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diff --git a/4162.txt b/4162.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1936cc3 --- /dev/null +++ b/4162.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10400 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1665, by Samuel Pepys + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1665 + Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian + Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors + Bright + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Commentator: Lord Braybrooke + +Editor: Henry B. Wheatley + +Release Date: October 12, 2006 [EBook #4162] +Posting Date: March 22, 2009 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, 1665 *** + + + + +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 + +1965 + +By Samuel Pepys + +Edited With Additions By + +Henry B. Wheatley F.S.A. + + + + + LONDON + GEORGE BELL & SONS YORK ST. COVENT GARDEN + CAMBRIDGE DEIGHTON BELL & CO. + + + 1893 + + + + +JANUARY 1664-1665 + +January 1st (Lord's day). Lay long in bed, having been busy late last +night, then up and to my office, where upon ordering my accounts +and papers with respect to my understanding my last year's gains and +expense, which I find very great, as I have already set down yesterday. +Now this day I am dividing my expense, to see what my clothes and every +particular hath stood me in: I mean all the branches of my expense. At +noon a good venison pasty and a turkey to ourselves without any body +so much as invited by us, a thing unusuall for so small a family of my +condition: but we did it and were very merry. After dinner to my office +again, where very late alone upon my accounts, but have not brought them +to order yet, and very intricate I find it, notwithstanding my care all +the year to keep things in as good method as any man can do. Past 11 +o'clock home to supper and to bed. + +2nd. Up, and it being a most fine, hard frost I walked a good way toward +White Hall, and then being overtaken with Sir W. Pen's coach, went into +it, and with him thither, and there did our usual business with the +Duke. Thence, being forced to pay a great deale of money away in boxes +(that is, basins at White Hall), I to my barber's, Gervas, and there had +a little opportunity of speaking with my Jane alone, and did give her +something, and of herself she did tell me a place where I might come to +her on Sunday next, which I will not fail, but to see how modestly and +harmlessly she brought it out was very pretty. Thence to the Swan, and +there did sport a good while with Herbert's young kinswoman without +hurt, though they being abroad, the old people. Then to the Hall, and +there agreed with Mrs. Martin, and to her lodgings which she has now +taken to lie in, in Bow Streete, pitiful poor things, yet she thinks +them pretty, and so they are for her condition I believe good enough. +Here I did 'ce que je voudrais avec' her most freely, and it having +cost 2s. in wine and cake upon her, I away sick of her impudence, and +by coach to my Lord Brunker's, by appointment, in the Piazza, in +Covent-Guarding; where I occasioned much mirth with a ballet I brought +with me, made from the seamen at sea to their ladies in town; saying +Sir W. Pen, Sir G. Ascue, and Sir J. Lawson made them. Here a most noble +French dinner and banquet, the best I have seen this many a day and good +discourse. Thence to my bookseller's and at his binder's saw Hooke's +book of the Microscope, + + ["Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies + made by Magnifying Glasses. London, 1665," a very remarkable work + with elaborate plates, some of which have been used for lecture + illustrations almost to our own day. On November 23rd, 1664, the + President of the Royal Society was "desired to sign a licence for + printing of Mr. Hooke's microscopical book." At this time the book + was mostly printed, but it was delayed, much to Hooke's disgust, by + the examination of several Fellows of the Society. In spite of this + examination the council were anxious that the author should make it + clear that he alone was responsible for any theory put forward, and + they gave him notice to that effect. Hooke made this clear in his + dedication (see Birch's "History," vol. i., pp. 490-491)] + +which is so pretty that I presently bespoke it, and away home to the +office, where we met to do something, and then though very late by coach +to Sir Ph. Warwicke's, but having company with him could not speak with +him. So back again home, where thinking to be merry was vexed with my +wife's having looked out a letter in Sir Philip Sidney about jealousy +for me to read, which she industriously and maliciously caused me to do, +and the truth is my conscience told me it was most proper for me, and +therefore was touched at it, but tooke no notice of it, but read it out +most frankly, but it stucke in my stomach, and moreover I was vexed to +have a dog brought to my house to line our little bitch, which they make +him do in all their sights, which, God forgive me, do stir my jealousy +again, though of itself the thing is a very immodest sight. However, to +cards with my wife a good while, and then to bed. + +3rd. Up, and by coach to Sir Ph. Warwicke's, the streete being full +of footballs, it being a great frost, and found him and Mr. Coventry +walking in St. James's Parke. I did my errand to him about the felling +of the King's timber in the forests, and then to my Lord of Oxford, +Justice in Eyre, for his consent thereto, for want whereof my Lord Privy +Seale stops the whole business. I found him in his lodgings, in but an +ordinary furnished house and roome where he was, but I find him to be a +man of good discreet replys. Thence to the Coffee-house, where certain +newes that the Dutch have taken some of our colliers to the North; some +say four, some say seven. Thence to the 'Change a while, and so home +to dinner and to the office, where we sat late, and then I to write +my letters, and then to Sir W. Batten's, who is going out of towne to +Harwich to-morrow to set up a light-house there, which he hath lately +got a patent from the King to set up, that will turne much to his +profit. Here very merry, and so to my office again, where very late, and +then home to supper and to bed, but sat up with my wife at cards till +past two in the morning. + +4th. Lay long, and then up and to my Lord of Oxford's, but his Lordshipp +was in bed at past ten o'clock: and, Lord helpe us! so rude a dirty +family I never saw in my life. He sent me out word my business was not +done, but should against the afternoon. I thence to the Coffee-house, +there but little company, and so home to the 'Change, where I hear of +some more of our ships lost to the Northward. So to Sir W. Batten's, but +he was set out before I got thither. I sat long talking with my lady, +and then home to dinner. Then come Mr. Moore to see me, and he and I to +my Lord of Oxford's, but not finding him within Mr. Moore and I to "Love +in a Tubb," which is very merry, but only so by gesture, not wit at all, +which methinks is beneath the House. So walked home, it being a very +hard frost, and I find myself as heretofore in cold weather to begin to +burn within and pimples and pricks all over my body, my pores with cold +being shut up. So home to supper and to cards and to bed. + +5th. Up, it being very cold and a great snow and frost tonight. To the +office, and there all the morning. At noon dined at home, troubled at +my wife's being simply angry with Jane, our cook mayde (a good servant, +though perhaps hath faults and is cunning), and given her warning to +be gone. So to the office again, where we sat late, and then I to my +office, and there very late doing business. Home to supper and to the +office again, and then late home to bed. + +6th. Lay long in bed, but most of it angry and scolding with my wife +about her warning Jane our cookemayde to be gone and upon that she +desires to go abroad to-day to look a place. A very good mayde she is +and fully to my mind, being neat, only they say a little apt to scold, +but I hear her not. To my office all the morning busy. Dined at home. +To my office again, being pretty well reconciled to my wife, which I +did desire to be, because she had designed much mirthe to-day to end +Christmas with among her servants. At night home, being twelfenight, and +there chose my piece of cake, but went up to my viall, and then to bed, +leaving my wife and people up at their sports, which they continue till +morning, not coming to bed at all. + +7th. Up and to the office all the morning. At noon dined alone, my wife +and family most of them a-bed. Then to see my Lady Batten and sit with +her a while, Sir W. Batten being out of town, and then to my office +doing very much business very late, and then home to supper and to bed. + +8th (Lord's day). Up betimes, and it being a very fine frosty day, I and +my boy walked to White Hall, and there to the Chappell, where one Dr. +Beaumont' preached a good sermon, and afterwards a brave anthem upon the +150 Psalm, where upon the word "trumpet" very good musique was made. So +walked to my Lady's and there dined with her (my boy going home), where +much pretty discourse, and after dinner walked to Westminster, and there +to the house where Jane Welsh had appointed me, but it being sermon time +they would not let me in, and said nobody was there to speak with me. I +spent the whole afternoon walking into the Church and Abbey, and up and +down, but could not find her, and so in the evening took a coach and +home, and there sat discoursing with my wife, and by and by at supper, +drinking some cold drink I think it was, I was forced to go make water, +and had very great pain after it, but was well by and by and continued +so, it being only I think from the drink, or from my straining at stool +to do more than my body would. So after prayers to bed. + +9th. Up and walked to White Hall, it being still a brave frost, and I +in perfect good health, blessed be God! In my way saw a woman that broke +her thigh, in her heels slipping up upon the frosty streete. To the +Duke, and there did our usual worke. Here I saw the Royal Society bring +their new book, wherein is nobly writ their charter' and laws, and comes +to be signed by the Duke as a Fellow; and all the Fellows' hands are to +be entered there, and lie as a monument; and the King hath put his with +the word Founder. Thence I to Westminster, to my barber's, and found +occasion to see Jane, but in presence of her mistress, and so could +not speak to her of her failing me yesterday, and then to the Swan to +Herbert's girl, and lost time a little with her, and so took coach, and +to my Lord Crew's and dined with him, who receives me with the greatest +respect that could be, telling me that he do much doubt of the successe +of this warr with Holland, we going about it, he doubts, by the +instigation of persons that do not enough apprehend the consequences of +the danger of it, and therein I do think with him. Holmes was this day +sent to the Tower,--[For taking New York from the Dutch]--but I perceive +it is made matter of jest only; but if the Dutch should be our masters, +it may come to be of earnest to him, to be given over to them for a +sacrifice, as Sir W. Rawly [Raleigh] was. Thence to White Hall to a +Tangier Committee, where I was accosted and most highly complimented by +my Lord Bellasses, + + [John Belasyse, second son of Thomas, first Viscount Fauconberg, + created Baron Belasyse of Worlaby, January 27th, 1644, Lord + Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire, and Governor of Hull. + He was appointed Governor of Tangier, and Captain of the Band of + Gentlemen Pensioners. He was a Roman Catholic, and therefore was + deprived of all his appointments in 1672 by the provisions of the + Test Act, but in 1684 James II. made him First Commissioner of the + Treasury. He died 1689.] + +our new governor, beyond my expectation, or measure I could imagine he +would have given any man, as if I were the only person of business that +he intended to rely on, and desires my correspondence with him. This I +was not only surprized at, but am well pleased with, and may make good +use of it. Our patent is renewed, and he and my Lord Barkeley, and Sir +Thomas Ingram put in as commissioners. Here some business happened which +may bring me some profit. Thence took coach and calling my wife at her +tailor's (she being come this afternoon to bring her mother some apples, +neat's tongues, and wine); I home, and there at my office late with Sir +W. Warren, and had a great deal of good discourse and counsel from him, +which I hope I shall take, being all for my good in my deportment in my +office, yet with all honesty. He gone I home to supper and to bed. + +10th. Lay long, it being still very cold, and then to the office, where +till dinner, and then home, and by and by to the office, where we sat +and were very late, and I writing letters till twelve at night, and then +after supper to bed. + +11th. Up, and very angry with my boy for lying long a bed and forgetting +his lute. To my office all the morning. At noon to the 'Change, and so +home to dinner. After dinner to Gresham College to my Lord Brunker and +Commissioner Pett, taking, Mr. Castle with me there to discourse over +his draught of a ship he is to build for us. Where I first found reason +to apprehend Commissioner Pett to be a man of an ability extraordinary +in any thing, for I found he did turn and wind Castle like a chicken +in his business, and that most pertinently and mister-like, and great +pleasure it was to me to hear them discourse, I, of late having studied +something thereof, and my Lord Brunker is a very able person also +himself in this sort of business, as owning himself to be a master in +the business of all lines and Conicall Sections: Thence home, where very +late at my office doing business to my content, though [God] knows with +what ado it was that when I was out I could get myself to come home to +my business, or when I was there though late would stay there from +going abroad again. To supper and to bed. This evening, by a letter from +Plymouth, I hear that two of our ships, the Leopard and another, in the +Straights, are lost by running aground; and that three more had like to +have been so, but got off, whereof Captain Allen one: and that a Dutch +fleete are gone thither; which if they should meet with our lame ships, +God knows what would become of them. This I reckon most sad newes; +God make us sensible of it! This night, when I come home, I was much +troubled to hear my poor canary bird, that I have kept these three or +four years, is dead. + +12th. Up, and to White Hall about getting a privy seal for felling of +the King's timber for the navy, and to the Lords' House to speak with +my Lord Privy Seale about it, and so to the 'Change, where to my last +night's ill news I met more. Spoke with a Frenchman who was taken, but +released, by a Dutch man-of-war of thirty-six guns (with seven more of +the like or greater ships), off the North Foreland, by Margett. Which +is a strange attempt, that they should come to our teeth; but the wind +being easterly, the wind that should bring our force from Portsmouth, +will carry them away home. God preserve us against them, and pardon our +making them in our discourse so contemptible an enemy! So home and to +dinner, where Mr. Hollyard with us dined. So to the office, and there +late till 11 at night and more, and then home to supper and to bed. + +13th. Up betimes and walked to my Lord Bellasses's lodgings in +Lincolne's Inne Fieldes, and there he received and discoursed with me in +the most respectfull manner that could be, telling me what a character +of my judgment, and care, and love to Tangier he had received of me, +that he desired my advice and my constant correspondence, which he much +valued, and in my courtship, in which, though I understand his designe +very well, and that it is only a piece of courtship, yet it is a comfort +to me that I am become so considerable as to have him need to say that +to me, which, if I did not do something in the world, would never have +been. Here well satisfied I to Sir Ph. Warwicke, and there did some +business with him; thence to Jervas's and there spent a little idle +time with him, his wife, Jane, and a sweetheart of hers. So to the Hall +awhile and thence to the Exchange, where yesterday's newes confirmed, +though in a little different manner; but a couple of ships in the +Straights we have lost, and the Dutch have been in Margaret [Margate] +Road. Thence home to dinner and so abroad and alone to the King's house, +to a play, "The Traytor," where, unfortunately, I met with Sir W. Pen, +so that I must be forced to confess it to my wife, which troubles me. +Thence walked home, being ill-satisfied with the present actings of the +House, and prefer the other House before this infinitely. To my Lady +Batten's, where I find Pegg Pen, the first time that ever I saw her to +wear spots. Here very merry, Sir W. Batten being looked for to-night, +but is not yet come from Harwich. So home to supper and to bed. + +14th. Up and to White Hall, where long waited in the Duke's chamber for +a Committee intended for Tangier, but none met, and so I home and to the +office, where we met a little, and then to the 'Change, where our late +ill newes confirmed in loss of two ships in the Straights, but are now +the Phoenix and Nonsuch! Home to dinner, thence with my wife to the +King's house, there to see "Vulpone," a most excellent play; the best I +think I ever saw, and well, acted. So with Sir W. Pen home in his coach, +and then to the office. So home, to supper, and bed, resolving by the +grace of God from this day to fall hard to my business again, after some +weeke or fortnight's neglect. + +15th (Lord's day). Up, and after a little at my office to prepare a +fresh draught of my vowes for the next yeare, I to church, where a most +insipid young coxcomb preached. Then home to dinner, and after dinner to +read in "Rushworth's Collections" about the charge against the late Duke +of Buckingham, in order to the fitting me to speak and understand the +discourse anon before the King about the suffering the Turkey merchants +to send out their fleete at this dangerous time, when we can neither +spare them ships to go, nor men, nor King's ships to convoy them. At +four o'clock with Sir W. Pen in his coach to my Lord Chancellor's, where +by and by Mr. Coventry, Sir W. Pen, Sir J. Lawson, Sir G. Ascue, and +myself were called in to the King, there being several of the Privy +Council, and my Lord Chancellor lying at length upon a couch (of the +goute I suppose); and there Sir W. Pen begun, and he had prepared heads +in a paper, and spoke pretty well to purpose, but with so much leisure +and gravity as was tiresome; besides, the things he said were but very +poor to a man in his trade after a great consideration, but it was to +purpose, indeed to dissuade the King from letting these Turkey ships to +go out: saying (in short) the King having resolved to have 130 ships out +by the spring, he must have above 20 of them merchantmen. Towards which, +he in the whole River could find but 12 or 14, and of them the five +ships taken up by these merchants were a part, and so could not be +spared. That we should need 30,000 [sailors] to man these 130 ships, +and of them in service we have not above 16,000; so we shall need 14,000 +more. That these ships will with their convoys carry above 2,000 men, +and those the best men that could be got; it being the men used to the +Southward that are the best men for warr, though those bred in the North +among the colliers are good for labour. That it will not be safe for the +merchants, nor honourable for the King, to expose these rich ships +with his convoy of six ships to go, it not being enough to secure them +against the Dutch, who, without doubt, will have a great fleete in the +Straights. This, Sir J. Lawson enlarged upon. Sir G. Ascue he chiefly +spoke that the warr and trade could not be supported together, and, +therefore, that trade must stand still to give way to them. This Mr. +Coventry seconded, and showed how the medium of the men the King hath +one year with another employed in his Navy since his coming, hath not +been above 3,000 men, or at most 4,000 men; and now having occasion +of 30,000, the remaining 26,000 must be found out of the trade of the +nation. He showed how the cloaths, sending by these merchants to Turkey, +are already bought and paid for to the workmen, and are as many as they +would send these twelve months or more; so the poor do not suffer by +their not going, but only the merchant, upon whose hands they lit dead; +and so the inconvenience is the less. And yet for them he propounded, +either the King should, if his Treasure would suffer it, buy them, and +showed the losse would not be so great to him: or, dispense with the Act +of Navigation, and let them be carried out by strangers; and ending +that he doubted not but when the merchants saw there was no remedy, they +would and could find ways of sending them abroad to their profit. All +ended with a conviction (unless future discourse with the merchants +should alter it) that it was not fit for them to go out, though the +ships be loaded. The King in discourse did ask me two or three questions +about my newes of Allen's loss in the Streights, but I said nothing as +to the business, nor am not much sorry for it, unless the King had spoke +to me as he did to them, and then I could have said something to the +purpose I think. So we withdrew, and the merchants were called in. +Staying without, my Lord Fitz Harding come thither, and fell to +discourse of Prince Rupert, and made nothing to say that his disease was +the pox and that he must be fluxed, telling the horrible degree of the +disease upon him with its breaking out on his head. But above all I +observed how he observed from the Prince, that courage is not what men +take it to be, a contempt of death; for, says he, how chagrined the +Prince was the other day when he thought he should die, having no more +mind to it than another man. But, says he, some men are more apt to +think they shall escape than another man in fight, while another is +doubtfull he shall be hit. But when the first man is sure he shall die, +as now the Prince is, he is as much troubled and apprehensive of it as +any man else; for, says he, since we told [him] that we believe he would +overcome his disease, he is as merry, and swears and laughs and curses, +and do all the things of a [man] in health, as ever he did in his life; +which, methought, was a most extraordinary saying before a great many +persons there of quality. So by and by with Sir W. Pen home again, and +after supper to the office to finish my vows, and so to bed. + +16th. Up and with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen to White Hall, where we +did our business with the Duke. Thence I to Westminster Hall and walked +up and down. Among others Ned Pickering met me and tells me how active +my Lord is at sea, and that my Lord Hinchingbroke is now at Rome, +and, by all report, a very noble and hopefull gentleman. Thence to Mr. +Povy's, and there met Creed, and dined well after his old manner of +plenty and curiosity. But I sat in pain to think whether he would begin +with me again after dinner with his enquiry after my bill, but he did +not, but fell into other discourse, at which I was glad, but was vexed +this morning meeting of Creed at some bye questions that he demanded of +me about some such thing, which made me fear he meant that very matter, +but I perceive he did not. Thence to visit my Lady Sandwich and so to +a Tangier Committee, where a great company of the new Commissioners, +Lords, that in behalfe of my Lord Bellasses are very loud and busy and +call for Povy's accounts, but it was a most sorrowful thing to see +how he answered to questions so little to the purpose, but to his owne +wrong. All the while I sensible how I am concerned in my bill of L100 +and somewhat more. So great a trouble is fear, though in a case that at +the worst will bear enquiry. My Lord Barkeley was very violent against +Povy. But my Lord Ashly, I observe, is a most clear man in matters of +accounts, and most ingeniously did discourse and explain all matters. +We broke up, leaving the thing to a Committee of which I am one. Povy, +Creed, and I staid discoursing, I much troubled in mind seemingly for +the business, but indeed only on my own behalf, though I have no great +reason for it, but so painfull a thing is fear. So after considering how +to order business, Povy and I walked together as far as the New Exchange +and so parted, and I by coach home. To the office a while, then to +supper and to bed. This afternoon Secretary Bennet read to the Duke of +Yorke his letters, which say that Allen + + [Among the State Papers is a letter from Captain Thomas Allin to Sir + Richard Fanshaw, dated from "The Plymouth, Cadiz Bay," December + 25th, 1664, in which he writes: "On the 19th attacked with his seven + ships left, a Dutch fleet of fourteen, three of which were men-of- + war; sunk two vessels and took two others, one a rich prize from + Smyrna; the others retired much battered. Has also taken a Dutch + prize laden with iron and planks, coming from Lisbon ("Calendar," + Domestic, 1664-65, p. 122).] + +has met with the Dutch Smyrna fleet at Cales,--[The old form of the name +Cadiz.]--and sunk one and taken three. How true or what these ships are +time will show, but it is good newes and the newes of our ships being +lost is doubted at dales and Malaga. God send it false! + +17th. Up and walked to Mr. Povy's by appointment, where I found him and +Creed busy about fitting things for the Committee, and thence we to my +Lord Ashly's, where to see how simply, beyond all patience, Povy did +again, by his many words and no understanding, confound himself and his +business, to his disgrace, and rendering every body doubtfull of his +being either a foole or knave, is very wonderfull. We broke up all +dissatisfied, and referred the business to a meeting of Mr. Sherwin +and others to settle, but here it was mighty strange methought to find +myself sit herein Committee with my hat on, while Mr. Sherwin stood bare +as a clerke, with his hat off to his Lord Ashlyand the rest, but I thank +God I think myself never a whit the better man for all that. Thence +with Creed to the 'Change and Coffee-house, and so home, where a brave +dinner, by having a brace of pheasants and very merry about Povy's +folly. So anon to the office, and there sitting very late, and then +after a little time at Sir W. Batten's, where I am mighty great and +could if I thought it fit continue so, I to the office again, and there +very late, and so home to the sorting of some of my books, and so to +bed, the weather becoming pretty warm, and I think and hope the frost +will break. + +18th. Up and by and by to my bookseller's, and there did give thorough +direction for the new binding of a great many of my old books, to make +my whole study of the same binding, within very few. Thence to my Lady +Sandwich's, who sent for me this morning. Dined with her, and it was to +get a letter of hers conveyed by a safe hand to my Lord's owne hand at +Portsmouth, which I did undertake. Here my Lady did begin to talk of +what she had heard concerning Creed, of his being suspected to be a +fanatique and a false fellow. I told her I thought he was as shrewd and +cunning a man as any in England, and one that I would feare first should +outwit me in any thing. To which she readily concurred. Thence to Mr. +Povy's by agreement, and there with Mr. Sherwin, Auditor Beale, and +Creed and I hard at it very late about Mr. Povy's accounts, but such +accounts I never did see, or hope again to see in my days. At night, +late, they gone, I did get him to put out of this account our sums that +are in posse only yet, which he approved of when told, but would never +have stayed it if I had been gone. Thence at 9 at night home, and so to +supper vexed and my head akeing and to bed. + +19th. Up, and it being yesterday and to-day a great thaw it is not for +a man to walk the streets, but took coach and to Mr. Povy's, and there +meeting all of us again agreed upon an answer to the Lords by and by, +and thence we did come to Exeter House, and there was a witness of most +[base] language against Mr. Povy, from my Lord Peterborough, who is most +furiously angry with him, because the other, as a foole, would needs +say that the L26,000 was my Lord Peterborough's account, and that he had +nothing to do with it. The Lords did find fault also with our answer, +but I think really my Lord Ashly would fain have the outside of +an Exchequer,--[This word is blotted, and the whole sentence is +confused.]--but when we come better to be examined. So home by coach, +with my Lord Barkeley, who, by his discourse, I find do look upon Mr. +Coventry as an enemy but yet professes great justice and pains. I at +home after dinner to the office, and there sat all the afternoon and +evening, and then home to supper and to bed. Memorandum. This day and +yesterday, I think it is the change of the weather, I have a great deal +of pain, but nothing like what I use to have. I can hardly keep myself +loose, but on the contrary am forced to drive away my pain. Here I am so +sleepy I cannot hold open my eyes, and therefore must be forced to break +off this day's passages more shortly than I would and should have +done. This day was buried (but I could not be there) my cozen Percivall +Angier; and yesterday I received the newes that Dr. Tom Pepys is dead, +at Impington, for which I am but little sorry, not only because he would +have been troublesome to us, but a shame to his family and profession; +he was such a coxcomb. + +20th. Up and to Westminster, where having spoke with Sir Ph. Warwicke, +I to Jervas, and there I find them all in great disorder about Jane, her +mistress telling me secretly that she was sworn not to reveal anything, +but she was undone. At last for all her oath she told me that she had +made herself sure to a fellow that comes to their house that can only +fiddle for his living, and did keep him company, and had plainly told +her that she was sure to him never to leave him for any body else. Now +they were this day contriving to get her presently to marry one Hayes +that was there, and I did seem to persuade her to it. And at last got +them to suffer me to advise privately, and by that means had her company +and think I shall meet her next Sunday, but I do really doubt she will +be undone in marrying this fellow. But I did give her my advice, and so +let her do her pleasure, so I have now and then her company. Thence to +the Swan at noon, and there sent for a bit of meat and dined, and had my +baiser of the fille of the house there, but nothing plus. So took coach +and to my Lady Sandwich's, and so to my bookseller's, and there took +home Hooke's book of microscopy, a most excellent piece, and of which +I am very proud. So home, and by and by again abroad with my wife +about several businesses, and met at the New Exchange, and there to our +trouble found our pretty Doll is gone away to live they say with her +father in the country, but I doubt something worse. So homeward, in +my way buying a hare and taking it home, which arose upon my discourse +to-day with Mr. Batten, in Westminster Hall, who showed me my mistake +that my hare's foote hath not the joynt to it; and assures me he never +had his cholique since he carried it about him: and it is a strange +thing how fancy works, for I no sooner almost handled his foote but my +belly began to be loose and to break wind, and whereas I was in some +pain yesterday and t'other day and in fear of more to-day, I became very +well, and so continue. At home to my office a while, and so to supper, +read, and to cards, and to bed. + +21st. At the office all the morning. Thence my Lord Brunker carried me +as far as Mr. Povy's, and there I 'light and dined, meeting Mr. Sherwin, +Creed, &c., there upon his accounts. After dinner they parted and +Mr. Povy carried me to Somersett House, and there showed me the +Queene-Mother's chamber and closett, most beautiful places for furniture +and pictures; and so down the great stone stairs to the garden, and +tried the brave echo upon the stairs; which continues a voice so long +as the singing three notes, concords, one after another, they all three +shall sound in consort together a good while most pleasantly. Thence +to a Tangier Committee at White Hall, where I saw nothing ordered by +judgment, but great heat and passion and faction now in behalf of my +Lord Bellasses, and to the reproach of my Lord Tiviott, and dislike as +it were of former proceedings. So away with Mr. Povy, he carrying me +homeward to Mark Lane in his coach, a simple fellow I now find him, to +his utter shame in his business of accounts, as none but a sorry foole +would have discovered himself; and yet, in little, light, sorry things +very cunning; yet, in the principal, the most ignorant man I ever met +with in so great trust as he is. To my office till past 12, and then +home to supper and to bed, being now mighty well, and truly I cannot but +impute it to my fresh hare's foote. Before I went to bed I sat up +till two o'clock in my chamber reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopicall +Observations, the most ingenious book that ever I read in my life. + +22nd (Lord's day). Up, leaving my wife in bed, being sick of her months, +and to church. Thence home, and in my wife's chamber dined very merry, +discoursing, among other things, of a design I have come in my head this +morning at church of making a match between Mrs. Betty Pickering and +Mr. Hill, my friend the merchant, that loves musique and comes to me +a'Sundays, a most ingenious and sweet-natured and highly accomplished +person. I know not how their fortunes may agree, but their disposition +and merits are much of a sort, and persons, though different, yet +equally, I think, acceptable. After dinner walked to Westminster, and +after being at the Abbey and heard a good anthem well sung there, I as +I had appointed to the Trumpett, there expecting when Jane Welsh should +come, but anon comes a maid of the house to tell me that her mistress +and master would not let her go forth, not knowing of my being here, but +to keep her from her sweetheart. So being defeated, away by coach home, +and there spent the evening prettily in discourse with my wife and +Mercer, and so to supper, prayers, and to bed. + +23rd. Up, and with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen to White Hall; but there +finding the Duke gone to his lodgings at St. James's for all together, +his Duchesse being ready to lie in, we to him, and there did our usual +business. And here I met the great newes confirmed by the Duke's own +relation, by a letter from Captain Allen. First, of our own loss of two +ships, the Phoenix and Nonesuch, in the Bay of Gibraltar: then of his, +and his seven ships with him, in the Bay of Cales, or thereabouts, +fighting with the 34 Dutch Smyrna fleete; sinking the King Salamon, +a ship worth a L150,000 or more, some say L200,000, and another; and +taking of three merchant-ships. Two of our ships were disabled, by the +Dutch unfortunately falling against their will against them; the Advice, +Captain W. Poole, and Antelope, Captain Clerke: The Dutch men-of-war did +little service. Captain Allen did receive many shots at distance +before he would fire one gun, which he did not do till he come within +pistol-shot of his enemy. The Spaniards on shore at Cales did stand +laughing at the Dutch, to see them run away and flee to the shore, 34 or +thereabouts, against eight Englishmen at most. I do purpose to get the +whole relation, if I live, of Captain Allen himself. In our loss of the +two ships in the Bay of Gibraltar, it is observable how the world do +comment upon the misfortune of Captain Moone of the Nonesuch (who did +lose, in the same manner, the Satisfaction), as a person that hath +ill-luck attending him; without considering that the whole fleete was +ashore. Captain Allen led the way, and Captain Allen himself writes that +all the masters of the fleete, old and young, were mistaken, and did +carry their ships aground. But I think I heard the Duke say that Moone, +being put into the Oxford, had in this conflict regained his credit, by +sinking one and taking another. Captain Seale of the Milford hath done +his part very well, in boarding the King Salamon, which held out half an +hour after she was boarded; and his men kept her an hour after they did +master her, and then she sunk, and drowned about 17 of her men. Thence +to Jervas's, my mind, God forgive me, running too much after some folly, +but 'elle' not being within I away by coach to the 'Change, and thence +home to dinner. And finding Mrs. Bagwell waiting at the office after +dinner, away she and I to a cabaret where she and I have eat before, +and there I had her company 'tout' and had 'mon plaisir' of 'elle'. But +strange to see how a woman, notwithstanding her greatest pretences of +love 'a son mari' and religion, may be 'vaincue'. Thence to the Court of +the Turkey Company at Sir Andrew Rickard's to treat about carrying some +men of ours to Tangier, and had there a very civil reception, though a +denial of the thing as not practicable with them, and I think so too. +So to my office a little and to Jervas's again, thinking 'avoir +rencontrais' Jane, 'mais elle n'etait pas dedans'. So I back again and +to my office, where I did with great content 'ferais' a vow to mind my +business, and 'laisser aller les femmes' for a month, and am with all +my heart glad to find myself able to come to so good a resolution, that +thereby I may follow my business, which and my honour thereby lies a +bleeding. So home to supper and to bed. + +24th. Up and by coach to Westminster Hall and the Parliament House, and +there spoke with Mr. Coventry and others about business and so back to +the 'Change, where no news more than that the Dutch have, by consent of +all the Provinces, voted no trade to be suffered for eighteen months, +but that they apply themselves wholly to the warr. + + [This statement of a total prohibition of all trade, and for so long + a period as eighteen months, by a government so essentially + commercial as that of the United Provinces, seems extraordinary. + The fact was, that when in the beginning of the year 1665 the States + General saw that the war with England was become inevitable, they + took several vigorous measures, and determined to equip a formidable + fleet, and with a view to obtain a sufficient number of men to man + it, prohibited all navigation, especially in the great and small + fisheries as they were then called, and in the whale fishery. This + measure appears to have resembled the embargoes so commonly resorted + to in this country on similar occasions, rather than a total + prohibition of trade.--B.] + +And they say it is very true, but very strange, for we use to believe +they cannot support themselves without trade. Thence home to dinner +and then to the office, where all the afternoon, and at night till +very late, and then home to supper and bed, having a great cold, got on +Sunday last, by sitting too long with my head bare, for Mercer to comb +my hair and wash my eares. + +25th. Up, and busy all the morning, dined at home upon a hare pye, very +good meat, and so to my office again, and in the afternoon by coach to +attend the Council at White Hall, but come too late, so back with Mr. +Gifford, a merchant, and he and I to the Coffee-house, where I met Mr. +Hill, and there he tells me that he is to be Assistant to the Secretary +of the Prize Office (Sir Ellis Layton), which is to be held at Sir +Richard Ford's, which, methinks, is but something low, but perhaps may +bring him something considerable; but it makes me alter my opinion of +his being so rich as to make a fortune for Mrs. Pickering. Thence home +and visited Sir J. Minnes, who continues ill, but is something better; +there he told me what a mad freaking fellow Sir Ellis Layton hath been, +and is, and once at Antwerp was really mad. Thence to my office late, +my cold troubling me, and having by squeezing myself in a coach hurt my +testicles, but I hope will cease its pain without swelling. So home out +of order, to supper and to bed. + +26th. Lay, being in some pain, but not much, with my last night's +bruise, but up and to my office, where busy all the morning, the like +after dinner till very late, then home to supper and to bed. My wife +mightily troubled with the tooth ake, and my cold not being gone yet, +but my bruise yesterday goes away again, and it chiefly occasioned I +think now from the sudden change of the weather from a frost to a great +rayne on a sudden. + +27th. Called up by Mr. Creed to discourse about some Tangier business, +and he gone I made me ready and found Jane Welsh, Mr. Jervas his mayde, +come to tell me that she was gone from her master, and is resolved +to stick to this sweetheart of hers, one Harbing (a very sorry little +fellow, and poor), which I did in a word or two endeavour to dissuade +her from, but being unwilling to keep her long at my house, I sent her +away and by and by followed her to the Exchange, and thence led her +about down to the 3 Cranes, and there took boat for the Falcon, and at +a house looking into the fields there took up and sat an hour or two +talking and discoursing .... Thence having endeavoured to make her think +of making herself happy by staying out her time with her master and +other counsels, but she told me she could not do it, for it was her +fortune to have this man, though she did believe it would be to her +ruine, which is a strange, stupid thing, to a fellow of no kind of worth +in the world and a beggar to boot. Thence away to boat again and landed +her at the Three Cranes again, and I to the Bridge, and so home, and +after shifting myself, being dirty, I to the 'Change, and thence to +Mr. Povy's and there dined, and thence with him and Creed to my Lord +Bellasses', and there debated a great while how to put things in order +against his going, and so with my Lord in his coach to White Hall, and +with him to my Lord Duke of Albemarle, finding him at cards. After a +few dull words or two, I away to White Hall again, and there delivered +a letter to the Duke of Yorke about our Navy business, and thence walked +up and down in the gallery, talking with Mr. Slingsby, who is a very +ingenious person, about the Mint and coynage of money. Among other +things, he argues that there being L700,000 coined in the Rump time, and +by all the Treasurers of that time, it being their opinion that the Rump +money was in all payments, one with another, about a tenth part of all +their money. Then, says he, to my question, the nearest guess we can +make is, that the money passing up and down in business is L7,000,000. +To another question of mine he made me fully understand that the old law +of prohibiting bullion to be exported, is, and ever was a folly and an +injury, rather than good. Arguing thus, that if the exportations exceed +importations, then the balance must be brought home in money, which, +when our merchants know cannot be carried out again, they will forbear +to bring home in money, but let it lie abroad for trade, or keepe in +foreign banks: or if our importations exceed our exportations, then, +to keepe credit, the merchants will and must find ways of carrying out +money by stealth, which is a most easy thing to do, and is every where +done; and therefore the law against it signifies nothing in the world. +Besides, that it is seen, that where money is free, there is great +plenty; where it is restrained, as here, there is a great want, as in +Spayne. These and many other fine discourses I had from him. Thence by +coach home (to see Sir J. Minnes first), who is still sick, and I doubt +worse than he seems to be. Mrs. Turner here took me into her closet, and +there did give me a glass of most pure water, and shewed me her Rocke, +which indeed is a very noble thing but a very bawble. So away to my +office, where late, busy, and then home to supper and to bed. + +28th. Up and to my office, where all the morning, and then home to +dinner, and after dinner abroad, walked to Paul's Churchyard, but my +books not bound, which vexed me. So home to my office again, where +very late about business, and so home to supper and to bed, my cold +continuing in a great degree upon me still. This day I received a good +sum of money due to me upon one score or another from Sir G. Carteret, +among others to clear all my matters about Colours,--[Flags]--wherein a +month or two since I was so embarrassed and I thank God I find myself to +have got clear, by that commodity, L50 and something more; and earned +it with dear pains and care and issuing of my owne money, and saved the +King near L100 in it. + +29th (Lord's day). Up and to my office, where all the morning, putting +papers to rights which now grow upon my hands. At noon dined at home. +All the afternoon at my business again. In the evening come Mr. Andrews +and Hill, and we up to my chamber and there good musique, though my +great cold made it the less pleasing to me. Then Mr. Hill (the other +going away) and I to supper alone, my wife not appearing, our +discourse upon the particular vain humours of Mr. Povy, which are very +extraordinary indeed. After supper I to Sir W. Batten's, where I found +him, Sir W. Pen, Sir J. Robinson, Sir R. Ford and Captain Cocke and +Mr. Pen, junior. Here a great deal of sorry disordered talk about the +Trinity House men, their being exempted from land service. But, Lord! to +see how void of method and sense their discourse was, and in what heat, +insomuch as Sir R. Ford (who we judged, some of us, to be a little +foxed) fell into very high terms with Sir W. Batten, and then with +Captain Cocke. So that I see that no man is wise at all times. Thence +home to prayers and to bed. + +30th. This is solemnly kept as a Fast all over the City, but I kept my +house, putting my closett to rights again, having lately put it out of +order in removing my books and things in order to being made clean. At +this all day, and at night to my office, there to do some business, and +being late at it, comes Mercer to me, to tell me that my wife was in +bed, and desired me to come home; for they hear, and have, night after +night, lately heard noises over their head upon the leads. Now it is +strange to think how, knowing that I have a great sum of money in my +house, this puts me into a most mighty affright, that for more than two +hours, I could not almost tell what to do or say, but feared this and +that, and remembered that this evening I saw a woman and two men stand +suspiciously in the entry, in the darke; I calling to them, they made me +only this answer, the woman said that the men came to see her; but who +she was I could not tell. The truth is, my house is mighty dangerous, +having so many ways to be come to; and at my windows, over the stairs, +to see who goes up and down; but, if I escape to-night, I will remedy +it. God preserve us this night safe! So at almost two o'clock, I home to +my house, and, in great fear, to bed, thinking every running of a mouse +really a thiefe; and so to sleep, very brokenly, all night long, and +found all safe in the morning. + +31st. Up and with Sir W. Batten to Westminster, where to speak at the +House with my Lord Bellasses, and am cruelly vexed to see myself put +upon businesses so uncertainly about getting ships for Tangier being +ordered, a servile thing, almost every day. So to the 'Change, back by +coach with Sir W. Batten, and thence to the Crowne, a taverne hard by, +with Sir W. Rider and Cutler, where we alone, a very good dinner. Thence +home to the office, and there all the afternoon late. The office being +up, my wife sent for me, and what was it but to tell me how Jane carries +herself, and I must put her away presently. But I did hear both sides +and find my wife much in fault, and the grounds of all the difference +is my wife's fondness of Tom, to the being displeased with all the house +beside to defend the boy, which vexes me, but I will cure it. Many high +words between my wife and I, but the wench shall go, but I will take a +course with the boy, for I fear I have spoiled him already. Thence to +the office, to my accounts, and there at once to ease my mind I have +made myself debtor to Mr. Povy for the L117 5s. got with so much joy +the last month, but seeing that it is not like to be kept without some +trouble and question, I do even discharge my mind of it, and so if I +come now to refund it, as I fear I shall, I shall now be ne'er a whit +the poorer for it, though yet it is some trouble to me to be poorer by +such a sum than I thought myself a month since. But, however, a quiet +mind and to be sure of my owne is worth all. The Lord be praised for +what I have, which is this month come down to L1257. I staid up about my +accounts till almost two in the morning. + + + + +FEBRUARY 1664-1665 + +February 1st. Lay long in bed, which made me, going by coach to St. +James's by appointment to have attended the Duke of Yorke and my Lord +Bellasses, lose the hopes of my getting something by the hire of a ship +to carry men to Tangier. But, however, according to the order of the +Duke this morning, I did go to the 'Change, and there after great pains +did light of a business with Mr. Gifford and Hubland [Houblon] for +bringing me as much as I hoped for, which I have at large expressed in +my stating the case of the "King's Fisher," which is the ship that I +have hired, and got the Duke of Yorke's agreement this afternoon after +much pains and not eating a bit of bread till about 4 o'clock. Going +home I put in to an ordinary by Temple Barr and there with my boy Tom +eat a pullet, and thence home to the office, being still angry with my +wife for yesterday's foolery. After a good while at the office, I with +the boy to the Sun behind the Exchange, by agreement with Mr. Young the +flag-maker, and there was met by Mr. Hill, Andrews, and Mr. Hubland, +a pretty serious man. Here two very pretty savoury dishes and good +discourse. After supper a song, or three or four (I having to that +purpose carried Lawes's book), and staying here till 12 o'clock got +the watch to light me home, and in a continued discontent to bed. After +being in bed, my people come and say there is a great stinke of burning, +but no smoake. We called up Sir J. Minnes's and Sir W. Batten's people, +and Griffin, and the people at the madhouse, but nothing could be found +to give occasion to it. At this trouble we were till past three o'clock, +and then the stinke ceasing, I to sleep, and my people to bed, and lay +very long in the morning. + +2nd. Then up and to my office, where till noon and then to the 'Change, +and at the Coffee-house with Gifford, Hubland, the Master of the ship, +and I read over and approved a charter-party for carrying goods for +Tangier, wherein I hope to get some money. Thence home, my head akeing +for want of rest and too much business. So to the office. At night +comes, Povy, and he and I to Mrs. Bland's to discourse about my serving +her to helpe her to a good passage for Tangier. Here I heard her +kinswoman sing 3 or 4 very fine songs and in good manner, and then home +and to supper. My cook mayd Jane and her mistresse parted, and she +went away this day. I vexed to myself, but was resolved to have no more +trouble, and so after supper to my office and then to bed. + +3rd. Up, and walked with my boy (whom, because of my wife's making him +idle, I dare not leave at home) walked first to Salsbury court, there to +excuse my not being at home at dinner to Mrs. Turner, who I perceive +is vexed, because I do not serve her in something against the great +feasting for her husband's Reading--[On his appointment as Reader in +Law.]--in helping her to some good penn'eths, but I care not. She was +dressing herself by the fire in her chamber, and there took occasion to +show me her leg, which indeed is the finest I ever saw, and she not a +little proud of it. Thence to my Lord Bellasses; thence to Mr. Povy's, +and so up and down at that end of the town about several businesses, it +being a brave frosty day and good walking. So back again on foot to the +'Change, in my way taking my books from binding from my bookseller's. +My bill for the rebinding of some old books to make them suit with my +study, cost me, besides other new books in the same bill, L3; but it +will be very handsome. At the 'Change did several businesses, and here +I hear that newes is come from Deale, that the same day my Lord Sandwich +sailed thence with the fleete, that evening some Dutch men of warr were +seen on the back side of the Goodwin, and, by all conjecture, must be +seen by my Lord's fleete; which, if so, they must engage. Thence, being +invited, to my uncle Wight's, where the Wights all dined; and, among +the others, pretty Mrs. Margaret, who indeed is a very pretty lady; and +though by my vowe it costs me 12d. a kiss after the first, yet I did +adventure upon a couple. So home, and among other letters found one from +Jane, that is newly gone, telling me how her mistresse won't pay her her +Quarter's wages, and withal tells me how her mistress will have the boy +sit 3 or 4 hours together in the dark telling of stories, but speaks of +nothing but only her indiscretion in undervaluing herself to do it, but +I will remedy that, but am vexed she should get some body to write so +much because of making it publique. Then took coach and to visit my Lady +Sandwich, where she discoursed largely to me her opinion of a match, +if it could be thought fit by my Lord, for my Lady Jemimah, with Sir +G. Carteret's eldest son; but I doubt he hath yet no settled estate +in land. But I will inform myself, and give her my opinion. Then Mrs. +Pickering (after private discourse ended, we going into the other room) +did, at my Lady's command, tell me the manner of a masquerade + + [The masquerade at Court took place on the 2nd, and is referred to + by Evelyn, who was present, in his Diary. Some amusing incidents + connected with the entertainment are related in the "Grammont + Memoirs" (chapter vii.).] + +before the King and Court the other day. Where six women (my Lady +Castlemayne and Duchesse of Monmouth being two of them) and six men (the +Duke of Monmouth and Lord Arran and Monsieur Blanfort, being three of +them) in vizards, but most rich and antique dresses, did dance admirably +and most gloriously. God give us cause to continue the mirthe! So home, +and after awhile at my office to supper and to bed. + +4th. Lay long in bed discoursing with my wife about her mayds, which +by Jane's going away in discontent and against my opinion do make some +trouble between my wife and me. But these are but foolish troubles and +so not to be set to heart, yet it do disturb me mightily these things. +To my office, and there all the morning. At noon being invited, I to +the Sun behind the 'Change, to dinner to my Lord Belasses, where a great +deal of discourse with him, and some good, among others at table he told +us a very handsome passage of the King's sending him his message about +holding out the town of Newarke, of which he was then governor for the +King. This message he sent in a sluggbullet, being writ in cypher, and +wrapped up in lead and swallowed. So the messenger come to my Lord and +told him he had a message from the King, but it was yet in his belly; +so they did give him some physique, and out it come. This was a month +before the King's flying to the Scotts; and therein he told him that at +such a day, being the 3d or 6th of May, he should hear of his being come +to the Scotts, being assured by the King of France that in coming to +them he should be used with all the liberty, honour, and safety, that +could be desired. And at the just day he did come to the Scotts. He told +us another odd passage: how the King having newly put out Prince Rupert +of his generallshipp, upon some miscarriage at Bristoll, and Sir Richard +Willis + + [Sir Richard Willis, the betrayer of the Royalists, was one of the + "Sealed Knot." When the Restoration had become a certainty, he + wrote to Clarendon imploring him to intercede for him with the king + (see Lister's "Life of Clarendon," vol. iii., p. 87).] + +of his governorship of Newarke, at the entreaty of the gentry of the +County, and put in my Lord Bellasses, the great officers of the King's +army mutinyed, and come in that manner with swords drawn, into the +market-place of the towne where the King was; which the King hearing, +says, "I must to horse." And there himself personally, when every body +expected they should have been opposed, the King come, and cried to the +head of the mutineers, which was Prince Rupert, "Nephew, I command you +to be gone." So the Prince, in all his fury and discontent, withdrew, +and his company scattered, which they say was the greatest piece of +mutiny in the world. Thence after dinner home to my office, and in the +evening was sent to by Jane that I would give her her wages. So I sent +for my wife to my office, and told her that rather than be talked on +I would give her all her wages for this Quarter coming on, though two +months is behind, which vexed my wife, and we begun to be angry, but I +took myself up and sent her away, but was cruelly vexed in my mind that +all my trouble in this world almost should arise from my disorders in +my family and the indiscretion of a wife that brings me nothing almost +(besides a comely person) but only trouble and discontent. She gone I +late at my business, and then home to supper and to bed. + +5th (Lord's day). Lay in bed most of the morning, then up and down to my +chamber, among my new books, which is now a pleasant sight to me to +see my whole study almost of one binding. So to dinner, and all the +afternoon with W. Hewer at my office endorsing of papers there, my +business having got before me much of late. In the evening comes to +see me Mr. Sheply, lately come out of the country, who goes away again +to-morrow, a good and a very kind man to me. There come also Mr. Andrews +and Hill, and we sang very pleasantly; and so, they being gone, I and my +wife to supper, and to prayers and bed. + +6th. Up and with Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Pen to St. James's, but the +Duke is gone abroad. So to White Hall to him, and there I spoke with +him, and so to Westminster, did a little business, and then home to +the 'Change, where also I did some business, and went off and ended my +contract with the "Kingfisher" I hired for Tangier, and I hope to get +something by it. Thence home to dinner, and visited Sir W. Batten, who +is sick again, worse than he was, and I am apt to think is very ill. So +to my office, and among other things with Sir W. Warren 4 hours or more +till very late, talking of one thing or another, and have concluded a +firm league with him in all just ways to serve him and myself all I can, +and I think he will be a most usefull and thankfull man to me. So home +to supper and to bed. This being one of the coldest days, all say, +they ever felt in England; and I this day, under great apprehensions +of getting an ague from my putting a suit on that hath lain by without +ayring a great while, and I pray God it do not do me hurte. + +7th. Up and to my office, where busy all the morning, and at home to +dinner. It being Shrove Tuesday, had some very good fritters. All the +afternoon and evening at the office, and at night home to supper and to +bed. This day, Sir W. Batten, who hath been sicke four or five days, is +now very bad, so as people begin to fear his death; and I am at a loss +whether it will be better for me to have him die, because he is a bad +man, or live, for fear a worse should come. + +8th. Up and by coach to my Lord Peterborough's, where anon my Lord Ashly +and Sir Thomas Ingram met, and Povy about his accounts, who is one of +the most unhappy accountants that ever I knew in all my life, and one +that if I were clear in reference to my bill of L117 he should be hanged +before I would ever have to do with him, and as he understands nothing +of his business himself, so he hath not one about him that do. Here late +till I was weary, having business elsewhere, and thence home by coach, +and after dinner did several businesses and very late at my office, and +so home to supper and to bed. + +9th. Up and to my office, where all the morning very busy. At noon home +to dinner, and then to my office again, where Sir William Petty come, +among other things to tell me that Mr. Barlow + + [Thomas Barlow, Pepys's predecessor as Clerk of the Acts, to whom he + paid part of the salary. Barlow held the office jointly with Dennis + Fleeting.] + +is dead; for which, God knows my heart, I could be as sorry as is +possible for one to be for a stranger, by whose death he gets L100 per +annum, he being a worthy, honest man; but after having considered that +when I come to consider the providence of God by this means unexpectedly +to give me L100 a year more in my estate, I have cause to bless God, and +do it from the bottom of my heart. So home late at night, after twelve +o'clock, and so to bed. + +10th. Up and abroad to Paul's Churchyard, there to see the last of my +books new bound: among others, my "Court of King James," + + ["The Court and Character of King James, written and taken by Sir + Anthony Weldon, being an eye and eare witnesse," was published in + 1650, and reprinted in 1651 under the title of "Truth brought to + Light" Weldon's book was answered in a work entitled "Aulicus + Coquinariae." Both the original book and the answer were reprinted + in "The Secret History of the Court of King James," Edinburgh, 1811, + two vols. (edited by Sir Walter Scott).] + +and "The Rise and Fall of the Family of the Stewarts;" and much pleased +I am now with my study; it being, methinks, a beautifull sight. Thence +(in Mr. Grey's coach, who took me up), to Westminster, where I heard +that yesterday the King met the Houses to pass the great bill for the +L2,500,000. After doing a little business I home, where Mr. Moore dined +with me, and evened our reckonings on my Lord Sandwich's bond to me for +principal and interest. So that now on both there is remaining due to +me L257. 7s., and I bless God it is no more. So all the afternoon at my +office, and late home to supper, prayers, and to bed. + +11th. Up and to my office, where all the morning. At noon to 'Change by +coach with my Lord Brunkard, and thence after doing much business home +to dinner, and so to my office all the afternoon till past 12 at night +very busy. So home to bed. + +12th (Lord's day). Up and to church to St. Lawrence to hear Dr. Wilkins, +the great scholar, for curiosity, I having never heard him: but was not +satisfied with him at all, only a gentleman sat in the pew I by chance +sat in, that sang most excellently, and afterward I found by his face +that he had been a Paul's scholler, but know not his name, and I was +also well pleased with the church, it being a very fine church. So home +to dinner, and then to my office all the afternoon doing of business, +and in the evening comes Mr. Hill (but no Andrews) and we spent the +evening very finely, singing, supping and discoursing. Then to prayers +and to bed. + +13th. Up and to St. James's, did our usual business before the Duke. +Thence I to Westminster and by water (taking Mr. Stapely the rope-maker +by the way), to his rope-ground and to Limehouse, there to see the +manner of stoves and did excellently inform myself therein, and coming +home did go on board Sir W. Petty's "Experiment," which is a brave roomy +vessel, and I hope may do well. So went on shore to a Dutch [house] to +drink some mum, and there light upon some Dutchmen, with whom we had +good discourse touching stoveing + + [Stoveing, in sail-making, is the heating of the bolt-ropes, so as + to make them pliable.