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WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + MARCH & APRIL + 1665-1666 + + +March 1st. Up, and to the office and there all the morning sitting and +at noon to dinner with my Lord Bruncker, Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen at +the White Horse in Lumbard Streete, where, God forgive us! good sport +with Captain Cocke's having his mayde sicke of the plague a day or two +ago and sent to the pest house, where she now is, but he will not say +anything but that she is well. But blessed be God! a good Bill this +week we have; being but 237 in all, and 42 of the plague, and of them but +six in the City: though my Lord Bruneker says, that these six are most of +them in new parishes where they were not the last week. Here was with us +also Mr. Williamson, who the more I know, the more I honour. Hence I +slipt after dinner without notice home and there close to my business at +my office till twelve at night, having with great comfort returned to my +business by some fresh vowes in addition to my former, and-more severe, +and a great joy it is to me to see myself in a good disposition to +business. So home to supper and to my Journall and to bed. + + + +2nd. Up, as I have of late resolved before 7 in the morning and to the +office, where all the morning, among other things setting my wife and +Mercer with much pleasure to worke upon the ruling of some paper for the +making of books for pursers, which will require a great deale of worke +and they will earn a good deale of money by it, the hopes of which makes +them worke mighty hard. At noon dined and to the office again, and about +4 o'clock took coach and to my Lord Treasurer's and thence to Sir Philip +Warwicke's new house by appointment, there to spend an houre in talking +and we were together above an hour, and very good discourse about the +state of the King as to money, and particularly in the point of the Navy. +He endeavours hard to come to a good understanding of Sir G. Carteret's +accounts, and by his discourse I find Sir G. Carteret must be brought to +it, and what a madman he is that he do not do it of himself, for the King +expects the Parliament will call upon him for his promise of giving an +account of the money, and he will be ready for it, which cannot be, I am +sure, without Sir G. Carteret's accounts be better understood than they +are. He seems to have a great esteem of me and my opinion and thoughts +of things. After we had spent an houre thus discoursing and vexed that +we do but grope so in the darke as we do, because the people, that should +enlighten us, do not helpe us, we resolved fitting some things for +another meeting, and so broke up. He shewed me his house, which is yet +all unhung, but will be a very noble house indeed. Thence by coach +calling at my bookseller's and carried home L10 worth of books, all, I +hope, I shall buy a great while. There by appointment find Mr. Hill come +to sup and take his last leave of me, and by and by in comes Mr. James +Houbland to bear us company, a man I love mightily, and will not lose his +acquaintance. He told me in my eare this night what he and his brothers +have resolved to give me, which is L200, for helping them out with two or +three ships. A good sum and that which I did believe they would give me, +and I did expect little less. Here we talked and very good company till +late, and then took leave of one another, and indeed I am heartily sorry +for Mr. Hill's leaving us, for he is a very worthy gentleman, as most I +know. God give him a good voyage and successe in his business. Thus we +parted and my wife and I to bed, heavy for the losse of our friend. + + + +3rd. All the morning at the office, at noon to the Old James, being sent +for, and there dined with Sir William Rider, Cutler, and others, to make +an end with two Scots Maisters about the freight of two ships of my Lord +Rutherford's. After a small dinner and a little discourse I away to the +Crowne behind the Exchange to Sir W. Pen, Captain Cocke and Fen, about +getting a bill of Cocke's paid to Pen, in part for the East India goods +he sold us. Here Sir W. Pen did give me the reason in my eare of his +importunity for money, for that he is now to marry his daughter. God +send her better fortune than her father deserves I should wish him for a +false rogue. Thence by coach to Hales's, and there saw my wife sit; and +I do like her picture mightily, and very like it will be, and a brave +piece of work. But he do complain that her nose hath cost him as much +work as another's face, and he hath done it finely indeed. Thence home +and late at the office, and then to bed. + + + +4th (Lord's day). And all day at my Tangier and private accounts, having +neglected them since Christmas, which I hope I shall never do again; for +I find the inconvenience of it, it being ten times the labour to remember +and settle things. But I thank God I did it at last, and brought them +all fine and right; and I am, I thinke, by all appears to me (and I am +sure I cannot be L10 wrong), worth above L4600, for which the Lord be +praised! being the biggest sum I ever was worth yet. + + + +5th. I was at it till past two o'clock on Monday morning, and then read +my vowes, and to bed with great joy and content that I have brought my +things to so good a settlement, and now having my mind fixed to follow my +business again and sensible of Sir W. Coventry's jealousies, I doubt, +concerning me, partly my siding with Sir G. Carteret, and partly that +indeed I have been silent in my business of the office a great while, and +given but little account of myself and least of all to him, having not +made him one visitt since he came to towne from Oxford, I am resolved to +fall hard to it again, and fetch up the time and interest I have lost or +am in a fair way of doing it. Up about eight o'clock, being called up by +several people, among others by Mr. Moone, with whom I went to Lumbard +Streete to Colvill, and so back again and in my chamber he and I did end +all our businesses together of accounts for money upon bills of Exchange, +and am pleased to find myself reputed a man of business and method, as he +do give me out to be. To the 'Change at noon and so home to dinner. +Newes for certain of the King of Denmarke's declaring for the Dutch, and +resolution to assist them. To the office, and there all the afternoon. +In the evening come Mr. James and brother Houblons to agree upon share +parties for their ships, and did acquaint me that they had paid my +messenger, whom I sent this afternoon for it, L200 for my friendship in +the business, which pleases me mightily. They being gone I forth late to +Sir H. Viner's to take a receipt of them for the L200 lodged for me there +with them, and so back home, and after supper to bed. + + + +6th. Up betimes and did much business before office time. Then to the +office and there till noon and so home to dinner and to the office again +till night. In the evening being at Sir W. Batten's, stepped in (for I +have not used to go thither a good while), I find my Lord Bruncker and +Mrs. Williams, and they would of their own accord, though I had never +obliged them (nor my wife neither) with one visit for many of theirs, go +see my house and my wife; which I showed them and made them welcome with +wine and China oranges (now a great rarity since the war, none to be +had). There being also Captain Cocke and Mrs. Turner, who had never been +in my house since I come to the office before, and Mrs. Carcasse, wife of +Mr. Carcasses. My house happened to be mighty clean, and did me great +honour, and they mightily pleased with it. They gone I to the office and +did some business, and then home to supper and to bed. My mind troubled +through a doubtfulness of my having incurred Sir W. Coventry's +displeasure by not having waited on him since his coming to towne, which +is a mighty faulte and that I can bear the fear of the bad effects of +till I have been with him, which shall be to-morrow, God willing. So to +bed. + + + +7th. Up betimes, and to St. James's, thinking Mr. Coventry had lain +there; but he do not, but at White Hall; so thither I went and had as +good a time as heart could wish, and after an houre in his chamber about +publique business he and I walked up, and the Duke being gone abroad we +walked an houre in the Matted Gallery: he of himself begun to discourse +of the unhappy differences between him and my Lord of Sandwich, and from +the beginning to the end did run through all passages wherein my Lord +hath, at any time, gathered any dissatisfaction, and cleared himself to +me most honourably; and in truth, I do believe he do as he says. I did +afterwards purge myself of all partiality in the business of Sir G. +Carteret, (whose story Sir W. Coventry did also run over,) that I do mind +the King's interest, notwithstanding my relation to him; all which he +declares he firmly believes, and assures me he hath the same kindnesse +and opinion of me as ever. And when I said I was jealous of myself, that +having now come to such an income as I am, by his favour, I should not be +found to do as much service as might deserve it; he did assure me, he +thinks it not too much for me, but thinks I deserve it as much as any man +in England. All this discourse did cheer my heart, and sets me right +again, after a good deal of melancholy, out of fears of his +disinclination to me, upon the differences with my Lord Sandwich and Sir +G. Carteret; but I am satisfied throughly, and so went away quite another +man, and by the grace of God will never lose it again by my folly in not +visiting and writing to him, as I used heretofore to do. Thence by coach +to the Temple, and it being a holyday, a fast-day, there 'light, and took +water, being invited, and down to Greenwich, to Captain Cocke's, where +dined, he and Lord Bruncker, and Matt. Wren, Boltele, and Major Cooper, +who is also a very pretty companion; but they all drink hard, and, after +dinner, to gaming at cards. So I provoked my Lord to be gone, and he and +I to Mr. Cottle's and met Mrs. Williams (without whom he cannot stir out +of doors) and there took coach and away home. They carry me to London +and set me down at the Temple, where my mind changed and I home, and to +writing and heare my boy play on the lute, and a turne with my wife +pleasantly in the garden by moonshine, my heart being in great peace, and +so home to supper and to bed. The King and Duke are to go to-morrow to +Audly End, in order to the seeing and buying of it of my Lord Suffolke. + + + +8th. Up betimes and to the office, where all the morning sitting and did +discover three or four fresh instances of Sir W. Pen's old cheating +dissembling tricks, he being as false a fellow as ever was born. Thence +with Sir. W. Batten and Lord Bruncker to the White Horse in Lumbard +Streete to dine with Captain Cocke, upon particular business of canvas to +buy for the King, and here by chance I saw the mistresse of the house I +have heard much of, and a very pretty woman she is indeed and her husband +the simplest looked fellow and old that ever I saw. After dinner I took +coach and away to Hales's, where my wife is sitting; and, indeed, her +face and necke, which are now finished, do so please me that I am not +myself almost, nor was not all the night after in writing of my letters, +in consideration of the fine picture that I shall be master of. Thence +home and to the office, where very late, and so home to supper and to +bed. + + + +9th. Up, and being ready, to the Cockpitt to make a visit to the Duke of +Albemarle, and to my great joy find him the same man to me that [he has +been] heretofore, which