely Bill, and find 8,252 dead in all, and of them
+6,878 of the plague; which is a most dreadfull number, and shows reason to
+fear that the plague hath got that hold that it will yet continue among
+us.  Thence to Brainford, reading "The Villaine," a pretty good play, all
+the way.  There a coach of Mr. Povy's stood ready for me, and he at his
+house ready to come in, and so we together merrily to Swakely, Sir R.
+Viner's.  A very pleasant place, bought by him of Sir James Harrington's
+lady.  He took us up and down with great respect, and showed us all his
+house and grounds; and it is a place not very moderne in the garden nor
+house, but the most uniforme in all that ever I saw; and some things to
+excess.  Pretty to see over the screene of the hall (put up by Sir J.
+Harrington, a Long Parliamentman) the King's head, and my Lord of Essex on
+one side, and Fairfax on the other; and upon the other side of the
+screene, the parson of the parish, and the lord of the manor and his
+sisters.  The window-cases, door-cases, and chimnys of all the house are
+marble.  He showed me a black boy that he had, that died of a consumption,
+and being dead, he caused him to be dried in an oven, and lies there
+entire in a box.  By and by to dinner, where his lady I find yet handsome,
+but hath been a very handsome woman; now is old.  Hath brought him near
+L100,000 and now he lives, no man in England in greater plenty, and
+commands both King and Council with his credit he gives them. Here was a
+fine lady a merchant's wife at dinner with us, and who should be here in
+the quality of a woman but Mrs. Worship's daughter, Dr. Clerke's niece,
+and after dinner Sir Robert led us up to his long gallery, very fine,
+above stairs (and better, or such, furniture I never did see), and there
+Mrs. Worship did give us three or four very good songs, and sings very
+neatly, to my great delight.  After all this, and ending the chief
+business to my content about getting a promise of some money of him, we
+took leave, being exceedingly well treated here, and a most pleasant
+journey we had back, Povy and I, and his company most excellent in
+anything but business, he here giving me an account of as many persons at
+Court as I had a mind or thought of enquiring after.  He tells me by a
+letter he showed me, that the King is not, nor hath been of late, very
+well, but quite out of humour; and, as some think, in a consumption, and
+weary of every thing.  He showed me my Lord Arlington's house that he was
+born in, in a towne called Harlington: and so carried me through a most
+pleasant country to Brainford, and there put me into my boat, and good
+night.  So I wrapt myself warm, and by water got to Woolwich about one in
+the morning, my wife and all in bed.
+
+8th.  Waked, and fell in talk with my wife about the letter, and she
+satisfied me that she did not know from whence it come, but believed it
+might be from her cozen Franke Moore lately come out of France.  The truth
+is the thing I think cannot have much in it, and being unwilling (being in
+other things so much at ease) to vex myself in a strange place at a
+melancholy time, passed all by and were presently friends.  Up, and
+several with me about business.  Anon comes my Lord Bruncker, as I
+expected, and we to the enquiring into the business of the late desertion
+of the Shipwrights from worke, who had left us for three days together for
+want of money, and upon this all the morning, and brought it to a pretty
+good issue, that they, we believe, will come to-morrow to work. To dinner,
+having but a mean one, yet sufficient for him, and he well enough pleased,
+besides that I do not desire to vye entertainments with him or any else.
+Here was Captain Cocke also, and Mr. Wayth.  We staid together talking
+upon one business or other all the afternoon.  In the evening my Lord
+Bruncker hearing that Mr. Ackeworth's clerke, the Dutchman who writes and
+draws so well, was transcribing a book of Rates and our ships for Captain
+Millet a gallant of his mistress's, we sent for him for it.  He would not
+deliver it, but said it was his mistress's and had delivered it to her.
+At last we were forced to send to her for it; she would come herself, and
+indeed the book was a very neat one and worth keeping as a rarity, but we
+did think fit, and though much against my will, to cancell all that he had
+finished of it, and did give her the rest, which vexed her, and she bore
+it discreetly enough, but with a cruel deal of malicious rancour in her
+looks.  I must confess I would have persuaded her to have let us have it
+to the office, and it may be the board would not have censured too hardly
+of it, but my intent was to have had it as a Record for the office, but
+she foresaw what would be the end of it and so desired it might rather be
+cancelled, which was a plaguy deal of spite.  My Lord Bruncker being gone
+and company, and she also, afterwards I took my wife and people and walked
+into the fields about a while till night, and then home, and so to sing a
+little and then to bed. I was in great trouble all this day for my boy Tom
+who went to Greenwich yesterday by my order and come not home till
+to-night for fear of the plague, but he did come home to-night, saying he
+staid last night by Mr. Hater's advice hoping to have me called as I come
+home with my boat to come along with me.
+
+9th.  Up and walked to Greenwich, and there we sat and dispatched a good
+deal of business I had a mind to.  At noon, by invitation, to my Lord
+Bruncker's, all of us, to dinner, where a good venison pasty, and mighty
+merry.  Here was Sir W. Doyly, lately come from Ipswich about the sicke
+and wounded, and Mr. Evelyn and Captain Cocke.  My wife also was sent for
+by my Lord Bruncker, by Cocke, and was here.  After dinner, my Lord and
+his mistress would see her home again, it being a most cursed rainy
+afternoon, having had none a great while before, and I, forced to go to
+the office on foot through all the rain, was almost wet to my skin, and
+spoiled my silke breeches almost.  Rained all the afternoon and evening,
+so as my letters being done, I was forced to get a bed at Captain Cocke's,
+where I find Sir W. Doyly, and he, and Evelyn at supper; and I with them
+full of discourse of the neglect of our masters, the great officers of
+State, about all business, and especially that of money: having now some
+thousands prisoners, kept to no purpose at a great charge, and no money
+provided almost for the doing of it.  We fell to talk largely of the want
+of some persons understanding to look after businesses, but all goes to
+rack.  "For," says Captain Cocke, "my Lord Treasurer, he minds his ease,
+and lets things go how they will: if he can have his L8000 per annum, and
+a game at l'ombre,--[Spanish card game]--he is well.  My Lord Chancellor
+he minds getting of money and nothing else; and my Lord Ashly will rob the
+Devil and the Alter, but he will get money if it be to be got."  But that
+that put us into this great melancholy, was newes brought to-day, which
+Captain Cocke reports as a certain truth, that all the Dutch fleete,
+men-of-war and merchant East India ships, are got every one in from Bergen
+the 3d of this month, Sunday last; which will make us all ridiculous.  The
+fleete come home with shame to require a great deale of money, which is
+not to be had, to discharge many men that must get the plague then or
+continue at greater charge on shipboard, nothing done by them to encourage
+the Parliament to give money, nor the Kingdom able to spare any money, if
+they would, at this time of the plague, so that, as things look at
+present, the whole state must come to ruine.  Full of these melancholy
+thoughts, to bed; where, though I lay the softest I ever did in my life,
+with a downe bed, after the Danish manner, upon me, yet I slept very ill,
+chiefly through the thoughts of my Lord Sandwich's concernment in all this
+ill successe at sea.
+
+10th (Lord's day).  Walked home; being forced thereto by one of my
+watermen falling sick yesterday, and it was God's great mercy I did not go
+by water with them yesterday, for he fell sick on Saturday night, and it
+is to be feared of the plague.  So I sent him away to London with his
+fellow; but another boat come to me this morning, whom I sent to
+Blackewall for Mr. Andrews.  I walked to Woolwich, and there find Mr.
+Hill, and he and I all the morning at musique and a song he hath set of
+three parts, methinks, very good.  Anon comes Mr. Andrews, though it be a
+very ill day, and so after dinner we to musique and sang till about 4 or 5
+o'clock, it blowing very hard, and now and then raining, and wind and tide
+being against us, Andrews and I took leave and walked to Greenwich. My
+wife before I come out telling me the ill news that she hears that her
+father is very ill, and then I told her I feared of the plague, for that
+the house is shut up.  And so she much troubled she did desire me to send
+them something; and I said I would, and will do so.  But before I come out
+there happened newes to come to the by an expresse from Mr. Coventry,
+telling me the most happy news of my Lord Sandwich's meeting with part of
+the Dutch; his taking two of their East India ships, and six or seven
+others, and very good prizes and that he is in search of the rest of the
+fleet, which he hopes to find upon the Wellbancke, with the loss only of
+the Hector, poor Captain Cuttle.  This newes do so overjoy me that I know
+not what to say enough to express it, but the better to do it I did walk
+to Greenwich, and there sending away Mr. Andrews, I to Captain Cocke's,
+where I find my Lord Bruncker and his mistress, and Sir J. Minnes.  Where
+we supped (there was also Sir W. Doyly and Mr. Evelyn); but the receipt of
+this newes did put us all into such an extacy of joy, that it inspired
+into Sir J. Minnes and Mr. Evelyn such a spirit of mirth, that in all my
+life I never met with so merry a two hours as our company this night was.
+Among other humours, Mr. Evelyn's repeating of some verses made up of
+nothing but the various acceptations of may and can, and doing it so aptly
+upon occasion of something of that nature, and so fast, did make us all
+die almost with laughing, and did so stop the mouth of Sir J. Minnes in
+the middle of all his mirth (and in a thing agreeing with his own manner
+of genius), that I never saw any man so out-done in all my life; and Sir
+J. Minnes's mirth too to see himself out-done, was the crown of all our
+mirth.  In this humour we sat till about ten at night, and so my Lord and
+his mistress home, and we to bed, it being one of the times of my life
+wherein I was the fullest of true sense of joy.
+
+11th.  Up and walked to the office, there to do some business till ten of
+the clock, and then by agreement my Lord, Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Doyly, and
+I took boat and over to the ferry, where Sir W. Batten's coach was ready
+for us, and to Walthamstow drove merrily, excellent merry discourse in the
+way, and most upon our last night's revells; there come we were very
+merry, and a good plain venison dinner.  After dinner to billiards, where
+I won an angel,
+
+     [A gold coin, so called because it bore the image of an angel,
+     varying in value from six shillings and eightpence to ten
+     shillings.]
+
+and among other sports we were merry with my pretending to have a warrant
+to Sir W. Hickes (who was there, and was out of humour with Sir W. Doyly's
+having lately got a warrant for a leash of buckes, of which we were now
+eating one) which vexed him, and at last would compound with me to give my
+Lord Bruncker half a buck now, and me a Doe for it a while hence when the
+season comes in, which we agreed to and had held, but that we fear Sir W.
+Doyly did betray our design, which spoiled all; however, my Lady Batten
+invited herself to dine with him this week, and she invited us all to dine
+with her there, which we agreed to, only to vex him, he being the most
+niggardly fellow, it seems, in the world.  Full of good victuals and mirth
+we set homeward in the evening, and very merry all the way.  So to
+Greenwich, where when come I find my Lord Rutherford and Creed come from
+Court, and among other things have brought me several orders for money to
+pay for Tangier; and, among the rest L7000 and more, to this Lord, which
+is an excellent thing to consider, that, though they can do nothing else,
+they can give away the King's money upon their progresse.  I did give him
+the best answer I could to pay him with tallys, and that is all they could
+get from me.  I was not in humour to spend much time with them, but walked
+a little before Sir J. Minnes's door and then took leave, and I by water
+to Woolwich, where with my wife to a game at tables,
+
+     [The old name for backgammon, used by Shakespeare and others.  The
+     following lines are from an epitaph entirely made up of puns on
+     backgammon
+
+              "Man's life's a game at tables, and he may
+               Mend his bad fortune by his wiser play."
+
+                              Wit's Recre., i. 250, reprint, 1817.]
+
+and to bed.
+
+12th.  Up, and walked to the office, where we sat late, and thence to
+dinner home with Sir J. Minnes, and so to the office, where writing
+letters, and home in the evening, where my wife shews me a letter from her
+brother speaking of their father's being ill, like to die, which, God
+forgive me! did not trouble me so much as it should, though I was indeed
+sorry for it.  I did presently resolve to send him something in a letter
+from my wife, viz. 20s.  So to bed.
+
+13th.  Up, and walked to Greenwich, taking pleasure to walk with my minute
+watch in my hand, by which I am come now to see the distances of my way
+from Woolwich to Greenwich, and do find myself to come within two minutes
+constantly to the same place at the end of each quarter of an houre.  Here
+we rendezvoused at Captain Cocke's, and there eat oysters, and so my Lord
+Bruncker, Sir J. Minnes, and I took boat, and in my Lord's coach to Sir W.
+Hickes's, whither by and by my Lady Batten and Sir William comes.  It is a
+good seat, with a fair grove of trees by it, and the remains of a good
+garden; but so let to run to ruine, both house and every thing in and
+about it, so ill furnished and miserably looked after, I never did see in
+all my life.  Not so much as a latch to his dining-room door; which saved
+him nothing, for the wind blowing into the room for want thereof, flung
+down a great bow pott that stood upon the side-table, and that fell upon
+some Venice glasses, and did him a crown's worth of hurt.  He did give us
+the meanest dinner (of beef, shoulder and umbles of venison
+
+     [Dr. Johnson was puzzled by the following passage in "The Merry
+     Wives of Windsor," act v., sc. 3: "Divide me like a bribe-buck, each
+     a haunch.  I will keep the sides to myself; my shoulders for the
+     fellow of this walk."  If he could have read the account of Sir
+     William Hickes's dinner, he would at once have understood the
+     allusion to the keeper's perquisites of the shoulders of all deer
+     killed in his walk.--B.]
+
+which he takes away from the keeper of the Forest, and a few pigeons, and
+all in the meanest manner) that ever I did see, to the basest degree.
+After dinner we officers of the Navy stepped aside to read some letters
+and consider some business, and so in again.  I was only pleased at a very
+fine picture of the Queene-Mother, when she was young, by Van-Dike; a very
+good picture, and a lovely sweet face.  Thence in the afternoon home, and
+landing at Greenwich I saw Mr. Pen walking my way, so we walked together,
+and for discourse I put him into talk of France, when he took delight to
+tell me of his observations, some good, some impertinent, and all ill
+told, but it served for want of better, and so to my house, where I find
+my wife abroad, and hath been all this day, nobody knows where, which
+troubled me, it being late and a cold evening.  So being invited to his
+mother's to supper, we took Mrs. Barbara, who was mighty finely dressed,
+and in my Lady's coach, which we met going for my wife, we thither, and
+there after some discourse went to supper.  By and by comes my wife and
+Mercer, and had been with Captain Cocke all day, he coming and taking her
+out to go see his boy at school at Brumly [Bromley], and brought her home
+again with great respect.  Here pretty merry, only I had no stomach,
+having dined late, to eat.  After supper Mr. Pen and I fell to discourse
+about some words in a French song my wife was saying, "D'un air tout
+interdict," wherein I laid twenty to one against him which he would not
+agree with me, though I know myself in the right as to the sense of the
+word, and almost angry we were, and were an houre and more upon the
+dispute, till at last broke up not satisfied, and so home in their coach
+and so to bed.  H. Russell did this day deliver my 20s. to my wife's
+father or mother, but has not yet told us how they do.
