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diff --git a/4159.txt b/4159.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..881928a --- /dev/null +++ b/4159.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1526 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, September 1665, by Samuel Pepys + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, September 1665 + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Release Date: November 30, 2004 [EBook #4159] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY + MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + 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 + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Diary of Samuel Pepys, September 1665 +by Samuel Pepys + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + +***** This file should be named 4159.txt or 4159.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/5/4159/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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