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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Diary of Samuel Pepys, March/April 1665/66
+by Samuel Pepys
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+Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, March/April 1665/66
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+Author: Samuel Pepys
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+Release Date: December 1, 2004 [EBook #4164]
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+*** 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.
+                              MARCH & APRIL
+                                1665-1666
+
+March 1st.  Up, and to the office and there all the morning sitting and at
+noon to dinner with my Lord Bruncker, Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen at the
+White Horse in Lumbard Streete, where, God forgive us!  good sport with
+Captain Cocke's having his mayde sicke of the plague a day or two ago and
+sent to the pest house, where she now is, but he will not say anything but
+that she is well.  But blessed be God!  a good Bill this week we have;
+being but 237 in all, and 42 of the plague, and of them but six in the
+City: though my Lord Bruneker says, that these six are most of them in new
+parishes where they were not the last week.  Here was with us also Mr.
+Williamson, who the more I know, the more I honour.  Hence I slipt after
+dinner without notice home and there close to my business at my office
+till twelve at night, having with great comfort returned to my business by
+some fresh vowes in addition to my former, and-more severe, and a great
+joy it is to me to see myself in a good disposition to business.  So home
+to supper and to my Journall and to bed.
+
+2nd.  Up, as I have of late resolved before 7 in the morning and to the
+office, where all the morning, among other things setting my wife and
+Mercer with much pleasure to worke upon the ruling of some paper for the
+making of books for pursers, which will require a great deale of worke and
+they will earn a good deale of money by it, the hopes of which makes them
+worke mighty hard.  At noon dined and to the office again, and about 4
+o'clock took coach and to my Lord Treasurer's and thence to Sir Philip
+Warwicke's new house by appointment, there to spend an houre in talking
+and we were together above an hour, and very good discourse about the
+state of the King as to money, and particularly in the point of the Navy.
+He endeavours hard to come to a good understanding of Sir G. Carteret's
+accounts, and by his discourse I find Sir G. Carteret must be brought to
+it, and what a madman he is that he do not do it of himself, for the King
+expects the Parliament will call upon him for his promise of giving an
+account of the money, and he will be ready for it, which cannot be, I am
+sure, without Sir G. Carteret's accounts be better understood than they
+are.  He seems to have a great esteem of me and my opinion and thoughts of
+things.  After we had spent an houre thus discoursing and vexed that we do
+but grope so in the darke as we do, because the people, that should
+enlighten us, do not helpe us, we resolved fitting some things for another
+meeting, and so broke up.  He shewed me his house, which is yet all
+unhung, but will be a very noble house indeed.  Thence by coach calling at
+my bookseller's and carried home L10 worth of books, all, I hope, I shall
+buy a great while.  There by appointment find Mr. Hill come to sup and
+take his last leave of me, and by and by in comes Mr. James Houbland to
+bear us company, a man I love mightily, and will not lose his
+acquaintance.  He told me in my eare this night what he and his brothers
+have resolved to give me, which is L200, for helping them out with two or
+three ships.  A good sum and that which I did believe they would give me,
+and I did expect little less.  Here we talked and very good company till
+late, and then took leave of one another, and indeed I am heartily sorry
+for Mr. Hill's leaving us, for he is a very worthy gentleman, as most I
+know.  God give him a good voyage and successe in his business.  Thus we
+parted and my wife and I to bed, heavy for the losse of our friend.
+
+3rd.  All the morning at the office, at noon to the Old James, being sent
+for, and there dined with Sir William Rider, Cutler, and others, to make
+an end with two Scots Maisters about the freight of two ships of my Lord
+Rutherford's.  After a small dinner and a little discourse I away to the
+Crowne behind the Exchange to Sir W. Pen, Captain Cocke and Fen, about
+getting a bill of Cocke's paid to Pen, in part for the East India goods he
+sold us.  Here Sir W. Pen did give me the reason in my eare of his
+importunity for money, for that he is now to marry his daughter.  God send
+her better fortune than her father deserves I should wish him for a false
+rogue.  Thence by coach to Hales's, and there saw my wife sit; and I do
+like her picture mightily, and very like it will be, and a brave piece of
+work.  But he do complain that her nose hath cost him as much work as
+another's face, and he hath done it finely indeed.  Thence home and late
+at the office, and then to bed.
+
+4th (Lord's day).  And all day at my Tangier and private accounts, having
+neglected them since Christmas, which I hope I shall never do again; for I
+find the inconvenience of it, it being ten times the labour to remember
+and settle things.  But I thank God I did it at last, and brought them all
+fine and right; and I am, I thinke, by all appears to me (and I am sure I
+cannot be L10 wrong), worth above L4600, for which the Lord be praised!
+being the biggest sum I ever was worth yet.
+
+5th.  I was at it till past two o'clock on Monday morning, and then read
+my vowes, and to bed with great joy and content that I have brought my
+things to so good a settlement, and now having my mind fixed to follow my
+business again and sensible of Sir W. Coventry's jealousies, I doubt,
+concerning me, partly my siding with Sir G. Carteret, and partly that
+indeed I have been silent in my business of the office a great while, and
+given but little account of myself and least of all to him, having not
+made him one visitt since he came to towne from Oxford, I am resolved to
+fall hard to it again, and fetch up the time and interest I have lost or
+am in a fair way of doing it.  Up about eight o'clock, being called up by
+several people, among others by Mr. Moone, with whom I went to Lumbard
+Streete to Colvill, and so back again and in my chamber he and I did end
+all our businesses together of accounts for money upon bills of Exchange,
+and am pleased to find myself reputed a man of business and method, as he
+do give me out to be.  To the 'Change at noon and so home to dinner. Newes
+for certain of the King of Denmarke's declaring for the Dutch, and
+resolution to assist them.  To the office, and there all the afternoon. In
+the evening come Mr. James and brother Houblons to agree upon share
+parties for their ships, and did acquaint me that they had paid my
+messenger, whom I sent this afternoon for it, L200 for my friendship in
+the business, which pleases me mightily.  They being gone I forth late to
+Sir H. Viner's to take a receipt of them for the L200 lodged for me there
+with them, and so back home, and after supper to bed.
+
+6th.  Up betimes and did much business before office time.  Then to the
+office and there till noon and so home to dinner and to the office again
+till night.  In the evening being at Sir W. Batten's, stepped in (for I
+have not used to go thither a good while), I find my Lord Bruncker and
+Mrs. Williams, and they would of their own accord, though I had never
+obliged them (nor my wife neither) with one visit for many of theirs, go
+see my house and my wife; which I showed them and made them welcome with
+wine and China oranges (now a great rarity since the war, none to be had).
+There being also Captain Cocke and Mrs. Turner, who had never been in my
+house since I come to the office before, and Mrs. Carcasse, wife of Mr.
+Carcasses.  My house happened to be mighty clean, and did me great honour,
+and they mightily pleased with it.  They gone I to the office and did some
+business, and then home to supper and to bed.  My mind troubled through a
+doubtfulness of my having incurred Sir W. Coventry's displeasure by not
+having waited on him since his coming to towne, which is a mighty faulte
+and that I can bear the fear of the bad effects of till I have been with
+him, which shall be to-morrow, God willing.  So to bed.
+
+7th.  Up betimes, and to St. James's, thinking Mr. Coventry had lain
+there; but he do not, but at White Hall; so thither I went and had as good
+a time as heart could wish, and after an houre in his chamber about
+publique business he and I walked up, and the Duke being gone abroad we
+walked an houre in the Matted Gallery: he of himself begun to discourse of
+the unhappy differences between him and my Lord of Sandwich, and from the
+beginning to the end did run through all passages wherein my Lord hath, at
+any time, gathered any dissatisfaction, and cleared himself to me most
+honourably; and in truth, I do believe he do as he says.  I did afterwards
+purge myself of all partiality in the business of Sir G. Carteret, (whose
+story Sir W. Coventry did also run over,) that I do mind the King's
+interest, notwithstanding my relation to him; all which he declares he
+firmly believes, and assures me he hath the same kindnesse and opinion of
+me as ever.  And when I said I was jealous of myself, that having now come
+to such an income as I am, by his favour, I should not be found to do as
+much service as might deserve it; he did assure me, he thinks it not too
+much for me, but thinks I deserve it as much as any man in England.  All
+this discourse did cheer my heart, and sets me right again, after a good
+deal of melancholy, out of fears of his disinclination to me, upon the
+differences with my Lord Sandwich and Sir G. Carteret; but I am satisfied
+throughly, and so went away quite another man, and by the grace of God
+will never lose it again by my folly in not visiting and writing to him,
+as I used heretofore to do.  Thence by coach to the Temple, and it being a
+holyday, a fast-day, there 'light, and took water, being invited, and down
+to Greenwich, to Captain Cocke's, where dined, he and Lord Bruncker, and
+Matt. Wren, Boltele, and Major Cooper, who is also a very pretty
+companion; but they all drink hard, and, after dinner, to gaming at cards.
+So I provoked my Lord to be gone, and he and I to Mr. Cottle's and met
+Mrs. Williams (without whom he cannot stir out of doors) and there took
+coach and away home.  They carry me to London and set me down at the
+Temple, where my mind changed and I home, and to writing and heare my boy
+play on the lute, and a turne with my wife pleasantly in the garden by
+moonshine, my heart being in great peace, and so home to supper and to
+bed.  The King and Duke are to go to-morrow to Audly End, in order to the
+seeing and buying of it of my Lord Suffolke.
+
+8th.  Up betimes and to the office, where all the morning sitting and did
+discover three or four fresh instances of Sir W. Pen's old cheating
+dissembling tricks, he being as false a fellow as ever was born.  Thence
+with Sir.  W. Batten and Lord Bruncker to the White Horse in Lumbard
+Streete to dine with Captain Cocke, upon particular business of canvas to
+buy for the King, and here by chance I saw the mistresse of the house I
+have heard much of, and a very pretty woman she is indeed and her husband
+the simplest looked fellow and old that ever I saw.  After dinner I took
+coach and away to Hales's, where my wife is sitting; and, indeed, her face
+and necke, which are now finished, do so please me that I am not myself
+almost, nor was not all the night after in writing of my letters, in
+consideration of the fine picture that I shall be master of.  Thence home
+and to the office, where very late, and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+9th.  Up, and being ready, to the Cockpitt to make a visit to the Duke of
+Albemarle, and to my great joy find him the same man to me that [he has
+been] heretofore, which I was in great doubt of, through my negligence in
+not visiting of him a great while; and having now set all to rights there,
+I am in mighty ease in my mind and I think shall never suffer matters to
+run so far backward again as I have done of late, with reference to my
+neglecting him and Sir W. Coventry.  Thence by water down to Deptford,
+where I met my Lord Bruncker and Sir W. Batten by agreement, and to
+measuring Mr. Castle's new third-rate ship, which is to be called the
+Defyance.
+
+     [William Castell wrote to the Navy Commissioners on February 17th,
+     1665-66, to inform them that the "Defiance" had gone to Longreach,
+     and again, on February 22nd, to say that Mr. Grey had no masts large
+     enough for the new ship.  Sir William Batten on March 29th asked for
+     the consent of the Board to bring the "Defiance" into dock ("
+     Calendar of State Papers," Domestic, 1665-66, pp.  252, 262, 324).]
+
+And here I had my end in saving the King some money and getting myself
+some experience in knowing how they do measure ships.  Thence I left them
+and walked to Redriffe, and there taking water was overtaken by them in
+their boat, and so they would have me in with them to Castle's house,
+where my Lady Batten and Madam Williams were, and there dined and a deale
+of doings.  I had a good dinner and counterfeit mirthe and pleasure with
+them, but had but little, thinking how I neglected my business.  Anon, all
+home to Sir W. Batten's and there Mrs. Knipp coming we did spend the
+evening together very merry.  She and I singing, and, God forgive me!  I
+do still see that my nature is not to be quite conquered, but will esteem
+pleasure above all things, though yet in the middle of it, it has
+reluctances after my business, which is neglected by my following my
+pleasure.  However musique and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my
+business is.  They being gone I to the office a while and so home to
+supper and to bed.
+
+10th.  Up, and to the office, and there busy sitting till noon.  I find at
+home Mrs. Pierce and Knipp come to dine with me.  We were mighty merry;
+and, after dinner, I carried them and my wife out by coach to the New
+Exchange, and there I did give my valentine, Mrs. Pierce, a dozen payre of
+gloves, and a payre of silke stockings, and Knipp for company's sake,
+though my wife had, by my consent, laid out 20s. upon her the other day,
+six payre of gloves.  Thence to Hales's to have seen our pictures, but
+could not get in, he being abroad, and so to the Cakehouse hard by, and
+there sat in the coach with great pleasure, and eat some fine cakes and so
+carried them to Pierces and away home.  It is a mighty fine witty boy,
+Mrs. Pierces little boy.  Thence home and to the office, where late
+writing letters and leaving a great deale to do on Monday, I home to
+supper and to bed.  The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in
+pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and out
+of my observation that most men that do thrive in the world, do forget to
+take pleasure during the time that they are getting their estate, but
+reserve that till they have got one, and then it is too late for them to
+enjoy it with any pleasure.
+
+11th (Lord's day).  Up, and by water to White Hall, there met Mr. Coventry
+coming out, going along with the Commissioners of the Ordnance to the
+water side to take barge, they being to go down to the Hope.  I returned
+with them as far as the Tower in their barge speaking with Sir W. Coventry
+and so home and to church, and at noon dined and then to my chamber, where
+with great pleasure about one business or other till late, and so to
+supper and to bed.
+
+12th.  Up betimes, and called on by abundance of people about business,
+and then away by water to Westminster, and there to the Exchequer about
+some business, and thence by coach calling at several places, to the Old
+Exchange, and there did much business, and so homeward and bought a silver
+salt for my ordinary table to use, and so home to dinner, and after dinner
+comes my uncle and aunt Wight, the latter I have not seen since the
+plague; a silly, froward, ugly woman she is.  We made mighty much of them,
+and she talks mightily of her fear of the sicknesse, and so a deale of
+tittle tattle and I left them and to my office where late, and so home to
+supper and to bed.  This day I hear my Uncle Talbot Pepys died the last
+week, and was buried.  All the news now is, that Sir Jeremy Smith is at
+Cales--[Cadiz]--with his fleete, and Mings in the Elve.--[Elbe]--The King
+is come this noon to towne from Audly End, with the Duke of Yorke and a
+fine train of gentlemen.
+
+13th.  Up betimes, and to the office, where busy sitting all the morning,
+and I begin to find a little convenience by holding up my head to Sir W.
+Pen, for he is come to be more supple.  At noon to dinner, and then to the
+office again, where mighty business, doing a great deale till midnight and
+then home to supper and to bed.  The plague encreased this week 29 from
+28, though the total fallen from 238 to 207, which do never a whit please
+me.
+
+14th.  Up, and met by 6 o'clock in my chamber Mr. Povy (from White Hall)
+about evening reckonings between him and me, on our Tangier business, and
+at it hard till toward eight o'clock, and he then carried me in his
+chariot to White Hall, where by and by my fellow officers met me, and we
+had a meeting before the Duke.  Thence with my Lord Bruncker towards
+London, and in our way called in Covent Garden, and took in Sir John
+(formerly Dr.) Baber; who hath this humour that he will not enter into
+discourse while any stranger is in company, till he be told who he is that
+seems a stranger to him.  This he did declare openly to me, and asked my
+Lord who I was, giving this reason, that he has been inconvenienced by
+being too free in discourse till he knew who all the company were.  Thence
+to Guildhall (in our way taking in Dr. Wilkins), and there my Lord and I
+had full and large discourse with Sir Thomas Player, the Chamberlain of
+the City (a man I have much heard of for his credit and punctuality in the
+City, and on that score I had a desire to be made known to him), about the
+credit of our tallys, which are lodged there for security to such as
+should lend money thereon to the use of the Navy.  And I had great
+satisfaction therein: and the truth is, I find all our matters of credit
+to be in an ill condition.  Thence, I being in a little haste walked
+before and to the 'Change a little and then home, and presently to Trinity
+house to dinner, where Captain Cox made his Elder Brother's dinner.  But
+it seemed to me a very poor sorry dinner.  I having many things in my head
+rose, when my belly was full, though the dinner not half done, and home
+and there to do some business, and by and by out of doors and met Mr. Povy
+coming to me by appointment, but it being a little too late, I took a
+little pride in the streete not to go back with him, but prayed him to
+come another time, and I away to Kate Joyce's, thinking to have spoke to
+her husband about Pall's business, but a stranger, the Welsh Dr. Powell,
+being there I forebore and went away and so to Hales's, to see my wife's
+picture, which I like mighty well, and there had the pleasure to see how
+suddenly he draws the Heavens, laying a darke ground and then lightening
+it when and where he will. Thence to walk all alone in the fields behind
+Grayes Inne, making an end of reading over my dear "Faber fortunae," of my
+Lord Bacon's, and thence, it growing dark, took two or three wanton turns
+about the idle places and lanes about Drury Lane, but to no satisfaction,
+but a great fear of the plague among them, and so anon I walked by
+invitation to Mrs. Pierces, where I find much good company, that is to
+say, Mrs. Pierce, my wife, Mrs. Worshipp and her daughter, and Harris the
+player, and Knipp, and Mercer, and Mrs. Barbary Sheldon, who is come this
+day to spend a weeke with my wife; and here with musique we danced, and
+sung and supped, and then to sing and dance till past one in the morning;
+and much mirthe with Sir Anthony Apsley and one Colonell Sidney, who lodge
+in the house; and above all, they are mightily taken with Mrs. Knipp.
+Hence weary and sleepy we broke up, and I and my company homeward by coach
+and to bed.
+
+15th.  Lay till it was full time to rise, it being eight o'clock, and so
+to the office and there sat till almost three o'clock and then to dinner,
+and after dinner (my wife and Mercer and Mrs. Barbary being gone to
+Hales's before), I and my cozen Anthony Joyce, who come on purpose to
+dinner with me, and he and I to discourse of our proposition of marriage
+between Pall and Harman, and upon discourse he and I to Harman's house and
+took him to a taverne hard by, and we to discourse of our business, and I
+offered L500, and he declares most ingenuously that his trade is not to be
+trusted on, that he however needs no money, but would have her money
+bestowed on her, which I like well, he saying that he would adventure 2 or
+L300 with her.  I like him as a most good-natured, and discreet man, and,
+I believe, very cunning.  We come to this conclusion for us to meete one
+another the next weeke, and then we hope to come to some end, for I did
+declare myself well satisfied with the match.  Thence to Hales's, where I
+met my wife and people; and do find the picture, above all things, a most
+pretty picture, and mighty like my wife; and I asked him his price: he
+says L14, and the truth is, I think he do deserve it.  Thence toward
+London and home, and I to the office, where I did much, and betimes to
+bed, having had of late so little sleep, and there slept
+
+16th.  Till 7 this morning.  Up and all the morning about the Victualler's
+business, passing his account.  At noon to the 'Change, and did several
+businesses, and thence to the Crowne behind the 'Change and dined with my
+Lord Bruncker and Captain Cocke and Fenn, and Madam Williams, who without
+question must be my Lord's wife, and else she could not follow him
+wherever he goes and kisse and use him publiquely as she do.  Thence to
+the office, where Sir W. Pen and I made an end of the Victualler's
+business, and thence abroad about several businesses, and so in the
+evening back again, and anon called on by Mr. Povy, and he and I staid
+together in my chamber till 12 at night ending our reckonings and giving
+him tallys for all I was to pay him and so parted, and I to make good my
+Journall for two or three days, and begun it till I come to the other
+side, where I have scratched so much, for, for want of sleep, I begun to
+write idle and from the purpose.  So forced to breake off, and to
+bed.--[There are several erasures in the original MS.]
+
+17th.  Up, and to finish my Journall, which I had not sense enough the
+last night to make an end of, and thence to the office, where very busy
+all the morning.  At noon home to dinner and presently with my wife out to
+Hales's, where I am still infinitely pleased with my wife's picture. I
+paid him L14 for it, and 25s. for the frame, and I think it is not a whit
+too deare for so good a picture.  It is not yet quite finished and dry, so
+as to be fit to bring home yet.  This day I begun to sit, and he will make
+me, I think, a very fine picture.  He promises it shall be as good as my
+wife's, and I sit to have it full of shadows, and do almost break my neck
+looking over my shoulder to make the posture for him to work by.  Thence
+home and to the office, and so home having a great cold, and so my wife
+and Mrs. Barbary have very great ones, we are at a loss how we all come by
+it together, so to bed, drinking butter-ale.  This day my W. Hewer comes
+from Portsmouth and gives me an instance of another piece of knavery of
+Sir W. Pen, who wrote to Commissioner Middleton, that it was my negligence
+the other day he was not acquainted, as the board directed, with our
+clerks coming down to the pay.  But I need no new arguments to teach me
+that he is a false rogue to me and all the world besides.
