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WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + OCTOBER + 1665 + + +October 1st (Lord's day). Called up about 4 of the clock and so dressed +myself and so on board the Bezan, and there finding all my company asleep +I would not wake them, but it beginning to be break of day I did stay +upon the decke walking, and then into the Maister's cabbin and there laid +and slept a little, and so at last was waked by Captain Cocke's calling +of me, and so I turned out, and then to chat and talk and laugh, and +mighty merry. We spent most of the morning talking and reading of "The +Siege of Rhodes," which is certainly (the more I read it the more I think +so) the best poem that ever was wrote. We breakfasted betimes and come +to the fleete about two of the clock in the afternoon, having a fine day +and a fine winde. My Lord received us mighty kindly, and after discourse +with us in general left us to our business, and he to his officers, +having called a council of wary, we in the meantime settling of papers +with Mr. Pierce and everybody else, and by and by with Captain Cuttance. +Anon called down to my Lord, and there with him till supper talking and +discourse; among other things, to my great joy, he did assure me that he +had wrote to the King and Duke about these prize-goods, and told me that +they did approve of what he had done, and that he would owne what he had +done, and would have me to tell all the world so, and did, under his +hand, give Cocke and me his certificate of our bargains, and giving us +full power of disposal of what we have so bought. This do ease my mind +of all my fear, and makes my heart lighter by L100 than it was before. +He did discourse to us of the Dutch fleete being abroad, eighty-five of +them still, and are now at the Texell, he believes, in expectation of our +Eastland ships coming home with masts and hempe, and our loaden Hambrough +ships going to Hambrough. He discoursed against them that would have us +yield to no conditions but conquest over the Dutch, and seems to believe +that the Dutch will call for the protection of the King of France and +come under his power, which were to be wished they might be brought to do +under ours by fair means, and to that end would have all Dutch men and +familys, that would come hither and settled, to be declared denizens; and +my Lord did whisper to me alone that things here must break in pieces, +nobody minding any thing, but every man his owne business of profit or +pleasure, and the King some little designs of his owne, and that +certainly the kingdom could not stand in this condition long, which I +fear and believe is very true. So to supper and there my Lord the +kindest man to me, before all the table talking of me to my advantage and +with tenderness too that it overjoyed me. So after supper Captain Cocke +and I and Temple on board the Bezan, and there to cards for a while and +then to read again in "Rhodes" and so to sleep. But, Lord! the mirth +which it caused me to be waked in the night by their snoaring round about +me; I did laugh till I was ready to burst, and waked one of the two +companions of Temple, who could not a good while tell where he was that +he heard one laugh so, till he recollected himself, and I told him what +it was at, and so to sleep again, they still snoaring. + + + +2nd. We having sailed all night (and I do wonder how they in the dark +could find the way) we got by morning to Gillingham, and thence all +walked to Chatham; and there with Commissioner Pett viewed the Yard; and +among other things, a teame of four horses come close by us, he being +with me, drawing a piece of timber that I am confident one man could +easily have carried upon his back. I made the horses be taken away, and +a man or two to take the timber away with their hands. This the +Commissioner did see, but said nothing, but I think had cause to be +ashamed of. We walked, he and I and Cocke, to the Hill-house, where we +find Sir W. Pen in bed and there much talke and much dissembling of +kindnesse from him, but he is a false rogue, and I shall not trust him, +but my being there did procure his consent to have his silk carried away +before the money received, which he would not have done for Cocke I am +sure. Thence to Rochester, walked to the Crowne, and while dinner was +getting ready, I did there walk to visit the old Castle ruines, which +hath been a noble place, and there going up I did upon the stairs +overtake three pretty mayds or women and took them up with me, and I did +'baiser sur mouches et toucher leur mains' and necks to my great +pleasure: but, Lord! to see what a dreadfull thing it is to look down the +precipices, for it did fright me mightily, and hinder me of much pleasure +which I would have made to myself in the company of these three, if it +had not been for that. The place hath been very noble and great and +strong in former ages. So to walk up and down the Cathedral, and thence +to the Crowne, whither Mr. Fowler, the Mayor of the towne, was come in +his gowne, and is a very reverend magistrate. After I had eat a bit, not +staying to eat with them, I went away, and so took horses and to +Gravesend, and there staid not, but got a boat, the sicknesse being very +much in the towne still, and so called on board my Lord Bruncker and Sir +John Minnes, on board one of the East Indiamen at Erith, and there do +find them full of envious complaints for the pillageing of the ships, but +I did pacify them, and discoursed about making money of some of the +goods, and do hope to be the better by it honestly. So took leave (Madam +Williams being here also with my Lord), and about 8 o'clock got to +Woolwich and there supped and mighty pleasant with my wife, who is, for +ought I see, all friends with her mayds, and so in great joy and content +to bed. + + + +3rd. Up, and to my great content visited betimes by Mr. Woolly, my uncle +Wight's cozen, who comes to see what work I have for him about these East +India goods, and I do find that this fellow might have been of great use, +and hereafter may be of very great use to me, in this trade of prize +goods, and glad I am fully of his coming hither. While I dressed myself, +and afterwards in walking to Greenwich we did discourse over all the +business of the prize goods, and he puts me in hopes I may get some money +in what I have done, but not so much as I expected, but that I may +hereafter do more. We have laid a design of getting more, and are to +talk again of it a few days hence. To the office, where nobody to meet +me, Sir W. Batten being the only man and he gone this day to meet to +adjourne the Parliament to Oxford. Anon by appointment comes one to tell +me my Lord Rutherford is come; so I to the King's Head to him, where I +find his lady, a fine young Scotch lady, pretty handsome and plain. My +wife also, and Mercer, by and by comes, Creed bringing them; and so +presently to dinner and very merry; and after to even our accounts, and I +to give him tallys, where he do allow me L100, of which to my grief the +rogue Creed has trepanned me out of L50. But I do foresee a way how it +may be I may get a greater sum of my Lord to his content by getting him +allowance of interest upon his tallys. That being done, and some musique +and other diversions, at last away goes my Lord and Lady, and I sent my +wife to visit Mrs. Pierce, and so I to my office, where wrote important +letters to the Court, and at night (Creed having clownishly left my +wife), I to Mrs. Pierces and brought her and Mrs. Pierce to the King's +Head and there spent a piece upon a supper for her and mighty merry and +pretty discourse, she being as pretty as ever, most of our mirth being +upon "my Cozen" (meaning my Lord Bruncker's ugly mistress, whom he calls +cozen), and to my trouble she tells me that the fine Mrs. Middleton is +noted for carrying about her body a continued sour base smell, that is +very offensive, especially if she be a little hot. Here some bad musique +to close the night and so away and all of us saw Mrs. Belle Pierce (as +pretty as ever she was almost) home, and so walked to Will's lodging +where I used to lie, and there made shift for a bed for Mercer, and +mighty pleasantly to bed. This night I hear that of our two watermen +that use to carry our letters, and were well on Saturday last, one is +dead, and the other dying sick of the plague. The plague, though +decreasing elsewhere, yet being greater about the Tower and thereabouts. + + + +4th. Up and to my office, where Mr. Andrews comes, and reckoning with +him I get L64 of him. By and by comes Mr. Gawden, and reckoning with him +he gives me L60 in his account, which is a great mercy to me. Then both +of them met and discoursed the business of the first man's resigning and +the other's taking up the business of the victualling of Tangier, and I +do not think that I shall be able to do as well under Mr. Gawden as under +these men, or within a little as to profit and less care upon me. Thence +to the King's Head to dinner, where we three and Creed and my wife and +her woman dined