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+Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, Jan/Feb 1965/66
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+                THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S.
+
+            CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY
+
+   TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY
+MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW
+                      AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
+
+                              (Unabridged)
+
+                      WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES
+
+                        EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY
+
+                        HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A.
+
+
+
+                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
+                            JANUARY & FEBRUARY
+                                1665-1666
+
+
+
+January 1st (New-Yeare's Day).  Called up by five o'clock, by my order,
+by Mr. Tooker, who wrote, while I dictated to him, my business of the
+Pursers; and so, without eating or drinking, till three in the afternoon,
+and then, to my great content, finished it.  So to dinner, Gibson and he
+and I, and then to copying it over, Mr. Gibson reading and I writing, and
+went a good way in it till interrupted by Sir W. Warren's coming, of whom
+I always learne something or other, his discourse being very good and his
+brains also.  He being gone we to our business again, and wrote more of
+it fair, and then late to bed.
+
+     [This document is in the British Museum (Harleian MS. 6287), and is
+     entitled, "A Letter from Mr. Pepys, dated at Greenwich, 1 Jan.
+     1665-6, which he calls his New Year's Gift to his hon. friend, Sir
+     Wm. Coventry, wherein he lays down a method for securing his Majesty
+     in husbandly execution of the Victualling Part of the Naval
+     Expence."  It consists of nineteen closely written folio pages, and
+     is a remarkable specimen of Pepys's business habits.--B. There are
+     copies of several letters on the victualling of the navy, written by
+     Pepys in 1666, among the Rawlinson MSS. in the Bodleian.]
+
+
+
+2nd.  Up by candlelight again, and wrote the greatest part of my business
+fair, and then to the office, and so home to dinner, and after dinner up
+and made an end of my fair writing it, and that being done, set two
+entering while to my Lord Bruncker's, and there find Sir J. Minnes and
+all his company, and Mr. Boreman and Mrs. Turner, but, above all, my dear
+Mrs. Knipp, with whom I sang, and in perfect pleasure I was to hear her
+sing, and especially her little Scotch song of "Barbary Allen;"
+
+     [The Scottish ballad is entitled, "Sir John Grehme and Barbara
+     Allan," and the English version, "Barbara Allen's Cruelty."  Both
+     are printed in Percy's "Reliques," Series III.]
+
+and to make our mirthe the completer, Sir J. Minnes was in the highest
+pitch of mirthe, and his mimicall tricks, that ever I saw, and most
+excellent pleasant company he is, and the best mimique that ever I saw,
+and certainly would have made an excellent actor, and now would be an
+excellent teacher of actors.  Thence, it being post night, against my
+will took leave, but before I come to my office, longing for more of her
+company, I returned and met them coming home in coaches, so I got into
+the coach where Mrs. Knipp was and got her upon my knee (the coach being
+full) and played with her breasts and sung, and at last set her at her
+house and so good night.  So home to my lodgings and there endeavoured to
+have finished the examining my papers of Pursers' business to have sent
+away to-night, but I was so sleepy with my late early risings and late
+goings to bed that I could not do it, but was forced to go to bed and
+leave it to send away to-morrow by an Expresse.
+
+
+
+3rd.  Up, and all the morning till three in the afternoon examining and
+fitting up my Pursers' paper and sent it away by an Expresse.  Then comes
+my wife, and I set her to get supper ready against I go to the Duke of
+Albemarle and back again; and at the Duke's with great joy I received the
+good news of the decrease of the plague this week to 70, and but 253 in
+all; which is the least Bill hath been known these twenty years in the
+City.  Through the want of people in London is it, that must make it so
+low below the ordinary number for Bills.  So home, and find all my good
+company I had bespoke, as Coleman and his wife, and Laneare, Knipp and
+her surly husband; and good musique we had, and, among other things, Mrs.
+Coleman sang my words I set of "Beauty retire," and I think it is a good
+song, and they praise it mightily.  Then to dancing and supper, and
+mighty merry till Mr. Rolt come in, whose pain of the tooth-ake made him
+no company, and spoilt ours; so he away, and then my wife's teeth fell of
+akeing, and she to bed.  So forced to break up all with a good song, and
+so to bed.
+
+
+
+4th.  Up, and to the office, where my Lord Bruncker and I, against Sir W.
+Batten and Sir J. Minnes and the whole table, for Sir W. Warren in the
+business of his mast contract, and overcome them and got them to do what
+I had a mind to, for indeed my Lord being unconcerned in what I aimed at.
+So home to dinner, where Mr. Sheldon come by invitation from Woolwich,
+and as merry as I could be with all my thoughts about me and my wife
+still in pain of her tooth.  He anon took leave and took Mrs. Barbary his
+niece home with him, and seems very thankful to me for the L10 I did give
+him for my wife's rent of his house, and I am sure I am beholding to him,
+for it was a great convenience to me, and then my wife home to London by
+water and I to the office till 8 at night, and so to my Lord Bruncker's,
+thinking to have been merry, having appointed a meeting for Sir J. Minnes
+and his company and Mrs. Knipp again, but whatever hindered I know not,
+but no company come, which vexed me because it disappointed me of the
+glut of mirthe I hoped for.  However, good discourse with my Lord and
+merry, with Mrs. Williams's descants upon Sir J. Minnes's and Mrs.
+Turner's not coming.  So home and to bed.
+
+
+
+5th.  I with my Lord Bruncker and Mrs. Williams by coach with four horses
+to London, to my Lord's house in Covent-Guarden.  But, Lord! what staring
+to see a nobleman's coach come to town.  And porters every where bow to
+us; and such begging of beggars!  And a delightfull thing it is to see
+the towne full of people again as now it is; and shops begin to open,
+though in many places seven or eight together, and more, all shut; but
+yet the towne is full, compared with what it used to be.  I mean the City
+end; for Covent-Guarden and Westminster are yet very empty of people, no
+Court nor gentry being there.  Set Mrs. Williams down at my Lord's house
+and he and I to Sir G. Carteret, at his chamber at White Hall, he being
+come to town last night to stay one day.  So my Lord and he and I much
+talke about the Act, what credit we find upon it, but no private talke
+between him and I.  So I to the 'Change, and there met Mr. Povy, newly
+come to town, and he and I to Sir George Smith's and there dined nobly.
+He tells me how my Lord Bellases complains for want of money and of him
+and me therein, but I value it not, for I know I do all that can be done.
+We had no time to talk of particulars, but leave it to another day, and I
+away to Cornhill to expect my Lord Bruncker's coming back again, and I
+staid at my stationer's house, and by and by comes my Lord, and did take
+me up and so to Greenwich, and after sitting with them a while at their
+house, home, thinking to get Mrs. Knipp, but could not, she being busy
+with company, but sent me a pleasant letter, writing herself "Barbary
+Allen."  I went therefore to Mr. Boreman's for pastime, and there staid
+an houre or two talking with him, and reading a discourse about the River
+of Thames, the reason of its being choked up in several places with
+shelfes; which is plain is, by the encroachments made upon the River, and
+running out of causeways into the River at every wood-wharfe; which was
+not heretofore when Westminster Hall and White Hall were built, and
+Redriffe Church, which now are sometimes overflown with water.  I had
+great satisfaction herein.  So home and to my papers for lacke of
+company, but by and by comes little Mrs. Tooker and sat and supped with
+me, and I kept her very late talking and making her comb my head, and did
+what I will with her.  So late to bed.
+
+
+
+6th.  Up betimes and by water to the Cockepitt, there met Sir G. Carteret
+and, after discourse with the Duke, all together, and there saw a letter
+wherein Sir W. Coventry did take notice to the Duke with a commendation
+of my paper about Pursers, I to walke in the Parke with the Vice-
+Chamberlain, and received his advice about my deportment about the
+advancing the credit of the Act; giving me caution to see that we do not
+misguide the King by making them believe greater matters from it than
+will be found.  But I see that this arises from his great trouble to see
+the Act succeede, and to hear my name so much used and my letters shown
+at Court about goods served us in upon the credit of it.  But I do make
+him believe that I do it with all respect to him and on his behalfe too,
+as indeed I do, as well as my owne, that it may not be said that he or I
+do not assist therein.  He tells me that my Lord Sandwich do proceed on
+his journey with the greatest kindnesse that can be imagined from the
+King and Chancellor, which was joyfull newes to me.  Thence with Lord
+Bruncker to Greenwich by water to a great dinner and much company; Mr.
+Cottle and his lady and others and I went, hoping to get Mrs. Knipp to
+us, having wrote a letter to her in the morning, calling myself "Dapper
+Dicky," in answer to hers of "Barbary Allen," but could not, and am told
+by the boy that carried my letter, that he found her crying; but I fear
+she lives a sad life with that ill-natured fellow her husband: so we had
+a great, but I a melancholy dinner, having not her there, as I hoped.
+After dinner to cards, and then comes notice that my wife is come
+unexpectedly to me to towne.  So I to her.  It is only to see what I do,
+and why I come not home; and she is in the right that I would have a
+little more of Mrs. Knipp's company before I go away.  My wife to fetch
+away my things from Woolwich, and I back to cards and after cards to
+choose King and Queene, and a good cake there was, but no marks found;
+but I privately found the clove, the mark of the knave, and privately put
+it into Captain Cocke's piece, which made some mirthe, because of his
+lately being knowne by his buying of clove and mace of the East India
+prizes.  At night home to my lodging, where I find my wife returned with
+my things, and there also Captain Ferrers is come upon business of my
+Lord's to this town about getting some goods of his put on board in order
+to his going to Spain, and Ferrers presumes upon my finding a bed for
+him, which I did not like to have done without my invitation because I
+had done [it] several times before, during the plague, that he could not
+provide himself safely elsewhere.  But it being Twelfth Night, they had
+got the fiddler and mighty merry they were; and I above come not to them,
+but when I had done my business among my papers went to bed, leaving them
+dancing, and choosing King and Queene.
+
+
+
+7th (Lord's day).  Up, and being trimmed I was invited by Captain Cocke,
+so I left my wife, having a mind to some discourse with him, and dined
+with him.  He tells me of new difficulties about his goods which troubles
+me and I fear they will be great.  He tells me too what I hear everywhere
+how the towne talks of my Lord Craven being to come into Sir G.
+Carteret's place; but sure it cannot be true.  But I do fear those two
+families, his and my Lord Sandwich's, are quite broken.  And I must now
+stand upon my own legs.  Thence to my lodging, and considering how I am
+hindered by company there to do any thing among my papers, I did resolve
+to go away to-day rather than stay to no purpose till to-morrow and so
+got all my things packed up and spent half an hour with W. Howe about his
+papers of accounts for contingencies and my Lord's accounts, so took
+leave of my landlady and daughters, having paid dear for what time I have
+spent there, but yet having been quiett and my health, I am very well
+contented therewith.  So with my wife and Mercer took boat and away home;
+but in the evening, before I went, comes Mrs. Knipp, just to speake with
+me privately, to excuse her not coming to me yesterday, complaining how
+like a devil her husband treats her, but will be with us in towne a weeke
+hence, and so I kissed her and parted.  Being come home, my wife and I to
+look over our house and consider of laying out a little money to hang our
+bedchamber better than it is, and so resolved to go and buy something
+to-morrow, and so after supper, with great joy in my heart for my coming
+once again hither, to bed.
+
+
+
+8th.  Up, and my wife and I by coach to Bennett's, in Paternoster Row,
+few shops there being yet open, and there bought velvett for a coate, and
+camelott for a cloake for myself; and thence to a place to look over some
+fine counterfeit damasks to hang my wife's closett, and pitched upon one,
+and so by coach home again, I calling at the 'Change, and so home to
+dinner and all the afternoon look after my papers at home and my office
+against to-morrow, and so after supper and considering the uselessness of
+laying out so much money upon my wife's closett, but only the chamber, to
+bed.
+
+
+
+9th.  Up, and then to the office, where we met first since the plague,
+which God preserve us in!  At noon home to dinner, where uncle Thomas
+with me, and in comes Pierce lately come from Oxford, and Ferrers.  After
+dinner Pierce and I up to my chamber, where he tells me how a great
+difference hath been between the Duke and Duchesse, he suspecting her to
+be naught with Mr. Sidney.