+
+18th (Lord's day).  Up and my cold better, so to church, and then home to
+dinner, and so walked out to St. James's Church, thinking to have seen
+faire Mrs. Butler, but could not, she not being there, nor, I believe,
+lives thereabouts now.  So walked to Westminster, very fine fair dry
+weather, but all cry out for lack of rain.  To Herbert's and drank, and
+thence to Mrs. Martin's, and did what I would with her; her husband going
+for some wine for us.  The poor man I do think would take pains if I can
+get him a purser's place, which I will endeavour.  She tells me as a
+secret that Betty Howlet of the Hall, my little sweetheart, that I used to
+call my second wife, is married to a younger son of Mr. Michell's (his
+elder brother, who should have had her, being dead this plague), at which
+I am glad, and that they are to live nearer me in Thames Streete, by the
+Old Swan.  Thence by coach home and to my chamber about some accounts, and
+so to bed.  Sir Christopher Mings is come home from Hambro without
+anything done, saving bringing home some pipestaves for us.
+
+19th.  Up betimes and upon a meeting extraordinary at the office most of
+the morning with Lord Bruncker, Sir W. Coventry, and Sir W. Pen, upon the
+business of the accounts.  Where now we have got almost as much as we
+would have we begin to lay all on the Controller, and I fear he will be
+run down with it, for he is every day less and less capable of doing
+business.  Thence with my Lord Bruncker, Sir W. Coventry to the ticket
+office, to see in what little order things are there, and there it is a
+shame to see how the King is served.  Thence to the Chamberlain of London,
+and satisfy ourselves more particularly how much credit we have there,
+which proves very little.  Thence to Sir Robert Long's, absent. About much
+the same business, but have not the satisfaction we would have there
+neither.  So Sir W. Coventry parted, and my Lord and I to Mrs. Williams's,
+and there I saw her closett, where indeed a great many fine things there
+are, but the woman I hate.  Here we dined, and Sir J. Minnes come to us,
+and after dinner we walked to the King's play-house, all in dirt, they
+being altering of the stage to make it wider.  But God knows when they
+will begin to act again; but my business here was to see the inside of the
+stage and all the tiring-rooms and machines; and, indeed, it was a sight
+worthy seeing.  But to see their clothes, and the various sorts, and what
+a mixture of things there was; here a wooden-leg, there a ruff, here a
+hobbyhorse, there a crown, would make a man split himself to see with
+laughing; and particularly Lacy's wardrobe, and Shotrell's. But then
+again, to think how fine they show on the stage by candle-light, and how
+poor things they are to look now too near hand, is not pleasant at all.
+The machines are fine, and the paintings very pretty.  Thence mightily
+satisfied in my curiosity I away with my Lord to see him at her house
+again, and so take leave and by coach home and to the office, and thence
+sent for to Sir G. Carteret by and by to the Broad Streete, where he and I
+walked two or three hours till it was quite darke in his gallery talking
+of his affairs, wherein I assure him all will do well, and did give him
+(with great liberty, which he accepted kindly) my advice to deny the Board
+nothing they would aske about his accounts, but rather call upon them to
+know whether there was anything more they desired, or was wanting.  But
+our great discourse and serious reflections was upon the bad state of the
+kingdom in general, through want of money and good conduct, which we fear
+will undo all.  Thence mightily satisfied with this good fortune of this
+discourse with him I home, and there walked in the darke till 10 o'clock
+at night in the garden with Sir W. Warren, talking of many things
+belonging to us particularly, and I hope to get something considerably by
+him before the year be over.  He gives me good advice of circumspection in
+my place, which I am now in great mind to improve; for I think our office
+stands on very ticklish terms, the Parliament likely to sit shortly and
+likely to be asked more money, and we able to give a very bad account of
+the expence of what we have done with what they did give before.  Besides,
+the turning out the prize officers may be an example for the King giving
+us up to the Parliament's pleasure as easily, for we deserve it as much.
+Besides, Sir G. Carteret did tell me tonight how my Lord Bruncker himself,
+whose good-will I could have depended as much on as any, did himself to
+him take notice of the many places I have; and though I was a painful man,
+yet the Navy was enough for any man to go through with in his owne single
+place there, which much troubles me, and shall yet provoke me to more and
+more care and diligence than ever.  Thence home to supper, where I find my
+wife and Mrs. Barbary with great colds, as I also at this time have.  This
+day by letter from my father he propounds a match in the country for Pall,
+which pleased me well, of one that hath seven score and odd pounds land
+per annum in possession, and expects L1000 in money by the death of an old
+aunt.  He hath neither father, mother, sister, nor brother, but demands
+L600 down, and L100 on the birth of first child, which I had some
+inclination to stretch to.  He is kinsman to, and lives with, Mr.
+Phillips, but my wife tells me he is a drunken, ill-favoured, ill-bred
+country fellow, which sets me off of it again, and I will go on with
+Harman.  So after supper to bed.
+
+20th.  Up and to the office, where busy all the morning.  At noon dined in
+haste, and so my wife, Mrs. Barbary, Mercer, and I by coach to Hales's,
+where I find my wife's picture now perfectly finished in all respects, and
+a beautiful picture it is, as almost I ever saw.  I sat again, and had a
+great deale done, but, whatever the matter is, I do not fancy that it has
+the ayre of my face, though it will be a very fine picture.  Thence home
+and to my business, being post night, and so home to supper and to, bed.
+
+21st.  Up betimes, and first by coach to my Lord Generall to visitt him,
+and then to the Duke of Yorke, where we all met and did our usual business
+with him; but, Lord! how everything is yielded to presently, even by Sir
+W. Coventry, that is propounded by the Duke, as now to have Troutbecke,
+his old surgeon, and intended to go Surgeon-General of the fleete, to go
+Physician-General of the fleete, of which there never was any precedent in
+the world, and he for that to have L20 per month. Thence with Lord
+Bruncker to Sir Robert Long, whom we found in his closett, and after some
+discourse of business he fell to discourse at large and pleasant, and
+among other things told us of the plenty of partridges in France, where he
+says the King of France and his company killed with their guns, in the
+plain de Versailles, 300 and odd partridges at one bout.  Thence I to the
+Excise Office behind the 'Change, and there find our business of our
+tallys in great disorder as to payment, and thereupon do take a resolution
+of thinking how to remedy it, as soon as I can.  Thence home, and there
+met Sir W. Warren, and after I had eat a bit of victuals (he staying in
+the office) he and I to White Hall.  He to look after the business of the
+prize ships which we are endeavouring to buy, and hope to get money by
+them.  So I to London by coach and to Gresham College, where I staid half
+an houre, and so away home to my office, and there walking late alone in
+the darke in the garden with Sir W. Warren, who tells me that at the
+Committee of the Lords for the prizes to-day, there passed very high words
+between my Lord Ashly and Sir W. Coventry, about our business of the prize
+ships.  And that my Lord Ashly did snuff and talk as high to him, as he
+used to do to any ordinary seaman.  And that Sir W. Coventry did take it
+very quietly, but yet for all did speak his mind soberly and with reason,
+and went away, saying, he had done his duty therein, and so left it to
+them, whether they would let so many ships go for masts or not: Here he
+and I talked of 1,000 businesses, all profitable discourse, and late
+parted, and I home to supper and to bed, troubled a little at a letter
+from my father, telling me how [he] is like to be sued for a debt of
+Tom's, by Smith, the mercer.
+
+22nd.  Up, and to the office all the morning.  At noon my wife being gone
+to her father's I dined with Sir W. Batten, he inviting me.  After dinner
+to my office close, and did very much business, and so late home to supper
+and to bed.  The plague increased four this week, which troubles me,
+though but one in the whole.
+
+23rd.  Up, and going out of my dressing-room, when ready to go down
+stairs, I spied little Mrs. Tooker, my pretty little girle, which, it
+seems, did come yesterday to our house to stay a little while with us, but
+I did not know of it till now.  I was glad of her coming, she being a very
+pretty child, and now grown almost a woman.  I out by six o'clock by
+appointment to Hales's, where we fell to my picture presently very hard,
+and it comes on a very fine picture, and very merry, pleasant discourse we
+had all the morning while he was painting.  Anon comes my wife and Mercer
+and little Tooker, and having done with me we all to a picture drawer's
+hard by, Hales carrying me to see some landskipps of a man's doing.  But I
+do not [like] any of them, save only a piece of fruit, which indeed was
+very fine.  Thence I to Westminster, to the Chequer, about a little
+business, and then to the Swan, and there sent for a bit of meat and
+dined; and after dinner had opportunity of being pleased with Sarah; and
+so away to Westminster Hall, and there Mrs. Michell tells me with great
+joy how little Betty Howlett is married to her young son Michell, which is
+a pretty odd thing, that he should so soon succeed in the match to his
+elder brother that died of the plague, and to the house and trade intended
+for him, and more they say that the girle has heretofore said that she did
+love this little one more than the other brother that was intended her all
+along.  I am mighty glad of this match, and more that they are likely to
+live near me in Thames Streete, where I may see Betty now and then, whom I
+from a girle did use to call my second wife, and mighty pretty she is.
+Thence by coach to Anthony Joyce to receive Harman's answer, which did
+trouble me to receive, for he now demands L800, whereas he never made
+exception at the portion, but accepted of L500.  This I do not like; but,
+however, I cannot much blame the man, if he thinks he can get more of
+another than of me.  So home and hard to my business at the office, where
+much business, and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+24th.  Up and to the office, where all the morning.  At noon home to
+dinner, where Anthony Joyce, and I did give my final answer, I would give
+but L500 with my sister, and did show him the good offer made us in the
+country, to which I did now more and more incline, and intend to pursue
+that.  After dinner I to White Hall to a Committee for Tangier, where the
+Duke of Yorke was, and I acquitted myself well in what I had to do. After
+the Committee up, I had occasion to follow the Duke into his lodgings,
+into a chamber where the Duchesse was sitting to have her picture drawn by
+Lilly, who was there at work.  But I was well pleased to see that there
+was nothing near so much resemblance of her face in his work, which is now
+the second, if not the third time, as there was of my wife's at the very
+first time.  Nor do I think at last it can be like, the lines not being in
+proportion to those of her face.  So home, and to the office, where late,
+and so to bed.
+
+25th (Lady day and Sunday).  Up, and to my chamber in my gowne all the
+morning about settling my papers there.  At noon to dinner, where my
+wife's brother, whom I sent for to offer making him a Muster-Master and
+send to sea, which the poore man likes well of and will go, and it will be
+a good preferment to him, only hazardous.  I hope he will prove a good
+discreet man.  After dinner to my papers and Tangier accounts again till
+supper, and after supper again to them, but by my mixing them, I know not
+how, my private and publique accounts, it makes me mad to see how hard it
+is to bring them to be understood, and my head is confounded, that though
+I did sweare to sit up till one o'clock upon them, yet, I fear, it will be
+to no purpose, for I cannot understand what I do or have been doing of
+them to-day.
+
+26th.  Up, and a meeting extraordinary there was of Sir W. Coventry, Lord
+Bruncker, and myself, about the business of settling the ticket office,
+where infinite room is left for abusing the King in the wages of seamen.
+Our [meeting] being done, my Lord Bruncker and I to the Tower, to see the
+famous engraver, to get him to grave a seale for the office.  And did see
+some of the finest pieces of work in embossed work, that ever I did see in
+my life, for fineness and smallness of the images thereon, and I will
+carry my wife thither to shew them her.  Here I also did see bars of gold
+melting, which was a fine sight.  So with my Lord to the Pope's Head
+Taverne in Lumbard Streete to dine by appointment with Captain Taylor,
+whither Sir W. Coventry come to us, and were mighty merry, and I find
+reason to honour him every day more and more.  Thence alone to Broade
+Street to Sir G. Carteret by his desire to confer with him, who is I find
+in great pain about the business of the office, and not a little, I
+believe, in fear of falling there, Sir W. Coventry having so great a pique
+against him, and herein I first learn an eminent instance how great a man
+this day, that nobody would think could be shaken, is the next overthrown,
+dashed out of countenance, and every small thing of irregularity in his
+business taken notice of, where nobody the other day durst cast an eye
+upon them, and next I see that he that the other day nobody durst come
+near is now as supple as a spaniel, and sends and speaks to me with great
+submission, and readily hears to advice.  Thence home to the office, where
+busy late, and so home a little to my accounts publique and private, but
+could not get myself rightly to know how to dispose of them in order to
+passing.
+
+27th.  All the morning at the office busy.  At noon dined at home, Mr.
+Cooke, our old acquaintance at my Lord Sandwich's, come to see and dine
+with me, but I quite out of humour, having many other and better things to
+thinke of.  Thence to the office to settle my people's worke and then home
+to my publique accounts of Tangier, which it is strange by meddling with
+evening reckonings with Mr. Povy lately how I myself am become intangled
+therein, so that after all I could do, ready to breake my head and brains,
+I thought of another way, though not so perfect, yet the only one which
+this account is capable of.  Upon this latter I sat up till past two in
+the morning and then to bed.
+
+28th.  Up, and with Creed, who come hither betimes to speake with me about
+his accounts, to White Hall by water, mighty merry in discourse, though I
+had been very little troubled with him, or did countenance it, having now,
+blessed be God!  a great deale of good business to mind to better purpose
+than chatting with him.  Waited on the Duke, after that walked with Sir W.
+Clerke into St. James's Parke, and by and by met with Mr. Hayes, Prince
+Rupert's Secretary, who are mighty, both, briske blades, but I fear they
+promise themselves more than they expect.  Thence to the Cockpitt, and
+dined with a great deal of company at the Duke of Albemarle's, and a bad
+and dirty, nasty dinner.  So by coach to Hales's, and there sat again, and
+it is become mighty like.  Hither come my wife and Mercer brought by Mrs.
+Pierce and Knipp, we were mighty merry and the picture goes on the better
+for it.  Thence set them down at Pierces, and we home, where busy and at
+my chamber till 12 at night, and so to bed. This night, I am told, the
+Queene of Portugall, the mother to our Queene, is lately dead, and newes
+brought of it hither this day.
+
+     [Donna Luiza, the Queen Regent of Portugal.  She was daughter of the
+     Duke de Medina Sidonia and widow of Juan IV. The Court wore the
+     deepest mourning on this occasion.  The ladies were directed to wear
+     their hair plain, and to appear without spots on their faces, the
+     disfiguring fashion of patching having just been introduced.--
+     Strickland s Queens of England, vol. viii., p. 362.]
+
+29th.  All the morning hard at the office.  At noon dined and then out to
+Lumbard Streete, to look after the getting of some money that is lodged
+there of mine in Viner's hands, I having no mind to have it lie there
+longer.  So back again and to the office, where and at home about publique
+and private business and accounts till past 12 at night, and so to bed.
+This day, poor Jane, my old, little Jane, came to us again, to my wife's
+and my great content, and we hope to take mighty pleasure in her, she
+having all the marks and qualities of a good and loving and honest
+servant, she coming by force away from the other place, where she hath
+lived ever since she went from us, and at our desire, her late mistresse
+having used all the stratagems she could to keepe her.
+
+30th.  My wife and I mighty pleased with Jane's coming to us again.  Up,
+and away goes Alce, our cooke-mayde, a good servant, whom we loved and did
+well by her, and she an excellent servant, but would not bear being told
+of any faulte in the fewest and kindest words and would go away of her
+owne accord, after having given her mistresse warning fickly for a quarter
+of a yeare together.  So we shall take another girle and make little Jane
+our cook, at least, make a trial of it.  Up, and after much business I out
+to Lumbard Streete, and there received L2200 and brought it home; and,
+contrary to expectation, received L35 for the use of L2000 of it [for] a
+quarter of a year, where it hath produced me this profit, and hath been a
+convenience to me as to care and security of my house, and demandable at
+two days' warning, as this hath been.  This morning Sir W. Warren come to
+me a second time about having L2000 of me upon his bills on the Act to
+enable him to pay for the ships he is buying, wherein I shall have
+considerable profit.  I am loth to do it, but yet speaking with Colvill I
+do not see but I shall be able to do it and get money by it too.  Thence
+home and eat one mouthful, and so to Hales's, and there sat till almost
+quite darke upon working my gowne, which I hired to be drawn in; an Indian
+gowne, and I do see all the reason to expect a most excellent picture of
+it.  So home and to my private accounts in my chamber till past one in the
+morning, and so to bed, with my head full of thoughts for my evening of
+all my accounts tomorrow, the latter end of the month, in which God give
+me good issue, for I never was in such a confusion in my life and that in
+great sums.
+
+31st All the morning at the office busy.  At noon to dinner, and thence to
+the office and did my business there as soon as I could, and then home and
+to my accounts, where very late at them, but, Lord!  what a deale of do I
+have to understand any part of them, and in short do what I could, I could
+not come to any understanding of them, but after I had throughly wearied
+myself, I was forced to go to bed and leave them much against my will and
+vowe too, but I hope God will forgive me, for I have sat up these four
+nights till past twelve at night to master them, but cannot. Thus ends
+this month, with my head and mind mighty full and disquiett because of my
+accounts, which I have let go too long, and confounded my publique with my
+private that I cannot come to any liquidating of them. However, I do see
+that I must be grown richer than I was by a good deale last month.  Busy
+also I am in thoughts for a husband for my sister, and to that end my wife
+and I have determined that she shall presently go into the country to my
+father and mother, and consider of a proffer made them for her in the
+country, which, if she likes, shall go forward.
+
+                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
+                                  APRIL
+                                  1666
+
+April 1st (Lord's day).  Up and abroad, and by coach to Charing Cross, to
+wait on Sir Philip Howard; whom I found in bed: and he do receive me very
+civilly.  My request was about suffering my wife's brother to go to sea,
+and to save his pay in the Duke's guards; which after a little difficulty
+he did with great respect agree to.  I find him a very fine-spoken
+gentleman, and one of great parts, and very courteous.  Much pleased with
+this visit I to White Hall, where I met Sir G. Downing, and to discourse
+with him an houre about the Exchequer payments upon the late Act, and
+informed myself of him thoroughly in my safety in lending L2000 to Sir W.
+Warren, upon an order of his upon the Exchequer for L2602 and I do purpose
+to do it.  Thence meeting Dr. Allen, the physician, he and I and another
+walked in the Parke, a most pleasant warm day, and to the Queene's
+chappell; where I do not so dislike the musique.  Here I saw on a post an
+invitation to all good Catholiques to pray for the soul of such a one
+departed this life.  The Queene, I hear, do not yet hear of the death of
+her mother, she being in a course of physique, that they dare not tell it
+her.  At noon by coach home, and there by invitation met my uncle and aunt
+Wight and their cozen Mary, and dined with me and very merry.  After
+dinner my uncle and I abroad by coach to White Hall, up and down the
+house, and I did some business and thence with him and a gentleman he met
+with to my Lord Chancellor's new house, and there viewed it again and
+again and up to the top and I like it as well as ever and think it a most
+noble house.  So all up and down my Lord St. Albans his new building and
+market-house, and the taverne under the market-house, looking to and again
+into every place of building, and so away and took coach and home, where
+to my accounts, and was at them till I could not hold open my eyes, and so
+to bed.  I this afternoon made a visit to my Lady Carteret, whom I
+understood newly come to towne; and she took it mighty kindly, but I see
+her face and heart are dejected from the condition her husband's matters
+stand in.  But I hope they will do all well enough.  And I do comfort her
+as much as I can, for she is a noble lady.
+
+2nd.  Up, and to the office and thence with Mr. Gawden to Guildhall to see
+the bills and tallys there in the chamber (and by the way in the streete
+his new coach broke and we fain to take an old hackney).  Thence to the
+Exchequer again to inform myself of some other points in the new Act in
+order to my lending Sir W. Warren L2000 upon an order of his upon the Act,
+which they all encourage me to.  There walking with Mr. Gawden in
+Westminster Hall, he and I to talke from one business to another and at
+last to the marriage of his daughter.  He told me the story of Creed's
+pretences to his daughter, and how he would not believe but she loved him,
+while his daughter was in great passion on the other hand against him.