mighty merry and sat long talking, and so in the +afternoon broke up, and I led my wife to our lodging again, and I to the +office where did much business, and so to my wife. This night comes Sir +George Smith to see me at the office, and tells me how the plague is +decreased this week 740, for which God be praised! but that it encreases +at our end of the town still, and says how all the towne is full of +Captain Cocke's being in some ill condition about prize-goods, his goods +being taken from him, and I know not what. But though this troubles me +to have it said, and that it is likely to be a business in Parliament, +yet I am not much concerned at it, because yet I believe this newes is +all false, for he would have wrote to me sure about it. Being come to my +wife, at our lodging, I did go to bed, and left my wife with her people +to laugh and dance and I to sleep. + + + +5th. Lay long in bed talking among other things of my sister Pall, and +my wife of herself is very willing that I should give her L400 to her +portion, and would have her married soon as we could; but this great +sicknesse time do make it unfit to send for her up. I abroad to the +office and thence to the Duke of Albemarle, all my way reading a book of +Mr. Evelyn's translating and sending me as a present, about directions +for gathering a Library; + + [Instructions concerning erecting of a Library, presented to my + Lord the President De Mesme by Gilbert Naudeus, and now interpreted + by Jo. Evelyn, Esquire. London, 1661: This little book was + dedicated to Lord Clarendon by the translator. It was printed while + Evelyn was abroad, and is full of typographical errors; these are + corrected in a copy mentioned in Evelyn's "Miscellaneous Writings," + 1825, p. xii, where a letter to Dr. Godolphin on the subject is + printed.] + +but the book is above my reach, but his epistle to my Lord Chancellor is +a very fine piece. When I come to the Duke it was about the victuallers' +business, to put it into other hands, or more hands, which I do advise +in, but I hope to do myself a jobb of work in it. So I walked through +Westminster to my old house the Swan, and there did pass some time with +Sarah, and so down by water to Deptford and there to my Valentine. + + [A Mrs. Bagwell. See ante, February 14th, 1664-65] + +Round about and next door on every side is the plague, but I did not +value it, but there did what I would 'con elle', and so away to Mr. +Evelyn's to discourse of our confounded business of prisoners, and sick +and wounded seamen, wherein he and we are so much put out of order. + + [Each of the Commissioners for the Sick and Wounded was appointed to + a particular district, and Evelyn's district was Kent and Sussex. + On September 25th, 1665, Evelyn wrote in his Diary: "My Lord Admiral + being come from ye fleete to Greenewich, I went thence with him to + ye Cockpit to consult with the Duke of Albemarle. I was peremptory + that unlesse we had L10,000 immediately, the prisoners would starve, + and 'twas proposed it should be rais'd out of the E. India prizes + now taken by Lord Sandwich. They being but two of ye Commission, + and so not impower'd to determine, sent an expresse to his Majesty + and Council to know what they should do."] + +And here he showed me his gardens, which are for variety of evergreens, +and hedge of holly, the finest things I ever saw in my life. + + [Evelyn purchased Sayes Court, Deptford, in 1653, and laid out his + gardens, walks, groves, enclosures, and plantations, which + afterwards became famous for their beauty. When he took the place + in hand it was nothing but an open field of one hundred acres, with + scarcely a hedge in it.] + +Thence in his coach to Greenwich, and there to my office, all the way +having fine discourse of trees and the nature of vegetables. And so to +write letters, I very late to Sir W. Coventry of great concernment, and +so to my last night's lodging, but my wife is gone home to Woolwich. The +Bill, blessed be God! is less this week by 740 of what it was the last +week. Being come to my lodging I got something to eat, having eat little +all the day, and so to bed, having this night renewed my promises of +observing my vowes as I used to do; for I find that, since I left them +off, my mind is run a'wool-gathering and my business neglected. + + + +6th. Up, and having sent for Mr. Gawden he come to me, and he and I +largely discoursed the business of his Victualling, in order to the +adding of partners to him or other ways of altering it, wherein I find +him ready to do anything the King would have him do. So he and I took +his coach and to Lambeth and to the Duke of Albemarle about it, and so +back again, where he left me. In our way discoursing of the business and +contracting a great friendship with him, and I find he is a man most +worthy to be made a friend, being very honest and gratefull, and in the +freedom of our discourse he did tell me his opinion and knowledge of Sir +W. Pen to be, what I know him to be, as false a man as ever was born, for +so, it seems, he hath been to him. He did also tell me, discoursing how +things are governed as to the King's treasure, that, having occasion for +money in the country, he did offer Alderman Maynell to pay him down money +here, to be paid by the Receiver in some county in the country, upon whom +Maynell had assignments, in whose hands the money also lay ready. But +Maynell refused it, saying that he could have his money when he would, +and had rather it should lie where it do than receive it here in towne +this sickly time, where he hath no occasion for it. But now the evil is +that he hath lent this money upon tallys which are become payable, but he +finds that nobody looks after it, how long the money is unpaid, and +whether it lies dead in the Receiver's hands or no, so the King he pays +Maynell 10 per cent. while the money lies in his Receiver's hands to no +purpose but the benefit of the Receiver. I to dinner to the King's Head +with Mr. Woolly, who is come to instruct me in the business of my goods, +but gives me not so good comfort as I thought I should have had. But, +however, it will be well worth my time though not above 2 or L300. He +gone I to my office, where very busy drawing up a letter by way of +discourse to the Duke of Albemarle about my conception how the business +of the Victualling should be ordered, wherein I have taken great pains, +and I think have hitt the right if they will but follow it. At this very +late and so home to our lodgings to bed. + + + +7th. Up and to the office along with Mr. Childe, whom I sent for to +discourse about the victualling business, who will not come into +partnership (no more will Captain Beckford ), but I do find him a mighty +understanding man, and one I will keep a knowledge of. Did business, +though not much, at the office; because of the horrible crowd and +lamentable moan of the poor seamen that lie starving in the streets for +lack of money. Which do trouble and perplex me to the heart; and more at +noon when we were to go through them, for then a whole hundred of them +followed us; some cursing, some swearing, and some praying to us. And +that that made me more troubled was a letter come this afternoon from the +Duke of Albemarle, signifying the Dutch to be in sight, with 80 sayle, +yesterday morning, off of Solebay, coming right into the bay. God knows +what they will and may do to us, we having no force abroad able to oppose +them, but to be sacrificed to them. Here come Sir W. Rider to me, whom I +sent for about the victualling business also, but he neither will not +come into partnership, but desires to be of the Commission if there be +one. Thence back the back way to my office, where very late, very busy. +But most of all when at night come two waggons from Rochester with more +goods from Captain Cocke; and in houseing them at Mr. Tooker's lodgings +come two of the Custome-house to seize them, and did seize them but I +showed them my 'Transire'. However, after some hot and angry words, we +locked them up, and sealed up the key, and did give it to the constable +to keep till Monday, and so parted. But, Lord! to think how the poor +constable come to me in the dark going home; "Sir," says he, "I have the +key, and if you would have me do any service for you, send for me betimes +to-morrow morning, and I will do what you would have me." Whether the +fellow do this out of kindness or knavery, I cannot tell; but it is +pretty to observe. Talking with him in the high way, come close by the +bearers with a dead corpse of the plague; but, Lord! to see what custom +is, that I am come almost to think nothing of it. So to my lodging, and +there, with Mr. Hater and Will, ending a business of the state of the +last six months' charge of the Navy, which we bring to L1,000,000 and +above, and I think we do not enlarge much in it if anything. So to bed. + + + +8th (Lord's day). Up and, after being trimmed, to the office, whither I +upon a letter from the Duke of Albemarle to me, to order as many ships +forth out of the river as I can presently, to joyne to meet the Dutch; +having