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WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + OCTOBER + 1666 + + +October 1st, 1666. Up, and all the morning at the office, getting the +list of all the ships and vessels employed since the war, for the +Committee of Parliament. At noon with it to Sir W. Coventry's chamber, +and there dined with him and [Sir] W. Batten, and [Sir] W. Pen, and after +dinner examined it and find it will do us much right in the number of men +rising to near the expense we delivered to the Parliament. [Sir] W. +Coventry and I (the others going before the Committee) to Lord Bruncker's +for his hand, and find him simply mighty busy in a council of the +Queen's. He come out and took in the papers to sign, and sent them +mighty wisely out again. Sir W. Coventry away to the Committee, and I to +the Mercer's, and there took a bill of what I owe of late, which comes to +about L17. Thence to White Hall, and there did hear Betty Michell was at +this end of the towne, and so without breach of vowe did stay to +endeavour to meet with her and carry her home; but she did not come, so I +lost my whole afternoon. But pretty! how I took another pretty woman +for her, taking her a clap on the breech, thinking verily it had been +her. Staid till [Sir] W. Batten and [Sir] W. Pen come out, and so away +home by water with them, and to the office to do some business, and then +home, and my wife do tell me that W. Hewer tells her that Mercer hath no +mind to come. So I was angry at it, and resolved with her to have +Falconbridge's girle, and I think it will be better for us, and will +please me better with singing. With this resolution, to supper and to +bed. + + + +2nd. Up, and am sent for to Sir G. Carteret, and to him, and there he +tells me how our lists are referred to a Sub-committee to consider and +examine, and that I am ordered to be there this afternoon. So I away +thence to my new bookbinder to see my books gilding in the backs, and +then to White Hall to the House, and spoke to Sir W. Coventry, where he +told me I must attend the Committee in the afternoon, and received some +hints of more work to do. So I away to the 'Chequer, and thence to an +alehouse, and found Mr. Falconbridge, and agreed for his kinswoman to +come to me. He says she can dress my wife, and will do anything we would +have her to do, and is of a good spirit and mighty cheerful. He is much +pleased therewith, and so we shall be. So agreed for her coming the next +week. So away home, and eat a short dinner, and then with Sir W. Pen to +White Hall, and do give his boy my book of papers to hold while he went +into the Committee Chamber in the Inner Court of Wards, and I walked +without with Mr. Slingsby, of the Tower, who was there, and who did in +walking inform me mightily in several things; among others, that the +heightening or lowering of money is only a cheat, and do good to some +particular men, which, if I can but remember how, I am now by him fully +convinced of. Anon Sir W. Pen went away, telling me that Sir W. Coventry +that was within had told him that the fleete is all come into the buoy of +the Nore, and that he must hasten down to them, and so went away, and I +into the Committee Chamber before the Committee sat, and there heard +Birch discourse highly and understandingly about the Navy business and a +proposal made heretofore to farm the Navy; but Sir W. Coventry did +abundantly answer him, and is a most excellent person. By and by the +Committee met, and I walked out, and anon they rose and called me in, and +appointed me to attend a Committee of them to-morrow at the office to +examine our lists. This put me into a mighty fear and trouble; they +doing it in a very ill humour, methought. So I away and called on my +Lord Bruncker to desire him to be there to-morrow, and so home, having +taken up my wife at Unthanke's, full of trouble in mind to think what I +shall be obliged to answer, that am neither fully fit, nor in any measure +concerned to take the shame and trouble of this office upon me, but only +from the inability and folly of the Comptroller that occasions it. When +come home I to Sir W. Pen's, to his boy, for my book, and there find he +hath it not, but delivered it to the doorekeeper of the Committee for me. +This, added to my former disquiet, made me stark mad, considering all the +nakedness of the office lay open in papers within those covers. I could +not tell in the world what to do, but was mad on all sides, and that +which made me worse Captain Cocke was there, and he did so swear and +curse at the boy that told me. So Cocke, Griffin, and the boy with me, +they to find the housekeeper of the Parliament, Hughes, while I to Sir W. +Coventry, but could hear nothing of it there. But coming to our +rendezvous at the Swan Taverne, in Ding Streete, I find they have found +the housekeeper, and the book simply locked up in the Court. So I staid +and drank, and rewarded the doore-keeper, and away home, my heart lighter +by all this, but to bed very sad notwithstanding, in fear of what will +happen to-morrow upon their coming. + + + +3rd. Waked betimes, mightily troubled in mind, and in the most true +trouble that I ever was in my life, saving in the business last year of +the East India prizes. So up, and with Mr. Hater and W. Hewer and +Griffin to consider of our business, and books and papers necessary for +this examination; and by and by, by eight o'clock, comes Birch, the +first, with the lists and books of accounts delivered in. He calls me to +work, and there he and I begun, when, by and by, comes Garraway, + + [William Garway, elected M.P. for Chichester, March 26th, 1661, and + in 1674 he was appointed by the House to confer with Lord + Shaftesbury respecting the charge against Pepys being popishly + affected. See note to the Life, vol. i., p, xxxii, and for his + character, October 6th, 1666] + +the first time I ever saw him, and Sir W. Thompson and Mr. Boscawen. +They to it, and I did make shift to answer them better than I expected. +Sir W. Batten, Lord Bruncker, [Sir] W. Pen, come in, but presently went +out; and [Sir] J. Minnes come in, and said two or three words from the +purpose, but to do hurt; and so away he went also, and left me all the +morning with them alone to stand or fall. At noon Sir W. Batten comes to +them to invite them (though fast day) to dinner, which they did, and good +company they were, but especially Garraway. Here I have news brought me +of my father's coming to town, and I presently to him, glad to see him, +poor man, he being come to town unexpectedly to see us and the city. +I could not stay with him, but after dinner to work again, only the +Committee and I, till dark night, and by that time they cast up all the +lists, and found out what the medium of men was borne all the war, of all +sorts, and ended with good peace, and much seeming satisfaction; but I +find them wise and reserved, and instructed to hit all our blots, as +among others, that we reckon the ships full manned from the beginning. +They gone, and my heart eased of a great deale of fear and pain, and +reckoning myself to come off with victory, because not overcome in +anything or much foiled, I away to Sir W. Coventry's chamber, but he not +within, then to White Hall, and there among the ladies, and saw my Lady +Castlemaine never looked so ill, nor Mrs. Stewart neither, as in this +plain, natural dress. I was not pleased with either of them. Away, not +finding [Sir] W. Coventry, and so home, and there find my father and my +brother come to towne--my father without my expectation; but glad I am to +see him. And so to supper with him, and to work again at the office; +then home, to set up all my folio books, which are come home gilt on the +backs, very handsome to the eye, and then at midnight to bed. This night +[Sir] W. Pen told me [Sir] W. Batten swears he will have nothing to do +with the Privateer if his son do not go Lieutenant, which angers me and +him; but we will be even with him, one way or other. + + + +4th. Up, and mighty betimes, to [Sir] W. Coventry, to give him an +account of yesterday's work, which do give him good content. He did then +tell me his speech lately to the House in his owne vindication about the +report of his selling of places, he having a small occasion offered him +by chance, which he did desire, and took, and did it to his content, and, +he says, to the House's seeming to approve of it by their hum. He +confessed how long he had done it, and how he desired to have something +else; and, since then, he had taken nothing, and challenged all the +world. I was glad of this also. Thence up to the Duke of York, by +appointment, with fellow officers, to complaine, but to no purpose, of +want of money, and so away. I to Sir G. Carteret, to his lodging, and +here discoursed much of the want of money and our being designed for +destruction. How the King hath lost his power, by submitting himself to +this way of examining his accounts, and is become but as a private man. +He says the King is troubled at it, but they talk an entry shall be made, +that it is not to be brought into example; that the King must, if they do +not agree presently, make them a courageous speech, which he says he may +do, the City of London being now burned, and himself master of an army, +better than any prince before him, and so I believe. Thence home, about +noon, to dinner. After dinner the book binder come, and I sent by him +some more books to gild. I to the office all day, and spent most of it +with Sir W. Warren, whom I have had no discourse with a great while, and +when all is done I do find him a mighty wise man as any I know, and his +counsel as much to be followed. Late with Mr. Hater upon comparing the +charge and husbandry of the last Dutch war with ours now, and do find +good roome to think we have done little worse than they, whereof good use +may and will be made. So home to supper, and to bed. + + + +5th. Up, and with my father talking awhile, then to the office, and +there troubled with a message from Lord Peterborough about money; but I +did give as kind answer as I could, though I hate him. Then to Sir G. +Carteret to discourse about paying of part of the great ships come in, +and so home again to compare the comparison of the two Dutch wars' +charges for [Sir] W. Coventry, and then by water (and saw old Mr. Michell +digging like a painfull father for his son) to him, and find him at +dinner. After dinner to look over my papers, and comparing them with +some notes of his and brought me, the sight of some good Navy notes of +his which I shall get. Then examined and liked well my notes, and away +together to White Hall, in the way discoursing the inconvenience of the +King's being thus subject to an account, but it will be remedied for the +time to come, he thinks, if we can get this over, and I find he will have +the Comptroller's business better done, swearing he will never be for a +wit to be employed on business again. Thence I home, and back again to +White Hall, and meeting Sir H. Cholmly to White Hall; there walked till +night that the Committee come down, and there Sir W. Coventry tells me +that the Subcommittee have made their report to the Grand Committee, and +in pretty kind terms, and have agreed upon allowing us L4 per head, which +I am sure will do the business, but he had endeavoured to have got more, +but this do well, and he and I are both mighty glad it is come to this, +and the heat of the present business seems almost over. But I have more +worke cut out for me, to prepare a list