+Thence to talke of his son Benjamin; and I propounded a match for him, and
+at last named my sister, which he embraces heartily, and speaking of the
+lowness of her portion, that it would be less than L1000, he tells me if
+every thing else agrees, he will out of what he means to give me yearly,
+make a portion for her shall cost me nothing more than I intend freely.
+This did mightily rejoice me and full of it did go with him to London to
+the 'Change; and there did much business and at the Coffee-house with Sir
+W. Warren, who very wisely did shew me that my matching my sister with Mr.
+Gawden would undo me in all my places, everybody suspecting me in all I
+do; and I shall neither be able to serve him, nor free myself from
+imputation of being of his faction, while I am placed for his severest
+check.  I was convinced that it would be for neither of our interests to
+make this alliance, and so am quite off of it again, but with great
+satisfaction in the motion.  Thence to the Crowne tavern behind the
+Exchange to meet with Cocke and Fenn and did so, and dined with them, and
+after dinner had the intent of our meeting, which was some private
+discourse with Fenn, telling him what I hear and think of his business,
+which he takes very kindly and says he will look about him.  It was about
+his giving of ill language and answers to people that come to him about
+money and some other particulars.  This morning Mrs. Barbary and little
+Mrs. Tooker went away homeward.  Thence my wife by coach calling me at
+White Hall to visit my Lady Carteret, and she was not within.  So to
+Westminster Hall, where I purposely tooke my wife well dressed into the
+Hall to see and be seen; and, among others, [met] Howlet's daughter, who
+is newly married, and is she I call wife, and one I love mightily.  So to
+Broad Streete and there met my Lady and Sir G. Carteret, and sat and
+talked with them a good while and so home, and to my accounts which I
+cannot get through with.  But at it till I grew drowsy, and so to bed
+mightily vexed that I can come to no better issue in my accounts.
+
+3rd.  Up, and Sir W. Warren with me betimes and signed a bond, and
+assigned his order on the Exchequer to a blank for me to fill and I did
+deliver him L1900.  The truth is, it is a great venture to venture so much
+on the Act, but thereby I hedge in L300 gift for my service about some
+ships that he hath bought, prizes, and good interest besides, and his bond
+to repay me the money at six weeks' warning.  So to the office, where busy
+all the morning.  At noon home to dinner, and there my brother Balty dined
+with me and my wife, who is become a good serious man, and I hope to do
+him good being sending him a Muster-Master on one of the squadrons of the
+fleete.  After dinner and he gone I to my accounts hard all the afternoon
+till it was quite darke, and I thank God I do come to bring them very
+fairly to make me worth L5,000 stocke in the world, which is a great mercy
+to me.  Though I am a little troubled to find L50 difference between the
+particular account I make to myself of my profits and loss in each month
+and the account which I raise from my acquittances and money which I have
+at the end of every month in my chest and other men's hands.  However I do
+well believe that I am effectually L5,000, the greatest sum I ever was in
+my life yet, and this day I have as I have said before agreed with Sir W.
+Warren and got of him L300 gift.  At night a while to the office and then
+home and supped and to my accounts again till I was ready to sleepe, there
+being no pleasure to handle them, if they are not kept in good order.  So
+to bed.
+
+4th.  Up, and with Sir W. Pen in his coach to White Hall, in his way
+talking simply and fondly as he used to do, but I find myself to slight
+him and his simple talke, I thank God, and that my condition will enable
+me to do it.  Thence, after doing our business with the Duke of Yorke,
+with Captain Cocke home to the 'Change in his coach.  He promises me
+presently a dozen of silver salts, and proposes a business for which he
+hath promised Mrs. Williams for my Lord Bruncker a set of plate shall cost
+him L500 and me the like, which will be a good business indeed. After done
+several businesses at the 'Change I home, and being washing day dined upon
+cold meate, and so abroad by coach to Hales's, and there sat till night,
+mightily pleased with my picture, which is now almost finished.  So by
+coach home, it being the fast day and to my chamber and so after supper to
+bed, consulting how to send my wife into the country to advise about
+Pall's marriage, which I much desire, and my father too, and two or three
+offers are now in hand.
+
+5th.  Up, and before office time to Lumbard Streete, and there at Viner's
+was shewn the silver plates, made for Captain Cocke to present my Lord
+Bruncker; and I chose a dozen of the same weight to be bespoke for myself,
+which he told me yesterday he would give me on the same occasion. To the
+office, where the falsenesse and impertinencies of Sir W. Pen would make a
+man mad to think of.  At noon would have avoided, but could not, dining
+with my Lord Bruncker and his mistresse with Captain Cocke at the Sun
+Taverne in Fish Streete, where a good dinner, but the woman do tire me,
+and indeed how simply my Lord Bruncker, who is otherwise a wise man, do
+proceed at the table in serving of Cocke, without any means of
+understanding in his proposal, or defence when proposed, would make a man
+think him a foole.  After dinner home, where I find my wife hath on a
+sudden, upon notice of a coach going away to-morrow, taken a resolution of
+going in it to Brampton, we having lately thought it fit for her to go to
+satisfy herself and me in the nature of the fellow that is there proposed
+to my sister.  So she to fit herself for her journey and I to the office
+all the afternoon till late, and so home and late putting notes to "It is
+decreed, nor shall thy fate, &c." and then to bed.  The plague is, to our
+great grief, encreased nine this week, though decreased a few in the
+total.  And this encrease runs through many parishes, which makes us much
+fear the next year.
+
+6th.  Up mighty betimes upon my wife's going this day toward Brampton.  I
+could not go to the coach with her, but W. Hewer did and hath leave from
+me to go the whole day's journey with her.  All the morning upon business
+at the office, and at noon dined, and Mrs. Hunt coming lent her L5 on her
+occasions and so carried her to Axe Yard end at Westminster and there left
+her, a good and understanding woman, and her husband I perceive thrives
+mightily in his business of the Excise.  Thence to Mr. Hales and there
+sat, and my picture almost finished, which by the word of Mr. and Mrs.
+Pierce (who come in accidently) is mighty like, and I am sure I am
+mightily pleased both in the thing and the posture.  Thence with them home
+a little, and so to White Hall and there met by agreement with Sir Stephen
+Fox and Mr. Ashburnham, and discoursed the business of our Excise tallys;
+the former being Treasurer of the guards, and the other Cofferer of the
+King's household.  I benefitted much by their discourse.  We come to no
+great conclusion upon our discourse, but parted, and I home, where all
+things, methinks, melancholy in the absence of my wife.  This day great
+newes of the Swedes declaring for us against the Dutch, and, so far as
+that, I believe it.  After a little supper to bed.
+
+7th.  Lay pretty long to-day, lying alone and thinking of several
+businesses.  So up to the office and there till noon.  Thence with my Lord
+Bruncker home by coach to Mrs. Williams's, where Bab. Allen and Dr.
+Charleton dined.  Bab and I sang and were mighty merry as we could be
+there, where the rest of the company did not overplease.  Thence took her
+by coach to Hales's, and there find Mrs. Pierce and her boy and Mary. She
+had done sitting the first time, and indeed her face is mighty like at
+first dash.  Thence took them to the cakehouse, and there called in the
+coach for cakes and drank, and thence I carried them to my Lord
+Chancellor's new house to shew them that, and all mightily pleased, thence
+set each down at home, and so I home to the office, where about ten of the
+clock W. Hewer comes to me to tell me that he has left my wife well this
+morning at Bugden, which was great riding, and brings me a letter from
+her.  She is very well got thither, of which I am heartily glad.  After
+writing several letters, I home to supper and to bed.  The Parliament of
+which I was afraid of their calling us of the Navy to an account of the
+expense of money and stores and wherein we were so little ready to give
+them a good answer [will soon meet].  The Bishop of Munster, every body
+says, is coming to peace with the Dutch, we having not supplied him with
+the money promised him.
+
+8th (Lord's day).  Up, and was in great trouble how to get a passage to
+White Hall, it raining, and no coach to be had.  So I walked to the Old
+Swan, and there got a scull.  To the Duke of Yorke, where we all met to
+hear the debate between Sir Thomas Allen and Mr. Wayth; the former
+complaining of the latter's ill usage of him at the late pay of his ship.
+But a very sorry poor occasion he had for it.  The Duke did determine it
+with great judgement, chiding both, but encouraging Wayth to continue to
+be a check to all captains in any thing to the King's right.  And, indeed,
+I never did see the Duke do any thing more in order, nor with more
+judgement than he did pass the verdict in this business.  The Court full
+this morning of the newes of Tom Cheffin's death, the King's
+closett-keeper.  He was well last night as ever, flaying at tables in the
+house, and not very ill this morning at six o'clock, yet dead before
+seven: they think, of an imposthume in his breast.  But it looks fearfully
+among people nowadays, the plague, as we hear, encreasing every where
+again.  To the Chappell, but could not get in to hear well.  But I had the
+pleasure once in my life to see an Archbishop (this was of Yorke) in a
+pulpit.  Then at a loss how to get home to dinner, having promised to
+carry Mrs. Hunt thither.  At last got my Lord Hinchingbroke's coach, he
+staying at Court; and so took her up in Axe-yard, and home and dined. And
+good discourse of the old matters of the Protector and his family, she
+having a relation to them.  The Protector
+
+     [Richard Cromwell subsequently returned to England, and resided in
+     strict privacy at Cheshunt for some years before his death in 1712]
+
+lives in France: spends about L500 per annum.  Thence carried her home
+again and then to Court and walked over to St. James's Chappell, thinking
+to have heard a Jesuite preach, but come too late.  So got a hackney and
+home, and there to business.  At night had Mercer comb my head and so to
+supper, sing a psalm, and to bed.
+
+9th.  Up betimes, and with my Joyner begun the making of the window in my
+boy's chamber bigger, purposing it shall be a roome to eat and for having
+musique in.  To the office, where a meeting upon extraordinary business,
+at noon to the 'Change about more, and then home with Creed and dined, and
+then with him to the Committee of Tangier, where I got two or three things
+done I had a mind to of convenience to me.  Thence by coach to Mrs.
+Pierce's, and with her and Knipp and Mrs. Pierce's boy and girle abroad,
+thinking to have been merry at Chelsey; but being come almost to the house
+by coach near the waterside, a house alone, I think the Swan, a gentleman
+walking by called to us to tell us that the house was shut up of the
+sicknesse.  So we with great affright turned back, being holden to the
+gentleman; and went away (I for my part in great disorder) for Kensington,
+and there I spent about 30s. upon the jades with great pleasure, and we
+sang finely and staid till about eight at night, the night coming on apace
+and so set them down at Pierce's, and so away home, where awhile with Sir
+W. Warren about business, and then to bed,
+
+10th.  Up betimes, and many people to me about business.  To the office
+and there sat till noon, and then home and dined, and to the office again
+all the afternoon, where we sat all, the first time of our resolution to
+sit both forenoons and afternoons.  Much business at night and then home,
+and though late did see some work done by the plasterer to my new window
+in the boy's chamber plastered.  Then to supper, and after having my head
+combed by the little girle to bed.  Bad news that the plague is decreased
+in the general again and two increased in the sickness.
+
+11th.  To White Hall, having first set my people to worke about setting me
+rails upon the leads of my wife's closett, a thing I have long designed,
+but never had a fit opportunity till now.  After having done with the Duke
+of Yorke, I to Hales's, where there was nothing found to be done more to
+my picture, but the musique, which now pleases me mightily, it being
+painted true.  Thence home, and after dinner to Gresham College, where a
+great deal of do and formality in choosing of the Council and Officers.  I
+had three votes to be of the Council, who am but a stranger, nor expected
+any.  So my Lord Bruncker being confirmed President I home, where I find
+to my great content my rails up upon my leads.  To the office and did a
+little business, and then home and did a great jobb at my Tangier
+accounts, which I find are mighty apt to run into confusion, my head also
+being too full of other businesses and pleasures.  This noon Bagwell's
+wife come to me to the office, after her being long at Portsmouth.  After
+supper, and past 12 at night to bed.
+
+12th.  Up and to the office, where all the morning.  At noon dined at home
+and so to my office again, and taking a turne in the garden my Lady Pen
+comes to me and takes me into her house, where I find her daughter and a
+pretty lady of her acquaintance, one Mrs. Lowder, sister, I suppose, of
+her servant Lowder's, with whom I, notwithstanding all my resolution to
+follow business close this afternoon, did stay talking and playing the
+foole almost all the afternoon, and there saw two or three foolish sorry
+pictures of her doing, but very ridiculous compared to what my wife do.
+She grows mighty homely and looks old.  Thence ashamed at myself for this
+losse of time, yet not able to leave it, I to the office, where my Lord
+Bruncker come; and he and I had a little fray, he being, I find, a very
+peevish man, if he be denied what he expects, and very simple in his
+argument in this business (about signing a warrant for paying Sir Thos.
+Allen L1000 out of the groats); but we were pretty good friends before we
+parted, and so we broke up and I to the writing my letters by the post,
+and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+13th.  Up, being called up by my wife's brother, for whom I have got a
+commission from the Duke of Yorke for Muster-Master of one of the
+divisions, of which Harman is Rere-Admirall, of which I am glad as well as
+he.  After I had acquainted him with it, and discoursed a little of it, I
+went forth and took him with me by coach to the Duke of Albemarle, who
+being not up, I took a walk with Balty into the Parke, and to the Queene's
+Chappell, it being Good Friday, where people were all upon their knees
+very silent; but, it seems, no masse this day.  So back and waited on the
+Duke and received some commands of his, and so by coach to Mr. Hales's,
+where it is pretty strange to see that his second doing, I mean the second
+time of her sitting, is less like Mrs. Pierce than the first, and yet I am
+confident will be most like her, for he is so curious that I do not see
+how it is possible for him to mistake.  Here he and I presently resolved
+of going to White Hall, to spend an houre in the galleries there among the
+pictures, and we did so to my great satisfaction, he shewing me the
+difference in the payntings, and when I come more and more to distinguish
+and observe the workmanship, I do not find so many good things as I
+thought there was, but yet great difference between the works of some and
+others; and, while my head and judgment was full of these, I would go back
+again to his house to see his pictures, and indeed, though, I think, at
+first sight some difference do open, yet very inconsiderably but that I
+may judge his to be very good pictures. Here we fell into discourse of my
+picture, and I am for his putting out the Landskipp, though he says it is
+very well done, yet I do judge it will be best without it, and so it shall
+be put out, and be made a plain sky like my wife's picture, which will be
+very noble.  Thence called upon an old woman in Pannier Ally to agree for
+ruling of some paper for me and she will do it pretty cheap.  Here I found
+her have a very comely black mayde to her servant, which I liked very
+well.  So home to dinner and to see my joiner do the bench upon my leads
+to my great content.  After dinner I abroad to carry paper to my old
+woman, and so to Westminster Hall, and there beyond my intention or design
+did see and speak with Betty Howlett, at her father's still, and it seems
+they carry her to her own house to begin the world with her young husband
+on Monday next, Easter Monday.  I please myself with the thoughts of her
+neighbourhood, for I love the girl mightily.  Thence home, and thither
+comes Mr. Houblon and a brother, with whom I evened for the charter
+parties of their ships for Tangier, and paid them the third advance on
+their freight to full satisfaction, and so, they being gone, comes Creed
+and with him till past one in the morning, evening his accounts till my
+head aked and I was fit for nothing, however, coming at last luckily to
+see through and settle all to my mind, it did please me mightily, and so
+with my mind at rest to bed, and he with me and hard to sleep.
+
+14th.  Up about seven and finished our papers, he and I, and I delivered
+him tallys and some money and so away I to the office, where we sat all
+the morning.  At noon dined at home and Creed with me, then parted, and I
+to the office, and anon called thence by Sir H. Cholmley and he and I to
+my chamber, and there settled our matters of accounts, and did give him
+tallys and money to clear him, and so he being gone and all these accounts
+cleared I shall be even with the King, so as to make a very clear and
+short account in a very few days, which pleases me very well. Here he and
+I discoursed a great while about Tangier, and he do convince me, as things
+are now ordered by my Lord Bellasses and will be by Norwood (men that do
+only mind themselves), the garrison will never come to any thing, and he
+proposes his owne being governor, which in truth I do think will do very
+well, and that he will bring it to something.  He gone I to my office,
+where to write letters late, and then home and looked over a little more
+my papers of accounts lately passed, and so to bed.
+
+15th (Easter Day).  Up and by water to Westminster to the Swan to lay down
+my cloak, and there found Sarah alone, with whom after I had staid awhile
+I to White Hall Chapel, and there coming late could hear nothing of the
+Bishop of London's sermon.  So walked into the Park to the Queene's
+chappell, and there heard a good deal of their mass, and some of their
+musique, which is not so contemptible, I think, as our people would make
+it, it pleasing me very well; and, indeed, better than the anthem I heard
+afterwards at White Hall, at my coming back.  I staid till the King went
+down to receive the Sacrament, and stood in his closett with a great many
+others, and there saw him receive it, which I did never see the manner of
+before.  But I do see very little difference between the degree of the
+ceremonies used by our people in the administration thereof, and that in
+the Roman church, saving that methought our Chappell was not so fine, nor
+the manner of doing it so glorious, as it was in the Queene's chappell.
+Thence walked to Mr. Pierces, and there dined, I alone with him and her
+and their children: very good company and good discourse, they being able
+to tell me all the businesses of the Court; the amours and the mad doings
+that are there; how for certain Mrs. Stewart do do everything with the
+King that a mistress should do; and that the King hath many bastard
+children that are known and owned, besides the Duke of Monmouth.  After a
+great deale of this discourse I walked thence into the Parke with her
+little boy James with me, who is the wittiest boy and the best company in
+the world, and so back again through White Hall both coming and going, and
+people did generally take him to be my boy and some would aske me.  Thence
+home to Mr. Pierce again; and he being gone forth, she and I and the
+children out by coach to Kensington, to where we were the other day, and
+with great pleasure stayed till night; and were mighty late getting home,
+the horses tiring and stopping at every twenty steps. By the way we
+discoursed of Mrs. Clerke, who, she says, is grown mighty high, fine, and
+proud, but tells me an odd story how Captain Rolt did see her the other
+day accost a gentleman in Westminster Hall and went with him, and he
+dogged them to Moorefields to a little blind bawdy house, and there staid
+watching three hours and they come not out, so could stay no longer but
+left them there, and he is sure it was she, he knowing her well and
+describing her very clothes to Mrs. Pierce, which she knows are what she
+wears.  Seeing them well at home I homeward, but the horses at Ludgate
+Hill made a final stop; so there I 'lighted, and with a linke, it being
+about 10 o'clock, walked home, and after singing a Psalm or two and supped
+to bed.
+
+16th.  Up, and set my people, Mercer, W. Hewer, Tom and the girle at work
+at ruling and stitching my ruled book for the Muster-Masters, and I hard
+toward the settling of my Tangier accounts.  At noon dined alone, the girl
+Mercer taking physique can eat nothing, and W. Hewer went forth to dinner.
+So up to my accounts again, and then comes Mrs. Mercer and fair Mrs.
+Turner, a neighbour of hers that my wife knows by their means, to visit
+me.  I staid a great while with them, being taken with this pretty woman,
+though a mighty silly, affected citizen woman she is.  Then I left them to
+come to me at supper anon, and myself out by coach to the old woman in
+Pannyer Alley for my ruled papers, and they are done, and I am much more
+taken with her black maid Nan.  Thence further to Westminster, thinking to
+have met Mrs. Martin, but could not find her, so back and called at
+Kirton's to borrow 10s. to pay for my ruled papers, I having not money in
+my pocket enough to pay for them.  But it was a pretty consideration that
+on this occasion I was considering where I could with most confidence in a
+time of need borrow 10s., and I protest I could not tell where to do it
+and with some trouble and fear did aske it here.  So that God keepe me
+from want, for I shall be in a very bad condition to helpe myself if ever
+I should come to want or borrow.  Thence called for my papers and so home,
+and there comes Mrs. Turner and Mercer and supped with me, and well
+pleased I was with their company, but especially Mrs. Turner's, she being
+a very pretty woman of person and her face pretty good, the colour of her
+haire very fine and light.  They staid with me talking till about eleven
+o'clock and so home, W. Hewer, who supped with me, leading them home.  So
+I to bed.
