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+Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, Nov/Dec 1665
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+                THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S.
+
+            CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY
+
+   TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY
+MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW
+                      AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
+
+                              (Unabridged)
+
+                      WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES
+
+                        EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY
+
+                        HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A.
+
+
+
+                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
+                           NOVEMBER & DECEMBER
+                                  1665
+
+
+
+November 1st.  Lay very long in bed discoursing with Mr. Hill of most
+things of a man's life, and how little merit do prevail in the world, but
+only favour; and that, for myself, chance without merit brought me in;
+and that diligence only keeps me so, and will, living as I do among so
+many lazy people that the diligent man becomes necessary, that they
+cannot do anything without him, and so told him of my late business of
+the victualling, and what cares I am in to keepe myself having to do with
+people of so different factions at Court, and yet must be fair with them
+all, which was very pleasant discourse for me to tell, as well as he
+seemed to take it, for him to hear.  At last up, and it being a very
+foule day for raine and a hideous wind, yet having promised I would go by
+water to Erith, and bearing sayle was in danger of oversetting, but
+ordered them take down their sayle, and so cold and wet got thither, as
+they had ended their dinner.  How[ever], I dined well, and after dinner
+all on shore, my Lord Bruncker with us to Mrs. Williams's lodgings, and
+Sir W. Batten, Sir Edmund Pooly, and others; and there, it being my
+Lord's birth-day, had every one a green riband tied in our hats very
+foolishly; and methinks mighty disgracefully for my Lord to have his
+folly so open to all the world with this woman.  But by and by Sir W.
+Batten and I took coach, and home to Boreman, and so going home by the
+backside I saw Captain Cocke 'lighting out of his coach (having been at
+Erith also with her but not on board) and so he would come along with me
+to my lodging, and there sat and supped and talked with us, but we were
+angry a little a while about our message to him the other day about
+bidding him keepe from the office or his owne office, because of his
+black dying.  I owned it and the reason of it, and would have been glad
+he had been out of the house, but I could not bid him go, and so supped,
+and after much other talke of the sad condition and state of the King's
+matters we broke up, and my friend and I to bed.  This night coming with
+Sir W. Batten into Greenwich we called upon Coll. Cleggatt, who tells us
+for certaine that the King of Denmark hath declared to stand for the King
+of England, but since I hear it is wholly false.
+
+
+
+2nd.  Up, left my wife and to the office, and there to my great content
+Sir W. Warren come to me to settle the business of the Tangier boates,
+wherein I shall get above L100, besides L100 which he gives me in the
+paying for them out of his owne purse.  He gone, I home to my lodgings to
+dinner, and there comes Captain Wagers newly returned from the Streights,
+who puts me in great fear for our last ships that went to Tangier with
+provisions, that they will be taken.  A brave, stout fellow this Captain
+is, and I think very honest.  To the office again after dinner and there
+late writing letters, and then about 8 at night set out from my office
+and fitting myself at my lodgings intended to have gone this night in a
+Ketch down to the Fleete, but calling in my way at Sir J. Minnes's, who
+is come up from Erith about something about the prizes, they persuaded me
+not to go till the morning, it being a horrible darke and a windy night.
+So I back to my lodging and to bed.
+
+
+
+3rd.  Was called up about four o'clock and in the darke by lanthorne took
+boat and to the Ketch and set sayle, sleeping a little in the Cabbin till
+day and then up and fell to reading of Mr. Evelyn's book about Paynting,
+
+     [This must surely have been Evelyn's "Sculptura, or the History and
+     Art of Chalcography and Engraving in Copper," published in 1662.
+     The translation of Freart's "Idea of the Perfection of Painting
+     demonstrated" was not published until 1668.]
+
+which is a very pretty book.  Carrying good victuals and Tom with me I to
+breakfast about 9 o'clock, and then to read again and come to the Fleete
+about twelve, where I found my Lord (the Prince being gone in) on board
+the Royall James, Sir Thomas Allen commander, and with my Lord an houre
+alone discoursing what was my chief and only errand about what was
+adviseable for his Lordship to do in this state of things, himself being
+under the Duke of Yorke's and Mr. Coventry's envy, and a great many more
+and likely never to do anything honourably but he shall be envied and the
+honour taken as much as can be from it.  His absence lessens his interest
+at Court, and what is worst we never able to set out a fleete fit for him
+to command, or, if out, to keepe them out or fit them to do any great
+thing, or if that were so yet nobody at home minds him or his condition
+when he is abroad, and lastly the whole affairs of state looking as if
+they would all on a sudden break in pieces, and then what a sad thing it
+would be for him to be out of the way.  My Lord did concur in every thing
+and thanked me infinitely for my visit and counsel, telling me that in
+every thing he concurs, but puts a query, what if the King will not think
+himself safe, if any man should go but him.  How he should go off then?
+To that I had no answer ready, but the making the King see that he may be
+of as good use to him here while another goes forth.  But for that I am
+not able to say much.  We after this talked of some other little things
+and so to dinner, where my Lord infinitely kind to me, and after dinner I
+rose and left him with some Commanders at the table taking tobacco and I
+took the Bezan back with me, and with a brave gale and tide reached up
+that night to the Hope, taking great pleasure in learning the seamen's
+manner of singing when they sound the depths, and then to supper and to
+sleep, which I did most excellently all night, it being a horrible foule
+night for wind and raine.
+
+
+
+4th.  They sayled from midnight, and come to Greenwich about 5 o'clock in
+the morning.  I however lay till about 7 or 8, and so to my office, my
+head a little akeing, partly for want of natural rest, partly having so
+much business to do to-day, and partly from the newes I hear that one of
+the little boys at my lodging is not well; and they suspect, by their
+sending for plaister and fume, that it may be the plague; so I sent Mr.
+Hater and W. Hewer to speake with the mother; but they returned to me,
+satisfied that there is no hurt nor danger, but the boy is well, and
+offers to be searched, however, I was resolved myself to abstain coming
+thither for a while.  Sir W. Batten and myself at the office all the
+morning.  At noon with him to dinner at Boreman's, where Mr. Seymour with
+us, who is a most conceited fellow and not over much in him.  Here Sir W.
+Batten told us (which I had not heard before) that the last sitting day
+his cloake was taken from Mingo he going home to dinner, and that he was
+beaten by the seamen and swears he will come to Greenwich, but no more to
+the office till he can sit safe.  After dinner I to the office and there
+late, and much troubled to have 100 seamen all the afternoon there,
+swearing below and cursing us, and breaking the glasse windows, and swear
+they will pull the house down on Tuesday next.  I sent word of this to
+Court, but nothing will helpe it but money and a rope.  Late at night to
+Mr. Glanville's there to lie for a night or two, and to bed.
+
+
+
+5th (Lord's day).  Up, and after being trimmed, by boat to the Cockpitt,
+where I heard the Duke of Albemarle's chaplin make a simple sermon: among
+other things, reproaching the imperfection of humane learning, he cried:
+"All our physicians cannot tell what an ague is, and all our arithmetique
+is not able to number the days of a man;" which, God knows, is not the
+fault of arithmetique, but that our understandings reach not the thing.
+To dinner, where a great deale of silly discourse, but the worst is I
+hear that the plague increases much at Lambeth, St. Martin's and
+Westminster, and fear it will all over the city.  Thence I to the Swan,
+thinking to have seen Sarah but she was at church, and so I by water to
+Deptford, and there made a visit to Mr. Evelyn, who, among other things,
+showed me most excellent painting in little; in distemper, Indian incke,
+water colours: graveing; and, above all, the whole secret of mezzo-tinto,
+and the manner of it, which is very pretty, and good things done with it.
+He read to me very much also of his discourse, he hath been many years
+and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and
+pleasant piece.  He read me part of a play or two of his making, very
+good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be.  He showed me his
+Hortus Hyemalis; leaves laid up in a book of several plants kept dry,
+which preserve colour, however, and look very finely, better than any
+Herball.  In fine, a most excellent person he is, and must be allowed a
+little for a little conceitedness; but he may well be so, being a man so
+much above others.  He read me, though with too much gusto, some little
+poems of his own, that were not transcendant, yet one or two very pretty
+epigrams; among others, of a lady looking in at a grate, and being pecked
+at by an eagle that was there.  Here comes in, in the middle of our
+discourse Captain Cocke, as drunk as a dogg, but could stand, and talk
+and laugh.  He did so joy himself in a brave woman that he had been with
+all the afternoon, and who should it be but my Lady Robinson, but very
+troublesome he is with his noise and talke, and laughing, though very
+pleasant.  With him in his coach to Mr. Glanville's, where he sat with
+Mrs. Penington and myself a good while talking of this fine woman again
+and then went away.  Then the lady and I to very serious discourse and,
+among other things, of what a bonny lasse my Lady Robinson is, who is
+reported to be kind to the prisoners, and has said to Sir G. Smith, who
+is her great crony, "Look! there is a pretty man, I would be content to
+break a commandment with him," and such loose expressions she will have
+often.  After an houre's talke we to bed, the lady mightily troubled
+about a pretty little bitch she hath, which is very sicke, and will eat
+nothing, and the worst was, I could hear her in her chamber bemoaning the
+bitch, and by and by taking her into bed with her.  The bitch pissed and
+shit a bed, and she was fain to rise and had coals out of my chamber to
+dry the bed again.  This night I had a letter that Sir G. Carteret would
+be in towne to-morrow, which did much surprize me.
+
+
+
+6th.  Up, and to my office, where busy all the morning and then to dinner
+to Captain Cocke's with Mr. Evelyn, where very merry, only vexed after
+dinner to stay too long for our coach.  At last, however, to Lambeth and
+thence the Cockpitt, where we found Sir G. Carteret come, and in with the
+Duke and the East India Company about settling the business of the
+prizes, and they have gone through with it.  Then they broke up, and Sir
+G. Carteret come out, and thence through the garden to the water side and
+by water I with him in his boat down with Captain Cocke to his house at
+Greenwich, and while supper was getting ready Sir G. Carteret and I did
+walk an houre in the garden before the house, talking of my Lord
+Sandwich's business; what enemies he hath, and how they have endeavoured
+to bespatter him: and particularly about his leaving of 30 ships of the
+enemy, when Pen would have gone, and my Lord called him back again: which
+is most false.  However, he says, it was purposed by some hot-heads in
+the House of Commons, at the same time when they voted a present to the
+Duke of Yorke, to have voted L10,000 to the Prince, and half-a-crowne to
+my Lord of Sandwich; but nothing come of it.
+
+     [The tide of popular indignation ran high against Lord Sandwich, and
+     he was sent to Spain as ambassador to get him honourably out of the
+     way (see post, December 6th).]
+
+But, for all this, the King is most firme to my Lord, and so is my Lord
+Chancellor, and my Lord Arlington.  The Prince, in appearance, kind; the
+Duke of Yorke silent, says no hurt; but admits others to say it in his
+hearing.  Sir W. Pen, the falsest rascal that ever was in the world; and
+that this afternoon the Duke of Albemarle did tell him that Pen was a
+very cowardly rogue, and one that hath brought all these rogueish
+fanatick Captains into the fleete, and swears he should never go out with
+the fleete again.  That Sir W. Coventry is most kind to Pen still; and
+says nothing nor do any thing openly to the prejudice of my Lord.  He
+agrees with me, that it is impossible for the King [to] set out a fleete
+again the next year; and that he fears all will come to ruine, there
+being no money in prospect but these prizes, which will bring, it may be,
+L20,000, but that will signify nothing in the world for it.  That this
+late Act of Parliament for bringing the money into the Exchequer, and
+making of it payable out there, intended as a prejudice to him and will
+be his convenience hereafter and ruine the King's business, and so I fear
+it will and do wonder Sir W. Coventry would be led by Sir G. Downing to
+persuade the King and Duke to have it so, before they had thoroughly
+weighed all circumstances; that for my Lord, the King has said to him
+lately that I was an excellent officer, and that my Lord Chancellor do,
+he thinks, love and esteem of me as well as he do of any man in England
+that he hath no more acquaintance with.  So having done and received from
+me the sad newes that we are like to have no money here a great while,
+not even of the very prizes, I set up my rest
+
+     [The phrase "set up my rest" is a metaphor from the once fashionable
+     game of Primero, meaning, to stand upon the cards you have in your
+     hand, in hopes they may prove better than those of your adversary.