I was in great doubt of, through my negligence in +not visiting of him a great while; and having now set all to rights +there, I am in mighty ease in my mind and I think shall never suffer +matters to run so far backward again as I have done of late, with +reference to my neglecting him and Sir W. Coventry. Thence by water down +to Deptford, where I met my Lord Bruncker and Sir W. Batten by agreement, +and to measuring Mr. Castle's new third-rate ship, which is to be called +the Defyance. + + [William Castell wrote to the Navy Commissioners on February 17th, + 1665-66, to inform them that the "Defiance" had gone to Longreach, + and again, on February 22nd, to say that Mr. Grey had no masts large + enough for the new ship. Sir William Batten on March 29th asked for + the consent of the Board to bring the "Defiance" into dock (" + Calendar of State Papers," Domestic, 1665-66, pp. 252, 262, 324).] + +And here I had my end in saving the King some money and getting myself +some experience in knowing how they do measure ships. Thence I left them +and walked to Redriffe, and there taking water was overtaken by them in +their boat, and so they would have me in with them to Castle's house, +where my Lady Batten and Madam Williams were, and there dined and a deale +of doings. I had a good dinner and counterfeit mirthe and pleasure with +them, but had but little, thinking how I neglected my business. Anon, +all home to Sir W. Batten's and there Mrs. Knipp coming we did spend the +evening together very merry. She and I singing, and, God forgive me! I +do still see that my nature is not to be quite conquered, but will esteem +pleasure above all things, though yet in the middle of it, it has +reluctances after my business, which is neglected by my following my +pleasure. However musique and women I cannot but give way to, whatever +my business is. They being gone I to the office a while and so home to +supper and to bed. + + + +10th. Up, and to the office, and there busy sitting till noon. I find +at home Mrs. Pierce and Knipp come to dine with me. We were mighty +merry; and, after dinner, I carried them and my wife out by coach to the +New Exchange, and there I did give my valentine, Mrs. Pierce, a dozen +payre of gloves, and a payre of silke stockings, and Knipp for company's +sake, though my wife had, by my consent, laid out 20s. upon her the other +day, six payre of gloves. Thence to Hales's to have seen our pictures, +but could not get in, he being abroad, and so to the Cakehouse hard by, +and there sat in the coach with great pleasure, and eat some fine cakes +and so carried them to Pierces and away home. It is a mighty fine witty +boy, Mrs. Pierces little boy. Thence home and to the office, where late +writing letters and leaving a great deale to do on Monday, I home to +supper and to bed. The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more +in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and +out of my observation that most men that do thrive in the world, do +forget to take pleasure during the time that they are getting their +estate, but reserve that till they have got one, and then it is too late +for them to enjoy it with any pleasure. + + + +11th (Lord's day). Up, and by water to White Hall, there met +Mr. Coventry coming out, going along with the Commissioners of the +Ordnance to the water side to take barge, they being to go down to the +Hope. I returned with them as far as the Tower in their barge speaking +with Sir W. Coventry and so home and to church, and at noon dined and +then to my chamber, where with great pleasure about one business or other +till late, and so to supper and to bed. + + + +12th. Up betimes, and called on by abundance of people about business, +and then away by water to Westminster, and there to the Exchequer about +some business, and thence by coach calling at several places, to the Old +Exchange, and there did much business, and so homeward and bought a +silver salt for my ordinary table to use, and so home to dinner, and +after dinner comes my uncle and aunt Wight, the latter I have not seen +since the plague; a silly, froward, ugly woman she is. We made mighty +much of them, and she talks mightily of her fear of the sicknesse, and so +a deale of tittle tattle and I left them and to my office where late, and +so home to supper and to bed. This day I hear my Uncle Talbot Pepys died +the last week, and was buried. All the news now is, that Sir Jeremy +Smith is at Cales--[Cadiz]--with his fleete, and Mings in the Elve.-- +[Elbe]--The King is come this noon to towne from Audly End, with the +Duke of Yorke and a fine train of gentlemen. + + + +13th. Up betimes, and to the office, where busy sitting all the morning, +and I begin to find a little convenience by holding up my head to Sir W. +Pen, for he is come to be more supple. At noon to dinner, and then to +the office again, where mighty business, doing a great deale till +midnight and then home to supper and to bed. The plague encreased this +week 29 from 28, though the total fallen from 238 to 207, which do never +a whit please me. + + + +14th. Up, and met by 6 o'clock in my chamber Mr. Povy (from White Hall) +about evening reckonings between him and me, on our Tangier business, and +at it hard till toward eight o'clock, and he then carried me in his +chariot to White Hall, where by and by my fellow officers met me, and we +had a meeting before the Duke. Thence with my Lord Bruncker towards +London, and in our way called in Covent Garden, and took in Sir John +(formerly Dr.) Baber; who hath this humour that he will not enter into +discourse while any stranger is in company, till he be told who he is +that seems a stranger to him. This he did declare openly to me, and +asked my Lord who I was, giving this reason, that he has been +inconvenienced by being too free in discourse till he knew who all the +company were. Thence to Guildhall (in our way taking in Dr. Wilkins), +and there my Lord and I had full and large discourse with Sir Thomas +Player, the Chamberlain of the City (a man I have much heard of for his +credit and punctuality in the City, and on that score I had a desire to +be made known to him), about the credit of our tallys, which are lodged +there for security to such as should lend money thereon to the use of the +Navy. And I had great satisfaction therein: and the truth is, I find all +our matters of credit to be in an ill condition. Thence, I being in a +little haste walked before and to the 'Change a little and then home, and +presently to Trinity house to dinner, where Captain Cox made his Elder +Brother's dinner. But it seemed to me a very poor sorry dinner. I +having many things in my head rose, when my belly was full, though the +dinner not half done, and home and there to do some business, and by and +by out of doors and met Mr. Povy coming to me by appointment, but it +being a little too late, I took a little pride in the streete not to go +back with him, but prayed him to come another time, and I away to Kate +Joyce's, thinking to have spoke to her husband about Pall's business, but +a stranger, the Welsh Dr. Powell, being there I forebore and went away +and so to Hales's, to see my wife's picture, which I like mighty well, +and there had the pleasure to see how suddenly he draws the Heavens, +laying a darke ground and then lightening it when and where he will. +Thence to walk all alone in the fields behind Grayes Inne, making an end +of reading over my dear "Faber fortunae," of my Lord Bacon's, and thence, +it growing dark, took two or three wanton turns about the idle places and +lanes about Drury Lane, but to no satisfaction, but a great fear of the +plague among them, and so anon I walked by invitation to Mrs. Pierces, +where I find much good company, that is to say, Mrs. Pierce, my wife, +Mrs. Worshipp and her daughter, and Harris the player, and Knipp, and +Mercer, and Mrs. Barbary Sheldon, who is come this day to spend a weeke +with my wife; and here with musique we danced, and sung and supped, and +then to sing and dance till past one in the morning; and much mirthe with +Sir Anthony Apsley and one Colonell Sidney, who lodge in the house; and +above all, they are mightily taken with Mrs. Knipp. Hence weary and +sleepy we broke up, and I and my company homeward by coach and to bed. + + + +15th. Lay till it was full time to rise, it being eight o'clock, and so +to the office and there sat till almost three o'clock and then to dinner, +and after dinner (my wife and Mercer and Mrs. Barbary being gone to +Hales's before), I and my cozen Anthony Joyce, who come on purpose to +dinner with me, and he and I to discourse of our proposition of marriage +between Pall and Harman, and upon discourse he and I to Harman's house +and took him to a taverne hard by, and we to discourse of our business, +and I offered L500, and he declares most ingenuously that his trade is +not to be trusted on, that he however needs no money, but would have her +money bestowed on her, which I like well, he saying that he would +adventure 2 or L300 with her. I like him as a most good-natured, and +discreet man, and, I believe, very cunning. We come to this conclusion +for us to meete one another the next weeke, and then we hope to come to +some end, for I did declare myself well satisfied with the match. Thence +to Hales's, where I met my wife and people; and do find the picture, +above all things, a most pretty picture, and mighty like my wife; and I +asked him his price: he says L14, and the truth is, I think he do deserve +it. Thence toward London and home, and I to the office, where I did +much, and betimes to bed, having had of late so little sleep, and there +slept + + + +16th. Till 7 this morning. Up and all the morning about the +Victualler's business, passing his account. At noon to the 'Change, and +did several businesses, and thence to the Crowne behind the 'Change and +dined with my Lord Bruncker and Captain Cocke and Fenn, and Madam +Williams, who without question must be my Lord's wife, and else she could +not follow him wherever he goes and kisse and use him publiquely as she +do. Thence to the office, where Sir W. Pen and I made an end of the +Victualler's business, and thence abroad about several businesses, and so +in the evening back again, and anon called on by Mr. Povy, and he and I +staid together in my chamber till 12 at night ending our reckonings and +giving him tallys for all I was to pay him and so parted, and I to make +good my Journall for two or three days, and begun it till I come to the +other side, where I have scratched so much, for, for want of sleep, I +begun to write idle and from the purpose. So forced to breake off, and +to bed.