--B.] + +and making of cables. But to see how despicably they speak of us for +our using so many hands more to do anything than they do, they closing +a cable with 20, that we use 60 men upon. Thence home and eat something, +and then to my office, where very late, and then to supper and to bed. +Captain Stokes, it seems, is at last dead at Portsmouth. + +14th (St. Valentine). This morning comes betimes Dicke Pen, to be my +wife's Valentine, and come to our bedside. By the same token, I had him +brought to my side, thinking to have made him kiss me; but he perceived +me, and would not; so went to his Valentine: a notable, stout, witty +boy. I up about business, and, opening the door, there was Bagwell's +wife, with whom I talked afterwards, and she had the confidence to say +she came with a hope to be time enough to be my Valentine, and so indeed +she did, but my oath preserved me from loosing any time with her, and +so I and my boy abroad by coach to Westminster, where did two or three +businesses, and then home to the 'Change, and did much business there. +My Lord Sandwich is, it seems, with his fleete at Alborough Bay. So home +to dinner and then to the office, where till 12 almost at night, and +then home to supper and to bed. + +15th. Up and to my office, where busy all the morning. At noon with +Creed to dinner to Trinity-house, where a very good dinner among the old +sokers, where an extraordinary discourse of the manner of the loss of +the "Royall Oake" coming home from Bantam, upon the rocks of Scilly, +many passages therein very extraordinary, and if I can I will get it in +writing. Thence with Creed to Gresham College, where I had been by Mr. +Povy the last week proposed to be admitted a member; + + [According to the minutes of the Royal Society for February 15th, + 1664-65, "Mr. Pepys was unanimously elected and admitted." Notes of + the experiments shown by Hooke and Boyle are given in Birch's + "History of the Royal Society," vol. ii., p. 15.] + +and was this day admitted, by signing a book and being taken by the hand +by the President, my Lord Brunkard, and some words of admittance said to +me. But it is a most acceptable thing to hear their discourse, and see +their experiments; which were this day upon the nature of fire, and how +it goes out in a place where the ayre is not free, and sooner out where +the ayre is exhausted, which they showed by an engine on purpose. After +this being done, they to the Crowne Taverne, behind the 'Change, and +there my Lord and most of the company to a club supper; Sir P. Neale, +Sir R. Murrey, Dr. Clerke, Dr. Whistler, Dr. Goddard, and others of most +eminent worth. Above all, Mr. Boyle to-day was at the meeting, and above +him Mr. Hooke, who is the most, and promises the least, of any man in +the world that ever I saw. Here excellent discourse till ten at night, +and then home, and to Sir W. Batten's, where I hear that Sir Thos. Harvy +intends to put Mr. Turner out of his house and come in himself, which +will be very hard to them, and though I love him not, yet for his +family's sake I pity him. So home and to bed. + +16th. Up, and with Mr. Andrews to White Hall, where a Committee of +Tangier, and there I did our victuallers' business for some more money, +out of which I hope to get a little, of which I was glad; but, Lord! +to see to what a degree of contempt, nay, scorn, Mr. Povy, through his +prodigious folly, hath brought himself in his accounts, that if he be +not a man of a great interest, he will be kicked out of his employment +for a foole, is very strange, and that most deservedly that ever man +was, for never any man, that understands accounts so little, ever went +through so much, and yet goes through it with the greatest shame and +yet with confidence that ever I saw man in my life. God deliver me in my +owne business of my bill out of his hands, and if ever I foul my fingers +with him again let me suffer for it! Back to the 'Change, and thence +home to dinner, where Mrs. Hunt dined with me, and poor Mrs. Batters; +who brought her little daughter with her, and a letter from her husband, +wherein, as a token, the foole presents me very seriously with his +daughter for me to take the charge of bringing up for him, and to make +my owne. But I took no notice to her at all of the substance of the +letter, but fell to discourse, and so went away to the office, where all +the afternoon till almost one in the morning, and then home to bed. + +17th. Up, and it being bitter cold, and frost and snow, which I had +thought had quite left us, I by coach to Povy's, where he told me, as I +knew already, how he was handled the other day, and is still, by my Lord +Barkeley, and among other things tells me, what I did not know, how +my Lord Barkeley will say openly, that he hath fought more set +fields--[Battles or actions]--than any man in England hath done. I did +my business with him, which was to get a little sum of money paid, and +so home with Mr. Andrews, who met me there, and there to the office. At +noon home and there found Lewellin, which vexed me out of my old jealous +humour. So to my office, where till 12 at night, being only a little +while at noon at Sir W. Batten's to see him, and had some high words +with Sir J. Minnes about Sir W. Warren, he calling him cheating knave, +but I cooled him, and at night at Sir W. Pen's, he being to go to +Chatham to-morrow. So home to supper and to bed. + +18th. Up, and to the office, where sat all the morning; at noon to the +'Change, and thence to the Royall Oake taverne in Lumbard Streete, +where Sir William Petty and the owners of the double-bottomed boat (the +Experiment) did entertain my Lord Brunkard, Sir R. Murrey, myself, and +others, with marrow bones and a chine of beefe of the victuals they have +made for this ship; and excellent company and good discourse: but, +above all, I do value Sir William Petty. Thence home; and took my Lord +Sandwich's draught of the harbour of Portsmouth down to Ratcliffe, to +one Burston, to make a plate for the King, and another for the Duke, and +another for himself; which will be very neat. So home, and till almost +one o'clock in the morning at my office, and then home to supper and +to bed. My Lord Sandwich, and his fleete of twenty-five ships in the +Downes, returned from cruising, but could not meet with any Dutchmen. + +19th. Lay in bed, it being Lord's day, all the morning talking with +my wife, sometimes pleased, sometimes displeased, and then up and to +dinner. All the afternoon also at home, and Sir W. Batten's, and in the +evening comes Mr. Andrews, and we sung together, and then to supper, he +not staying, and at supper hearing by accident of my mayds their letting +in a rogueing Scotch woman that haunts the office, to helpe them to +washe and scoure in our house, and that very lately, I fell mightily +out, and made my wife, to the disturbance of the house and neighbours, +to beat our little girle, and then we shut her down into the cellar, and +there she lay all night. So we to bed. + +20th. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes to attend the Duke, and then we back +again and rode into the beginning of my Lord Chancellor's new +house, near St. James's; which common people have already called +Dunkirke-house, from their opinion of his having a good bribe for the +selling of that towne. And very noble I believe it will be. Near that is +my Lord Barkeley beginning another on one side, and Sir J. Denham on the +other. Thence I to the House of Lords and spoke with my Lord Bellasses, +and so to the 'Change, and there did business, and so to the Sun +taverne, haling in the morning had some high words with Sir J. Lawson +about his sending of some bayled goods to Tangier, wherein the truth is +I did not favour him, but being conscious that some of my profits may +come out by some words that fell from him, and to be quiet, I have +accommodated it. Here we dined merry; but my club and the rest come +to 7s. 6d., which was too much. Thence to the office, and there found +Bagwell's wife, whom I directed to go home, and I would do her business, +which was to write a letter to my Lord Sandwich for her husband's +advance into a better ship as there should be occasion. Which I did, and +by and by did go down by water to Deptford, and then down further, and +so landed at the lower end of the town, and it being dark 'entrer en +la maison de la femme de Bagwell', and there had 'sa compagnie', though +with a great deal of difficulty, 'neanmoins en fin j'avais ma volont +d'elle', and being sated therewith, I walked home to Redriffe, it being +now near nine o'clock, and there I did drink some strong waters and eat +some bread and cheese, and so home. Where at my office my wife comes +and tells me that she hath hired a chamber mayde, one of the prettiest +maydes that ever she saw in her life, and that she is really jealous +of me for her, but hath ventured to hire her from month to month, but I +think she means merrily. So to supper and to bed. + +21st. Up, and to the office (having a mighty pain in my forefinger of +my left hand, from a strain that it received last night) in struggling +'avec la femme que je' mentioned yesterday, where busy till noon, and +then my wife being busy in going with her woman to a hot-house to bathe +herself, after her long being within doors in the dirt, so that she now +pretends to a resolution of being hereafter very clean. How long it will +hold I can guess. I dined with Sir W. Batten and my Lady, they being now +a'days very fond of me. So to the 'Change, and off of the 'Change with +Mr. Wayth to a cook's shop, and there dined again for discourse with him +about Hamaccos + + [Or hammock-battens: cleats or battens nailed to the sides of a + vessel's beams, from which to suspend the seamen's hammocks.] + +and the abuse now practised in tickets, and more like every day to be. +Also of the great profit Mr. Fen makes of his place, he being, though he +demands but 5 per cent. of all he pays, and that is easily computed, +but very little pleased with any man that gives him no more. So to the +office, and after office my Lord Brunkerd carried me to Lincolne's +Inne Fields, and there I with my Lady Sandwich (good lady) talking of +innocent discourse of good housewifery and husbands for her daughters, +and the luxury and looseness of the times and other such things till +past 10 o'clock at night, and so by coach home, where a little at +my office, and so to supper and to bed. My Lady tells me how my Lord +Castlemayne is coming over from France, and is believed will be made +friends with his Lady again. What mad freaks the Mayds of Honour at +Court have: that Mrs. Jenings, one of the Duchesses mayds, the other +day dressed herself like an orange wench, and went up and down and cried +oranges; till falling down, or by such accident, though in the evening, +her fine shoes were discerned, and she put to a great deale of shame; +that such as these tricks being ordinary, and worse among them, thereby +few will venture upon them for wives: my Lady Castlemayne will in +merriment say that her daughter (not above a year old or two) will be +the first mayde in the Court that will be married. This day my Lord +Sandwich writ me word from the Downes, that he is like to be in towne +this week. + +22nd. Lay last night alone, my wife after her bathing lying alone in +another bed. So cold all night. Up and to the office, where busy all the +morning. At noon at the 'Change, busy; where great talk of a Dutch ship +in the North put on shore, and taken by a troop of horse. Home to +dinner and Creed with me. Thence to Gresham College, where very noble +discourse, and thence home busy till past 12 at night, and then home to +supper and to bed. Mrs. Bland come this night to take leave of me and my +wife, going to Tangier. + +23rd. This day, by the blessing of Almighty God, I have lived thirty-two +years in the world, and am in the best degree of health at this minute +that I have been almost in my life time, and at this time in the best +condition of estate that ever I was in-the Lord make me thankfull. Up, +and to the office, where busy all the morning. At noon to the 'Change, +where I hear the most horrid and astonishing newes that ever was +yet told in my memory, that De Ruyter with his fleete in Guinny hath +proceeded to the taking of whatever we have, forts, goods, ships, and +men, and tied our men back to back, and thrown them all into the sea, +even women and children also. This a Swede or Hamburgher is come into +the River and tells that he saw the thing done. + + [Similar reports of the cruelty of the English to the Dutch in + Guinea were credited in Holland, and were related by Downing in a + letter to Clarendon from the Hague, dated April 14th, 1665 (Lister's + "Life of Clarendon," vol. iii., p. 374).] + +But, Lord! to see the consternation all our merchants are in is +observable, and with what fury and revenge they discourse of it. But +I fear it will like other things in a few days cool among us. But that +which I fear most is the reason why he that was so kind to our men at +first should afterward, having let them go, be so cruel when he went +further. What I fear is that there he was informed (which he was not +before) of some of Holmes's dealings with his countrymen, and so was +moved to this fury. God grant it be not so! But a more dishonourable +thing was never suffered by Englishmen, nor a more barbarous done by +man, as this by them to us. Home to dinner, and then to the office, +where we sat all the afternoon, and then at night to take my finall +leave of Mrs. Bland, who sets out to-morrow for Tangier, and then I back +to my office till past 12, and so home to supper and to bed. + +24th. Up, and to my office, where all the morning upon advising +again with some fishermen and the water bayliffe of the City, by Mr. +Coventry's direction, touching the protections which are desired for +the fishermen upon the River, and I am glad of the occasion to make +me understand something of it. At noon home to dinner, and all the +afternoon till 9 at night in my chamber, and Mr. Hater with me (to +prevent being disturbed at the office), to perfect my contract book, +which, for want of time, hath a long time lain without being entered +in as I used to do from month to month. Then to my office, where till +almost 12, and so home to bed. + +25th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon to the +'Change; where just before I come, the Swede that had told the King and +the Duke so boldly this great lie of the Dutch flinging our men back +to back into the sea at Guinny, so particularly, and readily, and +confidently, was whipt round the 'Change: he confessing it a lie, and +that he did it in hopes to get something. It is said the judges, upon +demand, did give it their opinion that the law would judge him to be +whipt, to lose his eares, or to have his nose slit but I do not hear +that anything more is to be done to him. They say he is delivered over +to the Dutch Embassador to do what he pleased with him. But the world +do think that there is some design on one side or other, either of the +Dutch or French, for it is not likely a fellow would invent such a lie +to get money whereas he might have hoped for a better reward by telling +something in behalf of us to please us. Thence to the Sun taverne, and +there dined with Sir W. Warren and Mr. Gifford, the merchant: and I hear +how Nich. Colborne, that lately lived and got a great estate there, is +gone to live like a prince in the country, and that this Wadlow, that +did the like at the Devil by St. Dunstane's, did go into the country, +and there spent almost all he had got, and hath now choused this +Colborne out of his house, that he might come to his old trade again. +But, Lord! to see how full the house is, no room for any company almost +to come into it. Thence home to the office, where dispatched much +business; at night late home, and to clean myself with warm water; my +wife will have me, because she do herself, and so to bed. + +26th (Sunday). Up and to church, and so home to dinner, and after dinner +to my office, and there busy all the afternoon, till in the evening +comes Mr. Andrews and Hill, and so home and to singing. Hill staid and +supped with me, and very good discourse of Italy, where he was, which is +always to me very agreeable. After supper, he gone, we to prayers and to +bed. + +27th. Up and to St. James's, where we attended the Duke as usual. This +morning I was much surprized and troubled with a letter from Mrs. Bland, +that she is left behind, and much trouble it cost me this day to find +out some way to carry her after the ships to Plymouth, but at last I +hope I have done it. At noon to the 'Change to inquire what wages the +Dutch give in their men-of-warr at this day, and I hear for certain +they give but twelve guilders at most, which is not full 24s., a thing I +wonder at. At home to dinner, and then in Sir J. Minnes's coach, my wife +and I with him, and also Mercer, abroad, he and I to White Hall, and he +would have his coach to wait upon my wife on her visits, it being the +first time my wife hath been out of doors (but the other day to bathe +her) several weeks. We to a Committee of the Council to discourse +concerning pressing of men; but, Lord! how they meet; never sit down: +one comes, now another goes, then comes another; one complaining that +nothing is done, another swearing that he hath been there these two +hours and nobody come. At last it come to this, my Lord Annesly, +says he, "I think we must be forced to get the King to come to every +committee; for I do not see that we do any thing at any time but when he +is here." And I believe he said the truth and very constant he is at the +council table on council-days; which his predecessors, it seems, very +rarely did; but thus I perceive the greatest affair in the world at this +day is likely to be managed by us. But to hear how my Lord Barkeley and +others of them do cry up the discipline of the late times here, and in +the former Dutch warr is strange, wishing with all their hearts that the +business of religion were not so severely carried on as to discourage +the sober people to come among us, and wishing that the same law and +severity were used against drunkennesse as there was then, saying that +our evil living will call the hand of God upon us again. Thence to +walk alone a good while in St. James's Parke with Mr. Coventry, who I +perceive is grown a little melancholy and displeased to see things go +as they do so carelessly. Thence I by coach to Ratcliffe highway, to the +plate-maker's, and he has begun my Lord Sandwich's plate very neatly, +and so back again. Coming back I met Colonell Atkins, who in other +discourse did offer to give me a piece to receive of me 20 when he +proves the late news of the Dutch, their drowning our men, at Guinny, +and the truth is I find the generality of the world to fear that there +is something of truth in it, and I do fear it too. Thence back by coach +to Sir Philip Warwicke's; and there he did contract with me a kind of +friendship and freedom of communication, wherein he assures me to make +me understand the whole business of the Treasurer's business of the +Navy, that I shall know as well as Sir G. Carteret what money he +hath; and will needs have me come to him sometimes, or he meet me, to +discourse of things tending to the serving the King: and I am mighty +proud and happy in becoming so known to such a man. And I hope shall +pursue it. Thence back home to the office a little tired and out of +order, and then to supper and to bed. + +28th: At the office all the morning. At noon dined at home. After dinner +my wife and I to my Lady batten's, it being the first time my wife hath +been there, I think, these two years, but I had a mind in part to take +away the strangenesse, and so we did, and all very quiett and kind. Come +home, I to the taking my wife's kitchen accounts at the latter end of +the month, and there find 7s. wanting, which did occasion a very high +falling out between us, I indeed too angrily insisting upon so poor a +thing, and did give her very provoking high words, calling her beggar, +and reproaching her friends, which she took very stomachfully and +reproached me justly with mine; and I confess, being myself, I cannot +see what she could have done less. I find she is very cunning, and when +she least shews it hath her wit at work; but it is an ill one, though I +think not so bad but with good usage I might well bear with it, and the +truth is I do find that my being over-solicitous and jealous and froward +and ready to reproach her do make her worse. However, I find that now +and then a little difference do no hurte, but too much of it will make +her know her force too much. We parted after many high words very angry, +and I to my office to my month's accounts, and find myself worth L1270, +for which the Lord God be praised! So at almost 2 o'clock in the +morning I home to supper and to bed, and so ends this month, with great +expectation of the Hollanders coming forth, who are, it seems, very high +and rather more ready than we. God give a good issue to it! + + + + +MARCH 1664-1665 + +March 1st. Up, and this day being the day than: by a promise, a great +while ago, made to my wife, I was to give her L20 to lay out in clothes +against Easter, she did, notwithstanding last night's falling out, come +to peace with me and I with her, but did boggle mightily at the parting +with my money, but at last did give it her, and then she abroad to buy +her things, and I to my office, where busy all the morning. At noon I to +dinner at Trinity House, and thence to Gresham College, where Mr. Hooke +read a second very curious lecture about the late Comett; among other +things proving very probably that this is the very same Comett that +appeared before in the year 1618, and that in such a time probably +it will appear again, which is a very new opinion; but all will be in +print. Then to the meeting, where Sir G. Carteret's two sons, his owne, +and Sir N. Slaning, were admitted of the society: and this day I did pay +my admission money, 40s. to the society. Here was very fine discourses +and experiments, but I do lacke philosophy enough to understand them, +and so cannot remember them. Among others, a very particular account of +the making of the several sorts of bread in France, which is accounted +the best place for bread in the world. So home, where very busy getting +an answer to some question of Sir Philip Warwicke touching the expense +of the navy, and that being done I by coach at 8 at night with my wife +and Mercer to Sir Philip's and discoursed with him (leaving them in the +coach), and then back with them home and to supper and to bed. + +2nd. Begun this day to rise betimes before six o'clock, and, going down +to call my people, found Besse and the girle with their clothes on, +lying within their bedding upon the ground close by the fireside, and +a candle burning all night, pretending they would rise to scoure. This +vexed me, but Besse is going and so she will not trouble me long. Up, +and by water to Burston about my Lord's plate, and then home to the +office, so there all the morning sitting. At noon dined with Sir W. +Batten (my wife being gone again to-day to buy things, having bought +nothing yesterday for lack of Mrs. Pierces company), and thence to the +office again, where very busy till 12 at night, and vexed at my wife's +staying out so late, she not being at home at 9 o'clock, but at last she +is come home, but the reason of her stay I know not yet. So shut up my +books, and home to supper and to bed. + +3rd. Up, and abroad about several things, among others to see Mr. Peter +Honiwood, who was at my house the other day, and I find it was for +nothing but to pay me my brother John's Quarterage. Thence to see Mrs. +Turner, who takes it mighty ill I did not come to dine with the Reader, +her husband, which, she says, was the greatest feast that ever was yet +kept by a Reader, and I believe it was well. But I am glad I did not go, +which confirms her in an opinion that I am growne proud. Thence to the +'Change, and to several places, and so home to dinner and to my office, +where till 12 at night writing over a discourse of mine to Mr. Coventry +touching the Fishermen of the Thames upon a reference of the business +by him to me concerning their being protected from presse. Then home to +supper and to bed. + +4th. Up very betimes, and walked, it being bitter cold, to Ratcliffe, +to the plate-maker's and back again. To the office, where we sat all the +morning, I, with being empty and full of ayre and wind, had some pain +to-day. Dined alone at home, my wife being gone abroad to buy some more +things. All the afternoon at the office. William Howe come to see me, +being come up with my Lord from sea: he is grown a discreet, but very +conceited fellow. He tells me how little respectfully Sir W. Pen did +carry it to my Lord onboard the Duke's ship at sea; and that Captain +Minnes, a favourite of Prince Rupert's, do shew my Lord little respect; +but that every body else esteems my Lord as they ought. I am sorry for +the folly of the latter, and vexed at the dissimulation of the former. +At night home to supper and to bed. This day was proclaimed at the +'Change the war with Holland. + +5th (Lord's day). Up, and Mr. Burston bringing me by order my Lord's +plates, which he has been making this week. I did take coach and to my +Lord Sandwich's and dined with my Lord; it being the first time he hath +dined at home since his coming from sea: and a pretty odd demand it was +of my Lord to my Lady before me: "How do you, sweetheart? How have you +done all this week?" himself taking notice of it to me, that he had +hardly seen her the week before. At dinner he did use me with the +greatest solemnity in the world, in carving for me, and nobody else, and +calling often to my Lady to cut for me; and all the respect possible. +After dinner looked over the plates, liked them mightily, and indeed I +think he is the most exact man in what he do in the world of that kind. +So home again, and there after a song or two in the evening with Mr. +Hill, I to my office, and then home to supper and to bed. + +6th. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes by coach, being a most lamentable cold +day as any this year, to St. James's, and there did our business with +the Duke. Great preparations for his speedy return to sea. I saw him try +on his buff coat and hatpiece covered with black velvet. It troubles me +more to think of his venture, than of anything else in the whole warr. +Thence home to dinner, where I saw Besse go away; she having of all +wenches that ever lived with us received the greatest love and kindnesse +and good clothes, besides wages, and gone away with the greatest +ingratitude. I then abroad to look after my Hamaccoes, and so home, and +there find our new chamber-mayde, Mary, come, which instead of handsome, +as my wife spoke and still seems to reckon, is a very ordinary wench, I +think, and therein was mightily disappointed. To my office, where busy +late, and then home to supper and to bed, and was troubled all this +night with a pain in my left testicle, that run up presently into my +left kidney and there kept akeing all night. In great pain. + +7th. Up, and was pretty well, but going to the office, and I think it +was sitting with my back to the fire, it set me in a great rage again, +that I could not continue till past noon at the office, but was forced +to go home, nor could sit down to dinner, but betook myself to my bed, +and being there a while my pain begun to abate and grow less and less. +Anon I went to make water, not dreaming of any thing but my testicle +that by some accident I might have bruised as I used to do, but in +pissing there come from me two stones, I could feel them, and caused my +water to be looked into; but without any pain to me in going out, which +makes me think that it was not a fit of the stone at all; for my pain +was asswaged upon my lying down a great while before I went to make +water. Anon I made water again very freely and plentifully. I kept my +bed in good ease all the evening, then rose and sat up an hour or two, +and then to bed and lay till 8 o'clock, and then, + +8th. Though a bitter cold day, yet I rose, and though my pain and +tenderness in my testicle remains a little, yet I do verily think that +my pain yesterday was nothing else, and therefore I hope my disease of +the stone may not return to me, but void itself in pissing, which God +grant, but I will consult my physitian. This morning is brought me to +the office the sad newes of "The London," in which Sir J. Lawson's men +were all bringing her from Chatham to the Hope, and thence he was to +go to sea in her; but a little a'this side the buoy of the Nower, +she suddenly blew up. About 24 [men] and a woman that were in the +round-house and coach saved; the rest, being above 300, drowned: the +ship breaking all in pieces, with 80 pieces of brass ordnance. She lies +sunk, with her round-house above water. Sir J. Lawson hath a great loss +in this of so many good chosen men, and many relations among them. I +went to the 'Change, where the news taken very much to heart. So home to +dinner, and Mr. Moore with me. Then I to Gresham College, and there saw +several pretty experiments, and so home and to my office, and at night +about I I home to supper and to bed. + +9th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the afternoon. At noon +to dinner at home, and then abroad with my wife, left her at the New +Exchange and I to Westminster, where I hear Mrs. Martin is brought to +bed of a boy and christened Charles, which I am very glad of, for I was +fearful of being called to be a godfather to it. But it seems it was to +be done suddenly, and so I escaped. It is strange to see how a liberty +and going abroad without purpose of doing anything do lead a man to +what is bad, for I was just upon going to her, where I must of necessity +[have] broken my oath or made a forfeit. But I did not, company being +(I heard by my porter) with her, and so I home again, taking up my wife, +and was set down by her at Paule's Schoole, where I visited Mr. Crumlum +at his house; and, Lord! to see how ridiculous a conceited pedagogue he +is, though a learned man, he being so dogmaticall in all he do and +says. But among other discourse, we fell to the old discourse of Paule's +Schoole; and he did, upon my declaring my value of it, give me one of +Lilly's grammars of a very old impression, as it was in the Catholique +times, which I shall much set by. And so, after some small discourse, +away and called upon my wife at a linen draper's shop buying linen, and +so home, and to my office, where late, and home to supper and to bed. +This night my wife had a new suit of flowered ash-coloured silke, very +noble. + +10th. Up, and to the office all the morning. At noon to the 'Change, +where very hot, people's proposal of the City giving the King' another +ship for "The London," that is lately blown up, which would be very +handsome, and if well managed, might be done; but I fear if it be put +into ill hands, or that the courtiers do solicit it, it will never be +done. Home to dinner, and thence to the Committee of Tangier at White +Hall, where my Lord Barkely and Craven and others; but, Lord! to see how +superficially things are done in the business of the Lottery, which will +be the disgrace of the Fishery, and without profit. Home, vexed at +my loss of time, and thereto my office. Late at night come the two +Bellamys, formerly petty warrant Victuallers of the Navy, to take my +advice about a navy debt of theirs for the compassing of which they +offer a great deal of money, and the thing most just. Perhaps I may +undertake it, and get something by it, which will be a good job. So home +late to bed. + +11th. Up and to the office, at noon home to dinner, and to the office +again, where very late, and then home to supper and to bed. This day +returned Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes from Lee Roade, where they have +been to see the wrecke of "The London," out of which, they say, the +guns may be got, but the hull of her will be wholly lost, as not being +capable of being weighed. + +12th (Lord's day). Up, and borrowing Sir J. Minnes's coach, to my Lord +Sandwich's, but he was gone abroad. I sent the coach back for my wife, +my Lord a second time dining at home on purpose to meet me, he having +not dined once at home but those times since his coming from sea. I +sat down and read over the Bishop of Chichester's' sermon upon the +anniversary of the King's death, much cried up, but, methinks, but a +mean sermon. By and by comes in my Lord, and he and I to talke of +many things in the Navy, one from another, in general, to see how the +greatest things are committed to very ordinary men, as to parts and +experience, to do; among others, my Lord Barkeley. We talked also of +getting W. Howe to be put into the Muster-Mastershipp in the roome +of Creed, if Creed will give way, but my Lord do it without any great +gusto, calling Howe a proud coxcomb in passion. Down to dinner, where +my wife in her new lace whiske, which, indeed, is very noble, and I much +pleased with it, and so my Lady also. Here very pleasant my Lord was +at dinner, and after dinner did look over his plate, which Burston hath +brought him to-day, and is the last of the three that he will have made. +After satisfied with that, he abroad, and I after much discourse with my +Lady about Sir G. Carteret's son, of whom she hath some thoughts for a +husband for my Lady Jemimah, we away home by coach again, and there sang +a good while very pleasantly with Mr. Andrews and Hill. They gone; we to +supper, and betimes to bed. + +13th. Up betimes, this being the first morning of my promise upon a +forfeite not to lie in bed a quarter of an hour after my first waking. +Abroad to St. James's, and there much business, the King also being with +us a great while. Thence to the 'Change, and thence with Captain Tayler +and Sir W. Warren dined at a house hard by for discourse sake, and so I +home, and there meeting a letter from Mrs. Martin desiring to speak +with me, I (though against my promise of visiting her) did go, and there +found her in her childbed dress desiring my favour to get her husband a +place. I staid not long, but taking Sir W. Warren up at White Hall home, +and among other discourse fell to a business which he says shall if +accomplished bring me L100. He gone, I to supper and to bed. This day +my wife begun to wear light-coloured locks, quite white almost, which, +though it makes her look very pretty, yet not being natural, vexes me, +that I will not have her wear them. This day I saw my Lord Castlemayne +at St. James's, lately come from France. + +14th. Up before six, to the office, where busy all the morning. At noon +dined with Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes, at the Tower, with Sir J. +Robinson, at a farewell dinner which he gives Major Holmes at his going +out of the Tower, where he hath for some time, since his coming from +Guinny, been a prisoner, and, it seems, had presented the Lieutenant +with fifty pieces yesterday. Here a great deale of good victuals and +company. Thence home to my office, where very late, and home to supper +and to bed weary of business. + +15th. Up and by coach with Sir W. Batten to St. James's, where among +other things before the Duke, Captain Taylor was called in, and, Sir J. +Robinson his accuser not appearing, was acquitted quite from his charge, +and declared that he should go to Harwich, which I was very well pleased +at. Thence I to Mr. Coventry's chamber, and there privately an houre +with him in discourse of the office, and did deliver to him many notes +of things about which he is to get the Duke's command, before he goes, +for the putting of business among us in better order. He did largely +owne his dependance as to the office upon my care, and received +very great expressions of love from him, and so parted with great +satisfaction to myself. So home to the 'Change, and thence home to +dinner, where my wife being gone down upon a sudden warning from my Lord +Sandwich's daughters to the Hope with them to see "The Prince," I dined +alone. After dinner to the office, and anon to Gresham College, where, +among other good discourse, there was tried the great poyson of Maccassa +upon a dogg, + + ["The experiment of trying to poison a dog with some of the Macassar + powder in which a needle had been dipped was made, but without + success."--Pepys himself made a communication at this meeting of + the information he had received from the master of the Jersey ship, + who had been in company of Major Holmes in the Guinea voyage, + concerning the pendulum watches (Birch's "History," vol. ii., p. + 23).] + +but it had no effect all the time we sat there. We anon broke up and +I home, where late at my office, my wife not coming home. I to bed, +troubled, about 12 or past. + +16th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, my wife coming +home from the water this morning, having lain with them on board "The +Prince" all night. At noon home to dinner, where my wife told me the +unpleasant journey she had yesterday among the children, whose fear upon +the water and folly made it very unpleasing to her. A good dinner, and +then to the office again. This afternoon Mr. Harris, the sayle-maker, +sent me a noble present of two large silver candlesticks and snuffers, +and a slice to keep them upon, which indeed is very handsome. At night +come Mr. Andrews with L36, the further fruits of my Tangier contract, +and so to bed late and weary with business, but in good content of mind, +blessing God for these his benefits. + +17th. Up and to my office, and then with Sir W. Batten to St. James's, +where many come to take leave, as was expected, of the Duke, but he do +not go till Monday. This night my Lady Wood died of the small-pox, and +is much lamented among the great persons for a good-natured woman and a +good wife, but for all that it was ever believed she was as others are. +The Duke did give us some commands, and so broke up, not taking leave +of him. But the best piece of newes is, that instead of a great many +troublesome Lords, the whole business is to be left with the Duke of +Albemarle to act as Admirall in his stead; which is a thing that do +cheer my heart. For the other would have vexed us with attendance, and +never done the business. Thence to the Committee of Tangier, where the +Duke a little, and then left us and we staid. A very great Committee, +the Lords Albemarle, Sandwich, Barkely, Fitzharding, Peterborough, +Ashley, Sir Thos. Ingram, Sir G. Carteret and others. The whole business +was the stating of Povy's accounts, of whom to say no more, never could +man say worse himself nor have worse said of him than was by the company +to his face; I mean, as to his folly and very reflecting words to his +honesty. Broke up without anything but trouble and shame, only I got +my businesses done to the signing of two bills for the Contractors and +Captain Taylor, and so come away well pleased, and home, taking up my +wife at the 'Change, to dinner. After dinner out again bringing my wife +to her father's again at Charing Cross, and I to the Committee again, +where a new meeting of trouble about Povy, who still makes his business +worse and worse, and broke up with the most open shame again to him, +and high words to him of disgrace that they would not trust him with any +more money till he had given an account of this. So broke up. Then +he took occasion to desire me to step aside, and he and I by water to +London together. In the way, of his owne accord, he proposed to me +that he would surrender his place of Treasurer' to me to have half the +profit. The thing is new to me; but the more I think the more I like it, +and do put him upon getting it done by the Duke. Whether it takes or no +I care not, but I think at present it may have some convenience in it. +Home, and there find my wife come home and gone to bed, of a cold got +yesterday by water. At the office Bellamy come to me again, and I am in +hopes something may be got by his business. So late home to supper and +bed. + +18th. Up and to the office, where all the morning. At noon to the +'Change, and took Mr. Hill along with me to Mr. Povy's, where we dined, +and shewed him the house to his good content, and I expect when we meet +we shall laugh at it. But I having business to stay, he went away, and +Povy and Creed and I to do some business upon Povy's accounts all the +afternoon till late at night, where, God help him! never man was so +confounded, and all his people about him in this world as he and his +are. After we had done something [to the] purpose we broke up, and +Povy acquainted me before Creed (having said something of it also this +morning at our office to me) what he had done in speaking to the Duke +and others about his making me Treasurer, and has carried it a great +way, so as I think it cannot well be set back. Creed, I perceive, envies +me in it, but I think as that will do me no hurte, so if it did I am at +a great losse to think whether it were not best for me to let it wholly +alone, for it will much disquiett me and my business of the Navy, which +in this warr will certainly be worth all my time to me. Home, continuing +in this doubtfull condition what to think of it, but God Almighty do +his will in it for the best. To my office, where late, and then home to +supper and to bed. + +19th (Lord's day). Mr. Povy sent his coach for me betimes, and I to +him, and there to our great trouble do find that my Lord FitzHarding do +appear for Mr. Brunkard + + [Henry Brouncker, younger brother of William, Viscount Brouncker, + President of the Royal Society. He was Groom of the Bedchamber to + the Duke of York, and succeeded to the office of Cofferer on the + death of William Ashburnham in 1671. His character was bad, and his + conduct in the sea-fight of 1665 was impugned. He was expelled from + the House of Commons, but succeeded to his brother's title in 1684. + He died in January, 1687.] + +to be Paymaster upon Povy's going out, by a former promise of the +Duke's, and offering to give as much as any for it. This put us all into +a great dumpe, and so we went to Creed's new lodging in the Mewes, and +there we found Creed with his parrot upon his shoulder, which struck Mr. +Povy coming by just by the eye, very deep, which, had it hit his eye, +had put it out. This a while troubled us, but not proving very bad, we +to our business consulting what to do; at last resolved, and I to Mr. +Coventry, and there had his most friendly and ingenuous advice, advising +me not to decline the thing, it being that that will bring me to be +known to great persons, while now I am buried among three or four of us, +says he, in the Navy; but do not make a declared opposition to my Lord +FitzHarding. Thence I to Creed, and walked talking in the Park an hour +with him, and then to my Lord Sandwich's to dinner, and after dinner to +Mr. Povy's, who hath been with the Duke of Yorke, and, by the mediation +of Mr. Coventry, the Duke told him that the business shall go on, and +he will take off Brunkerd, and my Lord FitzHarding is quiett too. But to +see the mischief, I hear that Sir G. Carteret did not seem pleased, but +said nothing when he heard me proposed to come in Povy's room, which may +learn me to distinguish between that man that is a man's true and false +friend. Being very glad of this news Mr. Povy and I in his coach to Hyde +Parke, being the first day of the tour there. Where many brave ladies; +among others, Castlemayne lay impudently upon her back in her coach +asleep, with her mouth open. There was also my Lady Kerneguy, + + [Daughter of William, Duke of Hamilton, wife of Lord Carnegy, who + became Earl of Southesk on his father's death. She is frequently + mentioned in the "Memoires de Grammont," and in the letters of the + second Earl of Chesterfield.--B.] + +once my Lady Anne Hambleton, that is said to have given the Duke a clap +upon his first coming over. Here I saw Sir J. Lawson's daughter and +husband, a fine couple, and also Mr. Southwell and his new lady, very +pretty. Thence back, putting in at Dr. Whore's, where I saw his lady, a +very fine woman. So home, and thither by my desire comes by and by Creed +and lay with me, very merry and full of discourse, what to do to-morrow, +and the conveniences that will attend my having of this place, and I do +think they may be very great. + +20th. Up, Creed and I, and had Mr. Povy's coach sent for us, and we to +his house; where we did some business in order to the work of this day. +Povy and I to my Lord Sandwich, who tells me that the Duke is not only +a friend to the business, but to me, in terms of the greatest love and +respect and value of me that can be thought, which overjoys me. Thence +to St. James's, and there was in great doubt of Brunkerd, but at last +I hear that Brunkerd desists. The Duke did direct Secretary Bennet, +who was there, to declare his mind to the Tangier Committee, that he +approves of me for Treasurer; and with a character of me to be a man +whose industry and discretion he would trust soon as any man's in +England: and did the like to my Lord Sandwich. So to White Hall to the +Committee of Tangier, where there were present, my Lord of Albemarle, +my Lord Peterborough, Sandwich, Barkeley, FitzHarding, Secretary Bennet, +Sir Thomas Ingram, Sir John Lawson, Povy and I. Where, after other +business, Povy did declare his business very handsomely; that he was +sorry he had been so unhappy in his accounts, as not to give their +Lordships the satisfaction he intended, and that he was sure his +accounts are right, and continues to submit them to examination, and is +ready to lay down in ready money the fault of his account; and that for +the future, that the work might be better done and with more quiet to +him, he desired, by approbation of the Duke, he might resign his +place to Mr. Pepys. Whereupon, Secretary Bennet did deliver the Duke's +command, which was received with great content and allowance beyond +expectation; the Secretary repeating also the Duke's character of me. +And I could discern my Lord FitzHarding was well pleased with me, and +signified full satisfaction, and whispered something seriously of me to +the Secretary. And there I received their constitution under all their +hands presently; so that I am already confirmed their Treasurer, and put +into a condition of striking of tallys; + + [The practice of striking tallies at the Exchequer was a curious + survival of an ancient method of keeping accounts. The method + adopted is described in Hubert Hall's "Antiquities and Curiosities + of the Exchequer," 1891. The following account of the use of + tallies, so frequently alluded to in the Diary, was supplied by Lord + Braybrooke. Formerly accounts were kept, and large sums of money + paid and received, by the King's Exchequer, with little other form + than the exchange or delivery of tallies, pieces of wood notched or + scored, corresponding blocks being kept by the parties to the + account; and from this usage one of the head officers of the + Exchequer was called the tallier, or teller. These tallies were + often negotiable; Adam Smith, in his "Wealth of Nations," book ii., + ch. xi., says that "in 1696 tallies had been at forty, and fifty, + and sixty per cent. discount, and bank-notes at twenty per cent." + The system of tallies was discontinued in 1824; and the destruction + of the old Houses of Parliament, in the night of October 16th, 1834, + is thought to have been occasioned by the overheating of the flues, + when the furnaces were employed to consume the tallies rendered + useless by the alteration in the mode of keeping the Exchequer + accounts.] + +and all without one harsh word or word of dislike, but quite the +contrary; which is a good fortune beyond all imagination. Here we +rose, and Povy and Creed and I, all full of joy, thence to dinner, they +setting me down at Sir J. Winter's, by promise, and dined with him; and +a worthy fine man he seems to be, and of good discourse, our business +was to discourse of supplying the King with iron for anchors, if it can +be judged good enough, and a fine thing it is to see myself come to +the condition of being received by persons of this rank, he being, and +having long been, Secretary to the Queene-Mother. Thence to Povy's, and +there sat and considered of business a little and then home, where late +at it, W. Howe being with me about his business of accounts for his +money laid out in the fleet, and he gone, I home to supper and to bed. +Newes is this day come of Captain Allen's being come home from the +Straights, as far as Portland, with eleven of the King's ships, and +about twenty-two of merchantmen. + +21st. Up, and my taylor coming to me, did consult all my wardrobe how to +order my clothes against next summer. Then to the office, where busy all +the morning. At noon to the 'Change, and brought home Mr. Andrews, and +there with Mr. Sheply dined and very merry, and a good dinner. Thence to +Mr. Povy's to discourse about settling our business of Treasurer, and +I think all things will go very fayre between us and to my content, but +the more I see the more silly the man seems to me. Thence by coach to +the Mewes, but Creed was not there. In our way the coach drove through +a lane by Drury Lane, where abundance of loose women stood at the doors, +which, God forgive me, did put evil thoughts in me, but proceeded no +further, blessed be God. So home, and late at my office, then home and +there found a couple of state cups, very large, coming, I suppose, each +to about L6 a piece, from Burrows the slopseller. + +22nd. Up, and to Mr. Povy's about our business, and thence I to see Sir +Ph. Warwicke, but could not meet with him. So to Mr. Coventry, whose +profession of love and esteem for me to myself was so large and free +that I never could expect or wish for more, nor could have it from any +man in England, that I should value it more. Thence to Mr. Povy's, and +with Creed to the 'Change and to my house, but, it being washing day, +dined not at home, but took him (I being invited) to Mr. Hubland's, the +merchant, where Sir William Petty, and abundance of most ingenious men, +owners and freighters of "The Experiment," now going with her two bodies +to sea. Most excellent discourse. Among others, Sir William Petty did +tell me that in good earnest he hath in his will left such parts of his +estate to him that could invent such and such things. As among others, +that could discover truly the way of milk coming into the breasts of a +woman; and he that could invent proper characters to express to another +the mixture of relishes and tastes. And says, that to him that invents +gold, he gives nothing for the philosopher's stone; for (says he) they +that find out that, will be able to pay themselves. But, says he, +by this means it is better than to give to a lecture; for here my +executors, that must part with this, will be sure to be well convinced +of the invention before they do part with their money. After dinner Mr. +Hill took me with Mrs. Hubland, who is a fine gentlewoman, into another +room, and there made her sing, which she do very well, to my great +content. Then to Gresham College, and there did see a kitling killed +almost quite, but that we could not quite kill her, with such a way; the +ayre out of a receiver, wherein she was put, and then the ayre being let +in upon her revives her immediately; + + ["Two experiments were made for the finding out a way to breathe + under water, useful for divers." The first was on a bird and the + second on "a kitling" (Birch's "History," vol. ii., p. 25).] + +nay, and this ayre is to be made by putting together a liquor and some +body that ferments, the steam of that do do the work. Thence home, +and thence to White Hall, where the house full of the Duke's going +to-morrow, and thence to St. James's, wherein these things fell out: (1) +I saw the Duke, kissed his hand, and had his most kind expressions of +his value and opinion of me, which comforted me above all things in the +world, (2) the like from Mr. Coventry most heartily and affectionately. +(3) Saw, among other fine ladies, Mrs. Middleton, + + [Jane, daughter to Sir Robert Needham, is frequently mentioned in + the "Grammont Memoirs," and Evelyn calls her "that famous and indeed + incomparable beauty" ("Diary," August 2nd, 1683). Her portrait is + in the Royal Collection amongst the beauties of Charles II.'s Court. + Sir Robert Needham was related to John Evelyn.] + +a very great beauty I never knew or heard of before; (4) I saw Waller +the poet, whom I never saw before. So, very late, by coach home with W. +Pen, who was there. To supper and to bed, with my heart at rest, and +my head very busy thinking of my several matters now on foot, the new +comfort of my old navy business, and the new one of my employment on +Tangier. + +23rd. Up and to my Lord Sandwich, who follows the Duke this day by water +down to the Hope, where "The Prince" lies. He received me, busy as he +was, with mighty kindness and joy at my promotions; telling me most +largely how the Duke hath expressed on all occasions his good opinion of +my service and love for me. I paid my thanks and acknowledgement to him; +and so back home, where at the office all the morning. At noon to the +'Change. Home, and Lewellin dined with me. Thence abroad, carried my +wife to Westminster by coach, I to the Swan, Herbert's, and there had +much of the good company of Sarah and to my wish, and then to see Mrs. +Martin, who was very kind, three weeks of her month of lying in is over. +So took up my wife and home, and at my office a while, and thence to +supper and to bed. Great talk of noises of guns heard at Deale, but +nothing particularly whether in earnest or not. + +24th. Up betimes, and by agreement to the Globe taverne in Fleet Street +to Mr. Clerke, my sollicitor, about the business of my uncle's accounts, +and we went with one Jefferys to one of the Barons (Spelman), and +there my accounts were declared and I sworn to the truth thereof to my +knowledge, and so I shall after a few formalities be cleared of all. +Thence to Povy's, and there delivered him his letters of greatest import +to him that is possible, yet dropped by young Bland, just come from +Tangier, upon the road by Sittingburne, taken up and sent to Mr. Pett, +at Chatham. Thus everything done by Povy is done with a fatal folly and +neglect. Then to our discourse with him, Creed, Mr. Viner, myself and +Poyntz about the business of the Workehouse at Clerkenwell, and after +dinner went thither and saw all the works there, and did also consult +the Act concerning the business and other papers in order to our coming +in to undertake it with Povy, the management of the House, but I do not +think we can safely meddle with it, at least I, unless I had time to +look after it myself, but the thing is very ingenious and laudable. +Thence to my Lady Sandwich's, where my wife all this day, having kept +Good Friday very strict with fasting. Here we supped, and talked very +merry. My Lady alone with me, very earnest about Sir G. Carteret's son, +with whom I perceive they do desire my Lady Jemimah may be matched. +Thence home and to my office, and then to bed. + +25th (Lady day). Up betimes and to my office, where all the morning. +At noon dined alone with Sir W. Batten, where great discourse of Sir +W. Pen, Sir W. Batten being, I perceive, quite out of love with him, +thinking him too great and too high, and began to talk that the world +do question his courage, upon which I told him plainly I have been told +that he was articled against for it, and that Sir H. Vane was his great +friend therein. This he was, I perceive, glad to hear. Thence to the +office, and there very late, very busy, to my great content. This +afternoon of a sudden is come home Sir W. Pen from the fleete, but upon +what score I know not. Late home to supper and to bed. + +26th (Lord's day and Easter day). Up (and with my wife, who has not been +at church a month or two) to church. At noon home to dinner, my wife and +I (Mercer staying to the Sacrament) alone. This is the day seven years +which, by the blessing of God, I have survived of my being cut of the +stone, and am now in very perfect good health and have long been; and +though the last winter hath been as hard a winter as any have been these +many years, yet I never was better in my life, nor have not, these +ten years, gone colder in the summer than I have done all this winter, +wearing only a doublet, and a waistcoate cut open on the back; abroad, +a cloake and within doors a coate I slipped on. Now I am at a losse to +know whether it be my hare's foot which is my preservative against wind, +for I never had a fit of the collique since I wore it, and nothing but +wind brings me pain, and the carrying away of wind takes away my pain, +or my keeping my back cool; for when I do lie longer than ordinary upon +my back in bed, my water the next morning is very hot, or whether it be +my taking of a pill of turpentine every morning, which keeps me always +loose, or all together, but this I know, with thanks to God Almighty, +that I am now as well as ever I can wish or desire to be, having now and +then little grudgings of wind, that brings me a little pain, but it is +over presently, only I do find that my backe grows very weak, that I +cannot stoop to write or tell money without sitting but I have pain for +a good while after it. Yet a week or two ago I had one day's great pain; +but it was upon my getting a bruise on one of my testicles, and then I +did void two small stones, without pain though, and, upon my going +to bed and bearing up of my testicles, I was well the next. But I did +observe that my sitting with my back to the fire at the office did then, +as it do at all times, make my back ake, and my water hot, and brings me +some pain. I sent yesterday an invitation to Mrs. Turner and her family +to come to keep this day with me, which she granted, but afterward +sent me word that it being Sunday and Easter day she desired to choose +another and put off this. Which I was willing enough to do; and so put +it off as to this day, and will leave it to my own convenience when to +choose another, and perhaps shall escape a feast by it. At my office all +the afternoon drawing up my agreement with Mr. Povy for me to sign to +him tomorrow morning. In the evening spent an hour in the garden walking +with Sir J. Minnes, talking of the Chest business, wherein Sir W. Batten +deals so unfairly, wherein the old man is very hot for the present, +but that zeal will not last nor is to be trusted. So home to supper, +prayers, and to bed. + +27th. Up betimes to Mr. Povy's, and there did sign and seal my agreement +with him about my place of being Treasurer for Tangier, it being the +greatest part of it drawnout of a draught of his own drawing up, only I +have added something here and there in favour of myself. Thence to the +Duke of Albemarle, the first time that we officers of the Navy have +waited upon him since the Duke of Yorke's going, who hath deputed him to +be Admirall in his absence. And I find him a quiet heavy man, that will +help business when he can, and hinder nothing, and am very well pleased +with our attendance on him. I did afterwards alone give him thanks for +his favour to me about my Tangier business, which he received kindly, +and did speak much of his esteem of me. Thence, and did the same to Sir +H. Bennet, who did the like to me very fully, and did give me all his +letters lately come from hence for me to read, which I returned in the +afternoon to him. Thence to Mrs. Martin, who, though her husband is gone +away, as he writes, like a fool into France, yet is as simple and wanton +as ever she was, with much I made myself merry and away. So to my +Lord Peterborough's; where Povy, Creed, Williamson, Auditor Beale, and +myself, and mighty merry to see how plainly my Lord and Povy did abuse +one another about their accounts, each thinking the other a foole, and I +thinking they were not either of them, in that point, much in the +wrong, though in everything, and even in this manner of reproaching one +another, very witty and pleasant. Among other things, we had here the +genteelest dinner and the neatest house that I have seen many a day, +and the latter beyond anything I ever saw in a nobleman's house. Thence +visited my Lord Barkeley, and did sit discoursing with him in his +chamber a good while, and [he] mighty friendly to me about the same +business of Tangier. From that to other discourse of the times and the +want of money, and he said that the Parliament must be called again +soon, and more money raised, not by tax, for he said he believed the +people could not pay it, but he would have either a general excise upon +everything, or else that every city incorporate should pay a toll into +the King's revenue, as he says it is in all the cities in the world; for +here a citizen hath no more laid on them than their neighbours in the +country, whereas, as a city, it ought to pay considerably to the King +for their charter; but I fear this will breed ill blood. Thence to Povy, +and after a little talk home to my office late. Then to supper and to +bed. + +28th. Up betimes and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and I +did most of the business there, God wot. Then to the 'Change, and thence +to the Coffee-house with Sir W. Warren, where much good discourse for us +both till 9 o'clock with great pleasure and content, and then parted +and I home to dinner, having eat nothing, and so to my office. At night +supped with my wife at Sir W. Pen's, who is to go back for good and all +to the fleete to-morrow. Took leave and to my office, where till 12 at +night, and then home to bed. + +29th. Up betimes and to Povy's, where a good while talking about our +business; thence abroad into the City, but upon his tally could not get +any money in Lumbard Streete, through the disrepute which he suffers, +I perceive, upon his giving up his place, which people think was not +choice, but necessity, as indeed it was. So back to his house, after we +had been at my house to taste my wine, but my wife being abroad nobody +could come at it, and so we were defeated. To his house, and before +dinner he and I did discourse of the business of freight, wherein I am +so much concerned, above L100 for myself, and in my over hasty making +a bill out for the rest for him, but he resolves to move Creed in it. +Which troubled me much, and Creed by and by comes, and after dinner +he did, but in the most cunning ingenious manner, do his business with +Creed by bringing it in by the by, that the most subtile man in the +world could never have done it better, and I must say that he is a +most witty, cunning man and one that I (am) most afeard of in my +conversation, though in all serious matters of business the eeriest +foole that ever I met with. The bill was produced and a copy given +Creed, whereupon he wrote his Intratur upon the originall, and I hope +it will pass, at least I am now put to it that I must stand by it +and justify it, but I pray God it may never come to that test. Thence +between vexed and joyed, not knowing what yet to make of it, home, +calling for my Lord Cooke's 3 volumes at my bookseller's, and so home, +where I found a new cook mayd, her name is-----that promises very +little. So to my office, where late about drawing up a proposal for +Captain Taylor, for him to deliver to the City about his building the +new ship, which I have done well, and I hope will do the business, and +so home to supper and to bed. + +30th. Up, and to my Lord Ashly, but did nothing, and to Sir Ph. Warwicke +and spoke with him about business, and so back to the office, where +all the morning. At noon home to dinner, and thence to the Tangier +Committee, where, Lord! to see how they did run into the giving of Sir +J. Lawson (who is come to towne to-day to get this business done) L4000 +about his Mole business, and were going to give him 4s. per yarde more, +which arises in the whole Mole to L36,000, is a strange thing, but the +latter by chance was stopped, the former was given. Thence to see Mrs. +Martin, whose husband being it seems gone away, and as she is informed +he hath another woman whom he uses, and has long done, as a wife, she is +mighty reserved and resolved to keep herself so till the return of her +husband, which a pleasant thing to think of her. Thence home, and to my +office, where late, and to bed. + +31st. Up betimes and walked to my Lord Ashly, and there with Creed after +long waiting spoke with him, and was civilly used by him; thence to +Sir Ph. Warwicke, and then to visit my Lord of Falmouth, who did also +receive me pretty civilly, but not as I expected; he, I perceive, +believing that I had undertaken to justify Povy's accounts, taking them +upon myself, but I rectified him therein. So to my Lady Sandwich's to +dinner, and up to her chamber after dinner, and there discoursed +about Sir G. Carteret's son, in proposition between us two for my Lady +Jemimah. So to Povy, and with him spent the afternoon very busy, till I +was weary of following this and neglecting my navy business. So at night +called my wife at my Lady's, and so home. To my office and there made up +my month's account, which, God be praised! rose to L1300. Which I bless +God for. So after 12 o'clock home to supper and to bed. I find Creed +mightily transported by my Lord of Falmouth's kind words to him, and +saying that he hath a place in his intention for him, which he believes +will be considerable. A witty man he is in every respect, but of no good +nature, nor a man ordinarily to be dealt with. My Lady Castlemayne is +sicke again, people think, slipping her filly. + + + + +APRIL 1665 + +April 1st. All the morning very busy at the office preparing a last +half-year's account for my Lord Treasurer. At noon eat a bit and stepped +to Sir Ph. Warwicke, by coach to my Lord Treasurer's, and after some +private conference and examining of my papers with him I did return into +the City and to Sir G. Carteret, whom I found with the Commissioners of +Prizes dining at Captain Cocke's, in Broad Streete, very merry. Among +other tricks, there did come a blind fiddler to the doore, and Sir G. +Carteret did go to the doore and lead the blind fiddler by the hand in. +Thence with Sir G. Carteret to my Lord Treasurer, and by and by come Sir +W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes, and anon we come to my Lord, and there did +lay open the expence for the six months past, and an estimate of the +seven months to come, to November next: the first arising to above +L500,000, and the latter will, as we judge, come to above L1,000,000. +But to see how my Lord Treasurer did bless himself, crying he could do +no more than he could, nor give more money than he had, if the occasion +and expence were never so great, which is but a sad story. And then +to hear how like a passionate and ignorant asse Sir G. Carteret did +harangue upon the abuse of Tickets did make me mad almost and yet was +fain to hold my tongue. Thence home, vexed mightily to see how simply +our greatest ministers do content themselves to understand and do +things, while the King's service in the meantime lies a-bleeding. At my +office late writing letters till ready to drop down asleep with my late +sitting up of late, and running up and down a-days. So to bed. + +2nd (Lord's day). At my office all the morning, renewing my vowes in +writing and then home to dinner. All the afternoon, Mr. Tasborough, +one of Mr. Povy's clerks, with me about his master's accounts. In the +evening Mr. Andrews and Hill sang, but supped not with me, then after +supper to bed. + +3rd. Up and to the Duke of Albemarle and White Hall, where much +business. Thence home and to dinner, and then with Creed, my wife, and +Mercer to a play at the Duke's, of my Lord Orrery's, called "Mustapha," +which being not good, made Betterton's part and Ianthe's but ordinary +too, so that we were not contented with it at all. Thence home and to +the office a while, and then home to supper and to bed. All the pleasure +of the play was, the King and my Lady Castlemayne were there; and +pretty witty Nell,--[Nell Gwynne]--at the King's house, and the younger +Marshall sat next us; which pleased me mightily. + +4th. All the morning at the office busy, at noon to the 'Change, and +then went up to the 'Change to buy a pair of cotton stockings, which I +did at the husband's shop of the most pretty woman there, who did also +invite me to buy some linnen of her, and I was glad of the occasion, +and bespoke some bands of her, intending to make her my seamstress, she +being one of the prettiest and most modest looked women that ever I did +see. Dined at home and to the office, where very late till I was ready +to fall down asleep, and did several times nod in the middle of my +letters. + +5th. This day was kept publiquely by the King's command, as a fast +day against the Dutch warr, and I betimes with Mr. Tooker, whom I have +brought into the Navy to serve us as a husband to see goods timely +shipped off from hence to the Fleete and other places, and took him with +me to Woolwich and Deptford, where by business I have been hindered a +great while of going, did a very great deale of business, and home, and +there by promise find Creed, and he and my wife, Mercer and I by coach +to take the ayre; and, where we had formerly been, at Hackney, did there +eat some pullets we carried with us, and some things of the house; and +after a game or two at shuffle-board, home, and Creed lay with me; but, +being sleepy, he had no mind to talk about business, which indeed I +intended, by inviting him to lie with me, but I would not force it on +him, and so to bed, he and I, and to sleep, being the first time I have +been so much at my ease and taken so much fresh ayre these many weeks or +months. + +6th. At the office sat all the morning, where, in the absence of Sir W. +Batten, Sir G. Carteret being angry about the business of tickets, spoke +of Sir W. Batten for speaking some words about the signing of tickets, +and called Sir W. Batten in his discourse at the table to us (the +clerks being withdrawn) "shitten foole," which vexed me. At noon to the +'Change, and there set my business of lighters' buying for the King, to +Sir W. Warren, and I think he will do it for me to very great advantage, +at which I am mightily rejoiced. Home and after a mouthfull of dinner to +the office, where till 6 o'clock, and then to White Hall, and there +with Sir G. Carteret and my Lord Brunkerd attended the Duke of Albemarle +about the business of money. I also went to Jervas's, my barber, for my +periwigg that was mending there, and there do hear that Jane is quite +undone, taking the idle fellow for her husband yet not married, and lay +with him several weeks that had another wife and child, and she is now +going into Ireland. So called my wife at the 'Change and home, and at my +office writing letters till one o'clock in the morning, that I was +ready to fall down asleep again. Great talke of a new Comett; and it is +certain one do now appear as bright as the late one at the best; but I +have not seen it myself. + +7th. Up betimes to the Duke of Albemarle about money to be got for the +Navy, or else we must shut up shop. Thence to Westminster Hall and up +and down, doing not much; then to London, but to prevent Povy's dining +with me (who I see is at the 'Change) I went back again and to Herbert's +at Westminster, there sent for a bit of meat and dined, and then to +my Lord Treasurer's, and there with Sir Philip Warwicke, and thence to +White Hall in my Lord Treasurer's chamber with Sir Philip Warwicke +till dark night, about fower hours talking of the business of the +Navy Charge, and how Sir G. Carteret do order business, keeping us in +ignorance what he do with his money, and also Sir Philip did shew me +nakedly the King's condition for money for the Navy; and he do assure +me, unless the King can get some noblemen or rich money-gentlemen to +lend him money, or to get the City to do it, it is impossible to find +money: we having already, as he says, spent one year's share of the +three-years' tax, which comes to L2,500,000. Being very glad of this +day's discourse in all but that I fear I shall quite lose Sir G. +Carteret, who knows that I have been privately here all this day with +Sir Ph. Warwicke. However, I will order it so as to give him as little +offence as I can. So home to my office, and then to supper and to bed. + +8th. Up, and all the morning full of business at the office. At noon +dined with Mr. Povy, and then to the getting some business looked over +of his, and then I to my Lord Chancellor's, where to have spoke with the +Duke of Albemarle, but the King and Council busy, I could not; then +to the Old Exchange and there of my new pretty seamstress bought four +bands, and so home, where I found my house mighty neat and clean. +Then to my office late, till past 12, and so home to bed. The French +Embassadors + + [The French ambassadors were Henri de Bourbon, Duc de Verneuil, + natural son of Henry IV. and brother of Henrietta Maria, and M. de + Courtin.