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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, November/December 1665 + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Release Date: November 30, 2004 [EBook #4161] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY + MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + 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 the Project Gutenberg EBook of Diary of Samuel Pepys, +November/December 1665, by Samuel Pepys + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + +***** This file should be named 4161.txt or 4161.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/6/4161/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + 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 + diff --git a/old/sp46g10.zip b/old/sp46g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..73b3d92 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp46g10.zip |