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diff --git a/4167.txt b/4167.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d481a8e --- /dev/null +++ b/4167.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2467 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Diary of Samuel Pepys, August/September 1666 +by Samuel Pepys + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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, August/September 1666 + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Release Date: December 1, 2004 [EBook #4167] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + + + + +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. + AUGUST & SEPTEMBER + 1666 + +August 1st. Up betimes to the settling of my last month's accounts, and I +bless God I find them very clear, and that I am worth L5700, the most that +ever my book did yet make out. So prepared to attend the Duke of Yorke as +usual, but Sir W. Pen, just as I was going out, comes home from +Sheernesse, and held me in discourse about publique business, till I come +by coach too late to St. James's, and there find that every thing stood +still, and nothing done for want of me. Thence walked over the Parke with +Sir W. Coventry, who I clearly see is not thoroughly pleased with the late +management of the fight, nor with any thing that the Generalls do; only is +glad to hear that De Ruyter is out of favour, and that this fight hath +cost them 5,000 men, as they themselves do report. And it is a strange +thing, as he observes, how now and then the slaughter runs on one hand; +there being 5,000 killed on theirs, and not above 400 or 500 killed and +wounded on ours, and as many flag-officers on theirs as ordinary captains +in ours; there being Everson, and the Admiral and Vice-Admiral of +Freezeland on theirs, and Seamour, Martin, and-----, on ours. I left him +going to Chappell, it being the common fast day, and the Duke of York at +Chappell. And I to Mrs. Martin's, but she abroad, so I sauntered to or +again to the Abbey, and then to the parish church, fearfull of being seen +to do so, and so after the parish church was ended, I to the Swan and +there dined upon a rabbit, and after dinner to Mrs. Martin's, and there +find Mrs. Burroughs, and by and by comes a pretty widow, one Mrs. +Eastwood, and one Mrs. Fenton, a maid; and here merry kissing and looking +on their breasts, and all the innocent pleasure in the world. But, Lord! +to see the dissembling of this widow, how upon the singing of a certain +jigg by Doll, Mrs. Martin's sister, she seemed to be sick and fainted and +God knows what, because the jigg, which her husband (who died this last +sickness) loved. But by and by I made her as merry as is possible, and +towzed and tumbled her as I pleased, and then carried her and her sober +pretty kinswoman Mrs. Fenton home to their lodgings in the new market of +my Lord Treasurer's, and there left them. Mightily pleased with this +afternoon's mirth, but in great pain to ride in a coach with them, for +fear of being seen. So home, and there much pleased with my wife's +drawing today in her pictures, and so to supper and to bed very pleasant. + +2nd. [Up] and to the office, where we sat, and in discourse at the table +with Sir W. Batten, I was obliged to tell him it was an untruth, which did +displease him mightily, and parted at noon very angry with me. At home +find Lovett, who brought me some papers varnished, and showed me my +crucifix, which will be very fine when done. He dined with me and Balty's +wife, who is in great pain for her husband, not hearing of him since the +fight; but I understand he was not in it, going hence too late, and I am +glad of it. Thence to the office, and thither comes to me Creed, and he +and I walked a good while, and then to the victualling office together, +and there with Mr. Gawden I did much business, and so away with Creed +again, and by coach to see my Lord Bruncker, who it seems was not well +yesterday, but being come thither, I find his coach ready to carry him +abroad, but Tom, his footman, whatever the matter was, was lothe to desire +me to come in, but I walked a great while in the Piatza till I was going +away, but by and by my Lord himself comes down and coldly received me. So +I soon parted, having enough for my over officious folly in troubling +myself to visit him, and I am apt to think that he was fearfull that my +coming was out of design to see how he spent his time [rather] than to +enquire after his health. So parted, and I with Creed down to the New +Exchange Stairs, and there I took water, and he parted, so home, and then +down to Woolwich, reading and making an end of the "Rival Ladys," and find +it a very pretty play. At Woolwich, it being now night, I find my wife +and Mercer, and Mr. Batelier and Mary there, and a supper getting ready. +So I staid, in some pain, it being late, and post night. So supped and +merrily home, but it was twelve at night first. However, sent away some +letters, and home to bed. + +3rd. Up and to the office, where Sir W. Batten and I sat to contract for +some fire-ships. I there close all the morning. At noon home to dinner, +and then abroad to Sir Philip Warwicke's at White Hall about Tangier one +quarter tallys, and there had some serious discourse touching money, and +the case of the Navy, wherein all I could get of him was that we had the +full understanding of the treasure as much as my Lord Treasurer himself, +and knew what he can do, and that whatever our case is, more money cannot +be got till the Parliament. So talked of getting an account ready as soon +as we could to give the Parliament, and so very melancholy parted. So I +back again, calling my wife at her sister's, from whose husband we do now +hear that he was safe this week, and going in a ship to the fleete from +the buoy of the Nore, where he has been all this while, the fleete being +gone before he got down. So home, and busy till night, and then to Sir W. +Pen, with my wife, to sit and chat, and a small supper, and home to bed. +The death of Everson, and the report of our success, beyond expectation, +in the killing of so great a number of men, hath raised the estimation of +the late victory considerably; but it is only among fools: for all that +was but accidental. But this morning, getting Sir .W. Pen to read over +the Narrative with me, he did sparingly, yet plainly, say that we might +have intercepted their Zealand squadron coming home, if we had done our +parts; and more, that we might have spooned before the wind as well as +they, and have overtaken their ships in the pursuite, in all the while. + + [To spoom, or spoon, is to go right before the wind, without any + sail. Sea Dictionary. Dryden uses the word + + "When virtue spooms before a prosperous gale, + My heaving wishes help to fill the sail." + Hind and Panther, iii. 96.] + +4th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and, at noon to +dinner, and Mr. Cooke dined with us, who is lately come from +Hinchingbroke, [Lord Hinchingbrooke] who is also come to town: The family +all well. Then I to the office, where very busy to state to Mr. Coventry +the account of the victuals of the fleete, and late at it, and then home +to supper and to bed. This evening, Sir W. Pen come into the garden, and +walked with me, and told me that he had certain notice that at Flushing +they are in great distraction. De Ruyter dares not come on shore for fear +of the people; nor any body open their houses or shops for fear of the +tumult: which is a every good hearing. + +5th. (Lord's day). Up, and down to the Old Swan, and there called Betty +Michell and her husband, and had two or three a long salutes from her out +of sight of 'su mari', which pleased me mightily, and so carried them by +water to West minster, and I to St. James's, and there had a meeting +before the Duke of Yorke, complaining of want of money, but nothing done +to any purpose, for want we shall, so that now our advices to him signify +nothing. Here Sir W. Coventry did acquaint the Duke of Yorke how the +world do discourse of the ill method of our books, and that we would +consider how to answer any enquiry which shall be made after our practice +therein, which will I think concern the Controller most, but I shall make +it a memento to myself. Thence walked to the Parish Church to have one +look upon Betty Michell, and so away homeward by water, and landed to go +to the church, where, I believe, Mrs. Horsely goes, by Merchant-tailors' +Hall, and there I find in the pulpit Elborough, my old schoolfellow and a +simple rogue, and yet I find him preaching a very good sermon, and in as +right a parson-like manner, and in good manner too, as I have heard any +body; and the church very full, which is a surprising consideration; but I +did not see her. So home, and had a good dinner, and after dinner with +my wife, and Mercer, and Jane by water, all the afternoon up as high as +Morclaeke with great pleasure, and a fine day, reading over the second +part of the, "Siege of Rhodes," with great delight. We landed and walked +at Barne-elmes, and then at the Neat Houses I landed and bought a +millon,--[melon]--and we did also land and eat and drink at Wandsworth, +and so to the Old Swan, and thence walked home. It being a mighty fine +cool evening, and there being come, my wife and I spent an houre in the +garden, talking of our living in the country, when I shall be turned out +of the office, as I fear the Parliament may find faults enough with the +office to remove us all, and I am joyed to think in how good a condition I +am to retire thither, and have wherewith very well to subsist. Nan, at +Sir W. Pen's, lately married to one Markeham, a kinsman of Sir W. Pen's, a +pretty wench she is. + +6th. Up, and to the office a while, and then by water to my Lady +Montagu's, at Westminster, and there visited my Lard Hinchingbroke, newly +come from Hinchingbroke, and find him a mighty sober gentleman, to my +great content. Thence to Sir Ph. Warwicke and my Lord Treasurer's, but +failed in my business; so home and in Fenchurch-streete met with Mr: +Battersby; says he, "Do you see Dan Rawlinson's door shut up?" (which I +did, and wondered). "Why," says he, "after all the sickness, and himself +spending all the last year in the country, one of his men is now dead of +the plague, and his wife and one of his mayds sicke, and himself shut up;" +which troubles me mightily. So home; and there do hear also from Mrs. +Sarah Daniel, that Greenwich is at this time much worse than ever it was, +and Deptford too: and she told us that they believed all the towne would +leave the towne and come to London; which is now the receptacle of all the +people from all infected places. God preserve us! So by and by to +dinner, and, after dinner in comes Mrs. Knipp, and I being at the office +went home to her, and there I sat and talked with her, it being the first +time of her being here since her being brought to bed. I very pleasant +with her; but perceive my wife hath no great pleasure in her being here, +she not being pleased with my kindnesse to her. However, we talked and +sang, and were very pleasant. By and by comes Mr. Pierce and his wife, +the first time she also hath been here since her lying-in, both having +been brought to bed of boys, and both of them dead. And here we talked, +and were pleasant, only my wife in a chagrin humour, she not being pleased +with my kindnesse to either of them, and by and by she fell into some +silly discourse wherein I checked her, which made her mighty pettish, and +discoursed mighty offensively to Mrs. Pierce, which did displease me, but +I would make no words, but put the discourse by as much as I could (it +being about a report that my wife said was made of herself and meant by +Mrs. Pierce, that she was grown a gallant, when she had but so few suits +of clothes these two or three years, and a great deale of that silly +discourse), and by and by Mrs. Pierce did tell her that such discourses +should not trouble her, for there went as bad on other people, and +particularly of herself at this end of the towne, meaning my wife, that +she was crooked, which was quite false, which my wife had the wit not to +acknowledge herself to be the speaker of, though she has said it twenty +times. But by this means we had little pleasure in their visit; however, +Knipp and I sang, and then I offered them to carry them home, and to take +my wife with me, but she would not go: so I with them, leaving my wife in +a very ill humour, and very slighting to them, which vexed me. However, I +would not be removed from my civility to them, but sent for a coach, and +went with them; and, in our way, Knipp saying that she come out of doors +without a dinner to us, I took them to Old Fish Streete, to the very house +and woman where I kept my wedding dinner, where I never was since, and +there I did give them a joie of salmon, and what else was to be had. And +here we talked of the ill-humour of my wife, which I did excuse as much as +I could, and they seemed to admit of it, but did both confess they +wondered at it; but from thence to other discourse, and among others to +that of my Lord Bruncker and Mrs. Williams, who it seems do speake mighty +hardly of me for my not treating them, and not giving her something to her +closett, and do speake worse of my wife, and dishonourably, but it is what +she do of all the world, though she be a whore herself; so I value it not. +But they told me how poorly my Lord carried himself the other day to his +kinswoman, Mrs. Howard, and was displeased because she called him uncle to +a little gentlewoman that is there with him, which he will not admit of; +for no relation is to be challenged from others to a lord, and did treat +her thereupon very rudely and ungenteely. Knipp tells me also that my +Lord keeps another woman besides Mrs. Williams; and that, when I was there +the other day, there was a great hubbub in the house, Mrs. Williams being +fallen sicke, because my Lord was gone to his other mistresse, making her +wait for him, till his return from the other mistresse; and a great deale +of do there was about it; and Mrs. Williams swounded at it, at the very +time when I was there and wondered at the reason of my being received so +negligently. I set them both at home, Knipp at her house, her husband +being at the doore; and glad she was to be found to have staid out so long +with me and Mrs. Pierce, and none else; and Mrs. Pierce at her house, and +am mightily pleased with the discretion of her during the simplicity and +offensiveness of my wife's discourse this afternoon. I perceive by the +new face at Mrs. Pierces door that our Mary is gone from her. So I home, +calling on W. Joyce in my coach, and staid and talked a little with him, +who is the same silly prating fellow that ever he was, and so home, and +there find my wife mightily out of order, and reproaching of Mrs. Pierce +and Knipp as wenches, and I know not what. But I did give her no words to +offend her, and quietly let all pass, and so to bed without any good looke +or words to or from my wife. + +7th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and home to +dinner, and then to the office again, being pretty good friends with my +wife again, no angry words passed; but she finding fault with Mercer, +suspecting that it was she that must have told Mary, that must have told +her mistresse of my wife's saying that she was crooked. But the truth is, +she is jealous of my kindnesse to her. After dinner, to the office, and +did a great deale of business. In the evening comes Mr. Reeves, with a +twelve-foote glasse, so I left the office and home, where I met Mr. +Batelier with my wife, in order to our going to-morrow, by agreement, to +Bow to see a dancing meeting. But, Lord! to see how soon I could conceive +evil fears and thoughts concerning them; so Reeves and I and they up to +the top of the house, and there we endeavoured to see the moon, and +Saturne and Jupiter; but the heavens proved cloudy, and so we lost our +labour, having taken pains to get things together, in order to the +managing of our long glasse. So down to supper and then to bed, Reeves +lying at my house, but good discourse I had from him: in his own trade, +concerning glasses, and so all of us late to bed. I receive fresh +intelligence that Deptford and Greenwich are now afresh exceedingly +afflicted with the sickness more than ever. + +8th. Up, and with Reeves walk as far as the Temple, doing some business +in my way at my bookseller's and elsewhere, and there parted, and I took +coach, having first discoursed with Mr. Hooke a little, whom we met in the +streete, about the nature of sounds, and he did make me understand the +nature of musicall sounds made by strings, mighty prettily; and told me +that having come to a certain number of vibrations proper to make any +tone, he is able to tell how many strokes a fly makes with her wings +(those flies that hum in their flying) by the note that it answers to in +musique during their flying. That, I suppose, is a little too much +refined; but his discourse in general of sound was mighty fine. There I +left them, and myself by coach to St. James's, where we attended with the +rest of my fellows on the Duke, whom I found with two or three patches +upon his nose and about his right