+
+14th.  Up, and walked to Greenwich, and there fitted myself in several
+businesses to go to London, where I have not been now a pretty while. But
+before I went from the office newes is brought by word of mouth that
+letters are now just now brought from the fleete of our taking a great
+many more of the Dutch fleete, in which I did never more plainly see my
+command of my temper in my not admitting myself to receive any kind of joy
+from it till I had heard the certainty of it, and therefore went by water
+directly to the Duke of Albemarle, where I find a letter of the Lath from
+Solebay, from my Lord Sandwich, of the fleete's meeting with about
+eighteen more of the Dutch fleete, and his taking of most of them; and the
+messenger says, they had taken three after the letter was wrote and
+sealed; which being twenty-one, and the fourteen took the other day, is
+forty-five sail; some of which are good, and others rich ships, which is
+so great a cause of joy in us all that my Lord and everybody is highly
+joyed thereat.  And having taken a copy of my Lord's letter, I away back
+again to the Beare at the Bridge foot, being full of wind and out of
+order, and there called for a biscuit and a piece of cheese and gill of
+sacke, being forced to walk over the Bridge, toward the 'Change, and the
+plague being all thereabouts.  Here my news was highly welcome, and I did
+wonder to see the 'Change so full, I believe 200 people; but not a man or
+merchant of any fashion, but plain men all.  And Lord! to see how I did
+endeavour all I could to talk with as few as I could, there being now no
+observation of shutting up of houses infected, that to be sure we do
+converse and meet with people that have the plague upon them.  I to Sir
+Robert Viner's, where my main business was about settling the business of
+Debusty's L5000 tallys, which I did for the present to enable me to have
+some money, and so home, buying some things for my wife in the way.  So
+home, and put up several things to carry to Woolwich, and upon serious
+thoughts I am advised by W. Griffin to let my money and plate rest there,
+as being as safe as any place, nobody imagining that people would leave
+money in their houses now, when all their families are gone.  So for the
+present that being my opinion, I did leave them there still.  But, Lord!
+to see the trouble that it puts a man to, to keep safe what with pain a
+man hath been getting together, and there is good reason for it.  Down to
+the office, and there wrote letters to and again about this good newes of
+our victory, and so by water home late.  Where, when I come home I spent
+some thoughts upon the occurrences of this day, giving matter for as much
+content on one hand and melancholy on another, as any day in all my life.
+For the first; the finding of my money and plate, and all safe at London,
+and speeding in my business of money this day.  The hearing of this good
+news to such excess, after so great a despair of my Lord's doing anything
+this year; adding to that, the decrease of 500 and more, which is the
+first decrease we have yet had in the sickness since it begun: and great
+hopes that the next week it will be greater.  Then, on the other side, my
+finding that though the Bill in general is abated, yet the City within the
+walls is encreased, and likely to continue so, and is close to our house
+there.  My meeting dead corpses of the plague, carried to be buried close
+to me at noon-day through the City in Fanchurch-street.  To see a person
+sick of the sores, carried close by me by Gracechurch in a hackney-coach.
+My finding the Angell tavern, at the lower end of Tower-hill, shut up, and
+more than that, the alehouse at the Tower-stairs, and more than that, the
+person was then dying of the plague when I was last there, a little while
+ago, at night, to write a short letter there, and I overheard the
+mistresse of the house sadly saying to her husband somebody was very ill,
+but did not think it was of the plague.  To hear that poor Payne, my
+waiter, hath buried a child, and is dying himself.  To hear that a
+labourer I sent but the other day to Dagenhams, to know how they did
+there, is dead of the plague; and that one of my own watermen, that
+carried me daily, fell sick as soon as he had landed me on Friday morning
+last, when I had been all night upon the water (and I believe he did get
+his infection that day at Brainford), and is now dead of the plague.  To
+hear that Captain Lambert and Cuttle are killed in the taking these ships;
+and that Mr. Sidney Montague is sick of a desperate fever at my Lady
+Carteret's, at Scott's-hall.  To hear that Mr. Lewes hath another daughter
+sick.  And, lastly, that both my servants, W. Hewer and Tom Edwards, have
+lost their fathers, both in St. Sepulchre's parish, of the plague this
+week, do put me into great apprehensions of melancholy, and with good
+reason.  But I put off the thoughts of sadness as much as I can, and the
+rather to keep my wife in good heart and family also.  After supper
+(having eat nothing all this day) upon a fine tench of Mr. Shelden's
+taking, we to bed.
+
+15th.  Up, it being a cold misting morning, and so by water to the office,
+where very busy upon several businesses.  At noon got the messenger,
+Marlow, to get me a piece of bread and butter and cheese and a bottle of
+beer and ale, and so I went not out of the office but dined off that, and
+my boy Tom, but the rest of my clerks went home to dinner. Then to my
+business again, and by and by sent my waterman to see how Sir W. Warren
+do, who is sicke, and for which I have reason to be very sorry, he being
+the friend I have got most by of most friends in England but the King: who
+returns me that he is pretty well again, his disease being an ague.  I by
+water to Deptford, thinking to have seen my valentine, but I could not,
+and so come back again, and to the office, where a little business, and
+thence with Captain Cocke, and there drank a cup of good drink, which I am
+fain to allow myself during this plague time, by advice of all, and not
+contrary to my oathe, my physician being dead, and chyrurgeon out of the
+way, whose advice I am obliged to take, and so by water home and eat my
+supper, and to bed, being in much pain to think what I shall do this
+winter time; for go every day to Woolwich I cannot, without endangering my
+life; and staying from my wife at Greenwich is not handsome.
+
+16th.  Up, and walked to Greenwich reading a play, and to the office,
+where I find Sir J. Minnes gone to the fleete, like a doating foole, to do
+no good, but proclaim himself an asse; for no service he can do there, nor
+inform my Lord, who is come in thither to the buoy of the Nore, in
+anything worth his knowledge.  At noon to dinner to my Lord Bruncker,
+where Sir W. Batten and his Lady come, by invitation, and very merry we
+were, only that the discourse of the likelihood of the increase of the
+plague this weeke makes us a little sad, but then again the thoughts of
+the late prizes make us glad.  After dinner, by appointment, comes Mr.
+Andrews, and he and I walking alone in the garden talking of our Tangier
+business, and I endeavoured by the by to offer some encouragements for
+their continuing in the business, which he seemed to take hold of, and the
+truth is my profit is so much concerned that I could wish they would, and
+would take pains to ease them in the business of money as much as was
+possible.  He being gone (after I had ordered him L2000, and he paid me my
+quantum out of it) I also walked to the office, and there to my business;
+but find myself, through the unfitness of my place to write in, and my
+coming from great dinners, and drinking wine, that I am not in the good
+temper of doing business now a days that I used to be and ought still to
+be.  At night to Captain Cocke's, meaning to lie there, it being late, and
+he not being at home, I walked to him to my Lord Bruncker's, and there
+staid a while, they being at tables; and so by and by parted, and walked
+to his house; and, after a mess of good broth, to bed, in great pleasure,
+his company being most excellent.
+
+17th (Lord's day).  Up, and before I went out of my chamber did draw a
+musique scale, in order to my having it at any time ready in my hand to
+turn to for exercise, for I have a great mind in this Vacation to perfect
+myself in my scale, in order to my practising of composition, and so that
+being done I down stairs, and there find Captain Cocke under the barber's
+hands, the barber that did heretofore trim Commissioner Pett, and with
+whom I have been.  He offered to come this day after dinner with his
+violin to play me a set of Lyra-ayres upon it, which I was glad of, hoping
+to be merry thereby.  Being ready we to church, where a company of fine
+people to church, and a fine Church, and very good sermon, Mr. Plume'
+being a very excellent scholler and preacher.  Coming out of the church I
+met Mrs. Pierce, whom I was ashamed to see, having not been with her since
+my coming to town, but promised to visit her.  Thence with Captain Cocke,
+in his coach, home to dinner, whither comes by invitation my Lord Bruncker
+and his mistresse and very good company we were, but in dinner time comes
+Sir J. Minnes from the fleete, like a simple weak man, having nothing to
+say of what he hath done there, but tells of what value he imagines the
+prizes to be, and that my Lord Sandwich is well, and mightily concerned to
+hear that I was well.  But this did put me upon a desire of going thither;
+and, moving of it to my Lord, we presently agreed upon it to go this very
+tide, we two and Captain Cocke.  So every body prepared to fit himself for
+his journey, and I walked to Woolwich to trim and shift myself, and by the
+time I was ready they come down in the Bezan yacht, and so I aboard and my
+boy Tom, and there very merrily we sailed to below Gravesend, and there
+come to anchor for all night, and supped and talked, and with much
+pleasure at last settled ourselves to sleep having very good lodging upon
+cushions in the cabbin.
+
+18th.  By break of day we come to within sight of the fleete, which was a
+very fine thing to behold, being above 100 ships, great and small; with
+the flag-ships of each squadron, distinguished by their several flags on
+their main, fore, or mizen masts.  Among others, the Soveraigne, Charles,
+and Prince; in the last of which my Lord Sandwich was.  When we called by
+her side his Lordshipp was not stirring, so we come to anchor a little
+below his ship, thinking to have rowed on board him, but the wind and tide
+was so strong against us that we could not get up to him, no, though rowed
+by a boat of the Prince's that come to us to tow us up; at last however he
+brought us within a little way, and then they flung out a rope to us from
+the Prince and so come on board, but with great trouble and tune and
+patience, it being very cold; we find my Lord newly up in his night-gown
+very well.  He received us kindly; telling us the state of the fleet,
+lacking provisions, having no beer at all, nor have had most of them these
+three weeks or month, and but few days' dry provisions.  And indeed he
+tells us that he believes no fleete was ever set to sea in so ill
+condition of provision, as this was when it went out last.  He did inform
+us in the business of Bergen,
+
+     [Lord Sandwich was not so successful in convincing other people as
+     to the propriety of his conduct at Bergen as he was with Pepys.]
+
+so as to let us see how the judgment of the world is not to be depended on
+in things they know not; it being a place just wide enough, and not so
+much hardly, for ships to go through to it, the yardarmes sticking in the
+very rocks.  He do not, upon his best enquiry, find reason to except
+against any part of the management of the business by Teddiman; he having
+staid treating no longer than during the night, whiles he was fitting
+himself to fight, bringing his ship a-breast, and not a quarter of an hour
+longer (as is said); nor could more ships have been brought to play, as is
+thought.  Nor could men be landed, there being 10,000 men effectively
+always in armes of the Danes; nor, says he, could we expect more from the
+Dane than he did, it being impossible to set fire on the ships but it must
+burn the towne.  But that wherein the Dane did amisse is, that he did
+assist them, the Dutch, all the while, while he was treating with us,
+while he should have been neutrall to us both.  But, however, he did
+demand but the treaty of us; which is, that we should not come with more
+than five ships.  A flag of truce is said, and confessed by my Lord, that
+he believes it was hung out; but while they did hang it out, they did
+shoot at us; so that it was not either seen perhaps, or fit to cease upon
+sight of it, while they continued actually in action against us.  But the
+main thing my Lord wonders at, and condemns the Dane for, is, that the
+blockhead, who is so much in debt to the Hollander, having now a treasure
+more by much than all his Crowne was worth, and that which would for ever
+have beggared the Hollanders, should not take this time to break with the
+Hollander, and, thereby paid his debt which must have been forgiven him,
+and got the greatest treasure into his hands that ever was together in the
+world.  By and by my Lord took me aside to discourse of his private
+matters, who was very free with me touching the ill condition of the
+fleete that it hath been in, and the good fortune that he hath had, and
+nothing else that these prizes are to be imputed to.  He also talked with
+me about Mr. Coventry's dealing with him in sending Sir W. Pen away before
+him, which was not fair nor kind; but that he hath mastered and cajoled
+Sir W. Pen, that he hath been able to do, nothing in the fleete, but been
+obedient to him; but withal tells me he is a man that is but of very mean
+parts, and a fellow not to be lived with, so false and base he is; which I
+know well enough to be very true, and did, as I had formerly done, give my
+Lord my knowledge of him.  By and by was called a Council of Warr on
+board, when come Sir W. Pen there, and Sir Christopher Mings, Sir Edward
+Spragg, Sir Jos. Jordan, Sir Thomas Teddiman, and Sir Roger Cuttance, and
+so the necessity of the fleete for victuals, clothes, and money was
+discoursed, but by the discourse there of all but my Lord, that is to say,
+the counterfeit grave nonsense of Sir W. Pen and the poor mean discourse
+of the rest, methinks I saw how the government and management of the
+greatest business of the three nations is committed to very ordinary
+heads, saving my Lord, and in effect is only upon him, who is able to do
+what he pleases with them, they not having the meanest degree of reason to
+be able to oppose anything that he says, and so I fear it is ordered but
+like all the rest of the King's publique affayres.  The council being up
+they most of them went away, only Sir W. Pen who staid to dine there and
+did so, but the wind being high the ship (though the motion of it was
+hardly discernible to the eye) did make me sick, so as I could not eat any
+thing almost.  After dinner Cocke did pray me to helpe him to L500 of W.
+How, who is deputy Treasurer, wherein my Lord Bruncker and I am to be
+concerned and I did aske it my Lord, and he did consent to have us
+furnished with L500, and I did get it paid to Sir Roger Cuttance and Mr.
+Pierce in part for above L1000 worth of goods, Mace, Nutmegs, Cynamon, and
+Cloves, and he tells us we may hope to get L1500 by it, which God send!
+Great spoil, I hear, there hath been of the two East India ships, and that
+yet they will come in to the King very rich: so that I hope this journey
+will be worth L100 to me.
+
+     [There is a shorthand journal of proceedings relating to Pepys's
+     purchase of some East India prize goods among the Rawlinson MSS. in
+     the Bodleian Library.]
+
+After having paid this money, we took leave of my Lord and so to our Yacht
+again, having seen many of my friends there.  Among others I hear that W.
+Howe will grow very rich by this last business and grows very proud and
+insolent by it; but it is what I ever expected.  I hear by every body how
+much my poor Lord of Sandwich was concerned for me during my silence a
+while, lest I had been dead of the plague in this sickly time.  No sooner
+come into the yacht, though overjoyed with the good work we have done
+to-day, but I was overcome with sea sickness so that I begun to spue
+soundly, and so continued a good while, till at last I went into the
+cabbin and shutting my eyes my trouble did cease that I fell asleep, which
+continued till we come into Chatham river where the water was smooth, and
+then I rose and was very well, and the tide coming to be against us we did
+land before we come to Chatham and walked a mile, having very good
+discourse by the way, it being dark and it beginning to rain just as we
+got thither.  At Commissioner Pett's we did eat and drink very well and
+very merry we were, and about 10 at night, it being moonshine and very
+cold, we set out, his coach carrying us, and so all night travelled to
+Greenwich, we sometimes sleeping a little and then talking and laughing by
+the way, and with much pleasure, but that it was very horrible cold, that
+I was afeard of an ague.  A pretty passage was that the coach stood of a
+sudden and the coachman come down and the horses stirring, he cried, Hold!
+which waked me, and the coach[man] standing at the boote to [do] something
+or other and crying, Hold!  I did wake of a sudden and not knowing who he
+was, nor thinking of the coachman between sleeping and waking I did take
+up the heart to take him by the shoulder, thinking verily he had been a
+thief.  But when I waked I found my cowardly heart to discover a fear
+within me and that I should never have done it if I had been awake.
+
+19th.  About 4 or 5 of the clock we come to Greenwich, and, having first
+set down my Lord Bruncker, Cocke and I went to his house, it being light,
+and there to our great trouble, we being sleepy and cold, we met with the
+ill newes that his boy Jacke was gone to bed sicke, which put Captain
+Cocke and me also into much trouble, the boy, as they told us, complaining
+of his head most, which is a bad sign it seems.  So they presently betook
+themselves to consult whither and how to remove him. However I thought it
+not fit for me to discover too much fear to go away, nor had I any place
+to go to.  So to bed I went and slept till 10 of the clock and then comes
+Captain Cocke to wake me and tell me that his boy was well again.  With
+great joy I heard the newes and he told it, so I up and to the office
+where we did a little, and but a little business.  At noon by invitation
+to my Lord Bruncker's where we staid till four of the clock for my Lady
+Batten and she not then coming we to dinner and pretty merry but
+disordered by her making us stay so long.  After dinner I to the office,
+and there wrote letters and did business till night and then to Sir J.