+     Hence, to make up your mind, to be determined (see Nares's "
+     Glossary").]
+
+in giving up the King's service to be ruined and so in to supper, where
+pretty merry, and after supper late to Mr. Glanville's, and Sir G.
+Carteret to bed.  I also to bed, it being very late.
+
+
+
+7th.  Up, and to Sir G. Carteret, and with him, he being very passionate
+to be gone, without staying a minute for breakfast, to the Duke of
+Albemarle's and I with him by water and with Fen: but, among other
+things, Lord! to see how he wondered to see the river so empty of boats,
+nobody working at the Custome-house keys; and how fearful he is, and
+vexed that his man, holding a wine-glasse in his hand for him to drinke
+out of, did cover his hands, it being a cold, windy, rainy morning, under
+the waterman's coate, though he brought the waterman from six or seven
+miles up the river, too.  Nay, he carried this glasse with him for his
+man to let him drink out of at the Duke of Albemarle's, where he intended
+to dine, though this he did to prevent sluttery, for, for the same reason
+he carried a napkin with him to Captain Cocke's, making him believe that
+he should eat with foule linnen.  Here he with the Duke walked a good
+while in the Parke, and I with Fen, but cannot gather that he intends to
+stay with us, nor thinks any thing at all of ever paying one farthing of
+money more to us here, let what will come of it.  Thence in, and Sir W.
+Batten comes in by and by, and so staying till noon, and there being a
+great deal of company there, Sir W. Batten and I took leave of the Duke
+and Sir G. Carteret, there being no good to be done more for money, and
+so over the River and by coach to Greenwich, where at Boreman's we dined,
+it being late.  Thence my head being full of business and mind out of
+order for thinking of the effects which will arise from the want of
+money, I made an end of my letters by eight o'clock, and so to my lodging
+and there spent the evening till midnight talking with Mrs. Penington,
+who is a very discreet, understanding lady and very pretty discourse we
+had and great variety, and she tells me with great sorrow her bitch is
+dead this morning, died in her bed.  So broke up and to bed.
+
+
+
+8th.  Up, and to the office, where busy among other things to looke my
+warrants for the settling of the Victualling business, the warrants being
+come to me for the Surveyors of the ports and that for me also to be
+Surveyor-Generall.  I did discourse largely with Tom Willson about it and
+doubt not to make it a good service to the King as well, as the King
+gives us very good salarys.  It being a fast day, all people were at
+church and the office quiett; so I did much business, and at noon
+adventured to my old lodging, and there eat, but am not yet well
+satisfied, not seeing of Christopher, though they say he is abroad.
+Thence after dinner to the office again, and thence am sent for to the
+King's Head by my Lord Rutherford, who, since I can hope for no more
+convenience from him, his business is troublesome to me, and therefore I
+did leave him as soon as I could and by water to Deptford, and there did
+order my matters so, walking up and down the fields till it was dark
+night, that 'je allais a la maison of my valentine,--[Bagwell's wife]--
+and there 'je faisais whatever je voudrais avec' her, and, about eight at
+night, did take water, being glad I was out of the towne; for the plague,
+it seems, rages there more than ever, and so to my lodgings, where my
+Lord had got a supper and the mistresse of the house, and her daughters,
+and here staid Mrs. Pierce to speake with me about her husband's
+business, and I made her sup with us, and then at night my Lord and I
+walked with her home, and so back again.  My Lord and I ended all we had
+to say as to his business overnight, and so I took leave, and went again
+to Mr. Glanville's and so to bed, it being very late.
+
+
+
+9th.  Up, and did give the servants something at Mr. Glanville's and so
+took leave, meaning to lie to-night at my owne lodging.  To my office,
+where busy with Mr. Gawden running over the Victualling business, and he
+is mightily pleased that this course is taking and seems sensible of my
+favour and promises kindnesse to me.  At noon by water, to the King's
+Head at Deptford, where Captain Taylor invites Sir W: Batten, Sir John
+Robinson (who come in with a great deale of company from hunting, and
+brought in a hare alive and a great many silly stories they tell of their
+sport, which pleases them mightily, and me not at all, such is the
+different sense of pleasure in mankind), and others upon the score of a
+survey of his new ship; and strange to see how a good dinner and feasting
+reconciles everybody, Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Robinson being now as kind
+to him, and report well of his ship and proceedings, and promise money,
+and Sir W. Batten is a solicitor for him, but it is a strange thing to
+observe, they being the greatest enemys he had, and yet, I believe, hath
+in the world in their hearts.  Thence after dinner stole away and to my
+office, where did a great deale of business till midnight, and then to
+Mrs. Clerk's, to lodge again, and going home W. Hewer did tell me my wife
+will be here to-morrow, and hath put away Mary, which vexes me to the
+heart, I cannot helpe it, though it may be a folly in me, and when I
+think seriously on it, I think my wife means no ill design in it, or, if
+she do, I am a foole to be troubled at it, since I cannot helpe it.  The
+Bill of Mortality, to all our griefs, is encreased 399 this week, and the
+encrease generally through the whole City and suburbs, which makes us all
+sad.
+
+
+
+10th.  Up, and entered all my Journall since the 28th of October, having
+every day's passages well in my head, though it troubles me to remember
+it, and which I was forced to, being kept from my lodging, where my books
+and papers are, for several days.  So to my office, where till two or
+three o'clock busy before I could go to my lodging to dinner, then did it
+and to my office again.  In the evening newes is brought me my wife is
+come: so I to her, and with her spent the evening, but with no great
+pleasure, I being vexed about her putting away of Mary in my absence, but
+yet I took no notice of it at all, but fell into other discourse, and she
+told me, having herself been this day at my house at London, which was
+boldly done, to see Mary have her things, that Mr. Harrington, our
+neighbour, an East country merchant, is dead at Epsum of the plague, and
+that another neighbour of ours, Mr. Hollworthy, a very able man, is also
+dead by a fall in the country from his horse, his foot hanging in the
+stirrup, and his brains beat out.  Here we sat talking, and after supper
+to bed.
+
+
+
+11th.  I up and to the office (leaving my wife in bed) and there till
+noon, then to dinner and back again to the office, my wife going to
+Woolwich again, and I staying very late at my office, and so home to bed.
+
+
+
+12th (Lord's day).  Up, and invited by Captain Cocke to dinner.  So after
+being ready I went to him, and there he and I and Mr. Yard (one of the
+Guinny Company) dined together and very merry.  After dinner I by water
+to the Duke of Albemarle, and there had a little discourse and business
+with him, chiefly to receive his commands about pilotts to be got for our
+Hambro' ships, going now at this time of the year convoy to the merchant
+ships, that have lain at great pain and charge, some three, some four
+months at Harwich for a convoy.  They hope here the plague will be less
+this weeke.  Thence back by water to Captain Cocke's, and there he and I
+spent a great deale of the evening as we had done of the day reading and
+discoursing over part of Mr. Stillingfleet's "Origines Sacrae," wherein
+many things are very good and some frivolous.  Thence by and by he and I
+to Mrs. Penington's, but she was gone to bed.  So we back and walked a
+while, and then to his house and to supper, and then broke up, and I home
+to my lodging to bed.
+
+
+
+13th.  Up, and to my office, where busy all the morning, and at noon to
+Captain Cocke's to dinner as we had appointed in order to settle our
+business of accounts.  But here came in an Alderman, a merchant, a very
+merry man, and we dined, and, he being gone, after dinner Cocke and I
+walked into the garden, and there after a little discourse he did
+undertake under his hand to secure me in L500 profit, for my share of the
+profit of what we have bought of the prize goods.  We agreed upon the
+terms, which were easier on my side than I expected, and so with
+extraordinary inward joy we parted till the evening.  So I to the office
+and among other business prepared a deed for him to sign and seale to me
+about our agreement, which at night I got him to come and sign and seale,
+and so he and I to Glanville's, and there he and I sat talking and
+playing with Mrs. Penington, whom we found undrest in her smocke and
+petticoats by the fireside, and there we drank and laughed, and she
+willingly suffered me to put my hand in her bosom very wantonly, and keep
+it there long.  Which methought was very strange, and I looked upon
+myself as a man mightily deceived in a lady, for I could not have thought
+she could have suffered it, by her former discourse with me; so modest
+she seemed and I know not what.  We staid here late, and so home after he
+and I had walked till past midnight, a bright moonshine, clear, cool
+night, before his door by the water, and so I home after one of the
+clock.
+
+
+
+14th.  Called up by break of day by Captain Cocke, by agreement, and he
+and I in his coach through Kent-streete (a sad place through the plague,
+people sitting sicke and with plaisters about them in the street begging)
+to Viner's and Colvill's about money business, and so to my house, and
+there I took L300 in order to the carrying it down to my Lord Sandwich in
+part of the money I am to pay for Captain Cocke by our agreement.  So I
+took it down, and down I went to Greenwich to my office, and there sat
+busy till noon, and so home to dinner, and thence to the office again,
+and by and by to the Duke of Albemarle's by water late, where I find he
+had remembered that I had appointed to come to him this day about money,
+which I excused not doing sooner; but I see, a dull fellow, as he is, do
+sometimes remember what another thinks he mindeth not.  My business was
+about getting money of the East India Company; but, Lord! to see how the
+Duke himself magnifies himself in what he had done with the Company; and
+my Lord Craven what the King could have done without my Lord Duke, and a
+deale of stir, but most mightily what a brave fellow I am.  Back by
+water, it raining hard, and so to the office, and stopped my going, as I
+intended, to the buoy of the Nore, and great reason I had to rejoice at
+it, for it proved the night of as great a storme as was almost ever
+remembered.  Late at the office, and so home to bed.  This day, calling
+at Mr. Rawlinson's to know how all did there, I hear that my pretty
+grocer's wife, Mrs. Beversham, over the way there, her husband is lately
+dead of the plague at Bow, which I am sorry for, for fear of losing her
+neighbourhood.
+
+
+
+15th.  Up and all the morning at the office, busy, and at noon to the
+King's Head taverne, where all the Trinity House dined to-day, to choose
+a new Master in the room of Hurlestone, that is dead, and Captain Crispe
+is chosen.  But, Lord! to see how Sir W. Batten governs all and tramples
+upon Hurlestone, but I am confident the Company will grow the worse for
+that man's death, for now Batten, and in him a lazy, corrupt, doating
+rogue, will have all the sway there.  After dinner who comes in but my
+Lady Batten, and a troop of a dozen women almost, and expected, as I
+found afterward, to be made mighty much of, but nobody minded them; but
+the best jest was, that when they saw themselves not regarded, they would
+go away, and it was horrible foule weather; and my Lady Batten walking
+through the dirty lane with new spicke and span white shoes, she dropped
+one of her galoshes in the dirt, where it stuck, and she forced to go
+home without one, at which she was horribly vexed, and I led her; and
+after vexing her a little more in mirth, I parted, and to Glanville's,
+where I knew Sir John Robinson, Sir G. Smith, and Captain Cocke were
+gone, and there, with the company of Mrs. Penington, whose father, I
+hear, was one of the Court of justice, and died prisoner, of the stone,
+in the Tower, I made them, against their resolutions, to stay from houre
+to houre till it was almost midnight, and a furious, darke and rainy, and
+windy, stormy night, and, which was best, I, with drinking small beer,
+made them all drunk drinking wine, at which Sir John Robinson made great
+sport.  But, they being gone, the lady and I very civilly sat an houre by
+the fireside observing the folly of this Robinson, that makes it his
+worke to praise himself, and all he say and do, like a heavy-headed
+coxcombe.  The plague, blessed be God! is decreased 400; making the whole
+this week but 1300 and odd; for which the Lord be praised!