ordered all the Captains of the ships in the river to come to me, +I did some business with them, and so to Captain Cocke's to dinner, he +being in the country. But here his brother Solomon was, and, for guests, +myself, Sir G. Smith, and a very fine lady, one Mrs. Penington, and two +more gentlemen. But, both [before] and after dinner, most witty +discourse with this lady, who is a very fine witty lady, one of the best +I ever heard speake, and indifferent handsome. There after dinner an +houre or two, and so to the office, where ended my business with the +Captains; and I think of twenty-two ships we shall make shift to get out +seven. (God helpe us! men being sick, or provisions lacking.) And so to +write letters to Sir Ph. Warwicke, Sir W. Coventry, and Sir G. Carteret +to Court about the last six months' accounts, and sent away by an express +to-night. This day I hear the Pope is dead;--[a false report]--and one +said, that the newes is, that the King of France is stabbed, but that the +former is very true, which will do great things sure, as to the troubling +of that part of the world, the King of Spayne + + [Philip IV., King of Spain, who succeeded to the throne in 1621, + died in 1665. He was succeeded by his son Charles II.] + +being so lately dead. And one thing more, Sir Martin Noell's lady is +dead with griefe for the death of her husband and nothing else, as they +say, in the world; but it seems nobody can make anything of his estate, +whether he be dead worth anything or no, he having dealt in so many +things, publique and private, as nobody can understand whereabouts his +estate is, which is the fate of these great dealers at everything. So +after my business being done I home to my lodging and to bed, + + + +9th. Up, my head full of business, and called upon also by Sir John +Shaw, to whom I did give a civil answer about our prize goods, that all +his dues as one of the Farmers of the Customes are paid, and showed him +our Transire; with which he was satisfied, and parted, ordering his +servants to see the weight of them. I to the office, and there found an +order for my coming presently to the Duke of Albemarle, and what should +it be, but to tell me, that, if my Lord Sandwich do not come to towne, he +do resolve to go with the fleete to sea himself, the Dutch, as he thinks, +being in the Downes, and so desired me to get a pleasure boat for to take +him in to-morrow morning, and do many other things, and with a great +liking of me, and my management especially, as that coxcombe my Lord +Craven do tell me, and I perceive it, and I am sure take pains enough to +deserve it. Thence away and to the office at London, where I did some +business about my money and private accounts, and there eat a bit of +goose of Mr. Griffin's, and so by water, it raining most miserably, to +Greenwich, calling on several vessels in my passage. Being come there I +hear another seizure hath been made of our goods by one Captain Fisher +that hath been at Chatham by warrant of the Duke of Albemarle, and is +come in my absence to Tooker's and viewed them, demanding the key of the +constable, and so sealed up the door. I to the house, but there being no +officers nor constable could do nothing, but back to my office full of +trouble about this, and there late about business, vexed to see myself +fall into this trouble and concernment in a thing that I want instruction +from my Lord Sandwich whether I should appear in it or no, and so home to +bed, having spent two hours, I and my boy, at Mr. Glanvill's removing of +faggots to make room to remove our goods to, but when done I thought it +not fit to use it. The newes of the killing of the [King of] France is +wholly untrue, and they say that of the Pope too. + + + +10th. Up, and receive a stop from the Duke of Albemarle of setting out +any more ships, or providing a pleasure boat for himself, which I am glad +of, and do see, what I thought yesterday, that this resolution of his was +a sudden one and silly. By and by comes Captain Cocke's Jacob to tell me +that he is come from Chatham this morning, and that there are four +waggons of goods at hand coming to towne, which troubles me. I directed +him to bring them to his master's house. But before I could send him +away to bring them thither, newes is brought me that they are seized on +in the towne by this Captain Fisher and they will carry them to another +place. So I to them and found our four waggons in the streete stopped by +the church by this Fisher and company and 100 or 200 people in the +streetes gazing. I did give them good words, and made modest desires of +carrying the goods to Captain Cocke's, but they would have them to a +house of their hiring, where in a barne the goods were laid. I had +transires to show for all, and the tale was right, and there I spent all +the morning seeing this done. At which Fisher was vexed that I would not +let it be done by any body else for the merchant, and that I must needs +be concerned therein, which I did not think fit to owne. So that being +done, I left the goods to be watched by men on their part and ours, and +so to the office by noon, whither by and by comes Captain Cocke, whom I +had with great care sent for by expresse the last night, and so I with +him to his house and there eat a bit, and so by coach to Lambeth, and I +took occasion first to go to the Duke of Albemarle to acquaint him with +some thing of what had been done this morning in behalf of a friend +absent, which did give a good entrance and prevented their possessing the +Duke with anything of evil of me by their report, and by and by in comes. +Captain Cocke and tells his whole story. So an order was made for the +putting him in possession upon giving security to, be accountable for the +goods, which for the present did satisfy us, and so away, giving Locke +that drew the order a piece. (Lord! to see how unhappily a man may fall +into a necessity of bribing people to do him right in a thing, wherein he +hath done nothing but fair, and bought dear.) So to the office, there to +write my letters, and Cocke comes to tell me that Fisher is come to him, +and that he doubts not to cajole Fisher and his companion and make them +friends with drink and a bribe. This night comes Sir Christopher Mings +to towne, and I went to see him, and by and by he being then out of the +town comes to see me. He is newly come from Court, and carries direction +for the making a show of getting out the fleete again to go fight the +Dutch, but that it will end in a fleete of 20 good sayling frigates to go +to the Northward or Southward, and that will be all. I enquired, but he +would not be to know that he had heard any thing at Oxford about the +business of the prize goods, which I did suspect, but he being gone, anon +comes Cocke and tells me that he hath been with him a great while, and +that he finds him sullen and speaking very high what disrespect he had +received of my Lord, saying that he hath walked 3 or 4 hours together at +that Earle's cabbin door for audience and could not be received, which, +if true, I am sorry for. He tells me that Sir G. Ascue says, that he did +from the beginning declare against these [prize] goods, and would not +receive his dividend; and that he and Sir W. Pen are at odds about it, +and that he fears Mings hath been doing ill offices to my Lord. I did +to-night give my Lord an account of all this, and so home and to bed. + + + +11th. Up, and so in my chamber staid all the morning doing something +toward my Tangier accounts, for the stating of them, and also comes up my +landlady, Mrs. Clerke, to make an agreement for the time to come; and I, +for the having room enough, and to keepe out strangers, and to have a +place to retreat to for my wife, if the sicknesse should come to +Woolwich, am contented to pay dear; so for three rooms and a dining-room, +and for linen and bread and beer and butter, at nights and mornings, I am +to give her L5 10s. per month, and I wrote and we signed to an +agreement. By and by comes Cocke to tell me that Fisher and his fellow +were last night mightily satisfied and promised all friendship, but this +morning he finds them to have new tricks and shall be troubled with them. +So he being to go down to Erith with them this afternoon about giving +security, I advised him to let them go by land, and so he and I (having +eat something at his house) by water to Erith, but they got thither +before us, and there we met Mr. Seymour, one of the Commissioners for +Prizes, and a Parliament-man, and he was mighty high, and had now seized +our goods on their behalf; and he mighty imperiously would have all +forfeited, and I know not what. I thought I was in the right in a thing +I said and spoke somewhat earnestly, so we took up one another very +smartly, for which I was sorry afterwards, shewing thereby myself too +much concerned, but nothing passed that I valued at all. But I could not +but think [it odd] that a Parliament-man, in a serious discourse before +such persons as we and my Lord Bruncker, and Sir John Minnes, should +quote Hudibras, as being the book I doubt