of the extraordinaries, not to be +included within the L4, against Monday. So I away from him, and met with +the Vice-Chamberlain, and I told him when I had this evening in coming +hither met with Captain Cocke, and he told me of a wild motion made in +the House of Lords by the Duke of Buckingham for all men that had cheated +the King to be declared traitors and felons, and that my Lord Sandwich +was named. This put me into a great pain, so the Vice-Chamberlain, who +had heard nothing of it, having been all day in the City, away with me to +White Hall; and there come to me and told me that, upon Lord Ashly's +asking their direction whether, being a peere, he should bring in his +accounts to the Commons, which they did give way to, the Duke of +Buckingham did move that, for the time to come, what I have written above +might be declared by some fuller law than heretofore. Lord Ashly +answered, that it was not the fault of the present laws, but want of +proof; and so said the Lord Chancellor. He answered, that a better law, +he thought, might be made so the House laughing, did refer it to him to +bring in a Bill to that purpose, and this was all. So I away with joyful +heart home, calling on Cocke and telling him the same. So I away home to +the office to clear my Journall for five days, and so home to supper and +to bed, my father who had staid out late and troubled me thereat being +come home well and gone to bed, which pleases me also. This day, coming +home, Mr. Kirton's kinsman, my bookseller, come in my way; and so I am +told by him that Mr. Kirton is utterly undone, and made 2 or L3000 worse +than nothing, from being worth 7 or L8,000. That the goods laid in the +Churchyarde fired through the windows those in St. Fayth's church; and +those coming to the warehouses' doors fired them, and burned all the +books and the pillars of the church, so as the roof falling down, broke +quite down, which it did not do in the other places of the church, which +is alike pillared (which I knew not before); but being not burned, they +stand still. He do believe there is above; L50,000 of books burned; all +the great booksellers almost undone: not only these, but their warehouses +at their Hall, and under Christchurch, and elsewhere being all burned. A +great want thereof there will be of books, specially Latin books and +foreign books; and, among others, the Polyglottes and new Bible, which he +believes will be presently worth L40 a-piece. + + + +6th. Up, and having seen my brother in his cassocke, which I am not the +most satisfied in, being doubtfull at this time what course to have him +profess too soon. To the office and there busy about a list of the +extraordinaries of the charge of the fleete this war; and was led to go +to the office of the ordnance to be satisfied in something, and find +their accounts and books kept in mighty good order, but that they can +give no light, nor will the nature of their affairs permit it to tell +what the charge of the ordnance comes to a man a month. So home again +and to dinner, there coming Creed to me; but what with business and my +hatred to the man, I did not spend any time with him, but after dinner +[my] wife and he and I took coach and to Westminster, but he 'light about +Paul's, and set her at her tailor's, and myself to St. James's, but there +missing [Sir] W. Coventry, returned and took up my wife, and calling at +the Exchange home, whither Sir H. Cholmly come to visit me, but my +business suffered me not to stay with him. So he gone I by water to +Westminster Hall and thence to St. James's, and there found [Sir] W. +Coventry waiting for me, and I did give him a good account to his mind of +the business he expected about extraordinaries and then fell to other +talke, among others, our sad condition contracted by want of a +Comptroller; + + [As Sir John Minnes performed the duties inefficiently, it was + considered necessary to take the office from him: See January 21st.] + +and it was his words, that he believes, besides all the shame and trouble +he hath brought on the office, the King had better have given L100,000 +than ever have had him there. He did discourse about some of these +discontented Parliament-men, and says that Birch is a false rogue, but +that Garraway is a man that hath not been well used by the Court, though +very stout to death, and hath suffered all that is possible for the King +from the beginning. But discontented as he is, yet he never knew a +Session of Parliament but he hath done some good deed for the King before +it rose. I told him the passage Cocke told me of his having begged a +brace of bucks of the Lord Arlington for him, and when it come to him, he +sent it back again. Sir W. Coventry told me, it is much to be pitied +that the King should lose the service of a man so able and faithfull; and +that he ought to be brought over, but that it is always observed, that by +bringing over one discontented man, you raise up three in his room; which +is a State lesson I never knew before. But when others discover your +fear, and that discontent procures favour, they will be discontented too, +and impose on you. Thence to White Hall and got a coach and home, and +there did business late, and so home and set up my little books of one of +my presses come home gilt, which pleases me mightily, and then to bed. +This morning my wife told me of a fine gentlewoman my Lady Pen tells her +of, for L20 per annum, that sings, dances, plays on four or five +instruments and many other fine things, which pleases me mightily: and +she sent to have her see her, which she did this afternoon; but sings +basely, and is a tawdry wench that would take L8, but [neither] my wife +nor I think her fit to come. + + + +7th (Lord's day). Up, and after visiting my father in his chamber, to +church, and then home to dinner. Little Michell and his wife come to +dine with us, which they did, and then presently after dinner I with Sir +J. Minnes to White Hall, where met by Sir W. Batten and Lord Bruncker, +to attend the King and Duke of York at the Cabinet; but nobody had +determined what to speak of, but only in general to ask for money. So I +was forced immediately to prepare in my mind a method of discoursing. +And anon we were called in to the Green Room, where the King, Duke of +York, Prince Rupert, Lord Chancellor, Lord Treasurer, Duke of Albemarle, +[Sirs] G. Carteret, W. Coventry, Morrice. Nobody beginning, I did, and +made a current, and I thought a good speech, laying open the ill state of +the Navy: by the greatness of the debt; greatness of work to do against +next yeare; the time and materials it would take; and our incapacity, +through a total want of money. I had no sooner done, but Prince Rupert +rose up and told the King in a heat, that whatever the gentleman had +said, he had brought home his fleete in as good a condition as ever any +fleete was brought home; that twenty boats would be as many as the fleete +would want: and all the anchors and cables left in the storm might be +taken up again. This arose from my saying, among other things we had to +do, that the fleete was come in--the greatest fleete that ever his +Majesty had yet together, and that in as bad condition as the enemy or +weather could put it; and to use Sir W. Pen's words, who is upon the +place taking a survey, he dreads the reports he is to receive from the +Surveyors of its defects. I therefore did only answer, that I was sorry +for his Highness's offence, but that what I said was but the report we +received from those entrusted in the fleete to inform us. He muttered +and repeated what he had said; and so, after a long silence on all hands, +nobody, not so much as the Duke of Albemarle, seconding the Prince, nor +taking notice of what he said, we withdrew. I was not a little troubled +at this passage, and the more when speaking with Jacke Fenn about it, he +told me that the Prince will be asking now who this Pepys is, and find +him to be a creature of my Lord Sandwich's, and therefore this was done +only to disparage him. Anon they broke, up, and Sir W. Coventry come +out; so I asked his advice. He told me he had said something to salve +it, which was, that his Highnesse had, he believed, rightly informed the +King that the fleete is come in good condition to have staid out yet +longer, and have fought the enemy, but yet that Mr. Pepys his meaning +might be, that, though in so good condition, if they should come in and +lie all the winter, we shall be very loth to send them to sea for another +year's service with[out] great repairs. He said it would be no hurt if I +went to him, and showed him the report himself brought up from the +fleete, where every ship, by the Commander's report, do need more or +less, and not to mention more of Sir W. Pen for doing him a mischief. +So I said I would, but do not think that all this will redound to my +hurt, because the truth of what I said will soon appear. Thence, having +been informed that, after all this pains, the King hath found out how to +supply us with 5 or L6000, when L100,000 were at this time but absolutely +necessary, and we mentioned L50,000. This is every day a greater and +greater omen of ruine. God fit us for it! Sir J. Minnes and I home +(it raining) by coach, calling only on Sir G. Cartefet at his lodging +(who is I find troubled at my Lord Treasurer and Sir Ph. Warwicke +bungling in his accounts), and come home to supper with my father, and +then all to bed. I made my brother in his cassocke to say grace this +day, but I like his voice so ill that I begin to be sorry he hath taken +this order upon him. + + + +8th. Up and to my office, called up by Commissioner Middleton, newly +come to town, but staid not with me; so I to my office busy all the +morning. Towards noon, by water to Westminster Hall, and there by +several hear that the Parliament do resolve to do something to retrench +Sir G. Carteret's great salary; but cannot hear of any thing bad they can +lay to his charge. The House did this day order to be engrossed the Bill +against importing Irish cattle; a thing, it seems, carried on by the +Western Parliament-men, wholly against the sense of most of the rest of +the House; who think if you do this, you give the Irish again cause to +rebel. Thus plenty on both sides makes us mad. The Committee of the +Canary Company of both factions come to me for my Cozen Roger that is of +the Committee. Thence with [Sir] W. Coventry when the House rose and +[Sir] W. Batten to St. James's, and there agreed of and signed our paper +of extraordinaries, and there left them, and I to Unthanke's, where Mr. +Falconbridge's girle is, and by and by comes my wife, who likes her well, +though I confess I cannot (though she be of my finding out and sings +pretty well), because she will be raised from so mean a condition to so +high all of a sudden; but she will be much to our profit, more than +Mercer, less expense. Here we bespoke anew gowne for her, and to come to +us on Friday. She being gone, my wife and I home by coach, and then I +presently by water with Mr. Pierce to Westminster Hall, he in the way +telling me how the Duke of York and Duke of Albemarle do not agree. The +Duke of York is wholly given up to this bitch of Denham. The Duke of +Albemarle and Prince Rupert do less agree. So that we are all in pieces, +and nobody knows what will be done the next year. The King hath +yesterday in Council declared his resolution of setting a fashion for +clothes, which he will never alter. + + [There are several references to this new fashion of dress + introduced by the king, Pepys saw