+
+
+
+16th.  Up, and fitted myself for my journey down to the fleete, and
+sending my money and boy down by water to Eriffe,--[Erith]--I borrowed a
+horse of Mr. Boreman's son, and after having sat an houre laughing with
+my Lady Batten and Mrs. Turner, and eat and drank with them, I took horse
+and rode to Eriffe, where, after making a little visit to Madam Williams,
+who did give me information of W. Howe's having bought eight bags of
+precious stones taken from about the Dutch Vice-Admirall's neck, of which
+there were eight dyamonds which cost him L60,000 sterling, in India, and
+hoped to have made L2000 here for them.  And that this is told by one
+that sold him one of the bags, which hath nothing but rubys in it, which
+he had for 35s.; and that it will be proved he hath made L125 of one
+stone that he bought.  This she desired, and I resolved I would give my
+Lord Sandwich notice of.  So I on board my Lord Bruncker; and there he
+and Sir Edmund Pooly carried me down into the hold of the India shipp,
+and there did show me the greatest wealth lie in confusion that a man can
+see in the world.  Pepper scattered through every chink, you trod upon
+it; and in cloves and nutmegs, I walked above the knees; whole rooms
+full.  And silk in bales, and boxes of copper-plate, one of which I saw
+opened.  Having seen this, which was as noble a sight as ever I saw in my
+life, I away on board the other ship in despair to get the pleasure-boat
+of the gentlemen there to carry me to the fleet.  They were Mr.
+Ashburnham and Colonell Wyndham; but pleading the King's business, they
+did presently agree I should have it.  So I presently on board, and got
+under sail, and had a good bedd by the shift, of Wyndham's; and so,
+
+
+
+17th.  Sailed all night, and got down to Quinbrough water, where all the
+great ships are now come, and there on board my Lord, and was soon
+received with great content.  And after some little discourse, he and I
+on board Sir W. Pen; and there held a council of Warr about many wants of
+the fleete, but chiefly how to get slopps and victuals for the fleete now
+going out to convoy our Hambro' ships, that have been so long detained
+for four or five months for want of convoy, which we did accommodate one
+way or other, and so, after much chatt, Sir W. Pen did give us a very
+good and neat dinner, and better, I think, than ever I did see at his
+owne house at home in my life, and so was the other I eat with him.
+After dinner much talke, and about other things, he and I about his money
+for his prize goods, wherein I did give him a cool answer, but so as we
+did not disagree in words much, and so let that fall, and so followed my
+Lord Sandwich, who was gone a little before me on board the Royall James.
+And there spent an houre, my Lord playing upon the gittarr, which he now
+commends above all musique in the world, because it is base enough for a
+single voice, and is so portable and manageable without much trouble.
+That being done, I got my Lord to be alone, and so I fell to acquaint him
+with W. Howe's business, which he had before heard a little of from
+Captain Cocke, but made no great matter of it, but now he do, and
+resolves nothing less than to lay him by the heels, and seize on all he
+hath, saying that for this yeare or two he hath observed him so proud and
+conceited he could not endure him.  But though I was not at all
+displeased with it, yet I prayed him to forbear doing anything therein
+till he heard from me again about it, and I had made more enquiry into
+the truth of it, which he agreed to.  Then we fell to publique discourse,
+wherein was principally this: he cleared it to me beyond all doubt that
+Coventry is his enemy, and has been long so.  So that I am over that, and
+my Lord told it me upon my proposal of a friendship between them, which
+he says is impossible, and methinks that my Lord's displeasure about the
+report in print of the first fight was not of his making, but I perceive
+my Lord cannot forget it, nor the other think he can.  I shewed him how
+advisable it were upon almost any terms for him to get quite off the sea
+employment.  He answers me again that he agrees to it, but thinks the
+King will not let him go off: He tells me he lacks now my Lord Orrery to
+solicit it for him, who is very great with the King.  As an infinite
+secret, my Lord tells me, the factions are high between the King and the
+Duke, and all the Court are in an uproare with their loose amours; the
+Duke of Yorke being in love desperately with Mrs. Stewart.  Nay, that the
+Duchesse herself is fallen in love with her new Master of the Horse, one
+Harry Sidney, and another, Harry Savill.  So that God knows what will be
+the end of it.  And that the Duke is not so obsequious as he used to be,
+but very high of late; and would be glad to be in the head of an army as
+Generall; and that it is said that he do propose to go and command under
+the King of Spayne, in Flanders.  That his amours to Mrs. Stewart are
+told the King.  So that all is like to be nought among them.  That he
+knows that the Duke of Yorke do give leave to have him spoken slightly of
+in his owne hearing, and doth not oppose it, and told me from what time
+he hath observed this to begin.  So that upon the whole my Lord do concur
+to wish with all his heart that he could with any honour get from off the
+imployment.  After he had given thanks to me for my kind visit and good
+counsel, on which he seems to set much by, I left him, and so away to my
+Bezan againe, and there to read in a pretty French book, "La Nouvelle
+Allegorique," upon the strife between rhetorique and its enemies, very
+pleasant.  So, after supper, to sleepe, and sayled all night, and came to
+Erith before break of day.
+
+
+
+18th.  About nine of the clock, I went on shore, there (calling by the
+way only to look upon my Lord Bruncker) to give Mrs. Williams an account
+of her matters, and so hired an ill-favoured horse, and away to Greenwich
+to my lodgings, where I hear how rude the souldiers have been in my
+absence, swearing what they would do with me, which troubled me, but,
+however, after eating a bit I to the office and there very late writing
+letters, and so home and to bed.
+
+
+
+19th (Lord's day).  Up, and after being trimmed, alone by water to Erith,
+all the way with my song book singing of Mr. Lawes's long recitative song
+in the beginning of his book.  Being come there, on board my Lord
+Bruncker, I find Captain Cocke and other company, the lady not well, and
+mighty merry we were; Sir Edmund Pooly being very merry, and a right
+English gentleman, and one of the discontented Cavaliers, that think
+their loyalty is not considered.  After dinner, all on shore to my Lady
+Williams, and there drank and talked; but, Lord! the most impertinent
+bold woman with my Lord that ever I did see.  I did give her an account
+again of my business with my Lord touching W. Howe, and she did give me
+some more information about it, and examination taken about it, and so we
+parted and I took boat, and to Woolwich, where we found my wife not well
+of them, and I out of humour begun to dislike her paynting, the last
+things not pleasing me so well as the former, but I blame myself for my
+being so little complaisant.  So without eating or drinking, there being
+no wine (which vexed me too), we walked with a lanthorne to Greenwich and
+eat something at his house, and so home to bed.
+
+
+
+20th.  Up before day, and wrote some letters to go to my Lord, among
+others that about W. Howe, which I believe will turn him out, and so took
+horse for Nonesuch, with two men with me, and the ways very bad, and the
+weather worse, for wind and rayne.  But we got in good time thither, and
+I did get my tallys got ready, and thence, with as many as could go, to
+Yowell, and there dined very well, and I saw my Besse, a very well-
+favoured country lass there, and after being very merry and having spent
+a piece I took horse, and by another way met with a very good road, but
+it rained hard and blew, but got home very well.  Here I find Mr. Deering
+come to trouble me about business, which I soon dispatched and parted, he
+telling me that Luellin hath been dead this fortnight, of the plague, in
+St. Martin's Lane, which much surprised me.
+
+
+
+21st.  Up, and to the office, where all the morning doing business, and
+at noon home to dinner and quickly back again to the office, where very
+busy all the evening and late sent a long discourse to Mr. Coventry by
+his desire about the regulating of the method of our payment of bills in
+the Navy, which will be very good, though, it may be, he did ayme
+principally at striking at Sir G. Carteret.  So weary but pleased with
+this business being over I home to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+22nd.  Up, and by water to the Duke of Albemarle, and there did some
+little business, but most to shew myself, and mightily I am yet in his
+and Lord Craven's books, and thence to the Swan and there drank and so
+down to the bridge, and so to the 'Change, where spoke with many people,
+and about a great deale of business, which kept me late.  I heard this
+day that Mr. Harrington is not dead of the plague, as we believed, at
+which I was very glad, but most of all, to hear that the plague is come
+very low; that is, the whole under 1,000, and the plague 600 and odd: and
+great hopes of a further decrease, because of this day's being a very
+exceeding hard frost, and continues freezing.  This day the first of the
+Oxford Gazettes come out, which is very pretty, full of newes, and no
+folly in it.  Wrote by Williamson.  Fear that our Hambro' ships at last
+cannot go, because of the great frost, which we believe it is there, nor
+are our ships cleared at the Pillow [Pillau], which will keepe them there
+too all this winter, I fear.  From the 'Change, which is pretty full
+again, I to my office and there took some things, and so by water to my
+lodging at Greenwich and dined, and then to the office awhile and at
+night home to my lodgings, and took T. Willson and T. Hater with me, and
+there spent the evening till midnight discoursing and settling of our
+Victualling business, that thereby I might draw up instructions for the
+Surveyours and that we might be doing something to earne our money.  This
+done I late to bed.  Among other things it pleased me to have it
+demonstrated, that a Purser without professed cheating is a professed
+loser, twice as much as he gets.
+
+
+
+23rd.  Up betimes, and so, being trimmed, I to get papers ready against
+Sir H. Cholmly come to me by appointment, he being newly come over from
+Tangier.  He did by and by come, and we settled all matters about his
+money, and he is a most satisfied man in me, and do declare his
+resolution to give me 200 per annum.  It continuing to be a great frost,
+which gives us hope for a perfect cure of the plague, he and I to walk in
+the parke, and there discoursed with grief of the calamity of the times;
+how the King's service is performed, and how Tangier is governed by a
+man, who, though honourable, yet do mind his ways of getting and little
+else compared, which will never make the place flourish.  I brought him
+and had a good dinner for him, and there come by chance Captain Cuttance,
+who tells me how W. Howe is laid by the heels, and confined to the Royall
+Katharine, and his things all seized and how, also, for a quarrel, which
+indeed the other night my Lord told me, Captain Ferrers, having cut all
+over the back of another of my Lord's servants, is parted from my Lord.
+I sent for little Mrs. Frances Tooker, and after they were gone I sat
+dallying with her an hour, doing what I would with my hands about her.
+And a very pretty creature it is.  So in the evening to the office, where
+late writing letters, and at my lodging later writing for the last twelve
+days my Journall and so to bed.  Great expectation what mischief more the
+French will do us, for we must fall out.  We in extraordinary lacke of
+money and everything else to go to sea next year.  My Lord Sandwich is
+gone from the fleete yesterday toward Oxford.
+
+
+
+24th.  Up, and after doing some business at the office, I to London, and
+there, in my way, at my old oyster shop in Gracious Streete, bought two
+barrels of my fine woman of the shop, who is alive after all the plague,
+which now is the first observation or inquiry we make at London
+concerning everybody we knew before it.  So to the 'Change, where very
+busy with several people, and mightily glad to see the 'Change so full,
+and hopes of another abatement still the next week.  Off the 'Change I
+went home with Sir G. Smith to dinner, sending for one of my barrels of
+oysters, which were good, though come from Colchester, where the plague
+hath been so much.  Here a very brave dinner, though no invitation; and,
+Lord! to see how I am treated, that come from so mean a beginning, is
+matter of wonder to me.  But it is God's great mercy to me, and His
+blessing upon my taking pains, and being punctual in my dealings.  After
+dinner Captain Cocke and I about some business, and then with my other
+barrel of oysters home to Greenwich, sent them by water to Mrs.
