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diff --git a/4164.txt b/4164.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1ceabbc --- /dev/null +++ b/4164.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1804 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Diary of Samuel Pepys, March/April 1665/66 +by Samuel Pepys + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, March/April 1665/66 + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Release Date: December 1, 2004 [EBook #4164] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + 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 the Project Gutenberg EBook of Diary of Samuel Pepys, March/April +1665/66, by Samuel Pepys + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + +***** This file should be named 4164.txt or 4164.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/6/4164/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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