eye, which come from his being struck +with the bough of a tree the other day in his hunting; and it is a wonder +it did not strike out his eye. After we had done our business with him, +which is now but little, the want of money being such as leaves us little +to do but to answer complaints of the want thereof, and nothing to offer +to the Duke, the representing of our want of money being now become +uselesse, I into the Park, and there I met with Mrs. Burroughs by +appointment, and did agree (after discoursing of some business of her's) +for her to meet me at New Exchange, while I by coach to my Lord +Treasurer's, and then called at the New Exchange, and thence carried her +by water to Parliament stayres, and I to the Exchequer about my Tangier +quarter tallys, and that done I took coach and to the west door of the +Abby, where she come to me, and I with her by coach to Lissen-greene where +we were last, and staid an hour or two before dinner could be got for us, +I in the meantime having much pleasure with her, but all honest. And by +and by dinner come up, and then to my sport again, but still honest; and +then took coach and up and down in the country toward Acton, and then +toward Chelsy, and so to Westminster, and there set her down where I took +her up, with mighty pleasure in her company, and so I by coach home, and +thence to Bow, with all the haste I could, to my Lady Pooly's, where my +wife was with Mr. Batelier and his sisters, and there I found a noble +supper, and every thing exceeding pleasant, and their mother, Mrs: +Batelier, a fine woman, but mighty passionate upon sudden news brought her +of the loss of a dog borrowed of the Duke of Albemarle's son to line a +bitch of hers that is very pretty, but the dog was by and by found, and so +all well again, their company mighty innocent and pleasant, we having +never been here before. About ten o'clock we rose from table, and sang a +song, and so home in two coaches (Mr. Batelier and his sister Mary and my +wife and I in one, and Mercer alone in the other); and after being +examined at Allgate, whether we were husbands and wives, home, and being +there come, and sent away Mr. Batelierand his sister, I find Reeves there, +it being a mighty fine bright night, and so upon my leads, though very +sleepy, till one in the morning, looking on the moon and Jupiter, with +this twelve-foote glasse and another of six foote, that he hath brought +with him to-night, and the sights mighty pleasant, and one of the glasses +I will buy, it being very usefull. So to bed mighty sleepy, but with much +pleasure. Reeves lying at my house again; and mighty proud I am (and +ought to be thankfull to God Almighty) that I am able to have a spare bed +for my friends. + +9th. Up and to the office to prepare business for the Board, Reeves being +gone and I having lent him upon one of the glasses. Here we sat, but to +little purpose, nobody coming at us but to ask for money, not to offer us +any goods. At noon home to dinner, and then to the office again, being +mightily pleased with a Virgin's head that my wife is now doing of. In +the evening to Lumbard-streete about money, to enable me to pay Sir G. +Carteret's L3000, which he hath lodged in my hands, in behalf of his son +and my Lady Jemimah, toward their portion, which, I thank God, I am able +to do at a minute's warning. In my [way] I inquired, and find Mrs. +Rawlinson is dead of the sickness, and her mayde continues mighty ill. He +himself is got out of the house. I met also with Mr. Evelyn in the +streete, who tells me the sad condition at this very day at Deptford for +the plague, and more at Deale (within his precinct as one of the +Commissioners for sick and wounded seamen), that the towne is almost quite +depopulated. Thence back home again, and after some business at my +office, late, home to supper and to bed, I being sleepy by my late want of +rest, notwithstanding my endeavouring to get a nap of an hour this +afternoon after dinner. So home and to bed. + +10th. Up and to my chamber; there did some business and then to my +office, and towards noon by water to the Exchequer about my Tangier order, +and thence back again and to the Exchange, where little newes but what is +in the book, and, among other things, of a man sent up for by the King and +Council for saying that Sir W. Coventry did give intelligence to the Dutch +of all our matters here. I met with Colvill, and he and I did agree about +his lending me L1000 upon a tally of L1000 for Tangier. Thence to Sympson, +the joyner, and I am mightily pleased with what I see of my presses for my +books, which he is making for me. So homeward, and hear in +Fanchurch-streete, that now the mayde also is dead at Mr. Rawlinson's; so +that there are three dead in all, the wife, a man-servant, and +mayde-servant. Home to dinner, where sister Balty dined with us, and met +a letter come to me from him. He is well at Harwich, going to the fleete. +After dinner to the office, and anon with my wife and sister abroad, left +them in Paternoster Row, while Creed, who was with me at the office, and I +to Westminster; and leaving him in the Strand, I to my Lord Chancellor's, +and did very little business, and so away home by water, with more and +more pleasure, I every time reading over my Lord Bacon's "Faber Fortunae." +So home, and there did little business, and then walked an hour talking of +sundry things in the garden, and find him a cunning knave, as I always +observed him to be, and so home to supper, and to bed. Pleased that this +day I find, if I please, I can have all my money in that I have out of my +hands, but I am at a loss whether to take it in or no, and pleased also to +hear of Mrs. Barbara Sheldon's good fortune, who is like to have Mr. +Wood's son, the mast-maker, a very rich man, and to be married speedily, +she being already mighty fine upon it. + +11th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon home +to dinner, where mighty pleased at my wife's beginnings of a little +Virgin's head. To the office and did much business, and then to Mr. +Colvill's, and with him did come to an agreement about my L2600 assignment +on the Exchequer, which I had of Sir W. Warren; and, to my great joy, I +think I shall get above L100 by it, but I must leave it to be finished on +Monday. Thence to the office, and there did the remainder of my business, +and so home to supper and to bed. This afternoon I hear as if we had +landed some men upon the Dutch coasts, but I believe it is but a foolery +either in the report or the attempt. + +12th (Lord's day). Up and to my chamber, where busy all the morning, and +my thoughts very much upon the manner of my removal of my closett things +the next weeke into my present musique room, if I find I can spare or get +money to furnish it. By and by comes Reeves, by appointment, but did not +bring the glasses and things I expected for our discourse and my +information to-day, but we have agreed on it for next Sunday. By and by, +in comes Betty Michell and her husband, and so to dinner, I mightily +pleased with their company. We passed the whole day talking with them, +but without any pleasure, but only her being there. In the evening, all +parted, and I and my wife up to her closett to consider how to order that +the next summer, if we live to it; and then down to my chamber at night to +examine her kitchen accounts, and there I took occasion to fall out with +her for her buying a laced handkercher and pinner without my leave. Though +the thing is not much, yet I would not permit her begin to do so, lest +worse should follow. From this we began both to be angry, and so +continued till bed, and did not sleep friends. + +13th. Up, without being friends with my wife, nor great enemies, being +both quiet and silent. So out to Colvill's, but he not being come to town +yet, I to Paul's Church-yarde, to treat with a bookbinder, to come and +gild the backs of all my books, to make them handsome, to stand in my new +presses, when they come. So back again to Colvill's, and there did end +our treaty, to my full content, about my Exchequer assignment of L2600 of +Sir W. Warren's, for which I give him L170 to stand to the hazard of +receiving it. So I shall get clear by it L230, which is a very good jobb. +God be praised for it! Having done with him, then he and I took coach, +and I carried him to Westminster, and there set him down, in our way +speaking of several things. I find him a bold man to say any thing of any +body, and finds fault with our great ministers of state that nobody looks +after any thing; and I thought it dangerous to be free with him, for I do +not think he can keep counsel, because he blabs to me what hath passed +between other people and him. Thence I to St. James's, and there missed +Sir W. Coventry; but taking up Mr. Robinson in my coach, I towards London, +and there in the way met Sir W. Coventry, and followed him to White Hall, +where a little discourse very kind, and so I away with Robinson, and set +him down at the 'Change, and thence I to Stokes the goldsmith, and sent +him to and again to get me L1000 in gold; and so home to dinner, my wife +and I friends, without any words almost of last night. After dinner, I +abroad to Stokes, and there did receive L1000 worth in gold, paying 18 +1/2d. and 19d. for others exchange. Home with them, and there to my +office to business, and anon home in the evening, there to settle some of +my accounts, and then to supper and to bed. + +14th. (Thanksgiving day.) + + [A proclamation ordering August 14th to be observed in London and + Westminster, and August 23rd in other places, as a day of + thanksgiving for the late victory at sea over the Dutch, was + published on August 6th.] + +Up, and comes Mr. Foley and his man, with a box of a great variety of +carpenter's and joyner's tooles, which I had bespoke, to me, which please +me mightily; but I will have more. Then I abroad down to the Old Swan, +and there I called and kissed Betty Michell, and would have got her to go +with me to Westminster, but I find her a little colder than she used to +be, methought, which did a little molest me. So I away not pleased, and +to White Hall, where I find them at Chappell, and met with Povy, and he +and I together, who tells me how mad my letter makes my Lord Peterborough, +and what a furious letter he hath writ to me in answer, though it is not +come yet. This did trouble me; for though there be no reason, yet to have +a nobleman's mouth open against a man may do a man hurt; so I endeavoured +to have found him out and spoke with him, but could not. So to the +chappell, and heard a piece of the Dean of Westminster's sermon, and a +special good anthemne before the king, after a sermon, and then home by +coach with Captain Cocke, who is in pain about his hempe, of which he says +he hath bought great quantities, and would gladly be upon good terms with +us for it, wherein I promise to assist him. So we 'light at the 'Change, +where, after a small turn or two, taking no pleasure now-a-days to be +there, because of answering questions that would be asked there which I +cannot answer; so home and dined, and after dinner, with my wife and +Mercer to the Beare-garden, + + [The Bear Garden was situated on Bankside, close to the precinct of + the Clinke Liberty, and very near to the old palace of the bishops + of Winchester. Stow, to his "Survey," says: "There be two Bear + Gardens, the old and new Places." The name still exists in a street + or lane at the foot of Southwark Bridge, and in Bear Garden Wharf.] + +where I have not been, I think, of many years, and saw some good sport of +the bull's tossing of the dogs: one into the very boxes. But it is a very +rude and nasty pleasure. We had a great many hectors in the same box with +us (and one very fine went into the pit, and played his dog for a wager, +which was a strange sport for a gentleman), where they drank wine, and +drank Mercer's health first, which I pledged with my hat off; and who +should be in the house but Mr. Pierce the surgeon, who saw us and spoke to +us. Thence home, well enough satisfied, however, with the variety of this +afternoon's exercise; and so I to my chamber, till in the evening our +company come to supper. We had invited to a venison pasty Mr. Batelier +and his sister Mary, Mrs. Mercer, her daughter Anne, Mr. Le Brun, and W. +Hewer; and so we supped, and very merry. And then about nine o'clock to +Mrs. Mercer's gate, where the fire and boys expected us, and her son had +provided abundance of serpents and rockets; and there mighty merry (my +Lady Pen and Pegg going thither with us, and Nan Wright), till about +twelve at night, flinging our fireworks, and burning one another and the +people over the way. And at last our businesses being most spent, we into +Mrs. Mercer's, and there mighty merry, smutting one another with candle +grease and soot, till most of us were like devils. And that being done, +then we broke up, and to my house; and there I made them drink, and +upstairs we went, and then fell into dancing (W. Batelier dancing well), +and dressing, him and I and one Mr. Banister (who with his wife come over +also with us) like women; and Mercer put on a suit of Tom's, like a boy, +and mighty mirth we had, and Mercer danced a jigg; and Nan Wright and my +wife and Pegg Pen put on perriwigs. Thus we spent till three or four in +the morning, mighty merry; and then parted, and to bed. + +15th. Mighty sleepy; slept till past eight of the clock, and was called +up by a letter from Sir W. Coventry, which, among other things, tells me +how we have burned one hundred and sixty ships of the enemy within the +Fly. + + [On the 8th August the Duke of Albemarle reported to Lord Arlington + that he had "sent 1000 good men under Sir R. Holmes and Sir William + Jennings to destroy the islands of Vlie and Schelling." On the 10th + James Hayes wrote to Williamson: "On the 9th at noon smoke was seen + rising from several places in the island of Vlie, and the 10th + brought news that Sir Robert had burned in the enemy's harbour 160 + outward bound valuable merchant men and three men-of-war, and taken + a little pleasure boat and eight guns in four hours. The loss is + computed at a million sterling, and will make great confusion when + the people see themselves in the power of the English at their very + doors. Sir Robert then landed his forces, and is burning the houses + in Vlie and Schelling as bonfires for his good success at sea" + ("Calendar of State Papers," 1666-67, pp. 21,27).] + +I up, and with all possible haste, and in pain for fear of coming late, it +being our day of attending the Duke of Yorke, to St. James's, where they +are full of the particulars; how they are generally good merchant ships, +some of them laden and supposed rich ships. We spent five fire-ships upon +them. We landed on the Schelling (Sir Philip Howard with some men, and +Holmes, I think; with others, about 1000 in all), and burned a town; and +so come away. By and by the Duke of Yorke with his books showed us the +very place and manner, and that it was not our design or expectation to +have done this, but only to have landed on the Fly, and burned some of +their store; but being come in, we spied those ships, and with our long +boats, one by one, fired them, our ships running all aground, it being so +shoal water. We were led to this by, it seems, a renegado captain of the +Hollanders, who found himself ill used by De Ruyter for his good service, +and so come over to us, and hath done us good service; so that now we +trust him, and he himself did go on this expedition. The service is very +great, and our joys as great for it. All this will make the Duke of +Albemarle in repute again, I doubt, though there is nothing of his in +this. But, Lord! to see what successe do, whether with or without reason, +and making a man seem wise, notwithstanding never so late demonstration of +the profoundest folly in the world. Thence walked over the Parke with Sir +W. Coventry, in our way talking of the unhappy state of our office; and I +took an opportunity to let him know, that though the backwardnesses of all +our matters of the office may be well imputed to the known want of money, +yet, perhaps, there might be personal and particular failings; and that I +did, therefore, depend still upon his promise of telling me whenever he +finds any ground to believe any defect or neglect on my part, which he +promised me still to do; and that there was none he saw, nor, indeed, says +he, is there room now-a-days to find fault with any particular man, while +we are in this condition for money. This, methought, did not so well +please me; but, however, I am glad I have said this, thereby giving myself +good grounds to believe that at this time he did not want an occasion to +have said what he pleased to me, if he had had anything in his mind, which +by his late distance and silence I have feared. But then again I am to +consider he is grown a very great man, much greater than he was, and so +must keep more distance; and, next, that the condition of our office will +not afford me occasion of shewing myself so active and deserving as +heretofore; and, lastly, the muchness of his business cannot suffer him to +mind it, or give him leisure to reflect on anything, or shew the freedom +and kindnesse that he used to do. But I think