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+Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, July 1666
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+                THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S.
+
+            CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY
+
+   TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY
+MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW
+                      AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
+
+                              (Unabridged)
+
+                      WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES
+
+                        EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY
+
+                        HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A.
+
+
+
+                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
+                                  JULY
+                                  1666
+
+
+July 1st (Sunday).  Up betimes, and to the office receiving letters, two
+or three one after another from Sir W. Coventry, and sent as many to him,
+being full of variety of business and hurry, but among the chiefest is
+the getting of these pressed men out of the City down the river to the
+fleete.  While I was hard at it comes Sir W. Pen to towne, which I little
+expected, having invited my Lady and her daughter Pegg to dine with me
+to-day; which at noon they did, and Sir W. Pen with them: and pretty
+merry we were.  And though I do not love him, yet I find it necessary to
+keep in with him; his good service at Shearnesse in getting out the
+fleete being much taken notice of, and reported to the King and Duke [of
+York], even from the Prince and Duke of Albemarle themselves, and made
+the most of to me and them by Sir W. Coventry: therefore I think it
+discretion, great and necessary discretion, to keep in with him.  After
+dinner to the office again, where busy, and then down to Deptford to the
+yard, thinking to have seen Bagwell's wife, whose husband is gone
+yesterday back to the fleete, but I did not see her, so missed what I
+went for, and so back to the Tower several times, about the business of
+the pressed men, and late at it till twelve at night, shipping of them.
+But, Lord!  how some poor women did cry; and in my life I never did see
+such natural expression of passion as I did here in some women's
+bewailing themselves, and running to every parcel of men that were
+brought, one after another, to look for their husbands, and wept over
+every vessel that went off, thinking they might be there, and looking
+after the ship as far as ever they could by moone-light, that it grieved
+me to the heart to hear them.  Besides, to see poor patient labouring men
+and housekeepers, leaving poor wives and families, taking up on a sudden
+by strangers, was very hard, and that without press-money, but forced
+against all law to be gone.  It is a great tyranny.  Having done this I
+to the Lieutenant of the Tower and bade him good night, and so away home
+and to bed.
+
+
+
+2nd.  Up betimes, and forced to go to my Lord Mayor's, about the business
+of the pressed men; and indeed I find him a mean man of understanding and
+dispatch of any publique business.  Thence out of curiosity to Bridewell
+to see the pressed men, where there are about 300; but so unruly that I
+durst not go among them: and they have reason to be so, having been kept
+these three days prisoners, with little or no victuals, and pressed out,
+and, contrary to all course of law, without press-money, and men that are
+not liable to it.  Here I met with prating Colonel Cox, one of the City
+collonells heretofore a great presbyter: but to hear how the fellow did
+commend himself, and the service he do the King; and, like an asse, at
+Paul's did take me out of my way on purpose to show me the gate (the
+little north gate) where he had two men shot close by him on each hand,
+and his own hair burnt by a bullet-shot in the insurrection of Venner,
+and himself escaped.  Thence home and to the Tower to see the men from
+Bridewell shipped.  Being rid of him I home to dinner, and thence to the
+Excise office by appointment to meet my Lord Bellasses and the
+Commissioners, which we did and soon dispatched, and so I home, and there
+was called by Pegg Pen to her house, where her father and mother, and
+Mrs. Norton, the second Roxalana, a fine woman, indifferent handsome,
+good body and hand, and good mine, and pretends to sing, but do it not
+excellently.  However I took pleasure there, and my wife was sent for,
+and Creed come in to us, and so there we spent the most of the afternoon.
+Thence weary of losing so much time I to the office, and thence presently
+down to Deptford; but to see what a consternation there is upon the water
+by reason of this great press, that nothing is able to get a waterman to
+appear almost.  Here I meant to have spoke with Bagwell's mother, but her
+face was sore, and so I did not, but returned and upon the water found
+one of the vessels loaden with the Bridewell birds in a great mutiny, and
+they would not sail, not they; but with good words, and cajoling the
+ringleader into the Tower (where, when he was come, he was clapped up in
+the hole), they were got very quietly; but I think it is much if they do
+not run the vessel on ground.  But away they went, and I to the
+Lieutenant of the Tower, and having talked with him a little, then home
+to supper very late and to bed weary.
+
+
+
+3rd.  Being very weary, lay long in bed, then to the office and there sat
+all the day.  At noon dined at home, Balty's wife with us, and in very
+good humour I was and merry at dinner, and after dinner a song or two,
+and so I abroad to my Lord Treasurer's (sending my sister home by the
+coach), while I staid there by appointment to have met my Lord Bellasses
+and Commissioners of Excise, but they did not meet me, he being abroad.
+However Mr. Finch, one of the Commissioners, I met there, and he and I
+walked two houres together in the garden, talking of many things;
+sometimes of Mr. Povy, whose vanity, prodigality, neglect of his
+business, and committing it to unfit hands hath undone him and outed him
+of all his publique employments, and the thing set on foot by an
+accidental revivall of a business, wherein he had three or fours years
+ago, by surprize, got the Duke of Yorke to sign to the having a sum of
+money paid out of the Excise, before some that was due to him, and now
+the money is fallen short, and the Duke never likely to be paid.  This
+being revived hath undone Povy.  Then we fell to discourse of the
+Parliament, and the great men there: and among others, Mr. Vaughan,
+whom he reports as a man of excellent judgement and learning, but most
+passionate and 'opiniastre'.  He had done himself the most wrong (though
+he values it not), that is, the displeasure of the King in his standing
+so long against the breaking of the Act for a trienniall parliament; but
+yet do believe him to be a most loyall gentleman.  He told me Mr. Prin's
+character; that he is a man of mighty labour and reading and memory, but
+the worst judge of matters, or layer together of what he hath read, in
+the world; which I do not, however, believe him in; that he believes him
+very true to the King in his heart, but can never be reconciled to
+episcopacy; that the House do not lay much weight upon him, or any thing
+he says.  He told me many fine things, and so we parted, and I home and
+hard to work a while at the office and then home and till midnight about
+settling my last month's accounts wherein I have been interrupted by
+public business, that I did not state them two or three days ago, but I
+do now to my great joy find myself worth above L5600, for which the
+Lord's name be praised!  So with my heart full of content to bed.  Newes
+come yesterday from Harwich, that the Dutch had appeared upon our coast
+with their fleete, and we believe did go to the Gun-fleete, and they are
+supposed to be there now; but I have heard nothing of them to-day.
+Yesterday Dr. Whistler, at Sir W. Pen's, told me that Alexander Broome,
+a the great song-maker, is lately dead.
+
+
+
+4th.  Up, and visited very betimes by Mr. Sheply, who is come to town
+upon business from Hinchingbrooke, where he left all well.  I out and
+walked along with him as far as Fleet Streete, it being a fast day, the
+usual fast day for the plague, and few coaches to be had.  Thanks be to
+God, the plague is, as I hear, encreased but two this week; but in the
+country in several places it rages mightily, and particularly in
+Colchester, where it hath long been, and is believed will quite
+depopulate the place.  To St. James's, and there did our usual business
+with the Duke, all of us, among other things, discoursing about the
+places where to build ten great ships; the King and Council have resolved
+on none to be under third-rates; but it is impossible to do it, unless we
+have more money towards the doing it than yet we have in any view.  But,
+however, the shew must be made to the world.  Thence to my Lord Bellasses
+to take my leave of him, he being going down to the North to look after
+the Militia there, for fear of an invasion.  Thence home and dined, and
+then to the office, where busy all day, and in the evening Sir W. Pen
+come to me, and we walked together, and talked of the late fight.  I find
+him very plain, that the whole conduct of the late fight was ill, and
+that that of truth's all, and he tells me that it is not he, but two-
+thirds of the commanders of the whole fleete have told him so: they all
+saying, that they durst not oppose it at the Council of War, for fear of
+being called cowards, though it was wholly against their judgement to
+fight that day with the disproportion of force, and then we not being
+able to use one gun of our lower tier, which was a greater disproportion
+than the other.  Besides, we might very well have staid in the Downs
+without fighting, or any where else, till the Prince could have come up
+to them; or at least till the weather was fair, that we might have the
+benefit of our whole force in the ships that we had.  He says three
+things must [be] remedied, or else we shall be undone by this fleete.