+Penington, while he and I landed, and visited Mr. Evelyn, where most
+excellent discourse with him; among other things he showed me a ledger of
+a Treasurer of the Navy, his great grandfather, just 100 years old; which
+I seemed mighty fond of, and he did present me with it, which I take as a
+great rarity; and he hopes to find me more, older than it.  He also
+shewed us several letters of the old Lord of Leicester's, in Queen
+Elizabeth's time, under the very hand-writing of Queen Elizabeth, and
+Queen Mary, Queen of Scotts; and others, very venerable names.  But,
+Lord! how poorly, methinks, they wrote in those days, and in what plain
+uncut paper.  Thence, Cocke having sent for his coach, we to Mrs.
+Penington, and there sat and talked and eat our oysters with great
+pleasure, and so home to my lodging late and to bed.
+
+
+
+25th.  Up, and busy at the office all day long, saving dinner time, and
+in the afternoon also very late at my office, and so home to bed.  All
+our business is now about our Hambro fleete, whether it can go or no this
+yeare, the weather being set in frosty, and the whole stay being for want
+of Pilotts now, which I have wrote to the Trinity House about, but have
+so poor an account from them, that I did acquaint Sir W. Coventry with it
+this post.
+
+
+
+26th (Lord's day).  Up, though very late abed, yet before day to dress
+myself to go toward Erith, which I would do by land, it being a horrible
+cold frost to go by water: so borrowed two horses of Mr. Howell and his
+friend, and with much ado set out, after my horses being frosted
+
+     [Frosting means, having the horses' shoes turned up by the smith.]
+
+(which I know not what it means to this day), and my boy having lost one
+of my spurs and stockings, carrying them to the smith's; but I borrowed a
+stocking, and so got up, and Mr. Tooker with me, and rode to Erith, and
+there on board my Lord Bruncker, met Sir W. Warren upon his business,
+among others, and did a great deale, Sir J. Minnes, as God would have it,
+not being there to hinder us with his impertinences.  Business done, we
+to dinner very merry, there being there Sir Edmund Pooly, a very worthy
+gentleman.  They are now come to the copper boxes in the prizes, and hope
+to have ended all this weeke.  After dinner took leave, and on shore to
+Madam Williams, to give her an account of my Lord's letter to me about
+Howe, who he has clapped by the heels on suspicion of having the jewells,
+and she did give me my Lord Bruncker's examination of the fellow, that
+declares his having them; and so away, Sir W. Warren riding with me, and
+the way being very bad, that is, hard and slippery by reason of the
+frost, so we could not come to past Woolwich till night.  However, having
+a great mind to have gone to the Duke of Albemarle, I endeavoured to have
+gone farther, but the night come on and no going, so I 'light and sent my
+horse by Tooker, and returned on foot to my wife at Woolwich, where I
+found, as I had directed, a good dinner to be made against to-morrow, and
+invited guests in the yarde, meaning to be merry, in order to her taking
+leave, for she intends to come in a day or two to me for altogether.  But
+here, they tell me, one of the houses behind them is infected, and I was
+fain to stand there a great while, to have their back-door opened, but
+they could not, having locked them fast, against any passing through, so
+was forced to pass by them again, close to their sicke beds, which they
+were removing out of the house, which troubled me; so I made them
+uninvite their guests, and to resolve of coming all away to me to-morrow,
+and I walked with a lanthorne, weary as I was, to Greenwich; but it was a
+fine walke, it being a hard frost, and so to Captain Cocke's, but he I
+found had sent for me to come to him to Mrs. Penington's, and there I
+went, and we were very merry, and supped, and Cocke being sleepy he went
+away betimes.  I stayed alone talking and playing with her till past
+midnight, she suffering me whatever 'ego voulais avec ses mamilles .  .
+.  .  Much pleased with her company we parted, and I home to bed at past
+one, all people being in bed thinking I would have staid out of town all
+night.
+
+
+
+27th.  Up, and being to go to wait on the Duke of Albemarle, who is to go
+out of towne to Oxford to-morrow, and I being unwilling to go by water,
+it being bitter cold, walked it with my landlady's little boy Christopher
+to Lambeth, it being a very fine walke and calling at half the way and
+drank, and so to the Duke of Albemarle, who is visited by every body
+against his going; and mighty kind to me: and upon my desiring his grace
+to give me his kind word to the Duke of Yorke, if any occasion there were
+of speaking of me, he told me he had reason to do so; for there had been
+nothing done in the Navy without me.  His going, I hear, is upon putting
+the sea business into order, and, as some say, and people of his owne
+family, that he is agog to go to sea himself the next year.  Here I met
+with a letter from Sir G. Carteret, who is come to Cranborne, that he
+will be here this afternoon and desires me to be with him.  So the Duke
+would have me dine with him.  So it being not dinner time, I to the Swan,
+and there found Sarah all alone in the house .  .  .  .  So away to the
+Duke of Albemarle again, and there to dinner, he most exceeding kind to
+me to the observation of all that are there.  At dinner comes Sir G.
+Carteret and dines with us.  After dinner a great deal alone with Sir G.
+Carteret, who tells me that my Lord hath received still worse and worse
+usage from some base people about the Court.  But the King is very kind,
+and the Duke do not appear the contrary; and my Lord Chancellor swore to
+him "by --- I will not forsake my Lord of Sandwich."  Our next discourse
+is upon this Act for money, about which Sir G. Carteret comes to see what
+money can be got upon it.  But none can be got, which pleases him the
+thoughts of, for, if the Exchequer should succeede in this, his office
+would faile.  But I am apt to think at this time of hurry and plague and
+want of trade, no money will be got upon a new way which few understand.
+We walked, Cocke and I, through the Parke with him, and so we being to
+meet the Vice-Chamberlayne to-morrow at Nonesuch, to treat with Sir
+Robert Long about the same business, I into London, it being dark night,
+by a hackney coach; the first I have durst to go in many a day, and with
+great pain now for fear.  But it being unsafe to go by water in the dark
+and frosty cold, and unable being weary with my morning walke to go on
+foot, this was my only way.  Few people yet in the streets, nor shops
+open, here and there twenty in a place almost; though not above five or
+sixe o'clock at night.  So to Viner's, and there heard of Cocke, and
+found him at the Pope's Head, drinking with Temple.  I to them, where the
+Goldsmiths do decry the new Act, for money to be all brought into the
+Exchequer, and paid out thence, saying they will not advance one farthing
+upon it; and indeed it is their interest to say and do so.  Thence Cocke
+and I to Sir G. Smith's, it being now night, and there up to his chamber
+and sat talking, and I barbing--[shaving]--against to-morrow; and anon,
+at nine at night, comes to us Sir G. Smith and the Lieutenant of the
+Tower, and there they sat talking and drinking till past midnight, and
+mighty merry we were, the Lieutenant of the Tower being in a mighty vein
+of singing, and he hath a very good eare and strong voice, but no manner
+of skill.  Sir G. Smith shewed me his lady's closett, which was very
+fine; and, after being very merry, here I lay in a noble chamber, and
+mighty highly treated, the first time I have lain in London a long time.
+
+
+
+28th.  Up before day, and Cocke and I took a hackney coach appointed with
+four horses to take us up, and so carried us over London Bridge.  But
+there, thinking of some business, I did 'light at the foot of the bridge,
+and by helpe of a candle at a stall, where some payers were at work, I
+wrote a letter to Mr. Hater, and never knew so great an instance of the
+usefulness of carrying pen and ink and wax about one: so we, the way
+being very bad, to Nonesuch, and thence to Sir Robert Longs house; a fine
+place, and dinner time ere we got thither; but we had breakfasted a
+little at Mr. Gawden's, he being out of towne though, and there borrowed
+Dr. Taylor's sermons, and is a most excellent booke and worth my buying,
+where had a very good dinner, and curiously dressed, and here a couple of
+ladies, kinswomen of his, not handsome though, but rich, that knew me by
+report of The. Turner, and mighty merry we were.  After dinner to talk of
+our business, the Act of Parliament, where in short I see Sir R. Long
+mighty fierce in the great good qualities of it.  But in that and many
+other things he was stiff in, I think without much judgement, or the
+judgement I expected from him, and already they have evaded the necessity
+of bringing people into the Exchequer with their bills to be paid there.
+Sir G. Carteret is titched--[fretful, tetchy]--at this, yet resolves with
+me to make the best use we can of this Act for the King, but all our
+care, we think, will not render it as it should be.  He did again here
+alone discourse with me about my Lord, and is himself strongly for my
+Lord's not going to sea, which I am glad to hear and did confirm him in
+it.  He tells me too that he talked last night with the Duke of Albemarle
+about my Lord Sandwich, by the by making him sensible that it is his
+interest to preserve his old friends, which he confessed he had reason to
+do, for he knows that ill offices were doing of him, and that he honoured
+my Lord Sandwich with all his heart.  After this discourse we parted, and
+all of us broke up and we parted.  Captain Cocke and I through
+Wandsworth.  Drank at Sir Allen Broderick's, a great friend and comrade
+of Cocke's, whom he values above the world for a witty companion, and I
+believe he is so.  So to Fox-Hall and there took boat, and down to the
+Old Swan, and thence to Lumbard Streete, it being darke night, and thence
+to the Tower.  Took boat and down to Greenwich, Cocke and I, he home and
+I to the office, where did a little business, and then to my lodgings,
+where my wife is come, and I am well pleased with it, only much trouble
+in those lodgings we have, the mistresse of the house being so deadly
+dear in everything we have; so that we do resolve to remove home soon as
+we know how the plague goes this weeke, which we hope will be a good
+decrease.  So to bed.
+
+
+
+29th.  Up, my wife and I talking how to dispose of our goods, and
+resolved upon sending our two mayds Alce (who has been a day or two at
+Woolwich with my wife, thinking to have had a feast there) and Susan
+home.  So my wife after dinner did take them to London with some goods,
+and I in the afternoon after doing other business did go also by
+agreement to meet Captain Cocke and from him to Sir Roger Cuttance, about
+the money due from Cocke to him for the late prize goods, wherein Sir
+Roger is troubled that he hath not payment as agreed, and the other, that
+he must pay without being secured in the quiett possession of them, but
+some accommodation to both, I think, will be found.  But Cocke do tell me
+that several have begged so much of the King to be discovered out of
+stolen prize goods and so I am afeard we shall hereafter have trouble,
+therefore I will get myself free of them as soon as I can and my money
+paid.  Thence home to my house, calling my wife, where the poor wretch is
+putting things in a way to be ready for our coming home, and so by water
+together to Greenwich, and so spent the night together.
+
+
+
+30th.  Up, and at the office all the morning.  At noon comes Sir Thomas
+Allen, and I made him dine with me, and very friendly he is, and a good
+man, I think, but one that professes he loves to get and to save.  He
+dined with my wife and me and Mrs. Barbary, whom my wife brings along
+with her from Woolwich for as long as she stays here.  In the afternoon
+to the office, and there very late writing letters and then home, my wife
+and people sitting up for me, and after supper to bed.  Great joy we have
+this week in the weekly Bill, it being come to 544 in all, and but 333 of
+the plague; so that we are encouraged to get to London soon as we can.
+And my father writes as great news of joy to them, that he saw Yorke's
+waggon go again this week to London, and was full of passengers; and
+tells me that my aunt Bell hath been dead of the plague these seven
+weeks.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
+                                DECEMBER
+                                  1665
+
+
+December 1st.  This morning to the office, full of resolution to spend
+the whole day at business, and there, among other things, I did agree
+with Poynter to be my clerke for my Victualling business, and so all
+alone all the day long shut up in my little closett at my office, drawing
+up instructions, which I should long since have done for my Surveyours of
+the Ports, Sir W. Coventry desiring much to have them, and he might well
+have expected them long since.  After dinner to it again, and at night
+had long discourse with Gibson, who is for Yarmouth, who makes me
+understand so much of the victualling business and the pursers' trade,
+that I am ashamed I should go about the concerning myself in a business
+which I understand so very very little of, and made me distrust all I had
+been doing to-day.  So I did lay it by till to-morrow morning to think of
+it afresh, and so home by promise to my wife, to have mirth there.  So we
+had our neighbours, little Miss Tooker and Mrs. Daniels, to dance, and
+after supper I to bed, and left them merry below, which they did not part
+from till two or three in the morning.
