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+Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, January 1966/67, by Samuel Pepys
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+Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, January 1966/67
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+Author: Samuel Pepys
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+Release Date: December 1, 2004 [EBook #4172]
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+*** 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.
+
+                                1667 N.S.
+
+                                 JANUARY
+                                1666-1667
+
+January 1st.  Lay long, being a bitter, cold, frosty day, the frost being
+now grown old, and the Thames covered with ice.  Up, and to the office,
+where all the morning busy.  At noon to the 'Change a little, where Mr.
+James Houblon and I walked a good while speaking of our ill condition in
+not being able to set out a fleet (we doubt) this year, and the certain
+ill effect that must bring, which is lamentable.  Home to dinner, where
+the best powdered goose that ever I eat.  Then to the office again, and to
+Sir W. Batten's to examine the Commission going down to Portsmouth to
+examine witnesses about our prizes, of which God give a good issue! and
+then to the office again, where late, and so home, my eyes sore.  To
+supper and to bed.
+
+2nd.  Up, I, and walked to White Hall to attend the Duke of York, as
+usual.  My wife up, and with Mrs. Pen to walk in the fields to frost-bite
+themselves.  I find the Court full of great apprehensions of the French,
+who have certainly shipped landsmen, great numbers, at Brest; and most of
+our people here guess his design for Ireland.  We have orders to send all
+the ships we can possible to the Downes.  God have mercy on us! for we can
+send forth no ships without men, nor will men go without money, every day
+bringing us news of new mutinies among the seamen; so that our condition
+is like to be very miserable.  Thence to Westminster Hall, and there met
+all the Houblons, who do laugh at this discourse of the French, and say
+they are verily of opinion it is nothing but to send to their plantation
+in the West Indys, and that we at Court do blow up a design of invading
+us, only to make the Parliament make more haste in the money matters, and
+perhaps it may be so, but I do not believe we have any such plot in our
+heads.  After them, I, with several people, among others Mr. George
+Montagu, whom I have not seen long, he mighty kind.  He tells me all is
+like to go ill, the King displeasing the House of Commons by evading their
+Bill for examining Accounts, and putting it into a Commission, though
+therein he hath left out Coventry and I and named all the rest the
+Parliament named, and all country Lords, not one Courtier: this do not
+please them.  He tells me he finds the enmity almost over for my Lord
+Sandwich, and that now all is upon the Vice-Chamberlain, who bears up well
+and stands upon his vindication, which he seems to like well, and the
+others do construe well also.  Thence up to the Painted Chamber, and there
+heard a conference between the House of Lords and Commons about the Wine
+Patent; which I was exceeding glad to be at, because of my hearing
+exceeding good discourses, but especially from the Commons; among others,
+Mr. Swinfen, and a young man, one Sir Thomas Meres:  and do outdo the
+Lords infinitely.  So down to the Hall and to the Rose Taverne, while Doll
+Lane come to me, and we did 'biber a good deal de vino, et je did give
+elle twelve soldis para comprare elle some gans' for a new anno's gift
+.  .  .  . Thence to the Hall again, and with Sir W. Pen by coach to the
+Temple, and there 'light and eat a bit at an ordinary by, and then alone
+to the King's House, and there saw "The Custome of the Country," the
+second time of its being acted, wherein Knipp does the Widow well; but, of
+all the plays that ever I did see, the worst-having neither plot,
+language, nor anything in the earth that is acceptable; only Knipp sings a
+little song admirably.  But fully the worst play that ever I saw or I
+believe shall see.  So away home, much displeased for the loss of so much
+time, and disobliging my wife by being there without her.  So, by link,
+walked home, it being mighty cold but dry, yet bad walking because very
+slippery with the frost and treading. Home and to my chamber to set down
+my journal, and then to thinking upon establishing my vows against the
+next year, and so to supper and to bed.
+
+3rd.  Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning.  At noon by
+invitation to dinner to Sir W. Pen's, where my Lord Bruncker, Sir W.
+Batten, and his lady, myself, and wife, Sir J. Minnes, and Mr. Turner and
+his wife.  Indifferent merry, to which I contributed the most, but a mean
+dinner, and in a mean manner.  In the evening a little to the office, and
+then to them, where I found them at cards, myself very ill with a cold
+(the frost continuing hard), so eat but little at supper, but very merry,
+and late home to bed, not much pleased with the manner of our
+entertainment, though to myself more civil than to any.  This day, I hear,
+hath been a conference between the two Houses about the Bill for examining
+Accounts, wherein the House of Lords their proceedings in petitioning the
+King for doing it by Commission is, in great heat, voted by the Commons,
+after the conference, unparliamentary.  The issue whereof, God knows.
+
+4th.  Up, and seeing things put in order for a dinner at my house to-day,
+I to the office awhile, and about noon home, and there saw all things in
+good order.  Anon comes our company; my Lord Bruncker, Sir W. Pen, his
+lady, and Pegg, and her servant, Mr. Lowther, my Lady Batten (Sir W.
+Batten being forced to dine at Sir K. Ford's, being invited), Mr. Turner
+and his wife.  Here I had good room for ten, and no more would my table
+have held well, had Sir J. Minnes, who was fallen lame, and his sister,
+and niece, and Sir W. Batten come, which was a great content to me to be
+without them.  I did make them all gaze to see themselves served so nobly
+in plate, and a neat dinner, indeed, though but of seven dishes.  Mighty
+merry I was and made them all, and they mightily pleased.  My Lord
+Bruncker went away after dinner to the ticket-office, the rest staid, only
+my Lady Batten home, her ague-fit coming on her at table.  The rest merry,
+and to cards, and then to sing and talk, and at night to sup, and then to
+cards; and, last of all, to have a flaggon of ale and apples, drunk out of
+a wood cupp,
+
+     [A mazer or drinking-bowl turned out of some kind of wood, by
+     preference of maple, and especially the spotted or speckled variety
+     called "bird's-eye maple" (see W. H. St. John Hope's paper, "On the
+     English Mediaeval Drinking-bowls called Mazers," "Archaeologia,"
+     vol.  50, pp. 129,93).]
+
+as a Christmas draught, made all merry; and they full of admiration at my
+plate, particularly my flaggons (which, indeed, are noble), and so late
+home, all with great mirth and satisfaction to them, as I thought, and to
+myself to see all I have and do so much outdo for neatness and plenty
+anything done by any of them.  They gone, I to bed, much pleased, and do
+observe Mr. Lowther to be a pretty gentleman, and, I think, too good for
+Peg; and, by the way, Peg Pen seems mightily to be kind to me, and I
+believe by her father's advice, who is also himself so; but I believe not
+a little troubled to see my plenty, and was much troubled to hear the song
+I sung, "The New Droll"--it touching him home.  So to bed.
+
+5th.  At the office all the morning, thinking at noon to have been taken
+home, and my wife (according to appointment yesterday), by my Lord
+Bruncker, to dinner and then to a play, but he had forgot it, at which I
+was glad, being glad of avoyding the occasion of inviting him again, and
+being forced to invite his doxy, Mrs. Williams.  So home, and took a small
+snap of victuals, and away, with my wife, to the Duke's house, and there
+saw "Mustapha," a most excellent play for words and design as ever I did
+see.  I had seen it before but forgot it, so it was wholly new to me,
+which is the pleasure of my not committing these things to my memory.
+Home, and a little to the office, and then to bed, where I lay with much
+pain in my head most of the night, and very unquiet, partly by my drinking
+before I went out too great a draught of sack, and partly my eyes being
+still very sore.
+
+6th (Lord's day).  Up pretty well in the morning, and then to church,
+where a dull doctor, a stranger, made a dull sermon.  Then home, and Betty
+Michell and her husband come by invitation to dine with us, and, she I
+find the same as ever (which I was afraid of the contrary) .  .  . Here
+come also Mr. Howe to dine with me, and we had a good dinner and good
+merry discourse with much pleasure, I enjoying myself mightily to have
+friends at my table.  After dinner young Michell and I, it being an
+excellent frosty day to walk, did walk out, he showing me the baker's
+house in Pudding Lane, where the late great fire begun; and thence all
+along Thames Street, where I did view several places, and so up by London
+Wall, by Blackfriars, to Ludgate; and thence to Bridewell, which I find to
+have been heretofore an extraordinary good house, and a fine coming to it,
+before the house by the bridge was built; and so to look about St. Bride's
+church and my father's house, and so walked home, and there supped
+together, and then Michell and Betty home, and I to my closet, there to
+read and agree upon my vows for next year, and so to bed and slept mighty
+well.