--[There are several erasures in the original MS.] + + + +17th. Up, and to finish my Journall, which I had not sense enough the +last night to make an end of, and thence to the office, where very busy +all the morning. At noon home to dinner and presently with my wife out +to Hales's, where I am still infinitely pleased with my wife's picture. +I paid him L14 for it, and 25s. for the frame, and I think it is not a +whit too deare for so good a picture. It is not yet quite finished and +dry, so as to be fit to bring home yet. This day I begun to sit, and he +will make me, I think, a very fine picture. He promises it shall be as +good as my wife's, and I sit to have it full of shadows, and do almost +break my neck looking over my shoulder to make the posture for him to +work by. Thence home and to the office, and so home having a great cold, +and so my wife and Mrs. Barbary have very great ones, we are at a loss +how we all come by it together, so to bed, drinking butter-ale. This day +my W. Hewer comes from Portsmouth and gives me an instance of another +piece of knavery of Sir W. Pen, who wrote to Commissioner Middleton, that +it was my negligence the other day he was not acquainted, as the board +directed, with our clerks coming down to the pay. But I need no new +arguments to teach me that he is a false rogue to me and all the world +besides. + + + +18th (Lord's day). Up and my cold better, so to church, and then home to +dinner, and so walked out to St. James's Church, thinking to have seen +faire Mrs. Butler, but could not, she not being there, nor, I believe, +lives thereabouts now. So walked to Westminster, very fine fair dry +weather, but all cry out for lack of rain. To Herbert's and drank, and +thence to Mrs. Martin's, and did what I would with her; her husband going +for some wine for us. The poor man I do think would take pains if I can +get him a purser's place, which I will endeavour. She tells me as a +secret that Betty Howlet of the Hall, my little sweetheart, that I used +to call my second wife, is married to a younger son of Mr. Michell's (his +elder brother, who should have had her, being dead this plague), at which +I am glad, and that they are to live nearer me in Thames Streete, by the +Old Swan. Thence by coach home and to my chamber about some accounts, +and so to bed. Sir Christopher Mings is come home from Hambro without +anything done, saving bringing home some pipestaves for us. + + + +19th. Up betimes and upon a meeting extraordinary at the office most of +the morning with Lord Bruncker, Sir W. Coventry, and Sir W. Pen, upon the +business of the accounts. Where now we have got almost as much as we +would have we begin to lay all on the Controller, and I fear he will be +run down with it, for he is every day less and less capable of doing +business. Thence with my Lord Bruncker, Sir W. Coventry to the ticket +office, to see in what little order things are there, and there it is a +shame to see how the King is served. Thence to the Chamberlain of +London, and satisfy ourselves more particularly how much credit we have +there, which proves very little. Thence to Sir Robert Long's, absent. +About much the same business, but have not the satisfaction we would have +there neither. So Sir W. Coventry parted, and my Lord and I to Mrs. +Williams's, and there I saw her closett, where indeed a great many fine +things there are, but the woman I hate. Here we dined, and Sir J. Minnes +come to us, and after dinner we walked to the King's play-house, all in +dirt, they being altering of the stage to make it wider. But God knows +when they will begin to act again; but my business here was to see the +inside of the stage and all the tiring-rooms and machines; and, indeed, +it was a sight worthy seeing. But to see their clothes, and the various +sorts, and what a mixture of things there was; here a wooden-leg, there a +ruff, here a hobbyhorse, there a crown, would make a man split himself to +see with laughing; and particularly Lacy's wardrobe, and Shotrell's. But +then again, to think how fine they show on the stage by candle-light, and +how poor things they are to look now too near hand, is not pleasant at +all. The machines are fine, and the paintings very pretty. Thence +mightily satisfied in my curiosity I away with my Lord to see him at her +house again, and so take leave and by coach home and to the office, and +thence sent for to Sir G. Carteret by and by to the Broad Streete, where +he and I walked two or three hours till it was quite darke in his gallery +talking of his affairs, wherein I assure him all will do well, and did +give him (with great liberty, which he accepted kindly) my advice to deny +the Board nothing they would aske about his accounts, but rather call +upon them to know whether there was anything more they desired, or was +wanting. But our great discourse and serious reflections was upon the +bad state of the kingdom in general, through want of money and good +conduct, which we fear will undo all. Thence mightily satisfied with +this good fortune of this discourse with him I home, and there walked in +the darke till 10 o'clock at night in the garden with Sir W. Warren, +talking of many things belonging to us particularly, and I hope to get +something considerably by him before the year be over. He gives me good +advice of circumspection in my place, which I am now in great mind to +improve; for I think our office stands on very ticklish terms, the +Parliament likely to sit shortly and likely to be asked more money, and +we able to give a very bad account of the expence of what we have done +with what they did give before. Besides, the turning out the prize +officers may be an example for the King giving us up to the Parliament's +pleasure as easily, for we deserve it as much. Besides, Sir G. Carteret +did tell me tonight how my Lord Bruncker himself, whose good-will I could +have depended as much on as any, did himself to him take notice of the +many places I have; and though I was a painful man, yet the Navy was +enough for any man to go through with in his owne single place there, +which much troubles me, and shall yet provoke me to more and more care +and diligence than ever. Thence home to supper, where I find my wife and +Mrs. Barbary with great colds, as I also at this time have. This day by +letter from my father he propounds a match in the country for Pall, which +pleased me well, of one that hath seven score and odd pounds land per +annum in possession, and expects L1000 in money by the death of an old +aunt. He hath neither father, mother, sister, nor brother, but demands +L600 down, and L100 on the birth of first child, which I had some +inclination to stretch to. He is kinsman to, and lives with, Mr. +Phillips, but my wife tells me he is a drunken, ill-favoured, ill-bred +country fellow, which sets me off of it again, and I will go on with +Harman. So after supper to bed. + + + +20th. Up and to the office, where busy all the morning. At noon dined +in haste, and so my wife, Mrs. Barbary, Mercer, and I by coach to +Hales's, where I find my wife's picture now perfectly finished in all +respects, and a beautiful picture it is, as almost I ever saw. I sat +again, and had a great deale done, but, whatever the matter is, I do not +fancy that it has the ayre of my face, though it will be a very fine +picture. Thence home and to my business, being post night, and so home +to supper and to, bed. + + + +21st. Up betimes, and first by coach to my Lord Generall to visitt him, +and then to the Duke of Yorke, where we all met and did our usual +business with him; but, Lord! how everything is yielded to presently, +even by Sir W. Coventry, that is propounded by the Duke, as now to have +Troutbecke, his old surgeon, and intended to go Surgeon-General of the +fleete, to go Physician-General of the fleete, of which there never was +any precedent in the world, and he for that to have L20 per month. +Thence with Lord Bruncker to Sir Robert Long, whom we found in his +closett, and after some discourse of business he fell to discourse at +large and pleasant, and among other things told us of the plenty of +partridges in France, where he says the King of France and his company +killed with their guns, in the plain de Versailles, 300 and odd +partridges at one bout. Thence I to the Excise Office behind the +'Change, and there find our business of our tallys in great disorder as +to payment, and thereupon do take a resolution of thinking how to remedy +it, as soon as I can. Thence home, and there met Sir W. Warren, and +after I had eat a bit of victuals (he staying in the office) he and I to +White Hall. He to look after the business of the prize ships which we +are endeavouring to buy, and hope to get money by them. So I to London +by coach and to Gresham College, where I staid half an houre, and so away +home to my office, and there walking late alone in the darke in the +garden with Sir W. Warren, who tells me that at the Committee of the +Lords for the prizes to-day, there passed very high words between my Lord +Ashly and Sir W. Coventry, about our business of the prize ships. And +that my Lord Ashly did snuff and talk as high to him, as he used to do to +any ordinary seaman. And that Sir W. Coventry did take it very quietly, +but yet for all did speak his mind soberly and with reason, and went +away, saying, he had done his duty therein, and so left it to them, +whether they would let so many ships go for masts or not: Here he and I +talked of 1,000 businesses, all profitable discourse, and late parted, +and I home to supper and to bed, troubled a little at a letter from my +father, telling me how [he] is like to be sued for a debt of Tom's, by +Smith, the mercer. + + + +22nd. Up, and to the office all the morning. At noon my wife being gone +to her father's I dined with Sir W. Batten, he inviting me. After dinner +to my office close, and did very much business, and so late home to +supper and to bed. The plague increased four this week, which troubles +me, though but one in the whole. + + + +23rd. Up, and going out of my dressing-room, when ready to go down +stairs, I spied little Mrs. Tooker, my pretty little girle, which, it +seems, did come yesterday to our house to stay a little while with us, +but I did not know of it till now. I was glad of her coming, she being a +very pretty child, and now grown almost a woman. I out by six o'clock by +appointment to Hales's, where we fell to my picture presently very hard, +and it comes on a very fine picture, and very merry, pleasant discourse +we had all the morning while he was painting. Anon comes my wife and +Mercer and little Tooker, and having done with me we all to a picture +drawer's hard by, Hales carrying me to see some landskipps of a man's +doing. But I do not [like] any of them, save only a piece of fruit, +which indeed was very fine. Thence I to Westminster, to the Chequer, +about a little business, and then to the Swan, and there sent for a bit +of meat and dined; and after dinner had opportunity of being pleased with +Sarah; and so away to Westminster Hall, and there Mrs. Michell tells me +with great joy how little Betty Howlett is married to her young son +Michell, which is a pretty odd thing, that he should so soon succeed in +the match to his elder brother that died of the plague, and to the house +and trade intended for him, and more they say that the girle has +heretofore said that she did love this little one more than the other +brother that was intended her all along. I am mighty glad of this match, +and more that they are likely to live near me in Thames Streete, where I +may see Betty now and then, whom I from a girle did use to call my second +wife, and mighty pretty she is. Thence by coach to Anthony Joyce to +receive Harman's answer, which did trouble me to receive, for he now +demands L800, whereas he never made exception at the portion, but +accepted of L500. This I do not like; but, however, I cannot much blame +the man, if he thinks he can get more of another than of me. So home and +hard to my business at the office, where much business, and so home to +supper and to bed. + + + +24th. Up and to the office, where all the morning. At noon home to +dinner, where Anthony Joyce, and I did give my final answer, I would give +but L500 with my sister, and did show him the good offer made us in the +country, to which I did now more and more incline, and intend to pursue +that. After dinner I to White Hall to a Committee for Tangier, where the +Duke of Yorke was, and I acquitted myself well in what I had to do. +After the Committee up, I had occasion to follow the Duke into his +lodgings, into a chamber where the Duchesse was sitting to have