I have done something +considerable to my satisfaction in doing this; and that if I do but my +duty remarkably from this time forward, and not neglect it, as I have of +late done, and minded my pleasures, I may be as well as ever I was. +Thence to the Exchequer, but did nothing, they being all gone from their +offices; and so to the Old Exchange, where the towne full of the good +newes, but I did not stay to tell or hear any, but home, my head akeing +and drowsy, and to dinner, and then lay down upon the couch, thinking to +get a little rest, but could not. So down the river, reading "The +Adventures of Five Houres," which the more I read the more I admire. So +down below Greenwich, but the wind and tide being against us, I back again +to Deptford, and did a little business there, and thence walked to +Redriffe; and so home, and to the office a while. In the evening comes W. +Batelier and his sister, and my wife, and fair Mrs. Turner into the +garden, and there we walked, and then with my Lady Pen and Pegg in +a-doors, and eat and were merry, and so pretty late broke up, and to bed. +The guns of the Tower going off, and there being bonefires also in the +street for this late good successe. + +16th. Up, having slept well, and after entering my journal, to the +office, where all the morning, but of late Sir W. Coventry hath not come +to us, he being discouraged from the little we have to do but to answer +the clamours of people for money. At noon home, and there dined with me +my Lady Pen only and W. Hewer at a haunch of venison boiled, where pretty +merry, only my wife vexed me a little about demanding money to go with my +Lady Pen to the Exchange to lay out. I to the office, where all the +afternoon and very busy and doing much business; but here I had a most +eminent experience of the evil of being behindhand in business. I was the +most backward to begin any thing, and would fain have framed to myself an +occasion of going abroad, and should, I doubt, have done it, but some +business coming in, one after another, kept me there, and I fell to the +ridding away of a great deale of business, and when my hand was in it was +so pleasing a sight to [see] my papers disposed of, and letters answered, +which troubled my book and table, that I could have continued there with +delight all night long, and did till called away by my Lady Pen and Pegg +and my wife to their house to eat with them; and there I went, and +exceeding merry, there being Nan Wright, now Mrs. Markham, and sits at +table with my Lady. So mighty merry, home and to bed. This day Sir W. +Batten did show us at the table a letter from Sir T. Allen, which says +that we have taken ten or twelve' ships (since the late great expedition +of burning their ships and towne), laden with hempe, flax, tarr, deales, +&c. This was good newes; but by and by comes in Sir G. Carteret, and he +asked us with full mouth what we would give for good newes. Says Sir W. +Batten, "I have better than you, for a wager." They laid sixpence, and we +that were by were to give sixpence to him that told the best newes. So +Sir W. Batten told his of the ten or twelve ships Sir G. Carteret did then +tell us that upon the newes of the burning of the ships and towne the +common people a Amsterdam did besiege De Witt's house, and he was force to +flee to the Prince of Orange, who is gone to Cleve to the marriage of his +sister. This we concluded all the best newest and my Lord Bruncker and +myself did give Sir G. Carteret our sixpence a-piece, which he did give +Mr. Smith to give the poor. Thus we made ourselves mighty merry. + +17th. Up and betimes with Captain Erwin down by water to Woolwich, I +walking alone from Greenwich thither, making an end of the "Adventures of +Five Hours," which when all is done is the best play that ever I read in +my life. Being come thither I did some business there and at the Rope +Yarde, and had a piece of bride-cake sent me by Mrs. Barbary into the +boate after me, she being here at her uncle's, with her husband, Mr. +Wood's son, the mast-maker, and mighty nobly married, they say, she was, +very fine, and he very rich, a strange fortune for so odd a looked mayde, +though her hands and body be good, and nature very good, I think. Back +with Captain Erwin, discoursing about the East Indys, where he hath often +been. And among other things he tells me how the King of Syam seldom goes +out without thirty or forty thousand people with him, and not a word +spoke, nor a hum or cough in the whole company to be heard. He tells me +the punishment frequently there for malefactors is cutting off the crowne +of their head, which they do very dexterously, leaving their brains bare, +which kills them presently. He told me what I remember he hath once done +heretofore: that every body is to lie flat down at the coming by of the +King, and nobody to look upon him upon pain of death. And that he and his +fellows, being strangers, were invited to see the sport of taking of a +wild elephant, and they did only kneel, and look toward the King. Their +druggerman did desire them to fall down, for otherwise he should suffer +for their contempt of the King. The sport being ended, a messenger comes +from the King, which the druggerman thought had been to have taken away +his life; but it was to enquire how the strangers liked the sport. The +druggerman answered that they did cry it up to be the best that ever they +saw, and that they never heard of any Prince so great in every thing as +this King. The messenger being gone back, Erwin and his company asked +their druggerman what he had said, which he told them. "But why," say +they, "would you say that without our leave, it being not true?"--"It is +no matter for that," says he, "I must have said it, or have been hanged, +for our King do not live by meat, nor drink, but by having great lyes told +him." In our way back we come by a little vessel that come into the river +this morning, and says he left the fleete in Sole Bay, and that he hath +not heard (he belonging to Sir W. Jenings, in the fleete) of any such +prizes taken as the ten or twelve I inquired about, and said by Sir W. +Batten yesterday to be taken, so I fear it is not true. So to +Westminster, and there, to my great content, did receive my L2000 of Mr. +Spicer's telling, which I was to receive of Colvill, and brought it home +with me [to] my house by water, and there I find one of my new presses for +my books brought home, which pleases me mightily. As, also, do my wife's +progresse upon her head that she is making. So to dinner, and thence +abroad with my wife, leaving her at Unthanke's; I to White Hall, waiting +at the Council door till it rose, and there spoke with Sir W. Coventry, +who and I do much fear our Victuallers, they having missed the fleete in +their going. But Sir W. Coventry says it is not our fault, but theirs, if +they have not left ships to secure them. This he spoke in a chagrin sort +of way, methought. After a little more discourse of several businesses, I +away homeward, having in the gallery the good fortune to see Mrs. Stewart, +who is grown a little too tall, but is a woman of most excellent features. +The narrative of the late expedition in burning the ships is in print, and +makes it a great thing, and I hope it is so. So took up my wife and home, +there I to the office, and thence with Sympson the joyner home to put +together the press he hath brought me for my books this day, which pleases +me exceedingly. Then to Sir W. Batten's, where Sir Richard Ford did very +understandingly, methought, give us an account of the originall of the +Hollands Bank, + + [This bank at Amsterdam is referred to in a tract entitled "An + Appeal to Caesar," 1660, p. 22. In 1640 Charles I. seized the money + in the mint in the Tower entrusted to the safe keeping of the Crown. + It was the practice of the London goldsmiths at this time to allow + interest at the rate of six or eight per cent. on money deposited + with them (J. Biddulph Martin, "The Grasshopper in Lombard Street," + 1892, p. 152).] + +and the nature of it, and how they do never give any interest at all to +any person that brings in their money, though what is brought in upon the +public faith interest is given by the State for. The unsafe condition of +a Bank under a Monarch, and the little safety to a Monarch to have any; or +Corporation alone (as London in answer to Amsterdam) to have so great a +wealth or credit, it is, that makes it hard to have a Bank here. And as +to the former, he did tell us how it sticks in the memory of most +merchants how the late King (when by the war between Holland and France +and Spayne all the bullion of Spayne was brought hither, one-third of it +to be coyned; and indeed it was found advantageous to the merchant to +coyne most of it), was persuaded in a strait by my Lord Cottington to +seize upon the money in the Tower, which, though in a few days the +merchants concerned did prevail to get it released, yet the thing will +never be forgot. So home to supper and to bed, understanding this +evening, since I come home, that our Victuallers are all come in to the +fleete, which is good newes. Sir John Minnes come home tonight not well, +from Chatham, where he hath been at a pay, holding it at Upnor Castle, +because of the plague so much in the towne of Chatham. He hath, they say, +got an ague, being so much on the water. + +18th. All the morning at my office; then to the Exchange (with my Lord +Bruncker in his coach) at noon, but it was only to avoid Mr. Chr. Pett's +being invited by me to dinner. So home, calling at my little mercer's in +Lumbard Streete, who hath the pretty wench, like the old Queene, and there +cheapened some stuffs to hang my roome, that I intend to turn into a +closett. So home to dinner, and after dinner comes Creed to discourse +with me about several things of Tangier concernments and accounts, among +others starts the doubt, which I was formerly aware of, but did wink at +it, whether or no Lanyon and his partners be not paid for more than they +should be, which he presses, so that it did a little discompose me; but, +however, I do think no harm will arise thereby. He gone, I to the office, +and there very late, very busy, and so home to supper and to bed. + +19th (Lord's day). Up and to my chamber, and there began to draw out fair +and methodically my accounts of Tangier, in order to shew them to the +Lords. But by and by comes by agreement Mr. Reeves, and after him Mr. +Spong, and all day with them, both before and after dinner, till ten +o'clock at night, upon opticke enquiries, he bringing me a frame he closes +on, to see how the rays of light do cut one another, and in a darke room +with smoake, which is very pretty. He did also bring a lanthorne with +pictures in glasse, to make strange things appear on a wall, very pretty. +We did also at night see Jupiter and his girdle and satellites, very fine, +with my twelve-foote glasse, but could not Saturne, he being very dark. +Spong and I had also several fine discourses upon the globes this +afternoon, particularly why the fixed stars do not rise and set at the +same houre all the yeare long, which he could not demonstrate, nor I +neither, the reason of. So, it being late, after supper they away home. +But it vexed me to understand no more from Reeves and his glasses touching +the nature and reason of the several refractions of the several figured +glasses, he understanding the acting part, but not one bit the theory, nor +can make any body understand it, which is a strange dullness, methinks. I +did not hear anything yesterday or at all to confirm either Sir Thos. +Allen's news of the 10 or 12 ships taken, nor of the disorder at Amsterdam +upon the news of the burning of the ships, that he [De Witt] should be +fled to the Prince of Orange, it being generally believed that he was gone +to France before. + +20th. Waked this morning, about six o'clock, with a violent knocking at +Sir J. Minnes's doore, to call up Mrs. Hammon, crying out that Sir J. +Minnes is a-dying. He come home ill of an ague on Friday night. I saw +him on Saturday, after his fit of the ague, and then was pretty lusty. +Which troubles me mightily, for he is a very good, harmless, honest +gentleman, though not fit for the business. But I much fear a worse may +come, that may be more uneasy to me. Up, and to Deptford by water, +reading "Othello, Moore of Venice," which I ever heretofore esteemed a +mighty good play, but having so lately read "The Adventures of Five +Houres," it seems a mean thing. Walked back, and so home, and then down +to the Old Swan and drank at Betty Michell's, and so to Westminster to the +Exchequer about my quarter tallies, and so to Lumbard Streete to choose +stuff to hang my new intended closet, and have chosen purple. So home to +dinner, and all the afternoon till almost midnight upon my Tangier +accounts, getting Tom Wilson to help me in writing as I read, and at night +W. Hewer, and find myself most happy in the keeping of all my accounts, +for that after all the changings and turnings necessary in such an +account, I find myself right to a farthing in an account of L127,000. This +afternoon I visited Sir J. Minnes, who, poor man, is much impatient by +these few days' sickness, and I fear indeed it will kill him. + +21st. Up, and to the office, where much business and Sir W. Coventry +there, who of late hath wholly left us, most of our business being about +money, to which we can give no answer, which makes him weary of coming to +us. He made an experiment to-day, by taking up a heape of petitions that +lay upon the table. They proved seventeen in number, and found them thus: +one for money for reparation for clothes, four desired to have tickets +made out to them, and the other twelve were for money. Dined at home, and +sister Balty with us. My wife snappish because I denied her money to lay +out this afternoon; however, good friends again, and by coach set them +down at the New Exchange, and I to the Exchequer, and there find my +business of my tallys in good forwardness. I passed down into the Hall, +and there hear that Mr. Bowles, the grocer, after 4 or 5 days' sickness, +is dead, and this day buried. So away, and taking up my wife, went +homewards. I 'light and with Harman to my mercer's in Lumbard Streete, +and there agreed for, our purple serge for my closett, and so I away home. +So home and late at the office, and then home, and there found Mr. +Batelier and his sister Mary, and we sat chatting a great while, talking +of witches and spirits, and he told me of his own knowledge, being with +some others at Bourdeaux, making a bargain with another man at a taverne +for some clarets, they did hire a fellow to thunder (which he had the art +of doing upon a deale board) and to rain and hail, that is, make the noise +of, so as did give them a pretence of undervaluing their merchants' wines, +by saying this thunder would spoil and turne them. Which was so +reasonable to the merchant, that he did abate two pistolls per ton for the +wine in belief of that, whereas, going out, there was no such thing. This +Batelier did see and was the cause of to his profit, as is above said. By +and by broke up and to bed. + +22nd. Up and by coach with L100 to the Exchequer to pay fees there. There +left it, and I to St. James's, and there with; the Duke of Yorke. I had +opportunity of much talk with Sir. W. Pen to-day (he being newly come from +the fleete); and he, do much undervalue the honour that is given to the +conduct of the late business of Holmes in burning the ships and town + + [The town burned (see August 15th, ante) was Brandaris, a place of + 1000 houses, on the isle of Schelling; the ships lay between that + island and the Fly (i.e. Vlieland), the adjoining island. This + attack probably provoked that by the Dutch on Chatham.] + +saying it was a great thing indeed, and of great profit to us in being of +great losse to the enemy, but that it was wholly a business of chance, and +no conduct employed in it. I find Sir W. Pen do hold up his head at this +time higher than ever he did in his life. I perceive he do look after Sir +J. Minnes's place if he dies, and though I love him not nor do desire to +have him in, yet I do think [he] is the first man in England for it. To +the Exchequer, and there received my tallys, and paid my fees in good +order, and so home, and there find Mrs. Knipp and my wife going to dinner. +She tells me my song, of "Beauty Retire" is mightily cried up, which I am +not a little proud of; and do think I have done "It is Decreed" better, +but I have not finished it. My closett is doing by upholsters, which I am +pleased with, but fear my purple will be too sad for that melancholy +roome. After dinner and doing something at the office, I with my wife, +Knipp, and Mercer, by coach to Moorefields, and there saw "Polichinello," +which pleases me mightily, and here I saw our Mary, our last chamber-maid, +who is gone from Mrs. Pierces it seems. Thence carried Knipp home, calling +at the Cocke alehouse at the doore and drank, and so home, and there find +Reeves, and so up to look upon the stars, and do like my glasse very well, +and did even with him for it and a little perspective and the Lanthorne +that shows tricks, altogether costing me L9 5s. 0d. So to bed, he lying +at our house. + +23rd. At the office all the morning, whither Sir W. Coventry sent me word +that the Dutch fleete is certainly abroad; and so we are to hasten all we +have to send to our fleete with all speed. But, Lord! to see how my Lord +Bruncker undertakes the despatch of the fire-ships, when he is no more fit +for it than a porter; and all the while Sir W. Pen, who is the most fit, +is unwilling to displease him, and do not look after it; and so the King's +work is like to be well done. At noon dined at home, Lovett with us; but +he do not please me in his business, for he keeps things long in hand, and +his paper do not hold so good as I expected--the varnish wiping off in a +little time--a very sponge; and I doubt by his discourse he is an odde +kind of fellow, and, in plain terms, a very rogue. He gone, I to the +office (having seen and liked the upholsters' work in my roome--which they +have almost done), and there late, and in the evening find Mr. Batelier +and his sister there and then we talked and eat and were merry, and so +parted late, and to bed. + +24th. Up, and dispatched several businesses at home in the morning, and +then comes Sympson to set up my other new presses + + [These presses still exist, and, according to Pepys's wish, they are + placed in the second court of Magdalene College in a room which they + exactly fit, and the books are arranged in the presses just as they + were when presented to the college.