+
+7th.  Lay long in bed.  Then up and to the office, where busy all the
+morning.  At noon (my wife being gone to Westminster) I with my Lord
+Bruncker by coach as far as the Temple, in the way he telling me that my
+Lady Denham is at last dead.  Some suspect her poisoned, but it will be
+best known when her body is opened, which will be to-day, she dying
+yesterday morning.  The Duke of York is troubled for her; but hath
+declared he will never have another public mistress again; which I shall
+be glad of, and would the King would do the like.  He tells me how the
+Parliament is grown so jealous of the King's being unfayre to them in the
+business of the Bill for examining Accounts, Irish Bill, and the business
+of the Papists, that they will not pass the business for money till they
+see themselves secure that those Bills will pass; which they do observe
+the Court to keep off till all the Bills come together, that the King may
+accept what he pleases, and what he pleases to reject, which will undo all
+our business and the kingdom too.  He tells me how Mr. Henry Howard, of
+Norfolke, hath given our Royal Society all his grandfather's library:
+which noble gift they value at L1000; and gives them accommodation to meet
+in at his house, Arundell House, they being now disturbed at Gresham
+College.  Thence 'lighting at the Temple to the ordinary hard by and eat a
+bit of meat, and then by coach to fetch my wife from her brother's, and
+thence to the Duke's house, and saw "Macbeth," which, though I saw it
+lately, yet appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially
+in divertisement, though it be a deep tragedy; which is a strange
+perfection in a tragedy, it being most proper here, and suitable.  So
+home, it being the last play now I am to see till a fortnight hence, I
+being from the last night entered into my vowes for the year coming on.
+Here I met with the good newes of Hogg's bringing in two prizes more to
+Plymouth, which if they prove but any part of them, I hope, at least, we
+shall be no losers by them.  So home from the office, to write over fair
+my vowes for this year, and then to supper, and to bed.  In great peace of
+mind having now done it, and brought myself into order again and a
+resolution of keeping it, and having entered my journall to this night, so
+to bed, my eyes failing me with writing.
+
+8th.  Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning.  At noon home
+to dinner, where my uncle Thomas with me to receive his quarterage.  He
+tells me his son Thomas is set up in Smithfield, where he hath a shop--I
+suppose, a booth.  Presently after dinner to the office, and there set
+close to my business and did a great deal before night, and am resolved to
+stand to it, having been a truant too long.  At night to Sir W. Batten's
+to consider some things about our prizes, and then to other talk, and
+among other things he tells me that he hears for certain that Sir W.
+Coventry hath resigned to the King his place of Commissioner of the Navy,
+the thing he bath often told me that he had a mind to do, but I am
+surprised to think that he hath done it, and am full of thoughts all this
+evening after I heard it what may be the consequences of it to me. So home
+and to supper, and then saw the catalogue of my books, which my brother
+had wrote out, now perfectly alphabeticall, and so to bed.  Sir Richard
+Ford did this evening at Sir W. Batten's tell us that upon opening the
+body of my Lady Denham it is said that they found a vessel about her
+matrix which had never been broke by her husband, that caused all pains in
+her body.  Which if true is excellent invention to clear both the Duchesse
+from poison or the Duke from lying with her.
+
+9th.  Up, and with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen in a hackney-coach to
+White Hall, the way being most horribly bad upon the breaking up of the
+frost, so as not to be passed almost.  There did our usual [business] with
+the Duke of York, and here I do hear, by my Lord Bruncker, that for
+certain Sir W. Coventry hath resigned his place of Commissioner; which I
+believe he hath done upon good grounds of security to himself, from all
+the blame which must attend our office this next year; but I fear the King
+will suffer by it.  Thence to Westminster Hall, and there to the
+conference of the Houses about the word "Nuisance,"
+
+     [In the "Bill against importing Cattle from Ireland and other parts
+     beyond the Seas," the Lords proposed to insert "Detriment and
+     Mischief" in place of "Nuisance," but the Commons stood to their
+     word, and gained their way.  The Lords finally consented that
+     "Nuisance" should stand in the Bill.]
+
+which the Commons would have, and the Lords will not, in the Irish Bill.
+The Commons do it professedly to prevent the King's dispensing with it;
+which Sir Robert Howard and others did expressly repeat often: viz., "the
+King nor any King ever could do any thing which was hurtful to their
+people."  Now the Lords did argue, that it was an ill precedent, and that
+which will ever hereafter be used as a way of preventing the King's
+dispensation with acts; and therefore rather advise to pass the Bill
+without that word, and let it go, accompanied with a petition, to the
+King, that he will not dispense with it; this being a more civil way to
+the King.  They answered well, that this do imply that the King should
+pass their Bill, and yet with design to dispense with it; which is to
+suppose the King guilty of abusing them.  And more, they produce
+precedents for it; namely, that against new buildings and about leather,
+wherein the word "Nuisance" is used to the purpose: and further, that they
+do not rob the King of any right he ever had, for he never had a power to
+do hurt to his people, nor would exercise it; and therefore there is no
+danger, in the passing this Bill, of imposing on his prerogative; and
+concluded, that they think they ought to do this, so as the people may
+really have the benefit of it when it is passed, for never any people
+could expect so reasonably to be indulged something from a King, they
+having already given him so much money, and are likely to give more.  Thus
+they broke up, both adhering to their opinions; but the Commons seemed
+much more full of judgment and reason than the Lords. Then the Commons
+made their Report to the Lords of their vote, that their Lordships'
+proceedings in the Bill for examining Accounts were unparliamentary; they
+having, while a Bill was sent up to them from the Commons about the
+business, petitioned his Majesty that he would do the same thing by his
+Commission.  They did give their reasons: viz., that it had no precedent;
+that the King ought not to be informed of anything passing in the Houses
+till it comes to a Bill; that it will wholly break off all correspondence
+between the two Houses, and in the issue wholly infringe the very use and
+being of Parliaments.  Having left their arguments with the Lords they all
+broke up, and I by coach to the ordinary by the Temple, and there dined
+alone on a rabbit, and read a book I brought home from Mrs. Michell's, of
+the proceedings of the Parliament in the 3rd and 4th year of the late
+King, a very good book for speeches and for arguments of law.  Thence to
+Faythorne, and bought a head or two; one of them my Lord of Ormond's, the
+best I ever saw, and then to Arundell House, where first the Royall
+Society meet, by the favour of Mr. Harry Howard, who was there, and has
+given us his grandfather's library, a noble gift, and a noble favour and
+undertaking it is for him to make his house the seat for this college.
+Here was an experiment shown about improving the use of powder for
+creating of force in winding up of springs and other uses of great worth.
+And here was a great meeting of worthy noble persons; but my Lord
+Bruncker, who pretended to make a congratulatory speech upon their coming
+hither, and in thanks to Mr. Howard, do it in the worst manner in the
+world, being the worst speaker, so as I do wonder at his parts and the
+unhappiness of his speaking.  Thence home by coach and to the office, and
+then home to supper, Mercer and her sister there, and to cards, and then
+to bed.  Mr. Cowling did this day in the House-lobby tell me of the many
+complaints among people against Mr. Townsend in the Wardrobe, and advises
+me to think of my Lord Sandwich's concernment there under his care.  He
+did also tell me upon my demanding it, that he do believe there are some
+things on foot for a peace between France and us, but that we shall be
+foiled in it.
+
+10th.  Up, and at the office all the morning.  At noon home and, there
+being business to do in the afternoon, took my Lord Bruncker home with me,
+who dined with me.  His discourse and mine about the bad performances of
+the Controller's and Surveyor's places by the hands they are now in, and
+the shame to the service and loss the King suffers by it.  Then after
+dinner to the office, where we and some of the chief of the Trinity House
+met to examine the occasion of the loss of The Prince Royall,  the master
+and mates being examined, which I took and keep, and so broke up, and I to
+my letters by the post, and so home and to supper with my mind at pretty
+good ease, being entered upon minding my business, and so to bed. This
+noon Mrs. Burroughs come to me about business, whom I did baiser . .  .  .
+
+11th.  Up, being troubled at my being found abed a-days by all sorts of
+people, I having got a trick of sitting up later than I need, never
+supping, or very seldom, before 12 at night.  Then to the office, there
+busy all the morning, and among other things comes Sir W. Warren and
+walked with me awhile, whose discourse I love, he being a very wise man
+and full of good counsel, and his own practices for wisdom much to be
+observed, and among other things he tells me how he is fallen in with my
+Lord Bruncker, who has promised him most particular inward friendship and
+yet not to appear at the board to do so, and he tells me how my Lord
+Bruncker should take notice of the two flaggons he saw at my house at
+dinner, at my late feast, and merrily, yet I know enviously, said, I could
+not come honestly by them.  This I am glad to hear, though vexed to see
+his ignoble soul, but I shall beware of him, and yet it is fit he should
+see I am no mean fellow, but can live in the world, and have something.
+At noon home to dinner, and then to the office with my people and very
+busy, and did dispatch to my great satisfaction abundance of business, and
+do resolve, by the grace of God, to stick to it till I have cleared my
+heart of most things wherein I am in arrear in public and private matters.
+At night, home to supper and to bed.  This day ill news of my father's
+being very ill of his old grief the rupture, which troubles me.
+
+12th.  Up, still lying long in bed; then to the office, where sat very
+long.  Then home to dinner, and so to the office again, mighty busy, and
+did to the joy of my soul dispatch much business, which do make my heart
+light, and will enable me to recover all the ground I have lost (if I have
+by my late minding my pleasures lost any) and assert myself.  So home to
+supper, and then to read a little in Moore's "Antidote against Atheisme,"
+a pretty book, and so to bed.