+
+     ["This Duchess was Chancellor Hyde's daughter, and she was a very
+     handsome woman, and had a great deal of wit; therefore it was not
+     without reason that Mr. Sydney, the handsomest youth of his time, of
+     the Duke's bedchamber, was so much in love with her, as appeared to
+     us all, and the Duchess not unkind to him, but very innocently.  He
+     was afterwards banished the Court for another reason, as was
+     reported" (Sir John Reresby's "Memoirs," August 5th, 1664, ed.
+     Cartwright, pp. 64,65). "'How could the Duke of York make my mother
+     a Papist?' said the Princess Mary to Dr. Bumet.  'The Duke caught a
+     man in bed with her,' said the Doctor, 'and then had power to make
+     her do anything.'  The Prince, who sat by the fire, said, 'Pray,
+     madam, ask the Doctor a few more questions'" (Spence's "Anecdotes,"
+     ed.  Singer, 329).]
+
+But some way or other the matter is made up; but he was banished the
+Court, and the Duke for many days did not speak to the Duchesse at all.
+He tells me that my Lord Sandwich is lost there at Court, though the King
+is particularly his friend.  But people do speak every where slightly of
+him; which is a sad story to me, but I hope it may be better again.  And
+that Sir G. Carteret is neglected, and hath great enemies at work against
+him.  That matters must needs go bad, while all the town, and every boy
+in the streete, openly cries, "The King cannot go away till my Lady
+Castlemaine be ready to come along with him;" she being lately put to bed
+And that he visits her and Mrs. Stewart every morning before he eats his
+breakfast.  All this put together makes me very sad, but yet I hope I
+shall do pretty well among them for all this, by my not meddling with
+either of their matters.  He and Ferrers gone I paid uncle Thomas his
+last quarter's money, and then comes Mr. Gawden and he and I talked above
+stairs together a good while about his business, and to my great joy got
+him to declare that of the L500 he did give me the other day, none of it
+was for my Treasurershipp for Tangier (I first telling him how matters
+stand between Povy and I, that he was to have half of whatever was coming
+to me by that office), and that he will gratify me at 2 per cent. for
+that when he next receives any money.  So there is L80 due to me more
+than I thought of.  He gone I with a glad heart to the office to write,
+my letters and so home to supper and bed, my wife mighty full of her
+worke she hath to do in furnishing her bedchamber.
+
+
+
+10th.  Up, and by coach to Sir G. Downing, where Mr. Gawden met me by
+agreement to talke upon the Act.  I do find Sir G. Downing to be a mighty
+talker, more than is true, which I now know to be so, and suspected it
+before, but for all that I have good grounds to think it will succeed for
+goods and in time for money too, but not presently.  Having done with
+him, I to my Lord Bruncker's house in Covent-Garden, and, among other
+things, it was to acquaint him with my paper of Pursers, and read it to
+him, and had his good liking of it.  Shewed him Mr. Coventry's sense of
+it, which he sent me last post much to my satisfaction.  Thence to the
+'Change, and there hear to our grief how the plague is encreased this
+week from seventy to eighty-nine.  We have also great fear of our
+Hambrough fleete, of their meeting the Dutch; as also have certain newes,
+that by storms Sir Jer. Smith's fleet is scattered, and three of them
+come without masts back to Plymouth, which is another very exceeding
+great disappointment, and if the victualling ships are miscarried will
+tend to the losse of the garrison of Tangier.  Thence home, in my way had
+the opportunity I longed for, of seeing and saluting Mrs. Stokes, my
+little goldsmith's wife in Paternoster Row, and there bespoke some thing,
+a silver chafing-dish for warming plates, and so home to dinner, found my
+wife busy about making her hangings for her chamber with the upholster.
+So I to the office and anon to the Duke of Albemarle, by coach at night,
+taking, for saving time, Sir W. Warren with me, talking of our businesses
+all the way going and coming, and there got his reference of my pursers'
+paper to the Board to consider of it before he reads it, for he will
+never understand it I am sure.  Here I saw Sir W. Coventry's kind letter
+to him concerning my paper, and among others of his letters, which I saw
+all, and that is a strange thing, that whatever is writ to this Duke of
+Albemarle, all the world may see; for this very night he did give me Mr.
+Coventry's letter to read, soon as it come to his hand, before he had
+read it himself, and bid me take out of it what concerned the Navy, and
+many things there was in it, which I should not have thought fit for him
+to have let any body so suddenly see; but, among other things, find him
+profess himself to the Duke a friend into the inquiring further into the
+business of Prizes, and advises that it may be publique, for the righting
+the King, and satisfying the people and getting the blame to be rightly
+laid where it should be, which strikes very hard upon my Lord Sandwich,
+and troubles me to read it.  Besides, which vexes me more, I heard the
+damned Duchesse again say to twenty gentlemen publiquely in the room,
+that she would have Montagu sent once more to sea, before he goes his
+Embassy, that we may see whether he will make amends for his cowardice,
+and repeated the answer she did give the other day in my hearing to Sir
+G. Downing, wishing her Lord had been a coward, for then perhaps he might
+have been made an Embassador, and not been sent now to sea.  But one good
+thing she said, she cried mightily out against the having of gentlemen
+Captains with feathers and ribbands, and wished the King would send her
+husband to sea with the old plain sea Captains, that he served with
+formerly, that would make their ships swim with blood, though they could
+not make legs
+
+     [Make bows, play the courtier.  The reading, "make leagues,"
+     appeared in former editions till Mr. Mynors Bright corrected it.]
+
+as Captains nowadays can.  It grieved me to see how slightly the Duke do
+every thing in the world, and how the King and every body suffers
+whatever he will to be done in the Navy, though never so much against
+reason, as in the business of recalling tickets, which will be done
+notwithstanding all the arguments against it.  So back again to my
+office, and there to business and so to bed.
+
+
+
+11th.  Up and to the office.  By and by to the Custome House to the
+Farmers, there with a letter of Sir G. Carteret's for L3000, which they
+ordered to be paid me.  So away back again to the office, and at noon to
+dinner all of us by invitation to Sir W. Pen's, and much other company.
+Among others, Lieutenant of the Tower, and Broome, his poet, and Dr.
+Whistler, and his (Sir W. Pen's) son-in-law Lowder, servant--[lover]--
+to Mrs. Margaret Pen, and Sir Edward Spragg, a merry man, that sang a
+pleasant song pleasantly.  Rose from table before half dined, and with
+Mr. Mountney of the Custome House to the East India House, and there
+delivered to him tallys for L3000 and received a note for the money on
+Sir R. Viner.  So ended the matter, and back to my company, where staid a
+little, and thence away with my Lord Bruncker for discourse sake, and he
+and I to Gresham College to have seen Mr. Hooke and a new invented
+chariott of Dr. Wilkins, but met with nobody at home!  So to Dr.
+Wilkins's, where I never was before, and very kindly received and met
+with Dr. Merritt, and fine discourse among them to my great joy, so sober
+and so ingenious.  He is now upon finishing his discourse of a universal
+character.  So away and I home to my office about my letters, and so home
+to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+12th.  By coach to the Duke of Albemarle, where Sir W. Batten and I only
+met.  Troubled at my heart to see how things are ordered there without
+consideration or understanding.  Thence back by coach and called at
+Wotton's, my shoemaker, lately come to towne, and bespoke shoes, as also
+got him to find me a taylor to make me some clothes, my owne being not
+yet in towne, nor Pym, my Lord Sandwich's taylor.  So he helped me to a
+pretty man, one Mr. Penny, against St. Dunstan's Church.  Thence to the
+'Change and there met Mr. Moore, newly come to towne, and took him home
+to dinner with me and after dinner to talke, and he and I do conclude my
+Lord's case to be very bad and may be worse, if he do not get a pardon
+for his doings about the prizes and his business at Bergen, and other
+things done by him at sea, before he goes for Spayne.  I do use all the
+art I can to get him to get my Lord to pay my cozen Pepys, for it is a
+great burden to my mind my being bound for my Lord in L1000 to him.
+Having done discourse with him and directed him to go with my advice to
+my Lord expresse to-morrow to get his pardon perfected before his going,
+because of what I read the other night in Sir W. Coventry's letter, I to
+the office, and there had an extraordinary meeting of Sir J. Minnes, Sir
+W. Batten, and Sir W. Pen, and my Lord Bruncker and I to hear my paper
+read about pursers, which they did all of them with great good will and
+great approbation of my method and pains in all, only Sir W. Pen, who
+must except against every thing and remedy nothing, did except against my
+proposal for some reasons, which I could not understand, I confess, nor
+my Lord Bruncker neither, but he did detect indeed a failure or two of
+mine in my report about the ill condition of the present pursers, which I
+did magnify in one or two little things, to which, I think, he did with
+reason except, but at last with all respect did declare the best thing he
+ever heard of this kind, but when Sir W. Batten did say, "Let us that do
+know the practical part of the Victualling meet Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Pen
+and I and see what we can do to mend all," he was so far from offering or
+furthering it, that he declined it and said, he must be out of towne.  So
+as I ever knew him never did in his life ever attempt to mend any thing,
+but suffer all things to go on in the way they are, though never so bad,
+rather than improve his experience to the King's advantage.  So we broke
+up, however, they promising to meet to offer some thing in it of their
+opinions, and so we rose, and I and my Lord Bruncker by coach a little
+way for discourse sake, till our coach broke, and tumbled me over him
+quite down the side of the coach, falling on the ground about the
+Stockes,  but up again, and thinking it fit to have for my honour some
+thing reported in writing to the Duke in favour of my pains in this, lest
+it should be thought to be rejected as frivolous, I did move it to my
+Lord, and he will see it done to-morrow.  So we parted, and I to the
+office and thence home to my poor wife, who works all day at home like a
+horse, at the making of her hangings for our chamber and the bed.  So to
+supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+13th.  At the office all the morning, where my Lord Bruncker moved to
+have something wrote in my matter as I desired him last night, and it was
+ordered and will be done next sitting.  Home with his Lordship to Mrs.
+Williams's, in Covent-Garden, to dinner (the first time I ever was
+there), and there met Captain Cocke; and pretty merry, though not
+perfectly so, because of the fear that there is of a great encrease again
+of the plague this week.  And again my Lord Bruncker do tell us, that he
+hath it from Sir John Baber; who is related to my Lord Craven, that my
+Lord Craven do look after Sir G. Carteret's place, and do reckon himself
+sure of it.  After dinner Cocke and I together by coach to the Exchange,
+in our way talking of our matters, and do conclude that every thing must
+breake in pieces, while no better counsels govern matters than there seem
+to do, and that it will become him and I and all men to get their
+reckonings even, as soon as they can, and expect all to breake.  Besides,
+if the plague continues among us another yeare, the Lord knows what will
+become of us.  I set him down at the 'Change, and I home to my office,
+where late writing letters and doing business, and thence home to supper
+and to bed.  My head full of cares, but pleased with my wife's minding
+her worke so well, and busying herself about her house, and I trust in
+God if I can but clear myself of my Lord Sandwich's bond, wherein I am
+bound with him for L1000 to T. Pepys, I shall do pretty well, come what
+will come.
+
+
+
+14th (Lord's day).  Long in bed, till raised by my new taylor, Mr. Penny,
+[who comes and brings me my new velvet coat, very handsome, but plain,
+and a day hence will bring me my camelott cloak.]  He gone I close to my
+papers and to set all in order and to perform my vow to finish my
+journall and other things before I kiss any woman more or drink any wine,
+which I must be forced to do to-morrow if I go to Greenwich as I am
+invited by Mr. Boreman to hear Mrs. Knipp sing, and I would be glad to
+go, so as we may be merry.  At noon eat the second of the two cygnets Mr.