--M. B.] + +for my books, and so he and I fell in to the furnishing of my new closett, +and taking out the things out of my old, and I kept him with me all day, +and he dined with me, and so all the afternoon till it was quite darke +hanging things, that is my maps and pictures and draughts, and setting up +my books, and as much as we could do, to my most extraordinary +satisfaction; so that I think it will be as noble a closett as any man +hath, and light enough--though, indeed, it would be better to have had a +little more light. He gone, my wife and I to talk, and sup, and then to +setting right my Tangier accounts and enter my Journall, and then to bed +with great content in my day's worke. This afternoon comes Mrs. Barbary +Sheldon, now Mrs. Wood, to see my wife. I was so busy I would not see +her. But she came, it seems, mighty rich in rings and fine clothes, and +like a lady, and says she is matched mighty well, at which I am very glad, +but wonder at her good fortune and the folly of her husband, and vexed at +myself for not paying her the respect of seeing her, but I will come out +of her debt another time. + +25th. All the morning at the office. At noon dined at home, and after +dinner up to my new closett, which pleases me mightily, and there I +proceeded to put many things in order as far as I had time, and then set +it in washing, and stood by myself a great while to see it washed; and +then to the office, and then wrote my letters and other things, and then +in mighty good humour home to supper and to bed. + +26th (Lord's day). Up betimes, and to the finishing the setting things in +order in my new closett out of my old, which I did thoroughly by the time +sermon was done at church, to my exceeding joy, only I was a little +disturbed with newes my Lord Bruncker brought me, that we are to attend +the King at White Hall this afternoon, and that it is about a complaint +from the Generalls against us. Sir W. Pen dined by invitation with me, +his Lady and daughter being gone into the country. We very merry. After +dinner we parted, and I to my office, whither I sent for Mr. Lewes and +instructed myself fully in the business of the Victualling, to enable me +to answer in the matter; and then Sir W. Pen and I by coach to White Hall, +and there staid till the King and Cabinet were met in the Green Chamber, +and then we were called in; and there the King begun with me, to hear how +the victualls of the fleete stood. I did in a long discourse tell him and +the rest (the Duke of Yorke, Lord Chancellor, Lord Treasurer, both the +Secretarys, Sir G. Carteret, and Sir W. Coventry,) how it stood, wherein +they seemed satisfied, but press mightily for more supplies; and the +letter of the Generalls, which was read, did lay their not going or too +soon returning from the Dutch coast, this next bout, to the want of +victuals. They then proceeded to the enquiry after the fireships; and did +all very superficially, and without any severity at all. But, however, I +was in pain, after we come out, to know how I had done; and hear well +enough. But, however, it shall be a caution to me to prepare myself +against a day of inquisition. Being come out, I met with Mr. Moore, and +he and I an houre together in the Gallery, telling me how far they are +gone in getting my Lord [Sandwich's] pardon, so as the Chancellor is +prepared in it; and Sir H. Bennet do promote it, and the warrant for the +King's signing is drawn. The business between my Lord Hinchingbroke and +Mrs. Mallett is quite broke off; he attending her at Tunbridge, and she +declaring her affections to be settled; and he not being fully pleased +with the vanity and liberty of her carriage. He told me how my Lord has +drawn a bill of exchange from Spayne of L1200, and would have me supply +him with L500 of it, but I avoyded it, being not willing to embarke myself +in money there, where I see things going to ruine. Thence to discourse of +the times; and he tells me he believes both my Lord Arlington and Sir W. +Coventry, as well as my Lord Sandwich and Sir G. Carteret, have reason to +fear, and are afeard of this Parliament now coming on. He tells me that +Bristoll's faction is getting ground apace against my Lord Chancellor. He +told me that my old Lord Coventry was a cunning, crafty man, and did make +as many bad decrees in Chancery as any man; and that in one case, that +occasioned many years' dispute, at last when the King come in, it was +hoped by the party grieved, to get my Lord Chancellor to reverse a decree +of his. Sir W. Coventry took the opportunity of the business between the +Duke of Yorke and the Duchesse, and said to my Lord Chancellor, that he +had rather be drawn up Holborne to be hanged, than live to see his father +pissed upon (in these very terms) and any decree of his reversed. And so +the Chancellor did not think fit to do it, but it still stands, to the +undoing of one Norton, a printer, about his right to the printing of the +Bible, and Grammar, &c. Thence Sir W. Pen and I to Islington and there +drank at the Katherine Wheele, and so down the nearest way home, where +there was no kind of pleasure at all. Being come home, hear that Sir J. +Minnes has had a very bad fit all this day, and a hickup do take him, +which is a very bad sign, which troubles me truly. So home to supper a +little and then to bed. + +27th. Up, and to my new closett, which pleases me mightily, and there did +a little business. Then to break open a window, to the leads' side in my +old closett, which will enlighten the room mightily, and make it mighty +pleasant. So to the office, and then home about one thing or other, about +my new closet, for my mind is full of nothing but that. So at noon to +dinner, mightily pleased with my wife's picture that she is upon. Then to +the office, and thither come and walked an hour with me Sir G. Carteret, +who tells me what is done about my Lord's pardon, and is not for letting +the Duke of Yorke know any thing of it beforehand, but to carry it as +speedily and quietly as we can. He seems to be very apprehensive that the +Parliament will be troublesome and inquisitive into faults, but seems not +to value them as to himself. He gone, I to the Victualling Office, there +with Lewes' and Willson setting the business of the state of the fleete's +victualling even and plain, and that being done, and other good discourse +about it over, Mr. Willson and I by water down the River for discourse +only, about business of the office, and then back, and I home, and after a +little at my office home to my new closet, and there did much business on +my Tangier account and my Journall for three days. So to supper and to +bed. We are not sure that the Dutch fleete is out. I have another +memento from Sir W. Coventry of the want of provisions in the fleete, +which troubles me, though there is no reason for it; but will have the +good effect of making me more wary. So, full of thoughts, to bed. + +28th. Up, and in my new closet a good while doing business. Then called +on Mrs. Martin and Burroughs of Westminster about business of the former's +husband. Which done, I to the office, where we sat all the morning. At +noon I, with my wife and Mercer, to Philpott Lane, a great cook's shop, to +the wedding of Mr. Longracke, our purveyor, a good, sober, civil man, and +hath married a sober, serious mayde. Here I met much ordinary company, I +going thither at his great request; but there was Mr. Madden and his lady, +a fine, noble, pretty lady, and he, and a fine gentleman seems to be. We +four were most together; but the whole company was very simple and +innocent. A good-dinner, and, what was best, good musique. After dinner +the young women went to dance; among others Mr. Christopher Pett his +daughter, who is a very pretty, modest girle, I am mightily taken with +her; and that being done about five o'clock, home, very well pleased with +the afternoon's work. And so we broke up mightily civilly, the bride and +bridegroom going to Greenwich (they keeping their dinner here only for my +sake) to lie, and we home, where I to the office, and anon am on a sudden +called to meet Sir W. Pen and Sir W. Coventry at the Victualling Office, +which did put me out of order to be so surprised. But I went, and there +Sir William Coventry did read me a letter from the Generalls to the King, + + [The letter from Prince Rupert and the Duke of Albemarle to the king + (dated August 27th, from the "Royal Charles," Sole Bay) is among the + State Papers. The generals complain of the want of supplies, in + spite of repeated importunities. The demands are answered by + accounts from Mr. Pepys of what has been sent to the fleet, which + will not satisfy the ships, unless the provisions could be found + ". . . Have not a month's provision of beer, yet Sir Wm. Coventry + assures the ministers that they are supplied till Oct. 3; unless + this is quickened they will have to return home too soon . . . . + Want provisions according to their own computation, not Sir Wm. + Coventry's, to last to the end of October" ("Calendar," 1666-67, p. + 71).] + +a most scurvy letter, reflecting most upon Sir W. Coventry, and then upon +me for my accounts (not that they are not true, but that we do not +consider the expence of the fleete), and then of the whole office, in +neglecting them and the King's service, and this in very plain and sharp +and menacing terms. I did give a good account of matters according to our +computation of the expence of the fleete. I find Sir W. Coventry willing +enough to accept of any thing to confront the Generalls. But a great +supply must be made, and shall be in grace of God! But, however, our +accounts here will be found the true ones. Having done here, and much +work set me, I with greater content home than I thought I should have +done, and so to the office a while, and then home, and a while in my new +closet, which delights me every day more and more, and so late to bed. + +29th. Up betimes, and there to fit some Tangier accounts, and then, by +appointment, to my Lord Bellasses, but about Paul's thought of the chant +paper I should carry with me, and so fain to come back again, and did, and +then met with Sir W. Pen, and with him to my Lord Bellasses, he sitting in +the coach the while, while I up to my Lord and there offered him my +account of the bills of exchange I had received and paid for him, wherein +we agree all but one L200 bill of Vernatty's drawing, wherein I doubt he +hath endeavoured to cheate my Lord; but that will soon appear. Thence took +leave, and found Sir W. Pen talking to Orange Moll, of the King's house, +who, to our great comfort, told us that they begun to act on the 18th of +this month. So on to St. James's, in the way Sir W. Pen telling me that +Mr. Norton, that married Sir J. Lawson's daughter, is dead. She left L800 +a year jointure, a son to inherit the whole estate. She freed from her +father-in-law's tyranny, and is in condition to helpe her mother, who +needs it; of which I am glad, the young lady being very pretty. To St. +James's, and there Sir W. Coventry took Sir W. Pen and me apart, and read +to us his answer to the Generalls' letter to the King that he read last +night; wherein he is very plain, and states the matter in full defence of +himself and of me with him, which he could not avoid; which is a good +comfort to me, that I happen to be involved with him in the same cause. +And then, speaking of the supplies which have been made to this fleete, +more than ever in all kinds to any, even that wherein the Duke of Yorke +himself was, "Well," says he, "if this will not do, I will say, as Sir J. +Falstaffe did to the Prince, 'Tell your father, that if he do not like +this let him kill the next Piercy himself,'"--["King Henry IV.," Part I, +act v., sc. 4.]--and so we broke up, and to the Duke, and there did our +usual business. So I to the Parke and there met Creed, and he and I +walked to Westminster to the Exchequer, and thence to White Hall talking +of Tangier matters and Vernatty's knavery, and so parted, and then I +homeward and met Mr. Povy in Cheapside, and stopped and talked a good +while upon the profits of the place which my Lord Bellasses hath made this +last year, and what share we are to have of it, but of this all imperfect, +and so parted, and I home, and there find Mrs. Mary Batelier, and she +dined with us; and thence I took them to Islington, and there eat a +custard; and so back to Moorfields, and shewed Batelier, with my wife, +"Polichinello," which I like the more I see it; and so home with great +content, she being a mighty good-natured, pretty woman, and thence I to +the Victualling office, and there with Mr. Lewes and Willson upon our +Victualling matters till ten at night, and so I home and there late +writing a letter to Sir W. Coventry, and so home to supper and to bed. No +newes where the Dutch are. We begin to think they will steale through the +Channel to meet Beaufort. We think our fleete sayled yesterday, but we +have no newes of it. + +30th. Up and all the morning at the office, dined at home, and in the +afternoon, and at night till two in the morning, framing my great letter +to Mr. Hayes about the victualling of the fleete, about which there has +been so much ado and exceptions taken by the Generalls. + +31st. To bed at 2 or 3 in the morning and up again at 6 to go by +appointment to my Lord Bellasses, but he out of town, which vexed me. So +back and got Mr. Poynter to enter into, my book while I read from my last +night's notes the letter, and that being done to writing it fair. At noon +home to dinner, and then the boy and I to the office, and there he read +while I writ it fair, which done I sent it to Sir W. Coventry to peruse +and send to the fleete by the first opportunity; and so pretty betimes to +bed. Much pleased to-day with thoughts of gilding the backs of all my +books alike in my new presses. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + SEPTEMBER + 1666 + +September 1st. Up and at the office all the morning, and then dined at +home. Got my new closet made mighty clean against to-morrow. Sir W. Pen +and my wife and Mercer and I to "Polichinelly," but were there horribly +frighted to see Young Killigrew come in with a great many more young +sparks; but we hid ourselves, so as we think they did not see us. By and +by, they went away, and then we were at rest again; and so, the play being +done, we to Islington, and there eat and drank and mighty merry; and so +home singing, and, after a letter or two at the office, to bed. + +2nd (Lord's day). Some of our mayds sitting up late last night to get +things ready against our feast to-day, Jane called us up about three in +the morning, to tell us of a great fire they saw in the City. So I rose +and slipped on my nightgowne, and went to her window, and thought it to be +on the backside of Marke-lane at the farthest; but, being unused to such +fires as followed, I thought it far enough off; and so went to bed again +and to sleep. About seven rose again to dress myself, and there looked +out at the window, and saw the fire not so much as it was and further off. +So to my closett to set things to rights after yesterday's cleaning. By +and by Jane comes and tells me that she hears that above 300 houses have +been burned down to-night by the fire we saw, and that it is now burning +down all Fish-street, by London Bridge. So I made myself ready presently, +and walked to the Tower, and there got up upon one of the high places, Sir +J. Robinson's little son going up with me; and there I did see the houses +at that end of the bridge all on fire, and an infinite great fire on this +and the other side the end of the bridge; which, among other people, did +trouble me for poor little Michell and our Sarah on the bridge. So down, +with my heart full of trouble, to the Lieutenant of the Tower, who tells +me that it begun this morning in the King's baker's' house in +Pudding-lane, and that it hath burned St. Magnus's Church and most part of +Fish-street already. So I down to the water-side, and there got a boat +and through bridge, and there saw a lamentable fire. Poor Michell's +house, as far as the Old Swan, already burned that way, and the fire +running further, that in a very little time it got as far as the +Steeleyard, while I was there. Everybody endeavouring to remove their +goods, and flinging into the river or bringing them into lighters that +layoff; poor people staying in their houses as long as till the very fire +touched them, and then running into boats, or clambering from one pair of +stairs by the water-side to another. And among other things, the poor +pigeons, I perceive, were loth to leave their houses, but hovered about +the windows and balconys till they were, some of them burned, their wings, +and fell down. Having staid, and in an hour's time seen the fire: rage +every way, and nobody, to my sight, endeavouring to quench it, but to +remove their goods, and leave all to the fire, and having seen it get as +far as the Steele-yard, and the wind mighty high and driving it into the +City; and every thing, after so long a drought, proving combustible, even +the very stones of churches, and among other things the poor steeple by +which pretty Mrs.