+
+13th (Lord's day).  Up, and to church, where young Lowther come to church
+with Sir W. Pen and his Lady and daughter, and my wife tells me that
+either they are married or the match is quite perfected, which I am apt to
+believe, because all the peoples' eyes in the church were much fixed upon
+them.  At noon sent for Mercer, who dined with us, and very merry, and so
+I, after dinner, walked to the Old Swan, thinking to have got a boat to
+White Hall, but could not, nor was there anybody at home at Michell's,
+where I thought to have sat with her .  .  .  .  So home, to church, a
+dull sermon, and then home at my chamber all the evening.  So to supper
+and to bed.
+
+14th.  Up, and to the office, where busy getting beforehand with my
+business as fast as I can.  At noon home to dinner, and presently
+afterward at my office again.  I understand my father is pretty well
+again, blessed be God! and would have my Br[other] John comedown to him
+for a little while.  Busy till night, pleasing myself mightily to see what
+a deal of business goes off of a man's hands when he stays by it, and
+then, at night, before it was late (yet much business done) home to
+supper, discourse with my wife, and to bed.  Sir W. Batten tells me the
+Lords do agree at last with the Commons about the word "Nuisance" in the
+Irish Bill, and do desire a good correspondence between the two Houses;
+and that the King do intend to prorogue them the last of this month.
+
+15th.  Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning.  Here my Lord
+Bruncker would have made me promise to go with him to a play this
+afternoon, where Knipp acts Mrs. Weaver's great part in "The Indian
+Emperour," and he says is coming on to be a great actor.  But I am so fell
+to my business, that I, though against my inclination, will not go. At
+noon, dined with my wife and were pleasant, and then to the office, where
+I got Mrs. Burroughs 'sola cum ego, and did toucher ses mamailles' .  .  .
+She gone, I to my business and did much, and among other things
+to-night we were all mightily troubled how to prevent the sale of a great
+deal of hemp, and timber-deals, and other good goods to-morrow at the
+candle by the Prize Office, where it will be sold for little, and we shall
+be found to want the same goods and buy at extraordinary prices, and
+perhaps the very same goods now sold, which is a most horrid evil and a
+shame.  At night home to supper and to bed with my mind mighty light to
+see the fruits of my diligence in having my business go off my hand so
+merrily.
+
+16th.  Up, and by coach to White Hall, and there to the Duke of York as
+usual.  Here Sir W. Coventry come to me aside in the Duke's chamber, to
+tell that he had not answered part of a late letter of mine, because
+'littera scripta manet'.  About his leaving the office, he tells me, [it
+is] because he finds that his business at Court will not permit him to
+attend it; and then he confesses that he seldom of late could come from it
+with satisfaction, and therefore would not take the King's money for
+nothing.  I professed my sorrow for it, and prayed the continuance of his
+favour; which he promised.  I do believe he hath [done] like a very wise
+man in reference to himself; but I doubt it will prove ill for the King,
+and for the office.  Prince Rupert, I hear to-day, is very ill; yesterday
+given over, but better to-day.  This day, before the Duke of York, the
+business of the Muster-Masters was reported, and Balty found the best of
+the whole number, so as the Duke enquired who he was, and whether he was a
+stranger by his two names, both strange, and offered that he and one more,
+who hath done next best, should have not only their owne, but part of the
+others' salary, but that I having said he was my brother-in-law, he did
+stop, but they two are ordered their pay, which I am glad of, and some of
+the rest will lose their pay, and others be laid by the heels. I was very
+glad of this being ended so well.  I did also, this morning, move in a
+business wherein Mr. Hater hath concerned me, about getting a ship, laden
+with salt from France, permitted to unload, coming in after the King's
+declaration was out, which I have hopes by some dexterity to get done.
+Then with the Duke of York to the King, to receive his commands for
+stopping the sale this day of some prize-goods at the Prize-Office, goods
+fit for the Navy; and received the King's commands, and carried them to
+the Lords' House, to my Lord Ashly, who was angry much thereat, and I am
+sorry it fell to me to carry the order, but I cannot help it.  So, against
+his will, he signed a note I writ to the Commissioners of Prizes, which I
+carried and delivered to Kingdone, at their new office in Aldersgate
+Streete.  Thence a little to the Exchange, where it was hot that the
+Prince was dead, but I did rectify it.  So home to dinner, and found
+Balty, told him the good news, and then after dinner away, I presently to
+White Hall, and did give the Duke of York a memorial of the salt business,
+against the Council, and did wait all the Council for answer, walking a
+good while with Sir Stephen Fox, who, among other things, told me his
+whole mystery in the business of the interest he pays as Treasurer for the
+Army.  They give him 12d. per pound quite through the Army, with condition
+to be paid weekly.  This he undertakes upon his own private credit, and to
+be paid by the King at the end of every four months.  If the King pay him
+not at the end of the four months, then, for all the time he stays longer,
+my Lord Treasurer, by agreement, allows him eight per cent. per annum for
+the forbearance.  So that, in fine, he hath about twelve per cent. from
+the King and the Army, for fifteen or sixteen months' interest; out of
+which he gains soundly, his expense being about L130,000 per annum; and
+hath no trouble in it, compared, as I told him, to the trouble I must have
+to bring in an account of interest.  I was, however, glad of being thus
+enlightened, and so away to the other council door, and there got in and
+hear a piece of a cause, heard before the King, about a ship deserted by
+her fellows (who were bound mutually to defend each other), in their way
+to Virginy, and taken by the enemy, but it was but meanly pleaded.  Then
+all withdrew, and by and by the Council rose, and I spoke with the Duke of
+York, and he told me my business was done, which I found accordingly in
+Sir Edward Walker's books.  And so away, mightily satisfied, to Arundell
+House, and there heard a little good discourse, and so home, and there to
+Sir W. Batten, where I heard the examinations in two of our prizes, which
+do make but little for us, so that I do begin to doubt their proving
+prize, which troubled me.  So home to supper with my wife, and after
+supper my wife told me how she had moved to W. Hewer the business of my
+sister for a wife to him, which he received with mighty acknowledgements,
+as she says, above anything; but says he hath no intention to alter his
+condition: so that I am in some measure sorry she ever moved it; but I
+hope he will think it only come from her.  So after supper a little to the
+office, to enter my journall, and then home to bed.  Talk there is of a
+letter to come from Holland, desiring a place of treaty; but I do doubt
+it.  This day I observe still, in many places, the smoking remains of the
+late fire: the ways mighty bad and dirty.  This night Sir R. Ford told me
+how this day, at Christ Church Hospital, they have given a living over
+L200 per annum to Mr. Sanchy, my old acquaintance, which I wonder at, he
+commending him mightily; but am glad of it.  He tells me, too, how the
+famous Stillingfleete was a Bluecoat boy.  The children at this day are
+provided for in the country by the House, which I am glad also to hear.
+
+17th.  Up, and to the office, where all the morning sitting.  At noon home
+to dinner, and then to the office busy also till very late, my heart joyed
+with the effects of my following my business, by easing my head of cares,
+and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+18th.  Up, and most of the morning finishing my entry of my journall
+during the late fire out of loose papers into this book, which did please
+me mightily when done, I, writing till my eyes were almost blind therewith
+to make an end of it.  Then all the rest of the morning, and, after a
+mouthful of dinner, all the afternoon in my closet till night, sorting all
+my papers, which have lain unsorted for all the time we were at Greenwich
+during the plague, which did please me also, I drawing on to put my office
+into a good posture, though much is behind.  This morning come Captain.
+Cocke to me, and tells me that the King comes to the House this day to
+pass the poll Bill and the Irish Bill; he tells me too that, though the
+Faction is very froward in the House, yet all will end well there.  But he
+says that one had got a Bill ready to present in the House against Sir W.
+Coventry, for selling of places, and says he is certain of it, and how he
+was withheld from doing it.  He says, that the Vice-chamberlaine is now
+one of the greatest men in England again, and was he that did prevail with
+the King to let the Irish Bill go with the word "Nuisance."  He told me,
+that Sir G. Carteret's declaration of giving double to any man that will
+prove that any of his people have demanded or taken any thing for
+forwarding the payment of the wages of any man (of which he sent us a copy
+yesterday, which we approved of) is set up, among other places, upon the
+House of Lords' door.  I do not know how wisely this is done.  This
+morning, also, there come to the office a letter from the Duke of York,
+commanding our payment of no wages to any of the muster-masters of the
+fleete the last year, but only two, my brother Balty, taking notice that
+he had taken pains therein, and one Ward, who, though he had not taken so
+much as the other, yet had done more than the rest.  This I was exceeding
+glad of for my own sake and his.  At night I, by appointment, home, where
+W. Batelier and his sister Mary, and the two Mercers, to play at cards and
+sup, and did cut our great cake lately given us by Russell: a very good
+one.  Here very merry late.  Sir W. Pen told me this night how the King
+did make them a very sharp speech in the House of Lords to-day, saying
+that he did expect to have had more Bills;
+
+     [On this day "An Act for raising Money by a Poll and otherwise
+     towards the maintenance of the present War," and "An Act prohibiting
+     the Importation of Cattle from Ireland and other parts beyond the
+     Sea, and Fish taken by Foreigners," were passed.  The king.