her +picture drawn by Lilly, who was there at work. But I was well pleased to +see that there was nothing near so much resemblance of her face in his +work, which is now the second, if not the third time, as there was of my +wife's at the very first time. Nor do I think at last it can be like, +the lines not being in proportion to those of her face. So home, and to +the office, where late, and so to bed. + + + +25th (Lady day and Sunday). Up, and to my chamber in my gowne all the +morning about settling my papers there. At noon to dinner, where my +wife's brother, whom I sent for to offer making him a Muster-Master and +send to sea, which the poore man likes well of and will go, and it will +be a good preferment to him, only hazardous. I hope he will prove a good +discreet man. After dinner to my papers and Tangier accounts again till +supper, and after supper again to them, but by my mixing them, I know not +how, my private and publique accounts, it makes me mad to see how hard it +is to bring them to be understood, and my head is confounded, that though +I did sweare to sit up till one o'clock upon them, yet, I fear, it will +be to no purpose, for I cannot understand what I do or have been doing of +them to-day. + + + +26th. Up, and a meeting extraordinary there was of Sir W. Coventry, Lord +Bruncker, and myself, about the business of settling the ticket office, +where infinite room is left for abusing the King in the wages of seamen. +Our [meeting] being done, my Lord Bruncker and I to the Tower, to see the +famous engraver, to get him to grave a seale for the office. And did see +some of the finest pieces of work in embossed work, that ever I did see +in my life, for fineness and smallness of the images thereon, and I will +carry my wife thither to shew them her. Here I also did see bars of gold +melting, which was a fine sight. So with my Lord to the Pope's Head +Taverne in Lumbard Streete to dine by appointment with Captain Taylor, +whither Sir W. Coventry come to us, and were mighty merry, and I find +reason to honour him every day more and more. Thence alone to Broade +Street to Sir G. Carteret by his desire to confer with him, who is I find +in great pain about the business of the office, and not a little, I +believe, in fear of falling there, Sir W. Coventry having so great a +pique against him, and herein I first learn an eminent instance how great +a man this day, that nobody would think could be shaken, is the next +overthrown, dashed out of countenance, and every small thing of +irregularity in his business taken notice of, where nobody the other day +durst cast an eye upon them, and next I see that he that the other day +nobody durst come near is now as supple as a spaniel, and sends and +speaks to me with great submission, and readily hears to advice. Thence +home to the office, where busy late, and so home a little to my accounts +publique and private, but could not get myself rightly to know how to +dispose of them in order to passing. + + + +27th. All the morning at the office busy. At noon dined at home, Mr. +Cooke, our old acquaintance at my Lord Sandwich's, come to see and dine +with me, but I quite out of humour, having many other and better things +to thinke of. Thence to the office to settle my people's worke and then +home to my publique accounts of Tangier, which it is strange by meddling +with evening reckonings with Mr. Povy lately how I myself am become +intangled therein, so that after all I could do, ready to breake my head +and brains, I thought of another way, though not so perfect, yet the only +one which this account is capable of. Upon this latter I sat up till +past two in the morning and then to bed. + + + +28th. Up, and with Creed, who come hither betimes to speake with me +about his accounts, to White Hall by water, mighty merry in discourse, +though I had been very little troubled with him, or did countenance it, +having now, blessed be God! a great deale of good business to mind to +better purpose than chatting with him. Waited on the Duke, after that +walked with Sir W. Clerke into St. James's Parke, and by and by met with +Mr. Hayes, Prince Rupert's Secretary, who are mighty, both, briske +blades, but I fear they promise themselves more than they expect. Thence +to the Cockpitt, and dined with a great deal of company at the Duke of +Albemarle's, and a bad and dirty, nasty dinner. So by coach to Hales's, +and there sat again, and it is become mighty like. Hither come my wife +and Mercer brought by Mrs. Pierce and Knipp, we were mighty merry and the +picture goes on the better for it. Thence set them down at Pierces, and +we home, where busy and at my chamber till 12 at night, and so to bed. +This night, I am told, the Queene of Portugall, the mother to our Queene, +is lately dead, and newes brought of it hither this day. + + [Donna Luiza, the Queen Regent of Portugal. She was daughter of the + Duke de Medina Sidonia and widow of Juan IV. The Court wore the + deepest mourning on this occasion. The ladies were directed to wear + their hair plain, and to appear without spots on their faces, the + disfiguring fashion of patching having just been introduced.-- + Strickland s Queens of England, vol. viii., p. 362.] + + + +29th. All the morning hard at the office. At noon dined and then out to +Lumbard Streete, to look after the getting of some money that is lodged +there of mine in Viner's hands, I having no mind to have it lie there +longer. So back again and to the office, where and at home about +publique and private business and accounts till past 12 at night, and so +to bed. This day, poor Jane, my old, little Jane, came to us again, to +my wife's and my great content, and we hope to take mighty pleasure in +her, she having all the marks and qualities of a good and loving and +honest servant, she coming by force away from the other place, where she +hath lived ever since she went from us, and at our desire, her late +mistresse having used all the stratagems she could to keepe her. + + + +30th. My wife and I mighty pleased with Jane's coming to us again. Up, +and away goes Alce, our cooke-mayde, a good servant, whom we loved and +did well by her, and she an excellent servant, but would not bear being +told of any faulte in the fewest and kindest words and would go away of +her owne accord, after having given her mistresse warning fickly for a +quarter of a yeare together. So we shall take another girle and make +little Jane our cook, at least, make a trial of it. Up, and after much +business I out to Lumbard Streete, and there received L2200 and brought +it home; and, contrary to expectation, received L35 for the use of L2000 +of it [for] a quarter of a year, where it hath produced me this profit, +and hath been a convenience to me as to care and security of my house, +and demandable at two days' warning, as this hath been. This morning Sir +W. Warren come to me a second time about having L2000 of me upon his +bills on the Act to enable him to pay for the ships he is buying, wherein +I shall have considerable profit. I am loth to do it, but yet speaking +with Colvill I do not see but I shall be able to do it and get money by +it too. Thence home and eat one mouthful, and so to Hales's, and there +sat till almost quite darke upon working my gowne, which I hired to be +drawn in; an Indian gowne, and I do see all the reason to expect a most +excellent picture of it. So home and to my private accounts in my +chamber till past one in the morning, and so to bed, with my head full of +thoughts for my evening of all my accounts tomorrow, the latter end of +the month, in which God give me good issue, for I never was in such a +confusion in my life and that in great sums. + + + +31st All the morning at the office busy. At noon to dinner, and thence +to the office and did my business there as soon as I could, and then home +and to my accounts, where very late at them, but, Lord! what a deale of +do I have to understand any part of them, and in short do what I could, +I could not come to any understanding of them, but after I had throughly +wearied myself, I was forced to go to bed and leave them much against my +will and vowe too, but I hope God will forgive me, for I have sat up +these four nights till past twelve at night to master them, but cannot. +Thus ends this month, with my head and mind mighty full and disquiett +because of my accounts, which I have let go too long, and confounded my +publique with my private that I cannot come to any liquidating of them. +However, I do see that I must be grown richer than I was by a good deale +last month. Busy also I am in thoughts for a husband for my sister, and +to that end my wife and I have determined that she shall presently go +into the country to my father and mother, and consider of a proffer made +them for her in the country, which, if she likes, shall go forward. + + + + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + APRIL + 1666 + + +April 1st (Lord's day). Up and abroad, and by coach to Charing Cross, to +wait on Sir Philip Howard; whom I found in bed: and he do receive me very +civilly. My request was about suffering my wife's brother to go to sea, +and to save his pay in the Duke's guards; which after a little difficulty +he did with great respect agree to. I find him a very fine-spoken +gentleman, and one of great parts, and very courteous. Much pleased with +this visit I to White Hall, where I met Sir G. Downing, and to discourse +with him an houre about the Exchequer payments upon the late Act, and +informed myself of him thoroughly in my safety in lending L2000 to Sir W. +Warren, upon an order of his upon the Exchequer for L2602 and I do +purpose to do it. Thence meeting Dr. Allen, the physician, he and I and +another walked in the Parke, a most pleasant warm day, and to the +Queene's chappell; where I do not so dislike the musique. Here I saw on +a post an invitation to all good Catholiques to pray for the soul of such +a one departed this life. The Queene, I hear, do not yet hear of the +death of her mother, she being in a course of physique, that they dare +not tell it her. At noon by coach home, and there by invitation met my +uncle and aunt Wight and their cozen Mary, and dined with me and very +merry. After dinner my uncle and I abroad by coach to White Hall, up and +down the house, and I did some business and thence with him and a +gentleman he met with to my Lord Chancellor's new house, and there viewed +it again and again and up to the top and I like it as well as ever and +think it a most noble house. So all up and down my Lord St. Albans his +new building and market-house, and the taverne under the market-house, +looking to and again into every place of building, and so away and took +coach and home, where to my accounts, and was at them till I could not +hold open my eyes, and so to bed. I this afternoon made a visit to my +Lady Carteret, whom I understood newly come to towne; and she took it +mighty kindly, but I see her face and heart are dejected from the +condition her husband's matters stand in. But I hope they will do all +well enough. And I do comfort her as much as I can, for she is a noble +lady. + + + +2nd. Up, and to the office and thence with Mr. Gawden to Guildhall to +see the bills and tallys there in the chamber (and by the way in the +streete his new coach broke and we fain to take an old hackney). Thence +to the Exchequer again to inform myself of some other points in the new +Act in order to my lending Sir W. Warren L2000 upon an order of his upon +the Act, which they all encourage me to. There walking with Mr. Gawden +in Westminster Hall, he and I to talke from one business to another and +at last to the marriage