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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, July 1666 + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Release Date: December 1, 2004 [EBook #4166] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, JULY 1666 *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY + MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + 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) + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, July 1666, by Samuel Pepys + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, JULY 1666 *** + +***** This file should be named 4166.txt or 4166.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/6/4166/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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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) + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v50 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + diff --git a/old/sp51g10.zip b/old/sp51g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..842063e --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp51g10.zip |