+Minnes's, where I find my Lady Batten come, and she and my Lord Bruncker
+and his mistresse, and the whole house-full there at cards.  But by and by
+my Lord Bruncker goes away and others of the company, and when I expected
+Sir J. Minnes and his sister should have staid to have made Sir W. Batten
+and Lady sup, I find they go up in snuffe to bed without taking any manner
+of leave of them, but left them with Mr. Boreman.  The reason of this I
+could not presently learn, but anon I hear it is that Sir J. Minnes did
+expect and intend them a supper, but they without respect to him did first
+apply themselves to Boreman, which makes all this great feude.  However I
+staid and there supped, all of us being in great disorder from this, and
+more from Cocke's boy's being ill, where my Lady Batten and Sir W. Batten
+did come to town with an intent to lodge, and I was forced to go seek a
+lodging which my W. Hewer did get me, viz., his own chamber in the towne,
+whither I went and found it a very fine room, and there lay most
+excellently.
+
+20th.  Called up by Captain Cocke (who was last night put into great
+trouble upon his boy's being rather worse than better, upon which he
+removed him out of his house to his stable), who told me that to my
+comfort his boy was now as well as ever he was in his life.  So I up, and
+after being trimmed, the first time I have been touched by a barber these
+twelvemonths, I think, and more, went to Sir J. Minnes's, where I find all
+out of order still, they having not seen one another till by and by Sir J.
+Minnes and Sir W. Batten met, to go into my Lord Bruncker's coach, and so
+we four to Lambeth, and thence to the Duke of Albemarle, to inform him
+what we have done as to the fleete, which is very little, and to receive
+his direction.  But, Lord!  what a sad time it is to see no boats upon the
+River; and grass grows all up and down White Hall court, and nobody but
+poor wretches in the streets!  And, which is worst of all, the Duke showed
+us the number of the plague this week, brought in the last night from the
+Lord Mayor; that it is encreased about 600 more than the last, which is
+quite contrary to all our hopes and expectations, from the coldness of the
+late season.  For the whole general number is 8,297, and of them the
+plague 7,165; which is more in the whole by above 50, than the biggest
+Bill yet; which is very grievous to us all.  I find here a design in my
+Lord Bruncker and Captain Cocke to have had my Lord Bruncker chosen as one
+of us to have been sent aboard one of the East Indiamen, and Captain Cocke
+as a merchant to be joined with him, and Sir J. Minnes for the other, and
+Sir G. Smith to be joined with him.  But I did order it so that my Lord
+Bruncker and Sir J. Minnes were ordered, but I did stop the merchants to
+be added, which would have been a most pernicious thing to the King I am
+sure.  In this I did, I think, a very good office, though I cannot acquit
+myself from some envy of mine in the business to have the profitable
+business done by another hand while I lay wholly imployed in the trouble
+of the office.  Thence back again by my Lord's coach to my Lord Bruncker's
+house, where I find my Lady Batten, who is become very great with Mrs.
+Williams (my Lord Bruncker's whore), and there we dined and were mighty
+merry.  After dinner I to the office there to write letters, to fit myself
+for a journey to-morrow to Nonsuch to the Exchequer by appointment.  That
+being done I to Sir J. Minnes where I find Sir W. Batten and his Lady gone
+home to Walthamstow in great snuffe as to Sir J. Minnes, but yet with some
+necessity, hearing that a mayde-servant of theirs is taken ill.  Here I
+staid and resolved of my going in my Lord Bruncker's coach which he would
+have me to take, though himself cannot go with me as he intended, and so
+to my last night's lodging to bed very weary.
+
+21st. Up between five and six o'clock; and by the time I was ready, my
+Lord's coach comes for me; and taking Will Hewer with me, who is all in
+mourning for his father, who is lately dead of the plague, as my boy Tom's
+is also, I set out, and took about L100 with me to pay the fees there, and
+so rode in some fear of robbing.  When I come thither, I find only Mr.
+Ward, who led me to Burgess's bedside, and Spicer's, who, watching of the
+house, as it is their turns every night, did lie long in bed to-day, and I
+find nothing at all done in my business, which vexed me.  But not seeing
+how to helpe it I did walk up and down with Mr. Ward to see the house; and
+by and by Spicer and Mr. Falconbrige come to me and he and I to a towne
+near by, Yowell, there drink and set up my horses and also bespoke a
+dinner, and while that is dressing went with Spicer and walked up and down
+the house and park; and a fine place it hath heretofore been, and a fine
+prospect about the house.  A great walk of an elme and a walnutt set one
+after another in order.  And all the house on the outside filled with
+figures of stories, and good painting of Rubens' or Holben's doing.  And
+one great thing is, that most of the house is covered, I mean the posts,
+and quarters in the walls; covered with lead, and gilded.  I walked into
+the ruined garden, and there found a plain little girle, kinswoman of Mr.
+Falconbridge, to sing very finely by the eare only, but a fine way of
+singing, and if I come ever to lacke a girle again I shall think of
+getting her.  Thence to the towne, and there Spicer, Woodruffe, and W.
+Bowyer and I dined together and a friend of Spicer's; and a good dinner I
+had for them.  Falconbrige dined somewhere else, by appointment.  Strange
+to see how young W. Bowyer looks at 41 years; one would not take him for
+24 or more, and is one of the greatest wonders I ever did see.  After
+dinner, about 4 of the clock we broke up, and I took coach and home (in
+fear for the money I had with me, but that this friend of Spicer's, one of
+the Duke's guard did ride along the best part of the way with us).  I got
+to my Lord Bruncker's before night, and there I sat and supped with him
+and his mistresse, and Cocke whose boy is yet ill.  Thence, after losing a
+crowne betting at Tables--[Cribbage]--, we walked home, Cocke seeing me at
+my new lodging, where I went to bed. All my worke this day in the coach
+going and coming was to refresh myself in my musique scale, which I would
+fain have perfecter than ever I had yet.
+
+22nd.  Up betimes and to the office, meaning to have entered my last 5 or
+6 days' Journall, but was called away by my Lord Bruncker and Sir J.
+Minnes, and to Blackwall, there to look after the storehouses in order to
+the laying of goods out of the East India ships when they shall be
+unloaden.  That being done, we into Johnson's house, and were much made
+of, eating and drinking.  But here it is observable what he tells us, that
+in digging his late Docke, he did 12 foot under ground find perfect trees
+over-covered with earth.  Nut trees, with the branches and the very nuts
+upon them; some of whose nuts he showed us.  Their shells black with age,
+and their kernell, upon opening, decayed, but their shell perfectly hard
+as ever.  And a yew tree he showed us (upon which, he says, the very ivy
+was taken up whole about it), which upon cutting with an addes [adze], we
+found to be rather harder than the living tree usually is. They say, very
+much, but I do not know how hard a yew tree naturally is.
+
+     [The same discovery was made in 1789, in digging the Brunswick Dock,
+     also at Blackwall, and elsewhere in the neighbourhood.]
+
+The armes, they say, were taken up at first whole, about the body, which
+is very strange.  Thence away by water, and I walked with my Lord Bruncker
+home, and there at dinner comes a letter from my Lord Sandwich to tell me
+that he would this day be at Woolwich, and desired me to meet him.  Which
+fearing might have lain in Sir J. Minnes' pocket a while, he sending it
+me, did give my Lord Bruncker, his mistress, and I occasion to talk of him
+as the most unfit man for business in the world.  Though at last
+afterwards I found that he was not in this faulty, but hereby I have got a
+clear evidence of my Lord Bruncker's opinion of him.  My Lord Bruncker
+presently ordered his coach to be ready and we to Woolwich, and my Lord
+Sandwich not being come, we took a boat and about a mile off met him in
+his Catch, and boarded him, and come up with him; and, after making a
+little halt at my house, which I ordered, to have my wife see him, we all
+together by coach to Mr. Boreman's, where Sir J. Minnes did receive him
+very handsomely, and there he is to lie; and Sir J. Minnes did give him on
+the sudden, a very handsome supper and brave discourse, my Lord Bruncker,
+and Captain Cocke, and Captain Herbert being there, with myself.  Here my
+Lord did witness great respect to me, and very kind expressions, and by
+other occasions, from one thing to another did take notice how I was
+overjoyed at first to see the King's letter to his Lordship, and told them
+how I did kiss it, and that, whatever he was, I did always love the King.
+This my Lord Bruncker did take such notice [of] as that he could not
+forbear kissing me before my Lord, professing his finding occasion every
+day more and more to love me, and Captain Cocke has since of himself taken
+notice of that speech of my Lord then concerning me, and may be of good
+use to me.  Among other discourse concerning long life, Sir J. Minnes
+saying that his great-grandfather was alive in Edward the Vth's time; my
+Lord Sandwich did tell us how few there have been of his family since King
+Harry the VIIIth; that is to say, the then Chiefe Justice, and his son the
+Lord Montagu, who was father to Sir Sidney,
+
+     [These are the words in the MS., and not "his son and the Lord
+     Montagu," as in some former editions.  Pepys seems to have written
+     Lord Montagu by mistake for Sir Edward Montagu.]
+
+who was his father. And yet, what is more wonderfull, he did assure us
+from the mouth of my Lord Montagu himself, that in King James's time
+([when he] had a mind to get the King to cut off the entayle of some land
+which was given in Harry the VIIIth's time to the family, with the
+remainder in the Crowne); he did answer the King in showing how unlikely
+it was that ever it could revert to the Crown, but that it would be a
+present convenience to him; and did show that at that time there were
+4,000 persons derived from the very body of the Chiefe Justice.  It seems
+the number of daughters in the family having been very great, and
+they too had most of them many children, and grandchildren, and
+great-grandchildren.  This he tells as a most known and certain truth.
+After supper, my Lord Bruncker took his leave, and I also did mine, taking
+Captain Herbert home to my lodging to lie with me, who did mighty
+seriously inquire after who was that in the black dress with my wife
+yesterday, and would not believe that it was my wife's mayde, Mercer,
+but it was she.
+
+23rd.  Up, and to my Lord Sandwich, who did advise alone with me how far
+he might trust Captain Cocke in the business of the prize-goods, my Lord
+telling me that he hath taken into his hands 2 or L3000 value of them: it
+being a good way, he says, to get money, and afterwards to get the King's
+allowance thereof, it being easier, he observes, to keepe money when got
+of the King than to get it when it is too late.  I advised him not to
+trust Cocke too far, and did therefore offer him ready money for a L1000
+or two, which he listens to and do agree to, which is great joy to me,
+hoping thereby to get something!  Thence by coach to Lambeth, his
+Lordship, and all our office, and Mr. Evelyn, to the Duke of Albemarle,
+where, after the compliment with my Lord very kind, we sat down to consult
+of the disposing and supporting of the fleete with victuals and money, and
+for the sicke men and prisoners; and I did propose the taking out some
+goods out of the prizes, to the value of L10,000, which was accorded to,
+and an order, drawn up and signed by the Duke and my Lord, done in the
+best manner I can, and referred to my Lord Bruncker and Sir J. Minnes, but
+what inconveniences may arise from it I do not yet see, but fear there may
+be many.  Here we dined, and I did hear my Lord Craven whisper, as he is
+mightily possessed with a good opinion of me, much to my advantage, which
+my good Lord did second, and anon my Lord Craven did speak publiquely of
+me to the Duke, in the hearing of all the rest; and the Duke did say
+something of the like advantage to me; I believe, not much to the
+satisfaction of my brethren; but I was mightily joyed at it. Thence took
+leave, leaving my Lord Sandwich to go visit the Bishop of Canterbury, and
+I and Sir W. Batten down to the Tower, where he went further by water, and
+I home, and among other things took out all my gold to carry along with me
+to-night with Captain Cocke downe to the fleete, being L180 and more,
+hoping to lay out that and a great deal more to good advantage.  Thence
+down to Greenwich to the office, and there wrote several letters, and so
+to my Lord Sandwich, and mighty merry and he mighty kind to me in the face
+of all, saying much in my favour, and after supper I took leave and with
+Captain Cocke set out in the yacht about ten o'clock at night, and after
+some discourse, and drinking a little, my mind full of what we are going
+about and jealous of Cocke's outdoing me. So to sleep upon beds brought by
+Cocke on board mighty handsome, and never slept better than upon this bed
+upon the floor in the Cabbin.
+
+24th (Lord's day).  Waked, and up and drank, and then to discourse; and
+then being about Grayes, and a very calme, curious morning, we took our
+wherry, and to the fishermen, and bought a great deal of fine fish, and to
+Gravesend to White's, and had part of it dressed; and, in the meantime, we
+to walk about a mile from the towne, and so back again; and there, after
+breakfast, one of our watermen told us he had heard of a bargain of cloves
+for us, and we went to a blind alehouse at the further end wretched dirty
+seamen, who, of the towne to a couple of poor wretches, had got together
+about 37 lb. of cloves and to 10 of nutmeggs, and we bought them of them,
+the first at 5s. 6d.  per lb. and the latter at 4s.; and paid them in
+gold; but, Lord!  to see how silly these men are in the selling of it, and
+easily to be persuaded almost to anything, offering a bag to us to pass as
+20 lbs. of cloves, which upon weighing proved 25 lbs.  But it would never
+have been allowed by my conscience to have wronged the poor wretches, who
+told us how dangerously they had got some, and dearly paid for the rest of
+these goods.  This being done we with great content herein on board again
+and there Captain Cocke and I to discourse of our business, but he will
+not yet be open to me, nor am I to him till I hear what he will say and do
+with Sir Roger Cuttance. However, this discourse did do me good, and got
+me a copy of the agreement made the other day on board for the parcel of
+Mr. Pierce and Sir Roger Cuttance, but this great parcel is of my Lord
+Sandwich's.  By and by to dinner about 3 o'clock and then I in the cabbin
+to writing down my journall for these last seven days to my, great
+content, it having pleased God that in this sad time of the plague every
+thing else has conspired to my happiness and pleasure more for these last
+three months than in all my, life before in so little time.  God long
+preserve it and make me thankful) for it!  After finishing my Journal),
+then to discourse and to read, and then to supper and to bed, my mind not
+being at full ease, having not fully satisfied myself how Captain Cocke
+will deal with me as to the share of the profits.