the Duke of York put on the vest + on the 13th, and he says Charles II. himself put it on on the 15th. + On November 4th Pepys dressed himself in the new vest and coat. See + notes, October 15th and November 22nd.] + +It will be a vest, I know not well how; but it is to teach the nobility +thrift, and will do good. By and by comes down from the Committee [Sir] +W. Coventry, and I find him troubled at several things happened this +afternoon, which vexes me also; our business looking worse and worse, and +our worke growing on our hands. Time spending, and no money to set +anything in hand with; the end thereof must be speedy ruine. The Dutch +insult and have taken off Bruant's head, + + [Captain Du Buat, a Frenchman in the Dutch service, plotted with two + magistrates of Rotterdam to obtain a peace with England as the + readiest means of pressing the elevation of the Prince of Orange to + the office of Captain-General. He was brought before the Supreme + Court of Holland, condemned, and executed. He had been one of the + household of the Prince of Orange who were dismissed by De Witt.] + +which they have not dared to do (though found guilty of the fault he did +die for, of something of the Prince of Orange's faction) till just now, +which speaks more confidence in our being worse than before. Alderman +Maynell, I hear, is dead. Thence returned in the darke by coach all +alone, full of thoughts of the consequences of this ill complexion of +affairs, and how to save myself and the little I have, which if I can do, +I have cause to bless God that I am so well, and shall be well contented +to retreat to Brampton, and spend the rest of my days there. So to my +office, and did some business, and finished my Journall with resolutions, +if God bless me, to apply myself soberly to settle all matters for +myself, and expect the event of all with comfort. So home to supper and +to bed. + + + +9th. Up and to the office, where we sat the first day since the fire, I +think. At noon home, and my uncle Thomas was there, and dined with my +brother and I (my father and I were gone abroad), and then to the office +again in the afternoon, and there close all day long, and did much +business. At night to Sir W. Batten, where Sir R. Ford did occasion some +discourse of sending a convoy to the Maderas; and this did put us upon +some new thoughts of sending our privateer thither on merchants' +accounts, which I have more mind to, the profit being certain and +occasion honest withall. So home, and to supper with my father, and then +to set my remainder of my books gilt in order with much pleasure, and so +late to bed. + + + +10th (Fast-day for the fire). Up with Sir W. Batten by water to White +Hall, and anon had a meeting before the Duke of York, where pretty to see +how Sir W. Batten, that carried the surveys of all the fleete with him, +to shew their ill condition to the Duke of York, when he found the Prince +there, did not speak one word, though the meeting was of his asking--for +nothing else. And when I asked him, he told me he knew the Prince too +well to anger him, so that he was afeard to do it. Thence with him to +Westminster, to the parish church, where the Parliament-men, and +Stillingfleete in the pulpit. So full, no standing there; so he and I to +eat herrings at the Dog Taverne. And then to church again, and there was +Mr. Frampton in the pulpit, they cry up so much, a young man, and of a +mighty ready tongue. I heard a little of his sermon, and liked it; but +the crowd so great, I could not stay. So to the Swan, and 'baise la +fille', and drank, and then home by coach, and took father, wife, +brother, and W. Hewer to Islington, where I find mine host dead. Here +eat and drank, and merry; and so home, and to the office a while, and +then to Sir W. Batten to talk a while, and with Captain Cocke into the +office to hear his newes, who is mighty conversant with Garraway and +those people, who tells me what they object as to the maladministration +of things as to money. But that they mean well, and will do well; but +their reckonings are very good, and show great faults, as I will insert +here. They say the king hath had towards this war expressly thus much + + Royal Ayde.................................... L2,450,000 + More.......................................... 1,250,000 + Three months' tax given the King by a power of + raising a month's tax of L70,000 every + year for three years..................... 0,210,000 + Customes, out of which the King did promise + to pay L240,000, which for two years + comes to.................................. 0,480,000 + Prizes, which they moderately reckon at........ 0,300,000 + A debt declared by the Navy, by us............. 0,900,000 + ---------- + 5,590,000 + + The whole charge of the Navy, as we state it + for two years and a month, hath been but.. 3,200,000 + + So what is become of all this sum?........ 2,390,000 + + +He and I did bemoan our public condition. He tells me the Duke of +Albemarle is under a cloud, and they have a mind at Court to lay him +aside. This I know not; but all things are not right with him, and I am +glad of it, but sorry for the time. So home to supper, and to bed, it +being my wedding night, + + [See Life, vol. i., p. xxi., where the register of St. Margaret's + parish, Westminster, is quoted to the effect that Pepys was married + December 1st, 1655. It seems incomprehensible that both husband and + wife should have been wrong as to the date of their wedding day, but + Mrs. Pepys was unquestionably wrong as to the number of years, for + they had been married nearly eleven.] + +but how many years I cannot tell; but my wife says ten. + + + +11th. Up, and discoursed with my father of my sending some money for +safety into the country, for I am in pain what to do with what I have. +I did give him money, poor man, and he overjoyed. So left him, and to +the office, where nothing but sad evidences of ruine coming on us for +want of money. So home to dinner, which was a very good dinner, my +father, brother, wife and I, and then to the office again, where I was +all the afternoon till very late, busy, and then home to supper and to +bed. + + Memorandum. I had taken my Journall during the fire and the + disorders following in loose papers until this very day, and could + not get time to enter them in my book till January 18, in the + morning, having made my eyes sore by frequent attempts this winter + to do it. But now it is done, for which I thank God, and pray never + the like occasion may happen. + + + +12th. Up, and after taking leave of my poor father, who is setting out +this day for Brampton by the Cambridge coach, he having taken a journey +to see the city burned, and to bring my brother to towne, I out by water; +and so coach to St. James's, the weather being foul; and there, from Sir +W. Coventry, do hear how the House have cut us off L150,000 of our wear +and tear, for that which was saved by the King while the fleete lay in +harbour in winter. However, he seems pleased, and so am I, that they +have abated no more, and do intend to allow of 28,000 men for the next +year; and this day have appointed to declare the sum they will give the +King, + + [The parliament voted this day a supply of L1,800,000 sterling. + See below.] + +and to propose the way of raising it; so that this is likely to be the +great day. This done in his chamber, I with him to Westminster Hall, and +there took a few turns, the Hall mighty full of people, and the House +likely to be very full to-day about the money business. Here I met with +several people, and do find that people have a mighty mind to have a +fling at the Vice-Chamberlain, if they could lay hold of anything, his +place being, indeed, too much for such, they think, or any single subject +of no greater parts and quality than he, to enjoy. But I hope he may +weather all, though it will not be by any dexterity of his, I dare say, +if he do stand, but by his fate only, and people's being taken off by +other things. Thence home by coach, mighty dirty weather, and then to +the Treasurer's office and got a ticket paid for my little Michell, and +so again by coach to Westminster, and come presently after the House +rose. So to the Swan, and there sent for a piece of meat and dined alone +and played with Sarah, and so to the Hall a while, and thence to Mrs. +Martin's lodging and did what I would with her. She is very big, and +resolves I must be godfather. Thence away by water with Cropp to +Deptford. It was almost night before I got thither. So I did only give +directions concerning a press that I have making there to hold my turning +and joyner's tooles that were lately given me, which will be very +handsome, and so away back again, it being now dark, and so home, and +there find my wife come home, and hath brought her new girle I have +helped her to, of Mr. Falconbridge's. She is wretched poor; and but +ordinary favoured; and we fain to lay out seven or eight pounds worth of +clothes upon her back, which, methinks, do go against my heart; and I do +not think I can ever esteem her as I could have done another that had +come fine and handsome; and which is more, her voice, for want of use, is +so furred, that it do not at present please me; but her manner of singing +is such, that I shall, I think, take great pleasure in it. Well, she is +come, and I wish us good fortune in her. Here I met with notice of a +meeting of the Commissioners for Tangier tomorrow, and so I must have my +accounts ready for them, which caused me to confine myself to my chamber +presently and set to the making up my accounts, which I find very clear, +but with much difficulty by reason of my not doing them sooner, things +being out of my mind. + + + +13th. It cost me till four o'clock in the morning, and, which was pretty +to think, I was above an hour, after I had made all right, in casting up +of about twenty sums, being dozed with much work, and had for forty times +together forgot to carry the 60 which I had in my mind, in one +denomination which exceeded 60; and this did confound me for above an +hour together. At last all even and done, and so to bed. Up at seven, +and so to the office, after looking over my last night's work. We sat +all the morning. At noon by coach with my Lord Bruncker and 'light at +the Temple, and so alone I to dinner at a cooke's, and thence to my Lord +Bellasses, whom I find kind; but he had drawn some new proposal to +deliver to the Lords Commissioners to-day, wherein one was, that the +garrison would not be well paid without some goldsmith's undertaking the +paying of the bills of exchange for Tallys. He professing so much +kindness to me, and saying that he would not be concerned in the garrison +without me; and that if he continued in the employment, no man should +have to do with the money but myself. I did ask his Lordship's meaning +of the proposition in his paper. He told me he had not much considered +it, but that he meant no harm to me. I told him I thought it would +render me useless; whereupon he did very frankly, after my seeming +denials for a good while, cause it to be writ over again, and that clause +left out, which did satisfy me abundantly. It being done, he and I +together to White Hall, and there the Duke of York (who is gone over to +all his pleasures again, and leaves off care of business, what with his +woman, my Lady Denham, and his hunting three times a week) was just come +in from hunting. So I stood and saw him dress himself, and try on his +vest, which is the King's new fashion, and will be in it for good and all +on Monday