+1. That we must fight in a line, whereas we fight promiscuously, to our
+utter and demonstrable ruine; the Dutch fighting otherwise; and we,
+whenever we beat them.   2.  We must not desert ships of our own in
+distress, as we did, for that makes a captain desperate, and he will
+fling away his ship, when there is no hopes left him of succour.
+3.  That ships, when they are a little shattered, must not take the
+liberty to come in of themselves, but refit themselves the best they can,
+and stay out--many of our ships coming in with very small disablenesses.
+He told me that our very commanders, nay, our very flag-officers, do
+stand in need of exercising among themselves, and discoursing the
+business of commanding a fleete; he telling me that even one of our flag-
+men in the fleete did not know which tacke lost the wind, or which kept
+it, in the last engagement.  He says it was pure dismaying and fear that
+made them all run upon the Galloper, not having their wits about them;
+and that it was a miracle they were not all lost.  He much inveighs upon
+my discoursing of Sir John Lawson's saying heretofore, that sixty sail
+would do as much as one hundred; and says that he was a man of no counsel
+at all, but had got the confidence to say as the gallants did, and did
+propose to himself to make himself great by them, and saying as they did;
+but was no man of judgement in his business, but hath been out in the
+greatest points that have come before them.  And then in the business of
+fore-castles, which he did oppose, all the world sees now the use of them
+for shelter of men.  He did talk very rationally to me, insomuch that I
+took more pleasure this night in hearing him discourse, than I ever did
+in my life in any thing that he said.  He gone I to the office again, and
+so after some business home to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+5th.  Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning busy, then at
+noon dined and Mr. Sheply with me, who come to towne the other day.  I
+lent him 630 in silver upon 30 pieces in gold.  But to see how apt every
+body is to neglect old kindnesses!  I must charge myself with the
+ingratitude of being unwilling to lend him so much money without some
+pawne, if he should have asked it, but he did not aske it, poor man, and
+so no harm done.  After dinner, he gone, I to my office and Lumbard
+Streete about money, and then to my office again, very busy, and so till
+late, and then a song with my wife and Mercer in the garden, and so with
+great content to bed.
+
+
+
+6th.  Up, and after doing some business at my office abroad to Lumbard
+Street, about the getting of a good sum of money, thence home, in
+preparation for my having some good sum in my hands, for fear of a
+trouble in the State, that I may not have all I have in the world out of
+my hands and so be left a beggar.  Having put that in a way, I home to
+the office, and so to the Tower; about shipping of some more pressed men,
+and that done, away to Broad Streete, to Sir G. Carteret, who is at a pay
+of tickets all alone, and I believe not less than one thousand people in
+the streets.  But it is a pretty thing to observe that both there and
+every where else, a man shall see many women now-a-days of mean sort in
+the streets, but no men; men being so afeard of the press.  I dined with
+Sir G. Carteret, and after dinner had much discourse about our publique
+business; and he do seem to fear every day more and more what I do; which
+is, a general confusion in the State; plainly answering me to the
+question, who is it that the weight of the warr depends [upon]? that it
+is only Sir W. Coventry.  He tells me, too, the Duke of Albemarle is
+dissatisfied, and that the Duchesse do curse Coventry as the man that
+betrayed her husband to the sea: though I believe that it is not so.
+Thence to Lumbard Streete, and received L2000, and carried it home:
+whereof L1000 in gold.  The greatest quantity not only that I ever had of
+gold, but that ever I saw together, and is not much above half a 100 lb.
+bag full, but is much weightier.  This I do for security sake, and
+convenience of carriage; though it costs me above L70 the change of it,
+at 18 1/2d. per piece.  Being at home, I there met with a letter from Bab
+Allen,--[Mrs. Knipp]--to invite me to be god-father to her boy, with Mrs.
+Williams, which I consented to, but know not the time when it is to be.
+Thence down to the Old Swan, calling at Michell's, he not being within,
+and there I did steal a kiss or two of her, and staying a little longer,
+he come in, and her father, whom I carried to Westminster, my business
+being thither, and so back again home, and very busy all the evening.  At
+night a song in the garden and to bed.
+
+
+
+7th.  At the office all the morning, at noon dined at home and Creed with
+me, and after dinner he and I two or three hours in my chamber
+discoursing of the fittest way for a man to do that hath money, and find
+all he offers of turning some into gold and leaving some in a friend's
+hand is nothing more than what I thought of myself, but is doubtful,
+as well as I, what is best to be done of all these or other ways to be
+thought on.  He tells me he finds all things mighty dull at Court; and
+that they now begin to lie long in bed; it being, as we suppose, not
+seemly for them to be found playing and gaming as they used to be; nor
+that their minds are at ease enough to follow those sports, and yet not
+knowing how to employ themselves (though there be work enough for their
+thoughts and councils and pains), they keep long in bed.  But he thinks
+with me, that there is nothing in the world can helpe us but the King's
+personal looking after his business and his officers, and that with that
+we may yet do well; but otherwise must be undone: nobody at this day
+taking care of any thing, nor hath any body to call him to account for
+it.  Thence left him and to my office all the afternoon busy, and in some
+pain in my back by some bruise or other I have given myself in my right
+testicle this morning, and the pain lies there and hath done, and in my
+back thereupon all this day.  At night into the garden to my wife and
+Lady Pen and Pegg, and Creed, who staid with them till to at night.  My
+Lady Pen did give us a tarte and other things, and so broke up late and I
+to bed.  It proved the hottest night that ever I was in in my life, and
+thundered and lightened all night long and rained hard.  But, Lord!  to
+see in what fears I lay a good while, hearing of a little noise of
+somebody walking in the house: so rung the bell, and it was my mayds
+going to bed about one o'clock in the morning.  But the fear of being
+robbed, having so much money in the house, was very great, and is still
+so, and do much disquiet me.
+
+
+
+8th (Lord's day).  Up, and pretty well of my pain, so that it did not
+trouble me at all, and I do clearly find that my pain in my back was
+nothing but only accompanied my bruise in my stones.  To church, wife and
+Mercer and I, in expectation of hearing some mighty preacher to-day, Mrs.
+Mary Batelier sending us word so; but it proved our ordinary silly
+lecturer, which made me merry, and she laughed upon us to see her
+mistake.  At noon W. Hewer dined with us, and a good dinner, and I
+expected to have had newes sent me of Knipp's christening to-day; but,
+hearing nothing of it, I did not go, though I fear it is but their
+forgetfulness and so I may disappoint them.  To church, after dinner,
+again, a thing I have not done a good while before, go twice in one day.
+After church with my wife and Mercer and Tom by water through bridge to
+the Spring Garden at Fox Hall, and thence down to Deptford and there did
+a little business, and so back home and to bed.
+
+
+
+9th.  Up betimes, and with Sir W. Pen in his coach to Westminster to Sir
+G. Downing's, but missed of him, and so we parted, I by water home, where
+busy all the morning, at noon dined at home, and after dinner to my
+office, where busy till come to by Lovett and his wife, who have.
+brought me some sheets of paper varnished on one side, which lies very
+white and smooth and, I think, will do our business most exactly, and
+will come up to the use that I intended them for, and I am apt to believe
+will be an invention that will take in the world.  I have made up a
+little book of it to give Sir W. Coventry to-morrow, and am very well
+pleased with it.  Home with them, and there find my aunt Wight with my
+wife come to take her leave of her, being going for the summer into the
+country; and there was also Mrs. Mary Batelier and her sister, newly come
+out of France, a black, very black woman, but mighty good-natured people
+both, as ever I saw.  Here I made the black one sing a French song, which
+she did mighty innocently; and then Mrs. Lovett play on the lute, which
+she do very well; and then Mercer and I sang; and so, with great
+pleasure, I left them, having shewed them my chamber, and L1000 in gold,
+which they wondered at, and given them sweetmeats, and shewn my aunt
+Wight my father's picture, which she admires.  So I left them and to the
+office, where Mr. Moore come to me and talking of my Lord's family
+business tells me that Mr. Sheply is ignorantly, we all believe, mistaken
+in his accounts above L700 more than he can discharge himself of, which
+is a mighty misfortune, poor man, and may undo him, and yet every body
+believes that he do it most honestly.  I am troubled for him very much.
