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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, January/February 1965/66 + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Release Date: December 1, 2004 [EBook #4163] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY + MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + + 1666 N.S. + + 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 L516 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 the Project Gutenberg EBook of Diary of Samuel Pepys, +January/February 1965/66, by Samuel Pepys + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + +***** This file should be named 4163.txt or 4163.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/6/4163/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + 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 + diff --git a/old/sp48g10.zip b/old/sp48g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..d97ea9c --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp48g10.zip |