next, and the whole Court: it is a fashion, the King says; he +will never change. He being ready, he and my Lord Chancellor, and Duke +of Albemarle, and Prince Rupert, Lord Bellasses, Sir H. Cholmly, Povy, +and myself, met at a Committee for Tangier. My Lord Bellasses's +propositions were read and discoursed of, about reducing the garrison to +less charge; and indeed I am mad in love with my Lord Chancellor, for he +do comprehend and speak out well, and with the greatest easinesse and +authority that ever I saw man in my life. I did never observe how much +easier a man do speak when he knows all the company to be below him, than +in him; for though he spoke, indeed, excellent welt, yet his manner and +freedom of doing it, as if he played with it, and was informing only all +the rest of the company, was mighty pretty. He did call again and again +upon Mr. Povy for his accounts. I did think fit to make the solemn +tender of my accounts that I intended. I said something that was liked, +touching the want of money, and the bad credit of our tallys. My Lord +Chancellor moved, that without any trouble to any of the rest of the +Lords, I might alone attend the King, when he was with his private +Council; and open the state of the garrison's want of credit; and all +that could be done, should. Most things moved were referred to +Committees, and so we broke up. And at the end Sir W. Coventry come; so +I away with him, and he discoursed with me something of the Parliament's +business. They have voted giving the [King] for next year L1,800,000; +which, were it not for his debts, were a great sum. He says, he thinks +the House may say no more to us for the present, but that we must mend +our manners against the next tryall, and mend them we will. But he +thinks it not a fit time to be found making of trouble among ourselves, +meaning about Sir J. Minnes, who most certainly must be removed, or made +a Commissioner, and somebody else Comptroller. But he tells me that the +House has a great envy at Sir G. Carteret, and that had he ever thought +fit in all his discourse to have touched upon the point of our want of +money and badness of payment, it would have been laid hold on to Sir G. +Carteret's hurt; but he hath avoided it, though without much reason for +it, most studiously, and in short did end thus, that he has never shewn +so much of the pigeon in all his life as in his innocence to Sir G. +Carteret at this time; which I believe, and will desire Sir G. Carteret +to thank him for it. So we broke up and I by coach home, calling for a +new pair of shoes, and so, little being to do at the office, did go home, +and after spending a little in righting some of my books, which stood out +of order, I to bed. + + + +14th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed, among other things, talking of my +wife's renewing her acquaintance with Mrs. Pierce, which, by my wife's +ill using her when she was here last, hath been interrupted. Herein we +were a little angry together, but presently friends again; and so up, and +I to church, which was mighty full, and my beauties, Mrs. Lethulier and +fair Batelier, both there. A very foul morning, and rained; and sent for +my cloake to go out of the church with. So dined, and after dinner (a +good discourse thereat to my brother) he and I by water to White Hall, +and he to Westminster Abbey. Here I met with Sir Stephen Fox, who told +me how much right I had done myself, and how well it is represented by +the Committee to the House, my readinesse to give them satisfaction in +everything when they were at the office. I was glad of this. He did +further discourse of Sir W. Coventry's, great abilities, and how +necessary it were that I were of the House to assist him. I did not owne +it, but do myself think it were not unnecessary if either he should die, +or be removed to the Lords, or any thing to hinder his doing the like +service the next trial, which makes me think that it were not a thing +very unfit; but I will not move in it. He and I parted, I to Mrs. +Martin's, thinking to have met Mrs. Burrows, but she was not there, so +away and took my brother out of the Abbey and home, and there to set some +accounts right, and to the office to even my Journall, and so home to +supper and to bed. + + + +15th. Called up, though a very rainy morning, by Sir H. Cholmley, and he +and I most of the morning together evening of accounts, which I was very +glad of. Then he and I out to Sir Robt. Viner's, at the African house +(where I had not been since he come thither); but he was not there; but I +did some business with his people, and then to Colvill's, who, I find, +lives now in Lyme Streete, and with the same credit as ever, this fire +having not done them any wrong that I hear of at all. Thence he and I +together to Westminster Hall, in our way talking of matters and passages +of state, the viciousness of the Court; the contempt the King brings +himself into thereby; his minding nothing, but doing all things just as +his people about him will have it; the Duke of York becoming a slave to +this whore Denham, and wholly minds her; that there really was amours +between the Duchesse and Sidney; a that there is reason to fear that, as +soon as the Parliament have raised this money, the King will see that he +hath got all that he can get, and then make up a peace. He tells me, +what I wonder at, but that I find it confirmed by Mr. Pierce, whom I met +by-and-by in the Hall, that Sir W. Coventry is of the caball with the +Duke of York, and Bruncker, with this Denham; which is a shame, and I am +sorry for it, and that Sir W. Coventry do make her visits; but yet I hope +it is not so. Pierce tells me, that as little agreement as there is +between the Prince--[Rupert]--and Duke of Albemarle, yet they are likely +to go to sea again; for the first will not be trusted alone, and nobody +will go with him but this Duke of Albemarle. He tells me much how all +the commanders of the fleete and officers that are sober men do cry out +upon their bad discipline, and the ruine that must follow it if it +continue. But that which I wonder most at, it seems their secretaries +have been the most exorbitant in their fees to all sorts of the people, +that it is not to be believed that they durst do it, so as it is believed +they have got L800 apiece by the very vacancies in the fleete. He tells +me that Lady Castlemayne is concluded to be with child again; and that +all the people about the King do make no scruple of saying that the King +do lie with Mrs. Stewart, who, he says, is a most excellent-natured lady. +This day the King begins to put on his vest, and I did see several +persons of the House of Lords and Commons too, great courtiers, who are +in it; being a long cassocke close to the body, of black cloth, and +pinked with white silke under it, and a coat over it, and the legs +ruffled with black riband like a pigeon's leg; and, upon the whole, I +wish the King may keep it, for it is a very fine and handsome garment. + + [Evelyn describes the new fashion as "a comely dress after ye + Persian mode" (see "Diary," October 18th, 1666). He adds that he + had described the "comelinesse and usefulnesse" of the Persian + clothing in his pamphlet entitled "Tyrannus, or the Mode." "I do + not impute to this discourse. the change which soone happen'd, but + it was an identity I could not but take notice of." Rugge, in his + "Diurnal," thus describes the new Court costume "1666, Oct. 11. In + this month His Majestie and whole Court changed the fashion of their + clothes-viz. a close coat of cloth, pinkt with a white taffety under + the cutts. This in length reached the calf of the leg, and upon + that a sercoat cutt at the breast, which hung loose and shorter than + the vest six inches. The breeches the Spanish cut, and buskins some + of cloth, some of leather, but of the same colour as the vest or + garment; of never the like fashion since William the Conqueror." It + is represented in a portrait of Lord Arlington, by Sir P. Lely, + formerly belonging to Lord de Clifford, and engraved in Lodge's + "Portraits." Louis XIV. ordered his servants to wear the dress. + See November 22.] + +Walking with Pierce in the Court of Wards out comes Sir W. Coventry, and +he and I talked of business. Among others I proposed the making Sir J. +Minnes a Commissioner, and make somebody else Comptroller. He tells me +it is the thing he hath been thinking of, and hath spoke to the Duke of +York of it. He believes it will be done; but that which I fear is that +Pen will be Comptroller, which I shall grudge a little. The Duke of +Buckingham called him aside and spoke a good while with him. I did +presently fear it might be to discourse something of his design to +blemish my Lord of Sandwich, in pursuance of the wild motion he made the +other day in the House. Sir W. Coventry, when he come to me again, told +me that he had wrought a miracle, which was, the convincing the Duke of +Buckingham that something--he did not name what--that he had intended to +do was not fit to be done, and that the Duke is gone away of that +opinion. This makes me verily believe it was something like what I +feared. By and by the House rose, and then we parted, and I with Sir G. +Carteret, and walked in the Exchequer Court, discoursing of businesses. +Among others, I observing to him how friendly Sir W. Coventry had carried +himself to him in these late inquiries, when, if he had borne him any +spleen, he could have had what occasion he pleased offered him, he did +confess he found the same thing, and would thanke him for it. I did give +him some other advices, and so away with him to his lodgings at White +Hall to dinner, where my Lady Carteret is, and mighty kind, both of them, +to me. Their son and my Lady Jemimah will be here very speedily. She +tells me the ladies are to go into a new fashion shortly, and that is, to +wear short coats, above their ancles; which she and I do not like, but +conclude this long trayne to be mighty graceful. But she cries out of +the vices of the Court, and how they are going to set up plays already; +and how, the next day after the late great fast, the Duchesse of York did +give the King and Queene a play. Nay, she told me that they have +heretofore had plays at Court the very nights before the fast for the +death of the late King: She do much cry out upon these things, and that +which she believes will undo the whole nation; and I fear so too. After +dinner away home, Mr. Brisband along with me as far as the Temple, and +there looked upon a new booke, set out by one Rycault, secretary to my +Lord Winchelsea, of the policy and customs of the Turks, which is, it +seems, much cried up. But I could not stay, but home, where I find Balty +come back, and with him some muster-books, which I am glad of, and hope +he will do me credit in his employment. By and by took coach again and +carried him home, and my wife to her tailor's, while I to White Hall to +have found out Povy, but miss him and so call in my wife and home again, +where at Sir W. Batten's I met Sir W. Pen, lately come from the fleete at +the Nore; and here were many good fellows, among others Sir R. Holmes, +who is exceeding kind to me, more than usual, which makes me afeard of +him, though I do much wish his friendship. Thereupon, after a little +stay, I withdrew, and to the office and awhile, and then home to supper +and to my chamber to settle a few papers, and then to bed. This day the +great debate was in Parliament, the manner of raising the L1,800,000 they +voted [the King] on Friday; and at