+
+25th.  Found ourselves come to the fleete, and so aboard the Prince; and
+there, after a good while in discourse, we did agree a bargain of L5,000
+with Sir Roger Cuttance for my Lord Sandwich for silk, cinnamon, nutmeggs,
+and indigo.  And I was near signing to an undertaking for the payment of
+the whole sum; but I did by chance escape it; having since, upon second
+thoughts, great cause to be glad of it, reflecting upon the craft and not
+good condition, it may be, of Captain Cocke.  I could get no trifles for
+my wife.  Anon to dinner and thence in great haste to make a short visit
+to Sir W. Pen, where I found them and his lady and daughter and many
+commanders at dinner.  Among others Sir G. Askue, of whom whatever the
+matter is, the world is silent altogether.  But a very pretty dinner there
+was, and after dinner Sir W. Pen made a bargain with Cocke for ten bales
+of silke, at 16s. per lb., which, as Cocke says, will be a good
+pennyworth, and so away to the Prince and presently comes my Lord on board
+from Greenwich, with whom, after a little discourse about his trusting of
+Cocke, we parted and to our yacht; but it being calme, we to make haste,
+took our wherry toward Chatham; but, it growing darke, we were put to
+great difficultys, our simple, yet confident waterman, not knowing a step
+of the way; and we found ourselves to go backward and forward, which, in
+the darke night and a wild place, did vex us mightily. At last we got a
+fisher boy by chance, and took him into the boat, and being an odde kind
+of boy, did vex us too; for he would not answer us aloud when we spoke to
+him, but did carry us safe thither, though with a mistake or two; but I
+wonder they were not more.  In our way I was [surprised] and so were we
+all, at the strange nature of the sea-water in a darke night, that it
+seemed like fire upon every stroke of the oare, and, they say, is a sign
+of winde.  We went to the Crowne Inne, at Rochester, and there to supper,
+and made ourselves merry with our poor fisher-boy, who told us he had not
+been in a bed in the whole seven years since he came to 'prentice, and
+hath two or three more years to serve. After eating something, we in our
+clothes to bed.
+
+26th.  Up by five o'clock and got post horses and so set out for
+Greenwich, calling and drinking at Dartford.  Being come to Greenwich and
+shifting myself I to the office, from whence by and by my Lord Bruncker
+and Sir J. Minnes set out toward Erith to take charge of the two East
+India shipps, which I had a hand in contriving for the King's service and
+may do myself a good office too thereby.  I to dinner with Mr. Wright to
+his father-in-law in Greenwich, one of the most silly, harmless, prating
+old men that ever I heard in my life.  Creed dined with me, and among
+other discourses got of me a promise of half that he could get my Lord
+Rutherford to give me upon clearing his business, which should not be
+less, he says, than L50 for my half, which is a good thing, though
+cunningly got of him.  By and by Luellin comes, and I hope to get
+something of Deering shortly.  They being gone, Mr. Wright and I went into
+the garden to discourse with much trouble for fear of losing all the
+profit and principal of what we have laid out in buying of prize goods,
+and therefore puts me upon thoughts of flinging up my interest, but yet I
+shall take good advice first.  Thence to the office, and after some
+letters down to Woolwich, where I have not lain with my wife these eight
+days I think, or more.  After supper, and telling her my mind in my
+trouble in what I have done as to buying' of these goods, we to bed.
+
+27th.  Up, and saw and admired my wife's picture of our Saviour,
+
+     [This picture by Mrs. Pepys may have given trouble when Pepys was
+     unjustifiably attacked for having Popish pictures in his house.]
+
+now finished, which is very pretty.  So by water to Greenwich, where with
+Creed and Lord Rutherford, and there my Lord told me that he would give me
+L100 for my pains, which pleased me well, though Creed, like a cunning
+rogue, hath got a promise of half of it from me.  We to the King's Head,
+the great musique house, the first time I was ever there, and had a good
+breakfast, and thence parted, I being much troubled to hear from Creed,
+that he was told at Salsbury that I am come to be a great swearer and
+drinker, though I know the contrary; but, Lord! to see how my late little
+drinking of wine is taken notice of by envious men to my disadvantage. I
+thence to Captain Cocke's, [and] (he not yet come from town) to Mr.
+Evelyn's, where much company; and thence in his coach with him to the Duke
+of Albemarle by Lambeth, who was in a mighty pleasant humour; there the
+Duke tells us that the Dutch do stay abroad, and our fleet must go out
+again, or to be ready to do so.  Here we got several things ordered as we
+desired for the relief of the prisoners, and sick and wounded men. Here I
+saw this week's Bill of Mortality, wherein, blessed be God! there is above
+1800 decrease, being the first considerable decrease we have had.  Back
+again the same way and had most excellent discourse of Mr. Evelyn touching
+all manner of learning; wherein I find him a very fine gentleman, and
+particularly of paynting, in which he tells me the beautifull Mrs.
+Middleton is rare, and his own wife do brave things.  He brought me to the
+office, whither comes unexpectedly Captain Cocke, who hath brought one
+parcel of our goods by waggons, and at first resolved to have lodged them
+at our office; but then the thoughts of its being the King's house altered
+our resolution, and so put them at his friend's, Mr. Glanvill's, and there
+they are safe.  Would the rest of them were so too! In discourse, we come
+to mention my profit, and he offers me L500 clear, and I demand L600 for
+my certain profit.  We part to-night, and I lie there at Mr. Glanvill's
+house, there being none there but a maydeservant and a young man; being in
+some pain, partly from not knowing what to do in this business, having a
+mind to be at a certainty in my profit, and partly through his having
+Jacke sicke still, and his blackemore now also fallen sicke.  So he being
+gone, I to bed.
+
+28th.  Up, and being mightily pleased with my night's lodging, drank a cup
+of beer, and went out to my office, and there did some business, and so
+took boat and down to Woolwich (having first made a visit to Madam
+Williams, who is going down to my Lord Bruncker) and there dined, and then
+fitted my papers and money and every thing else for a journey to Nonsuch
+to-morrow.  That being done I walked to Greenwich, and there to the office
+pretty late expecting Captain Cocke's coming, which he did, and so with me
+to my new lodging (and there I chose rather to lie because of my interest
+in the goods that we have brought there to lie), but the people were abed,
+so we knocked them up, and so I to bed, and in the night was mightily
+troubled with a looseness (I suppose from some fresh damp linen that I put
+on this night), and feeling for a chamber-pott, there was none, I having
+called the mayde up out of her bed, she had forgot I suppose to put one
+there; so I was forced in this strange house to rise and shit in the
+chimney twice; and so to bed and was very well again, and
+
+29th.  To sleep till 5 o'clock, when it is now very dark, and then rose,
+being called up by order by Mr. Marlow, and so up and dressed myself, and
+by and by comes Mr. Lashmore on horseback, and I had my horse I borrowed
+of Mr. Gillthropp, Sir W. Batten's clerke, brought to me, and so we set
+out and rode hard and was at Nonsuch by about eight o'clock, a very fine
+journey and a fine day.  There I come just about chappell time and so I
+went to chappell with them and thence to the several offices about my
+tallys, which I find done, but strung for sums not to my purpose, and so
+was forced to get them to promise me to have them cut into other sums.
+But, Lord! what ado I had to persuade the dull fellows to it, especially
+Mr. Warder, Master of the Pells, and yet without any manner of reason for
+their scruple.  But at last I did, and so left my tallies there against
+another day, and so walked to Yowell, and there did spend a peece upon
+them, having a whole house full, and much mirth by a sister of the
+mistresse of the house, an old mayde lately married to a lieutenant of a
+company that quarters there, and much pleasant discourse we had and,
+dinner being done, we to horse again and come to Greenwich before night,
+and so to my lodging, and there being a little weary sat down and fell to
+order some of my pocket papers, and then comes Captain Cocke, and after a
+great deal of discourse with him seriously upon the disorders of our state
+through lack of men to mind the public business and to understand it, we
+broke up, sitting up talking very late.  We spoke a little of my late
+business propounded of taking profit for my money laid out for these
+goods, but he finds I rise in my demand, he offering me still L500
+certain.  So we did give it over, and I to bed.  I hear for certain this
+night upon the road that Sir Martin Noell is this day dead of the plague
+in London, where he hath lain sick of it these eight days.
+
+30th.  Up and to the office, where busy all the morning, and at noon with
+Sir W. Batten to Coll. Cleggat to dinner, being invited, where a very
+pretty dinner to my full content and very merry.  The great burden we have
+upon us at this time at the office, is the providing for prisoners and
+sicke men that are recovered, they lying before our office doors all night
+and all day, poor wretches.  Having been on shore, the captains won't
+receive them on board, and other ships we have not to put them on, nor
+money to pay them off, or provide for them.  God remove this difficulty!
+This made us followed all the way to this gentleman's house and there are
+waited for our coming out after dinner.  Hither come Luellin to me and
+would force me to take Mr. Deering's 20 pieces in gold he did offer me a
+good while since, which I did, yet really and sincerely against my will
+and content, I seeing him a man not likely to do well in his business, nor
+I to reap any comfort in having to do with, and be beholden to, a man that
+minds more his pleasure and company than his business.  Thence mighty
+merry and much pleased with the dinner and company and they with me I
+parted and there was set upon by the poor wretches, whom I did give good
+words and some little money to, and the poor people went away like lambs,
+and in good earnest are not to be censured if their necessities drive them
+to bad courses of stealing or the like, while they lacke wherewith to
+live.  Thence to the office, and there wrote a letter or two and
+dispatched a little business, and then to Captain Cocke's, where I find
+Mr. Temple, the fat blade, Sir Robert. Viner's chief man.  And we three
+and two companions of his in the evening by agreement took ship in the
+Bezan and the tide carried us no further than Woolwich about 8 at night,
+and so I on shore to my wife, and there to my great trouble find my wife
+out of order, and she took me downstairs and there alone did tell me her
+falling out with both her mayds and particularly Mary, and how Mary had to
+her teeth told her she would tell me of something that should stop her
+mouth and words of that sense. Which I suspect may be about Brown, but my
+wife prays me to call it to examination, and this, I being of myself
+jealous, do make me mightily out of temper, and seeing it not fit to enter
+into the dispute did passionately go away, thinking to go on board again.
+But when I come to the stairs I considered the Bezan would not go till the
+next ebb, and it was best to lie in a good bed and, it may be, get myself
+into a better humour by being with my wife.  So I back again and to bed
+and having otherwise so many reasons to rejoice and hopes of good profit,
+besides considering the ill that trouble of mind and melancholly may in
+this sickly time bring a family into, and that if the difference were
+never so great, it is not a time to put away servants, I was resolved to
+salve up the business rather than stir in it, and so become pleasant with
+my wife and to bed, minding nothing of this difference.  So to sleep with
+a good deal of content, and saving only this night and a day or two about
+the same business a month or six weeks ago, I do end this month with the
+greatest content, and may say that these last three months, for joy,
+health, and profit, have been much the greatest that ever I received in
+all my life in any twelve months almost in my life, having nothing upon me
+but the consideration of the sicklinesse of the season during this great
+plague to mortify mee.  For all which the Lord God be praised!
+
+
+
+
+     ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:
+
+     And feeling for a chamber-pott, there was none
+     Discourse of Mr. Evelyn touching all manner of learning
+     Fell to sleep as if angry
+     King himself minding nothing but his ease
+     Not to be censured if their necessities drive them to bad
+     Ordered him L2000, and he paid me my quantum out of it
+     Sicke men that are recovered, they lying before our office doors
+     Told us he had not been in a bed in the whole seven years
+
+
+
+
+
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+                THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S.
+
+            CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY
+
+   TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY
+MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW
+                      AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
+
+                              (Unabridged)
+
+                      WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES
+
+                        EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY
+
+                        HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A.
+
+
+
+                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
+                                SEPTEMBER
+                                  1665
+
+
+September 1st.  Up, and to visit my Lady Pen and her daughter at the
+Ropeyarde where I did breakfast with them and sat chatting a good while.
+Then to my lodging at Mr. Shelden's, where I met Captain Cocke and eat a
+little bit of dinner, and with him to Greenwich by water, having good
+discourse with him by the way.  After being at Greenwich a little while,
+I to London, to my house, there put many more things in order for my
+totall remove, sending away my girle Susan and other goods down to
+Woolwich, and I by water to the Duke of Albemarle, and thence home late
+by water.  At the Duke of Albemarle's I overheard some examinations of
+the late plot that is discoursed of and a great deale of do there is
+about it.  Among other discourses, I heard read, in the presence of the
+Duke, an examination and discourse of Sir Philip Howard's, with one of
+the plotting party.  In many places these words being, "Then," said Sir
+P. Howard, "if you so come over to the King, and be faithfull to him, you
+shall be maintained, and be set up with a horse and armes," and I know
+not what.  And then said such a one, "Yes, I will be true to the King."
+"But, damn me," said Sir Philip, "will you so and so?"  And thus I
+believe twelve times Sir P. Howard answered him a "damn me," which was a
+fine way of rhetorique to persuade a Quaker or Anabaptist from his
+persuasion.  And this was read in the hearing of Sir P. Howard, before
+the Duke and twenty more officers, and they make sport of it, only
+without any reproach, or he being anything ashamed of it!
+
+     [This republican plot was described by the Lord Chancellor in a
+     speech delivered on October 9th, when parliament met at Oxford.]
+
+But it ended, I remember, at last, "But such a one (the plotter) did at
+last bid them remember that he had not told them what King he would be
+faithfull to."
+
+
+
+2nd.  This morning I wrote letters to Mr. Hill and Andrews to come to
+dine with me to-morrow, and then I to the office, where busy, and thence
+to dine with Sir J. Minnes, where merry, but only that Sir J. Minnes who
+hath lately lost two coach horses, dead in the stable, has a third now a
+dying.  After dinner I to Deptford, and there took occasion to 'entrar a
+la casa de la gunaica de ma Minusier', and did what I had a mind .  .  .
+To Greenwich, where wrote some letters, and home in pretty good time.
+
+
+
+3rd (Lord's day).  Up; and put on my coloured silk suit very fine, and my
+new periwigg, bought a good while since, but durst not wear, because the
+plague was in Westminster when I bought it; and it is a wonder what will
+be the fashion after the plague is done, as to periwiggs, for nobody will
+dare to buy any haire, for fear of the infection, that it had been cut
+off of the heads of people dead of the plague.  Before church time comes
+Mr. Hill (Mr. Andrews failing because he was to receive the Sacrament),
+and to church, where a sorry dull parson, and so home and most excellent
+company with Mr. Hill and discourse of musique.  I took my Lady Pen home,
+and her daughter Pegg, and merry we were; and after dinner I made my wife
+show them her pictures, which did mad Pegg Pen, who learns of the same
+man and cannot do so well.  After dinner left them and I by water to
+Greenwich, where much ado to be suffered to come into the towne because
+of the sicknesse, for fear I should come from London, till I told them
+who I was.  So up to the church, where at the door I find Captain Cocke
+in my Lord Brunker's coach, and he come out and walked with me in the
+church-yarde till the church was done, talking of the ill government of
+our Kingdom, nobody setting to heart the business of the Kingdom, but
+every body minding their particular profit or pleasures, the King himself
+minding nothing but his ease, and so we let things go to wracke.  This
+arose upon considering what we shall do for money when the fleete comes
+in, and more if the fleete should not meet with the Dutch, which will put
+a disgrace upon the King's actions, so as the Parliament and Kingdom will
+have the less mind to give more money, besides so bad an account of the
+last money, we fear, will be given, not half of it being spent, as it
+ought to be, upon the Navy.  Besides, it is said that at this day our
+Lord Treasurer cannot tell what the profit of Chimney money is, what it
+comes to per annum, nor looks whether that or any other part of the
+revenue be duly gathered as it ought; the very money that should pay the
+City the L200,000 they lent the King, being all gathered and in the hands
+of the Receiver and hath been long and yet not brought up to pay the
+City, whereas we are coming to borrow 4 or L500,000 more of the City,
+which will never be lent as is to be feared.  Church being done, my Lord
+Bruncker, Sir J. Minnes, and I up to the Vestry at the desire of the
+justices of the Peace, Sir Theo. Biddulph and Sir W. Boreman and Alderman
+Hooker, in order to the doing something for the keeping of the plague
+from growing; but Lord! to consider the madness of the people of the
+town, who will (because they are forbid) come in crowds along with the
+dead corps to see them buried; but we agreed on some orders for the
+prevention thereof.  Among other stories, one was very passionate,
+methought, of a complaint brought against a man in the towne for taking a
+child from London from an infected house.  Alderman Hooker told us it was
+the child of a very able citizen in Gracious Street, a saddler, who had
+buried all the rest of his children of the plague, and himself and wife
+now being shut up and in despair of escaping, did desire only to save the
+life of this little child; and so prevailed to have it received stark-
+naked into the arms of a friend, who brought it (having put it into new
+fresh clothes) to Greenwich; where upon hearing the story, we did agree
+it should be permitted to be received and kept in the towne.  Thence with
+my Lord Bruncker to Captain Cocke's, where we mighty merry and supped,
+and very late I by water to Woolwich, in great apprehensions of an ague.