+     complained of the insufficient supply, and said, "'Tis high time for
+     you to make good your promises, and 'tis high time for you to be in
+     the country" ("Journals of the House of Lords," vol  xii., p. 81).]
+
+that he purposes to prorogue them on Monday come se'nnight; that whereas
+they have unjustly conceived some jealousys of his making a peace, he
+declares he knows of no such thing or treaty: and so left them.  But with
+so little effect, that as soon as he come into the House, Sir W. Coventry
+moved, that now the King hath declared his intention of proroguing them,
+it would be loss of time to go on with the thing they were upon, when they
+were called to the King, which was the calling over the defaults of
+Members appearing in the House; for that, before any person could now come
+or be brought to town, the House would be up.  Yet the Faction did desire
+to delay time, and contend so as to come to a division of the House;
+where, however, it was carried, by a few voices, that the debate should be
+laid by.  But this shews that they are not pleased, or that they have not
+any awe over them from the King's displeasure.  The company being gone, to
+bed.
+
+19th.  Up, and at the office all the morning.  Sir W. Batten tells me to
+my wonder that at his coming to my Lord Ashly, yesterday morning, to tell
+him what prize-goods he would have saved for the Navy, and not sold,
+according to the King's order on the 17th, he fell quite out with him in
+high terms; and he says, too, that they did go on to the sale yesterday,
+even of the very hempe, and other things, at which I am astonished, and
+will never wonder at the ruine of the King's affairs, if this be suffered.
+At noon dined, and Mr. Pierce come to see me, he newly come from keeping
+his Christmas in the country.  So to the office, where very busy, but with
+great pleasure till late at night, and then home to supper and to bed.
+
+20th (Lord's day).  Up betimes and down to the Old Swan, there called on
+Michell and his wife, which in her night linen appeared as pretty almost
+as ever to my thinking I saw woman.  Here I drank some burnt brandy. They
+shewed me their house, which, poor people, they have built, and is very
+pretty.  I invited them to dine with me, and so away to White Hall to Sir
+W. Coventry, with whom I have not been alone a good while, and very kind
+he is, and tells me how the business is now ordered by order of council
+for my Lord Bruncker to assist Sir J. Minnes in all matters of accounts
+relating to the Treasurer, and Sir W. Pen in all matters relating to the
+victuallers' and pursers' accounts, which I am very glad of, and the more
+for that I think it will not do me any hurt at all. Other discourse, much
+especially about the heat the House was in yesterday about the ill
+management of the Navy, which I was sorry to hear; though I think they
+were well answered, both by Sir G. Carteret and [Sir] W. Coventry, as he
+informs me the substance of their speeches. Having done with him, home
+mightily satisfied with my being with him, and coming home I to church,
+and there, beyond expectation, find our seat, and all the church crammed,
+by twice as many people as used to be: and to my great joy find Mr.
+Frampton in the pulpit; so to my great joy I hear him preach, and I think
+the best sermon, for goodness and oratory, without affectation or study,
+that ever I heard in my life.  The truth is, he preaches the most like an
+apostle that ever I heard man; and it was much the best time that ever I
+spent in my life at church.  His text, Ecclesiastes xi., verse 8th--the
+words, "But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all, yet let him
+remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that cometh is
+vanity."  He done, I home, and there Michell and his wife, and we dined
+and mighty merry, I mightily taken more and more with her.  After dinner I
+with my brother away by water to White Hall, and there walked in the
+Parke, and a little to my Lord Chancellor's, where the King and Cabinet
+met, and there met Mr. Brisband, with whom good discourse, to White Hall
+towards night, and there he did lend me "The Third Advice to a Paynter," a
+bitter satyre upon the service of the Duke of Albemarle the last year.  I
+took it home with me, and will copy it, having the former, being also
+mightily pleased with it.  So after reading it, I to Sir W. Pen to
+discourse a little with him about the business of our prizes, and so home
+to supper and to bed.
+
+21st.  Up betimes, and with, Sir W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, [Sir] R. Ford,
+by coach to the Swede's Resident's in the Piatza, to discourse with him
+about two of our prizes, wherein he puts in his concernment as for his
+countrymen.  We had no satisfaction, nor did give him any, but I find him
+a cunning fellow.  He lives in one of the great houses there, but
+ill-furnished; and come to us out of bed in his furred mittens and furred
+cap.  Thence to Exeter House to the Doctors Commons, and there with our
+Proctors to Dr. Walker, who was not very well, but, however, did hear our
+matters, and after a dull seeming hearing of them read, did discourse most
+understandingly of them, as well as ever I heard man, telling us all our
+grounds of pretence to the prize would do no good, and made it appear but
+thus, and thus, it may be, but yet did give us but little reason to expect
+it would prove, which troubled us, but I was mightily taken to hear his
+manner of discourse.  Thence with them to Westminster Hall, they setting
+me down at White Hall, where I missed of finding Sir G. Carteret, up to
+the Lords' House, and there come mighty seasonably to hear the Solicitor
+about my Lord Buckingham's pretence to the title of Lord Rosse. Mr.
+Atturny Montagu is also a good man, and so is old Sir P. Ball; but the
+Solicitor and Scroggs after him are excellent men.  Here spoke with my
+Lord Bellasses about getting some money for Tangier, which he doubts we
+shall not be able to do out of the Poll Bill, it being so strictly tied
+for the Navy.  He tells me the Lords have passed the Bill for the accounts
+with some little amendments.  So down to the Hall, and thence with our
+company to Exeter House, and then did the business I have said before, we
+doing nothing the first time of going, it being too early. At home find
+Lovett, to whom I did give my Lady Castlemayne's head to do. He is talking
+of going into Spayne to get money by his art, but I doubt he will do no
+good, he being a man of an unsettled head.  Thence by water down to
+Deptford, the first time I have been by water a great while, and there did
+some little business and walked home, and there come into my company three
+drunken seamen, but one especially, who told me such stories, calling me
+Captain, as made me mighty merry, and they would leap and skip, and kiss
+what mayds they met all the way.  I did at first give them money to drink,
+lest they should know who I was, and so become troublesome to me.  Parted
+at Redriffe, and there home and to the office, where did much business,
+and then to Sir W. Batten's, where [Sir] W. Pen, [Sir] R. Ford, and I to
+hear a proposition [Sir] R. Ford was to acquaint us with from the Swedes
+Embassador, in manner of saying, that for money he might be got to our
+side and relinquish the trouble he may give us. Sir W. Pen did make a long
+simple declaration of his resolution to give nothing to deceive any poor
+man of what was his right by law, but ended in doing whatever any body
+else would, and we did commission Sir R. Ford to give promise of not
+beyond L350 to him and his Secretary, in case they did not oppose us in
+the Phoenix (the net profits of which, as [Sir] R. Ford cast up before us,
+the Admiral's tenths, and ship's thirds, and other charges all cleared,
+will amount to L3,000) and that we did gain her.  [Sir] R. Ford did pray
+for a curse upon his family, if he was privy to anything more than he told
+us (which I believe he is a knave in), yet we all concluded him the most
+fit man for it and very honest, and so left it wholly to him to manage as
+he pleased.  Thence to the office a little while longer, and so home,
+where W. Hewer's mother was, and Mrs. Turner, our neighbour, and supped
+with us.  His mother a well-favoured old little woman, and a good woman, I
+believe.  After we had supped, and merry, we parted late, Mrs. Turner
+having staid behind to talk a little about her lodgings, which now my Lord
+Bruncker upon Sir W. Coventry's surrendering do claim, but I cannot think
+he will come to live in them so as to need to put them out.  She gone, we
+to bed all.  This night, at supper, comes from Sir W. Coventry the Order
+of Councill for my Lord Bruncker to do all the Comptroller's part relating
+to the Treasurer's accounts, and Sir W. Pen, all relating to the
+Victualler's, and Sir J. Minnes to do the rest. This, I hope, will do much
+better for the King than now, and, I think, will give neither of them
+ground to over-top me, as I feared they would; which pleases me mightily.
+This evening, Mr. Wren and Captain Cocke called upon me at the office, and
+there told me how the House was in better temper to-day, and hath passed
+the Bill for the remainder of the money, but not to be passed finally till
+they have done some other things which they will have passed with it;
+wherein they are very open, what their meaning is, which was but doubted
+before, for they do in all respects doubt the King's pleasing them.