last, after many proposals, one moved +that the Chimney-money might be taken from the King, and an equal revenue +of something else might be found for the King, and people be enjoyned to +buy off this tax of Chimney-money for ever at eight years' purchase, +which will raise present money, as they think, L1,600,000, and the State +be eased of an ill burthen and the King be supplied of something as food +or better for his use. The House seems to like this, and put off the +debate to to-morrow. + + + +16th. Up, and to the office, where sat to do little business but hear +clamours for money. At noon home to dinner, and to the office again, +after hearing my brother play a little upon the Lyra viall, which he do +so as to show that he hath a love to musique and a spirit for it, which I +am well pleased with. All the afternoon at the office, and at night with +Sir W. Batten, Sir W. Pen, [and Sir] J. Minnes, at [Sir] W. Pen's +lodgings, advising about business and orders fit presently to make about +discharging of ships come into the river, and which to pay first, and +many things in order thereto. But it vexed me that, it being now past +seven o'clock, and the businesses of great weight, and I had done them by +eight o'clock, and sending them to be signed, they were all gone to bed, +and Sir W. Pen, though awake, would not, being in bed, have them brought +to him to sign; this made me quite angry. Late at work at the office, +and then home to supper and to bed. Not come to any resolution at the +Parliament to-day about the manner of raising this L1,800,000. + + + +17th. Up, and busy about public and private business all the morning at +the office. At noon home to dinner, alone with my brother, with whom I +had now the first private talke I have had, and find he hath preached but +twice in his life. I did give him some advice to study pronunciation; +but I do fear he will never make a good speaker, nor, I fear, any general +good scholar, for I do not see that he minds optickes or mathematiques of +any sort, nor anything else that I can find. I know not what he may be +at divinity and ordinary school-learning. However, he seems sober, and +that pleases me. After dinner took him and my wife and Barker (for so is +our new woman called, and is yet but a sorry girle), and set them down at +Unthanke's, and so to White Hall, and there find some of my brethren with +the Duke of York, but so few I put off the meeting. So staid and heard +the Duke discourse, which he did mighty scurrilously, of the French, and +with reason, that they should give Beaufort orders when he was to bring, +and did bring, his fleete hither, that his rendezvous for his fleete, and +for all sluggs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover; which did +prove the taking of La Roche[lle], who, among other sluggs behind, did, +by their instructions, make for that place, to rendezvous with the +fleete; and Beaufort, seeing them as he was returning, took them for the +English fleete, and wrote word to the King of France that he had passed +by the English fleete, and the English fleete durst not meddle with him. +The Court is all full of vests, only my Lord St. Albans not pinked but +plain black; and they say the King says the pinking upon white makes them +look too much like magpyes, and therefore hath bespoke one of plain +velvet. Thence to St. James's by coach, and spoke, at four o'clock or +five, with Sir W. Coventry, newly come from the House, where they have +sat all this day and not come to an end of the debate how the money shall +be raised. He tells me that what I proposed to him the other day was +what he had himself thought on and determined, and that he believes it +will speedily be done--the making Sir J. Minnes a Commissioner, and +bringing somebody else to be Comptroller, and that (which do not please +me, I confess, for my own particulars, so well as Sir J. Minnes) will, I +fear, be Sir W. Pen, for he is the only fit man for it. Away from him +and took up my wife, and left her at Temple Bar to buy some lace for a +petticoat, and I took coach and away to Sir R. Viner's about a little +business, and then home, and by and by to my chamber, and there late upon +making up an account for the Board to pass to-morrow, if I can get them, +for the clearing all my imprest bills, which if I can do, will be to my +very good satisfaction. Having done this, then to supper and to bed. + + + +18th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. The waters +so high in the roads, by the late rains, that our letters come not in +till to-day, and now I understand that my father is got well home, but +had a painful journey of it. At noon with Lord Bruncker to St. Ellen's, +where the master of the late Pope's Head Taverne is now set up again, and +there dined at Sir W. Warren's cost, a very good dinner. Here my Lord +Bruncker proffered to carry me and my wife into a play at Court to-night, +and to lend me his coach home, which tempted me much; but I shall not do +it. Thence rose from table before dinner ended, and homewards met my +wife, and so away by coach towards Lovett's (in the way wondering at what +a good pretty wench our Barker makes, being now put into good clothes, +and fashionable, at my charge; but it becomes her, so that I do not now +think much of it, and is an example of the power of good clothes and +dress), where I stood godfather. But it was pretty, that, being a +Protestant, a man stood by and was my Proxy to answer for me. A priest +christened it, and the boy's name is Samuel. The ceremonies many, and +some foolish. The priest in a gentleman's dress, more than my owne; but +is a Capuchin, one of the Queene-mother's priests. He did give my proxy +and the woman proxy (my Lady Bills, absent, had a proxy also) good advice +to bring up the child, and, at the end, that he ought never to marry the +child nor the godmother, nor the godmother the child or the godfather: +but, which is strange, they say that the mother of the child and the +godfather may marry. By and by the Lady Bills come in, a well-bred but +crooked woman. The poor people of the house had good wine, and a good +cake; and she a pretty woman in her lying-in dress. It cost me near 40s. +the whole christening: to midwife 20s., nurse 10s., mayde 2s. 6d., and +the coach 5s. I was very well satisfied with what I have done, and so +home and to the office, and thence to Sir W. Batten's, and there hear how +the business of buying off the Chimney-money is passed in the House; and +so the King to be satisfied some other way, and the King supplied with +the money raised by this purchasing off of the chimnies. So home, +mightily pleased in mind that I have got my bills of imprest cleared by +bills signed this day, to my good satisfaction. To supper, and to bed. + + + +19th. Up, and by coach to my Lord Ashly's, and thence (he being gone +out), to the Exchequer chamber, and there find him and my Lord Bellasses +about my Lord Bellasses' accounts, which was the business I went upon. +This was soon ended, and then I with Creed back home to my house, and +there he and I did even accounts for salary, and by that time dinner was +ready, and merry at dinner, and then abroad to Povy's, who continues as +much confounded in all his business as ever he was; and would have had me +paid money, as like a fool as himself, which I troubled him in refusing; +but I did persist in it. After a little more discourse, I left them, and +to White Hall, where I met with Sir Robert Viner, who told me a little of +what, in going home, I had seen; also a little of the disorder and mutiny +among the seamen at the Treasurer's office, which did trouble me then and +all day since, considering how many more seamen will come to towne every +day, and no money for them. A Parliament sitting, and the Exchange close +by, and an enemy to hear of, and laugh at it. + + [The King of Denmark was induced to conclude a treaty with the + United Provinces, a secret article of which bound him to declare war + against England. The order in council for the printing and + publishing a declaration of war against Denmark is dated "Whitehall, + Sept. 19, 1666;" annexed is "A True Declaration of all + transactions between his Majesty of Great Britain and the King of + Denmark, with a declaration of war against the said king, and the + motives that obliged his Majesty thereunto" ("Calendar of State + Papers," 1666-67, p. 140).] + +Viner too, and Backewell, were sent for this afternoon; and was before +the King and his Cabinet about money; they declaring they would advance +no more, it being discoursed of in the House of Parliament for the King +to issue out his privy-seals to them to command them to trust him, which +gives them reason to decline trusting. But more money they are persuaded +to lend, but so little that (with horrour I speake it), coming after the +Council was up, with Sir G. Carteret, Sir W. Coventry, Lord Bruncker, and +myself, I did lay the state of our condition before the Duke of York, +that the fleete could not go out without several things it wanted, and we +could not have without money, particularly rum and bread, which we have +promised the man Swan to helpe him to L200 of his debt, and a few other +small sums of L200 a piece to some others, and that I do foresee the Duke +of York would call us to an account why the fleete is not abroad, and we +cannot answer otherwise than our want of money; and that indeed we do not +do the King any service now, but do rather abuse and betray his service +by being there, and seeming to do something, while we do not. Sir G. +Carteret asked me (just in these words, for in this and all the rest I +set down the very words for memory sake, if there should be occasion) +whether L50 or L60 would do us any good; and when I told him the very rum +man must have L200, he held up his eyes as if we had asked a million. +Sir W. Coventry told the Duke of York plainly he did rather desire to +have his commission called in than serve in so ill a place, where he +cannot do the King service, and I did concur in saying the same. This +was all very plain, and the Duke of York did confess that he did not see +how we could do anything without a present supply of L20,000, and that he +would speak to the King next Council day, and I promised to wait on him +to put him in mind of it. This I set down for my future justification, +if need be, and so we broke up, and all parted, Sir W. Coventry being not +very well, but I believe made much worse by this night's sad discourse. +So I home by coach, considering what the consequence of all this must be +in a little time. Nothing but distraction and confusion; which makes me +wish with all my heart that I were well and quietly settled with what +little I have got at Brampton, where I might live peaceably, and study, +and pray for the good of the King and my country. Home, and to Sir W. +Batten's, where I saw my Lady, who is now come down stairs after a great +sickness. Sir W. Batten was at the pay to-day, and tells me how rude the +men were, but did go away quietly, being promised pay on Wednesday next. +God send us money for it! So to the office, and then to supper and to +bed. Among other things proposed in the House to-day, to give the King +in lieu of chimneys, there was the bringing up of sealed paper, such as +Sir J. Minnes shewed me to-night, at Sir W. Batten's, is used in Spayne, +and brings the King a great revenue; but it shows what shifts we are put +to too much. + + + +20th. Up, and all the morning at the office, where none met but myself. +So I walked a good while with Mr. Gawden