--------lives, and whereof my old school-fellow Elborough +is parson, taken fire in the very top, an there burned till it fell down: +I to White Hall (with a gentleman with me who desired to go off from the +Tower, to see the fire, in my boat); to White Hall, and there up to the +Kings closett in the Chappell, where people come about me, and did give +them an account dismayed them all, and word was carried in to the King. +So I was called for, and did tell the King and Duke of Yorke what I saw, +and that unless his Majesty did command houses to be pulled down nothing +could stop the fire. They seemed much troubled, and the King commanded me +to go to my Lord Mayor--[Sir Thomas Bludworth. See June 30th, +1666.]--from him, and command him to spare no houses, but to pull down +before the fire every way. The Duke of York bid me tell him that if he +would have any more soldiers he shall; and so did my Lord Arlington +afterwards, as a great secret. + + [Sir William Coventry wrote to Lord Arlington on the evening of this + day, "The Duke of York fears the want of workmen and tools to-morrow + morning, and wishes the deputy lieutenants and justices of peace to + summon the workmen with tools to be there by break of day. In some + churches and chapels are great hooks for pulling down houses, which + should be brought ready upon the place to-night against the morning" + ("Calendar of State Papers," 1666-66, p. 95).] + +Here meeting, with Captain Cocke, I in his coach, which he lent me, and +Creed with me to Paul's, and there walked along Watlingstreet, as well as +I could, every creature coming away loaden with goods to save, and here +and there sicke people carried away in beds. Extraordinary good goods +carried in carts and on backs. At last met my Lord Mayor in +Canningstreet, like a man spent, with a handkercher about his neck. To +the King's message he cried, like a fainting woman, "Lord! what can I do? +I am spent: people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses; but +the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." That he needed no more +soldiers; and that, for himself, he must go and refresh himself, having +been up all night. So he left me, and I him, and walked home, seeing +people all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the +fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for +burning, as pitch and tarr, in Thames-street; and warehouses of oyle, and +wines, and brandy, and other things. Here I saw Mr. Isaake Houblon, the +handsome man, prettily dressed and dirty, at his door at Dowgate, +receiving some of his brothers' things, whose houses were on fire; and, as +he says, have been removed twice already; and he doubts (as it soon +proved) that they must be in a little time removed from his house also, +which was a sad consideration. And to see the churches all filling with +goods by people who themselves should have been quietly there at this +time. By this time it was about twelve o'clock; and so home, and there +find my guests, which was Mr. Wood and his wife Barbary Sheldon, and also +Mr. Moons: she mighty fine, and her husband; for aught I see, a likely +man. But Mr. Moone's design and mine, which was to look over my closett +and please him with the sight thereof, which he hath long desired, was +wholly disappointed; for we were in great trouble and disturbance at this +fire, not knowing what to think of it. However, we had an extraordinary +good dinner, and as merry, as at this time we could be. While at dinner +Mrs. Batelier come to enquire after Mr. Woolfe and Stanes (who, it seems, +are related to them), whose houses in Fish-street are all burned; and they +in a sad condition. She would not stay in the fright. Soon as dined, I +and Moone away, and walked, through the City, the streets full of nothing +but people and horses and carts loaden with goods, ready to run over one +another, and, removing goods from one burned house to another. They now +removing out of Canning-streets (which received goods in the morning) into +Lumbard-streets, and further; + +and among others I now saw my little goldsmith, Stokes, receiving some +friend's goods, whose house itself was burned the day after. We parted at +Paul's; he home, and I to Paul's Wharf, where I had appointed a boat to +attend me, and took in Mr. Carcasse and his brother, whom I met in the +streets and carried them below and above bridge to and again to see the +fire, which was now got further, both below and above and no likelihood of +stopping it. Met with the King and Duke of York in their barge, and with +them to Queenhith and there called Sir Richard Browne to them. Their order +was only to pull down houses apace, and so below bridge the water-side; +but little was or could be done, the fire coming upon them so fast. Good +hopes there was of stopping it at the Three Cranes above, and at +Buttolph's Wharf below bridge, if care be used; but the wind carries it +into the City so as we know not by the water-side what it do there. River +full of lighters and boats taking in goods, and good goods swimming in the +water, and only I observed that hardly one lighter or boat in three that +had the goods of a house in, but there was a pair of Virginalls + + [The virginal differed from the spinet in being square instead of + triangular in form. The word pair was used in the obsolete sense of + a set, as we read also of a pair of organs. The instrument is + supposed to have obtained its name from young women, playing upon + it.] + +in it. Having seen as much as I could now, I away to White Hall by +appointment, and there walked to St. James's Parks, and there met my wife +and Creed and Wood and his wife, and walked to my boat; and there upon the +water again, and to the fire up and down, it still encreasing, and the +wind great. So near the fire as we could for smoke; and all over the +Thames, with one's face in the wind, you were almost burned with a shower +of firedrops. This is very true; so as houses were burned by these drops +and flakes of fire, three or four, nay, five or six houses, one from +another. When we could endure no more upon the water; we to a little +ale-house on the Bankside, over against the 'Three Cranes, and there staid +till it was dark almost, and saw the fire grow; and, as it grew darker, +appeared more and more, and in corners and upon steeples, and between +churches and houses, as far as we could see up the hill of the City, in a +most horrid malicious bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary +fire. Barbary and her husband away before us. We staid till, it being +darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the +other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a +mile long: it made me weep to see it. The churches, houses, and all on +fire and flaming at once; and a horrid noise the flames made, and the +cracking of houses at their ruins. So home with a sad heart, and there +find every body discoursing and lamenting the fire; and poor Tom Hater +come with some few of his goods saved out of his house, which is burned +upon Fish-streets Hall. I invited him to lie at my house, and did receive +his goods, but was deceived in his lying there, the newes coming every +moment of the growth of the fire; so as we were forced to begin to pack up +our owne goods; and prepare for their removal; and did by moonshine (it +being brave dry, and moon: shine, and warm weather) carry much of my goods +into the garden, and Mr. Hater and I did remove my money and iron chests +into my cellar, as thinking that the safest place. And got my bags of +gold into my office, ready to carry away, and my chief papers of accounts +also there, and my tallys into a box by themselves. So great was our +fear, as Sir W. Batten hath carts come out of the country to fetch away +his goods this night. We did put Mr. Hater, poor man, to bed a little; +but he got but very little rest, so much noise being in my house, taking +down of goods. + +3rd. About four o'clock in the morning, my Lady Batten sent me a cart to +carry away all my money, and plate, and best things, to Sir W. Rider's at +Bednall-greene. Which I did riding myself in my night-gowne in the cart; +and, Lord! to see how the streets and the highways are crowded with people +running and riding, and getting of carts at any rate to fetch away things. +I find Sir W. Rider tired with being called up all night, and receiving +things from several friends. His house full of goods, and much of Sir W. +Batten's and Sir W. Pen's I am eased at my heart to have my treasure so +well secured. Then home, with much ado to find a way, nor any sleep all +this night to me nor my poor wife. But then and all this day she and I, +and all my people labouring to get away the rest of our things, and did +get Mr. Tooker to get me a lighter to take them in, and we did carry them +(myself some) over Tower Hill, which was by this time full of people's +goods, bringing their goods thither; and down to the lighter, which lay at +next quay, above the Tower Docke. And here was my neighbour's wife, +Mrs.-------,with her pretty child, and some few of her things, which I did +willingly give way to be saved with mine; but there was no passing with +any thing through the postern, the crowd was so great. The Duke of Yorke +of this day by the office, and spoke to us, and did ride with his guard up +and down the City, to keep all quiet (he being now Generall, and having +the care of all). This day, Mercer being not at home, but against her +mistress's order gone to her mother's, and my wife going thither to speak +with W. Hewer, met her there, and was angry; and her mother saying that +she was not a 'prentice girl, to ask leave every time she goes abroad, my +wife with good reason was angry, and, when she came home, bid her be gone +again. And so she went away, which troubled me, but yet less than it +would, because of the condition we are in, fear of coming into in a little +time of being less able to keepe one in her quality. At night lay down a +little upon a quilt of W. Hewer's in the office, all my owne things being +packed up or gone; and after me my poor wife did the like, we having fed +upon the remains of yesterday's dinner, having no fire nor dishes, nor any +opportunity of dressing any thing. + +4th. Up by break of day to get away the remainder of my things; which I +did by a lighter at the Iron gate and my hands so few, that it was the +afternoon before we could get them all away. Sir W. Pen and I to +Tower-streete, and there met the fire burning three or four doors beyond +Mr. Howell's, whose goods, poor man, his trayes, and dishes, shovells, +&c., were flung all along Tower-street in the kennels, and people working +therewith from one end to the other; the fire coming on in that narrow +streete, on both sides, with infinite fury. Sir W. Batten not knowing how +to remove his wine, did dig a pit in the garden, and laid it in there; and +I took the opportunity of laying all the papers of my office that I could +not otherwise dispose of. And in the evening Sir W. Pen and I did dig +another, and put our wine in it; and I my Parmazan cheese, as well as my +wine and some other things. The Duke of Yorke was at the office this day, +at Sir W. Pen's; but I happened not to be within. This afternoon, sitting +melancholy with Sir W. Pen in our garden, and thinking of the certain +burning of this office, without extraordinary means, I did propose for the +sending up of all our workmen from Woolwich and Deptford yards (none +whereof yet appeared), and to write to Sir W. Coventry to have the Duke of +Yorke's permission to pull down houses, rather than lose this office, +which would, much hinder, the King's business. So Sir W. Pen he went down +this night, in order to the sending them up to-morrow morning; and I wrote +to Sir W. Coventry about the business, but received no answer. This night +Mrs. Turner (who, poor woman, was removing her goods all this day, good +goods into the garden, and knows not how to dispose of them), and her +husband supped with my wife and I at night, in the office; upon a shoulder +of mutton from the cook's, without any napkin or any thing, in a sad +manner, but were merry. Only now and then walking into the garden, and +saw how horridly the sky looks, all on a fire in the night, was enough to +put us out of our wits; and, indeed, it was extremely dreadful, for it +looks just as if it was at us; and the whole heaven on fire. I after +supper walked in the darke down to Tower-streete, and there saw it all on +fire, at the Trinity House on that side, and the Dolphin Taverne on this +side, which was very near us; and the fire with extraordinary vehemence. +Now begins the practice of blowing up of houses in Tower-streete, those +next the Tower, which at first did frighten people more than anything, but +it stopped the fire where it was done, it bringing down the + + [A copy of this letter, preserved among the Pepys MSS. in the + author's own handwriting, is subjoined: + + "SIR, The fire is now very neere us as well on Tower Streete as + Fanchurch Street side, and we little hope of our escape but by this + remedy, to ye want whereof we doe certainly owe ye loss of ye City + namely, ye pulling down of houses, in ye way of ye fire. This way + Sir W. Pen and myself have so far concluded upon ye practising, that + he is gone to Woolwich and Deptford to supply himself with men and + necessarys in order to the doeing thereof, in case at his returne + our condition be not bettered and that he meets with his R. Hs. + approbation, which I had thus undertaken to learn of you. Pray + please to let me have this night (at whatever hour it is) what his + R. Hs. directions are in this particular; Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. + Batten having left us, we cannot add, though we are well assured of + their, as well as all ye neighbourhood's concurrence. + + "Yr. obedient servnt. + "S. P. + + "Sir W. Coventry, + "Septr. 