--B.] + +are come incognito before their train, which will hereafter be very +pompous. It is thought they come to get our King to joyne with the King +of France in helping him against Flanders, and they to do the like to +us against Holland. We have laine a good while with a good fleete at +Harwich. The Dutch not said yet to be out. We, as high as we make our +shew, I am sure, are unable to set out another small fleete, if this +should be worsted. Wherefore, God send us peace! I cry. + +9th (Lord's day). To church with my wife in the morning, in her new +light-coloured silk gowne, which is, with her new point, very noble. +Dined at home, and in the afternoon to Fanchurch, the little church in +the middle of Fanchurch Streete, where a very few people and few of +any rank. Thence, after sermon, home, and in the evening walking in the +garden, my Lady Pen and her daughter walked with my wife and I, and so +to my house to eat with us, and very merry, and so broke up and to bed. + +10th. Up, and to the Duke of Albemarle's, and thence to White Hall to +a Committee for Tangier, where new disorder about Mr. Povy's accounts, +that I think I shall never be settled in my business of Treasurer for +him. Here Captain Cooke met me, and did seem discontented about my boy +Tom's having no time to mind his singing nor lute, which I answered him +fully in, that he desired me that I would baste his coate. So home and +to the 'Change, and thence to the "Old James" to dine with Sir W. Rider, +Cutler, and Mr. Deering, upon the business of hemp, and so hence to +White Hall to have attended the King and Lord Chancellor about the debts +of the navy and to get some money, but the meeting failed. So my Lord +Brunkard took me and Sir Thomas Harvy in his coach to the Parke, which +is very troublesome with the dust; and ne'er a great beauty there to-day +but Mrs. Middleton, and so home to my office, where Mr. Warren proposed +my getting of L100 to get him a protection for a ship to go out, which I +think I shall do. So home to supper and to bed. + +11th. Up and betimes to Alderman Cheverton to treat with him about +hempe, and so back to the office. At noon dined at the Sun, behind the +'Change, with Sir Edward Deering and his brother and Commissioner Pett, +we having made a contract with Sir Edward this day about timber. Thence +to the office, where late very busy, but with some trouble have also +some hopes of profit too. So home to supper and to bed. + +12th. Up, and to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier, where, contrary +to all expectation, my Lord Ashly, being vexed with Povy's accounts, did +propose it as necessary that Povy should be still continued Treasurer of +Tangier till he had made up his accounts; and with such arguments as, +I confess, I was not prepared to answer, but by putting off of the +discourse, and so, I think, brought it right again; but it troubled +me so all the day after, and night too, that I was not quiet, though I +think it doubtfull whether I shall be much the worse for it or no, if +it should come to be so. Dined at home and thence to White Hall again +(where I lose most of my time now-a-days to my great trouble, charge, +and loss of time and benefit), and there, after the Council rose, Sir +G. Carteret, my Lord Brunkard, Sir Thomas Harvy, and myself, down to +my Lord Treasurer's chamber to him and the Chancellor, and the Duke of +Albemarle; and there I did give them a large account of the charge of +the Navy, and want of money. But strange to see how they held up their +hands crying, "What shall we do?" Says my Lord Treasurer, "Why, what +means all this, Mr. Pepys? This is true, you say; but what would you +have me to do? I have given all I can for my life. Why will not people +lend their money? Why will they not trust the King as well as Oliver? +Why do our prizes come to nothing, that yielded so much heretofore?" And +this was all we could get, and went away without other answer, which +is one of the saddest things that, at such a time as this, with the +greatest action on foot that ever was in England, nothing should be +minded, but let things go on of themselves do as well as they can. So +home, vexed, and going to my Lady Batten's, there found a great many +women with her, in her chamber merry, my Lady Pen and her daughter, +among others; where my Lady Pen flung me down upon the bed, and herself +and others, one after another, upon me, and very merry we were, and +thence I home and called my wife with my Lady Pen to supper, and very +merry as I could be, being vexed as I was. So home to bed. + +13th. Lay long in bed, troubled a little with wind, but not much. So to +the office, and there all the morning. At noon to Sheriff Waterman's +to dinner, all of us men of the office in towne, and our wives, my Lady +Carteret and daughters, and Ladies Batten, Pen, and my wife, &c., and +very good cheer we had and merry; musique at and after dinner, and a +fellow danced a jigg; but when the company begun to dance, I came away +lest I should be taken out; and God knows how my wife carried herself, +but I left her to try her fortune. So home, and late at the office, and +then home to supper and to bed. + +14th. Up, and betimes to Mr. Povy, being desirous to have an end of my +trouble of mind touching my Tangier business, whether he hath any desire +of accepting what my Lord Ashly offered, of his becoming Treasurer +again; and there I did, with a seeming most generous spirit, offer him +to take it back again upon his owne terms; but he did answer to me +that he would not above all things in the world, at which I was for the +present satisfied; but, going away thence and speaking with Creed, he +puts me in doubt that the very nature of the thing will require that he +be put in again; and did give me the reasons of the auditors, which, I +confess, are so plain, that I know not how to withstand them. But he +did give me most ingenious advice what to do in it, and anon, my Lord +Barkeley and some of the Commissioners coming together, though not in +a meeting, I did procure that they should order Povy's payment of his +remain of accounts to me; which order if it do pass will put a good stop +to the fastening of the thing upon me. At noon Creed and I to a cook's +shop at Charing Cross, and there dined and had much discourse, and his +very good upon my business, and upon other things, among the rest upon +Will Howe's dissembling with us, we discovering one to another his +carriage to us, present and absent, being a very false fellow. Thence to +White Hall again, and there spent the afternoon, and then home to fetch +a letter for the Council, and so back to White Hall, where walked an +hour with Mr. Wren, of my Lord Chancellor's, and Mr. Ager, and then to +Unthanke's and called my wife, and with her through the city to Mile-End +Greene, and eat some creame and cakes and so back home, and I a little +at the office, and so home to supper and to bed. This morning I was +saluted with newes that the fleetes, ours and the Dutch, were engaged, +and that the guns were heard at Walthamstow to play all yesterday, and +that Captain Teddiman's legs were shot off in the Royall Katherine. +But before night I hear the contrary, both by letters of my owne and +messengers thence, that they were all well of our side and no enemy +appears yet, and that the Royall Katherine is come to the fleete, and +likely to prove as good a ship as any the King hath, of which I am +heartily glad, both for Christopher Pett's sake and Captain Teddiman +that is in her. + +15th. Up, and to White Hall about several businesses, but chiefly to +see the proposals of my warrants about Tangier under Creed, but to my +trouble found them not finished. So back to the office, where all the +morning, busy, then home to dinner, and then all the afternoon till very +late at my office, and then home to supper and to bed, weary. + +16th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed, then up and to my chamber and +my office, looking over some plates which I find necessary for me to +understand pretty well, because of the Dutch warr. Then home to dinner, +where Creed dined with us, and so after dinner he and I walked to the +Rolls' Chappell, expecting to hear the great Stillingfleete preach, but +he did not; but a very sorry fellow, which vexed me. The sermon done, +we parted, and I home, where I find Mr. Andrews, and by and by comes +Captain Taylor, my old acquaintance at Westminster, that understands +musique very well and composes mighty bravely; he brought us some things +of two parts to sing, very hard; but that that is the worst, he is very +conceited of them, and that though they are good makes them troublesome +to one, to see him every note commend and admire them. He supped with +me, and a good understanding man he is and a good scholler, and, among +other things, a great antiquary, and among other things he can, as he +says, show the very originall Charter to Worcester, of King Edgar's, +wherein he stiles himself, Rex Marium Brittanniae, &c.; which is the +great text that Mr. Selden and others do quote, but imperfectly and upon +trust. But he hath the very originall, which he says he will shew me. He +gone we to bed. This night I am told that newes is come of our taking of +three Dutch men-of-warr, with the loss of one of our Captains. + +17th. Up and to the Duke of Albemarle's, where he shewed me Mr. +Coventry's letters, how three Dutch privateers are taken, in one whereof +Everson's' son is captaine. But they have killed poor Captaine Golding +in The Diamond. Two of them, one of 32 and the other of 20 odd guns, did +stand stoutly up against her, which hath 46, and the Yarmouth that hath +52 guns, and as many more men as they. So that they did more than we +could expect, not yielding till many of their men were killed. And +Everson, when he was brought before the Duke of Yorke, and was observed +to be shot through the hat, answered, that he wished it had gone through +his head, rather than been taken. One thing more is written: that two +of our ships the other day appearing upon the coast of Holland, they +presently fired their beacons round the country to give notice. And +newes is brought the King, that the Dutch Smyrna fleete is seen upon the +back of Scotland; and thereupon the King hath wrote to the Duke, that +he do appoint a fleete to go to the Northward to try to meet them coming +home round: which God send! Thence to White Hall; where the King seeing +me, did come to me, and calling me by name, did discourse with me about +the ships in the River: and this is the first time that ever I knew the +King did know me personally; so that hereafter I must not go thither, +but with expectation to be questioned, and to be ready to give good +answers. So home, and thence with Creed, who come to dine with me, to +the Old James, where we dined with Sir W. Rider and Cutler, and, by +and by, being called by my wife, we all to a play, "The Ghosts," at the +Duke's house, but a very simple play. Thence up and down, with my wife +with me, to look [for] Sir Ph. Warwicke (Mr. Creed going from me), but +missed of him and so home, and late and busy at my office. So home to +supper and to bed. This day was left at my house a very neat silver +watch, by one Briggs, a scrivener and sollicitor, at which I was angry +with my wife for receiving, or, at least, for opening the box wherein it +was, and so far witnessing our receipt of it, as to give the messenger +5s. for bringing it; but it can't be helped, and I will endeavour to do +the man a kindnesse, he being a friend of my uncle Wight's. + +18th. Up and to Sir Philip Warwicke, and walked with him an houre with +great delight in the Parke about Sir G. Carteret's accounts, and the +endeavours that he hath made to bring Sir G. Carteret to show his +accounts and let the world see what he receives and what he pays. Thence +home to the office, where I find Sir J. Minnes come home from Chatham, +and Sir W. Batten both this morning from Harwich, where they have +been these 7 or 8 days. At noon with my wife and Mr. Moore by water to +Chelsey about my Privy Seale for Tangier, but my Lord Privy Seale was +gone abroad, and so we, without going out of the boat, forced to return, +and found him not at White Hall. So I to Sir Philip Warwicke and with +him to my Lord Treasurer, who signed my commission for Tangier-Treasurer +and the docquet of my Privy Seale, for the monies to be paid to me. +Thence to White Hall to Mr. Moore again, and not finding my Lord I home, +taking my wife and woman up at Unthanke's. Late at my office, then to +supper and to bed. + +19th. Up by five o'clock, and by water to White Hall; and there took +coach, and with Mr. Moore to Chelsy; where, after all my fears what +doubts and difficulties my Lord Privy Seale would make at my Tangier +Privy Seale, he did pass it at first reading, without my speaking with +him. And then called me in, and was very civil to me. I passed my time +in contemplating (before I was called in) the picture of my Lord's son's +lady, a most beautiful woman, and most like to Mrs. Butler. Thence very +much joyed to London back again, and found out Mr. Povy; told him this; +and then went and left my Privy Seale at my Lord Treasurer's; and so +to the 'Change, and thence to Trinity-House; where a great dinner of +Captain Crisp, who is made an Elder Brother. And so, being very pleasant +at dinner, away home, Creed with me; and there met Povy; and we to +Gresham College, where we saw some experiments upon a hen, a dogg, and a +cat, of the Florence poyson. + + ["Sir Robert Moray presented the Society from the King with a phial + of Florentine poison sent for by his Majesty from Florence, on + purpose to have those experiments related of the efficacy thereof, + tried by the Society." The poison had little effect upon the kitten + (Birch's "History;" vol. ii., p. 31).] + +The first it made for a time drunk, but it come to itself again quickly; +the second it made vomitt mightily, but no other hurt. The third I did +not stay to see the effect of it, being taken out by Povy. He and I +walked below together, he giving me most exceeding discouragements in +the getting of money (whether by design or no I know not, for I am now +come to think him a most cunning fellow in most things he do, but his +accounts), and made it plain to me that money will be hard to get, and +that it is to be feared Backewell hath a design in it to get the thing +forced upon himself. This put me into a cruel melancholy to think I may +lose what I have had so near my hand; but yet something may be hoped for +which to-morrow will shew. He gone, Creed and I together a great while +consulting what to do in this case, and after all I left him to do what +he thought fit in his discourse to-morrow with my Lord Ashly. So home, +and in my way met with Mr. Warren, from whom my hopes I fear will fail +of what I hoped for, by my getting him a protection. But all these +troubles will if not be over, yet we shall see the worst of there in a +day or two. So to my office, and thence to supper, and my head akeing, +betimes, that is by 10 or 11 o'clock, to bed. + +20th. Up, and all the morning busy at the office. At noon dined, and Mr. +Povy by agreement with me (where his boldness with Mercer, poor innocent +wench, did make both her and me blush, to think how he were able to +debauch a poor girl if he had opportunity) at a dish or two of plain +meat of his own choice. After dinner comes Creed and then Andrews, where +want of money to Andrews the main discourse, and at last in confidence +of Creed's judgement I am resolved to spare him 4 or L500 of what lies +by me upon the security of some Tallys. This went against my heart to +begin, but when obtaining Mr. Creed to joyne with me we do resolve to +assist Mr. Andrews. Then anon we parted, and I to my office, where late, +and then home to supper and to bed. This night I am told the first play +is played in White Hall noon-hall, which is now turned to a house of +playing. I had a great mind, but could not go to see it. + +21st. Up and to my office about business. Anon comes Creed and Povy, and +we treat about the business of our lending money, Creed and I, upon a +tally for the satisfying of Andrews, and did conclude it as in papers +is expressed, and as I am glad to have an opportunity of having 10 per +cent. for my money, so I am as glad that the sum I begin this trade with +is no more than L350. We all dined at Andrews' charge at the Sun behind +the 'Change, a good dinner the worst dressed that ever I eat any, then +home, and there found Kate Joyce and Harman come to see us. With them, +after long talk, abroad by coach, a tour in the fields, and drunk at +Islington, it being very pleasant, the dust being laid by a little rain, +and so home very well pleased with this day's work. So after a while at +my office to supper and to bed. This day we hear that the Duke and the +fleete are sailed yesterday. Pray God go along with them, that they have +good speed in the beginning of their worke. + +22nd. Up, and Mr. Caesar, my boy's lute-master, being come betimes to +teach him, I did speak with him seriously about the boy, what my mind +was, if he did not look after his lute and singing that I would turn him +away; which I hope will do some good upon the boy. All the morning busy +at the office. At noon dined at home, and then to the office again very +busy till very late, and so home to supper and to bed. My wife making +great preparation to go to Court to Chappell to-morrow. This day I have +newes from Mr. Coventry that the fleete is sailed yesterday from Harwich +to the coast of Holland to see what the Dutch will do. God go along with +them! + +23rd (Lord's day). Mr. Povy, according to promise, sent his coach +betimes, and I carried my wife and her woman to White Hall Chappell and +set them in the Organ Loft, and I having left to untruss went to the +Harp and Ball and there drank also, and entertained myself in talke with +the mayde of the house, a pretty mayde and very modest. Thence to the +Chappell and heard the famous young Stillingfleete, whom I knew at +Cambridge, and is now newly admitted one of the King's chaplains; +and was presented, they say, to my Lord Treasurer for St. Andrew's, +Holborne, where he is now minister, with these words: that they (the +Bishops of Canterbury, London, and another) believed he is the ablest +young man to preach the Gospel of any since the Apostles. He did make +the most plain, honest, good, grave sermon, in the most unconcerned +and easy yet substantial manner, that ever I heard in my life, upon the +words of Samuell to the people, "Fear the Lord in truth with all your +heart, and remember the great things that he hath done for you." It +being proper to this day, the day of the King's Coronation. Thence to +Mr. Povy's, where mightily treated, and Creed with us. But Lord! to see +how Povy overdoes every thing in commending it, do make it nauseous +to me, and was not (by reason of my large praise of his house) over +acceptable to my wife. Thence after dinner Creed and we by coach took +the ayre in the fields beyond St. Pancras, it raining now and then, +which it seems is most welcome weather, and then all to my house, where +comes Mr. Hill, Andrews, and Captain Taylor, and good musique, but at +supper to hear the arguments we had against Taylor concerning a Corant, +he saying that the law of a dancing Corant is to have every barr to end +in a pricked crochet and quaver, which I did deny, was very strange. It +proceeded till I vexed him, but all parted friends, for Creed and I to +laugh at when he was gone. After supper, Creed and I together to bed, in +Mercer's bed, and so to sleep. + +24th. Up and with Creed in Sir W. Batten's coach to White Hall. Sir +W. Batten and I to the Duke of Albemarle, where very busy. Then I to +Creed's chamber, where I received with much ado my two orders about +receiving Povy's monies and answering his credits, and it is strange how +he will preserve his constant humour of delaying all business that comes +before him. Thence he and I to London to my office, and back again to +my Lady Sandwich's to dinner, where my wife by agreement. After dinner +alone, my Lady told me, with the prettiest kind of doubtfullnesse, +whether it would be fit for her with respect to Creed to do it, that is, +in the world, that Creed had broke his desire to her of being a servant +to Mrs. Betty Pickering, and placed it upon encouragement which he had +from some discourse of her ladyship, commending of her virtues to him, +which, poor lady, she meant most innocently. She did give him a cold +answer, but not so severe as it ought to have been; and, it seems, as +the lady since to my Lady confesses, he had wrote a letter to her, which +she answered slightly, and was resolved to contemn any motion of his +therein. My Lady takes the thing very ill, as it is fit she should; but +I advise her to stop all future occasions of the world's taking notice +of his coming thither so often as of late he hath done. But to think +that he should have this devilish presumption to aime at a lady so near +to my Lord is strange, both for his modesty and discretion. Thence to +the Cockepitt, and there walked an houre with my Lord Duke of Albemarle +alone in his garden, where he expressed in great words his opinion of +me; that I was the right hand of the Navy here, nobody but I taking any +care of any thing therein; so that he should not know what could be done +without me. At which I was (from him) not a little proud. Thence to a +Committee of Tangier, where because not a quorum little was done, and +so away to my wife (Creed with me) at Mrs. Pierce's, who continues very +pretty and is now great with child. I had not seen her a great while. +Thence by coach to my Lord Treasurer's, but could not speak with Sir Ph. +Warwicke. So by coach with my wife and Mercer to the Parke; but the +King being there, and I now-a-days being doubtfull of being seen in +any pleasure, did part from the tour, and away out of the Parke to +Knightsbridge, and there eat and drank in the coach, and so home, and +after a while at my office, home to supper and to bed, having got a +great cold I think by my pulling off my periwigg so often. + +25th. At the office all the morning, and the like after dinner, at home +all the afternoon till very late, and then to bed, being very hoarse +with a cold I did lately get with leaving off my periwigg. This +afternoon W. Pen, lately come from his father in the fleete, did give +me an account how the fleete did sayle, about 103 in all, besides small +catches, they being in sight of six or seven Dutch scouts, and sent +ships in chase of them. + +26th. Up very betimes, my cold continuing and my stomach sick with the +buttered ale that I did drink the last night in bed, which did lie upon +me till I did this morning vomitt it up. So walked to Povy's, where +Creed met me, and there I did receive the first parcel of money as +Treasurer of Tangier, and did give him my receipt for it, which was +about L2,800 value in Tallys; we did also examine and settle several +other things, and then I away to White Hall, talking, with Povy +alone, about my opinion of Creed's indiscretion in looking after Mrs. +Pickering, desiring him to make no more a sport of it, but to correct +him, if he finds that he continues to owne any such thing. This I did +by my Lady's desire, and do intend to pursue the stop of it. So to the +Carrier's by Cripplegate, to see whether my mother be come to towne or +no, I expecting her to-day, but she is not come. So to dinner to my Lady +Sandwich's, and there after dinner above in the diningroom did spend an +houre or two with her talking again about Creed's folly; but strange +it is that he should dare to propose this business himself of Mrs. +Pickering to my Lady, and to tell my Lady that he did it for her virtue +sake, not minding her money, for he could have a wife with more, but, +for that, he did intend to depend upon her Ladyshipp to get as much of +her father and mother for her as she could; and that, what he did, was +by encouragement from discourse of her Ladyshipp's: he also had wrote to +Mrs. Pickering, but she did give him a slighting answer back again. But +I do very much fear that Mrs. Pickering's honour, if the world comes +to take notice of it, may be wronged by it. Thence home, and all the +afternoon till night at my office, then home to supper and to bed. + +27th. Up, and to my office, where all the morning, at noon Creed dined +with me; and, after dinner, walked in the garden, he telling me that my +Lord Treasurer now begins to be scrupulous, and will know what becomes +of the L26,000 saved by my Lord Peterborough, before he parts with any +more money, which puts us into new doubts, and me into a great fear, +that all my cake will be doe still. + + [An obsolete proverb, signifying to lose one's hopes, a cake coming + out of the oven in a state of dough being considered spoiled. + + "My cake is dough; but I'll in among the rest; + Out of hope of all, but my share in the feast." + Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, act v., sc. i.-M. B.] + +But I am well prepared for it to bear it, being not clear whether it +will be more for my profit to have it, or go without it, as my profits +of the Navy are likely now to be. All the afternoon till late hard +at the office. Then to supper and to bed. This night William Hewer is +returned from Harwich, where he hath been paying off of some ships this +fortnight, and went to sea a good way with the fleete, which was 96 +in company then, men of warr, besides some come in, and following them +since, which makes now above 100, whom God bless! + +28th. Up by 5 o'clock, and by appointment with Creed by 6 at his +chamber, expecting Povy, who come not. Thence he and I out to Sir Philip +Warwicke's, but being not up we took a turn in the garden hard by, and +thither comes Povy to us. After some discourse of the reason of the +difficulty that Sir Philip Warwicke makes in issuing a warrant for my +striking of tallys, namely, the having a clear account of the L26,000 +saved by my Lord of Peterborough, we parted, and I to Sir P. Warwicke, +who did give me an account of his demurr, which I applied myself to +remove by taking Creed with me to my Lord Ashly, from whom, contrary to +all expectation, I received a very kind answer, just as we could have +wished it, that he would satisfy my Lord Treasurer. Thence very well +satisfied I home, and down the River to visit the victualling-ships, +where I find all out of order. And come home to dinner, and then to +write a letter to the Duke of Albemarle about the victualling-ships, and +carried it myself to the Council-chamber, where it was read; and when +they rose, my Lord Chancellor passing by stroked me on the head, and +told me that the Board had read my letter, and taken order for the +punishing of the watermen for not appearing on board the ships. + + [Among the State Papers are lists of watermen impressed and put on + board the victualling ships. Attached to one of these is a "note of + their unfitness and refractory conduct; also that many go ashore to + sleep, and are discontent that they, as masters of families, are + pressed, while single men are excused on giving money to the + pressmen" ("Calendar," Domestic, 1664-65, p. 323).] + +And so did the King afterwards, who do now know me so well, that he +never sees me but he speaks to me about our Navy business. Thence got my +Lord Ashly to my Lord Treasurer below in his chamber, and there removed +the scruple, and by and by brought Mr. Sherwin to Sir Philip Warwicke +and did the like, and so home, and after a while at my office, to bed. + +29th. All the morning busy at the office. In the afternoon to my Lord +Treasurer's, and there got my Lord Treasurer to sign the warrant for my +striking of tallys, and so doing many jobbs in my way home, and there +late writeing letters, being troubled in my mind to hear that Sir W. +Batten and Sir J. Minnes do take notice that I am now-a-days much from +the office upon no office business, which vexes me, and will make me +mind my business the better, I hope in God; but what troubles me more +is, that I do omit to write, as I should do, to Mr. Coventry, which I +must not do, though this night I minded it so little as to sleep in the +middle of my letter to him, and committed forty blotts and blurrs in my +letter to him, but of this I hope never more to be guilty, if I have not +already given him sufficient offence. So, late home, and to bed. + +30th (Lord's day). Up and to my office alone all the morning, making up +my monthly accounts, which though it hath been very intricate, and very +great disbursements and receipts and odd reckonings, yet I differed not +from the truth; viz.: between my first computing what my profit ought +to be and then what my cash and debts do really make me worth, not above +10s., which is very much, and I do much value myself upon the account, +and herein I with great joy find myself to have gained this month above +L100 clear, and in the whole to be worth above L1400, the greatest sum I +ever yet was worth. Thence home to dinner, and there find poor Mr. Spong +walking at my door, where he had knocked, and being told I was at the +office staid modestly there walking because of disturbing me, which +methinks was one of the most modest acts (of a man that hath no need of +being so to me) that ever I knew in my life. He dined with me, and then +after dinner to my closet, where abundance of mighty pretty discourse, +wherein, in a word, I find him the man of the world that hath of his own +ingenuity obtained the most in most things, being withall no scholler. +He gone, I took boat and down to Woolwich and Deptford, and made it +late home, and so to supper and to bed. Thus I end this month in great +content as to my estate and gettings: in much trouble as to the pains I +have taken, and the rubs I expect yet to meet with, about the business +of Tangier. The fleete, with about 106 ships upon the coast of Holland, +in sight of the Dutch, within the Texel. Great fears of the sickenesse +here in the City, it being said that two or three houses are already +shut up. God preserve as all! + + + + +MAY 1665 + +May 1st. Up and to Mr. Povy's, and by his bedside talked a good while. +Among other things he do much insist I perceive upon the difficulty of +getting of money, and would fain have me to concur in the thinking of +some other way of disposing of the place of Treasurer to one Mr. Bell, +but I did seem slight of it, and resolved to try to do the best or to +give it up. Thence to the Duke of Albemarle, where I was sorry to find +myself to come a little late, and so home, and at noon going to the +'Change I met my Lord Brunkard, Sir Robert Murry, Deane Wilkins, and Mr. +Hooke, going by coach to Colonell Blunts to dinner. So they stopped and +took me with them. Landed at the Tower-wharf, and thence by water to +Greenwich; and there coaches met us; and to his house, a very stately +sight for situation and brave plantations; and among others, a vineyard, +the first that ever I did see. No extraordinary dinner, nor any +other entertainment good; but only after dinner to the tryall of some +experiments about making of coaches easy. And several we tried; but one +did prove mighty easy (not here for me to describe, but the whole body +of the coach lies upon one long spring), and we all, one after another, +rid in it; and it is very fine and likely to take. These experiments +were the intent of their coming, and pretty they are. Thence back by +coach to Greenwich, and in his pleasure boat to Deptford, and there +stopped and in to Mr. Evelyn's,--[Sayes Court, the well-known residence +of John Evelyn.]--which is a most beautiful place; but it being dark +and late, I staid not; but Deane Wilkins and Mr. Hooke and I walked to +Redriffe; and noble discourse all day long did please me, and it +being late did take them to my house to drink, and did give them some +sweetmeats, and thence sent them with a lanthorn home, two worthy +persons as are in England, I think, or the world. So to my Lady Batten, +where my wife is tonight, and so after some merry talk home and to bed. + +2nd. Up and to the office all day, where sat late, and then to the +office again, and by and by Sir W. Batten and my Lady and my wife and I +by appointment yesterday (my Lady Pen failed us, who ought to have been +with us) to the Rhenish winehouse at the Steelyard, and there eat a +couple of lobsters and some prawns, and pretty merry, especially to see +us four together, while my wife and my Lady did never intend ever to be +together again after a year's distance between one another. Hither by +and by come Sir Richard Ford and also Mrs. Esther, that lived formerly +with my Lady Batten, now well married to a priest, come to see my Lady. +Thence toward evening home, and to my office, where late, and then home +to supper and to bed. + +3rd. Up betimes and walked to Sir Ph. Warwicke's, where a long time with +him in his chamber alone talking of Sir G. Carteret's business, and the +abuses he puts on the nation by his bad payments to both our vexations, +but no hope of remedy for ought I see. Thence to my Lord Ashly to a +Committee of Tangier for my Lord Rutherford's accounts, and that done we +to my Lord Treasurer's, where I did receive my Lord's warrant to Sir +R. Long for drawing a warrant for my striking of tallys. So to the Inne +again by Cripplegate, expecting my mother's coming to towne, but she is +not come this weeke neither, the coach being too full. So to the 'Change +and thence home to dinner, and so out to Gresham College, and saw a cat +killed with the Duke of Florence's poyson, and saw it proved that the +oyle of tobacco + + ["Mr. Daniel Coxe read an account of the effects of tobacco-oil + distilled in a retort, by one drop of which given at the mouth he + had killed a lusty cat, which being opened, smelled strongly of the + oil, and the blood of the heart more strongly than the rest.... + One drop of the Florentine 'oglio di tobacco' being again given to a + dog, it proved stupefying and vomitive, as before" (Birch's "History + of the Royal Society," vol, ii., pp. 42, 43).] + +drawn by one of the Society do the same effect, and is judged to be the +same thing with the poyson both in colour and smell, and effect. I +saw also an abortive child preserved fresh in spirits of salt. Thence +parted, and to White Hall to the Councilchamber about an order touching +the Navy (our being empowered to commit seamen or Masters that do not, +being hired or pressed, follow their worke), but they could give us +none. So a little vexed at that, because I put in the memorial to the +Duke of Albemarle alone under my own hand, home, and after some time at +the office home to bed. My Lord Chief Justice Hide did die suddenly this +week, a day or two ago, of an apoplexy. + +4th. Up, and to the office, where we sat busy all the morning. At +noon home to dinner, and then to the office again all day till almost +midnight, and then, weary, home to supper and to bed. + +5th. Up betimes, and by water to Westminster, there to speak the +first time with Sir Robert Long, to give him my Privy Seal and my Lord +Treasurer's order for Tangier Tallys; he received me kindly enough. +Thence home by water, and presently down to Woolwich and back to +Blackewall, and there, viewed the Breach, in order to a Mast Docke, and +so to Deptford to the Globe, where my Lord Brunkard, Sir J. Minnes, +Sir W. Batten, and Commissioner Pett were at dinner, having been at the +Breach also, but they find it will be too great charge to make use of +it. After dinner to Mr. Evelyn's; he being abroad, we walked in his +garden, and a lovely noble ground he hath indeed. And among other +rarities, a hive of bees, so as being hived in glass, you may see the +bees making their honey and combs mighty pleasantly. Thence home, and I +by and by to Mr. Povy's to see him, who is yet in his chamber not well, +and thence by his advice to one Lovett's, a varnisher, to see his +manner of new varnish, but found not him at home, but his wife, a very +beautiful woman, who shewed me much variety of admirable work, and is in +order to my having of some papers fitted with his lines for my use for +tables and the like. I know not whether I was more pleased with the +thing, or that I was shewed it by her, but resolved I am to have some +made. So home to my office late, and then to supper and to bed. My wife +tells me that she hears that my poor aunt James hath had her breast cut +off here in town, her breast having long been out of order. This day, +after I had suffered my owne hayre to grow long, in order to wearing it, +I find the convenience of periwiggs is so great, that I have cut off all +short again, and will keep to periwiggs. + +6th. Up, and all day at the office, but a little at dinner, and there +late till past 12. So home to bed, pleased as I always am after I have +rid a great deal of work, it being very satisfactory to me. + +7th (Lord's day). Up, and to church with my wife. Home and dined. After +dinner come Mr. Andrews and spent the afternoon with me, about our +Tangier business of the victuals, and then parted, and after sermon +comes Mr. Hill and a gentleman, a friend of his, one Mr. Scott, that +sings well also, and then comes Mr. Andrews, and we all sung and +supped, and then to sing again and passed the Sunday very pleasantly and +soberly, and so I to my office a little, and then home to prayers and to +bed. Yesterday begun my wife to learn to, limn of one Browne, + + [Alexander Browne, a printseller, who taught drawing, and practised + it with success. He published in 1669, "Ars Pictoria, or an Academy + treating of Drawing, Painting, Limning and Etching."] + +which Mr. Hill helps her to, and, by her beginning upon some eyes, I +think she will [do] very fine things, and I shall take great delight in +it. + +8th. Up very betimes, and did much business before I went out with +several persons, among others Captain Taylor, who would leave the +management of most of his business now he is going to Harwich, upon me, +and if I can get money by it, which I believe it will, I shall take some +of it upon me. Thence with Sir W. Batten to the Duke of Albemarle's and +there did much business, and then to the 'Change, and thence off with +Sir W. Warren to an ordinary, where we dined and sat talking of most +usefull discourse till 5 in the afternoon, and then home, and very busy +till late, and so home and to bed. + +9th. Up betimes, and to my business at the office, where all the +morning. At noon comes Mrs. The. Turner, and dines with us, and my +wife's painting-master staid and dined; and I take great pleasure in +thinking that my wife will really come to something in that business. +Here dined also Luellin. So after dinner to my office, and there very +busy till almost midnight, and so home to supper and to bed. This day +we have newes of eight ships being taken by some of ours going into the +Texel, their two men of warr, that convoyed them, running in. They come +from about Ireland, round to the north. + +10th. Up betimes, and abroad to the Cocke-Pitt, where the Duke [of +Albemarle] did give Sir W. Batten and me an account of the late taking +of eight ships, and of his intent to come back to the Gunfleete--[The +Gunfleet Sand off the Essex coast.]--with the fleete presently; which +creates us much work and haste therein, against the fleete comes. So to +Mr. Povy, and after discourse with him home, and thence to the Guard in +Southwarke, there to get some soldiers, by the Duke's order, to go keep +pressmen on board our ships. So to the 'Change and did much business, +and then home to dinner, and there find my poor mother come out of the +country today in good health, and I am glad to see her, but my business, +which I am sorry for, keeps me from paying the respect I ought to her +at her first coming, she being grown very weak in her judgement, and +doating again in her discourse, through age and some trouble in her +family. I left her and my wife to go abroad to buy something, and then +I to my office. In the evening by appointment to Sir W. Warren and Mr. +Deering at a taverne hard by with intent to do some good upon their +agreement in a great bargain of planks. So home to my office again, and +then to supper and to bed, my mother being in bed already. + +11th. Up betimes, and at the office all the morning. At home dined, and +then to the office all day till late at night, and then home to supper, +weary with business, and to bed. + +12th. Up betimes, and find myself disappointed in my receiving presently +of my L50 I hoped for sure of Mr. Warren upon the benefit of my press +warrant, but he promises to make it good. So by water to the Exchequer, +and there up and down through all the offices to strike my tallys for +L17,500, which methinks is so great a testimony of the goodness of God +to me, that I, from a mean clerke there, should come to strike tallys +myself for that sum, and in the authority that I do now, is a very +stupendous mercy to me. I shall have them struck to-morrow. But to see +how every little fellow looks after his fees, and to get what he can for +everything, is a strange consideration; the King's fees that he must pay +himself for this L17,500 coming to above L100. Thence called my wife at +Unthanke's to the New Exchange and elsewhere to buy a lace band for me, +but we did not buy, but I find it so necessary to have some handsome +clothes that I cannot but lay out some money thereupon. To the 'Change +and thence to my watchmaker, where he has put it [i.e. the watch] in +order, and a good and brave piece it is, and he tells me worth L14 which +is a greater present than I valued it. So home to dinner, and after +dinner comes several people, among others my cozen, Thomas Pepys, of +Hatcham, + + [Thomas Pepys, of Hatcham Barnes, Surrey, Master of the Jewel House + to Charles II. and James II.] + +to receive some money, of my Lord Sandwich's, and there I paid him what +was due to him upon my uncle's score, but, contrary to my expectation, +did get him to sign and seale to my sale of lands for payment of debts. +So that now I reckon myself in better condition by L100 in my content +than I was before, when I was liable to be called to an account and +others after me by my uncle Thomas or his children for every foot of +land we had sold before. This I reckon a great good fortune in the +getting of this done. He gone, come Mr. Povy, Dr. Twisden, and Mr. +Lawson about settling my security in the paying of the L4000 ordered to +Sir J. Lawson. So a little abroad and then home, and late at my office +and closet settling this day's disordering of my papers, then to supper +and to bed. + +13th. Up, and all day in some little gruntings of pain, as I used to +have from winde, arising I think from my fasting so long, and want of +exercise, and I think going so hot in clothes, the weather being hot, +and the same clothes I wore all winter. To the 'Change after office, +and received my watch from the watchmaker, and a very fine [one] it is, +given me by Briggs, the Scrivener. Home to dinner, and then I abroad +to the Atturney Generall, about advice upon the Act for Land Carriage, +which he desired not to give me before I had received the King's and +Council's order therein; going home bespoke the King's works, will cost +me 50s., I believe. So home and late at my office. But, Lord! to see how +much of my old folly and childishnesse hangs upon me still that I cannot +forbear carrying my watch in my hand in the coach all this afternoon, +and seeing what o'clock it is one hundred times; and am apt to think +with myself, how could I be so long without one; though I remember +since, I had one, and found it a trouble, and resolved to carry one +no more about me while I lived. So home to supper and to bed, being +troubled at a letter from Mr. Gholmly from Tangier, wherein he do advise +me how people are at worke to overthrow our Victualling business, by +which I shall lose L300 per annum, I am much obliged to him for this, +secret kindnesse, and concerned to repay it him in his own concernments +and look after this. + +14th (Lord's day). Up, and with my wife to church, it being Whitsunday; +my wife very fine in a new yellow bird's-eye hood, as the fashion is +now. We had a most sorry sermon; so home to dinner, my mother having her +new suit brought home, which makes her very fine. After dinner my wife +and she and Mercer to Thomas Pepys's wife's christening of his first +child, and I took a coach, and to Wanstead, the house where Sir H. +Mildmay died, and now Sir Robert Brookes lives, having bought it of +the Duke of Yorke, it being forfeited to him. A fine seat, but an +old-fashioned house; and being not full of people looks desolately. +Thence to Walthamstow, where (failing at the old place) Sir W. Batten +by and by come home, I walking up and down the house and garden with my +Lady very pleasantly, then to supper very merry, and then back by coach +by dark night. I all the afternoon in the coach reading the treasonous +book of the Court of King James, printed a great while ago, and worth +reading, though ill intended. As soon as I come home, upon a letter from +the Duke of Albemarle, I took boat at about 12 at night, and down +the River in a gally, my boy and I, down to the Hope and so up again, +sleeping and waking, with great pleasure, my business to call upon every +one of + +15th. Our victualling ships to set them agoing, and so home, and after +dinner to the King's playhouse, all alone, and saw "Love's Maistresse." +Some pretty things and good variety in it, but no or little fancy in it. +Thence to the Duke of Albemarle to give him account of my day's works, +where he shewed me letters from Sir G. Downing, of four days' date, that +the Dutch are come out and joyned, well-manned, and resolved to board +our best ships, and fight for certain they will. Thence to the Swan at +Herbert's, and there the company of Sarah a little while, and so +away and called at the Harp and Ball, where the mayde, Mary, is very +'formosa'--[handsome]--; but, Lord! to see in what readiness I am, upon +the expiring of my vowes this day, to begin to run into all my pleasures +and neglect of business. Thence home, and being sleepy to bed. + +16th. Up betimes, and to the Duke of Albemarle with an account of my +yesterday's actions in writing. So back to the office, where all the +morning very busy. After dinner by coach to see and speak with Mr. Povy, +and after little discourse back again home, where busy upon letters till +past 12 at night, and so home to supper and to bed, weary. + +17th. Up, and by appointment to a meeting of Sir John Lawson and Mr. +Cholmly's atturney and Mr. Povy at the Swan taverne at Westminster to +settle their business about my being secured in the payment of money +to Sir J. Lawson in the other's absence. Thence at Langford's, where I +never was since my brother died there. I find my wife and Mercer, having +with him agreed upon two rich silk suits for me, which is fit for me to +have, but yet the money is too much, I doubt, to lay out altogether; but +it is done, and so let it be, it being the expense of the world that +I can the best bear with and the worst spare. Thence home, and after +dinner to the office, where late, and so home to supper and to bed. Sir +J. Minnes and I had an angry bout this afternoon with Commissioner Pett +about his neglecting his duty and absenting himself, unknown to us, from +his place at Chatham, but a most false man I every day find him more +and more, and in this very full of equivocation. The fleete we doubt +not come to Harwich by this time. Sir W. Batten is gone down this day +thither, and the Duchesse of Yorke went down yesterday to meet the Duke. + +18th. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes to the Duke of Albemarle, where we did +much business, and I with good content to myself; among other things +we did examine Nixon and Stanesby, about their late running from two +Dutchmen; + + [Captain Edward Nixon, of the "Elizabeth," and Captain John + Stanesby, of the "Eagle." John Lanyon wrote to the Navy + Commissioners from Plymouth, May 16th: "Understands from the seamen + that the conduct of Captains Nixon and Stanesby in their late + engagement with two Dutch capers was very foul; the night they left + the Dutch, no lights were put out as formerly, and though in sight + of them in the morning, they still kept on their way; the Eagle lay + by some time, and both the enemy's ships plied on her, but finding + the Elizabeth nearly out of sight she also made sail; it is true the + wind and sea were high, but there were no sufficient reasons for + such endeavours to get from them." ("Calendar of State Papers," + Domestic, 1664-65, p. 367). Both captains were tried; Nixon was + condemned to be shot but Stanesby was cleared, and Charnock asserts + that he was commander the "Happy Return" in 1672.] + +for which they are committed to a vessel to carry them to the fleete +to be tried. A most fowle unhandsome thing as ever was heard, for plain +cowardice on Nixon's part. Thence with the Duke of Albemarle in his +coach to my Lord Treasurer, and there was before the King (who ever now +calls me by my name) and Lord Chancellor, and many other great Lords, +discoursing about insuring of some of the King's goods, wherein the King +accepted of my motion that we should; and so away, well pleased. To the +office, and dined, and then to the office again, and abroad to speak +with Sir G. Carteret; but, Lord! to see how fraile a man I am, subject +to my vanities, that can hardly forbear, though pressed with never so +much business, my pursuing of pleasure, but home I got, and there very +busy very late. Among other things consulting with Mr. Andrews about our +Tangier business, wherein we are like to meet with some trouble, and +my Lord Bellasses's endeavour to supplant us, which vexes my mind; but, +however, our undertaking is so honourable that we shall stand a tug for +it I think. So home to supper and to bed. + +19th. Up, and to White Hall, where the Committee for Tangier met, and +there, though the case as to the merit of it was most plain and most of +the company favourable to our business, yet it was with much ado that +I got the business not carried fully against us, but put off to another +day, my Lord Arlington being the great man in it, and I was sorry to be +found arguing so greatly against him. The business I believe will in the +end be carried against us, and the whole business fall; I must therefore +endeavour the most I can to get money another way. It vexed me to see +Creed so hot against it, but I cannot much blame him, having never +declared to him my being concerned in it. But that that troubles me most +is my Lord Arlington calls to me privately and asks me whether I had +ever said to any body that I desired to leave this employment, having +not time to look after it. I told him, No, for that the thing being +settled it will not require much time to look after it. He told me +then he would do me right to the King, for he had been told so, which I +desired him to do, and by and by he called me to him again and asked +me whether I had no friend about the Duke, asking me (I making a stand) +whether Mr. Coventry was not my friend. I told him I had received many +friendships from him. He then advised me to procure that the Duke would +in his next letter write to him to continue me in my place and remove +any obstruction; which I told him I would, and thanked him. So parted, +vexed at the first and amazed at this business of my Lord Arlington's. +Thence to the Exchequer, and there got my tallys for L17,500, the first +payment I ever had out of the Exchequer, and at the Legg spent 14s. +upon my old acquaintance, some of them the clerks, and away home with my +tallys in a coach, fearful every step of having one of them fall out, +or snatched from me. Being come home, I much troubled out again by coach +(for company taking Sir W. Warren with me), intending to have spoke to +my Lord Arlington to have known the bottom of it, but missed him, and +afterwards discoursing the thing as a confidant to Sir W. Warren, he did +give me several good hints and principles not to do anything suddenly, +but consult my pillow upon that and every great thing of my life, before +I resolve anything in it. Away back home, and not being fit for business +I took my wife and Mercer down by water to Greenwich at 8 at night, +it being very fine and cool and moonshine afterward. Mighty pleasant +passage it was; there eat a cake or two, and so home by 10 or 11 at +night, and then to bed, my mind not settled what to think. + +20th. Up, and to my office, where busy all the morning. At noon dined at +home, and to my office, very busy. + +21st. Till past one, Lord's day, in the morning writing letters to the +fleete and elsewhere, and my mind eased of much business, home to bed +and slept till 8. So up, and this day is brought home one of my new silk +suits, the plain one, but very rich camelott and noble. I tried it and +it pleases me, but did not wear it, being I would not go out today to +church. So laid it by, and my mind changed, thinking to go see my Lady +Sandwich, and I did go a little way, but stopped and returned home to +dinner, after dinner up to my chamber to settle my Tangier accounts, +and then to my office, there to do the like with other papers. In the +evening home to supper and to bed. + +22nd. Up, and down to the ships, which now are hindered from going down +to the fleete (to our great sorrow and shame) with their provisions, the +wind being against them. So to the Duke of Albemarle, and thence down by +water to Deptford, it being Trinity Monday, and so the day of choosing +the Master of Trinity House for the next yeare, where, to my great +content, I find that, contrary to the practice and design of Sir W. +Batten, to breake the rule and custom of the Company in choosing their +Masters by succession, he would have brought in Sir W. Rider or Sir W. +Pen, over the head of Hurleston (who is a knave too besides, I believe), +the younger brothers did all oppose it against the elder, and with great +heat did carry it for Hurleston, which I know will vex him to the heart. +Thence, the election being over, to church, where an idle sermon from +that conceited fellow, Dr. Britton, saving that his advice to unity, and +laying aside all envy and enmity among them was very apposite. Thence +walked to Redriffe, and so to the Trinity House, and a great dinner, as +is usual, and so to my office, where busy all the afternoon till late, +and then home to bed, being much troubled in mind for several things, +first, for the condition of the fleete for lacke of provisions, the +blame this office lies under and the shame that they deserve to have +brought upon them for the ships not being gone out of the River, and +then for my business of Tangier which is not settled, and lastly for +fear that I am not observed to have attended the office business of +late as much as I ought to do, though there has been nothing but my +attendance on Tangier that has occasioned my absence, and that of late +not much. + +23rd. Up, and at the office busy all the morning. At noon dined alone, +my wife and mother being gone by invitation to dine with my mother's old +servant Mr. Cordery, who made them very welcome. So to Mr. Povy's, where +after a little discourse about his business I home again, and late at +the office busy. Late comes Sir Arthur Ingram to my office, to tell me +that, by letters from Amsterdam of the 28th of this month (their style), + + [The new style was adopted by most of the countries of Europe long + before it was legalized in England, although Russia still retains + the old style.] + +the Dutch fleete, being about 100 men-of-war, besides fire-ships, +&c., did set out upon the 23rd and 24th inst. Being divided into seven +squadrons; viz., 1. Generall Opdam. 2. Cottenar, of Rotterdam. 3. Trump. +4. Schram, of Horne. 5. Stillingworth, of Freezland. 6. Everson. 7. One +other, not named, of Zealand. + +24th. Up, and by 4 o'clock in the morning, and with W. Hewer, there +till 12 without intermission putting some papers in order. Thence to the +Coffee-house with Creed, where I have not been a great while, where all +the newes is of the Dutch being gone out, and of the plague growing upon +us in this towne; and of remedies against it: some saying one thing, +some another. So home to dinner, and after dinner Creed and I to +Colvill's, thinking to shew him all the respect we could by obliging him +in carrying him 5 tallys of L5000 to secure him for so much credit he +has formerly given Povy to Tangier, but he, like an impertinent fool, +cavills at it, but most ignorantly that ever I heard man in my life. +At last Mr. Viner by chance comes, who I find a very moderate man, +but could not persuade the fool to reason, but brought away the tallys +again, and so vexed to my office, where late, and then home to my supper +and to bed. + +25th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon dined at +home, and then to the office all the afternoon, busy till almost 12 at +night, and then home to supper and to bed. + +26th. Up at 4 o'clock, and all the morning in my office with W. Hewer +finishing my papers that were so long out of order, and at noon to my +bookseller's, and there bespoke a book or two, and so home to dinner, +where Creed dined with me, and he and I afterwards to Alderman +Backewell's to try him about supplying us with money, which he denied +at first and last also, saving that he spoke a little fairer at the end +than before. But the truth is I do fear I shall have a great deale of +trouble in getting of money. Thence home, and in the evening by water +to the Duke of Albemarle, whom I found mightily off the hooks, that the +ships are not gone out of the River; which vexed me to see, insomuch +that I am afeard that we must expect some change or addition of new +officers brought upon us, so that I must from this time forward resolve +to make myself appear eminently serviceable in attending at my office +duly and no where else, which makes me wish with all my heart that I had +never anything to do with this business of Tangier. After a while at my +office, home to supper vexed, and to bed. + +27th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning; at noon dined at +home, and then to my office again,, where late, and so to bed, with my +mind full of fears for the business of this office and troubled with +that of Tangier, concerning which Mr. Povy was with me, but do give me +little help, but more reason of being troubled. So that were it not for +our Plymouth business I would be glad to be rid of it. + +28th (Lord's day). By water to the Duke of Albemarle, where I hear that +Nixon is condemned to be shot to death, for his cowardice, by a Council +of War. Went to chapel and heard a little musique, and there met with +Creed, and with him a little while walking, and to Wilkinson's for me to +drink, being troubled with winde, and at noon to Sir Philip Warwicke's +to dinner, where abundance of company come in unexpectedly; and here I +saw one pretty piece of household stuff, as the company increaseth, to +put a larger leaf upon an oval table. After dinner much good discourse +with Sir Philip, who I find, I think, a most pious, good man, and +a professor of a philosophical manner of life and principles like +Epictetus, whom he cites in many things. Thence to my Lady Sandwich's, +where, to my shame, I had not been a great while before. Here, upon my +telling her a story of my Lord Rochester's running away on Friday night +last with Mrs. Mallett, the great beauty and fortune of the North, who +had supped at White Hall with Mrs. Stewart, and was going home to +her lodgings with her grandfather, my Lord Haly, by coach; and was at +Charing Cross seized on by both horse and foot men, and forcibly taken +from him, and put into a coach with six horses, and two women provided +to receive her, and carried away. Upon immediate pursuit, my Lord of +Rochester (for whom the King had spoke to the lady often, but with no +successe) was taken at Uxbridge; but the lady is not yet heard of, and +the King mighty angry, and the Lord sent to the Tower. Hereupon my Lady +did confess to me, as a great secret, her being concerned in this story. +For if this match breaks between my Lord Rochester and her, then, by the +consent of all her friends, my Lord Hinchingbroke stands fair, and is +invited for her. She is worth, and will be at her mother's death (who +keeps but a little from her), L2500 per annum. Pray God give a good +success to it! But my poor Lady, who is afeard of the sickness, and +resolved to be gone into the country, is forced to stay in towne a day +or two, or three about it, to see the event of it. Thence home and to +see my Lady Pen, where my wife and I were shown a fine rarity: of fishes +kept in a glass of water, that will live so for ever; and finely marked +they are, being foreign.--[Gold-fish introduced from China.]