+Here was my Lord Bruncker's lady of pleasure, who, I perceive, goes every
+where with him; and he, I find, is obliged to carry her, and make all the
+courtship to her that can be.
+
+
+
+4th.  Writing letters all the morning, among others to my Lady Carteret,
+the first I have wrote to her, telling her the state of the city as to
+health and other sorrowfull stories, and thence after dinner to
+Greenwich, to Sir J. Minnes, where I found my Lord Bruncker, and having
+staid our hour for the justices by agreement, the time being past we to
+walk in the Park with Mr. Hammond and Turner, and there eat some fruit
+out of the King's garden and walked in the Parke, and so back to Sir J.
+Minnes, and thence walked home, my Lord Bruncker giving me a very neat
+cane to walk with; but it troubled me to pass by Coome farme where about
+twenty-one people have died of the plague, and three or four days since I
+saw a dead corps in a coffin lie in the Close unburied, and a watch is
+constantly kept there night and day to keep the people in, the plague
+making us cruel, as doggs, one to another.
+
+
+
+5th.  Up, and walked with some Captains and others talking to me to
+Greenwich, they crying out upon Captain Teddiman's management of the
+business of Bergen, that he staid treating too long while he saw the
+Dutch fitting themselves, and that at first he might have taken every
+ship, and done what he would with them.  How true I cannot tell.  Here we
+sat very late and for want of money, which lies heavy upon us, did
+nothing of business almost.  Thence home with my Lord Bruncker to dinner
+where very merry with him and his doxy.  After dinner comes Colonell
+Blunt in his new chariot made with springs; as that was of wicker,
+wherein a while since we rode at his house.  And he hath rode, he says,
+now this journey, many miles in it with one horse, and out-drives any
+coach, and out-goes any horse, and so easy, he says.  So for curiosity I
+went into it to try it, and up the hill to the heath, and over the cart-
+rutts and found it pretty well, but not so easy as he pretends, and so
+back again, and took leave of my Lord and drove myself in the chariot to
+the office, and there ended my letters and home pretty betimes and there
+found W. Pen, and he staid supper with us and mighty merry talking of his
+travells and the French humours, etc., and so parted and to bed.
+
+
+
+6th.  Busy all the morning writing letters to several, so to dinner, to
+London, to pack up more things thence; and there I looked into the street
+and saw fires burning in the street, as it is through the whole City, by
+the Lord Mayor's order.  Thence by water to the Duke of Albemarle's: all
+the way fires on each side of the Thames, and strange to see in broad
+daylight two or three burials upon the Bankeside, one at the very heels
+of another: doubtless all of the plague; and yet at least forty or fifty
+people going along with every one of them.  The Duke mighty pleasant with
+me; telling me that he is certainly informed that the Dutch were not come
+home upon the 1st instant, and so he hopes our fleete may meet with them,
+and here to my great joy I got him to sign bills for the several sums I
+have paid on Tangier business by his single letter, and so now I can get
+more hands to them.  This was a great joy to me: Home to Woolwich late by
+water, found wife in bed, and yet late as [it] was to write letters in
+order to my rising betimes to go to Povy to-morrow.  So to bed, my wife
+asking me to-night about a letter of hers I should find, which indeed
+Mary did the other day give me as if she had found it in my bed, thinking
+it had been mine, brought to her from a man without name owning great
+kindness to her and I know not what.  But looking it over seriously, and
+seeing it bad sense and ill writ, I did believe it to be her brother's
+and so had flung it away, but finding her now concerned at it and vexed
+with Mary about it, it did trouble me, but I would take no notice of it
+to-night, but fell to sleep as if angry.
+
+
+
+7th.  Up by 5 of the clock, mighty full of fear of an ague, but was
+obliged to go, and so by water, wrapping myself up warm, to the Tower,
+and there sent for the Weekely Bill, and find 8,252 dead in all, and of
+them 6,878 of the plague; which is a most dreadfull number, and shows
+reason to fear that the plague hath got that hold that it will yet
+continue among us.  Thence to Brainford, reading "The Villaine," a pretty
+good play, all the way.  There a coach of Mr. Povy's stood ready for me,
+and he at his house ready to come in, and so we together merrily to
+Swakely, Sir R. Viner's.  A very pleasant place, bought by him of Sir
+James Harrington's lady.  He took us up and down with great respect, and
+showed us all his house and grounds; and it is a place not very moderne
+in the garden nor house, but the most uniforme in all that ever I saw;
+and some things to excess.  Pretty to see over the screene of the hall
+(put up by Sir J. Harrington, a Long Parliamentman) the King's head, and
+my Lord of Essex on one side, and Fairfax on the other; and upon the
+other side of the screene, the parson of the parish, and the lord of the
+manor and his sisters.  The window-cases, door-cases, and chimnys of all
+the house are marble.  He showed me a black boy that he had, that died of
+a consumption, and being dead, he caused him to be dried in an oven, and
+lies there entire in a box.  By and by to dinner, where his lady I find
+yet handsome, but hath been a very handsome woman; now is old.  Hath
+brought him near L100,000 and now he lives, no man in England in greater
+plenty, and commands both King and Council with his credit he gives them.
+Here was a fine lady a merchant's wife at dinner with us, and who should
+be here in the quality of a woman but Mrs. Worship's daughter, Dr.
+Clerke's niece, and after dinner Sir Robert led us up to his long
+gallery, very fine, above stairs (and better, or such, furniture I never
+did see), and there Mrs. Worship did give us three or four very good
+songs, and sings very neatly, to my great delight.  After all this, and
+ending the chief business to my content about getting a promise of some
+money of him, we took leave, being exceedingly well treated here, and a
+most pleasant journey we had back, Povy and I, and his company most
+excellent in anything but business, he here giving me an account of as
+many persons at Court as I had a mind or thought of enquiring after.  He
+tells me by a letter he showed me, that the King is not, nor hath been of
+late, very well, but quite out of humour; and, as some think, in a
+consumption, and weary of every thing.  He showed me my Lord Arlington's
+house that he was born in, in a towne called Harlington: and so carried
+me through a most pleasant country to Brainford, and there put me into my
+boat, and good night.  So I wrapt myself warm, and by water got to
+Woolwich about one in the morning, my wife and all in bed.
+
+
+
+8th.  Waked, and fell in talk with my wife about the letter, and she
+satisfied me that she did not know from whence it come, but believed it
+might be from her cozen Franke Moore lately come out of France.  The
+truth is the thing I think cannot have much in it, and being unwilling
+(being in other things so much at ease) to vex myself in a strange place
+at a melancholy time, passed all by and were presently friends.  Up, and
+several with me about business.  Anon comes my Lord Bruncker, as I
+expected, and we to the enquiring into the business of the late desertion
+of the Shipwrights from worke, who had left us for three days together
+for want of money, and upon this all the morning, and brought it to a
+pretty good issue, that they, we believe, will come to-morrow to work.
+To dinner, having but a mean one, yet sufficient for him, and he well
+enough pleased, besides that I do not desire to vye entertainments with
+him or any else.  Here was Captain Cocke also, and Mr. Wayth.  We staid
+together talking upon one business or other all the afternoon.  In the
+evening my Lord Bruncker hearing that Mr. Ackeworth's clerke, the
+Dutchman who writes and draws so well, was transcribing a book of Rates
+and our ships for Captain Millet a gallant of his mistress's, we sent for
+him for it.  He would not deliver it, but said it was his mistress's and
+had delivered it to her.  At last we were forced to send to her for it;
+she would come herself, and indeed the book was a very neat one and worth
+keeping as a rarity, but we did think fit, and though much against my
+will, to cancell all that he had finished of it, and did give her the
+rest, which vexed her, and she bore it discreetly enough, but with a
+cruel deal of malicious rancour in her looks.  I must confess I would
+have persuaded her to have let us have it to the office, and it may be
+the board would not have censured too hardly of it, but my intent was to
+have had it as a Record for the office, but she foresaw what would be the
+end of it and so desired it might rather be cancelled, which was a plaguy
+deal of spite.  My Lord Bruncker being gone and company, and she also,
+afterwards I took my wife and people and walked into the fields about a
+while till night, and then home, and so to sing a little and then to bed.
+I was in great trouble all this day for my boy Tom who went to Greenwich
+yesterday by my order and come not home till to-night for fear of the
+plague, but he did come home to-night, saying he staid last night by Mr.
+Hater's advice hoping to have me called as I come home with my boat to
+come along with me.
+
+
+
+9th.  Up and walked to Greenwich, and there we sat and dispatched a good
+deal of business I had a mind to.  At noon, by invitation, to my Lord
+Bruncker's, all of us, to dinner, where a good venison pasty, and mighty
+merry.  Here was Sir W. Doyly, lately come from Ipswich about the sicke
+and wounded, and Mr. Evelyn and Captain Cocke.  My wife also was sent for
+by my Lord Bruncker, by Cocke, and was here.  After dinner, my Lord and
+his mistress would see her home again, it being a most cursed rainy
+afternoon, having had none a great while before, and I, forced to go to
+the office on foot through all the rain, was almost wet to my skin, and
+spoiled my silke breeches almost.  Rained all the afternoon and evening,
+so as my letters being done, I was forced to get a bed at Captain
+Cocke's, where I find Sir W. Doyly, and he, and Evelyn at supper; and I
+with them full of discourse of the neglect of our masters, the great
+officers of State, about all business, and especially that of money:
+having now some thousands prisoners, kept to no purpose at a great
+charge, and no money provided almost for the doing of it.  We fell to
+talk largely of the want of some persons understanding to look after
+businesses, but all goes to rack.  "For," says Captain Cocke, "my Lord
+Treasurer, he minds his ease, and lets things go how they will: if he can
+have his L8000 per annum, and a game at l'ombre,--[Spanish card game]--
+he is well.  My Lord Chancellor he minds getting of money and nothing
+else; and my Lord Ashly will rob the Devil and the Alter, but he will get
+money if it be to be got."  But that that put us into this great
+melancholy, was newes brought to-day, which Captain Cocke reports as a
+certain truth, that all the Dutch fleete, men-of-war and merchant East
+India ships, are got every one in from Bergen the 3d of this month,
+Sunday last; which will make us all ridiculous.  The fleete come home
+with shame to require a great deale of money, which is not to be had, to
+discharge many men that must get the plague then or continue at greater
+charge on shipboard, nothing done by them to encourage the Parliament to
+give money, nor the Kingdom able to spare any money, if they would, at
+this time of the plague, so that, as things look at present, the whole
+state must come to ruine.  Full of these melancholy thoughts, to bed;
+where, though I lay the softest I ever did in my life, with a downe bed,
+after the Danish manner, upon me, yet I slept very ill, chiefly through
+the thoughts of my Lord Sandwich's concernment in all this ill successe
+at sea.
+
+
+
+10th (Lord's day).  Walked home; being forced thereto by one of my
+watermen falling sick yesterday, and it was God's great mercy I did not
+go by water with them yesterday, for he fell sick on Saturday night, and
+it is to be feared of the plague.  So I sent him away to London with his
+fellow; but another boat come to me this morning, whom I sent to
+Blackewall for Mr. Andrews.  I walked to Woolwich, and there find Mr.
+Hill, and he and I all the morning at musique and a song he hath set of
+three parts, methinks, very good.  Anon comes Mr. Andrews, though it be a
+very ill day, and so after dinner we to musique and sang till about 4 or
+5 o'clock, it blowing very hard, and now and then raining, and wind and
+tide being against us, Andrews and I took leave and walked to Greenwich.
+My wife before I come out telling me the ill news that she hears that her
+father is very ill, and then I told her I feared of the plague, for that
+the house is shut up.  And so she much troubled she did desire me to send
+them something; and I said I would, and will do so.  But before I come
+out there happened newes to come to the by an expresse from Mr. Coventry,
+telling me the most happy news of my Lord Sandwich's meeting with part of
+the Dutch; his taking two of their East India ships, and six or seven
+others, and very good prizes and that he is in search of the rest of the
+fleet, which he hopes to find upon the Wellbancke, with the loss only of
+the Hector, poor Captain Cuttle.  This newes do so overjoy me that I know
+not what to say enough to express it, but the better to do it I did walk
+to Greenwich, and there sending away Mr. Andrews, I to Captain Cocke's,
+where I find my Lord Bruncker and his mistress, and Sir J. Minnes.  Where
+we supped (there was also Sir W. Doyly and Mr. Evelyn); but the receipt
+of this newes did put us all into such an extacy of joy, that it inspired
+into Sir J. Minnes and Mr. Evelyn such a spirit of mirth, that in all my
+life I never met with so merry a two hours as our company this night was.
+Among other humours, Mr. Evelyn's repeating of some verses made up of
+nothing but the various acceptations of may and can, and doing it so
+aptly upon occasion of something of that nature, and so fast, did make us
+all die almost with laughing, and did so stop the mouth of Sir J. Minnes
+in the middle of all his mirth (and in a thing agreeing with his own
+manner of genius), that I never saw any man so out-done in all my life;
+and Sir J. Minnes's mirth too to see himself out-done, was the crown of
+all our mirth.  In this humour we sat till about ten at night, and so my
+Lord and his mistress home, and we to bed, it being one of the times of
+my life wherein I was the fullest of true sense of joy.
+
+
+
+11th.  Up and walked to the office, there to do some business till ten of
+the clock, and then by agreement my Lord, Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Doyly,
+and I took boat and over to the ferry, where Sir W. Batten's coach was
+ready for us, and to Walthamstow drove merrily, excellent merry discourse
+in the way, and most upon our last night's revells; there come we were
+very merry, and a good plain venison dinner.  After dinner to billiards,
+where I won an angel,
+
+     [A gold coin, so called because it bore the image of an angel,
+     varying in value from six shillings and eightpence to ten
+     shillings.]
+
+and among other sports we were merry with my pretending to have a warrant
+to Sir W. Hickes (who was there, and was out of humour with Sir W.
+Doyly's having lately got a warrant for a leash of buckes, of which we
+were now eating one) which vexed him, and at last would compound with me
+to give my Lord Bruncker half a buck now, and me a Doe for it a while
+hence when the season comes in, which we agreed to and had held, but that
+we fear Sir W. Doyly did betray our design, which spoiled all; however,
+my Lady Batten invited herself to dine with him this week, and she
+invited us all to dine with her there, which we agreed to, only to vex
+him, he being the most niggardly fellow, it seems, in the world.  Full of
+good victuals and mirth we set homeward in the evening, and very merry
+all the way.  So to Greenwich, where when come I find my Lord Rutherford
+and Creed come from Court, and among other things have brought me several
+orders for money to pay for Tangier; and, among the rest L7000 and more,
+to this Lord, which is an excellent thing to consider, that, though they
+can do nothing else, they can give away the King's money upon their
+progresse.  I did give him the best answer I could to pay him with
+tallys, and that is all they could get from me.  I was not in humour to
+spend much time with them, but walked a little before Sir J. Minnes's
+door and then took leave, and I by water to Woolwich, where with my wife
+to a game at tables,
+
+     [The old name for backgammon, used by Shakespeare and others.  The
+     following lines are from an epitaph entirely made up of puns on
+     backgammon
+
+              "Man's life's a game at tables, and he may
+               Mend his bad fortune by his wiser play."
