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+Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, May/June 1666, by Samuel Pepys
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+Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, May/June 1666
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+Author: Samuel Pepys
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+Release Date: December 1, 2004 [EBook #4165]
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, ***
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+Produced by David Widger
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+                THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S.
+
+            CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY
+
+    TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY
+ MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW
+                      AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
+
+                              (Unabridged)
+
+                      WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES
+
+                        EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY
+
+                        HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A.
+
+                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
+                                MAY & JUNE
+                                  1666
+
+May 1st.  Up, and all the morning at the office.  At noon, my cozen Thomas
+Pepys did come to me, to consult about the business of his being a justice
+of the Peace, which he is much against; and among other reasons, tells me,
+as a confidant, that he is not free to exercise punishment according to
+the Act against Quakers and other people, for religion.  Nor do he
+understand Latin, and so is not capable of the place as formerly, now all
+warrants do run in Latin.  Nor is he in Kent, though he be of Deptford
+parish, his house standing in Surry.  However, I did bring him to incline
+towards it, if he be pressed to take it.  I do think it may be some repute
+to me to have my kinsman in Commission there, specially if he behave
+himself to content in the country.  He gone and my wife gone abroad, I out
+also to and fro, to see and be seen, among others to find out in Thames
+Streete where Betty Howlett is come to live, being married to Mrs.
+Michell's son; which I did about the Old Swan, but did not think fit to go
+thither or see them.  Thence by water to Redriffe, reading a new French
+book my Lord Bruncker did give me to-day, "L'Histoire Amoureuse des
+Gaules,"
+
+     [This book, which has frequently been reprinted, was written by
+     Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, for the amusement of his mistress,
+     Madame de Montglas, and consists of sketches of the chief ladies of
+     the court, in which he libelled friends and foes alike.  These
+     circulated in manuscript, and were printed at Liege in 1665.  Louis
+     XIV. was so much annoyed with the book that he sent the author to
+     the Bastille for over a year.]
+
+being a pretty libel against the amours of the Court of France.  I walked
+up and down Deptford yarde, where I had not been since I come from living
+at Greenwich, which is some months.  There I met with Mr. Castle, and was
+forced against my will to have his company back with me.  So we walked and
+drank at Halfway house and so to his house, where I drank a cupp of syder,
+and so home, where I find Mr. Norbury newly come to town to see us.  After
+he gone my wife tells me the ill newes that our Susan is sicke and gone to
+bed, with great pain in her head and back, which troubles us all.  However
+we to bed expecting what to-morrow would produce.  She hath we conceive
+wrought a little too much, having neither maid nor girle to help her.
+
+2nd.  Up and find the girle better, which we are glad of, and with Sir W.
+Batten to White Hall by coach.  There attended the Duke as usual.  Thence
+with Captain Cocke, whom I met there, to London, to my office, to consult
+about serving him in getting him some money, he being already tired of his
+slavery to my Lord Bruncker, and the charge it costs him, and gets no
+manner of courtesy from him for it.  He gone I home to dinner, find the
+girle yet better, so no fear of being forced to send her out of doors as
+we intended.  After dinner.  I by water to White Hall to a Committee for
+Tangier upon Mr. Yeabsly's business, which I got referred to a Committee
+to examine.  Thence among other stops went to my ruler's house, and there
+staid a great while with Nan idling away the afternoon with pleasure.  By
+and by home, so to my office a little, and then home to supper with my
+wife, the girle being pretty well again, and then to bed.
+
+3rd.  Up, and all the morning at the office.  At noon home, and contrary
+to my expectation find my little girle Su worse than she was, which
+troubled me, and the more to see my wife minding her paynting and not
+thinking of her house business, this being the first day of her beginning
+the second time to paynt.  This together made me froward that I was angry
+with my wife, and would not have Browne to think to dine at my table with
+me always, being desirous to have my house to myself without a stranger
+and a mechanique to be privy to all my concernments.  Upon this my wife
+and I had a little disagreement, but it ended by and by, and then to send
+up and down for a nurse to take the girle home and would have given
+anything.  I offered to the only one that we could get 20s. per weeke, and
+we to find clothes, and bedding and physique, and would have given 30s.,
+as demanded, but desired an houre or two's time.  So I away by water to
+Westminster, and there sent for the girle's mother to Westminster Hall to
+me; she came and undertakes to get her daughter a lodging and nurse at
+next doore to her, though she dare not, for the parish's sake, whose
+sexton her husband is, to [have] her into her owne house.  Thence home,
+calling at my bookseller's and other trifling places, and in the evening
+the mother come and with a nurse she has got, who demanded and I did agree
+at 10s. per weeke to take her, and so she away, and my house mighty
+uncouth, having so few in it, and we shall want a servant or two by it,
+and the truth is my heart was a little sad all the afternoon and jealous
+of myself.  But she went, and we all glad of it, and so a little to the
+office, and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+4th.  Up and by water to Westminster to Charing Cross (Mr. Gregory for
+company with me) to Sir Ph. Warwicke's, who was not within.  So I took
+Gregory to White Hall, and there spoke with Joseph Williamson to have
+leave in the next Gazette to have a general pay for the Chest at Chatham
+declared upon such a day in June.  Here I left Gregory, and I by coach
+back again to Sir Philip Warwicke's, and in the Park met him walking, so
+discoursed about the business of striking a quarter's tallys for Tangier,
+due this day, which he hath promised to get my Lord Treasurer's warrant
+for, and so away hence, and to Mr. Hales, to see what he had done to Mrs.
+Pierces picture, and whatever he pretends, I do not think it will ever be
+so good a picture as my wife's.  Thence home to the office a little and
+then to dinner, and had a great fray with my wife again about Browne's
+coming to teach her to paynt, and sitting with me at table, which I will
+not yield to.  I do thoroughly believe she means no hurte in it; but very
+angry we were, and I resolved all into my having my will done, without
+disputing, be the reason what it will; and so I will have it.  After
+dinner abroad again and to the New Exchange about play books, and to White
+Hall, thinking to have met Sir G. Carteret, but failed.  So to the Swan at
+Westminster, and there spent a quarter of an hour with Jane, and thence
+away home, and my wife coming home by and by (having been at her mother's
+to pray her to look out for a mayde for her) by coach into the fields to
+Bow, and so home back in the evening, late home, and after supper to bed,
+being much out of order for lack of somebody in the room of Su.  This
+evening, being weary of my late idle courses, and the little good I shall
+do the King or myself in the office, I bound myself to very strict rules
+till Whitsunday next.
+
+5th.  At the office all the morning.  After dinner upon a letter from the
+fleete from Sir W. Coventry I did do a great deale of worke for the
+sending away of the victuallers that are in the river, &c., too much to
+remember.  Till 10 at night busy about letters and other necessary matter
+of the office.  About 11 home, it being a fine moonshine and so my wife
+and Mercer come into the garden, and, my business being done, we sang till
+about twelve at night, with mighty pleasure to ourselves and neighbours,
+by their casements opening, and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+6th (Lord's day).  To church.  Home, and after dinner walked to White
+Hall, thinking to have seen Mr. Coventry, but failed, and therefore walked
+clear on foot back again.  Busy till night in fitting my Victualling
+papers in order, which I through my multitude of business and pleasure
+have not examined these several months.  Walked back again home, and so to
+the Victualling Office, where I met Mr. Gawden, and have received some
+satisfaction, though it be short of what I expected, and what might be
+expected from me.  So after evened I have gone, and so to supper and to
+bed.
+
+7th.  Up betimes to set my Victualling papers in order against Sir W.
+Coventry comes, which indeed makes me very melancholy, being conscious
+that I am much to seeke in giving a good answer to his queries about the
+Victualling business.  At the office mighty busy, and brought myself into
+a pretty plausible condition before Sir W. Coventry come, and did give him
+a pretty tolerable account of every thing and went with him into the
+Victualling office, where we sat and examined his businesses and state of
+the victualling of the fleete, which made me in my heart blushe that I
+could say no more to it than I did or could.  But I trust in God I shall
+never be in that condition again.  We parted, and I with pretty good
+grace, and so home to dinner, where my wife troubled more and more with
+her swollen cheek.  So to dinner, my sister-in-law with us, who I find
+more and more a witty woman; and then I to my Lord Treasurer's and the
+Exchequer about my Tangier businesses, and with my content passed by all
+things and persons without so much as desiring any stay or loss of time
+with them, being by strong vowe obliged on no occasion to stay abroad but
+my publique offices.  So home again, where I find Mrs. Pierce and Mrs.
+Ferrers come to see my wife.  I staid a little with them, being full of
+business, and so to the office, where busy till late at night and so weary
+and a little conscious of my failures to-day, yet proud that the day is
+over without more observation on Sir W. Coventry's part, and so to bed and
+to sleepe soundly.
+
+8th.  Up, and to the office all the morning.  At noon dined at home, my
+wife's cheek bad still.  After dinner to the office again and thither
+comes Mr. Downing, the anchor-smith, who had given me 50 pieces in gold
+the last month to speake for him to Sir W. Coventry, for his being smith
+at Deptford; but after I had got it granted to him, he finds himself not
+fit to go on with it, so lets it fall.  So has no benefit of my motion. I
+therefore in honour and conscience took him home the money, and, though
+much to my grief, did yet willingly and forcibly force him to take it
+again, the poor man having no mind to have it.  However, I made him take
+it, and away he went, and I glad to have given him so much cause to speake
+well of me.  So to my office again late, and then home to supper to a good
+lobster with my wife, and then a little to my office again, and so to bed.
+
+9th.  Up by five o'clock, which I have not a long time done, and down the
+river by water to Deptford, among other things to examine the state of
+Ironworke, in order to the doing something with reference to Downing that
+may induce him to returne me the 50 pieces.  Walked back again reading of
+my Civill Law Book, and so home and by coach to White Hall, where we did
+our usual business before the Duke, and heard the Duke commend Deane's
+ship "The Rupert" before "The Defyance," built lately by Castle, in
+hearing of Sir W. Batten, which pleased me mightily.  Thence by water to
+Westminster, and there looked after my Tangier order, and so by coach to
+Mrs. Pierces, thinking to have gone to Hales's, but she was not ready, so
+away home and to dinner, and after dinner out by coach to Lovett's to have
+forwarded what I have doing there, but find him and his pretty wife gone
+to my house to show me something.  So away to my Lord Treasurer's, and
+thence to Pierces, where I find Knipp, and I took them to Hales's to see
+our pictures finished, which are very pretty, but I like not hers half so
+well as I thought at first, it being not so like, nor so well painted as I
+expected, or as mine and my wife's are.  Thence with them to Cornhill to
+call and choose a chimney-piece for Pierces closett, and so home, where my
+wife in mighty pain and mightily vexed at my being abroad with these
+women; and when they were gone called them whores and I know not what,
+which vexed me, having been so innocent with them.  So I with them to Mrs.
+Turner's and there sat with them a while, anon my wife sends for me, I
+come, and what was it but to scold at me and she would go abroad to take
+the ayre presently, that she would.  So I left my company and went with
+her to Bow, but was vexed and spoke not one word to her all the way going
+nor coming, or being come home, but went up straight to bed.  Half an hour
+after (she in the coach leaning on me as being desirous to be friends) she
+comes up mighty sicke with a fit of the cholique and in mighty pain and
+calls for me out of the bed; I rose and held her, she prays me to forgive
+her, and in mighty pain we put her to bed, where the pain ceased by and
+by, and so had some asparagus to our bed side for supper and very kindly
+afterward to sleepe and good friends in the morning.
+
+10th.  So up, and to the office, where all the morning.  At noon home to
+dinner and there busy all the afternoon till past six o'clock, and then
+abroad with my wife by coach, who is now at great ease, her cheeke being
+broke inward.  We took with us Mrs. Turner, who was come to visit my wife
+just as we were going out.  A great deale of tittle tattle discourse to
+little purpose, I finding her, though in other things a very discreete
+woman, as very a gossip speaking of her neighbours as any body.  Going out
+towards Hackney by coach for the ayre, the silly coachman carries us to
+Shoreditch, which was so pleasant a piece of simplicity in him and us,
+that made us mighty merry.  So back again late, it being wondrous hot all
+the day and night and it lightning exceeding all the way we went and came,
+but without thunder.  Coming home we called at a little ale-house, and had
+an eele pye, of which my wife eat part and brought home the rest. So being
+come home we to supper and to bed.  This day come our new cook maid Mary,
+commended by Mrs. Batters.
+
+11th.  Up betimes, and then away with Mr. Yeabsly to my Lord Ashly's,
+whither by and by comes Sir H. Cholmly and Creed, and then to my Lord, and
+there entered into examination of Mr. Yeabsly's accounts, wherein as in
+all other things I find him one of the most distinct men that ever I did
+see in my life.  He raised many scruples which were to be answered another
+day and so parted, giving me an alarme how to provide myself against the
+day of my passing my accounts.  Thence I to Westminster to look after the
+striking of my tallys, but nothing done or to be done therein.  So to the
+'Change, to speake with Captain Cocke, among other things about getting of
+the silver plates of him, which he promises to do; but in discourse he
+tells me that I should beware of my fellow-officers; and by name told me
+that my Lord Bruncker should say in his hearing, before Sir W. Batten, of
+me, that he could undo the man, if he would; wherein I think he is a
+foole; but, however, it is requisite I be prepared against the man's
+friendship.  Thence home to dinner alone, my wife being abroad.  After
+dinner to the setting some things in order in my dining-room; and by and
+by comes my wife home and Mrs. Pierce with her, so I lost most of this
+afternoon with them, and in the evening abroad with them, our long tour by
+coach, to Hackney, so to Kingsland, and then to Islington, there
+entertaining them by candlelight very well, and so home with her, set her
+down, and so home and to bed.
+
+12th.  Up to the office very betimes to draw up a letter for the Duke of
+Yorke relating to him the badness of our condition in this office for want
+of money.  That being in good time done we met at the office and there sat
+all the morning.  At noon home, where I find my wife troubled still at my
+checking her last night in the coach in her long stories out of Grand
+Cyrus, which she would tell, though nothing to the purpose, nor in any
+good manner.
+
+     [Sir Walter Scott observes, in his "Life of Dryden," that the
+     romances of Calprenede and Scuderi, those ponderous and unmerciful
+     folios, now consigned to oblivion, were, in their day, not only
+     universally read and admired, but supposed to furnish the most
+     perfect models of gallantry and heroism.  Dr. Johnson read them all.
+     "I have," says Mrs. Chapone, "and yet I am still alive, dragged
+     through 'Le Grand Cyrus,' in twelve huge volumes; 'Cleopatra,' in
+     eight or ten; 'Ibrahim,' 'Clelie,' and some others, whose names, as
+     well as all the rest of them, I have forgotten" ("Letters to Mrs.
+     Carter").  No wonder that Pepys sat on thorns, when his wife began
+     to recite "Le Grand Cyrus" in the coach, "and trembled at the
+     impending tale."--B.]