in the garden, who is lately +come from the fleete at the buoy of the Nore, and he do tell me how all +the sober commanders, and even Sir Thomas Allen himself, do complain of +the ill government of the fleete. How Holmes and Jennings have commanded +all the fleete this yeare, that nothing is done upon deliberation, but if +a sober man give his opinion otherwise than the Prince would have it the +Prince would cry, "Damn him, do you follow your orders, and that is +enough for you." He tells me he hears of nothing but of swearing and +drinking and whoring, and all manner of profaneness, quite through the +whole fleete. He being gone, there comes to me Commissioner Middleton, +whom I took on purpose to walk in the garden with me, and to learn what +he observed when the fleete was at Portsmouth. He says that the fleete +was in such a condition, as to discipline, as if the Devil had commanded +it; so much wickedness of all sorts. Enquiring how it come to pass that +so many ships miscarried this year, he tells me that he enquired; and the +pilots do say, that they dare not do nor go but as the Captains will have +them; and if they offer to do otherwise, the Captains swear they will run +them through. He says that he heard Captain Digby (my Lord of Bristoll's +son, a young fellow that never was but one year, if that, in the fleete) +say that he did hope he should not see a tarpaulin have the command of a +ship within this twelve months. He observed while he was on board the +Admirall, when the fleete was at Portsmouth, that there was a faction +there. Holmes commanded all on the Prince's side, and Sir Jeremy Smith +on the Duke's, and every body that come did apply themselves to one side +or other; and when the Duke of Albemarle was gone away to come hither, +then Sir Jeremy Smith did hang his head, and walked in the Generall's +ship but like a private commander. He says he was on board The Prince, +when the newes come of the burning of London; and all the Prince said +was, that now Shipton's prophecy was out; and he heard a young commander +presently swear, that now a citizen's wife that would not take under half +a piece before, would be occupied for half-a-crowne: and made mighty +sport of it. He says that Hubberd that commanded this year the Admiral's +ship is a proud conceited fellow (though I thought otherwise of him), and +fit to command a single ship but not a fleete, and he do wonder that +there hath not been more mischief this year than there hath. He says the +fleete come to anchor between the Horse and the Island, so that when they +came to weigh many of the ships could not turn, but run foul of the +Horse, and there stuck, but that the weather was good. He says that +nothing can do the King more disservice, nor please the standing officers +of the ship better than these silly commanders that now we have, for they +sign to anything that their officers desire of them, nor have judgment to +contradict them if they would. He told me other good things, which made +me bless God that we have received no greater disasters this year than we +have, though they have been the greatest that ever was known in England +before, put all their losses of the King's ships by want of skill and +seamanship together from the beginning. He being gone, comes Sir G. +Carteret, and he and I walked together awhile, discoursing upon the sad +condition of the times, what need we have, and how impossible it is to +get money. He told me my Lord Chancellor the other day did ask him how +it come to pass that his friend Pepys do so much magnify all things to +worst, as I did on Sunday last, in the bad condition of the fleete. Sir +G. Carteret tells me that he answered him, that I was but the mouth of +the rest, and spoke what they have dictated to me; which did, as he says, +presently take off his displeasure. So that I am well at present with +him, but I must have a care not to be over busy in the office again, and +burn my fingers. He tells me he wishes he had sold his place at some +good rate to somebody or other at the beginning of the warr, and that he +would do it now, but no body will deale with him for it. He tells me the +Duke of Albemarle is very much discontented, and the Duke of York do not, +it seems, please him. He tells me that our case as to money is not to be +made good at present, and therefore wishes a good and speedy peace before +it be too late, and from his discourse methinks I find that there is +something moving towards it. Many people at the office, but having no +more of the office I did put it off till the next meeting. Thence, with +Sir G. Carteret, home to dinner, with him, my Lady and Mr. Ashburnham, +the Cofferer. Here they talk that the Queene hath a great mind to alter +her fashion, and to have the feet seen, which she loves mightily; and +they do believe that it [will] come into it in a little time. Here I met +with the King's declaration about his proceedings with the King of +Denmarke, and particularly the business of Bergen; but it is so well +writ, that, if it be true, the King of Denmarke is one of the most +absolute wickednesse in the world for a person of his quality. After +dinner home, and there met Mr. Povy by appointment, and there he and I +all the afternoon, till late at night, evening of all accounts between +us, which we did to both our satisfaction; but that which troubles me +most is, that I am to refund to the ignoble Lord Peterborough what he had +given us six months ago, because we did not supply him with money; but it +is no great matter. He gone I to the office, and there did some +business; and so home, my mind in good ease by having done with Povy in +order to the adjusting of all my accounts in a few days. So home to +supper and to bed. + + + +21st (Lord's day). Up, and with my wife to church, and her new woman +Barker with her the first time. The girle will, I think, do very well. +Here a lazy sermon, and so home to dinner, and took in my Lady Pen and +Peg (Sir William being below with the fleete), and mighty merry we were, +and then after dinner presently (it being a mighty cool day) I by coach +to White Hall, and there attended the Cabinet, and was called in before +the King and them to give an account of our want of money for Tangier, +which troubles me that it should be my place so often and so soon after +one another to come to speak there of their wants--the thing of the world +that they love least to hear of, and that which is no welcome thing to be +the solicitor for--and to see how like an image the King sat and could +not speak one word when I had delivered myself was very strange; only my +Lord Chancellor did ask me, whether I thought it was in nature at this +time to help us to anything. So I was referred to another meeting of the +Lords Commissioners for Tangier and my Lord Treasurer, and so went away, +and by coach home, where I spent the evening in reading Stillingfleet's +defence of the Archbishopp, the part about Purgatory, a point I had never +considered before, what was said for it or against it, and though I do +believe we are in the right, yet I do not see any great matter in this +book. So to supper; and my people being gone, most of them, to bed, my +boy and Jane and I did get two of my iron chests out of the cellar into +my closett, and the money to my great satisfaction to see it there again, +and the rather because the damp cellar spoils all my chests. This being +done, and I weary, to bed. This afternoon walking with Sir H. Cholmly +long in the gallery, he told me, among many other things, how Harry +Killigrew is banished the Court lately, for saying that my Lady +Castlemayne was a little lecherous girle when she was young . . . . +This she complained to the King of, and he sent to the Duke of York, +whose servant he is, to turn him away. The Duke of York hath done it, +but takes it ill of my Lady that he was not complained to first. She +attended him to excute it, but ill blood is made by it. He told me how +Mr. Williamson stood in a little place to have come into the House of +Commons, and they would not choose him; they said, "No courtier." And +which is worse, Bab May went down in great state to Winchelsea with the +Duke of York's letters, not doubting to be chosen; and there the people +chose a private gentleman in spite of him, and cried out they would have +no Court pimp to be their burgesse; which are things that bode very ill. +This afternoon I went to see and sat a good while with Mrs. Martin, and +there was her sister Doll, with whom, contrary to all expectation, I did +what I would, and might have done anything else. + + + +22nd. Up, and by coach to Westminster Hall, there thinking to have met +Betty Michell, who I heard yesterday staid all night at her father's, but +she was gone. So I staid a little and then down to the bridge by water, +and there overtook her and her father. So saluted her and walked over +London Bridge with them and there parted, the weather being very foul, +and so to the Tower by water, and so heme, where I find Mr. Caesar +playing the treble to my boy upon the Theorbo, the first time I heard +him, which pleases me mightily. After dinner I carried him and my wife +towards Westminster, by coach, myself 'lighting at the Temple, and there, +being a little too soon, walked in the Temple Church, looking with +pleasure on the monuments and epitaphs, and then to my Lord Belasses, +where Creed and Povy by appointment met to discourse of some of their +Tangier accounts between my Lord and Vernatty, who will prove a very +knave. That being done I away with Povy to White Hall, and thence I to +Unthanke's, and there take up my wife, and so home, it being very foule +and darke. Being there come, I to the settling of some of my money +matters in my chests, and evening some accounts, which I was at late, to +my extraordinary content, and especially to see all things hit so even +and right and with an apparent profit and advantage since my last +accounting, but how much I cannot particularly yet come to adjudge. + + + +23rd. Up, and to the office all the morning. At noon Sir W. Batten told +me Sir Richard Ford would accept of one-third of my profit of our private +man-of-war, and bear one-third of the charge, and be bound in the +Admiralty, so I shall be excused being bound, which I like mightily of, +and did draw up a writing, as well as I could, to that purpose and signed +and sealed it, and so he and Sir R. Ford are to go to enter into bond +this afternoon. Home to dinner, and after dinner, it being late, I down +by water to Shadwell, to see Betty Michell, the first time I was ever at +their new dwelling since the fire, and there find her in the house all +alone. I find her mighty modest. But had her lips as much as I would, +and indeed she is mighty pretty, that I love her exceedingly. I paid her +L10 1s. that I received upon a ticket for her husband, which is a great +kindness I have done them, and having kissed her as much as I would, I +away, poor wretch, and down to Deptford to see Sir J. Minnes ordering of +the pay of some ships there, which he do most miserably, and so home. +Bagwell's wife, seeing me come the fields way, did get over her pales to +come after and talk with me, which she did for a good way, and so parted, +and I home, and to the office, very busy, and so to supper and to bed. + + + +24th. Up, and down to the Old Swan, and there find little Michell come +to his new shop that he hath built there in the room of his house that +was burned. I hope he will do good here. I drank and bade him joy, for +I love him and his wife well, him for his