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+Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, December 1666
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+                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 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
+
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