+
+This she took unkindly, and I think I was to blame indeed; but she do find
+with reason, that in the company of Pierce, Knipp, or other women that I
+love, I do not value her, or mind her as I ought.  However very good
+friends by and by, and to dinner, and after dinner up to the putting our
+dining room in order, which will be clean again anon, but not as it is to
+be because of the pictures which are not come home.  To the office and did
+much business, in the evening to Westminster and White Hall about business
+and among other things met Sir G. Downing on White Hall bridge, and there
+walked half an hour, talking of the success of the late new Act; and
+indeed it is very much, that that hath stood really in the room of
+L800,000 now since Christmas, being itself but L1,250,000.  And so I do
+really take it to be a very considerable thing done by him; for the
+beginning, end, and every part of it, is to be imputed to him.  So home by
+water, and there hard till 12 at night at work finishing the great letter
+to the Duke of Yorke against to-morrow morning, and so home to bed.  This
+day come home again my little girle Susan, her sicknesse proving an ague,
+and she had a fit soon almost as she come home.  The fleete is not yet
+gone from the Nore.  The plague encreases in many places, and is 53 this
+week with us.
+
+13th (Lord's day).  Up, and walked to White Hall, where we all met to
+present a letter to the Duke of Yorke, complaining solemnly of the want of
+money, and that being done, I to and again up and down Westminster,
+thinking to have spent a little time with Sarah at the Swan, or Mrs.
+Martin, but was disappointed in both, so walked the greatest part of the
+way home, where comes Mr. Symons, my old acquaintance, to dine with me,
+and I made myself as good company as I could to him, but he was mighty
+impertinent methought too yet, and thereby I see the difference between
+myself now and what it was heretofore, when I reckoned him a very brave
+fellow.  After dinner he and I walked together as far as Cheapside, and I
+quite through to Westminster again, and fell by chance into St. Margett's'
+Church, where I heard a young man play the foole upon the doctrine of
+purgatory.  At this church I spied Betty Howlett, who indeed is mighty
+pretty, and struck me mightily.  After church time, standing in the Church
+yarde, she spied me, so I went to her, her father and mother and husband
+being with her.  They desired and I agreed to go home with Mr. Michell,
+and there had the opportunity to have saluted two or three times Betty and
+make an acquaintance which they are pleased with, though not so much as I
+am or they think I am.  I staid here an houre or more chatting with them
+in a little sorry garden of theirs by the Bowling Alley, and so left them
+and I by water home, and there was in great pain in mind lest Sir W. Pen,
+who is going down to the Fleete, should come to me or send for me to be
+informed in the state of things, and particularly the Victualling, that by
+my pains he might seem wise.  So after spending an houre with my wife
+pleasantly in her closett, I to bed even by daylight.
+
+14th.  Comes betimes a letter from Sir W. Coventry, that he and Sir G.
+Carteret are ordered presently down to the Fleete.  I up and saw Sir W.
+Pen gone also after them, and so I finding it a leisure day fell to making
+cleane my closett in my office, which I did to my content and set up my
+Platts again, being much taken also with Griffin's mayde, that did cleane
+it, being a pretty mayde.  I left her at it, and toward Westminster myself
+with my wife by coach and meeting took up Mr. Lovett the varnisher with
+us, who is a pleasant speaking and humoured man, so my wife much taken
+with him, and a good deale of worke I believe I shall procure him.  I left
+my wife at the New Exchange and myself to the Exchequer, to looke after my
+Tangier tallys, and there met Sir G. Downing, who shewed me his present
+practise now begun this day to paste up upon the Exchequer door a note of
+what orders upon the new Act are paid and now in paying, and my Lord of
+Oxford coming by, also took him, and shewed him his whole method of
+keeping his books, and everything of it, which indeed is very pretty, and
+at this day there is assigned upon the Act L804,000.  Thence at the New
+Exchange took up my wife again, and so home to dinner, and after dinner to
+my office again to set things in order.  In the evening out with my wife
+and my aunt Wight, to take the ayre, and happened to have a pleasant race
+between our hackney-coach and a gentleman's.  At Bow we eat and drank and
+so back again, it being very cool in the evening.  Having set home my aunt
+and come home, I fell to examine my wife's kitchen book, and find 20s.
+mistake, which made me mighty angry and great difference between us, and
+so in the difference to bed.
+
+15th.  Up and to the office, where we met and sat all the morning.  At
+noon home to dinner, and after dinner by coach to Sir Philip Warwicke's,
+he having sent for me, but was not within, so I to my Lord Crew's, who is
+very lately come to towne, and with him talking half an houre of the
+business of the warr, wherein he is very doubtful, from our want of money,
+that we shall fail.  And I do concur with him therein.  After some little
+discourse of ordinary matters, I away to Sir Philip Warwicke's again, and
+was come in, and gone out to my Lord Treasurer's; whither I followed him,
+and there my business was, to be told that my Lord Treasurer hath got
+L10,000 for us in the Navy, to answer our great necessities, which I did
+thank him for; but the sum is not considerable. So home, and there busy
+all the afternoon till night, and then home to supper and to bed.
+
+16th.  Up very betimes, and so down the river to Deptford to look after
+some business, being by and by to attend the Duke and Mr. Coventry, and so
+I was wiling to carry something fresh that I may look as a man minding
+business, which I have done too much for a great while to forfeit, and is
+now so great a burden upon my mind night and day that I do not enjoy
+myself in the world almost.  I walked thither, and come back again by
+water, and so to White Hall, and did our usual business before the Duke,
+and so to the Exchequer, where the lazy rogues have not yet done my
+tallys, which vexes me.  Thence to Mr. Hales, and paid him for my picture,
+and Mr. Hill's, for the first L14 for the picture, and 25s. for the frame,
+and for the other L7 for the picture, it being a copy of his only, and 5s.
+for the frame; in all, L22 10s.  I am very well satisfied in my pictures,
+and so took them in another coach home along with me, and there with great
+pleasure my wife and I hung them up, and, that being done, to dinner,
+where Mrs. Barbara Sheldon come to see us and dined with us, and we kept
+her all the day with us, I going down to Deptford, and, Lord! to see with
+what itching desire I did endeavour to see Bagwell's wife, but failed, for
+which I am glad, only I observe the folly of my mind that cannot refrain
+from pleasure at a season above all others in my life requisite for me to
+shew my utmost care in.  I walked both going and coming, spending my time
+reading of my Civill and Ecclesiastical Law book.  Being returned home, I
+took my wife and Mrs. Barbary and Mercer out by coach and went our Grand
+Tour, and baited at Islington, and so late home about 11 at night, and so
+with much pleasure to bed.
+
+17th.  Up, lying long, being wearied yesterday with long walking.  So to
+the office, where all the morning with fresh occasion of vexing at myself
+for my late neglect of business, by which I cannot appear half so usefull
+as I used to do.  Home at noon to dinner, and then to my office again,
+where I could not hold my eyes open for an houre, but I drowsed (so little
+sensible I apprehend my soul is of the necessity of minding business), but
+I anon wakened and minded my business, and did a great deale with very
+great pleasure, and so home at night to supper and to bed, mightily
+pleased with myself for the business that I have done, and convinced that
+if I would but keepe constantly to do the same I might have leisure enough
+and yet do all my business, and by the grace of God so I will.  So to bed.
+
+18th.  Up by 5 o'clock, and so down by water to Deptford and Blackewall to
+dispatch some business.  So walked to Dickeshoare, and there took boat
+again and home, and thence to Westminster, and attended all the morning on
+the Exchequer for a quarter's tallys for Tangier.  But, Lord! to see what
+a dull, heavy sort of people they are there would make a man mad. At noon
+had them and carried them home, and there dined with great content with my
+people, and within and at the office all the afternoon and night, and so
+home to settle some papers there, and so to bed, being not very well,
+having eaten too much lobster at noon at dinner with Mr. Hollyard, he
+coming in and commending it so much.
+
+19th.  Up, and to the office all the morning.  At noon took Mr. Deane
+(lately come to towne) home with me to dinner, and there after giving him
+some reprimands and good advice about his deportment in the place where by
+my interest he is at Harwich, and then declaring my resolution of being
+his friend still, we did then fall to discourse about his ship "Rupert,"
+built by him there, which succeeds so well as he hath got great honour by
+it, and I some by recommending him; the King, Duke, and every body saying
+it is the best ship that was ever built.  And then he fell to explain to
+me his manner of casting the draught of water which a ship will draw
+before-hand: which is a secret the King and all admire in him; and he is
+the first that hath come to any certainty before-hand, of foretelling the
+draught of water of a ship before she be launched.  I must confess I am
+much pleased in his successe in this business, and do admire at the
+confidence of Castle who did undervalue the draught Deane sent up to me,
+that I was ashamed to owne it or him, Castle asking of me upon the first
+sight of it whether he that laid it down had ever built a ship or no,
+which made me the more doubtfull of him.  He being gone, I to the office,
+where much business and many persons to speake with me.  Late home and to
+bed, glad to be at a little quiett.
+
+20th (Lord's day).  With my wife to church in the morning.  At noon dined
+mighty nobly, ourselves alone.  After dinner my wife and Mercer by coach
+to Greenwich, to be gossip to Mrs. Daniel's child.  I out to Westminster,
+and straight to Mrs. Martin's, and there did what I would with her, she
+staying at home all the day for me; and not being well pleased with her
+over free and loose company, I away to Westminster Abbey, and there fell
+in discourse with Mr. Blagrave, whom I find a sober politique man, that
+gets money and increase of places, and thence by coach home, and thence by
+water after I had discoursed awhile with Mr. Yeabsly, whom I met and took
+up in my coach with me, and who hath this day presented my Lord Ashly with
+L100 to bespeak his friendship to him in his accounts now before us; and
+my Lord hath received it, and so I believe is as bad, as to bribes, as
+what the world says of him.  Calling on all the Victualling ships to know
+what they had of their complements, and so to Deptford, to enquire after a
+little business there, and thence by water back again, all the way coming
+and going reading my Lord Bacon's "Faber Fortunae," which I can never read
+too often, and so back home, and there find my wife come home, much
+pleased with the reception she had there, and she was godmother, and did
+hold the child at the Font, and it is called John. So back again home, and
+after setting my papers in order and supping, to bed, desirous to rise
+betimes in the morning.
+
+21st.  Up between 4 and 5 o'clock and to set several papers to rights, and
+so to the office, where we had an extraordinary meeting.  But, Lord! how
+it torments me to find myself so unable to give an account of my
+Victualling business, which puts me out of heart in every thing else, so
+that I never had a greater shame upon me in my owne mind, nor more trouble
+as to publique business than I have now, but I will get out of it as soon
+as possibly I can.  At noon dined at home, and after dinner comes in my
+wife's brother Balty and his wife, he being stepped ashore from the fleete
+for a day or two.  I away in some haste to my Lord Ashly, where it is
+stupendous to see how favourably, and yet closely, my Lord Ashly carries
+himself to Mr. Yeabsly, in his business, so as I think we shall do his
+business for him in very good manner.  But it is a most extraordinary
+thing to observe, and that which I would not but have had the observation
+of for a great deal of money.  Being done there, and much forwarded
+Yeabsly's business, I with Sir H. Cholmly to my Lord Bellassis, who is
+lately come from Tangier to visit him, but is not within.  So to
+Westminster Hall a little about business and so home by water, and then
+out with my wife, her brother, sister, and Mercer to Islington, our grand
+tour, and there eat and drank.  But in discourse I am infinitely pleased
+with Balty, his deportment in his business of Muster-Master, and hope
+mighty well from him, and am glad with all my heart I put him into this
+business.  Late home and to bed, they also lying at my house, he intending
+to go away to-morrow back again to sea.
+
+22nd.  Up betimes and to my business of entering some Tangier payments in
+my book in order, and then to the office, where very busy all the morning.
+At noon home to dinner, Balty being gone back to sea and his wife dining
+with us, whom afterward my wife carried home.  I after dinner to the
+office, and anon out on several occasions, among others to Lovett's, and
+there staid by him and her and saw them (in their poor conditioned manner)
+lay on their varnish, which however pleased me mightily to see.  Thence
+home to my business writing letters, and so at night home to supper and to
+bed.
+
+23rd.  Up by 5 o'clock and to my chamber settling several matters in
+order.  So out toward White Hall, calling in my way on my Lord Bellassis,
+where I come to his bedside, and did give me a full and long account of
+his matters, how he left them at Tangier.  Declares himself fully
+satisfied with my care: seems cunningly to argue for encreasing the number
+of men there.  Told me the whole story of his gains by the Turky prizes,
+which he owns he hath got about L5000 by.  Promised me the same profits
+Povy was to have had; and in fine, I find him a pretty subtle man; and so
+I left him, and to White Hall before the Duke and did our usual business,
+and eased my mind of two or three things of weight that lay upon me about
+Lanyon's salary, which I have got to be L150 per annum. Thence to
+Westminster to look after getting some little for some great tallys, but
+shall find trouble in it.  Thence homeward and met with Sir Philip
+Warwicke, and spoke about this, in which he is scrupulous.  After that to
+talk of the wants of the Navy.  He lays all the fault now upon the new
+Act, and owns his owne folly in thinking once so well of it as to give way
+to others' endeavours about it, and is grieved at heart to see what passe
+things are like to come to.  Thence to the Excise Office to the
+Commissioners to get a meeting between them and myself and others about
+our concernments in the Excise for Tangier, and so to the 'Change awhile,
+and thence home with Creed, and find my wife at dinner with Mr. Cooke, who
+is going down to Hinchinbrooke.  After dinner Creed and I and wife and
+Mercer out by coach, leaving them at the New Exchange, while I to White
+Hall, and there staid at Sir G. Carteret's chamber till the Council rose,
+and then he and I, by agreement this morning, went forth in his coach by
+Tiburne, to the Parke; discoursing of the state of the Navy as to money,
+and the state of the Kingdom too, how ill able to raise more: and of our
+office as to the condition of the officers; he giving me caution as to
+myself, that there are those that are my enemies as well as his, and by
+name my Lord Bruncker, who hath said some odd speeches against me.  So
+that he advises me to stand on my guard; which I shall do, and unless my
+too-much addiction to pleasure undo me, will be acute enough for any of
+them.  We rode to and again in the Parke a good while, and at last home
+and set me down at Charing Crosse, and thence I to Mrs. Pierces to take up
+my wife and Mercer, where I find her new picture by Hales do not please
+her, nor me indeed, it making no show, nor is very like, nor no good
+painting.  Home to supper and to bed, having my right eye sore and full of
+humour of late, I think, by my late change of my brewer, and having of 8s.
+beer.
+
+24th.  Up very betimes, and did much business in my chamber.  Then to the
+office, where busy all the morning.  At noon rose in the pleasantest
+humour I have seen Sir W. Coventry and the whole board in this twelvemonth
+from a pleasant crossing humour Sir W. Batten was in, he being hungry, and
+desirous to be gone.  Home, and Mr. Hunt come to dine with me, but I was
+prevented dining till 4 o'clock by Sir H. Cholmly and Sir J. Bankes's
+coming in about some Tangier business.  They gone I to dinner, the others
+having dined.  Mr. Sheply is also newly come out of the country and come
+to see us, whom I am glad to see.  He left all well there; but I perceive
+under some discontent in my Lord's behalfe, thinking that he is under
+disgrace with the King; but he is not so at all, as Sir G. Carteret
+assures me.  They gone I to the office and did business, and so in the
+evening abroad alone with my wife to Kingsland, and so back again and to
+bed, my right eye continuing very ill of the rheum, which hath troubled it
+four or five days.