+He gone, I hard at the office till night, then home to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+10th.  Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning, sitting, and
+there presented Sir W. Coventry with my little book made up of Lovett's
+varnished paper, which he and the whole board liked very well.  At noon
+home to dinner and then to the office; the yarde being very full of women
+(I believe above three hundred) coming to get money for their husbands
+and friends that are prisoners in Holland; and they lay clamouring and
+swearing and cursing us, that my wife and I were afeard to send a
+venison-pasty that we have for supper to-night to the cook's to be baked,
+for fear of their offering violence to it: but it went, and no hurt done.
+Then I took an opportunity, when they were all gone into the foreyarde,
+and slipt into the office and there busy all the afternoon, but by and by
+the women got into the garden, and come all to my closett window, and
+there tormented me, and I confess their cries were so sad for money, and
+laying down the condition of their families and their husbands, and what
+they have done and suffered for the King, and how ill they are used by
+us, and how well the Dutch are used here by the allowance of their
+masters, and what their husbands are offered to serve the Dutch abroad,
+that I do most heartily pity them, and was ready to cry to hear them, but
+cannot helpe them.  However, when the rest were gone, I did call one to
+me that I heard complaine only and pity her husband and did give her some
+money, and she blessed me and went away.  Anon my business at the office
+being done I to the Tower to speak with Sir John Robinson about business,
+principally the bad condition of the pressed men for want of clothes, so
+it is represented from the fleete, and so to provide them shirts and
+stockings and drawers.  Having done with him about that, I home and there
+find my wife and the two Mrs. Bateliers walking in the garden.  I with
+them till almost 9 at night, and then they and we and Mrs. Mercer, the
+mother, and her daughter Anne, and our Mercer, to supper to a good
+venison-pasty and other good things, and had a good supper, and very
+merry, Mistresses Bateliers being both very good-humoured.  We sang and
+talked, and then led them home, and there they made us drink; and, among
+other things, did show us, in cages, some birds brought from about
+Bourdeaux, that are all fat, and, examining one of them, they are so,
+almost all fat.  Their name is [Ortolans], which are brought over to the
+King for him to eat, and indeed are excellent things.  We parted from
+them and so home to bed, it being very late, and to bed.
+
+
+
+11th.  Up, and by water to Sir G. Downing's, there to discourse with him
+about the reliefe of the prisoners in Holland; which I did, and we do
+resolve of the manner of sending them some.  So I away by coach to St.
+James's, and there hear that the Duchesse is lately brought to bed of a
+boy.  By and by called to wait on the Duke, the King being present; and
+there agreed, among other things, of the places to build the ten new
+great ships ordered to be built, and as to the relief of prisoners in
+Holland.  And then about several stories of the basenesse of the King of
+Spayne's being served with officers: they in Flanders having as good
+common men as any Prince in the world, but the veriest cowards for the
+officers, nay for the generall officers, as the Generall and Lieutenant-
+generall, in the whole world.  But, above all things, the King did speake
+most in contempt of the ceremoniousnesse of the King of Spayne, that he
+do nothing but under some ridiculous form or other, and will not piss but
+another must hold the chamber-pot.  Thence to Westminster Hall and there
+staid a while, and then to the Swan and kissed Sarah, and so home to
+dinner, and after dinner out again to Sir Robert Viner, and there did
+agree with him to accommodate some business of tallys so as I shall get
+in near L2000 into my own hands, which is in the King's, upon tallys;
+which will be a pleasure to me, and satisfaction to have a good sum in my
+own hands, whatever evil disturbances should be in the State; though it
+troubles me to lose so great a profit as the King's interest of ten per
+cent. for that money.  Thence to Westminster, doing several things by the
+way, and there failed of meeting Mrs. Lane, and so by coach took up my
+wife at her sister's, and so away to Islington, she and I alone, and so
+through Hackney, and home late, our discourse being about laying up of
+some money safe in prevention to the troubles I am afeard we may have in
+the state, and so sleepy (for want of sleep the last night, going to bed
+late and rising betimes in the morning) home, but when I come to the
+office, I there met with a command from my Lord Arlington, to go down to
+a galliott at Greenwich, by the King's particular command, that is going
+to carry the Savoy Envoye over, and we fear there may be many Frenchmen
+there on board; and so I have a power and command to search for and seize
+all that have not passes from one of the Secretarys of State, and to
+bring them and their papers and everything else in custody some whither.
+So I to the Tower, and got a couple of musquetiers with me, and Griffen
+and my boy Tom and so down; and, being come, found none on board but two
+or three servants, looking to horses and doggs, there on board, and,
+seeing no more, I staid not long there, but away and on shore at
+Greenwich, the night being late and the tide against us; so, having sent
+before, to Mrs. Clerke's and there I had a good bed, and well received,
+the whole people rising to see me, and among the rest young Mrs. Daniel,
+whom I kissed again and again alone, and so by and by to bed and slept
+pretty well,
+
+
+
+12th.  But was up again by five o'clock, and was forced to rise, having
+much business, and so up and dressed myself (enquiring, was told that
+Mrs. Tooker was gone hence to live at London) and away with Poundy to the
+Tower, and thence, having shifted myself, but being mighty drowsy for
+want of sleep, I by coach to St. James's, to Goring House, there to wait
+on my Lord Arlington to give him an account of my night's worke, but he
+was not up, being not long since married: so, after walking up and down
+the house below,--being the house I was once at Hartlib's sister's
+wedding, and is a very fine house and finely furnished,--and then
+thinking it too much for me to lose time to wait my Lord's rising, I away
+to St. James's, and there to Sir W. Coventry, and wrote a letter to my
+Lord Arlington giving him an account of what I have done, and so with Sir
+W. Coventry into London, to the office.  And all the way I observed him
+mightily to make mirth of the Duke of Albemarle and his people about him,
+saying, that he was the happiest man in the world for doing of great
+things by sorry instruments.  And so particularized in Sir W. Clerke, and
+Riggs, and Halsey, and others.  And then again said that the only quality
+eminent in him was, that he did persevere; and indeed he is a very
+drudge, and stands by the King's business.  And this he said, that one
+thing he was good at, that he never would receive an excuse if the thing
+was not done; listening to no reasoning for it, be it good or bad.  But
+then I told him, what he confessed, that he would however give the man,
+that he employs, orders for removing of any obstruction that he thinks he
+shall meet with in the world, and instanced in several warrants that he
+issued for breaking open of houses and other outrages about the business
+of prizes, which people bore with either for affection or fear, which he
+believes would not have been borne with from the King, nor Duke, nor any
+man else in England, and I thinke he is in the right, but it is not from
+their love of him, but from something else I cannot presently say.  Sir
+W. Coventry did further say concerning Warcupp, his kinsman, that had the
+simplicity to tell Sir W. Coventry, that the Duke did intend to go to sea
+and to leave him his agent on shore for all things that related to the
+sea.  But, says Sir W. Coventry, I did believe but the Duke of Yorke
+would expect to be his agent on shore for all sea matters.  And then he
+begun to say what a great man Warcupp was, and something else, and what
+was that but a great lyer; and told me a story, how at table he did, they
+speaking about antipathys, say, that a rose touching his skin any where,
+would make it rise and pimple; and, by and by, the dessert coming, with
+roses upon it, the Duchesse bid him try, and they did; but they rubbed
+and rubbed, but nothing would do in the world, by which his lie was found
+at then.  He spoke contemptibly of Holmes and his mermidons, that come to
+take down the ships from hence, and have carried them without any
+necessaries, or any thing almost, that they will certainly be longer
+getting ready than if they had staid here.  In fine, I do observe, he
+hath no esteem nor kindnesse for the Duke's matters, but, contrarily, do
+slight him and them; and I pray God the Kingdom do not pay too dear by
+this jarring; though this blockheaded Duke I did never expect better
+from.  At the office all the morning, at noon home and thought to have
+slept, my head all day being full of business and yet sleepy and out of
+order, and so I lay down on my bed in my gowne to sleep, but I could not,
+therefore about three o'clock up and to dinner and thence to the office,
+where.  Mrs. Burroughs, my pretty widow, was and so I did her business
+and sent her away by agreement, and presently I by coach after and took
+her up in Fenchurch Streete and away through the City, hiding my face as
+much as I could, but she being mighty pretty and well enough clad, I was
+not afeard, but only lest somebody should see me and think me idle.  I
+quite through with her, and so into the fields Uxbridge way, a mile or
+two beyond Tyburne, and then back and then to Paddington, and then back
+to Lyssen green, a place the coachman led me to (I never knew in my life)
+and there we eat and drank and so back to Chasing Crosse, and there I set
+her down.  All the way most excellent pretty company.  I had her lips as
+much as I would, and a mighty pretty woman she is and very modest and yet
+kinde in all fair ways.  All this time I passed with mighty pleasure, it
+being what I have for a long time wished for, and did pay this day 5s.