+
+                              Wit's Recre., i. 250, reprint, 1817.]
+
+and to bed.
+
+
+
+12th.  Up, and walked to the office, where we sat late, and thence to
+dinner home with Sir J. Minnes, and so to the office, where writing
+letters, and home in the evening, where my wife shews me a letter from
+her brother speaking of their father's being ill, like to die, which, God
+forgive me! did not trouble me so much as it should, though I was indeed
+sorry for it.  I did presently resolve to send him something in a letter
+from my wife, viz. 20s.  So to bed.
+
+
+
+13th.  Up, and walked to Greenwich, taking pleasure to walk with my
+minute watch in my hand, by which I am come now to see the distances of
+my way from Woolwich to Greenwich, and do find myself to come within two
+minutes constantly to the same place at the end of each quarter of an
+houre.  Here we rendezvoused at Captain Cocke's, and there eat oysters,
+and so my Lord Bruncker, Sir J. Minnes, and I took boat, and in my Lord's
+coach to Sir W. Hickes's, whither by and by my Lady Batten and Sir
+William comes.  It is a good seat, with a fair grove of trees by it, and
+the remains of a good garden; but so let to run to ruine, both house and
+every thing in and about it, so ill furnished and miserably looked after,
+I never did see in all my life.  Not so much as a latch to his dining-
+room door; which saved him nothing, for the wind blowing into the room
+for want thereof, flung down a great bow pott that stood upon the side-
+table, and that fell upon some Venice glasses, and did him a crown's
+worth of hurt.  He did give us the meanest dinner (of beef, shoulder and
+umbles of venison
+
+     [Dr. Johnson was puzzled by the following passage in "The Merry
+     Wives of Windsor," act v., sc. 3: "Divide me like a bribe-buck, each
+     a haunch.  I will keep the sides to myself; my shoulders for the
+     fellow of this walk."  If he could have read the account of Sir
+     William Hickes's dinner, he would at once have understood the
+     allusion to the keeper's perquisites of the shoulders of all deer
+     killed in his walk.--B.]
+
+which he takes away from the keeper of the Forest, and a few pigeons, and
+all in the meanest manner) that ever I did see, to the basest degree.
+After dinner we officers of the Navy stepped aside to read some letters
+and consider some business, and so in again.  I was only pleased at a
+very fine picture of the Queene-Mother, when she was young, by Van-Dike;
+a very good picture, and a lovely sweet face.  Thence in the afternoon
+home, and landing at Greenwich I saw Mr. Pen walking my way, so we walked
+together, and for discourse I put him into talk of France, when he took
+delight to tell me of his observations, some good, some impertinent, and
+all ill told, but it served for want of better, and so to my house, where
+I find my wife abroad, and hath been all this day, nobody knows where,
+which troubled me, it being late and a cold evening.  So being invited to
+his mother's to supper, we took Mrs. Barbara, who was mighty finely
+dressed, and in my Lady's coach, which we met going for my wife, we
+thither, and there after some discourse went to supper.  By and by comes
+my wife and Mercer, and had been with Captain Cocke all day, he coming
+and taking her out to go see his boy at school at Brumly [Bromley], and
+brought her home again with great respect.  Here pretty merry, only I had
+no stomach, having dined late, to eat.  After supper Mr. Pen and I fell
+to discourse about some words in a French song my wife was saying, "D'un
+air tout interdict," wherein I laid twenty to one against him which he
+would not agree with me, though I know myself in the right as to the
+sense of the word, and almost angry we were, and were an houre and more
+upon the dispute, till at last broke up not satisfied, and so home in
+their coach and so to bed.  H. Russell did this day deliver my 20s. to my
+wife's father or mother, but has not yet told us how they do.
+
+
+
+14th.  Up, and walked to Greenwich, and there fitted myself in several
+businesses to go to London, where I have not been now a pretty while.
+But before I went from the office newes is brought by word of mouth that
+letters are now just now brought from the fleete of our taking a great
+many more of the Dutch fleete, in which I did never more plainly see my
+command of my temper in my not admitting myself to receive any kind of
+joy from it till I had heard the certainty of it, and therefore went by
+water directly to the Duke of Albemarle, where I find a letter of the
+Lath from Solebay, from my Lord Sandwich, of the fleete's meeting with
+about eighteen more of the Dutch fleete, and his taking of most of them;
+and the messenger says, they had taken three after the letter was wrote
+and sealed; which being twenty-one, and the fourteen took the other day,
+is forty-five sail; some of which are good, and others rich ships, which
+is so great a cause of joy in us all that my Lord and everybody is highly
+joyed thereat.  And having taken a copy of my Lord's letter, I away back
+again to the Beare at the Bridge foot, being full of wind and out of
+order, and there called for a biscuit and a piece of cheese and gill of
+sacke, being forced to walk over the Bridge, toward the 'Change, and the
+plague being all thereabouts.  Here my news was highly welcome, and I did
+wonder to see the 'Change so full, I believe 200 people; but not a man or
+merchant of any fashion, but plain men all.  And Lord! to see how I did
+endeavour all I could to talk with as few as I could, there being now no
+observation of shutting up of houses infected, that to be sure we do
+converse and meet with people that have the plague upon them.  I to Sir
+Robert Viner's, where my main business was about settling the business of
+Debusty's L5000 tallys, which I did for the present to enable me to have
+some money, and so home, buying some things for my wife in the way.  So
+home, and put up several things to carry to Woolwich, and upon serious
+thoughts I am advised by W. Griffin to let my money and plate rest there,
+as being as safe as any place, nobody imagining that people would leave
+money in their houses now, when all their families are gone.  So for the
+present that being my opinion, I did leave them there still.  But, Lord!
+to see the trouble that it puts a man to, to keep safe what with pain a
+man hath been getting together, and there is good reason for it.  Down to
+the office, and there wrote letters to and again about this good newes of
+our victory, and so by water home late.  Where, when I come home I spent
+some thoughts upon the occurrences of this day, giving matter for as much
+content on one hand and melancholy on another, as any day in all my life.
+For the first; the finding of my money and plate, and all safe at London,
+and speeding in my business of money this day.  The hearing of this good
+news to such excess, after so great a despair of my Lord's doing anything
+this year; adding to that, the decrease of 500 and more, which is the
+first decrease we have yet had in the sickness since it begun: and great
+hopes that the next week it will be greater.  Then, on the other side, my
+finding that though the Bill in general is abated, yet the City within
+the walls is encreased, and likely to continue so, and is close to our
+house there.  My meeting dead corpses of the plague, carried to be buried
+close to me at noon-day through the City in Fanchurch-street.  To see a
+person sick of the sores, carried close by me by Gracechurch in a
+hackney-coach.  My finding the Angell tavern, at the lower end of Tower-
+hill, shut up, and more than that, the alehouse at the Tower-stairs, and
+more than that, the person was then dying of the plague when I was last
+there, a little while ago, at night, to write a short letter there, and I
+overheard the mistresse of the house sadly saying to her husband somebody
+was very ill, but did not think it was of the plague.  To hear that poor
+Payne, my waiter, hath buried a child, and is dying himself.  To hear
+that a labourer I sent but the other day to Dagenhams, to know how they
+did there, is dead of the plague; and that one of my own watermen, that
+carried me daily, fell sick as soon as he had landed me on Friday morning
+last, when I had been all night upon the water (and I believe he did get
+his infection that day at Brainford), and is now dead of the plague.  To
+hear that Captain Lambert and Cuttle are killed in the taking these
+ships; and that Mr. Sidney Montague is sick of a desperate fever at my
+Lady Carteret's, at Scott's-hall.  To hear that Mr. Lewes hath another
+daughter sick.  And, lastly, that both my servants, W. Hewer and Tom
+Edwards, have lost their fathers, both in St. Sepulchre's parish, of the
+plague this week, do put me into great apprehensions of melancholy, and
+with good reason.  But I put off the thoughts of sadness as much as I
+can, and the rather to keep my wife in good heart and family also.  After
+supper (having eat nothing all this day) upon a fine tench--[??  D.W.]--
+of Mr. Shelden's taking, we to bed.
+
+
+
+15th.  Up, it being a cold misting morning, and so by water to the
+office, where very busy upon several businesses.  At noon got the
+messenger, Marlow, to get me a piece of bread and butter and cheese and a
+bottle of beer and ale, and so I went not out of the office but dined off
+that, and my boy Tom, but the rest of my clerks went home to dinner.
+Then to my business again, and by and by sent my waterman to see how Sir
+W. Warren do, who is sicke, and for which I have reason to be very sorry,
+he being the friend I have got most by of most friends in England but the
+King: who returns me that he is pretty well again, his disease being an
+ague.  I by water to Deptford, thinking to have seen my valentine, but I
+could not, and so come back again, and to the office, where a little
+business, and thence with Captain Cocke, and there drank a cup of good
+drink, which I am fain to allow myself during this plague time, by advice
+of all, and not contrary to my oathe, my physician being dead, and
+chyrurgeon out of the way, whose advice I am obliged to take, and so by
+water home and eat my supper, and to bed, being in much pain to think
+what I shall do this winter time; for go every day to Woolwich I cannot,
+without endangering my life; and staying from my wife at Greenwich is not
+handsome.
+
+
+
+16th.  Up, and walked to Greenwich reading a play, and to the office,
+where I find Sir J. Minnes gone to the fleete, like a doating foole, to
+do no good, but proclaim himself an asse; for no service he can do there,
+nor inform my Lord, who is come in thither to the buoy of the Nore, in
+anything worth his knowledge.  At noon to dinner to my Lord Bruncker,
+where Sir W. Batten and his Lady come, by invitation, and very merry we
+were, only that the discourse of the likelihood of the increase of the
+plague this weeke makes us a little sad, but then again the thoughts of
+the late prizes make us glad.  After dinner, by appointment, comes Mr.
+Andrews, and he and I walking alone in the garden talking of our Tangier
+business, and I endeavoured by the by to offer some encouragements for
+their continuing in the business, which he seemed to take hold of, and
+the truth is my profit is so much concerned that I could wish they would,
+and would take pains to ease them in the business of money as much as was
+possible.  He being gone (after I had ordered him L2000, and he paid me
+my quantum out of it) I also walked to the office, and there to my
+business; but find myself, through the unfitness of my place to write in,
+and my coming from great dinners, and drinking wine, that I am not in the
+good temper of doing business now a days that I used to be and ought
+still to be.  At night to Captain Cocke's, meaning to lie there, it being
+late, and he not being at home, I walked to him to my Lord Bruncker's,
+and there staid a while, they being at tables; and so by and by parted,
+and walked to his house; and, after a mess of good broth, to bed, in
+great pleasure, his company being most excellent.
+
+
+
+17th (Lord's day).  Up, and before I went out of my chamber did draw a
+musique scale, in order to my having it at any time ready in my hand to
+turn to for exercise, for I have a great mind in this Vacation to perfect
+myself in my scale, in order to my practising of composition, and so that
+being done I down stairs, and there find Captain Cocke under the barber's
+hands, the barber that did heretofore trim Commissioner Pett, and with
+whom I have been.  He offered to come this day after dinner with his
+violin to play me a set of Lyra-ayres upon it, which I was glad of,
+hoping to be merry thereby.  Being ready we to church, where a company of
+fine people to church, and a fine Church, and very good sermon, Mr.
+Plume' being a very excellent scholler and preacher.  Coming out of the
+church I met Mrs. Pierce, whom I was ashamed to see, having not been with
+her since my coming to town, but promised to visit her.  Thence with
+Captain Cocke, in his coach, home to dinner, whither comes by invitation
+my Lord Bruncker and his mistresse and very good company we were, but in
+dinner time comes Sir J. Minnes from the fleete, like a simple weak man,
+having nothing to say of what he hath done there, but tells of what value
+he imagines the prizes to be, and that my Lord Sandwich is well, and
+mightily concerned to hear that I was well.  But this did put me upon a
+desire of going thither; and, moving of it to my Lord, we presently
+agreed upon it to go this very tide, we two and Captain Cocke.  So every
+body prepared to fit himself for his journey, and I walked to Woolwich to
+trim and shift myself, and by the time I was ready they come down in the
+Bezan yacht, and so I aboard and my boy Tom, and there very merrily we
+sailed to below Gravesend, and there come to anchor for all night, and
+supped and talked, and with much pleasure at last settled ourselves to
+sleep having very good lodging upon cushions in the cabbin.
+
+
+
+18th.  By break of day we come to within sight of the fleete, which was a
+very fine thing to behold, being above 100 ships, great and small; with
+the flag-ships of each squadron, distinguished by their several flags on
+their main, fore, or mizen masts.  Among others, the Soveraigne, Charles,
+and Prince; in the last of which my Lord Sandwich was.  When we called by
+her side his Lordshipp was not stirring, so we come to anchor a little
+below his ship, thinking to have rowed on board him, but the wind and
+tide was so strong against us that we could not get up to him, no, though
+rowed by a boat of the Prince's that come to us to tow us up; at last
+however he brought us within a little way, and then they flung out a rope
+to us from the Prince and so come on board, but with great trouble and
+tune and patience, it being very cold; we find my Lord newly up in his
+night-gown very well.  He received us kindly; telling us the state of the
+fleet, lacking provisions, having no beer at all, nor have had most of
+them these three weeks or month, and but few days' dry provisions.  And
+indeed he tells us that he believes no fleete was ever set to sea in so
+ill condition of provision, as this was when it went out last.  He did
+inform us in the business of Bergen,
+
+     [Lord Sandwich was not so successful in convincing other people as
+     to the propriety of his conduct at Bergen as he was with Pepys.]