+
+25th.  Up betimes and to my chamber to do business, where the greatest
+part of the morning.  Then out to the 'Change to speake with Captain
+[Cocke], who tells me my silver plates are ready for me, and shall be sent
+me speedily; and proposes another proposition of serving us with a
+thousand tons of hempe, and tells me it shall bring me 6500, if the
+bargain go forward, which is a good word.  Thence to Sir G. Carteret, who
+is at the pay of the tickets with Sir J. Minnes this day, and here I sat
+with them a while, the first time I ever was there, and thence to dinner
+with him, a good dinner.  Here come a gentleman over from France arrived
+here this day, Mr. Browne of St. Mellos, who, among other things, tells me
+the meaning of the setting out of doggs every night out of the towne
+walls, which are said to secure the city; but it is not so, but only to
+secure the anchors, cables, and ships that lie dry, which might otherwise
+in the night be liable to be robbed.  And these doggs are set out every
+night, and called together in every morning by a man with a home, and they
+go in very orderly.  Thence home, and there find Knipp at dinner with my
+wife, now very big, and within a fortnight of lying down.  But my head was
+full of business and so could have no sport.  So I left them, promising to
+return and take them out at night, and so to the Excise Office, where a
+meeting was appointed of Sir Stephen Fox, the Cofferer, and myself, to
+settle the business of our tallys, and it was so pretty well against
+another meeting.  Thence away home to the office and out again to Captain
+Cocke (Mr. Moore for company walking with me and discoursing and admiring
+of the learning of Dr. Spencer), and there he and I discoursed a little
+more of our matters, and so home, and (Knipp being gone) took out my wife
+and Mercer to take the ayre a little, and so as far as Hackney and back
+again, and then to bed.
+
+26th.  Up betimes and to the office, where all the morning.  At noon dined
+at home.  So to the office again, and a while at the Victualling Office to
+understand matters there a little, and thence to the office and despatched
+much business, to my great content, and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+27th (Lord's day).  Rose betimes, and to my office till church time to
+write two copies of my Will fair, bearing date this day, wherein I have
+given my sister Pall L500, my father for his owne and my mother's support
+L2,000, to my wife the rest of my estate, but to have L2500 secured to
+her, though by deducting out of what I have given my father and my sister.
+I dispatched all before church time and then to church, my wife with me.
+Thence home to dinner, whither come my uncle Wight, and aunt and uncle
+Norbury, and Mr. Shepley.  A good dinner and very merry.  After dinner we
+broke up and I by water to Westminster to Mrs. Martin's, and there sat
+with her and her husband and Mrs. Burrows, the pretty, an hour or two,
+then to the Swan a while, and so home by water, and with my wife by and by
+by water as low as Greenwich, for ayre only, and so back again home to
+supper and to bed with great pleasure.
+
+28th.  Up and to my chamber to do some business there, and then to the
+office, where a while, and then by agreement to the Excise Office, where I
+waited all the morning for the Cofferer and Sir St. Foxe's coming, but
+they did not, so I and the Commissioners lost their labour and expectation
+of doing the business we intended.  Thence home, where I find Mr. Lovett
+and his wife came to see us.  They are a pretty couple, and she a fine
+bred woman.  They dined with us, and Browne, the paynter, and she plays
+finely on the lute.  My wife and I were well pleased with her company.
+After dinner broke up, I to the office and they abroad.  All the afternoon
+I busy at the office, and down by water to Deptford. Walked back to
+Redriffe, and so home to the office again, being thoughtfull how to answer
+Sir W. Coventry against to-morrow in the business of the Victualling, but
+that I do trust to Tom Wilson, that he will be ready with a book for me
+to-morrow morning.  So to bed, my wife telling me where she hath been
+to-day with my aunt Wight, and seen Mrs. Margaret Wight, and says that she
+is one of the beautifullest women that ever she saw in her life, the most
+excellent nose and mouth.  They have been also to see pretty Mrs.
+Batelier, and conclude her to be a prettier woman than Mrs. Pierce, whom
+my wife led my aunt to see also this day.
+
+29th (King's birth-day and Restauration day).  Waked with the ringing of
+the bells all over the towne; so up before five o'clock, and to the
+office, where we met, and I all the morning with great trouble upon my
+spirit to think how I should come off in the afternoon when Sir W.
+Coventry did go to the Victualling office to see the state of matters
+there, and methinks by his doing of it without speaking to me, and only
+with Sir W. Pen, it must be of design to find my negligence.  However, at
+noon I did, upon a small invitation of Sir W. Pen's, go and dine with Sir
+W. Coventry at his office, where great good cheer and many pleasant
+stories of Sir W. Coventry; but I had no pleasure in them.  However, I had
+last night and this morning made myself a little able to report how
+matters were, and did readily go with them after dinner to the Victualling
+office; and there, beyond belief, did acquit myself very well to full
+content; so that, beyond expectation, I got over this second rub in this
+business; and if ever I fall on it again, I deserve to be undone. Being
+broke up there, I with a merry heart home to my office, and thither my
+wife comes to me, to tell me, that if I would see the handsomest woman in
+England, I shall come home presently; and who should it be but the pretty
+lady of our parish, that did heretofore sit on the other side of our
+church, over against our gallery, that is since married; she with Mrs.
+Anne Jones, one of this parish, that dances finely, and Mrs. sister did
+come to see her this afternoon, and so I home and there find Creed also
+come to me.  So there I spent most of the afternoon with them, and indeed
+she is a pretty black woman, her name Mrs. Horsely.  But, Lord! to see how
+my nature could not refrain from the temptation; but I must invite them to
+Foxhall, to Spring Gardens, though I had freshly received minutes of a
+great deale of extraordinary business.  However I could not helpe it, but
+sent them before with Creed, and I did some of my business; and so after
+them, and find them there, in an arbour, and had met with Mrs. Pierce, and
+some company with her.  So here I spent 20s. upon them, and were pretty
+merry.  Among other things, had a fellow that imitated all manner of
+birds, and doggs, and hogs, with his voice, which was mighty pleasant.
+Staid here till night: then set Mrs. Pierce in at the New Exchange; and
+ourselves took coach, and so set Mrs. Horsely home, and then home
+ourselves, but with great trouble in the streets by bonefires, it being
+the King's birth-day and day of Restauration; but, Lord! to see the
+difference how many there were on the other side, and so few ours, the
+City side of the Temple, would make one wonder the difference between the
+temper of one sort of people and the other: and the difference among all
+between what they do now, and what it was the night when Monk come into
+the City.  Such a night as that I never think to see again, nor think it
+can be.  After I come home I was till one in the morning with Captain
+Cocke drawing up a contract with him intended to be offered to the Duke
+to-morrow, which, if it proceeds, he promises me L500.
+
+30th.  Up and to my office, there to settle some business in order .to our
+waiting on the Duke to-day.  That done to White Hall to Sir W. Coventry's
+chamber, where I find the Duke gone out with the King to-day on hunting.
+So after some discourse with him, I by water to Westminster, and there
+drew a draught of an order for my Lord Treasurer to sign for my having
+some little tallys made me in lieu of two great ones, of L2000 each, to
+enable me to pay small sums therewith.  I shewed it to Sir R. Long and had
+his approbation, and so to Sir Ph. Warwicke's, and did give it him to get
+signed.  So home to my office, and there did business.  By and by toward
+noon word is brought me that my father and my sister are come.  I expected
+them to-day, but not so soon.  I to them, and am heartily glad to see
+them, especially my father, who, poor man, looks very well, and hath rode
+up this journey on horseback very well, only his eyesight and hearing is
+very bad.  I staid and dined with them, my wife being gone by coach to
+Barnet, with W. Hewer and Mercer, to meet them, and they did come Ware
+way.  After dinner I left them to dress themselves and I abroad by
+appointment to my Lord Ashly, who, it is strange to see, how prettily he
+dissembles his favour to Yeabsly's business, which none in the world could
+mistrust only I, that am privy to his being bribed. Thence to White Hall,
+and there staid till the Council was up, with Creed expecting a meeting of
+Tangier to end Yeabsly's business, but we could not procure it.  So I to
+my Lord Treasurer's and got my warrant, and then to Lovett's, but find
+nothing done there.  So home and did a little business at the office, and
+so down by water to Deptford and back again home late, and having signed
+some papers and given order in business, home, where my wife is come home,
+and so to supper with my father, and mighty pleasant we were, and my wife
+mighty kind to him and Pall, and so after supper to bed, myself being
+sleepy, and my right eye still very sore, as it has been now about five
+days or six, which puts me out of tune.  To-night my wife tells me newes
+has been brought her that Balty's wife is brought to bed, by some fall or
+fit, before her time, of a great child but dead.  If the woman do well we
+have no reason to be sorry, because his staying a little longer without a
+child will be better for him and her.
+
+31st.  Waked very betimes in the morning by extraordinary thunder and
+rain, which did keep me sleeping and waking till very late, and it being a
+holiday and my eye very sore, and myself having had very little sleep for
+a good while till nine o'clock, and so up, and so saw all my family up,
+and my father and sister, who is a pretty good-bodied woman, and not over
+thicke, as I thought she would have been, but full of freckles, and not
+handsome in face.  And so I out by water among the ships, and to Deptford
+and Blackewall about business, and so home and to dinner with my father
+and sister and family, mighty pleasant all of us; and, among other things,
+with a sparrow that our Mercer hath brought up now for three weeks, which
+is so tame that it flies up and down, and upon the table, and eats and
+pecks, and do everything so pleasantly, that we are mightily pleased with
+it.  After dinner I to my papers and accounts of this month to sett all
+straight, it being a publique Fast-day appointed to pray for the good
+successe of the fleete.  But it is a pretty thing to consider how little a
+matter they make of this keeping of a Fast, that it was not so much as
+declared time enough to be read in the churches the last Sunday; but
+ordered by proclamation since: I suppose upon some sudden newes of the
+Dutch being come out.  To my accounts and settled them clear; but to my
+grief find myself poorer than I was the last by near L20, by reason of my
+being forced to return L50 to Downing, the smith, which he had presented
+me with.  However, I am well contented, finding myself yet to be worth
+L5,200.  Having done, to supper with my wife, and then to finish the
+writing fair of my accounts, and so to bed.  This day come to town Mr.
+Homewood, and I took him home in the evening to my chamber, and discoursed
+with him about my business of the Victualling, which I have a mind to
+employ him in, and he is desirous of also, but do very ingenuously declare
+he understands it not so well as other things, and desires to be informed
+in the nature of it before he attempts it, which I like well, and so I
+carried him to Mr. Gibson to discourse with him about it, and so home
+again to my accounts.  Thus ends this month, with my mind oppressed by my
+defect in my duty of the Victualling, which lies upon me as a burden, till
+I get myself into a better posture therein, and hinders me and casts down
+my courage in every thing else that belongs to me, and the jealousy I have
+of Sir W. Coventry's being displeased with me about it; but I hope in a
+little time to remedy all. As to publique business; by late tidings of the
+French fleete being come to Rochelle (how true, though, I know not) our
+fleete is divided; Prince Rupert being gone with about thirty ships to the
+Westward as is conceived to meet the French, to hinder their coming to
+join with the Dutch.  My Lord Duke of Albemarle lies in the Downes with
+the rest, and intends presently to sail to the Gunfleete.
+
+                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
+                                  JUNE
+                                  1666
+
+June 1st.  Being prevented yesterday in meeting by reason of the fast day,
+we met to-day all the morning.  At noon I and my father, wife and sister,
+dined at Aunt Wight's here hard by at Mr. Woolly's, upon sudden warning,
+they being to go out of town to-morrow.  Here dined the faire Mrs.
+Margaret Wight, who is a very fine lady, but the cast of her eye, got only
+by an ill habit, do her much wrong and her hands are bad; but she hath the
+face of a noble Roman lady.  After dinner my uncle and Woolly and I out
+into their yarde, to talke about what may be done hereafter to all our
+profits by prizegoods, which did give us reason to lament the losse of the
+opportunity of the last yeare, which, if we were as wise as we are now,
+and at the peaceable end of all those troubles that we met with, all might
+have been such a hit as will never come again in this age, and so I do
+really believe it.  Thence home to my office and there did much business,
+and at night home to my father to supper and to bed.
+
+2nd.  Up, and to the office, where certain newes is brought us of a letter
+come to the King this morning from the Duke of Albemarle, dated yesterday
+at eleven o'clock, as they were sailing to the Gunfleete, that they were
+in sight of the Dutch fleete, and were fitting themselves to fight them;
+so that they are, ere this, certainly engaged; besides, several do averr
+they heard the guns all yesterday in the afternoon. This put us at the
+Board into a tosse.  Presently come orders for our sending away to the
+fleete a recruite of 200 soldiers.  So I rose from the table, and to the
+Victualling office, and thence upon the River among several vessels, to
+consider of the sending them away; and lastly, down to Greenwich, and
+there appointed two yachts to be ready for them; and did order the
+soldiers to march to Blackewall.  Having set all things in order against
+the next flood, I went on shore with Captain Erwin at Greenwich, and into
+the Parke, and there we could hear the guns from the fleete most plainly.
+Thence he and I to the King's Head and there bespoke a dish of steaks for
+our dinner about four o'clock.  While that was doing, we walked to the
+water-side, and there seeing the King and Duke come down in their barge to
+Greenwich-house, I to them, and did give them an account [of] what I was
+doing.  They went up to the Parke to hear the guns of the fleete go off.
+All our hopes now are that Prince Rupert with his fleete is coming back
+and will be with the fleete this even: a message being sent to him to that
+purpose on Wednesday last; and a return is come from him this morning,
+that he did intend to sail from St. Ellen's point about four in the
+afternoon on Wednesday [Friday], which was yesterday; which gives us great
+hopes, the wind being very fair, that he is with them this even, and the
+fresh going off of the guns makes us believe the same.  After dinner,
+having nothing else to do till flood, I went and saw Mrs. Daniel, to whom
+I did not tell that the fleets were engaged, because of her husband, who
+is in the R. Charles.  Very pleasant with her half an hour, and so away
+and down to Blackewall, and there saw the soldiers (who were by this time
+gotten most of them drunk) shipped off.  But, Lord! to see how the poor
+fellows kissed their wives and sweethearts in that simple manner at their
+going off, and shouted, and let off their guns, was strange sport.  In the
+evening come up the River the Katharine yacht, Captain Fazeby, who hath
+brought over my Lord of Alesbury and Sir Thomas Liddall (with a very
+pretty daughter, and in a pretty travelling-dress) from Flanders, who saw
+the Dutch fleete on Thursday, and ran from them; but from that houre to
+this hath not heard one gun, nor any newes of any fight.  Having put the
+soldiers on board, I home and wrote what I had to write by the post, and
+so home to supper and to bed, it being late.
+
+3rd (Lord's-day; Whit-sunday).  Up, and by water to White Hall, and there
+met with Mr. Coventry, who tells me the only news from the fleete is
+brought by Captain Elliott, of The Portland, which, by being run on board
+by The Guernsey, was disabled from staying abroad; so is come in to
+Aldbrough.  That he saw one of the Dutch great ships blown up, and three
+on fire.  That they begun to fight on Friday; and at his coming into port,
+he could make another ship of the King's coming in, which he judged to be
+the Rupert: that he knows of no other hurt to our ships.  With this good
+newes I home by water again, and to church in the sermon-time, and with
+great joy told it my fellows in the pew.  So home after church time to
+dinner, and after dinner my father, wife, sister, and Mercer by water to
+Woolwich, while I walked by land, and saw the Exchange as full of people,
+and hath been all this noon as of any other day, only for newes. I to St.