+Shepley sent us for a new-year's gift, and presently to my chamber again
+and so to work hard all day about my Tangier accounts, which I am going
+again to make up, as also upon writing a letter to my father about Pall,
+whom it is time now I find to think of disposing of while God Almighty
+hath given me something to give with her, and in my letter to my father I
+do offer to give her L450 to make her own L50 given her by my uncle up
+L500.  I do also therein propose Mr. Harman the upholster for a husband
+for her, to whom I have a great love and did heretofore love his former
+wife, and a civil man he is and careful in his way, beside, I like his
+trade and place he lives in, being Cornhill.  Thus late at work, and so
+to supper and to bed.  This afternoon, after sermon, comes my dear fair
+beauty of the Exchange, Mrs. Batelier, brought by her sister, an
+acquaintance of Mercer's, to see my wife.  I saluted her with as much
+pleasure as I had done any a great while.  We sat and talked together an
+houre, with infinite pleasure to me, and so the fair creature went away,
+and proves one of the modestest women, and pretty, that ever I saw in my
+life, and my [wife] judges her so too.
+
+
+
+15th.  Busy all the morning in my chamber in my old cloth suit, while my
+usuall one is to my taylor's to mend, which I had at noon again, and an
+answer to a letter I had sent this morning to Mrs. Pierce to go along
+with my wife and I down to Greenwich to-night upon an invitation to Mr.
+Boreman's to be merry to dance and sing with Mrs. Knipp.  Being dressed,
+and having dined, I took coach and to Mrs. Pierce, to her new house in
+Covent-Garden, a very fine place and fine house.  Took her thence home to
+my house, and so by water to Boreman's by night, where the greatest
+disappointment that ever I saw in my life, much company, a good supper
+provided, and all come with expectation of excesse of mirthe, but all
+blank through the waywardnesse of Mrs. Knipp, who, though she had
+appointed the night, could not be got to come.  Not so much as her
+husband could get her to come; but, which was a pleasant thing in all my
+anger, I asking him, while we were in expectation what answer one of our
+many messengers would bring, what he thought, whether she would come or
+no, he answered that, for his part, he could not so much as thinke.  By
+and by we all to supper, which the silly master of the feast commended,
+but, what with my being out of humour, and the badnesse of the meate
+dressed, I did never eat a worse supper in my life.  At last, very late,
+and supper done, she came undressed, but it brought me no mirthe at all;
+only, after all being done, without singing, or very little, and no
+dancing, Pierce and I to bed together, and he and I very merry to find
+how little and thin clothes they give us to cover us, so that we were
+fain to lie in our stockings and drawers, and lay all our coates and
+clothes upon the bed.  So to sleep.
+
+
+
+16th.  Up, and leaving the women in bed together (a pretty black and
+white) I to London to the office, and there forgot, through business, to
+bespeake any dinner for my wife and Mrs. Pierce.  However, by noon they
+come, and a dinner we had, and Kate Joyce comes to see us, with whom very
+merry.  After dinner she and I up to my chamber, who told me her business
+was chiefly for my advice about her husband's leaving off his trade,
+which though I wish enough, yet I did advise against, for he is a man
+will not know how to live idle, and employment he is fit for none.
+Thence anon carried her and Mrs. Pierce home, and so to the Duke of
+Albemarle, and mighty kind he to me still.  So home late at my letters,
+and so to bed, being mightily troubled at the newes of the plague's being
+encreased, and was much the saddest news that the plague hath brought me
+from the beginning of it; because of the lateness of the year, and the
+fear, we may with reason have, of its continuing with us the next summer.
+The total being now 375, and the plague 158.
+
+
+
+17th.  Busy all the morning, settling things against my going out of
+towne this night.  After dinner, late took horse, having sent for
+Lashmore to go with me, and so he and I rode to Dagenhams in the dark.
+There find the whole family well.  It was my Lord Crew's desire that I
+should come, and chiefly to discourse with me of Lord Sandwich's matters;
+and therein to persuade, what I had done already, that my Lord should sue
+out a pardon for his business of the prizes, as also for Bergen, and all
+he hath done this year past, before he begins his Embassy to Spayne.  For
+it is to be feared that the Parliament will fly out against him and
+particular men, the next Session.  He is glad also that my Lord is clear
+of his sea-imployment, though sorry as I am, only in the manner of its
+bringing about.  By and by to supper, my Lady Wright very kind.  After
+supper up to wait on my Lady Crew, who is the same weake silly lady as
+ever, asking such saintly questions.  Down to my Lord again and sat
+talking an houre or two, and anon to prayers the whole family, and then
+all to bed, I handsomely used, lying in the chamber Mr. Carteret formerly
+did, but sat up an houre talking sillily with Mr. Carteret and Mr. Marre,
+and so to bed.
+
+
+
+18th.  Up before day and thence rode to London before office time, where
+I met a note at the doore to invite me to supper to Mrs. Pierces because
+of Mrs. Knipp, who is in towne and at her house: To the office, where,
+among other things, vexed with Major Norwood's coming, who takes it ill
+my not paying a bill of Exchange of his, but I have good reason for it,
+and so the less troubled, but yet troubled, so as at noon being carried
+by my Lord Bruncker to Captain Cocke's to dinner, where Mrs. Williams
+was, and Mrs. Knipp, I was not heartily merry, though a glasse of wine
+did a little cheer me.  After dinner to the office.  Anon comes to me
+thither my Lord Bruncker, Mrs. Williams, and Knipp.  I brought down my
+wife in her night-gowne, she not being indeed very well, to the office to
+them and there by and by they parted all and my wife and I anon and
+Mercer, by coach, to Pierces; where mighty merry, and sing and dance with
+great pleasure; and I danced, who never did in company in my life, and
+Captain Cocke come for a little while and danced, but went away, but we
+staid and had a pretty supper, and spent till two in the morning, but got
+home well by coach, though as dark as pitch, and so to bed.
+
+
+
+19th.  Up and ready, called on by Mr. Moone, my Lord Bellases' secretary,
+who and I good friends though I have failed him in some payments.  Thence
+with Sir J. Minnes to the Duke of Albemarle's, and carried all well, and
+met Norwood but prevented him in desiring a meeting of the Commissioners
+for Tangier.  Thence to look for Sir H. [Cholmly], but he not within, he
+coming to town last night.  It is a remarkable thing how infinitely naked
+all that end of the towne, Covent-Garden, is at this day of people; while
+the City is almost as full again of people as ever it was.  To the
+'Change and so home to dinner and the office, whither anon comes Sir H.
+Cholmley to me, and he and I to my house, there to settle his accounts
+with me, and so with great pleasure we agreed and great friends become,
+I think, and he presented me upon the foot of our accounts for this
+year's service for him L100, whereof Povy must have half.  Thence to the
+office and wrote a letter to Norwood to satisfy him about my nonpayment
+of his bill, for that do still stick in my mind.  So at night home to
+supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+20th.  To the office, where upon Mr. Kinaston's coming to me about some
+business of Colonell Norwood's, I sent my boy home for some papers,
+where, he staying longer than I would have him, and being vexed at the
+business and to be kept from my fellows in the office longer than was
+fit, I become angry, and boxed my boy when he came, that I do hurt my
+thumb so much, that I was not able to stir all the day after, and in
+great pain.  At noon to dinner, and then to the office again, late, and
+so to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+21st (Lord's day).  Lay almost till noon merrily and with pleasure
+talking with my wife in bed.  Then up looking about my house, and the
+roome which my wife is dressing up, having new hung our bedchamber with
+blue, very handsome.  After dinner to my Tangier accounts and there
+stated them against to-morrow very distinctly for the Lords to see who
+meet tomorrow, and so to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+22nd.  Up, and set my people to work in copying Tangier accounts, and I
+down the river to Greenwich to the office to fetch away some papers and
+thence to Deptford, where by agreement my Lord Bruncker was to come, but
+staid almost till noon, after I had spent an houre with W. Howe talking
+of my Lord Sandwich's matters and his folly in minding his pleasures too
+much now-a-days, and permitting himself to be governed by Cuttance to the
+displeasing of all the Commanders almost of the fleete, and thence we may
+conceive indeed the rise of all my Lord's misfortunes of late.  At noon
+my Lord Bruncker did come, but left the keys of the chests we should
+open, at Sir G. Carteret's lodgings, of my Lord Sandwich's, wherein
+Howe's supposed jewells are; so we could not, according to my Lord
+Arlington's order, see them today; but we parted, resolving to meet here
+at night: my Lord Bruncker being going with Dr. Wilkins, Mr. Hooke, and
+others, to Colonell Blunts, to consider again of the business of
+charriots, and to try their new invention.  Which I saw here my Lord
+Bruncker ride in; where the coachman sits astride upon a pole over the
+horse, but do not touch the horse, which is a pretty odde thing; but it
+seems it is most easy for the horse, and, as they say, for the man also.
+Thence I with speede by water home and eat a bit, and took my accounts
+and to the Duke of Albemarle, where for all I feared of Norwood he was
+very civill, and Sir Thomas Ingram beyond expectation, I giving them all
+content and I thereby settled mightily in my mind, for I was weary of the
+employment, and had had thoughts of giving it over.  I did also give a
+good step in a business of Mr. Hubland's, about getting a ship of his to
+go to Tangier, which during this strict embargo is a great matter, and I
+shall have a good reward for it, I hope.  Thence by water in the darke
+down to Deptford, and there find my Lord Bruncker come and gone, having
+staid long for me.  I back presently to the Crowne taverne behind the
+Exchange by appointment, and there met the first meeting of Gresham
+College since the plague.  Dr. Goddard did fill us with talke, in defence
+of his and his fellow physicians going out of towne in the plague-time;
+saying that their particular patients were most gone out of towne, and
+they left at liberty; and a great deal more, &c.  But what, among other
+fine discourse pleased me most, was Sir G. Ent about Respiration; that it
+is not to this day known, or concluded on among physicians, nor to be
+done either, how the action is managed by nature, or for what use it is.
+Here late till poor Dr. Merriot was drunk, and so all home, and I to bed.
+
+
+
+23rd.  Up and to the office and then to dinner.  After dinner to the
+office again all the afternoon, and much business with me.  Good newes
+beyond all expectation of the decrease of the plague, being now but 79,
+and the whole but 272.  So home with comfort to bed.  A most furious
+storme all night and morning.
+
+
+
+24th.  By agreement my Lord Bruncker called me up, and though it was a
+very foule, windy, and rainy morning, yet down to the waterside we went,
+but no boat could go, the storme continued so.  So my Lord to stay till
+fairer weather carried me into the Tower to Mr. Hore's and there we staid
+talking an houre, but at last we found no boats yet could go, so we to
+the office, where we met upon an occasion extraordinary of examining
+abuses of our clerkes in taking money for examining of tickets, but
+nothing done in it.  Thence my Lord and I, the weather being a little
+fairer, by water to Deptford to Sir G. Carteret's house, where W. Howe
+met us, and there we opened the chests, and saw the poor sorry rubys
+which have caused all this ado to the undoing of W. Howe; though I am not
+much sorry for it, because of his pride and ill nature.  About 200 of
+these very small stones, and a cod of muske (which it is strange I was
+not able to smell) is all we could find; so locked them up again, and my
+Lord and I, the wind being again very furious, so as we durst not go by
+water, walked to London quite round the bridge, no boat being able to
+stirre; and, Lord! what a dirty walk we had, and so strong the wind, that
+in the fields we many times could not carry our bodies against it, but
+were driven backwards.  We went through Horsydowne, where I never was
+since a little boy, that I went to enquire after my father, whom we did
+give over for lost coming from Holland.  It was dangerous to walk the
+streets, the bricks and tiles falling from the houses that the whole
+streets were covered with them; and whole chimneys, nay, whole houses in
+two or three places, blowed down.  But, above all, the pales on London-
+bridge on both sides were blown away, so that we were fain to stoop very
+low for fear of blowing off of the bridge.  We could see no boats in the
+Thames afloat, but what were broke loose, and carried through the bridge,
+it being ebbing water.  And the greatest sight of all was, among other
+parcels of ships driven here and there in clusters together, one was
+quite overset and lay with her masts all along in the water, and keel
+above water.  So walked home, my Lord away to his house and I to dinner,
+Mr. Creed being come to towne and to dine with me, though now it was
+three o'clock.  After dinner he and I to our accounts and very
+troublesome he is and with tricks which I found plainly and was vexed at;
+while we were together comes Sir G. Downing with Colonell Norwood,
+Rumball, and Warrupp to visit me.  I made them drink good wine and
+discoursed above alone a good while with Sir G. Downing, who is very
+troublesome, and then with Colonell Norwood, who hath a great mind to
+have me concerned with him in everything; which I like, but am shy of
+adventuring too much, but will thinke of it.  They gone, Creed and I to
+finish the settling his accounts.  Thence to the office, where the
+Houblans and we discoursed upon a rubb which we have for one of the ships
+I hoped to have got to go out to Tangier for them.  They being gone, I to
+my office-business late, and then home to supper and even sacke for lacke
+of a little wine, which I was forced to drink against my oathe, but
+without pleasure.