+
+so as to let us see how the judgment of the world is not to be depended
+on in things they know not; it being a place just wide enough, and not so
+much hardly, for ships to go through to it, the yardarmes sticking in the
+very rocks.  He do not, upon his best enquiry, find reason to except
+against any part of the management of the business by Teddiman; he having
+staid treating no longer than during the night, whiles he was fitting
+himself to fight, bringing his ship a-breast, and not a quarter of an
+hour longer (as is said); nor could more ships have been brought to play,
+as is thought.  Nor could men be landed, there being 10,000 men
+effectively always in armes of the Danes; nor, says he, could we expect
+more from the Dane than he did, it being impossible to set fire on the
+ships but it must burn the towne.  But that wherein the Dane did amisse
+is, that he did assist them, the Dutch, all the while, while he was
+treating with us, while he should have been neutrall to us both.  But,
+however, he did demand but the treaty of us; which is, that we should not
+come with more than five ships.  A flag of truce is said, and confessed
+by my Lord, that he believes it was hung out; but while they did hang it
+out, they did shoot at us; so that it was not either seen perhaps, or fit
+to cease upon sight of it, while they continued actually in action
+against us.  But the main thing my Lord wonders at, and condemns the Dane
+for, is, that the blockhead, who is so much in debt to the Hollander,
+having now a treasure more by much than all his Crowne was worth, and
+that which would for ever have beggared the Hollanders, should not take
+this time to break with the Hollander, and, thereby paid his debt which
+must have been forgiven him, and got the greatest treasure into his hands
+that ever was together in the world.  By and by my Lord took me aside to
+discourse of his private matters, who was very free with me touching the
+ill condition of the fleete that it hath been in, and the good fortune
+that he hath had, and nothing else that these prizes are to be imputed
+to.  He also talked with me about Mr. Coventry's dealing with him in
+sending Sir W. Pen away before him, which was not fair nor kind; but that
+he hath mastered and cajoled Sir W. Pen, that he hath been able to do,
+nothing in the fleete, but been obedient to him; but withal tells me he
+is a man that is but of very mean parts, and a fellow not to be lived
+with, so false and base he is; which I know well enough to be very true,
+and did, as I had formerly done, give my Lord my knowledge of him.  By
+and by was called a Council of Warr on board, when come Sir W. Pen there,
+and Sir Christopher Mings, Sir Edward Spragg, Sir Jos. Jordan, Sir Thomas
+Teddiman, and Sir Roger Cuttance, and so the necessity of the fleete for
+victuals, clothes, and money was discoursed, but by the discourse there
+of all but my Lord, that is to say, the counterfeit grave nonsense of Sir
+W. Pen and the poor mean discourse of the rest, methinks I saw how the
+government and management of the greatest business of the three nations
+is committed to very ordinary heads, saving my Lord, and in effect is
+only upon him, who is able to do what he pleases with them, they not
+having the meanest degree of reason to be able to oppose anything that he
+says, and so I fear it is ordered but like all the rest of the King's
+publique affayres.  The council being up they most of them went away,
+only Sir W. Pen who staid to dine there and did so, but the wind being
+high the ship (though the motion of it was hardly discernible to the eye)
+did make me sick, so as I could not eat any thing almost.  After dinner
+Cocke did pray me to helpe him to L500 of W. How, who is deputy
+Treasurer, wherein my Lord Bruncker and I am to be concerned and I did
+aske it my Lord, and he did consent to have us furnished with L500, and I
+did get it paid to Sir Roger Cuttance and Mr. Pierce in part for above
+L1000 worth of goods, Mace, Nutmegs, Cynamon, and Cloves, and he tells us
+we may hope to get L1500 by it, which God send!  Great spoil, I hear,
+there hath been of the two East India ships, and that yet they will come
+in to the King very rich: so that I hope this journey will be worth L100
+to me.
+
+     [There is a shorthand journal of proceedings relating to Pepys's
+     purchase of some East India prize goods among the Rawlinson MSS. in
+     the Bodleian Library.]
+
+After having paid this money, we took leave of my Lord and so to our
+Yacht again, having seen many of my friends there.  Among others I hear
+that W. Howe will grow very rich by this last business and grows very
+proud and insolent by it; but it is what I ever expected.  I hear by
+every body how much my poor Lord of Sandwich was concerned for me during
+my silence a while, lest I had been dead of the plague in this sickly
+time.  No sooner come into the yacht, though overjoyed with the good work
+we have done to-day, but I was overcome with sea sickness so that I begun
+to spue soundly, and so continued a good while, till at last I went into
+the cabbin and shutting my eyes my trouble did cease that I fell asleep,
+which continued till we come into Chatham river where the water was
+smooth, and then I rose and was very well, and the tide coming to be
+against us we did land before we come to Chatham and walked a mile,
+having very good discourse by the way, it being dark and it beginning to
+rain just as we got thither.  At Commissioner Pett's we did eat and drink
+very well and very merry we were, and about 10 at night, it being
+moonshine and very cold, we set out, his coach carrying us, and so all
+night travelled to Greenwich, we sometimes sleeping a little and then
+talking and laughing by the way, and with much pleasure, but that it was
+very horrible cold, that I was afeard of an ague.  A pretty passage was
+that the coach stood of a sudden and the coachman come down and the
+horses stirring, he cried, Hold!  which waked me, and the coach[man]
+standing at the boote to [do] something or other and crying, Hold!  I did
+wake of a sudden and not knowing who he was, nor thinking of the coachman
+between sleeping and waking I did take up the heart to take him by the
+shoulder, thinking verily he had been a thief.  But when I waked I found
+my cowardly heart to discover a fear within me and that I should never
+have done it if I had been awake.
+
+
+
+19th.  About 4 or 5 of the clock we come to Greenwich, and, having first
+set down my Lord Bruncker, Cocke and I went to his house, it being light,
+and there to our great trouble, we being sleepy and cold, we met with the
+ill newes that his boy Jacke was gone to bed sicke, which put Captain
+Cocke and me also into much trouble, the boy, as they told us,
+complaining of his head most, which is a bad sign it seems.  So they
+presently betook themselves to consult whither and how to remove him.
+However I thought it not fit for me to discover too much fear to go away,
+nor had I any place to go to.  So to bed I went and slept till 10 of the
+clock and then comes Captain Cocke to wake me and tell me that his boy
+was well again.  With great joy I heard the newes and he told it, so I up
+and to the office where we did a little, and but a little business.  At
+noon by invitation to my Lord Bruncker's where we staid till four of the
+clock for my Lady Batten and she not then coming we to dinner and pretty
+merry but disordered by her making us stay so long.  After dinner I to
+the office, and there wrote letters and did business till night and then
+to Sir J. Minnes's, where I find my Lady Batten come, and she and my Lord
+Bruncker and his mistresse, and the whole house-full there at cards.  But
+by and by my Lord Bruncker goes away and others of the company, and when
+I expected Sir J. Minnes and his sister should have staid to have made
+Sir W. Batten and Lady sup, I find they go up in snuffe to bed without
+taking any manner of leave of them, but left them with Mr. Boreman.  The
+reason of this I could not presently learn, but anon I hear it is that
+Sir J. Minnes did expect and intend them a supper, but they without
+respect to him did first apply themselves to Boreman, which makes all
+this great feude.  However I staid and there supped, all of us being in
+great disorder from this, and more from Cocke's boy's being ill, where my
+Lady Batten and Sir W. Batten did come to town with an intent to lodge,
+and I was forced to go seek a lodging which my W. Hewer did get me, viz.,
+his own chamber in the towne, whither I went and found it a very fine
+room, and there lay most excellently.
+
+
+
+20th.  Called up by Captain Cocke (who was last night put into great
+trouble upon his boy's being rather worse than better, upon which he
+removed him out of his house to his stable), who told me that to my
+comfort his boy was now as well as ever he was in his life.  So I up, and
+after being trimmed, the first time I have been touched by a barber these
+twelvemonths, I think, and more, went to Sir J. Minnes's, where I find
+all out of order still, they having not seen one another till by and by
+Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten met, to go into my Lord Bruncker's coach,
+and so we four to Lambeth, and thence to the Duke of Albemarle, to inform
+him what we have done as to the fleete, which is very little, and to
+receive his direction.  But, Lord!  what a sad time it is to see no boats
+upon the River; and grass grows all up and down White Hall court, and
+nobody but poor wretches in the streets!  And, which is worst of all, the
+Duke showed us the number of the plague this week, brought in the last
+night from the Lord Mayor; that it is encreased about 600 more than the
+last, which is quite contrary to all our hopes and expectations, from the
+coldness of the late season.  For the whole general number is 8,297, and
+of them the plague 7,165; which is more in the whole by above 50, than
+the biggest Bill yet; which is very grievous to us all.  I find here a
+design in my Lord Bruncker and Captain Cocke to have had my Lord Bruncker
+chosen as one of us to have been sent aboard one of the East Indiamen,
+and Captain Cocke as a merchant to be joined with him, and Sir J. Minnes
+for the other, and Sir G. Smith to be joined with him.  But I did order
+it so that my Lord Bruncker and Sir J. Minnes were ordered, but I did
+stop the merchants to be added, which would have been a most pernicious
+thing to the King I am sure.  In this I did, I think, a very good office,
+though I cannot acquit myself from some envy of mine in the business to
+have the profitable business done by another hand while I lay wholly
+imployed in the trouble of the office.  Thence back again by my Lord's
+coach to my Lord Bruncker's house, where I find my Lady Batten, who is
+become very great with Mrs. Williams (my Lord Bruncker's whore), and
+there we dined and were mighty merry.  After dinner I to the office there
+to write letters, to fit myself for a journey to-morrow to Nonsuch to the
+Exchequer by appointment.  That being done I to Sir J. Minnes where I
+find Sir W. Batten and his Lady gone home to Walthamstow in great snuffe
+as to Sir J. Minnes, but yet with some necessity, hearing that a mayde-
+servant of theirs is taken ill.  Here I staid and resolved of my going in
+my Lord Bruncker's coach which he would have me to take, though himself
+cannot go with me as he intended, and so to my last night's lodging to
+bed very weary.
+
+
+
+21st. Up between five and six o'clock; and by the time I was ready, my
+Lord's coach comes for me; and taking Will Hewer with me, who is all in
+mourning for his father, who is lately dead of the plague, as my boy
+Tom's is also, I set out, and took about L100 with me to pay the fees
+there, and so rode in some fear of robbing.  When I come thither, I find
+only Mr. Ward, who led me to Burgess's bedside, and Spicer's, who,
+watching of the house, as it is their turns every night, did lie long in
+bed to-day, and I find nothing at all done in my business, which vexed
+me.  But not seeing how to helpe it I did walk up and down with Mr. Ward
+to see the house; and by and by Spicer and Mr. Falconbrige come to me and
+he and I to a towne near by, Yowell, there drink and set up my horses and
+also bespoke a dinner, and while that is dressing went with Spicer and
+walked up and down the house and park; and a fine place it hath
+heretofore been, and a fine prospect about the house.  A great walk of an
+elme and a walnutt set one after another in order.  And all the house on
+the outside filled with figures of stories, and good painting of Rubens'
+or Holben's doing.  And one great thing is, that most of the house is
+covered, I mean the posts, and quarters in the walls; covered with lead,
+and gilded.  I walked into the ruined garden, and there found a plain
+little girle, kinswoman of Mr. Falconbridge, to sing very finely by the
+eare only, but a fine way of singing, and if I come ever to lacke a girle
+again I shall think of getting her.  Thence to the towne, and there
+Spicer, Woodruffe, and W. Bowyer and I dined together and a friend of
+Spicer's; and a good dinner I had for them.  Falconbrige dined somewhere
+else, by appointment.  Strange to see how young W. Bowyer looks at 41
+years; one would not take him for 24 or more, and is one of the greatest
+wonders I ever did see.  After dinner, about 4 of the clock we broke up,
+and I took coach and home (in fear for the money I had with me, but that
+this friend of Spicer's, one of the Duke's guard did ride along the best
+part of the way with us).  I got to my Lord Bruncker's before night, and
+there I sat and supped with him and his mistresse, and Cocke whose boy is
+yet ill.  Thence, after losing a crowne betting at Tables--[Cribbage]--,
+we walked home, Cocke seeing me at my new lodging, where I went to bed.
+All my worke this day in the coach going and coming was to refresh myself
+in my musique scale, which I would fain have perfecter than ever I had
+yet.
+
+
+
+22nd.  Up betimes and to the office, meaning to have entered my last 5 or
+6 days' Journall, but was called away by my Lord Bruncker and Sir J.
+Minnes, and to Blackwall, there to look after the storehouses in order to
+the laying of goods out of the East India ships when they shall be
+unloaden.  That being done, we into Johnson's house, and were much made
+of, eating and drinking.  But here it is observable what he tells us,
+that in digging his late Docke, he did 12 foot under ground find perfect
+trees over-covered with earth.  Nut trees, with the branches and the very
+nuts upon them; some of whose nuts he showed us.  Their shells black with
+age, and their kernell, upon opening, decayed, but their shell perfectly
+hard as ever.  And a yew tree he showed us (upon which, he says, the very
+ivy was taken up whole about it), which upon cutting with an addes
+[adze], we found to be rather harder than the living tree usually is.
+They say, very much, but I do not know how hard a yew tree naturally is.
+
+     [The same discovery was made in 1789, in digging the Brunswick Dock,
+     also at Blackwall, and elsewhere in the neighbourhood.]
+
+The armes, they say, were taken up at first whole, about the body, which
+is very strange.  Thence away by water, and I walked with my Lord
+Bruncker home, and there at dinner comes a letter from my Lord Sandwich
+to tell me that he would this day be at Woolwich, and desired me to meet
+him.  Which fearing might have lain in Sir J. Minnes' pocket a while, he
+sending it me, did give my Lord Bruncker, his mistress, and I occasion to
+talk of him as the most unfit man for business in the world.  Though at
+last afterwards I found that he was not in this faulty, but hereby I have
+got a clear evidence of my Lord Bruncker's opinion of him.  My Lord
+Bruncker presently ordered his coach to be ready and we to Woolwich, and
+my Lord Sandwich not being come, we took a boat and about a mile off met
+him in his Catch, and boarded him, and come up with him; and, after
+making a little halt at my house, which I ordered, to have my wife see
+him, we all together by coach to Mr. Boreman's, where Sir J. Minnes did
+receive him very handsomely, and there he is to lie; and Sir J. Minnes
+did give him on the sudden, a very handsome supper and brave discourse,
+my Lord Bruncker, and Captain Cocke, and Captain Herbert being there,
+with myself.  Here my Lord did witness great respect to me, and very kind
+expressions, and by other occasions, from one thing to another did take
+notice how I was overjoyed at first to see the King's letter to his
+Lordship, and told them how I did kiss it, and that, whatever he was, I
+did always love the King.  This my Lord Bruncker did take such notice
+[of] as that he could not forbear kissing me before my Lord, professing
+his finding occasion every day more and more to love me, and Captain
+Cocke has since of himself taken notice of that speech of my Lord then
+concerning me, and may be of good use to me.  Among other discourse
+concerning long life, Sir J. Minnes saying that his great-grandfather was
+alive in Edward the Vth's time; my Lord Sandwich did tell us how few
+there have been of his family since King Harry the VIIIth; that is to
+say, the then Chiefe Justice, and his son the Lord Montagu, who was
+father to Sir Sidney,
+
+     [These are the words in the MS., and not "his son and the Lord
+     Montagu," as in some former editions.  Pepys seems to have written
+     Lord Montagu by mistake for Sir Edward Montagu.]
+
+who was his father. And yet, what is more wonderfull, he did assure us
+from the mouth of my Lord Montagu himself, that in King James's time
+([when he] had a mind to get the King to cut off the entayle of some land
+which was given in Harry the VIIIth's time to the family, with the
+remainder in the Crowne); he did answer the King in showing how unlikely
+it was that ever it could revert to the Crown, but that it would be a
+present convenience to him; and did show that at that time there were
+4,000 persons derived from the very body of the Chiefe Justice.  It seems
+the number of daughters in the family having been very great, and they
+too had most of them many children, and grandchildren, and great-
+grandchildren.  This he tells as a most known and certain truth.  After
+supper, my Lord Bruncker took his leave, and I also did mine, taking
+Captain Herbert home to my lodging to lie with me, who did mighty
+seriously inquire after who was that in the black dress with my wife
+yesterday, and would not believe that it was my wife's mayde, Mercer, but
+it was she.