he hath read most. They I +doubt will stand hard for high security, and Cocke would have had me +bound with him for his appearing, but I did stagger at it, besides +Seymour do stop the doing it at all till he has been with the Duke of +Albemarle. So there will be another demurre. It growing late, and I +having something to do at home, took my leave alone, leaving Cocke there +for all night, and so against tide and in the darke and very cold weather +to Woolwich, where we had appointed to keepe the night merrily; and so, +by Captain Cocke's coach, had brought a very pretty child, a daughter of +one Mrs. Tooker's, next door to my lodging, and so she, and a daughter +and kinsman of Mrs. Pett's made up a fine company at my lodgings at +Woolwich, where my wife and Mercer, and Mrs. Barbara danced, and mighty +merry we were, but especially at Mercer's dancing a jigg, which she does +the best I ever did see, having the most natural way of it, and keeps +time the most perfectly I ever did see. This night is kept in lieu of +yesterday, for my wedding day of ten years; for which God be praised! +being now in an extreme good condition of health and estate and honour, +and a way of getting more money, though at this houre under some +discomposure, rather than damage, about some prize goods that I have +bought off the fleete, in partnership with Captain Cocke; and for the +discourse about the world concerning my Lord Sandwich, that he hath done +a thing so bad; and indeed it must needs have been a very rash act; and +the rather because of a Parliament now newly met to give money, and will +have some account of what hath already been spent, besides the precedent +for a General to take what prizes he pleases, and the giving a pretence +to take away much more than he intended, and all will lie upon him; and +not giving to all the Commanders, as well as the Flaggs, he displeases. +all them, and offends even some of them, thinking others to be better +served than themselves; and lastly, puts himself out of a power of +begging anything again a great while of the King. Having danced with my +people as long as I saw fit to sit up, I to bed and left them to do what +they would. I forgot that we had W. Hewer there, and Tom, and Golding, +my barber at Greenwich, for our fiddler, to whom I did give 10s. + + + +12th. Called up before day, and so I dressed myself and down, it being +horrid cold, by water to my Lord Bruncker's ship, who advised me to do +so, and it was civilly to show me what the King had commanded about the +prize-goods, to examine most severely all that had been done in the +taking out any with or without order, without respect to my Lord Sandwich +at all, and that he had been doing of it, and find him examining one man, +and I do find that extreme ill use was made of my Lord's order. For they +did toss and tumble and spoil, and breake things in hold to a great losse +and shame to come at the fine goods, and did take a man that knows where +the fine goods were, and did this over and over again for many days, Sir +W. Berkeley being the chief hand that did it, but others did the like at +other times, and they did say in doing it that my Lord Sandwich's back +was broad enough to bear it. Having learned as much as I could, which +was, that the King and Duke were very severe in this point, whatever +order they before had given my Lord in approbation of what he had done, +and that all will come out and the King see, by the entries at the +Custome House, what all do amount to that had been taken, and so I took +leave, and by water, very cold, and to Woolwich where it was now noon, +and so I staid dinner and talking part of the afternoon, and then by +coach, Captain Cocke's, to Greenwich, taking the young lady home, and so +to Cocke, and he tells me that he hath cajolled with Seymour, who will be +our friend; but that, above all, Seymour tells him, that my Lord Duke did +shew him to-day an order from Court, for having all respect paid to the +Earle of Sandwich, and what goods had been delivered by his order, which +do overjoy us, and that to-morrow our goods shall be weighed, and he +doubts not possession to-morrow or next day. Being overjoyed at this I +to write my letters, and at it very late. Good newes this week that +there are about 600 less dead of the plague than the last. So home to +bed. + + + +13th. Lay long, and this morning comes Sir Jer. Smith + + [Captain Jeremiah Smith (or Smyth), knighted June, 1665; Admiral of + the Blue in 1666. He succeeded Sir William Penn as Comptroller of + the Victualling Accounts in 1669, and held the office until 1675.] + +to see me in his way to Court, and a good man he is, and one that I must +keep fair with, and will, it being I perceive my interest to have +kindnesse with the Commanders. So to the office, and there very busy +till about noon comes Sir W. Warren, and he goes and gets a bit of meat +ready at the King's Head for us, and I by and by thither, and we dined +together, and I am not pleased with him about a little business of +Tangier that I put to him to do for me, but however, the hurt is not +much, and his other matters of profit to me continue very likely to be +good. Here we spent till 2 o'clock, and so I set him on shore, and I by +water to the Duke of Albemarle, where I find him with Lord Craven and +Lieutenant of the Tower about him; among other things, talking of ships +to get of the King to fetch coles for the poore of the city, which is a +good worke. But, Lord! to hear the silly talke between these three great +people! Yet I have no reason to find fault, the Duke and Lord Craven +being my very great friends. Here did the business I come about, and so +back home by water, and there Cocke comes to me and tells me that he is +come to an understanding with Fisher, and that he must give him L100, and +that he shall have his goods in possession to-morrow, they being all +weighed to-day, which pleases me very well. This day the Duke tells me +that there is no news heard of the Dutch, what they do or where they are, +but believes that they are all gone home, for none of our spyes can give +us any tideings of them. Cocke is fain to keep these people, Fisher and +his fellow, company night and day to keep them friends almost and great +troubles withal. My head is full of settling the victualling business +also, that I may make some profit out of it, which I hope justly to do to +the King's advantage. To-night come Sir J. Bankes to me upon my letter +to discourse it with him, and he did give me the advice I have taken +almost as fully as if I had been directed by him what to write. The +business also of my Tangier accounts to be sent to Court is upon my hands +in great haste; besides, all my owne proper accounts are in great +disorder, having been neglected now above a month, which grieves me, but +it could not be settled sooner. These together and the feare of the +sicknesse and providing for my family do fill my head very full, besides +the infinite business of the office, and nobody here to look after it but +myself. So late from my office to my lodgings, and to bed. + + + +14th. Up, and to the office, where mighty busy, especially with Mr. +Gawden, with whom I shall, I think, have much to do, and by and by comes +the Lieutenant of the Tower by my invitation yesterday, but I had got +nothing for him, it is to discourse about the Cole shipps. So he went +away to Sheriffe Hooker's, and I staid at the office till he sent for me +at noon to dinner, I very hungry. When I come to the Sheriffe's he was +not there, nor in many other places, nor could find him at all, so was +forced to come to the office and get a bit of meat from the taverne, and +so to my business. By and by comes the Lieutenant and reproaches me with +my not treating him as I ought, but all in jest, he it seemed dined with +Mr. Adrian May. Very late writing letters at the office, and much +satisfied to hear from Captain Cocke that he had got possession of some +of his goods to his own house, and expected to have all to-night. The +towne, I hear, is full of talke that there are great differences in the +fleete among the great Commanders, and that Mings at Oxford did impeach +my Lord of something, I think about these goods, but this is but talke. +But my heart and head to-night is full of the Victualling business, being +overjoyed and proud at my success in my proposal about it, it being read +before the King, Duke, and the Caball with complete applause and +satisfaction. This Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Coventry both writ me, +besides Sir W. Coventry's letter to the Duke of Albemarle, which I read +yesterday, and I hope to find my profit in it also. So late home to bed. + + + +15th (Lord's day). Up, and while I staid for the barber, tried to +compose a duo of counterpoint, and I think it will do very well, it being +by Mr. Berckenshaw's rule. By and by by appointment comes Mr. Povy's +coach, and, more than I expected, him himself, to fetch me to Brainford: +so he and I immediately set out, having drunk a draft of mulled sacke; +and so rode most nobly, in his most pretty