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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, November 1666 + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Release Date: December 1, 2004 [EBook #4169] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY + MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + NOVEMBER + 1666 + +November 1st. Up, and was presented by Burton, one of our smith's wives, +with a very noble cake, which I presently resolved to have my wife go with +to-day, and some wine, and house-warme my Betty Michell, which she readily +resolved to do. So I to the office and sat all the morning, where little +to do but answer people about want of money; so that there is little +service done the King by us, and great disquiet to ourselves; I am sure +there is to me very much, for I do not enjoy myself as I would and should +do in my employment if my pains could do the King better service, and with +the peace that we used to do it. At noon to dinner, and from dinner my +wife and my brother, and W. Hewer and Barker away to Betty Michell's, to +Shadwell, and I to my office, where I took in Mrs. Bagwell and did what I +would with her, and so she went away, and I all the afternoon till almost +night there, and then, my wife being come back, I took her and set her at +her brother's, who is very sicke, and I to White Hall, and there all alone +a pretty while with Sir W. Coventry at his chamber. I find him very +melancholy under the same considerations of the King's service that I am. +He confesses with me he expects all will be undone, and all ruined; he +complains and sees perfectly what I with grief do, and said it first +himself to me that all discipline is lost in the fleete, no order nor no +command, and concurs with me that it is necessary we do again and again +represent all things more and more plainly to the Duke of York, for a +guard to ourselves hereafter when things shall come to be worse. He says +the House goes on slowly in finding of money, and that the discontented +party do say they have not done with us, for they will have a further bout +with us as to our accounts, and they are exceedingly well instructed where +to hit us. I left him with a thousand sad reflections upon the times, and +the state of the King's matters, and so away, and took up my wife and +home, where a little at the office, and then home to supper, and talk with +my wife (with whom I have much comfort) and my brother, and so to bed. + +2nd. Up betimes, and with Sir W. Batten to Woolwich, where first we went +on board the Ruby, French prize, the only ship of war we have taken from +any of our enemies this year. It seems a very good ship, but with +galleries quite round the sterne to walk in as a balcone, which will be +taken down. She had also about forty good brass guns, but will make +little amends to our loss in The Prince. Thence to the Ropeyarde and the +other yards to do several businesses, he and I also did buy some apples +and pork; by the same token the butcher commended it as the best in +England for cloath and colour. And for his beef, says he, "Look how fat +it is; the lean appears only here and there a speck, like beauty-spots." +Having done at Woolwich, we to Deptford (it being very cold upon the +water), and there did also a little more business, and so home, I reading +all the why to make end of the "Bondman" (which the oftener I read the +more I like), and begun "The Duchesse of Malfy;" which seems a good play. +At home to dinner, and there come Mr. Pierce, surgeon, to see me, and +after I had eat something, he and I and my wife by coach to Westminster, +she set us down at White Hall, and she to her brother's. I up into the +House, and among other things walked a good while with the Serjeant +Trumpet, who tells me, as I wished, that the King's Italian here is about +setting three parts for trumpets, and shall teach some to sound them, and +believes they will be admirable musique. I also walked with Sir Stephen +Fox an houre, and good discourse of publique business with him, who seems +very much satisfied with my discourse, and desired more of my +acquaintance. Then comes out the King and Duke of York from the Council, +and so I spoke awhile to Sir W. Coventry about some office business, and +so called my wife (her brother being now a little better than he was), and +so home, and I to my chamber to do some business, and then to supper and +to bed. + +3rd. This morning comes Mr. Lovett, and brings me my print of the +Passion, varnished by him, and the frame black, which indeed is very fine, +though not so fine as I expected; however, pleases me exceedingly. This, +and the sheets of paper he prepared for me, come to L3, which I did give +him, and though it be more than is fit to lay out on pleasure, yet, it +being ingenious, I did not think much of it. He gone, I to the office, +where all the morning to little purpose, nothing being before us but +clamours for money: So at noon home to dinner, and after dinner to hang up +my new varnished picture and set my chamber in order to be made clean, and +then to; the office again, and there all the afternoon till late at night, +and so to supper and to bed. + +4th (Lord's day). Comes my taylor's man in the morning, and brings my +vest home, and coate to wear with it, and belt, and silver-hilted sword. +So I rose and dressed myself, and I like myself mightily in it, and so do +my wife. Then, being dressed, to church; and after church pulled my Lady +Pen and Mrs. Markham into my house to dinner, and Sir J. Minnes he got +Mrs. Pegg along with him. I had a good dinner for them, and very merry; +and after dinner to the waterside, and so, it being very cold, to White +Hall, and was mighty fearfull of an ague, my vest being new and thin, and +the coat cut not to meet before upon my breast. Here I waited in the +gallery till the Council was up, and among others did speak with Mr. +Cooling, my Lord Chamberlain's secretary, who tells me my Lord Generall is +become mighty low in all people's opinion, and that he hath received +several slurs from the King and Duke of York. The people at Court do see +the difference between his and the Prince's management, and my Lord +Sandwich's. That this business which he is put upon of crying out against +the Catholiques and turning them out of all employment, will undo him, +when he comes to turn-out the officers out of the Army, and this is a +thing of his own seeking. That he is grown a drunken sot, and drinks with +nobody but Troutbecke, whom nobody else will keep company with. Of whom +he told me this story: That once the Duke of Albemarle in his drink taking +notice as of a wonder that Nan Hide should ever come to be Duchesse of +York, "Nay," says Troutbecke, "ne'er wonder at that; for if you will give +me another bottle of wine, I will tell you as great, if not greater, a +miracle." And what was that, but that our dirty Besse (meaning his +Duchesse) should come to be Duchesse of Albemarle? Here we parted, and so +by and by the Council rose, and out comes Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. +Coventry, and they and my Lord Bruncker and I went to Sir G. Carteret's +lodgings, there to discourse about some money demanded by Sir W. Warren, +and having done that broke up. And Sir G. Carteret and I alone together a +while, where he shows a long letter, all in cipher, from my Lord Sandwich +to him. The contents he hath not yet found out, but he tells me that my +Lord is not sent for home, as several people have enquired after of me. +He spoke something reflecting upon me in the business of pursers, that +their present bad behaviour is what he did foresee, and had convinced me +of, and yet when it come last year to be argued before the Duke of York I +turned and said as the rest did. I answered nothing to it, but let it go, +and so to other discourse of the ill state of things, of which all people +are full of sorrow and observation, and so parted, and then by water, +landing in Southwarke, home to the Tower, and so home, and there began to +read "Potter's Discourse upon 1666," which pleases me mightily, and then +broke off and to supper and to bed. + +5th (A holyday). Lay long; then up, and to the office, where vexed to +meet with people come from the fleete at the Nore, where so many ships are +laid up and few going abroad, and yet Sir Thomas Allen hath sent up some +Lieutenants with warrants to presse men for a few ships to go out this +winter, while every day thousands appear here, to our great trouble and +affright, before our office and the ticket office, and no Captains able to +command one-man aboard. Thence by water to Westminster, and there at the +Swan find Sarah is married to a shoemaker yesterday, so I could not see +her, but I believe I shall hereafter at good leisure. Thence by coach to +my Lady Peterborough, and there spoke with my Lady, who had sent to speak +with me. She makes mighty moan of the badness of the times, and her +family as to money. My Lord's passionateness for want thereof, and his +want of coming in of rents, and no wages from the Duke of York. No money +to be had there for wages nor disbursements, and therefore prays my +assistance about his pension. I was moved with her story, which she +largely and handsomely told me, and promised I would try what I could do +in a few days, and so took leave, being willing to keep her Lord fair with +me, both for his respect to my Lord Sandwich and for my owne sake +hereafter, when I come to pass my accounts. Thence to my Lord Crew's, and +there dined, and mightily made of, having not, to my shame, been there in +8 months before. Here my Lord and Sir Thomas Crew, Mr. John, and Dr. +Crew, and two strangers. The best family in the world for goodness and +sobriety. Here beyond my expectation I met my Lord Hinchingbroke, who is +come to towne two days since from Hinchingbroke, and brought his sister +and brother Carteret with him, who are at Sir G. Carteret's. After dinner +I and Sir Thomas Crew went aside to discourse of public matters, and do +find by him that all the country gentlemen are publickly jealous of the +courtiers in the Parliament, and that they do doubt every thing that they +propose; and that the true reason why the country gentlemen are for a +land-tax and against a general excise, is, because they are fearful that +if the latter be granted they shall never get it down again; whereas the +land-tax will be but for so much; and when the war ceases, there will be +no ground got by the Court to keep it up. He do much cry out upon our +accounts, and that all that they have had from the King hath been but +estimates both from my Lord Treasurer and us, and from all people else, so +that the Parliament is weary of it. He says the House would be very glad +to get something against Sir G. Carteret, and will not let their inquiries +die till they have got something. He do, from what he hath heard at the +Committee for examining the burning of the City, conclude it as a thing +certain that it was done by plots; it being proved by many witnesses that +endeavours were made in several places to encrease the fire, and that both +in City and country it was bragged by several Papists that upon such a day +or in such a time we should find the hottest weather that ever was in +England, and words of plainer sense. But my Lord Crew was discoursing at +table how the judges have determined in the case whether the landlords or +the tenants (who are, in their leases, all of them generally tied to +maintain and uphold their houses) shall bear the losse of the fire; and +they say that tenants should against all casualties of fire beginning +either in their owne or in their neighbour's; but, where it is done by an +enemy, they are not to do it. And this was by an enemy, there having been +one convicted and hanged upon this very score. This is an excellent salvo +for the tenants, and for which I am glad, because of my father's house. +After dinner and this discourse I took coach, and at the same time find my +Lord Hinchingbroke and Mr. John Crew and the Doctor going out to see the +ruins of the City; so I took the Doctor into my hackney coach (and he is a +very fine sober gentleman), and so through the City. But, Lord! what +pretty and sober observations he made of the City and its desolation; till +anon we come to my house, and there I took them upon Tower Hill to shew +them what houses were pulled down there since the fire; and then to my +house, where I treated them with good wine of several sorts, and they took +it mighty respectfully, and a fine company of gentlemen they are; but +above all I was glad to see my Lord Hinchingbroke drink no wine at all. +Here I got them to appoint Wednesday come se'nnight to dine here at my +house, and so we broke up and all took coach again, and I carried the +Doctor to Chancery Lane, and thence I to White Hall, where I staid walking +up and down till night, and then got almost into the play house, having +much mind to go and see the play at Court this night; but fearing how I +should get home, because of the bonefires and the lateness of the night to +get a coach, I did not stay; but having this evening seen my Lady Jemimah, +who is come to towne, and looks very well and fat, and heard how Mr. John +Pickering is to be married this week, and to a fortune with L5000, and +seen a rich necklace of pearle and two pendants of dyamonds, which Sir G. +Carteret hath presented her with since her coming to towne, I home by +coach, but met not one bonefire through the whole town in going round by +the wall, which is strange, and speaks the melancholy disposition of the +City at present, while never more was said of, and feared of, and done +against the Papists than just at this time. Home, and there find my wife +and her people at cards, and I to my chamber, and there late, and so to +supper and to bed. + +6th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning sitting. At noon home +to dinner, and after dinner down alone by water to Deptford, reading +"Duchesse of Malfy," the play, which is pretty good, and there did some +business, and so up again, and all the evening at the office. At night +home, and there find Mr. Batelier, who supped with us, and good company he +is, and so after supper to bed. + +7th. Up, and with Sir W. Batten to White Hall, where we attended as usual +the Duke of York and there was by the folly of Sir W. Batten prevented in +obtaining a bargain for Captain Cocke, which would, I think have [been] at +this time (during our great want of hempe), both profitable to the King +and of good convenience to me; but I matter it not, it being done only by +the folly, not any design, of Sir W. Batten's. Thence to Westminster Hall, +and, it being fast day, there was no shops open, but meeting with Doll +Lane, did go with her to the Rose taverne, and there drank and played with +her a good while. She went away, and I staid a good while after, and was +seen going out by one of our neighbours near the office and two of the +Hall people that I had no mind to have been seen by, but there was no hurt +in it nor can be alledged from it. Therefore I am not solicitous in it, +but took coach and called at Faythorne's, to buy some prints for my wife +to draw by this winter, and here did see my Lady Castlemayne's picture, +done by him from Lilly's, in red chalke and other colours, by which he +hath cut it in copper to be printed. The picture in chalke is the finest +thing I ever saw in my life, I think; and did desire to buy it; but he +says he must keep it awhile to correct his copper-plate by, and when that +is done he will sell it me. Thence home and find my wife gone out with my +brother to see her brother. I to dinner and thence to my chamber to read, +and so to the office (it being a fast day and so a holiday), and then to +Mrs. Turner's, at her request to speake and advise about Sir Thomas +Harvy's coming to lodge there, which I think must be submitted to, and +better now than hereafter, when he gets more ground, for I perceive he +intends to stay by it, and begins to crow mightily upon his late being at +the payment of tickets; but a coxcombe he is and will never be better in +the business of the Navy. Thence home, and there find Mr. Batelier come +to bring my wife a very fine puppy of his mother's spaniel, a very fine +one indeed, which my wife is mighty proud of. He staid and supped with +us, and they to cards. I to my chamber to do some business, and then out +to them to play and were a little merry, and then to bed. By the Duke of +York his discourse to-day in his chamber, they have it at Court, as well +as we here, that a fatal day is to be expected shortly, of some great +mischiefe to the remainder of this day; whether by the Papists, or what, +they are not certain. But the day is disputed; some say next Friday, +others a day sooner, others later, and I hope all will prove a foolery. +But it is observable how every body's fears are busy at this time. + +8th. Up, and before I went to the office I spoke with Mr. Martin for his +advice about my proceeding in the business of the private man-of-war, he +having heretofore served in one of them, and now I have it in my thoughts +to send him purser in ours. After this discourse I to the office, where I +sat all the morning, Sir W. Coventry with us, where he hath not been a +great while, Sir W. Pen also, newly come from the Nore, where he hath been +some time fitting of the ships out. At noon home to dinner and then to +the office awhile, and so home for my sword, and there find Mercer come to +see her mistresse. I was glad to see her there, and my wife mighty kind +also, and for my part, much vexed that the jade is not with us still. +Left them together, designing to go abroad to-morrow night to Mrs. Pierces +to dance; and so I to Westminster Hall, and there met Mr. Grey, who tells +me the House is sitting still (and now it was six o'clock), and likely to +sit till midnight; and have proceeded fair to give the King his supply +presently; and herein have done more to-day than was hoped for. So to +White Hall to Sir W. Coventry, and there would fain have carried Captain +Cocke's business for his bargain of hemp, but am defeated and +disappointed, and know hardly how to carry myself in it between my +interest and desire not to offend Sir W. Coventry. Sir W. Coventry did +this night tell me how the business is about Sir J. Minnes; that he is to +be a Commissioner, and my Lord Bruncker and Sir W. Pen are to be +Controller joyntly, which I am very glad of, and better than if they were +either of them alone; and do hope truly that the King's business will be +better done thereby, and infinitely better than now it is. Thence by +coach home, full of thoughts of the consequence of this alteration in our +office, and I think no evil to me. So at my office late, and then home to +supper and to bed. Mr. Grey did assure me this night, that he was told +this day, by one of the greater Ministers of State in England, and one of +the King's Cabinet, that we had little left to agree on between the Dutch +and us towards a peace, but only the place of treaty; which do astonish me +to hear, but I am glad of it, for I fear the consequence of the war. But +he says that the King, having all the money he is like to have, we shall +be sure of a peace in a little time. + +9th. Up and to the office, where did a good deale of business, and then +at noon to the Exchange and to my little goldsmith's, whose wife is very +pretty and modest, that ever I saw any. Upon the 'Change, where I seldom +have of late been, I find all people mightily at a losse what to expect, +but confusion and fears in every man's head and heart. Whether war or +peace, all fear the event will be bad. Thence home and with my brother to +dinner, my wife being dressing herself against night; after dinner I to my +closett all the afternoon, till the porter brought my vest back from the +taylor's, and then to dress myself very fine, about 4 or 5 o'clock, and by +that time comes Mr. Batelier and Mercer, and away by coach to Mrs. +Pierces, by appointment, where we find good company: a fair lady, my Lady +Prettyman, Mrs. Corbet, Knipp; and for men, Captain Downing, Mr. Lloyd, +Sir W. Coventry's clerk, and one Mr. Tripp, who dances well. After some +trifling discourse, we to dancing, and very good sport, and mightily +pleased I was with the company. After our first bout of dancing, Knipp +and I to sing, and Mercer and Captain Downing (who loves and understands +musique) would by all means have my song of "Beauty, retire." which Knipp +had spread abroad; and he extols it above any thing he ever heard, and, +without flattery, I know it is good in its kind. This being done and +going to dance again, comes news that White Hall was on fire; and +presently more particulars, that the Horse-guard was on fire; + + ["Nov. 9th. Between seven and eight at night, there happened a fire + in the Horse Guard House, in the Tilt Yard, over against Whitehall, + which at first arising, it is supposed, from some snuff of a candle + falling amongst the straw, broke out with so sudden a flame, that at + once it seized the north-west part of that building; but being so + close under His Majesty's own eye, it was, by the timely help His + Majesty and His Royal Highness caused to be applied, immediately + stopped, and by ten o'clock wholly mastered, with the loss only of + that part of the building it had at first seized."