+
+17th.  Up, and to the office, where all the morning.  At noon dined at
+home, my brother Balty with me, who is fitting himself to go to sea.  So
+after dinner to my accounts and did proceed a good way in settling them,
+and thence to the office, where all the afternoon late, writing my letters
+and doing business, but, Lord! what a conflict I had with myself, my heart
+tempting me 1000 times to go abroad about some pleasure or other,
+notwithstanding the weather foule.  However I reproached myself with my
+weaknesse in yielding so much my judgment to my sense, and prevailed with
+difficulty and did not budge, but stayed within, and, to my great content,
+did a great deale of business, and so home to supper and to bed.  This day
+I am told that Moll Davis, the pretty girle, that sang and danced so well
+at the Duke's house, is dead.
+
+18th.  [Up] and by coach with Sir W. Batten and Sir Thos. Allen to White
+Hall, and there after attending the Duke as usual and there concluding of
+many things preparatory to the Prince and Generall's going to sea on
+Monday next, Sir W. Batten and Sir T. Allen and I to Mr. Lilly's, the
+painter's; and there saw the heads, some finished, and all begun, of the
+Flaggmen in the late great fight with the Duke of Yorke against the Dutch.
+The Duke of Yorke hath them done to hang in his chamber, and very finely
+they are done indeed.  Here is the Prince's, Sir G. Askue's, Sir Thomas
+Teddiman's, Sir Christopher Mings, Sir Joseph Jordan, Sir William
+Barkeley, Sir Thomas Allen, and Captain Harman's, as also the Duke of
+Albemarle's; and will be my Lord Sandwich's, Sir W. Pen's, and Sir Jeremy
+Smith's.  Being very well satisfied with this sight, and other good
+pictures hanging in the house, we parted, and I left them, and [to] pass
+away a little time went to the printed picture seller's in the way thence
+to the Exchange, and there did see great plenty of fine prints; but did
+not buy any, only a print of an old pillar in Rome made for a Navall
+Triumph,
+
+     [The columna rostrata erected in the Forum to C. Duilius, who
+     obtained a triumph for the first naval victory over the
+     Carthaginians, B.C. 261.  Part of the column was discovered in the
+     ruins of the Forum near the Arch of Septimius, and transferred to
+     the Capitol.--B.]
+
+which for the antiquity of the shape of ships, I buy and keepe.  Thence to
+the Exchange, that is, the New Exchange, and looked over some play books
+and intend to get all the late new plays.  So to Westminster, and there at
+the Swan got a bit of meat and dined alone; and so away toward King's
+Street, and spying out of my coach Jane that lived heretofore at Jevons,
+my barber's, I went a little further and stopped, and went on foot back,
+and overtook her, taking water at Westminster Bridge, and spoke to her,
+and she telling me whither she was going I over the water and met her at
+Lambeth, and there drank with her; she telling me how he that was so long
+her servant, did prove to be a married man, though her master told me
+(which she denies) that he had lain with her several times in his house.
+There left her 'sans essayer alcune cose con elle', and so away by boat to
+the 'Change, and took coach and to Mr. Hales, where he would have
+persuaded me to have had the landskipp stand in my picture, but I like it
+not and will have it otherwise, which I perceive he do not like so well,
+however is so civil as to say it shall be altered.  Thence away to Mrs.
+Pierces, who was not at home, but gone to my house to visit me with Mrs.
+Knipp.  I therefore took up the little girle Betty and my mayde Mary that
+now lives there and to my house, where they had been but were gone, so in
+our way back again met them coming back again to my house in Cornehill,
+and there stopped laughing at our pretty misfortunes, and so I carried
+them to Fish Streete, and there treated them with prawns and lobsters, and
+it beginning to grow darke we away, but the jest is our horses would not
+draw us up the Hill, but we were fain to 'light and stay till the coachman
+had made them draw down to the bottom of the Hill, thereby warming their
+legs, and then they came up cheerfully enough, and we got up and I carried
+them home, and coming home called at my paper ruler's and there found
+black Nan, which pleases me mightily, and having saluted her again and
+again away home and to bed .  .  .  .  .  In all my ridings in the coach
+and intervals my mind hath been full these three weeks of setting in
+musique "It is decreed, &c."
+
+19th.  Lay long in bed, so to the office, where all the morning.  At noon
+dined with Sir W. Warren at the Pope's Head.  So back to the office, and
+there met with the Commissioners of the Ordnance, where Sir W. Pen being
+almost drunk vexed me, and the more because Mr. Chichly observed it with
+me, and it was a disparagement to the office.  They gone I to my office.
+Anon comes home my wife from Brampton, not looked for till Saturday, which
+will hinder me of a little pleasure, but I am glad of her coming. She
+tells me Pall's business with Ensum is like to go on, but I must give, and
+she consents to it, another 100. She says she doubts my father is in want
+of money, for rents come in mighty slowly.  My mother grows very
+unpleasant and troublesome and my father mighty infirm through his old
+distemper, which altogether makes me mighty thoughtfull.  Having heard all
+this and bid her welcome I to the office, where late, and so home, and
+after a little more talk with my wife, she to bed and I after her.
+
+20th.  Up, and after an houre or two's talke with my poor wife, who gives
+me more and more content every day than other, I abroad by coach to
+Westminster, and there met with Mrs. Martin, and she and I over the water
+to Stangold, and after a walke in the fields to the King's Head, and there
+spent an houre or two with pleasure with her, and eat a tansy and so
+parted, and I to the New Exchange, there to get a list of all the modern
+plays which I intend to collect and to have them bound up together.
+Thence to Mr. Hales's, and there, though against his particular mind, I
+had my landskipp done out, and only a heaven made in the roome of it,
+which though it do not please me thoroughly now it is done, yet it will do
+better than as it was before.  Thence to Paul's Churchyarde, and there
+bespoke some new books, and so to my ruling woman's and there did see my
+work a doing, and so home and to my office a little, but was hindered of
+business I intended by being sent for to Mrs. Turner, who desired some
+discourse with me and lay her condition before me, which is bad and poor.
+Sir Thomas Harvey intends again to have lodgings in her house, which she
+prays me to prevent if I can, which I promised.  Thence to talke generally
+of our neighbours.  I find she tells me the faults of all of them, and
+their bad words of me and my wife, and indeed do discover more than I
+thought.  So I told her, and so will practise that I will have nothing to
+do with any of them.  She ended all with a promise of shells to my wife,
+very fine ones indeed, and seems to have great respect and honour for my
+wife.  So home and to bed.
+
+21st. Up betimes and to the office, there to prepare some things against
+the afternoon for discourse about the business of the pursers and settling
+the pursers' matters of the fleete according to my proposition. By and by
+the office sat, and they being up I continued at the office to finish my
+matters against the meeting before the Duke this afternoon, so home about
+three to clap a bit of meate in my mouth, and so away with Sir W. Batten
+to White Hall, and there to the Duke, but he being to go abroad to take
+the ayre, he dismissed us presently without doing any thing till to-morrow
+morning.  So my Lord Bruncker and I down to walk in the garden [at White
+Hall], it being a mighty hot and pleasant day; and there was the King,
+who, among others, talked to us a little; and among other pretty things,
+he swore merrily that he believed the ketch that Sir W. Batten bought the
+last year at Colchester was of his own getting, it was so thick to its
+length.  Another pleasant thing he said of Christopher Pett, commending
+him that he will not alter his moulds of his ships upon any man's advice;
+"as," says he, "Commissioner Taylor I fear do of his New London, that he
+makes it differ, in hopes of mending the Old London, built by him."
+"For," says he, "he finds that God hath put him into the right, and so
+will keep in it while he is in."  "And," says the King, "I am sure it must
+be God put him in, for no art of his owne ever could have done it;" for it
+seems he cannot give a good account of what he do as an artist.  Thence
+with my Lord Bruncker in his coach to Hide Parke, the first time I have
+been there this year.  There the King was; but I was sorry to see my Lady
+Castlemaine, for the mourning forceing all the ladies to go in black, with
+their hair plain and without any spots, I find her to be a much more
+ordinary woman than ever I durst have thought she was; and, indeed, is not
+so pretty as Mrs. Stewart, whom I saw there also.  Having done at the Park
+he set me down at the Exchange, and I by coach home and there to my
+letters, and they being done, to writing a large letter about the business
+of the pursers to Sir W. Batten against to-morrow's discourse, and so home
+and to bed.
+
+22nd (Lord's day).  Up, and put on my new black coate, long down to my
+knees, and with Sir W. Batten to White Hall, where all in deep mourning
+for the Queene's mother.  There had great discourse, before the Duke and
+Sir W. Coventry begun the discourse of the day about the purser's
+business, which I seconded, and with great liking to the Duke, whom
+however afterward my Lord Bruncker and Sir W. Pen did stop by some thing
+they said, though not much to the purpose, yet because our proposition had
+some appearance of certain charge to the King it was ruled that for this
+year we should try another the same in every respect with ours, leaving
+out one circumstance of allowing the pursers the victuals of all men short
+of the complement.  I was very well satisfied with it and am contented to
+try it, wishing it may prove effectual.  Thence away with Sir W. Batten in
+his coach home, in our way he telling me the certaine newes, which was
+afterward confirmed to me this day by several, that the Bishopp of Munster
+has made a league [with] the Hollanders, and that our King and Court are
+displeased much at it: moreover we are not sure of Sweden.  I home to my
+house, and there dined mighty well, my poor wife and Mercer and I.  So
+back again walked to White Hall, and there to and again in the Parke, till
+being in the shoemaker's stockes.--[A cant expression for tight shoes.]--I
+was heartily weary, yet walked however to the Queene's Chappell at St.
+James's, and there saw a little mayde baptized; many parts and words
+whereof are the same with that of our Liturgy, and little that is more
+ceremonious than ours.  Thence walked to Westminster and eat a bit of
+bread and drank, and so to Worster House, and there staid, and saw the
+Council up, and then back, walked to the Cockepitt, and there took my
+leave of the Duke of Albemarle, who is going to-morrow to sea.  He seems
+mightily pleased with me, which I am glad of; but I do find infinitely my
+concernment in being careful to appear to the King and Duke to continue my
+care of his business, and to be found diligent as I used to be.  Thence
+walked wearily as far as Fleet Streete and so there met a coach and home
+to supper and to bed, having sat a great while with Will Joyce, who come
+to see me, and it is the first time I have seen him at my house since the
+plague, and find him the same impertinent, prating coxcombe that ever he
+was.
+
+23rd.  Being mighty weary last night, lay long this morning, then up and
+to the office, where Sir W. Batten, Lord Bruncker and I met, and toward
+noon took coach and to White Hall, where I had the opportunity to take
+leave of the Prince, and again of the Duke of Albemarle; and saw them kiss
+the King's hands and the Duke's; and much content, indeed, there seems to
+be in all people at their going to sea, and [they] promise themselves much
+good from them.  This morning the House of Parliament do meet, only to
+adjourne again till winter.  The plague, I hear, encreases in the towne
+much, and exceedingly in the country everywhere.  Thence walked to
+Westminster Hall, and after a little stay, there being nothing now left to
+keep me there, Betty Howlett being gone, I took coach and away home, in my
+way asking in two or three places the worth of pearles, I being now come
+to the time that I have long ago promised my wife a necklace.  Dined at
+home and took Balty with me to Hales's to show him his sister's picture,
+and thence to Westminster, and there I to the Swan and drank, and so back
+again alone to Hales's and there met my wife and Mercer, Mrs. Pierce being
+sitting, and two or three idle people of her acquaintance more standing
+by.  Her picture do come on well.  So staid until she had done and then
+set her down at home, and my wife and I and the girle by coach to
+Islington, and there eat and drank in the coach and so home, and there
+find a girle sent at my desire by Mrs. Michell of Westminster Hall, to be
+my girle under the cooke-mayde, Susan.  But I am a little dissatisfied
+that the girle, though young, is taller and bigger than Su, and will not,
+I fear, be under her command, which will trouble me, and the more because
+she is recommended by a friend that I would not have any unkindness with,
+but my wife do like very well of her.  So to my accounts and journall at
+my chamber, there being bonfires in the streete, for being St. George's
+day, and the King's Coronation, and the day of the Prince and Duke's going
+to sea.  So having done my business, to bed.
+
+24th.  Up, and presently am told that the girle that came yesterday hath
+packed up her things to be gone home again to Enfield, whence she come,
+which I was glad of, that we might be at first rid of her altogether
+rather than be liable to her going away hereafter.  The reason was that
+London do not agree with her.  So I did give her something, and away she
+went.  By and by comes Mr. Bland to me, the first time since his coming
+from Tangier, and tells me, in short, how all things are out of order
+there, and like to be; and the place never likely to come to anything
+while the soldiers govern all, and do not encourage trade.  He gone I to
+the office, where all the morning, and so to dinner, and there in the
+afternoon very busy all day till late, and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+25th.  Up, and to White Hall to the Duke as usual, and did our business
+there.  So I away to Westminster (Batty with me, whom I had presented to
+Sir W. Coventry) and there told Mrs. Michell of her kinswoman's running
+away, which troubled her.  So home, and there find another little girle
+come from my wife's mother, likely to do well.  After dinner I to the
+office, where Mr. Prin come to meet about the Chest business; and till
+company come, did discourse with me a good while alone in the garden about
+the laws of England, telling me the many faults in them; and among others,
+their obscurity through multitude of long statutes, which he is about to
+abstract out of all of a sort; and as he lives, and Parliaments come, get
+them put into laws, and the other statutes repealed, and then it will be a
+short work to know the law, which appears a very noble good thing.  By and
+by Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Rider met with us, and we did something to
+purpose about the Chest, and hope we shall go on to do so. They up, I to
+present Batty to Sir W. Pen, who at my entreaty did write a most obliging
+letter to Harman to use him civilly, but the dissembling of the rogue is
+such, that it do not oblige me at all.  So abroad to my ruler's of my
+books, having, God forgive me! a mind to see Nan there, which I did, and
+so back again, and then out again to see Mrs. Bettons, who were looking
+out of the window as I come through Fenchurch Streete. So that indeed I am
+not, as I ought to be, able to command myself in the pleasures of my eye.
+So home, and with my wife and Mercer spent our evening upon our new leads
+by our bedchamber singing, while Mrs. Mary Batelier looked out of the
+window to us, and we talked together, and at last bid good night.
+However, my wife and I staid there talking of several things with great
+pleasure till eleven o'clock at night, and it is a convenience I would not
+want for any thing in the world, it being, methinks, better than almost
+any roome in my house.  So having, supped upon the leads, to bed.  The
+plague, blessed be God! is decreased sixteen this week.
+
+26th.  To the office, where all the morning.  At noon home to dinner, and
+in the afternoon to my office again, where very busy all the afternoon and
+particularly about fitting of Mr. Yeabsly's accounts for the view of the
+Lords Commissioners for Tangier.  At night home to supper and to bed.
+
+27th.  Up (taking Balty with me, who lay at my house last [night] in order
+to his going away to-day to sea with the pursers of the Henery, whom I
+appointed to call him), abroad to many several places about several
+businesses, to my Lord Treasurer's, Westminster, and I know not where.  At
+noon to the 'Change a little, and there bespoke some maps to hang in my
+new roome (my boy's roome) which will be very-pretty.  Home to dinner, and
+after dinner to the hanging up of maps, and other things for the fitting
+of the roome, and now it will certainly be one of the handsomest and most
+usefull roomes in my house.  So that what with this room and the room on
+my leads my house is half as good again as it was. All this afternoon
+about this till I was so weary and it was late I could do no more but
+finished the room.  So I did not get out to the office all the day long.
+At night spent a good deale of time with my wife and Mercer teaching them
+a song, and so after supper to bed.
+
+28th.  Up and to the office.  At noon dined at home.  After dinner abroad
+with my wife to Hales's to see only our pictures and Mrs. Pierce's, which
+I do not think so fine as I might have expected it.  My wife to her
+father's, to carry him some ruling work, which I have advised her to let
+him do.  It will get him some money.  She also is to look out again for
+another little girle, the last we had being also gone home the very same
+day she came.  She was also to look after a necklace of pearle, which she
+is mighty busy about, I being contented to lay out L80 in one for her. I
+home to my business.  By and by comes my wife and presently after, the
+tide serving, Balty took leave of us, going to sea, and upon very good
+terms, to be Muster-Master of a squadron, which will be worth L100 this
+yeare to him, besides keeping him the benefit of his pay in the Guards. He
+gone, I very busy all the afternoon till night, among other things,
+writing a letter to my brother John, the first I have done since my being
+angry with him, and that so sharpe a one too that I was sorry almost to
+send it when I had wrote it, but it is preparatory to my being kind to
+him, and sending for him up hither when he hath passed his degree of
+Master of Arts.  So home to supper and to bed.
+
+29th (Lord's day).  Up, and to church, where Mr. Mills, a lazy, simple
+sermon upon the Devil's having no right to any thing in this world.  So
+home to dinner, and after dinner I and my boy down by water to Redriffe
+and thence walked to Mr. Evelyn's, where I walked in his garden till he
+come from Church, with great pleasure reading Ridly's discourse, all my
+way going and coming, upon the Civill and Ecclesiastical Law.  He being
+come home, he and I walked together in the garden with mighty pleasure, he
+being a very ingenious man; and the more I know him, the more I love him.
+His chief business with me was to propose having my cozen Thomas Pepys in
+Commission of the Peace, which I do not know what to say to till I speake
+with him, but should be glad of it and will put him upon it. Thence walked
+back again reading and so took water and home, where I find my uncle and
+aunt Wight, and supped with them upon my leads with mighty pleasure and
+mirthe, and they being gone I mighty weary to bed, after having my haire
+of my head cut shorter, even close to my skull, for coolnesse, it being
+mighty hot weather.
+
+30th.  Up and, being ready, to finish my journall for four days past.  To
+the office, where busy all the morning.  At noon dined alone, my wife gone
+abroad to conclude about her necklace of pearle.  I after dinner to even
+all my accounts of this month; and, bless God!  I find myself,
+notwithstanding great expences of late; viz. L80 now to pay for a
+necklace; near L40 for a set of chairs and couch; near L40 for my three
+pictures: yet I do gather, and am now worth L5200.  My wife comes home by
+and by, and hath pitched upon a necklace with three rows, which is a very
+good one, and L80 is the price.  In the evening, having finished my
+accounts to my full content and joyed that I have evened them so plainly,
+remembering the trouble my last accounts did give me by being let alone a
+little longer than ordinary, by which I am to this day at a loss for L50,
+I hope I shall never commit such an error again, for I cannot devise where
+the L50 should be, but it is plain I ought to be worth L50 more than I am,
+and blessed be God the error was no greater.  In the evening with my
+[wife] and Mercer by coach to take the ayre as far as Bow, and eat and
+drank in the coach by the way and with much pleasure and pleased with my
+company.  At night home and up to the leads, but were contrary to
+expectation driven down again with a stinke by Sir W. Pen's shying of a
+shitten pot in their house of office close by, which do trouble me for
+fear it do hereafter annoy me.  So down to sing a little and then to bed.
+So ends this month with great layings-out.  Good health and gettings, and
+advanced well in the whole of my estate, for which God make me thankful.
+
+
+
+
+     ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:
+
+     Ashamed at myself for this losse of time
+     Begun to write idle and from the purpose
+     Counterfeit mirthe and pleasure with them, but had but little
+     Driven down again with a stinke by Sir W. Pen's shying of a pot
+     Great newes of the Swedes declaring for us against the Dutch
+     He has been inconvenienced by being too free in discourse
+     Mass, and some of their musique, which is not so contemptible
+     Reading over my dear "Faber fortunae," of my Lord Bacon's
+     Thence to Mrs. Martin's, and did what I would with her
+     Through want of money and good conduct
+     Too late for them to enjoy it with any pleasure
+     Tooke my wife well dressed into the Hall to see and be seen
+
+
+
+
+
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+                THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S.
+
+            CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY
+
+   TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY
+MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW
+                      AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
+
+                              (Unabridged)
+
+                      WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES
+
+                        EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY
+
+                        HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A.