+
+
+
+23rd.  Up, and to my Lord Sandwich, who did advise alone with me how far
+he might trust Captain Cocke in the business of the prize-goods, my Lord
+telling me that he hath taken into his hands 2 or L3000 value of them: it
+being a good way, he says, to get money, and afterwards to get the King's
+allowance thereof, it being easier, he observes, to keepe money when got
+of the King than to get it when it is too late.  I advised him not to
+trust Cocke too far, and did therefore offer him ready money for a L1000
+or two, which he listens to and do agree to, which is great joy to me,
+hoping thereby to get something!  Thence by coach to Lambeth, his
+Lordship, and all our office, and Mr. Evelyn, to the Duke of Albemarle,
+where, after the compliment with my Lord very kind, we sat down to
+consult of the disposing and supporting of the fleete with victuals and
+money, and for the sicke men and prisoners; and I did propose the taking
+out some goods out of the prizes, to the value of L10,000, which was
+accorded to, and an order, drawn up and signed by the Duke and my Lord,
+done in the best manner I can, and referred to my Lord Bruncker and Sir
+J. Minnes, but what inconveniences may arise from it I do not yet see,
+but fear there may be many.  Here we dined, and I did hear my Lord Craven
+whisper, as he is mightily possessed with a good opinion of me, much to
+my advantage, which my good Lord did second, and anon my Lord Craven did
+speak publiquely of me to the Duke, in the hearing of all the rest; and
+the Duke did say something of the like advantage to me; I believe, not
+much to the satisfaction of my brethren; but I was mightily joyed at it.
+Thence took leave, leaving my Lord Sandwich to go visit the Bishop of
+Canterbury, and I and Sir W. Batten down to the Tower, where he went
+further by water, and I home, and among other things took out all my gold
+to carry along with me to-night with Captain Cocke downe to the fleete,
+being L180 and more, hoping to lay out that and a great deal more to good
+advantage.  Thence down to Greenwich to the office, and there wrote
+several letters, and so to my Lord Sandwich, and mighty merry and he
+mighty kind to me in the face of all, saying much in my favour, and after
+supper I took leave and with Captain Cocke set out in the yacht about ten
+o'clock at night, and after some discourse, and drinking a little, my
+mind full of what we are going about and jealous of Cocke's outdoing me.
+So to sleep upon beds brought by Cocke on board mighty handsome, and
+never slept better than upon this bed upon the floor in the Cabbin.
+
+
+
+24th (Lord's day).  Waked, and up and drank, and then to discourse; and
+then being about Grayes, and a very calme, curious morning, we took our
+wherry, and to the fishermen, and bought a great deal of fine fish, and
+to Gravesend to White's, and had part of it dressed; and, in the
+meantime, we to walk about a mile from the towne, and so back again; and
+there, after breakfast, one of our watermen told us he had heard of a
+bargain of cloves for us, and we went to a blind alehouse at the further
+end wretched dirty seamen, who, of the towne to a couple of poor
+wretches, had got together about 37 lb. of cloves and to 10 of nutmeggs,
+and we bought them of them, the first at 5s. 6d.  per lb. and the latter
+at 4s.; and paid them in gold; but, Lord!  to see how silly these men are
+in the selling of it, and easily to be persuaded almost to anything,
+offering a bag to us to pass as 20 lbs. of cloves, which upon weighing
+proved 25 lbs.  But it would never have been allowed by my conscience to
+have wronged the poor wretches, who told us how dangerously they had got
+some, and dearly paid for the rest of these goods.  This being done we
+with great content herein on board again and there Captain Cocke and I to
+discourse of our business, but he will not yet be open to me, nor am I to
+him till I hear what he will say and do with Sir Roger Cuttance.
+However, this discourse did do me good, and got me a copy of the
+agreement made the other day on board for the parcel of Mr. Pierce and
+Sir Roger Cuttance, but this great parcel is of my Lord Sandwich's.  By
+and by to dinner about 3 o'clock and then I in the cabbin to writing down
+my journall for these last seven days to my, great content, it having
+pleased God that in this sad time of the plague every thing else has
+conspired to my happiness and pleasure more for these last three months
+than in all my, life before in so little time.  God long preserve it and
+make me thankful) for it!  After finishing my Journal), then to discourse
+and to read, and then to supper and to bed, my mind not being at full
+ease, having not fully satisfied myself how Captain Cocke will deal with
+me as to the share of the profits.
+
+
+
+25th.  Found ourselves come to the fleete, and so aboard the Prince; and
+there, after a good while in discourse, we did agree a bargain of L5,000
+with Sir Roger Cuttance for my Lord Sandwich for silk, cinnamon,
+nutmeggs, and indigo.  And I was near signing to an undertaking for the
+payment of the whole sum; but I did by chance escape it; having since,
+upon second thoughts, great cause to be glad of it, reflecting upon the
+craft and not good condition, it may be, of Captain Cocke.  I could get
+no trifles for my wife.  Anon to dinner and thence in great haste to make
+a short visit to Sir W. Pen, where I found them and his lady and daughter
+and many commanders at dinner.  Among others Sir G. Askue, of whom
+whatever the matter is, the world is silent altogether.  But a very
+pretty dinner there was, and after dinner Sir W. Pen made a bargain with
+Cocke for ten bales of silke, at 16s. per lb., which, as Cocke says, will
+be a good pennyworth, and so away to the Prince and presently comes my
+Lord on board from Greenwich, with whom, after a little discourse about
+his trusting of Cocke, we parted and to our yacht; but it being calme, we
+to make haste, took our wherry toward Chatham; but, it growing darke, we
+were put to great difficultys, our simple, yet confident waterman, not
+knowing a step of the way; and we found ourselves to go backward and
+forward, which, in the darke night and a wild place, did vex us mightily.
+At last we got a fisher boy by chance, and took him into the boat, and
+being an odde kind of boy, did vex us too; for he would not answer us
+aloud when we spoke to him, but did carry us safe thither, though with a
+mistake or two; but I wonder they were not more.  In our way I was
+[surprised] and so were we all, at the strange nature of the sea-water in
+a darke night, that it seemed like fire upon every stroke of the oare,
+and, they say, is a sign of winde.  We went to the Crowne Inne, at
+Rochester, and there to supper, and made ourselves merry with our poor
+fisher-boy, who told us he had not been in a bed in the whole seven years
+since he came to 'prentice, and hath two or three more years to serve.
+After eating something, we in our clothes to bed.
+
+
+
+26th.  Up by five o'clock and got post horses and so set out for
+Greenwich, calling and drinking at Dartford.  Being come to Greenwich and
+shifting myself I to the office, from whence by and by my Lord Bruncker
+and Sir J. Minnes set out toward Erith to take charge of the two East
+India shipps, which I had a hand in contriving for the King's service and
+may do myself a good office too thereby.  I to dinner with Mr. Wright to
+his father-in-law in Greenwich, one of the most silly, harmless, prating
+old men that ever I heard in my life.  Creed dined with me, and among
+other discourses got of me a promise of half that he could get my Lord
+Rutherford to give me upon clearing his business, which should not be
+less, he says, than L50 for my half, which is a good thing, though
+cunningly got of him.  By and by Luellin comes, and I hope to get
+something of Deering shortly.  They being gone, Mr. Wright and I went
+into the garden to discourse with much trouble for fear of losing all the
+profit and principal of what we have laid out in buying of prize goods,
+and therefore puts me upon thoughts of flinging up my interest, but yet I
+shall take good advice first.  Thence to the office, and after some
+letters down to Woolwich, where I have not lain with my wife these eight
+days I think, or more.  After supper, and telling her my mind in my
+trouble in what I have done as to buying' of these goods, we to bed.
+
+
+
+27th.  Up, and saw and admired my wife's picture of our Saviour,
+
+     [This picture by Mrs. Pepys may have given trouble when Pepys was
+     unjustifiably attacked for having Popish pictures in his house.]
+
+now finished, which is very pretty.  So by water to Greenwich, where with
+Creed and Lord Rutherford, and there my Lord told me that he would give
+me L100 for my pains, which pleased me well, though Creed, like a cunning
+rogue, hath got a promise of half of it from me.  We to the King's Head,
+the great musique house, the first time I was ever there, and had a good
+breakfast, and thence parted, I being much troubled to hear from Creed,
+that he was told at Salsbury that I am come to be a great swearer and
+drinker, though I know the contrary; but, Lord! to see how my late little
+drinking of wine is taken notice of by envious men to my disadvantage.
+I thence to Captain Cocke's, [and] (he not yet come from town) to Mr.
+Evelyn's, where much company; and thence in his coach with him to the
+Duke of Albemarle by Lambeth, who was in a mighty pleasant humour; there
+the Duke tells us that the Dutch do stay abroad, and our fleet must go
+out again, or to be ready to do so.  Here we got several things ordered
+as we desired for the relief of the prisoners, and sick and wounded men.
+Here I saw this week's Bill of Mortality, wherein, blessed be God! there
+is above 1800 decrease, being the first considerable decrease we have
+had.  Back again the same way and had most excellent discourse of Mr.
+Evelyn touching all manner of learning; wherein I find him a very fine
+gentleman, and particularly of paynting, in which he tells me the
+beautifull Mrs. Middleton is rare, and his own wife do brave things.  He
+brought me to the office, whither comes unexpectedly Captain Cocke, who
+hath brought one parcel of our goods by waggons, and at first resolved to
+have lodged them at our office; but then the thoughts of its being the
+King's house altered our resolution, and so put them at his friend's, Mr.
+Glanvill's, and there they are safe.  Would the rest of them were so too!
+In discourse, we come to mention my profit, and he offers me L500 clear,
+and I demand L600 for my certain profit.  We part to-night, and I lie
+there at Mr. Glanvill's house, there being none there but a maydeservant
+and a young man; being in some pain, partly from not knowing what to do
+in this business, having a mind to be at a certainty in my profit, and
+partly through his having Jacke sicke still, and his blackemore now also
+fallen sicke.  So he being gone, I to bed.
+
+
+
+28th.  Up, and being mightily pleased with my night's lodging, drank a
+cup of beer, and went out to my office, and there did some business, and
+so took boat and down to Woolwich (having first made a visit to Madam
+Williams, who is going down to my Lord Bruncker) and there dined, and
+then fitted my papers and money and every thing else for a journey to
+Nonsuch to-morrow.  That being done I walked to Greenwich, and there to
+the office pretty late expecting Captain Cocke's coming, which he did,
+and so with me to my new lodging (and there I chose rather to lie because
+of my interest in the goods that we have brought there to lie), but the
+people were abed, so we knocked them up, and so I to bed, and in the
+night was mightily troubled with a looseness (I suppose from some fresh
+damp linen that I put on this night), and feeling for a chamber-pott,
+there was none, I having called the mayde up out of her bed, she had
+forgot I suppose to put one there; so I was forced in this strange house
+to rise and shit in the chimney twice; and so to bed and was very well
+again, and
+
+
+
+29th.  To sleep till 5 o'clock, when it is now very dark, and then rose,
+being called up by order by Mr. Marlow, and so up and dressed myself, and
+by and by comes Mr. Lashmore on horseback, and I had my horse I borrowed
+of Mr. Gillthropp, Sir W. Batten's clerke, brought to me, and so we set
+out and rode hard and was at Nonsuch by about eight o'clock, a very fine
+journey and a fine day.  There I come just about chappell time and so I
+went to chappell with them and thence to the several offices about my
+tallys, which I find done, but strung for sums not to my purpose, and so
+was forced to get them to promise me to have them cut into other sums.
+But, Lord! what ado I had to persuade the dull fellows to it, especially
+Mr. Warder, Master of the Pells, and yet without any manner of reason for
+their scruple.  But at last I did, and so left my tallies there against
+another day, and so walked to Yowell, and there did spend a peece upon
+them, having a whole house full, and much mirth by a sister of the
+mistresse of the house, an old mayde lately married to a lieutenant of a
+company that quarters there, and much pleasant discourse we had and,
+dinner being done, we to horse again and come to Greenwich before night,
+and so to my lodging, and there being a little weary sat down and fell to
+order some of my pocket papers, and then comes Captain Cocke, and after a
+great deal of discourse with him seriously upon the disorders of our
+state through lack of men to mind the public business and to understand
+it, we broke up, sitting up talking very late.  We spoke a little of my
+late business propounded of taking profit for my money laid out for these
+goods, but he finds I rise in my demand, he offering me still L500
+certain.  So we did give it over, and I to bed.  I hear for certain this
+night upon the road that Sir Martin Noell is this day dead of the plague
+in London, where he hath lain sick of it these eight days.
+
+
+
+30th.  Up and to the office, where busy all the morning, and at noon with
+Sir W. Batten to Coll. Cleggat to dinner, being invited, where a very
+pretty dinner to my full content and very merry.  The great burden we
+have upon us at this time at the office, is the providing for prisoners
+and sicke men that are recovered, they lying before our office doors all
+night and all day, poor wretches.  Having been on shore, the captains
+won't receive them on board, and other ships we have not to put them on,
+nor money to pay them off, or provide for them.  God remove this
+difficulty!  This made us followed all the way to this gentleman's house
+and there are waited for our coming out after dinner.  Hither come
+Luellin to me and would force me to take Mr. Deering's 20 pieces in gold
+he did offer me a good while since, which I did, yet really and sincerely
+against my will and content, I seeing him a man not likely to do well in
+his business, nor I to reap any comfort in having to do with, and be
+beholden to, a man that minds more his pleasure and company than his
+business.  Thence mighty merry and much pleased with the dinner and
+company and they with me I parted and there was set upon by the poor
+wretches, whom I did give good words and some little money to, and the
+poor people went away like lambs, and in good earnest are not to be
+censured if their necessities drive them to bad courses of stealing or
+the like, while they lacke wherewith to live.  Thence to the office, and
+there wrote a letter or two and dispatched a little business, and then to
+Captain Cocke's, where I find Mr. Temple, the fat blade, Sir Robert.
+Viner's chief man.  And we three and two companions of his in the evening
+by agreement took ship in the Bezan and the tide carried us no further
+than Woolwich about 8 at night, and so I on shore to my wife, and there
+to my great trouble find my wife out of order, and she took me downstairs
+and there alone did tell me her falling out with both her mayds and
+particularly Mary, and how Mary had to her teeth told her she would tell
+me of something that should stop her mouth and words of that sense.
+Which I suspect may be about Brown, but my wife prays me to call it to
+examination, and this, I being of myself jealous, do make me mightily out
+of temper, and seeing it not fit to enter into the dispute did
+passionately go away, thinking to go on board again.  But when I come to
+the stairs I considered the Bezan would not go till the next ebb, and it
+was best to lie in a good bed and, it may be, get myself into a better
+humour by being with my wife.  So I back again and to bed and having
+otherwise so many reasons to rejoice and hopes of good profit, besides
+considering the ill that trouble of mind and melancholly may in this
+sickly time bring a family into, and that if the difference were never so
+great, it is not a time to put away servants, I was resolved to salve up
+the business rather than stir in it, and so become pleasant with my wife
+and to bed, minding nothing of this difference.  So to sleep with a good
+deal of content, and saving only this night and a day or two about the
+same business a month or six weeks ago, I do end this month with the
+greatest content, and may say that these last three months, for joy,
+health, and profit, have been much the greatest that ever I received in
+all my life in any twelve months almost in my life, having nothing upon
+me but the consideration of the sicklinesse of the season during this
+great plague to mortify mee.  For all which the Lord God be praised!
+
+
+
+ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:
+
+And feeling for a chamber-pott, there was none
+Discourse of Mr. Evelyn touching all manner of learning
+Fell to sleep as if angry
+King himself minding nothing but his ease
+Not to be censured if their necessities drive them to bad
+Ordered him L2000, and he paid me my quantum out of it
+Sicke men that are recovered, they lying before our office doors
+Told us he had not been in a bed in the whole seven years
+
+
+
+
+End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v43
+by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley
+
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