--The London + Gazette, No. 103.--B.] + +and so we run up to the garret, and find it so; a horrid great fire; and +by and by we saw and heard part of it blown up with powder. The ladies +begun presently to be afeard: one fell into fits. The whole town in an +alarme. Drums beat and trumpets, and the guards every where spread, +running up and down in the street. And I begun to have mighty +apprehensions how things might be at home, and so was in mighty pain to +get home, and that that encreased all is that we are in expectation, from +common fame, this night, or to-morrow, to have a massacre, by the having +so many fires one after another, as that in the City, and at same time +begun in Westminster, by the Palace, but put out; and since in Southwarke, +to the burning down some houses; and now this do make all people conclude +there is something extraordinary in it; but nobody knows what. By and by +comes news that the fire has slackened; so then we were a little cheered +up again, and to supper, and pretty merry. But, above all, there comes in +the dumb boy that I knew in Oliver's time, who is mightily acquainted +here, and with Downing; and he made strange signs of the fire, and how the +King was abroad, and many things they understood, but I could not, which I +wondering at, and discoursing with Downing about it, "Why," says he, "it +is only a little use, and you will understand him, and make him understand +you with as much ease as may be." So I prayed him to tell him that I was +afeard that my coach would be gone, and that he should go down and steal +one of the seats out of the coach and keep it, and that would make the +coachman to stay. He did this, so that the dumb boy did go down, and, +like a cunning rogue, went into the coach, pretending to sleep; and, by +and by, fell to his work, but finds the seats nailed to the coach. So he +did all he could, but could not do it; however, stayed there, and stayed +the coach till the coachman's patience was quite spent, and beat the dumb +boy by force, and so went away. So the dumb boy come up and told him all +the story, which they below did see all that passed, and knew it to be +true. After supper, another dance or two, and then newes that the fire is +as great as ever, which put us all to our wit's-end; and I mightily +[anxious] to go home, but the coach being gone, and it being about ten at +night, and rainy dirty weather, I knew not what to do; but to walk out +with Mr. Batelier, myself resolving to go home on foot, and leave the +women there. And so did; but at the Savoy got a coach, and come back and +took up the women; and so, having, by people come from the fire, +understood that the fire was overcome, and all well, we merrily parted, +and home. Stopped by several guards and constables quite through the +town, round the wall, as we went, all being in armes. We got well home +. . . . Being come home, we to cards, till two in the morning, and +drinking lamb's-wool. + + [A beverage consisting of ale mixed with sugar, nutmeg, and the pulp + of roasted apples. "A cupp of lamb's-wool they dranke unto him + then." The King and the Miller of Mansfield (Percy's "Reliques," + Series III., book ii., No. 20).] + +So to bed. + +10th. Up and to the office, where Sir W. Coventry come to tell us that +the Parliament did fall foul of our accounts again yesterday; and we must +arme to have them examined, which I am sorry for: it will bring great +trouble to me, and shame upon the office. My head full this morning how +to carry on Captain Cocke's bargain of hemp, which I think I shall by my +dexterity do, and to the King's advantage as well as my own. At noon with +my Lord Bruncker and Sir Thomas Harvy, to Cocke's house, and there Mrs. +Williams and other company, and an excellent dinner. Mr. Temple's wife; +after dinner, fell to play on the harpsicon, till she tired everybody, +that I left the house without taking leave, and no creature left standing +by her to hear her. Thence I home and to the office, where late doing of +business, and then home. Read an hour, to make an end of Potter's +Discourse of the Number 666, which I like all along, but his close is most +excellent; and, whether it be right or wrong, is mighty ingenious. Then +to supper and to bed. This is the fatal day that every body hath +discoursed for a long time to be the day that the Papists, or I know not +who, had designed to commit a massacre upon; but, however, I trust in God +we shall rise to-morrow morning as well as ever. This afternoon Creed +comes to me, and by him, as, also my Lady Pen, I hear that my Lady Denham +is exceeding sick, even to death, and that she says, and every body else +discourses, that she is poysoned; and Creed tells me, that it is said that +there hath been a design to poison the King. What the meaning of all +these sad signs is, the Lord knows; but every day things look worse and +worse. God fit us for the worst! + +11th (Lord's day). Up, and to church, myself and wife, where the old +dunce Meriton, brother to the known Meriton; of St. Martin's, Westminster, +did make a very good sermon, beyond my expectation. Home to dinner, and +we carried in Pegg Pen, and there also come to us little Michell and his +wife, and dined very pleasantly. Anon to church, my wife and I and Betty +Michell, her husband being gone to Westminster . . . . Alter church +home, and I to my chamber, and there did finish the putting time to my +song of "It is decreed," and do please myself at last and think it will be +thought a good song. By and by little Michell comes and takes away his +wife home, and my wife and brother and I to my uncle Wight's, where my +aunt is grown so ugly and their entertainment so bad that I am in pain to +be there; nor will go thither again a good while, if sent for, for we were +sent for to-night, we had not gone else. Wooly's wife, a silly woman, and +not very handsome, but no spirit in her at all; and their discourse mean, +and the fear of the troubles of the times hath made them not to bring +their plate to town, since it was carried out upon the business of the +fire, so that they drink in earth and a wooden can, which I do not like. +So home, and my people to bed. I late to finish my song, and then to bed +also, and the business of the firing of the city, and the fears we have of +new troubles and violences, and the fear of fire among ourselves, did keep +me awake a good while, considering the sad condition I and my family +should be in. So at last to sleep. + +12th. Lay long in bed, and then up, and Mr. Carcasse brought me near 500 +tickets to sign, which I did, and by discourse find him a cunning, +confident, shrewd man, but one that I do doubt hath by his discourse of +the ill will he hath got with my Lord Marquess of Dorchester (with whom he +lived), he hath had cunning practices in his time, and would not now spare +to use the same to his profit. That done I to the office; whither by and +by comes Creed to me, and he and I walked in the garden a little, talking +of the present ill condition of things, which is the common subject of all +men's discourse and fears now-a-days, and particularly of my Lady Denham, +whom everybody says is poisoned, and he tells me she hath said it to the +Duke of York; but is upon the mending hand, though the town says she is +dead this morning. He and I to the 'Change. There I had several little +errands, and going to Sir R. Viner's, I did get such a splash and spots of +dirt upon my new vest, that I was out of countenance to be seen in the +street. This day I received 450 pieces of gold more of Mr. Stokes, but +cost me 22 1/2d. change; but I am well contented with it,--I having now +near L2800 in gold, and will not rest till I get full L3000, and then will +venture my fortune for the saving that and the rest. Home to dinner, +though Sir R. Viner would have staid us to dine with him, he being +sheriffe; but, poor man, was so out of countenance that he had no wine +ready to drink to us, his butler being out of the way, though we know him +to be a very liberal man. And after dinner I took my wife out, intending +to have gone and have seen my Lady Jemimah, at White Hall, but so great a +stop there was at the New Exchange, that we could not pass in half an +houre, and therefore 'light and bought a little matter at the Exchange, +and then home, and then at the office awhile, and then home to my chamber, +and after my wife and all the mayds abed but Jane, whom I put confidence +in--she and I, and my brother, and Tom, and W. Hewer, did bring up all the +remainder of my money, and my plate-chest, out of the cellar, and placed +the money in my study, with the rest, and the plate in my dressing-room; +but indeed I am in great pain to think how to dispose of my money, it +being wholly unsafe to keep it all in coin in one place. 'But now I have +it all at my hand, I shall remember it better to think of disposing of it. +This done, by one in the morning to bed. This afternoon going towards +Westminster, Creed and I did stop, the Duke of York being just going away +from seeing of it, at Paul's, and in the Convocation House Yard did there +see the body of Robert Braybrooke, Bishop of London, that died 1404: He +fell down in his tomb out of the great church into St. Fayth's this late +fire, and is here seen his skeleton with the flesh on; but all tough and +dry like a spongy dry leather, or touchwood all upon his bones. His head +turned aside. A great man in his time, and Lord Chancellor; and his +skeletons now exposed to be handled and derided by some, though admired +for its duration by others. Many flocking to see it. + +13th. At the office all the morning, at noon home to dinner, and out to +Bishopsgate Street, and there bought some drinking-glasses, a case of +knives, and other things, against tomorrow, in expectation of my Lord +Hinchingbroke's coming to dine with me. So home, and having set some +things in the way of doing, also against to-morrow, I to my, office, there +to dispatch business, and do here receive notice from my Lord +Hinchingbroke that he is not well, and so not in condition to come to dine +with me to-morrow, which I am not in much trouble for, because of the +disorder my house is in, by the bricklayers coming to mend the chimney in +my dining-room for smoking, which they were upon almost till midnight, and +have now made it very pretty, and do carry smoke exceeding well. This +evening come all the Houblons to me, to invite me to sup with them +to-morrow night. I did take them home, and there we sat and talked a good +while, and a glass of wine, and then parted till to-morrow night. So at +night, well satisfied in the alteration of my chimney, to bed. + +14th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and thence to Westminster, where I +bought several things, as a hone, ribbon, gloves, books, and then took +coach and to Knipp's lodging, whom I find not ready to go home with me. So +I away to do a little business, among others to call upon Mr. Osborne for +my Tangier warrant for the last quarter, and so to the Exchange for some +things for my wife, and then to Knipp's again, and there staid reading of +Waller's verses, while she finished dressing, her husband being by. I had +no other pastime. Her lodging very mean, and the condition she lives in; +yet makes a shew without doors, God bless us! I carried him along with us +into the City, and set him down in Bishopsgate Street, and then home with +her. She tells me how Smith, of the Duke's house, hath killed a man upon +a quarrel in play; which makes every body sorry, he being a good actor, +and, they say, a good man, however this happens. The ladies of the Court +do much bemoan him, she says. Here she and we alone at dinner to some +good victuals, that we could not put off, that was intended for the great +dinner of my Lord Hinchingbroke's, if he had come. After dinner I to +teach her my new recitative of "It is decreed," of which she learnt a good +part, and I do well like it and believe shall be well pleased when she +hath it all, and that it will be found an agreeable thing. Then carried +her home, and my wife and I intended to have seen my Lady Jemimah at White +Hall, but the Exchange Streete was so full of coaches, every body, as they +say, going thither to make themselves fine against tomorrow night, that, +after half an hour's stay, we could not do any [thing], only my wife to +see her brother, and I to go speak one word with Sir G. Carteret about +office business, and talk of the general complexion of matters, which he +looks upon, as I do, with horrour, and gives us all for an undone people. +That there is no such thing as a peace in hand, nor possibility of any +without our begging it, they being as high, or higher, in their terms than +ever, and tells me that, just now, my Lord Hollis had been with him, and +wept to think in what a condition we are fallen. He shewed me my Lord +Sandwich's letter to him, complaining of the lack of money, which Sir G. +Carteret is at a loss how in the world to get the King to supply him with, +and wishes him, for that reason, here; for that he fears he will be +brought to disgrace there, for want of supplies. He says the House is yet +in a bad humour; and desiring to know whence it is that the King stirs +not, he says he minds it not, nor will be brought to it, and that his +servants of the House do, instead of making the Parliament better, rather +play the rogue one with another, and will put all in fire. So that, upon +the whole, we are in a wretched condition, and I went from him in full +apprehensions of it. So took up my wife, her brother being yet very bad, +and doubtful whether he will recover or no, and so to St. Ellen's [St. +Helen's], and there sent my wife home, and myself to the Pope's Head, +where all the Houblons were, and Dr. Croone, + + [William Croune, or Croone, of Emanuel College, Cambridge, chosen + Rhetoric Professor at Gresham College, 1659, F.R.S. and M.D. Died + October 12th, 1684, and was interred at St. Mildred's in the + Poultry. He was a prominent Fellow of the Royal Society and first + Registrar. In accordance with his wishes his widow (who married Sir + Edwin Sadleir, Bart.) left by will one-fifth of the clear rent of + the King's Head tavern in or near Old Fish Street, at the corner of + Lambeth Hill, to the Royal Society for the support of a lecture and + illustrative experiments for the advancement of natural knowledge on + local motion. The Croonian lecture is still delivered before the + Royal Society.] + +and by and by to an exceeding pretty supper, excellent discourse of all +sorts, and indeed [they] are a set of the finest gentlemen that ever I met +withal in my life. Here Dr. Croone told me, that, at the meeting at +Gresham College to-night, which, it seems, they now have every Wednesday +again, there was a pretty experiment of the blood of one dogg let out, +till he died, into the body of another on one side, while all his own run +out on the other side. + + [At the meeting on November 14th, "the experiment of transfusing the + blood of one dog into another was made before the Society by Mr. + King and Mr. Thomas Coxe upon a little mastiff and a spaniel with + very good success, the former bleeding to death, and the latter + receiving the blood of the other, and emitting so much of his own, + as to make him capable of receiving that of the other." On November + 21st the spaniel "was produced and found very well" (Birch's + "History of the Royal Society," vol. ii., pp. 123, 125). The + experiment of transfusion of blood, which occupied much of the + attention of the Royal Society in its early days, was revived within + the last few years.] + +The first died upon the place, and the other very well, and likely to do +well. This did give occasion to many pretty wishes, as of the blood of a +Quaker to be let into an Archbishop, and such like; but, as Dr. Croone +says, may, if it takes, be of mighty use to man's health, for the amending +of bad blood by borrowing from a better body. After supper, James Houblon +and another brother took me aside and to talk of some businesses of their +owne, where I am to serve them, and will, and then to talk of publique +matters, and I do find that they and all merchants else do give over trade +and the nation for lost, nothing being done with care or foresight, no +convoys granted, nor any thing done to satisfaction; but do think that the +Dutch and French will master us the next yeare, do what we can: and so do +I, unless necessity makes the King to mind his business, which might yet +save all. Here we sat talking till past one in the morning, and then +home, where my people sat up for me, my wife and all, and so to bed. + +15th. This [morning] come Mr. Shepley (newly out of the country) to see +me; after a little discourse with him, I to the office, where we sat all +the morning, and at noon home, and there dined, Shepley with me, and after +dinner I did pay him L70, which he had paid my father for my use in the +country. He being gone, I took coach and to Mrs. Pierce's, where I find +her as fine as possible, and himself going to the ball at night at Court, +it being the Queen's birth-day, and so I carried them in my coach, and +having set them into the house, and gotten Mr. Pierce to undertake the +carrying in my wife, I to Unthanke's, where she appointed to be, and there +told her, and back again about business to White Hall, while Pierce went +and fetched her and carried her in. I, after I had met with Sir W. +Coventry and given him some account of matters, I also to the ball, and +with much ado got up to the loft, where with much trouble I could see very +well. Anon the house grew full, and the candles light, and the King and +Queen and all the ladies set: and it was, indeed, a glorious sight to see +Mrs. Stewart in black and white lace, and her head and shoulders dressed +with dyamonds, and the like a great many great ladies more, only the Queen +none; and the King in his rich vest of some rich silke and silver +trimming, as the Duke of York and all the dancers were, some of cloth of +silver, and others of other sorts, exceeding rich. Presently after the +King was come in, he took the Queene, and about fourteen more couple there +was, and began the Bransles. As many of the men as I can remember +presently, were, the King, Duke of York, Prince Rupert, Duke of Monmouth, +Duke of Buckingham, Lord Douglas,' Mr. [George] Hamilton, Colonell +Russell, Mr. Griffith, Lord Ossory, Lord Rochester; and of the ladies, the +Queene, Duchess of York, Mrs. Stewart, Duchess of Monmouth, Lady Essex +Howard, Mrs. Temples Swedes Embassadress, Lady Arlington; Lord George +Barkeley's daughter, and many others I remember not; but all most +excellently dressed in rich petticoats and gowns, and dyamonds, and +pearls. After the Bransles, then to a