--So +to supper at home and to bed, after many people being with me about +business, among others the two Bellamys about their old debt due to them +from the King for their victualling business, out of which I hope to get +some money. + +29th. Lay long in bed, being in some little pain of the wind collique, +then up and to the Duke of Albemarle, and so to the Swan, and there +drank at Herbert's, and so by coach home, it being kept a great holiday +through the City, for the birth and restoration of the King. To my +office, where I stood by and saw Symson the joyner do several things, +little jobbs, to the rendering of my closet handsome and the setting up +of some neat plates that Burston has for my money made me, and so home +to dinner, and then with my wife, mother, and Mercer in one boat, and I +in another, down to Woolwich. I walking from Greenwich, the others going +to and fro upon the water till my coming back, having done but little +business. So home and to supper, and, weary, to bed. We have every +where taken some prizes. Our merchants have good luck to come home +safe: Colliers from the North, and some Streights men just now. And our +Hambrough ships, of whom we were so much afeard, are safe in Hambrough. +Our fleete resolved to sail out again from Harwich in a day or two. + +30th. Lay long, and very busy all the morning, at noon to the 'Change, +and thence to dinner to Sir G. Carteret's, to talk upon the business of +insuring our goods upon the Hambrough [ships]. Here a very fine, neat +French dinner, without much cost, we being all alone with my Lady and +one of the house with her; thence home and wrote letters, and then in +the evening, by coach, with my wife and mother and Mercer, our usual +tour by coach, and eat at the old house at Islington; but, Lord! to +see how my mother found herself talk upon every object to think of +old stories. Here I met with one that tells me that Jack Cole, my old +schoolefellow, is dead and buried lately of a consumption, who was a +great crony of mine. So back again home, and there to my closet to write +letters. Hear to my great trouble that our Hambrough ships, + + [On May 29th Sir William Coventry wrote to Lord Arlington: "Capt. + Langhorne has arrived with seven ships, and reports the taking of + the Hamburg fleet with the man of war their convoy; mistaking the + Dutch fleet for the English, he fell into it" ("Calendar of State + Papers," Domestic, 1664-65, p. 393)] + +valued of the King's goods and the merchants' (though but little of the +former) to L200,000 [are lost]. By and by, about 11 at night, called +into the garden by my Lady Pen and daughter, and there walked with them +and my wife till almost twelve, and so in and closed my letters, and +home to bed. + +31st. Up, and to my office, and to Westminster, doing business till +noon, and then to the 'Change, where great the noise and trouble of +having our Hambrough ships lost; and that very much placed upon Mr. +Coventry's forgetting to give notice to them of the going away of our +fleete from the coast of Holland. But all without reason, for he did; +but the merchants not being ready, staid longer than the time ordered +for the convoy to stay, which was ten days. Thence home with Creed and +Mr. Moore to dinner. Anon we broke up, and Creed and I to discourse +about our Tangier matters of money, which vex me. So to Gresham College, +staid a very little while, and away and I home busy, and busy late, at +the end of the month, about my month's accounts, but by the addition +of Tangier it is rendered more intricate, and so (which I have not done +these 12 months, nor would willingly have done now) failed of having it +done, but I will do it as soon as I can. So weary and sleepy to bed. I +endeavoured but missed of seeing Sir Thomas Ingram at Westminster, so +went to Houseman's the Painter, who I intend shall draw my wife, but he +was not within, but I saw several very good pictures. + + + + +JUNE 1665 + +June 1st. Up and to the office, where sat all the morning, at noon to +the 'Change, and there did some business, and home to dinner, whither +Creed comes, and after dinner I put on my new silke camelott sute; the +best that ever I wore in my life, the sute costing me above L24. In +this I went with Creed to Goldsmiths' Hall, to the burial of Sir Thomas +Viner; which Hall, and Haberdashers also, was so full of people, that +we were fain for ease and coolness to go forth to Pater Noster Row, to +choose a silke to make me a plain ordinary suit. That done, we walked to +Cornehill, and there at Mr. Cade's' stood in the balcon and saw all +the funeral, which was with the blue-coat boys and old men, all the +Aldermen, and Lord Mayor, &c., and the number of the company very great; +the greatest I ever did see for a taverne. Hither come up to us Dr. +Allen, and then Mr. Povy and Mr. Fox. The show being over, and my +discourse with Mr. Povy, I took coach and to Westminster Hall, where +I took the fairest flower, and by coach to Tothill Fields for the ayre +till it was dark. I 'light, and in with the fairest flower to eat a +cake, and there did do as much as was safe with my flower, and that was +enough on my part. Broke up, and away without any notice, and, after +delivering the rose where it should be, I to the Temple and 'light, and +come to the middle door, and there took another coach, and so home to +write letters, but very few, God knows, being by my pleasure made to +forget everything that is. The coachman that carried [us] cannot know me +again, nor the people at the house where we were. Home to bed, certain +news being come that our fleete is in sight of the Dutch ships. + +2nd. Lay troubled in mind abed a good while, thinking of my Tangier and +victualling business, which I doubt will fall. Up and to the Duke +of Albemarle, but missed him. Thence to the Harp and Ball and to +Westminster Hall, where I visited "the flowers" in each place, and so +met with Mr. Creed, and he and I to Mrs. Croft's to drink and did, but +saw not her daughter Borroughes. I away home, and there dined and did +business. In the afternoon went with my tallys, made a fair end with +Colvill and Viner, delivering them L5000 tallys to each and very quietly +had credit given me upon other tallys of Mr. Colvill for L2000 and +good words for more, and of Mr. Viner too. Thence to visit the Duke of +Albemarle, and thence my Lady Sandwich and Lord Crew. Thence home, and +there met an expresse from Sir W. Batten at Harwich, that the fleete is +all sailed from Solebay, having spied the Dutch fleete at sea, and that, +if the calmes hinder not, they must needs now be engaged with them. +Another letter also come to me from Mr. Hater, committed by the Council +this afternoon to the Gate House, upon the misfortune of having his name +used by one, without his knowledge or privity, for the receiving of +some powder that he had bought. Up to Court about these two, and for the +former was led up to my Lady Castlemayne's lodgings, where the King and +she and others were at supper, and there I read the letter and returned; +and then to Sir G. Carteret about Hater, and shall have him released +to-morrow, upon my giving bail for his appearance, which I have promised +to do. Sir G. Carteret did go on purpose to the King to ask this, and it +was granted. So home at past 12, almost one o'clock in the morning. To +my office till past two, and then home to supper and to bed. + +3rd. Up and to White Hall, where Sir G. Carteret did go with me to +Secretary Morris, and prevailed with him to let Mr. Hater be released +upon bail for his appearance. So I at a loss how to get another besides +myself, and got Mr. Hunt, who did patiently stay with me all the morning +at Secretary Morris's chamber, Mr. Hater being sent for with his +keeper, and at noon comes in the Secretary, and upon entering [into] +recognizances, he for L200, and Mr. Hunt and I for L100 each for his +appearance upon demand, he was released, it costing him, I think, above +L3. I thence home, vexed to be kept from the office all the morning, +which I had not been in many months before, if not some years. At home +to dinner, and all the afternoon at the office, where late at night, and +much business done, then home to supper and to bed. All this day by all +people upon the River, and almost every where else hereabout were heard +the guns, our two fleets for certain being engaged; which was confirmed +by letters from Harwich, but nothing particular: and all our hearts full +of concernment for the Duke, and I particularly for my Lord Sandwich and +Mr. Coventry after his Royall Highnesse. + +4th (Sunday). Up and at my chamber all the forenoon, at evening my +accounts, which I could not do sooner, for the last month, and, blessed +be God! am worth L1400 odd money, something more than ever I was yet in +the world. Dined very well at noon, and then to my office, and there +and in the garden discoursed with several people about business, among +others Mr. Howell, the turner, who did give me so good a discourse about +the practices of the Paymaster J. Fenn that I thought fit to recollect +all when he was gone, and have entered it down to be for ever +remembered. Thence to my chamber again to settle my Tangier accounts +against tomorrow and some other things, and with great joy ended them, +and so to supper, where a good fowl and tansy, and so to bed. Newes +being come that our fleete is pursuing the Dutch, who, either by +cunning, or by being worsted, do give ground, but nothing more for +certain. Late to bed upon my papers being quite finished. + +5th. Up very betimes to look some other papers, and then to White +Hall to a Committee of Tangier, where I offered my accounts with great +acceptation, and so had some good words and honour by it, and one or two +things done to my content in my business of Treasurer, but I do clearly +see that we shall lose our business of victualling, Sir Thomas Ingram +undertaking that it shall be done by persons there as cheap as we do +it, and give the seamen their full allowance and themselves give good +security here for performance of contract, upon which terms there is no +opposing it. This would trouble me, but that I hope when that fails to +spend my time to some good advantage other ways, and so shall permit it +all to God Almighty's pleasure. Thence home to dinner, after 'Change, +where great talke of the Dutch being fled and we in pursuit of them, and +that our ship Charity + + [Sir William Coventry and Sir William Penn to the Navy + Commissioners, June 4th: "Engaged yesterday with the Dutch; they + began to stand away at 3 p.m. Chased them all the rest of the day + and night; 20 considerable ships are destroyed and taken; we have + only lost the Great Charity. The Earl of Marlborough, Rear-Admiral + Sansum, and Captain Kirby are slain, and Sir John Lawson wounded" + ("Calendar of State Papers," Domestic, 1664-65, p. 406).] + +is lost upon our Captain's, Wilkinson, and Lieutenant's yielding, but of +this there is no certainty, save the report of some of the sicke men of +the Charity, turned adrift in a boat out of the Charity and taken up and +brought on shore yesterday to Sole Bay, and the newes hereof brought by +Sir Henry Felton. Home to dinner, and Creed with me. Then he and I down +to Deptford, did some business, and back again at night. He home, and +I to my office, and so to supper and to bed. This morning I had great +discourse with my Lord Barkeley about Mr. Hater, towards whom from a +great passion reproaching him with being a fanatique and dangerous for +me to keepe, I did bring him to be mighty calme and to ask me pardons +for what he had thought of him and to desire me to ask his pardon of +Hater himself for the ill words he did give him the other day alone at +White Hall (which was, that he had always thought him a man that was no +good friend to the King, but did never think it would breake out in a +thing of this nature), and did advise him to declare his innocence to +the Council and pray for his examination and vindication. Of which I +shall consider and say no more, but remember one compliment that in +great kindness to me he did give me, extolling my care and diligence, +that he did love me heartily for my owne sake, and more that he did will +me whatsoever I thought for Mr. Coventry's sake, for though the world +did think them enemies, and to have an ill aspect, one to another, yet +he did love him with all his heart, which was a strange manner of noble +compliment, confessing his owning me as a confidant and favourite of Mr. +Coventry's. + +6th. Waked in the morning before 4 o'clock with great pain to piss, and +great pain in pissing by having, I think, drank too great a draught of +cold drink before going to bed. But by and by to sleep again, and then +rose and to the office, where very busy all the morning, and at noon +to dinner with Sir G. Carteret to his house with all our Board, where a +good pasty and brave discourse. But our great fear was some fresh news +of the fleete, but not from the fleete, all being said to be well and +beaten the Dutch, but I do not give much belief to it, and indeed the +news come from Sir W. Batten at Harwich, and writ so simply that we +all made good mirth of it. Thence to the office, where upon Sir G. +Carteret's accounts, to my great vexation there being nothing done by +the Controller to right the King therein. I thence to my office and +wrote letters all the afternoon, and in the evening by coach to Sir Ph. +Warwicke's about my Tangier business to get money, and so to my Lady +Sandwich's, who, poor lady, expects every hour to hear of my Lord; but +in the best temper, neither confident nor troubled with fear, that +I ever did see in my life. She tells me my Lord Rochester is now +declaredly out of hopes of Mrs. Mallett, and now she is to receive +notice in a day or two how the King stands inclined to the giving leave +for my Lord Hinchingbroke to look after her, and that being done to +bring it to an end shortly. Thence by coach home, and to my office a +little, and so before 12 o'clock home and to bed. + +7th. This morning my wife and mother rose about two o'clock; and with +Mercer, Mary, the boy, and W. Hewer, as they had designed, took boat +and down to refresh themselves on the water to Gravesend. Lay till +7 o'clock, then up and to the office upon Sir G. Carteret's accounts +again, where very busy; thence abroad and to the 'Change, no news of +certainty being yet come from the fleete. Thence to the Dolphin Taverne, +where Sir J. Minnes, Lord Brunkard, Sir Thomas Harvy, and myself dined, +upon Sir G. Carteret's charge, and very merry we were, Sir Thomas Harvy +being a very drolle. Thence to the office, and meeting Creed away with +him to my Lord Treasurer's, there thinking to have met the goldsmiths, +at White Hall, but did not, and so appointed another time for my Lord to +speak to them to advance us some money. Thence, it being the hottest day +that ever I felt in my life, and it is confessed so by all other people +the hottest they ever knew in England in the beginning of June, we to +the New Exchange, and there drunk whey, with much entreaty getting it +for our money, and [they] would not be entreated to let us have one +glasse more. So took water and to Fox-Hall, to the Spring garden, and +there walked an houre or two with great pleasure, saving our minds ill +at ease concerning the fleete and my Lord Sandwich, that we have no +newes of them, and ill reports run up and down of his being killed, but +without ground. Here staid pleasantly walking and spending but 6d. till +nine at night, and then by water to White Hall, and there I stopped +to hear news of the fleete, but none come, which is strange, and so by +water home, where, weary with walking and with the mighty heat of the +weather, and for my wife's not coming home, I staying walking in the +garden till twelve at night, when it begun to lighten exceedingly, +through the greatness of the heat. Then despairing of her coming home, +I to bed. This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two +or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and "Lord have +mercy upon us" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first +of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put me into an ill +conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some +roll-tobacco to smell to and chaw, which took away the apprehension. + +8th. About five o'clock my wife come home, it having lightened all night +hard, and one great shower of rain. She come and lay upon the bed; I up +and to the office, where all the morning. Alone at home to dinner, my +wife, mother, and Mercer dining at W. Joyce's; I giving her a caution to +go round by the Half Moone to his house, because of the plague. I to +my Lord Treasurer's by appointment of Sir Thomas Ingram's, to meet the +Goldsmiths; where I met with the great news at last newly come, brought +by Bab May' from the Duke of Yorke, that we have totally routed the +Dutch; that the Duke himself, the Prince, my Lord Sandwich, and Mr. +Coventry are all well: which did put me into such joy, that I forgot +almost all other thoughts. The particulars I shall set down by and +by. By and by comes Alderman Maynell and Mr. Viner, and there my Lord +Treasurer did intreat them to furnish me with money upon my tallys, Sir +Philip Warwicke before my Lord declaring the King's changing of the hand +from Mr. Povy to me, whom he called a very sober person, and one whom +the Lord Treasurer would owne in all things that I should concern myself +with them in the business of money. They did at present declare they +could not part with money at present. My Lord did press them very hard, +and I hope upon their considering we shall get some of them. Thence with +great joy to the Cocke-pitt; where the Duke of Albemarle, like a man out +of himself with content, new-told me all; and by and by comes a letter +from Mr. Coventry's own hand to him, which he never opened (which was a +strange thing), but did give it me to open and read, and consider what +was fit for our office to do in it, and leave the letter with Sir W. +Clerke; which upon such a time and occasion was a strange piece of +indifference, hardly pardonable. I copied out the letter, and did also +take minutes out of Sir W. Clerke's other letters; and the sum of the +newes is: + + VICTORY OVER THE DUTCH, JUNE 3RD, 1665. + +This day they engaged; the Dutch neglecting greatly the opportunity +of the wind they had of us, by which they lost the benefit of their +fire-ships. The Earl of Falmouth, Muskerry, and Mr. Richard Boyle killed +on board the Duke's ship, the Royall Charles, with one shot: their blood +and brains flying in the Duke's face; and the head of Mr. Boyle +striking down the Duke, as some say. Earle of Marlborough, Portland, +Rear-Admirall Sansum (to Prince Rupert) killed, and Capt. Kirby and +Ableson. Sir John Lawson wounded on the knee; hath had some bones taken +out, and is likely to be well again. Upon receiving the hurt, he sent to +the Duke for another to command the Royall Oake. The Duke sent Jordan + + [Afterwards Sir Joseph Jordan, commander of the "Royal Sovereign," + and Vice-Admiral of the Red, 1672. He was knighted on July 1st, + 1665.--B.] + +out of the St. George, who did brave things in her. Capt. Jer. Smith +of the Mary was second to the Duke, and stepped between him and Captain +Seaton of the Urania (76 guns and 400 men), who had sworn to board the +Duke; killed him, 200 men, and took the ship; himself losing 99 men, and +never an officer saved but himself and lieutenant. His master indeed is +saved, with his leg cut off: Admirall Opdam blown up, Trump killed, +and said by Holmes; all the rest of their admiralls, as they say, but +Everson (whom they dare not trust for his affection to the Prince of +Orange), are killed: we having taken and sunk, as is believed, about 24 +of their best ships; killed and taken near 8 or 10,000 men, and lost, we +think, not above 700. A great[er] victory never known in the world. They +are all fled, some 43 got into the Texell, and others elsewhere, and we +in pursuit of the rest. Thence, with my heart full of joy; home, and to +my office a little; then to my Lady Pen's, where they are all joyed and +not a little puffed up at the good successe of their father; + + [In the royal charter granted by Charles II. in 1680 to William Penn + for the government of his American province, to be styled + Pennsylvania, special reference is made to "the memory and merits of + Sir William Penn in divers services, and particularly his conduct, + courage, and discretion under our dearest brother, James, Duke of + York, in that signal battle and victory fought and obtained against + the Dutch fleet commanded by Heer van Opdam in 1665" ("Penn's + Memorials of Sir W. Penn," vol. ii., p. 359).] + +and good service indeed is said to have been done by him. Had a great +bonefire at the gate; and I with my Lady Pen's people and others to Mrs. +Turner's great room, and then down into the streete. I did give the boys +4s. among them, and mighty merry. So home to bed, with my heart at great +rest and quiett, saving that the consideration of the victory is too +great for me presently to comprehend. + + [Mrs. Ady (Julia Cartwright), in her fascinating life of Henrietta, + Duchess of Orleans, gives an account of the receipt of the news of + the great sea-fight in Paris, and quotes a letter of Charles II. to + his sister, dated, "Whitehall, June 8th, 1665" The first report + that reached Paris was that "the Duke of York's ship had been blown + up, and he himself had been drowned." "The shock was too much for + Madame... she was seized with convulsions, and became so + dangerously ill that Lord Hollis wrote to the king, 'If things had + gone ill at sea I really believe Madame would have died.'" Charles + wrote: "I thanke God we have now the certayne newes of a very + considerable victory over the Duch; you will see most of the + particulars by the relation my Lord Hopis will shew you, though I + have had as great a losse as 'tis possible in a good frinde, poore + C. Barckely. It troubles me so much, as I hope you will excuse the + shortnesse of this letter, haveing receaved the newes of it but two + houres agoe" ("Madame," 1894, pp. 215, 216).] + +9th. Lay long in bed, my head akeing with too much thoughts I think +last night. Up and to White Hall, and my Lord Treasurer's to Sir Ph. +Warwicke, about Tangier business, and in my way met with Mr. Moore, who +eases me in one point wherein I was troubled; which was, that I heard +of nothing said or done by my Lord Sandwich: but he tells me that Mr. +Cowling, my Lord Chamberlain's secretary, did hear the King say that my +Lord Sandwich had done nobly and worthily. The King, it seems, is much +troubled at the fall of my Lord of Falmouth; but I do not meet with any +man else that so much as wishes him alive again, the world conceiving +him a man of too much pleasure to do the King any good, or offer any +good office to him. But I hear of all hands he is confessed to have been +a man of great honour, that did show it in this his going with the Duke, +the most that ever any man did. Home, where my people busy to make ready +a supper against night for some guests, in lieu of my stonefeast. At +noon eat a small dinner at home, and so abroad to buy several things, +and among others with my taylor to buy a silke suit, which though I had +one lately, yet I do, for joy of the good newes we have lately had +of our victory over the Dutch, which makes me willing to spare myself +something extraordinary in clothes; and after long resolution of having +nothing but black, I did buy a coloured silk ferrandin. So to the Old +Exchange, and there at my pretty seamstresses bought a pair of stockings +of her husband, and so home, where by and by comes Mr. Honiwood and Mrs. +Wilde, and Roger Pepys and, after long time spent, Mrs. Turner, The. +and Joyce. We had a very good venison pasty, this being instead of my +stone-feast the last March, and very merry we were, and the more I know +the more I like Mr. Honiwood's conversation. So after a good supper they +parted, walking to the 'Change for a coach, and I with them to see them +there. So home and to bed, glad it was over. + +10th. Lay long in bed, and then up and at the office all the morning. +At noon dined at home, and then to the office busy all the afternoon. +In the evening home to supper; and there, to my great trouble, hear that +the plague is come into the City (though it hath these three or four +weeks since its beginning been wholly out of the City); but where +should it begin but in my good friend and neighbour's, Dr. Burnett, +in Fanchurch Street: which in both points troubles me mightily. To the +office to finish my letters and then home to bed, being troubled at +the sicknesse, and my head filled also with other business enough, and +particularly how to put my things and estate in order, in case it should +please God to call me away, which God dispose of to his glory! + +11th (Lord's day). Up, and expected long a new suit; but, coming not, +dressed myself in my late new black silke camelott suit; and, when fully +ready, comes my new one of coloured ferrandin, which my wife puts me out +of love with, which vexes me, but I think it is only my not being used +to wear colours which makes it look a little unusual upon me. To my +chamber and there spent the morning reading. At noon, by invitation, +comes my two cozen Joyces and their wives, my aunt James and he-cozen +Harman, his wife being ill. I had a good dinner for them, and as merry +as I could be in such company. They being gone, I out of doors a little, +to shew, forsooth, my new suit, and back again, and in going I saw poor +Dr. Burnett's door shut; but he hath, I hear, gained great goodwill +among his neighbours; for he discovered it himself first, and caused +himself to be shut up of his own accord: which was very handsome. In +the evening comes Mr. Andrews and his wife and Mr. Hill, and staid and +played, and sung and supped, most excellent pretty company, so pleasant, +ingenious, and harmless, I cannot desire better. They gone we to bed, my +mind in great present ease. + +12th. Up, and in my yesterday's new suit to the Duke of Albemarle, and +after a turne in White Hall, and then in Westminster Hall, returned, and +with my taylor bought some gold lace for my sleeve hands in Pater Noster +Row. So home to dinner, and then to the office, and down the River to +Deptford, and then back again and to my Lord Treasurer's, and up and +down to look after my Tangier business, and so home to my office, then +to supper and to bed. The Duke of Yorke is sent for last night and +expected to be here to-morrow. + +13th. Up and to the office, where all the morning doing business. At +noon with Sir G. Carteret to my Lord Mayor's to dinner, where much +company in a little room, and though a good, yet no extraordinary table. +His name, Sir John Lawrence, whose father, a very ordinary old man, sat +there at table, but it seems a very rich man. Here were at table +three Sir Richard Brownes, viz.: he of the Councill, a clerk, and the +Alderman, and his son; and there was a little grandson also Richard, who +will hereafter be Sir Richard Browne. The Alderman did here openly tell +in boasting how he had, only upon suspicion of disturbances, if there +had been any bad newes from sea, clapped up several persons that he was +afeard of; and that he had several times done the like and would do, and +take no bail where he saw it unsafe for the King. But by and by he said +that he was now sued in the Exchequer by a man for false imprisonment, +that he had, upon the same score, imprisoned while he was Mayor four +years ago, and asked advice upon it. I told him I believed there was +none, and told my story of Field, at which he was troubled, and said +that it was then unsafe for any man to serve the King, and, I believed, +knows not what to do therein; but that Sir Richard Browne, of the +Councill, advised him to speak with my Lord Chancellor about it. My Lord +Mayor very respectfull to me; and so I after dinner away and found Sir +J. Minnes ready with his coach and four horses at our office gate, for +him and me to go out of towne to meet the Duke of Yorke coming from +Harwich to-night, and so as far as Ilford, and there 'light. By and by +comes to us Sir John Shaw and Mr. Neale, that married the rich widow +Gold, upon the same errand. After eating a dish of creame, we took +coach again, hearing nothing of the Duke, and away home, a most pleasant +evening and road. And so to my office, where, after my letters wrote, +to supper and to bed. All our discourse in our way was Sir J. Minnes's +telling me passages of the late King's and his father's, which I was +mightily pleased to hear for information, though the pride of some +persons and vice of most was but a sad story to tell how that brought +the whole kingdom and King to ruine. + +14th. Up, and to Sir Ph. Warwicke's and other places, about Tangier +business, but to little purpose. Among others to my Lord Treasurer's, +there to speak with him, and waited in the lobby three long hours for to +speake with him, to the trial of my utmost patience, but missed him at +last, and forced to go home without it, which may teach me how I make +others wait. Home to dinner and staid Mr. Hater with me, and after +dinner drew up a petition for Mr. Hater to present to the Councill about +his troublesome business of powder, desiring a trial that his absence +may be vindicated, and so to White Hall, but it was not proper to +present it to-day. Here I met with Mr. Cowling, who observed to me how +he finds every body silent in the praise of my Lord Sandwich, to set up +the Duke and the Prince; but that the Duke did both to the King and my +Lord Chancellor write abundantly of my Lord's courage and service. + + [Charles II.'s letter of thanks to Lord Sandwich, dated "Whitehall, + June 9th, 1665," written entirely in the king's hand, is printed in + Ellis's "Original Letters," 1st series, vol. iii., p. 327.] + +And I this day met with a letter of Captain Ferrers, wherein he tells +[us] my Lord was with his ship in all the heat of the day, and did most +worthily. Met with Creed, and he and I to Westminster; and there saw my +Lord Marlborough + + [Of the four distinguished men who died after the late action with + the Dutch and were buried in Westminster Abbey, the Earl of + Marlborough was interred on June 14th, Viscount Muskerry on the + 19th, the Earl of Falmouth on the 22nd, and Sir Edward Broughton on + the 26th. After the entries in the Abbey Registers is this note: + "These four last Honble Persons dyed in his Majy's service against + the Dutch, excepting only that ST Ed Br received his death's wound + at sea, but dyed here at home" (Chester's "Westminster Abbey + Registers," p. 162).] + +brought to be buried, several Lords of the Council carrying him, and +with the herald in some state. Thence, vexed in my mind to think that +I do so little in my Tangier business, and so home, and after supper to +bed. + +15th. Up, and put on my new stuff suit with close knees, which becomes +me most nobly, as my wife says. At the office all day. At noon, put on +my first laced band, all lace; and to Kate Joyce's to dinner, where my +mother, wife, and abundance of their friends, and good usage. Thence, +wife and Mercer and I to the Old Exchange, and there bought two lace +bands more, one of my semstresse, whom my wife concurs with me to be +a pretty woman. So down to Deptford and Woolwich, my boy and I. At +Woolwich, discoursed with Mr. Sheldon about my bringing my wife down for +a month or two to his house, which he approves of, and, I think, will be +very convenient. So late back, and to the office, wrote letters, and +so home to supper and to bed. This day the Newes book upon Mr. Moore's +showing L'Estrange + + ["The Public Intelligencer," published by Roger L'Estrange, the + predecessor of the "London Gazette."] + +(Captain Ferrers's letter) did do my Lord Sandwich great right as to the +late victory. The Duke of Yorke not yet come to towne. The towne grows +very sickly, and people to be afeard of it; there dying this last +week of the plague 112, from 43 the week before, whereof but [one] in +Fanchurch-streete, and one in Broad-streete, by the Treasurer's office. + +16th. Up and to the office, where I set hard to business, but was +informed that the Duke of Yorke is come, and hath appointed us to attend +him this afternoon. So after dinner, and doing some business at the +office, I to White Hall, where the Court is full of the Duke and his +courtiers returned from sea. All fat and lusty, and ruddy by being in +the sun. I kissed his hands, and we waited all the afternoon. By and by +saw Mr. Coventry, which rejoiced my very heart. Anon he and I, from all +the rest of the company, walked into the Matted Gallery; where after +many expressions of love, we fell to talk of business. Among other +things, how my Lord Sandwich, both in his counsells and personal +service, hath done most honourably and serviceably. Sir J. Lawson is +come to Greenwich; but his wound in his knee yet very bad. Jonas Poole, +in the Vantguard, did basely, so as to be, or will be, turned out of his +ship. Captain Holmes + + [Captain Robert Holmes (afterwards knighted). Sir William Coventry, + in a letter to Lord Arlington (dated from "The Royal Charles," + Southwold Bay, June 13th), writes: "Capt. Holmes asked to be rear + admiral of the white squadron in place of Sansum who was killed, but + the Duke gave the place to Captain Harman, on which he delivered up + his commission, which the Duke received, and put Captain Langhorne + in his stead" ("Calendar of State Papers," Domestic, 1664-65, p. + 423).] + +expecting upon Sansum's death to be made Rear-admirall to the Prince +(but Harman is + + [John Harman, afterwards knighted. He had served with great + reputation in several naval fights, and was desperately wounded in + 1673, while] + +put in) hath delivered up to the Duke his commission, which the Duke +took and tore. He, it seems, had bid the Prince, who first told him of +Holmes's intention, that he should dissuade him from it; for that he +was resolved to take it if he offered it. Yet Holmes would do it, like +a rash, proud coxcombe. But he is rich, and hath, it seems, sought an +occasion of leaving the service. Several of our captains have done ill. +The great ships are the ships do the business, they quite deadening the +enemy. They run away upon sight of "The Prince." + + ["The Prince" was Lord Sandwich's ship; the captain was Roger + Cuttance. It was put up at Chatham for repair at this date.] + +It is strange to see how people do already slight Sir William Barkeley, + + [Sir William Berkeley, see note, vol. iii., p. 334. His behaviour + after the death of his brother, Lord Falmouth, is severely commented + on in "Poems on State Affairs," vol. i., p. 29 + + "Berkeley had heard it soon, and thought not good + To venture more of royal Harding's blood; + To be immortal he was not of age, + And did e'en now the Indian Prize presage; + And judged it safe and decent, cost what cost, + To lose the day, since his dear brother's lost. + With his whole squadron straight away he bore, + And, like good boy, promised to fight no more."--B.] + +my Lord FitzHarding's brother, who, three months since, was the delight +of the Court. Captain Smith of "The Mary" the Duke talks mightily of; +and some great thing will be done for him. Strange to hear how the Dutch +do relate, as the Duke says, that they are the conquerors; and bonefires +are made in Dunkirke in their behalf; though a clearer victory can never +be expected. Mr. Coventry thinks they cannot have lost less than 6000 +men, and we not dead above 200, and wounded about 400; in all about 600. +Thence home and to my office till past twelve, and then home to supper +and to bed, my wife and mother not being yet come home from W. Hewer's +chamber, who treats my mother tonight. Captain Grovel the Duke told us +this day, hath done the basest thing at Lowestoffe, in hearing of the +guns, and could not (as others) be got out, but staid there; for which +he will be tried; and is reckoned a prating coxcombe, and of no courage. + +17th. My wife come to bed about one in the morning. I up and abroad +about Tangier business, then back to the office, where we sat, and at +noon home to dinner, and then abroad to Mr. Povy's, after I and Mr. +Andrews had been with Mr. Ball and one Major Strange, who looks after +the getting of money for tallys and is helping Mr. Andrews. I had much +discourse with Ball, and it may be he may prove a necessary man for our +turns. With Mr. Povy I spoke very freely my indifference as to my place +of Treasurer, being so much troubled in it, which he took with much +seeming trouble, that I should think of letting go so lightly the place, +but if the place can't be held I will. So hearing that my Lord Treasurer +was gone out of town with his family because of the sicknesse, I +returned home without staying there, and at the office find Sir W. +Pen come home, who looks very well; and I am gladder to see him than +otherwise I should be because of my hearing so well of him for his +serviceablenesse in this late great action. To the office late, and then +home to bed. It struck me very deep this afternoon going with a hackney +coach from my Lord Treasurer's down Holborne, the coachman I found to +drive easily and easily, at last stood still, and come down hardly able +to stand, and told me that he was suddenly struck very sicke, and almost +blind, he could not see; so I 'light and went into another coach, with +a sad heart for the poor man and trouble for myself, lest he should have +been struck with the plague, being at the end of the towne that I took +him up; but God have mercy upon us all! Sir John Lawson, I hear, is +worse than yesterday: the King went to see him to-day most kindly. It +seems his wound is not very bad; but he hath a fever, a thrush, and a +hickup, all three together, which are, it seems, very bad symptoms. + +18th (Lord's day). Up, and to church, where Sir W. Pen was the first +time [since he] come from sea, after the battle. Mr. Mills made a sorry +sermon to prove that there was a world to come after this. Home and +dined and then to my chamber, where all the afternoon. Anon comes Mr. +Andrews to see and sing with me, but Mr. Hill not coming, and having +business, we soon parted, there coming Mr. Povy and Creed to discourse +about our Tangier business of money. They gone, I hear Sir W. Batten and +my Lady are returned from Harwich. I went to see them, and it is pretty +to see how we appear kind one to another, though neither of us care 2d. +one for another. Home to supper, and there coming a hasty letter from +Commissioner Pett for pressing of some calkers (as I would ever on +his Majesty's service), with all speed, I made a warrant presently and +issued it. So to my office a little, and then home to bed. + +19th. Up, and to White Hall with Sir W. Batten (calling at my Lord +Ashly's, but to no purpose, by the way, he being not up), and there had +our usual meeting before the Duke with the officers of the Ordnance +with us, which in some respects I think will be the better for us, for +despatch sake. Thence home to the 'Change and dined alone (my wife gone +to her mother's), after dinner to my little new goldsmith's, + + [John Colvill of Lombard Street, see ante, May 24th. He lost + L85,832 17s. 2d. by the closing of the Exchequer in 1672, and he + died between 1672 and 1677 (Price's "Handbook of London Bankers ").] + +whose wife indeed is one of the prettiest, modest black women that ever +I saw. I paid for a dozen of silver salts L6 14s. 6d. Thence with Sir +W. Pen from the office down to Greenwich to see Sir J. Lawson, who is +better, but continues ill; his hickupp not being yet gone, could have +little discourse with him. So thence home and to supper, a while to the +office, my head and mind mightily vexed to see the multitude of papers +and business before [me] and so little time to do it in. So to bed. + +20th. Thankes-giving-day for victory over ye Dutch. Up, and to the +office, where very busy alone all the morning till church time, and +there heard a mean sorry sermon of Mr. Mills. Then to the Dolphin +Taverne, where all we officers of the Navy met with the Commissioners +of the Ordnance by agreement, and dined: where good musique at my +direction. Our club--[share] + + ["Next these a sort of Sots there are, + Who crave more wine than they can bear, + Yet hate, when drunk, to pay or spend + Their equal Club or Dividend, + But wrangle, when the Bill is brought, + And think they're cheated when they're not." + + The Delights of the Bottle, or the Compleat Vintner, 3rd ed., 1721, + p. 29.] + +--come to 34s. a man, nine of us. Thence after dinner, to White Hall +with Sir W. Berkely in his coach, and so walked to Herbert's and there +spent a little time.... Thence by water to Fox-hall, and there walked +an hour alone, observing the several humours of the citizens that were +there this holyday, pulling of cherries,--[The game of bob-cherry]--and +God knows what, and so home to my office, where late, my wife not being +come home with my mother, who have been this day all abroad upon the +water, my mother being to go out of town speedily. So I home and to +supper and to bed, my wife come home when I come from the office. This +day I informed myself that there died four or five at Westminster of the +plague in one alley in several houses upon Sunday last, Bell Alley, over +against the Palace-gate; yet people do think that the number will be +fewer in the towne than it was the last weeke! The Dutch are come out +again with 20 sail under Bankert; supposed gone to the Northward to +meete their East India fleete. + +21st. Up, and very busy all the morning. At noon with Creed to the +Excise Office, where I find our tallys will not be money in less than +sixteen months, which is a sad thing for the King to pay all that +interest for every penny he spends; and, which is strange, the +goldsmiths with whom I spoke, do declare that they will not be moved +to part with money upon the increase of their consideration of ten per +cent. which they have, and therefore desire I would not move in it, and +indeed the consequence would be very ill to the King, and have its ill +consequences follow us through all the King's revenue. Home, and my +uncle Wight and aunt James dined with me, my mother being to go +away to-morrow. So to White Hall, and there before and after Council +discoursed with Sir Thomas Ingram about our ill case as to Tangier for +money. He hath got the King to appoint a meeting on Friday, which I hope +will put an end one way or other to my pain. So homewards and to the +Cross Keys at Cripplegate, where I find all the towne almost going out +of towne, the coaches and waggons being all full of people going into +the country. Here I had some of the company of the tapster's wife a +while, and so home to my office, and then home to supper and to bed. + +22nd. Up pretty betimes, and in great pain whether to send my another +into the country to-day or no, I hearing, by my people, that she, poor +wretch, hath a mind to stay a little longer, and I cannot blame her, +considering what a life she will through her own folly lead when she +comes home again, unlike the pleasure and liberty she hath had here. At +last I resolved to put it to her, and she agreed to go, so I would not +oppose it, because of the sicknesse in the towne, and my intentions of +removing my wife. So I did give her money and took a kind leave of her, +she, poor wretch, desiring that I would forgive my brother John, but I +refused it to her, which troubled her, poor soul, but I did it in kind +words and so let the discourse go off, she leaving me though in a great +deal of sorrow. So I to my office and left my wife and people to see her +out of town, and I at the office all the morning. At noon my wife tells +me that she is with much ado gone, and I pray God bless her, but it +seems she was to the last unwilling to go, but would not say so, but put +it off till she lost her place in the coach, and was fain to ride in the +waggon part. After dinner to the office again till night, very busy, and +so home not very late to supper and to bed. + +23rd. Up and to White Hall to a Committee for Tangier, where his Royal +Highness was. Our great design was to state to them the true condition +of this Committee for want of money, the want whereof was so great as to +need some sudden help, and it was with some content resolved to see it +supplied and means proposed towards the doing of it. At this Committee, +unknown to me, comes my Lord of Sandwich, who, it seems, come to towne +last night. After the Committee was up, my Lord Sandwich did take me +aside, and we walked an hour alone together in the robe-chamber, the +door shut, telling me how much the Duke and Mr. Coventry did, both in +the fleete and here, make of him, and that in some opposition to the +Prince; and as a more private message, he told me that he hath been with +them both when they have made sport of the Prince and laughed at him: +yet that all the discourse of the towne, and the printed relation, +should not give him one word of honour my Lord thinks mighty strange; +he assuring me, that though by accident the Prince was in the van the +beginning of the fight for the first pass, yet all the rest of the day +my Lord was in the van, and continued so. That notwithstanding all this +noise of the Prince, he had hardly a shot in his side nor a man killed, +whereas he hath above 30 in her hull, and not one mast whole nor yard; +but the most battered ship of the fleet, and lost most men, saving +Captain Smith of "The Mary." That the most the Duke did was almost out +of gun-shot; but that, indeed, the Duke did come up to my Lord's rescue +after he had a great while fought with four of them. How poorly Sir John +Lawson performed, notwithstanding all that was said of him; and how his +ship turned out of the way, while Sir J. Lawson himself was upon the +deck, to the endangering of the whole fleete. It therefore troubles my +Lord that Mr. Coventry should not mention a word of him in his relation. +I did, in answer, offer that I was sure the relation was not compiled +by Mr. Coventry, but by L'Estrange, out of several letters, as I could +witness; and that Mr. Coventry's letter that he did give the Duke of +Albemarle did give him as much right as the Prince, for I myself read +it first and then copied it out, which I promised to show my Lord, with +which he was somewhat satisfied. From that discourse my Lord did begin +to tell me how much he was concerned to dispose of his children, and +would have my advice and help; and propounded to match my Lady Jemimah +to Sir G. Carteret's eldest son, which I approved of, and did undertake +the speaking with him about it as from myself, which my Lord liked. So +parted, with my head full of care about this business. Thence home to +the 'Change, and so to dinner, and thence by coach to Mr. Povy's. +Thence by appointment with him and Creed to one Mr. Finch; one of the +Commissioners for the Excise, to be informed about some things of the +Excise, in order to our settling matters therein better for us for our +Tangier business. I find him a very discreet, grave person. Thence well +satisfied I and Creed to Mr. Fox at White Hall to speak with him about +the same matter, and having some pretty satisfaction from him also, +he and I took boat and to Fox Hall, where we spent two or three hours +talking of several matters very soberly and contentfully to me, which, +with the ayre and pleasure of the garden, was a great refreshment to me, +and, 'methinks, that which we ought to joy ourselves in. Thence back +to White Hall, where we parted, and I to find my Lord to receive his +farther direction about his proposal this morning. Wherein I did that I +should first by another hand break my intentions to Sir G. Carteret. I +pitched upon Dr. Clerke, which my Lord liked, and so I endeavoured but +in vain to find him out to-night. So home by hackney-coach, which is +become a very dangerous passage now-a-days, the sickness increasing +mightily, and to bed. + +24th (Midsummer-day). Up very betimes, by six, and at Dr. Clerke's at +Westminster by 7 of the clock, having over night by a note acquainted +him with my intention of coming, and there I, in the best manner I +could, broke my errand about a match between Sir G. Carteret's eldest +son and my Lord Sandwich's eldest daughter, which he (as I knew he +would) took with great content: and we both agreed that my Lord and he, +being both men relating to the sea, under a kind aspect of His Majesty, +already good friends, and both virtuous and good familys, their allyance +might be of good use to us; and he did undertake to find out Sir George +this morning, and put the business in execution. So being both well +pleased with the proposition, I saw his niece there and made her sing me +two or three songs very prettily, and so home to the office, where to +my great trouble I found Mr. Coventry and the board met before I come. +I excused my late coming by having been on the River about office +business. So to business all the morning. At noon Captain Ferrers and +Mr. Moore dined with me, the former of them the first time I saw him +since his corning from sea, who do give me the best conversation in +general, and as good an account of the particular service of the Prince +and my Lord of Sandwich in the late sea-fight that I could desire. After +dinner they parted. So I to White Hall, where I with Creed and Povy +attended my Lord Treasurer, and did prevail with him to let us have an +assignment for 15 or L20,000, which, I hope, will do our business +for Tangier. So to Dr. Clerke, and there found that he had broke the +business to Sir G. Carteret, and that he takes the thing mighty well. +Thence I to Sir G. Carteret at his chamber, and in the best manner I +could, and most obligingly, moved the business: he received it with +great respect and content, and thanks to me, and promised that he would +do what he could possibly for his son, to render him fit for my Lord's +daughter, and shewed great kindness to me, and sense of my kindness to +him herein. Sir William Pen told me this day that Mr. Coventry is to be +sworn a Privy Counsellor, at which my soul is glad. So home and to my +letters by the post, and so home to supper and bed. + +25th (Lord's day). Up, and several people about business come to me +by appointment relating to the office. Thence I to my closet about my +Tangier papers. At noon dined, and then I abroad by water, it raining +hard, thinking to have gone down to Woolwich, but I did not, but back +through bridge to White Hall, where, after I had again visited Sir +G. Carteret, and received his (and now his Lady's) full content in my +proposal, I went to my Lord Sandwich, and having told him how Sir G. +Carteret received it, he did direct me to return to Sir G. Carteret, and +give him thanks for his kind reception of this offer, and that he would +the next day be willing to enter discourse with him about the business. +Which message I did presently do, and so left the business with great +joy to both sides. My Lord, I perceive, intends to give L5000 with +her, and expects about L800 per annum joynture. So by water home and to +supper and bed, being weary with long walking at Court, but had a Psalm +or two with my boy and Mercer before bed, which pleased me mightily. +This night Sir G. Carteret told me with great kindnesse that the order +of the Council did run for the making of Hater and Whitfield incapable +of any serving the King again, but that he had stopped the entry of it, +which he told me with great kindnesse, but the thing troubles me. After +dinner, before I went to White Hall, I went down to Greenwich by water, +thinking to have visited Sir J. Lawson, where, when I come, I find that +he is dead, and died this morning, at which I was much surprized; +and indeed the nation hath a great loss; though I cannot, without +dissembling, say that I am sorry for it, for he was a man never kind to +me at all. Being at White Hall, I visited Mr. Coventry, who, among other +talk, entered about the great question now in the House about the Duke's +going to sea again; about which the whole House is divided. He did +concur with me that, for the Duke's honour and safety, it were best, +after so great a service and victory and danger, not to go again; and, +above all, that the life of the Duke cannot but be a security to the +Crowne; if he were away, it being more easy to attempt anything upon +the King; but how the fleete will be governed without him, the +Prince--[Rupert]--being a man of no government and severe in council, +that no ordinary man can offer any advice against his; saying truly that +it had been better he had gone to Guinny, and that were he away, it were +easy to say how matters might be ordered, my Lord Sandwich being a man +of temper and judgment as much as any man he ever knew, and that upon +good observation he said this, and that his temper must correct the +Prince's. But I perceive he is much troubled what will be the event of +the question. And so I left him. + +26th. Up and to White Hall with Sir J. Minnes, and to the Committee of +Tangier, where my Lord Treasurer was, the first and only time he ever +was there, and did promise us L15,000 for Tangier and no more, which +will be short. But if I can pay Mr. Andrews all his money I care for no +more, and the bills of Exchange. Thence with Mr. Povy and Creed below to +a new chamber of Mr. Povy's, very pretty, and there discourse about his +business, not to his content, but with the most advantage I could to +him, and Creed also did the like. Thence with Creed to the King's Head, +and there dined with him at the ordinary, and good sport with one Mr. +Nicholls, a prating coxcombe, that would be thought a poet, but would +not be got to repeat any of his verses. Thence I home, and there find +my wife's brother and his wife, a pretty little modest woman, where they +dined with my wife. He did come to desire my assistance for a living, +and, upon his good promises of care, and that it should be no burden to +me, I did say and promise I would think of finding something for him, +and the rather because his wife seems a pretty discreet young thing, and +humble, and he, above all things, desirous to do something to maintain +her, telling me sad stories of what she endured with him in Holland, and +I hope it will not be burdensome. So down by water to Woolwich, walking +to and again from Greenwich thither and back again, my business being to +speak again with Sheldon, who desires and expects my wife coming thither +to spend the summer, and upon second thoughts I do agree that it will +be a good place for her and me too. So, weary, home, and to my office +a while, till almost midnight, and so to bed. The plague encreases +mightily, I this day seeing a house, at a bitt-maker's over against St. +Clement's Church, in the open street, shut up; which is a sad sight. + +27th. Up and to the office, where all the morning. At noon dined by +chance at my Lady Batten's, and they sent for my wife, and there was my +Lady Pen and Pegg. Very merry, and so I to my office again, where till +12 o'clock at night, and so home to supper and to bed. + +28th. Sir J. Minnes carried me and my wife to White Hall, and thence his +coach along with my wife where she would. There after attending the Duke +to discourse of the navy. We did not kiss his hand, nor do I think, for +all their pretence, of going away to-morrow. Yet I believe they will not +go for good and all, but I did take my leave of Sir William Coventry, +who, it seems, was knighted and sworn a Privy-Counsellor two days since; +who with his old kindness treated me, and I believe I shall ever find +[him] a noble friend. Thence by water to Blackfriars, and so to Paul's +churchyard and bespoke severall books, and so home and there dined, +my man William giving me a lobster sent him by my old maid Sarah. This +morning I met with Sir G. Carteret, who tells me how all things proceed +between my Lord Sandwich and himself to full content, and both sides +depend upon having the match finished presently, and professed great +kindnesse to me, and said that now we were something akin. I am +mightily, both with respect to myself and much more of my Lord's family, +glad of this alliance. After dinner to White Hall, thinking to +speak with my Lord Ashly, but failed, and I whiled away some time in +Westminster Hall against he did come, in my way observing several plague +houses in King's Street and [near] the Palace. Here I hear Mrs. Martin +is gone out of town, and that her husband, an idle fellow, is since come +out of France, as he pretends, but I believe not that he hath been. I +was fearful of going to any house, but I did to the Swan, and thence to +White Hall, giving the waterman a shilling, because a young fellow and +belonging to the Plymouth. Thence by coach to several places, and so +home, and all the evening with Sir J. Minnes and all the women of the +house (excepting my Lady Batten) late in the garden chatting. At 12 +o'clock home to supper and to bed. My Lord Sandwich is gone towards the +sea to-day, it being a sudden resolution, I having taken no leave of +him. + +29th. Up and by water to White Hall, where the Court full of waggons and +people ready to go out of towne. To the Harp and Ball, and there drank +and talked with Mary, she telling me in discourse that she lived +lately at my neighbour's, Mr. Knightly, which made me forbear further +discourse. This end of the towne every day grows very bad of the plague. +The Mortality Bill is come to 267; + + [According to the Bills of Mortality, the total number of deaths in + London for the week ending June 27th was 684, of which number 267 + were deaths from the plague. The number of deaths rose week by week + until September 19th, when the total was 8,297, and the deaths from + the plague 7,165. On September 26th the total had fallen to 6,460, + and deaths from the plague to 5,533 The number fell gradually, week + by week, till October 31st, when the total was 1,388, and deaths + from the plague 1,031. On November 7th there was a rise to 1,787 + and 1,414 respectively. On November 14th the numbers had gone down + to 1,359 and 1,050 respectively. On December 12th the total had + fallen to 442, and deaths from the plague to 243. On December 19th + there was a rise to 525 and 281 respectively. The total of burials + in 1665 was 97,506, of which number the plague claimed 68,596 + victims.] + +which is about ninety more than the last: and of these but four in the +City, which is a great blessing to us. Thence to Creed, and with him up +and down about Tangier business, to no purpose. Took leave again of Mr. +Coventry; though I hope the Duke has not gone to stay, and so do others +too. So home, calling at Somersett House, where all are packing up +too: the Queene-Mother setting out for France this day to drink Bourbon +waters this year, she being in a consumption; and intends not to come +till winter come twelvemonths. + + [The Queen-Mother never came to England again. She retired to her + chateau at Colombes, near Paris, where she died in August, 1669, + after a long illness; the immediate cause of her death being an + opiate ordered by her physicians. She was buried, September 12th, + in the church of St. Denis. Her funeral sermon was preached by + Bossuet. Sir John Reresby speaks of Queen Henrietta Maria in high + terms. He says that in the winter, 1659-60, although the Court of + France was very splendid, there was a greater resort to the Palais + Royal, "the good humour and wit of our Queen Mother, and the beauty + of the Princess [Henrietta] her daughter, giving greater invitation + than the more particular humour of the French Queen, being a + Spaniard." In another place he says: "Her majesty had a great + affection for England, notwithstanding the severe usage she and hers + had received from it. Her discourse was much with the great men and + ladies of France in praise of the people and of the country; of + their courage, generosity, good nature; and would excuse all their + miscarriages in relation to unfortunate effects of the late war, as + if it were a convulsion of some desperate and infatuated persons, + rather than from the genius and temper of the kingdom" ("Memoirs of + Sir John Reresby," ed. Cartwright, pp. 43, 45).] + +So by coach home, where at the office all the morning, and at noon +Mrs. Hunt dined with us. Very merry, and she a very good woman. To the +office, where busy a while putting some things in my office in order, +and then to letters till night. About 10 a'clock home, the days being +sensibly shorter before I have once kept a summer's day by shutting +up office by daylight; but my life hath been still as it was in winter +almost. But I will for a month try what I can do by daylight. So home to +supper and to bed. + +30th. Up and to White Hall, to the Duke of Albemarle, who I find at +Secretary Bennet's, there being now no other great Statesman, I think, +but my Lord Chancellor, in towne. I received several commands from +them; among others, to provide some bread and cheese for the garrison at +Guernsey, which they promised to see me paid for. So to the 'Change, and +home to dinner. In the afternoon I down to Woolwich and after me my wife +and Mercer, whom I led to Mr. Sheldon's to see his house, and I find +it a very pretty place for them to be at. So I back again, walking both +forward and backward, and left my wife to come by water. I straight to +White Hall, late, to Secretary Bennet's to give him an account of the +business I received from him to-day, and there staid weary and sleepy +till past 12 at night. Then writ my mind to him, and so back by water +and in the dark and against tide shot the bridge, groping with their +pole for the way, which troubled me before I got through. So home, about +one or two o'clock in the morning, my family at a great losse what was +become of me. To supper, and to bed. Thus this book of two years ends. +Myself and family in good health, consisting of myself and wife, Mercer, +her woman, Mary, Alice, and Susan our maids, and Tom my boy. In a sickly +time of the plague growing on. Having upon my hands the troublesome care +of the Treasury of Tangier, with great sums drawn upon me, and nothing +to pay them with: also the business of the office great. Consideration +of removing my wife to Woolwich; she lately busy in learning to paint, +with great pleasure and successe. All other things well; especially a +new interest I am making, by a match in hand between the eldest son of +Sir G. Carteret, and my Lady Jemimah Montage. The Duke of Yorke gone +down to the fleete, but all suppose not with intent to stay there, as it +is not fit, all men conceive, he should. + + + + +JULY 1665 + +July 1st, 1665. Called up betimes, though weary and sleepy, by +appointment by Mr. Povy and Colonell Norwood to discourse about some +payments of Tangier. They gone, I to the office and there sat all the +morning. At noon dined at home, and then to the Duke of Albemarle's, +by appointment, to give him an account of some disorder in the Yarde at +Portsmouth, by workmen's going away of their owne accord, for lacke of +money, to get work of hay-making, or any thing else to earne themselves +bread. + + [There are several letters among the State Papers from Commissioner + Thomas Middleton relating to the want of workmen at Portsmouth + Dockyard. On June 29th Middleton wrote to Pepys, "The ropemakers + have discharged themselves for want of money, and gone into the + country to make hay." The blockmakers, the joiners, and the sawyers + all refused to work longer without money ("Calendar," 1664-65, p. + 453).] + +Thence to Westminster, where I hear the sicknesse encreases greatly, and +to the Harp and Ball with Mary talking, who tells me simply her losing +of her first love in the country in Wales, and coming up hither unknown +to her friends, and it seems Dr. Williams do pretend love to her, and +I have found him there several times. Thence by coach and late at the +office, and so to bed. Sad at the newes that seven or eight houses in +Bazing Hall street, are shut up of the plague. + +2nd (Sunday). Up, and all the morning dressing my closet at the office +with my plates, very neatly, and a fine place now it is, and will be +a pleasure to sit in, though I thank God I needed none before. At noon +dined at home, and after dinner to my accounts and cast them up, and +find that though I have spent above L90 this month yet I have saved L17, +and am worth in all above L1450, for which the Lord be praised! In the +evening my Lady Pen and daughter come to see, and supped with us, then a +messenger about business of the office from Sir G. Carteret at Chatham, +and by word of mouth did send me word that the business between my Lord +and him is fully agreed on, + + [The arrangements for the marriage of Lady Jemimah Montagu to Philip + Carteret were soon settled, for the wedding took place on July 31st] + +and is mightily liked of by the King and the Duke of Yorke, and that +he sent me this word with great joy; they gone, we to bed. I hear this +night that Sir J. Lawson was buried late last night at St. Dunstan's by +us, without any company at all, and that the condition of his family +is but very poor, which I could be contented to be sorry for, though he +never was the man that ever obliged me by word or deed. + +3rd. Up and by water with Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes to White Hall +to the Duke of Albemarle, where, after a little business, we parted, and +I to the Harp and Ball, and there staid a while talking to Mary, and so +home to dinner. After dinner to the Duke of Albemarle's again, and so to +the Swan, and there 'demeurais un peu'de temps con la fille', and so to +the Harp and Ball, and alone 'demeurais un peu de temps baisant la', +and so away home and late at the office about letters, and so home, +resolving from this night forwards to close all my letters, if possible, +and end all my business at the office by daylight, and I shall go near +to do it and put all my affairs in the world in good order, the season +growing so sickly, that it is much to be feared how a man can escape +having a share with others in it, for which the good Lord God bless +me, or to be fitted to receive it. So after supper to bed, and mightily +troubled in my sleep all night with dreams of Jacke Cole, my old +schoolfellow, lately dead, who was born at the same time with me, and we +reckoned our fortunes pretty equal. God fit me for his condition! + +4th. Up, and sat at the office all the morning. At noon to the 'Change +and thence to the Dolphin, where a good dinner at the cost of one Mr. +Osbaston, who lost a wager to Sir W. Batten, Sir W. Rider, and Sir R. +Ford, a good while since and now it is spent. The wager was that ten +of our ships should not have a fight with ten of the enemy's before +Michaelmas. Here was other very good company, and merry, and at last +in come Mr. Buckeworth, a very fine gentleman, and proves to be a +Huntingdonshire man. Thence to my office and there all the afternoon +till night, and so home to settle some accounts of Tangier and other +papers. I hear this day the Duke and Prince Rupert are both come back +from sea, and neither of them go back again. The latter I much wonder +at, but it seems the towne reports so, and I am very glad of it. This +morning I did a good piece of work with Sir W. Warren, ending the +business of the lotterys, wherein honestly I think I shall get above +L100. Bankert, it seems, is come home with the little fleete he hath +been abroad with, without doing any thing, so that there is nobody of an +enemy at sea. We are in great hopes of meeting with the Dutch East India +fleete, which is mighty rich, or with De Ruyter, who is so also. Sir +Richard Ford told me this day, at table, a fine account, how the Dutch +were like to have been mastered by the present Prince of Orange + + [The period alluded to is 1650, when the States-General disbanded + part of the forces which the Prince of Orange (William) wished to + retain. The prince attempted, but unsuccessfully, to possess + himself of Amsterdam. In the same year he died, at the early age of + twenty-four; some say of the small-pox; others, with Sir Richard + Ford, say of poison.--B.] + +his father to be besieged in Amsterdam, having drawn an army of foot +into the towne, and horse near to the towne by night, within three miles +of the towne, and they never knew of it; but by chance the Hamburgh post +in the night fell among the horse, and heard their design, and knowing +the way, it being very dark and rainy, better than they, went from +them, and did give notice to the towne before the others could reach the +towne, and so were saved. It seems this De Witt and another family, the +Beckarts, were among the chief of the familys that were enemys to the +Prince, and were afterwards suppressed by the Prince, and continued so +till he was, as they say, poysoned; and then they turned all again, as +it was, against the young Prince, and have so carried it to this day, it +being about 12 and 14 years, and De Witt in the head of them. + +5th. Up, and advised about sending of my wife's bedding and things to +Woolwich, in order to her removal thither. So to the office, where all +the morning till noon, and so to the 'Change, and thence home to dinner. +In the afternoon I abroad to St. James's, and there with Mr. Coventry a +good while, and understand how matters are ordered in the fleete: that +is, my Lord Sandwich goes Admiral; under him Sir G. Ascue, and Sir T. +Teddiman; Vice-Admiral, Sir W. Pen; and under him Sir W. Barkeley, and +Sir Jos. Jordan: Reere-Admiral, Sir Thomas Allen; and under him Sir +Christopher Mings, + + [The son of a shoemaker, bred to the sea-service; he rose to the + rank of an admiral, and was killed in the fight with the Dutch, + June, 1666.