+
+
+
+2nd.  Up, and discoursing with my wife, who is resolved to go to London
+for good and all this day, we did agree upon giving Mr. Sheldon L10, and
+Mrs. Barbary two pieces, and so I left her to go down thither to fetch
+away the rest of the things and pay him the money, and so I to the
+office, where very busy setting Mr. Poynter to write out my last night's
+worke, which pleases me this day, but yet it is pretty to reflect how
+much I am out of confidence with what I had done upon Gibson's discourse
+with me, for fear I should have done it sillily, but Poynter likes them,
+and Mr. Hater also, but yet I am afeard lest they should do it out of
+flattery, so conscious I am of my ignorance.  Dined with my wife at noon
+and took leave of her, she being to go to London, as I said, for
+altogether, and I to the office, busy till past one in the morning.
+
+
+
+3rd.  It being Lord's day, up and dressed and to church, thinking to have
+sat with Sir James Bunce to hear his daughter and her husband sing, that
+are so much commended, but was prevented by being invited into Coll.
+Cleggatt's pew.  However, there I sat, near Mr. Laneare, with whom I
+spoke, and in sight, by chance, and very near my fat brown beauty of our
+Parish, the rich merchant's lady, a very noble woman, and Madame Pierce.
+A good sermon of Mr. Plume's, and so to Captain Cocke's, and there dined
+with him, and Colonell Wyndham, a worthy gentleman, whose wife was nurse
+to the present King, and one that while she lived governed him and every
+thing else, as Cocke says, as a minister of state; the old King putting
+mighty weight and trust upon her.  They talked much of matters of State
+and persons, and particularly how my Lord Barkeley hath all along been a
+fortunate, though a passionate and but weak man as to policy; but as a
+kinsman brought in and promoted by my Lord of St. Alban's, and one that
+is the greatest vapourer in the world, this Colonell Wyndham says; and
+one to whom only, with Jacke Asheburnel and Colonel Legg, the King's
+removal to the Isle of Wight from Hampton Court was communicated; and
+(though betrayed by their knavery, or at best by their ignorance,
+insomuch that they have all solemnly charged one another with their
+failures therein, and have been at daggers-drawing publickly about it),
+yet now none greater friends in the world.  We dined, and in comes Mrs.
+Owen, a kinswoman of my Lord Bruncker's, about getting a man discharged,
+which I did for her, and by and by Mrs. Pierce to speake with me (and
+Mary my wife's late maid, now gone to her) about her husband's business
+of money, and she tells us how she prevented Captain Fisher the other day
+in his purchase of all her husband's fine goods, as pearls and silks,
+that he had seized in an Apothecary's house, a friend of theirs, but she
+got in and broke them open and removed all before Captain Fisher came the
+next day to fetch them away, at which he is starke mad.  She went home,
+and I to my lodgings.  At night by agreement I fetched her again with
+Cocke's coach, and he come and we sat and talked together, thinking to
+have had Mrs. Coleman and my songsters, her husband and Laneare, but they
+failed me.  So we to supper, and as merry as was sufficient, and my
+pretty little Miss with me; and so after supper walked [with] Pierce
+home, and so back and to bed.  But, Lord! I stand admiring of the
+wittinesse of her little boy, which is one of the wittiest boys, but most
+confident that ever I did see of a child of 9 years old or under in all
+my life, or indeed one twice his age almost, but all for roguish wit.  So
+to bed.
+
+
+
+4th.  Several people to me about business, among others Captain Taylor,
+intended Storekeeper for Harwich, whom I did give some assistance in his
+dispatch by lending him money.  So out and by water to London and to the
+'Change, and up and down about several businesses, and after the
+observing (God forgive me!) one or two of my neighbour Jason's women come
+to towne, which did please me very well, home to my house at the office,
+where my wife had got a dinner for me: and it was a joyfull thing for us
+to meet here, for which God be praised!  Here was her brother come to see
+her, and speake with me about business.  It seems my recommending of him
+hath not only obtained his presently being admitted into the Duke of
+Albemarle's guards, and present pay, but also by the Duke's and Sir
+Philip Howard's direction, to be put as a right-hand man, and other marks
+of special respect, at which I am very glad, partly for him, and partly
+to see that I am reckoned something in my recommendations, but wish he
+may carry himself that I may receive no disgrace by him.  So to the
+'Change.  Up and down again in the evening about business and to meet
+Captain Cocke, who waited for Mrs. Pierce (with whom he is mightily
+stricken), to receive and hide for her her rich goods she saved the other
+day from seizure.  Upon the 'Change to-day Colvill tells me, from Oxford,
+that the King in person hath justified my Lord Sandwich to the highest
+degree; and is right in his favour to the uttermost.  So late by water
+home, taking a barrel of oysters with me, and at Greenwich went and sat
+with Madam Penington .  .  .  .  and made her undress her head and sit
+dishevilled all night sporting till two in the morning, and so away to my
+lodging and so to bed.  Over-fasting all the morning hath filled me
+mightily with wind, and nothing else hath done it, that I fear a fit of
+the cholique.
+
+
+
+5th.  Up and to the office, where very busy about several businesses all
+the morning.  At noon empty, yet without stomach to dinner, having
+spoiled myself with fasting yesterday, and so filled with wind.  In the
+afternoon by water, calling Mr. Stevens (who is with great trouble paying
+of seamen of their tickets at Deptford) and to London, to look for
+Captain Kingdom whom we found at home about 5 o'clock.  I tried him, and
+he promised to follow us presently to the East India House to sign papers
+to-night in order to the settling the business of my receiving money for
+Tangier.  We went and stopt the officer there to shut up.  He made us
+stay above an houre.  I sent for him; he comes, but was not found at
+home, but abroad on other business, and brings a paper saying that he had
+been this houre looking for the Lord Ashley's order.  When he looks for
+it, that is not the paper.  He would go again to look; kept us waiting
+till almost 8 at night.  Then was I to go home by water this weather and
+darke, and to write letters by the post, besides keeping the East India
+officers there so late.  I sent for him again; at last he comes, and says
+he cannot find the paper (which is a pretty thing to lay orders for
+L100,000 no better).  I was angry; he told me I ought to give people ease
+at night, and all business was to be done by day.  I answered him
+sharply, that I did [not] make, nor any honest man, any difference
+between night and day in the King's business, and this was such, and my
+Lord Ashley should know.  He answered me short.  I told him I knew the
+time (meaning the Rump's time) when he did other men's business with more
+diligence.  He cried, "Nay, say not so," and stopped his mouth, not one
+word after.  We then did our business without the order in less than
+eight minutes, which he made me to no purpose stay above two hours for
+the doing.  This made him mad, and so we exchanged notes, and I had notes
+for L14,000 of the Treasurer of the Company, and so away and by water to
+Greenwich and wrote my letters, and so home late to bed.
+
+
+
+6th.  Up betimes, it being fast-day; and by water to the Duke of
+Albemarle, who come to towne from Oxford last night.  He is mighty brisk,
+and very kind to me, and asks my advice principally in every thing.  He
+surprises me with the news that my Lord Sandwich goes Embassador to
+Spayne speedily; though I know not whence this arises, yet I am heartily
+glad of it.  He did give me several directions what to do, and so I home
+by water again and to church a little, thinking to have met Mrs. Pierce
+in order to our meeting at night; but she not there, I home and dined,
+and comes presently by appointment my wife.  I spent the afternoon upon a
+song of Solyman's words to Roxalana that I have set, and so with my wife
+walked and Mercer to Mrs. Pierce's, where Captain Rolt and Mrs. Knipp,
+Mr. Coleman and his wife, and Laneare, Mrs. Worshipp and her singing
+daughter, met; and by and by unexpectedly comes Mr. Pierce from Oxford.
+Here the best company for musique I ever was in, in my life, and wish I
+could live and die in it, both for musique and the face of Mrs. Pierce,
+and my wife and Knipp, who is pretty enough; but the most excellent, mad-
+humoured thing, and sings the noblest that ever I heard in my life, and
+Rolt, with her, some things together most excellently.  I spent the night
+in extasy almost; and, having invited them to my house a day or two
+hence, we broke up, Pierce having told me that he is told how the King
+hath done my Lord Sandwich all the right imaginable, by shewing him his
+countenance before all the world on every occasion, to remove thoughts of
+discontent; and that he is to go Embassador, and that the Duke of Yorke
+is made generall of all forces by land and sea, and the Duke of
+Albemarle, lieutenant-generall.  Whether the two latter alterations be
+so, true or no, he knows not, but he is told so; but my Lord is in full
+favour with the King.  So all home and to bed.
+
+
+
+7th.  Up and to the office, where very busy all day.  Sir G. Carteret's
+letter tells me my Lord Sandwich is, as I was told, declared Embassador
+Extraordinary to Spayne, and to go with all speed away, and that his
+enemies have done him as much good as he could wish.  At noon late to
+dinner, and after dinner spent till night with Mr. Gibson and Hater
+discoursing and making myself more fully [know] the trade of pursers,
+and what fittest to be done in their business, and so to the office till
+midnight writing letters, and so home, and after supper with my wife
+about one o'clock to bed.
+
+
+
+8th.  Up, well pleased in my mind about my Lord Sandwich, about whom I
+shall know more anon from Sir G. Carteret, who will be in towne, and also
+that the Hambrough [ships] after all difficulties are got out.  God send
+them good speed!  So, after being trimmed, I by water to London, to the
+Navy office, there to give order to my mayde to buy things to send down
+to Greenwich for supper to-night; and I also to buy other things, as
+oysters, and lemons, 6d. per piece, and oranges, 3d.  That done I to the
+'Change, and among many other things, especially for getting of my
+Tangier money, I by appointment met Mr. Gawden, and he and I to the
+Pope's Head Taverne, and there he did give me alone a very pretty dinner.
+Our business to talk of his matters and his supply of money, which was
+necessary for us to talk on before the Duke of Albemarle this afternoon
+and Sir G. Carteret.  After that I offered now to pay him the L4000
+remaining of his L8000 for Tangier, which he took with great kindnesse,
+and prayed me most frankly to give him a note for L3500 and accept the
+other L500 for myself, which in good earnest was against my judgement to
+do, for [I] expected about L100 and no more, but however he would have me
+do it, and ownes very great obligations to me, and the man indeed I love,
+and he deserves it.  This put me into great joy, though with a little
+stay to it till we have time to settle it, for for so great a sum I was
+fearfull any accident might by death or otherwise defeate me, having not
+now time to change papers.  So we rose, and by water to White Hall, where
+we found Sir G. Carteret with the Duke, and also Sir G. Downing, whom I
+had not seen in many years before.  He greeted me very kindly, and I him;
+though methinks I am touched, that it should be said that he was my
+master heretofore, as doubtless he will.  So to talk of our Navy
+business, and particularly money business, of which there is little hopes
+of any present supply upon this new Act, the goldsmiths being here (and
+Alderman Backewell newly come from Flanders), and none offering any.  So
+we rose without doing more than my stating the case of the Victualler,
+that whereas there is due to him on the last year's declaration L80,000,
+and the charge of this year's amounts to L420,000 and odd, he must be
+supplied between this and the end of January with L150,000, and the
+remainder in 40 weeks by weekly payments, or else he cannot go through
+his business.  Thence after some discourse with Sir G. Carteret, who,
+though he tells me that he is glad of my Lord's being made Embassador,
+and that it is the greatest courtesy his enemies could do him; yet I find
+he is not heartily merry upon it, and that it was no design of my Lord's
+friends, but the prevalence of his enemies, and that the Duke of
+Albemarle and Prince Rupert are like to go to sea together the next year.