+
+22nd.  Up, and there come to me Darnell the fiddler, one of the Duke's
+house, and brought me a set of lessons, all three parts, I heard them play
+to the Duke of York after Christmas at his lodgings, and bid him get me
+them.  I did give him a crowne for them, and did enquire after the musique
+of the "Siege of Rhodes," which, he tells me, he can get me, which I am
+mighty glad of.  So to the office, where among other things I read the
+Councill's order about my Lord Bruncker and Sir W. Pen to be assistants to
+the Comptroller, which quietly went down with Sir J. Minnes, poor man,
+seeming a little as if he would be thought to have desired it, but yet
+apparently to his discontent; and, I fear, as the order runs, it will
+hardly do much good.  At noon to dinner, and there comes a letter from
+Mrs. Pierce, telling me she will come and dine with us on Thursday next,
+with some of the players, Knipp, &c., which I was glad of, but my wife
+vexed, which vexed me; but I seemed merry, but know not how to order the
+matter, whether they shall come or no.  After dinner to the office, and
+there late doing much business, and so home to supper, and to bed.
+
+23rd.  Up, and with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen to White Hall, and there
+to the Duke of York, and did our usual business.  Having done there, I to
+St. James's, to see the organ Mrs. Turner told me of the other night, of
+my late Lord Aubigney's; and I took my Lord Bruncker with me, he being
+acquainted with my present Lord Almoner, Mr. Howard, brother to the Duke
+of Norfolke; so he and I thither and did see the organ, but I do not like
+it, it being but a bauble, with a virginal! joining to it: so I shall not
+meddle with it.  Here we sat and talked with him a good while, and he
+seems a good-natured gentleman: here I observed the deske which he hath,
+[made] to remove, and is fastened to one of the armes of his chayre.  I do
+also observe the counterfeit windows there was, in the form of doors with
+looking-glasses instead of windows, which makes the room seem both bigger
+and lighter, I think; and I have some thoughts to have the like in one of
+my rooms.  He discoursed much of the goodness of the musique in Rome, but
+could not tell me how long musique had been in any perfection in that
+church, which I would be glad to know.  He speaks much of the great
+buildings that this Pope,
+
+     [Fabio Chigi, of Siena, succeeded Innocent X. in 1655 as Alexander
+     VII.  He died May, 1667, and was succeeded by Clement IX.]
+
+whom, in mirth to us, he calls Antichrist, hath done in his time.  Having
+done with the discourse, we away, and my Lord and I walking into the Park
+back again, I did observe the new buildings: and my Lord, seeing I had a
+desire to see them, they being the place for the priests and fryers, he
+took me back to my Lord Almoner; and he took us quite through the whole
+house and chapel, and the new monastery, showing me most excellent pieces
+in wax-worke: a crucifix given by a Pope to Mary Queen of Scotts, where a
+piece of the Cross is;
+
+     [Pieces of "the Cross" were formerly held in such veneration, and
+     were so common, that it has been often said enough existed to build
+     a ship.  Most readers will remember the distinction which Sir W.
+     Scott represents Louis XI. (with great appreciation of that
+     monarch's character), as drawing between an oath taken on a false
+     piece and one taken on a piece of the true cross.  Sir Thomas More,
+     a very devout believer in relics, says ("Works," p. 119), that
+     Luther wished, in a sermon of his, that he had in his hand all the
+     pieces of the Holy Cross; and said that if he so had, he would throw
+     them there as never sun should shine on them:--and for what
+     worshipful reason would the wretch do such villainy to the cross of
+     Christ?  Because, as he saith, that there is so much gold now
+     bestowed about the garnishing of the pieces of the Cross, that there
+     is none left for poore folke.  Is not this a high reason?  As though
+     all the gold that is now bestowed about the pieces of the Holy Cross
+     would not have failed to have been given to poor men, if they had
+     not been bestowed about the garnishing of the Cross! and as though
+     there were nothing lost, but what is bestowed about Christ's Cross!"
+     "Wolsey, says Cavendish, on his fall, gave to Norris, who brought
+     him a ring of gold as a token of good will from Henry, "a little
+     chaine of gold, made like a bottle chain, with a cross of gold,
+     wherein was a piece of the Holy Cross, which he continually wore
+     about his neck, next his body; and said, furthermore, 'Master
+     Norris, I assure you, when I was in prosperity, although it seem but
+     small in value, yet I would not gladly have departed with the same
+     for a thousand pounds.'" Life, ed.  1852, p. 167.  Evelyn mentions,
+     "Diary," November 17th, 1664, that he saw in one of the chapels in
+     St. Peter's a crucifix with a piece of the true cross in it.
+     Amongst the jewels of Mary Queen of Scots was a cross of gold, which
+     had been pledged to Hume of Blackadder for L1000 (Chalmers's "Life,"
+     vol. i., p. 31 ).--B.]
+
+two bits set in the manner of a cross in the foot of the crucifix: several
+fine pictures, but especially very good prints of holy pictures. I saw the
+dortoire--[dormitory]--and the cells of the priests, and we went into one;
+a very pretty little room, very clean, hung with pictures, set with books.
+The Priest was in his cell, with his hair clothes to his skin,
+bare-legged, with a sandal! only on, and his little bed without sheets,
+and no feather bed; but yet, I thought, soft enough.  His cord about his
+middle; but in so good company, living with ease, I thought it a very good
+life.  A pretty library they have.  And I was in the refectoire, where
+every man his napkin, knife, cup of earth, and basin of the same; and a
+place for one to sit and read while the rest are at meals.  And into the
+kitchen I went, where a good neck of mutton at the fire, and other
+victuals boiling.  I do not think they fared very hard.  Their windows all
+looking into a fine garden and the Park; and mighty pretty rooms all.  I
+wished myself one of the Capuchins.  Having seen what we could here, and
+all with mighty pleasure, so away with the Almoner in his coach, talking
+merrily about the difference in our religions, to White Hall, and there we
+left him.  I in my Lord Bruncker's coach, he carried me to the Savoy, and
+there we parted.  I to the Castle Tavern, where was and did come all our
+company, Sir W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, [Sir] R. Ford, and our Counsel Sir
+Ellis Layton, Walt Walker, Dr. Budd, Mr. Holder, and several others, and
+here we had a bad dinner of our preparing, and did discourse something of
+our business of our prizes, which was the work of the day.  I staid till
+dinner was over, and there being no use of me I away after dinner without
+taking leave, and to the New Exchange, there to take up my wife and
+Mercer, and to Temple Bar to the Ordinary, and had a dish of meat for
+them, they having not dined, and thence to the King's house, and there saw
+"The Numerous Lieutenant," a silly play, I think; only the Spirit in it
+that grows very tall, and then sinks again to nothing, having two heads
+breeding upon one, and then Knipp's singing, did please us.  Here, in a
+box above, we spied Mrs. Pierce; and, going out, they called us, and so we
+staid for them; and Knipp took us all in, and brought to us Nelly; a most
+pretty woman, who acted the great part of Coelia to-day very fine, and did
+it pretty well: I kissed her, and so did my wife; and a mighty pretty soul
+she is.  We also saw Mrs. Halls which is my little Roman-nose black girl,
+that is mighty pretty: she is usually called Betty.  Knipp made us stay in
+a box and see the dancing preparatory to to-morrow for "The Goblins," a
+play of Suckling's, not acted these twenty-five years; which was pretty;
+and so away thence, pleased with this sight also, and specially kissing of
+Nell. We away, Mr. Pierce and I, on foot to his house, the women by coach.
+In our way we find the Guards of horse in the street, and hear the
+occasion to be news that the seamen are in a mutiny, which put me into a
+great fright; so away with my wife and Mercer home preparing against
+to-morrow night to have Mrs. Pierce and Knipp and a great deal more
+company to dance; and, when I come home, hear of no disturbance there of
+the seamen, but that one of them, being arrested to-day, others do go and
+rescue him. So to the office a little, and then home to supper, and to my
+chamber awhile, and then to bed.
+
+24th.  Up, and to the office, full of thoughts how to order the business
+of our merry meeting to-night.  So to the office, where busy all the
+morning.  [While we were sitting in the morning at the office, we were
+frighted with news of fire at Sir W. Batten's by a chimney taking fire,
+and it put me into much fear and trouble, but with a great many hands and
+pains it was soon stopped.]  At noon home to dinner, and presently to the
+office to despatch my business, and also we sat all the afternoon to
+examine the loss of The Bredagh, which was done by as plain negligence as
+ever ship was.  We being rose, I entering my letters and getting the
+office swept and a good fire made and abundance of candles lighted, I
+home, where most of my company come of this end of the town-Mercer and her
+sister, Mr. Batelier and Pembleton (my Lady Pen, and Pegg, and Mr.
+Lowther, but did not stay long, and I believe it was by Sir W. Pen's
+order; for they had a great mind to have staid), and also Captain Rolt.
+And, anon, at about seven or eight o'clock, comes Mr. Harris, of the
+Duke's playhouse, and brings Mrs. Pierce with him, and also one dressed
+like a country-mayde with a straw hat on; which, at first, I could not
+tell who it was, though I expected Knipp: but it was she coming off the
+stage just as she acted this day in "The Goblins;" a merry jade.  Now my
+house is full, and four fiddlers that play well.  Harris I first took to
+my closet; and I find him a very curious and understanding person in all
+pictures and other things, and a man of fine conversation; and so is Rolt.