--B. See post, June 10th, 1666.] + +and Captain Harman. We talked in general of business of the Navy, among +others how he had lately spoken to Sir G. Carteret, and professed great +resolution of friendship with him and reconciliation, and resolves to +make it good as well as he can, though it troubles him, he tells me, +that something will come before him wherein he must give him offence, +but I do find upon the whole that Mr. Coventry do not listen to these +complaints of money with the readiness and resolvedness to remedy that +he used to do, and I think if he begins to draw in it is high time for +me to do so too. From thence walked round to White Hall, the Parke being +quite locked up; and I observed a house shut up this day in the Pell +Mell, where heretofore in Cromwell's time we young men used to keep our +weekly clubs. And so to White Hall to Sir G. Carteret, who is come this +day from Chatham, and mighty glad he is to see me, and begun to talk of +our great business of the match, which goes on as fast as possible, but +for convenience we took water and over to his coach to Lambeth, by which +we went to Deptford, all the way talking, first, how matters are quite +concluded with all possible content between my Lord and him and signed +and sealed, so that my Lady Sandwich is to come thither to-morrow or +next day, and the young lady is sent for, and all likely to be ended +between them in a very little while, with mighty joy on both sides, and +the King, Duke, Lord Chancellor, and all mightily pleased. Thence to +newes, wherein I find that Sir G. Carteret do now take all my Lord +Sandwich's business to heart, and makes it the same with his owne. He +tells me how at Chatham it was proposed to my Lord Sandwich to be joined +with the Prince in the command of the fleete, which he was most willing +to; but when it come to the Prince, he was quite against it; saying, +there could be no government, but that it would be better to have two +fleetes, and neither under the command of the other, which he would not +agree to. So the King was not pleased; but, without any unkindnesse, +did order the fleete to be ordered as above, as to the Admirals and +commands: so the Prince is come up; and Sir G. Carteret, I remember, had +this word thence, that, says he, by this means, though the King told him +that it would be but for this expedition, yet I believe we shall keepe +him out for altogether. He tells me how my Lord was much troubled at Sir +W. Pen's being ordered forth (as it seems he is, to go to Solebay, and +with the best fleete he can, to go forth), and no notice taken of my +Lord Sandwich going after him, and having the command over him. But +after some discourse Mr. Coventry did satisfy, as he says, my Lord, so +as they parted friends both in that point and upon the other wherein I +know my Lord was troubled, and which Mr. Coventry did speak to him of +first thinking that my Lord might justly take offence at, his not being +mentioned in the relation of the fight in the news book, and did clear +all to my Lord how little he was concerned in it, and therewith my Lord +also satisfied, which I am mightily glad of, because I should take it +a very great misfortune to me to have them two to differ above all the +persons in the world. Being come to Deptford, my Lady not being within, +we parted, and I by water to Woolwich, where I found my wife come, and +her two mayds, and very prettily accommodated they will be; and I left +them going to supper, grieved in my heart to part with my wife, being +worse by much without her, though some trouble there is in having the +care of a family at home in this plague time, and so took leave, and I +in one boat and W. Hewer in another home very late, first against tide, +we having walked in the dark to Greenwich. Late home and to bed, very +lonely. + +6th. Up and forth to give order to my pretty grocer's wife's house, who, +her husband tells me, is going this day for the summer into the country. +I bespoke some sugar, &c., for my father, and so home to the office, +where all the morning. At noon dined at home, and then by water to White +Hall to Sir G. Carteret about money for the office, a sad thought, for +in a little while all must go to wracke, winter coming on apace, when +a great sum must be ready to pay part of the fleete, and so far we are +from it that we have not enough to stop the mouths of poor people and +their hands from falling about our eares here almost in the office. God +give a good end to it! Sir G. Carteret told me one considerable thing: +Alderman Backewell is ordered abroad upon some private score with a +great sum of money; wherein I was instrumental the other day in shipping +him away. It seems some of his creditors have taken notice of it, and he +was like to be broke yesterday in his absence; Sir G. Carteret telling +me that the King and the kingdom must as good as fall with that man +at this time; and that he was forced to get L4000 himself to answer +Backewell's people's occasions, or he must have broke; but committed +this to me as a great secret and which I am heartily sorry to hear. +Thence, after a little merry discourse of our marrying business, I +parted, and by coach to several places, among others to see my Lord +Brunkerd, who is not well, but was at rest when I come. I could not see +him, nor had much mind, one of the great houses within two doors of him +being shut up: and, Lord! the number of houses visited, which this day I +observed through the town quite round in my way by Long Lane and London +Wall. So home to the office, and thence to Sir W. Batten, and spent the +evening at supper; and, among other discourse, the rashness of Sir John +Lawson, for breeding up his daughter so high and proud, refusing a +man of great interest, Sir W. Barkeley, to match her with a melancholy +fellow, Colonell Norton's' son, of no interest nor good nature nor +generosity at all, giving her L6000, when the other would have taken her +with two; when he himself knew that he was not worth the money himself +in all the world, he did give her that portion, and is since dead, and +left his wife and two daughters beggars, and the other gone away +with L6000, and no content in it, through the ill qualities of her +father-in-law and husband, who, it seems, though a pretty woman, +contracted for her as if he had been buying a horse; and, worst of all, +is now of no use to serve the mother and two little sisters in any stead +at Court, whereas the other might have done what he would for her: so +here is an end of this family's pride, which, with good care, might have +been what they would, and done well. Thence, weary of this discourse, as +the act of the greatest rashness that ever I heard of in all my little +conversation, we parted, and I home to bed. Sir W. Pen, it seems, sailed +last night from Solebay with, about sixty sail of ship, and my Lord +Sandwich in "The Prince" and some others, it seems, going after them to +overtake them, for I am sure my Lord Sandwich will do all possible to +overtake them, and will be troubled to the heart if he do it not. + +7th. Up, and having set my neighbour, Mr. Hudson, wine coopers, at work +drawing out a tierce of wine for the sending of some of it to my wife, +I abroad, only taking notice to what a condition it hath pleased God +to bring me that at this time I have two tierces of Claret, two quarter +casks of Canary, and a smaller vessel of Sack; a vessel of Tent, another +of Malaga, and another of white wine, all in my wine cellar together; +which, I believe, none of my friends of my name now alive ever had of +his owne at one time. To Westminster, and there with Mr. Povy and Creed +talking of our Tangier business, and by and by I drew Creed aside and +acquainted him with what Sir G. Carteret did tell me about Backewell the +other day, because he hath money of his in his hands. So home, taking +some new books, L5 worth, home to my great content. At home all the day +after busy. Some excellent discourse and advice of Sir W. Warren's in +the afternoon, at night home to look over my new books, and so late to +bed. + +8th. All day very diligent at the office, ended my letters by 9 at +night, and then fitted myself to go down to Woolwich to my wife, which +I did, calling at Sir G. Carteret's at Deptford, and there hear that +my Lady Sandwich is come, but not very well. By 12 o'clock to Woolwich, +found my wife asleep in bed, but strange to think what a fine night I +had down, but before I had been one minute on shore, the mightiest storm +come of wind and rain that almost could be for a quarter of an houre +and so left. I to bed, being the first time I come to her lodgings, and +there lodged well. + +9th (Lord's day). Very pleasant with her and among my people, while she +made her ready, and, about 10 o'clock, by water to Sir G. Carteret, and +there find my Lady [Sandwich] in her chamber, not very well, but looks +the worst almost that ever I did see her in my life. It seems her +drinking of the water at Tunbridge did almost kill her before she could +with most violent physique get it out of her body again. We are received +with most extraordinary kindnesse by my Lady Carteret and her children, +and dined most nobly. Sir G. Carteret went to Court this morning. After +dinner I took occasion to have much discourse with Mr. Ph. Carteret, and +find him a very modest man; and I think verily of mighty good nature, +and pretty understanding. He did give me a good account of the fight +with the Dutch. My Lady Sandwich dined in her chamber. About three +o'clock I, leaving my wife there, took boat and home, and there shifted +myself into my black silke suit, and having promised Harman yesterday, +I to his house, which I find very mean, and mean company. His wife very +ill; I could not see her. Here I, with her father and Kate Joyce, who +was also very ill, were godfathers and godmother to his boy, and was +christened Will. Mr. Meriton christened him. The most observable thing I +found there to my content, was to hear him and his clerk tell me that in +this parish of Michell's, Cornhill, one of the middlemost parishes and +a great one of the towne, there hath, notwithstanding this sickliness, +been buried of any disease, man, woman, or child, not one for thirteen +months last past; which [is] very strange. And the like in a good degree +in most other parishes, I hear, saving only of the plague in them, but +in this neither the plague nor any other disease. So back again home and +reshifted myself, and so down to my Lady Carteret's, where mighty merry +and great pleasantnesse between my Lady Sandwich and the young ladies +and me, and all of us mighty merry, there never having been in the world +sure a greater business of general content than this match proposed +between Mr. Carteret and my Lady Jemimah. But withal it is mighty pretty +to think how my poor Lady Sandwich, between her and me, is doubtfull +whether her daughter will like of it or no, and how troubled she is for +fear of it, which I do not fear at all, and desire her not to do it, but +her fear is the most discreet and pretty that ever I did see. Late here, +and then my wife and I, with most hearty kindnesse from my Lady Carteret +by boat to Woolwich, come thither about 12 at night, and so to bed. + +10th. Up, and with great pleasure looking over a nest of puppies of Mr. +Shelden's, with which my wife is most extraordinary pleased, and one +of them is promised her. Anon I took my leave, and away by water to the +Duke of Albemarle's, where he tells me that I must be at Hampton Court +anon. So I home to look over my Tangier papers, and having a coach of +Mr. Povy's attending me, by appointment, in order to my coming to dine +at his country house at Brainford, where he and his family is, I went +and Mr. Tasbrough with me therein, it being a pretty chariot, but most +inconvenient as to the horses throwing dust and dirt into one's eyes +and upon one's clothes. There I staid a quarter of an houre, Creed being +there, and being able to do little business (but the less the better). +Creed rode before, and Mr. Povy and I after him in the chariot; and I +was set down by him at the Parke pale, where one of his saddle horses +was ready for me, he himself not daring to come into the house or be +seen, because that a servant of his, out of his horse, happened to be +sicke, but is not yet dead, but was never suffered to come into his +house after he was ill. But this opportunity was taken to injure +Povy, and most horribly he is abused by some persons hereupon, and his +fortune, I believe, quite broke; but that he hath a good heart to bear, +or a cunning one to conceal his evil. There I met with Sir W. Coventry, +and by and by was heard by my Lord Chancellor and Treasurer about our +Tangier money, and my Lord Treasurer had ordered me to forbear meddling +with the L15,000 he offered me the other day, but, upon opening the case +to them, they did offer it again, and so I think I shall have it, but +my Lord General must give his consent in it, this money having been +promised to him, and he very angry at the proposal. Here though I have +not been in many years, yet I lacke time to stay, besides that it is, +I perceive, an unpleasing thing to be at Court, everybody being fearful +one of another, and all so sad, enquiring after the plague, so that I +stole away by my horse to Kingston, and there with trouble was forced, +to press two sturdy rogues to carry me to London, and met at the +waterside with Mr. Charnocke, Sir Philip Warwicke's clerke, who had been +in company and was quite foxed. I took him with me in my boat, and so +away to Richmond, and there, by night, walked with him to Moreclacke, a +very pretty walk, and there staid a good while, now and then talking and +sporting with Nan the servant, who says she is a seaman's wife, and at +last bade good night. + +11th. And so all night down by water, a most pleasant passage, and come +thither by two o'clock, and so walked from the Old Swan home, and there +to bed to my Will, being very weary, and he lodging at my desire in +my house. At 6 o'clock up and to Westminster (where and all the towne +besides, I hear, the plague encreases), and, it being too soon to go to +the Duke of Albemarle, I to the Harp and Ball, and there made a bargain +with Mary to go forth with me in the afternoon, which she with much ado +consented to. So I to the Duke of Albemarle's, and there with much ado +did get his consent in part to my having the money promised for Tangier, +and the other part did not concur. So being displeased with this, I back +to the office and there sat alone a while doing business, and then by +a solemn invitation to the Trinity House, where a great dinner and +company, Captain Dobbin's feast for Elder Brother. But I broke up before +the dinner half over and by water to the Harp and Ball, and thence had +Mary meet me at the New Exchange, and there took coach and I with +great pleasure took the ayre to Highgate, and thence to Hampstead, much +pleased with her company, pretty and innocent, and had what pleasure +almost I would with her, and so at night, weary and sweaty, it being +very hot beyond bearing, we back again, and I set her down in St. +Martin's Lane, and so I to the evening 'Change, and there hear all the +towne full that Ostend is delivered to us, and that Alderman Backewell + + [Among the State Papers is a letter from the king to the Lord + General (dated August 8th, 1665): "Alderman Backwell being in great + straits for the second payment he has to make for the service in + Flanders, as much tin is to be transmitted to him as will raise the + sum. Has authorized him and Sir George Carteret to treat with the + tin farmers for 500 tons of tin to be speedily transported under + good convoy; but if, on consulting with Alderman Backwell, this plan + of the tin seems insufficient, then without further difficulty he is + to dispose for that purpose of the L10,000 assigned for pay of the + Guards, not doubting that before that comes due, other ways will be + found for supplying it; the payment in Flanders is of such + importance that some means must be found of providing for it" + ("Calendar," Domestic, 1664-65, pp. 508, 509)] + +did go with L50,000 to that purpose. But the truth of it I do not know, +but something I believe there is extraordinary in his going. So to the +office, where I did what I could as to letters, and so away to bed, +shifting myself, and taking some Venice treakle, feeling myself out of +order, and thence to bed to sleep. + +12th. After doing what business I could in the morning, it being a +solemn fast-day + + ["A form of Common Prayer; together with an order for fasting for + the averting of God's heavy visitation upon many places of this + realm. The fast to be observed within the cities of London and + Westminster and places adjacent, on Wednesday the twelfth of this + instant July, and both there and in all parts of this realm on the + first Wednesday in every month during the visitation" ("Calendar of + State Papers," Domestic, 1664-65, p. 466).] + +for the plague growing upon us, I took boat and down to Deptford, +where I stood with great pleasure an houre or two by my Lady Sandwich's +bedside, talking to her (she lying prettily in bed) of my Lady Jemimah's +being from my Lady Pickering's when our letters come to that place; she +being at my Lord Montagu's, at Boughton. The truth is, I had received +letters of it two days ago, but had dropped them, and was in a very +extraordinary straite what to do for them, or what account to give my +Lady, but sent to every place; I sent to Moreclacke, where I had been +the night before, and there they were found, which with mighty joy come +safe to me; but all ending with satisfaction to my Lady and me, though I +find my Lady Carteret not much pleased with this delay, and principally +because of the plague, which renders it unsafe to stay long at Deptford. +I eat a bit (my Lady Carteret being the most kind lady in the world), +and so took boat, and a fresh boat at the Tower, and so up the river, +against tide all the way, I having lost it by staying prating to and +with my Lady, and, from before one, made it seven ere we got to Hampton +Court; and when I come there all business was over, saving my finding +Mr. Coventry at his chamber, and with him a good while about several +businesses at his chamber, and so took leave, and away to my boat, and +all night upon the water, staying a while with Nan at Moreclacke, very +much pleased and merry with her, and so on homeward, and come home by +two o'clock, shooting the bridge at that time of night, and so to bed, +where I find Will is not, he staying at Woolwich to come with my wife +to dinner tomorrow to my Lady Carteret's. Heard Mr. Williamson repeat at +Hampton Court to-day how the King of France hath lately set out a most +high arrest against the Pope, which is reckoned very lofty and high. + + [Arret. The rupture between Alexander VII. and Louis XIV. was + healed in 1664, by the treaty signed at Pisa, on February 12th. On + August 9th, the pope's nephew, Cardinal Chigi, made his entry into + Paris, as legate, to give the king satisfaction for the insult + offered at Rome by the Corsican guard to the Duc de Crequi, the + French ambassador; (see January 25th, 1662-63). Cardinal Imperiali, + Governor of Rome, asked pardon of the king in person, and all the + hard conditions of the treaty were fulfilled. But no arret against + the pope was set forth in 1665. On the contrary, Alexander, now + wishing to please the king, issued a constitution on February 2nd, + 1665, ordering all the clergy of France, without any exception, to + sign a formulary condemning the famous five propositions extracted + from the works of Jansenius; and on April 29th, the king in person + ordered the parliament to register the bull. The Jansenist party, + of course, demurred to this proceeding; the Bishops of Alais, + Angers, Beauvais, and Pamiers, issuing mandates calling upon their + clergy to refuse. It was against these mandates, as being contrary + to the king's declaration and the pope's intentions, that the arret + was directed.--B.] + +13th. Lay long, being sleepy, and then up to the office, my Lord Brunker +(after his sickness) being come to the office, and did what business +there was, and so I by water, at night late, to Sir G. Carteret's, but +there being no oars to carry me, I was fain to call a skuller that had a +gentleman already in it, and he proved a man of love to musique, and he +and I sung together the way down with great pleasure, and an incident +extraordinary to be met with. There come to dinner, they haveing dined, +but my Lady caused something to be brought for me, and I dined well and +mighty merry, especially my Lady Slaning and I about eating of creame +and brown bread, which she loves as much as I. Thence after long +discourse with them and my Lady alone, I and [my] wife, who by agreement +met here, took leave, and I saw my wife a little way down (it troubling +me that this absence makes us a little strange instead of more fond), +and so parted, and I home to some letters, and then home to bed. Above +700 died of the plague this week. + +14th. Up, and all the morning at the Exchequer endeavouring to strike +tallys for money for Tangier, and mightily vexed to see how people +attend there, some out of towne, and others drowsy, and to others it was +late, so that the King's business suffers ten times more than all +their service is worth. So I am put off to to-morrow. Thence to the +Old Exchange, by water, and there bespoke two fine shirts of my pretty +seamstress, who, she tells me, serves Jacke Fenn. Upon the 'Change all +the news is that guns have been heard and that news is come by a Dane +that my Lord was in view of De Ruyter, and that since his parting from +my Lord of Sandwich he hath heard guns, but little of it do I think +true. So home to dinner, where Povy by agreement, and after dinner we +to talk of our Tangier matters, about keeping our profit at the pay and +victualling of the garrison, if the present undertakers should leave it, +wherein I did [not] nor will do any thing unworthy me and any just man, +but they being resolved to quit it, it is fit I should suffer Mr. Povy +to do what he can with Mr. Gauden about it to our profit. Thence to the +discoursing of putting some sums of money in order and tallys, which +we did pretty well. So he in the evening gone, I by water to Sir G. +Carteret's, and there find my Lady Sandwich and her buying things for +my Lady Jem.'s wedding; and my Lady Jem. is beyond expectation come to +Dagenhams, where Mr. Carteret is to go to visit her to-morrow; and +my proposal of waiting on him, he being to go alone to all persons +strangers to him, was well accepted, and so I go with him. But, Lord! +to see how kind my Lady Carteret is to her! Sends her most rich jewells, +and provides bedding and things of all sorts most richly for her, which +makes my Lady and me out of our wits almost to see the kindnesse she +treats us all with, as if they would buy the young lady. Thence away +home and, foreseeing my being abroad two days, did sit up late making of +letters ready against tomorrow, and other things, and so to bed, to be +up betimes by the helpe of a larum watch, which by chance I borrowed of +my watchmaker to-day, while my owne is mending. + +15th. Up, and after all business done, though late, I to Deptford, but +before I went out of the office saw there young Bagwell's wife returned, +but could not stay to speak to her, though I had a great mind to it, and +also another great lady, as to fine clothes, did attend there to have +a ticket signed; which I did do, taking her through the garden to my +office, where I signed it and had a salute--[kiss]--of her, and so I +away by boat to Redriffe, and thence walked, and after dinner, at Sir G. +Carteret's, where they stayed till almost three o'clock for me, and anon +took boat, Mr. Carteret and I to the ferry-place at Greenwich, and +there staid an hour crossing the water to and again to get our coach and +horses over; and by and by set out, and so toward Dagenhams. But, Lord! +what silly discourse we had by the way as to love-matters, he being the +most awkerd man I ever met with in my life as to that business. Thither +we come, by that time it begun to be dark, and were kindly received +by Lady Wright and my Lord Crew. And to discourse they went, my Lord +discoursing with him, asking of him questions of travell, which he +answered well enough in a few words; but nothing to the lady from him at +all. To supper, and after supper to talk again, he yet taking no notice +of the lady. My Lord would have had me have consented to leaving the +young people together to-night, to begin their amours, his staying being +but to be little. But I advised against it, lest the lady might be +too much surprised. So they led him up to his chamber, where I staid a +little, to know how he liked the lady, which he told me he did mightily; +but, Lord! in the dullest insipid manner that ever lover did. So I bid +him good night, and down to prayers with my Lord Crew's family, and +after prayers, my Lord, and Lady Wright, and I, to consult what to do; +and it was agreed at last to have them go to church together, as the +family used to do, though his lameness was a great objection against it. +But at last my Lady Jem. sent me word by my Lady Wright that it would +be better to do just as they used to do before his coming; and therefore +she desired to go to church, which was yielded then to. + +16th (Lord's day). I up, having lain with Mr. Moore in the chaplin's +chamber. And having trimmed myself, down to Mr. Carteret; and he being +ready we down and walked in the gallery an hour or two, it being a most +noble and pretty house that ever, for the bigness, I saw. Here I taught +him what to do: to take the lady always by the hand to lead her, and +telling him that I would find opportunity to leave them two together, he +should make these and these compliments, and also take a time to do the +like to Lord Crew and Lady Wright. After I had instructed him, which he +thanked me for, owning that he needed my teaching him, my Lord Crew come +down and family, the young lady among the rest; and so by coaches to +church four miles off; where a pretty good sermon, and a declaration +of penitence of a man that had undergone the Churches censure for his +wicked life. Thence back again by coach, Mr. Carteret having not had the +confidence to take his lady once by the hand, coming or going, which +I told him of when we come home, and he will hereafter do it. So to +dinner. My Lord excellent discourse. Then to walk in the gallery, and to +sit down. By and by my Lady Wright and I go out (and then my Lord Crew, +he not by design), and lastly my Lady Crew come out, and left the young +people together. And a little pretty daughter of my Lady Wright's most +innocently come out afterward, and shut the door to, as if she had done +it, poor child, by inspiration; which made us without, have good sport +to laugh at. They together an hour, and by and by church-time, whither +he led her into the coach and into the church, and so at church all +the afternoon, several handsome ladies at church. But it was most +extraordinary hot that ever I knew it. So home again and to walk in +the gardens, where we left the young couple a second time; and my Lady +Wright and I to walk together, who to my trouble tells me that my Lady +Jem. must have something done to her body by Scott before she can be +married, and therefore care must be had to send him, also that some more +new clothes must of necessity be made her, which and other things I took +care of. Anon to supper, and excellent discourse and dispute between my +Lord Crew and the chaplin, who is a good scholler, but a nonconformist. +Here this evening I spoke with Mrs. Carter, my old acquaintance, that +hath lived with my Lady these twelve or thirteen years, the sum of all +whose discourse and others for her, is, that I would get her a good +husband; which I have promised, but know not when I shall perform. After +Mr. Carteret was carried to his chamber, we to prayers again and then to +bed. + +17th. Up all of us, and to billiards; my Lady Wright, Mr. Carteret, +myself, and every body. By and by the young couple left together. Anon +to dinner; and after dinner Mr. Carteret took my advice about giving +to the servants, and I led him to give L10 among them, which he did, by +leaving it to the chief man-servant, Mr. Medows, to do for him. Before +we went, I took my Lady Jem. apart, and would know how she liked this +gentleman, and whether she was under any difficulty concerning him. She +blushed, and hid her face awhile; but at last I forced her to tell me. +She answered that she could readily obey what her father and mother had +done; which was all she could say, or I expect. So anon I took leave, +and for London. But, Lord! to see, among other things, how all these +great people here are afeard of London, being doubtfull of anything that +comes from thence, or that hath lately been there, that I was forced to +say that I lived wholly at Woolwich. In our way Mr. Carteret did give +me mighty thanks for my care and pains for him, and is mightily pleased, +though the truth is, my Lady Jem. hath carried herself with mighty +discretion and gravity, not being forward at all in any degree, but +mighty serious in her answers to him, as by what he says and I observed, +I collect. To London to my office, and there took letters from the +office, where all well, and so to the Bridge, and there he and I took +boat and to Deptford, where mighty welcome, and brought the good newes +of all being pleased to them. Mighty mirth at my giving them an account +of all; but the young man could not be got to say one word before me or +my Lady Sandwich of his adventures, but, by what he afterwards related +to his father and mother and sisters, he gives an account that pleases +them mightily. Here Sir G. Carteret would have me lie all night, which I +did most nobly, better than ever I did in my life, Sir G. Carteret being +mighty kind to me, leading me to my chamber; and all their care now is, +to have the business ended, and they have reason, because the sicknesse +puts all out of order, and they cannot safely stay where they are. + +18th. Up and to the office, where all the morning, and so to my house +and eat a bit of victuals, and so to the 'Change, where a little +business and a very thin Exchange; and so walked through London to the +Temple, where I took water for Westminster to the Duke of Albemarle, +to wait on him, and so to Westminster Hall, and there paid for my +newes-books, and did give Mrs. Michell, who is going out of towne +because of the sicknesse, and her husband, a pint of wine, and so Sir +W. Warren coming to me by appointment we away by water home, by the way +discoursing about the project I have of getting some money and doing +the King good service too about the mast docke at Woolwich, which I fear +will never be done if I do not go about it. After dispatching letters at +the office, I by water down to Deptford, where I staid a little while, +and by water to my wife, whom I have not seen 6 or 5 days, and there +supped with her, and mighty pleasant, and saw with content her drawings, +and so to bed mighty merry. I was much troubled this day to hear at +Westminster how the officers do bury the dead in the open Tuttle-fields, +pretending want of room elsewhere; whereas the New Chappell churchyard +was walled-in at the publick charge in the last plague time, merely for +want of room and now none, but such as are able to pay dear for it, can +be buried there. + +19th. Up and to the office, and thence presently to the Exchequer, and +there with much trouble got my tallys, and afterwards took Mr. Falconer, +Spicer, and another or two to the Leg and there give them a dinner, and +so with my tallys and about 30 dozen of bags, which it seems are my due, +having paid the fees as if I had received the money I away home, and +after a little stay down by water to Deptford, where I find all full of +joy, and preparing to go to Dagenhams to-morrow. To supper, and after +supper to talk without end. Very late I went away, it raining, but I had +a design 'pour aller a la femme de Bagwell' and did so.... So away about +12, and it raining hard I back to Sir G. Carteret and there called up +the page, and to bed there, being all in a most violent sweat. + +20th. Up, in a boat among other people to the Tower, and there to the +office, where we sat all the morning. So down to Deptford and there +dined, and after dinner saw my Lady Sandwich and Mr. Carteret and his +two sisters over the water, going to Dagenhams, and my Lady Carteret +towards Cranburne. + + [The royal lodge of that name in Windsor Forest, occupied by Sir + George Carteret as Vice-Chamberlain to the King.--B.] + +So all the company broke up in most extraordinary joy, wherein I am +mighty contented that I have had the good fortune to be so instrumental, +and I think it will be of good use to me. So walked to Redriffe, where I +hear the sickness is, and indeed is scattered almost every where, there +dying 1089 of the plague this week. My Lady Carteret did this day give +me a bottle of plague-water home with me. So home to write letters +late, and then home to bed, where I have not lain these 3 or 4 nights. I +received yesterday a letter from my Lord Sandwich, giving me thanks for +my care about their marriage business, and desiring it to be dispatched, +that no disappointment may happen therein, which I will help on all I +can. This afternoon I waited on the Duke of Albemarle, and so to Mrs. +Croft's, where I found and saluted Mrs. Burrows, who is a very pretty +woman for a mother of so many children. But, Lord! to see how the plague +spreads. It being now all over King's Streete, at the Axe, and next door +to it, and in other places. + +21st. Up and abroad to the goldsmiths, to see what money I could get +upon my present tallys upon the advance of the Excise, and I hope +I shall get L10,000. I went also and had them entered at the Excise +Office. Alderman Backewell is at sea. Sir R. Viner come to towne but +this morning. So Colvill was the only man I could yet speak withal to +get any money of. Met with Mr. Povy, and I with him and dined at +the Custom House Taverne, there to talk of our Tangier business, and +Stockedale and Hewet with us. So abroad to several places, among others +to Anthony Joyce's, and there broke to him my desire to have Pall +married to Harman, whose wife, poor woman, is lately dead, to my +trouble, I loving her very much, and he will consider it. So home and +late at my chamber, setting some papers in order; the plague growing +very raging, and my apprehensions of it great. So very late to bed. + +22nd. As soon as up I among my goldsmiths, Sir Robert Viner and Colvill, +and there got L10,000 of my new tallys accepted, and so I made it my +work to find out Mr. Mervin and sent for others to come with their bills +of Exchange, as Captain Hewett, &c., and sent for Mr. Jackson, but he +was not in town. So all the morning at the office, and after dinner, +which was very late, I to Sir R. Viner's, by his invitation in the +morning, and got near L5000 more accepted, and so from this day the +whole, or near, L15,000, lies upon interest. Thence I by water to +Westminster, and the Duke of Albemarle being gone to dinner to my Lord +of Canterbury's, I thither, and there walked and viewed the new hall, a +new old-fashion hall as much as possible. Begun, and means left for the +ending of it, by Bishop Juxon. Not coming proper to speak with him, I to +Fox-hall, where to the Spring garden; but I do not see one guest there, +the town being so empty of any body to come thither. Only, while I was +there, a poor woman come to scold with the master of the house that a +kinswoman, I think, of hers, that was newly dead of the plague, might be +buried in the church-yard; for, for her part, she should not be buried +in the commons, as they said she should. Back to White Hall, and by and +by comes the Duke of Albemarle, and there, after a little discourse, I +by coach home, not meeting with but two coaches, and but two carts from +White Hall to my own house, that I could observe; and the streets mighty +thin of people. I met this noon with Dr. Burnett, who told me, and I +find in the newsbook this week that he posted upon the 'Change, that +whoever did spread the report that, instead of the plague, his servant +was by him killed, it was forgery, and shewed me the acknowledgment of +the master of the pest-house, that his servant died of a bubo on his +right groine, and two spots on his right thigh, which is the plague. To +my office, where late writing letters, and getting myself prepared with +business for Hampton Court to-morrow, and so having caused a good pullet +to be got for my supper, all alone, I very late to bed. All the news is +great: that we must of necessity fall out with France, for He will side +with the Dutch against us. That Alderman Backewell is gone over (which +indeed he is) with money, and that Ostend is in our present possession. +But it is strange to see how poor Alderman Backewell is like to be +put to it in his absence, Mr. Shaw his right hand being ill. And the +Alderman's absence gives doubts to people, and I perceive they are in +great straits for money, besides what Sir G. Carteret told me about +fourteen days ago. Our fleet under my Lord Sandwich being about the +latitude 55 (which is a great secret) to the Northward of the Texell. +So to bed very late. In my way I called upon Sir W. Turner, and at Mr. +Shelcrosse's (but he was not at home, having left his bill with Sir W. +Turner), that so I may prove I did what I could as soon as I had money +to answer all bills. + +23rd (Lord's day). Up very betimes, called by Mr. Cutler, by +appointment, and with him in his coach and four horses over London +Bridge to Kingston, a very pleasant journey, and at Hampton Court by +nine o'clock, and in our way very good and various discourse, as he is +a man, that though I think he be a knave, as the world thinks him, yet +a man of great experience and worthy to be heard discourse. When we come +there, we to Sir W. Coventry's chamber, and there discoursed long with +him, he and I alone, the others being gone away, and so walked together +through the garden to the house, where we parted, I observing with a +little trouble that he is too great now to expect too much familiarity +with, and I find he do not mind me as he used to do, but when I reflect +upon him and his business I cannot think much of it, for I do not +observe anything but the same great kindness from him. I followed the +King to chappell, and there hear a good sermon; and after sermon with +my Lord Arlington, Sir Thomas Ingram and others, spoke to the Duke +about Tangier, but not to much purpose. I was not invited any whither +to dinner, though a stranger, which did also trouble me; but yet I +must remember it is a Court, and indeed where most are strangers; but, +however, Cutler carried me to Mr. Marriott's the house-keeper, and there +we had a very good dinner and good company, among others Lilly, the +painter. Thence to the councill-chamber, where in a back room I sat all +the afternoon, but the councill begun late to sit, and spent most of +the time upon Morisco's Tarr businesse. They sat long, and I forced to +follow Sir Thomas Ingram, the Duke, and others, so that when I got free +and come to look for Cutler, he was gone with his coach, without leaving +any word with any body to tell me so; so that I was forced with great +trouble to walk up and down looking of him, and at last forced to get +a boat to carry me to Kingston, and there, after eating a bit at a neat +inne, which pleased me well, I took boat, and slept all the way, without +intermission, from thence to Queenhive, where, it being about two +o'clock, too late and too soon to go home to bed, I lay and slept till +about four, + +24th. And then up and home, and there dressed myself, and by appointment +to Deptford, to Sir G. Carteret's, between six and seven o'clock, where +I found him and my Lady almost ready, and by and by went over to the +ferry, and took coach and six horses nobly for Dagenhams, himself and +lady and their little daughter, Louisonne, and myself in the coach; +where, when we come, we were bravely entertained and spent the day most +pleasantly with the young ladies, and I so merry as never more. Only +for want of sleep, and drinking of strong beer had a rheum in one of my +eyes, which troubled me much. Here with great content all the day, as I +think I ever passed a day in my life, because of the contentfulnesse of +our errand, and the noblenesse of the company and our manner of going. +But I find Mr. Carteret yet as backward almost in his caresses, as he +was the first day. At night, about seven o'clock, took coach again; but, +Lord! to see in what a pleasant humour Sir G. Carteret hath been both +coming and going; so light, so fond, so merry, so boyish (so much +content he takes in this business), it is one of the greatest wonders I +ever saw in my mind. But once in serious discourse he did say that, +if he knew his son to be a debauchee, as many and, most are now-a-days +about the Court, he would tell it, and my Lady Jem. should not have him; +and so enlarged both he and she about the baseness and looseness of the +Court, and told several stories of the Duke of Monmouth, and Richmond, +and some great person, my Lord of Ormond's second son, married to a lady +of extraordinary quality (fit and that might have been made a wife for +the King himself), about six months since, that this great person hath +given the pox to------; and discoursed how much this would oblige the +Kingdom if the King would banish some of these great persons publiquely +from the Court, and wished it with all their hearts. We set out so late +that it grew dark, so as we doubted the losing of our way; and a long +time it was, or seemed, before we could get to the water-side, and +that about eleven at night, where, when we come, all merry (only my eye +troubled me, as I said), we found no ferryboat was there, nor no oares +to carry us to Deptford. However, afterwards oares was called from the +other side at Greenwich; but, when it come, a frolique, being mighty +merry, took us, and there we would sleep all night in the coach in the +Isle of Doggs. So we did, there being now with us my Lady Scott, and +with great pleasure drew up the glasses, and slept till daylight, and +then some victuals and wine being brought us, we ate a bit, and so up +and took boat, merry as might be; and when come to Sir G. Carteret's, +there all to bed. + +25th. Our good humour in every body continuing, and there I slept till +seven o'clock. Then up and to the office, well refreshed, my eye only +troubling me, which by keeping a little covered with my handkercher and +washing now and then with cold water grew better by night. At noon to +the 'Change, which was very thin, and thence homeward, and was called +in by Mr. Rawlinson, with whom I dined and some good company very +harmlessly merry. But sad the story of the plague in the City, it +growing mightily. This day my Lord Brunker did give me Mr. Grant's' +book upon the Bills of Mortality, new printed and enlarged. Thence to +my office awhile, full of business, and thence by coach to the Duke +of Albemarle's, not meeting one coach going nor coming from my house +thither and back again, which is very strange. One of my chief errands +was to speak to Sir W. Clerke about my wife's brother, who importunes +me, and I doubt he do want mightily, but I can do little for him there +as to employment in the army, and out of my purse I dare not for fear +of a precedent, and letting him come often to me is troublesome and +dangerous too, he living in the dangerous part of the town, but I will +do what I can possibly for him and as soon as I can. Mightily troubled +all this afternoon with masters coming to me about Bills of Exchange and +my signing them upon my Goldsmiths, but I did send for them all and hope +to ease myself this weeke of all the clamour. These two or three days +Mr. Shaw at Alderman Backewell's hath lain sick, like to die, and is +feared will not live a day to an end. At night home and to bed, my head +full of business, and among others, this day come a letter to me from +Paris from my Lord Hinchingbroke, about his coming over; and I have sent +this night an order from the Duke of Albemarle for a ship of 36 guns to +[go] to Calais to fetch him. + +26th. Up, and after doing a little business, down to Deptford with Sir +W. Batten, and there left him, and I to Greenwich to the Park, where I +hear the King and Duke are come by water this morn from Hampton Court. +They asked me several questions. The King mightily pleased with his +new buildings there. I followed them to Castle's ship in building, and +there, met Sir W. Batten, and thence to Sir G. Carteret's, where all the +morning with them; they not having any but the Duke of Monmouth, and Sir +W. Killigrew, and one gentleman, and a page more. Great variety of +talk, and was often led to speak to the King and Duke. By and by they to +dinner, and all to dinner and sat down to the King saving myself, which, +though I could not in modesty expect, yet, God forgive my pride! I was +sorry I was there, that Sir W. Batten should say that he could sit down +where I could not, though he had twenty times more reason than I, but +this was my pride and folly. I down and walked with Mr. Castle, who told +me the design of Ford and Rider to oppose and do all the hurt they can +to Captain Taylor in his new ship "The London," and how it comes, and +that they are a couple of false persons, which I believe, and withal +that he himself is a knave too. He and I by and by to dinner mighty +nobly, and the King having dined, he come down, and I went in the barge +with him, I sitting at the door. Down to Woolwich (and there I just saw +and kissed my wife, and saw some of her painting, which is very curious; +and away again to the King) and back again with him in the barge, +hearing him and the Duke talk, and seeing and observing their manner of +discourse. And God forgive me! though I admire them with all the duty +possible, yet the more a man considers and observes them, the less he +finds of difference between them and other men, though (blessed be God!) +they are both princes of great nobleness and spirits. The barge put me +into another boat that come to our side, Mr. Holder with a bag of gold +to the Duke, and so they away and I home to the office. The Duke of +Monmouth is the most skittish leaping gallant that ever I saw, always +in action, vaulting or leaping, or clambering. Thence mighty full of +the honour of this day, I took coach and to Kate Joyce's, but she +not within, but spoke with Anthony, who tells me he likes well of my +proposal for Pall to Harman, but I fear that less than L500 will not be +taken, and that I shall not be able to give, though I did not say so to +him. After a little other discourse and the sad news of the death of +so many in the parish of the plague, forty last night, the bell always +going, I back to the Exchange, where I went up and sat talking with my +beauty, Mrs. Batelier, a great while, who is indeed one of the finest +women I ever saw in my life. After buying some small matter, I home, and +there to the office and saw Sir J. Minnes now come from Portsmouth, I +home to set my Journall for these four days in order, they being four +days of as great content and honour and pleasure to me as ever I hope to +live or desire, or think any body else can live. For methinks if a man +would but reflect upon this, and think that all these things are ordered +by God Almighty to make me contented, and even this very marriage now on +foot is one of the things intended to find me content in, in my life and +matter of mirth, methinks it should make one mightily more satisfied in +the world than he is. This day poor Robin Shaw at Backewell's died, and +Backewell himself now in Flanders. The King himself asked about Shaw, +and being told he was dead, said he was very sorry for it. The sicknesse +is got into our parish this week, and is got, indeed, every where; +so that I begin to think of setting things in order, which I pray God +enable me to put both as to soul and body. + +27th. Called up at 4 o'clock. Up and to my preparing some papers for +Hampton Court, and so by water to Fox Hall, and there Mr. Gauden's coach +took me up, and by and by I took up him, and so both thither, a brave +morning to ride in and good discourse with him. Among others he begun +with me to speak of the Tangier Victuallers resigning their employment, +and his willingness to come on. Of which I was glad, and took the +opportunity to answer him with all kindness and promise of assistance. +He told me a while since my Lord Berkeley did speak of it to him, and +yesterday a message from Sir Thomas Ingram. When I come to Hampton Court +I find Sir T. Ingram and Creed ready with papers signed for the putting +of Mr. Gawden in, upon a resignation signed to by Lanyon and sent to Sir +Thos. Ingram. At this I was surprized but yet was glad, and so it passed +but with respect enough to those that are in, at least without any thing +ill taken from it. I got another order signed about the boats, which I +think I shall get something by. So dispatched all my business, having +assurance of continuance of all hearty love from Sir W. Coventry, and so +we staid and saw the King and Queene set out toward Salisbury, and after +them the Duke and Duchesse, whose hands I did kiss. And it was the first +time I did ever, or did see any body else, kiss her hand, and it was a +most fine white and fat hand. But it was pretty to see the young pretty +ladies dressed like men, in velvet coats, caps with ribbands, and with +laced bands, just like men. Only the Duchesse herself it did not become. +They gone, we with great content took coach again, and hungry come to +Clapham about one o'clock, and Creed there too before us, where a +good dinner, the house having dined, and so to walk up and down in +the gardens, mighty pleasant. By and by comes by promise to me Sir G. +Carteret, and viewed the house above and below, and sat and drank there, +and I had a little opportunity to kiss and spend some time with the +ladies above, his daughter, a buxom lass, and his sister Fissant, +a serious lady, and a little daughter of hers, that begins to sing +prettily. Thence, with mighty pleasure, with Sir G. Carteret by coach, +with great discourse of kindnesse with him to my Lord Sandwich, and +to me also; and I every day see more good by the alliance. Almost at +Deptford I 'light and walked over to Half-way House, and so home, in my +way being shown my cozen Patience's house, which seems, at distance, a +pretty house. At home met the weekly Bill, where above 1000 encreased in +the Bill, and of them, in all about 1,700 of the plague, which hath made +the officers this day resolve of sitting at Deptford, which puts me to +some consideration what to do. Therefore home to think and consider of +every thing about it, and without determining any thing eat a little +supper and to bed, full of the pleasure of these 6 or 7 last days. + +28th. Up betimes, and down to Deptford, where, after a little discourse +with Sir G. Carteret, who is much displeased with the order of our +officers yesterday to remove the office to Deptford, pretending other +things, but to be sure it is with regard to his own house (which is +much because his family is going away). I am glad I was not at the order +making, and so I will endeavour to alter it. Set out with my Lady all +alone with her with six horses to Dagenhams; going by water to the +Ferry. And a pleasant going, and good discourse; and when there, very +merry, and the young couple now well acquainted. But, Lord! to see +in what fear all the people here do live would make one mad, they are +afeard of us that come to them, insomuch that I am troubled at it, and +wish myself away. But some cause they have; for the chaplin, with whom +but a week or two ago we were here mighty high disputing, is since +fallen into a fever and dead, being gone hence to a friend's a good +way off. A sober and a healthful man. These considerations make us all +hasten the marriage, and resolve it upon Monday next, which is three +days before we intended it. Mighty merry all of us, and in the evening +with full content took coach again and home by daylight with great +pleasure, and thence I down to Woolwich, where find my wife well, and +after drinking and talking a little we to bed. + +29th. Up betimes, and after viewing some of my wife's pictures, which +now she is come to do very finely to my great satisfaction beyond what +I could ever look for, I went away and by water to the office, where +nobody to meet me, but busy all the morning. At noon to dinner, where I +hear that my Will is come in thither and laid down upon my bed, ill of +the headake, which put me into extraordinary fear; and I studied all I +could to get him out of the house, and set my people to work to do it +without discouraging him, and myself went forth to the Old Exchange +to pay my fair Batelier for some linnen, and took leave of her, they +breaking up shop for a while; and so by coach to Kate Joyce's, and there +used all the vehemence and rhetorique I could to get her husband to let +her go down to Brampton, but I could not prevail with him; he urging +some simple reasons, but most that of profit, minding the house, and the +distance, if either of them should be ill. However, I did my best, and +more than I had a mind to do, but that I saw him so resolved against it, +while she was mightily troubled at it. At last he yielded she should go +to Windsor, to some friends there. So I took my leave of them, believing +that it is great odds that we ever all see one another again; for I dare +not go any more to that end of the towne. So home, and to writing of +letters--hard, and then at night home, and fell to my Tangier papers +till late, and then to bed, in some ease of mind that Will is gone +to his lodging, and that he is likely to do well, it being only the +headake. + +30th (Lord's day). Up, and in my night gowne, cap and neckcloth, +undressed all day long, lost not a minute, but in my chamber, setting +my Tangier accounts to rights. Which I did by night to my very heart's +content, not only that it is done, but I find every thing right, and +even beyond what, after so long neglecting them, I did hope for. The +Lord of Heaven be praised for it! Will was with me to-day, and is very +well again. It was a sad noise to hear our bell to toll and ring so +often to-day, either for deaths or burials; I think five or six times. +At night weary with my day's work, but full of joy at my having done +it, I to bed, being to rise betimes tomorrow to go to the wedding at +Dagenhams. So to bed, fearing I have got some cold sitting in my loose +garments all this day. + +31st. Up, and very betimes by six o'clock at Deptford, and there find +Sir G. Carteret, and my Lady ready to go: I being in my new coloured +silk suit, and coat trimmed with gold buttons and gold broad lace round +my hands, very rich and fine. By water to the Ferry, where, when we +come, no coach there; and tide of ebb so far spent as the horse-boat +could not get off on the other side the river to bring away the coach. +So we were fain to stay there in the unlucky Isle of Doggs, in a chill +place, the morning cool, and wind fresh, above two if not three hours to +our great discontent. Yet being upon a pleasant errand, and seeing that +it could not be helped, we did bear it very patiently; and it was worth +my observing, I thought, as ever any thing, to see how upon these two +scores, Sir G. Carteret, the most passionate man in the world, and that +was in greatest haste to be gone, did bear with it, and very pleasant +all the while, at least not troubled much so as to fret and storm at it. +Anon the coach comes: in the mean time there coming a News thither +with his horse to go over, that told us he did come from Islington this +morning; and that Proctor the vintner of the Miter in Wood-street, and +his son, are dead this morning there, of the plague; he having laid out +abundance of money there, and was the greatest vintner for some time in +London for great entertainments. We, fearing the canonicall hour would +be past before we got thither, did with a great deal of unwillingness +send away the license and wedding ring. So that when we come, though we +drove hard with six horses, yet we found them gone from home; and going +towards the church, met them coming from church, which troubled us. +But, however, that trouble was soon over; hearing it was well done: they +being both in their old cloaths; my Lord Crew giving her, there being +three coach fulls of them. The young lady mighty sad, which troubled me; +but yet I think it was only her gravity in a little greater degree than +usual. All saluted her, but I did not till my Lady Sandwich did ask me +whether I had saluted her or no. So to dinner, and very merry we were; +but yet in such a sober way as never almost any wedding was in so great +families: but it was much better. After dinner company divided, some to +cards, others to talk. My Lady Sandwich and I up to settle accounts, and +pay her some money. And mighty kind she is to me, and would fain have +had me gone down for company with her to Hinchingbroke; but for my life +I cannot. At night to supper, and so to talk; and which, methought, was +the most extraordinary thing, all of us to prayers as usual, and the +young bride and bridegroom too and so after prayers, soberly to bed; +only I got into the bridegroom's chamber while he undressed himself, +and there was very merry, till he was called to the bride's chamber, +and into bed they went. I kissed the bride in bed, and so the curtaines +drawne with the greatest gravity that could be, and so good night. But +the modesty and gravity of this business was so decent, that it was to +me indeed ten times more delightfull than if it had been twenty times +more merry and joviall. Whereas I feared I must have sat up all night, +we did here all get good beds, and I lay in the same I did before with +Mr. Brisband, who is a good scholler and sober man; and we lay in bed, +getting him to give me an account of home, which is the most delightfull +talke a man can have of any traveller: and so to sleep. My eyes much +troubled already with the change of my drink. Thus I ended this month +with the greatest joy that ever I did any in my life, because I have +spent the greatest part of it with abundance of joy, and honour, and +pleasant journeys, and brave entertainments, and without cost of money; +and at last live to see the business ended with great content on all +sides. This evening with Mr. Brisband, speaking of enchantments and +spells; I telling him some of my charms; he told me this of his owne +knowledge, at Bourdeaux, in France. The words these: + + Voyci un Corps mort, + Royde come un Baston, + Froid comme Marbre, + Leger come un esprit, + Levons to au nom de Jesus Christ. + +He saw four little girles, very young ones, all kneeling, each of them, +upon one knee; and one begun the first line, whispering in the eare of +the next, and the second to the third, and the third to the fourth, and +she to the first. Then the first begun the second line, and so round +quite through, and, putting each one finger only to a boy that lay flat +upon his back on the ground, as if he was dead; at the end of the words, +they did with their four fingers raise this boy as high as they could +reach, and he [Mr. Brisband] being there, and wondering at it, as also +being afeard to see it, for they would have had him to have bore a part +in saying the words, in the roome of one of the little girles that was +so young that they could hardly make her learn to repeat the words, did, +for feare there might be some sleight used in it by the boy, or that the +boy might be light, call the cook of the house, a very lusty fellow, as +Sir G. Carteret's cook, who is very big, and they did raise him in just +the same manner. This is one of the strangest things I ever heard, but +he tells it me of his owne knowledge, and I do heartily believe it to +be true. I enquired of him whether they were Protestant or Catholique +girles; and he told me they were Protestant, which made it the more +strange to me. Thus we end this month, as I said, after the greatest +glut of content that ever I had; only under some difficulty because of +the plague, which grows mightily upon us, the last week being about 1700 +or 1800 of the plague. My Lord Sandwich at sea with a fleet of about +100 sail, to the Northward, expecting De Ruyter, or the Dutch East India +fleet. My Lord Hinchingbroke coming over from France, and will meet his +sister at Scott's-hall. Myself having obliged both these families in +this business very much; as both my Lady, and Sir G. Carteret and his +Lady do confess exceedingly, and the latter do also now call me cozen, +which I am glad of. So God preserve us all friends long, and continue +health among us. + + + + +AUGUST 1665 + +August 1st. Slept, and lay long; then up and my Lord [Crew] and Sir G. +Carteret being gone abroad, I first to see the bridegroom and bride, and +found them both up, and he gone to dress himself. Both red in the face, +and well enough pleased this morning with their night's lodging. Thence +down and Mr. Brisband and I to billiards: anon come my Lord and Sir G. +Carteret in, who have been looking abroad and visiting some farms that +Sir G. Carteret hath thereabouts, and, among other things, report the +greatest stories of the bigness of the calfes they find there, ready to +sell to the butchers, as big, they say, as little Cowes, and that they +do give them a piece of chalke to licke, which they hold makes them +white in the flesh within. Very merry at dinner, and so to talk and +laugh after dinner, and up and down, some to [one] place, some to +another, full of content on all sides. Anon about five o'clock, Sir +G. Carteret and his lady and I took coach with the greatest joy and +kindnesse that could be from the two familys or that ever I saw with +so much appearance, and, I believe, reality in all my life. Drove +hard home, and it was night ere we got to Deptford, where, with much +kindnesse from them to me, I left them, and home to the office, where I +find all well, and being weary and sleepy, it being very late, I to bed. + +2nd. Up, it being a publique fast, as being the first Wednesday of +the month, for the plague; I within doors all day, and upon my monthly +accounts late, and there to my great joy settled almost all my private +matters of money in my books clearly, and allowing myself several sums +which I had hitherto not reckoned myself sure of, because I would not +be over sure of any thing, though with reason I might do it, I did find +myself really worth L1900, for which the great God of Heaven and Earth +be praised! At night to the office to write a few letters, and so home +to bed, after fitting myself for tomorrow's journey. + +3rd. Up, and betimes to Deptford to Sir G. Carteret's, where, not liking +the horse that had been hired by Mr. Uthwayt for me, I did desire Sir G. +Carteret to let me ride his new L40 horse, which he did, and so I +left my 'hacquenee'--[Haquenee = an ambling nag fitted for ladies' +riding.]--behind, and so after staying a good while in their bedchamber +while they were dressing themselves, discoursing merrily, I parted and +to the ferry, where I was forced to stay a great while before I could +get my horse brought over, and then mounted and rode very finely to +Dagenhams; all the way people, citizens, walking to and again to enquire +how the plague is in the City this week by the Bill; which by chance, at +Greenwich, I had heard was 2,020 of the plague, and 3,000 and odd of all +diseases; but methought it was a sad question to be so often asked me. +Coming to Dagenhams, I there met our company coming out of the house, +having staid as long as they could for me; so I let them go a little +before, and went and took leave of my Lady Sandwich, good woman, who +seems very sensible of my service in this late business, and having her +directions in some things, among others, to get Sir G. Carteret and my +Lord to settle the portion, and what Sir G. Carteret is to settle, into +land, soon as may be, she not liking that it should lie long undone, for +fear of death on either side. So took leave of her, and then down to the +buttery, and eat a piece of cold venison pie, and drank and took some +bread and cheese in my hand; and so mounted after them, Mr. Marr very +kindly staying to lead me the way. By and by met my Lord Crew returning, +after having accompanied them a little way, and so after them, Mr. Marr +telling me by the way how a mayde servant of Mr. John Wright's (who +lives thereabouts) falling sick of the plague, she was removed to an +out-house, and a nurse appointed to look to her; who, being once absent, +the mayde got out of the house at the window, and run away. The nurse +coming and knocking, and having no answer, believed she was dead, and +went and told Mr. Wright so; who and his lady were in great strait what +to do to get her buried. At last resolved to go to Burntwood hard by, +being in the parish, and there get people to do it. But they would not; +so he went home full of trouble, and in the way met the wench walking +over the common, which frighted him worse than before; and was forced +to send people to take her, which he did; and they got one of the pest +coaches and put her into it to carry her to a pest house. And passing in +a narrow lane, Sir Anthony Browne, with his brother and some friends +in the coach, met this coach with the curtains drawn close. The brother +being a young man, and believing there might be some lady in it that +would not be seen, and the way being narrow, he thrust his head out of +his own into her coach, and to look, and there saw somebody look very +ill, and in a sick dress, and stunk mightily; which the coachman also +cried out upon. And presently they come up to some people that stood +looking after it, and told our gallants that it was a mayde of Mr. +Wright's carried away sick of the plague; which put the young gentleman +into a fright had almost cost him his life, but is now well again. I, +overtaking our young people, 'light, and into the coach to them, where +mighty merry all the way; and anon come to the Blockehouse, over against +Gravesend, where we staid a great while, in a little drinking-house. +Sent back our coaches to Dagenhams. I, by and by, by boat to Gravesend, +where no newes of Sir G. Carteret come yet; so back again, and fetched +them all over, but the two saddle-horses that were to go with us, which +could not be brought over in the horseboat, the wind and tide being +against us, without towing; so we had some difference with some +watermen, who would not tow them over under 20s., whereupon I swore to +send one of them to sea and will do it. Anon some others come to me and +did it for 10s. By and by comes Sir G. Carteret, and so we set out for +Chatham: in my way overtaking some company, wherein was a lady, very +pretty, riding singly, her husband in company with her. We fell into +talke, and I read a copy of verses which her husband showed me, and he +discommended, but the lady commended: and I read them, so as to make the +husband turn to commend them. By and by he and I fell into acquaintance, +having known me formerly at the Exchequer. His name is Nokes, over +against Bow Church. He was servant to Alderman Dashwood. We promised +to meet, if ever we come both to London again; and, at parting, I had +a fair salute on horseback, in Rochester streets, of the lady, and so +parted. Come to Chatham mighty merry, and anon to supper, it being near +9 o'clock ere we come thither. My Lady Carteret come thither in a coach, +by herself, before us. Great mind they have to buy a little 'hacquenee' +that I rode on from Greenwich, for a woman's horse. Mighty merry, +and after supper, all being withdrawn, Sir G. Carteret did take an +opportunity to speak with much value and kindness to me, which is of +great joy to me. So anon to bed. Mr. Brisband and I together to my +content. + +4th. Up at five o'clock, and by six walked out alone, with my Lady +Slanning, to the Docke Yard, where walked up and down, and so to +Mr. Pett's, who led us into his garden, and there the lady, the best +humoured woman in the world, and a devout woman (I having spied her on +her knees half an houre this morning in her chamber), clambered up to +the top of the banquetting-house to gather nuts, and mighty merry, and +so walked back again through the new rope house, which is very usefull; +and so to the Hill-house to breakfast and mighty merry. Then they took +coach, and Sir G. Carteret kissed me himself heartily, and my Lady +several times, with great kindnesse, and then the young ladies, and so +with much joy, bade "God be with you!" and an end I think it will be to +my mirthe for a great while, it having been the passage of my whole life +the most pleasing for the time, considering the quality and nature of +the business, and my noble usage in the doing of it, and very many fine +journys, entertainments and great company. I returned into the house for +a while to do business there with Commissioner Pett, and there with the +officers of the Chest, where I saw more of Sir W. Batten's business than +ever I did before, for whereas he did own once under his hand to them +that he was accountable for L2200, of which he had yet paid but L1600, +he writes them a letter lately that he hath but about L50 left that is +due to the Chest, but I will do something in it and that speedily. +That being done I took horse, and Mr. Barrow with me bore me company to +Gravesend, discoursing of his business, wherein I vexed him, and he me, +I seeing his frowardness, but yet that he is in my conscience a very +honest man, and some good things he told me, which I shall remember +to the King's advantage. There I took boat alone, and, the tide being +against me, landed at Blackwall and walked to Wapping, Captain Bowd whom +I met with talking with me all the way, who is a sober man. So home, and +found all things well, and letters from Dover that my Lord Hinchingbroke +is arrived at Dover, and would be at Scott's hall this night, where the +whole company will meet. I wish myself with them. After writing a few +letters I took boat and down to Woolwich very late, and there found my +wife and her woman upon the key hearing a fellow in a barge, that lay +by, fiddle. So I to them and in, very merry, and to bed, I sleepy and +weary. + +5th. In the morning up, and my wife showed me several things of her +doing, especially one fine woman's Persian head mighty finely done, +beyond what I could expect of her; and so away by water, having ordered +in the yarde six or eight bargemen to be whipped, who had last night +stolen some of the King's cordage from out of the yarde. I to Deptford, +and there by agreement met with my Lord Bruncker, and there we kept our +office, he and I, and did what there was to do, and at noon parted +to meet at the office next week. Sir W. Warren and I thence did walk +through the rain to Half-Way House, and there I eat a piece of boiled +beef and he and I talked over several businesses, among others our +design upon the mast docke, which I hope to compass and get 2 or L300 +by. Thence to Redriffe, where we parted, and I home, where busy all the +afternoon. Stepped to Colvill's to set right a business of money, where +he told me that for certain De Ruyter is come home, with all his fleete, +which is very ill newes, considering the charge we have been at in +keeping a fleete to the northward so long, besides the great expectation +of snapping him, wherein my Lord Sandwich will I doubt suffer some +dishonour. I am told also of a great ryott upon Thursday last in +Cheapside; Colonell Danvers, a delinquent, having been taken, and in his +way to the Tower was rescued from the captain of the guard, and carried +away; only one of the rescuers being taken. I am told also that the Duke +of Buckingham is dead, but I know not of a certainty. So home and very +late at letters, and then home to supper and to bed. + +6th (Lord's day). Dressed and had my head combed by my little girle, to +whom I confess 'que je sum demasiado kind, nuper ponendo mes mains in su +des choses de son breast, mais il faut que je' leave it lest it bring +me to 'alcun major inconvenience'. So to my business in my chamber, look +over and settling more of my papers than I could the two last days +I have spent about them. In the evening, it raining hard, down to +Woolwich, where after some little talk to bed. + +7th. Up, and with great pleasure looking over my wife's pictures, and +then to see my Lady Pen, whom I have not seen since her coming hither, +and after being a little merry with her, she went forth and I staid +there talking with Mrs. Pegg and looking over her pictures, and +commended them; but, Lord! so far short of my wife's, as no comparison. +Thence to my wife, and there spent, talking, till noon, when by +appointment Mr. Andrews come out of the country to speake with me about +their Tangier business, and so having done with him and dined, I home by +water, where by appointment I met Dr. Twisden, Mr. Povy, Mr. Lawson, and +Stockdale about settling their business of money; but such confusion +I never met with, nor could anything be agreed on, but parted like a +company of fools, I vexed to lose so much time and pains to no purpose. +They gone, comes Rayner, the boatmaker, about some business, and brings +a piece of plate with him, which I refused to take of him, thinking +indeed that the poor man hath no reason nor encouragement from our +dealings with him to give any of us any presents. He gone, there comes +Luellin, about Mr. Deering's business of planke, to have the contract +perfected, and offers me twenty pieces in gold, as Deering had done some +time since himself, but I both then and now refused it, resolving not +to be bribed to dispatch business, but will have it done however out of +hand forthwith. So he gone, I to supper and to bed. + +8th. Up and to the office, where all the morning we sat. At noon I home +to dinner alone, and after dinner Bagwell's wife waited at the door, and +went with me to my office.... So parted, and I to Sir W. Batten's, and +there sat the most of the afternoon talking and drinking too much with +my Lord Bruncker, Sir G. Smith, G. Cocke and others very merry. I drunk +a little mixed, but yet more than I should do. So to my office a little, +and then to the Duke of Albemarle's about some business. The streets +mighty empty all the way, now even in London, which is a sad sight. And +to Westminster Hall, where talking, hearing very sad stories from Mrs. +Mumford; among others, of Mrs. Michell's son's family. And poor Will, +that used to sell us ale at the Hall-door, his wife and three children +died, all, I think, in a day. So home through the City again, wishing I +may have taken no ill in going; but I will go, I think, no more thither. +Late at the office, and then home to supper, having taken a pullet +home with me, and then to bed. The news of De Kuyter's coming home +is certain; and told to the great disadvantage of our fleete, and the +praise of De Kuyter; but it cannot be helped, nor do I know what to say +to it. + +9th. Up betimes to my office, where Tom Hater to the writing of letters +with me, which have for a good while been in arreare, and we close at it +all day till night, only made a little step out for half an houre in +the morning to the Exchequer about striking of tallys, but no good done +therein, people being most out of towne. At noon T. Hater dined with +me, and so at it all the afternoon. At night home and supped, and +after reading a little in Cowley's poems, my head being disturbed with +overmuch business to-day, I to bed. + +10th. Up betimes, and called upon early by my she-cozen Porter, the +turner's wife, to tell me that her husband was carried to the Tower, +for buying of some of the King's powder, and would have my helpe, but +I could give her none, not daring any more to appear in the business, +having too much trouble lately therein. By and by to the office, where +we sat all the morning; in great trouble to see the Bill this week rise +so high, to above 4,000 in all, and of them above 3,000 of the plague. +And an odd story of Alderman Bence's stumbling at night over a dead +corps in the streete, and going home and telling his wife, she at the +fright, being with child, fell sicke and died of the plague. We sat +late, and then by invitation my Lord Brunker, Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. +Batten and I to Sir G. Smith's to dinner, where very good company and +good cheer. Captain Cocke was there and Jacke Fenn, but to our great +wonder Alderman Bence, and tells us that not a word of all this is true, +and others said so too, but by his owne story his wife hath been ill, +and he fain to leave his house and comes not to her, which continuing a +trouble to me all the time I was there. Thence to the office and, after +writing letters, home, to draw-over anew my will, which I had bound +myself by oath to dispatch by to-morrow night; the town growing so +unhealthy, that a man cannot depend upon living two days to an end. So +having done something of it, I to bed. + +11th. Up, and all day long finishing and writing over my will twice, for +my father and my wife, only in the morning a pleasant rencontre happened +in having a young married woman brought me by her father, old Delkes, +that carries pins always in his mouth, to get her husband off that he +should not go to sea, 'une contre pouvait avoir done any cose cum else, +but I did nothing, si ni baisser her'. After they were gone my mind run +upon having them called back again, and I sent a messenger to Blackwall, +but he failed. So I lost my expectation. I to the Exchequer, about +striking new tallys, and I find the Exchequer, by proclamation, removing +to Nonesuch.--[Nonsuch Palace, near Epsom, where the Exchequer money was +kept during the time of the plague.]--Back again and at my papers, and +putting up my books into chests, and settling my house and all things in +the best and speediest order I can, lest it should please God to take me +away, or force me to leave my house. Late up at it, and weary and full +of wind, finding perfectly that so long as I keepe myself in company at +meals and do there eat lustily (which I cannot do alone, having no love +to eating, but my mind runs upon my business), I am as well as can be, +but when I come to be alone, I do not eat in time, nor enough, nor with +any good heart, and I immediately begin to be full of wind, which brings +my pain, till I come to fill my belly a-days again, then am presently +well. + +12th. The office now not sitting, but only hereafter on Thursdays at +the office, I within all the morning about my papers and setting things +still in order, and also much time in settling matters with Dr. +Twisden. At noon am sent for by Sir G. Carteret, to meet him and my Lord +Hinchingbroke at Deptford, but my Lord did not come thither, he having +crossed the river at Gravesend to Dagenhams, whither I dare not follow +him, they being afeard of me; but Sir G. Carteret says, he is a most +sweet youth in every circumstance. Sir G. Carteret being in haste of +going to the Duke of Albemarle and the Archbishop, he was pettish, and +so I could not fasten any discourse, but take another time. So he gone, +I down to Greenwich and sent away the Bezan, thinking to go with my wife +to-night to come back again to-morrow night to the Soveraigne at the +buoy off the Nore. Coming back to Deptford, old Bagwell walked a little +way with me, and would have me in to his daughter's, and there he being +gone 'dehors, ego had my volunte de su hiza'. Eat and drank and away +home, and after a little at the office to my chamber to put more things +still in order, and late to bed. The people die so, that now it seems +they are fain to carry the dead to be buried by day-light, the nights +not sufficing to do it in. And my Lord Mayor commands people to be +within at nine at night all, as they say, that the sick may have liberty +to go abroad for ayre. There is one also dead out of one of our ships +at Deptford, which troubles us mightily; the Providence fire-ship, which +was just fitted to go to sea. But they tell me to-day no more sick on +board. And this day W. Bodham tells me that one is dead at Woolwich, +not far from the Rope-yard. I am told, too, that a wife of one of the +groomes at Court is dead at Salsbury; so that the King and Queene are +speedily to be all gone to Milton. God preserve us! + +13th (Lord's day). Up betimes and to my chamber, it being a very wet +day all day, and glad am I that we did not go by water to see "The +Soveraigne" + + ["The Sovereign of the Seas" was built at Woolwich in 1637 of timber + which had been stripped of its bark while growing in the spring, and + not felled till the second autumn afterwards; and it is observed by + Dr. Plot ("Phil. Trans." for 1691), in his discourse on the most + seasonable time for felling timber, written by the advice of Pepys, + that after forty-seven years, "all the ancient timber then remaining + in her, it was no easy matter to drive a nail into it" ("Quarterly + Review," vol. viii., p. 35).--B.] + +to-day, as I intended, clearing all matters in packing up my papers +and books, and giving instructions in writing to my executors, thereby +perfecting the whole business of my will, to my very great joy; so that +I shall be in much better state of soul, I hope, if it should please +the Lord to call me away this sickly time. At night to read, being +weary with this day's great work, and then after supper to bed, to rise +betimes to-morrow, and to bed with a mind as free as to the business of +the world as if I were not worth L100 in the whole world, every thing +being evened under my hand in my books and papers, and upon the whole I +find myself worth, besides Brampton estate, the sum of L2164, for which +the Lord be praised! + +14th. Up, and my mind being at mighty ease from the dispatch of my +business so much yesterday, I down to Deptford to Sir G. Carteret, where +with him a great while, and a great deale of private talke concerning my +Lord Sandwich's and his matters, and chiefly of the latter, I giving +him great deale of advice about the necessity of his having caution +concerning Fenn, and the many ways there are of his being abused by any +man in his place, and why he should not bring his son in to look after +his business, and more, to be a Commissioner of the Navy, which he +listened to and liked, and told me how much the King was his good +Master, and was sure not to deny him that or any thing else greater +than that, and I find him a very cunning man, whatever at other times +he seems to be, and among other things he told me he was not for the +fanfaroone + + [Fanfaron, French, from fanfare, a sounding of trumpets; hence, a + swaggerer, or empty boaster.] + +to make a show with a great title, as he might have had long since, but +the main thing to get an estate; and another thing, speaking of minding +of business, "By God," says he, "I will and have already almost brought +it to that pass, that the King shall not be able to whip a cat, but I +must be at the tayle of it." Meaning so necessary he is, and the King +and my Lord Treasurer and all do confess it; which, while I mind my +business, is my own case in this office of the Navy, and I hope shall +be more, if God give me life and health. Thence by agreement to Sir J. +Minnes's lodgings, where I found my Lord Bruncker, and so by water to +the ferry, and there took Sir W. Batten's coach that was sent for us, +and to Sir W. Batten's, where very merry, good cheer, and up and down +the garden with great content to me, and, after dinner, beat Captain +Cocke at billiards, won about 8s. of him and my Lord Bruncker. So in +the evening after, much pleasure back again and I by water to Woolwich, +where supped with my wife, and then to bed betimes, because of rising +to-morrow at four of the clock in order to the going out with Sir G. +Carteret toward Cranborne to my Lord Hinchingbrooke in his way to Court. +This night I did present my wife with the dyamond ring, awhile since +given me by Mr. Dicke Vines's brother, for helping him to be a purser, +valued at about L10, the first thing of that nature I did ever give her. +Great fears we have that the plague will be a great Bill this weeke. + +15th. Up by 4 o'clock and walked to Greenwich, where called at Captain +Cocke's and to his chamber, he being in bed, where something put my +last night's dream into my head, which I think is the best that ever +was dreamt, which was that I had my Lady Castlemayne in my armes and was +admitted to use all the dalliance I desired with her, and then dreamt +that this could not be awake, but that it was only a dream; but that +since it was a dream, and that I took so much real pleasure in it, what +a happy thing it would be if when we are in our graves (as Shakespeere +resembles it) we could dream, and dream but such dreams as this, that +then we should not need to be so fearful of death, as we are this plague +time. Here I hear that news is brought Sir G. Carteret that my Lord +Hinchingbrooke is not well, and so cannot meet us at Cranborne to-night. +So I to Sir G. Carteret's; and there was sorry with him for our +disappointment. So we have put off our meeting there till Saturday next. +Here I staid talking with Sir G. Carteret, he being mighty free with me +in his business, and among other things hath ordered Rider and Cutler to +put into my hands copper to the value of L5,000 (which Sir G. Carteret's +share it seems come to in it), which is to raise part of the money he is +to layout for a purchase for my Lady Jemimah. Thence he and I to Sir +J. Minnes's by invitation, where Sir W. Batten and my Lady, and my Lord +Bruncker, and all of us dined upon a venison pasty and other good meat, +but nothing well dressed. But my pleasure lay in getting some bills +signed by Sir G. Carteret, and promise of present payment from Mr. Fenn, +which do rejoice my heart, it being one of the heaviest things I had +upon me, that so much of the little I have should lie (viz. near L1000) +in the King's hands. Here very merry and (Sir G. Carteret being gone +presently after dinner) to Captain Cocke's, and there merry, and so +broke up and I by water to the Duke of Albemarle, with whom I spoke a +great deale in private, they being designed to send a fleete of ships +privately to the Streights. No news yet from our fleete, which is much +wondered at, but the Duke says for certain guns have been heard to the +northward very much. It was dark before I could get home, and so land +at Church-yard stairs, where, to my great trouble, I met a dead corps +of the plague, in the narrow ally just bringing down a little pair of +stairs. But I thank God I was not much disturbed at it. However, I shall +beware of being late abroad again. + +16th. Up, and after doing some necessary business about my accounts at +home, to the office, and there with Mr. Hater wrote letters, and I did +deliver to him my last will, one part of it to deliver to my wife when +I am dead. Thence to the Exchange, where I have not been a great while. +But, Lord! how sad a sight it is to see the streets empty of people, and +very few upon the 'Change. Jealous of every door that one sees shut up, +lest it should be the plague; and about us two shops in three, if not +more, generally shut up. From the 'Change to Sir G. Smith's' with Mr. +Fenn, to whom I am nowadays very complaisant, he being under payment of +my bills to me, and some other sums at my desire, which he readily do. +Mighty merry with Captain Cocke and Fenn at Sir G. Smith's, and a brave +dinner, but I think Cocke is the greatest epicure that is, eats and +drinks with the greatest pleasure and liberty that ever man did. Very +contrary newes to-day upon the 'Change, some that our fleete hath taken +some of the Dutch East India ships, others that we did attaque it at +Bergen and were repulsed, others that our fleete is in great danger +after this attaque by meeting with the great body now gone out of +Holland, almost 100 sayle of men of warr. Every body is at a great losse +and nobody can tell. Thence among the goldsmiths to get some money, and +so home, settling some new money matters, and to my great joy have got +home L500 more of the money due to me, and got some more money to help +Andrews first advanced. This day I had the ill news from Dagenhams, +that my poor lord of Hinchingbroke his indisposition is turned to the +small-pox. Poor gentleman! that he should be come from France so soon to +fall sick, and of that disease too, when he should be gone to see a fine +lady, his mistresse. I am most heartily sorry for it. So late setting +papers to rights, and so home to bed. + +17th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon +dined together upon some victuals I had prepared at Sir W. Batten's upon +the King's charge, and after dinner, I having dispatched some business +and set things in order at home, we down to the water and by boat to +Greenwich to the Bezan yacht, where Sir W. Batten, Sir J. Minnes, my +Lord Bruncker and myself, with some servants (among others Mr. Carcasse, +my Lord's clerk, a very civil gentleman), embarked in the yacht and +down we went most pleasantly, and noble discourse I had with my Lord +Bruneker, who is a most excellent person. Short of Gravesend it grew +calme, and so we come to an anchor, and to supper mighty merry, and +after it, being moonshine, we out of the cabbin to laugh and talk, and +then, as we grew sleepy, went in and upon velvet cushions of the King's +that belong to the yacht fell to sleep, which we all did pretty well +till 3 or 4 of the clock, having risen in the night to look for a new +comet which is said to have lately shone, but we could see no such +thing. + +18th. Up about 5 o'clock and dressed ourselves, and to sayle again down +to the Soveraigne at the buoy of the Nore, a noble ship, now rigged +and fitted and manned; we did not stay long, but to enquire after her +readinesse and thence to Sheernesse, where we walked up and down, laying +out the ground to be taken in for a yard to lay provisions for cleaning +and repairing of ships, and a most proper place it is for the purpose. +Thence with great pleasure up the Meadeway, our yacht contending with +Commissioner Pett's, wherein he met us from Chatham, and he had the best +of it. Here I come by, but had not tide enough to stop at Quinbrough, a +with mighty pleasure spent the day in doing all and seeing these places, +which I had never done before. So to the Hill house at Chatham and there +dined, and after dinner spent some time discoursing of business. Among +others arguing with the Commissioner about his proposing the laying out +so much money upon Sheerenesse, unless it be to the slighting of Chatham +yarde, for it is much a better place than Chatham, which however the +King is not at present in purse to do, though it were to be wished he +were. Thence in Commissioner Pett's coach (leaving them there). I late +in the darke to Gravesend, where great is the plague, and I troubled to +stay there so long for the tide. At 10 at night, having supped, I took +boat alone, and slept well all the way to the Tower docke about three +o'clock in the morning. So knocked up my people, and to bed. + +19th. Slept till 8 o'clock, and then up and met with letters from the +King and Lord Arlington, for the removal of our office to Greenwich. I +also wrote letters, and made myself ready to go to Sir G. Carteret, at +Windsor; and having borrowed a horse of Mr. Blackbrough, sent him to +wait for me at the Duke of Albemarle's door: when, on a sudden, a letter +comes to us from the Duke of Albemarle, to tell us that the fleete is +all come back to Solebay, and are presently to be dispatched back again. +Whereupon I presently by water to the Duke of Albemarle to know what +news; and there I saw a letter from my Lord Sandwich to the Duke of +Albemarle, and also from Sir W. Coventry and Captain Teddiman; how my +Lord having commanded Teddiman with twenty-two ships + + [A news letter of August 19th (Salisbury), gives the following + account of this affair:--"The Earl of Sandwich being on the Norway + coast, ordered Sir Thomas Teddeman with 20 ships to attack 50 Dutch + merchant ships in Bergen harbour; six convoyers had so placed + themselves that only four or five of the ships could be reached at + once. The Governor of Bergen fired on our ships, and placed 100 + pieces of ordnance and two regiments of foot on the rocks to attack + them, but they got clear without the loss of a ship, only 500 men + killed or wounded, five or six captains among them. The fleet has + gone to Sole Bay to repair losses and be ready to encounter the + Dutch fleet, which is gone northward" ("Calendar of State Papers," + 1664-65, pp. 526, 527). Medals were struck in Holland, the + inscription in Dutch on one of these is thus translated: "Thus we + arrest the pride of the English, who extend their piracy even + against their friends, and who insulting the forts of Norway, + violate the rights of the harbours of King Frederick; but, for the + reward of their audacity, see their vessels destroyed by the balls + of the Dutch" (Hawkins's "Medallic Illustrations of the History of + Great Britain and Ireland," ed. Franks and Grueber, 1885, vol. i., + p. 508). Sir Gilbert Talbot's "True Narrative of the Earl of + Sandwich's Attempt upon Bergen with the English Fleet on the 3rd of + August, 1665, and the Cause of his Miscarriage thereupon," is in the + British Museum (Harl. MS., No. 6859). It is printed in + "Archaeologia," vol. xxii., p. 33. The Earl of Rochester also gave + an account of the action in a letter to his mother (Wordsworth's + "Ecclesiastical Biography," fourth edition, vol. iv., p. 611). Sir + John Denham, in his "Advice to a Painter," gives a long satirical + account of the affair. A coloured drawing of the attack upon + Bergen, on vellum, showing the range of the ships engaged, is in the + British Museum. Shortly after the Bergen affair forty of the Dutch + merchant vessels, on their way to Holland, fell into the hands of + the English, and in Penn's "Memorials of Sir William Penn," vol. + ii., p. 364, is a list of the prizes taken on the 3rd and 4th + September. The troubles connected with these prizes and the + disgrace into which Lord Sandwich fell are fully set forth in + subsequent pages of the Diary. Evelyn writes in his Diary (November + 27th, 1665): "There was no small suspicion of my Lord Sandwich + having permitted divers commanders who were at ye taking of ye East + India prizes to break bulk and take to themselves jewels, silkes, + &c., tho' I believe some whom I could name fill'd their pockets, my + Lo. Sandwich himself had the least share. However, he underwent the + blame, and it created him enemies, and prepossess'd ye Lo. Generall + [Duke of Albemarle], for he spake to me of it with much zeale and + concerne, and I believe laid load enough on Lo. Sandwich at + Oxford."] + +(of which but fifteen could get thither, and of those fifteen but eight +or nine could come up to play) to go to Bergen; where, after several +messages to and fro from the Governor of the Castle, urging that +Teddiman ought not to come thither with more than five ships, and +desiring time to think of it, all the while he suffering the Dutch +ships to land their guns to their best advantage; Teddiman on the second +pretence, began to play at the Dutch ships, (wherof ten East India-men,) +and in three hours' time (the town and castle, without any provocation, +playing on our ships,) they did cut all our cables, so as the wind +being off the land, did force us to go out, and rendered our fire-ships +useless; without doing any thing, but what hurt of course our guns +must have done them: we having lost five commanders, besides Mr. Edward +Montagu, and Mr. Windham. + + [This Mr. Windham had entered into a formal engagement with the Earl + of Rochester, "not without ceremonies of religion, that if either of + them died, he should appear, and give the other notice of the future + state, if there was any." He was probably one of the brothers of + Sir William Wyndham, Bart. See Wordsworth's "Ecclesiastical + Biography," fourth. edition, vol. iv., p. 615.--B.] + +Our fleete is come home to our great grief with not above five weeks' +dry, and six days' wet provisions: however, must out again; and the Duke +hath ordered the Soveraigne, and all other ships ready, to go out to +the fleete to strengthen them. This news troubles us all, but cannot +be helped. Having read all this news, and received commands of the Duke +with great content, he giving me the words which to my great joy he hath +several times said to me, that his greatest reliance is upon me. And my +Lord Craven also did come out to talk with me, and told me that I am +in mighty esteem with the Duke, for which I bless God. Home, and having +given my fellow-officers an account hereof, to Chatham, and wrote other +letters, I by water to Charing-Cross, to the post-house, and there the +people tell me they are shut up; and so I went to the new post-house, +and there got a guide and horses to Hounslow, where I was mightily taken +with a little girle, the daughter of the master of the house (Betty +Gysby), which, if she lives, will make a great beauty. Here I met with +a fine fellow who, while I staid for my horses, did enquire newes, but +I could not make him remember Bergen in Norway, in 6 or 7 times telling, +so ignorant he was. So to Stanes, and there by this time it was dark +night, and got a guide who lost his way in the forest, till by help +of the moone (which recompenses me for all the pains I ever took about +studying of her motions,) I led my guide into the way back again; and so +we made a man rise that kept a gate, and so he carried us to Cranborne. +Where in the dark I perceive an old house new building with a great deal +of rubbish, and was fain to go up a ladder to Sir G. Carteret's chamber. +And there in his bed I sat down, and told him all my bad newes, which +troubled him mightily; but yet we were very merry, and made the best of +it; and being myself weary did take leave, and after having spoken with +Mr. Fenn in bed, I to bed in my Lady's chamber that she uses to lie +in, and where the Duchesse of York, that now is, was born. So to sleep; +being very well, but weary, and the better by having carried with me a +bottle of strong water; whereof now and then a sip did me good. + +20th (Lord's day). Sir G. Carteret come and walked by my bedside half an +houre, talking and telling me how my Lord is in this unblameable in all +this ill-successe, he having followed orders; and that all ought to be +imputed to the falsenesse of the King of Denmarke, who, he told me as +a secret, had promised to deliver up the Dutch ships to us, and we +expected no less; and swears it will, and will easily, be the ruine of +him and his kingdom, if we fall out with him, as we must in honour +do; but that all that can be, must be to get the fleete out again to +intercept De Witt, who certainly will be coming home with the East India +ships, he being gone thither. He being gone, I up and with Fenn, being +ready to walk forth to see the place; and I find it to be a very noble +seat in a noble forest, with the noblest prospect towards Windsor, and +round about over many countys, that can be desired; but otherwise a very +melancholy place, and little variety save only trees. I had thoughts +of going home by water, and of seeing Windsor Chappell and Castle, but +finding at my coming in that Sir G. Carteret did prevent me in speaking +for my sudden return to look after business, I did presently eat a bit +off the spit about 10 o'clock, and so took horse for Stanes, and thence +to Brainford to Mr. Povy's, the weather being very pleasant to ride in. +Mr. Povy not being at home I lost my labour, only eat and drank there +with his lady, and told my bad newes, and hear the plague is round about +them there. So away to Brainford; and there at the inn that goes down to +the water-side, I 'light and paid off my post-horses, and so slipped on +my shoes, and laid my things by, the tide not serving, and to church, +where a dull sermon, and many Londoners. After church to my inn, and eat +and drank, and so about seven o'clock by water, and got between nine +and ten to Queenhive, very dark. And I could not get my waterman to go +elsewhere for fear of the plague. Thence with a lanthorn, in great fear +of meeting of dead corpses, carried to be buried; but, blessed be God, +met none, but did see now and then a linke (which is the mark of them) +at a distance. So got safe home about 10 o'clock, my people not all +abed, and after supper I weary to bed. + +21st. Called up, by message from Lord Bruncker and the rest of my +fellows, that they will meet me at the Duke of Albemarle's this morning; +so I up, and weary, however, got thither before them, and spoke with my +Lord, and with him and other gentlemen to walk in the Parke, where, I +perceive, he spends much of his time, having no whither else to go; and +here I hear him speake of some Presbyter people that he caused to be +apprehended yesterday, at a private meeting in Covent Garden, which +he would have released upon paying L5 per man to the poor, but it was +answered, they would not pay anything; so he ordered them to another +prison from the guard. By and by comes my fellow-officers, and the Duke +walked in, and to counsel with us; and that being done we departed, +and Sir W. Batten and I to the office, where, after I had done a little +business, I to his house to dinner, whither comes Captain Cocke, for +whose epicurisme a dish of partriges was sent for, and still gives me +reason to think is the greatest epicure in the world. Thence, after +dinner, I by water to Sir W. Warren's and with him two hours, talking of +things to his and my profit, and particularly good advice from him what +use to make of Sir G. Carteret's kindnesse to me and my interest in him, +with exceeding good cautions for me not using it too much nor obliging +him to fear by prying into his secrets, which it were easy for me to +do. Thence to my Lord Bruncker, at Greenwich, and Sir J. Minnes by +appointment, to looke after the lodgings appointed for us there for our +office, which do by no means please me, they being in the heart of all +the labourers and workmen there, which makes it as unsafe as to be, I +think, at London. Mr. Hugh May, who is a most ingenuous man, did show us +the lodgings, and his acquaintance I am desirous of. Thence walked, it +being now dark, to Sir J. Minnes's, and there staid at the door talking +with him an hour while messengers went to get a boat for me, to carry +me to Woolwich, but all to no purpose; so I was forced to walk it in +the darke, at ten o'clock at night, with Sir J. Minnes's George with me, +being mightily troubled for fear of the doggs at Coome farme, and more +for fear of rogues by the way, and yet more because of the plague which +is there, which is very strange, it being a single house, all alone +from the towne, but it seems they use to admit beggars, for their owne +safety, to lie in their barns, and they brought it to them; but I bless +God I got about eleven of the clock well to my wife, and giving 4s. in +recompence to George, I to my wife, and having first viewed her last +piece of drawing since I saw her, which is seven or eight days, which +pleases me beyond any thing in the world, to bed with great content but +weary. + +22nd. Up, and after much pleasant talke and being importuned by my wife +and her two mayds, which are both good wenches, for me to buy a necklace +of pearle for her, and I promising to give her one of L60 in two years +at furthest, and in less if she pleases me in her painting, I went away +and walked to Greenwich, in my way seeing a coffin with a dead body +therein, dead of the plague, lying in an open close belonging to +Coome farme, which was carried out last night, and the parish have not +appointed any body to bury it; but only set a watch there day and night, +that nobody should go thither or come thence, which is a most cruel +thing: this disease making us more cruel to one another than if we are +doggs. So to the King's House, and there met my Lord Bruncker and Sir +J. Minnes, and to our lodgings again that are appointed for us, which do +please me better to day than last night, and are set a doing. Thence I +to Deptford, where by appointment I find Mr. Andrews come, and to the +Globe, where we dined together and did much business as to our Plymouth +gentlemen; and after a good dinner and good discourse, he being a very +good man, I think verily, we parted and I to the King's yard, walked +up and down, and by and by out at the back gate, and there saw the +Bagwell's wife's mother and daughter, and went to them, and went in +to the daughter's house with the mother, and 'faciebam le cose que ego +tenebam a mind to con elle', and drinking and talking, by and by away, +and so walked to Redriffe, troubled to go through the little lane, where +the plague is, but did and took water and home, where all well; but Mr. +Andrews not coming to even accounts, as I expected, with relation to +something of my own profit, I was vexed that I could not settle to +business, but home to my viall, though in the evening he did come to +my satisfaction. So after supper (he being gone first) I to settle my +journall and to bed. + +23rd. Up, and whereas I had appointed Mr. Hater and Will to come betimes +to the office to meet me about business there, I was called upon as soon +as ready by Mr. Andrews to my great content, and he and I to our Tangier +accounts, where I settled, to my great joy, all my accounts with him, +and, which is more, cleared for my service to the contractors since the +last sum I received of them, L222 13s. profit to myself, and received +the money actually in the afternoon. After he was gone comes by a +pretence of mine yesterday old Delks the waterman, with his daughter +Robins, and several times to and again, he leaving her with me, about +the getting of his son Robins off, who was pressed yesterday again.... +All the afternoon at my office mighty busy writing letters, and received +a very kind and good one from my Lord Sandwich of his arrival with the +fleete at Solebay, and the joy he has at my last newes he met with, of +the marriage of my Lady Jemimah; and he tells me more, the good newes +that all our ships, which were in such danger that nobody would insure +upon them, from the Eastland, + + [Eastland was a name given to the eastern countries of Europe. The + Eastland Company, or Company of Merchants trading to the East + Country, was incorporated in Queen Elizabeth's reign (anno 21), and + the charter was confirmed 13 Car. II. They were also called "The + Merchants of Elbing."] + +were all safe arrived, which I am sure is a great piece of good luck, +being in much more danger than those of Hambrough which were lost, +and their value much greater at this time to us. At night home, much +contented with this day's work, and being at home alone looking over +my papers, comes a neighbour of ours hard by to speak with me about +business of the office, one Mr. Fuller, a great merchant, but not my +acquaintance, but he come drunk, and would have had me gone and drunk +with him at home, or have let him send for wine hither, but I would do +neither, nor offered him any, but after some sorry discourse parted, and +I up to [my] chamber and to bed. + +24th. Up betimes to my office, where my clerks with me, and very busy +all the morning writing letters. At noon down to Sir J. Minnes and Lord +Bruncker to Greenwich to sign some of the Treasurer's books, and there +dined very well; and thence to look upon our rooms again at the King's +house, which are not yet ready for us. So home and late writing letters, +and so, weary with business, home to supper and to bed. + +25th. Up betimes to the office, and there, as well as all the afternoon, +saving a little dinner time, all alone till late at night writing +letters and doing business, that I may get beforehand with my business +again, which hath run behind a great while, and then home to supper +and to bed. This day I am told that Dr. Burnett, my physician, is this +morning dead of the plague; which is strange, his man dying so long ago, +and his house this month open again. Now himself dead. Poor unfortunate +man! + +26th. Up betimes, and prepared to my great satisfaction an account for +the board of my office disbursements, which I had suffered to run on to +almost L120. That done I down by water to Greenwich, where we met the +first day my Lord Bruncker, Sir J. Minnes, and I, and I think we shall +do well there, and begin very auspiciously to me by having my account +abovesaid passed, and put into a way of having it presently paid. +When we rose I find Mr. Andrews and Mr. Yeabsly, who is just come from +Plymouth, at the door, and we walked together toward my Lord Brunker's, +talking about their business, Yeabsly being come up on purpose to +discourse with me about it, and finished all in a quarter of an hour, +and is gone again. I perceive they have some inclination to be going on +with their victualling-business for a while longer before they resign +it to Mr. Gauden, and I am well contented, for it brings me very good +profit with certainty, yet with much care and some pains. We parted +at my Lord Bruncker's doore, where I went in, having never been there +before, and there he made a noble entertainment for Sir J. Minnes, +myself, and Captain Cocke, none else saving some painted lady that dined +there, I know not who she is. But very merry we were, and after dinner +into the garden, and to see his and her chamber, where some good +pictures, and a very handsome young woman for my lady's woman. Thence I +by water home, in my way seeing a man taken up dead, out of the hold +of a small catch that lay at Deptford. I doubt it might be the plague, +which, with the thought of Dr. Burnett, did something disturb me, so +that I did not what I intended and should have done at the office, as +to business, but home sooner than ordinary, and after supper, to read +melancholy alone, and then to bed. + +27th (Lord's day). Very well in the morning, and up and to my chamber +all the morning to put my things and papers yet more in order, and so +to dinner. Thence all the afternoon at my office till late making up my +papers and letters there into a good condition of order, and so home to +supper, and after reading a good while in the King's works,--[Charles +I.'s Works, now in the Pepysian Library]--which is a noble book, to bed. + +28th. Up, and being ready I out to Mr. Colvill, the goldsmith's, having +not for some days been in the streets; but now how few people I see, and +those looking like people that had taken leave of the world. I there, +and made even all accounts in the world between him and I, in a very +good condition, and I would have done the like with Sir Robert Viner, +but he is out of towne, the sicknesse being every where thereabouts. I +to the Exchange, and I think there was not fifty people upon it, and +but few more like to be as they told me, Sir G. Smith and others. Thus +I think to take adieu to-day of the London streets, unless it be to go +again to Viner's. Home to dinner, and there W. Hewer brings me L119 he +hath received for my office disbursements, so that I think I have L1800 +and more in the house, and, blessed be God! no money out but what I +can very well command and that but very little, which is much the +best posture I ever was in in my life, both as to the quantity and the +certainty I have of the money I am worth; having most of it in my own +hand. But then this is a trouble to me what to do with it, being myself +this day going to be wholly at Woolwich; but for the present I am +resolved to venture it in an iron chest, at least for a while. In the +afternoon I sent down my boy to Woolwich with some things before me, in +order to my lying there for good and all, and so I followed him. Just +now comes newes that the fleete is gone, or going this day, out again, +for which God be praised! and my Lord Sandwich hath done himself great +right in it, in getting so soon out again. I pray God, he may meet the +enemy. Towards the evening, just as I was fitting myself, comes W. Hewer +and shows me a letter which Mercer had wrote to her mother about a great +difference between my wife and her yesterday, and that my wife will have +her go away presently. This, together with my natural jealousy that some +bad thing or other may be in the way, did trouble me exceedingly, so as +I was in a doubt whether to go thither or no, but having fitted myself +and my things I did go, and by night got thither, where I met my wife +walking to the waterside with her paynter, Mr. Browne, and her mayds. +There I met Commissioner Pett, and my Lord Brunker, and the lady at his +house had been thereto-day, to see her. Commissioner Pett staid a very +little while, and so I to supper with my wife and Mr. Shelden, and so to +bed with great pleasure. + +29th. In the morning waking, among other discourse my wife begun to +tell me the difference between her and Mercer, and that it was only from +restraining her to gad abroad to some Frenchmen that were in the town, +which I do not wholly yet in part believe, and for my quiet would not +enquire into it. So rose and dressed myself, and away by land walking +a good way, then remembered that I had promised Commissioner Pett to go +with him in his coach, and therefore I went back again to him, and so +by his coach to Greenwich, and called at Sir Theophilus Biddulph's, a +sober, discreet man, to discourse of the preventing of the plague in +Greenwich, and Woolwich, and Deptford, where in every place it begins to +grow very great. We appointed another meeting, and so walked together to +Greenwich and there parted, and Pett and I to the office, where all the +morning, and after office done I to Sir J. Minnes and dined with him, +and thence to Deptford thinking to have seen Bagwell, but did not, and +so straight to Redriffe, and home, and late at my business to dispatch +away letters, and then home to bed, which I did not intend, but to have +staid for altogether at Woolwich, but I made a shift for a bed for Tom, +whose bed is gone to Woolwich, and so to bed. + +30th. Up betimes and to my business of settling my house and papers, and +then abroad and met with Hadley, our clerke, who, upon my asking how the +plague goes, he told me it encreases much, and much in our parish; for, +says he, there died nine this week, though I have returned but six: +which is a very ill practice, and makes me think it is so in other +places; and therefore the plague much greater than people take it to be. +Thence, as I intended, to Sir R. Viner's, and there found not Mr. Lewes +ready for me, so I went forth and walked towards Moorefields to see (God +forbid my presumption!) whether I could see any dead corps going to the +grave; but, as God would have it, did not. But, Lord! how every body's +looks, and discourse in the street is of death, and nothing else, and +few people going up and down, that the towne is like a place distressed +and forsaken. After one turne there back to Viner's, and there found my +business ready for me, and evened all reckonings with them to this +day to my great content. So home, and all day till very late at night +setting my Tangier and private accounts in order, which I did in both, +and in the latter to my great joy do find myself yet in the much best +condition that ever I was in, finding myself worth L2180 and odd, +besides plate and goods, which I value at L250 more, which is a very +great blessing to me. The Lord make me thankfull! and of this at this +day above L1800 in cash in my house, which speaks but little out of my +hands in desperate condition, but this is very troublesome to have in my +house at this time. So late to bed, well pleased with my accounts, but +weary of being so long at them. + +31st. Up and, after putting several things in order to my removal, +to Woolwich; the plague having a great encrease this week, beyond all +expectation of almost 2,000, making the general Bill 7,000, odd 100; +and the plague above 6,000. I down by appointment to Greenwich, to our +office, where I did some business, and there dined with our company and +Sir W. Boreman, and Sir The. Biddulph, at Mr. Boreman's, where a good +venison pasty, and after a good merry dinner I to my office, and there +late writing letters, and then to Woolwich by water, where pleasant with +my wife and people, and after supper to bed. Thus this month ends with +great sadness upon the publick, through the greatness of the plague +every where through the kingdom almost. Every day sadder and sadder news +of its encrease. In the City died this week 7,496 and of them 6,102 of +the plague. But it is feared that the true number of the dead, this week +is near 10,000; partly from the poor that cannot be taken notice of, +through the greatness of the number, and partly from the Quakers and +others that will not have any bell ring for them. Our fleete gone out to +find the Dutch, we having about 100 sail in our fleete, and in them the +Soveraigne one; so that it is a better fleete than the former with the +Duke was. All our fear is that the Dutch should be got in before +them; which would be a very great sorrow to the publick, and to me +particularly, for my Lord Sandwich's sake. A great deal of money being +spent, and the kingdom not in a condition to spare, nor a parliament +without much difficulty to meet to give more. And to that; to have it +said, what hath been done by our late fleetes? As to myself I am very +well, only in fear of the plague, and as much of an ague by being +forced to go early and late to Woolwich, and my family to lie there +continually. My late gettings have been very great to my great content, +and am likely to have yet a few more profitable jobbs in a little while; +for which Tangier, and Sir W. Warren I am wholly obliged to. + + + + +SEPTEMBER 1665 + +September 1st. Up, and to visit my Lady Pen and her daughter at the +Ropeyarde where I did breakfast with them and sat chatting a good while. +Then to my lodging at Mr. Shelden's, where I met Captain Cocke and eat +a little bit of dinner, and with him to Greenwich by water, having good +discourse with him by the way. After being at Greenwich a little while, +I to London, to my house, there put many more things in order for my +totall remove, sending away my girle Susan and other goods down to +Woolwich, and I by water to the Duke of Albemarle, and thence home late +by water. At the Duke of Albemarle's I overheard some examinations of +the late plot that is discoursed of and a great deale of do there is +about it. Among other discourses, I heard read, in the presence of the +Duke, an examination and discourse of Sir Philip Howard's, with one of +the plotting party. In many places these words being, "Then," said Sir +P. Howard, "if you so come over to the King, and be faithfull to him, +you shall be maintained, and be set up with a horse and armes," and I +know not what. And then said such a one, "Yes, I will be true to the +King." "But, damn me," said Sir Philip, "will you so and so?" And thus I +believe twelve times Sir P. Howard answered him a "damn me," which was +a fine way of rhetorique to persuade a Quaker or Anabaptist from his +persuasion. And this was read in the hearing of Sir P. Howard, before +the Duke and twenty more officers, and they make sport of it, only +without any reproach, or he being anything ashamed of it! + + [This republican plot was described by the Lord Chancellor in a + speech delivered on October 9th, when parliament met at Oxford.] + +But it ended, I remember, at last, "But such a one (the plotter) did at +last bid them remember that he had not told them what King he would be +faithfull to." + +2nd. This morning I wrote letters to Mr. Hill and Andrews to come to +dine with me to-morrow, and then I to the office, where busy, and thence +to dine with Sir J. Minnes, where merry, but only that Sir J. Minnes who +hath lately lost two coach horses, dead in the stable, has a third now a +dying. After dinner I to Deptford, and there took occasion to 'entrar a +la casa de la gunaica de ma Minusier', and did what I had a mind... To +Greenwich, where wrote some letters, and home in pretty good time. + +3rd (Lord's day). Up; and put on my coloured silk suit very fine, and my +new periwigg, bought a good while since, but durst not wear, because the +plague was in Westminster when I bought it; and it is a wonder what will +be the fashion after the plague is done, as to periwiggs, for nobody +will dare to buy any haire, for fear of the infection, that it had been +cut off of the heads of people dead of the plague. Before church time +comes Mr. Hill (Mr. Andrews failing because he was to receive the +Sacrament), and to church, where a sorry dull parson, and so home and +most excellent company with Mr. Hill and discourse of musique. I took +my Lady Pen home, and her daughter Pegg, and merry we were; and after +dinner I made my wife show them her pictures, which did mad Pegg Pen, +who learns of the same man and cannot do so well. After dinner left them +and I by water to Greenwich, where much ado to be suffered to come into +the towne because of the sicknesse, for fear I should come from London, +till I told them who I was. So up to the church, where at the door +I find Captain Cocke in my Lord Brunker's coach, and he come out and +walked with me in the church-yarde till the church was done, talking of +the ill government of our Kingdom, nobody setting to heart the business +of the Kingdom, but every body minding their particular profit or +pleasures, the King himself minding nothing but his ease, and so we let +things go to wracke. This arose upon considering what we shall do for +money when the fleete comes in, and more if the fleete should not meet +with the Dutch, which will put a disgrace upon the King's actions, so as +the Parliament and Kingdom will have the less mind to give more money, +besides so bad an account of the last money, we fear, will be given, not +half of it being spent, as it ought to be, upon the Navy. Besides, it is +said that at this day our Lord Treasurer cannot tell what the profit of +Chimney money is, what it comes to per annum, nor looks whether that +or any other part of the revenue be duly gathered as it ought; the very +money that should pay the City the L200,000 they lent the King, being +all gathered and in the hands of the Receiver and hath been long and +yet not brought up to pay the City, whereas we are coming to borrow 4 or +L500,000 more of the City, which will never be lent as is to be feared. +Church being done, my Lord Bruncker, Sir J. Minnes, and I up to the +Vestry at the desire of the justices of the Peace, Sir Theo. Biddulph +and Sir W. Boreman and Alderman Hooker, in order to the doing something +for the keeping of the plague from growing; but Lord! to consider the +madness of the people of the town, who will (because they are forbid) +come in crowds along with the dead corps to see them buried; but we +agreed on some orders for the prevention thereof. Among other stories, +one was very passionate, methought, of a complaint brought against a +man in the towne for taking a child from London from an infected house. +Alderman Hooker told us it was the child of a very able citizen in +Gracious Street, a saddler, who had buried all the rest of his children +of the plague, and himself and wife now being shut up and in despair of +escaping, did desire only to save the life of this little child; and so +prevailed to have it received stark-naked into the arms of a friend, who +brought it (having put it into new fresh clothes) to Greenwich; where +upon hearing the story, we did agree it should be permitted to be +received and kept in the towne. Thence with my Lord Bruncker to Captain +Cocke's, where we mighty merry and supped, and very late I by water to +Woolwich, in great apprehensions of an ague. Here was my Lord Bruncker's +lady of pleasure, who, I perceive, goes every where with him; and he, +I find, is obliged to carry her, and make all the courtship to her that +can be. + +4th. Writing letters all the morning, among others to my Lady Carteret, +the first I have wrote to her, telling her the state of the city as +to health and other sorrowfull stories, and thence after dinner to +Greenwich, to Sir J. Minnes, where I found my Lord Bruncker, and having +staid our hour for the justices by agreement, the time being past we to +walk in the Park with Mr. Hammond and Turner, and there eat some fruit +out of the King's garden and walked in the Parke, and so back to Sir J. +Minnes, and thence walked home, my Lord Bruncker giving me a very neat +cane to walk with; but it troubled me to pass by Coome farme where about +twenty-one people have died of the plague, and three or four days since +I saw a dead corps in a coffin lie in the Close unburied, and a watch +is constantly kept there night and day to keep the people in, the plague +making us cruel, as doggs, one to another. + +5th. Up, and walked with some Captains and others talking to me to +Greenwich, they crying out upon Captain Teddiman's management of the +business of Bergen, that he staid treating too long while he saw the +Dutch fitting themselves, and that at first he might have taken every +ship, and done what he would with them. How true I cannot tell. Here +we sat very late and for want of money, which lies heavy upon us, did +nothing of business almost. Thence home with my Lord Bruncker to dinner +where very merry with him and his doxy. After dinner comes Colonell +Blunt in his new chariot made with springs; as that was of wicker, +wherein a while since we rode at his house. And he hath rode, he says, +now this journey, many miles in it with one horse, and out-drives any +coach, and out-goes any horse, and so easy, he says. So for curiosity +I went into it to try it, and up the hill to the heath, and over the +cart-rutts and found it pretty well, but not so easy as he pretends, and +so back again, and took leave of my Lord and drove myself in the chariot +to the office, and there ended my letters and home pretty betimes and +there found W. Pen, and he staid supper with us and mighty merry talking +of his travells and the French humours, etc., and so parted and to bed. + +6th. Busy all the morning writing letters to several, so to dinner, +to London, to pack up more things thence; and there I looked into the +street and saw fires burning in the street, as it is through the +whole City, by the Lord Mayor's order. Thence by water to the Duke of +Albemarle's: all the way fires on each side of the Thames, and strange +to see in broad daylight two or three burials upon the Bankeside, one at +the very heels of another: doubtless all of the plague; and yet at +least forty or fifty people going along with every one of them. The Duke +mighty pleasant with me; telling me that he is certainly informed that +the Dutch were not come home upon the 1st instant, and so he hopes our +fleete may meet with them, and here to my great joy I got him to sign +bills for the several sums I have paid on Tangier business by his single +letter, and so now I can get more hands to them. This was a great joy to +me: Home to Woolwich late by water, found wife in bed, and yet late as +[it] was to write letters in order to my rising betimes to go to Povy +to-morrow. So to bed, my wife asking me to-night about a letter of hers +I should find, which indeed Mary did the other day give me as if she had +found it in my bed, thinking it had been mine, brought to her from a +man without name owning great kindness to her and I know not what. But +looking it over seriously, and seeing it bad sense and ill writ, I did +believe it to be her brother's and so had flung it away, but finding her +now concerned at it and vexed with Mary about it, it did trouble me, but +I would take no notice of it to-night, but fell to sleep as if angry. + +7th. Up by 5 of the clock, mighty full of fear of an ague, but was +obliged to go, and so by water, wrapping myself up warm, to the Tower, +and there sent for the Weekely Bill, and find 8,252 dead in all, and of +them 6,878 of the plague; which is a most dreadfull number, and shows +reason to fear that the plague hath got that hold that it will yet +continue among us. Thence to Brainford, reading "The Villaine," a pretty +good play, all the way. There a coach of Mr. Povy's stood ready for +me, and he at his house ready to come in, and so we together merrily +to Swakely, Sir R. Viner's. A very pleasant place, bought by him of Sir +James Harrington's lady. He took us up and down with great respect, and +showed us all his house and grounds; and it is a place not very moderne +in the garden nor house, but the most uniforme in all that ever I saw; +and some things to excess. Pretty to see over the screene of the hall +(put up by Sir J. Harrington, a Long Parliamentman) the King's head, +and my Lord of Essex on one side, and Fairfax on the other; and upon the +other side of the screene, the parson of the parish, and the lord of the +manor and his sisters. The window-cases, door-cases, and chimnys of all +the house are marble. He showed me a black boy that he had, that died of +a consumption, and being dead, he caused him to be dried in an oven, and +lies there entire in a box. By and by to dinner, where his lady I find +yet handsome, but hath been a very handsome woman; now is old. Hath +brought him near L100,000 and now he lives, no man in England in greater +plenty, and commands both King and Council with his credit he gives +them. Here was a fine lady a merchant's wife at dinner with us, and who +should be here in the quality of a woman but Mrs. Worship's daughter, +Dr. Clerke's niece, and after dinner Sir Robert led us up to his long +gallery, very fine, above stairs (and better, or such, furniture I never +did see), and there Mrs. Worship did give us three or four very good +songs, and sings very neatly, to my great delight. After all this, and +ending the chief business to my content about getting a promise of some +money of him, we took leave, being exceedingly well treated here, and +a most pleasant journey we had back, Povy and I, and his company most +excellent in anything but business, he here giving me an account of as +many persons at Court as I had a mind or thought of enquiring after. He +tells me by a letter he showed me, that the King is not, nor hath been +of late, very well, but quite out of humour; and, as some think, in a +consumption, and weary of every thing. He showed me my Lord Arlington's +house that he was born in, in a towne called Harlington: and so carried +me through a most pleasant country to Brainford, and there put me into +my boat, and good night. So I wrapt myself warm, and by water got to +Woolwich about one in the morning, my wife and all in bed. + +8th. Waked, and fell in talk with my wife about the letter, and she +satisfied me that she did not know from whence it come, but believed +it might be from her cozen Franke Moore lately come out of France. The +truth is the thing I think cannot have much in it, and being unwilling +(being in other things so much at ease) to vex myself in a strange place +at a melancholy time, passed all by and were presently friends. Up, +and several with me about business. Anon comes my Lord Bruncker, as +I expected, and we to the enquiring into the business of the late +desertion of the Shipwrights from worke, who had left us for three days +together for want of money, and upon this all the morning, and brought +it to a pretty good issue, that they, we believe, will come to-morrow to +work. To dinner, having but a mean one, yet sufficient for him, and he +well enough pleased, besides that I do not desire to vye entertainments +with him or any else. Here was Captain Cocke also, and Mr. Wayth. We +staid together talking upon one business or other all the afternoon. In +the evening my Lord Bruncker hearing that Mr. Ackeworth's clerke, the +Dutchman who writes and draws so well, was transcribing a book of Rates +and our ships for Captain Millet a gallant of his mistress's, we sent +for him for it. He would not deliver it, but said it was his mistress's +and had delivered it to her. At last we were forced to send to her for +it; she would come herself, and indeed the book was a very neat one and +worth keeping as a rarity, but we did think fit, and though much against +my will, to cancell all that he had finished of it, and did give her +the rest, which vexed her, and she bore it discreetly enough, but with +a cruel deal of malicious rancour in her looks. I must confess I would +have persuaded her to have let us have it to the office, and it may be +the board would not have censured too hardly of it, but my intent was +to have had it as a Record for the office, but she foresaw what would be +the end of it and so desired it might rather be cancelled, which was a +plaguy deal of spite. My Lord Bruncker being gone and company, and she +also, afterwards I took my wife and people and walked into the fields +about a while till night, and then home, and so to sing a little and +then to bed. I was in great trouble all this day for my boy Tom who went +to Greenwich yesterday by my order and come not home till to-night for +fear of the plague, but he did come home to-night, saying he staid last +night by Mr. Hater's advice hoping to have me called as I come home with +my boat to come along with me. + +9th. Up and walked to Greenwich, and there we sat and dispatched a good +deal of business I had a mind to. At noon, by invitation, to my Lord +Bruncker's, all of us, to dinner, where a good venison pasty, and mighty +merry. Here was Sir W. Doyly, lately come from Ipswich about the sicke +and wounded, and Mr. Evelyn and Captain Cocke. My wife also was sent for +by my Lord Bruncker, by Cocke, and was here. After dinner, my Lord and +his mistress would see her home again, it being a most cursed rainy +afternoon, having had none a great while before, and I, forced to go to +the office on foot through all the rain, was almost wet to my skin, and +spoiled my silke breeches almost. Rained all the afternoon and evening, +so as my letters being done, I was forced to get a bed at Captain +Cocke's, where I find Sir W. Doyly, and he, and Evelyn at supper; and +I with them full of discourse of the neglect of our masters, the great +officers of State, about all business, and especially that of money: +having now some thousands prisoners, kept to no purpose at a great +charge, and no money provided almost for the doing of it. We fell to +talk largely of the want of some persons understanding to look after +businesses, but all goes to rack. "For," says Captain Cocke, "my Lord +Treasurer, he minds his ease, and lets things go how they will: if he +can have his L8000 per annum, and a game at l'ombre,--[Spanish card +game]--he is well. My Lord Chancellor he minds getting of money and +nothing else; and my Lord Ashly will rob the Devil and the Alter, but he +will get money if it be to be got." But that that put us into this great +melancholy, was newes brought to-day, which Captain Cocke reports as a +certain truth, that all the Dutch fleete, men-of-war and merchant East +India ships, are got every one in from Bergen the 3d of this month, +Sunday last; which will make us all ridiculous. The fleete come home +with shame to require a great deale of money, which is not to be had, to +discharge many men that must get the plague then or continue at greater +charge on shipboard, nothing done by them to encourage the Parliament to +give money, nor the Kingdom able to spare any money, if they would, at +this time of the plague, so that, as things look at present, the whole +state must come to ruine. Full of these melancholy thoughts, to bed; +where, though I lay the softest I ever did in my life, with a downe bed, +after the Danish manner, upon me, yet I slept very ill, chiefly through +the thoughts of my Lord Sandwich's concernment in all this ill successe +at sea. + +10th (Lord's day). Walked home; being forced thereto by one of my +watermen falling sick yesterday, and it was God's great mercy I did not +go by water with them yesterday, for he fell sick on Saturday night, and +it is to be feared of the plague. So I sent him away to London with +his fellow; but another boat come to me this morning, whom I sent to +Blackewall for Mr. Andrews. I walked to Woolwich, and there find Mr. +Hill, and he and I all the morning at musique and a song he hath set of +three parts, methinks, very good. Anon comes Mr. Andrews, though it be a +very ill day, and so after dinner we to musique and sang till about 4 or +5 o'clock, it blowing very hard, and now and then raining, and wind and +tide being against us, Andrews and I took leave and walked to Greenwich. +My wife before I come out telling me the ill news that she hears that +her father is very ill, and then I told her I feared of the plague, for +that the house is shut up. And so she much troubled she did desire me +to send them something; and I said I would, and will do so. But before +I come out there happened newes to come to the by an expresse from Mr. +Coventry, telling me the most happy news of my Lord Sandwich's meeting +with part of the Dutch; his taking two of their East India ships, and +six or seven others, and very good prizes and that he is in search of +the rest of the fleet, which he hopes to find upon the Wellbancke, +with the loss only of the Hector, poor Captain Cuttle. This newes do +so overjoy me that I know not what to say enough to express it, but +the better to do it I did walk to Greenwich, and there sending away Mr. +Andrews, I to Captain Cocke's, where I find my Lord Bruncker and his +mistress, and Sir J. Minnes. Where we supped (there was also Sir W. +Doyly and Mr. Evelyn); but the receipt of this newes did put us all +into such an extacy of joy, that it inspired into Sir J. Minnes and Mr. +Evelyn such a spirit of mirth, that in all my life I never met with so +merry a two hours as our company this night was. Among other humours, +Mr. Evelyn's repeating of some verses made up of nothing but the various +acceptations of may and can, and doing it so aptly upon occasion of +something of that nature, and so fast, did make us all die almost with +laughing, and did so stop the mouth of Sir J. Minnes in the middle of +all his mirth (and in a thing agreeing with his own manner of genius), +that I never saw any man so out-done in all my life; and Sir J. Minnes's +mirth too to see himself out-done, was the crown of all our mirth. +In this humour we sat till about ten at night, and so my Lord and his +mistress home, and we to bed, it being one of the times of my life +wherein I was the fullest of true sense of joy. + +11th. Up and walked to the office, there to do some business till ten of +the clock, and then by agreement my Lord, Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Doyly, +and I took boat and over to the ferry, where Sir W. Batten's coach +was ready for us, and to Walthamstow drove merrily, excellent merry +discourse in the way, and most upon our last night's revells; there come +we were very merry, and a good plain venison dinner. After dinner to +billiards, where I won an angel, + + [A gold coin, so called because it bore the image of an angel, + varying in value from six shillings and eightpence to ten + shillings.] + +and among other sports we were merry with my pretending to have a +warrant to Sir W. Hickes (who was there, and was out of humour with Sir +W. Doyly's having lately got a warrant for a leash of buckes, of which +we were now eating one) which vexed him, and at last would compound with +me to give my Lord Bruncker half a buck now, and me a Doe for it a while +hence when the season comes in, which we agreed to and had held, but +that we fear Sir W. Doyly did betray our design, which spoiled all; +however, my Lady Batten invited herself to dine with him this week, and +she invited us all to dine with her there, which we agreed to, only to +vex him, he being the most niggardly fellow, it seems, in the world. +Full of good victuals and mirth we set homeward in the evening, and +very merry all the way. So to Greenwich, where when come I find my +Lord Rutherford and Creed come from Court, and among other things have +brought me several orders for money to pay for Tangier; and, among +the rest L7000 and more, to this Lord, which is an excellent thing to +consider, that, though they can do nothing else, they can give away +the King's money upon their progresse. I did give him the best answer I +could to pay him with tallys, and that is all they could get from me. +I was not in humour to spend much time with them, but walked a little +before Sir J. Minnes's door and then took leave, and I by water to +Woolwich, where with my wife to a game at tables, + + [The old name for backgammon, used by Shakespeare and others. The + following lines are from an epitaph entirely made up of puns on + backgammon + + "Man's life's a game at tables, and he may + Mend his bad fortune by his wiser play." + + Wit's Recre., i. 250, reprint, 1817.] + +and to bed. + +12th. Up, and walked to the office, where we sat late, and thence to +dinner home with Sir J. Minnes, and so to the office, where writing +letters, and home in the evening, where my wife shews me a letter from +her brother speaking of their father's being ill, like to die, which, +God forgive me! did not trouble me so much as it should, though I was +indeed sorry for it. I did presently resolve to send him something in a +letter from my wife, viz. 20s. So to bed. + +13th. Up, and walked to Greenwich, taking pleasure to walk with my +minute watch in my hand, by which I am come now to see the distances of +my way from Woolwich to Greenwich, and do find myself to come within two +minutes constantly to the same place at the end of each quarter of an +houre. Here we rendezvoused at Captain Cocke's, and there eat oysters, +and so my Lord Bruncker, Sir J. Minnes, and I took boat, and in my +Lord's coach to Sir W. Hickes's, whither by and by my Lady Batten and +Sir William comes. It is a good seat, with a fair grove of trees by it, +and the remains of a good garden; but so let to run to ruine, both house +and every thing in and about it, so ill furnished and miserably looked +after, I never did see in all my life. Not so much as a latch to his +dining-room door; which saved him nothing, for the wind blowing into the +room for want thereof, flung down a great bow pott that stood upon +the side-table, and that fell upon some Venice glasses, and did him +a crown's worth of hurt. He did give us the meanest dinner (of beef, +shoulder and umbles of venison + + [Dr. Johnson was puzzled by the following passage in "The Merry + Wives of Windsor," act v., sc. 3: "Divide me like a bribe-buck, each + a haunch. I will keep the sides to myself; my shoulders for the + fellow of this walk." If he could have read the account of Sir + William Hickes's dinner, he would at once have understood the + allusion to the keeper's perquisites of the shoulders of all deer + killed in his walk.--B.] + +which he takes away from the keeper of the Forest, and a few pigeons, +and all in the meanest manner) that ever I did see, to the basest +degree. After dinner we officers of the Navy stepped aside to read some +letters and consider some business, and so in again. I was only pleased +at a very fine picture of the Queene-Mother, when she was young, by +Van-Dike; a very good picture, and a lovely sweet face. Thence in the +afternoon home, and landing at Greenwich I saw Mr. Pen walking my way, +so we walked together, and for discourse I put him into talk of France, +when he took delight to tell me of his observations, some good, some +impertinent, and all ill told, but it served for want of better, and so +to my house, where I find my wife abroad, and hath been all this day, +nobody knows where, which troubled me, it being late and a cold evening. +So being invited to his mother's to supper, we took Mrs. Barbara, who +was mighty finely dressed, and in my Lady's coach, which we met going +for my wife, we thither, and there after some discourse went to supper. +By and by comes my wife and Mercer, and had been with Captain Cocke all +day, he coming and taking her out to go see his boy at school at Brumly +[Bromley], and brought her home again with great respect. Here pretty +merry, only I had no stomach, having dined late, to eat. After supper +Mr. Pen and I fell to discourse about some words in a French song my +wife was saying, "D'un air tout interdict," wherein I laid twenty to one +against him which he would not agree with me, though I know myself in +the right as to the sense of the word, and almost angry we were, and +were an houre and more upon the dispute, till at last broke up not +satisfied, and so home in their coach and so to bed. H. Russell did this +day deliver my 20s. to my wife's father or mother, but has not yet told +us how they do. + +14th. Up, and walked to Greenwich, and there fitted myself in several +businesses to go to London, where I have not been now a pretty while. +But before I went from the office newes is brought by word of mouth that +letters are now just now brought from the fleete of our taking a great +many more of the Dutch fleete, in which I did never more plainly see my +command of my temper in my not admitting myself to receive any kind of +joy from it till I had heard the certainty of it, and therefore went by +water directly to the Duke of Albemarle, where I find a letter of the +Lath from Solebay, from my Lord Sandwich, of the fleete's meeting with +about eighteen more of the Dutch fleete, and his taking of most of them; +and the messenger says, they had taken three after the letter was wrote +and sealed; which being twenty-one, and the fourteen took the other day, +is forty-five sail; some of which are good, and others rich ships, +which is so great a cause of joy in us all that my Lord and everybody +is highly joyed thereat. And having taken a copy of my Lord's letter, I +away back again to the Beare at the Bridge foot, being full of wind and +out of order, and there called for a biscuit and a piece of cheese and +gill of sacke, being forced to walk over the Bridge, toward the 'Change, +and the plague being all thereabouts. Here my news was highly welcome, +and I did wonder to see the 'Change so full, I believe 200 people; but +not a man or merchant of any fashion, but plain men all. And Lord! to +see how I did endeavour all I could to talk with as few as I could, +there being now no observation of shutting up of houses infected, that +to be sure we do converse and meet with people that have the plague upon +them. I to Sir Robert Viner's, where my main business was about settling +the business of Debusty's L5000 tallys, which I did for the present to +enable me to have some money, and so home, buying some things for +my wife in the way. So home, and put up several things to carry to +Woolwich, and upon serious thoughts I am advised by W. Griffin to let +my money and plate rest there, as being as safe as any place, nobody +imagining that people would leave money in their houses now, when all +their families are gone. So for the present that being my opinion, I did +leave them there still. But, Lord! to see the trouble that it puts a man +to, to keep safe what with pain a man hath been getting together, and +there is good reason for it. Down to the office, and there wrote letters +to and again about this good newes of our victory, and so by water home +late. Where, when I come home I spent some thoughts upon the occurrences +of this day, giving matter for as much content on one hand and +melancholy on another, as any day in all my life. For the first; the +finding of my money and plate, and all safe at London, and speeding in +my business of money this day. The hearing of this good news to such +excess, after so great a despair of my Lord's doing anything this +year; adding to that, the decrease of 500 and more, which is the first +decrease we have yet had in the sickness since it begun: and great +hopes that the next week it will be greater. Then, on the other side, my +finding that though the Bill in general is abated, yet the City within +the walls is encreased, and likely to continue so, and is close to our +house there. My meeting dead corpses of the plague, carried to be buried +close to me at noon-day through the City in Fanchurch-street. To see +a person sick of the sores, carried close by me by Gracechurch in +a hackney-coach. My finding the Angell tavern, at the lower end +of Tower-hill, shut up, and more than that, the alehouse at the +Tower-stairs, and more than that, the person was then dying of the +plague when I was last there, a little while ago, at night, to write +a short letter there, and I overheard the mistresse of the house sadly +saying to her husband somebody was very ill, but did not think it was of +the plague. To hear that poor Payne, my waiter, hath buried a child, and +is dying himself. To hear that a labourer I sent but the other day to +Dagenhams, to know how they did there, is dead of the plague; and that +one of my own watermen, that carried me daily, fell sick as soon as he +had landed me on Friday morning last, when I had been all night upon the +water (and I believe he did get his infection that day at Brainford), +and is now dead of the plague. To hear that Captain Lambert and Cuttle +are killed in the taking these ships; and that Mr. Sidney Montague is +sick of a desperate fever at my Lady Carteret's, at Scott's-hall. To +hear that Mr. Lewes hath another daughter sick. And, lastly, that both +my servants, W. Hewer and Tom Edwards, have lost their fathers, both in +St. Sepulchre's parish, of the plague this week, do put me into great +apprehensions of melancholy, and with good reason. But I put off the +thoughts of sadness as much as I can, and the rather to keep my wife in +good heart and family also. After supper (having eat nothing all this +day) upon a fine tench of Mr. Shelden's taking, we to bed. + +15th. Up, it being a cold misting morning, and so by water to the +office, where very busy upon several businesses. At noon got the +messenger, Marlow, to get me a piece of bread and butter and cheese and +a bottle of beer and ale, and so I went not out of the office but dined +off that, and my boy Tom, but the rest of my clerks went home to dinner. +Then to my business again, and by and by sent my waterman to see how +Sir W. Warren do, who is sicke, and for which I have reason to be very +sorry, he being the friend I have got most by of most friends in England +but the King: who returns me that he is pretty well again, his disease +being an ague. I by water to Deptford, thinking to have seen my +valentine, but I could not, and so come back again, and to the office, +where a little business, and thence with Captain Cocke, and there drank +a cup of good drink, which I am fain to allow myself during this plague +time, by advice of all, and not contrary to my oathe, my physician being +dead, and chyrurgeon out of the way, whose advice I am obliged to take, +and so by water home and eat my supper, and to bed, being in much pain +to think what I shall do this winter time; for go every day to Woolwich +I cannot, without endangering my life; and staying from my wife at +Greenwich is not handsome. + +16th. Up, and walked to Greenwich reading a play, and to the office, +where I find Sir J. Minnes gone to the fleete, like a doating foole, +to do no good, but proclaim himself an asse; for no service he can do +there, nor inform my Lord, who is come in thither to the buoy of the +Nore, in anything worth his knowledge. At noon to dinner to my Lord +Bruncker, where Sir W. Batten and his Lady come, by invitation, and very +merry we were, only that the discourse of the likelihood of the increase +of the plague this weeke makes us a little sad, but then again the +thoughts of the late prizes make us glad. After dinner, by appointment, +comes Mr. Andrews, and he and I walking alone in the garden talking +of our Tangier business, and I endeavoured by the by to offer some +encouragements for their continuing in the business, which he seemed +to take hold of, and the truth is my profit is so much concerned that I +could wish they would, and would take pains to ease them in the business +of money as much as was possible. He being gone (after I had ordered him +L2000, and he paid me my quantum out of it) I also walked to the office, +and there to my business; but find myself, through the unfitness of my +place to write in, and my coming from great dinners, and drinking wine, +that I am not in the good temper of doing business now a days that I +used to be and ought still to be. At night to Captain Cocke's, meaning +to lie there, it being late, and he not being at home, I walked to him +to my Lord Bruncker's, and there staid a while, they being at tables; +and so by and by parted, and walked to his house; and, after a mess of +good broth, to bed, in great pleasure, his company being most excellent. + +17th (Lord's day). Up, and before I went out of my chamber did draw a +musique scale, in order to my having it at any time ready in my hand +to turn to for exercise, for I have a great mind in this Vacation to +perfect myself in my scale, in order to my practising of composition, +and so that being done I down stairs, and there find Captain Cocke under +the barber's hands, the barber that did heretofore trim Commissioner +Pett, and with whom I have been. He offered to come this day after +dinner with his violin to play me a set of Lyra-ayres upon it, which I +was glad of, hoping to be merry thereby. Being ready we to church, where +a company of fine people to church, and a fine Church, and very good +sermon, Mr. Plume' being a very excellent scholler and preacher. Coming +out of the church I met Mrs. Pierce, whom I was ashamed to see, having +not been with her since my coming to town, but promised to visit her. +Thence with Captain Cocke, in his coach, home to dinner, whither comes +by invitation my Lord Bruncker and his mistresse and very good company +we were, but in dinner time comes Sir J. Minnes from the fleete, like a +simple weak man, having nothing to say of what he hath done there, +but tells of what value he imagines the prizes to be, and that my Lord +Sandwich is well, and mightily concerned to hear that I was well. But +this did put me upon a desire of going thither; and, moving of it to +my Lord, we presently agreed upon it to go this very tide, we two and +Captain Cocke. So every body prepared to fit himself for his journey, +and I walked to Woolwich to trim and shift myself, and by the time I was +ready they come down in the Bezan yacht, and so I aboard and my boy Tom, +and there very merrily we sailed to below Gravesend, and there come to +anchor for all night, and supped and talked, and with much pleasure at +last settled ourselves to sleep having very good lodging upon cushions +in the cabbin. + +18th. By break of day we come to within sight of the fleete, which was a +very fine thing to behold, being above 100 ships, great and small; with +the flag-ships of each squadron, distinguished by their several flags on +their main, fore, or mizen masts. Among others, the Soveraigne, Charles, +and Prince; in the last of which my Lord Sandwich was. When we called by +her side his Lordshipp was not stirring, so we come to anchor a little +below his ship, thinking to have rowed on board him, but the wind and +tide was so strong against us that we could not get up to him, no, +though rowed by a boat of the Prince's that come to us to tow us up; at +last however he brought us within a little way, and then they flung +out a rope to us from the Prince and so come on board, but with great +trouble and tune and patience, it being very cold; we find my Lord newly +up in his night-gown very well. He received us kindly; telling us the +state of the fleet, lacking provisions, having no beer at all, nor +have had most of them these three weeks or month, and but few days' dry +provisions. And indeed he tells us that he believes no fleete was ever +set to sea in so ill condition of provision, as this was when it went +out last. He did inform us in the business of Bergen, + + [Lord Sandwich was not so successful in convincing other people as + to the propriety of his conduct at Bergen as he was with Pepys.] + +so as to let us see how the judgment of the world is not to be depended +on in things they know not; it being a place just wide enough, and not +so much hardly, for ships to go through to it, the yardarmes sticking in +the very rocks. He do not, upon his best enquiry, find reason to except +against any part of the management of the business by Teddiman; he +having staid treating no longer than during the night, whiles he was +fitting himself to fight, bringing his ship a-breast, and not a quarter +of an hour longer (as is said); nor could more ships have been brought +to play, as is thought. Nor could men be landed, there being 10,000 men +effectively always in armes of the Danes; nor, says he, could we expect +more from the Dane than he did, it being impossible to set fire on the +ships but it must burn the towne. But that wherein the Dane did amisse +is, that he did assist them, the Dutch, all the while, while he was +treating with us, while he should have been neutrall to us both. But, +however, he did demand but the treaty of us; which is, that we should +not come with more than five ships. A flag of truce is said, and +confessed by my Lord, that he believes it was hung out; but while they +did hang it out, they did shoot at us; so that it was not either seen +perhaps, or fit to cease upon sight of it, while they continued actually +in action against us. But the main thing my Lord wonders at, and +condemns the Dane for, is, that the blockhead, who is so much in debt +to the Hollander, having now a treasure more by much than all his Crowne +was worth, and that which would for ever have beggared the Hollanders, +should not take this time to break with the Hollander, and, thereby +paid his debt which must have been forgiven him, and got the greatest +treasure into his hands that ever was together in the world. By and by +my Lord took me aside to discourse of his private matters, who was very +free with me touching the ill condition of the fleete that it hath been +in, and the good fortune that he hath had, and nothing else that these +prizes are to be imputed to. He also talked with me about Mr. Coventry's +dealing with him in sending Sir W. Pen away before him, which was not +fair nor kind; but that he hath mastered and cajoled Sir W. Pen, that he +hath been able to do, nothing in the fleete, but been obedient to him; +but withal tells me he is a man that is but of very mean parts, and a +fellow not to be lived with, so false and base he is; which I know well +enough to be very true, and did, as I had formerly done, give my Lord my +knowledge of him. By and by was called a Council of Warr on board, when +come Sir W. Pen there, and Sir Christopher Mings, Sir Edward Spragg, +Sir Jos. Jordan, Sir Thomas Teddiman, and Sir Roger Cuttance, and so the +necessity of the fleete for victuals, clothes, and money was discoursed, +but by the discourse there of all but my Lord, that is to say, the +counterfeit grave nonsense of Sir W. Pen and the poor mean discourse +of the rest, methinks I saw how the government and management of the +greatest business of the three nations is committed to very ordinary +heads, saving my Lord, and in effect is only upon him, who is able to do +what he pleases with them, they not having the meanest degree of reason +to be able to oppose anything that he says, and so I fear it is ordered +but like all the rest of the King's publique affayres. The council being +up they most of them went away, only Sir W. Pen who staid to dine there +and did so, but the wind being high the ship (though the motion of it +was hardly discernible to the eye) did make me sick, so as I could not +eat any thing almost. After dinner Cocke did pray me to helpe him to +L500 of W. How, who is deputy Treasurer, wherein my Lord Bruncker and I +am to be concerned and I did aske it my Lord, and he did consent to have +us furnished with L500, and I did get it paid to Sir Roger Cuttance +and Mr. Pierce in part for above L1000 worth of goods, Mace, Nutmegs, +Cynamon, and Cloves, and he tells us we may hope to get L1500 by it, +which God send! Great spoil, I hear, there hath been of the two East +India ships, and that yet they will come in to the King very rich: so +that I hope this journey will be worth L100 to me. + + [There is a shorthand journal of proceedings relating to Pepys's + purchase of some East India prize goods among the Rawlinson MSS. in + the Bodleian Library.] + +After having paid this money, we took leave of my Lord and so to our +Yacht again, having seen many of my friends there. Among others I hear +that W. Howe will grow very rich by this last business and grows very +proud and insolent by it; but it is what I ever expected. I hear by +every body how much my poor Lord of Sandwich was concerned for me during +my silence a while, lest I had been dead of the plague in this sickly +time. No sooner come into the yacht, though overjoyed with the good +work we have done to-day, but I was overcome with sea sickness so that +I begun to spue soundly, and so continued a good while, till at last I +went into the cabbin and shutting my eyes my trouble did cease that I +fell asleep, which continued till we come into Chatham river where the +water was smooth, and then I rose and was very well, and the tide coming +to be against us we did land before we come to Chatham and walked +a mile, having very good discourse by the way, it being dark and it +beginning to rain just as we got thither. At Commissioner Pett's we did +eat and drink very well and very merry we were, and about 10 at night, +it being moonshine and very cold, we set out, his coach carrying us, and +so all night travelled to Greenwich, we sometimes sleeping a little and +then talking and laughing by the way, and with much pleasure, but +that it was very horrible cold, that I was afeard of an ague. A pretty +passage was that the coach stood of a sudden and the coachman come +down and the horses stirring, he cried, Hold! which waked me, and the +coach[man] standing at the boote to [do] something or other and crying, +Hold! I did wake of a sudden and not knowing who he was, nor thinking of +the coachman between sleeping and waking I did take up the heart to take +him by the shoulder, thinking verily he had been a thief. But when I +waked I found my cowardly heart to discover a fear within me and that I +should never have done it if I had been awake. + +19th. About 4 or 5 of the clock we come to Greenwich, and, having first +set down my Lord Bruncker, Cocke and I went to his house, it being +light, and there to our great trouble, we being sleepy and cold, we met +with the ill newes that his boy Jacke was gone to bed sicke, which put +Captain Cocke and me also into much trouble, the boy, as they told us, +complaining of his head most, which is a bad sign it seems. So they +presently betook themselves to consult whither and how to remove him. +However I thought it not fit for me to discover too much fear to go +away, nor had I any place to go to. So to bed I went and slept till 10 +of the clock and then comes Captain Cocke to wake me and tell me that +his boy was well again. With great joy I heard the newes and he told +it, so I up and to the office where we did a little, and but a little +business. At noon by invitation to my Lord Bruncker's where we staid +till four of the clock for my Lady Batten and she not then coming we to +dinner and pretty merry but disordered by her making us stay so long. +After dinner I to the office, and there wrote letters and did business +till night and then to Sir J. Minnes's, where I find my Lady Batten +come, and she and my Lord Bruncker and his mistresse, and the whole +house-full there at cards. But by and by my Lord Bruncker goes away and +others of the company, and when I expected Sir J. Minnes and his sister +should have staid to have made Sir W. Batten and Lady sup, I find they +go up in snuffe to bed without taking any manner of leave of them, but +left them with Mr. Boreman. The reason of this I could not presently +learn, but anon I hear it is that Sir J. Minnes did expect and +intend them a supper, but they without respect to him did first apply +themselves to Boreman, which makes all this great feude. However I staid +and there supped, all of us being in great disorder from this, and more +from Cocke's boy's being ill, where my Lady Batten and Sir W. Batten +did come to town with an intent to lodge, and I was forced to go seek +a lodging which my W. Hewer did get me, viz., his own chamber in the +towne, whither I went and found it a very fine room, and there lay most +excellently. + +20th. Called up by Captain Cocke (who was last night put into great +trouble upon his boy's being rather worse than better, upon which he +removed him out of his house to his stable), who told me that to my +comfort his boy was now as well as ever he was in his life. So I up, +and after being trimmed, the first time I have been touched by a barber +these twelvemonths, I think, and more, went to Sir J. Minnes's, where +I find all out of order still, they having not seen one another till +by and by Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten met, to go into my Lord +Bruncker's coach, and so we four to Lambeth, and thence to the Duke of +Albemarle, to inform him what we have done as to the fleete, which is +very little, and to receive his direction. But, Lord! what a sad time it +is to see no boats upon the River; and grass grows all up and down White +Hall court, and nobody but poor wretches in the streets! And, which is +worst of all, the Duke showed us the number of the plague this week, +brought in the last night from the Lord Mayor; that it is encreased +about 600 more than the last, which is quite contrary to all our hopes +and expectations, from the coldness of the late season. For the whole +general number is 8,297, and of them the plague 7,165; which is more in +the whole by above 50, than the biggest Bill yet; which is very grievous +to us all. I find here a design in my Lord Bruncker and Captain Cocke to +have had my Lord Bruncker chosen as one of us to have been sent aboard +one of the East Indiamen, and Captain Cocke as a merchant to be joined +with him, and Sir J. Minnes for the other, and Sir G. Smith to be joined +with him. But I did order it so that my Lord Bruncker and Sir J. Minnes +were ordered, but I did stop the merchants to be added, which would have +been a most pernicious thing to the King I am sure. In this I did, I +think, a very good office, though I cannot acquit myself from some envy +of mine in the business to have the profitable business done by another +hand while I lay wholly imployed in the trouble of the office. Thence +back again by my Lord's coach to my Lord Bruncker's house, where I find +my Lady Batten, who is become very great with Mrs. Williams (my Lord +Bruncker's whore), and there we dined and were mighty merry. After +dinner I to the office there to write letters, to fit myself for a +journey to-morrow to Nonsuch to the Exchequer by appointment. That being +done I to Sir J. Minnes where I find Sir W. Batten and his Lady gone +home to Walthamstow in great snuffe as to Sir J. Minnes, but yet with +some necessity, hearing that a mayde-servant of theirs is taken ill. +Here I staid and resolved of my going in my Lord Bruncker's coach +which he would have me to take, though himself cannot go with me as he +intended, and so to my last night's lodging to bed very weary. + +21st. Up between five and six o'clock; and by the time I was ready, my +Lord's coach comes for me; and taking Will Hewer with me, who is all +in mourning for his father, who is lately dead of the plague, as my boy +Tom's is also, I set out, and took about L100 with me to pay the fees +there, and so rode in some fear of robbing. When I come thither, I +find only Mr. Ward, who led me to Burgess's bedside, and Spicer's, who, +watching of the house, as it is their turns every night, did lie long in +bed to-day, and I find nothing at all done in my business, which vexed +me. But not seeing how to helpe it I did walk up and down with Mr. Ward +to see the house; and by and by Spicer and Mr. Falconbrige come to +me and he and I to a towne near by, Yowell, there drink and set up my +horses and also bespoke a dinner, and while that is dressing went with +Spicer and walked up and down the house and park; and a fine place it +hath heretofore been, and a fine prospect about the house. A great walk +of an elme and a walnutt set one after another in order. And all the +house on the outside filled with figures of stories, and good painting +of Rubens' or Holben's doing. And one great thing is, that most of the +house is covered, I mean the posts, and quarters in the walls; covered +with lead, and gilded. I walked into the ruined garden, and there found +a plain little girle, kinswoman of Mr. Falconbridge, to sing very finely +by the eare only, but a fine way of singing, and if I come ever to lacke +a girle again I shall think of getting her. Thence to the towne, and +there Spicer, Woodruffe, and W. Bowyer and I dined together and a +friend of Spicer's; and a good dinner I had for them. Falconbrige dined +somewhere else, by appointment. Strange to see how young W. Bowyer looks +at 41 years; one would not take him for 24 or more, and is one of the +greatest wonders I ever did see. After dinner, about 4 of the clock we +broke up, and I took coach and home (in fear for the money I had with +me, but that this friend of Spicer's, one of the Duke's guard did ride +along the best part of the way with us). I got to my Lord Bruncker's +before night, and there I sat and supped with him and his mistresse, +and Cocke whose boy is yet ill. Thence, after losing a crowne betting at +Tables--[Cribbage]--, we walked home, Cocke seeing me at my new lodging, +where I went to bed. All my worke this day in the coach going and coming +was to refresh myself in my musique scale, which I would fain have +perfecter than ever I had yet. + +22nd. Up betimes and to the office, meaning to have entered my last 5 +or 6 days' Journall, but was called away by my Lord Bruncker and Sir J. +Minnes, and to Blackwall, there to look after the storehouses in order +to the laying of goods out of the East India ships when they shall be +unloaden. That being done, we into Johnson's house, and were much made +of, eating and drinking. But here it is observable what he tells us, +that in digging his late Docke, he did 12 foot under ground find perfect +trees over-covered with earth. Nut trees, with the branches and the very +nuts upon them; some of whose nuts he showed us. Their shells black with +age, and their kernell, upon opening, decayed, but their shell perfectly +hard as ever. And a yew tree he showed us (upon which, he says, the +very ivy was taken up whole about it), which upon cutting with an addes +[adze], we found to be rather harder than the living tree usually is. +They say, very much, but I do not know how hard a yew tree naturally is. + + [The same discovery was made in 1789, in digging the Brunswick Dock, + also at Blackwall, and elsewhere in the neighbourhood.] + +The armes, they say, were taken up at first whole, about the body, +which is very strange. Thence away by water, and I walked with my Lord +Bruncker home, and there at dinner comes a letter from my Lord Sandwich +to tell me that he would this day be at Woolwich, and desired me to meet +him. Which fearing might have lain in Sir J. Minnes' pocket a while, he +sending it me, did give my Lord Bruncker, his mistress, and I occasion +to talk of him as the most unfit man for business in the world. Though +at last afterwards I found that he was not in this faulty, but hereby I +have got a clear evidence of my Lord Bruncker's opinion of him. My Lord +Bruncker presently ordered his coach to be ready and we to Woolwich, and +my Lord Sandwich not being come, we took a boat and about a mile off +met him in his Catch, and boarded him, and come up with him; and, after +making a little halt at my house, which I ordered, to have my wife see +him, we all together by coach to Mr. Boreman's, where Sir J. Minnes did +receive him very handsomely, and there he is to lie; and Sir J. Minnes +did give him on the sudden, a very handsome supper and brave discourse, +my Lord Bruncker, and Captain Cocke, and Captain Herbert being there, +with myself. Here my Lord did witness great respect to me, and very kind +expressions, and by other occasions, from one thing to another did take +notice how I was overjoyed at first to see the King's letter to his +Lordship, and told them how I did kiss it, and that, whatever he was, +I did always love the King. This my Lord Bruncker did take such notice +[of] as that he could not forbear kissing me before my Lord, professing +his finding occasion every day more and more to love me, and Captain +Cocke has since of himself taken notice of that speech of my Lord then +concerning me, and may be of good use to me. Among other discourse +concerning long life, Sir J. Minnes saying that his great-grandfather +was alive in Edward the Vth's time; my Lord Sandwich did tell us how few +there have been of his family since King Harry the VIIIth; that is to +say, the then Chiefe Justice, and his son the Lord Montagu, who was +father to Sir Sidney, + + [These are the words in the MS., and not "his son and the Lord + Montagu," as in some former editions. Pepys seems to have written + Lord Montagu by mistake for Sir Edward Montagu.] + +who was his father. And yet, what is more wonderfull, he did assure us +from the mouth of my Lord Montagu himself, that in King James's time +([when he] had a mind to get the King to cut off the entayle of some +land which was given in Harry the VIIIth's time to the family, with the +remainder in the Crowne); he did answer the King in showing how unlikely +it was that ever it could revert to the Crown, but that it would be a +present convenience to him; and did show that at that time there were +4,000 persons derived from the very body of the Chiefe Justice. It seems +the number of daughters in the family having been very great, and +they too had most of them many children, and grandchildren, and +great-grandchildren. This he tells as a most known and certain truth. +After supper, my Lord Bruncker took his leave, and I also did mine, +taking Captain Herbert home to my lodging to lie with me, who did mighty +seriously inquire after who was that in the black dress with my wife +yesterday, and would not believe that it was my wife's mayde, Mercer, +but it was she. + +23rd. Up, and to my Lord Sandwich, who did advise alone with me how far +he might trust Captain Cocke in the business of the prize-goods, my Lord +telling me that he hath taken into his hands 2 or L3000 value of them: +it being a good way, he says, to get money, and afterwards to get the +King's allowance thereof, it being easier, he observes, to keepe money +when got of the King than to get it when it is too late. I advised him +not to trust Cocke too far, and did therefore offer him ready money for +a L1000 or two, which he listens to and do agree to, which is great joy +to me, hoping thereby to get something! Thence by coach to Lambeth, his +Lordship, and all our office, and Mr. Evelyn, to the Duke of Albemarle, +where, after the compliment with my Lord very kind, we sat down to +consult of the disposing and supporting of the fleete with victuals and +money, and for the sicke men and prisoners; and I did propose the taking +out some goods out of the prizes, to the value of L10,000, which was +accorded to, and an order, drawn up and signed by the Duke and my Lord, +done in the best manner I can, and referred to my Lord Bruncker and Sir +J. Minnes, but what inconveniences may arise from it I do not yet see, +but fear there may be many. Here we dined, and I did hear my Lord Craven +whisper, as he is mightily possessed with a good opinion of me, much to +my advantage, which my good Lord did second, and anon my Lord Craven did +speak publiquely of me to the Duke, in the hearing of all the rest; and +the Duke did say something of the like advantage to me; I believe, not +much to the satisfaction of my brethren; but I was mightily joyed at it. +Thence took leave, leaving my Lord Sandwich to go visit the Bishop of +Canterbury, and I and Sir W. Batten down to the Tower, where he went +further by water, and I home, and among other things took out all my +gold to carry along with me to-night with Captain Cocke downe to the +fleete, being L180 and more, hoping to lay out that and a great deal +more to good advantage. Thence down to Greenwich to the office, and +there wrote several letters, and so to my Lord Sandwich, and mighty +merry and he mighty kind to me in the face of all, saying much in my +favour, and after supper I took leave and with Captain Cocke set out +in the yacht about ten o'clock at night, and after some discourse, and +drinking a little, my mind full of what we are going about and jealous +of Cocke's outdoing me. So to sleep upon beds brought by Cocke on board +mighty handsome, and never slept better than upon this bed upon the +floor in the Cabbin. + +24th (Lord's day). Waked, and up and drank, and then to discourse; and +then being about Grayes, and a very calme, curious morning, we took our +wherry, and to the fishermen, and bought a great deal of fine fish, +and to Gravesend to White's, and had part of it dressed; and, in the +meantime, we to walk about a mile from the towne, and so back again; and +there, after breakfast, one of our watermen told us he had heard of a +bargain of cloves for us, and we went to a blind alehouse at the +further end wretched dirty seamen, who, of the towne to a couple of poor +wretches, had got together about 37 lb. of cloves and to 10 of nutmeggs, +and we bought them of them, the first at 5s. 6d. per lb. and the latter +at 4s.; and paid them in gold; but, Lord! to see how silly these men +are in the selling of it, and easily to be persuaded almost to anything, +offering a bag to us to pass as 20 lbs. of cloves, which upon weighing +proved 25 lbs. But it would never have been allowed by my conscience to +have wronged the poor wretches, who told us how dangerously they had got +some, and dearly paid for the rest of these goods. This being done we +with great content herein on board again and there Captain Cocke and I +to discourse of our business, but he will not yet be open to me, nor am +I to him till I hear what he will say and do with Sir Roger Cuttance. +However, this discourse did do me good, and got me a copy of the +agreement made the other day on board for the parcel of Mr. Pierce and +Sir Roger Cuttance, but this great parcel is of my Lord Sandwich's. By +and by to dinner about 3 o'clock and then I in the cabbin to writing +down my journall for these last seven days to my great content, it +having pleased God that in this sad time of the plague every thing else +has conspired to my happiness and pleasure more for these last three +months than in all my life before in so little time. God long preserve +it and make me thankful) for it! After finishing my Journal), then to +discourse and to read, and then to supper and to bed, my mind not being +at full ease, having not fully satisfied myself how Captain Cocke will +deal with me as to the share of the profits. + +25th. Found ourselves come to the fleete, and so aboard the Prince; and +there, after a good while in discourse, we did agree a bargain of +L5,000 with Sir Roger Cuttance for my Lord Sandwich for silk, cinnamon, +nutmeggs, and indigo. And I was near signing to an undertaking for the +payment of the whole sum; but I did by chance escape it; having since, +upon second thoughts, great cause to be glad of it, reflecting upon the +craft and not good condition, it may be, of Captain Cocke. I could get +no trifles for my wife. Anon to dinner and thence in great haste to +make a short visit to Sir W. Pen, where I found them and his lady and +daughter and many commanders at dinner. Among others Sir G. Askue, of +whom whatever the matter is, the world is silent altogether. But a very +pretty dinner there was, and after dinner Sir W. Pen made a bargain with +Cocke for ten bales of silke, at 16s. per lb., which, as Cocke says, +will be a good pennyworth, and so away to the Prince and presently comes +my Lord on board from Greenwich, with whom, after a little discourse +about his trusting of Cocke, we parted and to our yacht; but it being +calme, we to make haste, took our wherry toward Chatham; but, it growing +darke, we were put to great difficultys, our simple, yet confident +waterman, not knowing a step of the way; and we found ourselves to go +backward and forward, which, in the darke night and a wild place, did +vex us mightily. At last we got a fisher boy by chance, and took him +into the boat, and being an odde kind of boy, did vex us too; for he +would not answer us aloud when we spoke to him, but did carry us safe +thither, though with a mistake or two; but I wonder they were not more. +In our way I was [surprised] and so were we all, at the strange nature +of the sea-water in a darke night, that it seemed like fire upon every +stroke of the oare, and, they say, is a sign of winde. We went to the +Crowne Inne, at Rochester, and there to supper, and made ourselves merry +with our poor fisher-boy, who told us he had not been in a bed in the +whole seven years since he came to 'prentice, and hath two or three more +years to serve. After eating something, we in our clothes to bed. + +26th. Up by five o'clock and got post horses and so set out for +Greenwich, calling and drinking at Dartford. Being come to Greenwich and +shifting myself I to the office, from whence by and by my Lord Bruncker +and Sir J. Minnes set out toward Erith to take charge of the two East +India shipps, which I had a hand in contriving for the King's service +and may do myself a good office too thereby. I to dinner with Mr. Wright +to his father-in-law in Greenwich, one of the most silly, harmless, +prating old men that ever I heard in my life. Creed dined with me, and +among other discourses got of me a promise of half that he could get my +Lord Rutherford to give me upon clearing his business, which should not +be less, he says, than L50 for my half, which is a good thing, though +cunningly got of him. By and by Luellin comes, and I hope to get +something of Deering shortly. They being gone, Mr. Wright and I went +into the garden to discourse with much trouble for fear of losing all +the profit and principal of what we have laid out in buying of prize +goods, and therefore puts me upon thoughts of flinging up my interest, +but yet I shall take good advice first. Thence to the office, and after +some letters down to Woolwich, where I have not lain with my wife these +eight days I think, or more. After supper, and telling her my mind in my +trouble in what I have done as to buying' of these goods, we to bed. + +27th. Up, and saw and admired my wife's picture of our Saviour, + + [This picture by Mrs. Pepys may have given trouble when Pepys was + unjustifiably attacked for having Popish pictures in his house.] + +now finished, which is very pretty. So by water to Greenwich, where with +Creed and Lord Rutherford, and there my Lord told me that he would +give me L100 for my pains, which pleased me well, though Creed, like +a cunning rogue, hath got a promise of half of it from me. We to the +King's Head, the great musique house, the first time I was ever there, +and had a good breakfast, and thence parted, I being much troubled to +hear from Creed, that he was told at Salsbury that I am come to be a +great swearer and drinker, though I know the contrary; but, Lord! to see +how my late little drinking of wine is taken notice of by envious men +to my disadvantage. I thence to Captain Cocke's, [and] (he not yet come +from town) to Mr. Evelyn's, where much company; and thence in his +coach with him to the Duke of Albemarle by Lambeth, who was in a mighty +pleasant humour; there the Duke tells us that the Dutch do stay abroad, +and our fleet must go out again, or to be ready to do so. Here we got +several things ordered as we desired for the relief of the prisoners, +and sick and wounded men. Here I saw this week's Bill of Mortality, +wherein, blessed be God! there is above 1800 decrease, being the first +considerable decrease we have had. Back again the same way and had +most excellent discourse of Mr. Evelyn touching all manner of learning; +wherein I find him a very fine gentleman, and particularly of paynting, +in which he tells me the beautifull Mrs. Middleton is rare, and his +own wife do brave things. He brought me to the office, whither comes +unexpectedly Captain Cocke, who hath brought one parcel of our goods by +waggons, and at first resolved to have lodged them at our office; but +then the thoughts of its being the King's house altered our resolution, +and so put them at his friend's, Mr. Glanvill's, and there they are +safe. Would the rest of them were so too! In discourse, we come to +mention my profit, and he offers me L500 clear, and I demand L600 for +my certain profit. We part to-night, and I lie there at Mr. Glanvill's +house, there being none there but a maydeservant and a young man; being +in some pain, partly from not knowing what to do in this business, +having a mind to be at a certainty in my profit, and partly through his +having Jacke sicke still, and his blackemore now also fallen sicke. So +he being gone, I to bed. + +28th. Up, and being mightily pleased with my night's lodging, drank a +cup of beer, and went out to my office, and there did some business, and +so took boat and down to Woolwich (having first made a visit to Madam +Williams, who is going down to my Lord Bruncker) and there dined, and +then fitted my papers and money and every thing else for a journey to +Nonsuch to-morrow. That being done I walked to Greenwich, and there to +the office pretty late expecting Captain Cocke's coming, which he +did, and so with me to my new lodging (and there I chose rather to lie +because of my interest in the goods that we have brought there to lie), +but the people were abed, so we knocked them up, and so I to bed, and +in the night was mightily troubled with a looseness (I suppose from +some fresh damp linen that I put on this night), and feeling for a +chamber-pott, there was none, I having called the mayde up out of her +bed, she had forgot I suppose to put one there; so I was forced in this +strange house to rise and shit in the chimney twice; and so to bed and +was very well again, and + +29th. To sleep till 5 o'clock, when it is now very dark, and then rose, +being called up by order by Mr. Marlow, and so up and dressed myself, +and by and by comes Mr. Lashmore on horseback, and I had my horse I +borrowed of Mr. Gillthropp, Sir W. Batten's clerke, brought to me, and +so we set out and rode hard and was at Nonsuch by about eight o'clock, a +very fine journey and a fine day. There I come just about chappell time +and so I went to chappell with them and thence to the several offices +about my tallys, which I find done, but strung for sums not to my +purpose, and so was forced to get them to promise me to have them cut +into other sums. But, Lord! what ado I had to persuade the dull fellows +to it, especially Mr. Warder, Master of the Pells, and yet without any +manner of reason for their scruple. But at last I did, and so left my +tallies there against another day, and so walked to Yowell, and there +did spend a peece upon them, having a whole house full, and much mirth +by a sister of the mistresse of the house, an old mayde lately married +to a lieutenant of a company that quarters there, and much pleasant +discourse we had and, dinner being done, we to horse again and come to +Greenwich before night, and so to my lodging, and there being a little +weary sat down and fell to order some of my pocket papers, and then +comes Captain Cocke, and after a great deal of discourse with him +seriously upon the disorders of our state through lack of men to mind +the public business and to understand it, we broke up, sitting up +talking very late. We spoke a little of my late business propounded of +taking profit for my money laid out for these goods, but he finds I rise +in my demand, he offering me still L500 certain. So we did give it +over, and I to bed. I hear for certain this night upon the road that +Sir Martin Noell is this day dead of the plague in London, where he hath +lain sick of it these eight days. + +30th. Up and to the office, where busy all the morning, and at noon with +Sir W. Batten to Coll. Cleggat to dinner, being invited, where a very +pretty dinner to my full content and very merry. The great burden we +have upon us at this time at the office, is the providing for prisoners +and sicke men that are recovered, they lying before our office doors +all night and all day, poor wretches. Having been on shore, the captains +won't receive them on board, and other ships we have not to put them +on, nor money to pay them off, or provide for them. God remove this +difficulty! This made us followed all the way to this gentleman's +house and there are waited for our coming out after dinner. Hither come +Luellin to me and would force me to take Mr. Deering's 20 pieces in +gold he did offer me a good while since, which I did, yet really and +sincerely against my will and content, I seeing him a man not likely to +do well in his business, nor I to reap any comfort in having to do with, +and be beholden to, a man that minds more his pleasure and company than +his business. Thence mighty merry and much pleased with the dinner and +company and they with me I parted and there was set upon by the poor +wretches, whom I did give good words and some little money to, and the +poor people went away like lambs, and in good earnest are not to be +censured if their necessities drive them to bad courses of stealing or +the like, while they lacke wherewith to live. Thence to the office, and +there wrote a letter or two and dispatched a little business, and then +to Captain Cocke's, where I find Mr. Temple, the fat blade, Sir Robert. +Viner's chief man. And we three and two companions of his in the evening +by agreement took ship in the Bezan and the tide carried us no further +than Woolwich about 8 at night, and so I on shore to my wife, and +there to my great trouble find my wife out of order, and she took me +downstairs and there alone did tell me her falling out with both her +mayds and particularly Mary, and how Mary had to her teeth told her she +would tell me of something that should stop her mouth and words of that +sense. Which I suspect may be about Brown, but my wife prays me to +call it to examination, and this, I being of myself jealous, do make me +mightily out of temper, and seeing it not fit to enter into the dispute +did passionately go away, thinking to go on board again. But when I come +to the stairs I considered the Bezan would not go till the next ebb, +and it was best to lie in a good bed and, it may be, get myself into +a better humour by being with my wife. So I back again and to bed and +having otherwise so many reasons to rejoice and hopes of good profit, +besides considering the ill that trouble of mind and melancholly may in +this sickly time bring a family into, and that if the difference were +never so great, it is not a time to put away servants, I was resolved +to salve up the business rather than stir in it, and so become pleasant +with my wife and to bed, minding nothing of this difference. So to sleep +with a good deal of content, and saving only this night and a day or two +about the same business a month or six weeks ago, I do end this month +with the greatest content, and may say that these last three months, +for joy, health, and profit, have been much the greatest that ever I +received in all my life in any twelve months almost in my life, having +nothing upon me but the consideration of the sicklinesse of the season +during this great plague to mortify mee. For all which the Lord God be +praised! + + + + +OCTOBER 1665 + +October 1st (Lord's day). Called up about 4 of the clock and so dressed +myself and so on board the Bezan, and there finding all my company +asleep I would not wake them, but it beginning to be break of day I +did stay upon the decke walking, and then into the Maister's cabbin +and there laid and slept a little, and so at last was waked by Captain +Cocke's calling of me, and so I turned out, and then to chat and talk +and laugh, and mighty merry. We spent most of the morning talking and +reading of "The Siege of Rhodes," which is certainly (the more I read it +the more I think so) the best poem that ever was wrote. We breakfasted +betimes and come to the fleete about two of the clock in the afternoon, +having a fine day and a fine winde. My Lord received us mighty kindly, +and after discourse with us in general left us to our business, and he +to his officers, having called a council of wary, we in the meantime +settling of papers with Mr. Pierce and everybody else, and by and by +with Captain Cuttance. Anon called down to my Lord, and there with him +till supper talking and discourse; among other things, to my great joy, +he did assure me that he had wrote to the King and Duke about these +prize-goods, and told me that they did approve of what he had done, and +that he would owne what he had done, and would have me to tell all the +world so, and did, under his hand, give Cocke and me his certificate of +our bargains, and giving us full power of disposal of what we have so +bought. This do ease my mind of all my fear, and makes my heart lighter +by L100 than it was before. He did discourse to us of the Dutch fleete +being abroad, eighty-five of them still, and are now at the Texell, he +believes, in expectation of our Eastland ships coming home with masts +and hempe, and our loaden Hambrough ships going to Hambrough. He +discoursed against them that would have us yield to no conditions but +conquest over the Dutch, and seems to believe that the Dutch will call +for the protection of the King of France and come under his power, which +were to be wished they might be brought to do under ours by fair means, +and to that end would have all Dutch men and familys, that would come +hither and settled, to be declared denizens; and my Lord did whisper +to me alone that things here must break in pieces, nobody minding any +thing, but every man his owne business of profit or pleasure, and the +King some little designs of his owne, and that certainly the kingdom +could not stand in this condition long, which I fear and believe is very +true. So to supper and there my Lord the kindest man to me, before all +the table talking of me to my advantage and with tenderness too that it +overjoyed me. So after supper Captain Cocke and I and Temple on board +the Bezan, and there to cards for a while and then to read again in +"Rhodes" and so to sleep. But, Lord! the mirth which it caused me to be +waked in the night by their snoaring round about me; I did laugh till I +was ready to burst, and waked one of the two companions of Temple, who +could not a good while tell where he was that he heard one laugh so, +till he recollected himself, and I told him what it was at, and so to +sleep again, they still snoaring. + +2nd. We having sailed all night (and I do wonder how they in the dark +could find the way) we got by morning to Gillingham, and thence all +walked to Chatham; and there with Commissioner Pett viewed the Yard; and +among other things, a teame of four horses come close by us, he being +with me, drawing a piece of timber that I am confident one man could +easily have carried upon his back. I made the horses be taken away, +and a man or two to take the timber away with their hands. This the +Commissioner did see, but said nothing, but I think had cause to be +ashamed of. We walked, he and I and Cocke, to the Hill-house, where +we find Sir W. Pen in bed and there much talke and much dissembling of +kindnesse from him, but he is a false rogue, and I shall not trust him, +but my being there did procure his consent to have his silk carried away +before the money received, which he would not have done for Cocke I am +sure. Thence to Rochester, walked to the Crowne, and while dinner was +getting ready, I did there walk to visit the old Castle ruines, which +hath been a noble place, and there going up I did upon the stairs +overtake three pretty mayds or women and took them up with me, and I +did 'baiser sur mouches et toucher leur mains' and necks to my great +pleasure: but, Lord! to see what a dreadfull thing it is to look down +the precipices, for it did fright me mightily, and hinder me of much +pleasure which I would have made to myself in the company of these +three, if it had not been for that. The place hath been very noble and +great and strong in former ages. So to walk up and down the Cathedral, +and thence to the Crowne, whither Mr. Fowler, the Mayor of the towne, +was come in his gowne, and is a very reverend magistrate. After I had +eat a bit, not staying to eat with them, I went away, and so took horses +and to Gravesend, and there staid not, but got a boat, the sicknesse +being very much in the towne still, and so called on board my Lord +Bruncker and Sir John Minnes, on board one of the East Indiamen at +Erith, and there do find them full of envious complaints for the +pillageing of the ships, but I did pacify them, and discoursed about +making money of some of the goods, and do hope to be the better by it +honestly. So took leave (Madam Williams being here also with my Lord), +and about 8 o'clock got to Woolwich and there supped and mighty pleasant +with my wife, who is, for ought I see, all friends with her mayds, and +so in great joy and content to bed. + +3rd. Up, and to my great content visited betimes by Mr. Woolly, my uncle +Wight's cozen, who comes to see what work I have for him about these +East India goods, and I do find that this fellow might have been of +great use, and hereafter may be of very great use to me, in this trade +of prize goods, and glad I am fully of his coming hither. While I +dressed myself, and afterwards in walking to Greenwich we did discourse +over all the business of the prize goods, and he puts me in hopes I may +get some money in what I have done, but not so much as I expected, but +that I may hereafter do more. We have laid a design of getting more, and +are to talk again of it a few days hence. To the office, where nobody to +meet me, Sir W. Batten being the only man and he gone this day to meet +to adjourne the Parliament to Oxford. Anon by appointment comes one +to tell me my Lord Rutherford is come; so I to the King's Head to him, +where I find his lady, a fine young Scotch lady, pretty handsome and +plain. My wife also, and Mercer, by and by comes, Creed bringing +them; and so presently to dinner and very merry; and after to even our +accounts, and I to give him tallys, where he do allow me L100, of +which to my grief the rogue Creed has trepanned me out of L50. But I do +foresee a way how it may be I may get a greater sum of my Lord to his +content by getting him allowance of interest upon his tallys. That being +done, and some musique and other diversions, at last away goes my +Lord and Lady, and I sent my wife to visit Mrs. Pierce, and so I to my +office, where wrote important letters to the Court, and at night (Creed +having clownishly left my wife), I to Mrs. Pierces and brought her and +Mrs. Pierce to the King's Head and there spent a piece upon a supper for +her and mighty merry and pretty discourse, she being as pretty as ever, +most of our mirth being upon "my Cozen" (meaning my Lord Bruncker's ugly +mistress, whom he calls cozen), and to my trouble she tells me that the +fine Mrs. Middleton is noted for carrying about her body a continued +sour base smell, that is very offensive, especially if she be a little +hot. Here some bad musique to close the night and so away and all of us +saw Mrs. Belle Pierce (as pretty as ever she was almost) home, and so +walked to Will's lodging where I used to lie, and there made shift for a +bed for Mercer, and mighty pleasantly to bed. This night I hear that +of our two watermen that use to carry our letters, and were well on +Saturday last, one is dead, and the other dying sick of the plague. The +plague, though decreasing elsewhere, yet being greater about the Tower +and thereabouts. + +4th. Up and to my office, where Mr. Andrews comes, and reckoning with +him I get L64 of him. By and by comes Mr. Gawden, and reckoning with him +he gives me L60 in his account, which is a great mercy to me. Then both +of them met and discoursed the business of the first man's resigning and +the other's taking up the business of the victualling of Tangier, and +I do not think that I shall be able to do as well under Mr. Gawden as +under these men, or within a little as to profit and less care upon me. +Thence to the King's Head to dinner, where we three and Creed and my +wife and her woman dined mighty merry and sat long talking, and so in +the afternoon broke up, and I led my wife to our lodging again, and I to +the office where did much business, and so to my wife. This night comes +Sir George Smith to see me at the office, and tells me how the plague is +decreased this week 740, for which God be praised! but that it encreases +at our end of the town still, and says how all the towne is full of +Captain Cocke's being in some ill condition about prize-goods, his goods +being taken from him, and I know not what. But though this troubles me +to have it said, and that it is likely to be a business in Parliament, +yet I am not much concerned at it, because yet I believe this newes is +all false, for he would have wrote to me sure about it. Being come to my +wife, at our lodging, I did go to bed, and left my wife with her people +to laugh and dance and I to sleep. + +5th. Lay long in bed talking among other things of my sister Pall, and +my wife of herself is very willing that I should give her L400 to her +portion, and would have her married soon as we could; but this great +sicknesse time do make it unfit to send for her up. I abroad to the +office and thence to the Duke of Albemarle, all my way reading a book of +Mr. Evelyn's translating and sending me as a present, about directions +for gathering a Library; + + [Instructions concerning erecting of a Library, presented to my + Lord the President De Mesme by Gilbert Naudeus, and now interpreted + by Jo. Evelyn, Esquire. London, 1661: This little book was + dedicated to Lord Clarendon by the translator. It was printed while + Evelyn was abroad, and is full of typographical errors; these are + corrected in a copy mentioned in Evelyn's "Miscellaneous Writings," + 1825, p. xii, where a letter to Dr. Godolphin on the subject is + printed.] + +but the book is above my reach, but his epistle to my Lord Chancellor is +a very fine piece. When I come to the Duke it was about the victuallers' +business, to put it into other hands, or more hands, which I do advise +in, but I hope to do myself a jobb of work in it. So I walked through +Westminster to my old house the Swan, and there did pass some time with +Sarah, and so down by water to Deptford and there to my Valentine. + + [A Mrs. Bagwell. See ante, February 14th, 1664-65] + +Round about and next door on every side is the plague, but I did not +value it, but there did what I would 'con elle', and so away to Mr. +Evelyn's to discourse of our confounded business of prisoners, and sick +and wounded seamen, wherein he and we are so much put out of order. + + [Each of the Commissioners for the Sick and Wounded was appointed to + a particular district, and Evelyn's district was Kent and Sussex. + On September 25th, 1665, Evelyn wrote in his Diary: "My Lord Admiral + being come from ye fleete to Greenewich, I went thence with him to + ye Cockpit to consult with the Duke of Albemarle. I was peremptory + that unlesse we had L10,000 immediately, the prisoners would starve, + and 'twas proposed it should be rais'd out of the E. India prizes + now taken by Lord Sandwich. They being but two of ye Commission, + and so not impower'd to determine, sent an expresse to his Majesty + and Council to know what they should do."] + +And here he showed me his gardens, which are for variety of evergreens, +and hedge of holly, the finest things I ever saw in my life. + + [Evelyn purchased Sayes Court, Deptford, in 1653, and laid out his + gardens, walks, groves, enclosures, and plantations, which + afterwards became famous for their beauty. When he took the place + in hand it was nothing but an open field of one hundred acres, with + scarcely a hedge in it.] + +Thence in his coach to Greenwich, and there to my office, all the way +having fine discourse of trees and the nature of vegetables. And so to +write letters, I very late to Sir W. Coventry of great concernment, and +so to my last night's lodging, but my wife is gone home to Woolwich. The +Bill, blessed be God! is less this week by 740 of what it was the last +week. Being come to my lodging I got something to eat, having eat little +all the day, and so to bed, having this night renewed my promises of +observing my vowes as I used to do; for I find that, since I left them +off, my mind is run a'wool-gathering and my business neglected. + +6th. Up, and having sent for Mr. Gawden he come to me, and he and I +largely discoursed the business of his Victualling, in order to the +adding of partners to him or other ways of altering it, wherein I find +him ready to do anything the King would have him do. So he and I took +his coach and to Lambeth and to the Duke of Albemarle about it, and so +back again, where he left me. In our way discoursing of the business +and contracting a great friendship with him, and I find he is a man most +worthy to be made a friend, being very honest and gratefull, and in the +freedom of our discourse he did tell me his opinion and knowledge of Sir +W. Pen to be, what I know him to be, as false a man as ever was born, +for so, it seems, he hath been to him. He did also tell me, discoursing +how things are governed as to the King's treasure, that, having occasion +for money in the country, he did offer Alderman Maynell to pay him down +money here, to be paid by the Receiver in some county in the country, +upon whom Maynell had assignments, in whose hands the money also lay +ready. But Maynell refused it, saying that he could have his money when +he would, and had rather it should lie where it do than receive it here +in towne this sickly time, where he hath no occasion for it. But now +the evil is that he hath lent this money upon tallys which are become +payable, but he finds that nobody looks after it, how long the money is +unpaid, and whether it lies dead in the Receiver's hands or no, so the +King he pays Maynell 10 per cent. while the money lies in his Receiver's +hands to no purpose but the benefit of the Receiver. I to dinner to the +King's Head with Mr. Woolly, who is come to instruct me in the business +of my goods, but gives me not so good comfort as I thought I should have +had. But, however, it will be well worth my time though not above 2 or +L300. He gone I to my office, where very busy drawing up a letter by +way of discourse to the Duke of Albemarle about my conception how the +business of the Victualling should be ordered, wherein I have taken +great pains, and I think have hitt the right if they will but follow it. +At this very late and so home to our lodgings to bed. + +7th. Up and to the office along with Mr. Childe, whom I sent for +to discourse about the victualling business, who will not come into +partnership (no more will Captain Beckford ), but I do find him a mighty +understanding man, and one I will keep a knowledge of. Did business, +though not much, at the office; because of the horrible crowd and +lamentable moan of the poor seamen that lie starving in the streets for +lack of money. Which do trouble and perplex me to the heart; and more at +noon when we were to go through them, for then a whole hundred of them +followed us; some cursing, some swearing, and some praying to us. And +that that made me more troubled was a letter come this afternoon from +the Duke of Albemarle, signifying the Dutch to be in sight, with 80 +sayle, yesterday morning, off of Solebay, coming right into the bay. God +knows what they will and may do to us, we having no force abroad able to +oppose them, but to be sacrificed to them. Here come Sir W. Rider to me, +whom I sent for about the victualling business also, but he neither will +not come into partnership, but desires to be of the Commission if there +be one. Thence back the back way to my office, where very late, very +busy. But most of all when at night come two waggons from Rochester +with more goods from Captain Cocke; and in houseing them at Mr. Tooker's +lodgings come two of the Custome-house to seize them, and did seize +them but I showed them my 'Transire'. However, after some hot and angry +words, we locked them up, and sealed up the key, and did give it to the +constable to keep till Monday, and so parted. But, Lord! to think how +the poor constable come to me in the dark going home; "Sir," says he, "I +have the key, and if you would have me do any service for you, send for +me betimes to-morrow morning, and I will do what you would have me." +Whether the fellow do this out of kindness or knavery, I cannot tell; +but it is pretty to observe. Talking with him in the high way, come +close by the bearers with a dead corpse of the plague; but, Lord! to see +what custom is, that I am come almost to think nothing of it. So to my +lodging, and there, with Mr. Hater and Will, ending a business of the +state of the last six months' charge of the Navy, which we bring to +L1,000,000 and above, and I think we do not enlarge much in it if +anything. So to bed. + +8th (Lord's day). Up and, after being trimmed, to the office, whither I +upon a letter from the Duke of Albemarle to me, to order as many ships +forth out of the river as I can presently, to joyne to meet the Dutch; +having ordered all the Captains of the ships in the river to come to me, +I did some business with them, and so to Captain Cocke's to dinner, he +being in the country. But here his brother Solomon was, and, for guests, +myself, Sir G. Smith, and a very fine lady, one Mrs. Penington, and +two more gentlemen. But, both [before] and after dinner, most witty +discourse with this lady, who is a very fine witty lady, one of the best +I ever heard speake, and indifferent handsome. There after dinner an +houre or two, and so to the office, where ended my business with the +Captains; and I think of twenty-two ships we shall make shift to get out +seven. (God helpe us! men being sick, or provisions lacking.) And so to +write letters to Sir Ph. Warwicke, Sir W. Coventry, and Sir G. Carteret +to Court about the last six months' accounts, and sent away by +an express to-night. This day I hear the Pope is dead;--[a false +report]--and one said, that the newes is, that the King of France is +stabbed, but that the former is very true, which will do great things +sure, as to the troubling of that part of the world, the King of Spayne + + [Philip IV., King of Spain, who succeeded to the throne in 1621, + died in 1665. He was succeeded by his son Charles II.] + +being so lately dead. And one thing more, Sir Martin Noell's lady is +dead with griefe for the death of her husband and nothing else, as they +say, in the world; but it seems nobody can make anything of his estate, +whether he be dead worth anything or no, he having dealt in so many +things, publique and private, as nobody can understand whereabouts his +estate is, which is the fate of these great dealers at everything. So +after my business being done I home to my lodging and to bed, + +9th. Up, my head full of business, and called upon also by Sir John +Shaw, to whom I did give a civil answer about our prize goods, that all +his dues as one of the Farmers of the Customes are paid, and showed +him our Transire; with which he was satisfied, and parted, ordering his +servants to see the weight of them. I to the office, and there found an +order for my coming presently to the Duke of Albemarle, and what should +it be, but to tell me, that, if my Lord Sandwich do not come to towne, +he do resolve to go with the fleete to sea himself, the Dutch, as he +thinks, being in the Downes, and so desired me to get a pleasure boat +for to take him in to-morrow morning, and do many other things, and with +a great liking of me, and my management especially, as that coxcombe +my Lord Craven do tell me, and I perceive it, and I am sure take pains +enough to deserve it. Thence away and to the office at London, where I +did some business about my money and private accounts, and there eat +a bit of goose of Mr. Griffin's, and so by water, it raining most +miserably, to Greenwich, calling on several vessels in my passage. Being +come there I hear another seizure hath been made of our goods by one +Captain Fisher that hath been at Chatham by warrant of the Duke of +Albemarle, and is come in my absence to Tooker's and viewed them, +demanding the key of the constable, and so sealed up the door. I to the +house, but there being no officers nor constable could do nothing, +but back to my office full of trouble about this, and there late about +business, vexed to see myself fall into this trouble and concernment in +a thing that I want instruction from my Lord Sandwich whether I should +appear in it or no, and so home to bed, having spent two hours, I and +my boy, at Mr. Glanvill's removing of faggots to make room to remove our +goods to, but when done I thought it not fit to use it. The newes of the +killing of the [King of] France is wholly untrue, and they say that of +the Pope too. + +10th. Up, and receive a stop from the Duke of Albemarle of setting out +any more ships, or providing a pleasure boat for himself, which I am +glad of, and do see, what I thought yesterday, that this resolution of +his was a sudden one and silly. By and by comes Captain Cocke's Jacob +to tell me that he is come from Chatham this morning, and that there +are four waggons of goods at hand coming to towne, which troubles me. +I directed him to bring them to his master's house. But before I could +send him away to bring them thither, newes is brought me that they are +seized on in the towne by this Captain Fisher and they will carry them +to another place. So I to them and found our four waggons in the streete +stopped by the church by this Fisher and company and 100 or 200 people +in the streetes gazing. I did give them good words, and made modest +desires of carrying the goods to Captain Cocke's, but they would have +them to a house of their hiring, where in a barne the goods were laid. I +had transires to show for all, and the tale was right, and there I spent +all the morning seeing this done. At which Fisher was vexed that I would +not let it be done by any body else for the merchant, and that I must +needs be concerned therein, which I did not think fit to owne. So that +being done, I left the goods to be watched by men on their part and +ours, and so to the office by noon, whither by and by comes Captain +Cocke, whom I had with great care sent for by expresse the last night, +and so I with him to his house and there eat a bit, and so by coach to +Lambeth, and I took occasion first to go to the Duke of Albemarle to +acquaint him with some thing of what had been done this morning in +behalf of a friend absent, which did give a good entrance and prevented +their possessing the Duke with anything of evil of me by their report, +and by and by in comes. Captain Cocke and tells his whole story. So an +order was made for the putting him in possession upon giving security +to, be accountable for the goods, which for the present did satisfy us, +and so away, giving Locke that drew the order a piece. (Lord! to see how +unhappily a man may fall into a necessity of bribing people to do him +right in a thing, wherein he hath done nothing but fair, and bought +dear.) So to the office, there to write my letters, and Cocke comes to +tell me that Fisher is come to him, and that he doubts not to cajole +Fisher and his companion and make them friends with drink and a bribe. +This night comes Sir Christopher Mings to towne, and I went to see him, +and by and by he being then out of the town comes to see me. He is newly +come from Court, and carries direction for the making a show of getting +out the fleete again to go fight the Dutch, but that it will end in a +fleete of 20 good sayling frigates to go to the Northward or Southward, +and that will be all. I enquired, but he would not be to know that he +had heard any thing at Oxford about the business of the prize goods, +which I did suspect, but he being gone, anon comes Cocke and tells me +that he hath been with him a great while, and that he finds him sullen +and speaking very high what disrespect he had received of my Lord, +saying that he hath walked 3 or 4 hours together at that Earle's cabbin +door for audience and could not be received, which, if true, I am sorry +for. He tells me that Sir G. Ascue says, that he did from the beginning +declare against these [prize] goods, and would not receive his dividend; +and that he and Sir W. Pen are at odds about it, and that he fears Mings +hath been doing ill offices to my Lord. I did to-night give my Lord an +account of all this, and so home and to bed. + +11th. Up, and so in my chamber staid all the morning doing something +toward my Tangier accounts, for the stating of them, and also comes up +my landlady, Mrs. Clerke, to make an agreement for the time to come; and +I, for the having room enough, and to keepe out strangers, and to have +a place to retreat to for my wife, if the sicknesse should come +to Woolwich, am contented to pay dear; so for three rooms and a +dining-room, and for linen and bread and beer and butter, at nights and +mornings, I am to give her L5 10s. per month, and I wrote and we signed +to an agreement. By and by comes Cocke to tell me that Fisher and his +fellow were last night mightily satisfied and promised all friendship, +but this morning he finds them to have new tricks and shall be troubled +with them. So he being to go down to Erith with them this afternoon +about giving security, I advised him to let them go by land, and so he +and I (having eat something at his house) by water to Erith, but +they got thither before us, and there we met Mr. Seymour, one of the +Commissioners for Prizes, and a Parliament-man, and he was mighty high, +and had now seized our goods on their behalf; and he mighty imperiously +would have all forfeited, and I know not what. I thought I was in the +right in a thing I said and spoke somewhat earnestly, so we took up one +another very smartly, for which I was sorry afterwards, shewing thereby +myself too much concerned, but nothing passed that I valued at all. +But I could not but think [it odd] that a Parliament-man, in a serious +discourse before such persons as we and my Lord Bruncker, and Sir John +Minnes, should quote Hudibras, as being the book I doubt he hath read +most. They I doubt will stand hard for high security, and Cocke would +have had me bound with him for his appearing, but I did stagger at it, +besides Seymour do stop the doing it at all till he has been with the +Duke of Albemarle. So there will be another demurre. It growing late, +and I having something to do at home, took my leave alone, leaving Cocke +there for all night, and so against tide and in the darke and very cold +weather to Woolwich, where we had appointed to keepe the night merrily; +and so, by Captain Cocke's coach, had brought a very pretty child, a +daughter of one Mrs. Tooker's, next door to my lodging, and so she, +and a daughter and kinsman of Mrs. Pett's made up a fine company at my +lodgings at Woolwich, where my wife and Mercer, and Mrs. Barbara danced, +and mighty merry we were, but especially at Mercer's dancing a jigg, +which she does the best I ever did see, having the most natural way of +it, and keeps time the most perfectly I ever did see. This night is kept +in lieu of yesterday, for my wedding day of ten years; for which God be +praised! being now in an extreme good condition of health and estate and +honour, and a way of getting more money, though at this houre under some +discomposure, rather than damage, about some prize goods that I have +bought off the fleete, in partnership with Captain Cocke; and for the +discourse about the world concerning my Lord Sandwich, that he hath done +a thing so bad; and indeed it must needs have been a very rash act; and +the rather because of a Parliament now newly met to give money, and will +have some account of what hath already been spent, besides the precedent +for a General to take what prizes he pleases, and the giving a pretence +to take away much more than he intended, and all will lie upon him; and +not giving to all the Commanders, as well as the Flaggs, he displeases +all them, and offends even some of them, thinking others to be better +served than themselves; and lastly, puts himself out of a power of +begging anything again a great while of the King. Having danced with my +people as long as I saw fit to sit up, I to bed and left them to do what +they would. I forgot that we had W. Hewer there, and Tom, and Golding, +my barber at Greenwich, for our fiddler, to whom I did give 10s. + +12th. Called up before day, and so I dressed myself and down, it being +horrid cold, by water to my Lord Bruncker's ship, who advised me to do +so, and it was civilly to show me what the King had commanded about +the prize-goods, to examine most severely all that had been done in +the taking out any with or without order, without respect to my +Lord Sandwich at all, and that he had been doing of it, and find him +examining one man, and I do find that extreme ill use was made of my +Lord's order. For they did toss and tumble and spoil, and breake things +in hold to a great losse and shame to come at the fine goods, and did +take a man that knows where the fine goods were, and did this over and +over again for many days, Sir W. Berkeley being the chief hand that did +it, but others did the like at other times, and they did say in doing it +that my Lord Sandwich's back was broad enough to bear it. Having learned +as much as I could, which was, that the King and Duke were very +severe in this point, whatever order they before had given my Lord in +approbation of what he had done, and that all will come out and the King +see, by the entries at the Custome House, what all do amount to that +had been taken, and so I took leave, and by water, very cold, and to +Woolwich where it was now noon, and so I staid dinner and talking part +of the afternoon, and then by coach, Captain Cocke's, to Greenwich, +taking the young lady home, and so to Cocke, and he tells me that he +hath cajolled with Seymour, who will be our friend; but that, above all, +Seymour tells him, that my Lord Duke did shew him to-day an order from +Court, for having all respect paid to the Earle of Sandwich, and what +goods had been delivered by his order, which do overjoy us, and that +to-morrow our goods shall be weighed, and he doubts not possession +to-morrow or next day. Being overjoyed at this I to write my letters, +and at it very late. Good newes this week that there are about 600 less +dead of the plague than the last. So home to bed. + +13th. Lay long, and this morning comes Sir Jer. Smith + + [Captain Jeremiah Smith (or Smyth), knighted June, 1665; Admiral of + the Blue in 1666. He succeeded Sir William Penn as Comptroller of + the Victualling Accounts in 1669, and held the office until 1675.] + +to see me in his way to Court, and a good man he is, and one that I +must keep fair with, and will, it being I perceive my interest to have +kindnesse with the Commanders. So to the office, and there very busy +till about noon comes Sir W. Warren, and he goes and gets a bit of meat +ready at the King's Head for us, and I by and by thither, and we dined +together, and I am not pleased with him about a little business of +Tangier that I put to him to do for me, but however, the hurt is not +much, and his other matters of profit to me continue very likely to be +good. Here we spent till 2 o'clock, and so I set him on shore, and I by +water to the Duke of Albemarle, where I find him with Lord Craven and +Lieutenant of the Tower about him; among other things, talking of ships +to get of the King to fetch coles for the poore of the city, which is a +good worke. But, Lord! to hear the silly talke between these three great +people! Yet I have no reason to find fault, the Duke and Lord Craven +being my very great friends. Here did the business I come about, and so +back home by water, and there Cocke comes to me and tells me that he is +come to an understanding with Fisher, and that he must give him L100, +and that he shall have his goods in possession to-morrow, they being all +weighed to-day, which pleases me very well. This day the Duke tells me +that there is no news heard of the Dutch, what they do or where they +are, but believes that they are all gone home, for none of our spyes can +give us any tideings of them. Cocke is fain to keep these people, Fisher +and his fellow, company night and day to keep them friends almost and +great troubles withal. My head is full of settling the victualling +business also, that I may make some profit out of it, which I hope +justly to do to the King's advantage. To-night come Sir J. Bankes to me +upon my letter to discourse it with him, and he did give me the advice +I have taken almost as fully as if I had been directed by him what to +write. The business also of my Tangier accounts to be sent to Court is +upon my hands in great haste; besides, all my owne proper accounts +are in great disorder, having been neglected now above a month, which +grieves me, but it could not be settled sooner. These together and the +feare of the sicknesse and providing for my family do fill my head very +full, besides the infinite business of the office, and nobody here to +look after it but myself. So late from my office to my lodgings, and to +bed. + +14th. Up, and to the office, where mighty busy, especially with Mr. +Gawden, with whom I shall, I think, have much to do, and by and by comes +the Lieutenant of the Tower by my invitation yesterday, but I had got +nothing for him, it is to discourse about the Cole shipps. So he went +away to Sheriffe Hooker's, and I staid at the office till he sent for me +at noon to dinner, I very hungry. When I come to the Sheriffe's he was +not there, nor in many other places, nor could find him at all, so was +forced to come to the office and get a bit of meat from the taverne, and +so to my business. By and by comes the Lieutenant and reproaches me with +my not treating him as I ought, but all in jest, he it seemed dined +with Mr. Adrian May. Very late writing letters at the office, and much +satisfied to hear from Captain Cocke that he had got possession of some +of his goods to his own house, and expected to have all to-night. The +towne, I hear, is full of talke that there are great differences in the +fleete among the great Commanders, and that Mings at Oxford did impeach +my Lord of something, I think about these goods, but this is but talke. +But my heart and head to-night is full of the Victualling business, +being overjoyed and proud at my success in my proposal about it, it +being read before the King, Duke, and the Caball with complete applause +and satisfaction. This Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Coventry both writ me, +besides Sir W. Coventry's letter to the Duke of Albemarle, which I read +yesterday, and I hope to find my profit in it also. So late home to bed. + +15th (Lord's day). Up, and while I staid for the barber, tried to +compose a duo of counterpoint, and I think it will do very well, it +being by Mr. Berckenshaw's rule. By and by by appointment comes Mr. +Povy's coach, and, more than I expected, him himself, to fetch me to +Brainford: so he and I immediately set out, having drunk a draft of +mulled sacke; and so rode most nobly, in his most pretty and best +contrived charriott in the world, with many new conveniences, his never +having till now, within a day or two, been yet finished; our discourse +upon Tangier business, want of money, and then of publique miscarriages, +nobody minding the publique, but every body himself and his lusts. Anon +we come to his house, and there I eat a bit, and so with fresh horses, +his noble fine horses, the best confessedly in England, the King having +none such, he sent me to Sir Robert Viner's, whom I met coming just from +church, and so after having spent half-an-hour almost looking upon +the horses with some gentlemen that were in company, he and I into +his garden to discourse of money, but none is to be had, he confessing +himself in great straits, and I believe it. Having this answer, and that +I could not get better, we fell to publique talke, and to think how the +fleete and seamen will be paid, which he protests he do not think it +possible to compass, as the world is now: no money got by trade, nor the +persons that have it by them in the City to be come at. The Parliament, +it seems, have voted the King L1,250,000 at L50,000 per month, tax for +the war; and voted to assist the King against the Dutch, and all that +shall adhere to them; and thanks to be given him for his care of the +Duke of Yorke, which last is a very popular vote on the Duke's behalf. +He tells me how the taxes of the last assessment, which should have been +in good part gathered, are not yet laid, and that even in part of the +City of London; and the Chimny-money comes almost to nothing, nor any +thing else looked after. Having done this I parted, my mind not eased by +any money, but only that I had done my part to the King's service. And +so in a very pleasant evening back to Mr. Povy's, and there supped, and +after supper to talke and to sing, his man Dutton's wife singing very +pleasantly (a mighty fat woman), and I wrote out one song from her and +pricked the tune, both very pretty. But I did never heare one sing with +so much pleasure to herself as this lady do, relishing it to her very +heart, which was mighty pleasant. + +16th. Up about seven o'clock; and, after drinking, and I observing Mr. +Povy's being mightily mortifyed in his eating and drinking, and coaches +and horses, he desiring to sell his best, and every thing else, his +furniture of his house, he walked with me to Syon, + + [Sion House, granted by Edward VI. to his uncle, the Duke of + Somerset. After his execution, 1552, it was forfeited, and given to + John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland. The duke being beheaded in + 1553, it reverted to the Crown, and was granted in 1604 to Henry + Percy, Earl of Northumberland. It still belongs to the Duke of + Northumberland.] + +and there I took water, in our way he discoursing of the wantonnesse of +the Court, and how it minds nothing else, and I saying that that would +leave the King shortly if he did not leave it, he told me "No," for the +King do spend most of his time in feeling and kissing them naked... But +this lechery will never leave him. Here I took boat (leaving him there) +and down to the Tower, where I hear the Duke of Albemarle is, and I to +Lumbard Streete, but can get no money. So upon the Exchange, which is +very empty, God knows! and but mean people there. The newes for certain +that the Dutch are come with their fleete before Margett, and some men +were endeavouring to come on shore when the post come away, perhaps +to steal some sheep. But, Lord! how Colvill talks of the businesse of +publique revenue like a madman, and yet I doubt all true; that nobody +minds it, but that the King and Kingdom must speedily be undone, and +rails at my Lord about the prizes, but I think knows not my relation to +him. Here I endeavoured to satisfy all I could, people about Bills of +Exchange from Tangier, but it is only with good words, for money I have +not, nor can get. God knows what will become of all the King's matters +in a little time, for he runs in debt every day, and nothing to pay them +looked after. Thence I walked to the Tower; but, Lord! how empty the +streets are and melancholy, so many poor sick people in the streets +full of sores; and so many sad stories overheard as I walk, every body +talking of this dead, and that man sick, and so many in this place, and +so many in that. And they tell me that, in Westminster, there is never +a physician and but one apothecary left, all being dead; but that there +are great hopes of a great decrease this week: God send it! At the Tower +found my Lord Duke and Duchesse at dinner; so I sat down. And much good +cheer, the Lieutenant and his lady, and several officers with the Duke. +But, Lord! to hear the silly talk that was there, would make one mad; +the Duke having none almost but fools about him. Much of their talke +about the Dutch coming on shore, which they believe they may some of +them have been and steal sheep, and speak all in reproach of them in +whose hands the fleete is; but, Lord helpe him, there is something will +hinder him and all the world in going to sea, which is want of victuals; +for we have not wherewith to answer our service; and how much better it +would have been if the Duke's advice had been taken for the fleete +to have gone presently out; but, God helpe the King! while no better +counsels are given, and what is given no better taken. Thence after +dinner receiving many commands from the Duke, I to our office on the +Hill, and there did a little business and to Colvill's again, and so +took water at the Tower, and there met with Captain Cocke, and he down +with me to Greenwich, I having received letters from my Lord Sandwich +to-day, speaking very high about the prize goods, that he would have us +to fear nobody, but be very confident in what we have done, and not +to confess any fault or doubt of what he hath done; for the King hath +allowed it, and do now confirm it, and sent orders, as he says, for +nothing to be disturbed that his Lordshipp hath ordered therein as to +the division of the goods to the fleete; which do comfort us, but my +Lord writes to me that both he and I may hence learn by what we see in +this business. But that which pleases me best is that Cocke tells me +that he now understands that Fisher was set on in this business by the +design of some of the Duke of Albemarle's people, Warcupp and others, +who lent him money to set him out in it, and he has spent high. Who +now curse him for a rogue to take L100 when he might have had as well +L1,500, and they are mightily fallen out about it. Which in due time +shall be discovered, but that now that troubles me afresh is, after I +am got to the office at Greenwich that some new troubles are come, and +Captain Cocke's house is beset before and behind with guards, and more, +I do fear they may come to my office here to search for Cocke's goods +and find some small things of my clerk's. So I assisted them in helping +to remove their small trade, but by and by I am told that it is only +the Custome House men who came to seize the things that did lie at Mr. +Glanville's, for which they did never yet see our Transire, nor did +know of them till to-day. So that my fear is now over, for a transire +is ready for them. Cocke did get a great many of his goods to London +to-day. To the Still Yarde, which place, however, is now shut up of +the plague; but I was there, and we now make no bones of it. Much talke +there is of the Chancellor's speech and the King's at the Parliament's +meeting, which are very well liked; and that we shall certainly, by +their speeches, fall out with France at this time, together with the +Dutch, which will find us work. Late at the office entering my Journall +for 8 days past, the greatness of my business hindering me of late to +put it down daily, but I have done it now very true and particularly, +and hereafter will, I hope, be able to fall into my old way of doing it +daily. So to my lodging, and there had a good pullet to my supper, and +so to bed, it being very cold again, God be thanked for it! + +17th. Up, and all day long busy at the office, mighty busy, only stepped +to my lodging and had a fowl for my dinner, and at night my wife and +Mercer comes to me, which troubled me a little because I am to be mighty +busy to-morrow all day seriously about my accounts. So late from my +office to her, and supped, and so to bed. + +18th. Up, and after some pleasant discourse with my wife (though my +head full of business) I out and left her to go home, and myself to +the office, and thence by water to the Duke of Albemarle's, and so back +again and find my wife gone. So to my chamber at my lodgings, and to the +making of my accounts up of Tangier, which I did with great difficulty, +finding the difference between short and long reckonings where I +have had occasion to mix my moneys, as I have of late done my Tangier +treasure upon other occasions, and other moneys upon that. However, +I was at it late and did it pretty perfectly, and so, after eating +something, to bed, my mind eased of a great deal of figures and +castings. + +19th. Up, and to my accounts again, and stated them very clear and fair, +and at noon dined at my lodgings with Mr. Hater and W. Hewer at table +with me, I being come to an agreement yesterday with my landlady for L6 +per month, for so many rooms for myself, them, and my wife and mayde, +when she shall come, and to pay besides for my dyett. After dinner I did +give them my accounts and letters to write against I went to the Duke of +Albemarle's this evening, which I did; and among other things, spoke to +him for my wife's brother, Balty, to be of his guard, which he kindly +answered that he should. My business of the Victualling goes on as I +would have it; and now my head is full how to make some profit of it to +myself or people. To that end, when I came home, I wrote a letter to +Mr. Coventry, offering myself to be the Surveyor Generall, and am apt +to think he will assist me in it, but I do not set my heart much on it, +though it would be a good helpe. So back to my office, and there till +past one before I could get all these letters and papers copied out, +which vexed me, but so sent them away without hopes of saving the post, +and so to my lodging to bed. + +20th. Up, and had my last night's letters brought back to me, which +troubles me, because of my accounts, lest they should be asked for +before they come, which I abhorr, being more ready to give than they can +be to demand them: so I sent away an expresse to Oxford with them, and +another to Portsmouth, with a copy of my letter to Mr. Coventry about +my victualling business, for fear he should be gone from Oxford, as he +intended, thither. So busy all the morning and at noon to Cocke, and +dined there. He and I alone, vexed that we are not rid of all our +trouble about our goods, but it is almost over, and in the afternoon +to my lodging, and there spent the whole afternoon and evening with Mr. +Hater, discoursing of the business of the office, where he tells me that +among others Thomas Willson do now and then seem to hint that I do take +too much business upon me, more than I can do, and that therefore some +do lie undone. This I confess to my trouble is true, but it arises from +my being forced to take so much on me, more than is my proper task to +undertake. But for this at last I did advise to him to take another +clerk if he thinks fit, I will take care to have him paid. I discoursed +also much with him about persons fit to be put into the victualling +business, and such as I could spare something out of their salaries for +them, but without trouble I cannot, I see, well do it, because Thomas +Willson must have the refusal of the best place which is London of L200 +per annum, which I did intend for Tooker, and to get L50 out of it as +a help to Mr. Hater. How[ever], I will try to do something of this kind +for them. Having done discourse with him late, I to enter my Tangier +accounts fair, and so to supper and to bed. + +21 st. Up, and to my office, where busy all the morning, and then with +my two clerks home to dinner, and so back again to the office, and there +very late very busy, and so home to supper and to bed. + +22nd (Lord's day). Up, and after ready and going to Captain Cocke's, +where I find we are a little further safe in some part of our goods, +I to Church, in my way was meeting with some letters, which made me +resolve to go after church to my Lord Duke of Albemarle's, so, after +sermon, I took Cocke's chariott, and to Lambeth; but, in going and +getting over the water, and through White Hall, I spent so much time, +the Duke had almost dined. However, fresh meat was brought for me to his +table, and there I dined, and full of discourse and very kind. Here they +are again talking of the prizes, and my Lord Duke did speake very broad +that my Lord Sandwich and Pen should do what they would, and answer +for themselves. For his part, he would lay all before the King. Here he +tells me the Dutch Embassador at Oxford is clapped up, but since I hear +it is not true. Thence back again, it being evening before I could +get home, and there Cocke not being within, I and Mr. Salomon to Mr. +Glanville's, and there we found Cocke and sat and supped, and was mighty +merry with only Madam Penington, who is a fine, witty lady. Here we +spent the evening late with great mirth, and so home and to bed. + +23rd. Up, and after doing some business I down by water, calling to see +my wife, with whom very merry for ten minutes, and so to Erith, where +my Lord Bruncker and I kept the office, and dispatched some business by +appointment on the Bezan. Among other things about the slopsellers, who +have trusted us so long, they are not able, nor can be expected to trust +us further, and I fear this winter the fleete will be undone by that +particular. Thence on board the East India ship, where my Lord Bruncker +had provided a great dinner, and thither comes by and by Sir John Minnes +and before him Sir W. Warren and anon a Perspective glasse maker, of +whom we, every one, bought a pocket glasse. But I am troubled with the +much talke and conceitedness of Mrs. Williams and her impudence, in +case she be not married to my Lord. They are getting themselves ready to +deliver the goods all out to the East India Company, who are to have +the goods in their possession and to advance two thirds of the moderate +value thereof and sell them as well as they can and the King to give +them 6 per cent. for the use of the money they shall so advance. By this +means the company will not suffer by the King's goods bringing down the +price of their own. Thence in the evening back again with Sir W. Warren +and Captain Taylor in my boat, and the latter went with me to the +office, and there he and I reckoned; and I perceive I shall get L100 +profit by my services of late to him, which is a very good thing. Thence +to my lodging, where I find my Lord Rutherford, of which I was glad. +We supped together and sat up late, he being a mighty wanton man with +a daughter in law of my landlady's, a pretty conceited woman big with +child, and he would be handling her breasts, which she coyly refused. +But they gone, my Lord and I to business, and he would have me forbear +paying Alderman Backewell the money ordered him, which I, in hopes to +advantage myself, shall forbear, but do not think that my Lord will do +any thing gratefully more to me than he hath done, not that I shall get +any thing as I pretended by helping him to interest for his last L7700, +which I could do, and do him a courtesy too. Discourse being done, he to +bed in my chamber and I to another in the house. + +24th. Lay long, having a cold. Then to my Lord and sent him going to +Oxford, and I to my office, whither comes Sir William Batten now newly +from Oxford. I can gather nothing from him about my Lord Sandwich about +the business of the prizes, he being close, but he shewed me a bill +which hath been read in the House making all breaking of bulke for +the time to come felony, but it is a foolish Act, and will do no great +matter, only is calculated to my Lord Sandwich's case. He shewed me +also a good letter printed from the Bishopp of Munster to the States of +Holland shewing the state of their case. Here we did some business and +so broke up and I to Cocke, where Mr. Evelyn was, to dinner, and there +merry, yet vexed again at publique matters, and to see how little heed +is had to the prisoners and sicke and wounded. Thence to my office, and +no sooner there but to my great surprise am told that my Lord Sandwich +is come to towne; so I presently to Boreman's, where he is and there +found him: he mighty kind to me, but no opportunity of discourse private +yet, which he tells me he must have with me; only his business is sudden +to go to the fleece, to get out a few ships to drive away the Dutch. I +left him in discourse with Sir W. Batten and others, and myself to the +office till about 10 at night and so, letters being done, I to him again +to Captain Cocke's, where he supped, and lies, and never saw him more +merry, and here is Charles Herbert, who the King hath lately knighted. + + [This person, erroneously called by Pepys Sir C. Herbert, will be + best defined by subjoining the inscription on his monument in + Westminster Abbey: "Sir Charles Harbord, Knight, third son of Sir + Charles Harbord, Knight, Surveyor-General, and First Lieutenant of + the Royall James, under the most noble and illustrious Captaine, + Edward, Earle of Sandwich, Vice-Admirall of England, which, after a + terrible fight, maintained to admiration against a squadron of the + Holland fleet, above six hours, neere the Suffolk coast, having put + off two fireships; at last, being utterly disabled, and few of her + men remaining unhurt, was, by a third, unfortunately set on fire. + But he (though he swome well) neglected to save himselfe, as some + did, and out of perfect love to that worthy Lord, whom, for many + yeares, he had constantly accompanyed, in all his honourable + employments, and in all the engagements of the former warre, dyed + with him, at the age of xxxii., much bewailed by his father, whom he + never offended; and much beloved by all for his knowne piety, + vertue, loyalty, fortitude, and fidelity."--B.] + +My Lord, to my great content, did tell me before them, that never +anything was read to the King and Council, all the chief Ministers of +State being there, as my letter about the Victualling was, and no more +said upon it than a most thorough consent to every word was said, and +directed, that it be pursued and practised. After much mirth, and +my Lord having travelled all night last night, he to bed, and we all +parted, I home. + +25th. Up and to my Lord Sandwich's, where several Commanders, of whom I +took the state of all their ships, and of all could find not above four +capable of going out. The truth is, the want of victuals being the +whole overthrow of this yeare both at sea, and now at the Nore here and +Portsmouth, where all the fleete lies. By and by comes down my Lord, and +then he and I an houre together alone upon private discourse. He tells +me that Mr. Coventry and he are not reconciled, but declared enemies: +the only occasion of it being, he tells me, his ill usage from him about +the first fight, wherein he had no right done him, which, methinks, is a +poor occasion, for, in my conscience, that was no design of Coventry's. +But, however, when I asked my Lord whether it were not best, though +with some condescension, to be friends with him, he told me it was not +possible, and so I stopped. He tells me, as very private, that there +are great factions at the Court between the King's party and the Duke of +Yorke's, and that the King, which is a strange difficulty, do favour my +Lord in opposition to the Duke's party; that my Lord Chancellor, being, +to be sure, the patron of the Duke's, it is a mystery whence it should +be that Mr. Coventry is looked upon by him [Clarendon] as an enemy to +him; that if he had a mind himself to be out of this employment, as Mr. +Coventry, he believes, wishes, and himself and I do incline to wish it +also, in many respects, yet he believes he shall not be able, because of +the King, who will keepe him in on purpose, in opposition to the other +party; that Prince Rupert and he are all possible friends in the world; +that Coventry hath aggravated this business of the prizes, though never +so great plundering in the world as while the Duke and he were at sea; +and in Sir John Lawson's time he could take and pillage, and then sink +a whole ship in the Streights, and Coventry say nothing to it; that my +Lord Arlington is his fast friend; that the Chancellor is cold to him, +and though I told him that I and the world do take my Lord Chancellor, +in his speech the other day, to have said as much as could be wished, +yet he thinks he did not. That my Lord Chancellor do from hence begin to +be cold to him, because of his seeing him and Arlington so great: +that nothing at Court is minded but faction and pleasure, and nothing +intended of general good to the kingdom by anybody heartily; so that he +believes with me, in a little time confusion will certainly come over +all the nation. He told me how a design was carried on a while ago, for +the Duke of Yorke to raise an army in the North, and to be the Generall +of it, and all this without the knowledge or advice of the Duke of +Albemarle, which when he come to know, he was so vexed, they were fain +to let it fall to content him: that his matching with the family of Sir +G. Carteret do make the difference greater between Coventry and him, +they being enemies; that the Chancellor did, as every body else, speak +well of me the other day, but yet was, at the Committee for Tangier, +angry that I should offer to suffer a bill of exchange to be protested. +So my Lord did bid me take heed, for that I might easily suppose I +could not want enemies, no more than others. In all he speaks with the +greatest trust and love and confidence in what I say or do, that a man +can do. After this discourse ended we sat down to dinner and mighty +merry, among other things, at the Bill brought into the House to make +it felony to break bulke, which, as my Lord says well, will make that +no prizes shall be taken, or, if taken, shall be sunke after plundering; +and the Act for the method of gathering this last L1,250,000 now voted, +and how paid wherein are several strange imperfections. After dinner +my Lord by a ketch down to Erith, where the Bezan was, it blowing these +last two days and now both night and day very hard southwardly, so that +it has certainly drove the Dutch off the coast. My Lord being gone I +to the office, and there find Captain Ferrers, who tells me his wife is +come to town to see him, having not seen him since 15 weeks ago at his +first going to sea last. She is now at a Taverne and stays all night, so +I was obliged to give him my house and chamber to lie in, which he with +great modesty and after much force took, and so I got Mr. Evelyn's coach +to carry her thither, and the coach coming back, I with Mr. Evelyn to +Deptford, where a little while with him doing a little business, and so +in his coach back again to my lodgings, and there sat with Mrs. Ferrers +two hours, and with my little girle, Mistress Frances Tooker, and very +pleasant. Anon the Captain comes, and then to supper very merry, and so +I led them to bed. And so to bed myself, having seen my pretty little +girle home first at the next door. + +26th. Up, and, leaving my guests to make themselves ready, I to the +office, and thither comes Sir Jer. Smith and Sir Christopher Mings to +see me, being just come from Portsmouth and going down to the Fleete. +Here I sat and talked with them a good while and then parted, only Sir +Christopher Mings and I together by water to the Tower; and I find him +a very witty well-spoken fellow, and mighty free to tell his parentage, +being a shoemaker's son, to whom he is now going, and I to the +'Change, where I hear how the French have taken two and sunk one of our +merchant-men in the Streights, and carried the ships to Toulon; so that +there is no expectation but we must fall out with them. The 'Change +pretty full, and the town begins to be lively again, though the streets +very empty, and most shops shut. So back again I and took boat and +called for Sir Christopher Mings at St. Katharine's, who was followed +with some ordinary friends, of which, he says, he is proud, and so down +to Greenwich, the wind furious high, and we with our sail up till I made +it be taken down. I took him, it being 3 o'clock, to my lodgings and did +give him a good dinner and so parted, he being pretty close to me as +to any business of the fleete, knowing me to be a servant of my Lord +Sandwich's. He gone I to the office till night, and then they come and +tell me my wife is come to towne, so I to her vexed at her coming, +but it was upon innocent business, so I was pleased and made her stay, +Captain Ferrers and his lady being yet there, and so I left them to +dance, and I to the office till past nine at night, and so to them and +there saw them dance very prettily, the Captain and his wife, my wife +and Mrs. Barbary, and Mercer and my landlady's daughter, and then little +Mistress Frances Tooker and her mother, a pretty woman come to see +my wife. Anon to supper, and then to dance again (Golding being our +fiddler, who plays very well and all tunes) till past twelve at night, +and then we broke up and every one to bed, we make shift for all our +company, Mrs. Tooker being gone. + +27th. Up, and after some pleasant discourse with my wife, I out, leaving +her and Mrs. Ferrers there, and I to Captain Cocke's, there to do some +business, and then away with Cocke in his coach through Kent Streete, +a miserable, wretched, poor place, people sitting sicke and muffled up +with plasters at every 4 or 5 doors. So to the 'Change, and thence I by +water to the Duke of Albemarle's, and there much company, but I staid +and dined, and he makes mighty much of me; and here he tells us the +Dutch are gone, and have lost above 160 cables and anchors, through the +last foule weather. Here he proposed to me from Mr. Coventry, as I +had desired of Mr. Coventry, that I should be Surveyor-Generall of the +Victualling business, which I accepted. But, indeed, the terms in which +Mr. Coventry proposes it for me are the most obliging that ever I could +expect from any man, and more; it saying me to be the fittest man in +England, and that he is sure, if I will undertake, I will perform it; +and that it will be also a very desirable thing that I might have this +encouragement, my encouragement in the Navy alone being in no wise +proportionable to my pains or deserts. This, added to the letter I had +three days since from Mr. Southerne, signifying that the Duke of Yorke +had in his master's absence opened my letter, and commanded him to tell +me that he did approve of my being the Surveyor-General, do make me +joyful beyond myself that I cannot express it, to see that as I do take +pains, so God blesses me, and hath sent me masters that do observe that +I take pains. After having done here, I back by water and to London, +and there met with Captain Cocke's coach again, and I went in it to +Greenwich and thence sent my wife in it to Woolwich, and I to the +office, and thence home late with Captain Taylor, and he and I settled +all accounts between us, and I do find that I do get above L129 of him +for my services for him within these six months. At it till almost +one in the morning, and after supper he away and I to bed, mightily +satisfied in all this, and in a resolution I have taken to-night with +Mr. Hater to propose the port of London for the victualling business for +Thomas Willson, by which it will be better done and I at more ease, in +case he should grumble. + + [The Duke of York's letter appointing Thomas Wilson Surveyor of the + Victualling of His Majesty's Navy in the Port of London, and + referring to Pepys as Surveyor-General of the Victualling Affairs, + is printed in "Memoirs of the English Affairs, chiefly Naval, 1660- + 73," by James, Duke of York, 1729, p. 131.] + +So to bed. + +28th. Up, and sent for Thomas Willson, and broke the victualling +business to him and he is mightily contented, and so am I that I have +bestowed it on him, and so I to Mr. Boreman's, where Sir W. Batten is, +to tell him what I had proposed to Thomas Willson, and the newes also I +have this morning from Sir W. Clerke, which is, that notwithstanding +all the care the Duke of Albemarle hath taken about the putting the +East India prize goods into the East India Company's hands, and my Lord +Bruncker and Sir J. Minnes having laden out a great part of the goods, +an order is come from Court to stop all, and to have the goods delivered +to the Sub-Commissioners of prizes. At which I am glad, because it do +vex this simple weake man, and we shall have a little reparation for +the disgrace my Lord Sandwich has had in it. He tells me also that the +Parliament hath given the Duke of Yorke L120,000, to be paid him after +the L1,250,000 is gathered upon the tax which they have now given the +King. + + [This sum was granted by the Commons to Charles, with a request that + he would bestow it on his brother.--B.] + +He tells me that the Dutch have lately launched sixteen new ships; all +which is great news. Thence by horsebacke with Mr. Deane to Erith, and +so aboard my Lord Bruncker and dined, and very merry with him and good +discourse between them about ship building, and, after dinner and a +little pleasant discourse, we away and by horse back again to Greenwich, +and there I to the office very late, offering my persons for all the +victualling posts much to my satisfaction. Also much other business I +did to my mind, and so weary home to my lodging, and there after eating +and drinking a little I to bed. The King and Court, they say, have +now finally resolved to spend nothing upon clothes, but what is of the +growth of England; which, if observed, will be very pleasing to the +people, and very good for them. + +29th (Lord's day). Up, and being ready set out with Captain Cocke in his +coach toward Erith, Mr. Deane riding along with us, where we dined and +were very merry. After dinner we fell to discourse about the Dutch, +Cocke undertaking to prove that they were able to wage warr with us +three years together, which, though it may be true, yet, not being +satisfied with his arguments, my Lord and I did oppose the strength of +his arguments, which brought us to a great heate, he being a conceited +man, but of no Logique in his head at all, which made my Lord and I +mirth. Anon we parted, and back again, we hardly having a word all the +way, he being so vexed at our not yielding to his persuasion. I was set +down at Woolwich towne end, and walked through the towne in the darke, +it being now night. But in the streete did overtake and almost run upon +two women crying and carrying a man's coffin between them. I suppose the +husband of one of them, which, methinks, is a sad thing. Being come to +Shelden's, I find my people in the darke in the dining room, merry and +laughing, and, I thought, sporting one with another, which, God helpe +me! raised my jealousy presently. Come in the darke, and one of them +touching me (which afterward I found was Susan) made them shreeke, and +so went out up stairs, leaving them to light a candle and to run out. I +went out and was very vexed till I found my wife was gone with Mr. Hill +and Mercer this day to see me at Greenwich, and these people were at +supper, and the candle on a sudden falling out of the candlesticke +(which I saw as I come through the yarde) and Mrs. Barbary being there +I was well at ease again, and so bethought myself what to do, whether +to go to Greenwich or stay there; at last go I would, and so with a +lanthorne, and 3 or 4 people with me, among others Mr. Browne, who was +there, would go, I walked with a lanthorne and discoursed with him about +paynting and the several sorts of it. I came in good time to Greenwich, +where I found Mr. Hill with my wife, and very glad I was to see him. To +supper and discourse of musique and so to bed, I lying with him talking +till midnight about Berckenshaw's musique rules, which I did to his +great satisfaction inform him in, and so to sleep. + +30th. Up, and to my office about business. At noon to dinner, and after +some discourse of musique, he and I to the office awhile, and he to get +Mr. Coleman, if he can, against night. By and by I back again home, and +there find him returned with Mr. Coleman (his wife being ill) and Mr. +Laneare, with whom with their Lute we had excellent company and good +singing till midnight, and a good supper I did give them, but Coleman's +voice is quite spoiled, and when he begins to be drunk he is excellent +company, but afterward troublesome and impertinent. Laneare sings in a +melancholy method very well, and a sober man he seems to be. They being +gone, we to bed. Captain Ferrers coming this day from my Lord is forced +to lodge here, and I put him to Mr. Hill. + +31st. Up, and to the office, Captain Ferrers going back betimes to my +Lord. I to the office, where Sir W. Batten met me, and did tell me +that Captain Cocke's black was dead of the plague, which I had heard of +before, but took no notice. By and by Captain Cocke come to the office, +and Sir W. Batten and I did send to him that he would either forbear the +office, or forbear going to his owne office. However, meeting yesterday +the Searchers with their rods in their hands coming from Captain Cocke's +house, I did overhear them say that the fellow did not die of the +plague, but he had I know been ill a good while, and I am told that his +boy Jack is also ill. At noon home to dinner, and then to the office +again, leaving Mr. Hill if he can to get Mrs. Coleman at night. About +nine at night I come home, and there find Mrs. Pierce come and little +Fran. Tooker, and Mr. Hill, and other people, a great many dancing, and +anon comes Mrs. Coleman with her husband and Laneare. The dancing ended +and to sing, which Mrs. Coleman do very finely, though her voice is +decayed as to strength but mighty sweet though soft, and a pleasant +jolly woman, and in mighty good humour was to-night. Among other things +Laneare did, at the request of Mr. Hill, bring two or three the finest +prints for my wife to see that ever I did see in all my life. But for +singing, among other things, we got Mrs. Coleman to sing part of the +Opera, though she won't owne that ever she did get any of it without +book in order to the stage; but, above all, her counterfeiting of +Captain Cooke's part, in his reproaching his man with cowardice, "Base +slave," &c., she do it most excellently. At it till past midnight, and +then broke up and to bed. Hill and I together again, and being very +sleepy we had little discourse as we had the other night. Thus we end +the month merrily; and the more for that, after some fears that the +plague would have increased again this week, I hear for certain that +there is above 400 [less], the whole number being 1,388, and of them +of the plague, 1,031. Want of money in the Navy puts everything out of +order. Men grow mutinous; and nobody here to mind the business of the +Navy but myself. At least Sir W. Batten for the few days he has been +here do nothing. I in great hopes of my place of Surveyor-Generall of +the Victualling, which will bring me L300 per annum. + + + + +NOVEMBER 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. + + + + +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, PEPY'S DIARY,1965 N.S.,COMPLETE: + + A fair salute on horseback, in Rochester streets, of the lady + A most conceited fellow and not over much in him + A conceited man, but of no Logique in his head at all + A vineyard, the first that ever I did see + A pretty man, I would be content to break a commandment with him + About two o'clock, too late and too soon to go home to bed + Accounts I never did see, or hope again to see in my days + All the towne almost going out of towne (Plague panic) + Among many lazy people that the diligent man becomes necessary + And feeling for a chamber-pott, there was none + And all to dinner and sat down to the King saving myself + At a loss whether it will be better for me to have him die + Bagwell's wife waited at the door, and went with me to my office + Baseness and looseness of the Court + Because I would not be over sure of any thing + Being able to do little business (but the less the better) + Being the first Wednesday of the month + Best poem that ever was wrote (Siege of Rhodes) + Bottle of strong water; whereof now and then a sip did me good + Buy some roll-tobacco to smell to and chaw + By his many words and no understanding, confound himself + Castlemayne is sicke again, people think, slipping her filly + Church, where a most insipid young coxcomb preached + Clean myself with warm water; my wife will have me + Consult my pillow upon that and every great thing of my life + Contracted for her as if he had been buying a horse + Convenience of periwiggs is so great + Copper to the value of L5,000 + Costs me 12d. a kiss after the first + Delight to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition + Desired me that I would baste his coate + Did bear with it, and very pleasant all the while + Did put evil thoughts in me, but proceeded no further + Discourse of Mr. Evelyn touching all manner of learning + Disease making us more cruel to one another than if we are doggs + Doubtfull whether her daughter will like of it or no + Dying this last week of the plague 112, from 43 the week before + Endeavouring to strike tallys for money for Tangier + Every body is at a great losse and nobody can tell + Every body's looks, and discourse in the street is of death + Fell to sleep as if angry + Find that now and then a little difference do no hurte + First thing of that nature I did ever give her (L10 ring) + For my quiet would not enquire into it + For, for her part, she should not be buried in the commons + France, which is accounted the best place for bread + French have taken two and sunk one of our merchant-men + Give the other notice of the future state, if there was any + Going with her woman to a hot-house to bathe herself + Good discourse and counsel from him, which I hope I shall take + Great many silly stories they tell of their sport + Great thaw it is not for a man to walk the streets + Had what pleasure almost I would with her + Hath sent me masters that do observe that I take pains + Hath a good heart to bear, or a cunning one to conceal his evil + Hear that the plague is come into the City + Heard noises over their head upon the leads + His wife and three children died, all, I think, in a day + His disease was the pox and that he must be fluxed (Rupert) + His enemies have done him as much good as he could wish + Houses marked with a red cross upon the doors + How sad a sight it is to see the streets empty of people + How little merit do prevail in the world, but only favour + How little heed is had to the prisoners and sicke and wounded + How Povy overdoes every thing in commending it + How unhppily a man may fall into a necessity of bribing people + I kissed the bride in bed, and so the curtaines drawne + I have promised, but know not when I shall perform + I know not how their fortunes may agree + I met a dead corps of the plague, in the narrow ally + I am a foole to be troubled at it, since I cannot helpe it + If the exportations exceed importations + In our graves (as Shakespeere resembles it) we could dream + It is a strange thing how fancy works + King shall not be able to whip a cat + King himself minding nothing but his ease + King is not at present in purse to do + L10,000 to the Prince, and half-a-crowne to my Lord of Sandwich + Law against it signifies nothing in the world + Law and severity were used against drunkennesse + Lechery will never leave him + Left him with some Commanders at the table taking tobacco + Less he finds of difference between them and other men + Lord! in the dullest insipid manner that ever lover did + Luxury and looseness of the times + Money I have not, nor can get + Mr. Evelyn's translating and sending me as a present + Must be forced to confess it to my wife, which troubles me + My wife after her bathing lying alone in another bed + My old folly and childishnesse hangs upon me still + Nan at Moreclacke, very much pleased and merry with her + Never could man say worse himself nor have worse said + No man is wise at all times + Not had the confidence to take his lady once by the hand + Not liking that it should lie long undone, for fear of death + Not to be censured if their necessities drive them to bad + Offer to give me a piece to receive of me 20 + One whom a great belly becomes as well as ever I saw any + Ordered him L2000, and he paid me my quantum out of it + Ordered in the yarde six or eight bargemen to be whipped + Out of my purse I dare not for fear of a precedent + Pest coaches and put her into it to carry her to a pest house + Plague claimed 68,596 victims (in 1665) + Plague, forty last night, the bell always going + Pleases them mightily, and me not at all + Poor seamen that lie starving in the streets + Pretends to a resolution of being hereafter very clean + Pretty to see the young pretty ladies dressed like men + Pride of some persons and vice of most was but a sad story + Quakers and others that will not have any bell ring for them + Resolving not to be bribed to dispatch business + Sat an hour or two talking and discoursing.... + Saying me to be the fittest man in England + Searchers with their rods in their hands + See how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody + Sicke men that are recovered, they lying before our office doors + So to bed, to be up betimes by the helpe of a larum watch + So great a trouble is fear + The coachman that carried [us] cannot know me again + The boy is well, and offers to be searched + This absence makes us a little strange instead of more fond + Those bred in the North among the colliers are good for labour + Though neither of us care 2d. one for another + Tied our men back to back, and thrown them all into the sea + Told us he had not been in a bed in the whole seven years + Too much of it will make her know her force too much + Two shops in three, if not more, generally shut up + Up, leaving my wife in bed, being sick of her months + Wanton as ever she was, with much I made myself merry and away + Well enough pleased this morning with their night's lodging + What silly discourse we had by the way as to love-matters + When she least shews it hath her wit at work + Where money is free, there is great plenty + Which may teach me how I make others wait + Who is the most, and promises the least, of any man + Wife that brings me nothing almost (besides a comely person) + + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1665, by Samuel Pepys + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, 1665 *** + +***** This file should be named 4162.txt or 4162.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/6/4162/ + +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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