and best contrived charriott +in the world, with many new conveniences, his never having till now, +within a day or two, been yet finished; our discourse upon Tangier +business, want of money, and then of publique miscarriages, nobody +minding the publique, but every body himself and his lusts. Anon we come +to his house, and there I eat a bit, and so with fresh horses, his noble +fine horses, the best confessedly in England, the King having none such, +he sent me to Sir Robert Viner's, whom I met coming just from church, and +so after having spent half-an-hour almost looking upon the horses with +some gentlemen that were in company, he and I into his garden to +discourse of money, but none is to be had, he confessing himself in great +straits, and I believe it. Having this answer, and that I could not get +better, we fell to publique talke, and to think how the fleete and seamen +will be paid, which he protests he do not think it possible to compass, +as the world is now: no money got by trade, nor the persons that have it +by them in the City to be come at. The Parliament, it seems, have voted +the King L1,250,000 at L50,000 per month, tax for the war; and voted to +assist the King against the Dutch, and all that shall adhere to them; and +thanks to be given him for his care of the Duke of Yorke, which last is a +very popular vote on the Duke's behalf. He tells me how the taxes of the +last assessment, which should have been in good part gathered, are not +yet laid, and that even in part of the City of London; and the Chimny- +money comes almost to nothing, nor any thing else looked after. Having +done this I parted, my mind not eased by any money, but only that I had +done my part to the King's service. And so in a very pleasant evening +back to Mr. Povy's, and there supped, and after supper to talke and to +sing, his man Dutton's wife singing very pleasantly (a mighty fat woman), +and I wrote out one song from her and pricked the tune, both very pretty. +But I did never heare one sing with so much pleasure to herself as this +lady do, relishing it to her very heart, which was mighty pleasant. + + + +16th. Up about seven o'clock; and, after drinking, and I observing Mr. +Povy's being mightily mortifyed in his eating and drinking, and coaches +and horses, he desiring to sell his best, and every thing else, his +furniture of his house, he walked with me to Syon, + + [Sion House, granted by Edward VI. to his uncle, the Duke of + Somerset. After his execution, 1552, it was forfeited, and given to + John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland. The duke being beheaded in + 1553, it reverted to the Crown, and was granted in 1604 to Henry + Percy, Earl of Northumberland. It still belongs to the Duke of + Northumberland.] + +and there I took water, in our way he discoursing of the wantonnesse of +the Court, and how it minds nothing else, and I saying that that would +leave the King shortly if he did not leave it, he told me "No," for the +King do spend most of his time in feeling and kissing them naked . . . +But this lechery will never leave him. Here I took boat (leaving him +there) and down to the Tower, where I hear the Duke of Albemarle is, and +I to Lumbard Streete, but can get no money. So upon the Exchange, which +is very empty, God knows! and but mean people there. The newes for +certain that the Dutch are come with their fleete before Margett, and +some men were endeavouring to come on shore when the post come away, +perhaps to steal some sheep. But, Lord! how Colvill talks of the +businesse of publique revenue like a madman, and yet I doubt all true; +that nobody minds it, but that the King and Kingdom must speedily be +undone, and rails at my Lord about the prizes, but I think knows not my +relation to him. Here I endeavoured to satisfy all I could, people about +Bills of Exchange from Tangier, but it is only with good words, for money +I have not, nor can get. God knows what will become of all the King's +matters in a little time, for he runs in debt every day, and nothing to +pay them looked after. Thence I walked to the Tower; but, Lord! how +empty the streets are and melancholy, so many poor sick people in the +streets full of sores; and so many sad stories overheard as I walk, every +body talking of this dead, and that man sick, and so many in this place, +and so many in that. And they tell me that, in Westminster, there is +never a physician and but one apothecary left, all being dead; but that +there are great hopes of a great decrease this week: God send it! At the +Tower found my Lord Duke and Duchesse at dinner; so I sat down. And much +good cheer, the Lieutenant and his lady, and several officers with the +Duke. But, Lord! to hear the silly talk that was there, would make one +mad; the Duke having none almost but fools about him. Much of their +talke about the Dutch coming on shore, which they believe they may some +of them have been and steal sheep, and speak all in reproach of them in +whose hands the fleete is; but, Lord helpe him, there is something will +hinder him and all the world in going to sea, which is want of victuals; +for we have not wherewith to answer our service; and how much better it +would have been if the Duke's advice had been taken for the fleete to +have gone presently out; but, God helpe the King! while no better +counsels are given, and what is given no better taken. Thence after +dinner receiving many commands from the Duke, I to our office on the +Hill, and there did a little business and to Colvill's again, and so took +water at the Tower, and there met with Captain Cocke, and he down with me +to Greenwich, I having received letters from my Lord Sandwich to-day, +speaking very high about the prize goods, that he would have us to fear +nobody, but be very confident in what we have done, and not to confess +any fault or doubt of what he hath done; for the King hath allowed it, +and do now confirm it, and sent orders, as he says, for nothing to be +disturbed that his Lordshipp hath ordered therein as to the division of +the goods to the fleete; which do comfort us, but my Lord writes to me +that both he and I may hence learn by what we see in this business. But +that which pleases me best is that Cocke tells me that he now understands +that Fisher was set on in this business by the design of some of the Duke +of Albemarle's people, Warcupp and others, who lent him money to set him +out in it, and he has spent high. Who now curse him for a rogue to take +L100 when he might have had as well L1,500, and they are mightily fallen +out about it. Which in due time shall be discovered, but that now that +troubles me afresh is, after I am got to the office at Greenwich that +some new troubles are come, and Captain Cocke's house is beset before and +behind with guards, and more, I do fear they may come to my office here +to search for Cocke's goods and find some small things of my clerk's. So +I assisted them in helping to remove their small trade, but by and by I +am told that it is only the Custome House men who came to seize the +things that did lie at Mr. Glanville's, for which they did never yet see +our Transire, nor did know of them till to-day. So that my fear is now +over, for a transire is ready for them. Cocke did get a great many of +his goods to London to-day. To the Still Yarde, which place, however, is +now shut up of the plague; but I was there, and we now make no bones of +it. Much talke there is of the Chancellor's speech and the King's at the +Parliament's meeting, which are very well liked; and that we shall +certainly, by their speeches, fall out with France at this time, together +with the Dutch, which will find us work. Late at the office entering my +Journall for 8 days past, the greatness of my business hindering me of +late to put it down daily, but I have done it now very true and +particularly, and hereafter will, I hope, be able to fall into my old way +of doing it daily. So to my lodging, and there had a good pullet to my +supper, and so to bed, it being very cold again, God be thanked for it! + + + +17th. Up, and all day long busy at the office, mighty busy, only stepped +to my lodging and had a fowl for my dinner, and at night my wife and +Mercer comes to me, which troubled me a little because I am to be mighty +busy to-morrow all day seriously about my accounts. So late from my +office to her, and supped, and so to bed. + + + +18th. Up, and after some pleasant discourse with my wife (though my head +full of business) I out and left her to go home, and myself to the +office, and thence by water to the Duke of Albemarle's, and so back again +and find my wife gone. So to my chamber at my lodgings, and to the +making of my accounts up of Tangier, which I did with great difficulty, +finding the difference between short and long reckonings where I have had +occasion to mix my moneys, as I have of late done my Tangier treasure +upon other occasions, and other moneys upon that. However, I was at it +late and did it pretty perfectly, and so, after eating something, to bed, +my mind eased of a great deal of figures and