+So away with all my company down to the office, and there fell to dancing,
+and continued at it an hour or two, there coming Mrs. Anne Jones, a
+merchant's daughter hard by, who dances well, and all in mighty good
+humour, and danced with great pleasure; and then sung and then danced, and
+then sung many things of three voices--both Harris and Rolt singing their
+parts excellently.  Among other things, Harris sung his Irish song--the
+strangest in itself, and the prettiest sung by him, that ever I heard.
+Then to supper in the office, a cold, good supper, and wondrous merry.
+Here was Mrs. Turner also, but the poor woman sad about her lodgings, and
+Mrs. Markham: after supper to dancing again and singing, and so continued
+till almost three in the morning, and then, with extraordinary pleasure,
+broke up only towards morning, Knipp fell a little ill, and so my wife
+home with her to put her to bed, and we continued dancing and singing;
+and, among other things, our Mercer unexpectedly did happen to sing an
+Italian song I know not, of which they two sung the other two parts to,
+that did almost ravish me, and made me in love with her more than ever
+with her singing.  As late as it was, yet Rolt and Harris would go home
+to-night, and walked it, though I had a bed for them; and it proved dark,
+and a misly night, and very windy.  The company being all gone to their
+homes, I up with Mrs. Pierce to Knipp, who was in bed; and we waked her,
+and there I handled her breasts and did 'baiser la', and sing a song,
+lying by her on the bed, and then left my wife to see Mrs. Pierce in bed
+to her, in our best chamber, and so to bed myself, my mind mightily
+satisfied with all this evening's work, and thinking it to be one of the
+merriest enjoyment I must look for in the world, and did content myself
+therefore with the thoughts of it, and so to bed; only the musique did not
+please me, they not being contented with less than 30s.
+
+25th.  Lay pretty long, then to the office, where Lord Bruncker and Sir J.
+Minnes and I did meet, and sat private all the morning about dividing the
+Controller's work according to the late order of Council, between them two
+and Sir W. Pen, and it troubled me to see the poor honest man, Sir J.
+Minnes, troubled at it, and yet the King's work cannot be done without it.
+It was at last friendlily ended, and so up and home to dinner with my
+wife.  This afternoon I saw the Poll Bill, now printed; wherein I do fear
+I shall be very deeply concerned, being to be taxed for all my offices,
+and then for my money that I have, and my title, as well as my head.  It
+is a very great tax; but yet I do think it is so perplexed, it will hardly
+ever be collected duly.  The late invention of Sir G. Downing's is
+continued of bringing all the money into the Exchequer; and Sir G.
+Carteret's three pence is turned for all the money of this act into but a
+penny per pound, which I am sorry for.  After dinner to the office again,
+where Lord Bruncker, [Sir] W. Batten, and [Sir] W. Pen and I met to talk
+again about the Controller's office, and there [Sir] W. Pen would have a
+piece of the great office cut out to make an office for him, which I
+opposed to the making him very angry, but I think I shall carry it against
+him, and then I care not.  So a little troubled at this fray, I away by
+coach with my wife, and left her at the New Exchange, and I to my Lord
+Chancellor's, and then back, taking up my wife to my Lord Bellasses, and
+there spoke with Mr. Moone, who tells me that the peace between us and
+Spayne is, as he hears, concluded on, which I should be glad of, and so
+home, and after a little at my office, home to finish my journall for
+yesterday and to-day, and then a little supper and to bed.  This day the
+House hath passed the Bill for the Assessment, which I am glad of; and
+also our little Bill, for giving any one of us in the office the power of
+justice of peace, is done as I would have it.
+
+26th.  Up, and at the office.  Sat all the morning, where among other
+things I did the first unkind [thing] that ever I did design to Sir W.
+Warren, but I did it now to some purpose, to make him sensible how little
+any man's friendship shall avail him if he wants money.  I perceive he do
+nowadays court much my Lord Bruncker's favour, who never did any man much
+courtesy at the board, nor ever will be able, at least so much as myself.
+Besides, my Lord would do him a kindness in concurrence with me, but he
+would have the danger of the thing to be done lie upon me, if there be any
+danger in it (in drawing up a letter to Sir W. Warren's advantage), which
+I do not like, nor will endure.  I was, I confess, very angry, and will
+venture the loss of Sir W. Warren's kindnesses rather than he shall have
+any man's friendship in greater esteem than mine.  At noon home to dinner,
+and after dinner to the office again, and there all the afternoon, and at
+night poor Mrs. Turner come and walked in the garden for my advice about
+her husband and her relating to my Lord Bruncker's late proceedings with
+them.  I do give her the best I can, but yet can lay aside some ends of my
+own in what advice I do give her.  So she being gone I to make an end of
+my letters, and so home to supper and to bed, Balty lodging here with my
+brother, he being newly returned from mustering in the river.
+
+27th (Lord's day).  Up betimes, and leaving my wife to go by coach to hear
+Mr. Frampton preach, which I had a mighty desire she should, I down to the
+Old Swan, and there to Michell and staid while he and she dressed
+themselves, and here had a 'baiser' or two of her, whom I love mightily;
+and then took them in a sculler (being by some means or other disappointed
+of my own boat) to White Hall, and so with them to Westminster, Sir W.
+Coventry, Bruncker and I all the morning together discoursing of the
+office business, and glad of the Controller's business being likely to be
+put into better order than formerly, and did discourse of many good
+things, but especially of having something done to bringing the Surveyor's
+matters into order also.  Thence I up to the King's closet, and there
+heard a good Anthem, and discoursed with several people here about
+business, among others with Lord Bellasses, and so from one to another
+after sermon till the King had almost dined, and then home with Sir G.
+Carteret and dined with him, being mightily ashamed of my not having seen
+my Lady Jemimah so long, and my wife not at all yet since she come, but
+she shall soon do it.  I thence to Sir Philip Warwicke, by appointment, to
+meet Lord Bellasses, and up to his chamber, but find him unwilling to
+discourse of business on Sundays; so did not enlarge, but took leave, and
+went down and sat in a low room, reading Erasmus "de scribendis
+epistolis," a very good book, especially one letter of advice to a
+courtier most true and good, which made me once resolve to tear out the
+two leaves that it was writ in, but I forebore it.  By and by comes Lord
+Bellasses, and then he and I up again to Sir P. Warwicke and had much
+discourse of our Tangier business, but no hopes of getting any money.
+Thence I through the garden into the Park, and there met with Roger Pepys,
+and he and I to walk in the Pell Mell.  I find by him that the House of
+Parliament continues full of ill humours, and he seems to dislike those
+that are troublesome more than needs, and do say how, in their late Poll
+Bill, which cost so much time, the yeomanry, and indeed two-thirds of the
+nation, are left out to be taxed, that there is not effectual provision
+enough made for collecting of the money; and then, that after a man his
+goods are distrained and sold, and the overplus returned, I am to have ten
+days to make my complaints of being over-rated if there be cause, when my
+goods are sold, and that is too late.  These things they are resolved to
+look into again, and mend them before they rise, which they expect at
+furthest on Thursday next.  Here we met with Mr. May, and he and we to
+talk of several things, of building, and such like matters; and so walked
+to White Hall, and there I skewed my cozen Roger the Duchesse of York
+sitting in state, while her own mother stands by her; he had a desire, and
+I shewed him my Lady Castlemayne, whom he approves to be very handsome,
+and wonders that she cannot be as good within as she is fair without.  Her
+little black boy came by him; and, a dog being in his way, the little boy
+called to the dog: "Pox of this dog!"--"Now," says he, blessing himself,
+"would I whip this child till the blood come, if it were my child!"  and I
+believe he would.  But he do by no means like the liberty of the Court,
+and did come with expectation of finding them playing at cards to-night,
+though Sunday; for such stories he is told, but how true I know not.
+
+     [There is little reason to doubt that it was such as Evelyn
+     describes it at a later time.  "I can never forget the inexpressible
+     luxury and prophaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and, as it
+     were, total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening) which
+     this day se'nnight I was witness of; the King sitting and toying
+     with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarin, &c.  A French
+     boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty
+     of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset
+     round a large table, a bank of at least L2,000 in gold before them;
+     upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflexions with
+     astonishment.  Six days after was all in the dust."--Diary,
+     February, 1685.--B.]
+
+After walking up and down the Court with him, it being now dark and past
+six at night, I walked to the Swan in the Palace yard and there with much
+ado did get a waterman, and so I sent for the Michells, and they come, and
+their father Howlett and his wife with them, and there we drank, and so
+into the boat, poor Betty's head aching.  We home by water, a fine
+moonshine and warm night, it having been also a very summer's day for
+warmth.  I did get her hand to me under my cloak .  .  .  .  So there we
+parted at their house, and he walked almost home with me, and then I home
+and to supper, and to read a little and to bed.  My wife tells me Mr.
+Frampton is gone to sea, and so she lost her labour to-day in thinking to
+hear him preach, which I am sorry for.