+I pray God, when my Lord is gone, they do not fall hard upon the Vice-
+Chamberlain, being alone, and in so envious a place, though by this late
+Act and the instructions now a brewing for our office as to method of
+payments will destroy the profit of his place of itself without more
+trouble.  Thence by water down to Greenwich, and there found all my
+company come; that is, Mrs. Knipp, and an ill, melancholy, jealous-
+looking fellow, her husband, that spoke not a word to us all the night,
+Pierce and his wife, and Rolt, Mrs. Worshipp and her daughter, Coleman
+and his wife, and Laneare, and, to make us perfectly happy, there comes
+by chance to towne Mr. Hill to see us.  Most excellent musique we had in
+abundance, and a good supper, dancing, and a pleasant scene of Mrs.
+Knipp's rising sicke from table, but whispered me it was for some hard
+word or other her husband gave her just now when she laughed and was more
+merry than ordinary.  But we got her in humour again, and mighty merry;
+spending the night, till two in the morning, with most complete content
+as ever in my life, it being increased by my day's work with Gawden.
+Then broke up, and we to bed, Mr. Hill and I, whom I love more and more,
+and he us.
+
+
+
+9th.  Called up betimes by my Lord Bruncker, who is come to towne from
+his long water worke at Erith last night, to go with him to the Duke of
+Albemarle, which by his coach I did.  Our discourse upon the ill posture
+of the times through lacke of money.  At the Duke's did some business,
+and I believe he was not pleased to see all the Duke's discourse and
+applications to me and everybody else.  Discoursed also with Sir G.
+Carteret about office business, but no money in view.  Here my Lord and I
+staid and dined, the Vice-Chamberlain taking his leave.  At table the
+Duchesse, a damned ill-looked woman, complaining of her Lord's going to
+sea the next year, said these cursed words: "If my Lord had been a coward
+he had gone to sea no more: it may be then he might have been excused,
+and made an Embassador" (meaning my Lord Sandwich).
+
+     [When Lord Sandwich was away a new commander had to be chosen, and
+     rank and long service pointed out Prince Rupert for the office, it
+     having been decided that the heir presumptive should be kept at
+     home.  It was thought, however, that the same confidence could not
+     be placed in the prince's discretion as in his courage, and
+     therefore the Duke of Albemarle was induced to take a joint command
+     with him, "and so make one admiral of two persons" (see Lister's
+     "Life of Clarendon," vol. ii., pp. 360,361).]
+
+This made me mad, and I believed she perceived my countenance change, and
+blushed herself very much.  I was in hopes others had not minded it, but
+my Lord Bruncker, after we were come away, took notice of the words to me
+with displeasure.  Thence after dinner away by water, calling and taking
+leave of Sir G. Carteret, whom we found going through at White Hall, and
+so over to Lambeth and took coach and home, and so to the office, where
+late writing letters, and then home to Mr. Hill, and sang, among other
+things, my song of "Beauty retire," which he likes, only excepts against
+two notes in the base, but likes the whole very well.  So late to bed.
+
+
+
+10th (Lord's day).  Lay long talking, Hill and I, with great pleasure,
+and then up, and being ready walked to Cocke's for some newes, but heard
+none, only they would have us stay their dinner, and sent for my wife,
+who come, and very merry we were, there being Sir Edmund Pooly and Mr.
+Evelyn.  Before we had dined comes Mr. Andrews, whom we had sent for to
+Bow, and so after dinner home, and there we sang some things, but not
+with much pleasure, Mr. Andrews being in so great haste to go home, his
+wife looking every hour to be brought to bed.  He gone Mr. Hill and I
+continued our musique, one thing after another, late till supper, and so
+to bed with great pleasure.
+
+
+
+11th.  Lay long with great pleasure talking.  So I left him and to London
+to the 'Change, and after discoursed with several people about business;
+met Mr. Gawden at the Pope's Head, where he brought Mr. Lewes and
+T. Willson to discourse about the Victualling business, and the
+alterations of the pursers' trade, for something must be done to secure
+the King a little better, and yet that they may have wherewith to live.
+After dinner I took him aside, and perfected to my great joy my business
+with him, wherein he deals most nobly in giving me his hand for the
+L4,000, and would take my note but for L3500.  This is a great blessing,
+and God make me thankfull truly for it.  With him till it was darke
+putting in writing our discourse about victualling, and so parted, and I
+to Viner's, and there evened all accounts, and took up my notes setting
+all straight between us to this day.  The like to Colvill, and paying
+several bills due from me on the Tangier account.  Then late met Cocke
+and Temple at the Pope's Head, and there had good discourse with Temple,
+who tells me that of the L80,000 advanced already by the East India
+Company, they have had L5000 out of their hands.  He discoursed largely
+of the quantity of money coyned, and what may be thought the real sum of
+money in the kingdom.  He told me, too, as an instance of the thrift used
+in the King's business, that the tools and the interest of the money-
+using to the King for the money he borrowed while the new invention of
+the mill money was perfected, cost him L35,000, and in mirthe tells me
+that the new fashion money is good for nothing but to help the Prince if
+he can secretly get copper plates shut up in silver it shall never be
+discovered, at least not in his age.  Thence Cocke and I by water, he
+home and I home, and there sat with Mr. Hill and my wife supping, talking
+and singing till midnight, and then to bed.  [That I may remember it the
+more particularly, I thought fit to insert this additional memorandum of
+Temple's discourse this night with me, which I took in writing from his
+mouth.  Before the Harp and Crosse money was cried down, he and his
+fellow goldsmiths did make some particular trials what proportion that
+money bore to the old King's money, and they found that generally it come
+to, one with another, about L25 in every L100.  Of this money there was,
+upon the calling of it in, L650,000 at least brought into the Tower; and
+from thence he computes that the whole money of England must be full
+L6,250,000.  But for all this believes that there is above L30,000,000;
+he supposing that about the King's coming in (when he begun to observe
+the quantity of the new money) people begun to be fearfull of this
+money's being cried down, and so picked it out and set it a-going as fast
+as they could, to be rid of it; and he thinks L30,000,000 the rather,
+because if there were but L16,250,000 the King having L2,000,000 every
+year, would have the whole money of the kingdom in his hands in eight
+years.  He tells me about L350,000 sterling was coined out of the French
+money, the proceeds of Dunkirke; so that, with what was coined of the
+Crosse money, there is new coined about L1,000,000 besides the gold,
+which is guessed at L500,000.  He tells me, that, though the King did
+deposit the French money in pawn all the while for the L350,000 he was
+forced to borrow thereupon till the tools could be made for the new
+Minting in the present form, yet the interest he paid for that time came
+to L35,000, Viner having to his knowledge L10,000 for the use of L100,000
+of it.]--(The passage between brackets is from a piece of paper inserted
+in this place.)
+
+
+
+12th.  Up, and to the office, where my Lord Bruncker met, and among other
+things did finish a contract with Cocke for hemp, by which I hope to get
+my money due from him paid presently.  At noon home to dinner, only
+eating a bit, and with much kindness taking leave of Mr. Hill who goes
+away to-day, and so I by water saving the tide through Bridge and to Sir
+G. Downing by appointment at Charing Crosse, who did at first mightily
+please me with informing me thoroughly the virtue and force of this Act,
+and indeed it is ten times better than ever I thought could have been
+said of it, but when he come to impose upon me that without more ado I
+must get by my credit people to serve in goods and lend money upon it and
+none could do it better than I, and the King should give me thanks
+particularly in it, and I could not get him to excuse me, but I must come
+to him though to no purpose on Saturday, and that he is sure I will bring
+him some bargains or other made upon this Act, it vexed me more than all
+the pleasure I took before, for I find he will be troublesome to me in
+it, if I will let him have as much of my time as he would have.  So late
+I took leave and in the cold (the weather setting in cold) home to the
+office and, after my letters being wrote, home to supper and to bed, my
+wife being also gone to London.
+
+
+
+13th.  Up betimes and finished my journall for five days back, and then
+after being ready to my Lord Bruncker by appointment, there to order the
+disposing of some money that we have come into the office, and here to my
+great content I did get a bill of imprest to Captain Cocke to pay myself
+in part of what is coming to me from him for my Lord Sandwich's
+satisfaction and my owne, and also another payment or two wherein I am
+concerned, and having done that did go to Mr. Pierce's, where he and his
+wife made me drink some tea, and so he and I by water together to London.
+Here at a taverne in Cornhill he and I did agree upon my delivering up to
+him a bill of Captain Cocke's, put into my hand for Pierce's use upon
+evening of reckonings about the prize goods, and so away to the 'Change,
+and there hear the ill news, to my great and all our great trouble, that
+the plague is encreased again this week, notwithstanding there hath been
+a day or two great frosts; but we hope it is only the effects of the late
+close warm weather, and if the frosts continue the next week, may fall
+again; but the town do thicken so much with people, that it is much if
+the plague do not grow again upon us.  Off the 'Change invited by Sheriff
+Hooker, who keeps the poorest, mean, dirty table in a dirty house that
+ever I did see any Sheriff of London; and a plain, ordinary, silly man I
+think he is, but rich; only his son, Mr. Lethulier, I like, for a pretty,
+civil, understanding merchant; and the more by much, because he happens
+to be husband to our noble, fat, brave lady in our parish, that I and my
+wife admire so.  Thence away to the Pope's Head Taverne, and there met
+first with Captain Cocke, and dispatched my business with him to my
+content, he being ready to sign his bill of imprest of L2,000, and gives
+it me in part of his payment to me, which glads my heart.  He being gone,
+comes Sir W. Warren, who advised with me about several things about
+getting money, and L100 I shall presently have of him.  We advised about
+a business of insurance, wherein something may be saved to him and got to
+me, and to that end he and I did take a coach at night and to the
+Cockepitt, there to get the Duke of Albemarle's advice for our insuring
+some of our Sounde goods coming home under Harman's convoy, but he proved
+shy of doing it without knowledge of the Duke of Yorke, so we back again
+and calling at my house to see my wife, who is well; though my great
+trouble is that our poor little parish is the greatest number this weeke
+in all the city within the walls, having six, from one the last weeke;
+and so by water to Greenwich leaving Sir W. Warren at home, and I
+straight to my Lord Bruncker, it being late, and concluded upon insuring
+something and to send to that purpose to Sir W. Warren to come to us to-
+morrow morning.  So I home and, my mind in great rest, to bed.
+
+
+
+14th.  Up, and to the office a while with my Lord Bruncker, where we
+directed Sir W. Warren in the business of the insurance as I desired, and
+ended some other businesses of his, and so at noon I to London, but the
+'Change was done before I got thither, so I to the Pope's Head Taverne,
+and there find Mr. Gawden and Captain Beckford and Nick Osborne going to
+dinner, and I dined with them and very exceeding merry we were as I had
+[not] been a great while, and dinner being done I to the East India House
+and there had an assignment on Mr. Temple for the L2,000 of Cocke's,
+which joyed my heart; so, having seen my wife in the way, I home by water
+and to write my letters and then home to bed.
+
+
+
+15th.  Up, and spent all the morning with my Surveyors of the Ports for
+the Victualling, and there read to them what instructions I had provided
+for them and discoursed largely much of our business and the business of
+the pursers.  I left them to dine with my people, and to my Lord
+Bruncker's where I met with a great good dinner and Sir T. Teddiman, with
+whom my Lord and I were to discourse about the bringing of W. Howe to a
+tryall for his jewells, and there till almost night, and so away toward
+the office and in my way met with Sir James Bunce; and after asking what
+newes, he cried "Ah!"  says he (I know [not] whether in earnest or jest),
+"this is the time for you," says he, "that were for Oliver heretofore;
+you are full of employment, and we poor Cavaliers sit still and can get
+nothing;" which was a pretty reproach, I thought, but answered nothing to
+it, for fear of making it worse.  So away and I to see Mrs. Penington,
+but company being to come to her, I staid not, but to the office a little
+and so home, and after supper to bed.