castings. + + + +19th. Up, and to my accounts again, and stated them very clear and fair, +and at noon dined at my lodgings with Mr. Hater and W. Hewer at table +with me, I being come to an agreement yesterday with my landlady for L6 +per month, for so many rooms for myself, them, and my wife and mayde, +when she shall come, and to pay besides for my dyett. After dinner I did +give them my accounts and letters to write against I went to the Duke of +Albemarle's this evening, which I did; and among other things, spoke to +him for my wife's brother, Balty, to be of his guard, which he kindly +answered that he should. My business of the Victualling goes on as I +would have it; and now my head is full how to make some profit of it to +myself or people. To that end, when I came home, I wrote a letter to Mr. +Coventry, offering myself to be the Surveyor Generall, and am apt to +think he will assist me in it, but I do not set my heart much on it, +though it would be a good helpe. So back to my office, and there till +past one before I could get all these letters and papers copied out, +which vexed me, but so sent them away without hopes of saving the post, +and so to my lodging to bed. + + + +20th. Up, and had my last night's letters brought back to me, which +troubles me, because of my accounts, lest they should be asked for before +they come, which I abhorr, being more ready to give than they can be to +demand them: so I sent away an expresse to Oxford with them, and another +to Portsmouth, with a copy of my letter to Mr. Coventry about my +victualling business, for fear he should be gone from Oxford, as he +intended, thither. So busy all the morning and at noon to Cocke, and +dined there. He and I alone, vexed that we are not rid of all our +trouble about our goods, but it is almost over, and in the afternoon to +my lodging, and there spent the whole afternoon and evening with Mr. +Hater, discoursing of the business of the office, where he tells me that +among others Thomas Willson do now and then seem to hint that I do take +too much business upon me, more than I can do, and that therefore some do +lie undone. This I confess to my trouble is true, but it arises from my +being forced to take so much on me, more than is my proper task to +undertake. But for this at last I did advise to him to take another +clerk if he thinks fit, I will take care to have him paid. I discoursed +also much with him about persons fit to be put into the victualling +business, and such as I could spare something out of their salaries for +them, but without trouble I cannot, I see, well do it, because Thomas +Willson must have the refusal of the best place which is London of L200 +per annum, which I did intend for Tooker, and to get L50 out of it as a +help to Mr. Hater. How[ever], I will try to do something of this kind +for them. Having done discourse with him late, I to enter my Tangier +accounts fair, and so to supper and to bed. + + + +21 st. Up, and to my office, where busy all the morning, and then with +my two clerks home to dinner, and so back again to the office, and there +very late very busy, and so home to supper and to bed. + + + +22nd (Lord's day). Up, and after ready and going to Captain Cocke's, +where I find we are a little further safe in some part of our goods, +I to Church, in my way was meeting with some letters, which made me +resolve to go after church to my Lord Duke of Albemarle's, so, after +sermon, I took Cocke's chariott, and to Lambeth; but, in going and +getting over the water, and through White Hall, I spent so much time, the +Duke had almost dined. However, fresh meat was brought for me to his +table, and there I dined, and full of discourse and very kind. Here they +are again talking of the prizes, and my Lord Duke did speake very broad +that my Lord Sandwich and Pen should do what they would, and answer for +themselves. For his part, he would lay all before the King. Here he +tells me the Dutch Embassador at Oxford is clapped up, but since I hear +it is not true. Thence back again, it being evening before I could get +home, and there Cocke not being within, I and Mr. Salomon to Mr. +Glanville's, and there we found Cocke and sat and supped, and was mighty +merry with only Madam Penington, who is a fine, witty lady. Here we +spent the evening late with great mirth, and so home and to bed. + + + +23rd. Up, and after doing some business I down by water, calling to see +my wife, with whom very merry for ten minutes, and so to Erith, where my +Lord Bruncker and I kept the office, and dispatched some business by +appointment on the Bezan. Among other things about the slopsellers, who +have trusted us so long, they are not able, nor can be expected to trust +us further, and I fear this winter the fleete will be undone by that +particular. Thence on board the East India ship, where my Lord Bruncker +had provided a great dinner, and thither comes by and by Sir John Minnes +and before him Sir W. Warren and anon a Perspective glasse maker, of whom +we, every one, bought a pocket glasse. But I am troubled with the much +talke and conceitedness of Mrs. Williams and her impudence, in case she +be not married to my Lord. They are getting themselves ready to deliver +the goods all out to the East India Company, who are to have the goods in +their possession and to advance two thirds of the moderate value thereof +and sell them as well as they can and the King to give them 6 per cent. +for the use of the money they shall so advance. By this means the +company will not suffer by the King's goods bringing down the price of +their own. Thence in the evening back again with Sir W. Warren and +Captain Taylor in my boat, and the latter went with me to the office, and +there he and I reckoned; and I perceive I shall get L100 profit by my +services of late to him, which is a very good thing. Thence to my +lodging, where I find my Lord Rutherford, of which I was glad. We supped +together and sat up late, he being a mighty wanton man with a daughter in +law of my landlady's, a pretty conceited woman big with child, and he +would be handling her breasts, which she coyly refused. But they gone, +my Lord and I to business, and he would have me forbear paying Alderman +Backewell the money ordered him, which I, in hopes to advantage myself, +shall forbear, but do not think that my Lord will do any thing gratefully +more to me than he hath done, not that I shall get any thing as I +pretended by helping him to interest for his last L7700, which I could +do, and do him a courtesy too. Discourse being done, he to bed in my +chamber and I to another in the house. + + + +24th. Lay long, having a cold. Then to my Lord and sent him going to +Oxford, and I to my office, whither comes Sir William Batten now newly +from Oxford. I can gather nothing from him about my Lord Sandwich about +the business of the prizes, he being close, but he shewed me a bill which +hath been read in the House making all breaking of bulke for the time to +come felony, but it is a foolish Act, and will do no great matter, only +is calculated to my Lord Sandwich's case. He shewed me also a good +letter printed from the Bishopp of Munster to the States of Holland +shewing the state of their case. Here we did some business and so broke +up and I to Cocke, where Mr. Evelyn was, to dinner, and there merry, yet +vexed again at publique matters, and to see how little heed is had to the +prisoners and sicke and wounded. Thence to my office, and no sooner +there but to my great surprise am told that my Lord Sandwich is come to +towne; so I presently to Boreman's, where he is and there found him: he +mighty kind to me, but no opportunity of discourse private yet, which he +tells me he must have with me; only his business is sudden to go to the +fleece, to get out a few ships to drive away the Dutch. I left him in +discourse with Sir W. Batten and others, and myself to the office till +about 10 at night and so, letters being done, I to him again to Captain +Cocke's, where he supped, and lies, and never saw him more merry, and +here is Charles Herbert, who the King hath lately knighted. + + [This person, erroneously called by Pepys Sir C. Herbert, will be + best defined by subjoining the inscription on his monument in + Westminster Abbey: "Sir Charles Harbord, Knight, third son of Sir + Charles Harbord, Knight, Surveyor-General, and First Lieutenant of + the Royall James, under the most noble and illustrious Captaine, + Edward, Earle of Sandwich, Vice-Admirall of England, which, after a + terrible fight, maintained to admiration against a squadron of the + Holland fleet, above six hours, neere the Suffolk coast, having put + off two fireships; at last, being utterly disabled, and few of her + men remaining unhurt, was, by a third, unfortunately set on fire. + But he (though he swome well) neglected to save himselfe, as some + did, and out of perfect love to that worthy Lord, whom, for many + yeares, he had constantly accompanyed, in all his honourable + employments, and in all the engagements of the former warre, dyed + with him, at the age of xxxii., much bewailed by his father, whom he + never offended; and much beloved by all for his knowne piety, + vertue, loyalty, fortitude, and fidelity."