+
+28th.  Up, and down to the Old Swan, and there drank at Michell's and saw
+Betty, and so took boat and to the Temple, and thence to my tailor's and
+other places about business in my way to Westminster, where I spent the
+morning at the Lords' House door, to hear the conference between the two
+Houses about my Lord Mordaunt, of which there was great expectation, many
+hundreds of people coming to hear it.  But, when they come, the Lords did
+insist upon my Lord Mordaunt's having leave to sit upon a stool uncovered
+within their burr, and that he should have counsel, which the Commons
+would not suffer, but desired leave to report their Lordships' resolution
+to the House of Commons; and so parted for this day, which troubled me, I
+having by this means lost the whole day.  Here I hear from Mr. Hayes that
+Prince Rupert is very bad still, and so bad, that he do now yield to be
+trepanned.  It seems, as Dr. Clerke also tells me, it is a clap of the pox
+which he got about twelve years ago, and hath eaten to his head and come
+through his scull, so his scull must be opened, and there is great fear of
+him.  Much work I find there is to do in the two Houses in a little time,
+and much difference there is between the two Houses in many things to be
+reconciled; as in the Bill for examining our accounts; Lord Mordaunt's
+Bill for building the City, and several others.  A little before noon I
+went to the Swan and eat a bit of meat, thinking I should have had
+occasion to have stayed long at the house, but I did not, but so home by
+coach, calling at Broad Street and taking the goldsmith home with me, and
+paid him L15 15s. for my silver standish.  He tells me gold holds up its
+price still, and did desire me to let him have what old 20s. pieces I
+have, and he would give me 3s. 2d.  change for each.  He gone, I to the
+office, where business all the afternoon, and at night comes Mr. Gawden at
+my desire to me, and to-morrow I shall pay him some money, and shall see
+what present he will make me, the hopes of which do make me to part with
+my money out of my chest, which I should not otherwise do, but lest this
+alteration in the Controller's office should occasion my losing my
+concernment in the Victualling, and so he have no more need of me. He
+gone, I to the office again, having come thence home with him to talk, and
+so after a little more business I to supper.  I then sent for Mercer, and
+began to teach her "It is decreed," which will please me well, and so
+after supper and reading a little, and my wife's cutting off my hair
+short, which is grown too long upon my crown of my head, I to bed.  I met
+this day in Westminster Hall Sir W. Batten and [Sir] W. Pen, and the
+latter since our falling out the other day do look mighty reservedly upon
+me, and still he shall do so for me, for I will be hanged before I seek to
+him, unless I see I need it.
+
+29th.  Up to the office all the morning, where Sir W. Pen and I look much
+askewe one upon another, though afterward business made us speak friendly
+enough, but yet we hate one another.  At noon home to dinner, and then to
+the office, where all the afternoon expecting Mr. Gawden to come for some
+money I am to pay him, but he comes not, which makes me think he is
+considering whether it be necessary to make the present he hath promised,
+it being possible this alteration in the Controller's duty may make my
+place in the Victualling unnecessary, so that I am a little troubled at
+it.  Busy till late at night at the office, and Sir W. Batten come to me,
+and tells me that there is newes upon the Exchange to-day, that my Lord
+Sandwich's coach and the French Embassador's at Madrid, meeting and
+contending for the way, they shot my Lord's postilion and another man
+dead; and that we have killed 25 of theirs, and that my Lord is well. How
+true this is I cannot tell, there being no newes of it at all at Court, as
+I am told late by one come thence, so that I hope it is not so. By and by
+comes Mrs. Turner to me, to make her complaint of her sad usage she
+receives from my Lord Bruncker, that he thinks much she hath not already
+got another house, though he himself hath employed her night and day ever
+since his first mention of the matter, to make part of her house ready for
+him, as he ordered, and promised she should stay till she had fitted
+herself; by which and what discourse I do remember he had of the business
+before Sir W. Coventry on Sunday last I perceive he is a rotten-hearted,
+false man as any else I know, even as Sir W. Pen himself, and, therefore,
+I must beware of him accordingly, and I hope I shall.  I did pity the
+woman with all my heart, and gave her the best council I could; and so,
+falling to other discourse, I made her laugh and merry, as sad as she came
+to me; so that I perceive no passion in a woman can be lasting long; and
+so parted and I home, and there teaching my girle Barker part of my song
+"It is decreed," which she will sing prettily, and so after supper to bed.
+
+30th.  Fast-day for the King's death.  I all the morning at my chamber
+making up my month's accounts, which I did before dinner to my thorough
+content, and find myself but a small gainer this month, having no manner
+of profits, but just my salary, but, blessed be God! that I am able to
+save out of that, living as I do.  So to dinner, then to my chamber all
+the afternoon, and in the evening my wife and I and Mercer and Barker to
+little Michell's, walked, with some neats' tongues and cake and wine, and
+there sat with the little couple with great pleasure, and talked and eat
+and drank, and saw their little house, which is very pretty; and I much
+pleased therewith, and so walked home, about eight at night, it being a
+little moonshine and fair weather, and so into the garden, and, with
+Mercer, sang till my wife put me in mind of its being a fast day; and so I
+was sorry for it, and stopped, and home to cards awhile, and had
+opportunity 'para baiser' Mercer several times, and so to bed.
+
+31st.  Up, and to the office, where we met and sat all the morning.  At
+noon home to dinner, and by and by Mr. Osborne comes from Mr. Gawden, and
+takes money and notes for L4000, and leaves me acknowledgment for L4000
+and odd; implying as if D. Gawden would give the L800 between Povy and
+myself, but how he will divide it I know-not, till I speak with him, so
+that my content is not yet full in the business.  In the evening stept out
+to Sir Robert Viner's to get the money ready upon my notes to D. Gawden,
+and there hear that Mr. Temple is very ill.  I met on the 'Change with
+Captain Cocke, who tells me that he hears new certainty of the business of
+Madrid, how our Embassador and the French met, and says that two or three
+of my Lord's men, and twenty one of the French men are killed, but nothing
+at Court of it. He fears the next year's service through the badness of
+our counsels at White Hall, but that if they were wise, and the King would
+mind his business, he might do what he would yet.  The Parliament is not
+yet up, being finishing some bills.  So home and to the office, and late
+home to supper, and to talk with my wife, with pleasure, and to bed.  I
+met this evening at Sir R. Viner's our Mr. Turner, who I find in a
+melancholy condition about his being removed out of his house, but I find
+him so silly and so false that I dare not tell how to trust any advice to
+him, and therefore did speak only generally to him, but I doubt his
+condition is very miserable, and do pity his family. Thus the month ends:
+myself in very good health and content of mind in my family.  All our
+heads full in the office at this dividing of the Comptroller's duty, so
+that I am in some doubt how it may prove to intrench upon my benefits, but
+it cannot be much.  The Parliament, upon breaking up, having given the
+King money with much ado, and great heats, and neither side pleased,
+neither King nor them.  The imperfection of the Poll Bill, which must be
+mended before they rise, there being several horrible oversights to the
+prejudice of the King, is a certain sign of the care anybody hath of the
+King's business.  Prince Rupert very ill, and to be trepanned on Saturday
+next.  Nobody knows who commands the fleete next year, or, indeed, whether
+we shall have a fleete or no. Great preparations in Holland and France,
+and the French have lately taken Antego
+
+     [Antigua, one of the West India Islands (Leeward Islands),
+     discovered by Columbus in 1493, who is said to have named it after a
+     church at Seville called Santa Maria la Antigua.  It was first
+     settled by a few English families in 1632, and in 1663 another
+     settlement was made under Lord Willoughby, to whom the entire island
+     was granted by Charles II.  In 1666 it was invaded by a French
+     force, which laid waste all the settlement.  It was reconquered by
+     the English, and formally restored to them by the treaty of Breda.]
+
+from us, which vexes us.  I am in a little care through my at last putting
+a great deal of money out of my hands again into the King's upon tallies
+for Tangier, but the interest which I wholly lost while in my trunk is a
+temptation while things look safe, as they do in some measure for six
+months, I think, and I would venture but little longer.
+
+
+
+
+     ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:
+
+     Baker's house in Pudding Lane, where the late great fire begun
+     Bill against importing Cattle from Ireland
+     But my wife vexed, which vexed me
+     Clap of the pox which he got about twelve years ago
+     Come to us out of bed in his furred mittens and furred cap
+     Court full of great apprehensions of the French
+     Declared he will never have another public mistress again
+     Desk fastened to one of the armes of his chayre
+     Do outdo the Lords infinitely (debates in the Commons)
+     Enough existed to build a ship (Pieces of the true Cross)
+     Enviously, said, I could not come honestly by them
+     Erasmus "de scribendis epistolis"
+     For I will be hanged before I seek to him, unless I see I need
+     Gold holds up its price still
+     Have not any awe over them from the King's displeasure (Commons)
+     He will do no good, he being a man of an unsettled head
+     I did get her hand to me under my cloak
+     I perceive no passion in a woman can be lasting long
+     Mazer or drinking-bowl turned out of some kind of wood
+     Mirrors which makes the room seem both bigger and lighter
+     Outdo for neatness and plenty anything done by any of them
+     Poll Bill
+     Saying, that for money he might be got to our side
+     Sermon without affectation or study
+     Some ends of my own in what advice I do give her
+     The pleasure of my not committing these things to my memory
+     Very great tax; but yet I do think it is so perplexed
+     Where a piece of the Cross is
+     Whip this child till the blood come, if it were my child!