+forfeite for her company.  She being gone, I to White Hall and there to
+Lord Arlington's, and met Mr. Williamson, and find there is no more need
+of my trouble about the Galliott, so with content departed, and went
+straight home, where at the office did the most at the office in that
+wearied and sleepy state I could, and so home to supper, and after supper
+falling to singing with Mercer did however sit up with her, she pleasing
+me with her singing of "Helpe, helpe," 'till past midnight and I not a
+whit drowsy, and so to bed.
+
+
+
+13th.  Lay sleepy in bed till 8 in the morning, then up and to the
+office, where till about noon, then out to the 'Change and several
+places, and so home to dinner.  Then out again to Sir R. Vines, and there
+to my content settled the business of two tallys, so as I shall have
+L2000 almost more of my owne money in my hand, which pleases me mightily,
+and so home and there to the office, where mighty busy, and then home to
+supper and to even my Journall and to bed.  Our fleete being now in all
+points ready to sayle, but for the carrying of the two or three new
+ships, which will keepe them a day or two or three more.  It is said
+the Dutch is gone off our coast, but I have no good reason to believe it,
+Sir W. Coventry not thinking any such thing.
+
+
+
+14th.  Up betimes to the office, to write fair a laborious letter I wrote
+as from the Board to the Duke of Yorke, laying out our want of money
+again; and particularly the business of Captain Cocke's tenders of hemp,
+which my Lord Bruncker brought in under an unknown hand without name.
+Wherein his Lordship will have no great successe, I doubt.  That being
+done, I down to Thames-streete, and there agreed for four or five tons of
+corke, to send this day to the fleete, being a new device to make
+barricados with, instead of junke.  By this means I come to see and kiss
+Mr. Hill's young wife, and a blithe young woman she is.  So to the office
+and at noon home to dinner, and then sent for young Michell and employed
+him all the afternoon about weighing and shipping off of the corke,
+having by this means an opportunity of getting him 30 or 40s.  Having set
+him a doing, I home and to the office very late, very busy, and did
+indeed dispatch much business, and so to supper and to bed.  After a song
+in the garden, which, and after dinner, is now the greatest pleasure I
+take, and indeed do please me mightily, to bed, after washing my legs and
+feet with warm water in my kitchen.  This evening I had Davila
+
+     [Enrico Caterino Davila (1576-1631) was one of the chief historical
+     writers of Italy, and his "Storia delle guerre civili di Francia"
+     covers a period of forty years, from the death of Henri II. to the
+     Peace of Vervins in 1598.]
+
+brought home to me, and find it a most excellent history as ever I read.
+
+
+
+15th (Lord's day).  Up, and to church, where our lecturer made a sorry
+silly sermon, upon the great point of proving the truth of the Christian
+religion.  Home and had a good dinner, expecting Mr. Hunt, but there
+comes only young Michell and his wife, whom my wife concurs with me to be
+a pretty woman, and with her husband is a pretty innocent couple.
+Mightily pleasant we were, and I mightily pleased in her company and to
+find my wife so well pleased with them also.  After dinner he and I
+walked to White Hall, not being able to get a coach.  He to the Abbey,
+and I to White Hall, but met with nobody to discourse with, having no
+great mind to be found idling there, and be asked questions of the
+fleete, so walked only through to the Parke, and there, it being mighty
+hot and I weary, lay down by the canaille, upon the grasse, and slept
+awhile, and was thinking of a lampoone which hath run in my head this
+weeke, to make upon the late fight at sea, and the miscarriages there;
+but other businesses put it out of my head.  Having lain there a while,
+I then to the Abbey and there called Michell, and so walked in great
+pain, having new shoes on, as far as Fleete Streete and there got a
+coach, and so in some little ease home and there drank a great deale of
+small beer; and so took up my wife and Betty Michell and her husband, and
+away into the fields, to take the ayre, as far as beyond Hackny, and so
+back again, in our way drinking a great deale of milke, which I drank to
+take away, my heartburne, wherewith I have of late been mightily
+troubled, but all the way home I did break abundance of wind behind,
+which did presage no good but a great deal of cold gotten.  So home and
+supped and away went Michell and his wife, of whom I stole two or three
+salutes, and so to bed in some pain and in fear of more, which
+accordingly I met with, for I was in mighty pain all night long of the
+winde griping of my belly and making of me shit often and vomit too,
+which is a thing not usual with me, but this I impute to the milke that I
+drank after so much beer, but the cold, to my washing my feet the night
+before.
+
+
+
+16th.  Lay in great pain in bed all the morning and most of the
+afternoon, being in much pain, making little or no water, and indeed
+having little within to make any with.  And had great twinges with the
+wind all the day in my belly with wind.  And a looseness with it, which
+however made it not so great as I have heretofore had it.  A wonderful
+dark sky, and shower of rain this morning, which at Harwich proved so too
+with a shower of hail as big as walnuts.  I had some broth made me to
+drink, which I love, only to fill up room.  Up in the afternoon, and
+passed the day with Balty, who is come from sea for a day or two before
+the fight, and I perceive could be willing fairly to be out of the next
+fight, and I cannot much blame him, he having no reason by his place to
+be there; however, would not have him to be absent, manifestly to avoid
+being there.  At night grew a little better and took a glyster of sacke,
+but taking it by halves it did me not much good, I taking but a little of
+it.  However, to bed, and had a pretty good night of it,
+
+
+
+17th.  So as to be able to rise to go to the office and there sat, but
+now and then in pain, and without making much water, or freely.  However,
+it grew better and better, so as after dinner believing the jogging in a
+coach would do me good, I did take my wife out to the New Exchange to buy
+things.  She there while I with Balty went and bought a common riding-
+cloake for myself, to save my best.  It cost me but 30s., and will do my
+turne mighty well.  Thence home and walked in the garden with Sir W. Pen
+a while, and saying how the riding in the coach do me good (though I do
+not yet much find it), he ordered his to be got ready while I did some
+little business at the office, and so abroad he and I after 8 o'clock at
+night, as far almost as Bow, and so back again, and so home to supper and
+to bed.  This day I did bid Balty to agree with the Dutch paynter, which
+he once led me to, to see landskipps, for a winter piece of snow, which
+indeed is a good piece, and costs me but 40s., which I would not take the
+money again for, it being, I think, very good.  After a little supper to
+bed, being in less pain still, and had very good rest.
+
+
+
+18th.  Up in good case, and so by coach to St. James's after my fellows,
+and there did our business, which is mostly every day to complain of want
+of money, and that only will undo us in a little time.  Here, among other
+things, before us all, the Duke of Yorke did say, that now at length he
+is come to a sure knowledge that the Dutch did lose in the late
+engagements twenty-nine captains and thirteen ships.  Upon which Sir W.
+Coventry did publickly move, that if his Royal Highness had this of a
+certainty, it would be of use to send this down to the fleete, and to
+cause it to be spread about the fleete, for the recovering of the spirits
+of the officers and seamen; who are under great dejectedness for want of
+knowing that they did do any thing against the enemy, notwithstanding all
+that they did to us.  Which, though it be true, yet methought was one of
+the most dishonourable motions to our countrymen that ever was made; and
+is worth remembering.  Thence with Sir W. Pen home, calling at Lilly's,
+to have a time appointed when to be drawn among the other Commanders of
+Flags the last year's fight.  And so full of work Lilly is, that he was
+faro to take his table-book out to see how his time is appointed, and
+appointed six days hence for him to come between seven and eight in the
+morning.  Thence with him home; and there by appointment I find Dr.
+Fuller, now Bishop of Limericke, in Ireland; whom I knew in his low
+condition at Twittenham.  I had also by his desire Sir W. Pen, and with
+him his lady and daughter, and had a good dinner, and find the Bishop the
+same good man as ever; and in a word, kind to us, and, methinks, one of
+the comeliest and most becoming prelates in all respects that ever I saw
+in my life.  During dinner comes an acquaintance of his, Sir Thomas
+Littleton; whom I knew not while he was in my house, but liked his
+discourse; and afterwards, by Sir W. Pen, do come to know that he is one
+of the greatest speakers in the House of Commons, and the usual second to
+the great Vaughan.  So was sorry I did observe him no more, and gain more
+of his acquaintance.  After dinner, they being gone, and I mightily
+pleased with my guests, I down the river to Greenwich, about business,
+and thence walked to Woolwich, reading "The Rivall Ladys" all the way,
+and find it a most pleasant and fine writ play.  At Woolwich saw Mr.
+Shelden, it being late, and there eat and drank, being kindly used by him
+and Bab, and so by water to Deptford, it being 10 o'clock before I got to
+Deptford, and dark, and there to Bagwell's, and, having staid there a
+while, away home, and after supper to bed.  The Duke of Yorke said this
+day that by the letters from the Generals they would sail with the Fleete
+this day or to-morrow.
+
+
+
+19th.  Up in very good health in every respect, only my late fever got by
+my pain do break out about my mouth.  So to the office, where all the
+morning sitting.  Full of wants of money, and much stores to buy, for to
+replenish the stores, and no money to do it with, nor anybody to trust us
+without it.  So at noon home to dinner, Balty and his wife with us.  By
+and by Balty takes his leave of us, he going away just now towards the
+fleete, where he will pass through one great engagement more before he be
+two days older, I believe.  I to the office, where busy all the
+afternoon, late, and then home, and, after some pleasant discourse to my
+wife, to bed.  After I was in bed I had a letter from Sir W. Coventry
+that tells me that the fleete is sailed this morning; God send us good
+newes of them!
+
+
+
+20th.  Up, and finding by a letter late last night that the fleete is
+gone, and that Sir W. Pen is ordered to go down to Sheernesse, and
+finding him ready to go to St. James's this morning, I was willing to go
+with him to see how things go,
+
+     [Sir William Penn's instructions from the Duke of York directing him
+     to embark on his Majesty's yacht "Henrietta," and to see to the
+     manning of such ships has had been left behind by the fleet, dated
+     on this day, 20th July, is printed in Penn's "Memorials of Sir W.
+     Penn," vol. ii., p. 406.]
+
+and so with him thither (but no discourse with the Duke), but to White
+Hall, and there the Duke of York did bid Sir W. Pen to stay to discourse
+with him and the King about business of the fleete, which troubled me a
+little, but it was only out of envy, for which I blame myself, having no
+reason to expect to be called to advise in a matter I understand not.  So
+I away to Lovett's, there to see how my picture goes on to be varnished
+(a fine Crucifix),
+
+     [This picture occasioned Pepys trouble long afterwards, having been
+     brought as evidence that he was a Papist (see "Life," vol. i., p.
+     xxxiii).]
+
+which will be very fine; and here I saw some fine prints, brought from
+France by Sir Thomas Crew, who is lately returned.  So home, calling at
+the stationer's for some paper fit to varnish, and in my way home met
+with Lovett, to whom I gave it, and he did present me with a varnished
+staffe, very fine and light to walk with.  So home and to dinner, there
+coming young Mrs. Daniel and her sister Sarah, and dined with us; and old
+Mr. Hawly, whose condition pities me, he being forced to turne under
+parish-clerke at St. Gyles's, I think at the other end of the towne.
+Thence I to the office, where busy all the afternoon, and in the evening
+with Sir W. Pen, walking with whom in the garden I am of late mighty
+great, and it is wisdom to continue myself so, for he is of all the men
+of the office at present most manifestly usefull and best thought of.
+He and I supped together upon the seat in the garden, and thence,
+he gone, my wife and Mercer come and walked and sang late, and then
+home to bed.
+
+
+
+21st. Up and to the office, where all the morning sitting.  At noon
+walked in the garden with Commissioner Pett (newly come to towne), who
+tells me how infinite the disorders are among the commanders and all
+officers of the fleete.  No discipline: nothing but swearing and cursing,
+and every body doing what they please; and the Generalls, understanding
+no better, suffer it, to the reproaching of this Board, or whoever it
+will be.  He himself hath been challenged twice to the field, or
+something as good, by Sir Edward Spragge and Captain Seymour.  He tells
+me that captains carry, for all the late orders, what men they please;
+demand and consume what provisions they please.  So that he fears, and I
+do no less, that God Almighty cannot bless us while we keep in this
+disorder that we are in: he observing to me too, that there is no man of
+counsel or advice in the fleete; and the truth is, the gentlemen captains
+will undo us, for they are not to be kept in order, their friends about
+the King and Duke, and their own house, is so free, that it is not for
+any person but the Duke himself to have any command over them.  He gone I
+to dinner, and then to the office, where busy all the afternoon.  At
+night walked in the garden with my wife, and so I home to supper and to
+bed.  Sir W. Pen is gone down to Sheernesse to-day to see things made
+ready against the fleete shall come in again, which makes Pett mad, and
+calls him dissembling knave, and that himself takes all the pains and is
+blamed, while he do nothing but hinder business and takes all the honour
+of it to himself, and tells me plainly he will fling, up his commission
+rather than bear it.
+
+
+
+22nd (Lord's day).  Up, and to my chamber, and there till noon mighty
+busy, setting money matters and other things of mighty moment to rights
+to the great content of my mind, I finding that accounts but a little let
+go can never be put in order by strangers, for I cannot without much
+difficulty do it myself.  After dinner to them again till about four
+o'clock and then walked to White Hall, where saw nobody almost but walked
+up and down with Hugh May, who is a very ingenious man.  Among other
+things, discoursing of the present fashion of gardens to make them plain,
+that we have the best walks of gravell in the world, France having no
+nor Italy; and our green of our bowling allies is better than any they
+have.  So our business here being ayre, this is the best way, only with a
+little mixture of statues, or pots, which may be handsome, and so filled
+with another pot of such and such a flower or greene as the season of the
+year will bear.  And then for flowers, they are best seen in a little
+plat by themselves; besides, their borders spoil the walks of another
+garden: and then for fruit, the best way is to have walls built
+circularly one within another, to the South, on purpose for fruit, and
+leave the walking garden only for that use.  Thence walked through the
+House, where most people mighty hush and, methinks, melancholy.  I see
+not a smiling face through the whole Court; and, in my conscience, they
+are doubtfull of the conduct again of the Generalls, and I pray God they
+may not make their fears reasonable.  Sir Richard Fanshaw is lately dead
+at Madrid.  Guyland is lately overthrowne wholly in Barbary by the King
+of Tafiletta.  The fleete cannot yet get clear of the River, but expect
+the first wind to be out, and then to be sure they fight.  The Queene and
+Maids of Honour are at Tunbridge.
+
+
+
+23rd.  Up, and to my chamber doing several things there of moment, and
+then comes Sympson, the Joyner; and he and I with great pains contriving
+presses to put my books up in: they now growing numerous, and lying one
+upon another on my chairs, I lose the use to avoyde the trouble of
+removing them, when I would open a book.  Thence out to the Excise office
+about business, and then homewards met Colvill, who tells me he hath
+L1000 ready for me upon a tally; which pleases me, and yet I know not now
+what to do with it, having already as much money as is fit for me to have
+in the house, but I will have it.  I did also meet Alderman Backewell,
+who tells me of the hard usage he now finds from Mr. Fen, in not getting
+him a bill or two paid, now that he can be no more usefull to him;
+telling me that what by his being abroad and Shaw's death he hath lost
+the ball, but that he doubts not to come to give a kicke at it still, and
+then he shall be wiser and keepe it while he hath it.  But he says he
+hath a good master, the King, who will not suffer him to be undone, as
+otherwise he must have been, and I believe him.  So home and to dinner,
+where I confess, reflecting upon the ease and plenty that I live in, of
+money, goods, servants, honour, every thing, I could not but with hearty
+thanks to Almighty God ejaculate my thanks to Him while I was at dinner,
+to myself.  After dinner to the office and there till five or six
+o'clock, and then by coach to St. James's and there with Sir W. Coventry
+and Sir G. Downing to take the gyre in the Parke.  All full of
+expectation of the fleete's engagement, but it is not yet.  Sir
+W. Coventry says they are eighty-nine men-of-warr, but one fifth-rate,
+and that, the Sweepstakes, which carries forty guns.  They are most
+infinitely manned.  He tells me the Loyall London, Sir J. Smith (which,
+by the way, he commends to be the-best ship in the world, large and
+small), hath above eight hundred men; and moreover takes notice, which is
+worth notice, that the fleete hath lane now near fourteen days without
+any demand for a farthingworth of any thing of any kind, but only to get
+men.  He also observes, that with this excesse of men, nevertheless, they
+have thought fit to leave behind them sixteen ships, which they have
+robbed of their men, which certainly might have been manned, and they
+been serviceable in the fight, and yet the fleete well-manned, according
+to the excesse of supernumeraries, which we hear they have.  At least two
+or three of them might have been left manned, and sent away with the
+Gottenburgh ships.  They conclude this to be much the best fleete, for
+force of guns, greatnesse and number of ships and men, that ever England
+did see; being, as Sir W. Coventry reckons, besides those left behind,
+eighty-nine men of warr and twenty fire-ships, though we cannot hear that
+they have with them above eighteen.  The French are not yet joined with
+the Dutch, which do dissatisfy the Hollanders, and if they should have a
+defeat, will undo De Witt; the people generally of Holland do hate this
+league with France.  We cannot think of any business, but lie big with
+expectation of the issue of this fight, but do conclude that, this fight
+being over, we shall be able to see the whole issue of the warr, good or
+bad.  So homeward, and walked over the Parke (St. James's) with Sir G.
+Downing, and at White Hall took a coach; and there to supper with much
+pleasure and to bed.
+
+
+
+24th.  Up, and to the office, where little business done, our heads being
+full of expectation of the fleete's being engaged, but no certain notice
+of it, only Sheppeard in the Duke's yacht left them yesterday morning
+within a league of the Dutch fleete, and making after them, they standing
+into the sea.  At noon to dinner, and after dinner with Mercer (as of
+late my practice is) a song and so to the office, there to set up again
+my frames about my Platts, which I have got to be all gilded, and look
+very fine, and then to my business, and busy very late, till midnight,
+drawing up a representation of the state of my victualling business to
+the Duke, I having never appeared to him doing anything yet and therefore
+I now do it in writing, I now having the advantage of having had two
+fleetes dispatched in better condition than ever any fleetes were yet, I
+believe; at least, with least complaint, and by this means I shall with
+the better confidence get my bills out for my salary.  So home to bed.
+
+
+
+25th.  Up betimes to write fair my last night's paper for the Duke, and
+so along with Sir W. Batten by hackney coach to St. James's, where the
+Duke is gone abroad with the King to the Parke, but anon come back to
+White Hall, and we, after an houre's waiting, walked thither (I having
+desired Sir W. Coventry in his chamber to read over my paper about the
+victualling, which he approves of, and I am glad I showed it him first,
+it makes it the less necessary to show it the Duke at all, if I find it
+best to let it alone).  At White Hall we find [the Court] gone to
+Chappell, it being St. James's-day.  And by and by, while they are at
+chappell, and we waiting chappell being done, come people out of the
+Parke, telling us that the guns are heard plain.  And so every body to
+the Parke, and by and by the chappell done, and the King and Duke into
+the bowling-green, and upon the leads, whither I went, and there the guns
+were plain to be heard; though it was pretty to hear how confident some
+would be in the loudnesse of the guns, which it was as much as ever I
+could do to hear them.  By and by the King to dinner, and I waited there
+his dining; but, Lord! how little I should be pleased, I think, to have
+so many people crowding about me; and among other things it astonished me
+to see my Lord Barkeshire waiting at table, and serving the King drink,
+in that dirty pickle as I never saw man in my life.  Here I met Mr.
+Williams, who in serious discourse told me he did hope well of this fight
+because of the equality of force or rather our having the advantage in
+number, and also because we did not go about it with the presumption that
+we did heretofore, when, he told me, he did before the last fight look
+upon us by our pride fated to be overcome.  He would have me to dine
+where he was invited to dine, at the Backe-stayres.  So after the King's
+meat was taken away, we thither; but he could not stay, but left me there
+among two or three of the King's servants, where we dined with the meat
+that come from his table; which was most excellent, with most brave drink
+cooled in ice (which at this hot time was welcome), and I drinking no
+wine, had metheglin for the King's owne drinking, which did please me
+mightily.  Thence, having dined mighty nobly, I away to Mrs. Martin's new
+lodgings, where I find her, and was with her close, but, Lord! how big
+she is already.  She is, at least seems, in mighty trouble for her
+husband at sea, when I am sure she cares not for him, and I would not
+undeceive her, though I know his ship is one of those that is not gone,
+but left behind without men.  Thence to White Hall again to hear news,
+but found none; so back toward Westminster, and there met Mrs. Burroughs,
+whom I had a mind to meet, but being undressed did appear a mighty
+ordinary woman.  Thence by water home, and out again by coach to Lovett's
+to see my Crucifix, which is not done.  So to White Hall again to have
+met Sir G. Carteret, but he is gone, abroad, so back homewards, and
+seeing Mr. Spong took him up, and he and I to Reeves, the glass maker's,
+and did set several glasses and had pretty discourse with him, and so
+away, and set down Mr. Spong in London, and so home and with my wife,
+late, twatling at my Lady Pen's, and so home to supper and to bed.  I did
+this afternoon call at my woman that ruled my paper to bespeak a musique
+card, and there did kiss Nan.  No news to-night from the fleete how
+matters go yet.
+
+
+
+26th.  Up, and to the office, where all the morning.  At noon dined at
+home: Mr. Hunt and his wife, who is very gallant, and newly come from
+Cambridge, because of the sicknesse, with us.  Very merry at table, and
+the people I do love mightily, but being in haste to go to White Hall I
+rose, and Mr. Hunt with me, and by coach thither, where I left him in the
+boarded gallery, and I by appointment to attend the Duke of Yorke at his
+closett, but being not come, Sir G. Carteret and I did talke together,
+and [he] advises me, that, if I could, I would get the papers of
+examination touching the business of the last year's prizes, which
+concern my Lord Sandwich, out of Warcupp's hands, who being now under
+disgrace and poor, he believes may be brought easily to part with them.
+My Lord Crew, it seems, is fearfull yet that maters may be enquired into.
+This I will endeavour to do, though I do not thinke it signifies much.
+By and by the Duke of Yorke comes and we had a meeting and, among other
+things, I did read my declaration of the proceedings of the Victualling
+hired this yeare, and desired his Royall Highnesse to give me the
+satisfaction of knowing whether his Royall Highnesse were pleased
+therewith.  He told me he was, and that it was a good account, and that
+the business of the Victualling was much in a better condition than it
+was the last yeare; which did much joy me, being said in the company of
+my fellows, by which I shall be able with confidence to demand my salary
+and the rest of the subsurveyors.  Thence away mightily satisfied to Mrs.
+Pierces, there to find my wife.  Mrs. Pierce hath lain in of a boy about
+a month.  The boy is dead this day.  She lies in good state, and very
+pretty she is, but methinks do every day grow more and more great, and a
+little too much, unless they get more money than I fear they do.  Thence
+with my wife and Mercer to my Lord Chancellor's new house, and there
+carried them up to the leads, where I find my Lord Chamberlain,
+Lauderdale, Sir Robert Murray, and others, and do find it the most
+delightfull place for prospect that ever was in the world, and even
+ravishing me, and that is all, in short, I can say of it.  Thence to
+Islington to our old house and eat and drank, and so round by Kingsland
+home, and there to the office a little and Sir W. Batten's, but no newes
+at all from the fleete, and so home to bed.
+
+
+
+27th.  Up and to the office, where all the morning busy.  At noon dined
+at home and then to the office again, and there walking in the garden
+with Captain Cocke till 5 o'clock.  No newes yet of the fleete.  His
+great bargaine of Hempe with us by his unknown proposition is disliked by
+the King, and so is quite off; of which he is glad, by this means being
+rid of his obligation to my Lord Bruncker, which he was tired with, and
+especially his mistresse, Mrs. Williams, and so will fall into another
+way about it, wherein he will advise only with myself, which do not
+displease me, and will be better for him and the King too.  Much common
+talke of publique business, the want of money, the uneasinesse that
+Parliament will find in raising any, and the ill condition we shall be
+in if they do not, and his confidence that the Swede is true to us,
+but poor, but would be glad to do us all manner of service in the world.
+He gone, I away by water from the Old Swan to White Hall.  The waterman
+tells me that newes is come that our ship Resolution is burnt, and that
+we had sunke four or five of the enemy's ships.  When I come to White
+Hall I met with Creed, and he tells me the same news, and walking with
+him to the Park I to Sir W. Coventry's lodging, and there he showed me
+Captain Talbot's letter, wherein he says that the fight begun on the
+25th; that our White squadron begun with one of the Dutch squadrons, and
+then the Red with another so hot that we put them both to giving way, and
+so they continued in pursuit all the day, and as long as he stayed with
+them: that the Blue fell to the Zealand squadron; and after a long
+dispute, he against two or three great ships, he received eight or nine
+dangerous shots, and so come away; and says, he saw the Resolution burned
+by one of their fire-ships, and four or five of the enemy's.  But says
+that two or three of our great ships were in danger of being fired by our
+owne fire-ships, which Sir W. Coventry, nor I, cannot understand.  But
+upon the whole, he and I walked two or three turns in the Parke under the
+great trees, and do doubt that this gallant is come away a little too
+soon, having lost never a mast nor sayle.  And then we did begin to
+discourse of the young gentlemen captains, which he was very free with me
+in speaking his mind of the unruliness of them; and what a losse the King
+hath of his old men, and now of this Hannam, of the Resolution, if he be
+dead, and that there is but few old sober men in the fleete, and if these
+few of the Flags that are so should die, he fears some other gentlemen
+captains will get in, and then what a council we shall have, God knows.
+He told me how he is disturbed to hear the commanders at sea called
+cowards here on shore, and that he was yesterday concerned publiquely at
+a dinner to defend them, against somebody that said that not above twenty
+of them fought as they should do, and indeed it is derived from the Duke
+of Albemarle himself, who wrote so to the King and Duke, and that he told
+them how they fought four days, two of them with great disadvantage.  The
+Count de Guiche, who was on board De Ruyter, writing his narrative home
+in French of the fight, do lay all the honour that may be upon the
+English courage above the Dutch, and that he himself [Sir W. Coventry]
+was sent down from the King and Duke of Yorke after the fight, to pray
+them to spare none that they thought had not done their parts, and that
+they had removed but four, whereof Du Tell is one, of whom he would say
+nothing; but, it seems, the Duke of Yorke hath been much displeased at
+his removal, and hath now taken him into his service, which is a plain
+affront to the Duke of Albemarle; and two of the others, Sir W. Coventry
+did speake very slenderly of their faults.  Only the last, which was old
+Teddiman, he says, is in fault, and hath little to excuse himself with;
+and that, therefore, we should not be forward in condemning men of want
+of courage, when the Generalls, who are both men of metal, and hate
+cowards, and had the sense of our ill successe upon them (and by the way
+must either let the world thinke it was the miscarriage of the Captains
+or their owne conduct), have thought fit to remove no more of them, when
+desired by the King and Duke of Yorke to do it, without respect to any
+favour any of them can pretend to in either of them.  At last we
+concluded that we never can hope to beat the Dutch with such advantage as
+now in number and force and a fleete in want of nothing, and he hath
+often repeated now and at other times industriously that many of the
+Captains have: declared that they want nothing, and again, that they did
+lie ten days together at the Nore without demanding of any thing in the
+world but men, and of them they afterward, when they went away, the
+generalls themselves acknowledge that they have permitted several ships
+to carry supernumeraries, but that if we do not speede well, we must then
+play small games and spoile their trade in small parties.  And so we
+parted, and I, meeting Creed in the Parke again, did take him by coach
+and to Islington, thinking to have met my Lady Pen and wife, but they
+were gone, so we eat and drank and away back, setting him down in
+Cheapside and I home, and there after a little while making of my tune to
+"It is decreed," to bed.
+
+
+
+28th.  Up, and to the office, where no more newes of the fleete than was
+yesterday.  Here we sat and at noon to dinner to the Pope's Head, where
+my Lord Bruncker and his mistresse dined and Commissioner Pett, Dr.
+Charleton, and myself, entertained with a venison pasty by Sir W. Warren.
+Here very pretty discourse of Dr. Charleton's, concerning Nature's
+fashioning every creature's teeth according to the food she intends them;
+and that men's, it is plain, was not for flesh, but for fruit, and that
+he can at any time tell the food of a beast unknown by the teeth.  My
+Lord Bruncker made one or two objections to it that creatures find their
+food proper for their teeth rather than that the teeth were fitted for
+the food, but the Doctor, I think, did well observe that creatures do
+naturally and from the first, before they have had experience to try, do
+love such a food rather than another, and that all children love fruit,
+and none brought to flesh, but against their wills at first.  Thence with
+my Lord Bruncker to White Hall, where no news.  So to St. James's to Sir
+W. Coventry, and there hear only of the Bredah's being come in and gives
+the same small account that the other did yesterday, so that we know not
+what is done by the body of the fleete at all, but conceive great reason
+to hope well.  Thence with my Lord to his coach-house, and there put in
+his six horses into his coach, and he and I alone to Highgate.  All the
+way going and coming I learning of him the principles of Optickes, and
+what it is that makes an object seem less or bigger and how much distance
+do lessen an object, and that it is not the eye at all, or any rule in
+optiques, that can tell distance, but it is only an act of reason
+comparing of one mark with another, which did both please and inform me
+mightily.  Being come thither we went to my Lord Lauderdale's house to
+speake with him, about getting a man at Leith to joyne with one we employ
+to buy some prize goods for the King; we find [him] and his lady and some
+Scotch people at supper.  Pretty odd company; though my Lord Bruncker
+tells me, my Lord Lauderdale is a man of mighty good reason and
+judgement.  But at supper there played one of their servants upon the
+viallin some Scotch tunes only; several, and the best of their country,
+as they seemed to esteem them, by their praising and admiring them: but,
+Lord! the strangest ayre that ever I heard in my life, and all of one
+cast.  But strange to hear my Lord Lauderdale say himself that he had
+rather hear a cat mew, than the best musique in the world; and the better
+the musique, the more sicke it makes him; and that of all instruments, he
+hates the lute most, and next to that, the baggpipe.  Thence back with my
+Lord to his house, all the way good discourse, informing of myself about
+optiques still, and there left him and by a hackney home, and after
+writing three or four letters, home to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+29th (Lord's day).  Up and all the morning in my chamber making up my
+accounts in my book with my father and brother and stating them.  Towards
+noon before sermon was done at church comes newes by a letter to Sir W.
+Batten, to my hand, of the late fight, which I sent to his house, he at
+church.  But, Lord! with what impatience I staid till sermon was done,
+to know the issue of the fight, with a thousand hopes and fears and
+thoughts about the consequences of either.  At last sermon is done and he
+come home, and the bells immediately rung soon as the church was done.
+But coming; to Sir W. Batten to know the newes, his letter said nothing
+of it; but all the towne is full of a victory.  By and by a letter from
+Sir W. Coventry tells me that we have the victory.  Beat them into the
+Weelings;
+
+     [In a letter from Richard Browne to Williamson, dated Yarmouth, July
+     30th, we read, "The Zealanders were engaged with the Blue squadron
+     Wednesday and most of Thursday, but at length the Zealanders ran;
+     the Dutch fleet escaped to the Weelings and Goree" ("Calendar of
+     State Papers," 1665-66, p  591).]
+
+had taken two of their great ships; but by the orders of the Generalls
+they are burned.  This being, methought, but a poor result after the
+fighting of two so great fleetes, and four days having no tidings of
+them, I was still impatient; but could know no more.  So away home to
+dinner, where Mr. Spong and Reeves dined with me by invitation.  And
+after dinner to our business of my microscope to be shown some of the
+observables of that, and then down to my office to looke in a darke room
+with my glasses and tube, and most excellently things appeared indeed
+beyond imagination.  This was our worke all the afternoon trying the
+several glasses and several objects, among others, one of my plates,
+where the lines appeared so very plain that it is not possible to thinke
+how plain it was done.  Thence satisfied exceedingly with all this we
+home and to discourse many pretty things, and so staid out the afternoon
+till it began to be dark, and then they away and I to Sir W. Batten,
+where the Lieutenant of the Tower was, and Sir John Minnes, and the newes
+I find is no more or less than what I had heard before; only that our
+Blue squadron, it seems, was pursued the most of the time, having more
+ships, a great many, than its number allotted to her share.  Young
+Seamour is killed, the only captain slain.  The Resolution burned; but,
+as they say, most of her [crew] and commander saved.  This is all, only
+we keep the sea, which denotes a victory, or at least that we are not
+beaten; but no great matters to brag of, God knows.  So home to supper
+and to bed.
+
+
+
+30th.  Up, and did some business in my chamber, then by and by comes my
+boy's Lute-Master, and I did direct him hereafter to begin to teach him
+to play his part on the Theorbo, which he will do, and that in a little
+time I believe.  So to the office, and there with Sir W. Warren, with
+whom I have spent no time a good while.  We set right our business of the
+Lighters, wherein I thinke I shall get L100. At noon home to dinner and
+there did practise with Mercer one of my new tunes that I have got Dr.
+Childe to set me a base to and it goes prettily.  Thence abroad to pay
+several debts at the end of the month, and so to Sir W. Coventry, at St.
+James's, where I find him in his new closett, which is very fine, and
+well supplied with handsome books.  I find him speak very slightly of the
+late victory: dislikes their staying with the fleete up their coast,
+believing that the Dutch will come out in fourteen days, and then we with
+our unready fleete, by reason of some of the ships being maymed, shall be
+in bad condition to fight them upon their owne coast: is much
+dissatisfied with the great number of men, and their fresh demands of
+twenty-four victualling ships, they going out but the other day as full
+as they could stow.  I asked him whether he did never desire an account
+of the number of supernumeraries, as I have done several ways, without
+which we shall be in great errour about the victuals; he says he has done
+it again and again, and if any mistake should happen they must thanke
+themselves.  He spoke slightly of the Duke of Albemarle, saying, when
+De Ruyter come to give him a broadside--"Now," says he, chewing of
+tobacco the while, "will this fellow come and give, me two broadsides,
+and then he will run;" but it seems he held him to it two hours, till the
+Duke himself was forced to retreat to refit, and was towed off, and De
+Ruyter staid for him till he come back again to fight.  One in the ship
+saying to the Duke, "Sir, methinks De Ruyter hath given us more: than two
+broadsides;"--"Well," says the Duke, "but you shall find him run by and
+by," and so he did, says Sir W. Coventry; but after the Duke himself had
+been first made to fall off.  The Resolution had all brass guns, being
+the same that Sir J. Lawson had in her in the Straights.  It is observed
+that the two fleetes were even in number to one ship.  Thence home; and
+to sing with my wife and Mercer in the garden; and coming in I find my
+wife plainly dissatisfied with me, that I can spend so much time with
+Mercer, teaching her to sing and could never take the pains with her.
+Which I acknowledge; but it is because that the girl do take musique
+mighty readily, and she do not, and musique is the thing of the world
+that I love most, and all the pleasure almost that I can now take.  So to
+bed in some little discontent, but no words from me.
+
+
+
+31st.  Good friends in the morning and up to the office, where sitting
+all the morning, and while at table we were mightily joyed with newes
+brought by Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten of the death of De Ruyter, but
+when Sir W. Coventry come, he told us there was no such thing, which
+quite dashed me again, though, God forgive me!  I was a little sorry in
+my heart before lest it might give occasion of too much glory to the Duke
+of Albemarle.  Great bandying this day between Sir W. Coventry and my
+Lord Bruncker about Captain Cocke, which I am well pleased with, while I
+keepe from any open relyance on either side, but rather on Sir W.
+Coventry's.  At noon had a haunch of venison boiled and a very good
+dinner besides, there dining with me on a sudden invitation the two
+mayden sisters, Bateliers, and their elder brother, a pretty man,
+understanding and well discoursed, much pleased with his company.  Having
+dined myself I rose to go to a Committee of Tangier, and did come thither
+time enough to meet Povy and Creed and none else.  The Court being empty,
+the King being gone to Tunbridge, and the Duke of Yorke a-hunting.  I had
+some discourse with Povy, who is mightily discontented, I find, about his
+disappointments at Court; and says, of all places, if there be hell, it
+is here.  No faith, no truth, no love, nor any agreement between man and
+wife, nor friends.  He would have spoke broader, but I put it off to
+another time; and so parted.  Then with Creed and read over with him the
+narrative of the late [fight], which he makes a very poor thing of, as it
+is indeed, and speaks most slightingly of the whole matter.  Povy
+discoursed with me about my Lord Peterborough's L50 which his man did
+give me from him, the last year's salary I paid him, which he would have
+Povy pay him again; but I have not taken it to myself yet, and therefore
+will most heartily return him, and mark him out for a coxcomb.  Povy went
+down to Mr. Williamson's, and brought me up this extract out of the
+Flanders' letters to-day come: That Admiral Everson, and the Admiral and
+Vice-Admiral of Freezeland, with many captains and men, are slain; that
+De Ruyter is safe, but lost 250 men out of his own ship; but that he is
+in great disgrace, and Trump in better favour; that Bankert's ship is
+burned, himself hardly escaping with a few men on board De Haes; that
+fifteen captains are to be tried the seventh of August; and that the
+hangman was sent from Flushing to assist the Council of Warr.  How much
+of this is true, time will shew.  Thence to Westminster Hall and walked
+an hour with Creed talking of the late fight, and observing the
+ridiculous management thereof and success of the Duke of Albemarle.
+Thence parted and to Mrs. Martin's lodgings, and sat with her a while,
+and then by water home, all the way reading the Narrative of the late
+fight in order, it may be, to the making some marginal notes upon it.
+At the Old Swan found my Betty Michell at the doore, where I staid
+talking with her a pretty while, it being dusky, and kissed her and so
+away home and writ my letters, and then home to supper, where the,
+brother and Mary Batelier are still and Mercer's two sisters.  They have
+spent the time dancing this afternoon, and we were very merry, and then
+after supper into the garden and there walked, and then home with them
+and then back again, my wife and I and the girle, and sang in the garden
+and then to bed.  Colville was with me this morning, and to my great joy
+I could now have all my money in, that I have in the world.  But the
+times being open again, I thinke it is best to keepe some of it abroad.
+Mighty well, and end this month in content of mind and body.  The
+publique matters looking more safe for the present than they did, and we
+having a victory over the Dutch just such as I could have wished, and as
+the kingdom was fit to bear, enough to give us the name of conquerors,
+and leave us masters of the sea, but without any such great matters done
+as should give the Duke of Albemarle any honour at all, or give him cause
+to rise to his former insolence.
+
+
+
+
+ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:
+
+Better the musique, the more sicke it makes him
+Contempt of the ceremoniousnesse of the King of Spayne
+Listening to no reasoning for it, be it good or bad
+Many women now-a-days of mean sort in the streets, but no men
+Milke, which I drank to take away, my heartburne
+No money to do it with, nor anybody to trust us without it
+Rather hear a cat mew, than the best musique in the world
+Says, of all places, if there be hell, it is here
+So to bed in some little discontent, but no words from me
+The gentlemen captains will undo us
+To bed, after washing my legs and feet with warm water
+Venison-pasty that we have for supper to-night to the cook's
+With a shower of hail as big as walnuts
+World sees now the use of them for shelter of men (fore-castles)
+
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+End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v50
+by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley
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