+
+
+
+25th.  Up and to the office, at noon home to dinner.  So abroad to the
+Duke of Albemarle and Kate Joyce's and her husband, with whom I talked a
+great deale about Pall's business, and told them what portion I would
+give her, and they do mightily like of it and will proceed further in
+speaking with Harman, who hath already been spoke to about it, as from
+them only, and he is mighty glad of it, but doubts it may be an offence
+to me, if I should know of it, so thinks that it do come only from Joyce,
+which I like the better.  So I do believe the business will go on, and I
+desire it were over.  I to the office then, where I did much business,
+and set my people to work against furnishing me to go to Hampton Court,
+where the King and Duke will be on Sunday next.  It is now certain
+that the King of France hath publickly declared war against us, and God
+knows how little fit we are for it.  At night comes Sir W. Warren, and he
+and I into the garden, and talked over all our businesses.  He gives me
+good advice not to embarke into trade (as I have had it in my thoughts
+about Colonell Norwood) so as to be seen to mind it, for it will do me
+hurte, and draw my mind off from my business and embroile my estate too
+soon.  So to the office business, and I find him as cunning a man in all
+points as ever I met with in my life and mighty merry we were in the
+discourse of our owne trickes.  So about to o'clock at night I home and
+staid with him there settling my Tangier-Boates business and talking and
+laughing at the folly of some of our neighbours of this office till two
+in the morning and so to bed.
+
+
+
+26th.  Up, and pleased mightily with what my poor wife hath been doing
+these eight or ten days with her owne hands, like a drudge in fitting the
+new hangings of our bed-chamber of blue, and putting the old red ones
+into my dressing-room, and so by coach to White Hall, where I had just
+now notice that Sir G. Carteret is come to towne.  He seems pleased, but
+I perceive he is heartily troubled at this Act, and the report of his
+losing his place, and more at my not writing to him to the prejudice of
+the Act.  But I carry all fair to him and he to me.  He bemoans the
+Kingdom as in a sad state, and with too much reason I doubt, having so
+many enemys about us and no friends abroad, nor money nor love at home.
+Thence to the Duke of Albemarle, and there a meeting with all the
+officers of the Navy, where, Lord!  to see how the Duke of Albemarle
+flatters himself with false hopes of money and victuals and all without
+reason.  Then comes the Committee of Tangier to sit, and I there carry
+all before me very well.  Thence with Sir J. Bankes and Mr. Gawden to the
+'Change, they both very wise men.  After 'Change and agreeing with
+Houblon about our ships, D. Gawden and I to the Pope's Head and there
+dined and little Chaplin (who a rich man grown).  He gone after dinner,
+D. Gawden and I to talke of the Victualling business of the Navy in what
+posture it is, which is very sad also for want of money.  Thence home to
+my chamber by oathe to finish my Journall.  Here W. Hewer came to me with
+L320 from Sir W. Warren, whereof L220 is got clearly by a late business
+of insurance of the Gottenburg ships, and the other L100 which was due
+and he had promised me before to give me to my very extraordinary joy,
+for which I ought and do bless God and so to my office, where late
+providing a letter to send to Mr. Gawden in a manner we concluded on to-
+day, and so to bed.
+
+
+
+27th.  Up very betimes to finish my letter and writ it fair to Mr.
+Gawden, it being to demand several arrears in the present state of the
+victualling, partly to the King's and partly to give him occasion to say
+something relating to the want of money on his own behalf.  This done I
+to the office, where all the morning.  At noon after a bit of dinner back
+to the office and there fitting myself in all points to give an account
+to the Duke and Mr. Coventry in all things, and in my Tangier business,
+till three o'clock in the morning, and so to bed,
+
+
+
+28th.  And up again about six (Lord's day), and being dressed in my
+velvett coate and plain cravatte took a hackney coach provided ready for
+me by eight o'clock, and so to my Lord Bruncker's with all my papers, and
+there took his coach with four horses and away toward Hampton Court,
+having a great deale of good discourse with him, particularly about his
+coming to lie at the office, when I went further in inviting him to than
+I intended, having not yet considered whether it will be convenient for
+me or no to have him here so near us, and then of getting Mr. Evelyn or
+Sir Robert Murray into the Navy in the room of Sir Thomas Harvey.  At
+Brainford I 'light, having need to shit, and went into an Inne doore that
+stood open, found the house of office and used it, but saw no people,
+only after I was in the house, heard a great dogg barke, and so was
+afeard how I should get safe back again, and therefore drew my sword and
+scabbard out of my belt to have ready in my hand, but did not need to use
+it, but got safe into the coach again, but lost my belt by the shift,
+not missing it till I come to Hampton Court.  At the Wicke found Sir J.
+Minnes and Sir W. Batten at a lodging provided for us by our messenger,
+and there a good dinner ready.  After dinner took coach and to Court,
+where we find the King, and Duke, and Lords, all in council; so we walked
+up and down: there being none of the ladies come, and so much the more
+business I hope will be done.  The Council being up, out comes the King,
+and I kissed his hand, and he grasped me very kindly by the hand.  The
+Duke also, I kissed his, and he mighty kind, and Sir W. Coventry.  I
+found my Lord Sandwich there, poor man!  I see with a melancholy face,
+and suffers his beard to grow on his upper lip more than usual.  I took
+him a little aside to know when I should wait on him, and where: he told
+me, and that it would be best to meet at his lodgings, without being seen
+to walk together.  Which I liked very well; and, Lord! to see in what
+difficulty I stand, that I dare not walk with Sir W. Coventry, for fear
+my Lord or Sir G. Carteret should see me; nor with either of them, for
+fear Sir W. Coventry should.  After changing a few words with Sir W.
+Coventry, who assures me of his respect and love to me, and his
+concernment for my health in all this sickness, I went down into one of
+the Courts, and there met the King and Duke; and the Duke called me to
+him.  And the King come to me of himself, and told me, "Mr. Pepys," says
+he, "I do give you thanks for your good service all this year, and I
+assure you I am very sensible of it."  And the Duke of Yorke did tell me
+with pleasure, that he had read over my discourse about pursers, and
+would have it ordered in my way, and so fell from one discourse to
+another.  I walked with them quite out of the Court into the fields,
+and then back to my Lord Sandwich's chamber, where I find him very.
+melancholy and not well satisfied, I perceive, with my carriage to Sir G.
+Carteret, but I did satisfy him and made him confess to me, that I have a
+very hard game to play; and told me he was sorry to see it, and the
+inconveniences which likely may fall upon me with him; but, for all that,
+I am not much afeard, if I can but keepe out of harm's way in not being
+found too much concerned in my Lord's or Sir G. Carteret's matters, and
+that I will not be if I can helpe it.  He hath got over his business of
+the prizes, so far as to have a privy seale passed for all that was in
+his distribution to the officers, which I am heartily glad of; and, for
+the rest, he must be answerable for what he is proved to have.  But for
+his pardon for anything else, he thinks it not seasonable to aske it, and
+not usefull to him; because that will not stop a Parliament's mouth, and
+for the King, he is sure enough of him.  I did aske him whether he was
+sure of the interest and friendship of any great Ministers of State and
+he told me, yes.  As we were going further, in comes my Lord Mandeville,
+so we were forced to breake off and I away, and to Sir W. Coventry's
+chamber, where he not come in but I find Sir W. Pen, and he and I to
+discourse.  I find him very much out of humour, so that I do not think
+matters go very well with him, and I am glad of it.  He and I staying
+till late, and Sir W. Coventry not coming in (being shut up close all the
+afternoon with the Duke of Albemarle), we took boat, and by water to
+Kingston, and so to our lodgings, where a good supper and merry, only I
+sleepy, and therefore after supper I slunk away from the rest to bed, and
+lay very well and slept soundly, my mind being in a great delirium
+between joy for what the King and Duke have said to me and Sir W.
+Coventry, and trouble for my Lord Sandwich's concernments, and how hard
+it will be for me to preserve myself from feeling thereof.
+
+
+
+29th.  Up, and to Court by coach, where to Council before the Duke of
+Yorke, the Duke of Albemarle with us, and after Sir W. Coventry had gone
+over his notes that he had provided with the Duke of Albemarle, I went
+over all mine with good successe, only I fear I did once offend the Duke
+of Albemarle, but I was much joyed to find the Duke of Yorke so much
+contending for my discourse about the pursers against Sir W. Pen, who
+opposes it like a foole; my Lord Sandwich come in in the middle of the
+business, and, poor man, very melancholy, methought, and said little at
+all, or to the business, and sat at the lower end, just as he come, no
+roome being made for him, only I did give him my stoole, and another was
+reached me.  After council done, I walked to and again up and down the
+house, discoursing with this and that man.  Among others tooke occasion
+to thanke the Duke of Yorke for his good opinion in general of my
+service, and particularly his favour in conferring on me the Victualling
+business.  He told me that he knew nobody so fit as I for it, and next,
+he was very glad to find that to give me for my encouragement, speaking
+very kindly of me.  So to Sir W. Coventry's to dinner with him, whom I
+took occasion to thanke for his favour and good thoughts of what little
+service I did, desiring he would do the last act of friendship in telling
+me of my faults also.  He told me he would be sure he would do that also,
+if there were any occasion for it.  So that as much as it is possible
+under so great a fall of my Lord Sandwich's, and difference between them,
+I may conclude that I am thoroughly right with Sir W. Coventry.  I dined
+with him with a great deale of company, and much merry discourse.  I was
+called away before dinner ended to go to my company who dined at our
+lodgings.  Thither I went with Mr. Evelyn (whom I met) in his coach going
+that way, but finding my company gone, but my Lord Bruncker left his
+coach for me; so Mr. Evelyn and I into my Lord's coach, and rode together
+with excellent discourse till we come to Clapham, talking of the vanity
+and vices of the Court, which makes it a most contemptible thing; and
+indeed in all his discourse I find him a most worthy person.
+Particularly he entertained me with discourse of an Infirmary, which he
+hath projected for the sick and wounded seamen against the next year,
+which I mightily approve of; and will endeavour to promote it, being a
+worthy thing, and of use, and will save money.  He set me down at Mr.
+Gawden's, where nobody yet come home, I having left him and his sons and
+Creed at Court, so I took a book and into the gardens, and there walked
+and read till darke with great pleasure, and then in and in comes
+Osborne, and he and I to talk of Mr. Jaggard, who comes from London, and
+great hopes there is of a decrease this week also of the plague.  Anon
+comes in Creed, and after that Mr. Gawden and his sons, and then they
+bringing in three ladies, who were in the house, but I do not know them,
+his daughter and two nieces, daughters of Dr. Whistler's, with whom and
+Creed mighty sport at supper, the ladies very pretty and mirthfull.  I
+perceive they know Creed's gut and stomach as well as I, and made as much
+mirthe as I with it at supper.  After supper I made the ladies sing, and
+they have been taught, but, Lord! though I was forced to commend them,
+yet it was the saddest stuff I ever heard.  However, we sat up late, and
+then I, in the best chamber like a prince, to bed, and Creed with me, and
+being sleepy talked but little.