Corant, and now and then a French +dance; but that so rare that the Corants grew tiresome, that I wished it +done. Only Mrs. Stewart danced mighty finely, and many French dances, +specially one the King called the New Dance, which was very pretty; but +upon the whole matter, the business of the dancing of itself was not +extraordinary pleasing. But the clothes and sight of the persons was +indeed very pleasing, and worth my coming, being never likely to see more +gallantry while I live, if I should come twenty times. About twelve at +night it broke up, and I to hire a coach with much difficulty, but Pierce +had hired a chair for my wife, and so she being gone to his house, he and +I, taking up Barker at Unthanke's, to his house, whither his wife was come +home a good while ago and gone to bed. So away home with my wife, between +displeased with the dull dancing, and satisfied at the clothes and +persons. My Lady Castlemayne, without whom all is nothing, being there, +very rich, though not dancing. And so after supper, it being very cold, +to bed. + +16th. Up again betimes to attend the examination of Mr. Gawden's, +accounts, where we all met, but I did little but fit myself for the +drawing my great letter to the Duke of York of the state of the Navy for +want of money. At noon to the 'Change, and thence back to the new taverne +come by us; the Three Tuns, where D. Gawden did feast us all with a chine +of beef and other good things, and an infinite dish of fowl, but all +spoiled in the dressing. This noon I met with Mr. Hooke, and he tells me +the dog which was filled with another dog's blood, at the College the +other day, is very well, and like to be so as ever, and doubts not its +being found of great use to men; and so do Dr. Whistler, who dined with us +at the taverne. Thence home in the evening, and I to my preparing my +letter, and did go a pretty way in it, staying late upon it, and then home +to supper and to bed, the weather being on a sudden set in to be very +cold. + +17th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon home to +dinner, and in the afternoon shut myself in my chamber, and there till +twelve at night finishing my great letter to the Duke of York, which do +lay the ill condition of the Navy so open to him, that it is impossible if +the King and he minds any thing of their business, but it will operate +upon them to set all matters right, and get money to carry on the war, +before it be too late, or else lay out for a peace upon any termes. It was +a great convenience to-night that what I had writ foule in short hand, I +could read to W. Hewer, and he take it fair in short hand, so as I can +read it to-morrow to Sir W. Coventry, and then come home, and Hewer read +it to me while I take it in long-hand to present, which saves me much +time. So to bed. + +18th (Lord's day). Up by candle-light and on foote to White Hall, where +by appointment I met Lord Bruncker at Sir W. Coventry's chamber, and there +I read over my great letter, and they approved it: and as I do do our +business in defence of the Board, so I think it is as good a letter in the +manner, and believe it is the worst in the matter of it, as ever come from +any office to a Prince. Back home in my Lord Bruncker's coach, and there +W. Hewer and I to write it over fair; dined at noon, and Mercer with us, +and mighty merry, and then to finish my letter; and it being three o'clock +ere we had done, when I come to Sir W. Batten; he was in a huffe, which I +made light of, but he signed the letter, though he would not go, and liked +the letter well. Sir W. Pen, it seems, he would not stay for it: so, +making slight of Sir W. Pen's putting so much weight upon his hand to Sir +W. Batten, I down to the Tower Wharf, and there got a sculler, and to +White Hall, and there met Lord Bruncker, and he signed it, and so I +delivered it to Mr. Cheving, + + [William Chiffinch, pimp to Charles II. and receiver of the secret + pensions paid by the French Court. He succeeded his brother, Thomas + Chiffinch (who died in April, 1666), as Keeper of the King's Private + Closet (see note, vol. v., p. 265). He is introduced by Scott into + his "Peveril of the Peak."] + +and he to Sir W. Coventry, in the cabinet, the King and councill being +sitting, where I leave it to its fortune, and I by water home again, and +to my chamber, to even my Journall; and then comes Captain Cocke to me, +and he and I a great deal of melancholy discourse of the times, giving all +over for gone, though now the Parliament will soon finish the Bill for +money. But we fear, if we had it, as matters are now managed, we shall +never make the best of it, but consume it all to no purpose or a bad one. +He being gone, I again to my Journall and finished it, and so to supper +and to bed. + +19th. Lay pretty long in bed talking with pleasure with my wife, and then +up and all the morning at my own chamber fitting some Tangier matters +against the afternoon for a meeting. This morning also came Mr. Caesar, +and I heard him on the lute very finely, and my boy begins to play well. +After dinner I carried and set my wife down at her brother's, and then to +Barkeshire-house, where my Lord Chancellor hath been ever since the fire, +but he is not come home yet, so I to Westminster Hall, where the Lords +newly up and the Commons still sitting. Here I met with Mr. Robinson, who +did give me a printed paper wherein he states his pretence to the post +office, and intends to petition the Parliament in it. Thence I to the +Bull-head tavern, where I have not been since Mr. Chetwind and the time of +our club, and here had six bottles of claret filled, and I sent them to +Mrs. Martin, whom I had promised some of my owne, and, having none of my +owne, sent her this. Thence to my Lord Chancellor's, and there Mr. Creed +and Gawden, Cholmley, and Sir G. Carteret walking in the Park over against +the house. I walked with Sir G. Carteret, who I find displeased with the +letter I have drawn and sent in yesterday, finding fault with the account +we give of the ill state of the Navy, but I said little, only will justify +the truth of it. Here we walked to and again till one dropped away after +another, and so I took coach to White Hall, and there visited my Lady +Jemimah, at Sir G. Carteret's lodgings. Here was Sir Thomas Crew, and he +told me how hot words grew again to-day in the House of Lords between my +Lord Ossory and Ashly, the former saying that something said by the other +was said like one of Oliver's Council. Ashly said that he must give him +reparation, or he would take it his owne way. The House therefore did +bring my Lord Ossory to confess his fault, and ask pardon for it, as he +was also to my Lord Buckingham, for saying that something was not truth +that my Lord Buckingham had said. This will render my Lord Ossory very +little in a little time. By and by away, and calling my wife went home, +and then a little at Sir W. Batten's to hear news, but nothing, and then +home to supper, whither Captain Cocke, half foxed, come and sat with us, +and so away, and then we to bed. + +20th. Called up by Mr. Sheply, who is going into the country to-day to +Hinchingbroke, I sent my service to my Lady, and in general for newes: +that the world do think well of my Lord, and do wish he were here again, +but that the publique matters of the State as to the war are in the worst +condition that is possible. By and by Sir W. Warren, and with him half an +hour discoursing of several businesses, and some I hope will bring me a +little profit. He gone, and Sheply, I to the office a little, and then to +church, it being thanksgiving-day for the cessation of the plague; but, +Lord! how the towne do say that it is hastened before the plague is quite +over, there dying some people still, + + [According to the Bills of Mortality seven persons died in London of + the plague during the week November 20th to 27th; and for some weeks + after deaths continued from this cause.] + +but only to get ground for plays to be publickly acted, which the Bishops +would not suffer till the plague was over; and one would thinke so, by the +suddenness of the notice given of the day, which was last Sunday, and the +little ceremony. The sermon being dull of Mr. Minnes, and people with +great indifferency come to hear him. After church home, where I met Mr. +Gregory, who I did then agree with to come to teach my wife to play on the +Viall, and he being an able and sober man, I am mightily glad of it. He +had dined, therefore went away, and I to dinner, and after dinner by coach +to Barkeshire-house, and there did get a very great meeting; the Duke of +York being there, and much business done, though not in proportion to the +greatness of the business, and my Lord Chancellor sleeping and snoring the +greater part of the time. Among other things I declared the state of our +credit as to tallys to raise money by, and there was an order for payment +of L5000 to Mr. Gawden, out of which I hope to get something against +Christmas. Here we sat late, and here I did hear that there are some +troubles like to be in Scotland, there being a discontented party already +risen, that have seized on the Governor of Dumfreeze and imprisoned him, + + [William Fielding, writing to Sir Phil. Musgrave from Carlisle on + November 15th, says: "Major Baxter, who has arrived from Dumfries, + reports that this morning a great number of horse and foot came into + that town, with drawn swords and pistols, gallopped up to Sir Jas. + Turner's lodgings, seized him in his bed, carried him without + clothes to the marketplace, threatened to cut him to pieces, and + seized and put into the Tollbooth all the foot soldiers that were + with him; they also secured the minister of Dumfries. Many of the + party were lairds and county people from Galloway--200 horse well + mounted, one minister was with them who had swords and pistols, and + 200 or 300 foot, some with clubs, others with scythes." On November + 17th Rob. Meine wrote to Williamson: "On the 15th 120 fanatics from + the Glenkins, Deray; and neighbouring parishes in Dumfriesshire, + none worth L10 except two mad fellows, the lairds of Barscob and + Corsuck, came to Dumfries early in the morning, seized Sir Jas. + Turner, commander of a company of men in Dumfriesshire, and carried + him, without violence to others, to a strong house in Maxwell town, + Galloway, declaring they sought only revenge against the tyrant who + had been severe with them for not keeping to church, and had laid + their families waste" ("Calendar of State Papers," 1666-67, pp. 262, + 268).] + +but the story is yet very uncertain, and therefore I set no great weight +on it. I home by Mr. Gawden in his coach, and so with great pleasure to +spend the evening at home upon my Lyra Viall, and then to supper and to +bed. With mighty peace of mind and a hearty desire that I had but what I +have quietly in the country, but, I fear, I do at this day see the best +that either I or the rest of our nation will ever see. + +21st. Up, with Sir W. Batten to Charing Cross, and thence I to wait on +Sir Philip Howard, whom I find dressing himself in his night-gown and +turban like a Turke, but one of the finest persons that ever I saw in my +life. He had several gentlemen of his owne waiting on him, and one +playing finely on the gittar: he discourses as well as ever I heard man, +in few words and handsome. He expressed all kindness to Balty, when I +told him how sick he is: he says that, before he comes to be mustered +again, he must bring a certificate of his swearing the oaths of Allegiance +and Supremacy, and having taken the Sacrament according to the rites of +the Church of England. This, I perceive, is imposed on all, and he will +be ready to do. I pray God he may have his health again to be able to do +it. Being mightily satisfied with his civility, I away to Westminster +Hall, and there walked with several people, and all the discourse is about +some trouble in Scotland I heard of yesterday, but nobody can tell the +truth of it. Here was Betty Michell with her mother. I would have carried +her home, but her father intends to go with her, so I lost my hopes. And +thence I to the Excise Office about some tallies, and then to the +Exchange, where I did much business, and so home to dinner, and then to +the office, where busy all the afternoon till night, and then home to +supper, and after supper an hour reading to my wife and brother something +in Chaucer with great pleasure, and so to bed. + +22nd. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and my Lord +Bruncker did show me Hollar's new print of the City, with a pretty +representation of that part which is burnt, very fine indeed; and tells me +that he was yesterday sworn the King's servant, and that the King hath +commanded him to go on with his great map of the City, which he was upon +before the City was burned, like Gombout of Paris, which I am glad of. At +noon home to dinner, where my wife and I fell out, I being displeased with +her cutting away a lace handkercher sewed about the neck down to her +breasts almost, out of a belief, but without reason, that it is the +fashion. Here we did give one another the lie too much, but were +presently friends, and then I to my office, where very late and did much +business, and then home, and there find Mr. Batelier, and did sup and play +at cards awhile. But he tells me the newes how the King of France hath, +in defiance to the King of England, caused all his footmen to be put into +vests, and that the noblemen of France will do the like; which, if true, +is the greatest indignity ever done by one Prince to another, and would +incite a stone to be revenged; and I hope our King will, if it be so, as +he tells me it is: + + [Planche throws some doubt on this story in his "Cyclopaedia of + Costume" (vol. ii., p. 240), and asks the question, "Was Mr. + Batelier hoaxing the inquisitive secretary, or was it the idle + gossip of the day, as untrustworthy as such gossip is in general?" + But the same statement was made by the author of the "Character of a + Trimmer," who wrote from actual knowledge of the Court: "About this + time a general humour, in opposition to France, had made us throw + off their fashion, and put on vests, that we might look more like a + distinct people, and not be under the servility of imitation, which + ever pays a greater deference to the original than is consistent + with the equality all independent nations should pretend to. France + did not like this small beginning of ill humours, at least of + emulation; and wisely considering, that it is a natural + introduction, first to make the world their apes, that they may be + afterwards their slaves. It was thought, that one of the + instructions Madame [Henrietta, Duchess of Orleans] brought along + with her, was to laugh us out of these vests; which she performed so + effectually, that in a moment, like so many footmen who had quitted + their master's livery, we all took it again, and returned to our old + service; so that the very time of doing it gave a very critical + advantage to France, since it looked like an evidence of our + returning to her interest, as well as to their fashion. "The + Character of a Trimmer" ("Miscellanies by the Marquis of Halifax," + 1704, p. 164). Evelyn reports that when the king expressed his + intention never to alter this fashion, "divers courtiers and + gentlemen gave his Majesty gold by way of wager that he would not + persist in this resolution" ("Diary," October 18th, 1666).] + +being told by one that come over from Paris with my Lady Fanshaw, who is +come over with the dead body of her husband, and that saw it before he +come away. This makes me mighty merry, it being an ingenious kind of +affront; but yet it makes me angry, to see that the King of England is +become so little as to have the affront offered him. So I left my people +at cards, and so to my chamber to read, and then to bed. Batelier did +bring us some oysters to-night, and some bottles of new French wine of +this year, mighty good, but I drank but little. This noon Bagwell's wife +was with me at the office, and I did what I would, and at night comes Mrs. +Burroughs, and appointed to meet upon the next holyday and go abroad +together. + +23rd. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes to White Hall, where we and the rest +attended the Duke of York, where, among other things, we had a complaint +of Sir William Jennings against his lieutenant, Le Neve, one that had been +long the Duke's page, and for whom the Duke of York hath great kindness. +It was a drunken quarrel, where one was as blameable as the other. It was +referred to further examination, but the Duke of York declared, that as he +would not favour disobedience, so neither drunkenness, and therein he said +very well. Thence with Sir W. Coventry to Westminster Hall, and there +parted, he having told me how Sir J. Minnes do disagree from the +proposition of resigning his place, and that so the whole matter is again +at a stand, at which I am sorry for the King's sake, but glad that Sir W. +Pen is again defeated, for I would not have him come to be Comptroller if +I could help it, he will be so cruel proud. Here I spoke with Sir G. +Downing about our prisoners in Holland, and their being released; which he +is concerned in, and most of them are. Then, discoursing of matters of the +House of Parliament, he tells me that it is not the fault of the House, +but the King's own party, that have hindered the passing of the Bill for +money, by their popping in of new projects for raising it: which is a +strange thing; and mighty confident he is, that what money is raised, will +be raised and put into the same form that the last was, to come into the +Exchequer; and, for aught I see, I must confess I think it is the best +way. Thence down to the Hall, and there walked awhile, and all the talk +is about Scotland, what news thence; but there is nothing come since the +first report, and so all is given over for nothing. Thence home, and +after dinner to my chamber with Creed, who come and dined with me, and he +and I to reckon for his salary, and by and by comes in Colonel Atkins, and +I did the like with him, and it was Creed's design to bring him only for +his own ends, to seem to do him a courtesy, and it is no great matter. +The fellow I hate, and so I think all the world else do. Then to talk of +my report I am to make of the state of our wants of money to the Lord +Treasurer, but our discourse come to little. However, in the evening, to +be rid of him, I took coach and saw him to the Temple and there 'light, +and he being gone, with all the haste back again and to my chamber late to +enter all this day's matters of account, and to draw up my report to my +Lord Treasurer, and so to bed. At the Temple I called at Playford's, and +there find that his new impression of his ketches + + [John Hilton's "Catch that catch can, or a Choice Collection of + Catches, Rounds and Canons for 3 or 4 voyces," was first published + by Playford in 1651 or 1652. The book was republished "with large + additions by John Playford" in 1658. The edition referred to in the + text was published in 1667 with a second title of "The Musical + Companion." The book was republished in 1672-73.] + +are not yet out, the fire having hindered it, but his man tells me that it +will be a very fine piece, many things new being added to it. + +24th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon rose +and to my closet, and finished my report to my Lord Treasurer of our +Tangier wants, and then with Sir J. Minnes by coach to Stepney to the +Trinity House, where it is kept again now since the burning of their other +house in London. And here a great many met at Sir Thomas Allen's feast, +of his being made an Elder Brother; but he is sick, and so could not be +there. Here was much good company, and very merry; but the discourse of +Scotland, it seems, is confirmed, and that they are 4000 of them in armes, +and do declare for King and Covenant, which is very ill news. I pray God +deliver us from the ill consequences we