+
+
+
+                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
+                              MARCH & APRIL
+                                1665-1666
+
+
+March 1st.  Up, and to the office and there all the morning sitting and
+at noon to dinner with my Lord Bruncker, Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen at
+the White Horse in Lumbard Streete, where, God forgive us!  good sport
+with Captain Cocke's having his mayde sicke of the plague a day or two
+ago and sent to the pest house, where she now is, but he will not say
+anything but that she is well.  But blessed be God!  a good Bill this
+week we have; being but 237 in all, and 42 of the plague, and of them but
+six in the City: though my Lord Bruneker says, that these six are most of
+them in new parishes where they were not the last week.  Here was with us
+also Mr. Williamson, who the more I know, the more I honour.  Hence I
+slipt after dinner without notice home and there close to my business at
+my office till twelve at night, having with great comfort returned to my
+business by some fresh vowes in addition to my former, and-more severe,
+and a great joy it is to me to see myself in a good disposition to
+business.  So home to supper and to my Journall and to bed.
+
+
+
+2nd.  Up, as I have of late resolved before 7 in the morning and to the
+office, where all the morning, among other things setting my wife and
+Mercer with much pleasure to worke upon the ruling of some paper for the
+making of books for pursers, which will require a great deale of worke
+and they will earn a good deale of money by it, the hopes of which makes
+them worke mighty hard.  At noon dined and to the office again, and about
+4 o'clock took coach and to my Lord Treasurer's and thence to Sir Philip
+Warwicke's new house by appointment, there to spend an houre in talking
+and we were together above an hour, and very good discourse about the
+state of the King as to money, and particularly in the point of the Navy.
+He endeavours hard to come to a good understanding of Sir G. Carteret's
+accounts, and by his discourse I find Sir G. Carteret must be brought to
+it, and what a madman he is that he do not do it of himself, for the King
+expects the Parliament will call upon him for his promise of giving an
+account of the money, and he will be ready for it, which cannot be, I am
+sure, without Sir G. Carteret's accounts be better understood than they
+are.  He seems to have a great esteem of me and my opinion and thoughts
+of things.  After we had spent an houre thus discoursing and vexed that
+we do but grope so in the darke as we do, because the people, that should
+enlighten us, do not helpe us, we resolved fitting some things for
+another meeting, and so broke up.  He shewed me his house, which is yet
+all unhung, but will be a very noble house indeed.  Thence by coach
+calling at my bookseller's and carried home L10 worth of books, all, I
+hope, I shall buy a great while.  There by appointment find Mr. Hill come
+to sup and take his last leave of me, and by and by in comes Mr. James
+Houbland to bear us company, a man I love mightily, and will not lose his
+acquaintance.  He told me in my eare this night what he and his brothers
+have resolved to give me, which is L200, for helping them out with two or
+three ships.  A good sum and that which I did believe they would give me,
+and I did expect little less.  Here we talked and very good company till
+late, and then took leave of one another, and indeed I am heartily sorry
+for Mr. Hill's leaving us, for he is a very worthy gentleman, as most I
+know.  God give him a good voyage and successe in his business.  Thus we
+parted and my wife and I to bed, heavy for the losse of our friend.
+
+
+
+3rd.  All the morning at the office, at noon to the Old James, being sent
+for, and there dined with Sir William Rider, Cutler, and others, to make
+an end with two Scots Maisters about the freight of two ships of my Lord
+Rutherford's.  After a small dinner and a little discourse I away to the
+Crowne behind the Exchange to Sir W. Pen, Captain Cocke and Fen, about
+getting a bill of Cocke's paid to Pen, in part for the East India goods
+he sold us.  Here Sir W. Pen did give me the reason in my eare of his
+importunity for money, for that he is now to marry his daughter.  God
+send her better fortune than her father deserves I should wish him for a
+false rogue.  Thence by coach to Hales's, and there saw my wife sit; and
+I do like her picture mightily, and very like it will be, and a brave
+piece of work.  But he do complain that her nose hath cost him as much
+work as another's face, and he hath done it finely indeed.  Thence home
+and late at the office, and then to bed.
+
+
+
+4th (Lord's day).  And all day at my Tangier and private accounts, having
+neglected them since Christmas, which I hope I shall never do again; for
+I find the inconvenience of it, it being ten times the labour to remember
+and settle things.  But I thank God I did it at last, and brought them
+all fine and right; and I am, I thinke, by all appears to me (and I am
+sure I cannot be L10 wrong), worth above L4600, for which the Lord be
+praised!  being the biggest sum I ever was worth yet.
+
+
+
+5th.  I was at it till past two o'clock on Monday morning, and then read
+my vowes, and to bed with great joy and content that I have brought my
+things to so good a settlement, and now having my mind fixed to follow my
+business again and sensible of Sir W. Coventry's jealousies, I doubt,
+concerning me, partly my siding with Sir G. Carteret, and partly that
+indeed I have been silent in my business of the office a great while, and
+given but little account of myself and least of all to him, having not
+made him one visitt since he came to towne from Oxford, I am resolved to
+fall hard to it again, and fetch up the time and interest I have lost or
+am in a fair way of doing it.  Up about eight o'clock, being called up by
+several people, among others by Mr. Moone, with whom I went to Lumbard
+Streete to Colvill, and so back again and in my chamber he and I did end
+all our businesses together of accounts for money upon bills of Exchange,
+and am pleased to find myself reputed a man of business and method, as he
+do give me out to be.  To the 'Change at noon and so home to dinner.
+Newes for certain of the King of Denmarke's declaring for the Dutch, and
+resolution to assist them.  To the office, and there all the afternoon.
+In the evening come Mr. James and brother Houblons to agree upon share
+parties for their ships, and did acquaint me that they had paid my
+messenger, whom I sent this afternoon for it, L200 for my friendship in
+the business, which pleases me mightily.  They being gone I forth late to
+Sir H. Viner's to take a receipt of them for the L200 lodged for me there
+with them, and so back home, and after supper to bed.
+
+
+
+6th.  Up betimes and did much business before office time.  Then to the
+office and there till noon and so home to dinner and to the office again
+till night.  In the evening being at Sir W. Batten's, stepped in (for I
+have not used to go thither a good while), I find my Lord Bruncker and
+Mrs. Williams, and they would of their own accord, though I had never
+obliged them (nor my wife neither) with one visit for many of theirs, go
+see my house and my wife; which I showed them and made them welcome with
+wine and China oranges (now a great rarity since the war, none to be
+had).  There being also Captain Cocke and Mrs. Turner, who had never been
+in my house since I come to the office before, and Mrs. Carcasse, wife of
+Mr. Carcasses.  My house happened to be mighty clean, and did me great
+honour, and they mightily pleased with it.  They gone I to the office and
+did some business, and then home to supper and to bed.  My mind troubled
+through a doubtfulness of my having incurred Sir W. Coventry's
+displeasure by not having waited on him since his coming to towne, which
+is a mighty faulte and that I can bear the fear of the bad effects of
+till I have been with him, which shall be to-morrow, God willing.  So to
+bed.
+
+
+
+7th.  Up betimes, and to St. James's, thinking Mr. Coventry had lain
+there; but he do not, but at White Hall; so thither I went and had as
+good a time as heart could wish, and after an houre in his chamber about
+publique business he and I walked up, and the Duke being gone abroad we
+walked an houre in the Matted Gallery: he of himself begun to discourse
+of the unhappy differences between him and my Lord of Sandwich, and from
+the beginning to the end did run through all passages wherein my Lord
+hath, at any time, gathered any dissatisfaction, and cleared himself to
+me most honourably; and in truth, I do believe he do as he says.  I did
+afterwards purge myself of all partiality in the business of Sir G.
+Carteret, (whose story Sir W. Coventry did also run over,) that I do mind
+the King's interest, notwithstanding my relation to him; all which he
+declares he firmly believes, and assures me he hath the same kindnesse
+and opinion of me as ever.  And when I said I was jealous of myself, that
+having now come to such an income as I am, by his favour, I should not be
+found to do as much service as might deserve it; he did assure me, he
+thinks it not too much for me, but thinks I deserve it as much as any man
+in England.  All this discourse did cheer my heart, and sets me right
+again, after a good deal of melancholy, out of fears of his
+disinclination to me, upon the differences with my Lord Sandwich and Sir
+G. Carteret; but I am satisfied throughly, and so went away quite another
+man, and by the grace of God will never lose it again by my folly in not
+visiting and writing to him, as I used heretofore to do.  Thence by coach
+to the Temple, and it being a holyday, a fast-day, there 'light, and took
+water, being invited, and down to Greenwich, to Captain Cocke's, where
+dined, he and Lord Bruncker, and Matt. Wren, Boltele, and Major Cooper,
+who is also a very pretty companion; but they all drink hard, and, after
+dinner, to gaming at cards.  So I provoked my Lord to be gone, and he and
+I to Mr. Cottle's and met Mrs. Williams (without whom he cannot stir out
+of doors) and there took coach and away home.  They carry me to London
+and set me down at the Temple, where my mind changed and I home, and to
+writing and heare my boy play on the lute, and a turne with my wife
+pleasantly in the garden by moonshine, my heart being in great peace, and
+so home to supper and to bed.  The King and Duke are to go to-morrow to
+Audly End, in order to the seeing and buying of it of my Lord Suffolke.
+
+
+
+8th.  Up betimes and to the office, where all the morning sitting and did
+discover three or four fresh instances of Sir W. Pen's old cheating
+dissembling tricks, he being as false a fellow as ever was born.  Thence
+with Sir.  W. Batten and Lord Bruncker to the White Horse in Lumbard
+Streete to dine with Captain Cocke, upon particular business of canvas to
+buy for the King, and here by chance I saw the mistresse of the house I
+have heard much of, and a very pretty woman she is indeed and her husband
+the simplest looked fellow and old that ever I saw.  After dinner I took
+coach and away to Hales's, where my wife is sitting; and, indeed, her
+face and necke, which are now finished, do so please me that I am not
+myself almost, nor was not all the night after in writing of my letters,
+in consideration of the fine picture that I shall be master of.  Thence
+home and to the office, where very late, and so home to supper and to
+bed.
+
+
+
+9th.  Up, and being ready, to the Cockpitt to make a visit to the Duke of
+Albemarle, and to my great joy find him the same man to me that [he has
+been] heretofore, which I was in great doubt of, through my negligence in
+not visiting of him a great while; and having now set all to rights
+there, I am in mighty ease in my mind and I think shall never suffer
+matters to run so far backward again as I have done of late, with
+reference to my neglecting him and Sir W. Coventry.  Thence by water down
+to Deptford, where I met my Lord Bruncker and Sir W. Batten by agreement,
+and to measuring Mr. Castle's new third-rate ship, which is to be called
+the Defyance.
+
+     [William Castell wrote to the Navy Commissioners on February 17th,
+     1665-66, to inform them that the "Defiance" had gone to Longreach,
+     and again, on February 22nd, to say that Mr. Grey had no masts large
+     enough for the new ship.  Sir William Batten on March 29th asked for
+     the consent of the Board to bring the "Defiance" into dock ("
+     Calendar of State Papers," Domestic, 1665-66, pp.  252, 262, 324).]
+
+And here I had my end in saving the King some money and getting myself
+some experience in knowing how they do measure ships.  Thence I left them
+and walked to Redriffe, and there taking water was overtaken by them in
+their boat, and so they would have me in with them to Castle's house,
+where my Lady Batten and Madam Williams were, and there dined and a deale
+of doings.  I had a good dinner and counterfeit mirthe and pleasure with
+them, but had but little, thinking how I neglected my business.  Anon,
+all home to Sir W. Batten's and there Mrs. Knipp coming we did spend the
+evening together very merry.  She and I singing, and, God forgive me!  I
+do still see that my nature is not to be quite conquered, but will esteem
+pleasure above all things, though yet in the middle of it, it has
+reluctances after my business, which is neglected by my following my
+pleasure.  However musique and women I cannot but give way to, whatever
+my business is.  They being gone I to the office a while and so home to
+supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+10th.  Up, and to the office, and there busy sitting till noon.  I find
+at home Mrs. Pierce and Knipp come to dine with me.  We were mighty
+merry; and, after dinner, I carried them and my wife out by coach to the
+New Exchange, and there I did give my valentine, Mrs. Pierce, a dozen
+payre of gloves, and a payre of silke stockings, and Knipp for company's
+sake, though my wife had, by my consent, laid out 20s. upon her the other
+day, six payre of gloves.  Thence to Hales's to have seen our pictures,
+but could not get in, he being abroad, and so to the Cakehouse hard by,
+and there sat in the coach with great pleasure, and eat some fine cakes
+and so carried them to Pierces and away home.  It is a mighty fine witty
+boy, Mrs. Pierces little boy.  Thence home and to the office, where late
+writing letters and leaving a great deale to do on Monday, I home to
+supper and to bed.  The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more
+in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and
+out of my observation that most men that do thrive in the world, do
+forget to take pleasure during the time that they are getting their
+estate, but reserve that till they have got one, and then it is too late
+for them to enjoy it with any pleasure.
+
+
+
+11th (Lord's day).  Up, and by water to White Hall, there met
+Mr. Coventry coming out, going along with the Commissioners of the
+Ordnance to the water side to take barge, they being to go down to the
+Hope.  I returned with them as far as the Tower in their barge speaking
+with Sir W. Coventry and so home and to church, and at noon dined and
+then to my chamber, where with great pleasure about one business or other
+till late, and so to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+12th.  Up betimes, and called on by abundance of people about business,
+and then away by water to Westminster, and there to the Exchequer about
+some business, and thence by coach calling at several places, to the Old
+Exchange, and there did much business, and so homeward and bought a
+silver salt for my ordinary table to use, and so home to dinner, and
+after dinner comes my uncle and aunt Wight, the latter I have not seen
+since the plague; a silly, froward, ugly woman she is.  We made mighty
+much of them, and she talks mightily of her fear of the sicknesse, and so
+a deale of tittle tattle and I left them and to my office where late, and
+so home to supper and to bed.  This day I hear my Uncle Talbot Pepys died
+the last week, and was buried.  All the news now is, that Sir Jeremy
+Smith is at Cales--[Cadiz]--with his fleete, and Mings in the Elve.--
+[Elbe]--The King is come this noon to towne from Audly End, with the
+Duke of Yorke and a fine train of gentlemen.
+
+
+
+13th.  Up betimes, and to the office, where busy sitting all the morning,
+and I begin to find a little convenience by holding up my head to Sir W.
+Pen, for he is come to be more supple.  At noon to dinner, and then to
+the office again, where mighty business, doing a great deale till
+midnight and then home to supper and to bed.  The plague encreased this
+week 29 from 28, though the total fallen from 238 to 207, which do never
+a whit please me.
+
+
+
+14th.  Up, and met by 6 o'clock in my chamber Mr. Povy (from White Hall)
+about evening reckonings between him and me, on our Tangier business, and
+at it hard till toward eight o'clock, and he then carried me in his
+chariot to White Hall, where by and by my fellow officers met me, and we
+had a meeting before the Duke.  Thence with my Lord Bruncker towards
+London, and in our way called in Covent Garden, and took in Sir John
+(formerly Dr.) Baber; who hath this humour that he will not enter into
+discourse while any stranger is in company, till he be told who he is
+that seems a stranger to him.  This he did declare openly to me, and
+asked my Lord who I was, giving this reason, that he has been
+inconvenienced by being too free in discourse till he knew who all the
+company were.  Thence to Guildhall (in our way taking in Dr. Wilkins),
+and there my Lord and I had full and large discourse with Sir Thomas
+Player, the Chamberlain of the City (a man I have much heard of for his
+credit and punctuality in the City, and on that score I had a desire to
+be made known to him), about the credit of our tallys, which are lodged
+there for security to such as should lend money thereon to the use of the
+Navy.  And I had great satisfaction therein: and the truth is, I find all
+our matters of credit to be in an ill condition.  Thence, I being in a
+little haste walked before and to the 'Change a little and then home, and
+presently to Trinity house to dinner, where Captain Cox made his Elder
+Brother's dinner.  But it seemed to me a very poor sorry dinner.  I
+having many things in my head rose, when my belly was full, though the
+dinner not half done, and home and there to do some business, and by and
+by out of doors and met Mr. Povy coming to me by appointment, but it
+being a little too late, I took a little pride in the streete not to go
+back with him, but prayed him to come another time, and I away to Kate
+Joyce's, thinking to have spoke to her husband about Pall's business, but
+a stranger, the Welsh Dr. Powell, being there I forebore and went away
+and so to Hales's, to see my wife's picture, which I like mighty well,
+and there had the pleasure to see how suddenly he draws the Heavens,
+laying a darke ground and then lightening it when and where he will.
+Thence to walk all alone in the fields behind Grayes Inne, making an end
+of reading over my dear "Faber fortunae," of my Lord Bacon's, and thence,
+it growing dark, took two or three wanton turns about the idle places and
+lanes about Drury Lane, but to no satisfaction, but a great fear of the
+plague among them, and so anon I walked by invitation to Mrs. Pierces,
+where I find much good company, that is to say, Mrs. Pierce, my wife,
+Mrs. Worshipp and her daughter, and Harris the player, and Knipp, and
+Mercer, and Mrs. Barbary Sheldon, who is come this day to spend a weeke
+with my wife; and here with musique we danced, and sung and supped, and
+then to sing and dance till past one in the morning; and much mirthe with
+Sir Anthony Apsley and one Colonell Sidney, who lodge in the house; and
+above all, they are mightily taken with Mrs. Knipp.  Hence weary and
+sleepy we broke up, and I and my company homeward by coach and to bed.
+
+
+
+15th.  Lay till it was full time to rise, it being eight o'clock, and so
+to the office and there sat till almost three o'clock and then to dinner,
+and after dinner (my wife and Mercer and Mrs. Barbary being gone to
+Hales's before), I and my cozen Anthony Joyce, who come on purpose to
+dinner with me, and he and I to discourse of our proposition of marriage
+between Pall and Harman, and upon discourse he and I to Harman's house
+and took him to a taverne hard by, and we to discourse of our business,
+and I offered L500, and he declares most ingenuously that his trade is
+not to be trusted on, that he however needs no money, but would have her
+money bestowed on her, which I like well, he saying that he would
+adventure 2 or L300 with her.  I like him as a most good-natured, and
+discreet man, and, I believe, very cunning.  We come to this conclusion
+for us to meete one another the next weeke, and then we hope to come to
+some end, for I did declare myself well satisfied with the match.  Thence
+to Hales's, where I met my wife and people; and do find the picture,
+above all things, a most pretty picture, and mighty like my wife; and I
+asked him his price: he says L14, and the truth is, I think he do deserve
+it.  Thence toward London and home, and I to the office, where I did
+much, and betimes to bed, having had of late so little sleep, and there
+slept
+
+
+
+16th.  Till 7 this morning.  Up and all the morning about the
+Victualler's business, passing his account.  At noon to the 'Change, and
+did several businesses, and thence to the Crowne behind the 'Change and
+dined with my Lord Bruncker and Captain Cocke and Fenn, and Madam
+Williams, who without question must be my Lord's wife, and else she could
+not follow him wherever he goes and kisse and use him publiquely as she
+do.  Thence to the office, where Sir W. Pen and I made an end of the
+Victualler's business, and thence abroad about several businesses, and so
+in the evening back again, and anon called on by Mr. Povy, and he and I
+staid together in my chamber till 12 at night ending our reckonings and
+giving him tallys for all I was to pay him and so parted, and I to make
+good my Journall for two or three days, and begun it till I come to the
+other side, where I have scratched so much, for, for want of sleep, I
+begun to write idle and from the purpose.  So forced to breake off, and
+to bed.--[There are several erasures in the original MS.]
+
+
+
+17th.  Up, and to finish my Journall, which I had not sense enough the
+last night to make an end of, and thence to the office, where very busy
+all the morning.  At noon home to dinner and presently with my wife out
+to Hales's, where I am still infinitely pleased with my wife's picture.
+I paid him L14 for it, and 25s. for the frame, and I think it is not a
+whit too deare for so good a picture.  It is not yet quite finished and
+dry, so as to be fit to bring home yet.  This day I begun to sit, and he
+will make me, I think, a very fine picture.  He promises it shall be as
+good as my wife's, and I sit to have it full of shadows, and do almost
+break my neck looking over my shoulder to make the posture for him to
+work by.  Thence home and to the office, and so home having a great cold,
+and so my wife and Mrs. Barbary have very great ones, we are at a loss
+how we all come by it together, so to bed, drinking butter-ale.  This day
+my W. Hewer comes from Portsmouth and gives me an instance of another
+piece of knavery of Sir W. Pen, who wrote to Commissioner Middleton, that
+it was my negligence the other day he was not acquainted, as the board
+directed, with our clerks coming down to the pay.  But I need no new
+arguments to teach me that he is a false rogue to me and all the world
+besides.