+
+
+
+30th.  Lay long till Mr. Gawden was gone out being to take a little
+journey.  Up, and Creed and I some good discourse, but with some trouble
+for the state of my Lord's matters.  After walking a turne or two in the
+garden, and bid good morrow to Mr. Gawden's sons, and sent my service to
+the ladies, I took coach after Mr. Gawden's, and home, finding the towne
+keeping the day solemnly, it being the day of the King's murther, and
+they being at church, I presently into the church, thinking to see Mrs.
+Lethulier or Batelier, but did not, and a dull sermon of our young
+Lecturer, too bad.  This is the first time I have been in this church
+since I left London for the plague, and it frighted me indeed to go
+through the church more than I thought it could have done, to see so
+[many] graves lie so high upon the churchyards where people have been
+buried of the plague.  I was much troubled at it, and do not think to go
+through it again a good while.  So home to my wife, whom I find not well,
+in bed, and it seems hath not been well these two days.  She rose and we
+to dinner, after dinner up to my chamber, where she entertained me with
+what she hath lately bought of clothes for herself, and Damask linnen,
+and other things for the house.  I did give her a serious account how
+matters stand with me, of favour with the King and Duke, and of danger in
+reference to my Lord's and Sir G. Carteret's falls, and the
+dissatisfaction I have heard the Duke of Albemarle hath acknowledged to
+somebody, among other things, against my Lord Sandwich, that he did bring
+me into the Navy against his desire and endeavour for another, which was
+our doting foole Turner.  Thence from one discourse to another, and
+looking over my house, and other things I spent the day at home, and at
+night betimes to bed.  After dinner this day I went down by water to
+Deptford, and fetched up what money there was of W. Howe's contingencies
+in the chest there, being L5I6 13s. 3d. and brought it home to dispose
+of.
+
+
+
+31st.  Lay pretty long in bed, and then up and to the office, where we
+met on extraordinary occasion about the business of tickets.  By and by
+to the 'Change, and there did several businesses, among others brought
+home my cozen Pepys, whom I appointed to be here to-day, and Mr. Moore
+met us upon the business of my Lord's bond.  Seeing my neighbour Mr.
+Knightly walk alone from the 'Change, his family being not yet come to
+town, I did invite him home with me, and he dined with me, a very sober,
+pretty man he is.  He is mighty solicitous, as I find many about the City
+that live near the churchyards, to have the churchyards covered with
+lime, and I think it is needfull, and ours I hope will be done.  Good
+pleasant discourse at dinner of the practices of merchants to cheate the
+"Customers," occasioned by Mr. Moore's being with much trouble freed of
+his prize goods, which he bought, which fell into the Customers' hands,
+and with much ado hath cleared them.  Mr. Knightly being gone, my cozen
+Pepys and Moore and I to our business, being the clearing of my Lord
+Sandwich's bond wherein I am bound with him to my cozen for L1000 I have
+at last by my dexterity got my Lord's consent to have it paid out of the
+money raised by his prizes.  So the bond is cancelled, and he paid by
+having a note upon Sir Robert Viner, in whose hands I had lodged my
+Lord's money, by which I am to my extraordinary comfort eased of a
+liablenesse to pay the sum in case of my Lord's death, or troubles in
+estate, or my Lord's greater fall, which God defend!  Having settled this
+matter at Sir R. Viner's, I took up Mr. Moore (my cozen going home) and
+to my Lord Chancellor's new house which he is building, only to view it,
+hearing so much from Mr. Evelyn of it; and, indeed, it is the finest pile
+I ever did see in my life, and will be a glorious house.  Thence to the
+Duke of Albemarle, who tells me Mr. Coventry is come to town and directs
+me to go to him about some business in hand, whether out of displeasure
+or desire of ease I know not; but I asked him not the reason of it but
+went to White Hall, but could not find him there, though to my great joy
+people begin to bustle up and down there, the King holding his resolution
+to be in towne to-morrow, and hath good encouragement, blessed be God!
+to do so, the plague being decreased this week to 56, and the total to
+227.  So after going to the Swan in the Palace, and sent for Spicer to
+discourse about my last Tangier tallys that have some of the words washed
+out with the rain, to have them new writ, I home, and there did some
+business and at the office, and so home to supper, and to bed.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
+                                FEBRUARY
+                                1665-1666
+
+
+February 1st.  Up and to the office, where all the morning till late, and
+Mr. Coventry with us, the first time since before the plague, then
+hearing my wife was gone abroad to buy things and see her mother and
+father, whom she hath not seen since before the plague, and no dinner
+provided for me ready, I walked to Captain Cocke's, knowing my Lord
+Bruncker dined there, and there very merry, and a good dinner.  Thence my
+Lord and his mistresse, Madam Williams, set me down at the Exchange, and
+I to Alderman Backewell's to set all my reckonings straight there, which
+I did, and took up all my notes.  So evened to this day, and thence to
+Sir Robert Viner's, where I did the like, leaving clear in his hands just
+L2000 of my owne money, to be called for when I pleased.  Having done all
+this I home, and there to the office, did my business there by the post
+and so home, and spent till one in the morning in my chamber to set right
+all my money matters, and so to bed.
+
+
+
+2nd.  Up betimes, and knowing that my Lord Sandwich is come to towne with
+the King and Duke, I to wait upon him, which I did, and find him in very
+good humour, which I am glad to see with all my heart.  Having received
+his commands, and discoursed with some of his people about my Lord's
+going, and with Sir Roger Cuttance, who was there, and finds himself
+slighted by Sir W. Coventry, I advised him however to look after
+employment lest it should be said that my Lord's friends do forsake the
+service after he hath made them rich with the prizes.  I to London, and
+there among other things did look over some pictures at Cade's for my
+house, and did carry home a silver drudger
+
+     [The dredger was probably the drageoir of France; in low Latin,
+     dragerium, or drageria, in which comfits (dragdes) were kept.
+     Roquefort says, "The ladies wore a little spice-box, in shape like a
+     watch, to carry dragles, and it was called a drageoir."  The custom
+     continued certainly till the middle of the last century.  Old
+     Palsgrave, in his "Eclaircissement de la Langue Francaise," gives
+     "dradge" as spice, rendering it by the French word dragde.  Chaucer
+     says, of his Doctor of Physic, "Full ready hadde he his Apothecaries
+     To send him dragges, and his lattuaries."  The word sometimes may
+     have signified the pounded condiments in which our forefathers
+     delighted.  It is worth notice, that "dragge" was applied to a grain
+     in the eastern counties, though not exclusively there, appearing to
+     denote mixed grain.  Bishop Kennett tells us that "dredge mault is
+     mault made up of oats, mixed with barley, of which they make an
+     excellent, freshe, quiete sort of drinke, in Staffordshire."  The
+     dredger is still commonly used in our kitchen.--B.]
+
+for my cupboard of plate, and did call for my silver chafing dishes, but
+they are sent home, and the man would not be paid for them, saying that
+he was paid for them already, and with much ado got him to tell me by Mr.
+Wayth, but I would not accept of that, but will send him his money, not
+knowing any courtesy I have yet done him to deserve it.  So home, and
+with my wife looked over our plate, and picked out L40 worth, I believe,
+to change for more usefull plate, to our great content, and then we shall
+have a very handsome cupboard of plate.  So to dinner, and then to the
+office, where we had a meeting extraordinary, about stating to the Duke
+the present debts of the Navy, for which ready money must be had, and
+that being done, I to my business, where late, and then home to supper,
+and to bed.
+
+
+
+3rd.  Up, and to the office very busy till 3 o'clock, and then home, all
+of us, for half an hour to dinner, and to it again till eight at night,
+stating our wants of money for the Duke, but could not finish it.  So
+broke up, and I to my office, then about letters and other businesses
+very late, and so home to supper, weary with business, and to bed.
+
+
+
+4th.  Lord's day; and my wife and I the first time together at church
+since the plague, and now only because of Mr. Mills his coming home to
+preach his first sermon; expecting a great excuse for his leaving the
+parish before any body went, and now staying till all are come home; but
+he made but a very poor and short excuse, and a bad sermon.  It was a
+frost, and had snowed last night, which covered the graves in the
+churchyard, so as I was the less afeard for going through.  Here I had
+the content to see my noble Mrs. Lethulier, and so home to dinner, and
+all the afternoon at my Journall till supper, it being a long while
+behindhand.  At supper my wife tells me that W. Joyce has been with her
+this evening, the first time since the plague, and tells her my aunt
+James is lately dead of the stone, and what she had hath given to his and
+his brother's wife and my cozen Sarah.  So after supper to work again,
+and late to bed.
+
+
+
+5th.  Up, and with Sir W. Batten (at whose lodgings calling for him, I
+saw his Lady the first time since her coming to towne since the plague,
+having absented myself designedly to shew some discontent, and that I am
+not at all the more suppliant because of my Lord Sandwich's fall), to my
+Lord Bruncker's, to see whether he goes to the Duke's this morning or no.
+But it is put off, and so we parted.  My Lord invited me to dinner to-day
+to dine with Sir W. Batten and his Lady there, who were invited before,
+but lest he should thinke so little an invitation would serve my turne I
+refused and parted, and to Westminster about business, and so back to the
+'Change, and there met Mr. Hill, newly come to town, and with him the
+Houblands, preparing for their ship's and his going to Tangier, and
+agreed that I must sup with them to-night.  So home and eat a bit, and
+then to White Hall to a Committee for Tangier, but it did not meet but
+was put off to to-morrow, so I did some little business and visited my
+Lord Sandwich, and so, it raining, went directly to the Sun, behind the
+Exchange, about seven o'clock, where I find all the five brothers
+Houblons, and mighty fine gentlemen they are all, and used me mighty
+respectfully.  We were mighty civilly merry, and their discourses, having
+been all abroad, very fine.  Here late and at last accompanied home with
+Mr. J. Houblon and Hill, whom I invited to sup with me on Friday, and so
+parted and I home to bed.
+
+
+
+6th.  Up, and to the office, where very busy all the morning.  We met
+upon a report to the Duke of Yorke of the debts of the Navy, which we
+finished by three o'clock, and having eat one little bit of meate, I by
+water before the rest to White Hall (and they to come after me) because
+of a Committee for Tangier, where I did my business of stating my
+accounts perfectly well, and to good liking, and do not discern, but the
+Duke of Albemarle is my friend in his intentions notwithstanding my
+general fears.  After that to our Navy business, where my fellow officers
+were called in, and did that also very well, and then broke up, and I
+home by coach, Tooker with me, and staid in Lumbard Streete at Viner's,
+and sent home for the plate which my wife and I had a mind to change, and
+there changed it, about L50 worth, into things more usefull, whereby we
+shall now have a very handsome cupboard of plate.  So home to the office,
+wrote my letters by the post, and to bed.
+
+
+
+7th.  It being fast day I staid at home all day long to set things to
+rights in my chamber by taking out all my books, and putting my chamber
+in the same condition it was before the plague.  But in the morning doing
+of it, and knocking up a nail I did bruise my left thumb so as broke a
+great deal of my flesh off, that it hung by a little.  It was a sight
+frighted my wife, but I put some balsam of Mrs. Turner's to it, and
+though in great pain, yet went on with my business, and did it to my full
+content, setting every thing in order, in hopes now that the worst of our
+fears are over as to the plague for the next year.  Interrupted I was by
+two or three occasions this day to my great vexation, having this the
+only day I have been able to set apart for this work since my coming to
+town.  At night to supper, weary, and to bed, having had the plasterers
+and joiners also to do some jobbs.
+
+
+
+8th.  Up, and all the morning at the office.  At noon to the 'Change,
+expecting to have received from Mr. Houbland, as he promised me, an
+assignment upon Viner, for my reward for my getting them the going of
+their two ships to Tangier, but I find myself much disappointed therein,
+for I spoke with him and he said nothing of it, but looked coldly,
+through some disturbance he meets with in our business through Colonell
+Norwood's pressing them to carry more goods than will leave room for some
+of their own.  But I shall ease them.  Thence to Captain Cocke's, where
+Mr. Williamson, Wren, Boldell and Madam Williams, and by and by Lord
+Bruncker, he having been with the King and Duke upon the water to-day,
+to see Greenwich house, and the yacht Castle is building of, and much
+good discourse.  So to White Hall to see my Lord Sandwich, and then home
+to my business till night, and then to bed.