may justly fear from it. Here was +a good venison pasty or two and other good victuals; but towards the +latter end of the dinner I rose, and without taking leave went away from +the table, and got Sir J. Minnes' coach and away home, and thence with my +report to my Lord Treasurer's, where I did deliver it to Sir Philip +Warwicke for my Lord, who was busy, my report for him to consider against +to-morrow's council. Sir Philip Warwicke, I find, is full of trouble in +his mind to see how things go, and what our wants are; and so I have no +delight to trouble him with discourse, though I honour the man with all my +heart, and I think him to be a very able and right honest man. So away +home again, and there to my office to write my letters very late, and then +home to supper, and then to read the late printed discourse of witches by +a member of Gresham College, and then to bed; the discourse being well +writ, in good stile, but methinks not very convincing. This day Mr. +Martin is come to tell me his wife is brought to bed of a girle, and I +promised to christen it next Sunday. + +25th (Lord's day). Up, and with Sir J. Minnes by coach to White Hall, and +there coming late, I to rights to the chapel, where in my usual place I +heard one of the King's chaplains, one Mr. Floyd, preach. He was out two +or three times in his prayer, and as many in his sermon, but yet he made a +most excellent good sermon, of our duty to imitate the lives and practice +of Christ and the saints departed, and did it very handsomely and +excellent stile; but was a little overlarge in magnifying the graces of +the nobility and prelates, that we have seen in our memorys in the world, +whom God hath taken from us. At the end of the sermon an excellent +anthem; but it was a pleasant thing, an idle companion in our pew, a +prating, bold counsellor that hath been heretofore at the Navy Office, and +noted for a great eater and drinker, not for quantity, but of the best, +his name Tom Bales, said, "I know a fitter anthem for this sermon," +speaking only of our duty of following the saints, and I know not what. +"Cooke should have sung, 'Come, follow, follow me.'" I After sermon up +into the gallery, and then to Sir G. Carteret's to dinner; where much +company. Among others, Mr. Carteret and my Lady Jemimah, and here was +also Mr. [John] Ashburnham, the great man, who is a pleasant man, and that +hath seen much of the world, and more of the Court. After dinner Sir G. +Carteret and I to another room, and he tells me more and more of our want +of money and in how ill condition we are likely to be soon in, and that he +believes we shall not have a fleete at sea the next year. So do I +believe; but he seems to speak it as a thing expected by the King and as +if their matters were laid accordingly. Thence into the Court and there +delivered copies of my report to my Lord Treasurer, to the Duke of York, +Sir W. Coventry, and others, and attended there till the Council met, and +then was called in, and I read my letter. My Lord Treasurer declared that +the King had nothing to give till the Parliament did give him some money. +So the King did of himself bid me to declare to all that would take our +tallys for payment, that he should, soon as the Parliament's money do come +in, take back their tallys, and give them money: which I giving him +occasion to repeat to me, it coming from him against the 'gre' + + [Apparently a translation of the French 'contre le gre', and + presumably an expression in common use. "Against the grain" is + generally supposed to have its origin in the use of a plane against + the grain of the wood.] + +I perceive, of my Lord Treasurer, I was content therewith, and went out, +and glad that I have got so much. Here staid till the Council rose, +walking in the gallery. All the talke being of Scotland, where the +highest report, I perceive, runs but upon three or four hundred in armes; +but they believe that it will grow more, and do seem to apprehend it much, +as if the King of France had a hand in it. My Lord Lauderdale do make +nothing of it, it seems, and people do censure him for it, he from the +beginning saying that there was nothing in it, whereas it do appear to be +a pure rebellion; but no persons of quality being in it, all do hope that +it cannot amount to much. Here I saw Mrs. Stewart this afternoon, +methought the beautifullest creature that ever I saw in my life, more than +ever I thought her so, often as I have seen her; and I begin to think do +exceed my Lady Castlemayne, at least now. This being St. Catherine's day, +the Queene was at masse by seven o'clock this morning; and. Mr. +Ashburnham do say that he never saw any one have so much zeale in his life +as she hath: and, the question being asked by my Lady Carteret, much +beyond the bigotry that ever the old Queen-mother had. I spoke with Mr. +Maya who tells me that the design of building the City do go on apace, and +by his description it will be mighty handsome, and to the satisfaction of +the people; but I pray God it come not out too late. The Council up, +after speaking with Sir W. Coventry a little, away home with Captain Cocke +in his coach, discourse about the forming of his contract he made with us +lately for hempe, and so home, where we parted, and I find my uncle Wight +and Mrs. Wight and Woolly, who staid and supped, and mighty merry +together, and then I to my chamber to even my journal, and then to bed. +I will remember that Mr. Ashburnham to-day at dinner told how the rich +fortune Mrs. Mallett reports of her servants; that my Lord Herbert would +have had her; my Lord Hinchingbroke was indifferent to have her; + + [They had quarrelled (see August 26th). She, perhaps, was piqued at + Lord Hinchingbroke's refusal "to compass the thing without consent + of friends" (see February 25th), whence her expression, + "indifferent" to have her. It is worthy of remark that their + children intermarried; Lord Hinchingbroke's son married Lady + Rochester's daughter.--B.] + +my Lord John Butler might not have her; my Lord of Rochester would have +forced her; + + [Of the lady thus sought after, whom Pepys calls "a beauty" as well + as a fortune, and who shortly afterwards, about the 4th February, + 1667, became the wife of the Earl of Rochester, then not twenty + years old, no authentic portrait is known to exist. When Mr. + Miller, of Albemarle Street, in 1811, proposed to publish an edition + of the "Memoires de Grammont," he sent an artist to Windsor to copy + there the portraits which he could find of those who figure in that + work. In the list given to him for this purpose was the name of + Lady Rochester. Not finding amongst the "Beauties," or elsewhere, + any genuine portrait of her, but seeing that by Hamilton she is + absurdly styled "une triste heritiere," the, artist made a drawing + from some unknown portrait at Windsor of a lady of a sorrowful + countenance, and palmed it off upon the bookseller. In the edition + of "Grammont" it is not actually called Lady Rochester, but "La + Triste Heritiere." A similar falsification had been practised in + Edwards's edition of 1793, but a different portrait had been copied. + It is needless, almost, to remark how ill applied is Hamilton's + epithet.--B.] + +and Sir------Popham, who nevertheless is likely to have her, would kiss +her breach to have her. + +26th. Up, and to my chamber to do some business. Then to speak with +several people, among others with Mrs. Burroughs, whom I appointed to meet +me at the New Exchange in the afternoon. I by water to Westminster, and +there to enquire after my tallies, which I shall get this week. Thence to +the Swan, having sent for some burnt claret, and there by and by comes +Doll Lane, and she and I sat and drank and talked a great while, among +other things about her sister's being brought to bed, and I to be +godfather to the girle. I did tumble Doll, and do almost what I would +with her, and so parted, and I took coach, and to the New Exchange, buying +a neat's tongue by the way, thinking to eat it out of town, but there I +find Burroughs in company of an old woman, an aunt of hers, whom she could +not leave for half an hour. So after buying a few baubles to while away +time, I down to Westminster, and there into the House of Parliament, +where, at a great Committee, I did hear, as long as I would, the great +case against my Lord Mordaunt, for some arbitrary proceedings of his +against one Taylor, whom he imprisoned, and did all the violence to +imaginable, only to get him to give way to his abusing his daughter. Here +was Mr. Sawyer, my old chamber-fellow, a counsel against my Lord; and I am +glad to see him in so good play. Here I met, before the committee sat, +with my cozen Roger Pepys, the first time I have spoke with him this +parliament. He hath promised to come, and bring Madam Turner with him, +who is come to towne to see the City, but hath lost all her goods of all +kinds in Salisbury Court, Sir William Turner having not endeavoured, in +her absence, to save one penny, to dine with me on Friday next, of which I +am glad. Roger bids me to help him to some good rich widow; for he is +resolved to go, and retire wholly, into the country; for, he says, he is +confident we shall be all ruined very speedily, by what he sees in the +State, and I am much in his mind. Having staid as long as I thought fit +for meeting of Burroughs, I away and to the 'Change again, but there I do +not find her now, I having staid too long at the House, and therefore very +hungry, having eat nothing to-day. Home, and there to eat presently, and +then to the office a little, and to Sir W. Batten, where Sir J. Minnes and +Captain Cocke was; but no newes from the North at all to-day; and the +newes-book makes the business nothing, but that they are all dispersed. I +pray God it may prove so. So home, and, after a little, to my chamber to +bed. + +27th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and here I had +a letter from Mr. Brisband on another occasion, which, by the by, +intimates my Lord Hinchingbroke's intention to come and dine with me +to-morrow. This put me into a great surprise, and therefore endeavoured +all I could to hasten over our business at the office, and so home at noon +and to dinner, and then away by coach, it being a very foul day, to White +Hall, and there at Sir G. Carteret's find my Lord Hinchingbroke, who +promises to dine with me to-morrow, and bring Mr. Carteret along with him. +Here I staid a little while talking with him and the ladies, and then away +to my Lord Crew's, and then did by the by make a visit to my Lord Crew, +and had some good discourse with him, he doubting that all will break in +pieces in the kingdom; and that the taxes now coming out, which will tax +the same man in three or four several capacities, as for lands, office, +profession, and money at interest, will be the hardest that ever come out; +and do think that we owe it, and the lateness of its being given, wholly +to the unpreparedness of the King's own party, to make their demand and +choice; for they have obstructed the giving it by land-tax, which had been +done long since. Having ended my visit, I spoke to Sir Thomas Crew, to +invite him and his brother John to dinner tomorrow, at my house, to meet +Lord Hinchingbroke; and so homewards, calling at the cook's, who is to +dress it, to bespeak him, and then home, and there set things in order for +a very fine dinner, and then to the office, where late very busy and to +good purpose as to dispatch of business, and then home. To bed, my people +sitting up to get things in order against to-morrow. This evening was +brought me what Griffin had, as he says, taken this evening off of the +table in the office, a letter sealed and directed to the Principal +Officers and Commissioners of the Navy. It is a serious and just libel +against our disorder in paying of our money, making ten times more people +wait than we have money for, and complaining by name of Sir W. Batten for +paying away great sums to particular people, which is true. I was sorry +to see this way of reproach taken against us, but more sorry that there is +true ground for it. + +28th. Up, and with Sir W. Pen to White Hall (setting his lady and +daughter down by the way at a mercer's in the Strand, where they are going +to lay out some money), where, though it blows hard and rains hard, yet +the Duke of York is gone a-hunting. We therefore lost our labour, and so +back again, and by hackney coach to secure places to get things ready +against dinner, and then home, and did the like there, and to my great +satisfaction: and at noon comes my Lord Hinchingbroke, Sir Thomas Crew, +Mr. John Crew, Mr. Carteret, and Brisband. I had six noble dishes for +them, dressed by a man-cook, and commended, as indeed they deserved, for +exceeding well done. We eat with great pleasure, and I enjoyed myself in +it with reflections upon the pleasures which I at best can expect, yet not +to exceed this; eating in silver plates, and all things mighty rich and +handsome about me. A great deal of fine discourse, sitting almost till +dark at dinner, and then broke up with great pleasure, especially to +myself; and they away, only Mr. Carteret and I to Gresham College, where +they meet now weekly again, and here they had good discourse how this late +experiment of the dog, which is in perfect good health, may be improved +for good uses to men, and other pretty things, and then broke up. Here +was Mr. Henry Howard, that will hereafter be Duke of Norfolke, who is +admitted this day into the Society, and being a very proud man, and one +that values himself upon his family, writes his name, as he do every +where, Henry Howard of Norfolke. Thence home and there comes my Lady Pen, +Pegg, and Mrs. Turner, and played at cards and supped with us, and were +pretty merry, and Pegg with me in my closet a good while, and did suffer +me 'a la baiser mouche et toucher ses cosas' upon her breast, wherein I +had great pleasure, and so spent the evening and then broke up, and I to +bed, my mind mightily pleased with the day's entertainment. + +29th. Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning. At noon home to +dinner, where I find Balty come out to see us, but looks like death, and I +do fear he is in a consumption; he has not been abroad many weeks before, +and hath now a well day, and a fit day of the headake in extraordinary +torture. After dinner left him and his wife, they having their mother +hard by and my wife, and I a wet afternoon to White Hall to have seen my +Lady Carteret and Jemimah, but as God would have it they were abroad, and +I was well contented at it. So my wife and I to Westminster Hall, where I +left her a little, and to the Exchequer, and then presently home again, +calling at our man-cooke's for his help to-morrow, but he could not come. +So I home to the office, my people all busy to get a good dinner to-morrow +again. I late at the office, and all the newes I hear I put into a letter +this night to my Lord Bruncker at Chatham, thus:-- + + "I doubt not of your lordship's hearing of Sir Thomas Clifford's + succeeding Sir H. Pollard' in the Comptrollership of the King's + house; but perhaps our ill, but confirmed, tidings from the + Barbadoes may not [have reached you] yet, it coming but yesterday; + viz., that about eleven ships, whereof two of the King's, the Hope + and Coventry, going thence with men to attack St. Christopher's, + were seized by a violent hurricane, and all sunk--two only of + thirteen escaping, and those with loss of masts, &c. My Lord + Willoughby himself is involved in the disaster, and I think two + ships thrown upon an island of the French, and so all the men, to + 500, become their prisoners. 'Tis said, too, that eighteen Dutch + men-of-war are passed the Channell, in order to meet with our Smyrna + ships; and some, I hear, do fright us with the King of Sweden's + seizing our mast-ships at Gottenburgh. But we have too much ill + newes true, to afflict ourselves with what is uncertain. That which + I hear from Scotland is, the Duke of York's saying, yesterday, that + he is confident the Lieutenant-Generall there hath driven them into + a pound, somewhere towards the mountains." + +Having writ my letter, I home to supper and to bed, the world being +mightily troubled at the ill news from Barbadoes, and the consequence of +the Scotch business, as little as we do make of it. And to shew how mad +we are at home, here, and unfit for any troubles: my Lord St. John did, a +day or two since, openly pull a gentleman in Westminster Hall by the nose, +one Sir Andrew Henly, while the judges were upon their benches, and the +other gentleman did give him a rap over the pate with his cane, of which +fray the judges, they say, will make a great matter: men are only sorry +the gentle man did proceed to return a blow; for, otherwise, my Lord would +have been soundly fined for the affront, and may be yet for his affront to +the judges. + +30th. Up, and with Sir W. Batten to White Hall, and there we did attend +the Duke of York, and had much business with him; and pretty to see, it +being St. Andrew's day, how some few did wear St. Andrew's crosse; but +most did make a mockery at it, and the House of Parliament, contrary to +practice, did sit also: people having no mind to observe the Scotch +saints' days till they hear better newes from Scotland. Thence to +Westminster Hall and the Abbey, thinking as I had appointed to have met +Mrs. Burroughs there, but not meeting her I home, and just overtook my +cozen Roger Pepys, Mrs. Turner, Dicke, and Joyce Norton, coming by +invitation to dine with me. These ladies I have not seen since before the +plague. Mrs. Turner is come to towne to look after her things in her +house, but all is lost. She is quite weary of the country, but cannot get +her husband to let her live here any more, which troubles her mightily. +She was mighty angry with me, that in all this time I never writ to her, +which I do think and take to myself as a fault, and which I have promised +to mend. Here I had a noble and costly dinner for them, dressed by a +man-cooke, as that the other day was, and pretty merry we were, as I could +be with this company and so great a charge. We sat long, and after much +talk of the plenty of her country in fish, but in nothing also that is +pleasing, we broke up with great kindness, and when it begun to be dark we +parted, they in one coach home, and I in another to Westminster Hall, +where by appointment Mrs. Burroughs and I were to meet, but did not after +I had spent the whole evening there. Only I did go drink at the Swan, and +there did meet with Sarah, who is now newly married, and there I did lay +the beginnings of a future 'amour con elle'. . . . . Thence it being +late away called at Mrs. Burroughs' mother's door, and she come out to me, +and I did hazer whatever I would . . . . and then parted, and home, and +after some playing at cards with my wife, we to supper and to bed. + + + + + ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + + Amending of bad blood by borrowing from a better body + And for his beef, says he, "Look how fat it is" + First their apes, that they may be afterwards their slaves + For a land-tax and against a general excise + I had six noble dishes for them, dressed by a man-cook + In opposition to France, had made us throw off their fashion + Magnifying the graces of the nobility and prelates + Origin in the use of a plane against the grain of the wood + Play on the harpsicon, till she tired everybody + Reading to my wife and brother something in Chaucer + Said that there hath been a design to poison the King + Tax the same man in three or four several capacities + There I did lay the beginnings of a future 'amour con elle' + Too much ill newes true, to afflict ourselves with uncertain + What I had writ foule in short hand + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Diary of Samuel Pepys, November 1666 +by Samuel Pepys + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + +***** This file should be named 4169.txt or 4169.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/6/4169/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + NOVEMBER + 1666 + + +November 1st. Up, and was presented by Burton, one of our smith's wives, +with a very noble cake, which I presently resolved to have my wife go +with to-day, and some wine, and house-warme my Betty Michell, which she +readily resolved to do. So I to the office and sat all the morning, +where little to do but answer people about want of money; so that there +is little service done the King by us, and great disquiet to ourselves; +I am sure there is to me very much, for I do not enjoy myself as I would +and should do in my employment if my pains could do the King better +service, and with the peace that we used to do it. At noon to dinner, +and from dinner my wife and my brother, and W. Hewer and Barker away to +Betty Michell's, to Shadwell, and I to my office, where I took in Mrs. +Bagwell and did what I would with her, and so she went away, and I all +the afternoon till almost night there, and then, my wife being come back, +I took her and set her at her brother's, who is very sicke, and I to +White Hall, and there all alone a pretty while with Sir W. Coventry at +his chamber. I find him very melancholy under the same considerations of +the King's service that I am. He confesses with me he expects all will +be undone, and all ruined; he complains and sees perfectly what I with +grief do, and said it first himself to me that all discipline is lost in +the fleete, no order nor no command, and concurs with me that it is +necessary we do again and again represent all things more and more +plainly to the Duke of York, for a guard to ourselves hereafter when +things shall come to be worse. He says the House goes on slowly in +finding of money, and that the discontented party do say they have not +done with us, for they will have a further bout with us as to our +accounts, and they are exceedingly well instructed where to hit us. +I left him with a thousand sad reflections upon the times, and the state +of the King's matters, and so away, and took up my wife and home, where +a little at the office, and then home to supper, and talk with my wife +(with whom I have much comfort) and my brother, and so to bed. + + + +2nd. Up betimes, and with Sir W. Batten to Woolwich, where first we went +on board the Ruby, French prize, the only ship of war we have taken from +any of our enemies this year. It seems a very good ship, but with +galleries quite round the sterne to walk in as a balcone, which will be +taken down. She had also about forty good brass guns, but will make +little amends to our loss in The Prince. Thence to the Ropeyarde and the +other yards to do several businesses, he and I also did buy some apples +and pork; by the same token the butcher commended it as the best in +England for cloath and colour. And for his beef, says he, "Look how fat +it is; the lean appears only here and there a speck, like beauty-spots." +Having done at Woolwich, we to Deptford (it being very cold upon the +water), and there did also a little more business, and so home, I reading +all the why to make end of the "Bondman" (which the oftener I read the +more I like), and begun "The Duchesse of Malfy;" which seems a good play. +At home to dinner, and there come Mr. Pierce, surgeon, to see me, and +after I had eat something, he and I and my wife by coach to Westminster, +she set us down at White Hall, and she to her brother's. I up into the +House, and among other things walked a good while with the Serjeant +Trumpet, who tells me, as I wished, that the King's Italian here is about +setting three parts for trumpets, and shall teach some to sound them, and +believes they will be admirable musique. I also walked with Sir Stephen +Fox an houre, and good discourse of publique business with him, who seems +very much satisfied with my discourse, and desired more of my +acquaintance. Then comes out the King and Duke of York from the Council, +and so I spoke awhile to Sir W. Coventry about some office business, and +so called my wife (her brother being now a little better than he was), +and so home, and I to my chamber to do some business, and then to supper +and to bed. + + + +3rd. This morning comes Mr. Lovett, and brings me my print of the +Passion, varnished by him, and the frame black, which indeed is very +fine, though not so fine as I expected; however, pleases me exceedingly. +This, and the sheets of paper he prepared for me, come to L3, which I did +give him, and though it be more than is fit to lay out on pleasure, +yet, it being ingenious, I did not think much of it. He gone, I to the +office, where all the morning to little purpose, nothing being before us +but clamours for money: So at noon home to dinner, and after dinner to +hang up my new varnished picture and set my chamber in order to be made +clean, and then to; the office again, and there all the afternoon till +late at night, and so to supper and to bed. + + + +4th (Lord's day). Comes my taylor's man in the morning, and brings my +vest home, and coate to wear with it, and belt, and silver-hilted sword. +So I rose and dressed myself, and I like myself mightily in it, and so do +my wife. Then, being dressed, to church; and after church pulled my Lady +Pen and Mrs. Markham into my house to dinner, and Sir J. Minnes he got +Mrs. Pegg along with him. I had a good dinner for them, and very merry; +and after dinner to the waterside, and so, it being very cold, to White +Hall, and was mighty fearfull of an ague, my vest being new and thin, +and the coat cut not to meet before upon my breast. Here I waited in the +gallery till the Council was up, and among others did speak with Mr. +Cooling, my Lord Chamberlain's secretary, who tells me my Lord Generall +is become mighty low in all people's opinion, and that he hath received +several slurs from the King and Duke of York. The people at Court do see +the difference between his and the Prince's management, and my Lord +Sandwich's. That this business which he is put upon of crying out +against the Catholiques and turning them out of all employment, will undo +him, when he comes to turn-out the officers out of the Army, and this is +a thing of his own seeking. That he is grown a drunken sot, and drinks +with nobody but Troutbecke, whom nobody else will keep company with. Of +whom he told me this story: That once the Duke of Albemarle in his drink +taking notice as of a wonder that Nan Hide should ever come to be +Duchesse of York, "Nay," says Troutbecke, "ne'er wonder at that; for if +you will give me another bottle of wine, I will tell you as great, if not +greater, a miracle." And what was that, but that our dirty Besse +(meaning his Duchesse) should come to be Duchesse of Albemarle? Here we +parted, and so by and by the Council rose, and out comes Sir G. Carteret +and Sir W. Coventry, and they and my Lord Bruncker and I went to Sir G. +Carteret's lodgings, there to discourse about some money demanded by Sir +W. Warren, and having done that broke up. And Sir G. Carteret and I +alone together a while, where he shows a long letter, all in cipher, from +my Lord Sandwich to him. The contents he hath not yet found out, but he +tells me that my Lord is not sent for home, as several people have +enquired after of me. He spoke something reflecting upon me in the +business of pursers, that their present bad behaviour is what he did +foresee, and had convinced me of, and yet when it come last year to be +argued before the Duke of York I turned and said as the rest did. I +answered nothing to it, but let it go, and so to other discourse of the +ill state of things, of which all people are full of sorrow and +observation, and so parted, and then by water, landing in Southwarke, +home to the Tower, and so home, and there began to read "Potter's +Discourse upon 1666," which pleases me mightily, and then broke off and +to supper and to bed. + + + +5th (A holyday). Lay long; then up, and to the office, where vexed to +meet with people come from the fleete at the Nore, where so many ships +are laid up and few going abroad, and yet Sir Thomas Allen hath sent up +some Lieutenants with warrants to presse men for a few ships to go out +this winter, while every day thousands appear here, to our great trouble +and affright, before our office and the ticket office, and no Captains +able to command one-man aboard. Thence by water to Westminster, and +there at the Swan find Sarah is married to a shoemaker yesterday, so I +could not see her, but I believe I shall hereafter at good leisure. +Thence by coach to my Lady Peterborough, and there spoke with my Lady, +who had sent to speak with me. She makes mighty moan of the badness of +the times, and her family as to money. My Lord's passionateness for want +thereof, and his want of coming in of rents, and no wages from the Duke +of York. No money to be had there for wages nor disbursements, and +therefore prays my assistance about his pension. I was moved with her +story, which she largely and handsomely told me, and promised I would try +what I could do in a few days, and so took leave, being willing to keep +her Lord fair with me, both for his respect to my Lord Sandwich and for +my owne sake hereafter, when I come to pass my accounts. Thence to my +Lord Crew's, and there dined, and mightily made of, having not, to my +shame, been there in 8 months before. Here my Lord and Sir Thomas Crew, +Mr. John, and Dr. Crew, and two strangers. The best family in the world +for goodness and sobriety. Here beyond my expectation I met my Lord +Hinchingbroke, who is come to towne two days since from Hinchingbroke, +and brought his sister and brother Carteret with him, who are at Sir G. +Carteret's. After dinner I and Sir Thomas Crew went aside to discourse +of public matters, and do find by him that all the country gentlemen are +publickly jealous of the courtiers in the Parliament, and that they do +doubt every thing that they propose; and that the true reason why the +country gentlemen are for a land-tax and against a general excise, is, +because they are fearful that if the latter be granted they shall never +get it down again; whereas the land-tax will be but for so much; and when +the war ceases, there will be no ground got by the Court to keep it up. +He do much cry out upon our accounts, and that all that they have had +from the King hath been but estimates both from my Lord Treasurer and us, +and from all people else, so that the Parliament is weary of it. He says +the House would be very glad to get something against Sir G. Carteret, +and will not let their inquiries die till they have got something. He +do, from what he hath heard at the Committee for examining the burning of +the City, conclude it as a thing certain that it was done by plots; +it being proved by many witnesses that endeavours were made in several +places to encrease the fire, and that both in City and country it was +bragged by several Papists that upon such a day or in such a time we +should find the hottest weather that ever was in England, and words of +plainer sense. But my Lord Crew was discoursing at table how the judges +have determined in the case whether the landlords or the tenants (who +are, in their leases, all of them generally tied to maintain and uphold +their houses) shall bear the losse of the fire; and they say that tenants +should against all casualties of fire beginning either in their owne or +in their neighbour's; but, where it is done by an enemy, they are not to +do it. And this was by an enemy, there having been one convicted and +hanged upon this very score. This is an excellent salvo for the tenants, +and for which I am glad, because of my father's house. After dinner and +this discourse I took coach, and at the same time find my Lord +Hinchingbroke and Mr. John Crew and the Doctor going out to see the ruins +of the City; so I took the Doctor into my hackney coach (and he is a very +fine sober gentleman), and so through the City. But, Lord! what pretty +and sober observations he made of the City and its desolation; till anon +we come to my house, and there I took them upon Tower Hill to shew them +what houses were pulled down there since the fire; and then to my house, +where I treated them with good wine of several sorts, and they took it +mighty respectfully, and a fine company of gentlemen they are; but above +all I was glad to see my Lord Hinchingbroke drink no wine at all. Here I +got them to appoint Wednesday come se'nnight to dine here at my house, +and so we broke up and all took coach again, and I carried the Doctor to +Chancery Lane, and thence I to White Hall, where I staid walking up and +down till night, and then got almost into the play house, having much +mind to go and see the play at Court this night; but fearing how I should +get home, because of the bonefires and the lateness of the night to get a +coach, I did not stay; but having this evening seen my Lady Jemimah, who +is come to towne, and looks very well and fat, and heard how Mr. John +Pickering is to be married this week, and to a fortune with L5000, and +seen a rich necklace of pearle and two pendants of dyamonds, which Sir G. +Carteret hath presented her with since her coming to towne, I home by +coach, but met not one bonefire through the whole town in going round by +the wall, which is strange, and speaks the melancholy disposition of the +City at present, while never more was said of, and feared of, and done +against the Papists than just at this time. Home, and there find my wife +and her people at cards, and I to my chamber, and there late, and so to +supper and to bed. + + + +6th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning sitting. At noon home +to dinner, and after dinner down alone by water to Deptford, reading +"Duchesse of Malfy," the play, which is pretty good, and there did some +business, and so up again, and all the evening at the office. At night +home, and there find Mr. Batelier, who supped with us, and good company +he is, and so after supper to bed. + + + +7th. Up, and with Sir W. Batten to White Hall, where we attended as +usual the Duke of York and there was by the folly of Sir W. Batten +prevented in obtaining a bargain for Captain Cocke, which would, I think +have [been] at this time (during our great want of hempe), both +profitable to the King and of good convenience to me; but I matter it +not, it being done only by the folly, not any design, of Sir W. Batten's. +Thence to Westminster Hall, and, it being fast day, there was no shops +open, but meeting with Doll Lane, did go with her to the Rose taverne, +and there drank and played with her a good while. She went away, and I +staid a good while after, and was seen going out by one of our neighbours +near the office and two of the Hall people that I had no mind to have +been seen by, but there was no hurt in it nor can be alledged from it. +Therefore I am not solicitous in it, but took coach and called at +Faythorne's, to buy some prints for my wife to draw by this winter, and +here did see my Lady Castlemayne's picture, done by him from Lilly's, in +red chalke and other colours, by which he hath cut it in copper to be +printed. The picture in chalke is the finest thing I ever saw in my +life, I think; and did desire to buy it; but he says he must keep it +awhile to correct his copper-plate by, and when that is done he will sell +it me. Thence home and find my wife gone out with my brother to see her +brother. I to dinner and thence to my chamber to read, and so to the +office (it being a fast day and so a holiday), and then to Mrs. Turner's, +at her request to speake and advise about Sir Thomas Harvy's coming to +lodge there, which I think must be submitted to, and better now than +hereafter, when he gets more ground, for I perceive he intends to stay by +it, and begins to crow mightily upon his late being at the payment of +tickets; but a coxcombe he is and will never be better in the business of +the Navy. Thence home, and there find Mr. Batelier come to bring my wife +a very fine puppy of his mother's spaniel, a very fine one indeed, which +my wife is mighty proud of. He staid and supped with us, and they to +cards. I to my chamber to do some business, and then out to them to play +and were a little merry, and then to bed. By the Duke of York his +discourse to-day in his chamber, they have it at Court, as well as we +here, that a fatal day is to be expected shortly, of some great mischiefe +to the remainder of this day; whether by the Papists, or what, they are +not certain. But the day is disputed; some say next Friday, others a day +sooner, others later, and I hope all will prove a foolery. But it is +observable how every body's fears are busy at this time. + + + +8th. Up, and before I went to the office I spoke with Mr. Martin for his +advice about my proceeding in the business of the private man-of-war, he +having heretofore served in one of them, and now I have it in my thoughts +to send him purser in ours. After this discourse I to the office, where +I sat all the morning, Sir W. Coventry with us, where he hath not been a +great while, Sir W. Pen also, newly come from the Nore, where he hath +been some time fitting of the ships out. At noon home to dinner and then +to the office awhile, and so home for my sword, and there find Mercer +come to see her mistresse. I was glad to see her there, and my wife +mighty kind also, and for my part, much vexed that the jade is not with +us still. Left them together, designing to go abroad to-morrow night to +Mrs. Pierces to dance; and so I to Westminster Hall, and there met Mr. +Grey, who tells me the House is sitting still (and now it was six +o'clock), and likely to sit till midnight; and have proceeded fair to +give the King his supply presently; and herein have done more to-day than +was hoped for. So to White Hall to Sir W. Coventry, and there would fain +have carried Captain Cocke's business for his bargain of hemp, but am +defeated and disappointed, and know hardly how to carry myself in it +between my interest and desire not to offend Sir W. Coventry. Sir W. +Coventry did this night tell me how the business is about Sir J. Minnes; +that he is to be a Commissioner, and my Lord Bruncker and Sir W. Pen are +to be Controller joyntly, which I am very glad of, and better than if +they were either of them alone; and do hope truly that the King's +business will be better done thereby, and infinitely better than now it +is. Thence by coach home, full of thoughts of the consequence of this +alteration in our office, and I think no evil to me. So at my office +late, and then home to supper and to bed. Mr. Grey did assure me this +night, that he was told this day, by one of the greater Ministers of +State in England, and one of the King's Cabinet, that we had little left +to agree on between the Dutch and us towards a peace, but only the place +of treaty; which do astonish me to hear, but I am glad of it, for I fear +the consequence of the war. But he says that the King, having all the +money he is like to have, we shall be sure of a peace in a little time. + + + +9th. Up and to the office, where did a good deale of business, and then +at noon to the Exchange and to my little goldsmith's, whose wife is very +pretty and modest, that ever I saw any. Upon the 'Change, where I seldom +have of late been, I find all people mightily at a losse what to expect, +but confusion and fears in every man's head and heart. Whether war or +peace, all fear the event will be bad. Thence home and with my brother +to dinner, my wife being dressing herself against night; after dinner I +to my closett all the afternoon, till the porter brought my vest back +from the taylor's, and then to dress myself very fine, about 4 or 5 +o'clock, and by that time comes Mr. Batelier and Mercer, and away by +coach to Mrs. Pierces, by appointment, where we find good company: a fair +lady, my Lady Prettyman, Mrs. Corbet, Knipp; and for men, Captain +Downing, Mr. Lloyd, Sir W. Coventry's clerk, and one Mr. Tripp, who +dances well. After some trifling discourse, we to dancing, and very good +sport, and mightily pleased I was with the company. After our first bout +of dancing, Knipp and I to sing, and Mercer and Captain Downing (who +loves and understands musique) would by all means have my song of +"Beauty, retire." which Knipp had spread abroad; and he extols it above +any thing he ever heard, and, without flattery, I know it is good in its +kind. This being done and going to dance again, comes news that White +Hall was on fire; and presently more particulars, that the Horse-guard +was on fire; + + ["Nov. 9th. Between seven and eight at night, there happened a fire + in the Horse Guard House, in the Tilt Yard, over against Whitehall, + which at first arising, it is supposed, from some snuff of a candle + falling amongst the straw, broke out with so sudden a flame, that at + once it seized the north-west part of that building; but being so + close under His Majesty's own eye, it was, by the timely help His + Majesty and His Royal Highness caused to be applied, immediately + stopped, and by ten o'clock wholly mastered, with the loss only of + that part of the building it had at first seized."--The London + Gazette, No. 103.--B.] + +and so we run up to the garret, and find it so; a horrid great fire; and +by and by we saw and heard part of it blown up with powder. The ladies +begun presently to be afeard: one fell into fits. The whole town in an +alarme. Drums beat and trumpets, and the guards every where spread, +running up and down in the street. And I begun to have mighty +apprehensions how things might be at home, and so was in mighty pain to +get home, and that that encreased all is that we are in expectation, from +common fame, this night, or to-morrow, to have a massacre, by the having +so many fires one after another, as that in the City, and at same time +begun in Westminster, by the Palace, but put out; and since in +Southwarke, to the burning down some houses; and now this do make all +people conclude there is something extraordinary in it; but nobody knows +what. By and by comes news that the fire has slackened; so then we were +a little cheered up again, and to supper, and pretty merry. But, above +all, there comes in the dumb boy that I knew in Oliver's time, who is +mightily acquainted here, and with Downing; and he made strange signs of +the fire, and how the King was abroad, and many things they understood, +but I could not, which I wondering at, and discoursing with Downing about +it, "Why," says he, "it is only a little use, and you will understand +him, and make him understand you with as much ease as may be." So I +prayed him to tell him that I was afeard that my coach would be gone, and +that he should go down and steal one of the seats out of the coach and +keep it, and that would make the coachman to stay. He did this, so that +the dumb boy did go down, and, like a cunning rogue, went into the coach, +pretending to sleep; and, by and by, fell to his work, but finds the +seats nailed to the coach. So he did all he could, but could not do it; +however, stayed there, and stayed the coach till the coachman's patience +was quite spent, and beat the dumb boy by force, and so went away. So +the dumb boy come up and told him all the story, which they below did see +all that passed, and knew it to be true. After supper, another dance or +two, and then newes that the fire is as great as ever, which put us all +to our wit's-end; and I mightily [anxious] to go home, but the coach +being gone, and it being about ten at night, and rainy dirty weather, I +knew not what to do; but to walk out with Mr. Batelier, myself resolving +to go home on foot, and leave the women there. And so did; but at the +Savoy got a coach, and come back and took up the women; and so, having, +by people come from the fire, understood that the fire was overcome, and +all well, we merrily parted, and home. Stopped by several guards and +constables quite through the town, round the wall, as we went, all being +in armes. We got well home . . . . Being come home, we to cards, +till two in the morning, and drinking lamb's-wool. + + [A beverage consisting of ale mixed with sugar, nutmeg, and the pulp + of roasted apples. "A cupp of lamb's-wool they dranke unto him + then." The King and the Miller of Mansfield (Percy's "Reliques," + Series III., book ii., No. 20).] + +So to bed. + + + +10th. Up and to the office, where Sir W. Coventry come to tell us that +the Parliament did fall foul of our accounts again yesterday; and we must +arme to have them examined, which I am sorry for: it will bring great +trouble to me, and shame upon the office. My head full this morning how +to carry on Captain Cocke's bargain of hemp, which I think I shall by my +dexterity do, and to the King's advantage as well as my own. At noon +with my Lord Bruncker and Sir Thomas Harvy, to Cocke's house, and there +Mrs. Williams and other company, and an excellent dinner. Mr. Temple's +wife; after dinner, fell to play on the harpsicon, till she tired +everybody, that I left the house without taking leave, and no creature +left standing by her to hear her. Thence I home and to the office, where +late doing of business, and then home. Read an hour, to make an end of +Potter's Discourse of the Number 666, which I like all along, but his +close is most excellent; and, whether it be right or wrong, is mighty +ingenious. Then to supper and to bed. This is the fatal day that every +body hath discoursed for a long time to be the day that the Papists, or I +know not who, had designed to commit a massacre upon; but, however, I +trust in God we shall rise to-morrow morning as well as ever. This +afternoon Creed comes to me, and by him, as, also my Lady Pen, I hear +that my Lady Denham is exceeding sick, even to death, and that she says, +and every body else discourses, that she is poysoned; and Creed tells me, +that it is said that there hath been a design to poison the King. What +the meaning of all these sad signs is, the Lord knows; but every day +things look worse and worse. God fit us for the worst! + + + +11th (Lord's day). Up, and to church, myself and wife, where the old +dunce Meriton, brother to the known Meriton; of St. Martin's, +Westminster, did make a very good sermon, beyond my expectation. Home to +dinner, and we carried in Pegg Pen, and there also come to us little +Michell and his wife, and dined very pleasantly. Anon to church, my wife +and I and Betty Michell, her husband being gone to Westminster . . . . +Alter church home, and I to my chamber, and there did finish the putting +time to my song of "It is decreed," and do please myself at last and +think it will be thought a good song. By and by little Michell comes and +takes away his wife home, and my wife and brother and I to my uncle +Wight's, where my aunt is grown so ugly and their entertainment so bad +that I am in pain to be there; nor will go thither again a good while, +if sent for, for we were sent for to-night, we had not gone else. +Wooly's wife, a silly woman, and not very handsome, but no spirit in her +at all; and their discourse mean, and the fear of the troubles of the +times hath made them not to bring their plate to town, since it was +carried out upon the business of the fire, so that they drink in earth +and a wooden can, which I do not like. So home, and my people to bed. +I late to finish my song, and then to bed also, and the business of the +firing of the city, and the fears we have of new troubles and violences, +and the fear of fire among ourselves, did keep me awake a good while, +considering the sad condition I and my family should be in. So at last +to sleep. + + + +12th. Lay long in bed, and then up, and Mr. Carcasse brought me near 500 +tickets to sign, which I did, and by discourse find him a cunning, +confident, shrewd man, but one that I do doubt hath by his discourse of +the ill will he hath got with my Lord Marquess of Dorchester (with whom +he lived), he hath had cunning practices in his time, and would not now +spare to use the same to his profit. That done I to the office; whither +by and by comes Creed to me, and he and I walked in the garden a little, +talking of the present ill condition of things, which is the common +subject of all men's discourse and fears now-a-days, and particularly of +my Lady Denham, whom everybody says is poisoned, and he tells me she hath +said it to the Duke of York; but is upon the mending hand, though the +town says she is dead this morning. He and I to the 'Change. There I +had several little errands, and going to Sir R. Viner's, I did get such a +splash and spots of dirt upon my new vest, that I was out of countenance +to be seen in the street. This day I received 450 pieces of gold more of +Mr. Stokes, but cost me 22 1/2d. change; but I am well contented with +it,--I having now near L2800 in gold, and will not rest till I get full +L3000, and then will venture my fortune for the saving that and the rest. +Home to dinner, though Sir R. Viner would have staid us to dine with him, +he being sheriffe; but, poor man, was so out of countenance that he had +no wine ready to drink to us, his butler being out of the way, though we +know him to be a very liberal man. And after dinner I took my wife out, +intending to have gone and have seen my Lady Jemimah, at White Hall, but +so great a stop there was at the New Exchange, that we could not pass in +half an houre, and therefore 'light and bought a little matter at the +Exchange, and then home, and then at the office awhile, and then home to +my chamber, and after my wife and all the mayds abed but Jane, whom I put +confidence in--she and I, and my brother, and Tom, and W. Hewer, did +bring up all the remainder of my money, and my plate-chest, out of the +cellar, and placed the money in my study, with the rest, and the plate in +my dressing-room; but indeed I am in great pain to think how to dispose +of my money, it being wholly unsafe to keep it all in coin in one place. +'But now I have it all at my hand, I shall remember it better to think of +disposing of it. This done, by one in the morning to bed. This +afternoon going towards Westminster, Creed and I did stop, the Duke of +York being just going away from seeing of it, at Paul's, and in the +Convocation House Yard did there see the body of Robert Braybrooke, +Bishop of London, that died 1404: He fell down in his tomb out of the +great church into St. Fayth's this late fire, and is here seen his +skeleton with the flesh on; but all tough and dry like a spongy dry +leather, or touchwood all upon his bones. His head turned aside. A +great man in his time, and Lord Chancellor; and his skeletons now +exposed to be handled and derided by some, though admired for its +duration by others. Many flocking to see it. + + + +13th. At the office all the morning, at noon home to dinner, and out to +Bishopsgate Street, and there bought some drinking-glasses, a case of +knives, and other things, against tomorrow, in expectation of my Lord +Hinchingbroke's coming to dine with me. So home, and having set some +things in the way of doing, also against to-morrow, I to my, office, +there to dispatch business, and do here receive notice from my Lord +Hinchingbroke that he is not well, and so not in condition to come to +dine with me to-morrow, which I am not in much trouble for, because of +the disorder my house is in, by the bricklayers coming to mend the +chimney in my dining-room for smoking, which they were upon almost till +midnight, and have now made it very pretty, and do carry smoke exceeding +well. This evening come all the Houblons to me, to invite me to sup with +them to-morrow night. I did take them home, and there we sat and talked +a good while, and a glass of wine, and then parted till to-morrow night. +So at night, well satisfied in the alteration of my chimney, to bed. + + + +14th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and thence to Westminster, where I +bought several things, as a hone, ribbon, gloves, books, and then took +coach and to Knipp's lodging, whom I find not ready to go home with me. +So I away to do a little business, among others to call upon Mr. Osborne +for my Tangier warrant for the last quarter, and so to the Exchange for +some things for my wife, and then to Knipp's again, and there staid +reading of Waller's verses, while she finished dressing, her husband +being by. I had no other pastime. Her lodging very mean, and the +condition she lives in; yet makes a shew without doors, God bless us! +I carried him along with us into the City, and set him down in +Bishopsgate Street, and then home with her. She tells me how Smith, +of the Duke's house, hath killed a man upon a quarrel in play; which +makes every body sorry, he being a good actor, and, they say, a good man, +however this happens. The ladies of the Court do much bemoan him, she +says. Here she and we alone at dinner to some good victuals, that we +could not put off, that was intended for the great dinner of my Lord +Hinchingbroke's, if he had come. After dinner I to teach her my new +recitative of "It is decreed," of which she learnt a good part, and I do +well like it and believe shall be well pleased when she hath it all, and +that it will be found an agreeable thing. Then carried her home, and my +wife and I intended to have seen my Lady Jemimah at White Hall, but the +Exchange Streete was so full of coaches, every body, as they say, going +thither to make themselves fine against tomorrow night, that, after half +an hour's stay, we could not do any [thing], only my wife to see her +brother, and I to go speak one word with Sir G. Carteret about office +business, and talk of the general complexion of matters, which he looks +upon, as I do, with horrour, and gives us all for an undone people. That +there is no such thing as a peace in hand, nor possibility of any without +our begging it, they being as high, or higher, in their terms than ever, +and tells me that, just now, my Lord Hollis had been with him, and wept +to think in what a condition we are fallen. He shewed me my Lord +Sandwich's letter to him, complaining of the lack of money, which Sir G. +Carteret is at a loss how in the world to get the King to supply him +with, and wishes him, for that reason, here; for that he fears he will be +brought to disgrace there, for want of supplies. He says the House is +yet in a bad humour; and desiring to know whence it is that the King +stirs not, he says he minds it not, nor will be brought to it, and that +his servants of the House do, instead of making the Parliament better, +rather play the rogue one with another, and will put all in fire. So +that, upon the whole, we are in a wretched condition, and I went from him +in full apprehensions of it. So took up my wife, her brother being yet +very bad, and doubtful whether he will recover or no, and so to St. +Ellen's [St. Helen's], and there sent my wife home, and myself to the +Pope's Head, where all the Houblons were, and Dr. Croone, + + [William Croune, or Croone, of Emanuel College, Cambridge, chosen + Rhetoric Professor at Gresham College, 1659, F.R.S. and M.D. Died + October 12th, 1684, and was interred at St. Mildred's in the + Poultry. He was a prominent Fellow of the Royal Society and first + Registrar. In accordance with his wishes his widow (who married Sir + Edwin Sadleir, Bart.) left by will one-fifth of the clear rent of + the King's Head tavern in or near Old Fish Street, at the corner of + Lambeth Hill, to the Royal Society for the support of a lecture and + illustrative experiments for the advancement of natural knowledge on + local motion. The Croonian lecture is still delivered before the + Royal Society.] + +and by and by to an exceeding pretty supper, excellent discourse of all +sorts, and indeed [they] are a set of the finest gentlemen that ever I +met withal in my life. Here Dr. Croone told me, that, at the meeting at +Gresham College to-night, which, it seems, they now have every Wednesday +again, there was a pretty experiment of the blood of one dogg let out, +till he died, into the body of another on one side, while all his own run +out on the other side. + + [At the meeting on November 14th, "the experiment of transfusing the + blood of one dog into another was made before the Society by Mr. + King and Mr. Thomas Coxe upon a little mastiff and a spaniel with + very good success, the former bleeding to death, and the latter + receiving the blood of the other, and emitting so much of his own, + as to make him capable of receiving that of the other." On November + 21st the spaniel "was produced and found very well" (Birch's + "History of the Royal Society," vol. ii., pp. 123, 125). The + experiment of transfusion of blood, which occupied much of the + attention of the Royal Society in its early days, was revived within + the last few years.] + +The first died upon the place, and the other very well, and likely to do +well. This did give occasion to many pretty wishes, as of the blood of a +Quaker to be let into an Archbishop, and such like; but, as Dr. Croone +says, may, if it takes, be of mighty use to man's health, for the +amending of bad blood by borrowing from a better body. After supper, +James Houblon and another brother took me aside and to talk of some +businesses of their owne, where I am to serve them, and will, and then to +talk of publique matters, and I do find that they and all merchants else +do give over trade and the nation for lost, nothing being done with care +or foresight, no convoys granted, nor any thing done to satisfaction; but +do think that the Dutch and French will master us the next yeare, do what +we can: and so do I, unless necessity makes the King to mind his +business, which might yet save all. Here we sat talking till past one in +the morning, and then home, where my people sat up for me, my wife and +all, and so to bed. + + + +15th. This [morning] come Mr. Shepley (newly out of the country) to see +me; after a little discourse with him, I to the office, where we sat all +the morning, and at noon home, and there dined, Shepley with me, and +after dinner I did pay him L70, which he had paid my father for my use in +the country. He being gone, I took coach and to Mrs. Pierce's, where I +find her as fine as possible, and himself going to the ball at night at +Court, it being the Queen's birth-day, and so I carried them in my coach, +and having set them into the house, and gotten Mr. Pierce to undertake +the carrying in my wife, I to Unthanke's, where she appointed to be, and +there told her, and back again about business to White Hall, while Pierce +went and fetched her and carried her in. I, after I had met with Sir W. +Coventry and given him some account of matters, I also to the ball, and +with much ado got up to the loft, where with much trouble I could see +very well. Anon the house grew full, and the candles light, and the King +and Queen and all the ladies set: and it was, indeed, a glorious sight to +see Mrs. Stewart in black and white lace, and her head and shoulders +dressed with dyamonds, and the like a great many great ladies more, only +the Queen none; and the King in his rich vest of some rich silke and +silver trimming, as the Duke of York and all the dancers were, some of +cloth of silver, and others of other sorts, exceeding rich. Presently +after the King was come in, he took the Queene, and about fourteen more +couple there was, and began the Bransles.--[Brawl--a dance D.W.]-- +As many of the men as I can remember presently, were, the King, Duke of +York, Prince Rupert, Duke of Monmouth, Duke of Buckingham, Lord Douglas,' +Mr. [George] Hamilton, Colonell Russell, Mr. Griffith, Lord Ossory, Lord +Rochester; and of the ladies, the Queene, Duchess of York, Mrs. Stewart, +Duchess of Monmouth, Lady Essex Howard, Mrs. Temples Swedes Embassadress, +Lady Arlington; Lord George Barkeley's daughter, and many others I +remember not; but all most excellently dressed in rich petticoats and +gowns, and dyamonds, and pearls. After the Bransles, then to a Corant, +and now and then a French dance; but that so rare that the Corants grew +tiresome, that I wished it done. Only Mrs. Stewart danced mighty finely, +and many French dances, specially one the King called the New Dance, +which was very pretty; but upon the whole matter, the business of the +dancing of itself was not extraordinary pleasing. But the clothes and +sight of the persons was indeed very pleasing, and worth my coming, being +never likely to see more gallantry while I live, if I should come twenty +times. About twelve at night it broke up, and I to hire a coach with +much difficulty, but Pierce had hired a chair for my wife, and so she +being gone to his house, he and I, taking up Barker at Unthanke's, to his +house, whither his wife was come home a good while ago and gone to bed. +So away home with my wife, between displeased with the dull dancing, and +satisfied at the clothes and persons. My Lady Castlemayne, without whom +all is nothing, being there, very rich, though not dancing. And so after +supper, it being very cold, to bed. + + + +16th. Up again betimes to attend the examination of Mr. Gawden's, +accounts, where we all met, but I did little but fit myself for the +drawing my great letter to the Duke of York of the state of the Navy for +want of money. At noon to the 'Change, and thence back to the new +taverne come by us; the Three Tuns, where D. Gawden did feast us all with +a chine of beef and other good things, and an infinite dish of fowl, but +all spoiled in the dressing. This noon I met with Mr. Hooke, and he +tells me the dog which was filled with another dog's blood, at the +College the other day, is very well, and like to be so as ever, and +doubts not its being found of great use to men; and so do Dr. Whistler, +who dined with us at the taverne. Thence home in the evening, and I to +my preparing my letter, and did go a pretty way in it, staying late upon +it, and then home to supper and to bed, the weather being on a sudden set +in to be very cold. + + + +17th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon home to +dinner, and in the afternoon shut myself in my chamber, and there till +twelve at night finishing my great letter to the Duke of York, which do +lay the ill condition of the Navy so open to him, that it is impossible +if the King and he minds any thing of their business, but it will operate +upon them to set all matters right, and get money to carry on the war, +before it be too late, or else lay out for a peace upon any termes. +It was a great convenience to-night that what I had writ foule in short +hand, I could read to W. Hewer, and he take it fair in short hand, so as +I can read it to-morrow to Sir W. Coventry, and then come home, and Hewer +read it to me while I take it in long-hand to present, which saves me +much time. So to bed. + + + +18th (Lord's day). Up by candle-light and on foote to White Hall, where +by appointment I met Lord Bruncker at Sir W. Coventry's chamber, and +there I read over my great letter, and they approved it: and as I do do +our business in defence of the Board, so I think it is as good a letter +in the manner, and believe it is the worst in the matter of it, as ever +come from any office to a Prince. Back home in my Lord Bruncker's coach, +and there W. Hewer and I to write it over fair; dined at noon, and Mercer +with us, and mighty merry, and then to finish my letter; and it being +three o'clock ere we had done, when I come to Sir W. Batten; he was in a +huffe, which I made light of, but he signed the letter, though he would +not go, and liked the letter well. Sir W. Pen, it seems, he would not +stay for it: so, making slight of Sir W. Pen's putting so much weight +upon his hand to Sir W. Batten, I down to the Tower Wharf, and there got +a sculler, and to White Hall, and there met Lord Bruncker, and he signed +it, and so I delivered it to Mr. Cheving, + + [William Chiffinch, pimp to Charles II. and receiver of the secret + pensions paid by the French Court. He succeeded his brother, Thomas + Chiffinch (who died in April, 1666), as Keeper of the King's Private + Closet (see note, vol. v., p. 265). He is introduced by Scott into + his "Peveril of the Peak."] + +and he to Sir W. Coventry, in the cabinet, the King and councill being +sitting, where I leave it to its fortune, and I by water home again, and +to my chamber, to even my Journall; and then comes Captain Cocke to me, +and he and I a great deal of melancholy discourse of the times, giving +all over for gone, though now the Parliament will soon finish the Bill +for money. But we fear, if we had it, as matters are now managed, we +shall never make the best of it, but consume it all to no purpose or a +bad one. He being gone, I again to my Journall and finished it, and so +to supper and to bed. + + + +19th. Lay pretty long in bed talking with pleasure with my wife, and +then up and all the morning at my own chamber fitting some Tangier +matters against the afternoon for a meeting. This morning also came Mr. +Caesar, and I heard him on the lute very finely, and my boy begins to +play well. After dinner I carried and set my wife down at her brother's, +and then to Barkeshire-house, where my Lord Chancellor hath been ever +since the fire, but he is not come home yet, so I to Westminster Hall, +where the Lords newly up and the Commons still sitting. Here I met with +Mr. Robinson, who did give me a printed paper wherein he states his +pretence to the post office, and intends to petition the Parliament in +it. Thence I to the Bull-head tavern, where I have not been since Mr. +Chetwind and the time of our club, and here had six bottles of claret +filled, and I sent them to Mrs. Martin, whom I had promised some of my +owne, and, having none of my owne, sent her this. Thence to my Lord +Chancellor's, and there Mr. Creed and Gawden, Cholmley, and Sir G. +Carteret walking in the Park over against the house. I walked with Sir +G. Carteret, who I find displeased with the letter I have drawn and sent +in yesterday, finding fault with the account we give of the ill state of +the Navy, but I said little, only will justify the truth of it. Here we +walked to and again till one dropped away after another, and so I took +coach to White Hall, and there visited my Lady Jemimah, at Sir G. +Carteret's lodgings. Here was Sir Thomas Crew, and he told me how hot +words grew again to-day in the House of Lords between my Lord Ossory and +Ashly, the former saying that something said by the other was said like +one of Oliver's Council. Ashly said that he must give him reparation, +or he would take it his owne way. The House therefore did bring my Lord +Ossory to confess his fault, and ask pardon for it, as he was also to my +Lord Buckingham, for saying that something was not truth that my Lord +Buckingham had said. This will render my Lord Ossory very little in a +little time. By and by away, and calling my wife went home, and then a +little at Sir W. Batten's to hear news, but nothing, and then home to +supper, whither Captain Cocke, half foxed, come and sat with us, and so +away, and then we to bed. + + + +20th. Called up by Mr. Sheply, who is going into the country to-day to +Hinchingbroke, I sent my service to my Lady, and in general for newes: +that the world do think well of my Lord, and do wish he were here again, +but that the publique matters of the State as to the war are in the worst +condition that is possible. By and by Sir W. Warren, and with him half +an hour discoursing of several businesses, and some I hope will bring me +a little profit. He gone, and Sheply, I to the office a little, and then +to church, it being thanksgiving-day for the cessation of the plague; +but, Lord! how the towne do say that it is hastened before the plague is +quite over, there dying some people still, + + [According to the Bills of Mortality seven persons died in London of + the plague during the week November 20th to 27th; and for some weeks + after deaths continued from this cause.] + +but only to get ground for plays to be publickly acted, which the Bishops +would not suffer till the plague was over; and one would thinke so, by +the suddenness of the notice given of the day, which was last Sunday, and +the little ceremony. The sermon being dull of Mr. Minnes, and people +with great indifferency come to hear him. After church home, where I met +Mr. Gregory, who I did then agree with to come to teach my wife to play +on the Viall, and he being an able and sober man, I am mightily glad of +it. He had dined, therefore went away, and I to dinner, and after dinner +by coach to Barkeshire-house, and there did get a very great meeting; the +Duke of York being there, and much business done, though not in +proportion to the greatness of the business, and my Lord Chancellor +sleeping and snoring the greater part of the time. Among other things I +declared the state of our credit as to tallys to raise money by, and +there was an order for payment of L5000 to Mr. Gawden, out of which I +hope to get something against Christmas. Here we sat late, and here I +did hear that there are some troubles like to be in Scotland, there being +a discontented party already risen, that have seized on the Governor of +Dumfreeze and imprisoned him, + + [William Fielding, writing to Sir Phil. Musgrave from Carlisle on + November 15th, says: "Major Baxter, who has arrived from Dumfries, + reports that this morning a great number of horse and foot came into + that town, with drawn swords and pistols, gallopped up to Sir Jas. + Turner's lodgings, seized him in his bed, carried him without + clothes to the marketplace, threatened to cut him to pieces, and + seized and put into the Tollbooth all the foot soldiers that were + with him; they also secured the minister of Dumfries. Many of the + party were lairds and county people from Galloway--200 horse well + mounted, one minister was with them who had swords and pistols, and + 200 or 300 foot, some with clubs, others with scythes." On November + 17th Rob. Meine wrote to Williamson: "On the 15th 120 fanatics from + the Glenkins, Deray; and neighbouring parishes in Dumfriesshire, + none worth L10 except two mad fellows, the lairds of Barscob and + Corsuck, came to Dumfries early in the morning, seized Sir Jas. + Turner, commander of a company of men in Dumfriesshire, and carried + him, without violence to others, to a strong house in Maxwell town, + Galloway, declaring they sought only revenge against the tyrant who + had been severe with them for not keeping to church, and had laid + their families waste" ("Calendar of State Papers," 1666-67, pp. 262, + 268).] + +but the story is yet very uncertain, and therefore I set no great weight +on it. I home by Mr. Gawden in his coach, and so with great pleasure to +spend the evening at home upon my Lyra Viall, and then to supper and to +bed. With mighty peace of mind and a hearty desire that I had but what I +have quietly in the country, but, I fear, I do at this day see the best +that either I or the rest of our nation will ever see. + + + +21st. Up, with Sir W. Batten to Charing Cross, and thence I to wait on +Sir Philip Howard, whom I find dressing himself in his night-gown and +turban like a Turke, but one of the finest persons that ever I saw in my +life. He had several gentlemen of his owne waiting on him, and one +playing finely on the gittar: he discourses as well as ever I heard man, +in few words and handsome. He expressed all kindness to Balty, when I +told him how sick he is: he says that, before he comes to be mustered +again, he must bring a certificate of his swearing the oaths of +Allegiance and Supremacy, and having taken the Sacrament according to +the rites of the Church of England. This, I perceive, is imposed on all, +and he will be ready to do. I pray God he may have his health again to +be able to do it. Being mightily satisfied with his civility, I away to +Westminster Hall, and there walked with several people, and all the +discourse is about some trouble in Scotland I heard of yesterday, but +nobody can tell the truth of it. Here was Betty Michell with her mother. +I would have carried her home, but her father intends to go with her, so +I lost my hopes. And thence I to the Excise Office about some tallies, +and then to the Exchange, where I did much business, and so home to +dinner, and then to the office, where busy all the afternoon till night, +and then home to supper, and after supper an hour reading to my wife and +brother something in Chaucer with great pleasure, and so to bed. + + + +22nd. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and my Lord +Bruncker did show me Hollar's new print of the City, with a pretty +representation of that part which is burnt, very fine indeed; and tells +me that he was yesterday sworn the King's servant, and that the King hath +commanded him to go on with his great map of the City, which he was upon +before the City was burned, like Gombout of Paris, which I am glad of. +At noon home to dinner, where my wife and I fell out, I being displeased +with her cutting away a lace handkercher sewed about the neck down to her +breasts almost, out of a belief, but without reason, that it is the +fashion. Here we did give one another the lie too much, but were +presently friends, and then I to my office, where very late and did much +business, and then home, and there find Mr. Batelier, and did sup and +play at cards awhile. But he tells me the newes how the King of France +hath, in defiance to the King of England, caused all his footmen to be +put into vests, and that the noblemen of France will do the like; which, +if true, is the greatest indignity ever done by one Prince to another, +and would incite a stone to be revenged; and I hope our King will, if it +be so, as he tells me it is: + + [Planche throws some doubt on this story in his "Cyclopaedia of + Costume" (vol. ii., p. 240), and asks the question, "Was Mr. + Batelier hoaxing the inquisitive secretary, or was it the idle + gossip of the day, as untrustworthy as such gossip is in general?" + But the same statement was made by the author of the "Character of a + Trimmer," who wrote from actual knowledge of the Court: "About this + time a general humour, in opposition to France, had made us throw + off their fashion, and put on vests, that we might look more like a + distinct people, and not be under the servility of imitation, which + ever pays a greater deference to the original than is consistent + with the equality all independent nations should pretend to. France + did not like this small beginning of ill humours, at least of + emulation; and wisely considering, that it is a natural + introduction, first to make the world their apes, that they may be + afterwards their slaves. It was thought, that one of the + instructions Madame [Henrietta, Duchess of Orleans] brought along + with her, was to laugh us out of these vests; which she performed so + effectually, that in a moment, like so many footmen who had quitted + their master's livery, we all took it again, and returned to our old + service; so that the very time of doing it gave a very critical + advantage to France, since it looked like an evidence of our + returning to her interest, as well as to their fashion. "The + Character of a Trimmer ("Miscellanies by the Marquis of Halifax," + 1704, p. 164). Evelyn reports that when the king expressed his + intention never to alter this fashion, "divers courtiers and + gentlemen gave his Majesty gold by way of wager that he would not + persist in this resolution" ("Diary," October 18th, 1666).] + +being told by one that come over from Paris with my Lady Fanshaw, who is +come over with the dead body of her husband, and that saw it before he +come away. This makes me mighty merry, it being an ingenious kind of +affront; but yet it makes me angry, to see that the King of England is +become so little as to have the affront offered him. So I left my people +at cards, and so to my chamber to read, and then to bed. Batelier did +bring us some oysters to-night, and some bottles of new French wine of +this year, mighty good, but I drank but little. This noon Bagwell's wife +was with me at the office, and I did what I would, and at night comes +Mrs. Burroughs, and appointed to meet upon the next holyday and go abroad +together. [Sam seems to have given over making vows restricting his +behaviour. D.W.] + + + +23rd. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes to White Hall, where we and the rest +attended the Duke of York, where, among other things, we had a complaint +of Sir William Jennings against his lieutenant, Le Neve, one that had +been long the Duke's page, and for whom the Duke of York hath great +kindness. It was a drunken quarrel, where one was as blameable as the +other. It was referred to further examination, but the Duke of York +declared, that as he would not favour disobedience, so neither +drunkenness, and therein he said very well. Thence with Sir W. Coventry +to Westminster Hall, and there parted, he having told me how Sir J. +Minnes do disagree from the proposition of resigning his place, and that +so the whole matter is again at a stand, at which I am sorry for the +King's sake, but glad that Sir W. Pen is again defeated, for I would not +have him come to be Comptroller if I could help it, he will be so cruel +proud. Here I spoke with Sir G. Downing about our prisoners in Holland, +and their being released; which he is concerned in, and most of them are. +Then, discoursing of matters of the House of Parliament, he tells me that +it is not the fault of the House, but the King's own party, that have +hindered the passing of the Bill for money, by their popping in of new +projects for raising it: which is a strange thing; and mighty confident +he is, that what money is raised, will be raised and put into the same +form that the last was, to come into the Exchequer; and, for aught I see, +I must confess I think it is the best way. Thence down to the Hall, and +there walked awhile, and all the talk is about Scotland, what news +thence; but there is nothing come since the first report, and so all is +given over for nothing. Thence home, and after dinner to my chamber with +Creed, who come and dined with me, and he and I to reckon for his salary, +and by and by comes in Colonel Atkins, and I did the like with him, and +it was Creed's design to bring him only for his own ends, to seem to do +him a courtesy, and it is no great matter. The fellow I hate, and so I +think all the world else do. Then to talk of my report I am to make of +the state of our wants of money to the Lord Treasurer, but our discourse +come to little. However, in the evening, to be rid of him, I took coach +and saw him to the Temple and there 'light, and he being gone, with all +the haste back again and to my chamber late to enter all this day's +matters of account, and to draw up my report to my Lord Treasurer, and so +to bed. At the Temple I called at Playford's, and there find that his +new impression of his ketches + + [John Hilton's "Catch that catch can, or a Choice Collection of + Catches, Rounds and Canons for 3 or 4 voyces," was first published + by Playford in 1651 or 1652. The book was republished "with large + additions by John Playford" in 1658. The edition referred to in the + text was published in 1667 with a second title of "The Musical + Companion." The book was republished in 1672-73.] + +are not yet out, the fire having hindered it, but his man tells me that +it will be a very fine piece, many things new being added to it. + + + +24th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon rose +and to my closet, and finished my report to my Lord Treasurer of our +Tangier wants, and then with Sir J. Minnes by coach to Stepney to the +Trinity House, where it is kept again now since the burning of their +other house in London. And here a great many met at Sir Thomas Allen's +feast, of his being made an Elder Brother; but he is sick, and so could +not be there. Here was much good company, and very merry; but the +discourse of Scotland, it seems, is confirmed, and that they are 4000 of +them in armes, and do declare for King and Covenant, which is very ill +news. I pray God deliver us from the ill consequences we may justly fear +from it. Here was a good venison pasty or two and other good victuals; +but towards the latter end of the dinner I rose, and without taking leave +went away from the table, and got Sir J. Minnes' coach and away home, and +thence with my report to my Lord Treasurer's, where I did deliver it to +Sir Philip Warwicke for my Lord, who was busy, my report for him to +consider against to-morrow's council. Sir Philip Warwicke, I find, is +full of trouble in his mind to see how things go, and what our wants are; +and so I have no delight to trouble him with discourse, though I honour +the man with all my heart, and I think him to be a very able and right +honest man. So away home again, and there to my office to write my +letters very late, and then home to supper, and then to read the late +printed discourse of witches by a member of Gresham College,--[For belief +in witches. D.W.]--and then to bed; the discourse being well writ, in +good stile, but methinks not very convincing. This day Mr. Martin is +come to tell me his wife is brought to bed of a girle, and I promised to +christen it next Sunday. + + + +25th (Lord's day). Up, and with Sir J. Minnes by coach to White Hall, +and there coming late, I to rights to the chapel, where in my usual place +I heard one of the King's chaplains, one Mr. Floyd, preach. He was out +two or three times in his prayer, and as many in his sermon, but yet he +made a most excellent good sermon, of our duty to imitate the lives and +practice of Christ and the saints departed, and did it very handsomely +and excellent stile; but was a little overlarge in magnifying the graces +of the nobility and prelates, that we have seen in our memorys in the +world, whom God hath taken from us. At the end of the sermon an +excellent anthem; but it was a pleasant thing, an idle companion in our +pew, a prating, bold counsellor that hath been heretofore at the Navy +Office, and noted for a great eater and drinker, not for quantity, but of +the best, his name Tom Bales, said, "I know a fitter anthem for this +sermon," speaking only of our duty of following the saints, and I know +not what. "Cooke should have sung, 'Come, follow, follow me.'" I After +sermon up into the gallery, and then to Sir G. Carteret's to dinner; +where much company. Among others, Mr. Carteret and my Lady Jemimah, and +here was also Mr. [John] Ashburnham, the great man, who is a pleasant +man, and that hath seen much of the world, and more of the Court. After +dinner Sir G. Carteret and I to another room, and he tells me more and +more of our want of money and in how ill condition we are likely to be +soon in, and that he believes we shall not have a fleete at sea the next +year. So do I believe; but he seems to speak it as a thing expected by +the King and as if their matters were laid accordingly. Thence into the +Court and there delivered copies of my report to my Lord Treasurer, to +the Duke of York, Sir W. Coventry, and others, and attended there till +the Council met, and then was called in, and I read my letter. My Lord +Treasurer declared that the King had nothing to give till the Parliament +did give him some money. So the King did of himself bid me to declare to +all that would take our tallys for payment, that he should, soon as the +Parliament's money do come in, take back their tallys, and give them +money: which I giving him occasion to repeat to me, it coming from him +against the 'gre' + + [Apparently a translation of the French 'contre le gre', and + presumably an expression in common use. "Against the grain" is + generally supposed to have its origin in the use of a plane against + the grain of the wood.] + +I perceive, of my Lord Treasurer, I was content therewith, and went out, +and glad that I have got so much. Here staid till the Council rose, +walking in the gallery. All the talke being of Scotland, where the +highest report, I perceive, runs but upon three or four hundred in armes; +but they believe that it will grow more, and do seem to apprehend it +much, as if the King of France had a hand in it. My Lord Lauderdale do +make nothing of it, it seems, and people do censure him for it, he from +the beginning saying that there was nothing in it, whereas it do appear +to be a pure rebellion; but no persons of quality being in it, all do +hope that it cannot amount to much. Here I saw Mrs. Stewart this +afternoon, methought the beautifullest creature that ever I saw in my +life, more than ever I thought her so, often as I have seen her; and I +begin to think do exceed my Lady Castlemayne, at least now. This being +St. Catherine's day, the Queene was at masse by seven o'clock this +morning; and. Mr. Ashburnham do say that he never saw any one have so +much zeale in his life as she hath: and, the question being asked by my +Lady Carteret, much beyond the bigotry that ever the old Queen-mother +had. I spoke with Mr. Maya who tells me that the design of building the +City do go on apace, and by his description it will be mighty handsome, +and to the satisfaction of the people; but I pray God it come not out too +late. The Council up, after speaking with Sir W. Coventry a little, away +home with Captain Cocke in his coach, discourse about the forming of. +his contract he made with us lately for hempe, and so home, where we +parted, and I find my uncle Wight and Mrs. Wight and Woolly, who staid +and supped, and mighty merry together, and then I to my chamber to even +my journal, and then to bed. I will remember that Mr. Ashburnham to-day +at dinner told how the rich fortune Mrs. Mallett reports of her servants; +that my Lord Herbert would have had her; my Lord Hinchingbroke was +indifferent to have her; + + [They had quarrelled (see August 26th). She, perhaps, was piqued at + Lord Hinchingbroke's refusal "to compass the thing without consent + of friends" (see February 25th), whence her expression, + "indifferent" to have her. It is worthy of remark that their + children intermarried; Lord Hinchingbroke's son married Lady + Rochester's daughter.--B.] + +my Lord John Butler might not have her; my Lord of Rochester would have +forced her; + + [Of the lady thus sought after, whom Pepys calls "a beauty" as well + as a fortune, and who shortly afterwards, about the 4th February, + 1667, became the wife of the Earl of Rochester, then not twenty + years old, no authentic portrait is known to exist. When Mr. + Miller, of Albemarle Street, in 1811, proposed to publish an edition + of the "Memoires de Grammont," he sent an artist to Windsor to copy + there the portraits which he could find of those who figure in that + work. In the list given to him for this purpose was the name of + Lady Rochester. Not finding amongst the "Beauties," or elsewhere, + any genuine portrait of her, but seeing that by Hamilton she is + absurdly styled "une triste heritiere," the, artist made a drawing + from some unknown portrait at Windsor of a lady of a sorrowful + countenance, and palmed it off upon the bookseller. In the edition + of "Grammont" it is not actually called Lady Rochester, but "La + Triste Heritiere." A similar falsification had been practised in + Edwards's edition of 1793, but a different portrait had been copied. + It is needless, almost, to remark how ill applied is Hamilton's + epithet.--B.] + +and Sir ------ Popham, who nevertheless is likely to have her, would kiss +her breach to have her. + + + +26th. Up, and to my chamber to do some business. Then to speak with +several people, among others with Mrs. Burroughs, whom I appointed to +meet me at the New Exchange in the afternoon. I by water to Westminster, +and there to enquire after my tallies, which I shall get this week. +Thence to the Swan, having sent for some burnt claret, and there by and +by comes Doll Lane, and she and I sat and drank and talked a great while, +among other things about her sister's being brought to bed, and I to be +godfather to the girle. I did tumble Doll, and do almost what I would +with her, and so parted, and I took coach, and to the New Exchange, +buying a neat's tongue by the way, thinking to eat it out of town, but +there I find Burroughs in company of an old woman, an aunt of hers, whom +she could not leave for half an hour. So after buying a few baubles to +while away time, I down to Westminster, and there into the House of +Parliament, where, at a great Committee, I did hear, as long as I would, +the great case against my Lord Mordaunt, for some arbitrary proceedings +of his against one Taylor, whom he imprisoned, and did all the violence +to imaginable, only to get him to give way to his abusing his daughter. +Here was Mr. Sawyer, my old chamber-fellow, a counsel against my Lord; +and I am glad to see him in so good play. Here I met, before the +committee sat, with my cozen Roger Pepys, the first time I have spoke +with him this parliament. He hath promised to come, and bring Madam +Turner with him, who is come to towne to see the City, but hath lost all +her goods of all kinds in Salisbury Court, Sir William Turner having not +endeavoured, in her absence, to save one penny, to dine with me on Friday +next, of which I am glad. Roger bids me to help him to some good rich +widow; for he is resolved to go, and retire wholly, into the country; +for, he says, he is confident we shall be all ruined very speedily, by +what he sees in the State, and I am much in his mind. Having staid as +long as I thought fit for meeting of Burroughs, I away and to the 'Change +again, but there I do not find her now, I having staid too long at the +House, and therefore very hungry, having eat nothing to-day. Home, and +there to eat presently, and then to the office a little, and to Sir W. +Batten, where Sir J. Minnes and Captain Cocke was; but no newes from the +North at all to-day; and the newes-book makes the business nothing, but +that they are all dispersed. I pray God it may prove so. So home, and, +after a little, to my chamber to bed. + + + +27th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and here I +had a letter from Mr. Brisband on another occasion, which, by the by, +intimates my Lord Hinchingbroke's intention to come and dine with me +to-morrow. This put me into a great surprise, and therefore endeavoured +all I could to hasten over our business at the office, and so home at +noon and to dinner, and then away by coach, it being a very foul day, to +White Hall, and there at Sir G. Carteret's find my Lord Hinchingbroke, +who promises to dine with me to-morrow, and bring Mr. Carteret along with +him. Here I staid a little while talking with him and the ladies, and +then away to my Lord Crew's, and then did by the by make a visit to my +Lord Crew, and had some good discourse with him, he doubting that all +will break in pieces in the kingdom; and that the taxes now coming out, +which will tax the same man in three or four several capacities, as for +lands, office, profession, and money at interest, will be the hardest +that ever come out; and do think that we owe it, and the lateness of its +being given, wholly to the unpreparedness of the King's own party, to +make their demand and choice; for they have obstructed the giving it by +land-tax, which had been done long since. Having ended my visit, I spoke +to Sir Thomas Crew, to invite him and his brother John to dinner +tomorrow, at my house, to meet Lord Hinchingbroke; and so homewards, +calling at the cook's, who is to dress it, to bespeak him, and then home, +and there set things in order for a very fine dinner, and then to the +office, where late very busy and to good purpose as to dispatch of +business, and then home. To bed, my people sitting up to get things in +order against to-morrow. This evening was brought me what Griffin had, +as he says, taken this evening off of the table in the office, a letter +sealed and directed to the Principal Officers and Commissioners of the +Navy. It is a serious and just libel against our disorder in paying of +our money, making ten times more people wait than we have money for, and +complaining by name of Sir W. Batten for paying away great sums to +particular people, which is true. I was sorry to see this way of +reproach taken against us, but more sorry that there is true ground for +it. + + + +28th. Up, and with Sir W. Pen to White Hall (setting his lady and +daughter down by the way at a mercer's in the Strand, where they are +going to lay out some money), where, though it blows hard and rains hard, +yet the Duke of York is gone a-hunting. We therefore lost our labour, +and so back again, and by hackney coach to secure places to get things +ready against dinner, and then home, and did the like there, and to my +great satisfaction: and at noon comes my Lord Hinchingbroke, Sir Thomas +Crew, Mr. John Crew, Mr. Carteret, and Brisband. I had six noble dishes +for them, dressed by a man-cook, and commended, as indeed they deserved, +for exceeding well done. We eat with great pleasure, and I enjoyed +myself in it with reflections upon the pleasures which I at best can +expect, yet not to exceed this; eating in silver plates, and all things +mighty rich and handsome about me. A great deal of fine discourse, +sitting almost till dark at dinner, and then broke up with great +pleasure, especially to myself; and they away, only Mr. Carteret and I to +Gresham College, where they meet now weekly again, and here they had good +discourse how this late experiment of the dog, which is in perfect good +health, may be improved for good uses to men, and other pretty things, +and then broke up. Here was Mr. Henry Howard, that will hereafter be +Duke of Norfolke, who is admitted this day into the Society, and being a +very proud man, and one that values himself upon his family, writes his +name, as he do every where, Henry Howard of Norfolke. Thence home and +there comes my Lady Pen, Pegg, and Mrs. Turner, and played at cards and +supped with us, and were pretty merry, and Pegg with me in my closet a +good while, and did suffer me 'a la baiser mouche et toucher ses cosas' +upon her breast, wherein I had great pleasure, and so spent the evening +and then broke up, and I to bed, my mind mightily pleased with the day's +entertainment. + + + +29th. Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning. At noon home +to dinner, where I find Balty come out to see us, but looks like death, +and I do fear he is in a consumption; he has not been abroad many weeks +before, and hath now a well day, and a fit day of the headake in +extraordinary torture. After dinner left him and his wife, they having +their mother hard by and my wife, and I a wet afternoon to White Hall to +have seen my Lady Carteret and Jemimah, but as God would have it they +were abroad, and I was well contented at it. So my wife and I to +Westminster Hall, where I left her a little, and to the Exchequer, and +then presently home again, calling at our man-cooke's for his help to- +morrow, but he could not come. So I home to the office, my people all +busy to get a good dinner to-morrow again. I late at the office, and all +the newes I hear I put into a letter this night to my Lord Bruncker at +Chatham, thus:-- + + "I doubt not of your lordship's hearing of Sir Thomas Clifford's + succeeding Sir H. Pollard' in the Comptrollership of the King's + house; but perhaps our ill, but confirmed, tidings from the + Barbadoes may not [have reached you] yet, it coming but yesterday; + viz., that about eleven ships, whereof two of the King's, the Hope + and Coventry, going thence with men to attack St. Christopher's, + were seized by a violent hurricane, and all sunk--two only of + thirteen escaping, and those with loss of masts, &c. My Lord + Willoughby himself is involved in the disaster, and I think two + ships thrown upon an island of the French, and so all the men, to + 500, become their prisoners. 'Tis said, too, that eighteen Dutch + men-of-war are passed the Channell, in order to meet with our Smyrna + ships; and some, I hear, do fright us with the King of Sweden's + seizing our mast-ships at Gottenburgh. But we have too much ill + newes true, to afflict ourselves with what is uncertain. That which + I hear from Scotland is, the Duke of York's saying, yesterday, that + he is confident the Lieutenant-Generall there hath driven them into + a pound, somewhere towards the mountains." + +Having writ my letter, I home to supper and to bed, the world being +mightily troubled at the ill news from Barbadoes, and the consequence of +the Scotch business, as little as we do make of it. And to shew how mad +we are at home, here, and unfit for any troubles: my Lord St. John did, +a day or two since, openly pull a gentleman in Westminster Hall by the +nose, one Sir Andrew Henly, while the judges were upon their benches, and +the other gentleman did give him a rap over the pate with his cane, of +which fray the judges, they say, will make a great matter: men are only +sorry the gentle man did proceed to return a blow; for, otherwise, my +Lord would have been soundly fined for the affront, and may be yet for +his affront to the judges. + + + +30th. Up, and with Sir W. Batten to White Hall, and there we did attend +the Duke of York, and had much business with him; and pretty to see, it +being St. Andrew's day, how some few did wear St. Andrew's crosse; but +most did make a mockery at it, and the House of Parliament, contrary to +practice, did sit also: people having no mind to observe the Scotch +saints' days till they hear better newes from Scotland. Thence to +Westminster Hall and the Abbey, thinking as I had appointed to have met +Mrs. Burroughs there, but not meeting her I home, and just overtook my +cozen Roger Pepys, Mrs. Turner, Dicke, and Joyce Norton, coming by +invitation to dine with me. These ladies I have not seen since before +the plague. Mrs. Turner is come to towne to look after her things in her +house, but all is lost. She is quite weary of the country, but cannot +get her husband to let her live here any more, which troubles her +mightily. She was mighty angry with me, that in all this time I never +writ to her, which I do think and take to myself as a fault, and which I +have promised to mend. Here I had a noble and costly dinner for them, +dressed by a man-cooke, as that the other day was, and pretty merry we +were, as I could be with this company and so great a charge. We sat +long, and after much talk of the plenty of her country in fish, but in +nothing also that is pleasing, we broke up with great kindness, and when +it begun to be dark we parted, they in one coach home, and I in another +to Westminster Hall, where by appointment Mrs. Burroughs and I were to +meet, but did not after I had spent the whole evening there. Only I did +go drink at the Swan, and there did meet with Sarah, who is now newly +married, and there I did lay the beginnings of a future 'amour con elle'. +. . . . Thence it being late away called at Mrs. Burroughs' mother's +door, and she come out to me, and I did hazer whatever I would . . . . +and then parted, and home, and after some playing at cards with my wife, +we to supper and to bed. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +Amending of bad blood by borrowing from a better body +And for his beef, says he, "Look how fat it is" +First their apes, that they may be afterwards their slaves +For a land-tax and against a general excise +I had six noble dishes for them, dressed by a man-cook +In opposition to France, had made us throw off their fashion +Magnifying the graces of the nobility and prelates +Origin in the use of a plane against the grain of the wood +Play on the harpsicon, till she tired everybody +Reading to my wife and brother something in Chaucer +Said that there hath been a design to poison the King +Tax the same man in three or four several capacities +There I did lay the beginnings of a future 'amour con elle' +Too much ill newes true, to afflict ourselves with uncertain +What I had writ foule in short hand + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v53 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + diff --git a/old/sp54g10.zip b/old/sp54g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..bc908e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp54g10.zip |