+
+
+
+18th (Lord's day).  Up and my cold better, so to church, and then home to
+dinner, and so walked out to St. James's Church, thinking to have seen
+faire Mrs. Butler, but could not, she not being there, nor, I believe,
+lives thereabouts now.  So walked to Westminster, very fine fair dry
+weather, but all cry out for lack of rain.  To Herbert's and drank, and
+thence to Mrs. Martin's, and did what I would with her; her husband going
+for some wine for us.  The poor man I do think would take pains if I can
+get him a purser's place, which I will endeavour.  She tells me as a
+secret that Betty Howlet of the Hall, my little sweetheart, that I used
+to call my second wife, is married to a younger son of Mr. Michell's (his
+elder brother, who should have had her, being dead this plague), at which
+I am glad, and that they are to live nearer me in Thames Streete, by the
+Old Swan.  Thence by coach home and to my chamber about some accounts,
+and so to bed.  Sir Christopher Mings is come home from Hambro without
+anything done, saving bringing home some pipestaves for us.
+
+
+
+19th.  Up betimes and upon a meeting extraordinary at the office most of
+the morning with Lord Bruncker, Sir W. Coventry, and Sir W. Pen, upon the
+business of the accounts.  Where now we have got almost as much as we
+would have we begin to lay all on the Controller, and I fear he will be
+run down with it, for he is every day less and less capable of doing
+business.  Thence with my Lord Bruncker, Sir W. Coventry to the ticket
+office, to see in what little order things are there, and there it is a
+shame to see how the King is served.  Thence to the Chamberlain of
+London, and satisfy ourselves more particularly how much credit we have
+there, which proves very little.  Thence to Sir Robert Long's, absent.
+About much the same business, but have not the satisfaction we would have
+there neither.  So Sir W. Coventry parted, and my Lord and I to Mrs.
+Williams's, and there I saw her closett, where indeed a great many fine
+things there are, but the woman I hate.  Here we dined, and Sir J. Minnes
+come to us, and after dinner we walked to the King's play-house, all in
+dirt, they being altering of the stage to make it wider.  But God knows
+when they will begin to act again; but my business here was to see the
+inside of the stage and all the tiring-rooms and machines; and, indeed,
+it was a sight worthy seeing.  But to see their clothes, and the various
+sorts, and what a mixture of things there was; here a wooden-leg, there a
+ruff, here a hobbyhorse, there a crown, would make a man split himself to
+see with laughing; and particularly Lacy's wardrobe, and Shotrell's. But
+then again, to think how fine they show on the stage by candle-light, and
+how poor things they are to look now too near hand, is not pleasant at
+all.  The machines are fine, and the paintings very pretty.  Thence
+mightily satisfied in my curiosity I away with my Lord to see him at her
+house again, and so take leave and by coach home and to the office, and
+thence sent for to Sir G. Carteret by and by to the Broad Streete, where
+he and I walked two or three hours till it was quite darke in his gallery
+talking of his affairs, wherein I assure him all will do well, and did
+give him (with great liberty, which he accepted kindly) my advice to deny
+the Board nothing they would aske about his accounts, but rather call
+upon them to know whether there was anything more they desired, or was
+wanting.  But our great discourse and serious reflections was upon the
+bad state of the kingdom in general, through want of money and good
+conduct, which we fear will undo all.  Thence mightily satisfied with
+this good fortune of this discourse with him I home, and there walked in
+the darke till 10 o'clock at night in the garden with Sir W. Warren,
+talking of many things belonging to us particularly, and I hope to get
+something considerably by him before the year be over.  He gives me good
+advice of circumspection in my place, which I am now in great mind to
+improve; for I think our office stands on very ticklish terms, the
+Parliament likely to sit shortly and likely to be asked more money, and
+we able to give a very bad account of the expence of what we have done
+with what they did give before.  Besides, the turning out the prize
+officers may be an example for the King giving us up to the Parliament's
+pleasure as easily, for we deserve it as much.  Besides, Sir G. Carteret
+did tell me tonight how my Lord Bruncker himself, whose good-will I could
+have depended as much on as any, did himself to him take notice of the
+many places I have; and though I was a painful man, yet the Navy was
+enough for any man to go through with in his owne single place there,
+which much troubles me, and shall yet provoke me to more and more care
+and diligence than ever.  Thence home to supper, where I find my wife and
+Mrs. Barbary with great colds, as I also at this time have.  This day by
+letter from my father he propounds a match in the country for Pall, which
+pleased me well, of one that hath seven score and odd pounds land per
+annum in possession, and expects L1000 in money by the death of an old
+aunt.  He hath neither father, mother, sister, nor brother, but demands
+L600 down, and L100 on the birth of first child, which I had some
+inclination to stretch to.  He is kinsman to, and lives with, Mr.
+Phillips, but my wife tells me he is a drunken, ill-favoured, ill-bred
+country fellow, which sets me off of it again, and I will go on with
+Harman.  So after supper to bed.
+
+
+
+20th.  Up and to the office, where busy all the morning.  At noon dined
+in haste, and so my wife, Mrs. Barbary, Mercer, and I by coach to
+Hales's, where I find my wife's picture now perfectly finished in all
+respects, and a beautiful picture it is, as almost I ever saw.  I sat
+again, and had a great deale done, but, whatever the matter is, I do not
+fancy that it has the ayre of my face, though it will be a very fine
+picture.  Thence home and to my business, being post night, and so home
+to supper and to, bed.
+
+
+
+21st.  Up betimes, and first by coach to my Lord Generall to visitt him,
+and then to the Duke of Yorke, where we all met and did our usual
+business with him; but, Lord! how everything is yielded to presently,
+even by Sir W. Coventry, that is propounded by the Duke, as now to have
+Troutbecke, his old surgeon, and intended to go Surgeon-General of the
+fleete, to go Physician-General of the fleete, of which there never was
+any precedent in the world, and he for that to have L20 per month.
+Thence with Lord Bruncker to Sir Robert Long, whom we found in his
+closett, and after some discourse of business he fell to discourse at
+large and pleasant, and among other things told us of the plenty of
+partridges in France, where he says the King of France and his company
+killed with their guns, in the plain de Versailles, 300 and odd
+partridges at one bout.  Thence I to the Excise Office behind the
+'Change, and there find our business of our tallys in great disorder as
+to payment, and thereupon do take a resolution of thinking how to remedy
+it, as soon as I can.  Thence home, and there met Sir W. Warren, and
+after I had eat a bit of victuals (he staying in the office) he and I to
+White Hall.  He to look after the business of the prize ships which we
+are endeavouring to buy, and hope to get money by them.  So I to London
+by coach and to Gresham College, where I staid half an houre, and so away
+home to my office, and there walking late alone in the darke in the
+garden with Sir W. Warren, who tells me that at the Committee of the
+Lords for the prizes to-day, there passed very high words between my Lord
+Ashly and Sir W. Coventry, about our business of the prize ships.  And
+that my Lord Ashly did snuff and talk as high to him, as he used to do to
+any ordinary seaman.  And that Sir W. Coventry did take it very quietly,
+but yet for all did speak his mind soberly and with reason, and went
+away, saying, he had done his duty therein, and so left it to them,
+whether they would let so many ships go for masts or not: Here he and I
+talked of 1,000 businesses, all profitable discourse, and late parted,
+and I home to supper and to bed, troubled a little at a letter from my
+father, telling me how [he] is like to be sued for a debt of Tom's, by
+Smith, the mercer.
+
+
+
+22nd.  Up, and to the office all the morning.  At noon my wife being gone
+to her father's I dined with Sir W. Batten, he inviting me.  After dinner
+to my office close, and did very much business, and so late home to
+supper and to bed.  The plague increased four this week, which troubles
+me, though but one in the whole.
+
+
+
+23rd.  Up, and going out of my dressing-room, when ready to go down
+stairs, I spied little Mrs. Tooker, my pretty little girle, which, it
+seems, did come yesterday to our house to stay a little while with us,
+but I did not know of it till now.  I was glad of her coming, she being a
+very pretty child, and now grown almost a woman.  I out by six o'clock by
+appointment to Hales's, where we fell to my picture presently very hard,
+and it comes on a very fine picture, and very merry, pleasant discourse
+we had all the morning while he was painting.  Anon comes my wife and
+Mercer and little Tooker, and having done with me we all to a picture
+drawer's hard by, Hales carrying me to see some landskipps of a man's
+doing.  But I do not [like] any of them, save only a piece of fruit,
+which indeed was very fine.  Thence I to Westminster, to the Chequer,
+about a little business, and then to the Swan, and there sent for a bit
+of meat and dined; and after dinner had opportunity of being pleased with
+Sarah; and so away to Westminster Hall, and there Mrs. Michell tells me
+with great joy how little Betty Howlett is married to her young son
+Michell, which is a pretty odd thing, that he should so soon succeed in
+the match to his elder brother that died of the plague, and to the house
+and trade intended for him, and more they say that the girle has
+heretofore said that she did love this little one more than the other
+brother that was intended her all along.  I am mighty glad of this match,
+and more that they are likely to live near me in Thames Streete, where I
+may see Betty now and then, whom I from a girle did use to call my second
+wife, and mighty pretty she is.  Thence by coach to Anthony Joyce to
+receive Harman's answer, which did trouble me to receive, for he now
+demands L800, whereas he never made exception at the portion, but
+accepted of L500.  This I do not like; but, however, I cannot much blame
+the man, if he thinks he can get more of another than of me.  So home and
+hard to my business at the office, where much business, and so home to
+supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+24th.  Up and to the office, where all the morning.  At noon home to
+dinner, where Anthony Joyce, and I did give my final answer, I would give
+but L500 with my sister, and did show him the good offer made us in the
+country, to which I did now more and more incline, and intend to pursue
+that.  After dinner I to White Hall to a Committee for Tangier, where the
+Duke of Yorke was, and I acquitted myself well in what I had to do.
+After the Committee up, I had occasion to follow the Duke into his
+lodgings, into a chamber where the Duchesse was sitting to have her
+picture drawn by Lilly, who was there at work.  But I was well pleased to
+see that there was nothing near so much resemblance of her face in his
+work, which is now the second, if not the third time, as there was of my
+wife's at the very first time.  Nor do I think at last it can be like,
+the lines not being in proportion to those of her face.  So home, and to
+the office, where late, and so to bed.
+
+
+
+25th (Lady day and Sunday).  Up, and to my chamber in my gowne all the
+morning about settling my papers there.  At noon to dinner, where my
+wife's brother, whom I sent for to offer making him a Muster-Master and
+send to sea, which the poore man likes well of and will go, and it will
+be a good preferment to him, only hazardous.  I hope he will prove a good
+discreet man.  After dinner to my papers and Tangier accounts again till
+supper, and after supper again to them, but by my mixing them, I know not
+how, my private and publique accounts, it makes me mad to see how hard it
+is to bring them to be understood, and my head is confounded, that though
+I did sweare to sit up till one o'clock upon them, yet, I fear, it will
+be to no purpose, for I cannot understand what I do or have been doing of
+them to-day.
+
+
+
+26th.  Up, and a meeting extraordinary there was of Sir W. Coventry, Lord
+Bruncker, and myself, about the business of settling the ticket office,
+where infinite room is left for abusing the King in the wages of seamen.
+Our [meeting] being done, my Lord Bruncker and I to the Tower, to see the
+famous engraver, to get him to grave a seale for the office.  And did see
+some of the finest pieces of work in embossed work, that ever I did see
+in my life, for fineness and smallness of the images thereon, and I will
+carry my wife thither to shew them her.  Here I also did see bars of gold
+melting, which was a fine sight.  So with my Lord to the Pope's Head
+Taverne in Lumbard Streete to dine by appointment with Captain Taylor,
+whither Sir W. Coventry come to us, and were mighty merry, and I find
+reason to honour him every day more and more.  Thence alone to Broade
+Street to Sir G. Carteret by his desire to confer with him, who is I find
+in great pain about the business of the office, and not a little, I
+believe, in fear of falling there, Sir W. Coventry having so great a
+pique against him, and herein I first learn an eminent instance how great
+a man this day, that nobody would think could be shaken, is the next
+overthrown, dashed out of countenance, and every small thing of
+irregularity in his business taken notice of, where nobody the other day
+durst cast an eye upon them, and next I see that he that the other day
+nobody durst come near is now as supple as a spaniel, and sends and
+speaks to me with great submission, and readily hears to advice.  Thence
+home to the office, where busy late, and so home a little to my accounts
+publique and private, but could not get myself rightly to know how to
+dispose of them in order to passing.
+
+
+
+27th.  All the morning at the office busy.  At noon dined at home, Mr.
+Cooke, our old acquaintance at my Lord Sandwich's, come to see and dine
+with me, but I quite out of humour, having many other and better things
+to thinke of.  Thence to the office to settle my people's worke and then
+home to my publique accounts of Tangier, which it is strange by meddling
+with evening reckonings with Mr. Povy lately how I myself am become
+intangled therein, so that after all I could do, ready to breake my head
+and brains, I thought of another way, though not so perfect, yet the only
+one which this account is capable of.  Upon this latter I sat up till
+past two in the morning and then to bed.
+
+
+
+28th.  Up, and with Creed, who come hither betimes to speake with me
+about his accounts, to White Hall by water, mighty merry in discourse,
+though I had been very little troubled with him, or did countenance it,
+having now, blessed be God!  a great deale of good business to mind to
+better purpose than chatting with him.  Waited on the Duke, after that
+walked with Sir W. Clerke into St. James's Parke, and by and by met with
+Mr. Hayes, Prince Rupert's Secretary, who are mighty, both, briske
+blades, but I fear they promise themselves more than they expect.  Thence
+to the Cockpitt, and dined with a great deal of company at the Duke of
+Albemarle's, and a bad and dirty, nasty dinner.  So by coach to Hales's,
+and there sat again, and it is become mighty like.  Hither come my wife
+and Mercer brought by Mrs. Pierce and Knipp, we were mighty merry and the
+picture goes on the better for it.  Thence set them down at Pierces, and
+we home, where busy and at my chamber till 12 at night, and so to bed.
+This night, I am told, the Queene of Portugall, the mother to our Queene,
+is lately dead, and newes brought of it hither this day.
+
+     [Donna Luiza, the Queen Regent of Portugal.  She was daughter of the
+     Duke de Medina Sidonia and widow of Juan IV. The Court wore the
+     deepest mourning on this occasion.  The ladies were directed to wear
+     their hair plain, and to appear without spots on their faces, the
+     disfiguring fashion of patching having just been introduced.--
+     Strickland s Queens of England, vol. viii., p. 362.]
+
+
+
+29th.  All the morning hard at the office.  At noon dined and then out to
+Lumbard Streete, to look after the getting of some money that is lodged
+there of mine in Viner's hands, I having no mind to have it lie there
+longer.  So back again and to the office, where and at home about
+publique and private business and accounts till past 12 at night, and so
+to bed.  This day, poor Jane, my old, little Jane, came to us again, to
+my wife's and my great content, and we hope to take mighty pleasure in
+her, she having all the marks and qualities of a good and loving and
+honest servant, she coming by force away from the other place, where she
+hath lived ever since she went from us, and at our desire, her late
+mistresse having used all the stratagems she could to keepe her.
+
+
+
+30th.  My wife and I mighty pleased with Jane's coming to us again.  Up,
+and away goes Alce, our cooke-mayde, a good servant, whom we loved and
+did well by her, and she an excellent servant, but would not bear being
+told of any faulte in the fewest and kindest words and would go away of
+her owne accord, after having given her mistresse warning fickly for a
+quarter of a yeare together.  So we shall take another girle and make
+little Jane our cook, at least, make a trial of it.  Up, and after much
+business I out to Lumbard Streete, and there received L2200 and brought
+it home; and, contrary to expectation, received L35 for the use of L2000
+of it [for] a quarter of a year, where it hath produced me this profit,
+and hath been a convenience to me as to care and security of my house,
+and demandable at two days' warning, as this hath been.  This morning Sir
+W. Warren come to me a second time about having L2000 of me upon his
+bills on the Act to enable him to pay for the ships he is buying, wherein
+I shall have considerable profit.  I am loth to do it, but yet speaking
+with Colvill I do not see but I shall be able to do it and get money by
+it too.  Thence home and eat one mouthful, and so to Hales's, and there
+sat till almost quite darke upon working my gowne, which I hired to be
+drawn in; an Indian gowne, and I do see all the reason to expect a most
+excellent picture of it.  So home and to my private accounts in my
+chamber till past one in the morning, and so to bed, with my head full of
+thoughts for my evening of all my accounts tomorrow, the latter end of
+the month, in which God give me good issue, for I never was in such a
+confusion in my life and that in great sums.
+
+
+
+31st All the morning at the office busy.  At noon to dinner, and thence
+to the office and did my business there as soon as I could, and then home
+and to my accounts, where very late at them, but, Lord!  what a deale of
+do I have to understand any part of them, and in short do what I could,
+I could not come to any understanding of them, but after I had throughly
+wearied myself, I was forced to go to bed and leave them much against my
+will and vowe too, but I hope God will forgive me, for I have sat up
+these four nights till past twelve at night to master them, but cannot.
+Thus ends this month, with my head and mind mighty full and disquiett
+because of my accounts, which I have let go too long, and confounded my
+publique with my private that I cannot come to any liquidating of them.
+However, I do see that I must be grown richer than I was by a good deale
+last month.  Busy also I am in thoughts for a husband for my sister, and
+to that end my wife and I have determined that she shall presently go
+into the country to my father and mother, and consider of a proffer made
+them for her in the country, which, if she likes, shall go forward.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
+                                  APRIL
+                                  1666
+
+
+April 1st (Lord's day).  Up and abroad, and by coach to Charing Cross, to
+wait on Sir Philip Howard; whom I found in bed: and he do receive me very
+civilly.  My request was about suffering my wife's brother to go to sea,
+and to save his pay in the Duke's guards; which after a little difficulty
+he did with great respect agree to.  I find him a very fine-spoken
+gentleman, and one of great parts, and very courteous.  Much pleased with
+this visit I to White Hall, where I met Sir G. Downing, and to discourse
+with him an houre about the Exchequer payments upon the late Act, and
+informed myself of him thoroughly in my safety in lending L2000 to Sir W.
+Warren, upon an order of his upon the Exchequer for L2602 and I do
+purpose to do it.  Thence meeting Dr. Allen, the physician, he and I and
+another walked in the Parke, a most pleasant warm day, and to the
+Queene's chappell; where I do not so dislike the musique.  Here I saw on
+a post an invitation to all good Catholiques to pray for the soul of such
+a one departed this life.  The Queene, I hear, do not yet hear of the
+death of her mother, she being in a course of physique, that they dare
+not tell it her.  At noon by coach home, and there by invitation met my
+uncle and aunt Wight and their cozen Mary, and dined with me and very
+merry.  After dinner my uncle and I abroad by coach to White Hall, up and
+down the house, and I did some business and thence with him and a
+gentleman he met with to my Lord Chancellor's new house, and there viewed
+it again and again and up to the top and I like it as well as ever and
+think it a most noble house.  So all up and down my Lord St. Albans his
+new building and market-house, and the taverne under the market-house,
+looking to and again into every place of building, and so away and took
+coach and home, where to my accounts, and was at them till I could not
+hold open my eyes, and so to bed.  I this afternoon made a visit to my
+Lady Carteret, whom I understood newly come to towne; and she took it
+mighty kindly, but I see her face and heart are dejected from the
+condition her husband's matters stand in.  But I hope they will do all
+well enough.  And I do comfort her as much as I can, for she is a noble
+lady.