--B.] + +My Lord, to my great content, did tell me before them, that never +anything was read to the King and Council, all the chief Ministers of +State being there, as my letter about the Victualling was, and no more +said upon it than a most thorough consent to every word was said, and +directed, that it be pursued and practised. After much mirth, and my +Lord having travelled all night last night, he to bed, and we all parted, +I home. + + + +25th. Up and to my Lord Sandwich's, where several Commanders, of whom I +took the state of all their ships, and of all could find not above four +capable of going out. The truth is, the want of victuals being the whole +overthrow of this yeare both at sea, and now at the Nore here and +Portsmouth, where all the fleete lies. By and by comes down my Lord, and +then he and I an houre together alone upon private discourse. He tells +me that Mr. Coventry and he are not reconciled, but declared enemies: the +only occasion of it being, he tells me, his ill usage from him about the +first fight, wherein he had no right done him, which, methinks, is a poor +occasion, for, in my conscience, that was no design of Coventry's. But, +however, when I asked my Lord whether it were not best, though with some +condescension, to be friends with him, he told me it was not possible, +and so I stopped. He tells me, as very private, that there are great +factions at the Court between the King's party and the Duke of Yorke's, +and that the King, which is a strange difficulty, do favour my Lord in +opposition to the Duke's party; that my Lord Chancellor, being, to be +sure, the patron of the Duke's, it is a mystery whence it should be that +Mr. Coventry is looked upon by him [Clarendon] as an enemy to him; that +if he had a mind himself to be out of this employment, as Mr. Coventry, +he believes, wishes, and himself and I do incline to wish it also, in +many respects, yet he believes he shall not be able, because of the King, +who will keepe him in on purpose, in opposition to the other party; that +Prince Rupert and he are all possible friends in the world; that Coventry +hath aggravated this business of the prizes, though never so great +plundering in the world as while the Duke and he were at sea; and in Sir +John Lawson's time he could take and pillage, and then sink a whole ship +in the Streights, and Coventry say nothing to it; that my Lord Arlington +is his fast friend; that the Chancellor is cold to him, and though I told +him that I and the world do take my Lord Chancellor, in his speech the +other day, to have said as much as could be wished, yet he thinks he did +not. That my Lord Chancellor do from hence begin to be cold to him, +because of his seeing him and Arlington so great: that nothing at Court +is minded but faction and pleasure, and nothing intended of general good +to the kingdom by anybody heartily; so that he believes with me, in a +little time confusion will certainly come over all the nation. He told +me how a design was carried on a while ago, for the Duke of Yorke to +raise an army in the North, and to be the Generall of it, and all this +without the knowledge or advice of the Duke of Albemarle, which when he +come to know, he was so vexed, they were fain to let it fall to content +him: that his matching with the family of Sir G. Carteret do make the +difference greater between Coventry and him, they being enemies; that the +Chancellor did, as every body else, speak well of me the other day, but +yet was, at the Committee for Tangier, angry that I should offer to +suffer a bill of exchange to be protested. So my Lord did bid me take +heed, for that I might easily suppose I could not want enemies, no more +than others. In all he speaks with the greatest trust and love and +confidence in what I say or do, that a man can do. After this discourse +ended we sat down to dinner and mighty merry, among other things, at the +Bill brought into the House to make it felony to break bulke, which, as +my Lord says well, will make that no prizes shall be taken, or, if taken, +shall be sunke after plundering; and the Act for the method of gathering +this last LI,250,000 now voted, and how paid wherein are several strange +imperfections. After dinner my Lord by a ketch down to Erith, where the +Bezan was, it blowing these last two days and now both night and day very +hard southwardly, so that it has certainly drove the Dutch off the coast. +My Lord being gone I to the office, and there find Captain Ferrers, who +tells me his wife is come to town to see him, having not seen him since +15 weeks ago at his first going to sea last. She is now at a Taverne and +stays all night, so I was obliged to give him my house and chamber to lie +in, which he with great modesty and after much force took, and so I got +Mr. Evelyn's coach to carry her thither, and the coach coming back, I +with Mr. Evelyn to Deptford, where a little while with him doing a little +business, and so in his coach back again to my lodgings, and there sat +with Mrs. Ferrers two hours, and with my little girle, Mistress Frances +Tooker, and very pleasant. Anon the Captain comes, and then to supper +very merry, and so I led them to bed. And so to bed myself, having seen +my pretty little girle home first at the next door. + + + +26th. Up, and, leaving my guests to make themselves ready, I to the +office, and thither comes Sir Jer. Smith and Sir Christopher Mings to see +me, being just come from Portsmouth and going down to the Fleete. Here I +sat and talked with them a good while and then parted, only Sir +Christopher Mings and I together by water to the Tower; and I find him a +very witty well-spoken fellow, and mighty free to tell his parentage, +being a shoemaker's son, to whom he is now going, and I to the 'Change, +where I hear how the French have taken two and sunk one of our merchant- +men in the Streights, and carried the ships to Toulon; so that there is +no expectation but we must fall out with them. The 'Change pretty full, +and the town begins to be lively again, though the streets very empty, +and most shops shut. So back again I and took boat and called for Sir +Christopher Mings at St. Katharine's, who was followed with some ordinary +friends, of which, he says, he is proud, and so down to Greenwich, the +wind furious high, and we with our sail up till I made it be taken down. +I took him, it being 3 o'clock, to my lodgings and did give him a good +dinner and so parted, he being pretty close to me as to any business of +the fleete, knowing me to be a servant of my Lord Sandwich's. He gone I +to the office till night, and then they come and tell me my wife is come +to towne, so I to her vexed at her coming, but it was upon innocent +business, so I was pleased and made her stay, Captain Ferrers and his +lady being yet there, and so I left them to dance, and I to the office +till past nine at night, and so to them and there saw them dance very +prettily, the Captain and his wife, my wife and Mrs. Barbary, and Mercer +and my landlady's daughter, and then little Mistress Frances Tooker and +her mother, a pretty woman come to see my wife. Anon to supper, and then +to dance again (Golding being our fiddler, who plays very well and all +tunes) till past twelve at night, and then we broke up and every one to +bed, we make shift for all our company, Mrs. Tooker being gone. + + + +27th. Up, and after some pleasant discourse with my wife, I out, leaving +her and Mrs. Ferrers there, and I to Captain Cocke's, there to do some +business, and then away with Cocke in his coach through Kent Streete, a +miserable, wretched, poor place, people sitting sicke and muffled up with +plasters at every 4 or 5 doors. So to the 'Change, and thence I by water +to the Duke of Albemarle's, and there much company, but I staid and +dined, and he makes mighty much of me; and here he tells us the Dutch are +gone, and have lost above 160 cables and anchors, through the last foule +weather. Here he proposed to me from Mr. Coventry, as I had desired of +Mr. Coventry, that I should be Surveyor-Generall of the Victualling +business, which I accepted. But, indeed, the terms in which Mr. Coventry +proposes it for me are the most obliging that ever I could expect from +any man, and more; it saying me to be the fittest man in England, and +that he is sure, if I will undertake, I will perform it; and that it will +be also a very desirable thing that I might have this encouragement, my +encouragement in the Navy alone being in no wise proportionable to my +pains or deserts. This, added to the letter I had three days since from +Mr. Southerne, signifying that the Duke of Yorke had in his master's +absence opened my letter, and commanded him to tell me that he did +approve of my being the Surveyor-General, do make me joyful beyond myself +that I cannot express it, to see that as I do take pains, so God blesses +me, and hath sent me masters that do observe that I take pains. After +having done here, I back by water and to