+Margaret's, Westminster, and there saw at church my pretty Betty Michell,
+and thence to the Abbey, and so to Mrs. Martin, and there did what 'je
+voudrais avec her .  .  .  .  So by and by he come in, and after some
+discourse with him I away to White Hall, and there met with this bad newes
+farther, that the Prince come to Dover but at ten o'clock last night, and
+there heard nothing of a fight; so that we are defeated of all our hopes
+of his helpe to the fleete.  It is also reported by some Victuallers that
+the Duke of Albemarle and Holmes their flags were shot down, and both fain
+to come to anchor to renew their rigging and sails. A letter is also come
+this afternoon, from Harman in the Henery; which is she [that] was taken
+by Elliott for the Rupert; that being fallen into the body of the Dutch
+fleete, he made his way through them, was set on by three fire-ships one
+after another, got two of them off, and disabled the third; was set on
+fire himself; upon which many of his men leapt into the sea and perished;
+among others, the parson first.  Have lost above 100 men, and a good many
+women (God knows what is become of Balty), and at last quenched his own
+fire and got to Aldbrough; being, as all say, the greatest hazard that
+ever any ship escaped, and as bravely managed by him.  The mast of the
+third fire-ship fell into their ship on fire, and hurt Harman's leg, which
+makes him lame now, but not dangerous.  I to Sir G. Carteret, who told me
+there hath been great bad management in all this; that the King's orders
+that went on Friday for calling back the Prince, were sent but by the
+ordinary post on Wednesday; and come to the Prince his hands but on
+Friday; and then, instead of sailing presently, he stays till four in the
+evening.  And that which is worst of all, the Hampshire, laden with
+merchants' money, come from the Straights, set out with or but just before
+the fleete, and was in the Downes by five in the clock yesterday morning;
+and the Prince with his fleete come to Dover but at ten of the clock at
+night.  This is hard to answer, if it be true. This puts great
+astonishment into the King, and Duke, and Court, every body being out of
+countenance.  So meeting Creed, he and I by coach to Hide Parke alone to
+talke of these things, and do blesse God that my Lord Sandwich was not
+here at this time to be concerned in a business like to be so
+misfortunate.  It was a pleasant thing to consider how fearfull I was of
+being seen with Creed all this afternoon, for fear of people's thinking
+that by our relation to my Lord Sandwich we should be making ill
+construction of the Prince's failure.  But, God knows, I am heartily sorry
+for the sake of the whole nation, though, if it were not for that, it
+would not be amisse to have these high blades find some checke to their
+presumption and their disparaging of as good men.  Thence set him down in
+Covent Guarden and so home by the 'Change, which is full of people still,
+and all talk highly of the failure of the Prince in not making more haste
+after his instructions did come, and of our managements here in not giving
+it sooner and with more care and oftener.  Thence. After supper to bed.
+
+4th.  Up, and with Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Pen to White Hall in the
+latter's coach, where, when we come, we find the Duke at St. James's,
+whither he is lately gone to lodge.  So walking through the Parke we saw
+hundreds of people listening at the Gravel-pits,--[Kensington]--and to and
+again in the Parke to hear the guns, and I saw a letter, dated last night,
+from Strowd, Governor of Dover Castle, which says that the Prince come
+thither the night before with his fleete, but that for the guns which we
+writ that we heard, it is only a mistake for thunder;
+
+     [Evelyn was in his garden when he heard the guns, and be at once set
+     off to Rochester and the coast, but he found that nothing had been
+     heard at Deal (see his "Diary," June 1st, 1666).]
+
+and so far as to yesterday it is a miraculous thing that we all Friday,
+and Saturday and yesterday, did hear every where most plainly the guns go
+off, and yet at Deale and Dover to last night they did not hear one word
+of a fight, nor think they heard one gun.  This, added to what I have set
+down before the other day about the Katharine, makes room for a great
+dispute in philosophy, how we should hear it and they not, the same wind
+that brought it to us being the same that should bring it to them: but so
+it is.  Major Halsey, however (he was sent down on purpose to hear newes),
+did bring newes this morning that he did see the Prince and his fleete at
+nine of the clock yesterday morning, four or five leagues to sea behind
+the Goodwin, so that by the hearing of the guns this morning we conclude
+he is come to the fleete.  After wayting upon the Duke, Sir W. Pen (who
+was commanded to go to-night by water down to Harwich, to dispatch away
+all the ships he can) and I home, drinking two bottles of Cocke ale in the
+streete in his new fine coach, where no sooner come, but newes is brought
+me of a couple of men come to speak with me from the fleete; so I down,
+and who should it be but Mr. Daniel, all muffled up, and his face as black
+as the chimney, and covered with dirt, pitch, and tarr, and powder, and
+muffled with dirty clouts, and his right eye stopped with okum.  He is
+come last night at five o'clock from the fleete, with a comrade of his
+that hath endangered another eye.  They were set on shore at Harwich this
+morning, and at two o'clock, in a catch with about twenty more wounded men
+from the Royall Charles.  They being able to ride, took post about three
+this morning, and were here between eleven and twelve.  I went presently
+into the coach with them, and carried them to Somerset-House-stairs, and
+there took water (all the world gazing upon us, and concluding it to be
+newes from the fleete, and every body's face appeared expecting of newes)
+to the Privy-stairs, and left them at Mr. Coventry's lodging (he, though,
+not being there); and so I into the Parke to the King, and told him my
+Lord Generall was well the last night at five o'clock, and the Prince come
+with his fleete and joyned with his about seven.  The King was mightily
+pleased with this newes, and so took me by the hand and talked a little of
+it.  Giving him the best account I could; and then he bid me to fetch the
+two seamen to him, he walking into the house.  So I went and fetched the
+seamen into the Vane room to him, and there he heard the whole account.
+
+                                THE FIGHT.
+
+How we found the Dutch fleete at anchor on Friday half seas over, between
+Dunkirke and Ostend, and made them let slip their anchors.  They about
+ninety, and we less than sixty.  We fought them, and put them to the run,
+till they met with about sixteen sail of fresh ships, and so bore up
+again.  The fight continued till night, and then again the next morning
+from five till seven at night.  And so, too, yesterday morning they begun
+again, and continued till about four o'clock, they chasing us for the most
+part of Saturday and yesterday, we flying from them.  The Duke himself,
+then those people were put into the catch, and by and by spied the
+Prince's fleete coming, upon which De Ruyter called a little council
+(being in chase at this time of us), and thereupon their fleete divided
+into two squadrons; forty in one, and about thirty in the other (the
+fleete being at first about ninety, but by one accident or other, supposed
+to be lessened to about seventy); the bigger to follow the Duke, the less
+to meet the Prince.  But the Prince come up with the Generall's fleete,
+and the Dutch come together again and bore towards their own coast, and we
+with them; and now what the consequence of this day will be, at that time
+fighting, we know not.  The Duke was forced to come to anchor on Friday,
+having lost his sails and rigging.  No particular person spoken of to be
+hurt but Sir W. Clerke, who hath lost his leg, and bore it bravely.  The
+Duke himself had a little hurt in his thigh, but signified little.  The
+King did pull out of his pocket about twenty pieces in gold, and did give
+it Daniel for himself and his companion; and so parted, mightily pleased
+with the account he did give him of the fight, and the successe it ended
+with, of the Prince's coming, though it seems the Duke did give way again
+and again.  The King did give order for care to be had of Mr. Daniel and
+his companion; and so we parted from him, and then met the Duke [of York],
+and gave him the same account: and so broke up, and I left them going to
+the surgeon's and I myself by water to the 'Change, and to several people
+did give account of the business. So home about four o'clock to dinner,
+and was followed by several people to be told the newes, and good newes it
+is.  God send we may hear a good issue of this day's business!  After I
+had eat something I walked to Gresham College, where I heard my Lord
+Bruncker was, and there got a promise of the receipt of the fine varnish,
+which I shall be glad to have.  Thence back with Mr. Hooke to my house and
+there lent some of my tables of naval matters, the names of rigging and
+the timbers about a ship, in order to Dr. Wilkins' book coming out about
+the Universal Language.  Thence, he being gone, to the Crown, behind the
+'Change, and there supped at the club with my Lord Bruncker, Sir G. Ent,
+and others of Gresham College; and all our discourse is of this fight at
+sea, and all are doubtful of the successe, and conclude all had been lost
+if the Prince had not come in, they having chased us the greatest part of
+Saturday and Sunday.  Thence with my Lord Bruncker and Creed by coach to
+White Hall, where fresh letters are come from Harwich, where the
+Gloucester, Captain Clerke, is come in, and says that on Sunday night upon
+coming in of the Prince, the Duke did fly; but all this day they have been
+fighting; therefore they did face again, to be sure.  Captain Bacon of The
+Bristoll is killed.  They cry up Jenings of The Ruby, and Saunders of The
+Sweepstakes.  They condemn mightily Sir Thomas Teddiman for a coward, but
+with what reason time must shew.  Having heard all this Creed and I walked
+into the Parke till 9 or 10 at night, it being fine moonshine, discoursing
+of the unhappinesse of our fleete, what it would have been if the Prince
+had not come in, how much the Duke hath failed of what he was so
+presumptuous of, how little we deserve of God Almighty to give us better
+fortune, how much this excuses all that was imputed to my Lord Sandwich,
+and how much more he is a man fit to be trusted with all those matters
+than those that now command, who act by nor with any advice, but rashly
+and without any order.  How bad we are at intelligence that should give
+the Prince no sooner notice of any thing but let him come to Dover without
+notice of any fight, or where the fleete were, or any thing else, nor give
+the Duke any notice that he might depend upon the Prince's reserve; and
+lastly, of how good use all may be to checke our pride and presumption in
+adventuring upon hazards upon unequal force against a people that can
+fight, it seems now, as well as we, and that will not be discouraged by
+any losses, but that they will rise again. Thence by water home, and to
+supper (my father, wife, and sister having been at Islington today at
+Pitt's) and to bed.
+
+5th.  Up, and to the office, where all the morning, expecting every houre
+more newes of the fleete and the issue of yesterday's fight, but nothing
+come.  At noon, though I should have dined with my Lord Mayor and Aldermen
+at an entertainment of Commissioner Taylor's, yet it being a time of
+expectation of the successe of the fleete, I did not go, but dined at
+home, and after dinner by water down to Deptford (and Woolwich, where I
+had not been since I lodged there, and methinks the place has grown
+natural to me), and thence down to Longreach, calling on all the ships in
+the way, seeing their condition for sayling, and what they want. Home
+about 11 of the clock, and so eat a bit and to bed, having received no
+manner of newes this day, but of The Rainbow's being put in from the
+fleete, maimed as the other ships are, and some say that Sir W. Clerke is
+dead of his leg being cut off.
+
+6th.  Up betimes, and vexed with my people for having a key taken out of
+the chamber doors and nobody knew where it was, as also with my boy for
+not being ready as soon as I, though I called him, whereupon I boxed him
+soundly, and  then to my business at the office and on the Victualling
+Office, and thence by water to St. James's, whither he [the Duke of York]
+is now gone, it being a monthly fast-day for the plague.  There we all
+met, and did our business as usual with the Duke, and among other things
+had Captain Cocke's proposal of East country goods read, brought by my
+Lord Bruncker, which I make use of as a monkey do the cat's foot.  Sir W.
+Coventry did much oppose it, and it's likely it will not do; so away goes
+my hopes of L500.  Thence after the Duke into the Parke, walking through
+to White Hall, and there every body listening for guns, but none heard,
+and every creature is now overjoyed and concludes upon very good grounds
+that the Dutch are beaten because we have heard no guns nor no newes of
+our fleete.  By and by walking a little further, Sir Philip Frowde did
+meet the Duke with an expresse to Sir W. Coventry (who was by) from
+Captain Taylor, the Storekeeper at Harwich, being the narration of Captain
+Hayward of The Dunkirke; who gives a very serious account, how upon Monday
+the two fleetes fought all day till seven at night, and then the whole
+fleete of Dutch did betake themselves to a very plain flight, and never
+looked back again.  That Sir Christopher Mings is wounded in the leg; that
+the Generall is well.  That it is conceived reasonably, that of all the
+Dutch fleete, which, with what recruits they had, come to one hundred
+sayle, there is not above fifty got home; and of them, few if any of their
+flags.  And that little Captain Bell, in one of the fire-ships, did at the
+end of the day fire a ship of 70 guns.  We were all so overtaken with this
+good newes, that the Duke ran with it to the King, who was gone to
+chappell, and there all the Court was in a hubbub, being rejoiced over
+head and ears in this good newes.  Away go I by coach to the New Exchange,
+and there did spread this good newes a little, though I find it had broke
+out before.  And so home to our own church, it being the common Fast-day,
+and it was just before sermon; but, Lord!  how all the people in the
+church stared upon me to see me whisper to Sir John Minnes and my Lady
+Pen.  Anon I saw people stirring and whispering below, and by and by comes
+up the sexton from my Lady Ford to tell me the newes (which I had
+brought), being now sent into the church by Sir W. Batten in writing, and
+handed from pew to pew.  But that which pleased me as much as the newes,
+was, to have the fair Mrs. Middleton at our church, who indeed is a very
+beautiful lady.  Here after sermon comes to our office 40 people almost of
+all sorts and qualities to hear the newes, which I took great delight to
+tell them.  Then home and found my wife at dinner, not knowing of my being
+at church, and after dinner my father and she out to Hales's, where my
+father is to begin to sit to-day for his picture, which I have a desire to
+have.  I all the afternoon at home doing some business, drawing up my
+vowes for the rest of the yeare to Christmas; but, Lord! to see in what a
+condition of happiness I am, if I would but keepe myself so; but my love
+of pleasure is such, that my very soul is angry with itself for my vanity
+in so doing.  Anon took coach and to Hales's, but he was gone out, and my
+father and wife gone.  So I to Lovett's, and there to my trouble saw
+plainly that my project of varnished books will not take, it not keeping
+colour, not being able to take polishing upon a single paper.  Thence
+home, and my father and wife not coming in, I proceeded with my coach to
+take a little ayre as far as Bow all alone, and there turned back and
+home; but before I got home, the bonefires were lighted all the towne
+over, and I going through Crouched Friars, seeing Mercer at her mother's
+gate, stopped, and 'light, and into her mother's, the first time I ever
+was there, and find all my people, father and all, at a very fine supper
+at W. Hewer's lodging, very neatly, and to my great pleasure.  After
+supper, into his chamber, which is mighty fine with pictures and every
+thing else, very curious, which pleased me exceedingly.  Thence to the
+gate, with the women all about me, and Mrs. Mercer's son had provided a
+great many serpents, and so I made the women all fire some serpents.  By
+and by comes in our faire neighbour, Mrs. Turner, and two neighbour's
+daughters, Mrs. Tite, the elder of whom, a long red-nosed silly jade; the
+younger, a pretty black girle, and the merriest sprightly jade that ever I
+saw.  With them idled away the whole night till twelve at night at the
+bonefire in the streets. Some of the people thereabouts going about with
+musquets, and did give me two or three vollies of their musquets, I giving
+them a crowne to drink; and so home.  Mightily pleased with this happy
+day's newes, and the more, because confirmed by Sir Daniel Harvy,  who was
+in the whole fight with the Generall, and tells me that there appear but
+thirty-six in all of the Dutch fleete left at the end of the voyage when
+they run home.  The joy of the City was this night exceeding great.