+
+
+
+2nd.  Up, and to the office and thence with Mr. Gawden to Guildhall to
+see the bills and tallys there in the chamber (and by the way in the
+streete his new coach broke and we fain to take an old hackney).  Thence
+to the Exchequer again to inform myself of some other points in the new
+Act in order to my lending Sir W. Warren L2000 upon an order of his upon
+the Act, which they all encourage me to.  There walking with Mr. Gawden
+in Westminster Hall, he and I to talke from one business to another and
+at last to the marriage of his daughter.  He told me the story of Creed's
+pretences to his daughter, and how he would not believe but she loved
+him, while his daughter was in great passion on the other hand against
+him.  Thence to talke of his son Benjamin; and I propounded a match for
+him, and at last named my sister, which he embraces heartily, and
+speaking of the lowness of her portion, that it would be less than L1000,
+he tells me if every thing else agrees, he will out of what he means to
+give me yearly, make a portion for her shall cost me nothing more than I
+intend freely.  This did mightily rejoice me and full of it did go with
+him to London to the 'Change; and there did much business and at the
+Coffee-house with Sir W. Warren, who very wisely did shew me that my
+matching my sister with Mr. Gawden would undo me in all my places,
+everybody suspecting me in all I do; and I shall neither be able to serve
+him, nor free myself from imputation of being of his faction, while I am
+placed for his severest check.  I was convinced that it would be for
+neither of our interests to make this alliance, and so am quite off of it
+again, but with great satisfaction in the motion.  Thence to the Crowne
+tavern behind the Exchange to meet with Cocke and Fenn and did so, and
+dined with them, and after dinner had the intent of our meeting, which
+was some private discourse with Fenn, telling him what I hear and think
+of his business, which he takes very kindly and says he will look about
+him.  It was about his giving of ill language and answers to people that
+come to him about money and some other particulars.  This morning Mrs.
+Barbary and little Mrs. Tooker went away homeward.  Thence my wife by
+coach calling me at White Hall to visit my Lady Carteret, and she was not
+within.  So to Westminster Hall, where I purposely tooke my wife well
+dressed into the Hall to see and be seen; and, among others, [met]
+Howlet's daughter, who is newly married, and is she I call wife, and one
+I love mightily.  So to Broad Streete and there met my Lady and Sir G.
+Carteret, and sat and talked with them a good while and so home, and to
+my accounts which I cannot get through with.  But at it till I grew
+drowsy, and so to bed mightily vexed that I can come to no better issue
+in my accounts.
+
+
+
+3rd.  Up, and Sir W. Warren with me betimes and signed a bond, and
+assigned his order on the Exchequer to a blank for me to fill and I did
+deliver him L1900.  The truth is, it is a great venture to venture so
+much on the Act, but thereby I hedge in L300 gift for my service about
+some ships that he hath bought, prizes, and good interest besides, and
+his bond to repay me the money at six weeks' warning.  So to the office,
+where busy all the morning.  At noon home to dinner, and there my brother
+Balty dined with me and my wife, who is become a good serious man, and I
+hope to do him good being sending him a Muster-Master on one of the
+squadrons of the fleete.  After dinner and he gone I to my accounts hard
+all the afternoon till it was quite darke, and I thank God I do come to
+bring them very fairly to make me worth L5,000 stocke in the world, which
+is a great mercy to me.  Though I am a little troubled to find L50
+difference between the particular account I make to myself of my profits
+and loss in each month and the account which I raise from my acquittances
+and money which I have at the end of every month in my chest and other
+men's hands.  However I do well believe that I am effectually L5,000, the
+greatest sum I ever was in my life yet, and this day I have as I have
+said before agreed with Sir W. Warren and got of him L300 gift.  At night
+a while to the office and then home and supped and to my accounts again
+till I was ready to sleepe, there being no pleasure to handle them, if
+they are not kept in good order.  So to bed.
+
+
+
+4th.  Up, and with Sir W. Pen in his coach to White Hall, in his way
+talking simply and fondly as he used to do, but I find myself to slight
+him and his simple talke, I thank God, and that my condition will enable
+me to do it.  Thence, after doing our business with the Duke of Yorke,
+with Captain Cocke home to the 'Change in his coach.  He promises me
+presently a dozen of silver salts, and proposes a business for which he
+hath promised Mrs. Williams for my Lord Bruncker a set of plate shall
+cost him L500 and me the like, which will be a good business indeed.
+After done several businesses at the 'Change I home, and being washing
+day dined upon cold meate, and so abroad by coach to Hales's, and there
+sat till night, mightily pleased with my picture, which is now almost
+finished.  So by coach home, it being the fast day and to my chamber and
+so after supper to bed, consulting how to send my wife into the country
+to advise about Pall's marriage, which I much desire, and my father too,
+and two or three offers are now in hand.
+
+
+
+5th.  Up, and before office time to Lumbard Streete, and there at Viner's
+was shewn the silver plates, made for Captain Cocke to present my Lord
+Bruncker; and I chose a dozen of the same weight to be bespoke for
+myself, which he told me yesterday he would give me on the same occasion.
+To the office, where the falsenesse and impertinencies of Sir W. Pen
+would make a man mad to think of.  At noon would have avoided, but could
+not, dining with my Lord Bruncker and his mistresse with Captain Cocke at
+the Sun Taverne in Fish Streete, where a good dinner, but the woman do
+tire me, and indeed how simply my Lord Bruncker, who is otherwise a wise
+man, do proceed at the table in serving of Cocke, without any means of
+understanding in his proposal, or defence when proposed, would make a man
+think him a foole.  After dinner home, where I find my wife hath on a
+sudden, upon notice of a coach going away to-morrow, taken a resolution
+of going in it to Brampton, we having lately thought it fit for her to go
+to satisfy herself and me in the nature of the fellow that is there
+proposed to my sister.  So she to fit herself for her journey and I to
+the office all the afternoon till late, and so home and late putting
+notes to "It is decreed, nor shall thy fate, &c." and then to bed.  The
+plague is, to our great grief, encreased nine this week, though decreased
+a few in the total.  And this encrease runs through many parishes, which
+makes us much fear the next year.
+
+
+
+6th.  Up mighty betimes upon my wife's going this day toward Brampton.  I
+could not go to the coach with her, but W. Hewer did and hath leave from
+me to go the whole day's journey with her.  All the morning upon business
+at the office, and at noon dined, and Mrs. Hunt coming lent her L5 on her
+occasions and so carried her to Axe Yard end at Westminster and there
+left her, a good and understanding woman, and her husband I perceive
+thrives mightily in his business of the Excise.  Thence to Mr. Hales and
+there sat, and my picture almost finished, which by the word of Mr. and
+Mrs. Pierce (who come in accidently) is mighty like, and I am sure I am
+mightily pleased both in the thing and the posture.  Thence with them
+home a little, and so to White Hall and there met by agreement with Sir
+Stephen Fox and Mr. Ashburnham, and discoursed the business of our Excise
+tallys; the former being Treasurer of the guards, and the other Cofferer
+of the King's household.  I benefitted much by their discourse.  We come
+to no great conclusion upon our discourse, but parted, and I home, where
+all things, methinks, melancholy in the absence of my wife.  This day
+great newes of the Swedes declaring for us against the Dutch, and, so far
+as that, I believe it.  After a little supper to bed.
+
+
+
+7th.  Lay pretty long to-day, lying alone and thinking of several
+businesses.  So up to the office and there till noon.  Thence with my
+Lord Bruncker home by coach to Mrs. Williams's, where Bab. Allen and Dr.
+Charleton dined.  Bab and I sang and were mighty merry as we could be
+there, where the rest of the company did not overplease.  Thence took her
+by coach to Hales's, and there find Mrs. Pierce and her boy and Mary.
+She had done sitting the first time, and indeed her face is mighty like
+at first dash.  Thence took them to the cakehouse, and there called in
+the coach for cakes and drank, and thence I carried them to my Lord
+Chancellor's new house to shew them that, and all mightily pleased,
+thence set each down at home, and so I home to the office, where about
+ten of the clock W. Hewer comes to me to tell me that he has left my wife
+well this morning at Bugden, which was great riding, and brings me a
+letter from her.  She is very well got thither, of which I am heartily
+glad.  After writing several letters, I home to supper and to bed.  The
+Parliament of which I was afraid of their calling us of the Navy to an
+account of the expense of money and stores and wherein we were so little
+ready to give them a good answer [will soon meet].  The Bishop of
+Munster, every body says, is coming to peace with the Dutch, we having
+not supplied him with the money promised him.
+
+
+
+8th (Lord's day).  Up, and was in great trouble how to get a passage to
+White Hall, it raining, and no coach to be had.  So I walked to the Old
+Swan, and there got a scull.  To the Duke of Yorke, where we all met to
+hear the debate between Sir Thomas Allen and Mr. Wayth; the former
+complaining of the latter's ill usage of him at the late pay of his ship.
+But a very sorry poor occasion he had for it.  The Duke did determine it
+with great judgement, chiding both, but encouraging Wayth to continue to
+be a check to all captains in any thing to the King's right.  And,
+indeed, I never did see the Duke do any thing more in order, nor with
+more judgement than he did pass the verdict in this business.  The Court
+full this morning of the newes of Tom Cheffin's death, the King's
+closett-keeper.  He was well last night as ever, flaying at tables in the
+house, and not very ill this morning at six o'clock, yet dead before
+seven: they think, of an imposthume in his breast.  But it looks
+fearfully among people nowadays, the plague, as we hear, encreasing every
+where again.  To the Chappell, but could not get in to hear well.  But I
+had the pleasure once in my life to see an Archbishop (this was of Yorke)
+in a pulpit.  Then at a loss how to get home to dinner, having promised
+to carry Mrs. Hunt thither.  At last got my Lord Hinchingbroke's coach,
+he staying at Court; and so took her up in Axe-yard, and home and dined.
+And good discourse of the old matters of the Protector and his family,
+she having a relation to them.  The Protector
+
+     [Richard Cromwell subsequently returned to England, and resided in
+     strict privacy at Cheshunt for some years before his death in 1712]
+
+lives in France: spends about L500 per annum.  Thence carried her home
+again and then to Court and walked over to St. James's Chappell, thinking
+to have heard a Jesuite preach, but come too late.  So got a hackney and
+home, and there to business.  At night had Mercer comb my head and so to
+supper, sing a psalm, and to bed.
+
+
+
+9th.  Up betimes, and with my Joyner begun the making of the window in my
+boy's chamber bigger, purposing it shall be a roome to eat and for having
+musique in.  To the office, where a meeting upon extraordinary business,
+at noon to the 'Change about more, and then home with Creed and dined,
+and then with him to the Committee of Tangier, where I got two or three
+things done I had a mind to of convenience to me.  Thence by coach to
+Mrs. Pierce's, and with her and Knipp and Mrs. Pierce's boy and girle
+abroad, thinking to have been merry at Chelsey; but being come almost to
+the house by coach near the waterside, a house alone, I think the Swan,
+a gentleman walking by called to us to tell us that the house was shut up
+of the sicknesse.  So we with great affright turned back, being holden to
+the gentleman; and went away (I for my part in great disorder) for
+Kensington, and there I spent about 30s. upon the jades with great
+pleasure, and we sang finely and staid till about eight at night, the
+night coming on apace and so set them down at Pierce's, and so away home,
+where awhile with Sir W. Warren about business, and then to bed,
+
+
+
+10th.  Up betimes, and many people to me about business.  To the office
+and there sat till noon, and then home and dined, and to the office again
+all the afternoon, where we sat all, the first time of our resolution to
+sit both forenoons and afternoons.  Much business at night and then home,
+and though late did see some work done by the plasterer to my new window
+in the boy's chamber plastered.  Then to supper, and after having my head
+combed by the little girle to bed.  Bad news that the plague is decreased
+in the general again and two increased in the sickness.
+
+
+
+11th.  To White Hall, having first set my people to worke about setting
+me rails upon the leads of my wife's closett, a thing I have long
+designed, but never had a fit opportunity till now.  After having done
+with the Duke of Yorke, I to Hales's, where there was nothing found to be
+done more to my picture, but the musique, which now pleases me mightily,
+it being painted true.  Thence home, and after dinner to Gresham College,
+where a great deal of do and formality in choosing of the Council and
+Officers.  I had three votes to be of the Council, who am but a stranger,
+nor expected any.  So my Lord Bruncker being confirmed President I home,
+where I find to my great content my rails up upon my leads.  To the
+office and did a little business, and then home and did a great jobb at
+my Tangier accounts, which I find are mighty apt to run into confusion,
+my head also being too full of other businesses and pleasures.  This noon
+Bagwell's wife come to me to the office, after her being long at
+Portsmouth.  After supper, and past 12 at night to bed.
+
+
+
+12th.  Up and to the office, where all the morning.  At noon dined at
+home and so to my office again, and taking a turne in the garden my Lady
+Pen comes to me and takes me into her house, where I find her daughter
+and a pretty lady of her acquaintance, one Mrs. Lowder, sister, I
+suppose, of her servant Lowder's, with whom I, notwithstanding all my
+resolution to follow business close this afternoon, did stay talking and
+playing the foole almost all the afternoon, and there saw two or three
+foolish sorry pictures of her doing, but very ridiculous compared to what
+my wife do.  She grows mighty homely and looks old.  Thence ashamed at
+myself for this losse of time, yet not able to leave it, I to the office,
+where my Lord Bruncker come; and he and I had a little fray, he being, I
+find, a very peevish man, if he be denied what he expects, and very
+simple in his argument in this business (about signing a warrant for
+paying Sir Thos. Allen L1000 out of the groats); but we were pretty good
+friends before we parted, and so we broke up and I to the writing my
+letters by the post, and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+13th.  Up, being called up by my wife's brother, for whom I have got a
+commission from the Duke of Yorke for Muster-Master of one of the
+divisions, of which Harman is Rere-Admirall, of which I am glad as well
+as he.  After I had acquainted him with it, and discoursed a little of
+it, I went forth and took him with me by coach to the Duke of Albemarle,
+who being not up, I took a walk with Balty into the Parke, and to the
+Queene's Chappell, it being Good Friday, where people were all upon their
+knees very silent; but, it seems, no masse this day.  So back and waited
+on the Duke and received some commands of his, and so by coach to Mr.
+Hales's, where it is pretty strange to see that his second doing, I mean
+the second time of her sitting, is less like Mrs. Pierce than the first,
+and yet I am confident will be most like her, for he is so curious that I
+do not see how it is possible for him to mistake.  Here he and I
+presently resolved of going to White Hall, to spend an houre in the
+galleries there among the pictures, and we did so to my great
+satisfaction, he shewing me the difference in the payntings, and when I
+come more and more to distinguish and observe the workmanship, I do not
+find so many good things as I thought there was, but yet great difference
+between the works of some and others; and, while my head and judgment was
+full of these, I would go back again to his house to see his pictures,
+and indeed, though, I think, at first sight some difference do open, yet
+very inconsiderably but that I may judge his to be very good pictures.
+Here we fell into discourse of my picture, and I am for his putting out
+the Landskipp, though he says it is very well done, yet I do judge it
+will be best without it, and so it shall be put out, and be made a plain
+sky like my wife's picture, which will be very noble.  Thence called upon
+an old woman in Pannier Ally to agree for ruling of some paper for me and
+she will do it pretty cheap.  Here I found her have a very comely black
+mayde to her servant, which I liked very well.  So home to dinner and to
+see my joiner do the bench upon my leads to my great content.  After
+dinner I abroad to carry paper to my old woman, and so to Westminster
+Hall, and there beyond my intention or design did see and speak with
+Betty Howlett, at her father's still, and it seems they carry her to her
+own house to begin the world with her young husband on Monday next,
+Easter Monday.  I please myself with the thoughts of her neighbourhood,
+for I love the girl mightily.  Thence home, and thither comes Mr. Houblon
+and a brother, with whom I evened for the charter parties of their ships
+for Tangier, and paid them the third advance on their freight to full
+satisfaction, and so, they being gone, comes Creed and with him till past
+one in the morning, evening his accounts till my head aked and I was fit
+for nothing, however, coming at last luckily to see through and settle
+all to my mind, it did please me mightily, and so with my mind at rest to
+bed, and he with me and hard to sleep.
+
+
+
+14th.  Up about seven and finished our papers, he and I, and I delivered
+him tallys and some money and so away I to the office, where we sat all
+the morning.  At noon dined at home and Creed with me, then parted, and I
+to the office, and anon called thence by Sir H. Cholmley and he and I to
+my chamber, and there settled our matters of accounts, and did give him
+tallys and money to clear him, and so he being gone and all these
+accounts cleared I shall be even with the King, so as to make a very
+clear and short account in a very few days, which pleases me very well.
+Here he and I discoursed a great while about Tangier, and he do convince
+me, as things are now ordered by my Lord Bellasses and will be by Norwood
+(men that do only mind themselves), the garrison will never come to any
+thing, and he proposes his owne being governor, which in truth I do think
+will do very well, and that he will bring it to something.  He gone I to
+my office, where to write letters late, and then home and looked over a
+little more my papers of accounts lately passed, and so to bed.
+
+
+
+15th (Easter Day).  Up and by water to Westminster to the Swan to lay
+down my cloak, and there found Sarah alone, with whom after I had staid
+awhile I to White Hall Chapel, and there coming late could hear nothing
+of the Bishop of London's sermon.  So walked into the Park to the
+Queene's chappell, and there heard a good deal of their mass, and some of
+their musique, which is not so contemptible, I think, as our people would
+make it, it pleasing me very well; and, indeed, better than the anthem I
+heard afterwards at White Hall, at my coming back.  I staid till the King
+went down to receive the Sacrament, and stood in his closett with a great
+many others, and there saw him receive it, which I did never see the
+manner of before.  But I do see very little difference between the degree
+of the ceremonies used by our people in the administration thereof, and
+that in the Roman church, saving that methought our Chappell was not so
+fine, nor the manner of doing it so glorious, as it was in the Queene's
+chappell.  Thence walked to Mr. Pierces, and there dined, I alone with
+him and her and their children: very good company and good discourse,
+they being able to tell me all the businesses of the Court; the amours
+and the mad doings that are there; how for certain Mrs. Stewart do do
+everything with the King that a mistress should do; and that the King
+hath many bastard children that are known and owned, besides the Duke of
+Monmouth.  After a great deale of this discourse I walked thence into the
+Parke with her little boy James with me, who is the wittiest boy and the
+best company in the world, and so back again through White Hall both
+coming and going, and people did generally take him to be my boy and some
+would aske me.  Thence home to Mr. Pierce again; and he being gone forth,
+she and I and the children out by coach to Kensington, to where we were
+the other day, and with great pleasure stayed till night; and were mighty
+late getting home, the horses tiring and stopping at every twenty steps.
+By the way we discoursed of Mrs. Clerke, who, she says, is grown mighty
+high, fine, and proud, but tells me an odd story how Captain Rolt did see
+her the other day accost a gentleman in Westminster Hall and went with
+him, and he dogged them to Moorefields to a little blind bawdy house, and
+there staid watching three hours and they come not out, so could stay no
+longer but left them there, and he is sure it was she, he knowing her
+well and describing her very clothes to Mrs. Pierce, which she knows are
+what she wears.  Seeing them well at home I homeward, but the horses at
+Ludgate Hill made a final stop; so there I 'lighted, and with a linke, it
+being about 10 o'clock, walked home, and after singing a Psalm or two and
+supped to bed.
+
+
+
+16th.  Up, and set my people, Mercer, W. Hewer, Tom and the girle at work
+at ruling and stitching my ruled book for the Muster-Masters, and I hard
+toward the settling of my Tangier accounts.  At noon dined alone, the
+girl Mercer taking physique can eat nothing, and W. Hewer went forth to
+dinner.  So up to my accounts again, and then comes Mrs. Mercer and fair
+Mrs. Turner, a neighbour of hers that my wife knows by their means, to
+visit me.  I staid a great while with them, being taken with this pretty
+woman, though a mighty silly, affected citizen woman she is.  Then I left
+them to come to me at supper anon, and myself out by coach to the old
+woman in Pannyer Alley for my ruled papers, and they are done, and I am
+much more taken with her black maid Nan.  Thence further to Westminster,
+thinking to have met Mrs. Martin, but could not find her, so back and
+called at Kirton's to borrow 10s. to pay for my ruled papers, I having
+not money in my pocket enough to pay for them.  But it was a pretty
+consideration that on this occasion I was considering where I could with
+most confidence in a time of need borrow 10s., and I protest I could not
+tell where to do it and with some trouble and fear did aske it here.  So
+that God keepe me from want, for I shall be in a very bad condition to
+helpe myself if ever I should come to want or borrow.  Thence called for
+my papers and so home, and there comes Mrs. Turner and Mercer and supped
+with me, and well pleased I was with their company, but especially Mrs.
