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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.]--[One is reminded of the 21st centuries' + bookstores full of "Romantic novels"--the modern era did not invent + trashy literature. D.W.] + +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.--[Sam forgets that he is still out L50 on his own personal accounts +which is about $50,000 (ann. 2001) compared to his wife's $1000 D.W.]-- + + + +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 + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v49 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + diff --git a/old/sp50g10.zip b/old/sp50g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..6bc5a24 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp50g10.zip |