care, and her for her person, +and so to White Hall, where we attended the Duke; and to all our +complaints for want of money, which now we are tired out with making, the +Duke only tells us that he is sorry for it, and hath spoke to the King of +it, and money we shall have as soon as it can be found; and though all +the issue of the war lies upon it, yet that is all the answer we can get, +and that is as bad or worse than nothing. Thence to Westminster Hall, +where the term is begun, and I did take a turn or two, and so away by +coach to Sir R. Viner's, and there received some money, and then home and +to dinner. After dinner to little business, and then abroad with my +wife, she to see her brother, who is sick, and she believes is from some +discontent his wife hath given him by her loose carriage, which he is +told, and he hath found has been very suspicious in his absence, which I +am sorry for. I to the Hall and there walked long, among others talking +with Mr. Hayes, Prince Rupert's Secretary, a very ingenious man, and one, +I think, fit to contract some friendship with. Here I staid late, +walking to and again, hearing how the Parliament proceeds, which is +mighty slowly in the settling of the money business, and great factions +growing every day among them. I am told also how Holmes did last Sunday +deliver in his articles to the King and Cabinet against [Sir Jeremy] +Smith, and that Smith hath given in his answer, and lays his not +accompanying the fleete to his pilot, who would not undertake to carry +the ship further; which the pilot acknowledges. The thing is not +accommodated, but only taken up, and both sides commanded to be quiet; +but no peace like to be. The Duke of Albemarle is Smith's friend, and +hath publiquely swore that he would never go to sea again unless Holmes's +commission were taken from him. + + [In the instructions given to Sir Thomas Clifford (August 5th, 1666) + to be communicated to Prince Rupert and the Duke of Albemarle, we + read: "to tell them that the complaint of Sir Jeremy Smith's + misbehaviour in the late engagement being so universal, unless he + have fully satisfied the generals he should be brought to trial by + court-martial, and there purged or condemned." The Duke of + Albemarle answered the king (August 14th?): "Wishes to clear a + gallant man falsely accused, Sir Jeremiah Smith, who had more men + killed and hurt, and his ship received more shot than any in the + fleet. There is not a more spirited man serves in the fleet" On + October 27th H. Muddiman wrote to Sir Edward Stradling: "Sir Jeremy + Smith has got as much credit by his late examination as his enemies + wished him disgrace, the King and Duke of York being fully satisfied + of his valour in the engagement. It appears that he had 147 men + killed and wounded, while the most eminent of his accusers had but + two or three." With regard to Sir Jeremy's counter-charges, we + read: "Nov. 3. The King having maturely considered the charges + brought against Sir Rob. Holmes by Sir Jeremy Smith, finds no cause + to suspect Sir Robert of cowardice in the fight with the Dutch of + June 25 and 26, but thinks that on the night of the 26th he yielded + too easily to the opinion of his pilot, without consulting those of + the other ships, muzzled his ship, and thus obliged the squadron to + do the same, and so the enemy, which might have been driven into the + body of the king's fleet, then returning from the pursuit, was + allowed to escape" (" Calendar of State Papers," 1666-67, pp. 14, + 40, 222, 236).] + + +I find by Hayes that they did expect great glory in coming home in so +good condition as they did with the fleete, and therefore I the less +wonder that the Prince was distasted with my discourse the other day +about the bad state of the fleete. But it pleases me to hear that he did +expect great thanks, and lays the fault of the want of it upon the fire, +which deadened everything, and the glory of his services. About seven at +night home, and called my wife, and, it being moonshine, took her into +the garden, and there layed open our condition as to our estate, and the +danger of my having it [his money] all in the house at once, in case of +any disorder or troubles in the State, and therefore resolved to remove +part of it to Brampton, and part some whither else, and part in my owne +house, which is very necessary, and will tend to our safety, though I +shall not think it safe out of my owne sight. So to the office, and then +to supper and to bed. + + + +25th. Up betimes and by water to White Hall, and there with Sir G. +Carteret to Sir W. Coventry, who is come to his winter lodgings at White +Hall, and there agreed upon a method of paying of tickets; and so I back +again home and to the office, where we sate all the morning, but to +little purpose but to receive clamours for money. At noon home to +dinner, where the two Mrs. Daniels come to see us, and dined with us. +After dinner I out with my wife to Mrs. Pierces, where she hath not been +a great while, from some little unkindness of my wife's to her when she +was last here, but she received us with mighty respect and discretion, +and was making herself mighty fine to go to a great ball to-night at +Court, being the Queene's birthday; so the ladies for this one day do +wear laces, but to put them off again to-morrow. Thence I to my Lord +Bruncker's, and with him to Mrs. Williams's where we met Knipp. I was +glad to see the jade. Made her sing; and she told us they begin at both +houses to act on Monday next. But I fear, after all this sorrow, their +gains will be but little. Mrs. Williams says, the Duke's house will now +be much the better of the two, because of their women; which I am glad to +hear. Thence with Lord Bruncker to White Hall and there spoke with Sir +W. Coventry about some office business, and then I away to Mrs. Pierces, +and there saw her new closet, which is mighty rich and fine. Her +daughter Betty grows mighty pretty. Thence with my wife home and to do +business at the office. Then to Sir W. Batten's, who tells me that the +House of Parliament makes mighty little haste in settling the money, and +that he knows not when it will be done; but they fall into faction, and +libells have been found in the House. Among others, one yesterday, +wherein they reckon up divers great sums to be given away by the King, +among others, L10,000 to Sir W. Coventry, for weare and teare (the point +he stood upon to advance that sum by, for them to give the King); Sir G. +Carteret L50,000 for something else, I think supernumerarys; and so to +Matt. Wren L5000 for passing the Canary Company's patent; and so a great +many other sums to other persons. So home to supper and to bed. + + + +26th. Up, and all the morning and most of the afternoon within doors, +beginning to set my accounts in order from before this fire, I being +behindhand with them ever since; and this day I got most of my tradesmen +to bring in their bills and paid them. Dined at home, and busy again +after dinner, and then abroad by water to Westminster Hall, where I +walked till the evening, and then out, the first time I ever was abroad +with Doll Lane, to the Dog tavern, and there drank with her, a bad face, +but good bodied girle. Did nothing but salute and play with her and +talk, and thence away by coach, home, and so to do a little more in my +accounts, and then to supper and to bed. Nothing done in the House yet +as to the finishing of the bill for money, which is a mighty sad thing, +all lying at stake for it. + + + +27th. Up, and there comes to see me my Lord Belasses, which was a great +honour. He tells me great newes, yet but what I suspected, that Vernatty +is fled, and so hath cheated him and twenty more, but most of all, I +doubt, Mr. Povy. Thence to talk about publique business; he tells me how +the two Houses begin to be troublesome; the Lords to have quarrels one +with another. My Lord Duke of Buckingham having said to the Lord +Chancellor (who is against the passing of the Bill for prohibiting the +bringing over of Irish cattle), that whoever was against the Bill, was +there led to it by an Irish interest, or an Irish understanding, which is +as much as to say he is a Poole; this bred heat from my Lord Chancellor, +and something he [Buckingham] said did offend my Lord of Ossory (my Lord +Duke' of Ormond's son), and they two had hard words, upon which the +latter sends a challenge to the former; of which the former complains to +the House, and so the business is to be heard on Monday next. Then as to +the Commons; some ugly knives, like poignards, to stab people with, about +two or three hundred of them were brought in yesterday to the House, +found in one of the house's rubbish that was burned, and said to be the +house of a Catholique. This and several letters out of the country, +saying how high the Catholiques are everywhere and bold in the owning +their religion, have made the Commons mad, and they presently voted that +the King be desired to put all Catholiques out of employment, and other +high things; while the business of money hangs in the hedge. So that +upon the whole, God knows we are in a sad condition like to be, there +being the very beginnings of the late troubles. He gone, I at the office +all the morning. At noon home to dinner, where Mrs. Pierce and her boy +and Knipp, who sings as well, and is the best company in the world, dined +with us, and infinite merry. The playhouses begin to play next week. +Towards evening I took them out to the New Exchange, and there my wife +bought things, and I did give each of them a pair of Jesimy + + [Jessemin (Jasminum), the flowers of which are of a delicate sweet + smell, and often used to perfume gloves. Edmund Howes, Stows + continuator, informs us that sweet or perfumed gloves were first + brought into England by the Earl of Oxford on his return from Italy, + in the fifteenth year of Queen Elizabeth, during whose reign, and + long afterwards, they were very fashionable. They are frequently + mentioned by Shakespeare. Autolyctis, in the "Winter's Tale," has + among his wares--" Gloves as sweet as damask roses."--B.] + +plain gloves, and another of white. Here Knipp and I walked up and down +to see handsome faces, and did see several. Then carried each of them +home, and with great pleasure and content, home myself, where, having +writ several letters, I home, and there, upon some serious discourse +between my wife and I upon the business, I called to us my brother, and +there broke to him our design to send him into the country with some part +of our money, and so did seriously discourse the whole thing, and then +away to supper and to bed. I pray God give a blessing to our resolution, +for I do much fear we shall meet with speedy distractions for want of +money. + + + +28th (Lord's day). Up, and to church with my wife, and then home, and +there is come little Michell and his wife, I sent for them, and also +tomes Captain Guy to dine with me, and he and I much talk together. He +cries out of the discipline of the fleete, and confesses really that the +true English valour we talk of is almost spent and worn out; few of the +commanders doing what they should do, and he much fears we shall +therefore be beaten the next year. He assures me we were beaten home the +last June fight, and that the whole fleete was ashamed to hear of our +bonefires. He commends Smith, and cries out of Holmes for an idle, +proud, conceited, though stout fellow. He tells me we are to owe the +losse of so many ships on the sands, not to any fault of the pilots, but +to the weather; but in this I have good authority to fear there was +something more. He says the Dutch do fight in very good order, and we in +none at all. He says that in the July fight, both the Prince and Holmes +had their belly-fulls, and were fain to go aside; though, if the wind had +continued, we had utterly beaten them. He do confess the whole to be +governed by a company of fools, and fears our ruine. After dinner he +gone, I with my brother to White Hall and he to Westminster Abbey. I +presently to Mrs. Martin's, and there met widow Burroughes and Doll, and +did tumble them all the afternoon as I pleased, and having given them a +bottle of wine I parted and home by boat (my brother going by land), and +thence with my wife to sit and sup with my uncle and aunt Wight, and see +Woolly's wife, who is a pretty woman, and after supper, being very merry, +in abusing my aunt with Dr. Venner, we home, and I to do something in my +accounts, and so to bed. The Revenge having her forecastle blown up with +powder to the killing of some men in the River, and the Dyamond's being +overset in the careening at Sheernesse, are further marks of the method +all the King's work is now done in. The Foresight also and another come +to disasters in the same place this week in the cleaning; which is +strange. + + + +29th. Up, and to the office to do business, and thither comes to me Sir +Thomas Teddiman, and he and I walked a good while in the garden together, +discoursing of the disorder and discipline of the fleete, wherein he told +me how bad every thing is; but was very wary in speaking any thing to the +dishonour of the Prince or Duke of Albemarle, but do magnify my Lord +Sandwich much before them both, for ability to serve the King, and do +heartily wish for him here. For he fears that we shall be undone the +next year, but that he will, however, see an end of it. To prevent the +necessity of his dining with me I was forced to pretend occasion of going +to Westminster, so away I went, and Mr. Barber, the clerk, having a +request to make to me to get him into employment, did walk along with me, +and by water to Westminster with me, he professing great love to me, and +an able clerk he is. When I come thither I find the new Lord Mayor +Bolton a-swearing at the Exchequer, with some of the Aldermen and Livery; +but, Lord! to see how meanely they now look, who upon this day used to +be all little lords, is a sad sight and worthy consideration. And every +body did reflect with pity upon the poor City, to which they are now +coming to choose and swear their Lord Mayor, compared with what it +heretofore was. Thence by coach (having in the Hall bought me a velvet +riding cap, cost me 20s.) to my taylor's, and there bespoke a plain vest, +and so to my goldsmith to bid him look out for some gold for me; and he +tells me that ginnys, which I bought 2,000 of not long ago, and cost me +but 18 1/2d. change, will now cost me 22d.; and but very few to be had +at any price. However, some more I will have, for they are very +convenient, and of easy disposal. So home to dinner and to discourse +with my brother upon his translation of my Lord Bacon's "Faber Fortunae," +which I gave him to do and he has done it, but meanely; I am not pleased +with it at all, having done it only literally, but without any life at +all. About five o'clock I took my wife (who is mighty fine, and with a +new fair pair of locks, which vex me, though like a foole I helped her +the other night to buy them), and to Mrs. Pierces, and there staying a +little I away before to White Hall, and into the new playhouse there, the +first time I ever was there, and the first play I have seen since before +the great plague. By and by Mr. Pierce comes, bringing my wife and his, +and Knipp. By and by the King and Queene, Duke and Duchesse, and all the +great ladies of the Court; which, indeed, was a fine sight. But the play +being "Love in a Tub," a silly play, and though done by the Duke's +people, yet having neither Betterton nor his wife, and the whole thing +done ill, and being ill also, I had no manner of pleasure in the play. +Besides, the House, though very fine, yet bad for the voice, for hearing. +The sight of the ladies, indeed, was exceeding noble; and above all, my +Lady Castlemayne. The play done by ten o'clock. I carried them all +home, and then home myself, and well satisfied with the sight, but not +the play, we with great content to bed. + + + +30th. Up, and to the office, where sat all the morning, and at noon home +to dinner, and then to the office again, where late, very busy, and +dispatching much business. Mr. Hater staying most of the afternoon +abroad, he come to me, poor man, to make excuse, and it was that he had +been looking out for a little house for his family. His wife being much +frightened in the country with the discourses of troubles and disorders +like to be, and therefore durst not be from him, and therefore he is +forced to bring her to towne that they may be together. This is now the +general apprehension of all people; particulars I do not know, but my +owne fears are also great, and I do think it time to look out to save +something, if a storm should come. At night home to supper, and singing +with my wife, who hath lately begun to learn, and I think will come to do +something, though her eare is not good, nor I, I confess, have patience +enough to teach her, or hear her sing now and then a note out of tune, +and am to blame that I cannot bear with that in her which is fit I should +do with her as a learner, and one that I desire much could sing, and so +should encourage her. This I was troubled at, for I do find that I do +put her out of heart, and make her fearfull to sing before me. So after +supper to bed. + + + +31st. Out with Sir W. Batten toward White Hall, being in pain in my cods +by being squeezed the other night in a little coach when I carried Pierce +and his wife and my people. But I hope I shall be soon well again. This +day is a great day at the House, so little to do with the Duke of York, +but soon parted. Coming out of the Court I met Colonell Atkins, who +tells me the whole city rings to-day of Sir Jeremy Smith's killing of +Holmes in a duell, at which I was not much displeased, for I fear every +day more and more mischief from the man, if he lives; but the thing is +not true, for in my coach I did by and by meet Sir Jer. Smith going to +Court. So I by coach to my goldsmith, there to see what gold I can get, +which is but little, and not under 22d. So away home to dinner, and +after dinner to my closett, where I spent the whole afternoon till late +at evening of all my accounts publique and private, and to my great +satisfaction I do find that I do bring my accounts to a very near +balance, notwithstanding all the hurries and troubles I have been put to +by the late fire, that I have not been able to even my accounts since +July last before; and I bless God I do find that I am worth more than +ever I yet was, which is L6,200, for which the Holy Name of God be +praised! and my other accounts of Tangier in a very plain and clear +condition, that I am not liable to any trouble from them; but in fear +great I am, and I perceive the whole city is, of some distractions and +disorders among us, which God of his goodness prevent! Late to supper +with my wife and brother, and then to bed. And thus ends the month with +an ill aspect, the business of the Navy standing wholly still. No +credit, no goods sold us, nobody will trust. All we have to do at the +office is to hear complaints for want of money. The Duke of York himself +for now three weeks seems to rest satisfied that we can do nothing +without money, and that all must stand still till the King gets money, +which the Parliament have been a great while about; but are so +dissatisfied with the King's management, and his giving himself up to +pleasures, and not minding the calling to account any of his officers, +and they observe so much the expense of the war, and yet that after we +have made it the most we can, it do not amount to what they have given +the King for the warn that they are backward of giving any more. +However, L1,800,000 they have voted, but the way of gathering it has +taken up more time than is fit to be now lost: The seamen grow very rude, +and every thing out of order; commanders having no power over their +seamen, but the seamen do what they please. Few stay on board, but all +coming running up hither to towne, and nobody can with justice blame +them, we owing them so much money; and their familys must starve if we do +not give them money, or they procure upon their tickets from some people +that will trust them. A great folly is observed by all people in the +King's giving leave to so many merchantmen to go abroad this winter, and +some upon voyages where it is impossible they should be back again by the +spring, and the rest will be doubtfull, but yet we let them go; what the +reason of State is nobody can tell, but all condemn it. The Prince and +Duke of Albemarle have got no great credit by this year's service. Our +losses both of reputation and ships having been greater than is thought +have ever been suffered in all ages put together before; being beat home, +and fleeing home the first fight, and then losing so many ships then and +since upon the sands, and some falling into the enemy's hands, and not +one taken this yeare, but the Ruby, French prize, now at the end of the +yeare, by the Frenchmen's mistake in running upon us. Great folly in +both Houses of Parliament, several persons falling together by the eares, +among others in the House of Lords, the Duke of Buckingham and my Lord +Ossory. Such is our case, that every body fears an invasion the next +yeare; and for my part, I do methinks foresee great unhappiness coming +upon us, and do provide for it by laying by something against a rainy +day, dividing what I have, and laying it in several places, but with all +faithfulness to the King in all respects; my grief only being that the +King do not look after his business himself, and thereby will be undone +both himself and his nation, it being not yet, I believe, too late if he +would apply himself to it, to save all, and conquer the Dutch; but while +he and the Duke of York mind their pleasure, as they do and nothing else, +we must be beaten. So late with my mind in good condition of quiet after +the settling all my accounts, and to bed. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +Being there, and seeming to do something, while we do not +Bill against importing Irish cattle +Bringing over one discontented man, you raise up three +But how many years I cannot tell; but my wife says ten +But pretty! how I took another pretty woman for her +Catholiques are everywhere and bold +Did tumble them all the afternoon as I pleased +Discoursing upon the sad condition of the times +Exceeding kind to me, more than usual, which makes me afeard +Fashion, the King says; he will never change +I did what I would, and might have done anything else +King be desired to put all Catholiques out of employment +King hath lost his power, by submitting himself to this way +So home to supper, and to bed, it being my wedding night +The very rum man must have L200 +Time spending, and no money to set anything in hand + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v52 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + diff --git a/old/sp53g10.zip b/old/sp53g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..372e5b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp53g10.zip |