+
+
+
+9th.  Up, and betimes to Sir Philip Warwicke, who was glad to see me, and
+very kind.  Thence to Colonell Norwood's lodgings, and there set about
+Houblons' business about their ships.  Thence to Westminster, to the
+Exchequer, about my Tangier business to get orders for tallys, and so to
+the Hall, where the first day of the Terme, and the Hall very full of
+people, and much more than was expected, considering the plague that hath
+been.  Thence to the 'Change, and to the Sun behind it to dinner with the
+Lieutenant of the Tower, Colonell Norwood and others, where strange
+pleasure they seem to take in their wine and meate, and discourse of it
+with the curiosity and joy that methinks was below men of worthe.  Thence
+home, and there very much angry with my people till I had put all things
+in good forwardnesse about my supper for the Houblons, but that being
+done I was in good humour again, and all things in good order.  Anon the
+five brothers Houblons come and Mr. Hill, and a very good supper we had,
+and good company and discourse, with great pleasure.  My new plate sets
+off my cupboard very nobly.  Here they were till about eleven at night
+with great pleasure, and a fine sight it is to see these five brothers
+thus loving one to another, and all industrious merchants.  Our subject
+was principally Mr. Hill's going for them to Portugall, which was the
+occasion of this entertainment.  They gone, we to bed.
+
+
+
+10th.  Up, and to the office.  At noon, full of business, to dinner.
+This day comes first Sir Thomas Harvy after the plague, having been out
+of towne all this while.  He was coldly received by us, and he went away
+before we rose also, to make himself appear yet a man less necessary.
+After dinner, being full of care and multitude of business, I took coach
+and my wife with me.  I set her down at her mother's (having first called
+at my Lord Treasurer's and there spoke with Sir Ph. Warwicke), and I to
+the Exchequer about Tangier orders, and so to the Swan and there staid a
+little, and so by coach took up my wife, and at the old Exchange bought a
+muffe, and so home and late at my letters, and so to supper and to bed,
+being now-a-days, for these four or five months, mightily troubled with
+my snoring in my sleep, and know not how to remedy it.
+
+
+
+11th (Lord's day).  Up, and put on a new black cloth suit to an old coate
+that I make to be in mourning at Court, where they are all, for the King
+of Spayne.--[Philip IV., who died September 17th, 1665.]-- To church I,
+and at noon dined well, and then by water to White Hall, carrying a
+captain of the Tower (who desired his freight thither); there I to the
+Parke, and walked two or three turns of the Pell Mell with the company
+about the King and Duke; the Duke speaking to me a good deal.  There met
+Lord Bruncker and Mr. Coventry, and discoursed about the Navy business;
+and all of us much at a loss that we yet can hear nothing of Sir Jeremy
+Smith's fleete, that went away to the Streights the middle of December,
+through all the storms that we have had since, that have driven back
+three or four of them with their masts by the board.  Yesterday come out
+the King's Declaration of War against the French, but with such mild
+invitations of both them and the Dutch to come over hither with promise
+of their protection, that every body wonders at it.  Thence home with my
+Lord Bruncker for discourse sake, and thence by hackney coach home, and
+so my wife and I mighty pleasant discourse, supped and to bed.  The great
+wound I had Wednesday last in my thumb having with once dressing by Mrs.
+Turner's balsam been perfectly cured, whereas I did not hope to save my
+nail, whatever else ill it did give me.  My wife and I are much
+thoughtfull now-a-days about Pall's coming up in order to a husband.
+
+
+
+12th.  Up, and very busy to perform an oathe in finishing my Journall
+this morning for 7 or 8 days past.  Then to several people attending upon
+business, among others Mr. Grant and the executors of Barlow for the L25
+due for the quarter before he died, which I scrupled to pay, being
+obliged but to pay every half year.  Then comes Mr. Caesar, my boy's
+lute-master, whom I have not seen since the plague before, but he hath
+been in Westminster all this while very well; and tells me in the height
+of it, how bold people there were, to go in sport to one another's
+burials; and in spite too, ill people would breathe in the faces (out of
+their windows) of well people going by.  Then to dinner before the
+'Change, and so to the 'Change, and then to the taverne to talk with Sir
+William Warren, and so by coach to several places, among others to my
+Lord Treasurer's, there to meet my Lord Sandwich, but missed, and met him
+at [my] Lord Chancellor's, and there talked with him about his accounts,
+and then about Sir G. Carteret, and I find by him that Sir G. Carteret
+has a worse game to play than my Lord Sandwich, for people are jeering at
+him, and he cries out of the business of Sir W. Coventry, who strikes at
+all and do all.  Then to my bookseller's, and then received some books I
+have new bought, and here late choosing some more to new bind, having
+resolved to give myself L10 in books, and so home to the office and then
+home to supper, where Mr. Hill was and supped with us, and good
+discourse; an excellent person he still appears to me.  After supper, and
+he gone, we to bed.
+
+
+
+13th.  Up, and all the morning at the office.  At noon to the 'Change,
+and thence after business dined at the Sheriffe's [Hooker], being carried
+by Mr. Lethulier, where to my heart's content I met with his wife, a most
+beautifull fat woman.  But all the house melancholy upon the sickness of
+a daughter of the house in childbed, Mr. Vaughan's lady.  So all of them
+undressed, but however this lady a very fine woman.  I had a salute of
+her, and after dinner some discourse the Sheriffe and I about a parcel of
+tallow I am buying for the office of him.  I away home, and there at the
+office all the afternoon till late at night, and then away home to supper
+and to bed.  Ill newes this night that the plague is encreased this week,
+and in many places else about the towne, and at Chatham and elsewhere.
+This day my wife wanting a chambermaid with much ado got our old little
+Jane to be found out, who come to see her and hath lived all this while
+in one place, but is so well that we will not desire her removal, but are
+mighty glad to see the poor wench, who is very well and do well.
+
+
+
+14th (St. Valentine's day).  This morning called up by Mr. Hill, who, my
+wife thought, had been come to be her Valentine; she, it seems, having
+drawne him last night, but it proved not.  However, calling him up to our
+bed-side, my wife challenged him.  I up, and made myself ready, and so
+with him by coach to my Lord Sandwich's by appointment to deliver Mr.
+Howe's accounts to my Lord.  Which done, my Lord did give me hearty and
+large studied thanks for all my kindnesse to him and care of him and his
+business.  I after profession of all duty to his Lordship took occasion
+to bemoane myself that I should fall into such a difficulty about Sir G.
+Carteret, as not to be for him, but I must be against Sir W. Coventry,
+and therefore desired to be neutrall, which my Lord approved and
+confessed reasonable, but desired me to befriend him privately.  Having
+done in private with my Lord I brought Mr. Hill to kisse his hands, to
+whom my Lord professed great respect upon my score.  My Lord being gone,
+I took Mr. Hill to my Lord Chancellor's new house that is building, and
+went with trouble up to the top of it, and there is there the noblest
+prospect that ever I saw in my life, Greenwich being nothing to it; and
+in every thing is a beautiful house, and most strongly built in every
+respect; and as if, as it hath, it had the Chancellor for its master.
+Thence with him to his paynter, Mr. Hales, who is drawing his picture,
+which will be mighty like him, and pleased me so, that I am resolved
+presently to have my wife's and mine done by him, he having a very
+masterly hand.  So with mighty satisfaction to the 'Change and thence
+home, and after dinner abroad, taking Mrs. Mary Batelier with us, who was
+just come to see my wife, and they set me down at my Lord Treasurer's,
+and themselves went with the coach into the fields to take the ayre.  I
+staid a meeting of the Duke of Yorke's, and the officers of the Navy and
+Ordnance.  My Lord Treasurer lying in bed of the gowte.  Our business was
+discourse of the straits of the Navy for want of money, but after long
+discourse as much out of order as ordinary people's, we come to no issue,
+nor any money promised, or like to be had, and yet the worke must be
+done.  Here I perceive Sir G. Carteret had prepared himself to answer a
+choque of Sir W. Coventry, by offering of himself to shew all he had
+paid, and what is unpaid, and what moneys and assignments he hath in his
+hands, which, if he makes good, was the best thing he ever did say in his
+life, and the best timed, for else it must have fallen very foule on him.
+The meeting done I away, my wife and they being come back and staying for
+me at the gate.  But, Lord!  to see how afeard I was that Sir W. Coventry
+should have spyed me once whispering with Sir G. Carteret, though not
+intended by me, but only Sir G. Carteret come to me and I could not
+avoyde it.  So home, they set me down at the 'Change, and I to the
+Crowne, where my Lord Bruncker was come and several of the Virtuosi, and
+after a small supper and but little good discourse I with Sir W. Batten
+(who was brought thither with my Lord Bruncker) home, where I find my
+wife gone to Mrs. Mercer's to be merry, but presently come in with Mrs.
+Knipp, who, it seems, is in towne, and was gone thither with my wife and
+Mercer to dance, and after eating a little supper went thither again to
+spend the whole night there, being W. Howe there, at whose chamber they
+are, and Lawd Crisp by chance.  I to bed.
+
+
+
+15th.  Up, and my wife not come home all night.  To the office, where sat
+all the morning.  At noon to Starky's, a great cooke in Austin Friars,
+invited by Colonell Atkins, and a good dinner for Colonell Norwood and
+his friends, among others Sir Edward Spragg and others, but ill
+attendance.  Before dined, called on by my wife in a coach, and so I took
+leave, and then with her and Knipp and Mercer (Mr. Hunt newly come out of
+the country being there also come to see us) to Mr. Hales, the paynter's,
+having set down Mr. Hunt by the way.  Here Mr. Hales' begun my wife in
+the posture we saw one of my Lady Peters, like a St. Katharine.
+
+     [It was the fashion at this time to be painted as St. Catherine, in
+     compliment to the queen.]
+
+While he painted, Knipp, and Mercer, and I, sang; and by and by comes
+Mrs. Pierce, with my name in her bosom for her Valentine, which will cost
+me money.  But strange how like his very first dead colouring is, that it
+did me good to see it, and pleases me mightily, and I believe will be a
+noble picture.  Thence with them all as far as Fleete Streete, and there
+set Mercer and Knipp down, and we home.  I to the office, whither the
+Houblons come telling me of a little new trouble from Norwood about their
+ship, which troubles me, though without reason.  So late home to supper
+and to bed.  We hear this night of Sir Jeremy Smith, that he and his
+fleete have been seen at Malaga; which is good newes.
+
+
+
+16th.  Up betimes, and by appointment to the Exchange, where I met
+Messrs.  Houblons, and took them up in my coach and carried them to
+Charing Crosse, where they to Colonell Norwood to see how they can settle
+matters with him, I having informed them by the way with advice to be
+easy with him, for he may hereafter do us service, and they and I are
+like to understand one another to very good purpose.  I to my Lord
+Sandwich, and there alone with him to talke of his affairs, and
+particularly of his prize goods, wherein I find he is wearied with being
+troubled, and gives over the care of it to let it come to what it will,
+having the King's release for the dividend made, and for the rest he
+thinks himself safe from being proved to have anything more.  Thence to
+the Exchequer, and so by coach to the 'Change, Mr. Moore with me, who
+tells me very odde passages of the indiscretion of my Lord in the
+management of his family, of his carelessnesse, &c., which troubles me,
+but makes me rejoice with all my heart of my being rid of the bond of
+L1000, for that would have been a cruel blow to me.  With Moore to the
+Coffee-House, the first time I have been there, where very full, and
+company it seems hath been there all the plague time.  So to the 'Change,
+and then home to dinner, and after dinner to settle accounts with him for
+my Lord, and so evened with him to this day.  Then to the office, and out
+with Sir W. Warren for discourse by coach to White Hall, thinking to have
+spoke with Sir W. Coventry, but did not, and to see the Queene, but she
+comes but to Hampton Court to-night.  Back to my office and there late,
+and so home to supper and bed.  I walked a good while to-night with Mr.