+
+
+
+16th.  Up, and met at the office; Sir W. Batten with us, who come from
+Portsmouth on Monday last, and hath not been with us to see or discourse
+with us about any business till this day.  At noon to dinner, Sir W.
+Warren with me on boat, and thence I by water, it being a fearfull cold,
+snowing day to Westminster to White Hall stairs and thence to Sir G.
+Downing, to whom I brought the happy newes of my having contracted, as we
+did this day with Sir W. Warren, for a ship's lading of Norway goods here
+and another at Harwich to the value of above L3,000, which is the first
+that hath been got upon the New Act, and he is overjoyed with it and
+tells me he will do me all the right to Court about it in the world, and
+I am glad I have it to write to Sir W. Coventry to-night.  He would fain
+have me come in L200 to lend upon the Act, but I desire to be excused in
+doing that, it being to little purpose for us that relate to the King to
+do it, for the sum gets the King no courtesy nor credit.  So I parted
+from him and walked to Westminster Hall, where Sir W. Warren, who come
+along with me, staid for me, and there I did see Betty Howlet come after
+the sicknesse to the Hall.  Had not opportunity to salute her, as I
+desired, but was glad to see her and a very pretty wench she is.  Thence
+back, landing at the Old Swan and taking boat again at Billingsgate, and
+setting ashore we home and I to the office .  .  .  .  and there wrote my
+letters, and so home to supper and to bed, it being a great frost.  Newes
+is come to-day of our Sounde fleete being come, but I do not know what
+Sir W. Warren hath insured.
+
+
+
+17th (Lord's day).  After being trimmed word brought me that Cutler's
+coach is, by appointment, come to the Isle of Doggs for me, and so I over
+the water; and in his coach to Hackney, a very fine, cold, clear, frosty
+day.  At his house I find him with a plain little dinner, good wine, and
+welcome.  He is still a prating man; and the more I know him, the less I
+find in him.  A pretty house he hath here indeed, of his owne building.
+His old mother was an object at dinner that made me not like it; and,
+after dinner, to visit his sicke wife I did not also take much joy in,
+but very friendly he is to me, not for any kindnesse I think he hath to
+any man, but thinking me, I perceive, a man whose friendship is to be
+looked after.  After dinner back again and to Deptford to Mr. Evelyn's,
+who was not within, but I had appointed my cozen Thos. Pepys of Hatcham
+to meet me there, to discourse about getting his L1000 of my Lord
+Sandwich, having now an opportunity of my having above that sum in my
+hands of his.  I found this a dull fellow still in all his discourse, but
+in this he is ready enough to embrace what I counsel him to, which is, to
+write importunately to my Lord and me about it and I will look after it.
+I do again and again declare myself a man unfit to be security for such a
+sum.  He walked with me as far as Deptford upper towne, being mighty
+respectfull to me, and there parted, he telling me that this towne is
+still very bad of the plague.  I walked to Greenwich first, to make a
+short visit to my Lord Bruncker, and next to Mrs. Penington and spent all
+the evening with her with the same freedom I used to have and very
+pleasant company.  With her till one of the clock in the morning and
+past, and so to my lodging to bed, and
+
+
+
+18th.  Betimes, up, it being a fine frost, and walked it to Redriffe,
+calling and drinking at Half-way house, thinking, indeed, to have
+overtaken some of the people of our house, the women, who were to walk
+the same walke, but I could not.  So to London, and there visited my
+wife, and was a little displeased to find she is so forward all of a
+spurt to make much of her brother and sister since my last kindnesse to
+him in getting him a place, but all ended well presently, and I to the
+'Change and up and down to Kingdon and the goldsmith's to meet Mr.
+Stephens, and did get all my money matters most excellently cleared to my
+complete satisfaction.  Passing over Cornhill I spied young Mrs. Daniel
+and Sarah, my landlady's daughter, who are come, as I expected, to towne,
+and did say they spied me and I dogged them to St. Martin's, where I
+passed by them being shy, and walked down as low as Ducke Lane and
+enquired for some Spanish books, and so back again and they were gone.
+So to the 'Change, hoping to see them in the streete, and missing them,
+went back again thither and back to the 'Change, but no sight of them,
+so went after my business again, and, though late, was sent to by Sir
+W. Warren (who heard where I was) to intreat me to come dine with him,
+hearing that I lacked a dinner, at the Pope's Head; and there with Mr.
+Hinton, the goldsmith, and others, very merry; but, Lord! to see how Dr.
+Hinton come in with a gallant or two from Court, and do so call "Cozen"
+Mr. Hinton, the goldsmith, but I that know him to be a beggar and a
+knave, did make great sport in my mind at it.
+
+     [John Hinton, M.D., a strong royalist, who attended Henrietta Maria
+     in her confinement at Exeter when she gave birth to the Princess
+     Henrietta.  He was knighted by Charles II., and appointed physician
+     in ordinary to the king and queen.  His knighthood was a reward for
+     having procured a private advance of money from his kinsman, the
+     goldsmith, to enable the Duke of Albemarle to pay the army (see
+     "Memorial to King Charles II. from Sir John Hinton, A.D. 1679,"
+     printed in Ellis's "Original Letters," 3rd series, vol. iv.,
+     p  296).]
+
+After dinner Sir W. Warren and I alone in another room a little while
+talking about business, and so parted, and I hence, my mind full of
+content in my day's worke, home by water to Greenwich, the river
+beginning to be very full of ice, so as I was a little frighted, but got
+home well, it being darke.  So having no mind to do any business, went
+home to my lodgings, and there got little Mrs. Tooker, and Mrs. Daniel,
+the, daughter, and Sarah to my chamber to cards and sup with me, when in
+comes Mr. Pierce to me, who tells me how W. Howe has been examined on
+shipboard by my Lord Bruncker to-day, and others, and that he has charged
+him out of envy with sending goods under my Lord's seale and in my Lord
+Bruncker's name, thereby to get them safe passage, which, he tells me, is
+false, but that he did use my name to that purpose, and hath acknowledged
+it to my Lord Bruncker, but do also confess to me that one parcel he
+thinks he did use my Lord Bruncker's name, which do vexe me mightily that
+my name should be brought in question about such things, though I did not
+say much to him of my discontent till I have spoke with my Lord Bruncker
+about it.  So he being gone, being to go to Oxford to-morrow, we to cards
+again late, and so broke up, I having great pleasure with my little
+girle, Mrs. Tooker.
+
+
+
+19th.  Up, and to the office, where all the morning.  At noon by
+agreement comes Hatcham Pepys to dine with me.  I thought to have had
+him to Sir J. Minnes to a good venison pasty with the rest of my fellows,
+being invited, but seeing much company I went away with him and had a
+good dinner at home.  He did give me letters he hath wrote to my Lord and
+Moore about my Lord's money to get it paid to my cozen, which I will make
+good use of.  I made mighty much of him, but a sorry dull fellow he is,
+fit for nothing that is ingenious, nor is there a turd of kindnesse or
+service to be had from him.  So I shall neglect him if I could get but
+him satisfied about this money that I may be out of bonds for my Lord to
+him.  To see that this fellow could desire me to helpe him to some
+employment, if it were but of L100 per annum: when he is not worth less
+than, I believe, L20,000.  He gone, I to Sir J. Minnes, and thence with
+my Lord Bruncker on board the Bezan to examine W. Howe again, who I find
+upon this tryall one of much more wit and ingenuity in his answers than
+ever I expected, he being very cunning and discreet and well spoken in
+them.  I said little to him or concerning him; but, Lord! to see how he
+writes to me a-days, and styles me "My Honour."  So much is a man
+subjected and dejected under afflictions as to flatter me in that manner
+on this occasion.  Back with my Lord to Sir J. Minnes, where I left him
+and the rest of a great deale of company, and so I to my office, where
+late writing letters and then home to bed.
+
+
+
+20th.  Up, and was trimmed, but not time enough to save my Lord
+Bruncker's coach or Sir J. Minnes's, and so was fain to walk to Lambeth
+on foot, but it was a very fine frosty walke, and great pleasure in it,
+but troublesome getting over the River for ice.  I to the Duke of
+Albemarle, whither my brethren were all come, but I was not too late.
+There we sat in discourse upon our Navy business an houre, and thence in
+my Lord Bruncker's coach alone, he walking before (while I staid awhile
+talking with Sir G. Downing about the Act, in which he is horrid
+troublesome) to the Old Exchange.  Thence I took Sir Ellis Layton to
+Captain Cocke's, where my Lord Bruncker and Lady Williams dine, and we
+all mighty merry; but Sir Ellis Layton one of the best companions at a
+meale in the world.  After dinner I to the Exchange to see whether my
+pretty seamstress be come again or no, and I find she is, so I to her,
+saluted her over her counter in the open Exchange above, and mightily
+joyed to see her, poor pretty woman!  I must confess I think her a great
+beauty.  After laying out a little money there for two pair of thread
+stockings, cost 8s., I to Lumbard Streete to see some business to-night
+there at the goldsmith's, among others paying in L1258 to Viner for my
+Lord Sandwich's use upon Cocke's account.  I was called by my Lord
+Bruncker in his coach with his mistresse, and Mr. Cottle the lawyer, our
+acquaintance at Greenwich, and so home to Greenwich, and thence I to Mrs.
+Penington, and had a supper from the King's Head for her, and there
+mighty merry and free as I used to be with her, and at last, late, I did
+pray her to undress herself into her nightgowne, that I might see how to
+have her picture drawne carelessly (for she is mighty proud of that
+conceit), and I would walk without in the streete till she had done.  So
+I did walk forth, and whether I made too many turns or no in the darke
+cold frosty night between the two walls up to the Parke gate I know not,
+but she was gone to bed when I come again to the house, upon pretence of
+leaving some papers there, which I did on purpose by her consent.  So I
+away home, and was there sat up for to be spoken with my young Mrs.
+Daniel, to pray me to speake for her husband to be a Lieutenant.  I had
+the opportunity here of kissing her again and again, and did answer that
+I would be very willing to do him any kindnesse, and so parted, and I to
+bed, exceedingly pleased in all my matters of money this month or two,
+it having pleased God to bless me with several opportunities of good
+sums, and that I have them in effect all very well paid, or in my power
+to have.  But two things trouble me; one, the sicknesse is increased
+above 80 this weeke (though in my owne parish not one has died, though
+six the last weeke); the other, most of all, which is, that I have so
+complexed an account for these last two months for variety of layings out
+upon Tangier, occasions and variety of gettings that I have not made even
+with myself now these 3 or 4 months, which do trouble me mightily,
+finding that I shall hardly ever come to understand them thoroughly
+again, as I used to do my accounts when I was at home.
+
+
+
+21st.  At the office all the morning.  At noon all of us dined at Captain
+Cocke's at a good chine of beef, and other good meat; but, being all
+frost-bitten, was most of it unroast; but very merry, and a good dish of
+fowle we dressed ourselves.  Mr. Evelyn there, in very good humour.  All
+the afternoon till night pleasant, and then I took my leave of them and
+to the office, where I wrote my letters, and away home, my head full of
+business and some trouble for my letting my accounts go so far that I
+have made an oathe this night for the drinking no wine, &c., on such
+penalties till I have passed my accounts and cleared all.  Coming home
+and going to bed, the boy tells me his sister Daniel has provided me a
+supper of little birds killed by her husband, and I made her sup with me,
+and after supper were alone a great while, and I had the pleasure of her
+lips, she being a pretty woman, and one whom a great belly becomes as
+well as ever I saw any.  She gone, I to bed.  This day I was come to by
+Mrs. Burrows, of Westminster, Lieutenant Burrows (lately dead) his wife,
+a most pretty woman and my old acquaintance; I had a kiss or two of her,
+and a most modest woman she is.