of his daughter. He told me the story of Creed's +pretences to his daughter, and how he would not believe but she loved +him, while his daughter was in great passion on the other hand against +him. Thence to talke of his son Benjamin; and I propounded a match for +him, and at last named my sister, which he embraces heartily, and +speaking of the lowness of her portion, that it would be less than L1000, +he tells me if every thing else agrees, he will out of what he means to +give me yearly, make a portion for her shall cost me nothing more than I +intend freely. This did mightily rejoice me and full of it did go with +him to London to the 'Change; and there did much business and at the +Coffee-house with Sir W. Warren, who very wisely did shew me that my +matching my sister with Mr. Gawden would undo me in all my places, +everybody suspecting me in all I do; and I shall neither be able to serve +him, nor free myself from imputation of being of his faction, while I am +placed for his severest check. I was convinced that it would be for +neither of our interests to make this alliance, and so am quite off of it +again, but with great satisfaction in the motion. Thence to the Crowne +tavern behind the Exchange to meet with Cocke and Fenn and did so, and +dined with them, and after dinner had the intent of our meeting, which +was some private discourse with Fenn, telling him what I hear and think +of his business, which he takes very kindly and says he will look about +him. It was about his giving of ill language and answers to people that +come to him about money and some other particulars. This morning Mrs. +Barbary and little Mrs. Tooker went away homeward. Thence my wife by +coach calling me at White Hall to visit my Lady Carteret, and she was not +within. So to Westminster Hall, where I purposely tooke my wife well +dressed into the Hall to see and be seen; and, among others, [met] +Howlet's daughter, who is newly married, and is she I call wife, and one +I love mightily. So to Broad Streete and there met my Lady and Sir G. +Carteret, and sat and talked with them a good while and so home, and to +my accounts which I cannot get through with. But at it till I grew +drowsy, and so to bed mightily vexed that I can come to no better issue +in my accounts. + + + +3rd. Up, and Sir W. Warren with me betimes and signed a bond, and +assigned his order on the Exchequer to a blank for me to fill and I did +deliver him L1900. The truth is, it is a great venture to venture so +much on the Act, but thereby I hedge in L300 gift for my service about +some ships that he hath bought, prizes, and good interest besides, and +his bond to repay me the money at six weeks' warning. So to the office, +where busy all the morning. At noon home to dinner, and there my brother +Balty dined with me and my wife, who is become a good serious man, and I +hope to do him good being sending him a Muster-Master on one of the +squadrons of the fleete. After dinner and he gone I to my accounts hard +all the afternoon till it was quite darke, and I thank God I do come to +bring them very fairly to make me worth L5,000 stocke in the world, which +is a great mercy to me. Though I am a little troubled to find L50 +difference between the particular account I make to myself of my profits +and loss in each month and the account which I raise from my acquittances +and money which I have at the end of every month in my chest and other +men's hands. However I do well believe that I am effectually L5,000, the +greatest sum I ever was in my life yet, and this day I have as I have +said before agreed with Sir W. Warren and got of him L300 gift. At night +a while to the office and then home and supped and to my accounts again +till I was ready to sleepe, there being no pleasure to handle them, if +they are not kept in good order. So to bed. + + + +4th. Up, and with Sir W. Pen in his coach to White Hall, in his way +talking simply and fondly as he used to do, but I find myself to slight +him and his simple talke, I thank God, and that my condition will enable +me to do it. Thence, after doing our business with the Duke of Yorke, +with Captain Cocke home to the 'Change in his coach. He promises me +presently a dozen of silver salts, and proposes a business for which he +hath promised Mrs. Williams for my Lord Bruncker a set of plate shall +cost him L500 and me the like, which will be a good business indeed. +After done several businesses at the 'Change I home, and being washing +day dined upon cold meate, and so abroad by coach to Hales's, and there +sat till night, mightily pleased with my picture, which is now almost +finished. So by coach home, it being the fast day and to my chamber and +so after supper to bed, consulting how to send my wife into the country +to advise about Pall's marriage, which I much desire, and my father too, +and two or three offers are now in hand. + + + +5th. Up, and before office time to Lumbard Streete, and there at Viner's +was shewn the silver plates, made for Captain Cocke to present my Lord +Bruncker; and I chose a dozen of the same weight to be bespoke for +myself, which he told me yesterday he would give me on the same occasion. +To the office, where the falsenesse and impertinencies of Sir W. Pen +would make a man mad to think of. At noon would have avoided, but could +not, dining with my Lord Bruncker and his mistresse with Captain Cocke at +the Sun Taverne in Fish Streete, where a good dinner, but the woman do +tire me, and indeed how simply my Lord Bruncker, who is otherwise a wise +man, do proceed at the table in serving of Cocke, without any means of +understanding in his proposal, or defence when proposed, would make a man +think him a foole. After dinner home, where I find my wife hath on a +sudden, upon notice of a coach going away to-morrow, taken a resolution +of going in it to Brampton, we having lately thought it fit for her to go +to satisfy herself and me in the nature of the fellow that is there +proposed to my sister. So she to fit herself for her journey and I to +the office all the afternoon till late, and so home and late putting +notes to "It is decreed, nor shall thy fate, &c." and then to bed. The +plague is, to our great grief, encreased nine this week, though decreased +a few in the total. And this encrease runs through many parishes, which +makes us much fear the next year. + + + +6th. Up mighty betimes upon my wife's going this day toward Brampton. I +could not go to the coach with her, but W. Hewer did and hath leave from +me to go the whole day's journey with her. All the morning upon business +at the office, and at noon dined, and Mrs. Hunt coming lent her L5 on her +occasions and so carried her to Axe Yard end at Westminster and there +left her, a good and understanding woman, and her husband I perceive +thrives mightily in his business of the Excise. Thence to Mr. Hales and +there sat, and my picture almost finished, which by the word of Mr. and +Mrs. Pierce (who come in accidently) is mighty like, and I am sure I am +mightily pleased both in the thing and the posture. Thence with them +home a little, and so to White Hall and there met by agreement with Sir +Stephen Fox and Mr. Ashburnham, and discoursed the business of our Excise +tallys; the former being Treasurer of the guards, and the other Cofferer +of the King's household. I benefitted much by their discourse. We come +to no great conclusion upon our discourse, but parted, and I home, where +all things, methinks, melancholy in the absence of my wife. This day +great newes of the Swedes declaring for us against the Dutch, and, so far +as that, I believe it. After a little supper to bed. + + + +7th. Lay pretty long to-day, lying alone and thinking of several +businesses. So up to the office and there till noon. Thence with my +Lord Bruncker home by coach to Mrs. Williams's, where Bab. Allen and Dr. +Charleton dined. Bab and I sang and were mighty merry as we could be +there, where the rest of the company did not overplease. Thence took her +by coach to Hales's, and there find Mrs. Pierce and her boy and Mary. +She had done sitting the first time, and indeed her face is mighty like +at first dash. Thence took them to the cakehouse, and there called in +the coach for cakes and drank, and thence I carried them to my Lord +Chancellor's new house to shew them that, and all mightily pleased, +thence set each down at home, and so I home to the office, where about +ten of the clock W. Hewer comes to me to tell me that he has left my wife +well this morning at Bugden, which was great riding, and brings me a +letter from her. She is very well got thither, of which I am heartily +glad. After writing several letters, I home to supper and to bed. The +Parliament of which I was afraid of their calling us of the Navy to an +account of the expense of money and stores and wherein we were so little +ready to give them a good answer [will soon meet]. The Bishop of +Munster, every body says, is coming to peace with the Dutch, we having +not supplied him with the money promised him. + + + +8th (Lord's day). Up, and was in great trouble how to get a passage to +White Hall, it raining, and no coach to be had. So I walked to the Old +Swan, and there got a scull. To the Duke of Yorke, where we all met to +hear the debate between Sir Thomas Allen and Mr. Wayth; the former +complaining of the latter's ill usage of him at the late pay of his ship. +But a very sorry poor occasion he had for it. The Duke did determine it +with great judgement, chiding both, but encouraging Wayth to continue to +be a check to all captains in any thing to the King's right. And, +indeed, I never did see the Duke do any thing more in order, nor with +more judgement than he did pass the verdict in this business. The Court +full this morning of the newes of Tom Cheffin's death, the King's +closett-keeper. He was well last night as ever, flaying at tables in the +house, and not very ill this morning at six o'clock, yet dead before +seven: they think, of an imposthume in his breast. But it looks +fearfully among people nowadays, the plague, as we hear, encreasing every +where again. To the Chappell, but could not get in to hear well. But I +had the pleasure once in my life to see an Archbishop (this was of Yorke) +in a pulpit. Then at a loss how to get home to dinner, having promised +to carry Mrs. Hunt thither. At last got my Lord Hinchingbroke's coach, +he staying at Court; and so took her up in Axe-yard, and home and dined. +And good discourse of the old matters of the Protector and his family, +she having a relation to them. The Protector + + [Richard Cromwell subsequently returned to England, and resided in + strict privacy at Cheshunt for some years before his death in 1712] + +lives in France: spends about L500 per annum. Thence carried her home +again and then to Court and walked over to St. James's Chappell, thinking +to have heard a Jesuite preach, but come too late. So got a hackney and +home, and there to business. At night had Mercer comb my head and so to +supper, sing a psalm, and to bed. + + + +9th. Up betimes, and with my Joyner begun the making of the window in my +boy's chamber bigger, purposing it shall be a roome to eat and for having +musique in. To the office, where a meeting upon extraordinary business, +at noon to the 'Change about more, and then home with Creed and dined, +and then with him to the Committee of Tangier, where I got two or three +things done I had a mind to of convenience to me. Thence by coach to +Mrs. Pierce's, and with her and Knipp and Mrs. Pierce's boy and girle +abroad, thinking to have been merry at Chelsey; but being come almost to +the house by coach near the waterside, a house alone, I