+Hater in the garden, talking about a husband for my sister, and reckoning
+up all our clerks about us, none of which he thinks fit for her and her
+portion.  At last I thought of young Gawden, and will thinke of it again.
+
+
+
+17th.  Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning.  Late to
+dinner, and then to the office again, and there busy till past twelve at
+night, and so home to supper and to bed.  We have newes of Sir Jeremy
+Smith's being very well with his fleete at Cales.--[Cadiz]
+
+
+
+18th (Lord's day).  Lay long in bed discoursing with pleasure with my
+wife, among other things about Pall's coming up, for she must be here a
+little to be fashioned, and my wife hath a mind to go down for her, which
+I am not much against, and so I rose and to my chamber to settle several
+things.  At noon comes my uncle Wight to dinner, and brings with him Mrs.
+Wight, sad company to me, nor was I much pleased with it, only I must
+shew respect to my uncle.  After dinner they gone, and it being a brave
+day, I walked to White Hall, where the Queene and ladies are all come: I
+saw some few of them, but not the Queene, nor any of the great beauties.
+I endeavoured to have seen my Lord Hinchingbrooke, who come to town
+yesterday, but I could not.  Met with Creed and walked with him a turne
+or two in the Parke, but without much content, having now designs of
+getting money in my head, which allow me not the leisure I used to have
+with him, besides an odde story lately told of him for a great truth, of
+his endeavouring to lie with a woman at Oxford, and her crying out saved
+her; and this being publickly known, do a little make me hate him.
+Thence took coach, and calling by the way at my bookseller's for a booke
+I writ about twenty years ago in prophecy of this year coming on, 1666,
+explaining it to be the marke of the beast, I home, and there fell to
+reading, and then to supper, and to bed.
+
+
+
+19th.  Up, and by coach to my Lord Sandwich's, but he was gone out.  So I
+to White Hall, and there waited on the Duke of Yorke with some of the
+rest of our brethren, and thence back again to my Lord's, to see my Lord
+Hinchingbroke, which I did, and I am mightily out of countenance in my
+great expectation of him by others' report, though he is indeed a pretty
+gentleman, yet nothing what I took him for, methinks, either as to person
+or discourse discovered to me, but I must try him more before I go too
+far in censuring.  Hence to the Exchequer from office to office, to set
+my business of my tallys in doing, and there all the morning.  So at noon
+by coach to St. Paul's Church-yarde to my Bookseller's, and there bespoke
+a few more books to bring all I have lately bought to L10.  Here I am
+told for certain, what I have heard once or twice already, of a Jew in
+town, that in the name of the rest do offer to give any man L10 to be
+paid L100, if a certain person now at Smyrna be within these two years
+owned by all the Princes of the East, and particularly the grand Signor
+as the King of the world, in the same manner we do the King of England
+here, and that this man is the true Messiah.  One named a friend of his
+that had received ten pieces in gold upon this score, and says that the
+Jew hath disposed of L1100 in this manner, which is very strange; and
+certainly this year of 1666 will be a year of great action; but what the
+consequences of it will be, God knows!  Thence to the 'Change, and from
+my stationer's thereabouts carried home by coach two books of Ogilby's,
+his AEsop and Coronation, which fell to my lot at his lottery.  Cost me
+L4 besides the binding.  So home.  I find my wife gone out to Hales, her
+paynter's, and I after a little dinner do follow her, and there do find
+him at worke, and with great content I do see it will be a very brave
+picture.  Left her there, and I to my Lord Treasurer's, where Sir G.
+Carteret and Sir J. Minnes met me, and before my Lord Treasurer and Duke
+of Albemarle the state of our Navy debts were laid open, being very
+great, and their want of money to answer them openly professed, there
+being but L1,500,000 to answer a certaine expense and debt of L2,300,000.
+Thence walked with Fenn down to White Hall, and there saw the Queene at
+cards with many ladies, but none of our beauties were there.  But glad I
+was to see the Queene so well, who looks prettily; and methinks hath more
+life than before, since it is confessed of all that she miscarryed
+lately; Dr. Clerke telling me yesterday at White Hall that he had the
+membranes and other vessels in his hands which she voided, and were
+perfect as ever woman's was that bore a child.  Thence hoping to find my
+Lord Sandwich, away by coach to my Lord Chancellor's, but missed him, and
+so home and to office, and then to supper and my Journall, and to bed.
+
+
+
+20th.  Up, and to the office; where, among other businesses, Mr. Evelyn's
+proposition about publique Infirmarys was read and agreed on, he being
+there: and at noon I took him home to dinner, being desirous of keeping
+my acquaintance with him; and a most excellent humoured man I still find
+him, and mighty knowing.  After dinner I took him by coach to White Hall,
+and there he and I parted, and I to my Lord Sandwich's, where coming and
+bolting into the dining-room, I there found Captain Ferrers going to
+christen a child of his born yesterday, and I come just pat to be a
+godfather, along with my Lord Hinchingbrooke, and Madam Pierce, my
+Valentine, which for that reason I was pretty well contented with, though
+a little vexed to see myself so beset with people to spend me money, as
+she of a Valentine and little Mrs. Tooker, who is come to my house this
+day from Greenwich, and will cost me 20s., my wife going out with her
+this afternoon, and now this christening.  Well, by and by the child is
+brought and christened Katharine, and I this day on this occasion drank
+a glasse of wine, which I have not professedly done these two years, I
+think, but a little in the time of the sicknesse.  After that done, and
+gone and kissed the mother in bed, I away to Westminster Hall, and there
+hear that Mrs. Lane is come to town.  So I staid loitering up and down
+till anon she comes and agreed to meet at Swayn's, and there I went anon,
+and she come, but staid but little, the place not being private.  I have
+not seen her since before the plague.  So thence parted and 'rencontrais
+a' her last 'logis', and in the place did what I 'tenais a mind pour
+ferais con her'.  At last she desired to borrow money of me, L5, and
+would pawn gold with me for it, which I accepted and promised in a day or
+two to supply her.  So away home to the office, and thence home, where
+little Mrs. Tooker staid all night with us, and a pretty child she is,
+and happens to be niece to my beauty that is dead, that lived at the
+Jackanapes, in Cheapside.  So to bed, a little troubled that I have been
+at two houses this afternoon with Mrs. Lane that were formerly shut up of
+the plague.
+
+
+
+21st.  Up, and with Sir J. Minnes to White Hall by his coach, by the way
+talking of my brother John to get a spiritual promotion for him, which I
+am now to looke after, for as much as he is shortly to be Master in Arts,
+and writes me this weeke a Latin letter that he is to go into orders this
+Lent.  There to the Duke's chamber, and find our fellows discoursing
+there on our business, so I was sorry to come late, but no hurte was done
+thereby.  Here the Duke, among other things, did bring out a book of
+great antiquity of some of the customs of the Navy, about 100 years
+since, which he did lend us to read and deliver him back again.  Thence I
+to the Exchequer, and there did strike my tallys for a quarter for
+Tangier and carried them home with me, and thence to Trinity-house, being
+invited to an Elder Brother's feast; and there met and sat by Mr. Prin,
+and had good discourse about the privileges of Parliament, which, he
+says, are few to the Commons' House, and those not examinable by them,
+but only by the House of Lords.  Thence with my Lord Bruncker to Gresham
+College, the first time after the sicknesse that I was there, and the
+second time any met.  And here a good lecture of Mr. Hooke's about the
+trade of felt-making, very pretty.  And anon alone with me about the art
+of drawing pictures by Prince Rupert's rule and machine, and another of
+Dr. Wren's;
+
+     [Afterwards the famous Sir Christopher Wren.  He was one of the
+     mainstays of the Royal Society.]
+
+but he says nothing do like squares, or, which is the best in the world,
+like a darke roome,--[The camera obscura.]-- which pleased me mightily.
+Thence with Povy home to my house, and there late settling accounts with
+him, which was very troublesome to me, and he gone, found Mr. Hill below,
+who sat with me till late talking, and so away, and we to bed.
+
+
+
+22nd.  Up, and to the office, where sat all the morning.  At noon home to
+dinner and thence by coach with my wife for ayre principally for her.
+I alone stopped at Hales's and there mightily am pleased with my wife's
+picture that is begun there, and with Mr. Hill's, though I must [owne] I
+am not more pleased with it now the face is finished than I was when I
+saw it the second time of sitting.  Thence to my Lord Sandwich's, but he
+not within, but goes to-morrow.  My wife to Mrs. Hunt's, who is lately
+come to towne and grown mighty fat.  I called her there, and so home and
+late at the office, and so home to supper and to bed.  We are much
+troubled that the sicknesse in general (the town being so full of people)
+should be but three, and yet of the particular disease of the plague
+there should be ten encrease.
+
+
+
+23rd.  Up betimes, and out of doors by 6 of the clock, and walked (W.
+Howe with me) to my Lord Sandwich's, who did lie the last night at his
+house in Lincoln's Inne Fields.  It being fine walking in the morning,
+and the streets full of people again.  There I staid, and the house full
+of people come to take leave of my Lord, who this day goes out of towne
+upon his embassy towards Spayne.  And I was glad to find Sir W. Coventry
+to come, though I know it is only a piece of courtshipp.  I had much
+discourse with my Lord, he telling me how fully he leaves the King his
+friend and the large discourse he had with him the other day, and how he
+desired to have the business of the prizes examined before he went, and
+that he yielded to it, and it is done as far as it concerns himself to
+the full, and the Lords Commissioners for prizes did reprehend all the
+informers in what related to his Lordship, which I am glad of in many
+respects.  But we could not make an end of discourse, so I promised to
+waite upon [him] on Sunday at Cranborne, and took leave and away hence to
+Mr. Hales's with Mr. Hill and two of the Houblons, who come thither to
+speak with me, and saw my wife's picture, which pleases me well, but Mr.
+Hill's picture never a whit so well as it did before it was finished,
+which troubled me, and I begin to doubt the picture of my Lady Peters my
+wife takes her posture from, and which is an excellent picture, is not of
+his making, it is so master-like.  I set them down at the 'Change and I
+home to the office, and at noon dined at home and to the office again.
+Anon comes Mrs. Knipp to see my wife, who is gone out, so I fain to
+entertain her, and took her out by coach to look my wife at Mrs. Pierce's
+and Unthanke's, but find her not.  So back again, and then my wife comes
+home, having been buying of things, and at home I spent all the night
+talking with this baggage, and teaching her my song of "Beauty retire,"
+which she sings and makes go most rarely, and a very fine song it seems
+to be.  She also entertained me with repeating many of her own and
+others' parts of the play-house, which she do most excellently; and tells
+me the whole practices of the play-house and players, and is in every
+respect most excellent company.  So I supped, and was merry at home all
+the evening, and the rather it being my birthday, 33 years, for which God
+be praised that I am in so good a condition of healthe and estate, and
+every thing else as I am, beyond expectation, in all.  So she to Mrs.
+Turner's to lie, and we to bed.  Mightily pleased to find myself in
+condition to have these people come about me and to be able to entertain
+them, and have the pleasure of their qualities, than which no man can
+have more in the world.
+
+
+
+24th.  All the morning at the office till past three o'clock.  At that
+houre home and eat a bit alone, my wife being gone out.  So abroad by
+coach with Mr. Hill, who staid for me to speake about business, and he
+and I to Hales's, where I find my wife and her woman, and Pierce and
+Knipp, and there sung and was mighty merry, and I joyed myself in it; but
+vexed at first to find my wife's picture not so like as I expected; but
+it was only his having finished one part, and not another, of the face;
+but, before I went, I was satisfied it will be an excellent picture.
+Here we had ale and cakes and mighty merry, and sung my song, which she
+[Knipp] now sings bravely, and makes me proud of myself.  Thence left my
+wife to go home with Mrs. Pierce, while I home to the office, and there
+pretty late, and to bed, after fitting myself for
+to-morrow's journey.