+
+
+
+22nd.  Up betimes and to my Lord Bruncker to consider the late
+instructions sent us for the method of our signing bills hereafter and
+paying them.  By and by, by agreement, comes Sir J. Minnes and Sir W.
+Batten, and then to read them publicly and consider of putting them in
+execution.  About this all the morning, and, it appearing necessary for
+the Controller to have another Clerke, I recommended Poynter to him,
+which he accepts, and I by that means rid of one that I fear would not
+have been fit for my turne, though he writes very well.  At noon comes
+Mr. Hill to towne, and finds me out here, and brings Mr. Houbland, who
+met him here.  So I was compelled to leave my Lord and his dinner and
+company, and with them to the Beare, and dined with them and their
+brothers, of which Hill had his and the other two of his, and mighty
+merry and very fine company they are, and I glad to see them.  After
+dinner I forced to take leave of them by being called upon by Mr.
+Andrews, I having sent for him, and by a fine glosse did bring him to
+desire tallys for what orders I have to pay him and his company for
+Tangier victualls, and I by that means cleared to myself L210 coming to
+me upon their two orders, which is also a noble addition to my late
+profits, which have been very considerable of late, but how great I know
+not till I come to cast up my accounts, which burdens my mind that it
+should be so backward, but I am resolved to settle to nothing till I have
+done it.  He gone, I to my Lord Bruncker's, and there spent the evening
+by my desire in seeing his Lordship open to pieces and make up again his
+watch, thereby being taught what I never knew before; and it is a thing
+very well worth my having seen, and am mightily pleased and satisfied
+with it.  So I sat talking with him till late at night, somewhat vexed at
+a snappish answer Madam Williams did give me to herself, upon my speaking
+a free word to her in mirthe, calling her a mad jade.  She answered, we
+were not so well acquainted yet.  But I was more at a letter from my Lord
+Duke of Albemarle to-day, pressing us to continue our meetings for all
+Christmas, which, though every body intended not to have done, yet I am
+concluded in it, who intended nothing else.  But I see it is necessary
+that I do make often visits to my Lord Duke, which nothing shall hinder
+after I have evened my accounts, and now the river is frozen I know not
+how to get to him.  Thence to my lodging, making up my Journall for 8 or
+9 days, and so my mind being eased of it, I to supper and to bed.  The
+weather hath been frosty these eight or nine days, and so we hope for an
+abatement of the plague the next weeke, or else God have mercy upon us!
+for the plague will certainly continue the next year if it do not.
+
+
+
+23rd.  At my office all the morning and home to dinner, my head full of
+business, and there my wife finds me unexpectedly.  But I not being at
+leisure to stay or talk with her, she went down by coach to Woolwich,
+thinking to fetch Mrs. Barbary to carry her to London to keep her
+Christmas with her, and I to the office.  This day one come to me with
+four great turkies, as a present from Mr. Deane, at Harwich, three of
+which my wife carried in the evening home with her to London in her coach
+(Mrs. Barbary not being to be got so suddenly, but will come to her the
+next week), and I at my office late, and then to my lodgings to bed.
+
+
+
+24th (Sunday).  Up betimes, to my Lord Duke of Albemarle by water, and
+after some talke with him about business of the office with great
+content, and so back again and to dinner, my landlady and her daughters
+with me, and had mince-pies, and very merry at a mischance her young son
+had in tearing of his new coate quite down the outside of his sleeve in
+the whole cloth, one of the strangest mishaps that ever I saw in my life.
+Then to church, and placed myself in the Parson's pew under the pulpit,
+to hear Mrs. Chamberlain in the next pew sing, who is daughter to Sir
+James Bunch, of whom I have heard much, and indeed she sings very finely,
+and from church met with Sir W. Warren and he and I walked together
+talking about his and my businesses, getting of money as fairly as we
+can, and, having set him part of his way home, I walked to my Lord
+Bruncker, whom I heard was at Alderman Hooker's, hoping to see and salute
+Mrs. Lethulier, whom I did see in passing, but no opportunity of
+beginning acquaintance, but a very noble lady she is, however the silly
+alderman got her.  Here we sat talking a great while, Sir The. Biddulph
+and Mr. Vaughan, a son-in-law of Alderman Hooker's.  Hence with my Lord
+Bruncker home and sat a little with him and so home to bed.
+
+
+
+25th (Christmas-day).  To church in the morning, and there saw a wedding
+in the church, which I have not seen many a day; and the young people so
+merry one with another, and strange to see what delight we married people
+have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and
+woman gazing and smiling at them.  Here I saw again my beauty Lethulier.
+Thence to my Lord Bruncker's by invitation and dined there, and so home
+to look over and settle my papers, both of my accounts private, and those
+of Tangier, which I have let go so long that it were impossible for any
+soul, had I died, to understand them, or ever come to any good end in
+them.  I hope God will never suffer me to come to that disorder again.
+
+
+
+26th.  Up, and to the office, where Sir J. Minnes and my Lord Bruncker
+and I met, to give our directions to the Commanders of all the ships in
+the river to bring in lists of their ships' companies, with entries,
+discharges, &c., all the last voyage, where young Seymour, among 20 that
+stood bare, stood with his hat on, a proud, saucy young man.  Thence with
+them to Mr. Cuttle's, being invited, and dined nobly and neatly; with a
+very pretty house and a fine turret at top, with winding stairs and the
+finest prospect I know about all Greenwich, save the top of the hill, and
+yet in some respects better than that.  Here I also saw some fine writing
+worke and flourishing of Mr. Hore, he one that I knew long ago, an
+acquaintance of Mr. Tomson's at Westminster, that is this man's clerk.
+It is the story of the several Archbishops of Canterbury, engrossed in
+vellum, to hang up in Canterbury Cathedrall in tables, in lieu of the old
+ones, which are almost worn out.  Thence to the office a while, and so to
+Captain Cocke's and there talked, and home to look over my papers, and so
+to bed.
+
+
+
+27th.  Up, and with Cocke, by coach to London, there home to my wife, and
+angry about her desiring a mayde yet, before the plague is quite over.
+It seems Mercer is troubled that she hath not one under her, but I will
+not venture my family by increasing it before it be safe.  Thence about
+many businesses, particularly with Sir W. Warren on the 'Change, and he
+and I dined together and settled our Tangier matters, wherein I get above
+L200 presently.  We dined together at the Pope's Head to do this, and
+thence to the goldsmiths, I to examine the state of my matters there too,
+and so with him to my house, but my wife was gone abroad to Mrs.
+Mercer's, so we took boat, and it being darke and the thaw having broke
+the ice, but not carried it quite away, the boat did pass through so much
+of it all along, and that with the crackling and noise that it made me
+fearfull indeed.  So I forced the watermen to land us on Redriffe side,
+and so walked together till Sir W. Warren and I parted near his house and
+thence I walked quite over the fields home by light of linke, one of my
+watermen carrying it, and I reading by the light of it, it being a very
+fine, clear, dry night.  So to Captain Cocke's, and there sat and talked,
+especially with his Counsellor, about his prize goods, that hath done him
+good turne, being of the company with Captain Fisher, his name Godderson;
+here I supped and so home to bed, with great content that the plague is
+decreased to 152, the whole being but 330.
+
+
+
+28th.  Up and to the office, and thence with a great deal of business in
+my head, dined alone with Cocke.  So home alone strictly about my
+accounts, wherein I made a good beginning, and so, after letters wrote by
+the post, to bed.
+
+
+
+29th.  Up betimes, and all day long within doors upon my accounts,
+publique and private, and find the ill effect of letting them go so long
+without evening, that no soul could have ever understood them but myself,
+and I with much ado.  But, however, my regularity in all I did and spent
+do helpe me, and I hope to find them well.  Late at them and to bed.
+
+
+
+30th.  Up and to the office, at noon home to dinner, and all the
+afternoon to my accounts again, and there find myself, to my great joy,
+a great deal worth above L4000, for which the Lord be praised! and is
+principally occasioned by my getting L500 of Cocke, for my profit in his
+bargains of prize goods, and from Mr. Gawden's making me a present of
+L500 more, when I paid him 8000 for Tangier.  So to my office to write
+letters, then to my accounts again, and so to bed, being in great ease of
+mind.
+
+
+
+31st (Lord's day).  All the morning in my chamber, writing fair the state
+of my Tangier accounts, and so dined at home.  In the afternoon to the
+Duke of Albemarle and thence back again by water, and so to my chamber to
+finish the entry of my accounts and to think of the business I am next to
+do, which is the stating my thoughts and putting in order my collections
+about the business of pursers, to see where the fault of our present
+constitution relating to them lies and what to propose to mend it, and
+upon this late and with my head full of this business to bed.  Thus ends
+this year, to my great joy, in this manner.  I have raised my estate from
+L1300 in this year to L4400.  I have got myself greater interest, I
+think, by my diligence, and my employments encreased by that of Treasurer
+for Tangier, and Surveyour of the Victualls.  It is true we have gone
+through great melancholy because of the great plague, and I put to great
+charges by it, by keeping my family long at Woolwich, and myself and
+another part of my family, my clerks, at my charge at Greenwich, and a
+mayde at London; but I hope the King will give us some satisfaction for
+that.  But now the plague is abated almost to nothing, and I intending to
+get to London as fast as I can.  My family, that is my wife and maids,
+having been there these two or three weeks.  The Dutch war goes on very
+ill, by reason of lack of money; having none to hope for, all being put
+into disorder by a new Act that is made as an experiment to bring credit
+to the Exchequer, for goods and money to be advanced upon the credit of
+that Act.  I have never lived so merrily (besides that I never got so
+much) as I have done this plague time, by my Lord Bruncker's and Captain
+Cocke's good company, and the acquaintance of Mrs. Knipp, Coleman and her
+husband, and Mr. Laneare, and great store of dancings we have had at my
+cost (which I was willing to indulge myself and wife) at my lodgings.
+The great evil of this year, and the only one indeed, is the fall of my
+Lord of Sandwich, whose mistake about the prizes hath undone him, I
+believe, as to interest at Court; though sent (for a little palliating
+it) Embassador into Spayne, which he is now fitting himself for.  But the
+Duke of Albemarle goes with the Prince to sea this next year, and my Lord
+very meanly spoken of; and, indeed, his miscarriage about the prize goods
+is not to be excused, to suffer a company of rogues to go away with ten
+times as much as himself, and the blame of all to be deservedly laid upon
+him.
+
+     [According to Granville Penn ("Memorials of Sir W. Penn," ii. 488 n.)
+     L2000 went to Lord Sandwich and L8000 among eight others.]
+
+My whole family hath been well all this while, and all my friends I know
+of, saving my aunt Bell, who is dead, and some children of my cozen
+Sarah's, of the plague.  But many of such as I know very well, dead; yet,
+to our great joy, the town fills apace, and shops begin to be open again.
+Pray God continue the plague's decrease! for that keeps the Court away
+from the place of business, and so all goes to rack as to publick
+matters, they at this distance not thinking of it.
+
+
+
+
+ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:
+
+A most conceited fellow and not over much in him
+A pretty man, I would be content to break a commandment with him
+Among  many lazy people that the diligent man becomes necessary
+Delight to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition
+Great many silly stories they tell of their sport
+His enemies have done him as much good as he could wish
+How little merit do prevail in the world, but only favour
+I am a foole to be troubled at it, since I cannot helpe it
+L10,000 to the Prince, and half-a-crowne to my Lord of Sandwich
+Left him with some Commanders at the table taking tobacco
+One whom a great belly becomes as well as ever I saw any
+Pleases them mightily, and me not at all
+See how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody
+The boy is well, and offers to be searched
+
+
+
+
+End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, V45
+by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley
+
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