+
+7th.  Up betimes, and to my office about business (Sir W. Coventry having
+sent me word that he is gone down to the fleete to see how matters stand,
+and to be back again speedily); and with the same expectation of
+congratulating ourselves with the victory that I had yesterday.  But my
+Lord Bruncker and Sir T. H. that come from Court, tell me quite contrary
+newes, which astonishes me: that is to say, that we are beaten, lost many
+ships and good commanders; have not taken one ship of the enemy's; and so
+can only report ourselves a victory; nor is it certain that we were left
+masters of the field.  But, above all, that The Prince run on shore upon
+the Galloper, and there stuck; was endeavoured to be fetched off by the
+Dutch, but could not; and so they burned her; and Sir G. Ascue is taken
+prisoner, and carried into Holland.  This newes do much trouble me, and
+the thoughts of the ill consequences of it, and the pride and presumption
+that brought us to it.  At noon to the 'Change, and there find the
+discourse of towne, and their countenances much changed; but yet not very
+plain.  So home to dinner all alone, my father and people being gone all
+to Woolwich to see the launching of the new ship The Greenwich, built by
+Chr. Pett.  I left alone with little Mrs. Tooker, whom I kept with me in
+my chamber all the afternoon, and did what I would with her.  By and by
+comes Mr. Wayth to me; and discoursing of our ill successe, he tells me
+plainly from Captain Page's own mouth (who hath lost his arm in the
+fight), that the Dutch did pursue us two hours before they left us, and
+then they suffered us to go on homewards, and they retreated towards their
+coast: which is very sad newes.  Then to my office and anon to White Hall,
+late, to the Duke of York to see what commands he hath and to pray a
+meeting to-morrow for Tangier in behalf of Mr. Yeabsly, which I did do and
+do find the Duke much damped in his discourse, touching the late fight,
+and all the Court talk sadly of it.  The Duke did give me several letters
+he had received from the fleete, and Sir W. Coventry and Sir W. Pen, who
+are gone down thither, for me to pick out some works to be done for the
+setting out the fleete again; and so I took them home with me, and was
+drawing out an abstract of them till midnight.  And as to newes, I do find
+great reason to think that we are beaten in every respect, and that we are
+the losers.  The Prince upon the Galloper, where both the Royall Charles
+and Royall Katharine had come twice aground, but got off.  The Essex
+carried into Holland; the Swiftsure missing (Sir William Barkeley) ever
+since the beginning of the fight.  Captains Bacon, Tearne, Wood, Mootham,
+Whitty, and Coppin, slayne.  The Duke of Albemarle writes, that he never
+fought with worse officers in his life, not above twenty of them behaving
+themselves like men.  Sir William Clerke lost his leg; and in two days
+died.  The Loyall George, Seven Oakes, and Swiftsure, are still missing,
+having never, as the Generall writes himself, engaged with them.  It was
+as great an alteration to find myself required to write a sad letter
+instead of a triumphant one to my Lady Sandwich this night, as ever on any
+occasion I had in my life.  So late home and to bed.
+
+8th.  Up very betimes and to attend the Duke of York by order, all of us
+to report to him what the works are that are required of us and to divide
+among us, wherein I have taken a very good share, and more than I can
+perform, I doubt.  Thence to the Exchequer about some Tangier businesses,
+and then home, where to my very great joy I find Balty come home without
+any hurt, after the utmost imaginable danger he hath gone through in the
+Henery, being upon the quarterdeck with Harman all the time; and for which
+service Harman I heard this day commended most seriously and most
+eminently by the Duke of Yorke.  As also the Duke did do most utmost right
+to Sir Thomas Teddiman, of whom a scandal was raised, but without cause,
+he having behaved himself most eminently brave all the whole fight, and to
+extraordinary great service and purpose, having given Trump himself such a
+broadside as was hardly ever given to any ship.  Mings is shot through the
+face, and into the shoulder, where the bullet is lodged. Young Holmes' is
+also ill wounded, and Atber in The Rupert.  Balty tells me the case of The
+Henery; and it was, indeed, most extraordinary sad and desperate.  After
+dinner Balty and I to my office, and there talked a great deal of this
+fight; and I am mightily pleased in him and have great content in, and
+hopes of his doing well.  Thence out to White Hall to a Committee for
+Tangier, but it met not.  But, Lord! to see how melancholy the Court is,
+under the thoughts of this last overthrow (for so it is), instead of a
+victory, so much and so unreasonably expected.  Thence, the Committee not
+meeting, Creed and I down the river as low as Sir W. Warren's, with whom I
+did motion a business that may be of profit to me, about buying some
+lighters to send down to the fleete, wherein he will assist me.  So back
+again, he and I talking of the late ill management of this fight, and of
+the ill management of fighting at all against so great a force bigger than
+ours, and so to the office, where we parted, but with this satisfaction
+that we hear the Swiftsure, Sir W. Barkeley, is come in safe to the Nore,
+after her being absent ever since the beginning of the fight, wherein she
+did not appear at all from beginning to end.  But wherever she has been,
+they say she is arrived there well, which I pray God however may be true.
+At the office late, doing business, and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+9th.  Up, and to St. James's, there to wait on the Duke of Yorke, and had
+discourse with him about several businesses of the fleete.  But, Lord! to
+see how the Court is divided about The Swiftsure and The Essex's being
+safe.  And wagers and odds laid on both sides.  I did tell the Duke how
+Sir W. Batten did tell me this morning that he was sure the Swiftsure is
+safe.  This put them all in a great joy and certainty of it, but this I
+doubt will prove nothing.  Thence to White Ball in expectation of a
+meeting of Tangier, and we did industriously labour to have it this
+morning; but we could not get a fifth person there, so after much pains
+and thoughts on my side on behalfe of Yeabsly, we were fain to breake up.
+But, Lord! to see with what patience Lord Ashly did stay all the morning
+to get a Committee, little thinking that I know the reason of his
+willingnesse.  So I home to dinner and back again to White Hall, and,
+being come thither a little too soon, went to Westminster Hall, and bought
+a payre of gloves, and to see how people do take this late fight at sea,
+and I find all give over the thoughts of it as a victory and to reckon it
+a great overthrow.  So to White Hall, and there when we were come all
+together in certain expectation of doing our business to Yeabsly's full
+content, and us that were his friends, my Lord Peterborough (whether
+through some difference between him and my Lord Ashly, or him and me or
+Povy, or through the falsenesse of Creed, I know not) do bring word that
+the Duke of Yorke (who did expressly bid me wait at the Committee for the
+dispatch of the business) would not have us go forward in this business of
+allowing the losse of the ships till Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Coventry
+were come to towne, which was the very thing indeed which we would have
+avoided.  This being told us, we broke up doing nothing, to my great
+discontent, though I said nothing, and afterwards I find by my Lord
+Ashly's discourse to me that he is troubled mightily at it, and indeed it
+is a great abuse of him and of the whole Commissioners that nothing of
+that nature can be done without Sir G. Carteret or Sir W. Coventry.  No
+sooner was the Committee up, and I going [through] the Court homeward, but
+I am told Sir W. Coventry is come to town; so I to his chamber, and there
+did give him an account how matters go in our office, and with some
+content I parted from him, after we had discoursed several things of the
+haste requisite to be made in getting the fleete out again and the manner
+of doing it.  But I do not hear that he is at all pleased or satisfied
+with the late fight; but he tells me more newes of our suffering, by the
+death of one or two captains more than I knew before.  But he do give over
+the thoughts of the safety of The Swiftsure or Essex.  Thence homewards,
+landed at the Old Swan, and there find my pretty Betty Michell and her
+husband at their doore in Thames Streete, which I was glad to find, and
+went into their shop, and they made me drink some of their strong water,
+the first time I was ever with them there.  I do exceedingly love her.
+After sitting a little and talking with them about several things at great
+distance I parted and home to my business late.  But I am to observe how
+the drinking of some strong water did immediately put my eyes into a fit
+of sorenesse again as they were the other day.  I mean my right eye only.
+Late at night I had an account brought me by Sir W. Warren that he has
+gone through four lighters for me, which pleases me very well.  So home to
+bed, much troubled with our disappointment at the Tangier Committee.
+
+10th (Lord's day).  Up very betimes, and down the river to Deptford, and
+did a good deale of business in sending away and directing several things
+to the Fleete.  That being done, back to London to my office, and there at
+my office till after Church time fitting some notes to carry to Sir W.
+Coventry in the afternoon.  At noon home to dinner, where my cozen Joyces,
+both of them, they and their wives and little Will, come by invitation to
+dinner to me, and I had a good dinner for them; but, Lord! how sicke was I
+of W. Joyce's company, both the impertinencies of it and his ill manners
+before me at my table to his wife, which I could hardly forbear taking
+notice of; but being at my table and for his wife's sake, I did, though I
+will prevent his giving me the like occasion again at my house I will
+warrant him.  After dinner I took leave and by water to White Hall, and
+there spent all the afternoon in the Gallery, till the Council was up, to
+speake with Sir W. Coventry.  Walking here I met with Pierce the surgeon,
+who is lately come from the fleete, and tells me that all the commanders,
+officers, and even the common seamen do condemn every part of the late
+conduct of the Duke of Albemarle: both in his fighting at all, in his
+manner of fighting, running among them in his retreat, and running the
+ships on ground; so as nothing can be worse spoken of.  That Holmes,
+Spragg, and Smith do all the business, and the old and wiser commanders
+nothing.  So as Sir Thomas Teddiman (whom the King and all the world speak
+well of) is mightily discontented, as being wholly slighted. He says we
+lost more after the Prince come, than before too.  The Prince was so
+maimed, as to be forced to be towed home.  He says all the fleete confess
+their being chased home by the Dutch; and yet the body of the Dutch that
+did it, was not above forty sayle at most.  And yet this put us into the
+fright, as to bring all our ships on ground.  He says, however, that the
+Duke of Albemarle is as high almost as ever, and pleases himself to think
+that he hath given the Dutch their bellies full, without sense of what he
+hath lost us; and talks how he knows now the way to beat them.  But he
+says, that even Smith himself, one of his creatures, did himself condemn
+the late conduct from the beginning to the end.  He tells me further, how
+the Duke of Yorke is wholly given up to his new mistresse, my Lady Denham,
+going at noon-day with all his gentlemen with him to visit her in Scotland
+Yard; she declaring she will not be his mistresse, as Mrs. Price, to go up
+and down the Privy-stairs, but will be owned publicly; and so she is.  Mr.
+Bruncker, it seems, was the pimp to bring it about, and my Lady
+Castlemaine, who designs thereby to fortify herself by the Duke; there
+being a falling-out the other day between the King and her: on this
+occasion, the Queene, in ordinary talke before the ladies in her
+drawing-room, did say to my Lady Castlemaine that she feared the King did
+take cold, by staying so late abroad at her house.  She answered before
+them all, that he did not stay so late abroad with her, for he went
+betimes thence (though he do not before one, two, or three in the
+morning), but must stay somewhere else.  The King then coming in and
+overhearing, did whisper in the eare aside, and told her she was a bold
+impertinent woman, and bid her to be gone out of the Court, and not come
+again till he sent for, her; which she did presently, and went to a
+lodging in the Pell Mell, and kept there two or three days, and then sent
+to the King to know whether she might send for her things away out of her
+house.  The King sent to her, she must first come and view them: and so
+she come, and the King went to her, and all friends again.  He tells me
+she did, in her anger, say she would be even with the King, and print his
+letters to her.  So putting all together, we are and are like to be in a
+sad condition.  We are endeavouring to raise money by borrowing it of the
+City; but I do not think the City will lend a farthing.  By and by the
+Council broke up, and I spoke with Sir W. Coventry about business, with
+whom I doubt not in a little time to be mighty well, when I shall appear
+to mind my business again as I used to do, which by the grace of God I
+will do.  Gone from him I endeavoured to find out Sir G. Carteret, and at
+last did at Mr. Ashburnham's, in the Old Palace Yarde, and thence he and I
+stepped out and walked an houre in the church-yarde, under Henry the
+Seventh's Chappell, he being lately come from the fleete; and tells me, as
+I hear from every body else, that the management in the late fight was bad
+from top to bottom.  That several said this would not have been if my Lord
+Sandwich had had the ordering of it.  Nay, he tells me that certainly had
+my Lord Sandwich had the misfortune to have done as they have done, the
+King could not have saved him.  There is, too, nothing but discontent
+among the officers; and all the old experienced men are slighted.  He
+tells me to my question (but as a great secret), that the dividing of the
+fleete did proceed first from a proposition from the fleete, though agreed
+to hence.  But he confesses it arose from want of due intelligence, which
+he confesses we do want.  He do, however, call the fleete's retreat on
+Sunday a very honourable retreat, and that the Duke of Albemarle did do
+well in it, and would have been well if he had done it sooner, rather than
+venture the loss of the fleete and crown, as he must have done if the
+Prince had not come.  He was surprised when I told him I heard that the
+King did intend to borrow some money of the City, and would know who had
+spoke of it to me; I told him Sir Ellis Layton this afternoon.  He says it
+is a dangerous discourse; for that the City certainly will not be invited
+to do it, and then for the King to ask it and be denied, will be the
+beginning of our sorrow.  He seems to fear we shall all fall to pieces
+among ourselves. This evening we hear that Sir Christopher Mings is dead
+of his late wounds; and Sir W. Coventry did commend him to me in a most
+extraordinary manner.  But this day, after three days' trial in vain, and
+the hazard of the spoiling of the ship in lying till next spring, besides
+the disgrace of it, newes is brought that the Loyall London is launched at
+Deptford. Having talked thus much with Sir G. Carteret we parted there,
+and I home by water, taking in my boat with me young Michell and my Betty
+his wife, meeting them accidentally going to look a boat.  I set them down
+at the Old Swan and myself, went through bridge to the Tower, and so home,
+and after supper to bed.
+
+11th.  Up, and down by water to Sir W. Warren's (the first time I was in
+his new house on the other side the water since he enlarged it) to
+discourse about our lighters that he hath bought for me, and I hope to get
+L100 by this jobb.  Having done with him I took boat again (being mightily
+struck with a woman in a hat, a seaman's mother,--[Mother or mauther, a
+wench.]--that stood on the key) and home, where at the office all the
+morning with Sir W. Coventry and some others of our board hiring of
+fireships, and Sir W. Coventry begins to see my pains again, which I do
+begin to take, and I am proud of it, and I hope shall continue it.  He
+gone, at noon I home to dinner, and after dinner my father and wife out to
+the painter's to sit again, and I, with my Lady Pen and her daughter, to
+see Harman; whom we find lame in bed.  His bones of his anckle are broke,
+but he hopes to do well soon; and a fine person by his discourse he seems
+to be and my hearty [friend]; and he did plainly tell me that at the
+Council of War before the fight, it was against his reason to begin the
+fight then, and the reasons of most sober men there, the wind being such,
+and we to windward, that they could not use their lower tier of guns,
+which was a very sad thing for us to have the honour and weal of the
+nation ventured so foolishly.  I left them there, and walked to Deptford,
+reading in Walsingham's Manual, a very good book, and there met with Sir
+W. Batten and my Lady at Uthwayt's.  Here I did much business and yet had
+some little mirthe with my Lady, and anon we all come up together to our
+office, where I was very late doing much business.  Late comes Sir J.