think the Swan, +a gentleman walking by called to us to tell us that the house was shut up +of the sicknesse. So we with great affright turned back, being holden to +the gentleman; and went away (I for my part in great disorder) for +Kensington, and there I spent about 30s. upon the jades with great +pleasure, and we sang finely and staid till about eight at night, the +night coming on apace and so set them down at Pierce's, and so away home, +where awhile with Sir W. Warren about business, and then to bed, + + + +10th. Up betimes, and many people to me about business. To the office +and there sat till noon, and then home and dined, and to the office again +all the afternoon, where we sat all, the first time of our resolution to +sit both forenoons and afternoons. Much business at night and then home, +and though late did see some work done by the plasterer to my new window +in the boy's chamber plastered. Then to supper, and after having my head +combed by the little girle to bed. Bad news that the plague is decreased +in the general again and two increased in the sickness. + + + +11th. To White Hall, having first set my people to worke about setting +me rails upon the leads of my wife's closett, a thing I have long +designed, but never had a fit opportunity till now. After having done +with the Duke of Yorke, I to Hales's, where there was nothing found to be +done more to my picture, but the musique, which now pleases me mightily, +it being painted true. Thence home, and after dinner to Gresham College, +where a great deal of do and formality in choosing of the Council and +Officers. I had three votes to be of the Council, who am but a stranger, +nor expected any. So my Lord Bruncker being confirmed President I home, +where I find to my great content my rails up upon my leads. To the +office and did a little business, and then home and did a great jobb at +my Tangier accounts, which I find are mighty apt to run into confusion, +my head also being too full of other businesses and pleasures. This noon +Bagwell's wife come to me to the office, after her being long at +Portsmouth. After supper, and past 12 at night to bed. + + + +12th. Up and to the office, where all the morning. At noon dined at +home and so to my office again, and taking a turne in the garden my Lady +Pen comes to me and takes me into her house, where I find her daughter +and a pretty lady of her acquaintance, one Mrs. Lowder, sister, I +suppose, of her servant Lowder's, with whom I, notwithstanding all my +resolution to follow business close this afternoon, did stay talking and +playing the foole almost all the afternoon, and there saw two or three +foolish sorry pictures of her doing, but very ridiculous compared to what +my wife do. She grows mighty homely and looks old. Thence ashamed at +myself for this losse of time, yet not able to leave it, I to the office, +where my Lord Bruncker come; and he and I had a little fray, he being, I +find, a very peevish man, if he be denied what he expects, and very +simple in his argument in this business (about signing a warrant for +paying Sir Thos. Allen L1000 out of the groats); but we were pretty good +friends before we parted, and so we broke up and I to the writing my +letters by the post, and so home to supper and to bed. + + + +13th. Up, being called up by my wife's brother, for whom I have got a +commission from the Duke of Yorke for Muster-Master of one of the +divisions, of which Harman is Rere-Admirall, of which I am glad as well +as he. After I had acquainted him with it, and discoursed a little of +it, I went forth and took him with me by coach to the Duke of Albemarle, +who being not up, I took a walk with Balty into the Parke, and to the +Queene's Chappell, it being Good Friday, where people were all upon their +knees very silent; but, it seems, no masse this day. So back and waited +on the Duke and received some commands of his, and so by coach to Mr. +Hales's, where it is pretty strange to see that his second doing, I mean +the second time of her sitting, is less like Mrs. Pierce than the first, +and yet I am confident will be most like her, for he is so curious that I +do not see how it is possible for him to mistake. Here he and I +presently resolved of going to White Hall, to spend an houre in the +galleries there among the pictures, and we did so to my great +satisfaction, he shewing me the difference in the payntings, and when I +come more and more to distinguish and observe the workmanship, I do not +find so many good things as I thought there was, but yet great difference +between the works of some and others; and, while my head and judgment was +full of these, I would go back again to his house to see his pictures, +and indeed, though, I think, at first sight some difference do open, yet +very inconsiderably but that I may judge his to be very good pictures. +Here we fell into discourse of my picture, and I am for his putting out +the Landskipp, though he says it is very well done, yet I do judge it +will be best without it, and so it shall be put out, and be made a plain +sky like my wife's picture, which will be very noble. Thence called upon +an old woman in Pannier Ally to agree for ruling of some paper for me and +she will do it pretty cheap. Here I found her have a very comely black +mayde to her servant, which I liked very well. So home to dinner and to +see my joiner do the bench upon my leads to my great content. After +dinner I abroad to carry paper to my old woman, and so to Westminster +Hall, and there beyond my intention or design did see and speak with +Betty Howlett, at her father's still, and it seems they carry her to her +own house to begin the world with her young husband on Monday next, +Easter Monday. I please myself with the thoughts of her neighbourhood, +for I love the girl mightily. Thence home, and thither comes Mr. Houblon +and a brother, with whom I evened for the charter parties of their ships +for Tangier, and paid them the third advance on their freight to full +satisfaction, and so, they being gone, comes Creed and with him till past +one in the morning, evening his accounts till my head aked and I was fit +for nothing, however, coming at last luckily to see through and settle +all to my mind, it did please me mightily, and so with my mind at rest to +bed, and he with me and hard to sleep. + + + +14th. Up about seven and finished our papers, he and I, and I delivered +him tallys and some money and so away I to the office, where we sat all +the morning. At noon dined at home and Creed with me, then parted, and I +to the office, and anon called thence by Sir H. Cholmley and he and I to +my chamber, and there settled our matters of accounts, and did give him +tallys and money to clear him, and so he being gone and all these +accounts cleared I shall be even with the King, so as to make a very +clear and short account in a very few days, which pleases me very well. +Here he and I discoursed a great while about Tangier, and he do convince +me, as things are now ordered by my Lord Bellasses and will be by Norwood +(men that do only mind themselves), the garrison will never come to any +thing, and he proposes his owne being governor, which in truth I do think +will do very well, and that he will bring it to something. He gone I to +my office, where to write letters late, and then home and looked over a +little more my papers of accounts lately passed, and so to bed. + + + +15th (Easter Day). Up and by water to Westminster to the Swan to lay +down my cloak, and there found Sarah alone, with whom after I had staid +awhile I to White Hall Chapel, and there coming late could hear nothing +of the Bishop of London's sermon. So walked into the Park to the +Queene's chappell, and there heard a good deal of their mass, and some of +their musique, which is not so contemptible, I think, as our people would +make it, it pleasing me very well; and, indeed, better than the anthem I +heard afterwards at White Hall, at my coming back. I staid till the King +went down to receive the Sacrament, and stood in his closett with a great +many others, and there saw him receive it, which I did never see the +manner of before. But I do see very little difference between the degree +of the ceremonies used by our people in the administration thereof, and +that in the Roman church, saving that methought our Chappell was not so +fine, nor the manner of doing it so glorious, as it was in the Queene's +chappell. Thence walked to Mr. Pierces, and there dined, I alone with +him and her and their children: very good company and good discourse, +they being able to tell me all the businesses of the Court; the amours +and the mad doings that are there; how for certain Mrs. Stewart do do +everything with the King that a mistress should do; and that the King +hath many bastard children that are known and owned, besides the Duke of +Monmouth. After a great deale of this discourse I walked thence into the +Parke with her little boy James with me, who is the wittiest boy and the +best company in the world, and so back again through White Hall both +coming and going, and people did generally take him to be my boy and some +would aske me. Thence home to Mr. Pierce again; and he being gone forth, +she and I and the children out by coach to Kensington, to where we were +the other day, and with great pleasure stayed till night; and were mighty +late getting home, the horses tiring and stopping at every twenty steps. +By the way we discoursed of Mrs. Clerke, who, she says, is grown mighty +high, fine, and proud, but tells me an odd story how Captain Rolt did see +her the other day accost a gentleman in Westminster Hall and went with +him, and he dogged them to Moorefields to a little blind bawdy house, and +there staid watching three hours and they come not out, so could stay no +longer but left them there, and he is sure it was she, he knowing her +well and describing her very clothes to Mrs. Pierce, which she knows are +what she wears. Seeing them well at home I homeward, but the horses at +Ludgate Hill made a final stop; so there I 'lighted, and with a linke, it +being about 10 o'clock, walked home, and after singing a Psalm or two and +supped to bed. + + + +16th. Up, and set my people, Mercer, W. Hewer, Tom and the girle at work +at ruling and stitching my ruled book for the Muster-Masters, and I hard +toward the settling of my Tangier accounts. At noon dined alone, the +girl Mercer taking physique can eat nothing, and W. Hewer went forth to +dinner. So up to my accounts again, and then comes Mrs. Mercer and fair +Mrs. Turner, a neighbour of hers that my wife knows by their means, to +visit me. I staid a great while with them, being taken with this pretty +woman, though a mighty silly, affected citizen woman she is. Then I left +them to come to me at supper anon, and myself out by coach to the old +woman in Pannyer Alley for my ruled papers, and they are done, and I am +much more taken with her black maid Nan. Thence further to Westminster, +thinking to have met Mrs. Martin, but could not find her, so back and +called at Kirton's to borrow 10s. to pay for my ruled papers, I having +not money in my pocket enough to pay for them. But it was a pretty +consideration that on this occasion I was considering where I could with +most confidence in a time of need borrow 10s., and I protest I could not +tell where to do it and with some trouble and fear did aske it here. So +that God keepe me from want, for I shall be in a very bad condition to +helpe myself if ever I should come to want or borrow. Thence called for +my papers and so home, and there comes Mrs. Turner and Mercer and supped +with me, and well pleased I was with their company, but