+Turner's, she being a very pretty woman of person and her face pretty
+good, the colour of her haire very fine and light.  They staid with me
+talking till about eleven o'clock and so home, W. Hewer, who supped with
+me, leading them home.  So I to bed.
+
+
+
+17th.  Up, and to the office, where all the morning.  At noon dined at
+home, my brother Balty with me, who is fitting himself to go to sea.  So
+after dinner to my accounts and did proceed a good way in settling them,
+and thence to the office, where all the afternoon late, writing my
+letters and doing business, but, Lord! what a conflict I had with myself,
+my heart tempting me 1000 times to go abroad about some pleasure or
+other, notwithstanding the weather foule.  However I reproached myself
+with my weaknesse in yielding so much my judgment to my sense, and
+prevailed with difficulty and did not budge, but stayed within, and, to
+my great content, did a great deale of business, and so home to supper
+and to bed.  This day I am told that Moll Davis, the pretty girle, that
+sang and danced so well at the Duke's house, is dead.
+
+
+
+18th.  [Up] and by coach with Sir W. Batten and Sir Thos. Allen to White
+Hall, and there after attending the Duke as usual and there concluding of
+many things preparatory to the Prince and Generall's going to sea on
+Monday next, Sir W. Batten and Sir T. Allen and I to Mr. Lilly's, the
+painter's; and there saw the heads, some finished, and all begun, of the
+Flaggmen in the late great fight with the Duke of Yorke against the
+Dutch.  The Duke of Yorke hath them done to hang in his chamber, and very
+finely they are done indeed.  Here is the Prince's, Sir G. Askue's, Sir
+Thomas Teddiman's, Sir Christopher Mings, Sir Joseph Jordan, Sir William
+Barkeley, Sir Thomas Allen, and Captain Harman's, as also the Duke of
+Albemarle's; and will be my Lord Sandwich's, Sir W. Pen's, and Sir Jeremy
+Smith's.  Being very well satisfied with this sight, and other good
+pictures hanging in the house, we parted, and I left them, and [to] pass
+away a little time went to the printed picture seller's in the way thence
+to the Exchange, and there did see great plenty of fine prints; but did
+not buy any, only a print of an old pillar in Rome made for a Navall
+Triumph,
+
+     [The columna rostrata erected in the Forum to C. Duilius, who
+     obtained a triumph for the first naval victory over the
+     Carthaginians, B.C. 261.  Part of the column was discovered in the
+     ruins of the Forum near the Arch of Septimius, and transferred to
+     the Capitol.--B.]
+
+which for the antiquity of the shape of ships, I buy and keepe.  Thence
+to the Exchange, that is, the New Exchange, and looked over some play
+books and intend to get all the late new plays.  So to Westminster, and
+there at the Swan got a bit of meat and dined alone; and so away toward
+King's Street, and spying out of my coach Jane that lived heretofore at
+Jevons, my barber's, I went a little further and stopped, and went on
+foot back, and overtook her, taking water at Westminster Bridge, and
+spoke to her, and she telling me whither she was going I over the water
+and met her at Lambeth, and there drank with her; she telling me how he
+that was so long her servant, did prove to be a married man, though her
+master told me (which she denies) that he had lain with her several times
+in his house.  There left her 'sans essayer alcune cose con elle', and so
+away by boat to the 'Change, and took coach and to Mr. Hales, where he
+would have persuaded me to have had the landskipp stand in my picture,
+but I like it not and will have it otherwise, which I perceive he do not
+like so well, however is so civil as to say it shall be altered.  Thence
+away to Mrs. Pierces, who was not at home, but gone to my house to visit
+me with Mrs. Knipp.  I therefore took up the little girle Betty and my
+mayde Mary that now lives there and to my house, where they had been but
+were gone, so in our way back again met them coming back again to my
+house in Cornehill, and there stopped laughing at our pretty misfortunes,
+and so I carried them to Fish Streete, and there treated them with prawns
+and lobsters, and it beginning to grow darke we away, but the jest is our
+horses would not draw us up the Hill, but we were fain to 'light and stay
+till the coachman had made them draw down to the bottom of the Hill,
+thereby warming their legs, and then they came up cheerfully enough, and
+we got up and I carried them home, and coming home called at my paper
+ruler's and there found black Nan, which pleases me mightily, and having
+saluted her again and again away home and to bed .  .  .  .  .  In all my
+ridings in the coach and intervals my mind hath been full these three
+weeks of setting in musique "It is decreed, &c."
+
+
+
+19th.  Lay long in bed, so to the office, where all the morning.  At noon
+dined with Sir W. Warren at the Pope's Head.  So back to the office, and
+there met with the Commissioners of the Ordnance, where Sir W. Pen being
+almost drunk vexed me, and the more because Mr. Chichly observed it with
+me, and it was a disparagement to the office.  They gone I to my office.
+Anon comes home my wife from Brampton, not looked for till Saturday,
+which will hinder me of a little pleasure, but I am glad of her coming.
+She tells me Pall's business with Ensum is like to go on, but I must
+give, and she consents to it, another 100. She says she doubts my father
+is in want of money, for rents come in mighty slowly.  My mother grows
+very unpleasant and troublesome and my father mighty infirm through his
+old distemper, which altogether makes me mighty thoughtfull.  Having
+heard all this and bid her welcome I to the office, where late, and so
+home, and after a little more talk with my wife, she to bed and I after
+her.
+
+
+
+20th.  Up, and after an houre or two's talke with my poor wife, who gives
+me more and more content every day than other, I abroad by coach to
+Westminster, and there met with Mrs. Martin, and she and I over the water
+to Stangold, and after a walke in the fields to the King's Head, and
+there spent an houre or two with pleasure with her, and eat a tansy and
+so parted, and I to the New Exchange, there to get a list of all the
+modern plays which I intend to collect and to have them bound up
+together.  Thence to Mr. Hales's, and there, though against his
+particular mind, I had my landskipp done out, and only a heaven made in
+the roome of it, which though it do not please me thoroughly now it is
+done, yet it will do better than as it was before.  Thence to Paul's
+Churchyarde, and there bespoke some new books, and so to my ruling
+woman's and there did see my work a doing, and so home and to my office a
+little, but was hindered of business I intended by being sent for to Mrs.
+Turner, who desired some discourse with me and lay her condition before
+me, which is bad and poor.  Sir Thomas Harvey intends again to have
+lodgings in her house, which she prays me to prevent if I can, which I
+promised.  Thence to talke generally of our neighbours.  I find she tells
+me the faults of all of them, and their bad words of me and my wife, and
+indeed do discover more than I thought.  So I told her, and so will
+practise that I will have nothing to do with any of them.  She ended all
+with a promise of shells to my wife, very fine ones indeed, and seems to
+have great respect and honour for my wife.  So home and to bed.
+
+
+
+21st. Up betimes and to the office, there to prepare some things against
+the afternoon for discourse about the business of the pursers and
+settling the pursers' matters of the fleete according to my proposition.
+By and by the office sat, and they being up I continued at the office to
+finish my matters against the meeting before the Duke this afternoon, so
+home about three to clap a bit of meate in my mouth, and so away with Sir
+W. Batten to White Hall, and there to the Duke, but he being to go abroad
+to take the ayre, he dismissed us presently without doing any thing till
+to-morrow morning.  So my Lord Bruncker and I down to walk in the garden
+[at White Hall], it being a mighty hot and pleasant day; and there was
+the King, who, among others, talked to us a little; and among other
+pretty things, he swore merrily that he believed the ketch that Sir W.
+Batten bought the last year at Colchester was of his own getting, it was
+so thick to its length.  Another pleasant thing he said of Christopher
+Pett, commending him that he will not alter his moulds of his ships upon
+any man's advice; "as," says he, "Commissioner Taylor I fear do of his
+New London, that he makes it differ, in hopes of mending the Old London,
+built by him."  "For," says he, "he finds that God hath put him into the
+right, and so will keep in it while he is in."  "And," says the King,
+"I am sure it must be God put him in, for no art of his owne ever could
+have done it;" for it seems he cannot give a good account of what he do
+as an artist.  Thence with my Lord Bruncker in his coach to Hide Parke,
+the first time I have been there this year.  There the King was; but I
+was sorry to see my Lady Castlemaine, for the mourning forceing all the
+ladies to go in black, with their hair plain and without any spots, I
+find her to be a much more ordinary woman than ever I durst have thought
+she was; and, indeed, is not so pretty as Mrs. Stewart, whom I saw there
+also.  Having done at the Park he set me down at the Exchange, and I by
+coach home and there to my letters, and they being done, to writing a
+large letter about the business of the pursers to Sir W. Batten against
+to-morrow's discourse, and so home and to bed.
+
+
+
+22nd (Lord's day).  Up, and put on my new black coate, long down to my
+knees, and with Sir W. Batten to White Hall, where all in deep mourning
+for the Queene's mother.  There had great discourse, before the Duke and
+Sir W. Coventry begun the discourse of the day about the purser's
+business, which I seconded, and with great liking to the Duke, whom
+however afterward my Lord Bruncker and Sir W. Pen did stop by some thing
+they said, though not much to the purpose, yet because our proposition
+had some appearance of certain charge to the King it was ruled that for
+this year we should try another the same in every respect with ours,
+leaving out one circumstance of allowing the pursers the victuals of all
+men short of the complement.  I was very well satisfied with it and am
+contented to try it, wishing it may prove effectual.  Thence away with
+Sir W. Batten in his coach home, in our way he telling me the certaine
+newes, which was afterward confirmed to me this day by several, that the
+Bishopp of Munster has made a league [with] the Hollanders, and that our
+King and Court are displeased much at it: moreover we are not sure of
+Sweden.  I home to my house, and there dined mighty well, my poor wife
+and Mercer and I.  So back again walked to White Hall, and there to and
+again in the Parke, till being in the shoemaker's stockes.--[A cant
+expression for tight shoes.]--I was heartily weary, yet walked however
+to the Queene's Chappell at St. James's, and there saw a little mayde
+baptized; many parts and words whereof are the same with that of our
+Liturgy, and little that is more ceremonious than ours.  Thence walked to
+Westminster and eat a bit of bread and drank, and so to Worster House,
+and there staid, and saw the Council up, and then back, walked to the
+Cockepitt, and there took my leave of the Duke of Albemarle, who is going
+to-morrow to sea.  He seems mightily pleased with me, which I am glad of;
+but I do find infinitely my concernment in being careful to appear to the
+King and Duke to continue my care of his business, and to be found
+diligent as I used to be.  Thence walked wearily as far as Fleet Streete
+and so there met a coach and home to supper and to bed, having sat a
+great while with Will Joyce, who come to see me, and it is the first time
+I have seen him at my house since the plague, and find him the same
+impertinent, prating coxcombe that ever he was.
+
+
+
+23rd.  Being mighty weary last night, lay long this morning, then up and
+to the office, where Sir W. Batten, Lord Bruncker and I met, and toward
+noon took coach and to White Hall, where I had the opportunity to take
+leave of the Prince, and again of the Duke of Albemarle; and saw them
+kiss the King's hands and the Duke's; and much content, indeed, there
+seems to be in all people at their going to sea, and [they] promise
+themselves much good from them.  This morning the House of Parliament do
+meet, only to adjourne again till winter.  The plague, I hear, encreases
+in the towne much, and exceedingly in the country everywhere.  Thence
+walked to Westminster Hall, and after a little stay, there being nothing
+now left to keep me there, Betty Howlett being gone, I took coach and
+away home, in my way asking in two or three places the worth of pearles,
+I being now come to the time that I have long ago promised my wife a
+necklace.  Dined at home and took Balty with me to Hales's to show him
+his sister's picture, and thence to Westminster, and there I to the Swan
+and drank, and so back again alone to Hales's and there met my wife and
+Mercer, Mrs. Pierce being sitting, and two or three idle people of her
+acquaintance more standing by.  Her picture do come on well.  So staid
+until she had done and then set her down at home, and my wife and I and
+the girle by coach to Islington, and there eat and drank in the coach and
+so home, and there find a girle sent at my desire by Mrs. Michell of
+Westminster Hall, to be my girle under the cooke-mayde, Susan.  But I am
+a little dissatisfied that the girle, though young, is taller and bigger
+than Su, and will not, I fear, be under her command, which will trouble
+me, and the more because she is recommended by a friend that I would not
+have any unkindness with, but my wife do like very well of her.  So to my
+accounts and journall at my chamber, there being bonfires in the streete,
+for being St. George's day, and the King's Coronation, and the day of the
+Prince and Duke's going to sea.  So having done my business, to bed.
+
+
+24th.  Up, and presently am told that the girle that came yesterday hath
+packed up her things to be gone home again to Enfield, whence she come,
+which I was glad of, that we might be at first rid of her altogether
+rather than be liable to her going away hereafter.  The reason was that
+London do not agree with her.  So I did give her something, and away she
+went.  By and by comes Mr. Bland to me, the first time since his coming
+from Tangier, and tells me, in short, how all things are out of order
+there, and like to be; and the place never likely to come to anything
+while the soldiers govern all, and do not encourage trade.  He gone I to
+the office, where all the morning, and so to dinner, and there in the
+afternoon very busy all day till late, and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+25th.  Up, and to White Hall to the Duke as usual, and did our business
+there.  So I away to Westminster (Batty with me, whom I had presented to
+Sir W. Coventry) and there told Mrs. Michell of her kinswoman's running
+away, which troubled her.  So home, and there find another little girle
+come from my wife's mother, likely to do well.  After dinner I to the
+office, where Mr. Prin come to meet about the Chest business; and till
+company come, did discourse with me a good while alone in the garden
+about the laws of England, telling me the many faults in them; and among
+others, their obscurity through multitude of long statutes, which he is
+about to abstract out of all of a sort; and as he lives, and Parliaments
+come, get them put into laws, and the other statutes repealed, and then
+it will be a short work to know the law, which appears a very noble good
+thing.  By and by Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Rider met with us, and we did
+something to purpose about the Chest, and hope we shall go on to do so.
+They up, I to present Batty to Sir W. Pen, who at my entreaty did write a
+most obliging letter to Harman to use him civilly, but the dissembling of
+the rogue is such, that it do not oblige me at all.  So abroad to my
+ruler's of my books, having, God forgive me! a mind to see Nan there,
+which I did, and so back again, and then out again to see Mrs. Bettons,
+who were looking out of the window as I come through Fenchurch Streete.
+So that indeed I am not, as I ought to be, able to command myself in the
+pleasures of my eye.  So home, and with my wife and Mercer spent our
+evening upon our new leads by our bedchamber singing, while Mrs. Mary
+Batelier looked out of the window to us, and we talked together, and at
+last bid good night.  However, my wife and I staid there talking of
+several things with great pleasure till eleven o'clock at night, and it
+is a convenience I would not want for any thing in the world, it being,
+methinks, better than almost any roome in my house.  So having, supped
+upon the leads, to bed.  The plague, blessed be God! is decreased sixteen
+this week.
+
+
+
+26th.  To the office, where all the morning.  At noon home to dinner, and
+in the afternoon to my office again, where very busy all the afternoon
+and particularly about fitting of Mr. Yeabsly's accounts for the view of
+the Lords Commissioners for Tangier.  At night home to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+27th.  Up (taking Balty with me, who lay at my house last [night] in
+order to his going away to-day to sea with the pursers of the Henery,
+whom I appointed to call him), abroad to many several places about
+several businesses, to my Lord Treasurer's, Westminster, and I know not
+where.  At noon to the 'Change a little, and there bespoke some maps to
+hang in my new roome (my boy's roome) which will be very-pretty.  Home to
+dinner, and after dinner to the hanging up of maps, and other things for
+the fitting of the roome, and now it will certainly be one of the
+handsomest and most usefull roomes in my house.  So that what with this
+room and the room on my leads my house is half as good again as it was.
+All this afternoon about this till I was so weary and it was late I could
+do no more but finished the room.  So I did not get out to the office all
+the day long.  At night spent a good deale of time with my wife and
+Mercer teaching them a song, and so after supper to bed.
+
+
+
+28th.  Up and to the office.  At noon dined at home.  After dinner abroad
+with my wife to Hales's to see only our pictures and Mrs. Pierce's, which
+I do not think so fine as I might have expected it.  My wife to her
+father's, to carry him some ruling work, which I have advised her to let
+him do.  It will get him some money.  She also is to look out again for
+another little girle, the last we had being also gone home the very same
+day she came.  She was also to look after a necklace of pearle, which she
+is mighty busy about, I being contented to lay out L80 in one for her.
+I home to my business.  By and by comes my wife and presently after, the
+tide serving, Balty took leave of us, going to sea, and upon very good
+terms, to be Muster-Master of a squadron, which will be worth L100 this
+yeare to him, besides keeping him the benefit of his pay in the Guards.
+He gone, I very busy all the afternoon till night, among other things,
+writing a letter to my brother John, the first I have done since my being
+angry with him, and that so sharpe a one too that I was sorry almost to
+send it when I had wrote it, but it is preparatory to my being kind to
+him, and sending for him up hither when he hath passed his degree of
+Master of Arts.  So home to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+29th (Lord's day).  Up, and to church, where Mr. Mills, a lazy, simple
+sermon upon the Devil's having no right to any thing in this world.  So
+home to dinner, and after dinner I and my boy down by water to Redriffe
+and thence walked to Mr. Evelyn's, where I walked in his garden till he
+come from Church, with great pleasure reading Ridly's discourse, all my
+way going and coming, upon the Civill and Ecclesiastical Law.  He being
+come home, he and I walked together in the garden with mighty pleasure,
+he being a very ingenious man; and the more I know him, the more I love
+him.  His chief business with me was to propose having my cozen Thomas
+Pepys in Commission of the Peace, which I do not know what to say to till
+I speake with him, but should be glad of it and will put him upon it.
+Thence walked back again reading and so took water and home, where I find
+my uncle and aunt Wight, and supped with them upon my leads with mighty
+pleasure and mirthe, and they being gone I mighty weary to bed, after
+having my haire of my head cut shorter, even close to my skull, for
+coolnesse, it being mighty hot weather.
+
+
+
+30th.  Up and, being ready, to finish my journall for four days past.  To
+the office, where busy all the morning.  At noon dined alone, my wife
+gone abroad to conclude about her necklace of pearle.  I after dinner to
+even all my accounts of this month; and, bless God!  I find myself,
+notwithstanding great expences of late; viz. L80 now to pay for a
+necklace; near L40 for a set of chairs and couch; near L40 for my three
+pictures: yet I do gather, and am now worth L5200.  My wife comes home by
+and by, and hath pitched upon a necklace with three rows, which is a very
+good one, and L80 is the price.  In the evening, having finished my
+accounts to my full content and joyed that I have evened them so plainly,
+remembering the trouble my last accounts did give me by being let alone a
+little longer than ordinary, by which I am to this day at a loss for L50,
+I hope I shall never commit such an error again, for I cannot devise
+where the L50 should be, but it is plain I ought to be worth L50 more
+than I am, and blessed be God the error was no greater.  In the evening
+with my [wife] and Mercer by coach to take the ayre as far as Bow, and
+eat and drank in the coach by the way and with much pleasure and pleased
+with my company.  At night home and up to the leads, but were contrary to
+expectation driven down again with a stinke by Sir W. Pen's shying of a
+shitten pot in their house of office close by, which do trouble me for
+fear it do hereafter annoy me.  So down to sing a little and then to bed.
+So ends this month with great layings-out.  Good health and gettings, and
+advanced well in the whole of my estate, for which God make me thankful.
+
+
+
+
+ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:
+
+Ashamed at myself for this losse of time
+Begun to write idle and from the purpose
+Counterfeit mirthe and pleasure with them, but had but little
+Driven down again with a stinke by Sir W. Pen's shying of a pot
+Great newes of the Swedes declaring for us against the Dutch
+He has been inconvenienced by being too free in discourse
+Mass, and some of their musique, which is not so contemptible
+Reading over my dear "Faber fortunae," of my Lord Bacon's
+Thence to Mrs. Martin's, and did what I would with her
+Through want of money and good conduct
+Too late for them to enjoy it with any pleasure
+Tooke my wife well dressed into the Hall to see and be seen
+
+
+
+
+End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v48
+by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley
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