+Bankes to see me, and tells me that coming up from Rochester he overtook
+three or four hundred seamen, and he believes every day they come flocking
+from the fleete in like numbers; which is a sad neglect there, when it
+will be impossible to get others, and we have little reason to think that
+these will return presently again.  He gone, I to end my letters to-night,
+and then home to supper and to bed.
+
+12th.  Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning.  At noon to
+dinner, and then to White Hall in hopes of a meeting of Tangier about
+Yeabsly's business, but it could not be obtained, Sir G. Carteret nor Sir
+W. Coventry being able to be there, which still vexes [me] to see the poor
+man forced still to attend, as also being desirous to see what my profit
+is, and get it.  Walking here in the galleries I find the Ladies of Honour
+dressed in their riding garbs, with coats and doublets with deep skirts,
+just for all the world like mine, and buttoned their doublets up the
+breast, with perriwigs and with hats; so that, only for a long petticoat
+dragging under their men's coats, nobody could take them for women in any
+point whatever; which was an odde sight, and a sight did not please me.
+It was Mrs. Wells and another fine lady that I saw thus. Thence down by
+water to Deptford, and there late seeing some things dispatched down to
+the fleete, and so home (thinking indeed to have met with Bagwell, but I
+did not) to write my letters very late, and so to supper and to bed.
+
+13th.  Up, and by coach to St. James's, and there did our business before
+the Duke as usual, having, before the Duke come out of his bed, walked in
+an ante-chamber with Sir H. Cholmly, who tells me there are great jarrs
+between the Duke of Yorke and the Duke of Albemarle, about the later's
+turning out one or two of the commanders put in by the Duke of Yorke.
+Among others, Captain Du Tell, a Frenchman, put in by the Duke of Yorke,
+and mightily defended by him; and is therein led by Monsieur Blancford,
+that it seems hath the same command over the Duke of Yorke as Sir W.
+Coventry hath; which raises ill blood between them.  And I do in several
+little things observe that Sir W. Coventry hath of late, by the by,
+reflected on the Duke of Albemarle and his captains, particularly in that
+of old Teddiman, who did deserve to be turned out this fight, and was so;
+but I heard Sir W. Coventry say that the Duke of Albemarle put in one as
+bad as he is in his room, and one that did as little.  After we had done
+with the Duke of Yorke, I with others to White Hall, there to attend again
+a Committee of Tangier, but there was none, which vexed me to the heart,
+and makes me mighty doubtfull that when we have one, it will be prejudiced
+against poor Yeabsly and to my great disadvantage thereby, my Lord
+Peterborough making it his business, I perceive (whether in spite to me,
+whom he cannot but smell to be a friend to it, or to my Lord Ashly, I know
+not), to obstruct it, and seems to take delight in disappointing of us;
+but I shall be revenged of him.  Here I staid a very great while, almost
+till noon, and then meeting Balty I took him with me, and to Westminster
+to the Exchequer about breaking of two tallys of L2000 each into smaller
+tallys, which I have been endeavouring a good while, but to my trouble it
+will not, I fear, be done, though there be no reason against it, but only
+a little trouble to the clerks; but it is nothing to me of real profit at
+all.  Thence with Balty to Hales's by coach, it being the seventh day from
+my making my late oathes, and by them I am at liberty to dispense with any
+of my oathes every seventh day after I had for the six days before going
+performed all my vowes.  Here I find my father's picture begun, and so
+much to my content, that it joys my very heart to thinke that I should
+have his picture so well done; who, besides that he is my father, and a
+man that loves me, and hath ever done so, is also, at this day, one of the
+most carefull and innocent men, in the world.  Thence with mighty content
+homeward, and in my way at the Stockes did buy a couple of lobsters, and
+so home to dinner, where I find my wife and father had dined, and were
+going out to Hales's to sit there, so Balty and I alone to dinner, and in
+the middle of my grace, praying for a blessing upon (these his good
+creatures), my mind fell upon my lobsters: upon which I cried, Odd zooks!
+and Balty looked upon me like a man at a losse what I meant, thinking at
+first that I meant only that I had said the grace after meat instead of
+that before meat.  But then I cried, what is become of my lobsters?
+Whereupon he run out of doors to overtake the coach, but could not, so
+came back again, and mighty merry at dinner to thinke of my surprize.
+After dinner to the Excise Office by appointment, and there find my Lord
+Bellasses and the Commissioners, and by and by the whole company come to
+dispute the business of our running so far behindhand there, and did come
+to a good issue in it, that is to say, to resolve upon having the debt due
+to us, and the Household and the Guards from the Excise stated, and so we
+shall come to know the worst of our condition and endeavour for some helpe
+from my Lord Treasurer.  Thence home, and put off Balty, and so, being
+invited, to Sir Christopher Mings's funeral, but find them gone to church.
+However I into the church (which is a fair, large church, and a great
+chappell) and there heard the service, and staid till they buried him, and
+then out.  And there met with Sir W. Coventry (who was there out of great
+generosity, and no person of quality there but he) and went with him into
+his coach, and being in it with him there happened this extraordinary
+case, one of the most romantique that ever I heard of in my life, and
+could not have believed, but that I did see it; which was this:--About a
+dozen able, lusty, proper men come to the coach-side with tears in their
+eyes, and one of them that spoke for the rest begun and says to Sir W.
+Coventry, "We are here a dozen of us that have long known and loved, and
+served our dead commander, Sir Christopher Mings, and have now done the
+last office of laying him in the ground.  We would be glad we had any
+other to offer after him, and in revenge of him.  All we have is our
+lives; if you will please to get His Royal Highness to give us a fireship
+among us all, here is a dozen of us, out of all which choose you one to be
+commander, and the rest of us, whoever he is, will serve him; and, if
+possible, do that that shall show our memory of our dead commander, and
+our revenge."  Sir W. Coventry was herewith much moved (as well as I, who
+could hardly abstain from weeping), and took their names, and so parted;
+telling me that he would move His Royal Highness as in a thing very
+extraordinary, which was done.  Thereon see the next day in this book.  So
+we parted. The truth is, Sir Christopher Mings was a very stout man, and a
+man of great parts, and most excellent tongue among ordinary men; and as
+Sir W. Coventry says, could have been the most useful man at such a pinch
+of time as this.  He was come into great renowne here at home, and more
+abroad in the West Indys.  He had brought his family into a way of being
+great; but dying at this time, his memory and name (his father being
+always and at this day a shoemaker, and his mother a Hoyman's daughter; of
+which he was used frequently to boast) will be quite forgot in a few
+months as if he had never been, nor any of his name be the better by it;
+he having not had time to will any estate, but is dead poor rather than
+rich.  So we left the church and crowd, and I home (being set down on
+Tower Hill), and there did a little business and then in the evening went
+down by water to Deptford, it being very late, and there I staid out as
+much time as I could, and then took boat again homeward, but the officers
+being gone in, returned and walked to Mrs. Bagwell's house, and there (it
+being by this time pretty dark and past ten o'clock) went into her house
+and did what I would.  But I was not a little fearfull of what she told me
+but now, which is, that her servant was dead of the plague, that her
+coming to me yesterday was the first day of her coming forth, and that she
+had new whitened the house all below stairs, but that above stairs they
+are not so fit for me to go up to, they being not so.  So I parted thence,
+with a very good will, but very civil, and away to the waterside, and sent
+for a pint of sacke and so home, drank what I would and gave the waterman
+the rest; and so adieu.  Home about twelve at night, and so to bed,
+finding most of my people gone to bed.  In my way home I called on a
+fisherman and bought three eeles, which cost me three shillings.
+
+14th.  Up, and to the office, and there sat all the morning.  At noon
+dined at home, and thence with my wife and father to Hales's, and there
+looked only on my father's picture (which is mighty like); and so away to
+White Hall to a committee for Tangier, where the Duke of York was, and Sir
+W. Coventry, and a very full committee; and instead of having a very
+prejudiced meeting, they did, though indeed inclined against Yeabsly,
+yield to the greatest part of his account, so as to allow of his demands
+to the value of L7,000 and more, and only give time for him to make good
+his pretence to the rest; which was mighty joy to me: and so we rose up.
+But I must observe the force of money, which did make my Lord Ashly to
+argue and behave himself in the business with the greatest friendship, and
+yet with all the discretion imaginable; and [it] will be a business of
+admonition and instruction to me concerning him (and other men, too, for
+aught I know) as long as I live.  Thence took Creed with some kind of
+violence and some hard words between us to St. James's, to have found out
+Sir W. Coventry to have signed the order for his payment among others that
+did stay on purpose to do it (and which is strange among the rest my Lord
+Ashly, who did cause Creed to write it presently and kept two or three of
+them with him by cunning to stay and sign it), but Creed's ill nature
+(though never so well bribed, as it hath lately in this case by twenty
+pieces) will not be overcome from his usual delays.  Thence failing of
+meeting Sir W. Coventry I took leave of Creed (very good friends) and away
+home, and there took out my father, wife, sister, and Mercer our grand
+Tour in the evening, and made it ten at night before we got home, only
+drink at the doore at Islington at the Katherine Wheel, and so home and to
+the office a little, and then to bed.
+
+15th.  Up betimes, and to my Journall entries, but disturbed by many
+businesses, among others by Mr. Houblon's coming to me about evening their
+freight for Tangier, which I did, and then Mr. Bland, who presented me
+yesterday with a very fine African mat, to lay upon the ground under a bed
+of state, being the first fruits of our peace with Guyland.  So to the
+office, and thither come my pretty widow Mrs. Burrows, poor woman, to get
+her ticket paid for her husband's service, which I did her myself, and did
+'baisser her moucher', and I do hope may thereafter have some day 'sa'
+company.  Thence to Westminster to the Exchequer, but could not persuade
+the blockheaded fellows to do what I desire, of breaking my great tallys
+into less, notwithstanding my Lord Treasurer's order, which vexed [me] so
+much that I would not bestow more time and trouble among a company of
+dunces, and so back again home, and to dinner, whither Creed come and
+dined with me and after dinner Mr. Moore, and he and I abroad, thinking to
+go down the river together, but the tide being against me would not, but
+returned and walked an houre in the garden, but, Lord! to hear how he
+pleases himself in behalf of my Lord Sandwich, in the miscarriage of the
+Duke of Albemarle, and do inveigh against Sir W. Coventry as a cunning
+knave, but I thinke that without any manner of reason at all, but only his
+passion.  He being gone I to my chamber at home to set my Journall right
+and so to settle my Tangier accounts, which I did in very good order, and
+then in the evening comes Mr. Yeabsly to reckon with me, which I did also,
+and have above L200 profit therein to myself, which is a great blessing,
+the God of heaven make me thankfull for it.  That being done, and my eyes
+beginning to be sore with overmuch writing, I to supper and to bed.
+
+16th.  Up betimes and to my office, and there we sat all the morning and
+dispatched much business, the King, Duke of Yorke, and Sir W. Coventry
+being gone down to the fleete.  At noon home to dinner and then down to
+Woolwich and Deptford to look after things, my head akeing from the
+multitude of businesses I had in my head yesterday in settling my
+accounts.  All the way down and up, reading of "The Mayor of Quinborough,"
+a simple play.  At Deptford, while I am there, comes Mr. Williamson, Sir
+Arthur Ingram and Jacke Fen, to see the new ships, which they had done,
+and then I with them home in their boat, and a very fine gentleman Mr.
+Williamson is.  It seems the Dutch do mightily insult of their victory,
+and they have great reason.
+
+     [This treatment seems to have been that of the Dutch populace alone,
+     and there does not appear to have been cause of complaint against
+     the government.  Respecting Sir W. Berkeley's body the following
+     notice was published in the "London Gazette" of July 15th, 1666 (No.
+     69) "Whitehall, July 15.  This day arrived a trumpet from the States
+     of Holland, who came over from Calais in the Dover packet-boat, with
+     a letter to his Majesty, that the States have taken order for the
+     embalming the body of Sir William Berkeley, which they have placed
+     in the chapel of the great church at the Hague, a civility they
+     profess to owe to his corpse, in respect to the quality of his
+     person, the greatness of his command, and of the high courage and
+     valour he showed in the late engagement; desiring his Majesty to
+     signify his pleasure about the further disposal of it."  "Frederick
+     Ruysch, the celebrated Dutch anatomist, undertook, by order of the
+     States-General, to inject the body of the English Admiral Berkeley,
+     killed in the sea-fight of 1666; and the body, already somewhat
+     decomposed, was sent over to England as well prepared as if it had
+     been the fresh corpse of a child.  This produced to Ruysch, on the
+     part of the States-General, a recompense worthy of their liberality,
+     and the merit of the anatomist," "James's Medical Dictionary."]
+
+Sir William Barkeley was killed before his ship taken; and there he lies
+dead in a sugar-chest, for every body to see, with his flag standing up by
+him.  And Sir George Ascue is carried up and down the Hague for people to
+see.  Home to my office, where late, and then to bed.
+
+17th (Lord's day).  Being invited to Anthony Joyce's to dinner, my wife
+and sister and Mercer and I walked out in the morning, it being fine
+weather, to Christ Church, and there heard a silly sermon, but sat where
+we saw one of the prettiest little boys with the prettiest mouth that ever
+I saw in [my] life.  Thence to Joyce's, where William Joyce and his wife
+were, and had a good dinner; but, Lord! how sicke was I of the company,
+only hope I shall have no more of it a good while; but am invited to
+Will's this week; and his wife, poor unhappy woman, cried to hear me say
+that I could not be there, she thinking that I slight her: so they got me
+to promise to come.  Thence my father and I walked to Gray's Inne Fields,
+and there spent an houre or two walking and talking of several businesses;
+first, as to his estate, he told me it produced about L80 per ann., but
+then there goes L30 per. ann. taxes and other things, certain charge,
+which I do promise to make good as far as this L30, at which the poor man
+was overjoyed and wept.  As to Pall he tells me he is mightily satisfied
+with Ensum, and so I promised to give her L500 presently, and to oblige
+myself to 100 more on the birth of her first child, he insuring her in L10
+per ann. for every L100, and in the meantime till she do marry I promise
+to allow her L10 per ann.  Then as to John I tell him I will promise him
+nothing, but will supply him as so much lent him, I declaring that I am
+not pleased with him yet, and that when his degree is over I will send for
+him up hither, and if he be good for any thing doubt not to get him
+preferment.  This discourse ended to the joy of my father and no less to
+me to see that I am able to do this, we return to Joyce's and there
+wanting a coach to carry us home I walked out as far as the New Exchange
+to find one, but could not.  So down to the Milke-house, and drank three
+glasses of whay, and then up into the Strand again, and there met with a
+coach, and so to Joyce's and took up my father, wife, sister, and Mercer,
+and to Islington, where we drank, and then our tour by Hackney home,
+where, after a little, business at my office and then talke with my Lady
+and Pegg Pen in the garden, I home and to bed, being very weary.