especially Mrs. +Turner's, she being a very pretty woman of person and her face pretty +good, the colour of her haire very fine and light. They staid with me +talking till about eleven o'clock and so home, W. Hewer, who supped with +me, leading them home. So I to bed. + + + +17th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon dined at +home, my brother Balty with me, who is fitting himself to go to sea. So +after dinner to my accounts and did proceed a good way in settling them, +and thence to the office, where all the afternoon late, writing my +letters and doing business, but, Lord! what a conflict I had with myself, +my heart tempting me 1000 times to go abroad about some pleasure or +other, notwithstanding the weather foule. However I reproached myself +with my weaknesse in yielding so much my judgment to my sense, and +prevailed with difficulty and did not budge, but stayed within, and, to +my great content, did a great deale of business, and so home to supper +and to bed. This day I am told that Moll Davis, the pretty girle, that +sang and danced so well at the Duke's house, is dead. + + + +18th. [Up] and by coach with Sir W. Batten and Sir Thos. Allen to White +Hall, and there after attending the Duke as usual and there concluding of +many things preparatory to the Prince and Generall's going to sea on +Monday next, Sir W. Batten and Sir T. Allen and I to Mr. Lilly's, the +painter's; and there saw the heads, some finished, and all begun, of the +Flaggmen in the late great fight with the Duke of Yorke against the +Dutch. The Duke of Yorke hath them done to hang in his chamber, and very +finely they are done indeed. Here is the Prince's, Sir G. Askue's, Sir +Thomas Teddiman's, Sir Christopher Mings, Sir Joseph Jordan, Sir William +Barkeley, Sir Thomas Allen, and Captain Harman's, as also the Duke of +Albemarle's; and will be my Lord Sandwich's, Sir W. Pen's, and Sir Jeremy +Smith's. Being very well satisfied with this sight, and other good +pictures hanging in the house, we parted, and I left them, and [to] pass +away a little time went to the printed picture seller's in the way thence +to the Exchange, and there did see great plenty of fine prints; but did +not buy any, only a print of an old pillar in Rome made for a Navall +Triumph, + + [The columna rostrata erected in the Forum to C. Duilius, who + obtained a triumph for the first naval victory over the + Carthaginians, B.C. 261. Part of the column was discovered in the + ruins of the Forum near the Arch of Septimius, and transferred to + the Capitol.--B.] + +which for the antiquity of the shape of ships, I buy and keepe. Thence +to the Exchange, that is, the New Exchange, and looked over some play +books and intend to get all the late new plays. So to Westminster, and +there at the Swan got a bit of meat and dined alone; and so away toward +King's Street, and spying out of my coach Jane that lived heretofore at +Jevons, my barber's, I went a little further and stopped, and went on +foot back, and overtook her, taking water at Westminster Bridge, and +spoke to her, and she telling me whither she was going I over the water +and met her at Lambeth, and there drank with her; she telling me how he +that was so long her servant, did prove to be a married man, though her +master told me (which she denies) that he had lain with her several times +in his house. There left her 'sans essayer alcune cose con elle', and so +away by boat to the 'Change, and took coach and to Mr. Hales, where he +would have persuaded me to have had the landskipp stand in my picture, +but I like it not and will have it otherwise, which I perceive he do not +like so well, however is so civil as to say it shall be altered. Thence +away to Mrs. Pierces, who was not at home, but gone to my house to visit +me with Mrs. Knipp. I therefore took up the little girle Betty and my +mayde Mary that now lives there and to my house, where they had been but +were gone, so in our way back again met them coming back again to my +house in Cornehill, and there stopped laughing at our pretty misfortunes, +and so I carried them to Fish Streete, and there treated them with prawns +and lobsters, and it beginning to grow darke we away, but the jest is our +horses would not draw us up the Hill, but we were fain to 'light and stay +till the coachman had made them draw down to the bottom of the Hill, +thereby warming their legs, and then they came up cheerfully enough, and +we got up and I carried them home, and coming home called at my paper +ruler's and there found black Nan, which pleases me mightily, and having +saluted her again and again away home and to bed . . . . . In all my +ridings in the coach and intervals my mind hath been full these three +weeks of setting in musique "It is decreed, &c." + + + +19th. Lay long in bed, so to the office, where all the morning. At noon +dined with Sir W. Warren at the Pope's Head. So back to the office, and +there met with the Commissioners of the Ordnance, where Sir W. Pen being +almost drunk vexed me, and the more because Mr. Chichly observed it with +me, and it was a disparagement to the office. They gone I to my office. +Anon comes home my wife from Brampton, not looked for till Saturday, +which will hinder me of a little pleasure, but I am glad of her coming. +She tells me Pall's business with Ensum is like to go on, but I must +give, and she consents to it, another 100. She says she doubts my father +is in want of money, for rents come in mighty slowly. My mother grows +very unpleasant and troublesome and my father mighty infirm through his +old distemper, which altogether makes me mighty thoughtfull. Having +heard all this and bid her welcome I to the office, where late, and so +home, and after a little more talk with my wife, she to bed and I after +her. + + + +20th. Up, and after an houre or two's talke with my poor wife, who gives +me more and more content every day than other, I abroad by coach to +Westminster, and there met with Mrs. Martin, and she and I over the water +to Stangold, and after a walke in the fields to the King's Head, and +there spent an houre or two with pleasure with her, and eat a tansy and +so parted, and I to the New Exchange, there to get a list of all the +modern plays which I intend to collect and to have them bound up +together. Thence to Mr. Hales's, and there, though against his +particular mind, I had my landskipp done out, and only a heaven made in +the roome of it, which though it do not please me thoroughly now it is +done, yet it will do better than as it was before. Thence to Paul's +Churchyarde, and there bespoke some new books, and so to my ruling +woman's and there did see my work a doing, and so home and to my office a +little, but was hindered of business I intended by being sent for to Mrs. +Turner, who desired some discourse with me and lay her condition before +me, which is bad and poor. Sir Thomas Harvey intends again to have +lodgings in her house, which she prays me to prevent if I can, which I +promised. Thence to talke generally of our neighbours. I find she tells +me the faults of all of them, and their bad words of me and my wife, and +indeed do discover more than I thought. So I told her, and so will +practise that I will have nothing to do with any of them. She ended all +with a promise of shells to my wife, very fine ones indeed, and seems to +have great respect and honour for my wife. So home and to bed. + + + +21st. Up betimes and to the office, there to prepare some things against +the afternoon for discourse about the business of the pursers and +settling the pursers' matters of the fleete according to my proposition. +By and by the office sat, and they being up I continued at the office to +finish my matters against the meeting before the Duke this afternoon, so +home about three to clap a bit of meate in my mouth, and so away with Sir +W. Batten to White Hall, and there to the Duke, but he being to go abroad +to take the ayre, he dismissed us presently without doing any thing till +to-morrow morning. So my Lord Bruncker and I down to walk in the garden +[at White Hall], it being a mighty hot and pleasant day; and there was +the King, who, among others, talked to us a little; and among other +pretty things, he swore merrily that he believed the ketch that Sir W. +Batten bought the last year at Colchester was of his own getting, it was +so thick to its length. Another pleasant thing he said of Christopher +Pett, commending him that he will not alter his moulds of his ships upon +any man's advice; "as," says he, "Commissioner Taylor I fear do of his +New London, that he makes it differ, in hopes of mending the Old London, +built by him." "For," says he, "he finds that God hath put him into the +right, and so will keep in it while he is in." "And," says the King, +"I am sure it must be God put him in, for no art of his owne ever could +have done it;" for it seems he cannot give a good account of what he do +as an artist. Thence with my Lord Bruncker in his coach to Hide Parke, +the first time I have been there this year. There the King was; but I +was sorry to see my Lady Castlemaine, for the mourning forceing all the +ladies to go in black, with their hair plain and without any spots, I +find her to be a much more ordinary woman than ever I durst have thought +she was; and, indeed, is not so pretty as Mrs. Stewart, whom I saw there +also. Having done at the Park he set me down at the Exchange, and I by +coach home and there to my letters, and they being done, to writing a +large letter about the business of the pursers to Sir W. Batten against +to-morrow's discourse, and so home and to bed. + + + +22nd (Lord's day). Up, and put on my new black coate, long down to my +knees, and with Sir W. Batten to White Hall, where all in deep mourning +for the Queene's mother. There had great discourse, before the Duke and +Sir W. Coventry begun the discourse of the day about the purser's +business, which I seconded, and with great liking to the Duke, whom +however afterward my Lord Bruncker and Sir W. Pen did stop by some thing +they said, though not much to the purpose, yet because our proposition +had some appearance of certain charge to the King it was ruled that for +this year we should try another the same in every respect with ours, +leaving out one circumstance of allowing the pursers the victuals of all +men short of the complement. I was very well satisfied with it and am +contented to try it, wishing it may prove effectual. Thence away with +Sir W. Batten in his coach home, in our way he telling me the certaine +newes, which was afterward confirmed to me this day by several, that the +Bishopp of Munster has made a league [with] the Hollanders, and that our +King and Court are displeased much at it: moreover we are not sure of +Sweden. I home to my house, and there dined mighty well, my poor wife +and Mercer and I. So back again walked to White Hall, and there to and +again in the Parke, till being in the shoemaker's stockes.--[A cant +expression for tight shoes.]--I was heartily weary, yet walked however +to the Queene's Chappell at St. James's, and there saw a little mayde +baptized; many parts and words whereof are the same with that of our +Liturgy, and little that is more ceremonious than ours. Thence walked to +Westminster and eat a bit of bread and drank, and so to Worster House, +and there staid, and saw the Council up, and then back, walked to the +Cockepitt, and there took my leave of the Duke of Albemarle, who is going +to-morrow to sea. He seems mightily pleased with me, which I am glad of; +but I do find infinitely my concernment in being careful to appear to the +King and Duke to continue my care of his business, and to be found +diligent as I used to be. Thence walked wearily as far as Fleet Streete +and so there met a coach and home to supper and to bed, having sat a +great while with Will Joyce, who come to see me, and it is the first time +I have seen him at my house since the plague, and find him the same +impertinent, prating coxcombe that ever he was. + + + +23rd. Being mighty weary last night, lay long this morning, then up and +to the office, where Sir W. Batten, Lord Bruncker and I met, and toward +noon took coach and to White Hall, where I had the opportunity to take +leave of the Prince, and again of the Duke of Albemarle; and saw them +kiss the King's hands and the Duke's; and much content, indeed, there +seems to be in all people at their going to sea, and [they] promise +themselves much good from them. This morning the House of Parliament do +meet, only to adjourne again till winter. The plague, I hear, encreases +in the towne much, and exceedingly in the country everywhere. Thence +walked to Westminster Hall, and after a little stay, there being nothing +now left to keep me there, Betty Howlett being gone, I took coach and +away home, in my way asking in two or three places the worth of pearles, +I being now come to the time that I have long ago promised my wife a +necklace. Dined at home and took Balty with me to Hales's to show him +his sister's picture, and thence to Westminster, and there I to the Swan +and drank, and so back again alone to Hales's and there met my wife and +Mercer, Mrs. Pierce being sitting, and two or three idle people of her +acquaintance more standing by. Her picture do come on well. So staid +until she had done and then set her down at home, and my wife and I and +the girle by coach to Islington, and there eat and drank in the coach and +so home, and there find a girle sent at my desire by Mrs. Michell of +Westminster Hall, to be my girle under the cooke-mayde, Susan. But I am +a little dissatisfied that the girle, though young, is taller and bigger +than Su, and will not, I fear, be under her command, which will trouble +me, and the more because she is recommended by a friend that I would not +have any unkindness with, but my wife do like very well of her. So to my +accounts and journall at my chamber, there being bonfires in the streete, +for being St. George's day, and the King's Coronation, and the day of the +Prince and Duke's going to sea. So having done my business, to bed. + + +24th. Up, and presently am told that the girle that came yesterday hath +packed up her things to be gone home again to Enfield, whence she come, +which I was glad of, that we might be at first rid of her altogether +rather than be liable to her going away hereafter. The reason was that +London do not agree with her. So I did give her something, and away she +went. By and by comes Mr. Bland to me, the first time since his coming +from Tangier, and tells me, in short, how all things are out of order +there, and like to be; and the place never likely to come to anything +while the soldiers govern all, and do not encourage trade. He gone I to +the office, where all the morning, and so to dinner, and there in the +afternoon very busy all day till late, and so home to supper and to bed. + + + +25th. Up, and to White Hall to the Duke as usual, and did our business +there. So I away to Westminster (Batty with me, whom I had presented to +Sir W. Coventry) and there told Mrs. Michell of her kinswoman's running +away, which troubled her. So home, and there find another little girle +come from my wife's mother, likely to do well. After dinner I to the +office, where Mr. Prin come to meet about the Chest business; and till +company come, did discourse with me a good while alone in the garden +about the laws of England, telling me the many faults in them; and among +others, their obscurity through multitude of long statutes, which he is +about to abstract out of all of a sort; and as he lives, and Parliaments +come, get them put into laws, and the other statutes repealed, and then +it will be a short work to know the law, which appears a very noble good +thing. By and by Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Rider met with us, and we did +something to purpose about the Chest, and hope we shall go on to do so. +They up, I to present Batty to Sir W. Pen, who at my entreaty did write a +most obliging letter to Harman to use him civilly, but the dissembling of +the rogue is such, that it do not oblige me at all. So abroad to my +ruler's of my books, having, God forgive me! a mind to see Nan there, +which I did, and so back again, and then out again to see Mrs. Bettons, +who were looking out of the window as I come through Fenchurch Streete. +So that indeed I am not, as I ought to be, able to command myself in the +pleasures of my eye. So home, and with my wife and Mercer spent our +evening upon our new leads by our bedchamber singing, while Mrs. Mary +Batelier looked out of the window to us, and we talked together, and at +last bid good night. However, my wife and I staid there talking of +several things with great pleasure till eleven o'clock at night, and it +is a convenience I would not want for any thing in the world, it being, +methinks, better than almost any roome in my house. So having, supped +upon the leads, to bed. The plague, blessed be God! is decreased sixteen +this week. + + + +26th. To the office, where all the morning. At noon home to dinner, and +in the afternoon to my office again, where very busy all the afternoon +and particularly about fitting of Mr. Yeabsly's accounts for the view of +the Lords Commissioners for Tangier. At night home to supper and to bed. + + + +27th. Up (taking Balty with me, who lay at my house last [night] in +order to his going away to-day to sea with the pursers of the Henery, +whom I appointed to call him), abroad to many several places about +several businesses, to my Lord Treasurer's, Westminster, and I know not +where. At noon to the 'Change a little, and there bespoke some maps to +hang in my new roome (my boy's roome) which will be very-pretty. Home to +dinner, and after dinner to the hanging up of maps, and other things for +the fitting of the roome, and now it will certainly be one of the +handsomest and most usefull roomes in my house. So that what with this +room and the room on my leads my house is half as good again as it was. +All this afternoon about this till I was so weary and it was late I could +do no more but finished the room. So I did not get out to the office all +the day long. At night spent a good deale of time with my wife and +Mercer teaching them a song, and so after supper to bed. + + + +28th. Up and to the office. At noon dined at home. After dinner abroad +with my wife to Hales's to see only our pictures and Mrs. Pierce's, which +I do not think so fine as I might have expected it. My wife to her +father's, to carry him some ruling work, which I have advised her to let +him do. It will get him some money. She also is to look out again for +another little girle, the last we had being also gone home the very same +day she came. She was also to look after a necklace of pearle, which she +is mighty busy about, I being contented to lay out L80 in one for her. +I home to my business. By and by comes my wife and presently after, the +tide serving, Balty took leave of us, going to sea, and upon very good +terms, to be Muster-Master of a squadron, which will be worth L100 this +yeare to him, besides keeping him the benefit of his pay in the Guards. +He gone, I very busy all the afternoon till night, among other things, +writing a letter to my brother John, the first I have done since my being +angry with him, and that so sharpe a one too that I was sorry almost to +send it when I had wrote it, but it is preparatory to my being kind to +him, and sending for him up hither when he hath passed his degree of +Master of Arts. So home to supper and to bed. + + + +29th (Lord's day). Up, and to church, where Mr. Mills, a lazy, simple +sermon upon the Devil's having no right to any thing in this world. So +home to dinner, and after dinner I and my boy down by water to Redriffe +and thence walked to Mr. Evelyn's, where I walked in his garden till he +come from Church, with great pleasure reading Ridly's discourse, all my +way going and coming, upon the Civill and Ecclesiastical Law. He being +come home, he and I walked together in the garden with mighty pleasure, +he being a very ingenious man; and the more I know him, the more I love +him. His chief business with me was to propose having my cozen Thomas +Pepys in Commission of the Peace, which I do not know what to say to till +I speake with him, but should be glad of it and will put him upon it. +Thence walked back again reading and so took water and home, where I find +my uncle and aunt Wight, and supped with them upon my leads with mighty +pleasure and mirthe, and they being gone I mighty weary to bed, after +having my haire of my head cut shorter, even close to my skull, for +coolnesse, it being mighty hot weather. + + + +30th. Up and, being ready, to finish my journall for four days past. To +the office, where busy all the morning. At noon dined alone, my wife +gone abroad to conclude about her necklace of pearle. I after dinner to +even all my accounts of this month; and, bless God! I find myself, +notwithstanding great expences of late; viz. L80 now to pay for a +necklace; near L40 for a set of chairs and couch; near L40 for my three +pictures: yet I do gather, and am now worth L5200. My wife comes home by +and by, and hath pitched upon a necklace with three rows, which is a very +good one, and L80 is the price. In the evening, having finished my +accounts to my full content and joyed that I have evened them so plainly, +remembering the trouble my last accounts did give me by being let alone a +little longer than ordinary, by which I am to this day at a loss for L50, +I hope I shall never commit such an error again, for I cannot devise +where the L50 should be, but it is plain I ought to be worth L50 more +than I am, and blessed be God the error was no greater. In the evening +with my [wife] and Mercer by coach to take the ayre as far as Bow, and +eat and drank in the coach by the way and with much pleasure and pleased +with my company. At night home and up to the leads, but were contrary to +expectation driven down again with a stinke by Sir W. Pen's shying of a +shitten pot in their house of office close by, which do trouble me for +fear it do hereafter annoy me. So down to sing a little and then to bed. +So ends this month with great layings-out. Good health and gettings, and +advanced well in the whole of my estate, for which God make me thankful. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +Ashamed at myself for this losse of time +Begun to write idle and from the purpose +Counterfeit mirthe and pleasure with them, but had but little +Driven down again with a stinke by Sir W. Pen's shying of a pot +Great newes of the Swedes declaring for us against the Dutch +He has been inconvenienced by being too free in discourse +Mass, and some of their musique, which is not so contemptible +Reading over my dear "Faber fortunae," of my Lord Bacon's +Thence to Mrs. Martin's, and did what I would with her +Through want of money and good conduct +Too late for them to enjoy it with any pleasure +Tooke my wife well dressed into the Hall to see and be seen + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v48 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + diff --git a/old/sp49g10.zip b/old/sp49g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..825125b --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp49g10.zip |