London, and there met with +Captain Cocke's coach again, and I went in it to Greenwich and thence +sent my wife in it to Woolwich, and I to the office, and thence home late +with Captain Taylor, and he and I settled all accounts between us, and I +do find that I do get above L129 of him for my services for him within +these six months. At it till almost one in the morning, and after supper +he away and I to bed, mightily satisfied in all this, and in a resolution +I have taken to-night with Mr. Hater to propose the port of London for +the victualling business for Thomas Willson, by which it will be better +done and I at more ease, in case he should grumble. + + [The Duke of York's letter appointing Thomas Wilson Surveyor of the + Victualling of His Majesty's Navy in the Port of London, and + referring to Pepys as Surveyor-General of the Victualling Affairs, + is printed in "Memoirs of the English Affairs, chiefly Naval, 1660- + 73," by James, Duke of York, 1729, p. 131.] + +So to bed. + + + +28th. Up, and sent for Thomas Willson, and broke the victualling +business to him and he is mightily contented, and so am I that I have +bestowed it on him, and so I to Mr. Boreman's, where Sir W. Batten is, to +tell him what I had proposed to Thomas Willson, and the newes also I have +this morning from Sir W. Clerke, which is, that notwithstanding all the +care the Duke of Albemarle hath taken about the putting the East India +prize goods into the East India Company's hands, and my Lord Bruncker and +Sir J. Minnes having laden out a great part of the goods, an order is +come from Court to stop all, and to have the goods delivered to the Sub- +Commissioners of prizes. At which I am glad, because it do vex this +simple weake man, and we shall have a little reparation for the disgrace +my Lord Sandwich has had in it. He tells me also that the Parliament +hath given the Duke of Yorke L120,000, to be paid him after the +L1,250,000 is gathered upon the tax which they have now given the King. + + [This sum was granted by the Commons to Charles, with a request that + he would bestow it on his brother.--B.] + +He tells me that the Dutch have lately launched sixteen new ships; all +which is great news. Thence by horsebacke with Mr. Deane to Erith, and +so aboard my Lord Bruncker and dined, and very merry with him and good +discourse between them about ship building, and, after dinner and a +little pleasant discourse, we away and by horse back again to Greenwich, +and there I to the office very late, offering my persons for all the +victualling posts much to my satisfaction. Also much other business I +did to my mind, and so weary home to my lodging, and there after eating +and drinking a little I to bed. The King and Court, they say, have now +finally resolved to spend nothing upon clothes, but what is of the growth +of England; which, if observed, will be very pleasing to the people, and +very good for them. + + + +29th (Lord's day). Up, and being ready set out with Captain Cocke in his +coach toward Erith, Mr. Deane riding along with us, where we dined and +were very merry. After dinner we fell to discourse about the Dutch, +Cocke undertaking to prove that they were able to wage warr with us three +years together, which, though it may be true, yet, not being satisfied +with his arguments, my Lord and I did oppose the strength of his +arguments, which brought us to a great heate, he being a conceited man, +but of no Logique in his head at all, which made my Lord and I mirth. +Anon we parted, and back again, we hardly having a word all the way, he +being so vexed at our not yielding to his persuasion. I was set down at +Woolwich towne end, and walked through the towne in the darke, it being +now night. But in the streete did overtake and almost run upon two women +crying and carrying a man's coffin between them. I suppose the husband +of one of them, which, methinks, is a sad thing. Being come to +Shelden's, I find my people in the darke in the dining room, merry and +laughing, and, I thought, sporting one with another, which, God helpe me! +raised my jealousy presently. Come in the darke, and one of them +touching me (which afterward I found was Susan) made them shreeke, and so +went out up stairs, leaving them to light a candle and to run out. I +went out and was very vexed till I found my wife was gone with Mr. Hill +and Mercer this day to see me at Greenwich, and these people were at +supper, and the candle on a sudden falling out of the candlesticke (which +I saw as I come through the yarde) and Mrs. Barbary being there I was +well at ease again, and so bethought myself what to do, whether to go to +Greenwich or stay there; at last go I would, and so with a lanthorne, and +3 or 4 people with me, among others Mr. Browne, who was there, would go, +I walked with a lanthorne and discoursed with him about paynting and the +several sorts of it. I came in good time to Greenwich, where I found Mr. +Hill with my wife, and very glad I was to see him. To supper and +discourse of musique and so to bed, I lying with him talking till +midnight about Berckenshaw's musique rules, which I did to his great +satisfaction inform him in, and so to sleep. + + + +30th. Up, and to my office about business. At noon to dinner, and after +some discourse of musique, he and I to the office awhile, and he to get +Mr. Coleman, if he can, against night. By and by I back again home, and +there find him returned with Mr. Coleman (his wife being ill) and Mr. +Laneare, with whom with their Lute we had excellent company and good +singing till midnight, and a good supper I did give them, but Coleman's +voice is quite spoiled, and when he begins to be drunk he is excellent +company, but afterward troublesome and impertinent. Laneare sings in a +melancholy method very well, and a sober man he seems to be. They being +gone, we to bed. Captain Ferrers coming this day from my Lord is forced +to lodge here, and I put him to Mr. Hill. + + + +31st. Up, and to the office, Captain Ferrers going back betimes to my +Lord. I to the office, where Sir W. Batten met me, and did tell me that +Captain Cocke's black was dead of the plague, which I had heard of +before, but took no notice. By and by Captain Cocke come to the office, +and Sir W. Batten and I did send to him that he would either forbear the +office, or forbear going to his owne office. However, meeting yesterday +the Searchers with their rods in their hands--[Coroners Office ?? D.W.]-- +coming from Captain Cocke's house, I did overhear them say that the +fellow did not die of the plague, but he had I know been ill a good +while, and I am told that his boy Jack is also ill. At noon home to +dinner, and then to the office again, leaving Mr. Hill if he can to get +Mrs. Coleman at night. About nine at night I come home, and there find +Mrs. Pierce come and little Fran. Tooker, and Mr. Hill, and other people, +a great many dancing, and anon comes Mrs. Coleman with her husband and +Laneare. The dancing ended and to sing, which Mrs. Coleman do very +finely, though her voice is decayed as to strength but mighty sweet +though soft, and a pleasant jolly woman, and in mighty good humour was +to-night. Among other things Laneare did, at the request of Mr. Hill, +bring two or three the finest prints for my wife to see that ever I did +see in all my life. But for singing, among other things, we got Mrs. +Coleman to sing part of the Opera, though she won't owne that ever she +did get any of it without book in order to the stage; but, above all, her +counterfeiting of Captain Cooke's part, in his reproaching his man with +cowardice, "Base slave," &c., she do it most excellently. At it till +past midnight, and then broke up and to bed. Hill and I together again, +and being very sleepy we had little discourse as we had the other night. +Thus we end the month merrily; and the more for that, after some fears +that the plague would have increased again this week, I hear for certain +that there is above 400 [less], the whole number being 1,388, and of them +of the plague, 1,031. Want of money in the Navy puts everything out of +order. Men grow mutinous; and nobody here to mind the business of the +Navy but myself. At least Sir W. Batten for the few days he has been +here do nothing. I in great hopes of my place of Surveyor-Generall of +the Victualling, which will bring me L300 per annum. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +A conceited man, but of no Logique in his head at all +Best poem that ever was wrote (Siege of Rhodes) +French have taken two and sunk one of our merchant-men +Hath sent me masters that do observe that I take pains +How little heed is had to the prisoners and sicke and wounded +How unhppily a man may fall into a necessity of bribing people +Lechery will never leave him +Money I have not, nor can get +Mr. Evelyn's translating and sending me as a present +Poor seamen that lie starving in the streets +Saying me to be the fittest man in England +Searchers with their rods in their hands + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v44 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + |