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WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + + 1665 N.S. + + + + 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 +[?? D.W.] 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--[?? D.W.]--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. + + + + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + 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! + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +Accounts I never did see, or hope again to see in my days +At a loss whether it will be better for me to have him die +By his many words and no understanding, confound himself +Church, where a most insipid young coxcomb preached +Clean myself with warm water; my wife will have me +Costs me 12d. a kiss after the first +Find that now and then a little difference do no hurte +Going with her woman to a hot-house to bathe herself +Good discourse and counsel from him, which I hope I shall take +Great thaw it is not for a man to walk the streets +Heard noises over their head upon the leads +His disease was the pox and that he must be fluxed (Rupert) +I know not how their fortunes may agree +If the exportations exceed importations +It is a strange thing how fancy works +Law against it signifies nothing in the world +Law and severity were used against drunkennesse +Luxury and looseness of the times +Must be forced to confess it to my wife, which troubles me +My wife after her bathing lying alone in another bed +No man is wise at all times +Offer to give me a piece to receive of me 20 +Pretends to a resolution of being hereafter very clean +Sat an hour or two talking and discoursing . . . . +So great a trouble is fear +Those bred in the North among the colliers are good for labour +Tied our men back to back, and thrown them all into the sea +Too much of it will make her know her force too much +Up, leaving my wife in bed, being sick of her months +When she least shews it hath her wit at work +Where money is free, there is great plenty +Who is the most, and promises the least, of any man +Wife that brings me nothing almost (besides a comely person) + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v38 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + MARCH & APRIL + 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."--(The dog may have been of another opinion. D.W.)--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. + + + + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + 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! + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +Castlemayne is sicke again, people think, slipping her filly +Desired me that I would baste his coate +Did put evil thoughts in me, but proceeded no further +France, which is accounted the best place for bread +How Povy overdoes every thing in commending it +Never could man say worse himself nor have worse said +Wanton as ever she was, with much I made myself merry and away + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v39 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + MAY & JUNE + 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. + + + + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + 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. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +A vineyard, the first that ever I did see +All the towne almost going out of towne (Plague panic) +Buy some roll-tobacco to smell to and chaw +Consult my pillow upon that and every great thing of my life +Convenience of periwiggs is so great +Dying this last week of the plague 112, from 43 the week before +Hear that the plague is come into the City +Houses marked with a red cross upon the doors +My old folly and childishnesse hangs upon me still +Plague claimed 68,596 victims (in 1665) +Pride of some persons and vice of most was but a sad story +The coachman that carried [us] cannot know me again +Though neither of us care 2d. one for another +Which may teach me how I make others wait + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v40 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + 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.--[All government's business have been and are yet conducted in +the same wasteful and desultory way. D.W.]--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,--[?? D.W.]-- 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 + + [Erasmus noted and enjoyed at every opportunity this pleasant + English custom (a century before) of 'saluting' all attractive women + on arrival and exit--as he says no matter how many times on the same + day. D.W.] + +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. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +About two o'clock, too late and too soon to go home to bed +And all to dinner and sat down to the King saving myself +Baseness and looseness of the Court +Being able to do little business (but the less the better) +Contracted for her as if he had been buying a horse +Did bear with it, and very pleasant all the while +Doubtfull whether her daughter will like of it or no +Endeavouring to strike tallys for money for Tangier +For, for her part, she should not be buried in the commons +Had what pleasure almost I would with her +Hath a good heart to bear, or a cunning one to conceal his evil +I have promised, but know not when I shall perform +I kissed the bride in bed, and so the curtaines drawne +Less he finds of difference between them and other men +Lord! in the dullest insipid manner that ever lover did +Nan at Moreclacke, very much pleased and merry with her +Not had the confidence to take his lady once by the hand +Out of my purse I dare not for fear of a precedent +Plague, forty last night, the bell always going +Pretty to see the young pretty ladies dressed like men +So to bed, to be up betimes by the helpe of a larum watch +This absence makes us a little strange instead of more fond +What silly discourse we had by the way as to love-matters + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v41 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + 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 . . . . [We are +left to wonder how the daughter convinced Pepy's to release her pressed +brother. D.W.]--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. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +A fair salute on horseback, in Rochester streets, of the lady +Bagwell's wife waited at the door, and went with me to my office +Because I would not be over sure of any thing +Being the first Wednesday of the month +Bottle of strong water; whereof now and then a sip did me good +Copper to the value of L5,000 +Disease making us more cruel to one another than if we are doggs +Every body is at a great losse and nobody can tell +Every body's looks, and discourse in the street is of death +First thing of that nature I did ever give her (L10 ring) +For my quiet would not enquire into it +Give the other notice of the future state, if there was any +His wife and three children died, all, I think, in a day +How sad a sight it is to see the streets empty of people +I met a dead corps of the plague, in the narrow ally +In our graves (as Shakespeere resembles it) we could dream +King is not at present in purse to do +King shall not be able to whip a cat +Not liking that it should lie long undone, for fear of death +Ordered in the yarde six or eight bargemen to be whipped +Pest coaches and put her into it to carry her to a pest house +Quakers and others that will not have any bell ring for them +Resolving not to be bribed to dispatch business +Two shops in three, if not more, generally shut up +Well enough pleased this morning with their night's lodging + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v42 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + SEPTEMBER + 1665 + + +September 1st. Up, and to visit my Lady Pen and her daughter at the +Ropeyarde where I did breakfast with them and sat chatting a good while. +Then to my lodging at Mr. Shelden's, where I met Captain Cocke and eat a +little bit of dinner, and with him to Greenwich by water, having good +discourse with him by the way. After being at Greenwich a little while, +I to London, to my house, there put many more things in order for my +totall remove, sending away my girle Susan and other goods down to +Woolwich, and I by water to the Duke of Albemarle, and thence home late +by water. At the Duke of Albemarle's I overheard some examinations of +the late plot that is discoursed of and a great deale of do there is +about it. Among other discourses, I heard read, in the presence of the +Duke, an examination and discourse of Sir Philip Howard's, with one of +the plotting party. In many places these words being, "Then," said Sir +P. Howard, "if you so come over to the King, and be faithfull to him, you +shall be maintained, and be set up with a horse and armes," and I know +not what. And then said such a one, "Yes, I will be true to the King." +"But, damn me," said Sir Philip, "will you so and so?" And thus I +believe twelve times Sir P. Howard answered him a "damn me," which was a +fine way of rhetorique to persuade a Quaker or Anabaptist from his +persuasion. And this was read in the hearing of Sir P. Howard, before +the Duke and twenty more officers, and they make sport of it, only +without any reproach, or he being anything ashamed of it! + + [This republican plot was described by the Lord Chancellor in a + speech delivered on October 9th, when parliament met at Oxford.] + +But it ended, I remember, at last, "But such a one (the plotter) did at +last bid them remember that he had not told them what King he would be +faithfull to." + + + +2nd. This morning I wrote letters to Mr. Hill and Andrews to come to +dine with me to-morrow, and then I to the office, where busy, and thence +to dine with Sir J. Minnes, where merry, but only that Sir J. Minnes who +hath lately lost two coach horses, dead in the stable, has a third now a +dying. After dinner I to Deptford, and there took occasion to 'entrar a +la casa de la gunaica de ma Minusier', and did what I had a mind . . . +To Greenwich, where wrote some letters, and home in pretty good time. + + + +3rd (Lord's day). Up; and put on my coloured silk suit very fine, and my +new periwigg, bought a good while since, but durst not wear, because the +plague was in Westminster when I bought it; and it is a wonder what will +be the fashion after the plague is done, as to periwiggs, for nobody will +dare to buy any haire, for fear of the infection, that it had been cut +off of the heads of people dead of the plague. Before church time comes +Mr. Hill (Mr. Andrews failing because he was to receive the Sacrament), +and to church, where a sorry dull parson, and so home and most excellent +company with Mr. Hill and discourse of musique. I took my Lady Pen home, +and her daughter Pegg, and merry we were; and after dinner I made my wife +show them her pictures, which did mad Pegg Pen, who learns of the same +man and cannot do so well. After dinner left them and I by water to +Greenwich, where much ado to be suffered to come into the towne because +of the sicknesse, for fear I should come from London, till I told them +who I was. So up to the church, where at the door I find Captain Cocke +in my Lord Brunker's coach, and he come out and walked with me in the +church-yarde till the church was done, talking of the ill government of +our Kingdom, nobody setting to heart the business of the Kingdom, but +every body minding their particular profit or pleasures, the King himself +minding nothing but his ease, and so we let things go to wracke. This +arose upon considering what we shall do for money when the fleete comes +in, and more if the fleete should not meet with the Dutch, which will put +a disgrace upon the King's actions, so as the Parliament and Kingdom will +have the less mind to give more money, besides so bad an account of the +last money, we fear, will be given, not half of it being spent, as it +ought to be, upon the Navy. Besides, it is said that at this day our +Lord Treasurer cannot tell what the profit of Chimney money is, what it +comes to per annum, nor looks whether that or any other part of the +revenue be duly gathered as it ought; the very money that should pay the +City the L200,000 they lent the King, being all gathered and in the hands +of the Receiver and hath been long and yet not brought up to pay the +City, whereas we are coming to borrow 4 or L500,000 more of the City, +which will never be lent as is to be feared. Church being done, my Lord +Bruncker, Sir J. Minnes, and I up to the Vestry at the desire of the +justices of the Peace, Sir Theo. Biddulph and Sir W. Boreman and Alderman +Hooker, in order to the doing something for the keeping of the plague +from growing; but Lord! to consider the madness of the people of the +town, who will (because they are forbid) come in crowds along with the +dead corps to see them buried; but we agreed on some orders for the +prevention thereof. Among other stories, one was very passionate, +methought, of a complaint brought against a man in the towne for taking a +child from London from an infected house. Alderman Hooker told us it was +the child of a very able citizen in Gracious Street, a saddler, who had +buried all the rest of his children of the plague, and himself and wife +now being shut up and in despair of escaping, did desire only to save the +life of this little child; and so prevailed to have it received stark- +naked into the arms of a friend, who brought it (having put it into new +fresh clothes) to Greenwich; where upon hearing the story, we did agree +it should be permitted to be received and kept in the towne. Thence with +my Lord Bruncker to Captain Cocke's, where we mighty merry and supped, +and very late I by water to Woolwich, in great apprehensions of an ague. +Here was my Lord Bruncker's lady of pleasure, who, I perceive, goes every +where with him; and he, I find, is obliged to carry her, and make all the +courtship to her that can be. + + + +4th. Writing letters all the morning, among others to my Lady Carteret, +the first I have wrote to her, telling her the state of the city as to +health and other sorrowfull stories, and thence after dinner to +Greenwich, to Sir J. Minnes, where I found my Lord Bruncker, and having +staid our hour for the justices by agreement, the time being past we to +walk in the Park with Mr. Hammond and Turner, and there eat some fruit +out of the King's garden and walked in the Parke, and so back to Sir J. +Minnes, and thence walked home, my Lord Bruncker giving me a very neat +cane to walk with; but it troubled me to pass by Coome farme where about +twenty-one people have died of the plague, and three or four days since I +saw a dead corps in a coffin lie in the Close unburied, and a watch is +constantly kept there night and day to keep the people in, the plague +making us cruel, as doggs, one to another. + + + +5th. Up, and walked with some Captains and others talking to me to +Greenwich, they crying out upon Captain Teddiman's management of the +business of Bergen, that he staid treating too long while he saw the +Dutch fitting themselves, and that at first he might have taken every +ship, and done what he would with them. How true I cannot tell. Here we +sat very late and for want of money, which lies heavy upon us, did +nothing of business almost. Thence home with my Lord Bruncker to dinner +where very merry with him and his doxy. After dinner comes Colonell +Blunt in his new chariot made with springs; as that was of wicker, +wherein a while since we rode at his house. And he hath rode, he says, +now this journey, many miles in it with one horse, and out-drives any +coach, and out-goes any horse, and so easy, he says. So for curiosity I +went into it to try it, and up the hill to the heath, and over the cart- +rutts and found it pretty well, but not so easy as he pretends, and so +back again, and took leave of my Lord and drove myself in the chariot to +the office, and there ended my letters and home pretty betimes and there +found W. Pen, and he staid supper with us and mighty merry talking of his +travells and the French humours, etc., and so parted and to bed. + + + +6th. Busy all the morning writing letters to several, so to dinner, to +London, to pack up more things thence; and there I looked into the street +and saw fires burning in the street, as it is through the whole City, by +the Lord Mayor's order. Thence by water to the Duke of Albemarle's: all +the way fires on each side of the Thames, and strange to see in broad +daylight two or three burials upon the Bankeside, one at the very heels +of another: doubtless all of the plague; and yet at least forty or fifty +people going along with every one of them. The Duke mighty pleasant with +me; telling me that he is certainly informed that the Dutch were not come +home upon the 1st instant, and so he hopes our fleete may meet with them, +and here to my great joy I got him to sign bills for the several sums I +have paid on Tangier business by his single letter, and so now I can get +more hands to them. This was a great joy to me: Home to Woolwich late by +water, found wife in bed, and yet late as [it] was to write letters in +order to my rising betimes to go to Povy to-morrow. So to bed, my wife +asking me to-night about a letter of hers I should find, which indeed +Mary did the other day give me as if she had found it in my bed, thinking +it had been mine, brought to her from a man without name owning great +kindness to her and I know not what. But looking it over seriously, and +seeing it bad sense and ill writ, I did believe it to be her brother's +and so had flung it away, but finding her now concerned at it and vexed +with Mary about it, it did trouble me, but I would take no notice of it +to-night, but fell to sleep as if angry. + + + +7th. Up by 5 of the clock, mighty full of fear of an ague, but was +obliged to go, and so by water, wrapping myself up warm, to the Tower, +and there sent for the Weekely Bill, and find 8,252 dead in all, and of +them 6,878 of the plague; which is a most dreadfull number, and shows +reason to fear that the plague hath got that hold that it will yet +continue among us. Thence to Brainford, reading "The Villaine," a pretty +good play, all the way. There a coach of Mr. Povy's stood ready for me, +and he at his house ready to come in, and so we together merrily to +Swakely, Sir R. Viner's. A very pleasant place, bought by him of Sir +James Harrington's lady. He took us up and down with great respect, and +showed us all his house and grounds; and it is a place not very moderne +in the garden nor house, but the most uniforme in all that ever I saw; +and some things to excess. Pretty to see over the screene of the hall +(put up by Sir J. Harrington, a Long Parliamentman) the King's head, and +my Lord of Essex on one side, and Fairfax on the other; and upon the +other side of the screene, the parson of the parish, and the lord of the +manor and his sisters. The window-cases, door-cases, and chimnys of all +the house are marble. He showed me a black boy that he had, that died of +a consumption, and being dead, he caused him to be dried in an oven, and +lies there entire in a box. By and by to dinner, where his lady I find +yet handsome, but hath been a very handsome woman; now is old. Hath +brought him near L100,000 and now he lives, no man in England in greater +plenty, and commands both King and Council with his credit he gives them. +Here was a fine lady a merchant's wife at dinner with us, and who should +be here in the quality of a woman but Mrs. Worship's daughter, Dr. +Clerke's niece, and after dinner Sir Robert led us up to his long +gallery, very fine, above stairs (and better, or such, furniture I never +did see), and there Mrs. Worship did give us three or four very good +songs, and sings very neatly, to my great delight. After all this, and +ending the chief business to my content about getting a promise of some +money of him, we took leave, being exceedingly well treated here, and a +most pleasant journey we had back, Povy and I, and his company most +excellent in anything but business, he here giving me an account of as +many persons at Court as I had a mind or thought of enquiring after. He +tells me by a letter he showed me, that the King is not, nor hath been of +late, very well, but quite out of humour; and, as some think, in a +consumption, and weary of every thing. He showed me my Lord Arlington's +house that he was born in, in a towne called Harlington: and so carried +me through a most pleasant country to Brainford, and there put me into my +boat, and good night. So I wrapt myself warm, and by water got to +Woolwich about one in the morning, my wife and all in bed. + + + +8th. Waked, and fell in talk with my wife about the letter, and she +satisfied me that she did not know from whence it come, but believed it +might be from her cozen Franke Moore lately come out of France. The +truth is the thing I think cannot have much in it, and being unwilling +(being in other things so much at ease) to vex myself in a strange place +at a melancholy time, passed all by and were presently friends. Up, and +several with me about business. Anon comes my Lord Bruncker, as I +expected, and we to the enquiring into the business of the late desertion +of the Shipwrights from worke, who had left us for three days together +for want of money, and upon this all the morning, and brought it to a +pretty good issue, that they, we believe, will come to-morrow to work. +To dinner, having but a mean one, yet sufficient for him, and he well +enough pleased, besides that I do not desire to vye entertainments with +him or any else. Here was Captain Cocke also, and Mr. Wayth. We staid +together talking upon one business or other all the afternoon. In the +evening my Lord Bruncker hearing that Mr. Ackeworth's clerke, the +Dutchman who writes and draws so well, was transcribing a book of Rates +and our ships for Captain Millet a gallant of his mistress's, we sent for +him for it. He would not deliver it, but said it was his mistress's and +had delivered it to her. At last we were forced to send to her for it; +she would come herself, and indeed the book was a very neat one and worth +keeping as a rarity, but we did think fit, and though much against my +will, to cancell all that he had finished of it, and did give her the +rest, which vexed her, and she bore it discreetly enough, but with a +cruel deal of malicious rancour in her looks. I must confess I would +have persuaded her to have let us have it to the office, and it may be +the board would not have censured too hardly of it, but my intent was to +have had it as a Record for the office, but she foresaw what would be the +end of it and so desired it might rather be cancelled, which was a plaguy +deal of spite. My Lord Bruncker being gone and company, and she also, +afterwards I took my wife and people and walked into the fields about a +while till night, and then home, and so to sing a little and then to bed. +I was in great trouble all this day for my boy Tom who went to Greenwich +yesterday by my order and come not home till to-night for fear of the +plague, but he did come home to-night, saying he staid last night by Mr. +Hater's advice hoping to have me called as I come home with my boat to +come along with me. + + + +9th. Up and walked to Greenwich, and there we sat and dispatched a good +deal of business I had a mind to. At noon, by invitation, to my Lord +Bruncker's, all of us, to dinner, where a good venison pasty, and mighty +merry. Here was Sir W. Doyly, lately come from Ipswich about the sicke +and wounded, and Mr. Evelyn and Captain Cocke. My wife also was sent for +by my Lord Bruncker, by Cocke, and was here. After dinner, my Lord and +his mistress would see her home again, it being a most cursed rainy +afternoon, having had none a great while before, and I, forced to go to +the office on foot through all the rain, was almost wet to my skin, and +spoiled my silke breeches almost. Rained all the afternoon and evening, +so as my letters being done, I was forced to get a bed at Captain +Cocke's, where I find Sir W. Doyly, and he, and Evelyn at supper; and I +with them full of discourse of the neglect of our masters, the great +officers of State, about all business, and especially that of money: +having now some thousands prisoners, kept to no purpose at a great +charge, and no money provided almost for the doing of it. We fell to +talk largely of the want of some persons understanding to look after +businesses, but all goes to rack. "For," says Captain Cocke, "my Lord +Treasurer, he minds his ease, and lets things go how they will: if he can +have his L8000 per annum, and a game at l'ombre,--[Spanish card game]-- +he is well. My Lord Chancellor he minds getting of money and nothing +else; and my Lord Ashly will rob the Devil and the Alter, but he will get +money if it be to be got." But that that put us into this great +melancholy, was newes brought to-day, which Captain Cocke reports as a +certain truth, that all the Dutch fleete, men-of-war and merchant East +India ships, are got every one in from Bergen the 3d of this month, +Sunday last; which will make us all ridiculous. The fleete come home +with shame to require a great deale of money, which is not to be had, to +discharge many men that must get the plague then or continue at greater +charge on shipboard, nothing done by them to encourage the Parliament to +give money, nor the Kingdom able to spare any money, if they would, at +this time of the plague, so that, as things look at present, the whole +state must come to ruine. Full of these melancholy thoughts, to bed; +where, though I lay the softest I ever did in my life, with a downe bed, +after the Danish manner, upon me, yet I slept very ill, chiefly through +the thoughts of my Lord Sandwich's concernment in all this ill successe +at sea. + + + +10th (Lord's day). Walked home; being forced thereto by one of my +watermen falling sick yesterday, and it was God's great mercy I did not +go by water with them yesterday, for he fell sick on Saturday night, and +it is to be feared of the plague. So I sent him away to London with his +fellow; but another boat come to me this morning, whom I sent to +Blackewall for Mr. Andrews. I walked to Woolwich, and there find Mr. +Hill, and he and I all the morning at musique and a song he hath set of +three parts, methinks, very good. Anon comes Mr. Andrews, though it be a +very ill day, and so after dinner we to musique and sang till about 4 or +5 o'clock, it blowing very hard, and now and then raining, and wind and +tide being against us, Andrews and I took leave and walked to Greenwich. +My wife before I come out telling me the ill news that she hears that her +father is very ill, and then I told her I feared of the plague, for that +the house is shut up. And so she much troubled she did desire me to send +them something; and I said I would, and will do so. But before I come +out there happened newes to come to the by an expresse from Mr. Coventry, +telling me the most happy news of my Lord Sandwich's meeting with part of +the Dutch; his taking two of their East India ships, and six or seven +others, and very good prizes and that he is in search of the rest of the +fleet, which he hopes to find upon the Wellbancke, with the loss only of +the Hector, poor Captain Cuttle. This newes do so overjoy me that I know +not what to say enough to express it, but the better to do it I did walk +to Greenwich, and there sending away Mr. Andrews, I to Captain Cocke's, +where I find my Lord Bruncker and his mistress, and Sir J. Minnes. Where +we supped (there was also Sir W. Doyly and Mr. Evelyn); but the receipt +of this newes did put us all into such an extacy of joy, that it inspired +into Sir J. Minnes and Mr. Evelyn such a spirit of mirth, that in all my +life I never met with so merry a two hours as our company this night was. +Among other humours, Mr. Evelyn's repeating of some verses made up of +nothing but the various acceptations of may and can, and doing it so +aptly upon occasion of something of that nature, and so fast, did make us +all die almost with laughing, and did so stop the mouth of Sir J. Minnes +in the middle of all his mirth (and in a thing agreeing with his own +manner of genius), that I never saw any man so out-done in all my life; +and Sir J. Minnes's mirth too to see himself out-done, was the crown of +all our mirth. In this humour we sat till about ten at night, and so my +Lord and his mistress home, and we to bed, it being one of the times of +my life wherein I was the fullest of true sense of joy. + + + +11th. Up and walked to the office, there to do some business till ten of +the clock, and then by agreement my Lord, Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Doyly, +and I took boat and over to the ferry, where Sir W. Batten's coach was +ready for us, and to Walthamstow drove merrily, excellent merry discourse +in the way, and most upon our last night's revells; there come we were +very merry, and a good plain venison dinner. After dinner to billiards, +where I won an angel, + + [A gold coin, so called because it bore the image of an angel, + varying in value from six shillings and eightpence to ten + shillings.] + +and among other sports we were merry with my pretending to have a warrant +to Sir W. Hickes (who was there, and was out of humour with Sir W. +Doyly's having lately got a warrant for a leash of buckes, of which we +were now eating one) which vexed him, and at last would compound with me +to give my Lord Bruncker half a buck now, and me a Doe for it a while +hence when the season comes in, which we agreed to and had held, but that +we fear Sir W. Doyly did betray our design, which spoiled all; however, +my Lady Batten invited herself to dine with him this week, and she +invited us all to dine with her there, which we agreed to, only to vex +him, he being the most niggardly fellow, it seems, in the world. Full of +good victuals and mirth we set homeward in the evening, and very merry +all the way. So to Greenwich, where when come I find my Lord Rutherford +and Creed come from Court, and among other things have brought me several +orders for money to pay for Tangier; and, among the rest L7000 and more, +to this Lord, which is an excellent thing to consider, that, though they +can do nothing else, they can give away the King's money upon their +progresse. I did give him the best answer I could to pay him with +tallys, and that is all they could get from me. I was not in humour to +spend much time with them, but walked a little before Sir J. Minnes's +door and then took leave, and I by water to Woolwich, where with my wife +to a game at tables, + + [The old name for backgammon, used by Shakespeare and others. The + following lines are from an epitaph entirely made up of puns on + backgammon + + "Man's life's a game at tables, and he may + Mend his bad fortune by his wiser play." + + Wit's Recre., i. 250, reprint, 1817.] + +and to bed. + + + +12th. Up, and walked to the office, where we sat late, and thence to +dinner home with Sir J. Minnes, and so to the office, where writing +letters, and home in the evening, where my wife shews me a letter from +her brother speaking of their father's being ill, like to die, which, God +forgive me! did not trouble me so much as it should, though I was indeed +sorry for it. I did presently resolve to send him something in a letter +from my wife, viz. 20s. So to bed. + + + +13th. Up, and walked to Greenwich, taking pleasure to walk with my +minute watch in my hand, by which I am come now to see the distances of +my way from Woolwich to Greenwich, and do find myself to come within two +minutes constantly to the same place at the end of each quarter of an +houre. Here we rendezvoused at Captain Cocke's, and there eat oysters, +and so my Lord Bruncker, Sir J. Minnes, and I took boat, and in my Lord's +coach to Sir W. Hickes's, whither by and by my Lady Batten and Sir +William comes. It is a good seat, with a fair grove of trees by it, and +the remains of a good garden; but so let to run to ruine, both house and +every thing in and about it, so ill furnished and miserably looked after, +I never did see in all my life. Not so much as a latch to his dining- +room door; which saved him nothing, for the wind blowing into the room +for want thereof, flung down a great bow pott that stood upon the side- +table, and that fell upon some Venice glasses, and did him a crown's +worth of hurt. He did give us the meanest dinner (of beef, shoulder and +umbles of venison + + [Dr. Johnson was puzzled by the following passage in "The Merry + Wives of Windsor," act v., sc. 3: "Divide me like a bribe-buck, each + a haunch. I will keep the sides to myself; my shoulders for the + fellow of this walk." If he could have read the account of Sir + William Hickes's dinner, he would at once have understood the + allusion to the keeper's perquisites of the shoulders of all deer + killed in his walk.--B.] + +which he takes away from the keeper of the Forest, and a few pigeons, and +all in the meanest manner) that ever I did see, to the basest degree. +After dinner we officers of the Navy stepped aside to read some letters +and consider some business, and so in again. I was only pleased at a +very fine picture of the Queene-Mother, when she was young, by Van-Dike; +a very good picture, and a lovely sweet face. Thence in the afternoon +home, and landing at Greenwich I saw Mr. Pen walking my way, so we walked +together, and for discourse I put him into talk of France, when he took +delight to tell me of his observations, some good, some impertinent, and +all ill told, but it served for want of better, and so to my house, where +I find my wife abroad, and hath been all this day, nobody knows where, +which troubled me, it being late and a cold evening. So being invited to +his mother's to supper, we took Mrs. Barbara, who was mighty finely +dressed, and in my Lady's coach, which we met going for my wife, we +thither, and there after some discourse went to supper. By and by comes +my wife and Mercer, and had been with Captain Cocke all day, he coming +and taking her out to go see his boy at school at Brumly [Bromley], and +brought her home again with great respect. Here pretty merry, only I had +no stomach, having dined late, to eat. After supper Mr. Pen and I fell +to discourse about some words in a French song my wife was saying, "D'un +air tout interdict," wherein I laid twenty to one against him which he +would not agree with me, though I know myself in the right as to the +sense of the word, and almost angry we were, and were an houre and more +upon the dispute, till at last broke up not satisfied, and so home in +their coach and so to bed. H. Russell did this day deliver my 20s. to my +wife's father or mother, but has not yet told us how they do. + + + +14th. Up, and walked to Greenwich, and there fitted myself in several +businesses to go to London, where I have not been now a pretty while. +But before I went from the office newes is brought by word of mouth that +letters are now just now brought from the fleete of our taking a great +many more of the Dutch fleete, in which I did never more plainly see my +command of my temper in my not admitting myself to receive any kind of +joy from it till I had heard the certainty of it, and therefore went by +water directly to the Duke of Albemarle, where I find a letter of the +Lath from Solebay, from my Lord Sandwich, of the fleete's meeting with +about eighteen more of the Dutch fleete, and his taking of most of them; +and the messenger says, they had taken three after the letter was wrote +and sealed; which being twenty-one, and the fourteen took the other day, +is forty-five sail; some of which are good, and others rich ships, which +is so great a cause of joy in us all that my Lord and everybody is highly +joyed thereat. And having taken a copy of my Lord's letter, I away back +again to the Beare at the Bridge foot, being full of wind and out of +order, and there called for a biscuit and a piece of cheese and gill of +sacke, being forced to walk over the Bridge, toward the 'Change, and the +plague being all thereabouts. Here my news was highly welcome, and I did +wonder to see the 'Change so full, I believe 200 people; but not a man or +merchant of any fashion, but plain men all. And Lord! to see how I did +endeavour all I could to talk with as few as I could, there being now no +observation of shutting up of houses infected, that to be sure we do +converse and meet with people that have the plague upon them. I to Sir +Robert Viner's, where my main business was about settling the business of +Debusty's L5000 tallys, which I did for the present to enable me to have +some money, and so home, buying some things for my wife in the way. So +home, and put up several things to carry to Woolwich, and upon serious +thoughts I am advised by W. Griffin to let my money and plate rest there, +as being as safe as any place, nobody imagining that people would leave +money in their houses now, when all their families are gone. So for the +present that being my opinion, I did leave them there still. But, Lord! +to see the trouble that it puts a man to, to keep safe what with pain a +man hath been getting together, and there is good reason for it. Down to +the office, and there wrote letters to and again about this good newes of +our victory, and so by water home late. Where, when I come home I spent +some thoughts upon the occurrences of this day, giving matter for as much +content on one hand and melancholy on another, as any day in all my life. +For the first; the finding of my money and plate, and all safe at London, +and speeding in my business of money this day. The hearing of this good +news to such excess, after so great a despair of my Lord's doing anything +this year; adding to that, the decrease of 500 and more, which is the +first decrease we have yet had in the sickness since it begun: and great +hopes that the next week it will be greater. Then, on the other side, my +finding that though the Bill in general is abated, yet the City within +the walls is encreased, and likely to continue so, and is close to our +house there. My meeting dead corpses of the plague, carried to be buried +close to me at noon-day through the City in Fanchurch-street. To see a +person sick of the sores, carried close by me by Gracechurch in a +hackney-coach. My finding the Angell tavern, at the lower end of Tower- +hill, shut up, and more than that, the alehouse at the Tower-stairs, and +more than that, the person was then dying of the plague when I was last +there, a little while ago, at night, to write a short letter there, and I +overheard the mistresse of the house sadly saying to her husband somebody +was very ill, but did not think it was of the plague. To hear that poor +Payne, my waiter, hath buried a child, and is dying himself. To hear +that a labourer I sent but the other day to Dagenhams, to know how they +did there, is dead of the plague; and that one of my own watermen, that +carried me daily, fell sick as soon as he had landed me on Friday morning +last, when I had been all night upon the water (and I believe he did get +his infection that day at Brainford), and is now dead of the plague. To +hear that Captain Lambert and Cuttle are killed in the taking these +ships; and that Mr. Sidney Montague is sick of a desperate fever at my +Lady Carteret's, at Scott's-hall. To hear that Mr. Lewes hath another +daughter sick. And, lastly, that both my servants, W. Hewer and Tom +Edwards, have lost their fathers, both in St. Sepulchre's parish, of the +plague this week, do put me into great apprehensions of melancholy, and +with good reason. But I put off the thoughts of sadness as much as I +can, and the rather to keep my wife in good heart and family also. After +supper (having eat nothing all this day) upon a fine tench--[?? D.W.]-- +of Mr. Shelden's taking, we to bed. + + + +15th. Up, it being a cold misting morning, and so by water to the +office, where very busy upon several businesses. At noon got the +messenger, Marlow, to get me a piece of bread and butter and cheese and a +bottle of beer and ale, and so I went not out of the office but dined off +that, and my boy Tom, but the rest of my clerks went home to dinner. +Then to my business again, and by and by sent my waterman to see how Sir +W. Warren do, who is sicke, and for which I have reason to be very sorry, +he being the friend I have got most by of most friends in England but the +King: who returns me that he is pretty well again, his disease being an +ague. I by water to Deptford, thinking to have seen my valentine, but I +could not, and so come back again, and to the office, where a little +business, and thence with Captain Cocke, and there drank a cup of good +drink, which I am fain to allow myself during this plague time, by advice +of all, and not contrary to my oathe, my physician being dead, and +chyrurgeon out of the way, whose advice I am obliged to take, and so by +water home and eat my supper, and to bed, being in much pain to think +what I shall do this winter time; for go every day to Woolwich I cannot, +without endangering my life; and staying from my wife at Greenwich is not +handsome. + + + +16th. Up, and walked to Greenwich reading a play, and to the office, +where I find Sir J. Minnes gone to the fleete, like a doating foole, to +do no good, but proclaim himself an asse; for no service he can do there, +nor inform my Lord, who is come in thither to the buoy of the Nore, in +anything worth his knowledge. At noon to dinner to my Lord Bruncker, +where Sir W. Batten and his Lady come, by invitation, and very merry we +were, only that the discourse of the likelihood of the increase of the +plague this weeke makes us a little sad, but then again the thoughts of +the late prizes make us glad. After dinner, by appointment, comes Mr. +Andrews, and he and I walking alone in the garden talking of our Tangier +business, and I endeavoured by the by to offer some encouragements for +their continuing in the business, which he seemed to take hold of, and +the truth is my profit is so much concerned that I could wish they would, +and would take pains to ease them in the business of money as much as was +possible. He being gone (after I had ordered him L2000, and he paid me +my quantum out of it) I also walked to the office, and there to my +business; but find myself, through the unfitness of my place to write in, +and my coming from great dinners, and drinking wine, that I am not in the +good temper of doing business now a days that I used to be and ought +still to be. At night to Captain Cocke's, meaning to lie there, it being +late, and he not being at home, I walked to him to my Lord Bruncker's, +and there staid a while, they being at tables; and so by and by parted, +and walked to his house; and, after a mess of good broth, to bed, in +great pleasure, his company being most excellent. + + + +17th (Lord's day). Up, and before I went out of my chamber did draw a +musique scale, in order to my having it at any time ready in my hand to +turn to for exercise, for I have a great mind in this Vacation to perfect +myself in my scale, in order to my practising of composition, and so that +being done I down stairs, and there find Captain Cocke under the barber's +hands, the barber that did heretofore trim Commissioner Pett, and with +whom I have been. He offered to come this day after dinner with his +violin to play me a set of Lyra-ayres upon it, which I was glad of, +hoping to be merry thereby. Being ready we to church, where a company of +fine people to church, and a fine Church, and very good sermon, Mr. +Plume' being a very excellent scholler and preacher. Coming out of the +church I met Mrs. Pierce, whom I was ashamed to see, having not been with +her since my coming to town, but promised to visit her. Thence with +Captain Cocke, in his coach, home to dinner, whither comes by invitation +my Lord Bruncker and his mistresse and very good company we were, but in +dinner time comes Sir J. Minnes from the fleete, like a simple weak man, +having nothing to say of what he hath done there, but tells of what value +he imagines the prizes to be, and that my Lord Sandwich is well, and +mightily concerned to hear that I was well. But this did put me upon a +desire of going thither; and, moving of it to my Lord, we presently +agreed upon it to go this very tide, we two and Captain Cocke. So every +body prepared to fit himself for his journey, and I walked to Woolwich to +trim and shift myself, and by the time I was ready they come down in the +Bezan yacht, and so I aboard and my boy Tom, and there very merrily we +sailed to below Gravesend, and there come to anchor for all night, and +supped and talked, and with much pleasure at last settled ourselves to +sleep having very good lodging upon cushions in the cabbin. + + + +18th. By break of day we come to within sight of the fleete, which was a +very fine thing to behold, being above 100 ships, great and small; with +the flag-ships of each squadron, distinguished by their several flags on +their main, fore, or mizen masts. Among others, the Soveraigne, Charles, +and Prince; in the last of which my Lord Sandwich was. When we called by +her side his Lordshipp was not stirring, so we come to anchor a little +below his ship, thinking to have rowed on board him, but the wind and +tide was so strong against us that we could not get up to him, no, though +rowed by a boat of the Prince's that come to us to tow us up; at last +however he brought us within a little way, and then they flung out a rope +to us from the Prince and so come on board, but with great trouble and +tune and patience, it being very cold; we find my Lord newly up in his +night-gown very well. He received us kindly; telling us the state of the +fleet, lacking provisions, having no beer at all, nor have had most of +them these three weeks or month, and but few days' dry provisions. And +indeed he tells us that he believes no fleete was ever set to sea in so +ill condition of provision, as this was when it went out last. He did +inform us in the business of Bergen, + + [Lord Sandwich was not so successful in convincing other people as + to the propriety of his conduct at Bergen as he was with Pepys.] + +so as to let us see how the judgment of the world is not to be depended +on in things they know not; it being a place just wide enough, and not so +much hardly, for ships to go through to it, the yardarmes sticking in the +very rocks. He do not, upon his best enquiry, find reason to except +against any part of the management of the business by Teddiman; he having +staid treating no longer than during the night, whiles he was fitting +himself to fight, bringing his ship a-breast, and not a quarter of an +hour longer (as is said); nor could more ships have been brought to play, +as is thought. Nor could men be landed, there being 10,000 men +effectively always in armes of the Danes; nor, says he, could we expect +more from the Dane than he did, it being impossible to set fire on the +ships but it must burn the towne. But that wherein the Dane did amisse +is, that he did assist them, the Dutch, all the while, while he was +treating with us, while he should have been neutrall to us both. But, +however, he did demand but the treaty of us; which is, that we should not +come with more than five ships. A flag of truce is said, and confessed +by my Lord, that he believes it was hung out; but while they did hang it +out, they did shoot at us; so that it was not either seen perhaps, or fit +to cease upon sight of it, while they continued actually in action +against us. But the main thing my Lord wonders at, and condemns the Dane +for, is, that the blockhead, who is so much in debt to the Hollander, +having now a treasure more by much than all his Crowne was worth, and +that which would for ever have beggared the Hollanders, should not take +this time to break with the Hollander, and, thereby paid his debt which +must have been forgiven him, and got the greatest treasure into his hands +that ever was together in the world. By and by my Lord took me aside to +discourse of his private matters, who was very free with me touching the +ill condition of the fleete that it hath been in, and the good fortune +that he hath had, and nothing else that these prizes are to be imputed +to. He also talked with me about Mr. Coventry's dealing with him in +sending Sir W. Pen away before him, which was not fair nor kind; but that +he hath mastered and cajoled Sir W. Pen, that he hath been able to do, +nothing in the fleete, but been obedient to him; but withal tells me he +is a man that is but of very mean parts, and a fellow not to be lived +with, so false and base he is; which I know well enough to be very true, +and did, as I had formerly done, give my Lord my knowledge of him. By +and by was called a Council of Warr on board, when come Sir W. Pen there, +and Sir Christopher Mings, Sir Edward Spragg, Sir Jos. Jordan, Sir Thomas +Teddiman, and Sir Roger Cuttance, and so the necessity of the fleete for +victuals, clothes, and money was discoursed, but by the discourse there +of all but my Lord, that is to say, the counterfeit grave nonsense of Sir +W. Pen and the poor mean discourse of the rest, methinks I saw how the +government and management of the greatest business of the three nations +is committed to very ordinary heads, saving my Lord, and in effect is +only upon him, who is able to do what he pleases with them, they not +having the meanest degree of reason to be able to oppose anything that he +says, and so I fear it is ordered but like all the rest of the King's +publique affayres. The council being up they most of them went away, +only Sir W. Pen who staid to dine there and did so, but the wind being +high the ship (though the motion of it was hardly discernible to the eye) +did make me sick, so as I could not eat any thing almost. After dinner +Cocke did pray me to helpe him to L500 of W. How, who is deputy +Treasurer, wherein my Lord Bruncker and I am to be concerned and I did +aske it my Lord, and he did consent to have us furnished with L500, and I +did get it paid to Sir Roger Cuttance and Mr. Pierce in part for above +L1000 worth of goods, Mace, Nutmegs, Cynamon, and Cloves, and he tells us +we may hope to get L1500 by it, which God send! Great spoil, I hear, +there hath been of the two East India ships, and that yet they will come +in to the King very rich: so that I hope this journey will be worth L100 +to me. + + [There is a shorthand journal of proceedings relating to Pepys's + purchase of some East India prize goods among the Rawlinson MSS. in + the Bodleian Library.] + +After having paid this money, we took leave of my Lord and so to our +Yacht again, having seen many of my friends there. Among others I hear +that W. Howe will grow very rich by this last business and grows very +proud and insolent by it; but it is what I ever expected. I hear by +every body how much my poor Lord of Sandwich was concerned for me during +my silence a while, lest I had been dead of the plague in this sickly +time. No sooner come into the yacht, though overjoyed with the good work +we have done to-day, but I was overcome with sea sickness so that I begun +to spue soundly, and so continued a good while, till at last I went into +the cabbin and shutting my eyes my trouble did cease that I fell asleep, +which continued till we come into Chatham river where the water was +smooth, and then I rose and was very well, and the tide coming to be +against us we did land before we come to Chatham and walked a mile, +having very good discourse by the way, it being dark and it beginning to +rain just as we got thither. At Commissioner Pett's we did eat and drink +very well and very merry we were, and about 10 at night, it being +moonshine and very cold, we set out, his coach carrying us, and so all +night travelled to Greenwich, we sometimes sleeping a little and then +talking and laughing by the way, and with much pleasure, but that it was +very horrible cold, that I was afeard of an ague. A pretty passage was +that the coach stood of a sudden and the coachman come down and the +horses stirring, he cried, Hold! which waked me, and the coach[man] +standing at the boote to [do] something or other and crying, Hold! I did +wake of a sudden and not knowing who he was, nor thinking of the coachman +between sleeping and waking I did take up the heart to take him by the +shoulder, thinking verily he had been a thief. But when I waked I found +my cowardly heart to discover a fear within me and that I should never +have done it if I had been awake. + + + +19th. About 4 or 5 of the clock we come to Greenwich, and, having first +set down my Lord Bruncker, Cocke and I went to his house, it being light, +and there to our great trouble, we being sleepy and cold, we met with the +ill newes that his boy Jacke was gone to bed sicke, which put Captain +Cocke and me also into much trouble, the boy, as they told us, +complaining of his head most, which is a bad sign it seems. So they +presently betook themselves to consult whither and how to remove him. +However I thought it not fit for me to discover too much fear to go away, +nor had I any place to go to. So to bed I went and slept till 10 of the +clock and then comes Captain Cocke to wake me and tell me that his boy +was well again. With great joy I heard the newes and he told it, so I up +and to the office where we did a little, and but a little business. At +noon by invitation to my Lord Bruncker's where we staid till four of the +clock for my Lady Batten and she not then coming we to dinner and pretty +merry but disordered by her making us stay so long. After dinner I to +the office, and there wrote letters and did business till night and then +to Sir J. Minnes's, where I find my Lady Batten come, and she and my Lord +Bruncker and his mistresse, and the whole house-full there at cards. But +by and by my Lord Bruncker goes away and others of the company, and when +I expected Sir J. Minnes and his sister should have staid to have made +Sir W. Batten and Lady sup, I find they go up in snuffe to bed without +taking any manner of leave of them, but left them with Mr. Boreman. The +reason of this I could not presently learn, but anon I hear it is that +Sir J. Minnes did expect and intend them a supper, but they without +respect to him did first apply themselves to Boreman, which makes all +this great feude. However I staid and there supped, all of us being in +great disorder from this, and more from Cocke's boy's being ill, where my +Lady Batten and Sir W. Batten did come to town with an intent to lodge, +and I was forced to go seek a lodging which my W. Hewer did get me, viz., +his own chamber in the towne, whither I went and found it a very fine +room, and there lay most excellently. + + + +20th. Called up by Captain Cocke (who was last night put into great +trouble upon his boy's being rather worse than better, upon which he +removed him out of his house to his stable), who told me that to my +comfort his boy was now as well as ever he was in his life. So I up, and +after being trimmed, the first time I have been touched by a barber these +twelvemonths, I think, and more, went to Sir J. Minnes's, where I find +all out of order still, they having not seen one another till by and by +Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten met, to go into my Lord Bruncker's coach, +and so we four to Lambeth, and thence to the Duke of Albemarle, to inform +him what we have done as to the fleete, which is very little, and to +receive his direction. But, Lord! what a sad time it is to see no boats +upon the River; and grass grows all up and down White Hall court, and +nobody but poor wretches in the streets! And, which is worst of all, the +Duke showed us the number of the plague this week, brought in the last +night from the Lord Mayor; that it is encreased about 600 more than the +last, which is quite contrary to all our hopes and expectations, from the +coldness of the late season. For the whole general number is 8,297, and +of them the plague 7,165; which is more in the whole by above 50, than +the biggest Bill yet; which is very grievous to us all. I find here a +design in my Lord Bruncker and Captain Cocke to have had my Lord Bruncker +chosen as one of us to have been sent aboard one of the East Indiamen, +and Captain Cocke as a merchant to be joined with him, and Sir J. Minnes +for the other, and Sir G. Smith to be joined with him. But I did order +it so that my Lord Bruncker and Sir J. Minnes were ordered, but I did +stop the merchants to be added, which would have been a most pernicious +thing to the King I am sure. In this I did, I think, a very good office, +though I cannot acquit myself from some envy of mine in the business to +have the profitable business done by another hand while I lay wholly +imployed in the trouble of the office. Thence back again by my Lord's +coach to my Lord Bruncker's house, where I find my Lady Batten, who is +become very great with Mrs. Williams (my Lord Bruncker's whore), and +there we dined and were mighty merry. After dinner I to the office there +to write letters, to fit myself for a journey to-morrow to Nonsuch to the +Exchequer by appointment. That being done I to Sir J. Minnes where I +find Sir W. Batten and his Lady gone home to Walthamstow in great snuffe +as to Sir J. Minnes, but yet with some necessity, hearing that a mayde- +servant of theirs is taken ill. Here I staid and resolved of my going in +my Lord Bruncker's coach which he would have me to take, though himself +cannot go with me as he intended, and so to my last night's lodging to +bed very weary. + + + +21st. Up between five and six o'clock; and by the time I was ready, my +Lord's coach comes for me; and taking Will Hewer with me, who is all in +mourning for his father, who is lately dead of the plague, as my boy +Tom's is also, I set out, and took about L100 with me to pay the fees +there, and so rode in some fear of robbing. When I come thither, I find +only Mr. Ward, who led me to Burgess's bedside, and Spicer's, who, +watching of the house, as it is their turns every night, did lie long in +bed to-day, and I find nothing at all done in my business, which vexed +me. But not seeing how to helpe it I did walk up and down with Mr. Ward +to see the house; and by and by Spicer and Mr. Falconbrige come to me and +he and I to a towne near by, Yowell, there drink and set up my horses and +also bespoke a dinner, and while that is dressing went with Spicer and +walked up and down the house and park; and a fine place it hath +heretofore been, and a fine prospect about the house. A great walk of an +elme and a walnutt set one after another in order. And all the house on +the outside filled with figures of stories, and good painting of Rubens' +or Holben's doing. And one great thing is, that most of the house is +covered, I mean the posts, and quarters in the walls; covered with lead, +and gilded. I walked into the ruined garden, and there found a plain +little girle, kinswoman of Mr. Falconbridge, to sing very finely by the +eare only, but a fine way of singing, and if I come ever to lacke a girle +again I shall think of getting her. Thence to the towne, and there +Spicer, Woodruffe, and W. Bowyer and I dined together and a friend of +Spicer's; and a good dinner I had for them. Falconbrige dined somewhere +else, by appointment. Strange to see how young W. Bowyer looks at 41 +years; one would not take him for 24 or more, and is one of the greatest +wonders I ever did see. After dinner, about 4 of the clock we broke up, +and I took coach and home (in fear for the money I had with me, but that +this friend of Spicer's, one of the Duke's guard did ride along the best +part of the way with us). I got to my Lord Bruncker's before night, and +there I sat and supped with him and his mistresse, and Cocke whose boy is +yet ill. Thence, after losing a crowne betting at Tables--[Cribbage]--, +we walked home, Cocke seeing me at my new lodging, where I went to bed. +All my worke this day in the coach going and coming was to refresh myself +in my musique scale, which I would fain have perfecter than ever I had +yet. + + + +22nd. Up betimes and to the office, meaning to have entered my last 5 or +6 days' Journall, but was called away by my Lord Bruncker and Sir J. +Minnes, and to Blackwall, there to look after the storehouses in order to +the laying of goods out of the East India ships when they shall be +unloaden. That being done, we into Johnson's house, and were much made +of, eating and drinking. But here it is observable what he tells us, +that in digging his late Docke, he did 12 foot under ground find perfect +trees over-covered with earth. Nut trees, with the branches and the very +nuts upon them; some of whose nuts he showed us. Their shells black with +age, and their kernell, upon opening, decayed, but their shell perfectly +hard as ever. And a yew tree he showed us (upon which, he says, the very +ivy was taken up whole about it), which upon cutting with an addes +[adze], we found to be rather harder than the living tree usually is. +They say, very much, but I do not know how hard a yew tree naturally is. + + [The same discovery was made in 1789, in digging the Brunswick Dock, + also at Blackwall, and elsewhere in the neighbourhood.] + +The armes, they say, were taken up at first whole, about the body, which +is very strange. Thence away by water, and I walked with my Lord +Bruncker home, and there at dinner comes a letter from my Lord Sandwich +to tell me that he would this day be at Woolwich, and desired me to meet +him. Which fearing might have lain in Sir J. Minnes' pocket a while, he +sending it me, did give my Lord Bruncker, his mistress, and I occasion to +talk of him as the most unfit man for business in the world. Though at +last afterwards I found that he was not in this faulty, but hereby I have +got a clear evidence of my Lord Bruncker's opinion of him. My Lord +Bruncker presently ordered his coach to be ready and we to Woolwich, and +my Lord Sandwich not being come, we took a boat and about a mile off met +him in his Catch, and boarded him, and come up with him; and, after +making a little halt at my house, which I ordered, to have my wife see +him, we all together by coach to Mr. Boreman's, where Sir J. Minnes did +receive him very handsomely, and there he is to lie; and Sir J. Minnes +did give him on the sudden, a very handsome supper and brave discourse, +my Lord Bruncker, and Captain Cocke, and Captain Herbert being there, +with myself. Here my Lord did witness great respect to me, and very kind +expressions, and by other occasions, from one thing to another did take +notice how I was overjoyed at first to see the King's letter to his +Lordship, and told them how I did kiss it, and that, whatever he was, I +did always love the King. This my Lord Bruncker did take such notice +[of] as that he could not forbear kissing me before my Lord, professing +his finding occasion every day more and more to love me, and Captain +Cocke has since of himself taken notice of that speech of my Lord then +concerning me, and may be of good use to me. Among other discourse +concerning long life, Sir J. Minnes saying that his great-grandfather was +alive in Edward the Vth's time; my Lord Sandwich did tell us how few +there have been of his family since King Harry the VIIIth; that is to +say, the then Chiefe Justice, and his son the Lord Montagu, who was +father to Sir Sidney, + + [These are the words in the MS., and not "his son and the Lord + Montagu," as in some former editions. Pepys seems to have written + Lord Montagu by mistake for Sir Edward Montagu.] + +who was his father. And yet, what is more wonderfull, he did assure us +from the mouth of my Lord Montagu himself, that in King James's time +([when he] had a mind to get the King to cut off the entayle of some land +which was given in Harry the VIIIth's time to the family, with the +remainder in the Crowne); he did answer the King in showing how unlikely +it was that ever it could revert to the Crown, but that it would be a +present convenience to him; and did show that at that time there were +4,000 persons derived from the very body of the Chiefe Justice. It seems +the number of daughters in the family having been very great, and they +too had most of them many children, and grandchildren, and great- +grandchildren. This he tells as a most known and certain truth. After +supper, my Lord Bruncker took his leave, and I also did mine, taking +Captain Herbert home to my lodging to lie with me, who did mighty +seriously inquire after who was that in the black dress with my wife +yesterday, and would not believe that it was my wife's mayde, Mercer, but +it was she. + + + +23rd. Up, and to my Lord Sandwich, who did advise alone with me how far +he might trust Captain Cocke in the business of the prize-goods, my Lord +telling me that he hath taken into his hands 2 or L3000 value of them: it +being a good way, he says, to get money, and afterwards to get the King's +allowance thereof, it being easier, he observes, to keepe money when got +of the King than to get it when it is too late. I advised him not to +trust Cocke too far, and did therefore offer him ready money for a L1000 +or two, which he listens to and do agree to, which is great joy to me, +hoping thereby to get something! Thence by coach to Lambeth, his +Lordship, and all our office, and Mr. Evelyn, to the Duke of Albemarle, +where, after the compliment with my Lord very kind, we sat down to +consult of the disposing and supporting of the fleete with victuals and +money, and for the sicke men and prisoners; and I did propose the taking +out some goods out of the prizes, to the value of L10,000, which was +accorded to, and an order, drawn up and signed by the Duke and my Lord, +done in the best manner I can, and referred to my Lord Bruncker and Sir +J. Minnes, but what inconveniences may arise from it I do not yet see, +but fear there may be many. Here we dined, and I did hear my Lord Craven +whisper, as he is mightily possessed with a good opinion of me, much to +my advantage, which my good Lord did second, and anon my Lord Craven did +speak publiquely of me to the Duke, in the hearing of all the rest; and +the Duke did say something of the like advantage to me; I believe, not +much to the satisfaction of my brethren; but I was mightily joyed at it. +Thence took leave, leaving my Lord Sandwich to go visit the Bishop of +Canterbury, and I and Sir W. Batten down to the Tower, where he went +further by water, and I home, and among other things took out all my gold +to carry along with me to-night with Captain Cocke downe to the fleete, +being L180 and more, hoping to lay out that and a great deal more to good +advantage. Thence down to Greenwich to the office, and there wrote +several letters, and so to my Lord Sandwich, and mighty merry and he +mighty kind to me in the face of all, saying much in my favour, and after +supper I took leave and with Captain Cocke set out in the yacht about ten +o'clock at night, and after some discourse, and drinking a little, my +mind full of what we are going about and jealous of Cocke's outdoing me. +So to sleep upon beds brought by Cocke on board mighty handsome, and +never slept better than upon this bed upon the floor in the Cabbin. + + + +24th (Lord's day). Waked, and up and drank, and then to discourse; and +then being about Grayes, and a very calme, curious morning, we took our +wherry, and to the fishermen, and bought a great deal of fine fish, and +to Gravesend to White's, and had part of it dressed; and, in the +meantime, we to walk about a mile from the towne, and so back again; and +there, after breakfast, one of our watermen told us he had heard of a +bargain of cloves for us, and we went to a blind alehouse at the further +end wretched dirty seamen, who, of the towne to a couple of poor +wretches, had got together about 37 lb. of cloves and to 10 of nutmeggs, +and we bought them of them, the first at 5s. 6d. per lb. and the latter +at 4s.; and paid them in gold; but, Lord! to see how silly these men are +in the selling of it, and easily to be persuaded almost to anything, +offering a bag to us to pass as 20 lbs. of cloves, which upon weighing +proved 25 lbs. But it would never have been allowed by my conscience to +have wronged the poor wretches, who told us how dangerously they had got +some, and dearly paid for the rest of these goods. This being done we +with great content herein on board again and there Captain Cocke and I to +discourse of our business, but he will not yet be open to me, nor am I to +him till I hear what he will say and do with Sir Roger Cuttance. +However, this discourse did do me good, and got me a copy of the +agreement made the other day on board for the parcel of Mr. Pierce and +Sir Roger Cuttance, but this great parcel is of my Lord Sandwich's. By +and by to dinner about 3 o'clock and then I in the cabbin to writing down +my journall for these last seven days to my, great content, it having +pleased God that in this sad time of the plague every thing else has +conspired to my happiness and pleasure more for these last three months +than in all my, life before in so little time. God long preserve it and +make me thankful) for it! After finishing my Journal), then to discourse +and to read, and then to supper and to bed, my mind not being at full +ease, having not fully satisfied myself how Captain Cocke will deal with +me as to the share of the profits. + + + +25th. Found ourselves come to the fleete, and so aboard the Prince; and +there, after a good while in discourse, we did agree a bargain of L5,000 +with Sir Roger Cuttance for my Lord Sandwich for silk, cinnamon, +nutmeggs, and indigo. And I was near signing to an undertaking for the +payment of the whole sum; but I did by chance escape it; having since, +upon second thoughts, great cause to be glad of it, reflecting upon the +craft and not good condition, it may be, of Captain Cocke. I could get +no trifles for my wife. Anon to dinner and thence in great haste to make +a short visit to Sir W. Pen, where I found them and his lady and daughter +and many commanders at dinner. Among others Sir G. Askue, of whom +whatever the matter is, the world is silent altogether. But a very +pretty dinner there was, and after dinner Sir W. Pen made a bargain with +Cocke for ten bales of silke, at 16s. per lb., which, as Cocke says, will +be a good pennyworth, and so away to the Prince and presently comes my +Lord on board from Greenwich, with whom, after a little discourse about +his trusting of Cocke, we parted and to our yacht; but it being calme, we +to make haste, took our wherry toward Chatham; but, it growing darke, we +were put to great difficultys, our simple, yet confident waterman, not +knowing a step of the way; and we found ourselves to go backward and +forward, which, in the darke night and a wild place, did vex us mightily. +At last we got a fisher boy by chance, and took him into the boat, and +being an odde kind of boy, did vex us too; for he would not answer us +aloud when we spoke to him, but did carry us safe thither, though with a +mistake or two; but I wonder they were not more. In our way I was +[surprised] and so were we all, at the strange nature of the sea-water in +a darke night, that it seemed like fire upon every stroke of the oare, +and, they say, is a sign of winde. We went to the Crowne Inne, at +Rochester, and there to supper, and made ourselves merry with our poor +fisher-boy, who told us he had not been in a bed in the whole seven years +since he came to 'prentice, and hath two or three more years to serve. +After eating something, we in our clothes to bed. + + + +26th. Up by five o'clock and got post horses and so set out for +Greenwich, calling and drinking at Dartford. Being come to Greenwich and +shifting myself I to the office, from whence by and by my Lord Bruncker +and Sir J. Minnes set out toward Erith to take charge of the two East +India shipps, which I had a hand in contriving for the King's service and +may do myself a good office too thereby. I to dinner with Mr. Wright to +his father-in-law in Greenwich, one of the most silly, harmless, prating +old men that ever I heard in my life. Creed dined with me, and among +other discourses got of me a promise of half that he could get my Lord +Rutherford to give me upon clearing his business, which should not be +less, he says, than L50 for my half, which is a good thing, though +cunningly got of him. By and by Luellin comes, and I hope to get +something of Deering shortly. They being gone, Mr. Wright and I went +into the garden to discourse with much trouble for fear of losing all the +profit and principal of what we have laid out in buying of prize goods, +and therefore puts me upon thoughts of flinging up my interest, but yet I +shall take good advice first. Thence to the office, and after some +letters down to Woolwich, where I have not lain with my wife these eight +days I think, or more. After supper, and telling her my mind in my +trouble in what I have done as to buying' of these goods, we to bed. + + + +27th. Up, and saw and admired my wife's picture of our Saviour, + + [This picture by Mrs. Pepys may have given trouble when Pepys was + unjustifiably attacked for having Popish pictures in his house.] + +now finished, which is very pretty. So by water to Greenwich, where with +Creed and Lord Rutherford, and there my Lord told me that he would give +me L100 for my pains, which pleased me well, though Creed, like a cunning +rogue, hath got a promise of half of it from me. We to the King's Head, +the great musique house, the first time I was ever there, and had a good +breakfast, and thence parted, I being much troubled to hear from Creed, +that he was told at Salsbury that I am come to be a great swearer and +drinker, though I know the contrary; but, Lord! to see how my late little +drinking of wine is taken notice of by envious men to my disadvantage. +I thence to Captain Cocke's, [and] (he not yet come from town) to Mr. +Evelyn's, where much company; and thence in his coach with him to the +Duke of Albemarle by Lambeth, who was in a mighty pleasant humour; there +the Duke tells us that the Dutch do stay abroad, and our fleet must go +out again, or to be ready to do so. Here we got several things ordered +as we desired for the relief of the prisoners, and sick and wounded men. +Here I saw this week's Bill of Mortality, wherein, blessed be God! there +is above 1800 decrease, being the first considerable decrease we have +had. Back again the same way and had most excellent discourse of Mr. +Evelyn touching all manner of learning; wherein I find him a very fine +gentleman, and particularly of paynting, in which he tells me the +beautifull Mrs. Middleton is rare, and his own wife do brave things. He +brought me to the office, whither comes unexpectedly Captain Cocke, who +hath brought one parcel of our goods by waggons, and at first resolved to +have lodged them at our office; but then the thoughts of its being the +King's house altered our resolution, and so put them at his friend's, Mr. +Glanvill's, and there they are safe. Would the rest of them were so too! +In discourse, we come to mention my profit, and he offers me L500 clear, +and I demand L600 for my certain profit. We part to-night, and I lie +there at Mr. Glanvill's house, there being none there but a maydeservant +and a young man; being in some pain, partly from not knowing what to do +in this business, having a mind to be at a certainty in my profit, and +partly through his having Jacke sicke still, and his blackemore now also +fallen sicke. So he being gone, I to bed. + + + +28th. Up, and being mightily pleased with my night's lodging, drank a +cup of beer, and went out to my office, and there did some business, and +so took boat and down to Woolwich (having first made a visit to Madam +Williams, who is going down to my Lord Bruncker) and there dined, and +then fitted my papers and money and every thing else for a journey to +Nonsuch to-morrow. That being done I walked to Greenwich, and there to +the office pretty late expecting Captain Cocke's coming, which he did, +and so with me to my new lodging (and there I chose rather to lie because +of my interest in the goods that we have brought there to lie), but the +people were abed, so we knocked them up, and so I to bed, and in the +night was mightily troubled with a looseness (I suppose from some fresh +damp linen that I put on this night), and feeling for a chamber-pott, +there was none, I having called the mayde up out of her bed, she had +forgot I suppose to put one there; so I was forced in this strange house +to rise and shit in the chimney twice; and so to bed and was very well +again, and + + + +29th. To sleep till 5 o'clock, when it is now very dark, and then rose, +being called up by order by Mr. Marlow, and so up and dressed myself, and +by and by comes Mr. Lashmore on horseback, and I had my horse I borrowed +of Mr. Gillthropp, Sir W. Batten's clerke, brought to me, and so we set +out and rode hard and was at Nonsuch by about eight o'clock, a very fine +journey and a fine day. There I come just about chappell time and so I +went to chappell with them and thence to the several offices about my +tallys, which I find done, but strung for sums not to my purpose, and so +was forced to get them to promise me to have them cut into other sums. +But, Lord! what ado I had to persuade the dull fellows to it, especially +Mr. Warder, Master of the Pells, and yet without any manner of reason for +their scruple. But at last I did, and so left my tallies there against +another day, and so walked to Yowell, and there did spend a peece upon +them, having a whole house full, and much mirth by a sister of the +mistresse of the house, an old mayde lately married to a lieutenant of a +company that quarters there, and much pleasant discourse we had and, +dinner being done, we to horse again and come to Greenwich before night, +and so to my lodging, and there being a little weary sat down and fell to +order some of my pocket papers, and then comes Captain Cocke, and after a +great deal of discourse with him seriously upon the disorders of our +state through lack of men to mind the public business and to understand +it, we broke up, sitting up talking very late. We spoke a little of my +late business propounded of taking profit for my money laid out for these +goods, but he finds I rise in my demand, he offering me still L500 +certain. So we did give it over, and I to bed. I hear for certain this +night upon the road that Sir Martin Noell is this day dead of the plague +in London, where he hath lain sick of it these eight days. + + + +30th. Up and to the office, where busy all the morning, and at noon with +Sir W. Batten to Coll. Cleggat to dinner, being invited, where a very +pretty dinner to my full content and very merry. The great burden we +have upon us at this time at the office, is the providing for prisoners +and sicke men that are recovered, they lying before our office doors all +night and all day, poor wretches. Having been on shore, the captains +won't receive them on board, and other ships we have not to put them on, +nor money to pay them off, or provide for them. God remove this +difficulty! This made us followed all the way to this gentleman's house +and there are waited for our coming out after dinner. Hither come +Luellin to me and would force me to take Mr. Deering's 20 pieces in gold +he did offer me a good while since, which I did, yet really and sincerely +against my will and content, I seeing him a man not likely to do well in +his business, nor I to reap any comfort in having to do with, and be +beholden to, a man that minds more his pleasure and company than his +business. Thence mighty merry and much pleased with the dinner and +company and they with me I parted and there was set upon by the poor +wretches, whom I did give good words and some little money to, and the +poor people went away like lambs, and in good earnest are not to be +censured if their necessities drive them to bad courses of stealing or +the like, while they lacke wherewith to live. Thence to the office, and +there wrote a letter or two and dispatched a little business, and then to +Captain Cocke's, where I find Mr. Temple, the fat blade, Sir Robert. +Viner's chief man. And we three and two companions of his in the evening +by agreement took ship in the Bezan and the tide carried us no further +than Woolwich about 8 at night, and so I on shore to my wife, and there +to my great trouble find my wife out of order, and she took me downstairs +and there alone did tell me her falling out with both her mayds and +particularly Mary, and how Mary had to her teeth told her she would tell +me of something that should stop her mouth and words of that sense. +Which I suspect may be about Brown, but my wife prays me to call it to +examination, and this, I being of myself jealous, do make me mightily out +of temper, and seeing it not fit to enter into the dispute did +passionately go away, thinking to go on board again. But when I come to +the stairs I considered the Bezan would not go till the next ebb, and it +was best to lie in a good bed and, it may be, get myself into a better +humour by being with my wife. So I back again and to bed and having +otherwise so many reasons to rejoice and hopes of good profit, besides +considering the ill that trouble of mind and melancholly may in this +sickly time bring a family into, and that if the difference were never so +great, it is not a time to put away servants, I was resolved to salve up +the business rather than stir in it, and so become pleasant with my wife +and to bed, minding nothing of this difference. So to sleep with a good +deal of content, and saving only this night and a day or two about the +same business a month or six weeks ago, I do end this month with the +greatest content, and may say that these last three months, for joy, +health, and profit, have been much the greatest that ever I received in +all my life in any twelve months almost in my life, having nothing upon +me but the consideration of the sicklinesse of the season during this +great plague to mortify mee. For all which the Lord God be praised! + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +And feeling for a chamber-pott, there was none +Discourse of Mr. Evelyn touching all manner of learning +Fell to sleep as if angry +King himself minding nothing but his ease +Not to be censured if their necessities drive them to bad +Ordered him L2000, and he paid me my quantum out of it +Sicke men that are recovered, they lying before our office doors +Told us he had not been in a bed in the whole seven years + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v43 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + OCTOBER + 1665 + + +October 1st (Lord's day). Called up about 4 of the clock and so dressed +myself and so on board the Bezan, and there finding all my company asleep +I would not wake them, but it beginning to be break of day I did stay +upon the decke walking, and then into the Maister's cabbin and there laid +and slept a little, and so at last was waked by Captain Cocke's calling +of me, and so I turned out, and then to chat and talk and laugh, and +mighty merry. We spent most of the morning talking and reading of "The +Siege of Rhodes," which is certainly (the more I read it the more I think +so) the best poem that ever was wrote. We breakfasted betimes and come +to the fleete about two of the clock in the afternoon, having a fine day +and a fine winde. My Lord received us mighty kindly, and after discourse +with us in general left us to our business, and he to his officers, +having called a council of wary, we in the meantime settling of papers +with Mr. Pierce and everybody else, and by and by with Captain Cuttance. +Anon called down to my Lord, and there with him till supper talking and +discourse; among other things, to my great joy, he did assure me that he +had wrote to the King and Duke about these prize-goods, and told me that +they did approve of what he had done, and that he would owne what he had +done, and would have me to tell all the world so, and did, under his +hand, give Cocke and me his certificate of our bargains, and giving us +full power of disposal of what we have so bought. This do ease my mind +of all my fear, and makes my heart lighter by L100 than it was before. +He did discourse to us of the Dutch fleete being abroad, eighty-five of +them still, and are now at the Texell, he believes, in expectation of our +Eastland ships coming home with masts and hempe, and our loaden Hambrough +ships going to Hambrough. He discoursed against them that would have us +yield to no conditions but conquest over the Dutch, and seems to believe +that the Dutch will call for the protection of the King of France and +come under his power, which were to be wished they might be brought to do +under ours by fair means, and to that end would have all Dutch men and +familys, that would come hither and settled, to be declared denizens; and +my Lord did whisper to me alone that things here must break in pieces, +nobody minding any thing, but every man his owne business of profit or +pleasure, and the King some little designs of his owne, and that +certainly the kingdom could not stand in this condition long, which I +fear and believe is very true. So to supper and there my Lord the +kindest man to me, before all the table talking of me to my advantage and +with tenderness too that it overjoyed me. So after supper Captain Cocke +and I and Temple on board the Bezan, and there to cards for a while and +then to read again in "Rhodes" and so to sleep. But, Lord! the mirth +which it caused me to be waked in the night by their snoaring round about +me; I did laugh till I was ready to burst, and waked one of the two +companions of Temple, who could not a good while tell where he was that +he heard one laugh so, till he recollected himself, and I told him what +it was at, and so to sleep again, they still snoaring. + + + +2nd. We having sailed all night (and I do wonder how they in the dark +could find the way) we got by morning to Gillingham, and thence all +walked to Chatham; and there with Commissioner Pett viewed the Yard; and +among other things, a teame of four horses come close by us, he being +with me, drawing a piece of timber that I am confident one man could +easily have carried upon his back. I made the horses be taken away, and +a man or two to take the timber away with their hands. This the +Commissioner did see, but said nothing, but I think had cause to be +ashamed of. We walked, he and I and Cocke, to the Hill-house, where we +find Sir W. Pen in bed and there much talke and much dissembling of +kindnesse from him, but he is a false rogue, and I shall not trust him, +but my being there did procure his consent to have his silk carried away +before the money received, which he would not have done for Cocke I am +sure. Thence to Rochester, walked to the Crowne, and while dinner was +getting ready, I did there walk to visit the old Castle ruines, which +hath been a noble place, and there going up I did upon the stairs +overtake three pretty mayds or women and took them up with me, and I did +'baiser sur mouches et toucher leur mains' and necks to my great +pleasure: but, Lord! to see what a dreadfull thing it is to look down the +precipices, for it did fright me mightily, and hinder me of much pleasure +which I would have made to myself in the company of these three, if it +had not been for that. The place hath been very noble and great and +strong in former ages. So to walk up and down the Cathedral, and thence +to the Crowne, whither Mr. Fowler, the Mayor of the towne, was come in +his gowne, and is a very reverend magistrate. After I had eat a bit, not +staying to eat with them, I went away, and so took horses and to +Gravesend, and there staid not, but got a boat, the sicknesse being very +much in the towne still, and so called on board my Lord Bruncker and Sir +John Minnes, on board one of the East Indiamen at Erith, and there do +find them full of envious complaints for the pillageing of the ships, but +I did pacify them, and discoursed about making money of some of the +goods, and do hope to be the better by it honestly. So took leave (Madam +Williams being here also with my Lord), and about 8 o'clock got to +Woolwich and there supped and mighty pleasant with my wife, who is, for +ought I see, all friends with her mayds, and so in great joy and content +to bed. + + + +3rd. Up, and to my great content visited betimes by Mr. Woolly, my uncle +Wight's cozen, who comes to see what work I have for him about these East +India goods, and I do find that this fellow might have been of great use, +and hereafter may be of very great use to me, in this trade of prize +goods, and glad I am fully of his coming hither. While I dressed myself, +and afterwards in walking to Greenwich we did discourse over all the +business of the prize goods, and he puts me in hopes I may get some money +in what I have done, but not so much as I expected, but that I may +hereafter do more. We have laid a design of getting more, and are to +talk again of it a few days hence. To the office, where nobody to meet +me, Sir W. Batten being the only man and he gone this day to meet to +adjourne the Parliament to Oxford. Anon by appointment comes one to tell +me my Lord Rutherford is come; so I to the King's Head to him, where I +find his lady, a fine young Scotch lady, pretty handsome and plain. My +wife also, and Mercer, by and by comes, Creed bringing them; and so +presently to dinner and very merry; and after to even our accounts, and I +to give him tallys, where he do allow me L100, of which to my grief the +rogue Creed has trepanned me out of L50. But I do foresee a way how it +may be I may get a greater sum of my Lord to his content by getting him +allowance of interest upon his tallys. That being done, and some musique +and other diversions, at last away goes my Lord and Lady, and I sent my +wife to visit Mrs. Pierce, and so I to my office, where wrote important +letters to the Court, and at night (Creed having clownishly left my +wife), I to Mrs. Pierces and brought her and Mrs. Pierce to the King's +Head and there spent a piece upon a supper for her and mighty merry and +pretty discourse, she being as pretty as ever, most of our mirth being +upon "my Cozen" (meaning my Lord Bruncker's ugly mistress, whom he calls +cozen), and to my trouble she tells me that the fine Mrs. Middleton is +noted for carrying about her body a continued sour base smell, that is +very offensive, especially if she be a little hot. Here some bad musique +to close the night and so away and all of us saw Mrs. Belle Pierce (as +pretty as ever she was almost) home, and so walked to Will's lodging +where I used to lie, and there made shift for a bed for Mercer, and +mighty pleasantly to bed. This night I hear that of our two watermen +that use to carry our letters, and were well on Saturday last, one is +dead, and the other dying sick of the plague. The plague, though +decreasing elsewhere, yet being greater about the Tower and thereabouts. + + + +4th. Up and to my office, where Mr. Andrews comes, and reckoning with +him I get L64 of him. By and by comes Mr. Gawden, and reckoning with him +he gives me L60 in his account, which is a great mercy to me. Then both +of them met and discoursed the business of the first man's resigning and +the other's taking up the business of the victualling of Tangier, and I +do not think that I shall be able to do as well under Mr. Gawden as under +these men, or within a little as to profit and less care upon me. Thence +to the King's Head to dinner, where we three and Creed and my wife and +her woman dined mighty merry and sat long talking, and so in the +afternoon broke up, and I led my wife to our lodging again, and I to the +office where did much business, and so to my wife. This night comes Sir +George Smith to see me at the office, and tells me how the plague is +decreased this week 740, for which God be praised! but that it encreases +at our end of the town still, and says how all the towne is full of +Captain Cocke's being in some ill condition about prize-goods, his goods +being taken from him, and I know not what. But though this troubles me +to have it said, and that it is likely to be a business in Parliament, +yet I am not much concerned at it, because yet I believe this newes is +all false, for he would have wrote to me sure about it. Being come to my +wife, at our lodging, I did go to bed, and left my wife with her people +to laugh and dance and I to sleep. + + + +5th. Lay long in bed talking among other things of my sister Pall, and +my wife of herself is very willing that I should give her L400 to her +portion, and would have her married soon as we could; but this great +sicknesse time do make it unfit to send for her up. I abroad to the +office and thence to the Duke of Albemarle, all my way reading a book of +Mr. Evelyn's translating and sending me as a present, about directions +for gathering a Library; + + [Instructions concerning erecting of a Library, presented to my + Lord the President De Mesme by Gilbert Naudeus, and now interpreted + by Jo. Evelyn, Esquire. London, 1661: This little book was + dedicated to Lord Clarendon by the translator. It was printed while + Evelyn was abroad, and is full of typographical errors; these are + corrected in a copy mentioned in Evelyn's "Miscellaneous Writings," + 1825, p. xii, where a letter to Dr. Godolphin on the subject is + printed.] + +but the book is above my reach, but his epistle to my Lord Chancellor is +a very fine piece. When I come to the Duke it was about the victuallers' +business, to put it into other hands, or more hands, which I do advise +in, but I hope to do myself a jobb of work in it. So I walked through +Westminster to my old house the Swan, and there did pass some time with +Sarah, and so down by water to Deptford and there to my Valentine. + + [A Mrs. Bagwell. See ante, February 14th, 1664-65] + +Round about and next door on every side is the plague, but I did not +value it, but there did what I would 'con elle', and so away to Mr. +Evelyn's to discourse of our confounded business of prisoners, and sick +and wounded seamen, wherein he and we are so much put out of order. + + [Each of the Commissioners for the Sick and Wounded was appointed to + a particular district, and Evelyn's district was Kent and Sussex. + On September 25th, 1665, Evelyn wrote in his Diary: "My Lord Admiral + being come from ye fleete to Greenewich, I went thence with him to + ye Cockpit to consult with the Duke of Albemarle. I was peremptory + that unlesse we had L10,000 immediately, the prisoners would starve, + and 'twas proposed it should be rais'd out of the E. India prizes + now taken by Lord Sandwich. They being but two of ye Commission, + and so not impower'd to determine, sent an expresse to his Majesty + and Council to know what they should do."] + +And here he showed me his gardens, which are for variety of evergreens, +and hedge of holly, the finest things I ever saw in my life. + + [Evelyn purchased Sayes Court, Deptford, in 1653, and laid out his + gardens, walks, groves, enclosures, and plantations, which + afterwards became famous for their beauty. When he took the place + in hand it was nothing but an open field of one hundred acres, with + scarcely a hedge in it.] + +Thence in his coach to Greenwich, and there to my office, all the way +having fine discourse of trees and the nature of vegetables. And so to +write letters, I very late to Sir W. Coventry of great concernment, and +so to my last night's lodging, but my wife is gone home to Woolwich. The +Bill, blessed be God! is less this week by 740 of what it was the last +week. Being come to my lodging I got something to eat, having eat little +all the day, and so to bed, having this night renewed my promises of +observing my vowes as I used to do; for I find that, since I left them +off, my mind is run a'wool-gathering and my business neglected. + + + +6th. Up, and having sent for Mr. Gawden he come to me, and he and I +largely discoursed the business of his Victualling, in order to the +adding of partners to him or other ways of altering it, wherein I find +him ready to do anything the King would have him do. So he and I took +his coach and to Lambeth and to the Duke of Albemarle about it, and so +back again, where he left me. In our way discoursing of the business and +contracting a great friendship with him, and I find he is a man most +worthy to be made a friend, being very honest and gratefull, and in the +freedom of our discourse he did tell me his opinion and knowledge of Sir +W. Pen to be, what I know him to be, as false a man as ever was born, for +so, it seems, he hath been to him. He did also tell me, discoursing how +things are governed as to the King's treasure, that, having occasion for +money in the country, he did offer Alderman Maynell to pay him down money +here, to be paid by the Receiver in some county in the country, upon whom +Maynell had assignments, in whose hands the money also lay ready. But +Maynell refused it, saying that he could have his money when he would, +and had rather it should lie where it do than receive it here in towne +this sickly time, where he hath no occasion for it. But now the evil is +that he hath lent this money upon tallys which are become payable, but he +finds that nobody looks after it, how long the money is unpaid, and +whether it lies dead in the Receiver's hands or no, so the King he pays +Maynell 10 per cent. while the money lies in his Receiver's hands to no +purpose but the benefit of the Receiver. I to dinner to the King's Head +with Mr. Woolly, who is come to instruct me in the business of my goods, +but gives me not so good comfort as I thought I should have had. But, +however, it will be well worth my time though not above 2 or L300. He +gone I to my office, where very busy drawing up a letter by way of +discourse to the Duke of Albemarle about my conception how the business +of the Victualling should be ordered, wherein I have taken great pains, +and I think have hitt the right if they will but follow it. At this very +late and so home to our lodgings to bed. + + + +7th. Up and to the office along with Mr. Childe, whom I sent for to +discourse about the victualling business, who will not come into +partnership (no more will Captain Beckford ), but I do find him a mighty +understanding man, and one I will keep a knowledge of. Did business, +though not much, at the office; because of the horrible crowd and +lamentable moan of the poor seamen that lie starving in the streets for +lack of money. Which do trouble and perplex me to the heart; and more at +noon when we were to go through them, for then a whole hundred of them +followed us; some cursing, some swearing, and some praying to us. And +that that made me more troubled was a letter come this afternoon from the +Duke of Albemarle, signifying the Dutch to be in sight, with 80 sayle, +yesterday morning, off of Solebay, coming right into the bay. God knows +what they will and may do to us, we having no force abroad able to oppose +them, but to be sacrificed to them. Here come Sir W. Rider to me, whom I +sent for about the victualling business also, but he neither will not +come into partnership, but desires to be of the Commission if there be +one. Thence back the back way to my office, where very late, very busy. +But most of all when at night come two waggons from Rochester with more +goods from Captain Cocke; and in houseing them at Mr. Tooker's lodgings +come two of the Custome-house to seize them, and did seize them but I +showed them my 'Transire'. However, after some hot and angry words, we +locked them up, and sealed up the key, and did give it to the constable +to keep till Monday, and so parted. But, Lord! to think how the poor +constable come to me in the dark going home; "Sir," says he, "I have the +key, and if you would have me do any service for you, send for me betimes +to-morrow morning, and I will do what you would have me." Whether the +fellow do this out of kindness or knavery, I cannot tell; but it is +pretty to observe. Talking with him in the high way, come close by the +bearers with a dead corpse of the plague; but, Lord! to see what custom +is, that I am come almost to think nothing of it. So to my lodging, and +there, with Mr. Hater and Will, ending a business of the state of the +last six months' charge of the Navy, which we bring to L1,000,000 and +above, and I think we do not enlarge much in it if anything. So to bed. + + + +8th (Lord's day). Up and, after being trimmed, to the office, whither I +upon a letter from the Duke of Albemarle to me, to order as many ships +forth out of the river as I can presently, to joyne to meet the Dutch; +having ordered all the Captains of the ships in the river to come to me, +I did some business with them, and so to Captain Cocke's to dinner, he +being in the country. But here his brother Solomon was, and, for guests, +myself, Sir G. Smith, and a very fine lady, one Mrs. Penington, and two +more gentlemen. But, both [before] and after dinner, most witty +discourse with this lady, who is a very fine witty lady, one of the best +I ever heard speake, and indifferent handsome. There after dinner an +houre or two, and so to the office, where ended my business with the +Captains; and I think of twenty-two ships we shall make shift to get out +seven. (God helpe us! men being sick, or provisions lacking.) And so to +write letters to Sir Ph. Warwicke, Sir W. Coventry, and Sir G. Carteret +to Court about the last six months' accounts, and sent away by an express +to-night. This day I hear the Pope is dead;--[a false report]--and one +said, that the newes is, that the King of France is stabbed, but that the +former is very true, which will do great things sure, as to the troubling +of that part of the world, the King of Spayne + + [Philip IV., King of Spain, who succeeded to the throne in 1621, + died in 1665. He was succeeded by his son Charles II.] + +being so lately dead. And one thing more, Sir Martin Noell's lady is +dead with griefe for the death of her husband and nothing else, as they +say, in the world; but it seems nobody can make anything of his estate, +whether he be dead worth anything or no, he having dealt in so many +things, publique and private, as nobody can understand whereabouts his +estate is, which is the fate of these great dealers at everything. So +after my business being done I home to my lodging and to bed, + + + +9th. Up, my head full of business, and called upon also by Sir John +Shaw, to whom I did give a civil answer about our prize goods, that all +his dues as one of the Farmers of the Customes are paid, and showed him +our Transire; with which he was satisfied, and parted, ordering his +servants to see the weight of them. I to the office, and there found an +order for my coming presently to the Duke of Albemarle, and what should +it be, but to tell me, that, if my Lord Sandwich do not come to towne, he +do resolve to go with the fleete to sea himself, the Dutch, as he thinks, +being in the Downes, and so desired me to get a pleasure boat for to take +him in to-morrow morning, and do many other things, and with a great +liking of me, and my management especially, as that coxcombe my Lord +Craven do tell me, and I perceive it, and I am sure take pains enough to +deserve it. Thence away and to the office at London, where I did some +business about my money and private accounts, and there eat a bit of +goose of Mr. Griffin's, and so by water, it raining most miserably, to +Greenwich, calling on several vessels in my passage. Being come there I +hear another seizure hath been made of our goods by one Captain Fisher +that hath been at Chatham by warrant of the Duke of Albemarle, and is +come in my absence to Tooker's and viewed them, demanding the key of the +constable, and so sealed up the door. I to the house, but there being no +officers nor constable could do nothing, but back to my office full of +trouble about this, and there late about business, vexed to see myself +fall into this trouble and concernment in a thing that I want instruction +from my Lord Sandwich whether I should appear in it or no, and so home to +bed, having spent two hours, I and my boy, at Mr. Glanvill's removing of +faggots to make room to remove our goods to, but when done I thought it +not fit to use it. The newes of the killing of the [King of] France is +wholly untrue, and they say that of the Pope too. + + + +10th. Up, and receive a stop from the Duke of Albemarle of setting out +any more ships, or providing a pleasure boat for himself, which I am glad +of, and do see, what I thought yesterday, that this resolution of his was +a sudden one and silly. By and by comes Captain Cocke's Jacob to tell me +that he is come from Chatham this morning, and that there are four +waggons of goods at hand coming to towne, which troubles me. I directed +him to bring them to his master's house. But before I could send him +away to bring them thither, newes is brought me that they are seized on +in the towne by this Captain Fisher and they will carry them to another +place. So I to them and found our four waggons in the streete stopped by +the church by this Fisher and company and 100 or 200 people in the +streetes gazing. I did give them good words, and made modest desires of +carrying the goods to Captain Cocke's, but they would have them to a +house of their hiring, where in a barne the goods were laid. I had +transires to show for all, and the tale was right, and there I spent all +the morning seeing this done. At which Fisher was vexed that I would not +let it be done by any body else for the merchant, and that I must needs +be concerned therein, which I did not think fit to owne. So that being +done, I left the goods to be watched by men on their part and ours, and +so to the office by noon, whither by and by comes Captain Cocke, whom I +had with great care sent for by expresse the last night, and so I with +him to his house and there eat a bit, and so by coach to Lambeth, and I +took occasion first to go to the Duke of Albemarle to acquaint him with +some thing of what had been done this morning in behalf of a friend +absent, which did give a good entrance and prevented their possessing the +Duke with anything of evil of me by their report, and by and by in comes. +Captain Cocke and tells his whole story. So an order was made for the +putting him in possession upon giving security to, be accountable for the +goods, which for the present did satisfy us, and so away, giving Locke +that drew the order a piece. (Lord! to see how unhappily a man may fall +into a necessity of bribing people to do him right in a thing, wherein he +hath done nothing but fair, and bought dear.) So to the office, there to +write my letters, and Cocke comes to tell me that Fisher is come to him, +and that he doubts not to cajole Fisher and his companion and make them +friends with drink and a bribe. This night comes Sir Christopher Mings +to towne, and I went to see him, and by and by he being then out of the +town comes to see me. He is newly come from Court, and carries direction +for the making a show of getting out the fleete again to go fight the +Dutch, but that it will end in a fleete of 20 good sayling frigates to go +to the Northward or Southward, and that will be all. I enquired, but he +would not be to know that he had heard any thing at Oxford about the +business of the prize goods, which I did suspect, but he being gone, anon +comes Cocke and tells me that he hath been with him a great while, and +that he finds him sullen and speaking very high what disrespect he had +received of my Lord, saying that he hath walked 3 or 4 hours together at +that Earle's cabbin door for audience and could not be received, which, +if true, I am sorry for. He tells me that Sir G. Ascue says, that he did +from the beginning declare against these [prize] goods, and would not +receive his dividend; and that he and Sir W. Pen are at odds about it, +and that he fears Mings hath been doing ill offices to my Lord. I did +to-night give my Lord an account of all this, and so home and to bed. + + + +11th. Up, and so in my chamber staid all the morning doing something +toward my Tangier accounts, for the stating of them, and also comes up my +landlady, Mrs. Clerke, to make an agreement for the time to come; and I, +for the having room enough, and to keepe out strangers, and to have a +place to retreat to for my wife, if the sicknesse should come to +Woolwich, am contented to pay dear; so for three rooms and a dining-room, +and for linen and bread and beer and butter, at nights and mornings, I am +to give her L5 10s. per month, and I wrote and we signed to an +agreement. By and by comes Cocke to tell me that Fisher and his fellow +were last night mightily satisfied and promised all friendship, but this +morning he finds them to have new tricks and shall be troubled with them. +So he being to go down to Erith with them this afternoon about giving +security, I advised him to let them go by land, and so he and I (having +eat something at his house) by water to Erith, but they got thither +before us, and there we met Mr. Seymour, one of the Commissioners for +Prizes, and a Parliament-man, and he was mighty high, and had now seized +our goods on their behalf; and he mighty imperiously would have all +forfeited, and I know not what. I thought I was in the right in a thing +I said and spoke somewhat earnestly, so we took up one another very +smartly, for which I was sorry afterwards, shewing thereby myself too +much concerned, but nothing passed that I valued at all. But I could not +but think [it odd] that a Parliament-man, in a serious discourse before +such persons as we and my Lord Bruncker, and Sir John Minnes, should +quote Hudibras, as being the book I doubt he hath read most. They I +doubt will stand hard for high security, and Cocke would have had me +bound with him for his appearing, but I did stagger at it, besides +Seymour do stop the doing it at all till he has been with the Duke of +Albemarle. So there will be another demurre. It growing late, and I +having something to do at home, took my leave alone, leaving Cocke there +for all night, and so against tide and in the darke and very cold weather +to Woolwich, where we had appointed to keepe the night merrily; and so, +by Captain Cocke's coach, had brought a very pretty child, a daughter of +one Mrs. Tooker's, next door to my lodging, and so she, and a daughter +and kinsman of Mrs. Pett's made up a fine company at my lodgings at +Woolwich, where my wife and Mercer, and Mrs. Barbara danced, and mighty +merry we were, but especially at Mercer's dancing a jigg, which she does +the best I ever did see, having the most natural way of it, and keeps +time the most perfectly I ever did see. This night is kept in lieu of +yesterday, for my wedding day of ten years; for which God be praised! +being now in an extreme good condition of health and estate and honour, +and a way of getting more money, though at this houre under some +discomposure, rather than damage, about some prize goods that I have +bought off the fleete, in partnership with Captain Cocke; and for the +discourse about the world concerning my Lord Sandwich, that he hath done +a thing so bad; and indeed it must needs have been a very rash act; and +the rather because of a Parliament now newly met to give money, and will +have some account of what hath already been spent, besides the precedent +for a General to take what prizes he pleases, and the giving a pretence +to take away much more than he intended, and all will lie upon him; and +not giving to all the Commanders, as well as the Flaggs, he displeases. +all them, and offends even some of them, thinking others to be better +served than themselves; and lastly, puts himself out of a power of +begging anything again a great while of the King. Having danced with my +people as long as I saw fit to sit up, I to bed and left them to do what +they would. I forgot that we had W. Hewer there, and Tom, and Golding, +my barber at Greenwich, for our fiddler, to whom I did give 10s. + + + +12th. Called up before day, and so I dressed myself and down, it being +horrid cold, by water to my Lord Bruncker's ship, who advised me to do +so, and it was civilly to show me what the King had commanded about the +prize-goods, to examine most severely all that had been done in the +taking out any with or without order, without respect to my Lord Sandwich +at all, and that he had been doing of it, and find him examining one man, +and I do find that extreme ill use was made of my Lord's order. For they +did toss and tumble and spoil, and breake things in hold to a great losse +and shame to come at the fine goods, and did take a man that knows where +the fine goods were, and did this over and over again for many days, Sir +W. Berkeley being the chief hand that did it, but others did the like at +other times, and they did say in doing it that my Lord Sandwich's back +was broad enough to bear it. Having learned as much as I could, which +was, that the King and Duke were very severe in this point, whatever +order they before had given my Lord in approbation of what he had done, +and that all will come out and the King see, by the entries at the +Custome House, what all do amount to that had been taken, and so I took +leave, and by water, very cold, and to Woolwich where it was now noon, +and so I staid dinner and talking part of the afternoon, and then by +coach, Captain Cocke's, to Greenwich, taking the young lady home, and so +to Cocke, and he tells me that he hath cajolled with Seymour, who will be +our friend; but that, above all, Seymour tells him, that my Lord Duke did +shew him to-day an order from Court, for having all respect paid to the +Earle of Sandwich, and what goods had been delivered by his order, which +do overjoy us, and that to-morrow our goods shall be weighed, and he +doubts not possession to-morrow or next day. Being overjoyed at this I +to write my letters, and at it very late. Good newes this week that +there are about 600 less dead of the plague than the last. So home to +bed. + + + +13th. Lay long, and this morning comes Sir Jer. Smith + + [Captain Jeremiah Smith (or Smyth), knighted June, 1665; Admiral of + the Blue in 1666. He succeeded Sir William Penn as Comptroller of + the Victualling Accounts in 1669, and held the office until 1675.] + +to see me in his way to Court, and a good man he is, and one that I must +keep fair with, and will, it being I perceive my interest to have +kindnesse with the Commanders. So to the office, and there very busy +till about noon comes Sir W. Warren, and he goes and gets a bit of meat +ready at the King's Head for us, and I by and by thither, and we dined +together, and I am not pleased with him about a little business of +Tangier that I put to him to do for me, but however, the hurt is not +much, and his other matters of profit to me continue very likely to be +good. Here we spent till 2 o'clock, and so I set him on shore, and I by +water to the Duke of Albemarle, where I find him with Lord Craven and +Lieutenant of the Tower about him; among other things, talking of ships +to get of the King to fetch coles for the poore of the city, which is a +good worke. But, Lord! to hear the silly talke between these three great +people! Yet I have no reason to find fault, the Duke and Lord Craven +being my very great friends. Here did the business I come about, and so +back home by water, and there Cocke comes to me and tells me that he is +come to an understanding with Fisher, and that he must give him L100, and +that he shall have his goods in possession to-morrow, they being all +weighed to-day, which pleases me very well. This day the Duke tells me +that there is no news heard of the Dutch, what they do or where they are, +but believes that they are all gone home, for none of our spyes can give +us any tideings of them. Cocke is fain to keep these people, Fisher and +his fellow, company night and day to keep them friends almost and great +troubles withal. My head is full of settling the victualling business +also, that I may make some profit out of it, which I hope justly to do to +the King's advantage. To-night come Sir J. Bankes to me upon my letter +to discourse it with him, and he did give me the advice I have taken +almost as fully as if I had been directed by him what to write. The +business also of my Tangier accounts to be sent to Court is upon my hands +in great haste; besides, all my owne proper accounts are in great +disorder, having been neglected now above a month, which grieves me, but +it could not be settled sooner. These together and the feare of the +sicknesse and providing for my family do fill my head very full, besides +the infinite business of the office, and nobody here to look after it but +myself. So late from my office to my lodgings, and to bed. + + + +14th. Up, and to the office, where mighty busy, especially with Mr. +Gawden, with whom I shall, I think, have much to do, and by and by comes +the Lieutenant of the Tower by my invitation yesterday, but I had got +nothing for him, it is to discourse about the Cole shipps. So he went +away to Sheriffe Hooker's, and I staid at the office till he sent for me +at noon to dinner, I very hungry. When I come to the Sheriffe's he was +not there, nor in many other places, nor could find him at all, so was +forced to come to the office and get a bit of meat from the taverne, and +so to my business. By and by comes the Lieutenant and reproaches me with +my not treating him as I ought, but all in jest, he it seemed dined with +Mr. Adrian May. Very late writing letters at the office, and much +satisfied to hear from Captain Cocke that he had got possession of some +of his goods to his own house, and expected to have all to-night. The +towne, I hear, is full of talke that there are great differences in the +fleete among the great Commanders, and that Mings at Oxford did impeach +my Lord of something, I think about these goods, but this is but talke. +But my heart and head to-night is full of the Victualling business, being +overjoyed and proud at my success in my proposal about it, it being read +before the King, Duke, and the Caball with complete applause and +satisfaction. This Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Coventry both writ me, +besides Sir W. Coventry's letter to the Duke of Albemarle, which I read +yesterday, and I hope to find my profit in it also. So late home to bed. + + + +15th (Lord's day). Up, and while I staid for the barber, tried to +compose a duo of counterpoint, and I think it will do very well, it being +by Mr. Berckenshaw's rule. By and by by appointment comes Mr. Povy's +coach, and, more than I expected, him himself, to fetch me to Brainford: +so he and I immediately set out, having drunk a draft of mulled sacke; +and so rode most nobly, in his most pretty and best contrived charriott +in the world, with many new conveniences, his never having till now, +within a day or two, been yet finished; our discourse upon Tangier +business, want of money, and then of publique miscarriages, nobody +minding the publique, but every body himself and his lusts. Anon we come +to his house, and there I eat a bit, and so with fresh horses, his noble +fine horses, the best confessedly in England, the King having none such, +he sent me to Sir Robert Viner's, whom I met coming just from church, and +so after having spent half-an-hour almost looking upon the horses with +some gentlemen that were in company, he and I into his garden to +discourse of money, but none is to be had, he confessing himself in great +straits, and I believe it. Having this answer, and that I could not get +better, we fell to publique talke, and to think how the fleete and seamen +will be paid, which he protests he do not think it possible to compass, +as the world is now: no money got by trade, nor the persons that have it +by them in the City to be come at. The Parliament, it seems, have voted +the King L1,250,000 at L50,000 per month, tax for the war; and voted to +assist the King against the Dutch, and all that shall adhere to them; and +thanks to be given him for his care of the Duke of Yorke, which last is a +very popular vote on the Duke's behalf. He tells me how the taxes of the +last assessment, which should have been in good part gathered, are not +yet laid, and that even in part of the City of London; and the Chimny- +money comes almost to nothing, nor any thing else looked after. Having +done this I parted, my mind not eased by any money, but only that I had +done my part to the King's service. And so in a very pleasant evening +back to Mr. Povy's, and there supped, and after supper to talke and to +sing, his man Dutton's wife singing very pleasantly (a mighty fat woman), +and I wrote out one song from her and pricked the tune, both very pretty. +But I did never heare one sing with so much pleasure to herself as this +lady do, relishing it to her very heart, which was mighty pleasant. + + + +16th. Up about seven o'clock; and, after drinking, and I observing Mr. +Povy's being mightily mortifyed in his eating and drinking, and coaches +and horses, he desiring to sell his best, and every thing else, his +furniture of his house, he walked with me to Syon, + + [Sion House, granted by Edward VI. to his uncle, the Duke of + Somerset. After his execution, 1552, it was forfeited, and given to + John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland. The duke being beheaded in + 1553, it reverted to the Crown, and was granted in 1604 to Henry + Percy, Earl of Northumberland. It still belongs to the Duke of + Northumberland.] + +and there I took water, in our way he discoursing of the wantonnesse of +the Court, and how it minds nothing else, and I saying that that would +leave the King shortly if he did not leave it, he told me "No," for the +King do spend most of his time in feeling and kissing them naked . . . +But this lechery will never leave him. Here I took boat (leaving him +there) and down to the Tower, where I hear the Duke of Albemarle is, and +I to Lumbard Streete, but can get no money. So upon the Exchange, which +is very empty, God knows! and but mean people there. The newes for +certain that the Dutch are come with their fleete before Margett, and +some men were endeavouring to come on shore when the post come away, +perhaps to steal some sheep. But, Lord! how Colvill talks of the +businesse of publique revenue like a madman, and yet I doubt all true; +that nobody minds it, but that the King and Kingdom must speedily be +undone, and rails at my Lord about the prizes, but I think knows not my +relation to him. Here I endeavoured to satisfy all I could, people about +Bills of Exchange from Tangier, but it is only with good words, for money +I have not, nor can get. God knows what will become of all the King's +matters in a little time, for he runs in debt every day, and nothing to +pay them looked after. Thence I walked to the Tower; but, Lord! how +empty the streets are and melancholy, so many poor sick people in the +streets full of sores; and so many sad stories overheard as I walk, every +body talking of this dead, and that man sick, and so many in this place, +and so many in that. And they tell me that, in Westminster, there is +never a physician and but one apothecary left, all being dead; but that +there are great hopes of a great decrease this week: God send it! At the +Tower found my Lord Duke and Duchesse at dinner; so I sat down. And much +good cheer, the Lieutenant and his lady, and several officers with the +Duke. But, Lord! to hear the silly talk that was there, would make one +mad; the Duke having none almost but fools about him. Much of their +talke about the Dutch coming on shore, which they believe they may some +of them have been and steal sheep, and speak all in reproach of them in +whose hands the fleete is; but, Lord helpe him, there is something will +hinder him and all the world in going to sea, which is want of victuals; +for we have not wherewith to answer our service; and how much better it +would have been if the Duke's advice had been taken for the fleete to +have gone presently out; but, God helpe the King! while no better +counsels are given, and what is given no better taken. Thence after +dinner receiving many commands from the Duke, I to our office on the +Hill, and there did a little business and to Colvill's again, and so took +water at the Tower, and there met with Captain Cocke, and he down with me +to Greenwich, I having received letters from my Lord Sandwich to-day, +speaking very high about the prize goods, that he would have us to fear +nobody, but be very confident in what we have done, and not to confess +any fault or doubt of what he hath done; for the King hath allowed it, +and do now confirm it, and sent orders, as he says, for nothing to be +disturbed that his Lordshipp hath ordered therein as to the division of +the goods to the fleete; which do comfort us, but my Lord writes to me +that both he and I may hence learn by what we see in this business. But +that which pleases me best is that Cocke tells me that he now understands +that Fisher was set on in this business by the design of some of the Duke +of Albemarle's people, Warcupp and others, who lent him money to set him +out in it, and he has spent high. Who now curse him for a rogue to take +L100 when he might have had as well L1,500, and they are mightily fallen +out about it. Which in due time shall be discovered, but that now that +troubles me afresh is, after I am got to the office at Greenwich that +some new troubles are come, and Captain Cocke's house is beset before and +behind with guards, and more, I do fear they may come to my office here +to search for Cocke's goods and find some small things of my clerk's. So +I assisted them in helping to remove their small trade, but by and by I +am told that it is only the Custome House men who came to seize the +things that did lie at Mr. Glanville's, for which they did never yet see +our Transire, nor did know of them till to-day. So that my fear is now +over, for a transire is ready for them. Cocke did get a great many of +his goods to London to-day. To the Still Yarde, which place, however, is +now shut up of the plague; but I was there, and we now make no bones of +it. Much talke there is of the Chancellor's speech and the King's at the +Parliament's meeting, which are very well liked; and that we shall +certainly, by their speeches, fall out with France at this time, together +with the Dutch, which will find us work. Late at the office entering my +Journall for 8 days past, the greatness of my business hindering me of +late to put it down daily, but I have done it now very true and +particularly, and hereafter will, I hope, be able to fall into my old way +of doing it daily. So to my lodging, and there had a good pullet to my +supper, and so to bed, it being very cold again, God be thanked for it! + + + +17th. Up, and all day long busy at the office, mighty busy, only stepped +to my lodging and had a fowl for my dinner, and at night my wife and +Mercer comes to me, which troubled me a little because I am to be mighty +busy to-morrow all day seriously about my accounts. So late from my +office to her, and supped, and so to bed. + + + +18th. Up, and after some pleasant discourse with my wife (though my head +full of business) I out and left her to go home, and myself to the +office, and thence by water to the Duke of Albemarle's, and so back again +and find my wife gone. So to my chamber at my lodgings, and to the +making of my accounts up of Tangier, which I did with great difficulty, +finding the difference between short and long reckonings where I have had +occasion to mix my moneys, as I have of late done my Tangier treasure +upon other occasions, and other moneys upon that. However, I was at it +late and did it pretty perfectly, and so, after eating something, to bed, +my mind eased of a great deal of figures and castings. + + + +19th. Up, and to my accounts again, and stated them very clear and fair, +and at noon dined at my lodgings with Mr. Hater and W. Hewer at table +with me, I being come to an agreement yesterday with my landlady for L6 +per month, for so many rooms for myself, them, and my wife and mayde, +when she shall come, and to pay besides for my dyett. After dinner I did +give them my accounts and letters to write against I went to the Duke of +Albemarle's this evening, which I did; and among other things, spoke to +him for my wife's brother, Balty, to be of his guard, which he kindly +answered that he should. My business of the Victualling goes on as I +would have it; and now my head is full how to make some profit of it to +myself or people. To that end, when I came home, I wrote a letter to Mr. +Coventry, offering myself to be the Surveyor Generall, and am apt to +think he will assist me in it, but I do not set my heart much on it, +though it would be a good helpe. So back to my office, and there till +past one before I could get all these letters and papers copied out, +which vexed me, but so sent them away without hopes of saving the post, +and so to my lodging to bed. + + + +20th. Up, and had my last night's letters brought back to me, which +troubles me, because of my accounts, lest they should be asked for before +they come, which I abhorr, being more ready to give than they can be to +demand them: so I sent away an expresse to Oxford with them, and another +to Portsmouth, with a copy of my letter to Mr. Coventry about my +victualling business, for fear he should be gone from Oxford, as he +intended, thither. So busy all the morning and at noon to Cocke, and +dined there. He and I alone, vexed that we are not rid of all our +trouble about our goods, but it is almost over, and in the afternoon to +my lodging, and there spent the whole afternoon and evening with Mr. +Hater, discoursing of the business of the office, where he tells me that +among others Thomas Willson do now and then seem to hint that I do take +too much business upon me, more than I can do, and that therefore some do +lie undone. This I confess to my trouble is true, but it arises from my +being forced to take so much on me, more than is my proper task to +undertake. But for this at last I did advise to him to take another +clerk if he thinks fit, I will take care to have him paid. I discoursed +also much with him about persons fit to be put into the victualling +business, and such as I could spare something out of their salaries for +them, but without trouble I cannot, I see, well do it, because Thomas +Willson must have the refusal of the best place which is London of L200 +per annum, which I did intend for Tooker, and to get L50 out of it as a +help to Mr. Hater. How[ever], I will try to do something of this kind +for them. Having done discourse with him late, I to enter my Tangier +accounts fair, and so to supper and to bed. + + + +21 st. Up, and to my office, where busy all the morning, and then with +my two clerks home to dinner, and so back again to the office, and there +very late very busy, and so home to supper and to bed. + + + +22nd (Lord's day). Up, and after ready and going to Captain Cocke's, +where I find we are a little further safe in some part of our goods, +I to Church, in my way was meeting with some letters, which made me +resolve to go after church to my Lord Duke of Albemarle's, so, after +sermon, I took Cocke's chariott, and to Lambeth; but, in going and +getting over the water, and through White Hall, I spent so much time, the +Duke had almost dined. However, fresh meat was brought for me to his +table, and there I dined, and full of discourse and very kind. Here they +are again talking of the prizes, and my Lord Duke did speake very broad +that my Lord Sandwich and Pen should do what they would, and answer for +themselves. For his part, he would lay all before the King. Here he +tells me the Dutch Embassador at Oxford is clapped up, but since I hear +it is not true. Thence back again, it being evening before I could get +home, and there Cocke not being within, I and Mr. Salomon to Mr. +Glanville's, and there we found Cocke and sat and supped, and was mighty +merry with only Madam Penington, who is a fine, witty lady. Here we +spent the evening late with great mirth, and so home and to bed. + + + +23rd. Up, and after doing some business I down by water, calling to see +my wife, with whom very merry for ten minutes, and so to Erith, where my +Lord Bruncker and I kept the office, and dispatched some business by +appointment on the Bezan. Among other things about the slopsellers, who +have trusted us so long, they are not able, nor can be expected to trust +us further, and I fear this winter the fleete will be undone by that +particular. Thence on board the East India ship, where my Lord Bruncker +had provided a great dinner, and thither comes by and by Sir John Minnes +and before him Sir W. Warren and anon a Perspective glasse maker, of whom +we, every one, bought a pocket glasse. But I am troubled with the much +talke and conceitedness of Mrs. Williams and her impudence, in case she +be not married to my Lord. They are getting themselves ready to deliver +the goods all out to the East India Company, who are to have the goods in +their possession and to advance two thirds of the moderate value thereof +and sell them as well as they can and the King to give them 6 per cent. +for the use of the money they shall so advance. By this means the +company will not suffer by the King's goods bringing down the price of +their own. Thence in the evening back again with Sir W. Warren and +Captain Taylor in my boat, and the latter went with me to the office, and +there he and I reckoned; and I perceive I shall get L100 profit by my +services of late to him, which is a very good thing. Thence to my +lodging, where I find my Lord Rutherford, of which I was glad. We supped +together and sat up late, he being a mighty wanton man with a daughter in +law of my landlady's, a pretty conceited woman big with child, and he +would be handling her breasts, which she coyly refused. But they gone, +my Lord and I to business, and he would have me forbear paying Alderman +Backewell the money ordered him, which I, in hopes to advantage myself, +shall forbear, but do not think that my Lord will do any thing gratefully +more to me than he hath done, not that I shall get any thing as I +pretended by helping him to interest for his last L7700, which I could +do, and do him a courtesy too. Discourse being done, he to bed in my +chamber and I to another in the house. + + + +24th. Lay long, having a cold. Then to my Lord and sent him going to +Oxford, and I to my office, whither comes Sir William Batten now newly +from Oxford. I can gather nothing from him about my Lord Sandwich about +the business of the prizes, he being close, but he shewed me a bill which +hath been read in the House making all breaking of bulke for the time to +come felony, but it is a foolish Act, and will do no great matter, only +is calculated to my Lord Sandwich's case. He shewed me also a good +letter printed from the Bishopp of Munster to the States of Holland +shewing the state of their case. Here we did some business and so broke +up and I to Cocke, where Mr. Evelyn was, to dinner, and there merry, yet +vexed again at publique matters, and to see how little heed is had to the +prisoners and sicke and wounded. Thence to my office, and no sooner +there but to my great surprise am told that my Lord Sandwich is come to +towne; so I presently to Boreman's, where he is and there found him: he +mighty kind to me, but no opportunity of discourse private yet, which he +tells me he must have with me; only his business is sudden to go to the +fleece, to get out a few ships to drive away the Dutch. I left him in +discourse with Sir W. Batten and others, and myself to the office till +about 10 at night and so, letters being done, I to him again to Captain +Cocke's, where he supped, and lies, and never saw him more merry, and +here is Charles Herbert, who the King hath lately knighted. + + [This person, erroneously called by Pepys Sir C. Herbert, will be + best defined by subjoining the inscription on his monument in + Westminster Abbey: "Sir Charles Harbord, Knight, third son of Sir + Charles Harbord, Knight, Surveyor-General, and First Lieutenant of + the Royall James, under the most noble and illustrious Captaine, + Edward, Earle of Sandwich, Vice-Admirall of England, which, after a + terrible fight, maintained to admiration against a squadron of the + Holland fleet, above six hours, neere the Suffolk coast, having put + off two fireships; at last, being utterly disabled, and few of her + men remaining unhurt, was, by a third, unfortunately set on fire. + But he (though he swome well) neglected to save himselfe, as some + did, and out of perfect love to that worthy Lord, whom, for many + yeares, he had constantly accompanyed, in all his honourable + employments, and in all the engagements of the former warre, dyed + with him, at the age of xxxii., much bewailed by his father, whom he + never offended; and much beloved by all for his knowne piety, + vertue, loyalty, fortitude, and fidelity."--B.] + +My Lord, to my great content, did tell me before them, that never +anything was read to the King and Council, all the chief Ministers of +State being there, as my letter about the Victualling was, and no more +said upon it than a most thorough consent to every word was said, and +directed, that it be pursued and practised. After much mirth, and my +Lord having travelled all night last night, he to bed, and we all parted, +I home. + + + +25th. Up and to my Lord Sandwich's, where several Commanders, of whom I +took the state of all their ships, and of all could find not above four +capable of going out. The truth is, the want of victuals being the whole +overthrow of this yeare both at sea, and now at the Nore here and +Portsmouth, where all the fleete lies. By and by comes down my Lord, and +then he and I an houre together alone upon private discourse. He tells +me that Mr. Coventry and he are not reconciled, but declared enemies: the +only occasion of it being, he tells me, his ill usage from him about the +first fight, wherein he had no right done him, which, methinks, is a poor +occasion, for, in my conscience, that was no design of Coventry's. But, +however, when I asked my Lord whether it were not best, though with some +condescension, to be friends with him, he told me it was not possible, +and so I stopped. He tells me, as very private, that there are great +factions at the Court between the King's party and the Duke of Yorke's, +and that the King, which is a strange difficulty, do favour my Lord in +opposition to the Duke's party; that my Lord Chancellor, being, to be +sure, the patron of the Duke's, it is a mystery whence it should be that +Mr. Coventry is looked upon by him [Clarendon] as an enemy to him; that +if he had a mind himself to be out of this employment, as Mr. Coventry, +he believes, wishes, and himself and I do incline to wish it also, in +many respects, yet he believes he shall not be able, because of the King, +who will keepe him in on purpose, in opposition to the other party; that +Prince Rupert and he are all possible friends in the world; that Coventry +hath aggravated this business of the prizes, though never so great +plundering in the world as while the Duke and he were at sea; and in Sir +John Lawson's time he could take and pillage, and then sink a whole ship +in the Streights, and Coventry say nothing to it; that my Lord Arlington +is his fast friend; that the Chancellor is cold to him, and though I told +him that I and the world do take my Lord Chancellor, in his speech the +other day, to have said as much as could be wished, yet he thinks he did +not. That my Lord Chancellor do from hence begin to be cold to him, +because of his seeing him and Arlington so great: that nothing at Court +is minded but faction and pleasure, and nothing intended of general good +to the kingdom by anybody heartily; so that he believes with me, in a +little time confusion will certainly come over all the nation. He told +me how a design was carried on a while ago, for the Duke of Yorke to +raise an army in the North, and to be the Generall of it, and all this +without the knowledge or advice of the Duke of Albemarle, which when he +come to know, he was so vexed, they were fain to let it fall to content +him: that his matching with the family of Sir G. Carteret do make the +difference greater between Coventry and him, they being enemies; that the +Chancellor did, as every body else, speak well of me the other day, but +yet was, at the Committee for Tangier, angry that I should offer to +suffer a bill of exchange to be protested. So my Lord did bid me take +heed, for that I might easily suppose I could not want enemies, no more +than others. In all he speaks with the greatest trust and love and +confidence in what I say or do, that a man can do. After this discourse +ended we sat down to dinner and mighty merry, among other things, at the +Bill brought into the House to make it felony to break bulke, which, as +my Lord says well, will make that no prizes shall be taken, or, if taken, +shall be sunke after plundering; and the Act for the method of gathering +this last LI,250,000 now voted, and how paid wherein are several strange +imperfections. After dinner my Lord by a ketch down to Erith, where the +Bezan was, it blowing these last two days and now both night and day very +hard southwardly, so that it has certainly drove the Dutch off the coast. +My Lord being gone I to the office, and there find Captain Ferrers, who +tells me his wife is come to town to see him, having not seen him since +15 weeks ago at his first going to sea last. She is now at a Taverne and +stays all night, so I was obliged to give him my house and chamber to lie +in, which he with great modesty and after much force took, and so I got +Mr. Evelyn's coach to carry her thither, and the coach coming back, I +with Mr. Evelyn to Deptford, where a little while with him doing a little +business, and so in his coach back again to my lodgings, and there sat +with Mrs. Ferrers two hours, and with my little girle, Mistress Frances +Tooker, and very pleasant. Anon the Captain comes, and then to supper +very merry, and so I led them to bed. And so to bed myself, having seen +my pretty little girle home first at the next door. + + + +26th. Up, and, leaving my guests to make themselves ready, I to the +office, and thither comes Sir Jer. Smith and Sir Christopher Mings to see +me, being just come from Portsmouth and going down to the Fleete. Here I +sat and talked with them a good while and then parted, only Sir +Christopher Mings and I together by water to the Tower; and I find him a +very witty well-spoken fellow, and mighty free to tell his parentage, +being a shoemaker's son, to whom he is now going, and I to the 'Change, +where I hear how the French have taken two and sunk one of our merchant- +men in the Streights, and carried the ships to Toulon; so that there is +no expectation but we must fall out with them. The 'Change pretty full, +and the town begins to be lively again, though the streets very empty, +and most shops shut. So back again I and took boat and called for Sir +Christopher Mings at St. Katharine's, who was followed with some ordinary +friends, of which, he says, he is proud, and so down to Greenwich, the +wind furious high, and we with our sail up till I made it be taken down. +I took him, it being 3 o'clock, to my lodgings and did give him a good +dinner and so parted, he being pretty close to me as to any business of +the fleete, knowing me to be a servant of my Lord Sandwich's. He gone I +to the office till night, and then they come and tell me my wife is come +to towne, so I to her vexed at her coming, but it was upon innocent +business, so I was pleased and made her stay, Captain Ferrers and his +lady being yet there, and so I left them to dance, and I to the office +till past nine at night, and so to them and there saw them dance very +prettily, the Captain and his wife, my wife and Mrs. Barbary, and Mercer +and my landlady's daughter, and then little Mistress Frances Tooker and +her mother, a pretty woman come to see my wife. Anon to supper, and then +to dance again (Golding being our fiddler, who plays very well and all +tunes) till past twelve at night, and then we broke up and every one to +bed, we make shift for all our company, Mrs. Tooker being gone. + + + +27th. Up, and after some pleasant discourse with my wife, I out, leaving +her and Mrs. Ferrers there, and I to Captain Cocke's, there to do some +business, and then away with Cocke in his coach through Kent Streete, a +miserable, wretched, poor place, people sitting sicke and muffled up with +plasters at every 4 or 5 doors. So to the 'Change, and thence I by water +to the Duke of Albemarle's, and there much company, but I staid and +dined, and he makes mighty much of me; and here he tells us the Dutch are +gone, and have lost above 160 cables and anchors, through the last foule +weather. Here he proposed to me from Mr. Coventry, as I had desired of +Mr. Coventry, that I should be Surveyor-Generall of the Victualling +business, which I accepted. But, indeed, the terms in which Mr. Coventry +proposes it for me are the most obliging that ever I could expect from +any man, and more; it saying me to be the fittest man in England, and +that he is sure, if I will undertake, I will perform it; and that it will +be also a very desirable thing that I might have this encouragement, my +encouragement in the Navy alone being in no wise proportionable to my +pains or deserts. This, added to the letter I had three days since from +Mr. Southerne, signifying that the Duke of Yorke had in his master's +absence opened my letter, and commanded him to tell me that he did +approve of my being the Surveyor-General, do make me joyful beyond myself +that I cannot express it, to see that as I do take pains, so God blesses +me, and hath sent me masters that do observe that I take pains. After +having done here, I back by water and to London, and there met with +Captain Cocke's coach again, and I went in it to Greenwich and thence +sent my wife in it to Woolwich, and I to the office, and thence home late +with Captain Taylor, and he and I settled all accounts between us, and I +do find that I do get above L129 of him for my services for him within +these six months. At it till almost one in the morning, and after supper +he away and I to bed, mightily satisfied in all this, and in a resolution +I have taken to-night with Mr. Hater to propose the port of London for +the victualling business for Thomas Willson, by which it will be better +done and I at more ease, in case he should grumble. + + [The Duke of York's letter appointing Thomas Wilson Surveyor of the + Victualling of His Majesty's Navy in the Port of London, and + referring to Pepys as Surveyor-General of the Victualling Affairs, + is printed in "Memoirs of the English Affairs, chiefly Naval, 1660- + 73," by James, Duke of York, 1729, p. 131.] + +So to bed. + + + +28th. Up, and sent for Thomas Willson, and broke the victualling +business to him and he is mightily contented, and so am I that I have +bestowed it on him, and so I to Mr. Boreman's, where Sir W. Batten is, to +tell him what I had proposed to Thomas Willson, and the newes also I have +this morning from Sir W. Clerke, which is, that notwithstanding all the +care the Duke of Albemarle hath taken about the putting the East India +prize goods into the East India Company's hands, and my Lord Bruncker and +Sir J. Minnes having laden out a great part of the goods, an order is +come from Court to stop all, and to have the goods delivered to the Sub- +Commissioners of prizes. At which I am glad, because it do vex this +simple weake man, and we shall have a little reparation for the disgrace +my Lord Sandwich has had in it. He tells me also that the Parliament +hath given the Duke of Yorke L120,000, to be paid him after the +L1,250,000 is gathered upon the tax which they have now given the King. + + [This sum was granted by the Commons to Charles, with a request that + he would bestow it on his brother.--B.] + +He tells me that the Dutch have lately launched sixteen new ships; all +which is great news. Thence by horsebacke with Mr. Deane to Erith, and +so aboard my Lord Bruncker and dined, and very merry with him and good +discourse between them about ship building, and, after dinner and a +little pleasant discourse, we away and by horse back again to Greenwich, +and there I to the office very late, offering my persons for all the +victualling posts much to my satisfaction. Also much other business I +did to my mind, and so weary home to my lodging, and there after eating +and drinking a little I to bed. The King and Court, they say, have now +finally resolved to spend nothing upon clothes, but what is of the growth +of England; which, if observed, will be very pleasing to the people, and +very good for them. + + + +29th (Lord's day). Up, and being ready set out with Captain Cocke in his +coach toward Erith, Mr. Deane riding along with us, where we dined and +were very merry. After dinner we fell to discourse about the Dutch, +Cocke undertaking to prove that they were able to wage warr with us three +years together, which, though it may be true, yet, not being satisfied +with his arguments, my Lord and I did oppose the strength of his +arguments, which brought us to a great heate, he being a conceited man, +but of no Logique in his head at all, which made my Lord and I mirth. +Anon we parted, and back again, we hardly having a word all the way, he +being so vexed at our not yielding to his persuasion. I was set down at +Woolwich towne end, and walked through the towne in the darke, it being +now night. But in the streete did overtake and almost run upon two women +crying and carrying a man's coffin between them. I suppose the husband +of one of them, which, methinks, is a sad thing. Being come to +Shelden's, I find my people in the darke in the dining room, merry and +laughing, and, I thought, sporting one with another, which, God helpe me! +raised my jealousy presently. Come in the darke, and one of them +touching me (which afterward I found was Susan) made them shreeke, and so +went out up stairs, leaving them to light a candle and to run out. I +went out and was very vexed till I found my wife was gone with Mr. Hill +and Mercer this day to see me at Greenwich, and these people were at +supper, and the candle on a sudden falling out of the candlesticke (which +I saw as I come through the yarde) and Mrs. Barbary being there I was +well at ease again, and so bethought myself what to do, whether to go to +Greenwich or stay there; at last go I would, and so with a lanthorne, and +3 or 4 people with me, among others Mr. Browne, who was there, would go, +I walked with a lanthorne and discoursed with him about paynting and the +several sorts of it. I came in good time to Greenwich, where I found Mr. +Hill with my wife, and very glad I was to see him. To supper and +discourse of musique and so to bed, I lying with him talking till +midnight about Berckenshaw's musique rules, which I did to his great +satisfaction inform him in, and so to sleep. + + + +30th. Up, and to my office about business. At noon to dinner, and after +some discourse of musique, he and I to the office awhile, and he to get +Mr. Coleman, if he can, against night. By and by I back again home, and +there find him returned with Mr. Coleman (his wife being ill) and Mr. +Laneare, with whom with their Lute we had excellent company and good +singing till midnight, and a good supper I did give them, but Coleman's +voice is quite spoiled, and when he begins to be drunk he is excellent +company, but afterward troublesome and impertinent. Laneare sings in a +melancholy method very well, and a sober man he seems to be. They being +gone, we to bed. Captain Ferrers coming this day from my Lord is forced +to lodge here, and I put him to Mr. Hill. + + + +31st. Up, and to the office, Captain Ferrers going back betimes to my +Lord. I to the office, where Sir W. Batten met me, and did tell me that +Captain Cocke's black was dead of the plague, which I had heard of +before, but took no notice. By and by Captain Cocke come to the office, +and Sir W. Batten and I did send to him that he would either forbear the +office, or forbear going to his owne office. However, meeting yesterday +the Searchers with their rods in their hands--[Coroners Office ?? D.W.]-- +coming from Captain Cocke's house, I did overhear them say that the +fellow did not die of the plague, but he had I know been ill a good +while, and I am told that his boy Jack is also ill. At noon home to +dinner, and then to the office again, leaving Mr. Hill if he can to get +Mrs. Coleman at night. About nine at night I come home, and there find +Mrs. Pierce come and little Fran. Tooker, and Mr. Hill, and other people, +a great many dancing, and anon comes Mrs. Coleman with her husband and +Laneare. The dancing ended and to sing, which Mrs. Coleman do very +finely, though her voice is decayed as to strength but mighty sweet +though soft, and a pleasant jolly woman, and in mighty good humour was +to-night. Among other things Laneare did, at the request of Mr. Hill, +bring two or three the finest prints for my wife to see that ever I did +see in all my life. But for singing, among other things, we got Mrs. +Coleman to sing part of the Opera, though she won't owne that ever she +did get any of it without book in order to the stage; but, above all, her +counterfeiting of Captain Cooke's part, in his reproaching his man with +cowardice, "Base slave," &c., she do it most excellently. At it till +past midnight, and then broke up and to bed. Hill and I together again, +and being very sleepy we had little discourse as we had the other night. +Thus we end the month merrily; and the more for that, after some fears +that the plague would have increased again this week, I hear for certain +that there is above 400 [less], the whole number being 1,388, and of them +of the plague, 1,031. Want of money in the Navy puts everything out of +order. Men grow mutinous; and nobody here to mind the business of the +Navy but myself. At least Sir W. Batten for the few days he has been +here do nothing. I in great hopes of my place of Surveyor-Generall of +the Victualling, which will bring me L300 per annum. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +A conceited man, but of no Logique in his head at all +Best poem that ever was wrote (Siege of Rhodes) +French have taken two and sunk one of our merchant-men +Hath sent me masters that do observe that I take pains +How little heed is had to the prisoners and sicke and wounded +How unhppily a man may fall into a necessity of bribing people +Lechery will never leave him +Money I have not, nor can get +Mr. Evelyn's translating and sending me as a present +Poor seamen that lie starving in the streets +Saying me to be the fittest man in England +Searchers with their rods in their hands + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v44 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + NOVEMBER & DECEMBER + 1665 + + + +November 1st. Lay very long in bed discoursing with Mr. Hill of most +things of a man's life, and how little merit do prevail in the world, but +only favour; and that, for myself, chance without merit brought me in; +and that diligence only keeps me so, and will, living as I do among so +many lazy people that the diligent man becomes necessary, that they +cannot do anything without him, and so told him of my late business of +the victualling, and what cares I am in to keepe myself having to do with +people of so different factions at Court, and yet must be fair with them +all, which was very pleasant discourse for me to tell, as well as he +seemed to take it, for him to hear. At last up, and it being a very +foule day for raine and a hideous wind, yet having promised I would go by +water to Erith, and bearing sayle was in danger of oversetting, but +ordered them take down their sayle, and so cold and wet got thither, as +they had ended their dinner. How[ever], I dined well, and after dinner +all on shore, my Lord Bruncker with us to Mrs. Williams's lodgings, and +Sir W. Batten, Sir Edmund Pooly, and others; and there, it being my +Lord's birth-day, had every one a green riband tied in our hats very +foolishly; and methinks mighty disgracefully for my Lord to have his +folly so open to all the world with this woman. But by and by Sir W. +Batten and I took coach, and home to Boreman, and so going home by the +backside I saw Captain Cocke 'lighting out of his coach (having been at +Erith also with her but not on board) and so he would come along with me +to my lodging, and there sat and supped and talked with us, but we were +angry a little a while about our message to him the other day about +bidding him keepe from the office or his owne office, because of his +black dying. I owned it and the reason of it, and would have been glad +he had been out of the house, but I could not bid him go, and so supped, +and after much other talke of the sad condition and state of the King's +matters we broke up, and my friend and I to bed. This night coming with +Sir W. Batten into Greenwich we called upon Coll. Cleggatt, who tells us +for certaine that the King of Denmark hath declared to stand for the King +of England, but since I hear it is wholly false. + + + +2nd. Up, left my wife and to the office, and there to my great content +Sir W. Warren come to me to settle the business of the Tangier boates, +wherein I shall get above L100, besides L100 which he gives me in the +paying for them out of his owne purse. He gone, I home to my lodgings to +dinner, and there comes Captain Wagers newly returned from the Streights, +who puts me in great fear for our last ships that went to Tangier with +provisions, that they will be taken. A brave, stout fellow this Captain +is, and I think very honest. To the office again after dinner and there +late writing letters, and then about 8 at night set out from my office +and fitting myself at my lodgings intended to have gone this night in a +Ketch down to the Fleete, but calling in my way at Sir J. Minnes's, who +is come up from Erith about something about the prizes, they persuaded me +not to go till the morning, it being a horrible darke and a windy night. +So I back to my lodging and to bed. + + + +3rd. Was called up about four o'clock and in the darke by lanthorne took +boat and to the Ketch and set sayle, sleeping a little in the Cabbin till +day and then up and fell to reading of Mr. Evelyn's book about Paynting, + + [This must surely have been Evelyn's "Sculptura, or the History and + Art of Chalcography and Engraving in Copper," published in 1662. + The translation of Freart's "Idea of the Perfection of Painting + demonstrated" was not published until 1668.] + +which is a very pretty book. Carrying good victuals and Tom with me I to +breakfast about 9 o'clock, and then to read again and come to the Fleete +about twelve, where I found my Lord (the Prince being gone in) on board +the Royall James, Sir Thomas Allen commander, and with my Lord an houre +alone discoursing what was my chief and only errand about what was +adviseable for his Lordship to do in this state of things, himself being +under the Duke of Yorke's and Mr. Coventry's envy, and a great many more +and likely never to do anything honourably but he shall be envied and the +honour taken as much as can be from it. His absence lessens his interest +at Court, and what is worst we never able to set out a fleete fit for him +to command, or, if out, to keepe them out or fit them to do any great +thing, or if that were so yet nobody at home minds him or his condition +when he is abroad, and lastly the whole affairs of state looking as if +they would all on a sudden break in pieces, and then what a sad thing it +would be for him to be out of the way. My Lord did concur in every thing +and thanked me infinitely for my visit and counsel, telling me that in +every thing he concurs, but puts a query, what if the King will not think +himself safe, if any man should go but him. How he should go off then? +To that I had no answer ready, but the making the King see that he may be +of as good use to him here while another goes forth. But for that I am +not able to say much. We after this talked of some other little things +and so to dinner, where my Lord infinitely kind to me, and after dinner I +rose and left him with some Commanders at the table taking tobacco and I +took the Bezan back with me, and with a brave gale and tide reached up +that night to the Hope, taking great pleasure in learning the seamen's +manner of singing when they sound the depths, and then to supper and to +sleep, which I did most excellently all night, it being a horrible foule +night for wind and raine. + + + +4th. They sayled from midnight, and come to Greenwich about 5 o'clock in +the morning. I however lay till about 7 or 8, and so to my office, my +head a little akeing, partly for want of natural rest, partly having so +much business to do to-day, and partly from the newes I hear that one of +the little boys at my lodging is not well; and they suspect, by their +sending for plaister and fume, that it may be the plague; so I sent Mr. +Hater and W. Hewer to speake with the mother; but they returned to me, +satisfied that there is no hurt nor danger, but the boy is well, and +offers to be searched, however, I was resolved myself to abstain coming +thither for a while. Sir W. Batten and myself at the office all the +morning. At noon with him to dinner at Boreman's, where Mr. Seymour with +us, who is a most conceited fellow and not over much in him. Here Sir W. +Batten told us (which I had not heard before) that the last sitting day +his cloake was taken from Mingo he going home to dinner, and that he was +beaten by the seamen and swears he will come to Greenwich, but no more to +the office till he can sit safe. After dinner I to the office and there +late, and much troubled to have 100 seamen all the afternoon there, +swearing below and cursing us, and breaking the glasse windows, and swear +they will pull the house down on Tuesday next. I sent word of this to +Court, but nothing will helpe it but money and a rope. Late at night to +Mr. Glanville's there to lie for a night or two, and to bed. + + + +5th (Lord's day). Up, and after being trimmed, by boat to the Cockpitt, +where I heard the Duke of Albemarle's chaplin make a simple sermon: among +other things, reproaching the imperfection of humane learning, he cried: +"All our physicians cannot tell what an ague is, and all our arithmetique +is not able to number the days of a man;" which, God knows, is not the +fault of arithmetique, but that our understandings reach not the thing. +To dinner, where a great deale of silly discourse, but the worst is I +hear that the plague increases much at Lambeth, St. Martin's and +Westminster, and fear it will all over the city. Thence I to the Swan, +thinking to have seen Sarah but she was at church, and so I by water to +Deptford, and there made a visit to Mr. Evelyn, who, among other things, +showed me most excellent painting in little; in distemper, Indian incke, +water colours: graveing; and, above all, the whole secret of mezzo-tinto, +and the manner of it, which is very pretty, and good things done with it. +He read to me very much also of his discourse, he hath been many years +and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and +pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his making, very +good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be. He showed me his +Hortus Hyemalis; leaves laid up in a book of several plants kept dry, +which preserve colour, however, and look very finely, better than any +Herball. In fine, a most excellent person he is, and must be allowed a +little for a little conceitedness; but he may well be so, being a man so +much above others. He read me, though with too much gusto, some little +poems of his own, that were not transcendant, yet one or two very pretty +epigrams; among others, of a lady looking in at a grate, and being pecked +at by an eagle that was there. Here comes in, in the middle of our +discourse Captain Cocke, as drunk as a dogg, but could stand, and talk +and laugh. He did so joy himself in a brave woman that he had been with +all the afternoon, and who should it be but my Lady Robinson, but very +troublesome he is with his noise and talke, and laughing, though very +pleasant. With him in his coach to Mr. Glanville's, where he sat with +Mrs. Penington and myself a good while talking of this fine woman again +and then went away. Then the lady and I to very serious discourse and, +among other things, of what a bonny lasse my Lady Robinson is, who is +reported to be kind to the prisoners, and has said to Sir G. Smith, who +is her great crony, "Look! there is a pretty man, I would be content to +break a commandment with him," and such loose expressions she will have +often. After an houre's talke we to bed, the lady mightily troubled +about a pretty little bitch she hath, which is very sicke, and will eat +nothing, and the worst was, I could hear her in her chamber bemoaning the +bitch, and by and by taking her into bed with her. The bitch pissed and +shit a bed, and she was fain to rise and had coals out of my chamber to +dry the bed again. This night I had a letter that Sir G. Carteret would +be in towne to-morrow, which did much surprize me. + + + +6th. Up, and to my office, where busy all the morning and then to dinner +to Captain Cocke's with Mr. Evelyn, where very merry, only vexed after +dinner to stay too long for our coach. At last, however, to Lambeth and +thence the Cockpitt, where we found Sir G. Carteret come, and in with the +Duke and the East India Company about settling the business of the +prizes, and they have gone through with it. Then they broke up, and Sir +G. Carteret come out, and thence through the garden to the water side and +by water I with him in his boat down with Captain Cocke to his house at +Greenwich, and while supper was getting ready Sir G. Carteret and I did +walk an houre in the garden before the house, talking of my Lord +Sandwich's business; what enemies he hath, and how they have endeavoured +to bespatter him: and particularly about his leaving of 30 ships of the +enemy, when Pen would have gone, and my Lord called him back again: which +is most false. However, he says, it was purposed by some hot-heads in +the House of Commons, at the same time when they voted a present to the +Duke of Yorke, to have voted L10,000 to the Prince, and half-a-crowne to +my Lord of Sandwich; but nothing come of it. + + [The tide of popular indignation ran high against Lord Sandwich, and + he was sent to Spain as ambassador to get him honourably out of the + way (see post, December 6th).] + +But, for all this, the King is most firme to my Lord, and so is my Lord +Chancellor, and my Lord Arlington. The Prince, in appearance, kind; the +Duke of Yorke silent, says no hurt; but admits others to say it in his +hearing. Sir W. Pen, the falsest rascal that ever was in the world; and +that this afternoon the Duke of Albemarle did tell him that Pen was a +very cowardly rogue, and one that hath brought all these rogueish +fanatick Captains into the fleete, and swears he should never go out with +the fleete again. That Sir W. Coventry is most kind to Pen still; and +says nothing nor do any thing openly to the prejudice of my Lord. He +agrees with me, that it is impossible for the King [to] set out a fleete +again the next year; and that he fears all will come to ruine, there +being no money in prospect but these prizes, which will bring, it may be, +L20,000, but that will signify nothing in the world for it. That this +late Act of Parliament for bringing the money into the Exchequer, and +making of it payable out there, intended as a prejudice to him and will +be his convenience hereafter and ruine the King's business, and so I fear +it will and do wonder Sir W. Coventry would be led by Sir G. Downing to +persuade the King and Duke to have it so, before they had thoroughly +weighed all circumstances; that for my Lord, the King has said to him +lately that I was an excellent officer, and that my Lord Chancellor do, +he thinks, love and esteem of me as well as he do of any man in England +that he hath no more acquaintance with. So having done and received from +me the sad newes that we are like to have no money here a great while, +not even of the very prizes, I set up my rest + + [The phrase "set up my rest" is a metaphor from the once fashionable + game of Primero, meaning, to stand upon the cards you have in your + hand, in hopes they may prove better than those of your adversary. + Hence, to make up your mind, to be determined (see Nares's " + Glossary").] + +in giving up the King's service to be ruined and so in to supper, where +pretty merry, and after supper late to Mr. Glanville's, and Sir G. +Carteret to bed. I also to bed, it being very late. + + + +7th. Up, and to Sir G. Carteret, and with him, he being very passionate +to be gone, without staying a minute for breakfast, to the Duke of +Albemarle's and I with him by water and with Fen: but, among other +things, Lord! to see how he wondered to see the river so empty of boats, +nobody working at the Custome-house keys; and how fearful he is, and +vexed that his man, holding a wine-glasse in his hand for him to drinke +out of, did cover his hands, it being a cold, windy, rainy morning, under +the waterman's coate, though he brought the waterman from six or seven +miles up the river, too. Nay, he carried this glasse with him for his +man to let him drink out of at the Duke of Albemarle's, where he intended +to dine, though this he did to prevent sluttery, for, for the same reason +he carried a napkin with him to Captain Cocke's, making him believe that +he should eat with foule linnen. Here he with the Duke walked a good +while in the Parke, and I with Fen, but cannot gather that he intends to +stay with us, nor thinks any thing at all of ever paying one farthing of +money more to us here, let what will come of it. Thence in, and Sir W. +Batten comes in by and by, and so staying till noon, and there being a +great deal of company there, Sir W. Batten and I took leave of the Duke +and Sir G. Carteret, there being no good to be done more for money, and +so over the River and by coach to Greenwich, where at Boreman's we dined, +it being late. Thence my head being full of business and mind out of +order for thinking of the effects which will arise from the want of +money, I made an end of my letters by eight o'clock, and so to my lodging +and there spent the evening till midnight talking with Mrs. Penington, +who is a very discreet, understanding lady and very pretty discourse we +had and great variety, and she tells me with great sorrow her bitch is +dead this morning, died in her bed. So broke up and to bed. + + + +8th. Up, and to the office, where busy among other things to looke my +warrants for the settling of the Victualling business, the warrants being +come to me for the Surveyors of the ports and that for me also to be +Surveyor-Generall. I did discourse largely with Tom Willson about it and +doubt not to make it a good service to the King as well, as the King +gives us very good salarys. It being a fast day, all people were at +church and the office quiett; so I did much business, and at noon +adventured to my old lodging, and there eat, but am not yet well +satisfied, not seeing of Christopher, though they say he is abroad. +Thence after dinner to the office again, and thence am sent for to the +King's Head by my Lord Rutherford, who, since I can hope for no more +convenience from him, his business is troublesome to me, and therefore I +did leave him as soon as I could and by water to Deptford, and there did +order my matters so, walking up and down the fields till it was dark +night, that 'je allais a la maison of my valentine,--[Bagwell's wife]-- +and there 'je faisais whatever je voudrais avec' her, and, about eight at +night, did take water, being glad I was out of the towne; for the plague, +it seems, rages there more than ever, and so to my lodgings, where my +Lord had got a supper and the mistresse of the house, and her daughters, +and here staid Mrs. Pierce to speake with me about her husband's +business, and I made her sup with us, and then at night my Lord and I +walked with her home, and so back again. My Lord and I ended all we had +to say as to his business overnight, and so I took leave, and went again +to Mr. Glanville's and so to bed, it being very late. + + + +9th. Up, and did give the servants something at Mr. Glanville's and so +took leave, meaning to lie to-night at my owne lodging. To my office, +where busy with Mr. Gawden running over the Victualling business, and he +is mightily pleased that this course is taking and seems sensible of my +favour and promises kindnesse to me. At noon by water, to the King's +Head at Deptford, where Captain Taylor invites Sir W: Batten, Sir John +Robinson (who come in with a great deale of company from hunting, and +brought in a hare alive and a great many silly stories they tell of their +sport, which pleases them mightily, and me not at all, such is the +different sense of pleasure in mankind), and others upon the score of a +survey of his new ship; and strange to see how a good dinner and feasting +reconciles everybody, Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Robinson being now as kind +to him, and report well of his ship and proceedings, and promise money, +and Sir W. Batten is a solicitor for him, but it is a strange thing to +observe, they being the greatest enemys he had, and yet, I believe, hath +in the world in their hearts. Thence after dinner stole away and to my +office, where did a great deale of business till midnight, and then to +Mrs. Clerk's, to lodge again, and going home W. Hewer did tell me my wife +will be here to-morrow, and hath put away Mary, which vexes me to the +heart, I cannot helpe it, though it may be a folly in me, and when I +think seriously on it, I think my wife means no ill design in it, or, if +she do, I am a foole to be troubled at it, since I cannot helpe it. The +Bill of Mortality, to all our griefs, is encreased 399 this week, and the +encrease generally through the whole City and suburbs, which makes us all +sad. + + + +10th. Up, and entered all my Journall since the 28th of October, having +every day's passages well in my head, though it troubles me to remember +it, and which I was forced to, being kept from my lodging, where my books +and papers are, for several days. So to my office, where till two or +three o'clock busy before I could go to my lodging to dinner, then did it +and to my office again. In the evening newes is brought me my wife is +come: so I to her, and with her spent the evening, but with no great +pleasure, I being vexed about her putting away of Mary in my absence, but +yet I took no notice of it at all, but fell into other discourse, and she +told me, having herself been this day at my house at London, which was +boldly done, to see Mary have her things, that Mr. Harrington, our +neighbour, an East country merchant, is dead at Epsum of the plague, and +that another neighbour of ours, Mr. Hollworthy, a very able man, is also +dead by a fall in the country from his horse, his foot hanging in the +stirrup, and his brains beat out. Here we sat talking, and after supper +to bed. + + + +11th. I up and to the office (leaving my wife in bed) and there till +noon, then to dinner and back again to the office, my wife going to +Woolwich again, and I staying very late at my office, and so home to bed. + + + +12th (Lord's day). Up, and invited by Captain Cocke to dinner. So after +being ready I went to him, and there he and I and Mr. Yard (one of the +Guinny Company) dined together and very merry. After dinner I by water +to the Duke of Albemarle, and there had a little discourse and business +with him, chiefly to receive his commands about pilotts to be got for our +Hambro' ships, going now at this time of the year convoy to the merchant +ships, that have lain at great pain and charge, some three, some four +months at Harwich for a convoy. They hope here the plague will be less +this weeke. Thence back by water to Captain Cocke's, and there he and I +spent a great deale of the evening as we had done of the day reading and +discoursing over part of Mr. Stillingfleet's "Origines Sacrae," wherein +many things are very good and some frivolous. Thence by and by he and I +to Mrs. Penington's, but she was gone to bed. So we back and walked a +while, and then to his house and to supper, and then broke up, and I home +to my lodging to bed. + + + +13th. Up, and to my office, where busy all the morning, and at noon to +Captain Cocke's to dinner as we had appointed in order to settle our +business of accounts. But here came in an Alderman, a merchant, a very +merry man, and we dined, and, he being gone, after dinner Cocke and I +walked into the garden, and there after a little discourse he did +undertake under his hand to secure me in L500 profit, for my share of the +profit of what we have bought of the prize goods. We agreed upon the +terms, which were easier on my side than I expected, and so with +extraordinary inward joy we parted till the evening. So I to the office +and among other business prepared a deed for him to sign and seale to me +about our agreement, which at night I got him to come and sign and seale, +and so he and I to Glanville's, and there he and I sat talking and +playing with Mrs. Penington, whom we found undrest in her smocke and +petticoats by the fireside, and there we drank and laughed, and she +willingly suffered me to put my hand in her bosom very wantonly, and keep +it there long. Which methought was very strange, and I looked upon +myself as a man mightily deceived in a lady, for I could not have thought +she could have suffered it, by her former discourse with me; so modest +she seemed and I know not what. We staid here late, and so home after he +and I had walked till past midnight, a bright moonshine, clear, cool +night, before his door by the water, and so I home after one of the +clock. + + + +14th. Called up by break of day by Captain Cocke, by agreement, and he +and I in his coach through Kent-streete (a sad place through the plague, +people sitting sicke and with plaisters about them in the street begging) +to Viner's and Colvill's about money business, and so to my house, and +there I took L300 in order to the carrying it down to my Lord Sandwich in +part of the money I am to pay for Captain Cocke by our agreement. So I +took it down, and down I went to Greenwich to my office, and there sat +busy till noon, and so home to dinner, and thence to the office again, +and by and by to the Duke of Albemarle's by water late, where I find he +had remembered that I had appointed to come to him this day about money, +which I excused not doing sooner; but I see, a dull fellow, as he is, do +sometimes remember what another thinks he mindeth not. My business was +about getting money of the East India Company; but, Lord! to see how the +Duke himself magnifies himself in what he had done with the Company; and +my Lord Craven what the King could have done without my Lord Duke, and a +deale of stir, but most mightily what a brave fellow I am. Back by +water, it raining hard, and so to the office, and stopped my going, as I +intended, to the buoy of the Nore, and great reason I had to rejoice at +it, for it proved the night of as great a storme as was almost ever +remembered. Late at the office, and so home to bed. This day, calling +at Mr. Rawlinson's to know how all did there, I hear that my pretty +grocer's wife, Mrs. Beversham, over the way there, her husband is lately +dead of the plague at Bow, which I am sorry for, for fear of losing her +neighbourhood. + + + +15th. Up and all the morning at the office, busy, and at noon to the +King's Head taverne, where all the Trinity House dined to-day, to choose +a new Master in the room of Hurlestone, that is dead, and Captain Crispe +is chosen. But, Lord! to see how Sir W. Batten governs all and tramples +upon Hurlestone, but I am confident the Company will grow the worse for +that man's death, for now Batten, and in him a lazy, corrupt, doating +rogue, will have all the sway there. After dinner who comes in but my +Lady Batten, and a troop of a dozen women almost, and expected, as I +found afterward, to be made mighty much of, but nobody minded them; but +the best jest was, that when they saw themselves not regarded, they would +go away, and it was horrible foule weather; and my Lady Batten walking +through the dirty lane with new spicke and span white shoes, she dropped +one of her galoshes in the dirt, where it stuck, and she forced to go +home without one, at which she was horribly vexed, and I led her; and +after vexing her a little more in mirth, I parted, and to Glanville's, +where I knew Sir John Robinson, Sir G. Smith, and Captain Cocke were +gone, and there, with the company of Mrs. Penington, whose father, I +hear, was one of the Court of justice, and died prisoner, of the stone, +in the Tower, I made them, against their resolutions, to stay from houre +to houre till it was almost midnight, and a furious, darke and rainy, and +windy, stormy night, and, which was best, I, with drinking small beer, +made them all drunk drinking wine, at which Sir John Robinson made great +sport. But, they being gone, the lady and I very civilly sat an houre by +the fireside observing the folly of this Robinson, that makes it his +worke to praise himself, and all he say and do, like a heavy-headed +coxcombe. The plague, blessed be God! is decreased 400; making the whole +this week but 1300 and odd; for which the Lord be praised! + + + +16th. Up, and fitted myself for my journey down to the fleete, and +sending my money and boy down by water to Eriffe,--[Erith]--I borrowed a +horse of Mr. Boreman's son, and after having sat an houre laughing with +my Lady Batten and Mrs. Turner, and eat and drank with them, I took horse +and rode to Eriffe, where, after making a little visit to Madam Williams, +who did give me information of W. Howe's having bought eight bags of +precious stones taken from about the Dutch Vice-Admirall's neck, of which +there were eight dyamonds which cost him L60,000 sterling, in India, and +hoped to have made L2000 here for them. And that this is told by one +that sold him one of the bags, which hath nothing but rubys in it, which +he had for 35s.; and that it will be proved he hath made L125 of one +stone that he bought. This she desired, and I resolved I would give my +Lord Sandwich notice of. So I on board my Lord Bruncker; and there he +and Sir Edmund Pooly carried me down into the hold of the India shipp, +and there did show me the greatest wealth lie in confusion that a man can +see in the world. Pepper scattered through every chink, you trod upon +it; and in cloves and nutmegs, I walked above the knees; whole rooms +full. And silk in bales, and boxes of copper-plate, one of which I saw +opened. Having seen this, which was as noble a sight as ever I saw in my +life, I away on board the other ship in despair to get the pleasure-boat +of the gentlemen there to carry me to the fleet. They were Mr. +Ashburnham and Colonell Wyndham; but pleading the King's business, they +did presently agree I should have it. So I presently on board, and got +under sail, and had a good bedd by the shift, of Wyndham's; and so, + + + +17th. Sailed all night, and got down to Quinbrough water, where all the +great ships are now come, and there on board my Lord, and was soon +received with great content. And after some little discourse, he and I +on board Sir W. Pen; and there held a council of Warr about many wants of +the fleete, but chiefly how to get slopps and victuals for the fleete now +going out to convoy our Hambro' ships, that have been so long detained +for four or five months for want of convoy, which we did accommodate one +way or other, and so, after much chatt, Sir W. Pen did give us a very +good and neat dinner, and better, I think, than ever I did see at his +owne house at home in my life, and so was the other I eat with him. +After dinner much talke, and about other things, he and I about his money +for his prize goods, wherein I did give him a cool answer, but so as we +did not disagree in words much, and so let that fall, and so followed my +Lord Sandwich, who was gone a little before me on board the Royall James. +And there spent an houre, my Lord playing upon the gittarr, which he now +commends above all musique in the world, because it is base enough for a +single voice, and is so portable and manageable without much trouble. +That being done, I got my Lord to be alone, and so I fell to acquaint him +with W. Howe's business, which he had before heard a little of from +Captain Cocke, but made no great matter of it, but now he do, and +resolves nothing less than to lay him by the heels, and seize on all he +hath, saying that for this yeare or two he hath observed him so proud and +conceited he could not endure him. But though I was not at all +displeased with it, yet I prayed him to forbear doing anything therein +till he heard from me again about it, and I had made more enquiry into +the truth of it, which he agreed to. Then we fell to publique discourse, +wherein was principally this: he cleared it to me beyond all doubt that +Coventry is his enemy, and has been long so. So that I am over that, and +my Lord told it me upon my proposal of a friendship between them, which +he says is impossible, and methinks that my Lord's displeasure about the +report in print of the first fight was not of his making, but I perceive +my Lord cannot forget it, nor the other think he can. I shewed him how +advisable it were upon almost any terms for him to get quite off the sea +employment. He answers me again that he agrees to it, but thinks the +King will not let him go off: He tells me he lacks now my Lord Orrery to +solicit it for him, who is very great with the King. As an infinite +secret, my Lord tells me, the factions are high between the King and the +Duke, and all the Court are in an uproare with their loose amours; the +Duke of Yorke being in love desperately with Mrs. Stewart. Nay, that the +Duchesse herself is fallen in love with her new Master of the Horse, one +Harry Sidney, and another, Harry Savill. So that God knows what will be +the end of it. And that the Duke is not so obsequious as he used to be, +but very high of late; and would be glad to be in the head of an army as +Generall; and that it is said that he do propose to go and command under +the King of Spayne, in Flanders. That his amours to Mrs. Stewart are +told the King. So that all is like to be nought among them. That he +knows that the Duke of Yorke do give leave to have him spoken slightly of +in his owne hearing, and doth not oppose it, and told me from what time +he hath observed this to begin. So that upon the whole my Lord do concur +to wish with all his heart that he could with any honour get from off the +imployment. After he had given thanks to me for my kind visit and good +counsel, on which he seems to set much by, I left him, and so away to my +Bezan againe, and there to read in a pretty French book, "La Nouvelle +Allegorique," upon the strife between rhetorique and its enemies, very +pleasant. So, after supper, to sleepe, and sayled all night, and came to +Erith before break of day. + + + +18th. About nine of the clock, I went on shore, there (calling by the +way only to look upon my Lord Bruncker) to give Mrs. Williams an account +of her matters, and so hired an ill-favoured horse, and away to Greenwich +to my lodgings, where I hear how rude the souldiers have been in my +absence, swearing what they would do with me, which troubled me, but, +however, after eating a bit I to the office and there very late writing +letters, and so home and to bed. + + + +19th (Lord's day). Up, and after being trimmed, alone by water to Erith, +all the way with my song book singing of Mr. Lawes's long recitative song +in the beginning of his book. Being come there, on board my Lord +Bruncker, I find Captain Cocke and other company, the lady not well, and +mighty merry we were; Sir Edmund Pooly being very merry, and a right +English gentleman, and one of the discontented Cavaliers, that think +their loyalty is not considered. After dinner, all on shore to my Lady +Williams, and there drank and talked; but, Lord! the most impertinent +bold woman with my Lord that ever I did see. I did give her an account +again of my business with my Lord touching W. Howe, and she did give me +some more information about it, and examination taken about it, and so we +parted and I took boat, and to Woolwich, where we found my wife not well +of them, and I out of humour begun to dislike her paynting, the last +things not pleasing me so well as the former, but I blame myself for my +being so little complaisant. So without eating or drinking, there being +no wine (which vexed me too), we walked with a lanthorne to Greenwich and +eat something at his house, and so home to bed. + + + +20th. Up before day, and wrote some letters to go to my Lord, among +others that about W. Howe, which I believe will turn him out, and so took +horse for Nonesuch, with two men with me, and the ways very bad, and the +weather worse, for wind and rayne. But we got in good time thither, and +I did get my tallys got ready, and thence, with as many as could go, to +Yowell, and there dined very well, and I saw my Besse, a very well- +favoured country lass there, and after being very merry and having spent +a piece I took horse, and by another way met with a very good road, but +it rained hard and blew, but got home very well. Here I find Mr. Deering +come to trouble me about business, which I soon dispatched and parted, he +telling me that Luellin hath been dead this fortnight, of the plague, in +St. Martin's Lane, which much surprised me. + + + +21st. Up, and to the office, where all the morning doing business, and +at noon home to dinner and quickly back again to the office, where very +busy all the evening and late sent a long discourse to Mr. Coventry by +his desire about the regulating of the method of our payment of bills in +the Navy, which will be very good, though, it may be, he did ayme +principally at striking at Sir G. Carteret. So weary but pleased with +this business being over I home to supper and to bed. + + + +22nd. Up, and by water to the Duke of Albemarle, and there did some +little business, but most to shew myself, and mightily I am yet in his +and Lord Craven's books, and thence to the Swan and there drank and so +down to the bridge, and so to the 'Change, where spoke with many people, +and about a great deale of business, which kept me late. I heard this +day that Mr. Harrington is not dead of the plague, as we believed, at +which I was very glad, but most of all, to hear that the plague is come +very low; that is, the whole under 1,000, and the plague 600 and odd: and +great hopes of a further decrease, because of this day's being a very +exceeding hard frost, and continues freezing. This day the first of the +Oxford Gazettes come out, which is very pretty, full of newes, and no +folly in it. Wrote by Williamson. Fear that our Hambro' ships at last +cannot go, because of the great frost, which we believe it is there, nor +are our ships cleared at the Pillow [Pillau], which will keepe them there +too all this winter, I fear. From the 'Change, which is pretty full +again, I to my office and there took some things, and so by water to my +lodging at Greenwich and dined, and then to the office awhile and at +night home to my lodgings, and took T. Willson and T. Hater with me, and +there spent the evening till midnight discoursing and settling of our +Victualling business, that thereby I might draw up instructions for the +Surveyours and that we might be doing something to earne our money. This +done I late to bed. Among other things it pleased me to have it +demonstrated, that a Purser without professed cheating is a professed +loser, twice as much as he gets. + + + +23rd. Up betimes, and so, being trimmed, I to get papers ready against +Sir H. Cholmly come to me by appointment, he being newly come over from +Tangier. He did by and by come, and we settled all matters about his +money, and he is a most satisfied man in me, and do declare his +resolution to give me 200 per annum. It continuing to be a great frost, +which gives us hope for a perfect cure of the plague, he and I to walk in +the parke, and there discoursed with grief of the calamity of the times; +how the King's service is performed, and how Tangier is governed by a +man, who, though honourable, yet do mind his ways of getting and little +else compared, which will never make the place flourish. I brought him +and had a good dinner for him, and there come by chance Captain Cuttance, +who tells me how W. Howe is laid by the heels, and confined to the Royall +Katharine, and his things all seized and how, also, for a quarrel, which +indeed the other night my Lord told me, Captain Ferrers, having cut all +over the back of another of my Lord's servants, is parted from my Lord. +I sent for little Mrs. Frances Tooker, and after they were gone I sat +dallying with her an hour, doing what I would with my hands about her. +And a very pretty creature it is. So in the evening to the office, where +late writing letters, and at my lodging later writing for the last twelve +days my Journall and so to bed. Great expectation what mischief more the +French will do us, for we must fall out. We in extraordinary lacke of +money and everything else to go to sea next year. My Lord Sandwich is +gone from the fleete yesterday toward Oxford. + + + +24th. Up, and after doing some business at the office, I to London, and +there, in my way, at my old oyster shop in Gracious Streete, bought two +barrels of my fine woman of the shop, who is alive after all the plague, +which now is the first observation or inquiry we make at London +concerning everybody we knew before it. So to the 'Change, where very +busy with several people, and mightily glad to see the 'Change so full, +and hopes of another abatement still the next week. Off the 'Change I +went home with Sir G. Smith to dinner, sending for one of my barrels of +oysters, which were good, though come from Colchester, where the plague +hath been so much. Here a very brave dinner, though no invitation; and, +Lord! to see how I am treated, that come from so mean a beginning, is +matter of wonder to me. But it is God's great mercy to me, and His +blessing upon my taking pains, and being punctual in my dealings. After +dinner Captain Cocke and I about some business, and then with my other +barrel of oysters home to Greenwich, sent them by water to Mrs. +Penington, while he and I landed, and visited Mr. Evelyn, where most +excellent discourse with him; among other things he showed me a ledger of +a Treasurer of the Navy, his great grandfather, just 100 years old; which +I seemed mighty fond of, and he did present me with it, which I take as a +great rarity; and he hopes to find me more, older than it. He also +shewed us several letters of the old Lord of Leicester's, in Queen +Elizabeth's time, under the very hand-writing of Queen Elizabeth, and +Queen Mary, Queen of Scotts; and others, very venerable names. But, +Lord! how poorly, methinks, they wrote in those days, and in what plain +uncut paper. Thence, Cocke having sent for his coach, we to Mrs. +Penington, and there sat and talked and eat our oysters with great +pleasure, and so home to my lodging late and to bed. + + + +25th. Up, and busy at the office all day long, saving dinner time, and +in the afternoon also very late at my office, and so home to bed. All +our business is now about our Hambro fleete, whether it can go or no this +yeare, the weather being set in frosty, and the whole stay being for want +of Pilotts now, which I have wrote to the Trinity House about, but have +so poor an account from them, that I did acquaint Sir W. Coventry with it +this post. + + + +26th (Lord's day). Up, though very late abed, yet before day to dress +myself to go toward Erith, which I would do by land, it being a horrible +cold frost to go by water: so borrowed two horses of Mr. Howell and his +friend, and with much ado set out, after my horses being frosted + + [Frosting means, having the horses' shoes turned up by the smith.] + +(which I know not what it means to this day), and my boy having lost one +of my spurs and stockings, carrying them to the smith's; but I borrowed a +stocking, and so got up, and Mr. Tooker with me, and rode to Erith, and +there on board my Lord Bruncker, met Sir W. Warren upon his business, +among others, and did a great deale, Sir J. Minnes, as God would have it, +not being there to hinder us with his impertinences. Business done, we +to dinner very merry, there being there Sir Edmund Pooly, a very worthy +gentleman. They are now come to the copper boxes in the prizes, and hope +to have ended all this weeke. After dinner took leave, and on shore to +Madam Williams, to give her an account of my Lord's letter to me about +Howe, who he has clapped by the heels on suspicion of having the jewells, +and she did give me my Lord Bruncker's examination of the fellow, that +declares his having them; and so away, Sir W. Warren riding with me, and +the way being very bad, that is, hard and slippery by reason of the +frost, so we could not come to past Woolwich till night. However, having +a great mind to have gone to the Duke of Albemarle, I endeavoured to have +gone farther, but the night come on and no going, so I 'light and sent my +horse by Tooker, and returned on foot to my wife at Woolwich, where I +found, as I had directed, a good dinner to be made against to-morrow, and +invited guests in the yarde, meaning to be merry, in order to her taking +leave, for she intends to come in a day or two to me for altogether. But +here, they tell me, one of the houses behind them is infected, and I was +fain to stand there a great while, to have their back-door opened, but +they could not, having locked them fast, against any passing through, so +was forced to pass by them again, close to their sicke beds, which they +were removing out of the house, which troubled me; so I made them +uninvite their guests, and to resolve of coming all away to me to-morrow, +and I walked with a lanthorne, weary as I was, to Greenwich; but it was a +fine walke, it being a hard frost, and so to Captain Cocke's, but he I +found had sent for me to come to him to Mrs. Penington's, and there I +went, and we were very merry, and supped, and Cocke being sleepy he went +away betimes. I stayed alone talking and playing with her till past +midnight, she suffering me whatever 'ego voulais avec ses mamilles . . +. . Much pleased with her company we parted, and I home to bed at past +one, all people being in bed thinking I would have staid out of town all +night. + + + +27th. Up, and being to go to wait on the Duke of Albemarle, who is to go +out of towne to Oxford to-morrow, and I being unwilling to go by water, +it being bitter cold, walked it with my landlady's little boy Christopher +to Lambeth, it being a very fine walke and calling at half the way and +drank, and so to the Duke of Albemarle, who is visited by every body +against his going; and mighty kind to me: and upon my desiring his grace +to give me his kind word to the Duke of Yorke, if any occasion there were +of speaking of me, he told me he had reason to do so; for there had been +nothing done in the Navy without me. His going, I hear, is upon putting +the sea business into order, and, as some say, and people of his owne +family, that he is agog to go to sea himself the next year. Here I met +with a letter from Sir G. Carteret, who is come to Cranborne, that he +will be here this afternoon and desires me to be with him. So the Duke +would have me dine with him. So it being not dinner time, I to the Swan, +and there found Sarah all alone in the house . . . . So away to the +Duke of Albemarle again, and there to dinner, he most exceeding kind to +me to the observation of all that are there. At dinner comes Sir G. +Carteret and dines with us. After dinner a great deal alone with Sir G. +Carteret, who tells me that my Lord hath received still worse and worse +usage from some base people about the Court. But the King is very kind, +and the Duke do not appear the contrary; and my Lord Chancellor swore to +him "by --- I will not forsake my Lord of Sandwich." Our next discourse +is upon this Act for money, about which Sir G. Carteret comes to see what +money can be got upon it. But none can be got, which pleases him the +thoughts of, for, if the Exchequer should succeede in this, his office +would faile. But I am apt to think at this time of hurry and plague and +want of trade, no money will be got upon a new way which few understand. +We walked, Cocke and I, through the Parke with him, and so we being to +meet the Vice-Chamberlayne to-morrow at Nonesuch, to treat with Sir +Robert Long about the same business, I into London, it being dark night, +by a hackney coach; the first I have durst to go in many a day, and with +great pain now for fear. But it being unsafe to go by water in the dark +and frosty cold, and unable being weary with my morning walke to go on +foot, this was my only way. Few people yet in the streets, nor shops +open, here and there twenty in a place almost; though not above five or +sixe o'clock at night. So to Viner's, and there heard of Cocke, and +found him at the Pope's Head, drinking with Temple. I to them, where the +Goldsmiths do decry the new Act, for money to be all brought into the +Exchequer, and paid out thence, saying they will not advance one farthing +upon it; and indeed it is their interest to say and do so. Thence Cocke +and I to Sir G. Smith's, it being now night, and there up to his chamber +and sat talking, and I barbing--[shaving]--against to-morrow; and anon, +at nine at night, comes to us Sir G. Smith and the Lieutenant of the +Tower, and there they sat talking and drinking till past midnight, and +mighty merry we were, the Lieutenant of the Tower being in a mighty vein +of singing, and he hath a very good eare and strong voice, but no manner +of skill. Sir G. Smith shewed me his lady's closett, which was very +fine; and, after being very merry, here I lay in a noble chamber, and +mighty highly treated, the first time I have lain in London a long time. + + + +28th. Up before day, and Cocke and I took a hackney coach appointed with +four horses to take us up, and so carried us over London Bridge. But +there, thinking of some business, I did 'light at the foot of the bridge, +and by helpe of a candle at a stall, where some payers were at work, I +wrote a letter to Mr. Hater, and never knew so great an instance of the +usefulness of carrying pen and ink and wax about one: so we, the way +being very bad, to Nonesuch, and thence to Sir Robert Longs house; a fine +place, and dinner time ere we got thither; but we had breakfasted a +little at Mr. Gawden's, he being out of towne though, and there borrowed +Dr. Taylor's sermons, and is a most excellent booke and worth my buying, +where had a very good dinner, and curiously dressed, and here a couple of +ladies, kinswomen of his, not handsome though, but rich, that knew me by +report of The. Turner, and mighty merry we were. After dinner to talk of +our business, the Act of Parliament, where in short I see Sir R. Long +mighty fierce in the great good qualities of it. But in that and many +other things he was stiff in, I think without much judgement, or the +judgement I expected from him, and already they have evaded the necessity +of bringing people into the Exchequer with their bills to be paid there. +Sir G. Carteret is titched--[fretful, tetchy]--at this, yet resolves with +me to make the best use we can of this Act for the King, but all our +care, we think, will not render it as it should be. He did again here +alone discourse with me about my Lord, and is himself strongly for my +Lord's not going to sea, which I am glad to hear and did confirm him in +it. He tells me too that he talked last night with the Duke of Albemarle +about my Lord Sandwich, by the by making him sensible that it is his +interest to preserve his old friends, which he confessed he had reason to +do, for he knows that ill offices were doing of him, and that he honoured +my Lord Sandwich with all his heart. After this discourse we parted, and +all of us broke up and we parted. Captain Cocke and I through +Wandsworth. Drank at Sir Allen Broderick's, a great friend and comrade +of Cocke's, whom he values above the world for a witty companion, and I +believe he is so. So to Fox-Hall and there took boat, and down to the +Old Swan, and thence to Lumbard Streete, it being darke night, and thence +to the Tower. Took boat and down to Greenwich, Cocke and I, he home and +I to the office, where did a little business, and then to my lodgings, +where my wife is come, and I am well pleased with it, only much trouble +in those lodgings we have, the mistresse of the house being so deadly +dear in everything we have; so that we do resolve to remove home soon as +we know how the plague goes this weeke, which we hope will be a good +decrease. So to bed. + + + +29th. Up, my wife and I talking how to dispose of our goods, and +resolved upon sending our two mayds Alce (who has been a day or two at +Woolwich with my wife, thinking to have had a feast there) and Susan +home. So my wife after dinner did take them to London with some goods, +and I in the afternoon after doing other business did go also by +agreement to meet Captain Cocke and from him to Sir Roger Cuttance, about +the money due from Cocke to him for the late prize goods, wherein Sir +Roger is troubled that he hath not payment as agreed, and the other, that +he must pay without being secured in the quiett possession of them, but +some accommodation to both, I think, will be found. But Cocke do tell me +that several have begged so much of the King to be discovered out of +stolen prize goods and so I am afeard we shall hereafter have trouble, +therefore I will get myself free of them as soon as I can and my money +paid. Thence home to my house, calling my wife, where the poor wretch is +putting things in a way to be ready for our coming home, and so by water +together to Greenwich, and so spent the night together. + + + +30th. Up, and at the office all the morning. At noon comes Sir Thomas +Allen, and I made him dine with me, and very friendly he is, and a good +man, I think, but one that professes he loves to get and to save. He +dined with my wife and me and Mrs. Barbary, whom my wife brings along +with her from Woolwich for as long as she stays here. In the afternoon +to the office, and there very late writing letters and then home, my wife +and people sitting up for me, and after supper to bed. Great joy we have +this week in the weekly Bill, it being come to 544 in all, and but 333 of +the plague; so that we are encouraged to get to London soon as we can. +And my father writes as great news of joy to them, that he saw Yorke's +waggon go again this week to London, and was full of passengers; and +tells me that my aunt Bell hath been dead of the plague these seven +weeks. + + + + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + DECEMBER + 1665 + + +December 1st. This morning to the office, full of resolution to spend +the whole day at business, and there, among other things, I did agree +with Poynter to be my clerke for my Victualling business, and so all +alone all the day long shut up in my little closett at my office, drawing +up instructions, which I should long since have done for my Surveyours of +the Ports, Sir W. Coventry desiring much to have them, and he might well +have expected them long since. After dinner to it again, and at night +had long discourse with Gibson, who is for Yarmouth, who makes me +understand so much of the victualling business and the pursers' trade, +that I am ashamed I should go about the concerning myself in a business +which I understand so very very little of, and made me distrust all I had +been doing to-day. So I did lay it by till to-morrow morning to think of +it afresh, and so home by promise to my wife, to have mirth there. So we +had our neighbours, little Miss Tooker and Mrs. Daniels, to dance, and +after supper I to bed, and left them merry below, which they did not part +from till two or three in the morning. + + + +2nd. Up, and discoursing with my wife, who is resolved to go to London +for good and all this day, we did agree upon giving Mr. Sheldon L10, and +Mrs. Barbary two pieces, and so I left her to go down thither to fetch +away the rest of the things and pay him the money, and so I to the +office, where very busy setting Mr. Poynter to write out my last night's +worke, which pleases me this day, but yet it is pretty to reflect how +much I am out of confidence with what I had done upon Gibson's discourse +with me, for fear I should have done it sillily, but Poynter likes them, +and Mr. Hater also, but yet I am afeard lest they should do it out of +flattery, so conscious I am of my ignorance. Dined with my wife at noon +and took leave of her, she being to go to London, as I said, for +altogether, and I to the office, busy till past one in the morning. + + + +3rd. It being Lord's day, up and dressed and to church, thinking to have +sat with Sir James Bunce to hear his daughter and her husband sing, that +are so much commended, but was prevented by being invited into Coll. +Cleggatt's pew. However, there I sat, near Mr. Laneare, with whom I +spoke, and in sight, by chance, and very near my fat brown beauty of our +Parish, the rich merchant's lady, a very noble woman, and Madame Pierce. +A good sermon of Mr. Plume's, and so to Captain Cocke's, and there dined +with him, and Colonell Wyndham, a worthy gentleman, whose wife was nurse +to the present King, and one that while she lived governed him and every +thing else, as Cocke says, as a minister of state; the old King putting +mighty weight and trust upon her. They talked much of matters of State +and persons, and particularly how my Lord Barkeley hath all along been a +fortunate, though a passionate and but weak man as to policy; but as a +kinsman brought in and promoted by my Lord of St. Alban's, and one that +is the greatest vapourer in the world, this Colonell Wyndham says; and +one to whom only, with Jacke Asheburnel and Colonel Legg, the King's +removal to the Isle of Wight from Hampton Court was communicated; and +(though betrayed by their knavery, or at best by their ignorance, +insomuch that they have all solemnly charged one another with their +failures therein, and have been at daggers-drawing publickly about it), +yet now none greater friends in the world. We dined, and in comes Mrs. +Owen, a kinswoman of my Lord Bruncker's, about getting a man discharged, +which I did for her, and by and by Mrs. Pierce to speake with me (and +Mary my wife's late maid, now gone to her) about her husband's business +of money, and she tells us how she prevented Captain Fisher the other day +in his purchase of all her husband's fine goods, as pearls and silks, +that he had seized in an Apothecary's house, a friend of theirs, but she +got in and broke them open and removed all before Captain Fisher came the +next day to fetch them away, at which he is starke mad. She went home, +and I to my lodgings. At night by agreement I fetched her again with +Cocke's coach, and he come and we sat and talked together, thinking to +have had Mrs. Coleman and my songsters, her husband and Laneare, but they +failed me. So we to supper, and as merry as was sufficient, and my +pretty little Miss with me; and so after supper walked [with] Pierce +home, and so back and to bed. But, Lord! I stand admiring of the +wittinesse of her little boy, which is one of the wittiest boys, but most +confident that ever I did see of a child of 9 years old or under in all +my life, or indeed one twice his age almost, but all for roguish wit. So +to bed. + + + +4th. Several people to me about business, among others Captain Taylor, +intended Storekeeper for Harwich, whom I did give some assistance in his +dispatch by lending him money. So out and by water to London and to the +'Change, and up and down about several businesses, and after the +observing (God forgive me!) one or two of my neighbour Jason's women come +to towne, which did please me very well, home to my house at the office, +where my wife had got a dinner for me: and it was a joyfull thing for us +to meet here, for which God be praised! Here was her brother come to see +her, and speake with me about business. It seems my recommending of him +hath not only obtained his presently being admitted into the Duke of +Albemarle's guards, and present pay, but also by the Duke's and Sir +Philip Howard's direction, to be put as a right-hand man, and other marks +of special respect, at which I am very glad, partly for him, and partly +to see that I am reckoned something in my recommendations, but wish he +may carry himself that I may receive no disgrace by him. So to the +'Change. Up and down again in the evening about business and to meet +Captain Cocke, who waited for Mrs. Pierce (with whom he is mightily +stricken), to receive and hide for her her rich goods she saved the other +day from seizure. Upon the 'Change to-day Colvill tells me, from Oxford, +that the King in person hath justified my Lord Sandwich to the highest +degree; and is right in his favour to the uttermost. So late by water +home, taking a barrel of oysters with me, and at Greenwich went and sat +with Madam Penington . . . . and made her undress her head and sit +dishevilled all night sporting till two in the morning, and so away to my +lodging and so to bed. Over-fasting all the morning hath filled me +mightily with wind, and nothing else hath done it, that I fear a fit of +the cholique. + + + +5th. Up and to the office, where very busy about several businesses all +the morning. At noon empty, yet without stomach to dinner, having +spoiled myself with fasting yesterday, and so filled with wind. In the +afternoon by water, calling Mr. Stevens (who is with great trouble paying +of seamen of their tickets at Deptford) and to London, to look for +Captain Kingdom whom we found at home about 5 o'clock. I tried him, and +he promised to follow us presently to the East India House to sign papers +to-night in order to the settling the business of my receiving money for +Tangier. We went and stopt the officer there to shut up. He made us +stay above an houre. I sent for him; he comes, but was not found at +home, but abroad on other business, and brings a paper saying that he had +been this houre looking for the Lord Ashley's order. When he looks for +it, that is not the paper. He would go again to look; kept us waiting +till almost 8 at night. Then was I to go home by water this weather and +darke, and to write letters by the post, besides keeping the East India +officers there so late. I sent for him again; at last he comes, and says +he cannot find the paper (which is a pretty thing to lay orders for +L100,000 no better). I was angry; he told me I ought to give people ease +at night, and all business was to be done by day. I answered him +sharply, that I did [not] make, nor any honest man, any difference +between night and day in the King's business, and this was such, and my +Lord Ashley should know. He answered me short. I told him I knew the +time (meaning the Rump's time) when he did other men's business with more +diligence. He cried, "Nay, say not so," and stopped his mouth, not one +word after. We then did our business without the order in less than +eight minutes, which he made me to no purpose stay above two hours for +the doing. This made him mad, and so we exchanged notes, and I had notes +for L14,000 of the Treasurer of the Company, and so away and by water to +Greenwich and wrote my letters, and so home late to bed. + + + +6th. Up betimes, it being fast-day; and by water to the Duke of +Albemarle, who come to towne from Oxford last night. He is mighty brisk, +and very kind to me, and asks my advice principally in every thing. He +surprises me with the news that my Lord Sandwich goes Embassador to +Spayne speedily; though I know not whence this arises, yet I am heartily +glad of it. He did give me several directions what to do, and so I home +by water again and to church a little, thinking to have met Mrs. Pierce +in order to our meeting at night; but she not there, I home and dined, +and comes presently by appointment my wife. I spent the afternoon upon a +song of Solyman's words to Roxalana that I have set, and so with my wife +walked and Mercer to Mrs. Pierce's, where Captain Rolt and Mrs. Knipp, +Mr. Coleman and his wife, and Laneare, Mrs. Worshipp and her singing +daughter, met; and by and by unexpectedly comes Mr. Pierce from Oxford. +Here the best company for musique I ever was in, in my life, and wish I +could live and die in it, both for musique and the face of Mrs. Pierce, +and my wife and Knipp, who is pretty enough; but the most excellent, mad- +humoured thing, and sings the noblest that ever I heard in my life, and +Rolt, with her, some things together most excellently. I spent the night +in extasy almost; and, having invited them to my house a day or two +hence, we broke up, Pierce having told me that he is told how the King +hath done my Lord Sandwich all the right imaginable, by shewing him his +countenance before all the world on every occasion, to remove thoughts of +discontent; and that he is to go Embassador, and that the Duke of Yorke +is made generall of all forces by land and sea, and the Duke of +Albemarle, lieutenant-generall. Whether the two latter alterations be +so, true or no, he knows not, but he is told so; but my Lord is in full +favour with the King. So all home and to bed. + + + +7th. Up and to the office, where very busy all day. Sir G. Carteret's +letter tells me my Lord Sandwich is, as I was told, declared Embassador +Extraordinary to Spayne, and to go with all speed away, and that his +enemies have done him as much good as he could wish. At noon late to +dinner, and after dinner spent till night with Mr. Gibson and Hater +discoursing and making myself more fully [know] the trade of pursers, +and what fittest to be done in their business, and so to the office till +midnight writing letters, and so home, and after supper with my wife +about one o'clock to bed. + + + +8th. Up, well pleased in my mind about my Lord Sandwich, about whom I +shall know more anon from Sir G. Carteret, who will be in towne, and also +that the Hambrough [ships] after all difficulties are got out. God send +them good speed! So, after being trimmed, I by water to London, to the +Navy office, there to give order to my mayde to buy things to send down +to Greenwich for supper to-night; and I also to buy other things, as +oysters, and lemons, 6d. per piece, and oranges, 3d. That done I to the +'Change, and among many other things, especially for getting of my +Tangier money, I by appointment met Mr. Gawden, and he and I to the +Pope's Head Taverne, and there he did give me alone a very pretty dinner. +Our business to talk of his matters and his supply of money, which was +necessary for us to talk on before the Duke of Albemarle this afternoon +and Sir G. Carteret. After that I offered now to pay him the L4000 +remaining of his L8000 for Tangier, which he took with great kindnesse, +and prayed me most frankly to give him a note for L3500 and accept the +other L500 for myself, which in good earnest was against my judgement to +do, for [I] expected about L100 and no more, but however he would have me +do it, and ownes very great obligations to me, and the man indeed I love, +and he deserves it. This put me into great joy, though with a little +stay to it till we have time to settle it, for for so great a sum I was +fearfull any accident might by death or otherwise defeate me, having not +now time to change papers. So we rose, and by water to White Hall, where +we found Sir G. Carteret with the Duke, and also Sir G. Downing, whom I +had not seen in many years before. He greeted me very kindly, and I him; +though methinks I am touched, that it should be said that he was my +master heretofore, as doubtless he will. So to talk of our Navy +business, and particularly money business, of which there is little hopes +of any present supply upon this new Act, the goldsmiths being here (and +Alderman Backewell newly come from Flanders), and none offering any. So +we rose without doing more than my stating the case of the Victualler, +that whereas there is due to him on the last year's declaration L80,000, +and the charge of this year's amounts to L420,000 and odd, he must be +supplied between this and the end of January with L150,000, and the +remainder in 40 weeks by weekly payments, or else he cannot go through +his business. Thence after some discourse with Sir G. Carteret, who, +though he tells me that he is glad of my Lord's being made Embassador, +and that it is the greatest courtesy his enemies could do him; yet I find +he is not heartily merry upon it, and that it was no design of my Lord's +friends, but the prevalence of his enemies, and that the Duke of +Albemarle and Prince Rupert are like to go to sea together the next year. +I pray God, when my Lord is gone, they do not fall hard upon the Vice- +Chamberlain, being alone, and in so envious a place, though by this late +Act and the instructions now a brewing for our office as to method of +payments will destroy the profit of his place of itself without more +trouble. Thence by water down to Greenwich, and there found all my +company come; that is, Mrs. Knipp, and an ill, melancholy, jealous- +looking fellow, her husband, that spoke not a word to us all the night, +Pierce and his wife, and Rolt, Mrs. Worshipp and her daughter, Coleman +and his wife, and Laneare, and, to make us perfectly happy, there comes +by chance to towne Mr. Hill to see us. Most excellent musique we had in +abundance, and a good supper, dancing, and a pleasant scene of Mrs. +Knipp's rising sicke from table, but whispered me it was for some hard +word or other her husband gave her just now when she laughed and was more +merry than ordinary. But we got her in humour again, and mighty merry; +spending the night, till two in the morning, with most complete content +as ever in my life, it being increased by my day's work with Gawden. +Then broke up, and we to bed, Mr. Hill and I, whom I love more and more, +and he us. + + + +9th. Called up betimes by my Lord Bruncker, who is come to towne from +his long water worke at Erith last night, to go with him to the Duke of +Albemarle, which by his coach I did. Our discourse upon the ill posture +of the times through lacke of money. At the Duke's did some business, +and I believe he was not pleased to see all the Duke's discourse and +applications to me and everybody else. Discoursed also with Sir G. +Carteret about office business, but no money in view. Here my Lord and I +staid and dined, the Vice-Chamberlain taking his leave. At table the +Duchesse, a damned ill-looked woman, complaining of her Lord's going to +sea the next year, said these cursed words: "If my Lord had been a coward +he had gone to sea no more: it may be then he might have been excused, +and made an Embassador" (meaning my Lord Sandwich). + + [When Lord Sandwich was away a new commander had to be chosen, and + rank and long service pointed out Prince Rupert for the office, it + having been decided that the heir presumptive should be kept at + home. It was thought, however, that the same confidence could not + be placed in the prince's discretion as in his courage, and + therefore the Duke of Albemarle was induced to take a joint command + with him, "and so make one admiral of two persons" (see Lister's + "Life of Clarendon," vol. ii., pp. 360,361).] + +This made me mad, and I believed she perceived my countenance change, and +blushed herself very much. I was in hopes others had not minded it, but +my Lord Bruncker, after we were come away, took notice of the words to me +with displeasure. Thence after dinner away by water, calling and taking +leave of Sir G. Carteret, whom we found going through at White Hall, and +so over to Lambeth and took coach and home, and so to the office, where +late writing letters, and then home to Mr. Hill, and sang, among other +things, my song of "Beauty retire," which he likes, only excepts against +two notes in the base, but likes the whole very well. So late to bed. + + + +10th (Lord's day). Lay long talking, Hill and I, with great pleasure, +and then up, and being ready walked to Cocke's for some newes, but heard +none, only they would have us stay their dinner, and sent for my wife, +who come, and very merry we were, there being Sir Edmund Pooly and Mr. +Evelyn. Before we had dined comes Mr. Andrews, whom we had sent for to +Bow, and so after dinner home, and there we sang some things, but not +with much pleasure, Mr. Andrews being in so great haste to go home, his +wife looking every hour to be brought to bed. He gone Mr. Hill and I +continued our musique, one thing after another, late till supper, and so +to bed with great pleasure. + + + +11th. Lay long with great pleasure talking. So I left him and to London +to the 'Change, and after discoursed with several people about business; +met Mr. Gawden at the Pope's Head, where he brought Mr. Lewes and +T. Willson to discourse about the Victualling business, and the +alterations of the pursers' trade, for something must be done to secure +the King a little better, and yet that they may have wherewith to live. +After dinner I took him aside, and perfected to my great joy my business +with him, wherein he deals most nobly in giving me his hand for the +L4,000, and would take my note but for L3500. This is a great blessing, +and God make me thankfull truly for it. With him till it was darke +putting in writing our discourse about victualling, and so parted, and I +to Viner's, and there evened all accounts, and took up my notes setting +all straight between us to this day. The like to Colvill, and paying +several bills due from me on the Tangier account. Then late met Cocke +and Temple at the Pope's Head, and there had good discourse with Temple, +who tells me that of the L80,000 advanced already by the East India +Company, they have had L5000 out of their hands. He discoursed largely +of the quantity of money coyned, and what may be thought the real sum of +money in the kingdom. He told me, too, as an instance of the thrift used +in the King's business, that the tools and the interest of the money- +using to the King for the money he borrowed while the new invention of +the mill money was perfected, cost him L35,000, and in mirthe tells me +that the new fashion money is good for nothing but to help the Prince if +he can secretly get copper plates shut up in silver it shall never be +discovered, at least not in his age. Thence Cocke and I by water, he +home and I home, and there sat with Mr. Hill and my wife supping, talking +and singing till midnight, and then to bed. [That I may remember it the +more particularly, I thought fit to insert this additional memorandum of +Temple's discourse this night with me, which I took in writing from his +mouth. Before the Harp and Crosse money was cried down, he and his +fellow goldsmiths did make some particular trials what proportion that +money bore to the old King's money, and they found that generally it come +to, one with another, about L25 in every L100. Of this money there was, +upon the calling of it in, L650,000 at least brought into the Tower; and +from thence he computes that the whole money of England must be full +L6,250,000. But for all this believes that there is above L30,000,000; +he supposing that about the King's coming in (when he begun to observe +the quantity of the new money) people begun to be fearfull of this +money's being cried down, and so picked it out and set it a-going as fast +as they could, to be rid of it; and he thinks L30,000,000 the rather, +because if there were but L16,250,000 the King having L2,000,000 every +year, would have the whole money of the kingdom in his hands in eight +years. He tells me about L350,000 sterling was coined out of the French +money, the proceeds of Dunkirke; so that, with what was coined of the +Crosse money, there is new coined about L1,000,000 besides the gold, +which is guessed at L500,000. He tells me, that, though the King did +deposit the French money in pawn all the while for the L350,000 he was +forced to borrow thereupon till the tools could be made for the new +Minting in the present form, yet the interest he paid for that time came +to L35,000, Viner having to his knowledge L10,000 for the use of L100,000 +of it.]--(The passage between brackets is from a piece of paper inserted +in this place.) + + + +12th. Up, and to the office, where my Lord Bruncker met, and among other +things did finish a contract with Cocke for hemp, by which I hope to get +my money due from him paid presently. At noon home to dinner, only +eating a bit, and with much kindness taking leave of Mr. Hill who goes +away to-day, and so I by water saving the tide through Bridge and to Sir +G. Downing by appointment at Charing Crosse, who did at first mightily +please me with informing me thoroughly the virtue and force of this Act, +and indeed it is ten times better than ever I thought could have been +said of it, but when he come to impose upon me that without more ado I +must get by my credit people to serve in goods and lend money upon it and +none could do it better than I, and the King should give me thanks +particularly in it, and I could not get him to excuse me, but I must come +to him though to no purpose on Saturday, and that he is sure I will bring +him some bargains or other made upon this Act, it vexed me more than all +the pleasure I took before, for I find he will be troublesome to me in +it, if I will let him have as much of my time as he would have. So late +I took leave and in the cold (the weather setting in cold) home to the +office and, after my letters being wrote, home to supper and to bed, my +wife being also gone to London. + + + +13th. Up betimes and finished my journall for five days back, and then +after being ready to my Lord Bruncker by appointment, there to order the +disposing of some money that we have come into the office, and here to my +great content I did get a bill of imprest to Captain Cocke to pay myself +in part of what is coming to me from him for my Lord Sandwich's +satisfaction and my owne, and also another payment or two wherein I am +concerned, and having done that did go to Mr. Pierce's, where he and his +wife made me drink some tea, and so he and I by water together to London. +Here at a taverne in Cornhill he and I did agree upon my delivering up to +him a bill of Captain Cocke's, put into my hand for Pierce's use upon +evening of reckonings about the prize goods, and so away to the 'Change, +and there hear the ill news, to my great and all our great trouble, that +the plague is encreased again this week, notwithstanding there hath been +a day or two great frosts; but we hope it is only the effects of the late +close warm weather, and if the frosts continue the next week, may fall +again; but the town do thicken so much with people, that it is much if +the plague do not grow again upon us. Off the 'Change invited by Sheriff +Hooker, who keeps the poorest, mean, dirty table in a dirty house that +ever I did see any Sheriff of London; and a plain, ordinary, silly man I +think he is, but rich; only his son, Mr. Lethulier, I like, for a pretty, +civil, understanding merchant; and the more by much, because he happens +to be husband to our noble, fat, brave lady in our parish, that I and my +wife admire so. Thence away to the Pope's Head Taverne, and there met +first with Captain Cocke, and dispatched my business with him to my +content, he being ready to sign his bill of imprest of L2,000, and gives +it me in part of his payment to me, which glads my heart. He being gone, +comes Sir W. Warren, who advised with me about several things about +getting money, and L100 I shall presently have of him. We advised about +a business of insurance, wherein something may be saved to him and got to +me, and to that end he and I did take a coach at night and to the +Cockepitt, there to get the Duke of Albemarle's advice for our insuring +some of our Sounde goods coming home under Harman's convoy, but he proved +shy of doing it without knowledge of the Duke of Yorke, so we back again +and calling at my house to see my wife, who is well; though my great +trouble is that our poor little parish is the greatest number this weeke +in all the city within the walls, having six, from one the last weeke; +and so by water to Greenwich leaving Sir W. Warren at home, and I +straight to my Lord Bruncker, it being late, and concluded upon insuring +something and to send to that purpose to Sir W. Warren to come to us to- +morrow morning. So I home and, my mind in great rest, to bed. + + + +14th. Up, and to the office a while with my Lord Bruncker, where we +directed Sir W. Warren in the business of the insurance as I desired, and +ended some other businesses of his, and so at noon I to London, but the +'Change was done before I got thither, so I to the Pope's Head Taverne, +and there find Mr. Gawden and Captain Beckford and Nick Osborne going to +dinner, and I dined with them and very exceeding merry we were as I had +[not] been a great while, and dinner being done I to the East India House +and there had an assignment on Mr. Temple for the L2,000 of Cocke's, +which joyed my heart; so, having seen my wife in the way, I home by water +and to write my letters and then home to bed. + + + +15th. Up, and spent all the morning with my Surveyors of the Ports for +the Victualling, and there read to them what instructions I had provided +for them and discoursed largely much of our business and the business of +the pursers. I left them to dine with my people, and to my Lord +Bruncker's where I met with a great good dinner and Sir T. Teddiman, with +whom my Lord and I were to discourse about the bringing of W. Howe to a +tryall for his jewells, and there till almost night, and so away toward +the office and in my way met with Sir James Bunce; and after asking what +newes, he cried "Ah!" says he (I know [not] whether in earnest or jest), +"this is the time for you," says he, "that were for Oliver heretofore; +you are full of employment, and we poor Cavaliers sit still and can get +nothing;" which was a pretty reproach, I thought, but answered nothing to +it, for fear of making it worse. So away and I to see Mrs. Penington, +but company being to come to her, I staid not, but to the office a little +and so home, and after supper to bed. + + + +16th. Up, and met at the office; Sir W. Batten with us, who come from +Portsmouth on Monday last, and hath not been with us to see or discourse +with us about any business till this day. At noon to dinner, Sir W. +Warren with me on boat, and thence I by water, it being a fearfull cold, +snowing day to Westminster to White Hall stairs and thence to Sir G. +Downing, to whom I brought the happy newes of my having contracted, as we +did this day with Sir W. Warren, for a ship's lading of Norway goods here +and another at Harwich to the value of above L3,000, which is the first +that hath been got upon the New Act, and he is overjoyed with it and +tells me he will do me all the right to Court about it in the world, and +I am glad I have it to write to Sir W. Coventry to-night. He would fain +have me come in L200 to lend upon the Act, but I desire to be excused in +doing that, it being to little purpose for us that relate to the King to +do it, for the sum gets the King no courtesy nor credit. So I parted +from him and walked to Westminster Hall, where Sir W. Warren, who come +along with me, staid for me, and there I did see Betty Howlet come after +the sicknesse to the Hall. Had not opportunity to salute her, as I +desired, but was glad to see her and a very pretty wench she is. Thence +back, landing at the Old Swan and taking boat again at Billingsgate, and +setting ashore we home and I to the office . . . . and there wrote my +letters, and so home to supper and to bed, it being a great frost. Newes +is come to-day of our Sounde fleete being come, but I do not know what +Sir W. Warren hath insured. + + + +17th (Lord's day). After being trimmed word brought me that Cutler's +coach is, by appointment, come to the Isle of Doggs for me, and so I over +the water; and in his coach to Hackney, a very fine, cold, clear, frosty +day. At his house I find him with a plain little dinner, good wine, and +welcome. He is still a prating man; and the more I know him, the less I +find in him. A pretty house he hath here indeed, of his owne building. +His old mother was an object at dinner that made me not like it; and, +after dinner, to visit his sicke wife I did not also take much joy in, +but very friendly he is to me, not for any kindnesse I think he hath to +any man, but thinking me, I perceive, a man whose friendship is to be +looked after. After dinner back again and to Deptford to Mr. Evelyn's, +who was not within, but I had appointed my cozen Thos. Pepys of Hatcham +to meet me there, to discourse about getting his L1000 of my Lord +Sandwich, having now an opportunity of my having above that sum in my +hands of his. I found this a dull fellow still in all his discourse, but +in this he is ready enough to embrace what I counsel him to, which is, to +write importunately to my Lord and me about it and I will look after it. +I do again and again declare myself a man unfit to be security for such a +sum. He walked with me as far as Deptford upper towne, being mighty +respectfull to me, and there parted, he telling me that this towne is +still very bad of the plague. I walked to Greenwich first, to make a +short visit to my Lord Bruncker, and next to Mrs. Penington and spent all +the evening with her with the same freedom I used to have and very +pleasant company. With her till one of the clock in the morning and +past, and so to my lodging to bed, and + + + +18th. Betimes, up, it being a fine frost, and walked it to Redriffe, +calling and drinking at Half-way house, thinking, indeed, to have +overtaken some of the people of our house, the women, who were to walk +the same walke, but I could not. So to London, and there visited my +wife, and was a little displeased to find she is so forward all of a +spurt to make much of her brother and sister since my last kindnesse to +him in getting him a place, but all ended well presently, and I to the +'Change and up and down to Kingdon and the goldsmith's to meet Mr. +Stephens, and did get all my money matters most excellently cleared to my +complete satisfaction. Passing over Cornhill I spied young Mrs. Daniel +and Sarah, my landlady's daughter, who are come, as I expected, to towne, +and did say they spied me and I dogged them to St. Martin's, where I +passed by them being shy, and walked down as low as Ducke Lane and +enquired for some Spanish books, and so back again and they were gone. +So to the 'Change, hoping to see them in the streete, and missing them, +went back again thither and back to the 'Change, but no sight of them, +so went after my business again, and, though late, was sent to by Sir +W. Warren (who heard where I was) to intreat me to come dine with him, +hearing that I lacked a dinner, at the Pope's Head; and there with Mr. +Hinton, the goldsmith, and others, very merry; but, Lord! to see how Dr. +Hinton come in with a gallant or two from Court, and do so call "Cozen" +Mr. Hinton, the goldsmith, but I that know him to be a beggar and a +knave, did make great sport in my mind at it. + + [John Hinton, M.D., a strong royalist, who attended Henrietta Maria + in her confinement at Exeter when she gave birth to the Princess + Henrietta. He was knighted by Charles II., and appointed physician + in ordinary to the king and queen. His knighthood was a reward for + having procured a private advance of money from his kinsman, the + goldsmith, to enable the Duke of Albemarle to pay the army (see + "Memorial to King Charles II. from Sir John Hinton, A.D. 1679," + printed in Ellis's "Original Letters," 3rd series, vol. iv., + p 296).] + +After dinner Sir W. Warren and I alone in another room a little while +talking about business, and so parted, and I hence, my mind full of +content in my day's worke, home by water to Greenwich, the river +beginning to be very full of ice, so as I was a little frighted, but got +home well, it being darke. So having no mind to do any business, went +home to my lodgings, and there got little Mrs. Tooker, and Mrs. Daniel, +the, daughter, and Sarah to my chamber to cards and sup with me, when in +comes Mr. Pierce to me, who tells me how W. Howe has been examined on +shipboard by my Lord Bruncker to-day, and others, and that he has charged +him out of envy with sending goods under my Lord's seale and in my Lord +Bruncker's name, thereby to get them safe passage, which, he tells me, is +false, but that he did use my name to that purpose, and hath acknowledged +it to my Lord Bruncker, but do also confess to me that one parcel he +thinks he did use my Lord Bruncker's name, which do vexe me mightily that +my name should be brought in question about such things, though I did not +say much to him of my discontent till I have spoke with my Lord Bruncker +about it. So he being gone, being to go to Oxford to-morrow, we to cards +again late, and so broke up, I having great pleasure with my little +girle, Mrs. Tooker. + + + +19th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon by +agreement comes Hatcham Pepys to dine with me. I thought to have had +him to Sir J. Minnes to a good venison pasty with the rest of my fellows, +being invited, but seeing much company I went away with him and had a +good dinner at home. He did give me letters he hath wrote to my Lord and +Moore about my Lord's money to get it paid to my cozen, which I will make +good use of. I made mighty much of him, but a sorry dull fellow he is, +fit for nothing that is ingenious, nor is there a turd of kindnesse or +service to be had from him. So I shall neglect him if I could get but +him satisfied about this money that I may be out of bonds for my Lord to +him. To see that this fellow could desire me to helpe him to some +employment, if it were but of L100 per annum: when he is not worth less +than, I believe, L20,000. He gone, I to Sir J. Minnes, and thence with +my Lord Bruncker on board the Bezan to examine W. Howe again, who I find +upon this tryall one of much more wit and ingenuity in his answers than +ever I expected, he being very cunning and discreet and well spoken in +them. I said little to him or concerning him; but, Lord! to see how he +writes to me a-days, and styles me "My Honour." So much is a man +subjected and dejected under afflictions as to flatter me in that manner +on this occasion. Back with my Lord to Sir J. Minnes, where I left him +and the rest of a great deale of company, and so I to my office, where +late writing letters and then home to bed. + + + +20th. Up, and was trimmed, but not time enough to save my Lord +Bruncker's coach or Sir J. Minnes's, and so was fain to walk to Lambeth +on foot, but it was a very fine frosty walke, and great pleasure in it, +but troublesome getting over the River for ice. I to the Duke of +Albemarle, whither my brethren were all come, but I was not too late. +There we sat in discourse upon our Navy business an houre, and thence in +my Lord Bruncker's coach alone, he walking before (while I staid awhile +talking with Sir G. Downing about the Act, in which he is horrid +troublesome) to the Old Exchange. Thence I took Sir Ellis Layton to +Captain Cocke's, where my Lord Bruncker and Lady Williams dine, and we +all mighty merry; but Sir Ellis Layton one of the best companions at a +meale in the world. After dinner I to the Exchange to see whether my +pretty seamstress be come again or no, and I find she is, so I to her, +saluted her over her counter in the open Exchange above, and mightily +joyed to see her, poor pretty woman! I must confess I think her a great +beauty. After laying out a little money there for two pair of thread +stockings, cost 8s., I to Lumbard Streete to see some business to-night +there at the goldsmith's, among others paying in L1258 to Viner for my +Lord Sandwich's use upon Cocke's account. I was called by my Lord +Bruncker in his coach with his mistresse, and Mr. Cottle the lawyer, our +acquaintance at Greenwich, and so home to Greenwich, and thence I to Mrs. +Penington, and had a supper from the King's Head for her, and there +mighty merry and free as I used to be with her, and at last, late, I did +pray her to undress herself into her nightgowne, that I might see how to +have her picture drawne carelessly (for she is mighty proud of that +conceit), and I would walk without in the streete till she had done. So +I did walk forth, and whether I made too many turns or no in the darke +cold frosty night between the two walls up to the Parke gate I know not, +but she was gone to bed when I come again to the house, upon pretence of +leaving some papers there, which I did on purpose by her consent. So I +away home, and was there sat up for to be spoken with my young Mrs. +Daniel, to pray me to speake for her husband to be a Lieutenant. I had +the opportunity here of kissing her again and again, and did answer that +I would be very willing to do him any kindnesse, and so parted, and I to +bed, exceedingly pleased in all my matters of money this month or two, +it having pleased God to bless me with several opportunities of good +sums, and that I have them in effect all very well paid, or in my power +to have. But two things trouble me; one, the sicknesse is increased +above 80 this weeke (though in my owne parish not one has died, though +six the last weeke); the other, most of all, which is, that I have so +complexed an account for these last two months for variety of layings out +upon Tangier, occasions and variety of gettings that I have not made even +with myself now these 3 or 4 months, which do trouble me mightily, +finding that I shall hardly ever come to understand them thoroughly +again, as I used to do my accounts when I was at home. + + + +21st. At the office all the morning. At noon all of us dined at Captain +Cocke's at a good chine of beef, and other good meat; but, being all +frost-bitten, was most of it unroast; but very merry, and a good dish of +fowle we dressed ourselves. Mr. Evelyn there, in very good humour. All +the afternoon till night pleasant, and then I took my leave of them and +to the office, where I wrote my letters, and away home, my head full of +business and some trouble for my letting my accounts go so far that I +have made an oathe this night for the drinking no wine, &c., on such +penalties till I have passed my accounts and cleared all. Coming home +and going to bed, the boy tells me his sister Daniel has provided me a +supper of little birds killed by her husband, and I made her sup with me, +and after supper were alone a great while, and I had the pleasure of her +lips, she being a pretty woman, and one whom a great belly becomes as +well as ever I saw any. She gone, I to bed. This day I was come to by +Mrs. Burrows, of Westminster, Lieutenant Burrows (lately dead) his wife, +a most pretty woman and my old acquaintance; I had a kiss or two of her, +and a most modest woman she is. + + + +22nd. Up betimes and to my Lord Bruncker to consider the late +instructions sent us for the method of our signing bills hereafter and +paying them. By and by, by agreement, comes Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. +Batten, and then to read them publicly and consider of putting them in +execution. About this all the morning, and, it appearing necessary for +the Controller to have another Clerke, I recommended Poynter to him, +which he accepts, and I by that means rid of one that I fear would not +have been fit for my turne, though he writes very well. At noon comes +Mr. Hill to towne, and finds me out here, and brings Mr. Houbland, who +met him here. So I was compelled to leave my Lord and his dinner and +company, and with them to the Beare, and dined with them and their +brothers, of which Hill had his and the other two of his, and mighty +merry and very fine company they are, and I glad to see them. After +dinner I forced to take leave of them by being called upon by Mr. +Andrews, I having sent for him, and by a fine glosse did bring him to +desire tallys for what orders I have to pay him and his company for +Tangier victualls, and I by that means cleared to myself L210 coming to +me upon their two orders, which is also a noble addition to my late +profits, which have been very considerable of late, but how great I know +not till I come to cast up my accounts, which burdens my mind that it +should be so backward, but I am resolved to settle to nothing till I have +done it. He gone, I to my Lord Bruncker's, and there spent the evening +by my desire in seeing his Lordship open to pieces and make up again his +watch, thereby being taught what I never knew before; and it is a thing +very well worth my having seen, and am mightily pleased and satisfied +with it. So I sat talking with him till late at night, somewhat vexed at +a snappish answer Madam Williams did give me to herself, upon my speaking +a free word to her in mirthe, calling her a mad jade. She answered, we +were not so well acquainted yet. But I was more at a letter from my Lord +Duke of Albemarle to-day, pressing us to continue our meetings for all +Christmas, which, though every body intended not to have done, yet I am +concluded in it, who intended nothing else. But I see it is necessary +that I do make often visits to my Lord Duke, which nothing shall hinder +after I have evened my accounts, and now the river is frozen I know not +how to get to him. Thence to my lodging, making up my Journall for 8 or +9 days, and so my mind being eased of it, I to supper and to bed. The +weather hath been frosty these eight or nine days, and so we hope for an +abatement of the plague the next weeke, or else God have mercy upon us! +for the plague will certainly continue the next year if it do not. + + + +23rd. At my office all the morning and home to dinner, my head full of +business, and there my wife finds me unexpectedly. But I not being at +leisure to stay or talk with her, she went down by coach to Woolwich, +thinking to fetch Mrs. Barbary to carry her to London to keep her +Christmas with her, and I to the office. This day one come to me with +four great turkies, as a present from Mr. Deane, at Harwich, three of +which my wife carried in the evening home with her to London in her coach +(Mrs. Barbary not being to be got so suddenly, but will come to her the +next week), and I at my office late, and then to my lodgings to bed. + + + +24th (Sunday). Up betimes, to my Lord Duke of Albemarle by water, and +after some talke with him about business of the office with great +content, and so back again and to dinner, my landlady and her daughters +with me, and had mince-pies, and very merry at a mischance her young son +had in tearing of his new coate quite down the outside of his sleeve in +the whole cloth, one of the strangest mishaps that ever I saw in my life. +Then to church, and placed myself in the Parson's pew under the pulpit, +to hear Mrs. Chamberlain in the next pew sing, who is daughter to Sir +James Bunch, of whom I have heard much, and indeed she sings very finely, +and from church met with Sir W. Warren and he and I walked together +talking about his and my businesses, getting of money as fairly as we +can, and, having set him part of his way home, I walked to my Lord +Bruncker, whom I heard was at Alderman Hooker's, hoping to see and salute +Mrs. Lethulier, whom I did see in passing, but no opportunity of +beginning acquaintance, but a very noble lady she is, however the silly +alderman got her. Here we sat talking a great while, Sir The. Biddulph +and Mr. Vaughan, a son-in-law of Alderman Hooker's. Hence with my Lord +Bruncker home and sat a little with him and so home to bed. + + + +25th (Christmas-day). To church in the morning, and there saw a wedding +in the church, which I have not seen many a day; and the young people so +merry one with another, and strange to see what delight we married people +have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and +woman gazing and smiling at them. Here I saw again my beauty Lethulier. +Thence to my Lord Bruncker's by invitation and dined there, and so home +to look over and settle my papers, both of my accounts private, and those +of Tangier, which I have let go so long that it were impossible for any +soul, had I died, to understand them, or ever come to any good end in +them. I hope God will never suffer me to come to that disorder again. + + + +26th. Up, and to the office, where Sir J. Minnes and my Lord Bruncker +and I met, to give our directions to the Commanders of all the ships in +the river to bring in lists of their ships' companies, with entries, +discharges, &c., all the last voyage, where young Seymour, among 20 that +stood bare, stood with his hat on, a proud, saucy young man. Thence with +them to Mr. Cuttle's, being invited, and dined nobly and neatly; with a +very pretty house and a fine turret at top, with winding stairs and the +finest prospect I know about all Greenwich, save the top of the hill, and +yet in some respects better than that. Here I also saw some fine writing +worke and flourishing of Mr. Hore, he one that I knew long ago, an +acquaintance of Mr. Tomson's at Westminster, that is this man's clerk. +It is the story of the several Archbishops of Canterbury, engrossed in +vellum, to hang up in Canterbury Cathedrall in tables, in lieu of the old +ones, which are almost worn out. Thence to the office a while, and so to +Captain Cocke's and there talked, and home to look over my papers, and so +to bed. + + + +27th. Up, and with Cocke, by coach to London, there home to my wife, and +angry about her desiring a mayde yet, before the plague is quite over. +It seems Mercer is troubled that she hath not one under her, but I will +not venture my family by increasing it before it be safe. Thence about +many businesses, particularly with Sir W. Warren on the 'Change, and he +and I dined together and settled our Tangier matters, wherein I get above +L200 presently. We dined together at the Pope's Head to do this, and +thence to the goldsmiths, I to examine the state of my matters there too, +and so with him to my house, but my wife was gone abroad to Mrs. +Mercer's, so we took boat, and it being darke and the thaw having broke +the ice, but not carried it quite away, the boat did pass through so much +of it all along, and that with the crackling and noise that it made me +fearfull indeed. So I forced the watermen to land us on Redriffe side, +and so walked together till Sir W. Warren and I parted near his house and +thence I walked quite over the fields home by light of linke, one of my +watermen carrying it, and I reading by the light of it, it being a very +fine, clear, dry night. So to Captain Cocke's, and there sat and talked, +especially with his Counsellor, about his prize goods, that hath done him +good turne, being of the company with Captain Fisher, his name Godderson; +here I supped and so home to bed, with great content that the plague is +decreased to 152, the whole being but 330. + + + +28th. Up and to the office, and thence with a great deal of business in +my head, dined alone with Cocke. So home alone strictly about my +accounts, wherein I made a good beginning, and so, after letters wrote by +the post, to bed. + + + +29th. Up betimes, and all day long within doors upon my accounts, +publique and private, and find the ill effect of letting them go so long +without evening, that no soul could have ever understood them but myself, +and I with much ado. But, however, my regularity in all I did and spent +do helpe me, and I hope to find them well. Late at them and to bed. + + + +30th. Up and to the office, at noon home to dinner, and all the +afternoon to my accounts again, and there find myself, to my great joy, +a great deal worth above L4000, for which the Lord be praised! and is +principally occasioned by my getting L500 of Cocke, for my profit in his +bargains of prize goods, and from Mr. Gawden's making me a present of +L500 more, when I paid him 8000 for Tangier. So to my office to write +letters, then to my accounts again, and so to bed, being in great ease of +mind. + + + +31st (Lord's day). All the morning in my chamber, writing fair the state +of my Tangier accounts, and so dined at home. In the afternoon to the +Duke of Albemarle and thence back again by water, and so to my chamber to +finish the entry of my accounts and to think of the business I am next to +do, which is the stating my thoughts and putting in order my collections +about the business of pursers, to see where the fault of our present +constitution relating to them lies and what to propose to mend it, and +upon this late and with my head full of this business to bed. Thus ends +this year, to my great joy, in this manner. I have raised my estate from +L1300 in this year to L4400. I have got myself greater interest, I +think, by my diligence, and my employments encreased by that of Treasurer +for Tangier, and Surveyour of the Victualls. It is true we have gone +through great melancholy because of the great plague, and I put to great +charges by it, by keeping my family long at Woolwich, and myself and +another part of my family, my clerks, at my charge at Greenwich, and a +mayde at London; but I hope the King will give us some satisfaction for +that. But now the plague is abated almost to nothing, and I intending to +get to London as fast as I can. My family, that is my wife and maids, +having been there these two or three weeks. The Dutch war goes on very +ill, by reason of lack of money; having none to hope for, all being put +into disorder by a new Act that is made as an experiment to bring credit +to the Exchequer, for goods and money to be advanced upon the credit of +that Act. I have never lived so merrily (besides that I never got so +much) as I have done this plague time, by my Lord Bruncker's and Captain +Cocke's good company, and the acquaintance of Mrs. Knipp, Coleman and her +husband, and Mr. Laneare, and great store of dancings we have had at my +cost (which I was willing to indulge myself and wife) at my lodgings. +The great evil of this year, and the only one indeed, is the fall of my +Lord of Sandwich, whose mistake about the prizes hath undone him, I +believe, as to interest at Court; though sent (for a little palliating +it) Embassador into Spayne, which he is now fitting himself for. But the +Duke of Albemarle goes with the Prince to sea this next year, and my Lord +very meanly spoken of; and, indeed, his miscarriage about the prize goods +is not to be excused, to suffer a company of rogues to go away with ten +times as much as himself, and the blame of all to be deservedly laid upon +him. + + [According to Granville Penn ("Memorials of Sir W. Penn," ii. 488 n.) + L2000 went to Lord Sandwich and L8000 among eight others.] + +My whole family hath been well all this while, and all my friends I know +of, saving my aunt Bell, who is dead, and some children of my cozen +Sarah's, of the plague. But many of such as I know very well, dead; yet, +to our great joy, the town fills apace, and shops begin to be open again. +Pray God continue the plague's decrease! for that keeps the Court away +from the place of business, and so all goes to rack as to publick +matters, they at this distance not thinking of it. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +A most conceited fellow and not over much in him +A pretty man, I would be content to break a commandment with him +Among many lazy people that the diligent man becomes necessary +Delight to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition +Great many silly stories they tell of their sport +His enemies have done him as much good as he could wish +How little merit do prevail in the world, but only favour +I am a foole to be troubled at it, since I cannot helpe it +L10,000 to the Prince, and half-a-crowne to my Lord of Sandwich +Left him with some Commanders at the table taking tobacco +One whom a great belly becomes as well as ever I saw any +Pleases them mightily, and me not at all +See how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody +The boy is well, and offers to be searched + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, V45 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + +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 this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v46 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + |