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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, December 1666 + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Release Date: December 1, 2004 [EBook #4170] + +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. + DECEMBER + 1666 + +December 1st. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At +home to dinner, and then abroad walking to the Old Swan, and in my way I +did see a cellar in Tower Streete in a very fresh fire, the late great +winds having blown it up. + + [The fire continued burning in some cellars of the ruins of the city + for four months, though it rained in the month of October ten days + without ceasing (Rugge's "Diurnal").--B.] + +It seemed to be only of log-wood, that Hath kept the fire all this while +in it. Going further, I met my late Lord Mayor Bludworth, under whom the +City was burned, and went with him by water to White Hall. But, Lord! the +silly talk that this fellow had, only how ready he would be to part with +all his estate in these difficult times to advance the King's service, and +complaining that now, as every body did lately in the fire, every body +endeavours to save himself, and let the whole perish: but a very weak man +he seems to be. I left him at White Hall, he giving 6d. towards the boat, +and I to Westminster Hall, where I was again defeated in my expectation of +Burroughs. However, I was not much sorry for it, but by coach home, in +the evening, calling at Faythorne's, buying three of my Lady Castlemayne's +heads, printed this day, which indeed is, as to the head, I think, a very +fine picture, and like her. I did this afternoon get Mrs. Michell to let +me only have a sight of a pamphlet lately printed, but suppressed and much +called after, called "The Catholique's Apology;" lamenting the severity of +the Parliament against them, and comparing it with the lenity of other +princes to Protestants; giving old and late instances of their loyalty to +their princes, whatever is objected against them; and excusing their +disquiets in Queen Elizabeth's time, for that it was impossible for them +to think her a lawfull Queen, if Queen Mary, who had been owned as such, +were so; one being the daughter of the true, and the other of a false +wife: and that of the Gunpowder Treason, by saying that it was only the +practice of some of us, if not the King, to trepan some of their religion +into it, it never being defended by the generality of their Church, nor +indeed known by them; and ends with a large Catalogue, in red letters, of +the Catholiques which have lost their lives in the quarrel of the late +King and this. The thing is very well writ indeed. So home to my +letters, and then to my supper and to bed. + +2nd (Lord's day). Up, and to church, and after church home to dinner, +where I met Betty Michell and her husband, very merry at dinner, and after +dinner, having borrowed Sir W. Pen's coach, we to Westminster, they two +and my wife and I to Mr. Martin's, where find the company almost all come +to the christening of Mrs. Martin's child, a girl. A great deal of good +plain company. After sitting long, till the church was done, the Parson +comes, and then we to christen the child. I was Godfather, and Mrs. +Holder (her husband, a good man, I know well), and a pretty lady, that +waits, it seems, on my Lady Bath, at White Hall, her name, Mrs. Noble, +were Godmothers. After the christening comes in the wine and the +sweetmeats, and then to prate and tattle, and then very good company they +were, and I among them. Here was old Mrs. Michell and Howlett, and +several married women of the Hall, whom I knew mayds. Here was also Mrs. +Burroughs and Mrs. Bales, the young widow, whom I led home, and having +staid till the moon was up, I took my pretty gossip to White Hall with us, +and I saw her in her lodging, and then my owne company again took coach, +and no sooner in the coach but something broke, that we were fain there to +stay till a smith could be fetched, which was above an hour, and then it +costing me 6s. to mend. Away round by the wall and Cow Lane, + + [Cow Lane, West Smithfield (now named King Street), was famous for + its coachmakers.] + +for fear it should break again; and in pain about the coach all the way. +But to ease myself therein Betty Michell did sit at the same end with me . +. . . Being very much pleased with this, we at last come home, and so +to supper, and then sent them by boat home, and we to bed. When I come +home I went to Sir W. Batten's, and there I hear more ill newes still: +that all our New England fleete, which went out lately, are put back a +third time by foul weather, and dispersed, some to one port and some to +another; and their convoys also to Plymouth; and whether any of them be +lost or not, we do not know. This, added to all the rest, do lay us flat +in our hopes and courages, every body prophesying destruction to the +nation. + +3rd. Up, and, among a great many people that come to speak with me, one +was my Lord Peterborough's gentleman, who comes to me to dun me to get +some money advanced for my Lord; and I demanding what newes, he tells me +that at Court they begin to fear the business of Scotland more and more; +and that the Duke of York intends to go to the North to raise an army, and +that the King would have some of the Nobility and others to go and assist; +but they were so served the last year, among others his Lord, in raising +forces at their own charge, for fear of the French invading us, that they +will not be got out now, without money advanced to them by the King, and +this is like to be the King's case for certain, if ever he comes to have +need of any army. He and others gone, I by water to Westminster, and +there to the Exchequer, and put my tallys in a way of doing for the last +quarter. But my not following it the last week has occasioned the clerks +some trouble, which I am sorry for, and they are mad at. Thence at noon +home, and there find Kate Joyce, who dined with me: Her husband and she +are weary of their new life of being an Innkeeper, and will leave it, and +would fain get some office; but I know none the foole is fit for, but +would be glad to help them, if I could, though they have enough to live +on, God be thanked! though their loss hath been to the value of L3000 W. +Joyce now has all the trade, she says, the trade being come to that end of +the towne. She dined with me, my wife being ill of her months in bed. I +left her with my wife, and away myself to Westminster Hall by appointment +and there found out Burroughs, and I took her by coach as far as the Lord +Treasurer's and called at the cake house by Hales's, and there in the +coach eat and drank and then carried her home . . . . So having set +her down in the palace I to the Swan, and there did the first time +'baiser' the little sister of Sarah that is come into her place, and so +away by coach home, where to my vyall and supper and then to bed, being +weary of the following of my pleasure and sorry for my omitting (though +with a true salvo to my vowes) the stating my last month's accounts in +time, as I should, but resolve to settle, and clear all my business before +me this month, that I may begin afresh the next yeare, and enjoy some +little pleasure freely at Christmasse. So to bed, and with more +cheerfulness than I have done a good while, to hear that for certain the +Scott rebells are all routed; they having been so bold as to come within +three miles of Edinburgh, and there given two or three repulses to the +King's forces, but at last were mastered. Three or four hundred killed or +taken, among which their leader, one Wallis, and seven ministers, they +having all taken the Covenant a few days before, and sworn to live and die +in it, as they did; and so all is likely to be there quiet again. There +is also the very good newes come of four New-England ships come home safe +to Falmouth with masts for the King; which is a blessing mighty +unexpected, and without which, if for nothing else, we must have failed +the next year. But God be praised for thus much good fortune, and send us +the continuance of his favour in other things! So to bed. + +4th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon dined +at home. After dinner presently to my office, and there late and then +home to even my Journall and accounts, and then to supper much eased in +mind, and last night's good news, which is more and more confirmed with +particulars to very good purpose, and so to bed. + +5th. Up, and by water to White Hall, where we did much business before +the Duke of York, which being done, I away home by water again, and there +to my office till noon busy. At noon home, and Goodgroome dined with us, +who teaches my wife to sing. After dinner I did give him my song, "Beauty +retire," which he has often desired of me, and without flattery I think is +a very good song. He gone, I to the office, and there late, very busy +doing much business, and then home to supper and talk, and then scold with +my wife for not reckoning well the times that her musique master hath been +with her, but setting down more than I am sure, and did convince her, they +had been with her, and in an ill humour of anger with her to bed. + +6th. Up, but very good friends with her before I rose, and so to the +office, where we sat all the forenoon, and then home to dinner, where +Harman dined with us, and great sport to hear him tell how Will Joyce +grows rich by the custom of the City coming to his end of the towne, and +how he rants over his brother and sister for their keeping an Inne, and +goes thither and tears like a prince, calling him hosteller and his sister +hostess. Then after dinner, my wife and brother, in another habit; go out +to see a play; but I am not to take notice that I know of my brother's +going. So I to the office, where very busy till late at night, and then +home. My wife not pleased with the play, but thinks that it is because +she is grown more critical than she used to be, but my brother she says is +mighty taken with it. So to supper and to bed. This day, in the Gazette, +is the whole story of defeating the Scotch rebells, and of the creation of +the Duke of Cambridge, Knight of the Garter. + +7th. Up, and by water to the Exchequer, where I got my tallys finished +for the last quarter for Tangier, and having paid all my fees I to the +Swan, whither I sent for some oysters, and thither comes Mr. Falconbridge +and Spicer and many more clerks; and there we eat and drank, and a great +deal of their sorry discourse, and so parted, and I by coach home, meeting +Balty in the streete about Charing Crosse walking, which I am glad to see +and spoke to him about his mustering business, I being now to give an +account how the several muster-masters have behaved themselves, and so +home to dinner, where finding the cloth laid and much crumpled but clean, +I grew angry and flung the trenchers about the room, and in a mighty heat +I was: so a clean cloth was laid, and my poor wife very patient, and so to +dinner, and in comes Mrs. Barbara Sheldon, now Mrs. Wood, and dined with +us, she mighty fine, and lives, I perceive, mighty happily, which I am +glad [of] for her sake, but hate her husband for a block-head in his +choice. So away after dinner, leaving my wife and her, and by water to +the Strand, and so to the King's playhouse, where two acts were almost +done when I come in; and there I sat with my cloak about my face, and saw +the remainder of "The Mayd's Tragedy;" a good play, and well acted, +especially by the younger Marshall, who is become a pretty good actor, and +is the first play I have seen in either of the houses since before the +great plague, they having acted now about fourteen days publickly. But I +was in mighty pain lest I should be seen by any body to be at a play. +Soon as done I home, and then to my office awhile, and then home and spent +the night evening my Tangier accounts, much to my satisfaction, and then +to supper, and mighty good friends with my poor wife, and so to bed. + +8th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon +home to dinner, and there find Mr. Pierce and his wife and Betty, a pretty +girle, who in discourse at table told me the great Proviso passed the +House of Parliament yesterday; which makes the King and Court mad, the +King having given order to my Lord Chamberlain to send to the playhouses +and bawdy houses, to bid all the Parliament-men that were there to go to +the Parliament presently. This is true, it seems; but it was carried +against the Court by thirty or forty voices. It is a Proviso to the Poll +Bill, that there shall be a Committee of nine persons that shall have the +inspection upon oath, and power of giving others, of all the accounts of +the money given and spent for this warr. This hath a most sad face, and +will breed very ill blood. He tells me, brought in by Sir Robert Howard, +who is one of the King's servants, at least hath a great office, and hath +got, they say, L20,000 since the King come in. Mr. Pierce did also tell me +as a great truth, as being told it by Mr. Cowly, who was by, and heard it, +that Tom Killigrew should publiquely tell the King that his matters were +coming into a very ill state; but that yet there was a way to help all, +which is, says he, "There is a good, honest, able man, that I could name, +that if your Majesty would employ, and command to see all things well +executed, all things would soon be mended; and this is one Charles Stuart, +who now spends his time in employing his lips . . . . about the Court, +and hath no other employment; but if you would give him this employment, +he were the fittest man in the world to perform it." This, he says, is +most true; but the King do not profit by any of this, but lays all aside, +and remembers nothing, but to his pleasures again; which is a sorrowful +consideration. Very good company we were at dinner, and merry, and after +dinner, he being gone about business, my wife and I and Mrs. Pierce and +Betty and Balty, who come to see us to-day very sick, and went home not +well, together out, and our coach broke the wheel off upon Ludgate Hill. +So we were fain to part ourselves and get room in other people's coaches, +and Mrs. Pierce and I in one, and I carried her home and set her down, and +myself to the King's playhouse, which troubles me since, and hath cost me +a forfeit of 10s., which I have paid, and there did see a good part of +"The English Monsieur," which is a mighty pretty play, very witty and +pleasant. And the women do very well; but, above all, little Nelly; that +I am mightily pleased with the play, and much with the House, more than +ever I expected, the women doing better than ever I expected, and very +fine women. Here I was in pain to be seen, and hid myself; but, as God +would have it, Sir John Chichly come, and sat just by me. Thence to Mrs. +Pierce's, and there took up my wife and away home, and to the office and +Sir W. Batten's, of whom I hear that this Proviso in Parliament is +mightily ill taken by all the Court party as a mortal blow, and that, that +strikes deep into the King's prerogative, which troubles me mightily. +Home, and set some papers right in my chamber, and then to supper and to +bed, we being in much fear of ill news of our colliers. A fleete of two +hundred sail, and fourteen Dutch men-of-war between them and us and they +coming home with small convoy; and the City in great want, coals being at +L3 3s. per chaldron, as I am told. I saw smoke in the ruines this very +day. + +9th (Lord's day). Up, not to church, but to my chamber, and there begun +to enter into this book my journall of September, which in the fire-time I +could not enter here, but in loose papers. At noon dined, and then to my +chamber all the afternoon and night, looking over and tearing and burning +all the unnecessary letters, which I have had upon my file for four or +five years backward, which I intend to do quite through all my papers, +that I may have nothing by me but what is worth keeping, and fit to be +seen, if I should miscarry. At this work till midnight, and then to +supper and to bed. + +10th. Up, and at my office all the morning, and several people with me, +Sir W. Warren, who I do every day more and more admire for a miracle of +cunning and forecast in his business, and then Captain Cocke, with whom I +walked in the garden, and he tells me how angry the Court is at the late +Proviso brought in by the House. How still my Lord Chancellor is, not +daring to do or say any thing to displease the Parliament; that the +Parliament is in a very ill humour, and grows every day more and more so; +and that the unskilfulness of the Court, and their difference among one +another, is the occasion of all not agreeing in what they would have, and +so they give leisure and occasion to the other part to run away with what +the Court would not have. Then comes Mr. Gawden, and he and I in my +chamber discoursing about his business, and to pay him some Tangier orders +which he delayed to receive till I had money instead of tallies, but do +promise me consideration for my victualling business for this year, and +also as Treasurer for Tangier, which I am glad of, but would have been +gladder to have just now received it. He gone, I alone to dinner at home, +my wife and her people being gone down the river to-day for pleasure, +though a cold day and dark night to come up. In the afternoon I to the +Excise Office to enter my tallies, which I did, and come presently back +again, and then to the office and did much business, and then home to +supper, my wife and people being come well and hungry home from Erith. +Then I to begin the setting of a Base to "It is Decreed," and so to bed. + +11th. Up, and to the office, where we sat, and at noon home to dinner, a +small dinner because of a good supper. After dinner my wife and I by +coach to St. Clement's Church, to Mrs. Turner's lodgings, hard by, to take +our leaves of her. She is returning into the North to her children, +where, I perceive, her husband hath clearly got the mastery of her, and +she is likely to spend her days there, which for her sake I am a little +sorry for, though for his it is but fit she should live where he hath a +mind. Here were several people come to see and take leave of her, she +going to-morrow: among others, my Lady Mordant, which was Betty Turner, a +most homely widow, but young, and pretty rich, and good natured. Thence, +having promised to write every month to her, we home, and I to my office, +while my wife to get things together for supper. Dispatching my business +at the office. Anon come our guests, old Mr. Batelier, and his son and +daughter, Mercer, which was all our company. We had a good venison pasty +and other good cheer, and as merry as in so good, innocent, and +understanding company I could be. He is much troubled that wines, laden +by him in France before the late proclamation was out, cannot now be +brought into England, which is so much to his and other merchants' loss. +We sat long at supper and then to talk, and so late parted and so to bed. +This day the Poll Bill was to be passed, and great endeavours used to take +away the Proviso. + +12th. Up, and to the office, where some accounts of Mr. Gawden's were +examined, but I home most of the morning to even some accounts with Sir H. +Cholmly, Mr. Moone, and others one after another. Sir H. Cholmly did with +grief tell me how the Parliament hath been told plainly that the King hath +been heard to say, that he would dissolve them rather than pass this Bill +with the Proviso; but tells me, that the Proviso is removed, and now +carried that it shall be done by a Bill by itself. He tells me how the +King hath lately paid about L30,000 + + [Two thousand pounds of this sum went to Alderman Edward Bakewell + for two diamond rings, severally charged L1000 and L900, bought + March 14th, 1665-66 (Second addenda to Steinman's "Memoir of the + Duchess of Cleveland," privately printed, 1878, p. 4.).] + +to clear debts of my Lady Castlemayne's; and that she and her husband are +parted for ever, upon good terms, never to trouble one another more. He +says that he hears L400,000 hath gone into the Privypurse since this warr; +and that that hath consumed so much of our money, and makes the King and +Court so mad to be brought to discover it. He gone, and after him the +rest, I to the office, and at noon to the 'Change, where the very good +newes is just come of our four ships from Smyrna, come safe without convoy +even into the Downes, without seeing any enemy; which is the best, and +indeed only considerable good newes to our Exchange, since the burning of +the City; and it is strange to see how it do cheer up men's hearts. Here +I saw shops now come to be in this Exchange, and met little Batelier, who +sits here but at L3 per annum, whereas he sat at the other at L100, which +he says he believes will prove of as good account to him now as the other +did at that rent. From the 'Change to Captain Cocke's, and there, by +agreement, dined, and there was Charles Porter, Temple, Fern, Debasty, +whose bad English and pleasant discourses was exceeding good +entertainment, Matt. Wren, Major Cooper, and myself, mighty merry and +pretty discourse. They talked for certain, that now the King do follow +Mrs. Stewart wholly, and my Lady Castlemayne not above once a week; that +the Duke of York do not haunt my Lady Denham so much; that she troubles +him with matters of State, being of my Lord Bristoll's faction, and that +he avoids; that she is ill still. After dinner I away to the office, +where we sat late upon Mr. Gawden's accounts, Sir J. Minnes being gone +home sick. I late at the office, and then home to supper and to bed, +being mightily troubled with a pain in the small of my back, through cold, +or (which I think most true) my straining last night to get open my plate +chest, in such pain all night I could not turn myself in my bed. Newes +this day from Brampton, of Mr. Ensum, my sister's sweetheart, being dead: +a clowne. + +13th. Up, and to the office, where we sat. At noon to the 'Change and +there met Captain Cocke, and had a second time his direction to bespeak +L100 of plate, which I did at Sir R. Viner's, being twelve plates more, +and something else I have to choose. Thence home to dinner, and there W. +Hewer dined with me, and showed me a Gazette, in April last, which I +wonder should never be remembered by any body, which tells how several +persons were then tried for their lives, and were found guilty of a design +of killing the King and destroying the Government; and as a means to it, +to burn the City; and that the day intended for the plot was the 3rd of +last September. + + [The "Gazette" of April 23rd-26th, 1666, which contains the + following remarkable passage: "At the Sessions in the Old Bailey, + John Rathbone, an old army colonel, William Saunders, Henry Tucker, + Thomas Flint, Thomas Evans, John Myles, Will. Westcot, and John + Cole, officers or soldiers in the late Rebellion, were indicted for + conspiring the death of his Majesty and the overthrow of the + Government. Having laid their plot and contrivance for the + surprisal of the Tower, the killing his Grace the Lord General, Sir + John Robinson, Lieutenant of the Tower, and Sir Richard Brown; and + then to have declared for an equal division of lands, &c. The + better to effect this hellish design, the City was to have been + fired, and the portcullis let down to keep out all assistance; and + the Horse Guards to have been surprised in the inns where they were + quartered, several ostlers having been gained for that purpose. The + Tower was accordingly viewed, and its surprise ordered by boats over + the moat, and from thence to scale the wall. One Alexander, not yet + taken, had likewise distributed money to these conspirators; and, + for the carrying on the design more effectually, they were told of a + Council of the great ones that sat frequently in London, from whom + issued all orders; which Council received their directions from + another in Holland, who sat with the States; and that the third of + September was pitched on for the attempt, as being found by Lilly's + Almanack, and a scheme erected for that purpose, to be a lucky day, + a planet then ruling which prognosticated the downfall of Monarchy. + The evidence against these persons was very full and clear, and they + were accordingly found guilty of High Treason." See November 10th, + 1666--B.] + +And the fire did indeed break out on the 2nd of September, which is very +strange, methinks, and I shall remember it. At the office all the +afternoon late, and then home to even my accounts in my Tangier book, +which I did to great content in all respects, and joy to my heart, and so +to bed. This afternoon Sir W. Warren and Mr. Moore, one after another, +walked with me in the garden, and they both tell me that my Lord Sandwich +is called home, and that he do grow more and more in esteem everywhere, +and is better spoken of, which I am mighty glad of, though I know well +enough his deserving the same before, and did foresee that it will come to +it. In mighty great pain in my back still, but I perceive it changes its +place, and do not trouble me at all in making of water, and that is my +joy, so that I believe it is nothing but a strain, and for these three or +four days I perceive my overworking of my eyes by candlelight do hurt them +as it did the last winter, that by day I am well and do get them right, +but then after candlelight they begin to be sore and run, so that I intend +to get some green spectacles. + +14th. Up, and very well again of my pain in my back, it having been +nothing but cold. By coach to White Hall, seeing many smokes of the fire +by the way yet, and took up into the coach with me a country gentleman, +who asked me room to go with me, it being dirty--one come out of the North +to see his son, after the burning his house: a merchant. Here endeavoured +to wait on the Duke of York, but he would not stay from the Parliament. +So I to Westminster Hall, and there met my good friend Mr. Evelyn, and +walked with him a good while, lamenting our condition for want of good +council, and the King's minding of his business and servants. I out to +the Bell Taverne, and thither comes Doll to me . . . ., and after an +hour's stay, away and staid in Westminster Hall till the rising of the +house, having told Mr. Evelyn, and he several others, of my Gazette which +I had about me that mentioned in April last a plot for which several were +condemned of treason at the Old Bayly for many things, and among others +for a design of burning the city on the 3rd of September. The house sat +till three o'clock, and then up: and I home with Sir Stephen Fox to his +house to dinner, and the Cofferer with us. There I find Sir S. Fox's lady, +a fine woman, and seven the prettiest children of theirs that ever I knew +almost. A very genteel dinner, and in great state and fashion, and +excellent discourse; and nothing like an old experienced man and a +courtier, and such is the Cofferer Ashburnham. The House have been mighty +hot to-day against the Paper Bill, showing all manner of averseness to +give the King money; which these courtiers do take mighty notice of, and +look upon the others as bad rebells as ever the last were. But the +courtiers did carry it against those men upon a division of the House, a +great many, that it should be committed; and so it was: which they reckon +good news. After dinner we three to the Excise Office, and there had long +discourse about our monies, but nothing to satisfaction, that is, to shew +any way of shortening the time which our tallies take up before they +become payable, which is now full two years, which is 20 per, cent. for +all the King's money for interest, and the great disservice of his Majesty +otherwise. Thence in the evening round by coach home, where I find +Foundes his present, of a fair pair of candlesticks, and half a dozen of +plates come, which cost him full L50, and is a very good present; and here +I met with, sealed up, from Sir H. Cholmly, the lampoone, or the +Mocke-Advice to a Paynter, + + [In a broadside (1680), quoted by Mr. G. T. Drury in his edition of + Waller's Poems, 1893, satirical reference is made to the fashionable + form of advice to the painters + + "Each puny brother of the rhyming trade + At every turn implores the Painter's aid, + And fondly enamoured of own foul brat + Cries in an ecstacy, Paint this, draw that." + + The series was continued, for we find "Advice to a Painter upon the + Defeat of the Rebels in the West and the Execution of the late Duke + of Monmouth" ("Poems on Affairs of State," vol. ii., p. 148); + "Advice to a Painter, being a Satire on the French King," &c., 1692, + and "Advice to a Painter," 1697 ("Poems on Affairs of State," vol. + ii., p. 428).] + +abusing the Duke of York and my Lord Sandwich, Pen, and every body, and +the King himself, in all the matters of the navy and warr. I am sorry for +my Lord Sandwich's having so great a part in it. Then to supper and +musique, and to bed. + +15th. Up and to the office, where my Lord Bruncker newly come to town, +from his being at Chatham and Harwich to spy enormities: and at noon I +with him and his lady Williams, to Captain Cocke's, where a good dinner, +and very merry. Good news to-day upon the Exchange, that our Hamburgh +fleete is got in; and good hopes that we may soon have the like of our +Gottenburgh, and then we shall be well for this winter. Very merry at +dinner. And by and by comes in Matt. Wren from the Parliament-house; and +tells us that he and all his party of the House, which is the Court party, +are fools, and have been made so this day by the wise men of the other +side; for, after the Court party had carried it yesterday so powerfully +for the Paper-Bill, + + [It was called "A Bill for raising part of the supply for his + Majesty by an imposition on Sealed Paper and Parchment"--B.] + +yet now it is laid aside wholly, and to be supplied by a land-tax; which +it is true will do well, and will be the sooner finished, which was the +great argument for the doing of it. But then it shews them fools, that +they would not permit this to have been done six weeks ago, which they +might have had. And next, they have parted with the Paper Bill, which, +when once begun, might have proved a very good flower in the Crowne, as +any there. So do really say that they are truly outwitted by the other +side. Thence away to Sir R. Viner's, and there chose some plate besides +twelve plates which I purpose to have with Captain Cocke's gift of L100, +and so home and there busy late, and then home and to bed. + +16th (Lord's day). Lay long talking with my wife in bed, then up with +great content and to my chamber to set right a picture or two, Lovett +having sent me yesterday Sancta Clara's head varnished, which is very +fine, and now my closet is so full stored, and so fine, as I would never +desire to have it better. Dined without any strangers with me, which I do +not like on Sundays. Then after dinner by water to Westminster to see +Mrs. Martin, whom I found up in her chamber and ready to go abroad. I sat +there with her and her husband and others a pretty while, and then away to +White Hall, and there walked up and down to the Queen's side, and there +saw my dear Lady Castlemayne, who continues admirable, methinks, and I do +not hear but that the King is the same to her still as ever. Anon to +chapel, by the King's closet, and heard a very good anthemne. Then with +Lord Bruncker to Sir W. Coventry's chamber; and there we sat with him and +talked. He is weary of anything to do, he says, in the Navy. He tells us +this Committee of Accounts will enquire sharply into our office. And, +speaking of Sir J. Minnes, he says he will not bear any body's faults but +his own. He discoursed as bad of Sir W. Batten almost, and cries out upon +the discipline of the fleete, which is lost, and that there is not in any +of the fourth rates and under scarce left one Sea Commander, but all young +gentlemen; and what troubles him, he hears that the gentlemen give out +that in two or three years a Tarpaulin shall not dare to look after being +better than a Boatswain. Which he is troubled at, and with good reason, +and at this day Sir Robert Holmes is mighty troubled that his brother do +not command in chief, but is commanded by Captain Hannum, who, Sir W. +Coventry says, he believes to be at least of as good blood, is a longer +bred seaman, an elder officer, and an elder commander, but such is Sir R. +Holmes's pride as never to be stopt, he being greatly troubled at my Lord +Bruncker's late discharging all his men and officers but the standing +officers at Chatham, and so are all other Commanders, and a very great cry +hath been to the King from them all in my Lord's absence. But Sir W. +Coventry do undertake to defend it, and my Lord Bruncker got ground I +believe by it, who is angry at Sir W. Batten's and Sir W. Pen's bad words +concerning it, and I have made it worse by telling him that they refuse to +sign to a paper which he and I signed on Saturday to declare the reason of +his actions, which Sir W. Coventry likes and would have it sent him and he +will sign it, which pleases me well. So we parted, and I with Lord +Bruncker to Sir P. Neale's chamber, and there sat and talked awhile, Sir +Edward Walker being there, and telling us how he hath lost many fine +rowles of antiquity in heraldry by the late fire, but hath saved the most +of his papers. Here was also Dr. Wallis, the famous scholar and +mathematician; but he promises little. Left them, and in the dark and cold +home by water, and so to supper and to read and so to bed, my eyes being +better to-day, and I cannot impute it to anything but by my being much in +the dark to-night, for I plainly find that it is only excess of light that +makes my eyes sore. This after noon I walked with Lord Bruncker into the +Park and there talked of the times, and he do think that the King sees +that he cannot never have much more money or good from this Parliament, +and that therefore he may hereafter dissolve them, that as soon as he has +the money settled he believes a peace will be clapped up, and that there +are overtures of a peace, which if such as the Lord Chancellor can excuse +he will take. For it is the Chancellor's interest, he says, to bring peace +again, for in peace he can do all and command all, but in war he cannot, +because he understands not the nature of the war as to the management +thereof. He tells me he do not believe the Duke of York will go to sea +again, though there are a great many about the King that would be glad of +any occasion to take him out of the world, he standing in their ways; and +seemed to mean the Duke of Monmouth, who spends his time the most +viciously and idly of any man, nor will be fit for any thing; yet bespeaks +as if it were not impossible but the King would own him for his son, and +that there was a marriage between his mother and him; which God forbid +should be if it be not true, nor will the Duke of York easily be gulled in +it. But this put to our other distractions makes things appear very sad, +and likely to be the occasion of much confusion in a little time, and my +Lord Bruncker seems to say that nothing can help us but the King's making +a peace soon as he hath this money; and thereby putting himself out of +debt, and so becoming a good husband, and then he will neither need this +nor any other Parliament, till he can have one to his mind: for no +Parliament can, as he says, be kept long good, but they will spoil one +another, and that therefore it hath been the practice of kings to tell +Parliaments what he hath for them to do, and give them so long time to do +it in, and no longer. Harry Kembe, one of our messengers, is lately dead. + +17th. Up, and several people to speak with me, and then comes Mr. Caesar, +and then Goodgroome, and, what with one and the other, nothing but musique +with me this morning, to my great content; and the more, to see that God +Aimighty hath put me into condition to bear the charge of all this. So +out to the 'Change, and did a little business, and then home, where they +two musicians and Mr. Cooke come to see me, and Mercer to go along with my +wife this afternoon to a play. To dinner, and then our company all broke +up, and to my chamber to do several things. Among other things, to write +a letter to my Lord Sandwich, it being one of the burdens upon my mind +that I have not writ to him since he went into Spain, but now I do intend +to give him a brief account of our whole year's actions since he went, +which will make amends. My wife well home in the evening from the play; +which I was glad of, it being cold and dark, and she having her necklace +of pearl on, and none but Mercer with her. Spent the evening in fitting +my books, to have the number set upon each, in order to my having an +alphabet of my whole, which will be of great ease to me. This day Captain +Batters come from sea in his fireship and come to see me, poor man, as his +patron, and a poor painful wretch he is as can be. After supper to bed. + +18th. Up, and to the office, where I hear the ill news that poor Batters, +that had been born and bred a seaman, and brought up his ship from sea but +yesterday, was, going down from me to his ship, drowned in the Thames, +which is a sad fortune, and do make me afeard, and will do, more than ever +I was. At noon dined at home, and then by coach to my Lord Bellasses, but +not at home. So to Westminster Hall, where the Lords are sitting still, I +to see Mrs. Martin, who is very well, and intends to go abroad to-morrow +after her childbed. She do tell me that this child did come is 'meme jour +that it ought to hazer after my avoir ete con elle before her marid did +venir home . . . . Thence to the Swan, and there I sent for Sarah, +and mighty merry we were . . . . So to Sir Robert Viner's about my +plate, and carried home another dozen of plates, which makes my stock of +plates up 2 1/2 dozen, and at home find Mr. Thomas Andrews, with whom I +staid and talked a little and invited him to dine with me at Christmas, +and then I to the office, and there late doing business, and so home and +to bed. Sorry for poor Batters. + +19th. Up, and by water down to White Hall, and there with the .Duke of +York did our usual business, but nothing but complaints of want of money +[without] success, and Sir W. Coventry's complaint of the defects of our +office (indeed Sir J. Minnes's) without any amendment, and he tells us so +plainly of the Committee of Parliament's resolution to enquire home into +all our managements that it makes me resolve to be wary, and to do all +things betimes to be ready for them. Thence going away met Mr. Hingston +the organist (my old acquaintance) in the Court, and I took him to the Dog +Taverne and got him to set me a bass to my "It is decreed," which I think +will go well, but he commends the song not knowing the words, but says the +ayre is good, and believes the words are plainly expressed. He is of my +mind against having of 8ths unnecessarily in composition. This did all +please me mightily. Then to talk of the King's family. He says many of +the musique are ready to starve, they being five years behindhand for +their wages; nay, Evens, the famous man upon the Harp having not his equal +in the world, did the other day die for mere want, and was fain to be +buried at the almes of the parish, and carried to his grave in the dark at +night without one linke, but that Mr. Hingston met it by chance, and did +give 12d. to buy two or three links. He says all must come to ruin at +this rate, and I believe him. Thence I up to the Lords' House to enquire +for Lord Bellasses; and there hear how at a conference this morning +between the two Houses about the business of the Canary Company, my Lord +Buckingham leaning rudely over my Lord Marquis Dorchester, my Lord +Dorchester removed his elbow. Duke of Buckingham asked him whether he was +uneasy; Dorchester replied, yes, and that he durst not do this were he any +where else: Buckingham replied, yes he would, and that he was a better man +than himself; Dorchester answered that he lyed. With this Buckingham +struck off his hat, and took him by his periwigg, and pulled it aside, and +held him. My Lord Chamberlain and others interposed, and, upon coming +into the House, the Lords did order them both to the Tower, whither they +are to go this afternoon. I down into the Hall, and there the Lieutenant +of the Tower took me with him, and would have me to the Tower to dinner; +where I dined at the head of his table, next his lady,' who is comely and +seeming sober and stately, but very proud and very cunning, or I am +mistaken, and wanton, too. This day's work will bring the Lieutenant of +the Tower L350. But a strange, conceited, vain man he is that ever I met +withal, in his own praise, as I have heretofore observed of him. Thence +home, and upon Tower Hill saw about 3 or 400 seamen get together; and one, +standing upon a pile of bricks, made his sign, with his handkercher, upon +his stick, and called all the rest to him, and several shouts they gave. +This made me afeard; so I got home as fast as I could. And hearing of no +present hurt did go to Sir Robert Viner's about my plate again, and coming +home do hear of 1000 seamen said in the streets to be in armes. So in +great fear home, expecting to find a tumult about my house, and was +doubtful of my riches there. But I thank God I found all well. But by +and by Sir W. Batten and Sir R. Ford do tell me, that the seamen have been +at some prisons, to release some seamen, and the Duke of Albemarle is in +armes, and all the Guards at the other end of the town; and the Duke of +Albemarle is gone with some forces to Wapping, to quell the seamen; which +is a thing of infinite disgrace to us. I sat long talking with them; and, +among other things, Sir R. Ford did make me understand how the House of +Commons is a beast not to be understood, it being impossible to know +beforehand the success almost of any small plain thing, there being so +many to think and speak to any business, and they of so uncertain minds +and interests and passions. He did tell me, and so did Sir W. Batten, how +Sir Allen Brodericke and Sir Allen Apsly did come drunk the other day +into the House, and did both speak for half an hour together, and could +not be either laughed, or pulled, or bid to sit down and hold their peace, +to the great contempt of the King's servants and cause; which I am grieved +at with all my heart. We were full in discourse of the sad state of our +times, and the horrid shame brought on the King's service by the just +clamours of the poor seamen, and that we must be undone in a little time. +Home full of trouble on these considerations, and, among other things, I +to my chamber, and there to ticket a good part of my books, in order to +the numbering of them for my easy finding them to read as I have occasion. +So to supper and to bed, with my heart full of trouble. + +20th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and here among +other things come Captain Cocke, and I did get him to sign me a note for +the L100 to pay for the plate he do present me with, which I am very glad +of. At noon home to dinner, where was Balty come, who is well again, and +the most recovered in his countenance that ever I did see. Here dined with +me also Mrs. Batters, poor woman! now left a sad widow by the drowning of +her husband the other day. I pity her, and will do her what kindness I +can; yet I observe something of ill-nature in myself more than should be, +that I am colder towards her in my charity than I should be to one so +painful as he and she have been and full of kindness to their power to my +wife and I. After dinner out with Balty, setting him down at the Maypole +in the Strand, and then I to my Lord Bellasses, and there spoke with Mr. +Moone about some business, and so away home to my business at the office, +and then home to supper and to bed, after having finished the putting of +little papers upon my books to be numbered hereafter. + +21st. Lay long, and when up find Mrs. Clerk of Greenwich and her daughter +Daniel, their business among other things was a request her daughter was +to make, so I took her into my chamber, and there it was to help her +husband to the command of a little new pleasure boat building, which I +promised to assist in. And here I had opportunity 'para baiser elle, and +toucher ses mamailles' . . . . Then to the office, and there did a +little business, and then to the 'Change and did the like. So home to +dinner, and spent all the afternoon in putting some things, pictures +especially, in order, and pasting my Lady Castlemayne's print on a frame, +which I have made handsome, and is a fine piece. So to the office in the +evening to marshall my papers of accounts presented to the Parliament, +against any future occasion to recur to them, which I did do to my great +content. So home and did some Tangier work, and so to bed. + +22nd. At the office all the morning, and there come news from Hogg that +our shipp hath brought in a Lubecker to Portsmouth, likely to prove prize, +of deals, which joys us. At noon home to dinner, and then Sir W. Pen, Sir +R. Ford, and I met at Sir W. Batten's to examine our papers, and have +great hopes to prove her prize, and Sir R. Ford I find a mighty +yare--[Quick or ready, a naval term frequently used by Shakespeare.]--man +in this business, making exceeding good observations from the papers on +our behalf. Hereupon concluded what to write to Hogg and Middleton, which +I did, and also with Mr. Oviatt (Sir R. Ford's son, who is to be our +solicitor), to fee some counsel in the Admiralty, but none in town. So +home again, and after writing letters by the post, I with all my clerks +and Carcasse and Whitfield to the ticket-office, there to be informed in +the method and disorder of the office, which I find infinite great, of +infinite concernment to be mended, and did spend till 12 at night to my +great satisfaction, it being a point of our office I was wholly +unacquainted in. So with great content home and to bed. + +23rd (Lord's day). Up and alone to church, and meeting Nan Wright at the +gate had opportunity to take two or three 'baisers', and so to church, +where a vain fellow with a periwigg preached, Chaplain, as by his prayer +appeared, to the Earl of Carlisle? Home, and there dined with us Betty +Michell and her husband. After dinner to White Hall by coach, and took +them with me. And in the way I would have taken 'su main' as I did the +last time, but she did in a manner withhold it. So set them down at White +Hall, and I to the Chapel to find Dr. Gibbons, and from him to the Harp +and Ball to transcribe the treble which I would have him to set a bass to. +But this took me so much time, and it growing night, I was fearful of +missing a coach, and therefore took a coach and to rights to call Michell +and his wife at their father Howlett's, and so home, it being cold, and +the ground all snow . . . . They gone I to my chamber, and with my +brother and wife did number all my books in my closet, and took a list of +their names, which pleases me mightily, and is a jobb I wanted much to +have done. Then to supper and to bed. + +24th. Up, and to the office, where Lord Bruncker, [Sir] J. Mimics, [Sir] +W. Yen, and myself met, and there I did use my notes I took on Saturday +night about tickets, and did come to a good settlement in the business of +that office, if it be kept to, this morning being a meeting on purpose. At +noon to prevent my Lord Bruncker's dining here I walked as if upon +business with him, it being frost and dry, as far as Paul's, and so back +again through the City by Guildhall, observing the ruines thereabouts, +till I did truly lose myself, and so home to dinner. I do truly find that +I have overwrought my eyes, so that now they are become weak and apt to be +tired, and all excess of light makes them sore, so that now to the +candlelight I am forced to sit by, adding, the snow upon the ground all +day, my eyes are very bad, and will be worse if not helped, so my Lord +Bruncker do advise as a certain cure to use greene spectacles, which I +will do. So to dinner, where Mercer with us, and very merry. After +dinner she goes and fetches a little son of Mr. Backeworth's, the wittiest +child and of the most spirit that ever I saw in my life for discourse of +all kind, and so ready and to the purpose, not above four years old. +Thence to Sir Robert Viner's, and there paid for the plate I have bought +to the value of L94, with the L100 Captain Cocke did give me to that +purpose, and received the rest in money. I this evening did buy me a pair +of green spectacles, to see whether they will help my eyes or no. So to +the 'Change, and went to the Upper 'Change, which is almost as good as the +old one; only shops are but on one side. Then home to the office, and did +business till my eyes began to be bad, and so home to supper. My people +busy making mince pies, and so to bed. No newes yet of our Gottenburgh +fleete; which makes [us] have some fears, it being of mighty concernment +to have our supply of masts safe. I met with Mr. Cade to-night, my +stationer; and he tells me that he hears for certain that the +Queene-Mother is about and hath near finished a peace with France, which, +as a Presbyterian, he do not like, but seems to fear it will be a means to +introduce Popery. + +25th (Christmas day). Lay pretty long in bed, and then rose, leaving my +wife desirous to sleep, having sat up till four this morning seeing her +mayds make mince-pies. I to church, where our parson Mills made a good +sermon. Then home, and dined well on some good ribbs of beef roasted and +mince pies; only my wife, brother, and Barker, and plenty of good wine of +my owne, and my heart full of true joy; and thanks to God Almighty for the +goodness of my condition at this day. After dinner, I begun to teach my +wife and Barker my song, "It is decreed," which pleases me mightily as now +I have Mr. Hinxton's base. Then out and walked alone on foot to the +Temple, it being a fine frost, thinking to have seen a play all alone; but +there, missing of any bills, concluded there was none, and so back home; +and there with my brother reducing the names of all my books to an +alphabet, which kept us till 7 or 8 at night, and then to supper, W. Hewer +with us, and pretty merry, and then to my chamber to enter this day's +journal only, and then to bed. My head a little thoughtfull how to behave +myself in the business of the victualling, which I think will be prudence +to offer my service in doing something in passing the pursers' accounts, +thereby to serve the King, get honour to myself, and confirm me in my +place in the victualling, which at present yields not work enough to +deserve my wages. + +26th. Up, and walked all the way (it being a most fine frost), to White +Hall, to Sir W. Coventry's chamber, and thence with him up to the Duke of +York, where among other things at our meeting I did offer my assistance to +Sir J. Minnes to do the business of his office, relating to the Pursers' +accounts, which was well accepted by the Duke of York, and I think I have +and shall do myself good in it, if it be taken, for it will confirm me in +the business of the victualling office, which I do now very little for. +Thence home, carrying a barrel of oysters with me. Anon comes Mr. John +Andrews and his wife by invitation from Bow to dine with me, and young +Batelier and his wife with her great belly, which has spoiled her looks +mightily already. Here was also Mercer and Creed, whom I met coming home, +who tells me of a most bitter lampoone now out against the Court and the +management of State from head to foot, mighty witty and mighty severe. By +and by to dinner, a very good one, and merry. After dinner I put the +women into a coach, and they to the Duke's house, to a play which was +acted, "The--------." It was indifferently done, but was not pleased with +the song, Gosnell not singing, but a new wench, that sings naughtily. +Thence home, all by coach, and there Mr. Andrews to the vyall, who plays +most excellently on it, which I did not know before. Then to dance, here +being Pembleton come, by my wife's direction, and a fiddler; and we got, +also, the elder Batelier to-night, and Nan Wright, and mighty merry we +were, and I danced; and so till twelve at night, and to supper, and then +to cross purposes, mighty merry, and then to bed, my eyes being sore. +Creed lay here in Barker's bed. + +27th. Up; and called up by the King's trumpets, which cost me 10s. So to +the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon, by invitation, my +wife, who had not been there these to months, I think, and I, to meet all +our families at Sir W. Batten's at dinner, whither neither a great dinner +for so much company nor anything good or handsome. In the middle of +dinner I rose, and my wife, and by coach to the King's playhouse, and +meeting Creed took him up, and there saw "The Scornfull Lady" well acted; +Doll Common doing Abigail most excellently, and Knipp the widow very well, +and will be an excellent actor, I think. In other parts the play not so +well done as used to be, by the old actors. Anon to White Hall by coach, +thinking to have seen a play there to-night, but found it a mistake, so +back again, and missed our coach[man], who was gone, thinking to come time +enough three hours hence, and we could not blame him. So forced to get +another coach, and all three home to my house, and there to Sir W. +Batten's, and eat a bit of cold chine of beef, and then staid and talked, +and then home and sat and talked a little by the fireside with my wife and +Creed, and so to bed, my left eye being very sore. No business publick or +private minded all these two days. This day a house or two was blown up +with powder in the Minorys, and several people spoiled, and many dug out +from under the rubbish. + +28th. Up, and Creed and I walked (a very fine walk in the frost) to my +Lord Bellasses, but missing him did find him at White Hall, and there +spoke with him about some Tangier business. That done, we to Creed's +lodgings, which are very pretty, but he is going from them. So we to +Lincoln's Inne Fields, he to Ned Pickering's, who it seems lives there, +keeping a good house, and I to my Lord Crew's, where I dined, and hear the +newes how my Lord's brother, Mr. Nathaniel Crew, hath an estate of 6 or +L700 per annum, left him by the death of an old acquaintance of his, but +not akin to him at all. And this man is dead without will, but had, above +ten years since, made over his estate to this Mr. Crew, to him and his +heirs for ever, and given Mr. Crew the keeping of the deeds in his own +hand all this time; by which, if he would, he might have taken present +possession of the estate, for he knew what they were. This is as great an +act of confident friendship as this latter age, I believe, can shew. From +hence to the Duke's house, and there saw "Macbeth" most excellently acted, +and a most excellent play for variety. I had sent for my wife to meet me +there, who did come, and after the play was done, I out so soon to meet +her at the other door that I left my cloake in the playhouse, and while I +returned to get it, she was gone out and missed me, and with W. Hewer away +home. I not sorry for it much did go to White Hall, and got my Lord +Bellasses to get me into the playhouse; and there, after all staying above +an hour for the players, the King and all waiting, which was absurd, saw +"Henry the Fifth" well done by the Duke's people, and in most excellent +habits, all new vests, being put on but this night. But I sat so high and +far off, that I missed most of the words, and sat with a wind coming into +my back and neck, which did much trouble me. The play continued till +twelve at night; and then up, and a most horrid cold night it was, and +frosty, and moonshine. But the worst was, I had left my cloak at Sir G. +Carteret's, and they being abed I was forced to go home without it. So by +chance got a coach and to the Golden Lion Taverne in the Strand, and there +drank some mulled sack, and so home, where find my poor wife staying for +me, and then to bed mighty cold. + +29th. Up, called up with newes from Sir W. Batten that Hogg hath brought +in two prizes more: and so I thither, and hear the particulars, which are +good; one of them, if prize, being worth L4,000: for which God be thanked! +Then to the office, and have the newes brought us of Captain Robinson's +coming with his fleete from Gottenburgh: dispersed, though, by foul +weather. But he hath light of five Dutch men-of-war, and taken three, +whereof one is sunk; which is very good newes to close up the year with, +and most of our merchantmen already heard of to be safely come home, +though after long lookings-for, and now to several ports, as they could +make them. At noon home to dinner, where Balty is and now well recovered. +Then to the office to do business, and at night, it being very cold, home +to my chamber, and there late writing, but my left eye still very sore. I +write by spectacles all this night, then to supper and to bed. This day's +good news making me very lively, only the arrears of much business on my +hands and my accounts to be settled for the whole year past do lie as a +weight on my mind. + +30th (Lord's day). Lay long, however up and to church, where Mills made a +good sermon. Here was a collection for the sexton; but it come into my +head why we should be more bold in making the collection while the psalm +is singing, than in the sermon or prayer. Home, and, without any +strangers, to dinner, and then all the afternoon and evening in my chamber +preparing all my accounts in good condition against to-morrow, to state +them for the whole year past, to which God give me a good issue when I +come to close them! So to supper and to bed. + +31st. Rising this day with a full design to mind nothing else but to make +up my accounts for the year past, I did take money, and walk forth to +several places in the towne as far as the New Exchange, to pay all my +debts, it being still a very great frost and good walking. I staid at the +Fleece Tavern in Covent Garden while my boy Tom went to W. Joyce's to pay +what I owed for candles there. Thence to the New Exchange to clear my +wife's score, and so going back again I met Doll Lane (Mrs. Martin's +sister), with another young woman of the Hall, one Scott, and took them to +the Half Moon Taverne and there drank some burnt wine with them, without +more pleasure, and so away home by coach, and there to dinner, and then to +my accounts, wherein, at last, I find them clear and right; but, to my +great discontent, do find that my gettings this year have been L573 less +than my last: it being this year in all but L2,986; whereas, the last, I +got L3,560. And then again my spendings this year have exceeded my +spendings the last by L644: my whole spendings last year being but L509; +whereas this year, it appears, I have spent L1154, which is a sum not fit +to be said that ever I should spend in one year, before I am master of a +better estate than I am. Yet, blessed be God! and I pray God make me +thankful for it, I do find myself worth in money, all good, above L6,200; +which is above L1800 more than I was the last year. This, I trust in God, +will make me thankfull for what I have, and carefull to make up by care +next year what by my negligence and prodigality I have lost and spent this +year. The doing of this, and entering of it fair, with the sorting of all +my expenses, to see how and in what points I have exceeded, did make it +late work, till my eyes become very sore and ill, and then did give over, +and supper, and to bed. Thus ends this year of publick wonder and mischief +to this nation, and, therefore, generally wished by all people to have an +end. Myself and family well, having four mayds and one clerk, Tom, in my +house, and my brother, now with me, to spend time in order to his +preferment. Our healths all well, only my eyes with overworking them are +sore as candlelight comes to them, and not else; publick matters in a most +sad condition; seamen discouraged for want of pay, and are become not to +be governed: nor, as matters are now, can any fleete go out next year. +Our enemies, French and Dutch, great, and grow more by our poverty. The +Parliament backward in raising, because jealous of the spending of the +money; the City less and less likely to be built again, every body +settling elsewhere, and nobody encouraged to trade. A sad, vicious, +negligent Court, and all sober men there fearful of the ruin of the whole +kingdom this next year; from which, good God deliver us! 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WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + DECEMBER + 1666 + + +December 1st. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At +home to dinner, and then abroad walking to the Old Swan, and in my way I +did see a cellar in Tower Streete in a very fresh fire, the late great +winds having blown it up. + + [The fire continued burning in some cellars of the ruins of the city + for four months, though it rained in the month of October ten days + without ceasing (Rugge's "Diurnal").--B.] + +It seemed to be only of log-wood, that Hath kept the fire all this while +in it. Going further, I met my late Lord Mayor Bludworth, under whom the +City was burned, and went with him by water to White Hall. But, Lord! +the silly talk that this fellow had, only how ready he would be to part +with all his estate in these difficult times to advance the King's +service, and complaining that now, as every body did lately in the fire, +every body endeavours to save himself, and let the whole perish: but a +very weak man he seems to be. I left him at White Hall, he giving 6d. +towards the boat, and I to Westminster Hall, where I was again defeated +in my expectation of Burroughs. However, I was not much sorry for it, +but by coach home, in the evening, calling at Faythorne's, buying three +of my Lady Castlemayne's heads, printed this day, which indeed is, as to +the head, I think, a very fine picture, and like her. I did this +afternoon get Mrs. Michell to let me only have a sight of a pamphlet +lately printed, but suppressed and much called after, called "The +Catholique's Apology;" lamenting the severity of the Parliament against +them, and comparing it with the lenity of other princes to Protestants; +giving old and late instances of their loyalty to their princes, whatever +is objected against them; and excusing their disquiets in Queen +Elizabeth's time, for that it was impossible for them to think her a +lawfull Queen, if Queen Mary, who had been owned as such, were so; one +being the daughter of the true, and the other of a false wife: and that +of the Gunpowder Treason, by saying that it was only the practice of some +of us, if not the King, to trepan some of their religion into it, it +never being defended by the generality of their Church, nor indeed known +by them; and ends with a large Catalogue, in red letters, of the +Catholiques which have lost their lives in the quarrel of the late King +and this. The thing is very well writ indeed. So home to my letters, +and then to my supper and to bed. + + + +2nd (Lord's day). Up, and to church, and after church home to dinner, +where I met Betty Michell and her husband, very merry at dinner, and +after dinner, having borrowed Sir W. Pen's coach, we to Westminster, they +two and my wife and I to Mr. Martin's, where find the company almost all +come to the christening of Mrs. Martin's child, a girl. A great deal of +good plain company. After sitting long, till the church was done, the +Parson comes, and then we to christen the child. I was Godfather, and +Mrs. Holder (her husband, a good man, I know well), and a pretty lady, +that waits, it seems, on my Lady Bath, at White Hall, her name, Mrs. +Noble, were Godmothers. After the christening comes in the wine and the +sweetmeats, and then to prate and tattle, and then very good company they +were, and I among them. Here was old Mrs. Michell and Howlett, and +several married women of the Hall, whom I knew mayds. Here was also +Mrs. Burroughs and Mrs. Bales, the young widow, whom I led home, and +having staid till the moon was up, I took my pretty gossip to White Hall +with us, and I saw her in her lodging, and then my owne company again +took coach, and no sooner in the coach but something broke, that we were +fain there to stay till a smith could be fetched, which was above an +hour, and then it costing me 6s. to mend. Away round by the wall and Cow +Lane, + + [Cow Lane, West Smithfield (now named King Street), was famous for + its coachmakers.] + +for fear it should break again; and in pain about the coach all the way. +But to ease myself therein Betty Michell did sit at the same end with me +. . . . Being very much pleased with this, we at last come home, and +so to supper, and then sent them by boat home, and we to bed. When I +come home I went to Sir W. Batten's, and there I hear more ill newes +still: that all our New England fleete, which went out lately, are put +back a third time by foul weather, and dispersed, some to one port and +some to another; and their convoys also to Plymouth; and whether any of +them be lost or not, we do not know. This, added to all the rest, do lay +us flat in our hopes and courages, every body prophesying destruction to +the nation. + + + +3rd. Up, and, among a great many people that come to speak with me, one +was my Lord Peterborough's gentleman, who comes to me to dun me to get +some money advanced for my Lord; and I demanding what newes, he tells me +that at Court they begin to fear the business of Scotland more and more; +and that the Duke of York intends to go to the North to raise an army, +and that the King would have some of the Nobility and others to go and +assist; but they were so served the last year, among others his Lord, in +raising forces at their own charge, for fear of the French invading us, +that they will not be got out now, without money advanced to them by the +King, and this is like to be the King's case for certain, if ever he +comes to have need of any army. He and others gone, I by water to +Westminster, and there to the Exchequer, and put my tallys in a way of +doing for the last quarter. But my not following it the last week has +occasioned the clerks some trouble, which I am sorry for, and they are +mad at. Thence at noon home, and there find Kate Joyce, who dined with +me: Her husband and she are weary of their new life of being an +Innkeeper, and will leave it, and would fain get some office; but I know +none the foole is fit for, but would be glad to help them, if I could, +though they have enough to live on, God be thanked! though their loss +hath been to the value of L3000 W. Joyce now has all the trade, she says, +the trade being come to that end of the towne. She dined with me, my +wife being ill of her months in bed. I left her with my wife, and away +myself to Westminster Hall by appointment and there found out Burroughs, +and I took her by coach as far as the Lord Treasurer's and called at the +cake house by Hales's, and there in the coach eat and drank and then +carried her home . . . . So having set her down in the palace I to +the Swan, and there did the first time 'baiser' the little sister of +Sarah that is come into her place, and so away by coach home, where to my +vyall and supper and then to bed, being weary of the following of my +pleasure and sorry for my omitting (though with a true salvo to my vowes) +the stating my last month's accounts in time, as I should, but resolve to +settle, and clear all my business before me this month, that I may begin +afresh the next yeare, and enjoy some little pleasure freely at +Christmasse. So to bed, and with more cheerfulness than I have done a +good while, to hear that for certain the Scott rebells are all routed; +they having been so bold as to come within three miles of Edinburgh, and +there given two or three repulses to the King's forces, but at last were +mastered. Three or four hundred killed or taken, among which their +leader, one Wallis, and seven ministers, they having all taken the +Covenant a few days before, and sworn to live and die in it, as they did; +and so all is likely to be there quiet again. There is also the very +good newes come of four New-England ships come home safe to Falmouth with +masts for the King; which is a blessing mighty unexpected, and without +which, if for nothing else, we must have failed the next year. But God +be praised for thus much good fortune, and send us the continuance of his +favour in other things! So to bed. + + + +4th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon dined +at home. After dinner presently to my office, and there late and then +home to even my Journall and accounts, and then to supper much eased in +mind, and last night's good news, which is more and more confirmed with +particulars to very good purpose, and so to bed. + + + +5th. Up, and by water to White Hall, where we did much business before +the Duke of York, which being done, I away home by water again, and there +to my office till noon busy. At noon home, and Goodgroome dined with us, +who teaches my wife to sing. After dinner I did give him my song, +"Beauty retire," which he has often desired of me, and without flattery +I think is a very good song. He gone, I to the office, and there late, +very busy doing much business, and then home to supper and talk, and then +scold with my wife for not reckoning well the times that her musique +master hath been with her, but setting down more than I am sure, and did +convince her, they had been with her, and in an ill humour of anger with +her to bed. + + + +6th. Up, but very good friends with her before I rose, and so to the +office, where we sat all the forenoon, and then home to dinner, where +Harman dined with us, and great sport to hear him tell how Will Joyce +grows rich by the custom of the City coming to his end of the towne, and +how he rants over his brother and sister for their keeping an Inne, and +goes thither and tears like a prince, calling him hosteller and his +sister hostess. Then after dinner, my wife and brother, in another +habit; go out to see a play; but I am not to take notice that I know of +my brother's going. So I to the office, where very busy till late at +night, and then home. My wife not pleased with the play, but thinks that +it is because she is grown more critical than she used to be, but my +brother she says is mighty taken with it. So to supper and to bed. This +day, in the Gazette, is the whole story of defeating the Scotch rebells, +and of the creation of the Duke of Cambridge, Knight of the Garter. + + + +7th. Up, and by water to the Exchequer, where I got my tallys finished +for the last quarter for Tangier, and having paid all my fees I to the +Swan, whither I sent for some oysters, and thither comes Mr. Falconbridge +and Spicer and many more clerks; and there we eat and drank, and a great +deal of their sorry discourse, and so parted, and I by coach home, +meeting Balty in the streete about Charing Crosse walking, which I am +glad to see and spoke to him about his mustering business, I being now to +give an account how the several muster-masters have behaved themselves, +and so home to dinner, where finding the cloth laid and much crumpled but +clean, I grew angry and flung the trenchers about the room, and in a +mighty heat I was: so a clean cloth was laid, and my poor wife very +patient, and so to dinner, and in comes Mrs. Barbara Sheldon, now Mrs. +Wood, and dined with us, she mighty fine, and lives, I perceive, mighty +happily, which I am glad [of] for her sake, but hate her husband for a +block-head in his choice. So away after dinner, leaving my wife and her, +and by water to the Strand, and so to the King's playhouse, where two +acts were almost done when I come in; and there I sat with my cloak about +my face, and saw the remainder of "The Mayd's Tragedy;" a good play, and +well acted, especially by the younger Marshall, who is become a pretty +good actor, and is the first play I have seen in either of the houses +since before the great plague, they having acted now about fourteen days +publickly. But I was in mighty pain lest I should be seen by any body to +be at a play. Soon as done I home, and then to my office awhile, and +then home and spent the night evening my Tangier accounts, much to my +satisfaction, and then to supper, and mighty good friends with my poor +wife, and so to bed. + + + +8th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon +home to dinner, and there find Mr. Pierce and his wife and Betty, a +pretty girle, who in discourse at table told me the great Proviso passed +the House of Parliament yesterday; which makes the King and Court mad, +the King having given order to my Lord Chamberlain to send to the +playhouses and bawdy houses, to bid all the Parliament-men that were +there to go to the Parliament presently. This is true, it seems; but it +was carried against the Court by thirty or forty voices. It is a Proviso +to the Poll Bill, that there shall be a Committee of nine persons that +shall have the inspection upon oath, and power of giving others, of all +the accounts of the money given and spent for this warr. This hath a +most sad face, and will breed very ill blood. He tells me, brought in by +Sir Robert Howard, who is one of the King's servants, at least hath a +great office, and hath got, they say, L20,000 since the King come in. +Mr. Pierce did also tell me as a great truth, as being told it by Mr. +Cowly, who was by, and heard it, that Tom Killigrew should publiquely +tell the King that his matters were coming into a very ill state; but +that yet there was a way to help all, which is, says he, "There is a +good, honest, able man, that I could name, that if your Majesty would +employ, and command to see all things well executed, all things would +soon be mended; and this is one Charles Stuart, who now spends his time +in employing his lips . . . . about the Court, and hath no other +employment; but if you would give him this employment, he were the +fittest man in the world to perform it." This, he says, is most true; +but the King do not profit by any of this, but lays all aside, and +remembers nothing, but to his pleasures again; which is a sorrowful +consideration. Very good company we were at dinner, and merry, and after +dinner, he being gone about business, my wife and I and Mrs. Pierce and +Betty and Balty, who come to see us to-day very sick, and went home not +well, together out, and our coach broke the wheel off upon Ludgate Hill. +So we were fain to part ourselves and get room in other people's coaches, +and Mrs. Pierce and I in one, and I carried her home and set her down, +and myself to the King's playhouse, which troubles me since, and hath +cost me a forfeit of 10s., which I have paid, and there did see a good +part of "The English Monsieur," which is a mighty pretty play, very witty +and pleasant. And the women do very well; but, above all, little Nelly; +that I am mightily pleased with the play, and much with the House, more +than ever I expected, the women doing better than ever I expected, and +very fine women. Here I was in pain to be seen, and hid myself; but, as +God would have it, Sir John Chichly come, and sat just by me. Thence to +Mrs. Pierce's, and there took up my wife and away home, and to the office +and Sir W. Batten's, of whom I hear that this Proviso in Parliament is +mightily ill taken by all the Court party as a mortal blow, and that, +that strikes deep into the King's prerogative, which troubles me +mightily. Home, and set some papers right in my chamber, and then to +supper and to bed, we being in much fear of ill news of our colliers. A +fleete of two hundred sail, and fourteen Dutch men-of-war between them +and us and they coming home with small convoy; and the City in great +want, coals being at L3 3s. per chaldron, as I am told. I saw smoke in +the ruines this very day. + + + +9th (Lord's day). Up, not to church, but to my chamber, and there begun +to enter into this book my journall of September, which in the fire-time +I could not enter here, but in loose papers. At noon dined, and then to +my chamber all the afternoon and night, looking over and tearing and +burning all the unnecessary letters, which I have had upon my file for +four or five years backward, which I intend to do quite through all my +papers, that I may have nothing by me but what is worth keeping, and fit +to be seen, if I should miscarry. At this work till midnight, and then +to supper and to bed. + + + +10th. Up, and at my office all the morning, and several people with me, +Sir W. Warren, who I do every day more and more admire for a miracle of +cunning and forecast in his business, and then Captain Cocke, with whom I +walked in the garden, and he tells me how angry the Court is at the late +Proviso brought in by the House. How still my Lord Chancellor is, not +daring to do or say any thing to displease the Parliament; that the +Parliament is in a very ill humour, and grows every day more and more so; +and that the unskilfulness of the Court, and their difference among one +another, is the occasion of all not agreeing in what they would have, and +so they give leisure and occasion to the other part to run away with what +the Court would not have. Then comes Mr. Gawden, and he and I in my +chamber discoursing about his business, and to pay him some Tangier +orders which he delayed to receive till I had money instead of tallies, +but do promise me consideration for my victualling business for this +year, and also as Treasurer for Tangier, which I am glad of, but would +have been gladder to have just now received it. He gone, I alone to +dinner at home, my wife and her people being gone down the river to-day +for pleasure, though a cold day and dark night to come up. In the +afternoon I to the Excise Office to enter my tallies, which I did, and +come presently back again, and then to the office and did much business, +and then home to supper, my wife and people being come well and hungry +home from Erith. Then I to begin the setting of a Base to "It is +Decreed," and so to bed. + + + +11th. Up, and to the office, where we sat, and at noon home to dinner, +a small dinner because of a good supper. After dinner my wife and I by +coach to St. Clement's Church, to Mrs. Turner's lodgings, hard by, to +take our leaves of her. She is returning into the North to her children, +where, I perceive, her husband hath clearly got the mastery of her, and +she is likely to spend her days there, which for her sake I am a little +sorry for, though for his it is but fit she should live where he hath a +mind. Here were several people come to see and take leave of her, she +going to-morrow: among others, my Lady Mordant, which was Betty Turner, a +most homely widow, but young, and pretty rich, and good natured. Thence, +having promised to write every month to her, we home, and I to my office, +while my wife to get things together for supper. Dispatching my business +at the office. Anon come our guests, old Mr. Batelier, and his son and +daughter, Mercer, which was all our company. We had a good venison pasty +and other good cheer, and as merry as in so good, innocent, and +understanding company I could be. He is much troubled that wines, laden +by him in France before the late proclamation was out, cannot now be +brought into England, which is so much to his and other merchants' loss. +We sat long at supper and then to talk, and so late parted and so to bed. +This day the Poll Bill was to be passed, and great endeavours used to +take away the Proviso. + + + +12th. Up, and to the office, where some accounts of Mr. Gawden's were +examined, but I home most of the morning to even some accounts with Sir +H. Cholmly, Mr. Moone, and others one after another. Sir H. Cholmly did +with grief tell me how the Parliament hath been told plainly that the +King hath been heard to say, that he would dissolve them rather than pass +this Bill with the Proviso; but tells me, that the Proviso is removed, +and now carried that it shall be done by a Bill by itself. He tells me +how the King hath lately paid about L30,000 + + [Two thousand pounds of this sum went to Alderman Edward Bakewell + for two diamond rings, severally charged L1000 and L900, bought + March 14th, 1665-66 (Second addenda to Steinman's "Memoir of the + Duchess of Cleveland," privately printed, 1878, p. 4.).] + +to clear debts of my Lady Castlemayne's; and that she and her husband are +parted for ever, upon good terms, never to trouble one another more. He +says that he hears L400,000 hath gone into the Privypurse since this +warr; and that that hath consumed so much of our money, and makes the +King and Court so mad to be brought to discover it. He gone, and after +him the rest, I to the office, and at noon to the 'Change, where the very +good newes is just come of our four ships from Smyrna, come safe without +convoy even into the Downes, without seeing any enemy; which is the best, +and indeed only considerable good newes to our Exchange, since the +burning of the City; and it is strange to see how it do cheer up men's +hearts. Here I saw shops now come to be in this Exchange, and met little +Batelier, who sits here but at L3 per annum, whereas he sat at the other +at L100, which he says he believes will prove of as good account to him +now as the other did at that rent. From the 'Change to Captain +Cocke's, and there, by agreement, dined, and there was Charles Porter, +Temple, Fern, Debasty, whose bad English and pleasant discourses was +exceeding good entertainment, Matt. Wren, Major Cooper, and myself, +mighty merry and pretty discourse. They talked for certain, that now the +King do follow Mrs. Stewart wholly, and my Lady Castlemayne not above +once a week; that the Duke of York do not haunt my Lady Denham so much; +that she troubles him with matters of State, being of my Lord Bristoll's +faction, and that he avoids; that she is ill still. After dinner I away +to the office, where we sat late upon Mr. Gawden's accounts, Sir J. +Minnes being gone home sick. I late at the office, and then home to +supper and to bed, being mightily troubled with a pain in the small of my +back, through cold, or (which I think most true) my straining last night +to get open my plate chest, in such pain all night I could not turn +myself in my bed. Newes this day from Brampton, of Mr. Ensum, my +sister's sweetheart, being dead: a clowne. + + + +13th. Up, and to the office, where we sat. At noon to the 'Change and +there met Captain Cocke, and had a second time his direction to bespeak +L100 of plate, which I did at Sir R. Viner's, being twelve plates more, +and something else I have to choose. Thence home to dinner, and there W. +Hewer dined with me, and showed me a Gazette, in April last, which I +wonder should never be remembered by any body, which tells how several +persons were then tried for their lives, and were found guilty of a +design of killing the King and destroying the Government; and as a means +to it, to burn the City; and that the day intended for the plot was the +3rd of last September. + + [The "Gazette" of April 23rd-26th, 1666, which contains the + following remarkable passage: "At the Sessions in the Old Bailey, + John Rathbone, an old army colonel, William Saunders, Henry Tucker, + Thomas Flint, Thomas Evans, John Myles, Will. Westcot, and John + Cole, officers or soldiers in the late Rebellion, were indicted for + conspiring the death of his Majesty and the overthrow of the + Government. Having laid their plot and contrivance for the + surprisal of the Tower, the killing his Grace the Lord General, Sir + John Robinson, Lieutenant of the Tower, and Sir Richard Brown; and + then to have declared for an equal division of lands, &c. The + better to effect this hellish design, the City was to have been + fired, and the portcullis let down to keep out all assistance; and + the Horse Guards to have been surprised in the inns where they were + quartered, several ostlers having been gained for that purpose. The + Tower was accordingly viewed, and its surprise ordered by boats over + the moat, and from thence to scale the wall. One Alexander, not yet + taken, had likewise distributed money to these conspirators; and, + for the carrying on the design more effectually, they were told of a + Council of the great ones that sat frequently in London, from whom + issued all orders; which Council received their directions from + another in Holland, who sat with the States; and that the third of + September was pitched on for the attempt, as being found by Lilly's + Almanack, and a scheme erected for that purpose, to be a lucky day, + a planet then ruling which prognosticated the downfall of Monarchy. + The evidence against these persons was very full and clear, and they + were accordingly found guilty of High Treason." See November 10th, + 1666--B.] + +And the fire did indeed break out on the 2nd of September, which is very +strange, methinks, and I shall remember it. At the office all the +afternoon late, and then home to even my accounts in my Tangier book, +which I did to great content in all respects, and joy to my heart, and so +to bed. This afternoon Sir W. Warren and Mr. Moore, one after another, +walked with me in the garden, and they both tell me that my Lord Sandwich +is called home, and that he do grow more and more in esteem everywhere, +and is better spoken of, which I am mighty glad of, though I know well +enough his deserving the same before, and did foresee that it will come +to it. In mighty great pain in my back still, but I perceive it changes +its place, and do not trouble me at all in making of water, and that is +my joy, so that I believe it is nothing but a strain, and for these three +or four days I perceive my overworking of my eyes by candlelight do hurt +them as it did the last winter, that by day I am well and do get them +right, but then after candlelight they begin to be sore and run, so that +I intend to get some green spectacles. + + + +14th. Up, and very well again of my pain in my back, it having been +nothing but cold. By coach to White Hall, seeing many smokes of the fire +by the way yet, and took up into the coach with me a country gentleman, +who asked me room to go with me, it being dirty--one come out of the +North to see his son, after the burning his house: a merchant. Here +endeavoured to wait on the Duke of York, but he would not stay from the +Parliament. So I to Westminster Hall, and there met my good friend Mr. +Evelyn, and walked with him a good while, lamenting our condition for +want of good council, and the King's minding of his business and +servants. I out to the Bell Taverne, and thither comes Doll to me . . +. ., and after an hour's stay, away and staid in Westminster Hall till +the rising of the house, having told Mr. Evelyn, and he several others, +of my Gazette which I had about me that mentioned in April last a plot +for which several were condemned of treason at the Old Bayly for many +things, and among others for a design of burning the city on the 3rd of +September. The house sat till three o'clock, and then up: and I home +with Sir Stephen Fox to his house to dinner, and the Cofferer with us. +There I find Sir S. Fox's lady, a fine woman, and seven the prettiest +children of theirs that ever I knew almost. A very genteel dinner, and +in great state and fashion, and excellent discourse; and nothing like an +old experienced man and a courtier, and such is the Cofferer Ashburnham. +The House have been mighty hot to-day against the Paper Bill, showing all +manner of averseness to give the King money; which these courtiers do +take mighty notice of, and look upon the others as bad rebells as ever +the last were. But the courtiers did carry it against those men upon a +division of the House, a great many, that it should be committed; and so +it was: which they reckon good news. After dinner we three to the Excise +Office, and there had long discourse about our monies, but nothing to +satisfaction, that is, to shew any way of shortening the time which our +tallies take up before they become payable, which is now full two years, +which is 20 per, cent. for all the King's money for interest, and the +great disservice of his Majesty otherwise. Thence in the evening round +by coach home, where I find Foundes his present, of a fair pair of +candlesticks, and half a dozen of plates come, which cost him full L50, +and is a very good present; and here I met with, sealed up, from Sir H. +Cholmly, the lampoone, or the Mocke-Advice to a Paynter, + + [In a broadside (1680), quoted by Mr. G. T. Drury in his edition of + Waller's Poems, 1893, satirical reference is made to the fashionable + form of advice to the painters + + "Each puny brother of the rhyming trade + At every turn implores the Painter's aid, + And fondly enamoured of own foul brat + Cries in an ecstacy, Paint this, draw that." + + The series was continued, for we find "Advice to a Painter upon the + Defeat of the Rebels in the West and the Execution of the late Duke + of Monmouth" ("Poems on Affairs of State," vol. ii., p. 148); + "Advice to a Painter, being a Satire on the French King," &c., 1692, + and "Advice to a Painter," 1697 ("Poems on Affairs of State," vol. + ii., p. 428).] + +abusing the Duke of York and my Lord Sandwich, Pen, and every body, and +the King himself, in all the matters of the navy and warr. I am sorry +for my Lord Sandwich's having so great a part in it. Then to supper and +musique, and to bed. + + + +15th. Up and to the office, where my Lord Bruncker newly come to town, +from his being at Chatham and Harwich to spy enormities: and at noon I +with him and his lady Williams, to Captain Cocke's, where a good dinner, +and very merry. Good news to-day upon the Exchange, that our Hamburgh +fleete is got in; and good hopes that we may soon have the like of our +Gottenburgh, and then we shall be well for this winter. Very merry at +dinner. And by and by comes in Matt. Wren from the Parliament-house; +and tells us that he and all his party of the House, which is the Court +party, are fools, and have been made so this day by the wise men of the +other side; for, after the Court party had carried it yesterday so +powerfully for the Paper-Bill, + + [It was called "A Bill for raising part of the supply for his + Majesty by an imposition on Sealed Paper and Parchment"--B.] + +yet now it is laid aside wholly, and to be supplied by a land-tax; which +it is true will do well, and will be the sooner finished, which was the +great argument for the doing of it. But then it shews them fools, that +they would not permit this to have been done six weeks ago, which they +might have had. And next, they have parted with the Paper Bill, which, +when once begun, might have proved a very good flower in the Crowne, as +any there. So do really say that they are truly outwitted by the other +side. Thence away to Sir R. Viner's, and there chose some plate besides +twelve plates which I purpose to have with Captain Cocke's gift of L100, +and so home and there busy late, and then home and to bed. + + + +16th (Lord's day). Lay long talking with my wife in bed, then up with +great content and to my chamber to set right a picture or two, Lovett +having sent me yesterday Sancta Clara's head varnished, which is very +fine, and now my closet is so full stored, and so fine, as I would never +desire to have it better. Dined without any strangers with me, which I +do not like on Sundays. Then after dinner by water to Westminster to see +Mrs. Martin, whom I found up in her chamber and ready to go abroad. I +sat there with her and her husband and others a pretty while, and then +away to White Hall, and there walked up and down to the Queen's side, and +there saw my dear Lady Castlemayne, who continues admirable, methinks, +and I do not hear but that the King is the same to her still as ever. +Anon to chapel, by the King's closet, and heard a very good anthemne. +Then with Lord Bruncker to Sir W. Coventry's chamber; and there we sat +with him and talked. He is weary of anything to do, he says, in the +Navy. He tells us this Committee of Accounts will enquire sharply into +our office. And, speaking of Sir J. Minnes, he says he will not bear any +body's faults but his own. He discoursed as bad of Sir W. Batten almost, +and cries out upon the discipline of the fleete, which is lost, and that +there is not in any of the fourth rates and under scarce left one Sea +Commander, but all young gentlemen; and what troubles him, he hears that +the gentlemen give out that in two or three years a Tarpaulin shall not +dare to look after being better than a Boatswain. Which he is troubled +at, and with good reason, and at this day Sir Robert Holmes is mighty +troubled that his brother do not command in chief, but is commanded by +Captain Hannum, who, Sir W. Coventry says, he believes to be at least of +as good blood, is a longer bred seaman, an elder officer, and an elder +commander, but such is Sir R. Holmes's pride as never to be stopt, he +being greatly troubled at my Lord Bruncker's late discharging all his men +and officers but the standing officers at Chatham, and so are all other +Commanders, and a very great cry hath been to the King from them all in +my Lord's absence. But Sir W. Coventry do undertake to defend it, and my +Lord Bruncker got ground I believe by it, who is angry at Sir W. Batten's +and Sir W. Pen's bad words concerning it, and I have made it worse by +telling him that they refuse to sign to a paper which he and I signed on +Saturday to declare the reason of his actions, which Sir W. Coventry +likes and would have it sent him and he will sign it, which pleases me +well. So we parted, and I with Lord Bruncker to Sir P. Neale's chamber, +and there sat and talked awhile, Sir Edward Walker being there, and +telling us how he hath lost many fine rowles of antiquity in heraldry by +the late fire, but hath saved the most of his papers. Here was also Dr. +Wallis, the famous scholar and mathematician; but he promises little. +Left them, and in the dark and cold home by water, and so to supper and +to read and so to bed, my eyes being better to-day, and I cannot impute +it to anything but by my being much in the dark to-night, for I plainly +find that it is only excess of light that makes my eyes sore. This after +noon I walked with Lord Bruncker into the Park and there talked of the +times, and he do think that the King sees that he cannot never have much +more money or good from this Parliament, and that therefore he may +hereafter dissolve them, that as soon as he has the money settled he +believes a peace will be clapped up, and that there are overtures of a +peace, which if such as the Lord Chancellor can excuse he will take. +For it is the Chancellor's interest, he says, to bring peace again, +for in peace he can do all and command all, but in war he cannot, because +he understands not the nature of the war as to the management thereof. +He tells me he do not believe the Duke of York will go to sea again, +though there are a great many about the King that would be glad of any +occasion to take him out of the world, he standing in their ways; and +seemed to mean the Duke of Monmouth, who spends his time the most +viciously and idly of any man, nor will be fit for any thing; yet +bespeaks as if it were not impossible but the King would own him for his +son, and that there was a marriage between his mother and him; which God +forbid should be if it be not true, nor will the Duke of York easily be +gulled in it. But this put to our other distractions makes things appear +very sad, and likely to be the occasion of much confusion in a little +time, and my Lord Bruncker seems to say that nothing can help us but the +King's making a peace soon as he hath this money; and thereby putting +himself out of debt, and so becoming a good husband, and then he will +neither need this nor any other Parliament, till he can have one to his +mind: for no Parliament can, as he says, be kept long good, but they will +spoil one another, and that therefore it hath been the practice of kings +to tell Parliaments what he hath for them to do, and give them so long +time to do it in, and no longer. Harry Kembe, one of our messengers, is +lately dead. + + + +17th. Up, and several people to speak with me, and then comes Mr. +Caesar, and then Goodgroome, and, what with one and the other, nothing +but musique with me this morning, to my great content; and the more, to +see that God Aimighty hath put me into condition to bear the charge of +all this. So out to the 'Change, and did a little business, and then +home, where they two musicians and Mr. Cooke come to see me, and Mercer +to go along with my wife this afternoon to a play. To dinner, and then +our company all broke up, and to my chamber to do several things. Among +other things, to write a letter to my Lord Sandwich, it being one of the +burdens upon my mind that I have not writ to him since he went into +Spain, but now I do intend to give him a brief account of our whole +year's actions since he went, which will make amends. My wife well home +in the evening from the play; which I was glad of, it being cold and +dark, and she having her necklace of pearl on, and none but Mercer with +her. Spent the evening in fitting my books, to have the number set upon +each, in order to my having an alphabet of my whole, which will be of +great ease to me. This day Captain Batters come from sea in his fireship +and come to see me, poor man, as his patron, and a poor painful wretch he +is as can be. After supper to bed. + + + +18th. Up, and to the office, where I hear the ill news that poor +Batters, that had been born and bred a seaman, and brought up his ship +from sea but yesterday, was, going down from me to his ship, drowned in +the Thames, which is a sad fortune, and do make me afeard, and will do, +more than ever I was. At noon dined at home, and then by coach to my +Lord Bellasses, but not at home. So to Westminster Hall, where the Lords +are sitting still, I to see Mrs. Martin, who is very well, and intends to +go abroad to-morrow after her childbed. She do tell me that this child +did come is 'meme jour that it ought to hazer after my avoir ete con elle +before her marid did venir home . . . . Thence to the Swan, and +there I sent for Sarah, and mighty merry we were . . . . So to Sir +Robert Viner's about my plate, and carried home another dozen of plates, +which makes my stock of plates up 2 1/2 dozen, and at home find Mr. Thomas +Andrews, with whom I staid and talked a little and invited him to dine +with me at Christmas, and then I to the office, and there late doing +business, and so home and to bed. Sorry for poor Batters. + + + +19th. Up, and by water down to White Hall, and there with the .Duke of +York did our usual business, but nothing but complaints of want of money +[without] success, and Sir W. Coventry's complaint of the defects of our +office (indeed Sir J. Minnes's) without any amendment, and he tells us so +plainly of the Committee of Parliament's resolution to enquire home into +all our managements that it makes me resolve to be wary, and to do all +things betimes to be ready for them. Thence going away met Mr. Hingston +the organist (my old acquaintance) in the Court, and I took him to the +Dog Taverne and got him to set me a bass to my "It is decreed," which I +think will go well, but he commends the song not knowing the words, but +says the ayre is good, and believes the words are plainly expressed. He +is of my mind against having of 8ths unnecessarily in composition. This +did all please me mightily. Then to talk of the King's family. He says +many of the musique are ready to starve, they being five years behindhand +for their wages; nay, Evens, the famous man upon the Harp having not his +equal in the world, did the other day die for mere want, and was fain to +be buried at the almes of the parish, and carried to his grave in the +dark at night without one linke, but that Mr. Hingston met it by chance, +and did give 12d. to buy two or three links. He says all must come to +ruin at this rate, and I believe him. Thence I up to the Lords' House to +enquire for Lord Bellasses; and there hear how at a conference this +morning between the two Houses about the business of the Canary Company, +my Lord Buckingham leaning rudely over my Lord Marquis Dorchester, my +Lord Dorchester removed his elbow. Duke of Buckingham asked him whether +he was uneasy; Dorchester replied, yes, and that he durst not do this +were he any where else: Buckingham replied, yes he would, and that he was +a better man than himself; Dorchester answered that he lyed. With this +Buckingham struck off his hat, and took him by his periwigg, and pulled +it aside, and held him. My Lord Chamberlain and others interposed, and, +upon coming into the House, the Lords did order them both to the Tower, +whither they are to go this afternoon. I down into the Hall, and there +the Lieutenant of the Tower took me with him, and would have me to the +Tower to dinner; where I dined at the head of his table, next his lady,' +who is comely and seeming sober and stately, but very proud and very +cunning, or I am mistaken, and wanton, too. This day's work will bring +the Lieutenant of the Tower L350. But a strange, conceited, vain man he +is that ever I met withal, in his own praise, as I have heretofore +observed of him. Thence home, and upon Tower Hill saw about 3 or 400 +seamen get together; and one, standing upon a pile of bricks, made his +sign, with his handkercher, upon his stick, and called all the rest to +him, and several shouts they gave. This made me afeard; so I got home as +fast as I could. And hearing of no present hurt did go to Sir Robert +Viner's about my plate again, and coming home do hear of 1000 seamen said +in the streets to be in armes. So in great fear home, expecting to find +a tumult about my house, and was doubtful of my riches there. But I +thank God I found all well. But by and by Sir W. Batten and Sir R. Ford +do tell me, that the seamen have been at some prisons, to release some +seamen, and the Duke of Albemarle is in armes, and all the Guards at the +other end of the town; and the Duke of Albemarle is gone with some forces +to Wapping, to quell the seamen; which is a thing of infinite disgrace to +us. I sat long talking with them; and, among other things, Sir R. Ford +did make me understand how the House of Commons is a beast not to be +understood, it being impossible to know beforehand the success almost of +any small plain thing, there being so many to think and speak to any +business, and they of so uncertain minds and interests and passions. He +did tell me, and so did Sir W. Batten, how Sir Allen Brodericke and Sir +Allen Apsly did come drunk the other day into the House, and did both +speak for half an hour together, and could not be either laughed, or +pulled, or bid to sit down and hold their peace, to the great contempt of +the King's servants and cause; which I am grieved at with all my heart. +We were full in discourse of the sad state of our times, and the horrid +shame brought on the King's service by the just clamours of the poor +seamen, and that we must be undone in a little time. Home full of +trouble on these considerations, and, among other things, I to my +chamber, and there to ticket a good part of my books, in order to the +numbering of them for my easy finding them to read as I have occasion. +So to supper and to bed, with my heart full of trouble. + + + +20th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and here +among other things come Captain Cocke, and I did get him to sign me a +note for the L100 to pay for the plate he do present me with, which I am +very glad of. At noon home to dinner, where was Balty come, who is well +again, and the most recovered in his countenance that ever I did see. +Here dined with me also Mrs. Batters, poor woman! now left a sad widow by +the drowning of her husband the other day. I pity her, and will do her +what kindness I can; yet I observe something of ill-nature in myself more +than should be, that I am colder towards her in my charity than I should +be to one so painful as he and she have been and full of kindness to +their power to my wife and I. After dinner out with Balty, setting him +down at the Maypole in the Strand, and then I to my Lord Bellasses, and +there spoke with Mr. Moone about some business, and so away home to my +business at the office, and then home to supper and to bed, after having +finished the putting of little papers upon my books to be numbered +hereafter. + + + +21st. Lay long, and when up find Mrs. Clerk of Greenwich and her +daughter Daniel, their business among other things was a request her +daughter was to make, so I took her into my chamber, and there it was to +help her husband to the command of a little new pleasure boat building, +which I promised to assist in. And here I had opportunity 'para baiser +elle, and toucher ses mamailles' . . . . Then to the office, and +there did a little business, and then to the 'Change and did the like. +So home to dinner, and spent all the afternoon in putting some things, +pictures especially, in order, and pasting my Lady Castlemayne's print on +a frame, which I have made handsome, and is a fine piece. So to the +office in the evening to marshall my papers of accounts presented to the +Parliament, against any future occasion to recur to them, which I did do +to my great content. So home and did some Tangier work, and so to bed. + + + +22nd. At the office all the morning, and there come news from Hogg that +our shipp hath brought in a Lubecker to Portsmouth, likely to prove +prize, of deals, which joys us. At noon home to dinner, and then Sir W. +Pen, Sir R. Ford, and I met at Sir W. Batten's to examine our papers, and +have great hopes to prove her prize, and Sir R. Ford I find a mighty yare +--[Quick or ready, a naval term frequently used by Shakespeare.]-- man in +this business, making exceeding good observations from the papers on our +behalf. Hereupon concluded what to write to Hogg and Middleton, which I +did, and also with Mr. Oviatt (Sir R. Ford's son, who is to be our +solicitor), to fee some counsel in the Admiralty, but none in town. So +home again, and after writing letters by the post, I with all my clerks +and Carcasse and Whitfield to the ticket-office, there to be informed in +the method and disorder of the office, which I find infinite great, of +infinite concernment to be mended, and did spend till 12 at night to my +great satisfaction, it being a point of our office I was wholly +unacquainted in. So with great content home and to bed. + + + +23rd (Lord's day). Up and alone to church, and meeting Nan Wright at the +gate had opportunity to take two or three 'baisers', and so to church, +where a vain fellow with a periwigg preached, Chaplain, as by his prayer +appeared, to the Earl of Carlisle? Home, and there dined with us Betty +Michell and her husband. After dinner to White Hall by coach, and took +them with me. And in the way I would have taken 'su main' as I did the +last time, but she did in a manner withhold it. So set them down at +White Hall, and I to the Chapel to find Dr. Gibbons, and from him to the +Harp and Ball to transcribe the treble which I would have him to set a +bass to. But this took me so much time, and it growing night, I was +fearful of missing a coach, and therefore took a coach and to rights to +call Michell and his wife at their father Howlett's, and so home, it +being cold, and the ground all snow . . . . They gone I to my +chamber, and with my brother and wife did number all my books in my +closet, and took a list of their names, which pleases me mightily, and is +a jobb I wanted much to have done. Then to supper and to bed. + + + +24th. Up, and to the office, where Lord Bruncker, [Sir] J. Mimics, [Sir] +W. Yen, and myself met, and there I did use my notes I took on Saturday +night about tickets, and did come to a good settlement in the business of +that office, if it be kept to, this morning being a meeting on purpose. +At noon to prevent my Lord Bruncker's dining here I walked as if upon +business with him, it being frost and dry, as far as Paul's, and so back +again through the City by Guildhall, observing the ruines thereabouts, +till I did truly lose myself, and so home to dinner. I do truly find +that I have overwrought my eyes, so that now they are become weak and apt +to be tired, and all excess of light makes them sore, so that now to the +candlelight I am forced to sit by, adding, the snow upon the ground all +day, my eyes are very bad, and will be worse if not helped, so my Lord +Bruncker do advise as a certain cure to use greene spectacles, which I +will do. So to dinner, where Mercer with us, and very merry. After +dinner she goes and fetches a little son of Mr. Backeworth's, the +wittiest child and of the most spirit that ever I saw in my life for +discourse of all kind, and so ready and to the purpose, not above four +years old. Thence to Sir Robert Viner's, and there paid for the plate I +have bought to the value of L94, with the L1OO Captain Cocke did give me +to that purpose, and received the rest in money. I this evening did buy +me a pair of green spectacles, to see whether they will help my eyes or +no. So to the 'Change, and went to the Upper 'Change, which is almost as +good as the old one; only shops are but on one side. Then home to the +office, and did business till my eyes began to be bad, and so home to +supper. My people busy making mince pies, and so to bed. No newes yet +of our Gottenburgh fleete; which makes [us] have some fears, it being of +mighty concernment to have our supply of masts safe. I met with Mr. Cade +to-night, my stationer; and he tells me that he hears for certain that +the Queene-Mother is about and hath near finished a peace with France, +which, as a Presbyterian, he do not like, but seems to fear it will be a +means to introduce Popery. + + + +25th (Christmas day). Lay pretty long in bed, and then rose, leaving my +wife desirous to sleep, having sat up till four this morning seeing her +mayds make mince-pies. I to church, where our parson Mills made a good +sermon. Then home, and dined well on some good ribbs of beef roasted and +mince pies; only my wife, brother, and Barker, and plenty of good wine of +my owne, and my heart full of true joy; and thanks to God Almighty for +the goodness of my condition at this day. After dinner, I begun to teach +my wife and Barker my song, "It is decreed," which pleases me mightily as +now I have Mr. Hinxton's base. Then out and walked alone on foot to the +Temple, it being a fine frost, thinking to have seen a play all alone; +but there, missing of any bills, concluded there was none, and so back +home; and there with my brother reducing the names of all my books to an +alphabet, which kept us till 7 or 8 at night, and then to supper, +W. Hewer with us, and pretty merry, and then to my chamber to enter this +day's journal only, and then to bed. My head a little thoughtfull how to +behave myself in the business of the victualling, which I think will be +prudence to offer my service in doing something in passing the pursers' +accounts, thereby to serve the King, get honour to myself, and confirm me +in my place in the victualling, which at present yields not work enough +to deserve my wages. + + + +26th. Up, and walked all the way (it being a most fine frost), to White +Hall, to Sir W. Coventry's chamber, and thence with him up to the Duke of +York, where among other things at our meeting I did offer my assistance +to Sir J. Minnes to do the business of his office, relating to the +Pursers' accounts, which was well accepted by the Duke of York, and I +think I have and shall do myself good in it, if it be taken, for it will +confirm me in the business of the victualling office, which I do now very +little for. Thence home, carrying a barrel of oysters with me. Anon +comes Mr. John Andrews and his wife by invitation from Bow to dine with +me, and young Batelier and his wife with her great belly, which has +spoiled her looks mightily already. Here was also Mercer and Creed, whom +I met coming home, who tells me of a most bitter lampoone now out against +the Court and the management of State from head to foot, mighty witty and +mighty severe. By and by to dinner, a very good one, and merry. After +dinner I put the women into a coach, and they to the Duke's house, to a +play which was acted, "The --------." It was indifferently done, but was +not pleased with the song, Gosnell not singing, but a new wench, that +sings naughtily. Thence home, all by coach, and there Mr. Andrews to the +vyall, who plays most excellently on it, which I did not know before. +Then to dance, here being Pembleton come, by my wife's direction, and a +fiddler; and we got, also, the elder Batelier to-night, and Nan Wright, +and mighty merry we were, and I danced; and so till twelve at night, and +to supper, and then to cross purposes, mighty merry, and then to bed, my +eyes being sore. Creed lay here in Barker's bed. + + + +27th. Up; and called up by the King's trumpets, which cost me 10s. So +to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon, by invitation, my +wife, who had not been there these to months, I think, and I, to meet all +our families at Sir W. Batten's at dinner, whither neither a great dinner +for so much company nor anything good or handsome. In the middle of +dinner I rose, and my wife, and by coach to the King's playhouse, and +meeting Creed took him up, and there saw "The Scornfull Lady" well acted; +Doll Common doing Abigail most excellently, and Knipp the widow very +well, and will be an excellent actor, I think. In other parts the play +not so well done as used to be, by the old actors. Anon to White Hall by +coach, thinking to have seen a play there to-night, but found it a +mistake, so back again, and missed our coach[man], who was gone, thinking +to come time enough three hours hence, and we could not blame him. So +forced to get another coach, and all three home to my house, and there to +Sir W. Batten's, and eat a bit of cold chine of beef, and then staid and +talked, and then home and sat and talked a little by the fireside with my +wife and Creed, and so to bed, my left eye being very sore. No business +publick or private minded all these two days. This day a house or two +was blown up with powder in the Minorys, and several people spoiled, and +many dug out from under the rubbish. + + + +28th. Up, and Creed and I walked (a very fine walk in the frost) to my +Lord Bellasses, but missing him did find him at White Hall, and there +spoke with him about some Tangier business. That done, we to Creed's +lodgings, which are very pretty, but he is going from them. So we to +Lincoln's Inne Fields, he to Ned Pickering's, who it seems lives there, +keeping a good house, and I to my Lord Crew's, where I dined, and hear +the newes how my Lord's brother, Mr. Nathaniel Crew, hath an estate of 6 +or L700 per annum, left him by the death of an old acquaintance of his, +but not akin to him at all. And this man is dead without will, but had, +above ten years since, made over his estate to this Mr. Crew, to him and +his heirs for ever, and given Mr. Crew the keeping of the deeds in his +own hand all this time; by which, if he would, he might have taken +present possession of the estate, for he knew what they were. This is as +great an act of confident friendship as this latter age, I believe, can +shew. From hence to the Duke's house, and there saw "Macbeth" most +excellently acted, and a most excellent play for variety. I had sent for +my wife to meet me there, who did come, and after the play was done, I +out so soon to meet her at the other door that I left my cloake in the +playhouse, and while I returned to get it, she was gone out and missed +me, and with W. Hewer away home. I not sorry for it much did go to White +Hall, and got my Lord Bellasses to get me into the playhouse; and there, +after all staying above an hour for the players, the King and all +waiting, which was absurd, saw "Henry the Fifth" well done by the Duke's +people, and in most excellent habits, all new vests, being put on but +this night. But I sat so high and far off, that I missed most of the +words, and sat with a wind coming into my back and neck, which did much +trouble me. The play continued till twelve at night; and then up, and a +most horrid cold night it was, and frosty, and moonshine. But the worst +was, I had left my cloak at Sir G. Carteret's, and they being abed I was +forced to go home without it. So by chance got a coach and to the Golden +Lion Taverne in the Strand, and there drank some mulled sack, and so +home, where find my poor wife staying for me, and then to bed mighty +cold. + + + +29th. Up, called up with newes from Sir W. Batten that Hogg hath brought +in two prizes more: and so I thither, and hear the particulars, which are +good; one of them, if prize, being worth L4,000: for which God be +thanked! Then to the office, and have the newes brought us of Captain +Robinson's coming with his fleete from Gottenburgh: dispersed, though, by +foul weather. But he hath light of five Dutch men-of-war, and taken +three, whereof one is sunk; which is very good newes to close up the year +with, and most of our merchantmen already heard of to be safely come +home, though after long lookings-for, and now to several ports, as they +could make them. At noon home to dinner, where Balty is and now well +recovered. Then to the office to do business, and at night, it being +very cold, home to my chamber, and there late writing, but my left eye +still very sore. I write by spectacles all this night, then to supper +and to bed. This day's good news making me very lively, only the arrears +of much business on my hands and my accounts to be settled for the whole +year past do lie as a weight on my mind. + + + +30th (Lord's day). Lay long, however up and to church, where Mills made +a good sermon. Here was a collection for the sexton; but it come into my +head why we should be more bold in making the collection while the psalm +is singing, than in the sermon or prayer. Home, and, without any +strangers, to dinner, and then all the afternoon and evening in my +chamber preparing all my accounts in good condition against to-morrow, to +state them for the whole year past, to which God give me a good issue +when I come to close them! So to supper and to bed. + + + +31st. Rising this day with a full design to mind nothing else but to +make up my accounts for the year past, I did take money, and walk forth +to several places in the towne as far as the New Exchange, to pay all my +debts, it being still a very great frost and good walking. I staid at +the Fleece Tavern in Covent Garden while my boy Tom went to W. Joyce's to +pay what I owed for candles there. Thence to the New Exchange to clear +my wife's score, and so going back again I met Doll Lane (Mrs. Martin's +sister), with another young woman of the Hall, one Scott, and took them +to the Half Moon Taverne and there drank some burnt wine with them, +without more pleasure, and so away home by coach, and there to dinner, +and then to my accounts, wherein, at last, I find them clear and right; +but, to my great discontent, do find that my gettings this year have been +L573 less than my last: it being this year in all but L2,986; whereas, +the last, I got L3,560. And then again my spendings this year have +exceeded my spendings the last by L644: my whole spendings last year +being but L509; whereas this year, it appears, I have spent L1154, which +is a sum not fit to be said that ever I should spend in one year, before +I am master of a better estate than I am. Yet, blessed be God! and I +pray God make me thankful for it, I do find myself worth in money, all +good, above L6,200; which is above L1800 more than I was the last year. +This, I trust in God, will make me thankfull for what I have, and +carefull to make up by care next year what by my negligence and +prodigality I have lost and spent this year. The doing of this, and +entering of it fair, with the sorting of all my expenses, to see how and +in what points I have exceeded, did make it late work, till my eyes +become very sore and ill, and then did give over, and supper, and to bed. +Thus ends this year of publick wonder and mischief to this nation, and, +therefore, generally wished by all people to have an end. Myself and +family well, having four mayds and one clerk, Tom, in my house, and my +brother, now with me, to spend time in order to his preferment. Our +healths all well, only my eyes with overworking them are sore as +candlelight comes to them, and not else; publick matters in a most sad +condition; seamen discouraged for want of pay, and are become not to be +governed: nor, as matters are now, can any fleete go out next year. Our +enemies, French and Dutch, great, and grow more by our poverty. The +Parliament backward in raising, because jealous of the spending of the +money; the City less and less likely to be built again, every body +settling elsewhere, and nobody encouraged to trade. A sad, vicious, +negligent Court, and all sober men there fearful of the ruin of the whole +kingdom this next year; from which, good God deliver us! One thing I +reckon remarkable in my owne condition is, that I am come to abound in +good plate, so as at all entertainments to be served wholly with silver +plates, having two dozen and a half. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +Being five years behindhand for their wages (court musicians) +But fit she should live where he hath a mind +Gladder to have just now received it (than a promise) +Most homely widow, but young, and pretty rich, and good natured +No Parliament can, as he says, be kept long good +Peace with France, which, as a Presbyterian, he do not like +That I may have nothing by me but what is worth keeping +Weary of the following of my pleasure + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v54 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + diff --git a/old/sp55g10.zip b/old/sp55g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..e8b1760 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp55g10.zip |