+
+18th.  Up betimes and in my chamber most of the morning setting things to
+rights there, my Journall and accounts with my father and brother, then to
+the office a little, and so to Lumbard Streete, to borrow a little money
+upon a tally, but cannot.  Thence to the Exchequer, and there after much
+wrangling got consent that I should have a great tally broken into little
+ones.  Thence to Hales's to see how my father's picture goes on, which
+pleases me mighty well, though I find again, as I did in Mrs. Pierce's,
+that a picture may have more of a likeness in the first or second working
+than it shall have when finished, though this is very well and to my full
+content, but so it is, and certainly mine was not so like at the first,
+second, or third sitting as it was afterward.  Thence to my Lord
+Bellasses, by invitation, and there dined with him, and his lady and
+daughter; and at dinner there played to us a young boy, lately come from
+France, where he had been learning a yeare or two on the viallin, and
+plays finely.  But impartially I do not find any goodnesse in their ayres
+(though very good) beyond ours when played by the same hand, I observed in
+several of Baptiste's'
+
+     [Jean Baptiste Lulli, son of a Tuscan peasant, born 1633, died 1687.
+     He invented the dramatic overture.  "But during the first years of
+     Charles II. all musick affected by the beau mond run in the french
+     way; and the rather because at that time the master of the court
+     musick in France, whose name was Baptista (an Italian frenchifyed)
+     had influenced the french style by infusing a great portion of the
+     Italian harmony into it, whereby the ayre was exceedingly improved"
+     (North's "Memoires of Musick," ed. Rimbault, 1846, p, 102).]
+
+(the present great composer) and our Bannister's.  But it was pretty to
+see how passionately my Lord's daughter loves musique, the most that ever
+I saw creature in my life.  Thence after dinner home and to the office and
+anon to Lumbard Streete again, where much talke at Colvill's, he censuring
+the times, and how matters are ordered, and with reason enough; but, above
+all, the thinking to borrow money of the City, which will not be done, but
+be denied, they being little pleased with the King's affairs, and that
+must breed differences between the King and the City. Thence down by water
+to Deptford, to order things away to the fleete and back again, and after
+some business at my office late home to supper and to bed.  Sir W.
+Coventry is returned this night from the fleete, he being the activest man
+in the world, and we all (myself particularly) more afeard of him than of
+the King or his service, for aught I see; God forgive us!  This day the
+great newes is come of the French, their taking the island of St.
+Christopher's' from us; and it is to be feared they have done the like of
+all those islands thereabouts this makes the city mad.
+
+19th.  Up, and to my office, there to fit business against the rest meet,
+which they did by and by, and sat late.  After the office rose (with Creed
+with me) to Wm. Joyce's to dinner, being invited, and there find my father
+and sister, my wife and Mercer, with them, almost dined.  I made myself as
+complaisant as I could till I had dined, but yet much against my will, and
+so away after dinner with Creed to Penny's, my Tailor, where I bespoke a
+thin stuff suit, and did spend a little time evening some little accounts
+with Creed and so parted, and I to Sir. G. Carteret's by appointment;
+where I perceive by him the King is going to borrow some money of the
+City; but I fear it will do no good, but hurt.  He tells me how the
+Generall--[The Duke of Albemarle.]--is displeased, and there have been
+some high words between the Generall and Sir W. Coventry.  And it may be
+so; for I do not find Sir W. Coventry so highly commending the Duke as he
+used to be, but letting fall now and then some little jerkes: as this day,
+speaking of newes from Holland, he says, "I find their victory begins to
+shrinke there, as well as ours here."  Here I met with Captain Cocke, and
+he tells me that the first thing the Prince said to the King upon his
+coming, was complaining of the Commissioners of the Navy; that they could
+have been abroad in three or four days but for us; that we do not take
+care of them which I am troubled at, and do fear may in violence break out
+upon this office some time or other; for we shall not be able to carry on
+the business.  Thence home, and at my business till late at night, then
+with my wife into the garden and there sang with Mercer, whom I feel
+myself begin to love too much by handling of her breasts in a' morning
+when she dresses me, they being the finest that ever I saw in my life,
+that is the truth of it.  So home and to supper with beans and bacon and
+to bed.
+
+20th.  Up, but in some pain of the collique.  I have of late taken too
+much cold by washing my feet and going in a thin silke waistcoate, without
+any other coate over it, and open-breasted, but I hope it will go over.  I
+did this morning (my father being to go away to-morrow) give my father
+some money to buy him a horse, and for other things to himself and my
+mother and sister, among them L20, besides undertaking to pay for other
+things for them to about L3, which the poor man takes with infinite
+kindnesse, and I do not thinke I can bestow it better.  Thence by coach to
+St. James's as usual to wait on the Duke of York, after having discoursed
+with Collonell Fitzgerald, whom I met in my way and he returned with me to
+Westminster, about paying him a sum of 700 and odd pounds, and he bids me
+defalk L25 for myself,--[Abate from an amount.]--which is a very good
+thing; having done with the Duke I to the Exchequer and there after much
+ado do get my business quite over of the difficulty of breaking a great
+tally into little ones and so shall have it done tomorrow.  Thence to the
+Hall and with Mrs. Martin home and staid with her a while, and then away
+to the Swan and sent for a bit of meat and dined there, and thence to
+Faythorne, the picture-seller's, and there chose two or three good Cutts
+to try to vernish, and so to Hales's to see my father's picture, which is
+now near finished and is very good, and here I staid and took a nap of an
+hour, thinking my father and wife would have come, but they did not; so I
+away home as fast as I could, fearing lest my father this day going abroad
+to see Mr. Honiwood at Major Russell's might meet with any trouble, and so
+in great pain home; but to spite me, in Cheapside I met Mrs. Williams in a
+coach, and she called me, so I must needs 'light and go along with her and
+poor Knipp (who is so big as she can tumble and looks-every day to lie
+down) as far as Paternoster Row, which I did do and there staid in
+Bennett's shop with them, and was fearfull lest the people of the shop,
+knowing me, should aske after my father and give Mrs. Williams any
+knowledge of me to my disgrace.  Having seen them done there and
+accompanied them to Ludgate I 'light and into my owne coach and home,
+where I find my father and wife had had no intent of coming at all to
+Hales's.  So I at home all the evening doing business, and at night in the
+garden (it having been these three or four days mighty hot weather)
+singing in the evening, and then home to supper and to bed.
+
+21st.  Up, and at the office all the morning; whereby several
+circumstances I find Sir W. Coventry and the Duke of Albemarle do not
+agree as they used to do; Sir W. Coventry commending Aylett (in some
+reproach to the Duke), whom the Duke hath put out for want of courage; and
+found fault with Steward, whom the Duke keeps in, though as much in fault
+as any commander in the fleete.  At noon home to dinner, my father,
+sister, and wife dining at Sarah Giles's, poor woman, where I should have
+been, but my pride would not suffer me.  After dinner to Mr. Debasty's to
+speake with Sir Robert Viner, a fine house and a great many fine ladies.
+He used me mighty civilly.  My business was to set the matter right about
+the letter of credit he did give my Lord Belassis, that I may take up the
+tallys lodged with Viner for his security in the answering of my Lord's
+bills, which we did set right very well, and Sir Robert Viner went home
+with me and did give me the L5000 tallys presently.  Here at Mr. Debasty's
+I saw, in a gold frame, a picture of a Outer playing on his flute which,
+for a good while, I took for paynting, but at last observed it a piece of
+tapestry, and is the finest that ever I saw in my life for figures, and
+good natural colours, and a very fine thing it is indeed. So home and met
+Sir George Smith by the way, who tells me that this day my Lord Chancellor
+and some of the Court have been with the City, and the City have voted to
+lend the King L100,000; which, if soon paid (as he says he believes it
+will), will be a greater service than I did ever expect at this time from
+the City.  So home to my letters and then with my wife in the garden, and
+then upon our leades singing in the evening and so to supper (while at
+supper comes young Michell, whose wife I love, little Betty Howlet, to get
+my favour about a ticket, and I am glad of this occasion of obliging him
+and give occasion of his coming to me, for I must be better acquainted
+with him and her), and after supper to bed.
+
+22nd.  Up, and before I went out Mr. Peter Barr sent me a tierce of
+claret, which is very welcome.  And so abroad down the river to Deptford
+and there did some business, and then to Westminster, and there did with
+much ado get my tallys (my small ones instead of one great one of L2,000),
+and so away home and there all day upon my Tangier accounts with Creed,
+and, he being gone, with myself, in settling other accounts till past
+twelve at night, and then every body being in bed, I to bed, my father,
+wife, and sister late abroad upon the water, and Mercer being gone to her
+mother's and staid so long she could not get into the office, which vexed
+me.
+
+23rd.  My father and sister very betimes took their leave; and my wife,
+with all possible kindnesse, went with them to the coach, I being mightily
+pleased with their company thus long, and my father with his being here,
+and it rejoices my heart that I am in condition to do any thing to comfort
+him, and could, were it not for my mother, have been contented he should
+have stayed always here with me, he is such innocent company.  They being
+gone, I to my papers, but vexed at what I heard but a little of this
+morning, before my wife went out, that Mercer and she fell out last night,
+and that the girle is gone home to her mother's for all-together: This
+troubles me, though perhaps it may be an ease to me of so much charge.
+But I love the girle, and another we must be forced to keepe I do foresee
+and then shall be sorry to part with her.  At the office all the morning,
+much disquiett in my mind in the middle of my business about this girle.
+Home at noon to dinner, and what with the going away of my father today
+and the losse of Mercer, I after dinner went up to my chamber and there
+could have cried to myself, had not people come to me about business.  In
+the evening down to Tower Wharfe thinking to go by water, but could not
+get watermen; they being now so scarce, by reason of the great presse; so
+to the Custome House, and there, with great threats, got a couple to carry
+me down to Deptford, all the way reading Pompey the Great (a play
+translated from the French by several noble persons; among others, my Lord
+Buckhurst), that to me is but a mean play, and the words and sense not
+very extraordinary.  From Deptford I walked to Redriffe, and in my way was
+overtaken by Bagwell, lately come from sea in the Providence, who did give
+me an account of several particulars in the late fight, and how his ship
+was deserted basely by the York, Captain Swanly, commander.  So I home and
+there after writing my letters home to supper and to bed, fully resolved
+to rise betimes, and go down the river to-morrow morning, being vexed this
+night to find none of the officers in the yarde at 7 at night, nor any
+body concerned as if it were a Dutch warr.  It seems Mercer's mother was
+here in the morning to speak with my wife, but my wife would not.  In the
+afternoon I and my wife in writing did instruct W. Hewer in some discourse
+to her, and she in the evening did come and satisfy my wife, and by and by
+Mercer did come, which I was mighty glad of and eased of much pain about
+her.
+
+24th.  Sunday.  Midsummer Day.  Up, but, being weary the last night, not
+so soon as I intended.  Then being dressed, down by water to Deptford, and
+there did a great deale of business, being in a mighty hurry, Sir W.
+Coventry writing to me that there was some thoughts that the Dutch fleete
+were out or coming out.  Business being done in providing for the carrying
+down of some provisions to the fleete, I away back home and after dinner
+by water to White Hall, and there waited till the councill rose, in the
+boarded gallery, and there among other things I hear that Sir Francis
+Prujean is dead, after being married to a widow about a yeare or
+thereabouts.  He died very rich, and had, for the last yeare, lived very
+handsomely, his lady bringing him to it.  He was no great painstaker in
+person, yet died very rich; and, as Dr. Clerke says, was of a very great
+judgment, but hath writ nothing to leave his name to posterity.  In the
+gallery among others met with Major Halsey, a great creature of the Duke
+of Albemarle's; who tells me that the Duke, by name, hath said that he
+expected to have the worke here up in the River done, having left Sir W.
+Batten and Mr. Phipps there.  He says that the Duke of Albemarle do say
+that this is a victory we have had, having, as he was sure, killed them
+8000 men, and sunk about fourteen of their ships; but nothing like this
+appears true.  He lays much of the little success we had, however, upon
+the fleete's being divided by order from above, and the want of spirit in
+the commanders; and that he was commanded by order to go out of the Downes
+to the Gun-fleete, and in the way meeting the Dutch fleete, what should he
+do?  should he not fight them?  especially having beat them heretofore at
+as great disadvantage.  He tells me further, that having been downe with
+the Duke of Albemarle, he finds that Holmes and Spragge do govern most
+business of the Navy; and by others I understand that Sir Thomas Allen is
+offended thereat; that he is not so much advised with as he ought to be.
+He tells me also, as he says, of his own knowledge, that several people
+before the Duke went out did offer to supply the King with L100,000
+provided he would be treasurer of it, to see it laid out for the Navy;
+which he refused, and so it died.  But I believe none of this.  This day I
+saw my Lady Falmouth, with whom I remember now I have dined at my Lord
+Barkeley's heretofore, a pretty woman: she was now in her second or third
+mourning, and pretty pleasant in her looks.  By and by the Council rises,
+and Sir W. Coventry comes out; and he and I went aside, and discoursed of
+much business of the Navy; and afterwards took his coach, and to
+Hide-Parke, he and I alone: there we had much talke.  First, he started a
+discourse of a talke he hears about the towne, which, says he, is a very
+bad one, and fit to be suppressed, if we knew how which is, the comparing
+of the successe of the last year with that of this; saying that that was
+good, and that bad. I was as sparing in speaking as I could, being jealous
+of him and myself also, but wished it could be stopped; but said I doubted
+it could not otherwise than by the fleete's being abroad again, and so
+finding other worke for men's minds and discourse.  Then to discourse of
+himself, saying, that he heard that he was under the lash of people's
+discourse about the Prince's not having notice of the Dutch being out, and
+for him to comeback again, nor the Duke of Albemarle notice that the
+Prince was sent for back again: to which he told me very particularly how
+careful he was the very same night that it was resolved to send for the
+Prince back, to cause orders to be writ, and waked the Duke, who was then
+in bed, to sign them; and that they went by expresse that very night,
+being the Wednesday night before the fight, which begun on the Friday; and
+that for sending them by the post expresse, and not by gentlemen on
+purpose, he made a sport of it, and said, I knew of none to send it with,
+but would at least have lost more time in fitting themselves out, than any
+diligence of theirs beyond that of the ordinary post would have recovered.
+I told him that this was not so much the towne talke as the reason of
+dividing the fleete.  To this he told me he ought not to say much; but did
+assure me in general that the proposition did first come from the fleete,
+and the resolution not being prosecuted with orders so soon as the
+Generall thought fit, the Generall did send Sir Edward Spragge up on
+purpose for them; and that there was nothing in the whole business which
+was not done with the full consent and advice of the Duke of Albemarle.
+
+But he did adde (as the Catholiques call 'le secret de la Masse'), that
+Sir Edward Spragge--who had even in Sir Christopher Mings's time put in to
+be the great favourite of the Prince, but much more now had a mind to be
+the great man with him, and to that end had a mind to have the Prince at a
+distance from the Duke of Albemarle, that they might be doing something
+alone--did, as he believed, put on this business of dividing the fleete,
+and that thence it came.
+
+     [This division of the fleet was the original cause of the disaster,
+     and at a later period the enemies of Clarendon charged him with
+     having advised this action, but Coventry's communication to Pepys in
+     the text completely exonerates Clarendon.]
+
+He tells me as to the business of intelligence, the want whereof the world
+did complain much of, that for that it was not his business, and as he was
+therefore to have no share in the blame, so he would not meddle to lay it
+any where else.  That de Ruyter was ordered by the States not to make it
+his business to come into much danger, but to preserve himself as much as
+was fit out of harm's way, to be able to direct the fleete.  He do, I
+perceive, with some violence, forbear saying any thing to the reproach of
+the Duke of Albemarle; but, contrarily, speaks much of his courage; but I
+do as plainly see that he do not like the Duke of Albemarle's proceedings,
+but, contrarily, is displeased therewith.  And he do plainly diminish the
+commanders put in by the Duke, and do lessen the miscarriages of any that
+have been removed by him.  He concurs with me, that the next bout will be
+a fatal one to one side or other, because, if we be beaten, we shall not
+be able to set out our fleete again.  He do confess with me that the
+hearts of our seamen are much saddened; and for that reason, among others,
+wishes Sir Christopher Mings was alive, who might inspire courage and
+spirit into them.  Speaking of Holmes, how great a man he is, and that he
+do for the present, and hath done all the voyage, kept himself in good
+order and within bounds; but, says he, a cat will be a cat still, and some
+time or other out his humour must break again.  He do not disowne but that
+the dividing of the fleete upon the presumptions that were then had
+(which, I suppose, was the French fleete being come this way), was a good
+resolution.  Having had all this discourse, he and I back to White Hall;
+and there I left him, being [in] a little doubt whether I had behaved
+myself in my discourse with the policy and circumspection which ought to
+be used to so great a courtier as he is, and so wise and factious a man,
+and by water home, and so, after supper, to bed.
+
+25th.  Up, and all the morning at my Tangier accounts, which the chopping
+and changing of my tallys make mighty troublesome; but, however, I did end
+them with great satisfaction to myself.  At noon, without staying to eat
+my dinner, I down by water to Deptford, and there coming find Sir W.
+Batten and Sir Jeremy Smith (whom the dispatch of the Loyall London
+detained) at dinner at Greenwich at the Beare Taverne, and thither I to
+them and there dined with them.  Very good company of strangers there was,
+but I took no great pleasure among them, being desirous to be back again.
+So got them to rise as soon as I could, having told them the newes Sir W.
+Coventry just now wrote me to tell them, which is, that the Dutch are
+certainly come out.  I did much business at Deptford, and so home, by an
+old poor man, a sculler, having no oares to be got, and all this day on
+the water entertained myself with the play of Commenius, and being come
+home did go out to Aldgate, there to be overtaken by Mrs. Margot Pen in
+her father's coach, and my wife and Mercer with her, and Mrs. Pen carried
+us to two gardens at Hackny, (which I every day grow more and more in love
+with,) Mr. Drake's one, where the garden is good, and house and the
+prospect admirable; the other my Lord Brooke's, where the gardens are much
+better, but the house not so good, nor the prospect good at all.  But the
+gardens are excellent; and here I first saw oranges grow: some green, some
+half, some a quarter, and some full ripe, on the same tree, and one fruit
+of the same tree do come a year or two after the other.  I pulled off a
+little one by stealth (the man being mighty curious of them) and eat it,
+and it was just as other little green small oranges are; as big as half
+the end of my little finger.  Here were also great variety of other
+exotique plants, and several labarinths, and a pretty aviary.  Having done
+there with very great pleasure we away back again, and called at the
+Taverne in Hackny by the church, and there drank and eate, and so in the
+Goole of the evening home.  This being the first day of my putting on my
+black stuff bombazin suit, and I hope to feel no inconvenience by it, the
+weather being extremely hot.  So home and to bed, and this night the first
+night of my lying without a waistcoat, which I hope I shall very well
+endure.  So to bed.  This morning I did with great pleasure hear Mr.
+Caesar play some good things on his lute, while he come to teach my boy
+Tom, and I did give him 40s. for his encouragement.
+
+26th.  Up and to my office betimes, and there all the morning, very busy
+to get out the fleete, the Dutch being now for certain out, and we shall
+not, we thinke, be much behindhand with them.  At noon to the 'Change
+about business, and so home to dinner, and after dinner to the setting my
+Journall to rights, and so to the office again, where all the afternoon
+full of business, and there till night, that my eyes were sore, that I
+could not write no longer.  Then into the garden, then my wife and Mercer
+and my Lady Yen and her daughter with us, and here we sung in the darke
+very finely half an houre, and so home to supper and to bed.  This
+afternoon, after a long drowth, we had a good shower of rain, but it will
+not signify much if no more come.  This day in the morning come Mr.
+Chichly to Sir W. Coventry, to tell him the ill successe of the guns made
+for the Loyall London; which is, that in the trial every one of the great
+guns, the whole cannon of seven (as I take it), broke in pieces, which is
+a strange mishap, and that which will give more occasion to people's
+discourse of the King's business being done ill.  This night Mary my
+cookemayde, that hath been with us about three months, but find herself
+not able to do my worke, so is gone with great kindnesse away, and another
+(Luce) come, very ugly and plaine, but may be a good servant for all that.
+
+27th.  Up, and to my office awhile, and then down the river a little way
+to see vessels ready for the carrying down of 400 land soldiers to the
+fleete.  Then back to the office for my papers, and so to St. James's,
+where we did our usual attendance on the Duke.  Having done with him, we
+all of us down to Sir W. Coventry's chamber (where I saw his father my
+Lord Coventry's picture hung up, done by Stone, who then brought it home.
+It is a good picture, drawn in his judge's robes, and the great seale by
+him.  And while it was hanging up, "This," says Sir W. Coventry, merrily,
+"is the use we make of our fathers,") to discourse about the proposition
+of serving us with hempe, delivered in by my Lord Brouncker as from an
+unknown person, though I know it to be Captain Cocke's.  My Lord and Sir
+William Coventry had some earnest words about it, the one promoting it for
+his private ends, being, as Cocke tells me himself, to have L500 if the
+bargain goes on, and I am to have as much, and the other opposing it for
+the unseasonableness of it, not knowing at all whose the proposition is,
+which seems the more ingenious of the two.  I sat by and said nothing,
+being no great friend to the proposition, though Cocke intends me a
+convenience by it.  But what I observed most from the discourse was this
+of Sir W. Coventry, that he do look upon ourselves in a desperate
+condition.  The issue of all standing upon this one point, that by the
+next fight, if we beat, the Dutch will certainly be content to take eggs
+for their money (that was his expression); or if we be beaten, we must be
+contented to make peace, and glad if we can have it without paying too
+dear for it.  And withall we do rely wholly upon the Parliament's giving
+us more money the next sitting, or else we are undone.  Being gone hence,
+I took coach to the Old Exchange, but did not go into it, but to Mr.
+Cade's, the stationer, stood till the shower was over, it being a great
+and welcome one after so much dry weather.  Here I understand that Ogleby
+is putting out some new fables of his owne, which will be very fine and
+very satyricall.  Thence home to dinner, and after dinner carried my wife
+to her sister's and I to Mr. Hales's, to pay for my father's picture,
+which cost me L10 the head and 25s. the frame.  Thence to Lovett's, who
+has now done something towards the varnishing of single paper for the
+making of books, which will do, I think, very well.  He did also carry me
+to a Knight's chamber in Graye's Inne, where there is a frame of his
+making, of counterfeite tortoise shell, which indeed is most excellently
+done.  Then I took him with me to a picture shop to choose a print for him
+to vernish, but did not agree for one then.  Thence to my wife to take her
+up and so carried her home, and I at the office till late, and so to
+supper with my wife and to bed.  I did this afternoon visit my Lord
+Bellasses, who professes all imaginable satisfaction in me.  He spoke
+dissatisfiedly with Creed, which I was pleased well enough with.  My Lord
+is going down to his garrison to Hull, by the King's command, to put it in
+order for fear of an invasion which course I perceive is taken upon the
+sea-coasts round; for we have a real apprehension of the King of France's
+invading us.
+
+28th.  Up, and at the office all the morning.  At noon home to dinner, and
+after dinner abroad to Lumbard Streete, there to reckon with Sir Robert
+Viner for some money, and did sett all straight to my great content, and
+so home, and all the afternoon and evening at the office, my mind full at
+this time of getting my accounts over, and as much money in my hands as I
+can, for a great turne is to be feared in the times, the French having
+some great design (whatever it is) in hand, and our necessities on every
+side very great.  The Dutch are now known to be out, and we may expect
+them every houre upon our coast.  But our fleete is in pretty good
+readinesse for them.
+
+29th.  Up, and within doors most of the morning, sending a porter
+(Sanders) up and down to several people to pay them money to clear my
+month's debts every where, being mighty desirous to have all clear so soon
+as I can, and to that end did so much in settling my Tangier accounts
+clear.  At noon dined, having first been down at Deptford and did a little
+business there and back again.  After dinner to White Hall to a Committee
+of Tangier, but I come a little too late, they were up, so I to several
+places about business, among others to Westminster Hall, and there did
+meet with Betty Michell at her own mother's shop.  I would fain have
+carried her home by water, but she was to sup at that end of the town.  So
+I away to White Hall, and thence, the Council being up, walked to St.
+James's, and there had much discourse with Sir W. Coventry at his chamber,
+who I find quite weary of the warr, decries our having any warr at all, or
+himself to have been any occasion of it, that he hopes this will make us
+shy of any warr hereafter, or to prepare better for it, believes that one
+overthrow on the Dutch side would make them desire peace, and that one on
+ours will make us willing to accept of one: tells me that Commissioner
+Pett is fallen infinitely under the displeasure of the Prince and Duke of
+Albemarle, not giving them satisfaction in the getting out of the fleete,
+and that the complaint he believes is come to the King, and by Sir W.
+Coventry's discourse I find he do concur in it, and speaks of his having
+of no authority in the place where he is, and I do believe at least it
+will end in his being removed to some other yarde, and I am not sorry for
+it, but do fear that though he deserves as bad, yet at this time the blame
+may not be so well deserved.  Thence home and to the office; where I met
+with a letter from Dover, which tells me (and it did come by expresse)
+that newes is brought over by a gentleman from Callice that the Dutch
+fleete, 130 sail, are come upon the French coast; and that the country is
+bringing in picke-axes, and shovells, and wheel-barrows into Callice; that
+there are 6,000 men armed with head, back, and breast (Frenchmen) ready to
+go on board the Dutch fleete, and will be followed by 12,000 more.  That
+they pretend they are to come to Dover; and that thereupon the Governor of
+Dover Castle is getting the victuallers' provision out of the towne into
+the Castle to secure it. But I do think this is a ridiculous conceit; but
+a little time will show. At night home to supper and to bed,
+
+30th.  Up, and to the office, and mightily troubled all this morning with
+going to my Lord Mayor (Sir Thomas Bludworth,
+
+     [As his conduct during the Great Fire fully proved, when he is said
+     to have boasted that he would extinguish the flames by the same
+     means to which Swift tells us Gulliver had recourse at Lilliput.--B.]
+
+a silly man, I think), and other places, about getting shipped some men
+that they have these two last nights pressed in the City out of houses:
+the persons wholly unfit for sea, and many of them people of very good
+fashion, which is a shame to think of, and carried to Bridewell they are,
+yet without being impressed with money legally as they ought to be.  But
+to see how the King's business is done; my Lord Mayor himself did scruple
+at this time of extremity to do this thing, because he had not money to
+pay the pressed-money to the men, he told me so himself; nor to take up
+boats to carry them down through bridge to the ships I had prepared to
+carry them down in; insomuch that I was forced to promise to be his
+paymaster, and he did send his City Remembrancer afterwards to the office,
+and at the table, in the face of the officers, I did there out of my owne
+purse disburse L15 to pay for their pressing and diet last night and this
+morning; which is a thing worth record of my Lord Mayor.  Busy about this
+all the morning, at noon dined and then to the office again, and all the
+afternoon till twelve at night full of this business and others, and among
+these others about the getting off men pressed by our officers of the
+fleete into the service; even our owne men that are at the office, and the
+boats that carry us.  So that it is now become impossible to have so much
+as a letter carried from place to place, or any message done for us: nay,
+out of Victualling ships full loaden to go down to the fleete, and out of
+the vessels of the officers of the Ordnance, they press men, so that for
+want of discipline in this respect I do fear all will be undone.  Vexed
+with these things, but eased in mind by my ridding of a great deale of
+business from the office, I late home to supper and to bed.  But before I
+was in bed, while I was undressing myself, our new ugly mayde, Luce, had
+like to have broke her necke in the darke, going down our upper stairs;
+but, which I was glad of, the poor girle did only bruise her head, but at
+first did lie on the ground groaning and drawing her breath, like one
+a-dying.  This month I end in much hurry of business, but in much more
+trouble in mind to thinke what will become of publique businesses, having
+so many enemys abroad, and neither force nor money at all, and but little
+courage for ourselves, it being really true that the spirits of our seamen
+and commanders too are really broke by the last defeate with the Dutch,
+and this is not my conjecture only, but the real and serious thoughts of
+Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Coventry, whom I have at distinct times heard
+the same thing come from with a great deale of grief and trouble.  But,
+lastly, I am providing against a foule day to get as much money into my
+hands as I can, at least out of the publique hands, that so, if a turne,
+which I fear, do come, I may have a little to trust to.  I pray God give
+me good successe in my choice how to dispose of what little I have, that I
+may not take it out of publique hands, and put it into worse.
+
+
+
+
+     ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:
+
+     A cat will be a cat still
+     And if ever I fall on it again, I deserve to be undone
+     Apprehension of the King of France's invading us
+     As very a gossip speaking of her neighbours as any body
+     Baited at Islington, and so late home about 11 at night
+     Called at a little ale-house, and had an eele pye
+     Checking her last night in the coach in her long stories
+     Foretelling the draught of water of a ship before she be launche
+     Great deale of tittle tattle discourse to little purpose
+     He is such innocent company
+     Here I first saw oranges grow
+     I do not value her, or mind her as I ought
+     I to bed even by daylight
+     Long petticoat dragging under their men's coats
+     Mightily pleased with myself for the business that I have done
+     Mightily vexed at my being abroad with these women
+     Never fought with worse officers in his life
+     Not being well pleased with her over free and loose company
+     Now very big, and within a fortnight of lying down
+     Out also to and fro, to see and be seen
+     Providing against a foule day to get as much money into my hands
+     Rejoiced over head and ears in this good newes
+     Requisite I be prepared against the man's friendship
+     Sang till about twelve at night, with mighty pleasure
+     Send up and down for a nurse to take the girle home
+     Shy of any warr hereafter, or to prepare better for it
+     So back again home to supper and to bed with great pleasure
+     So home and to supper with beans and bacon and to bed
+     That I may look as a man minding business
+     There did what I would with her
+     There did what 'je voudrais avec' her .  .  .  .
+     Think that we are beaten in every respect
+     This is the use we make of our fathers
+     Took him home the money, and, though much to my grief
+     Unless my too-much addiction to pleasure undo me
+     What itching desire I did endeavour to see Bagwell's wife
+     Young man play the foole upon the doctrine of purgatory
+
+
+
+
+
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