+
+
+
+25th (Lord's day).  My wife up between three and four of the clock in the
+morning to dress herself, and I about five, and were all ready to take
+coach, she and I and Mercer, a little.  past five, but, to our trouble,
+the coach did not come till six.  Then with our coach of four horses I
+hire on purpose, and Leshmore to ride by, we through the City to Branford
+and so to Windsor, Captain Ferrers overtaking us at Kensington, being to
+go with us, and here drank, and so through, making no stay, to Cranborne,
+about eleven o'clock, and found my Lord and the ladies at a sermon in the
+house; which being ended we to them, and all the company glad to see us,
+and mighty merry to dinner.  Here was my Lord, and Lord Hinchingbroke,
+and Mr. Sidney, Sir Charles Herbert, and Mr. Carteret, my Lady Carteret,
+my Lady Jemimah, and Lady Slaning.  After dinner to talk to and again,
+and then to walke in the Parke, my Lord and I alone, talking upon these
+heads; first, he has left his business of the prizes as well as is
+possible for him, having cleared himself before the Commissioners by the
+King's commands, so that nothing or little is to be feared from that
+point, he goes fully assured, he tells me, of the King's favour.  That
+upon occasion I may know, I desired to know, his friends I may trust to,
+he tells me, but that he is not yet in England, but continues this summer
+in Ireland, my Lord Orrery is his father almost in affection.  He tells
+me my Lord of Suffolke, Lord Arlington, Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord
+Treasurer, Mr. Atturny Montagu, Sir Thomas Clifford in the House of
+Commons, Sir G. Carteret, and some others I cannot presently remember,
+are friends that I may rely on for him.  He tells me my Lord Chancellor
+seems his very good friend, but doubts that he may not think him so much
+a servant of the Duke of Yorke's as he would have him, and indeed my Lord
+tells me he hath lately made it his business to be seen studious of the
+King's favour, and not of the Duke's, and by the King will stand or fall,
+for factions there are, as he tells me, and God knows how high they may
+come.  The Duke of Albemarle's post is so great, having had the name of
+bringing in the King, that he is like to stand, or, if it were not for
+him, God knows in what troubles we might be from some private faction,
+if an army could be got into another hand, which God forbid!  It is
+believed that though Mr. Coventry be in appearance so great against the
+Chancellor, yet that there is a good understanding between the Duke and
+him.  He dreads the issue of this year, and fears there will be some very
+great revolutions before his coming back again.  He doubts it is needful
+for him to have a pardon for his last year's actions, all which he did
+without commission, and at most but the King's private single word for
+that of Bergen; but he dares not ask it at this time, lest it should make
+them think that there is something more in it than yet they know; and if
+it should be denied, it would be of very ill consequence.  He says also,
+if it should in Parliament be enquired into the selling of Dunkirke
+(though the Chancellor was the man that would have it sold to France,
+saying the King of Spayne had no money to give for it); yet he will be
+found to have been the greatest adviser of it; which he is a little
+apprehensive may be called upon this Parliament.  He told me it would not
+be necessary for him to tell me his debts, because he thinks I know them
+so well.  He tells me, that for the match propounded of Mrs. Mallett for
+my Lord Hinchingbroke, it hath been lately off, and now her friends bring
+it on again, and an overture hath been made to him by a servant of hers,
+to compass the thing without consent of friends, she herself having a
+respect to my Lord's family, but my Lord will not listen to it but in a
+way of honour.  The Duke hath for this weeke or two been very kind to
+him, more than lately; and so others, which he thinks is a good sign of
+faire weather again.  He says the Archbishopp of Canterbury hath been
+very kind to him, and hath plainly said to him that he and all the world
+knows the difference between his judgment and brains and the Duke of
+Albemarle's, and then calls my Lady Duchesse the veryest slut and drudge
+and the foulest worde that can be spoke of a woman almost.  My Lord
+having walked an houre with me talking thus and going in, and my Lady
+Carteret not suffering me to go back again to-night, my Lord to walke
+again with me about some of this and other discourse, and then in a-doors
+and to talke with all and with my Lady Carteret, and I with the young
+ladies and gentle men, who played on the guittar, and mighty merry, and
+anon to supper, and then my Lord going away to write, the young gentlemen
+to flinging of cushions, and other mad sports; at this late till towards
+twelve at night, and then being sleepy, I and my wife in a passage-room
+to bed, and slept not very well because of noise.
+
+
+
+26th.  Called up about five in the morning, and my Lord up, and took
+leave, a little after six, very kindly of me and the whole company.  Then
+I in, and my wife up and to visit my Lady Slaving in her bed, and there
+sat three hours, with Lady Jemimah with us, talking and laughing, and by
+and by my Lady Carteret comes, and she and I to talke, I glad to please
+her in discourse of Sir G. Carteret, that all will do well with him, and
+she is much pleased, he having had great annoyance and fears about his
+well doing, and I fear hath doubted that I have not been a friend to him,
+but cries out against my Lady Castlemaine, that makes the King neglect
+his business and seems much to fear that all will go to wracke, and I
+fear with great reason; exclaims against the Duke of Albemarle, and more
+the Duchesse for a filthy woman, as indeed she is.  Here staid till 9
+o'clock almost, and then took coach with so much love and kindnesse from
+my Lady Carteret, Lady Jemimah, and Lady Slaving, that it joys my heart,
+and when I consider the manner of my going hither, with a coach and four
+horses and servants and a woman with us, and coming hither being so much
+made of, and used with that state, and then going to Windsor and being
+shewn all that we were there, and had wherewith to give every body
+something for their pains, and then going home, and all in fine weather
+and no fears nor cares upon me, I do thinke myself obliged to thinke
+myself happy, and do look upon myself at this time in the happiest
+occasion a man can be, and whereas we take pains in expectation of future
+comfort and ease, I have taught myself to reflect upon myself at present
+as happy, and enjoy myself in that consideration, and not only please
+myself with thoughts of future wealth and forget the pleasure we at
+present enjoy.  So took coach and to Windsor, to the Garter, and thither
+sent for Dr. Childe;  who come to us, and carried us to St. George's
+Chappell; and there placed us among the Knights' stalls (and pretty the
+observation, that no man, but a woman may sit in a Knight's place, where
+any brass-plates are set); and hither come cushions to us, and a young
+singing-boy to bring us a copy of the anthem to be sung.  And here, for
+our sakes, had this anthem and the great service sung extraordinary, only
+to entertain us.  It is a noble place indeed, and a good Quire of voices.
+Great bowing by all the people, the poor Knights particularly, to the
+Alter.  After prayers, we to see the plate of the chappell, and the robes
+of Knights, and a man to shew us the banners of the several Knights in
+being, which hang up over the stalls.  And so to other discourse very
+pretty, about the Order.  Was shewn where the late [King] is buried, and
+King Henry the Eighth, and my Lady [Jane] Seymour.  This being done, to
+the King's house, and to observe the neatness and contrivance of the
+house and gates: it is the most romantique castle that is in the world.
+But, Lord!  the prospect that is in the balcone in the Queene's lodgings,
+and the terrace and walk, are strange things to consider, being the best
+in the world, sure.  Infinitely satisfied I and my wife with all this,
+she being in all points mightily pleased too, which added to my pleasure;
+and so giving a great deal of money to this and that man and woman, we to
+our taverne, and there dined, the Doctor with us; and so took coach and
+away to Eton, the Doctor with me.  Before we went to Chappell this
+morning, Kate Joyce, in a stage-coach going toward London, called to me.
+I went to her and saluted her, but could not get her to stay with us,
+having company.  At Eton I left my wife in the coach, and he and I to the
+College, and there find all mighty fine.  The school good, and the custom
+pretty of boys cutting their names in the struts of the window when they
+go to Cambridge, by which many a one hath lived to see himself Provost
+and Fellow, that had his name in the window standing.  To the Hall, and
+there find the boys' verses, "De Peste;" it being their custom to make
+verses at Shrove-tide.  I read several, and very good ones they were, and
+better, I think, than ever I made when I was a boy, and in rolls as long
+and longer than the whole Hall, by much.  Here is a picture of Venice
+hung up given, and a monument made of Sir H. Wotton's giving it to the
+College.  Thence to the porter's, in the absence of the butler, and did
+drink of the College beer, which is very good; and went into the back
+fields to see the scholars play.  And so to the chappell, and there saw,
+among other things, Sir H. Wotton's stone with this Epitaph
+
+          Hic facet primus hujus sententiae Author:--
+          Disputandi pruritus fit ecclesiae scabies.
+
+But unfortunately the word "Author" was wrong writ, and now so basely
+altered that it disgraces the stone.  Thence took leave of the Doctor,
+and so took coach, and finely, but sleepy, away home, and got thither
+about eight at night, and after a little at my office, I to bed; and an
+houre after, was waked with my wife's quarrelling with Mercer, at which I
+was angry, and my wife and I fell out.  But with much ado to sleep again,
+I beginning to practise more temper, and to give her her way.
+
+
+
+27th.  Up, and after a harsh word or two my wife and I good friends, and
+so up and to the office, where all the morning.  At noon late to dinner,
+my wife gone out to Hales's about her picture, and, after dinner, I after
+her, and do mightily like her picture, and think it will be as good as my
+Lady Peters's.  So home mightily pleased, and there late at business and
+set down my three last days' journalls, and so to bed, overjoyed to
+thinke of the pleasure of the last Sunday and yesterday, and my ability
+to bear the charge of these pleasures, and with profit too, by obliging
+my Lord, and reconciling Sir George Carteret's family.
+
+
+
+28th (Ash Wednesday).  Up, and after doing a little business at my office
+I walked, it being a most curious dry and cold morning, to White Hall,
+and there I went into the Parke, and meeting Sir Ph. Warwicke took a
+turne with him in the Pell Mall, talking of the melancholy posture of
+affairs, where every body is snarling one at another, and all things put
+together looke ominously.  This new Act too putting us out of a power of
+raising money.  So that he fears as I do, but is fearfull of enlarging in
+that discourse of an ill condition in every thing, and the State and all.
+We appointed another time to meet to talke of the business of the Navy
+alone seriously, and so parted, and I to White Hall, and there we did our
+business with the Duke of Yorke, and so parted, and walked to Westminster
+Hall, where I staid talking with Mrs. Michell and Howlett long and her
+daughter, which is become a mighty pretty woman, and thence going out of
+the Hall was called to by Mrs. Martin, so I went to her and bought two
+bands, and so parted, and by and by met at her chamber, and there did
+what I would, and so away home and there find Mrs. Knipp, and we dined
+together, she the pleasantest company in the world.  After dinner I did
+give my wife money to lay out on Knipp, 20s., and I abroad to White Hall
+to visit Colonell Norwood, and then Sir G. Carteret, with whom I have
+brought myself right again, and he very open to me; is very melancholy,
+and matters, I fear, go down with him, but he seems most afeard of a
+general catastrophe to the whole kingdom, and thinks, as I fear, that all
+things will come to nothing.  Thence to the Palace Yard, to the Swan, and
+there staid till it was dark, and then to Mrs. Lane's, and there lent her
+L5 upon L4 01s. in gold.  And then did what I would with her, and I
+perceive she is come to be very bad, and offers any thing, that it is
+dangerous to have to do with her, nor will I see [her] any more a good
+while.  Thence by coach home and to the office, where a while, and then
+betimes to bed by ten o'clock, sooner than I have done many a day.  And
+thus ends this month, with my mind full of resolution to apply myself
+better from this time forward to my business than I have done these six
+or eight days, visibly to my prejudice both in quiett of mind and setting
+backward of my business, that I cannot give a good account of it as I
+ought to do.
+
+
+
+
+ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:
+
+After a harsh word or two my wife and I good friends
+By and by met at her chamber, and there did what I would
+Did drink of the College beer, which is very good
+Got her upon my knee (the coach being full) and played with her
+Lady Duchesse the veryest slut and drudge
+Last act of friendship in telling me of my faults also
+Scotch song of "Barbary Allen"
+Tooth-ake made him no company, and spoilt ours
+Wherewith to give every body something for their pains
+Who must except against every thing and remedy nothing
+
+
+
+
+End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v47
+by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley
+
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