4, 1666."] + +houses to the ground in the same places they stood, and then it was easy +to quench what little fire was in it, though it kindled nothing almost. W. +Newer this day went to see how his mother did, and comes late home, +telling us how he hath been forced to remove her to Islington, her house +in Pye-corner being burned; so that the fire is got so far that way, and +all the Old Bayly, and was running down to Fleete-streete; and Paul's is +burned, and all Cheapside. I wrote to my father this night, but the +post-house being burned, the letter could not go. + + [J. Hickes wrote to Williamson on September 3rd from the "Golden + Lyon," Red Cross Street Posthouse. Sir Philip [Frowde] and his lady + fled from the [letter] office at midnight for: safety; stayed + himself till 1 am. till his wife and childrens' patience could stay, + no longer, fearing lest they should be quite stopped up; the passage + was so tedious they had much ado to get where they are. The Chester + and Irish, mails have come-in; sends him his letters, knows not how + to dispose of the business ("Calendar of State Papers," 1666-67, + p. 95).] + +5th. I lay down in the office again upon W. Hewer's, quilt, being mighty +weary, and sore in my feet with going till I was hardly able to stand. +About two in the morning my wife calls me up and tells me of new cryes of +fire, it being come to Barkeing Church, which is the bottom of our lane. I +up, and finding it so, resolved presently to take her away, and did, and +took my gold, which was about L2350, W. Newer, and Jane, down by +Proundy's boat to Woolwich; but, Lord! what sad sight it was by +moone-light to see, the whole City almost on fire, that you might see it +plain at Woolwich, as if you were by it. There, when I come, I find the +gates shut, but no guard kept at all, which troubled me, because of +discourse now begun, that there is plot in it, and that the French had +done it. I got the gates open, and to Mr. Shelden's, where I locked up my +gold, and charged, my wife and W. Newer never to leave the room without +one of them in it, night, or day. So back again, by the way seeing my +goods well in the lighters at Deptford, and watched well by people. Home; +and whereas I expected to have seen our house on fire, it being now about +seven o'clock, it was not. But to the fyre, and there find greater hopes +than I expected; for my confidence of finding our Office on fire was such, +that I durst not ask any body how it was with us, till I come and saw it +not burned. But going to the fire, I find by the blowing up of houses, +and the great helpe given by the workmen out of the King's yards, sent up +by Sir W. Pen, there is a good stop given to it, as well as at Marke-lane +end as ours; it having only burned the dyall of Barking Church, and part +of the porch, and was there quenched. I up to the top of Barking steeple, +and there saw the saddest sight of desolation that I ever saw; every where +great fires, oyle-cellars, and brimstone, and other things burning. I +became afeard to stay there long, and therefore down again as fast as I +could, the fire being spread as far as I could see it; and to Sir W. +Pen's, and there eat a piece of cold meat, having eaten nothing since +Sunday, but the remains of Sunday's dinner. Here I met with Mr. Young and +Whistler; and having removed all my things, and received good hopes that +the fire at our end; is stopped, they and I walked into the town, and find +Fanchurch-streete, Gracious-streete; and Lumbard-streete all in dust. The +Exchange a sad sight, nothing standing there, of all the statues or +pillars, but Sir Thomas Gresham's picture in the corner. Walked into +Moorefields (our feet ready to burn, walking through the towne among the +hot coles), and find that full of people, and poor wretches carrying their +good there, and every body keeping his goods together by themselves (and a +great blessing it is to them that it is fair weathe for them to keep +abroad night and day); drank there, and paid two-pence for a plain penny +loaf. Thence homeward, having passed through Cheapside and Newgate +Market, all burned, and seen Anthony Joyce's House in fire. And took up +(which I keep by me) a piece of glasse of Mercers' Chappell in the +streete, where much more was, so melted and buckled with the heat of the +fire like parchment. I also did see a poor cat taken out of a hole in the +chimney, joyning to the wall of the Exchange; with, the hair all burned +off the body, and yet alive. So home at night, and find there good hopes +of saving our office; but great endeavours of watching all night, and +having men ready; and so we lodged them in the office, and had drink and +bread and cheese for them. And I lay down and slept a good night about +midnight, though when I rose I heard that there had been a great alarme of +French and Dutch being risen, which proved, nothing. But it is a strange +thing to see how long this time did look since Sunday, having been always +full of variety of actions, and little sleep, that it looked like a week +or more, and I had forgot, almost the day of the week. + +6th. Up about five o'clock, and where met Mr. Gawden at the gate of the +office (I intending to go out, as I used, every now and then to-day, to +see how the fire is) to call our men to Bishop's-gate, where no fire had +yet been near, and there is now one broke out which did give great grounds +to people, and to me too, to think that there is some kind of plot + + [The terrible disaster which overtook London was borne by the + inhabitants of the city with great fortitude, but foreigners and + Roman Catholics had a bad dime. As no cause for the outbreak of the + fire could be traced, a general cry was raised that it owed its + origin to a plot. In a letter from Thomas Waade to Williamson + (dated "Whitby, Sept. 14th") we read, "The destruction of London by + fire is reported to be a hellish contrivance of the French, + Hollanders, and fanatic party" ("Calendar of State Papers," 1666-67, + p. 124).] + +in this (on which many by this time have been taken, and, it hath been +dangerous for any stranger to walk in the streets), but I went with the +men, and we did put it out in a little time; so that that was well again. +It was pretty to see how hard the women did work in the cannells, sweeping +of water; but then they would scold for drink, and be as drunk as devils. +I saw good butts of sugar broke open in the street, and people go and take +handsfull out, and put into beer, and drink it. And now all being pretty +well, I took boat, and over to Southwarke, and took boat on the other side +the bridge, and so to Westminster, thinking to shift myself, being all in +dirt from top to bottom; but could not there find any place to buy a shirt +or pair of gloves, Westminster Hall being full of people's goods, those in +Westminster having removed all their goods, and the Exchequer money put +into vessels to carry to Nonsuch; but to the Swan, and there was trimmed; +and then to White Hall, but saw nobody; and so home. A sad sight to see +how the River looks: no houses nor church near it, to the Temple, where it +stopped. At home, did go with Sir W. Batten, and our neighbour, Knightly +(who, with one more, was the only man of any fashion left in all the +neighbourhood thereabouts, they all removing their goods and leaving their +houses to the mercy of the fire), to Sir R. Ford's, and there dined in an +earthen platter--a fried breast of mutton; a great many of us, but very +merry, and indeed as good a meal, though as ugly a one, as ever I had in +my life. Thence down to Deptford, and there with great satisfaction +landed all my goods at Sir G. Carteret's safe, and nothing missed I could +see, or hurt. This being done to my great content, I home, and to Sir W. +Batten's, and there with Sir R. Ford, Mr. Knightly, and one Withers, a +professed lying rogue, supped well, and mighty merry, and our fears over. +From them to the office, and there slept with the office full of +labourers, who talked, and slept, and walked all night long there. But +strange it was to see Cloathworkers' Hall on fire these three days and +nights in one body of flame, it being the cellar full of oyle. + +7th. Up by five o'clock; and, blessed be God! find all well, and by +water to Paul's Wharfe. Walked thence, and saw, all the towne burned, and +a miserable sight of Paul's church; with all the roofs fallen, and the +body of the quire fallen into St. Fayth's; Paul's school also, Ludgate, +and Fleet-street, my father's house, and the church, and a good part of +the Temple the like. So to Creed's lodging, near the New Exchange, and +there find him laid down upon a bed; the house all unfurnished, there +being fears of the fire's coming to them. There borrowed a shirt of him, +and washed. To Sir W. Coventry, at St. James's, who lay without curtains, +having removed all his goods; as the King at White Hall, and every body +had done, and was doing. He hopes we shall have no publique distractions +upon this fire, which is what every body fears, because of the talke of +the French having a hand in it. And it is a proper time for discontents; +but all men's minds are full of care to protect themselves, and save their +goods: the militia is in armes every where. Our fleetes, he tells me, +have been in sight one of another, and most unhappily by fowle weather +were parted, to our great losse, as in reason they do conclude; the Dutch +being come out only to make a shew, and please their people; but in very +bad condition as to stores; victuals, and men. They are at Bullen; and +our fleete come to St. Ellen's. We have got nothing, but have lost one +ship, but he knows not what. Thence to the Swan, and there drank: and so +home, and find all well. My Lord Bruncker, at Sir W. Batten's, and tells +us the Generall is sent for up, to come to advise with the King about +business at this juncture, and to keep all quiet; which is great honour to +him, but I am sure is but a piece of dissimulation. So home, and did give +orders for my house to be made clean; and then down to Woolwich, and there +find all well: Dined, and Mrs. Markham come to see my wife. So I up +again, and calling at Deptford for some things of W. Hewer's, he being +with me, and then home and spent the evening with Sir R. Ford, Mr. +Knightly, and Sir W. Pen at Sir W. Batten's: This day our Merchants first +met at Gresham College, which, by proclamation, is to be their Exchange. +Strange to hear what is bid for houses all up and down here; a friend of +Sir W. Rider's: having L150 for what he used to let for L40 per annum. +Much dispute where the Custome-house shall be thereby the growth of the +City again to be foreseen. My Lord Treasurer, they say, and others; would +have it at the other end of the towne. I home late to Sir W. Pen's, who +did give me a bed; but without curtains or hangings, all being down. So +here I went the first time into a naked bed, only my drawers on; and did +sleep pretty well: but still hath sleeping and waking had a fear of fire +in my heart, that I took little rest. People do all the world over cry +out of the simplicity of my Lord Mayor in generall; and more particularly +in this business of the fire, laying it all upon' him. A proclamation + + [On September 5th proclamation was made "ordering that for supply of + the distressed people left destitute by the late dreadful and dismal + fire. . . . great proportions of bread be brought daily, not + only to the former markets, but to those lately ordained; that all + churches, chapels, schools, and public buildings are to be open to + receive the goods of those who know not how to dispose of them." On + September 6th, proclamation ordered "that as the markets are burned + down, markets be held in Bishopsgate Street, Tower Hill, Smithfield, + and Leadenhall Street" ("Calendar of State Papers," 1666-67, pp. + 100, 104).] + +is come out for markets to be kept at Leadenhall and Mileendgreene, and +several other places about the towne; and Tower-hill, and all churches to +be set open to receive poor people. + +8th. Up and with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen by water to White Hall and +they to St. James's. I stopped with Sir G. Carteret to desire him to go +with us, and to enquire after money. But the first he cannot do, and the +other as little, or says, "when we can get any, or what shall we do for +it?" He, it seems, is employed in the correspondence between the City and +the King every day, in settling of things. I find him full of trouble, to +think how things will go. I left him, and to St. James's, where we met +first at Sir W. Coventry's chamber, and there did what business we can, +without any books. Our discourse, as every thing else, was confused. The +fleete is at Portsmouth, there staying a wind to carry them to the Downes, +or towards Bullen, where they say the Dutch fleete is gone, and stays. We +concluded upon private meetings for a while, not having any money to +satisfy any people that may come to us. I bought two eeles upon the +Thames, cost me six shillings. Thence with Sir W. Batten to the Cock-pit, +whither the Duke of Albemarle is come. It seems the King holds him so +necessary at this time, that he hath sent for him, and will keep him here. +Indeed, his interest in the City, being acquainted, and his care in +keeping things quiet, is reckoned that wherein he will be very +serviceable. We to him; he is courted in appearance by every body. He +very kind to us; I perceive he lays by all business of the fleete at +present, and minds the City, and is now hastening to Gresham College, to +discourse with the Aldermen. Sir W. Batten and I home (where met by my +brother John, come to town to see how things are with us), and then +presently he with me to Gresham College; where infinity of people, partly +through novelty to see the new place, and partly to find out and hear what +is become one man of another. I met with many people undone, and more +that have extraordinary great losses. People speaking their thoughts +variously about the beginning of the fire, and the rebuilding; of the +City. Then to Sir W. Batten's, and took my brothet with me, and there +dined with a great company of neighbours; and much good discourse; among +others, of the low spirits of some rich men in the City, in sparing any +encouragement to the, poor people that wrought for the saving their +houses. Among others, Alderman Starling, a very rich man, without; +children, the fire at next door to him in our lane, after our men had +saved his house, did give 2s. 6d. among thirty of them, and did quarrel +with some that would remove the rubbish out of the way of the fire, saying +that they come to steal. Sir W. Coventry told me of another this morning, +in Holborne, which he shewed the King that when it was offered to stop the +fire near his house for such a reward that came but to 2s. 6d. a man among +the neighbours he would, give but 18d. Thence to Bednall Green by coach, +my brother with me, and saw all well there, and fetched away my journall +book to enter for five days past, and then back to the office where I find +Bagwell's wife, and her husband come home. Agreed to come to their house +to-morrow, I sending him away to his ship to-day. To the office and late +writing letters, and then to Sir W. Pen's, my brother lying with me, and +Sir W. Pen gone down to rest himself at Woolwich. But I was much frighted +and kept awake in my bed, by some noise I heard a great while below +stairs; and the boys not coming up to me when I knocked. It was by their +discovery of people stealing of some neighbours' wine that lay in vessels +in the streets. So to sleep; and all well all night. + +9th (Sunday). Up and was trimmed, and sent my brother to Woolwich to my +wife, to dine with her. I to church, where our parson made a melancholy +but good sermon; and many and most in the church cried, specially the +women. The church mighty full; but few of fashion, and most strangers. I +walked to Bednall Green, and there dined well, but a bad venison pasty at +Sir W. Rider's. Good people they are, and good discourse; and his +daughter, Middleton, a fine woman, discreet. Thence home, and to church +again, and there preached Dean Harding; but, methinks, a bad, poor sermon, +though proper for the time; nor eloquent, in saying at this time that the +City is reduced from a large folio to a decimotertio. So to my office, +there to write down my journall, and take leave of my brother, whom I sent +back this afternoon, though rainy; which it hath not done a good while +before. But I had no room or convenience for him here till my house is +fitted; but I was very kind to him, and do take very well of him his +journey. I did give him 40s. for his pocket, and so, he being gone, and, +it presently rayning, I was troubled for him, though it is good for the +fyre. Anon to Sir W. Pen's to bed, and made my boy Tom to read me asleep. + +10th. All the morning clearing our cellars, and breaking in pieces all my +old lumber, to make room, and to prevent fire. And then to Sir W. +Batten's, and dined; and there hear that Sir W. Rider says that the towne +is full of the report of the wealth that is in his house, and would be +glad that his friends would provide for the safety of their goods there. +This made me get a cart; and thither, and there brought my money all away. +Took a hackney-coach myself (the hackney-coaches now standing at Allgate). +Much wealth indeed there is at his house. Blessed be God, I got all mine +well thence, and lodged it in my office; but vexed to have all the world +see it. And with Sir W. Batten, who would have taken away my hands before +they were stowed. But by and by comes brother Balty from sea, which I was +glad of; and so got him, and Mr. Tooker, and the boy, to watch with them +all in the office all night, while I upon Jane's coming went down to my +wife, calling at Deptford, intending to see Bagwell, but did not 'ouvrir +la porte comme je' did expect. So down late to Woolwich, and there find +my wife out of humour and indifferent, as she uses upon her having much +liberty abroad. + +11th. Lay there, and up betimes, and by water with my gold, and laid it +with the rest in my office, where I find all well and safe. So with Sir +W. Batten to the New Exchange by water and to my Lord Bruncker's house, +where Sir W. Coventry and Sir G. Carteret met. Little business before us +but want of money. Broke up, and I home by coach round the town. Dined +at home, Balty and myself putting up my papers in m closet in the office. +He away, I down to Deptford and there spoke with Bagwell and agreed upon +to-morrow, and come home in the rain by water. In the evening at Sir W. +Pen's; with my wife, at supper, he in a mad, ridiculous, drunken humour; +and it seems there have been some late distances between his lady and him, +as my [wife] tells me. After supper, I home, and with Mr. Hater, Gibson, +and Tom alone, got all my chests and money into the further cellar with +much pains, but great content to me when done. So very late and weary, to +bed. + +12th. Up, and with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen to St. James's by water, +and there did our usual business with the Duke of Yorke. Thence I to +Westminster, and there, spoke with Michell and Howlett, who tell me how +their poor young ones are going to Shadwell's. The latter told me of the +unkindness of the young man to his wife, which is now over, and I have +promised to appear a counsellor to him. I am glad she is like to be so +near us again. Thence to Martin, and there did 'tout ce que je voudrais +avec' her, and drank, and away by water home and to dinner, Balty and his +wife there. After dinner I took him down with me to Deptford, and there +by the Bezan loaded above half my goods and sent them away. So we back +home, and then I found occasion to return in the dark and to Bagwell, and +there . . . did do all that I desired, but though I did intend 'pour +avoir demeurais con elle' to-day last night, yet when I had done 'ce que +je voudrais I did hate both elle and la cose', and taking occasion from +the occasion of 'su marido's return . . . did me lever', and so away +home late to Sir W. Pen's (Batty and his wife lying at my house), and +there in the same simple humour I found Sir W. Pen, and so late to bed. + +13th. Up, and down to Tower Wharfe; and there, with Batty and labourers +from Deptford, did get my goods housed well at home. So down to Deptford +again to fetch the rest, and there eat a bit of dinner at the Globe, with +the master of the Bezan with me, while the labourers went to dinner. Here +I hear that this poor towne do bury still of the plague seven or eight in +a day. So to Sir G. Carteret's to work, and there did to my content ship +off into the Bezan all the rest of my goods, saving my pictures and fine +things, that I will bring home in wherrys when the house is fit to receive +them: and so home, and unload them by carts and hands before night, to my +exceeding satisfaction: and so after supper to bed in my house, the first +time I have lain there; and lay with my wife in my old closett upon the +ground, and Batty and his wife in the best chamber, upon the ground also. + +14th. Up, and to work, having carpenters come to helpe in setting up +bedsteads and hangings; and at that trade my people and I all the morning, +till pressed by publique business to leave them against my will in the +afternoon: and yet I was troubled in being at home, to see all my goods +lie up and down the house in a bad condition, and strange workmen going to +and fro might take what they would almost. All the afternoon busy; and +Sir W. Coventry come to me, and found me, as God would have it, in my +office, and people about me setting my papers to rights; and there +discoursed about getting an account ready against the Parliament, and +thereby did create me infinite of business, and to be done on a sudden; +which troubled me: but, however, he being gone, I about it late, and to +good purpose. And so home, having this day also got my wine out of the +ground again, and set in my cellar; but with great pain to keep the +porters that carried it in from observing the money-chests there. So to +bed as last night, only my wife and I upon a bedstead with curtains in +that which was Mercer's chamber, and Balty and his wife (who are here and +do us good service), where we lay last night. This day, poor Tom Pepys, +the turner, was with me, and Kate, Joyce, to bespeake places; one for +himself, the other for her husband. She tells me he hath lost L140 per +annum, but have seven houses left. + +15th. All the morning at the office, Harman being come to my great +satisfaction to put up my beds and hangings, so I am at rest, and followed +my business all day. Dined with Sir W. Batten, mighty busy about this +account, and while my people were busy, wrote near thirty letters and +orders with my owne hand. At it till eleven at night; and it is strange +to see how clear my head was, being eased of all the matter of all these +letters; whereas one would think that I should have been dazed. I never +did observe so much of myself in my life. In the evening there comes to +me Captain Cocke, and walked a good while in the garden. He says he hath +computed that the rents of houses lost by this fire in the City comes to +L600,000 per annum; that this will make the Parliament, more quiet than +otherwise they would have been, and give the, King a more ready supply; +that the supply must be by excise, as it is in Holland; that the +Parliament will see it necessary to carry on the warr; that the late storm +hindered our beating the Dutch fleete, who were gone out only to satisfy +the people, having no business to do but to avoid us; that the French, as +late in the yeare as it is, are coming; that the Dutch are really in bad +condition, but that this unhappinesse of ours do give them heart; that +there was a late difference between my Lord Arlington and Sir W. Coventry +about neglect in the last to send away an express of the other's in time; +that it come before the King, and the Duke of Yorke concerned himself in +it; but this fire hath stopped it. The Dutch fleete is not gone home, but +rather to the North, and so dangerous to our Gottenburgh fleete. That the +Parliament is likely to fall foul upon some persons; and, among others, on +the Vice-chamberlaine, though we both believe with little ground. That +certainly never so great a loss as this was borne so well by citizens in +the world; he believing that not one merchant upon the 'Change will break +upon it. That he do not apprehend there will be any disturbances in State +upon it; for that all men are busy in looking after their owne business to +save themselves. He gone, I to finish my letters, and home to bed; and +find to my infinite joy many rooms clean; and myself and wife lie in our +own chamber again. But much terrified in the nights now-a-days with +dreams of fire, and falling down of houses. + +16th (Lord's day). Lay with much pleasure in bed talking with my wife +about Mr. Hater's lying here and W. Hewer also, if Mrs. Mercer leaves her +house. To the office, whither also all my people about this account, and +there busy all the morning. At noon, with my wife, against her will, all +undressed and dirty, dined at Sir W. Pen's, where was all the company of +our families in towne; but, Lord! so sorry a dinner: venison baked in +pans, that the dinner I have had for his lady alone hath been worth four +of it. Thence, after dinner, displeased with our entertainment, to my +office again, and there till almost midnight and my people with me, and +then home, my head mightily akeing about our accounts. + +17th. Up betimes, and shaved myself after a week's growth, but, Lord! how +ugly I was yesterday and how fine to-day! By water, seeing the City all +the way, a sad sight indeed, much fire being still in. To Sir W. +Coventry, and there read over my yesterday's work: being a collection of +the particulars of the excess of charge created by a war, with good +content. Sir W. Coventry was in great pain lest the French fleete should +be passed by our fleete, who had notice of them on Saturday, and were +preparing to go meet them; but their minds altered, and judged them +merchant-men, when the same day the Success, Captain Ball, made their +whole fleete, and come to Brighthelmstone, and thence at five o'clock +afternoon, Saturday, wrote Sir W. Coventry newes thereof; so that we do +much fear our missing them. Here come in and talked with him Sir Thomas +Clifford, who appears a very fine gentleman, and much set by at Court for +his activity in going to sea, and stoutness everywhere, and stirring up +and down. Thence by coach over the ruines, down Fleete Streete and +Cheapside to Broad Streete to Sir G. Carteret, where Sir W. Batten (and +Sir J. Minnes, whom I had not seen a long time before, being his first +coming abroad) and Lord Bruncker passing his accounts. Thence home a +little to look after my people at work and back to Sir G. Carteret's to +dinner; and thence, after some discourse; with him upon our publique +accounts, I back home, and all the day with Harman and his people +finishing the hangings and beds in my house, and the hangings will be as +good as ever, and particularly in my new closet. They gone and I weary, +my wife and I, and Balty and his wife, who come hither to-day to helpe us, +to a barrel of oysters I sent from the river today, and so to bed. + +18th. Strange with what freedom and quantity I pissed this night, which I +know not what to impute to but my oysters, unless the coldness of the +night should cause it, for it was a sad rainy and tempestuous night. Soon +as up I begun to have some pain in my bladder and belly, as usual, which +made me go to dinner betimes, to fill my belly, and that did ease me, so +as I did my business in the afternoon, in forwarding the settling of my +house, very well. Betimes to bed, my wife also being all this day ill in +the same manner. Troubled at my wife's haire coming off so much. This day +the Parliament met, and adjourned till Friday, when the King will be with +them. + +19th. Up, and with Sir W. Pen by coach to St. James's, and there did our +usual business before the Duke of Yorke; which signified little, our +business being only complaints of lack of money. Here I saw a bastard of +the late King of Sweden's come to kiss his hands; a mighty modish +French-like gentleman. Thence to White Hall, with Sir W. Batten and Sir +W. Pen, to Wilkes's; and there did hear the many profane stories of Sir +Henry Wood damning the parsons for so much spending the wine at the +sacrament, cursing that ever they took the cup to themselves, and then +another story that he valued not all the world's curses, for two pence he +shall get at any time the prayers of some poor body that is worth a 1000 +of all their curses; Lord Norwich drawing a tooth at a health. Another +time, he and Pinchbacke and Dr. Goffe, now a religious man, Pinchbacke did +begin a frolick to drink out of a glass with a toad in it that he had +taken up going out to shit, he did it without harm. Goffe, who knew sacke +would kill the toad, called for sacke; and when he saw it dead, says he, +"I will have a quick toad, and will not drink from a dead toad." + + ["They swallow their own contradictions as easily as a hector can + drink a frog in a glass of wine."--Benlivoglio and Urania, book v., + p. 92, 3rd edit.--B.] + +By that means, no other being to be found, he escaped the health. Thence +home, and dined, and to Deptford and got all my pictures put into +wherries, and my other fine things, and landed them all very well, and +brought them home, and got Sympson to set them all up to-night; and he +gone, I and the boy to finish and set up my books, and everything else in +my house, till two o'clock; in the morning, and then to bed; but mightily +troubled, and even in my sleep, at my missing four or five of my biggest +books. Speed's Chronicle and Maps, and the two parts of Waggoner, and a +book of cards, which I suppose I have put up with too much care, that I +have forgot where they are; for sure they are not stole. Two little +pictures of sea and ships and a little gilt frame belonging to my plate of +the River, I want; but my books do heartily trouble me. Most of my gilt +frames are hurt, which also troubles me, but most my books. This day I +put on two shirts, the first time this year, and do grow well upon it; so +that my disease is nothing but wind. + +20th. Up, much troubled about my books, but cannot, imagine where they +should be. Up, to the setting my closet to rights, and Sir W. Coventry +takes me at it, which did not displease me. He and I to discourse about +our accounts, and the bringing them to the Parliament, and with much +content to see him rely so well on my part. He and I together to Broad +Streete to the Vice-Chamberlain, and there discoursed a while and parted. +My Lady Carteret come to town, but I did not see her. He tells me how the +fleete is come into the Downes. Nothing done, nor French fleete seen: we +drove all from our anchors. But he says newes is come that De Ruyter is +dead, or very near it, of a hurt in his mouth, upon the discharge of one +of his own guns; which put him into a fever, and he likely to die, if not +already dead. We parted, and I home to dinner, and after dinner to the +setting things in order, and all my people busy about the same work. In +the afternoon, out by coach, my wife with me, which we have not done +several weeks now, through all the ruines, to shew her them, which frets +her much, and is a sad sight indeed. Set her down at her brother's, and +thence I to Westminster Hall, and there staid a little while, and called +her home. She did give me an account of great differences between her +mother and Balty's wife. The old woman charges her with going abroad and +staying out late, and painting in the absence of her husband, and I know +not what; and they grow proud, both he and she, and do not help their +father and mother out of what I help them to, which I do not like, nor my +wife. So home, and to the office, to even my journall, and then home, and +very late up with Jane setting my books in perfect order in my closet, but +am mightily troubled for my great books that I miss, and I am troubled the +more for fear there should be more missing than what I find, though by the +room they take on the shelves I do not find any reason to think it. So to +bed. + +21st. Up, and mightily pleased with the setting of my books the last +night in order, and that which did please me most of all is that W. Hewer +tells me that upon enquiry he do find that Sir W. Pen hath a hamper more +than his own, which he took for a hamper of bottles of wine, and are books +in it. I was impatient to see it, but they were carried into a +wine-cellar, and the boy is abroad with him at the House, where the +Parliament met to-day, and the King to be with them. At noon after dinner +I sent for Harry, and he tells me it is so, and brought me by and by my +hamper of books to my great joy, with the same books I missed, and three +more great ones, and no more. I did give him 5s. for his pains, And so +home with great joy, and to the setting of some off them right, but could +not finish it, but away by coach to the other end of the town, leaving my +wife at the 'Change, but neither come time enough to the Council to speak +with the Duke of Yorke, nor with Sir G. Carteret, and so called my wife, +and paid for some things she bought, and so home, and there after a little +doing at the office about our accounts, which now draw near the time they +should be ready, the House having ordered Sir G. Carteret, upon his +offering them, to bring them in on Saturday next, I home, and there, with +great pleasure, very late new setting all my books; and now I am in as +good condition as I desire to be in all worldly respects. The Lord of +Heaven make me thankfull, and continue me therein! So to bed. This day I +had new stairs of main timber put t my cellar going into the yard. + +22nd. To my closet, and had it new washed, and now my house is so clean +as I never saw it, or any other house in my life, and every thing in as +good condition as ever before the fire; but with, I believe, about L20 +cost one way or other besides about L20 charge in removing my goods, and +do not find that I have lost any thing but two little pictures of ship and +sea, and a little gold frame for one of my sea-cards. My glazier, indeed, +is so full of worke that I cannot get him to come to perfect my house. To +the office, and there busy now for good and all about my accounts. My +Lord Brunck come thither, thinking to find an office, but we have not yet +met. He do now give me a watch, a plain one, in the roome of my former +watch with many motions which I did give him. If it goes well, I care not +for the difference in worth, though believe there is above L5. He and I +to Sir G. Carteret to discourse about his account, but Mr. Waith not being +there nothing could be done, and therefore I home again, and busy all day. +In the afternoon comes Anthony Joyce to see me, and with tears told me his +losse, but yet that he had something left that he can live well upon, and +I doubt it not. But he would buy some place that he could have and yet +keepe his trade where he is settled in St. Jones's. He gone, I to the +office again, and then to Sir G. Carteret, and there found Mr. Wayth, but, +Lord! how fretfully Sir G. Carteret do discourse with Mr. Wayth about his +accounts, like a man that understands them not one word. I held my tongue +and let him go on like a passionate foole. In the afternoon I paid for +the two lighters that carried my goods to Deptford, and they cost me L8. +Till past midnight at our accounts, and have brought them to a good issue, +so as to be ready to meet Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Coventry to-morrow, +but must work to-morrow, which Mr. T. Hater had no mind to, it being the +Lord's day, but, being told the necessity, submitted, poor man! This +night writ for brother John to come to towne. Among other reasons, my +estate lying in money, I am afeard of any sudden miscarriage. So to bed +mightily contented in dispatching so much business, and find my house in +the best condition that ever I knew it. Home to bed. + +23rd (Lord's day). Up, and after being trimmed, all the morning at the +office with my people about me till about one o'clock, and then home, and +my people with me, and Mr. Wayth and I eat a bit of victuals in my old +closet, now my little dining-room, which makes a pretty room, and my house +being so clean makes me mightily pleased, but only I do lacke Mercer or +somebody in the house to sing with. Soon as eat a bit Mr. Wayth and I by +water to White Hall, and there at Sir G. Carteret's lodgings Sir W. +Coventry met, and we did debate the whole business of our accounts to the +Parliament; where it appears to us that the charge of the war from +September 1st, 1664, to this Michaelmas, will have been but L3,200,000, +and we have paid in that time somewhat about L2,200,000; so that we owe +above L900,000: but our method of accounting, though it cannot, I believe, +be far wide from the mark, yet will not abide a strict examination if the +Parliament should be troublesome. Here happened a pretty question of Sir +W. Coventry, whether this account of ours will not put my Lord Treasurer +to a difficulty to tell what is become of all the money the Parliament +have 'give' in this time for the war, which hath amounted to about +L4,000,000, which nobody there could answer; but I perceive they did doubt +what his answer could be. Having done, and taken from Sir W. Coventry the +minutes of a letter to my Lord Treasurer, Wayth and I back again to the +office, and thence back down to the water with my wife and landed him in +Southwarke, and my wife and I for pleasure to Fox-hall, and there eat and +drank, and so back home, and I to the office till midnight drawing the +letter we are to send with our accounts to my Lord Treasurer, and that +being done to my mind, I home to bed. + +24th. Up, and with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen to St. James's, and there +with Sir W. Coventry read and all approved of my letter, and then home, +and after dinner, Mr. Hater and Gibson dining with me, to the office, and +there very late new moulding my accounts and writing fair my letter, which +I did against the evening, and then by coach left my wife at her +brother's, and I to St. James's, and up and down to look [for] Sir W. +Coventry; and at last found him and Sir G. Carteret with the Lord +Treasurer at White Hall, consulting how to make up my Lord Treasurer's +general account, as well as that of the Navy particularly. Here brought +the letter, but found that Sir G. Carteret had altered his account since +he did give me the abstract of it: so all my letter must be writ over +again, to put in his last abstract. So to Sir G. Carteret's lodgings, to +speak a little about the alteration; and there looking over the book that +Sir G. Carteret intends to deliver to the Parliament of his payments since +September 1st, 1664, and there I find my name the very second for flags, +which I had bought for the Navy, of calico; once, about 500 and odd +pounds, which vexed me mightily. At last, I concluded of scraping out my +name and putting in Mr. Tooker's, which eased me; though the price was +such as I should have had glory by. Here I saw my Lady Carteret lately +come to towne, who, good lady! is mighty kind, and I must make much of +her, for she is a most excellent woman. So took up my wife and away home, +and there to bed, and + +25th. Up betimes, with all my people to get the letter writ over, and +other things done, which I did, and by coach to Lord Bruncker's, and got +his hand to it; and then to the Parliament House and got it signed by the +rest, and then delivered it at the House-door to Sir Philip Warwicke; Sir +G. Carteret being gone into the House with his book of accounts under his +arme, to present to the House. I had brought my wife to White Hall, and +leaving her with Mrs. Michell, where she sat in her shop and had burnt +wine sent for her, I walked in the Hall, and among others with Ned +Picketing, who continues still a lying, bragging coxcombe, telling me that +my Lord Sandwich may thank himself for all his misfortune; for not +suffering him and two or three good honest fellows more to take them by +the throats that spoke ill of him, and told me how basely Lionell Walden +hath carried himself towards my Lord; by speaking slightly of him, which I +shall remember. Thence took my wife home to dinner, and then to the +office, where Mr. Hater all the day putting in order and entering in a +book all the measures that this account of the Navy hath been made up by, +and late at night to Mrs. Turner's, where she had got my wife and Lady Pen +and Pegg, and supped, and after, supper and the rest of the company by +design gone, Mrs. Turner and her husband did lay their case to me about +their lodgings, Sir J. Minnes being now gone wholly to his owne, and now, +they being empty, they doubt Sir T. Harvy or Lord Bruncker may look after +the lodgings. I did give them the best advice, poor people, that I could, +and would do them any kindnesse, though it is strange that now they should +have ne'er a friend of Sir W. Batten or Sir W. Pen to trust to but me, +that they have disobliged. So home to bed, and all night still mightily +troubled in my sleepe, with fire and houses pulling down. + +26th. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes to St. James's, where every body going +to the House, I away by coach to White Hall, and after a few turns, and +hearing that our accounts come into the House but to-day, being hindered +yesterday by other business, I away by coach home, taking up my wife and +calling at Bennet's, our late mercer, who is come into Covent Garden to a +fine house looking down upon the Exchange; and I perceive many Londoners +every day come; and Mr. Pierce hath let his wife's closett, and the little +blind bed chamber, and a garret to a silke man for L50 fine, and L30 per +annum, and L40 per annum more for dieting the master and two prentices. +So home, not agreeing for silk for a petticoat for her which she desired, +but home to dinner and then back to White Hall, leaving my wife by the way +to buy her petticoat of Bennet, and I to White Hall waiting all day on the +Duke of Yorke to move the King for getting Lanyon some money at Plymouth +out of some oyle prizes brought in thither, but could get nothing done, +but here Mr. Dugdale I hear the great loss of books in St. Paul's +Church-yarde, and at their Hall also, which they value about L150,000; +some booksellers being wholly undone, among others, they say, my poor +Kirton. And Mr. Crumlu all his books and household stuff burned; they +trusting St. Fayth's, and the roof of the church falling, broke the arch +down into the lower church, and so all the goods burned. A very great +loss. His father hath lost above L1000 in books; one book newly printed, +a Discourse, it seems, of Courts. Here I had the hap to see my Lady +Denham: and at night went into the dining-room and saw several fine +ladies; among others, Castlemayne, but chiefly Denham again; and the Duke +of Yorke taking her aside and talking to her in the sight of all the +world, all alone; which was strange, and what also I did not like. Here I +met with good Mr. Evelyn, who cries out against it, and calls it +bitchering,--[This word was apparently of Evelyn's own making.]--for the +Duke of Yorke talks a little to her, and then she goes away, and then he +follows her again like a dog. He observes that none of the nobility come +out of the country at all to help the King, or comfort him, or prevent +commotions at this fire; but do as if the King were nobody; nor ne'er a +priest comes to give the King and Court good council, or to comfort the +poor people that suffer; but all is dead, nothing of good in any of their +minds: he bemoans it, and says he fears more ruin hangs over our heads. +Thence away by coach, and called away my wife at Unthanke's, where she +tells me she hath bought a gowne of 15s. per yard; the same, before her +face, my Lady Castlemayne this day bought also, which I seemed vexed for, +though I do not grudge it her, but to incline her to have Mercer again, +which I believe I shall do, but the girle, I hear, has no mind to come to +us again, which vexes me. Being come home, I to Sir W. Batten, and there +hear our business was tendered to the House to-day, and a Committee of the +whole House chosen to examine our accounts, and a great many Hotspurs +enquiring into it, and likely to give us much trouble and blame, and +perhaps (which I am afeard of) will find faults enow to demand better +officers. This I truly fear. Away with Sir W. Pen, who was there, and he +and I walked in the garden by moonlight, and he proposes his and my +looking out into Scotland about timber, and to use Pett there; for timber +will be a good commodity this time of building the City; and I like the +motion, and doubt not that we may do good in it. We did also discourse +about our Privateer, and hope well of that also, without much hazard, as, +if God blesses us, I hope we shall do pretty well toward getting a penny. +I was mightily pleased with our discourse, and so parted, and to the +office to finish my journall for three or four days, and so home to +supper, and to bed. Our fleete abroad, and the Dutch too, for all we +know; the weather very bad; and under the command of an unlucky man, I +fear. God bless him, and the fleete under him! + +27th. A very furious blowing night all the night; and my mind still +mightily perplexed with dreams, and burning the rest of the town, and +waking in much pain for the fleete. Up, and with my wife by coach as far +as the Temple, and there she to the mercer's again, and I to look out +Penny, my tailor, to speak for a cloak and cassock for my brother, who is +coming to town; and I will have him in a canonical dress, that he may be +the fitter to go abroad with me. I then to the Exchequer, and there, +among other things, spoke to Mr. Falconbridge about his girle I heard sing +at Nonsuch, and took him and some other 'Chequer men to the Sun Taverne, +and there spent 2s. 6d. upon them, and he sent for the girle, and she hath +a pretty way of singing, but hath almost forgot for want of practice. She +is poor in clothes, and not bred to any carriage, but will be soon taught +all, and if Mercer do not come again, I think we may have her upon better +terms, and breed her to what we please. Thence to Sir W. Coventry's, and +there dined with him and Sir W. Batten, the Lieutenant of the Tower, and +Mr. Thin, a pretty gentleman, going to Gottenburgh. Having dined, Sir W. +Coventry, Sir W. Batten, and I walked into his closet to consider of some +things more to be done in a list to be given to the Parliament of all our +ships, and time of entry and discharge. Sir W. Coventry seems to think +they will soon be weary of the business, and fall quietly into the giving +the King what is fit. This he hopes. Thence I by coach home to the +office, and there intending a meeting, but nobody being there but myself +and Sir J. Minnes, who is worse than nothing, I did not answer any body, +but kept to my business in the office till night, and then Sir W. Batten +and Sir W. Pen to me, and thence to Sir W. Batten's, and eat a barrel of +oysters I did give them, and so home, and to bed. I have this evening +discoursed with W. Hewer about Mercer, I having a mind to have her again; +and I am vexed to hear him say that she hath no mind to come again, though +her mother hath. No newes of the fleete yet, but that they went by Dover +on the 25th towards the Gunfleete, but whether the Dutch be yet abroad, or +no, we hear not. De Ruyter is not dead, but like to do well. Most think +that the gross of the French fleete are gone home again. + +28th. Lay long in bed, and am come to agreement with my wife to have +Mercer again, on condition she may learn this winter two months to dance, +and she promises me she will endeavour to learn to sing, and all this I am +willing enough to. So up, and by and by the glazier comes to finish the +windows of my house, which pleases me, and the bookbinder to gild the +backs of my books. I got the glass of my book-presses to be done +presently, which did mightily content me, and to setting my study in a +little better order; and so to my, office to my people, busy about our +Parliament accounts; and so to dinner, and then at them again close. At +night comes Sir W. Pen, and he and I a turn in the garden, and he broke to +me a proposition of his and my joining in a design of fetching timber and +deals from Scotland, by the help of Mr. Pett upon the place; which, while +London is building, will yield good money. I approve it. We judged a +third man, that is knowing, is necessary, and concluded on Sir W. Warren, +and sent for him to come to us to-morrow morning. I full of this all +night, and the project of our man of war; but he and, I both dissatisfied +with Sir W. Batten's proposing his son to be Lieutenant, which we, neither +of us, like. He gone, I discoursed with W. Hewer about Mercer, having a +great mind she should come to us again, and instructed him what to say to +her mother about it. And so home, to supper, and to bed. + +29th. A little meeting at the office by Sir W. Batten, Sir W. Pen, and +myself, being the first since the fire. We rose soon, and comes Sir W. +Warren, by our desire, and with Sir W. Pen and I talked of our Scotch +motion, which Sir W. Warren did seem to be stumbled at, and did give no +ready answer, but proposed some thing previous to it, which he knows would +find us work, or writing to Mr. Pett to be informed how matters go there +as to cost and ways of providing sawyers or saw-mills. We were parted +without coming to any good resolution in it, I discerning plainly that Sir +W. Warren had no mind to it, but that he was surprised at our motion. He +gone, I to some office business, and then home to dinner, and then to +office again, and then got done by night the lists that are to be +presented to the Parliament Committee of the ships, number of men, and +time employed since the war, and then I with it (leaving my wife at +Unthanke's) to St. James's, where Sir W. Coventry staid for me, and I +perused our lists, and find to our great joy that wages, victuals, wear +and tear, cast by the medium of the men, will come to above 3,000,000; and +that the extraordinaries, which all the world will allow us, will arise to +more than will justify the expence we have declared to have been at since +the war, viz., L320,000, he and I being both mightily satisfied, he saying +to me, that if God send us over this rub we must take another course for a +better Comptroller. So parted, and I to my wife [at Unthanke's], who +staid for the finishing her new best gowne (the best that ever I made her +coloured tabby, flowered, and so took it and her home; and then I to my +people, and having cut them out a little more work than they expected, +viz., the writing over the lists in new method, I home to bed, being in +good humour, and glad of the end we have brought this matter to. + +30th (Lord's day). Up, and to church, where I have not been a good while: +and there the church infinitely thronged with strangers since the fire +come into our parish; but not one handsome face in all of them, as if, +indeed, there was a curse, as Bishop Fuller heretofore said, upon our +parish. Here I saw Mercer come into the church, which I had a mind to, +but she avoided looking up, which vexed me. A pretty good sermon, and +then home, and comes Balty and dined with us. A good dinner; and then to +have my haire cut against winter close to my head, and then to church +again. A sorry sermon, and away home. [Sir] W. Pen and I to walk to talk +about several businesses, and then home; and my wife and I to read in +Fuller's Church History, and so to supper and to bed. This month ends +with my mind full of business and concernment how this office will speed +with the Parliament, which begins to be mighty severe in the examining our +accounts, and the expence of the Navy this war. + + + + + ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + + About my new closet, for my mind is full of nothing but that + About the nature of sounds + All the innocent pleasure in the world + Angry, and so continued till bed, and did not sleep friends + Beare-garden + Being examined at Allgate, whether we were husbands and wives + Did dig another, and put our wine in it; and I my Parmazan cheese + Do bury still of the plague seven or eight in a day + Durst not ask any body how it was with us + Evelyn, who cries out against it, and calls it bitchering + Fire grow; and, as it grew darker, appeared more and more + Good sport of the bull's tossing of the dogs + Great fire they saw in the City + Horrid malicious bloody flame + I never did observe so much of myself in my life + No manner of means used to quench the fire + Not permit her begin to do so, lest worse should follow + Offered to stop the fire near his house for such a reward + Pain to ride in a coach with them, for fear of being seen + Plot in it, and that the French had done it + Put up with too much care, that I have forgot where they are + Removing goods from one burned house to another + Sad sight it was: the whole City almost on fire + Staying out late, and painting in the absence of her husband + There did 'tout ce que je voudrais avec' her + This unhappinesse of ours do give them heart + Ye pulling down of houses, in ye way of ye fire + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Diary of Samuel Pepys, +August/September 1666, by Samuel Pepys + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + +***** This file should be named 4167.txt or 4167.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/6/4167/ + +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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