+     Whom, in mirth to us, he calls Antichrist
+     Wonders that she cannot be as good within as she is fair without
+     Yet let him remember the days of darkness
+
+
+
+
+
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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.
+                                 JANUARY
+                                1666-1667
+
+
+January 1st.  Lay long, being a bitter, cold, frosty day, the frost being
+now grown old, and the Thames covered with ice.  Up, and to the office,
+where all the morning busy.  At noon to the 'Change a little, where Mr.
+James Houblon and I walked a good while speaking of our ill condition in
+not being able to set out a fleet (we doubt) this year, and the certain
+ill effect that must bring, which is lamentable.  Home to dinner, where
+the best powdered goose that ever I eat.  Then to the office again, and
+to Sir W. Batten's to examine the Commission going down to Portsmouth to
+examine witnesses about our prizes, of which God give a good issue! and
+then to the office again, where late, and so home, my eyes sore.  To
+supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+2nd.  Up, I, and walked to White Hall to attend the Duke of York, as
+usual.  My wife up, and with Mrs. Pen to walk in the fields to frost-bite
+themselves.  I find the Court full of great apprehensions of the French,
+who have certainly shipped landsmen, great numbers, at Brest; and most of
+our people here guess his design for Ireland.  We have orders to send all
+the ships we can possible to the Downes.  God have mercy on us! for we
+can send forth no ships without men, nor will men go without money,
+every day bringing us news of new mutinies among the seamen; so that our
+condition is like to be very miserable.  Thence to Westminster Hall, and
+there met all the Houblons, who do laugh at this discourse of the French,
+and say they are verily of opinion it is nothing but to send to their
+plantation in the West Indys, and that we at Court do blow up a design of
+invading us, only to make the Parliament make more haste in the money
+matters, and perhaps it may be so, but I do not believe we have any such
+plot in our heads.  After them, I, with several people, among others
+Mr. George Montagu, whom I have not seen long, he mighty kind.  He tells
+me all is like to go ill, the King displeasing the House of Commons by
+evading their Bill for examining Accounts, and putting it into a
+Commission, though therein he hath left out Coventry and I and named all
+the rest the Parliament named, and all country Lords, not one Courtier:
+this do not please them.  He tells me he finds the enmity almost over for
+my Lord Sandwich, and that now all is upon the Vice-Chamberlain, who
+bears up well and stands upon his vindication, which he seems to like
+well, and the others do construe well also.  Thence up to the Painted
+Chamber, and there heard a conference between the House of Lords and
+Commons about the Wine Patent; which I was exceeding glad to be at,
+because of my hearing exceeding good discourses, but especially from the
+Commons; among others, Mr. Swinfen, and a young man, one Sir Thomas
+Meres:  and do outdo the Lords infinitely.  So down to the Hall and to
+the Rose Taverne, while Doll Lane come to me, and we did 'biber a good
+deal de vino, et je did give elle twelve soldis para comprare elle some
+gans' for a new anno's gift .  .  .  .  Thence to the Hall again, and
+with Sir W. Pen by coach to the Temple, and there 'light and eat a bit at
+an ordinary by, and then alone to the King's House, and there saw "The
+Custome of the Country," the second time of its being acted, wherein
+Knipp does the Widow well; but, of all the plays that ever I did see, the
+worst-having neither plot, language, nor anything in the earth that is
+acceptable; only Knipp sings a little song admirably.  But fully the
+worst play that ever I saw or I believe shall see.  So away home, much
+displeased for the loss of so much time, and disobliging my wife by being
+there without her.  So, by link, walked home, it being mighty cold but
+dry, yet bad walking because very slippery with the frost and treading.
+Home and to my chamber to set down my journal, and then to thinking upon
+establishing my vows against the next year, and so to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+3rd.  Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning.  At noon by
+invitation to dinner to Sir W. Pen's, where my Lord Bruncker, Sir W.
+Batten, and his lady, myself, and wife, Sir J. Minnes, and Mr. Turner and
+his wife.  Indifferent merry, to which I contributed the most, but a mean
+dinner, and in a mean manner.  In the evening a little to the office, and
+then to them, where I found them at cards, myself very ill with a cold
+(the frost continuing hard), so eat but little at supper, but very merry,
+and late home to bed, not much pleased with the manner of our
+entertainment, though to myself more civil than to any.  This day, I
+hear, hath been a conference between the two Houses about the Bill for
+examining Accounts, wherein the House of Lords their proceedings in
+petitioning the King for doing it by Commission is, in great heat, voted
+by the Commons, after the conference, unparliamentary.  The issue
+whereof, God knows.
+
+
+
+4th.  Up, and seeing things put in order for a dinner at my house to-day,
+I to the office awhile, and about noon home, and there saw all things in
+good order.  Anon comes our company; my Lord Bruncker, Sir W. Pen, his
+lady, and Pegg, and her servant, Mr. Lowther, my Lady Batten (Sir W.
+Batten being forced to dine at Sir K. Ford's, being invited), Mr. Turner
+and his wife.  Here I had good room for ten, and no more would my table
+have held well, had Sir J. Minnes, who was fallen lame, and his sister,
+and niece, and Sir W. Batten come, which was a great content to me to be
+without them.  I did make them all gaze to see themselves served so nobly
+in plate, and a neat dinner, indeed, though but of seven dishes.  Mighty
+merry I was and made them all, and they mightily pleased.  My Lord
+Bruncker went away after dinner to the ticket-office, the rest staid,
+only my Lady Batten home, her ague-fit coming on her at table.  The rest
+merry, and to cards, and then to sing and talk, and at night to sup, and
+then to cards; and, last of all, to have a flaggon of ale and apples,
+drunk out of a wood cupp,
+
+     [A mazer or drinking-bowl turned out of some kind of wood, by
+     preference of maple, and especially the spotted or speckled variety
+     called "bird's-eye maple" (see W. H. St. John Hope's paper, "On the
+     English Mediaeval Drinking-bowls called Mazers," "Archaeologia,"
+     vol.  50, pp. 129,93).]
+
+as a Christmas draught, made all merry; and they full of admiration at my
+plate, particularly my flaggons (which, indeed, are noble), and so late
+home, all with great mirth and satisfaction to them, as I thought, and to
+myself to see all I have and do so much outdo for neatness and plenty
+anything done by any of them.  They gone, I to bed, much pleased, and do
+observe Mr. Lowther to be a pretty gentleman, and, I think, too good for
+Peg; and, by the way, Peg Pen seems mightily to be kind to me, and I
+believe by her father's advice, who is also himself so; but I believe not
+a little troubled to see my plenty, and was much troubled to hear the
+song I sung, "The New Droll"--it touching him home.  So to bed.
+
+
+
+5th.  At the office all the morning, thinking at noon to have been taken
+home, and my wife (according to appointment yesterday), by my Lord
+Bruncker, to dinner and then to a play, but he had forgot it, at which I
+was glad, being glad of avoyding the occasion of inviting him again, and
+being forced to invite his doxy, Mrs. Williams.  So home, and took a
+small snap of victuals, and away, with my wife, to the Duke's house, and
+there saw "Mustapha," a most excellent play for words and design as ever
+I did see.  I had seen it before but forgot it, so it was wholly new to
+me, which is the pleasure of my not committing these things to my memory.
+Home, and a little to the office, and then to bed, where I lay with much
+pain in my head most of the night, and very unquiet, partly by my
+drinking before I went out too great a draught of sack, and partly my
+eyes being still very sore.
+
+
+
+6th (Lord's day).  Up pretty well in the morning, and then to church,
+where a dull doctor, a stranger, made a dull sermon.  Then home, and
+Betty Michell and her husband come by invitation to dine with us, and,
+she I find the same as ever (which I was afraid of the contrary) .  .  .
+Here come also Mr. Howe to dine with me, and we had a good dinner and
+good merry discourse with much pleasure, I enjoying myself mightily to
+have friends at my table.  After dinner young Michell and I, it being an
+excellent frosty day to walk, did walk out, he showing me the baker's
+house in Pudding Lane, where the late great fire begun; and thence all
+along Thames Street, where I did view several places, and so up by London
+Wall, by Blackfriars, to Ludgate; and thence to Bridewell, which I find
+to have been heretofore an extraordinary good house, and a fine coming to
+it, before the house by the bridge was built; and so to look about St.
+Bride's church and my father's house, and so walked home, and there
+supped together, and then Michell and Betty home, and I to my closet,
+there to read and agree upon my vows for next year, and so to bed and
+slept mighty well.
+
+
+
+7th.  Lay long in bed.  Then up and to the office, where busy all the
+morning.  At noon (my wife being gone to Westminster) I with my Lord
+Bruncker by coach as far as the Temple, in the way he telling me that my
+Lady Denham is at last dead.  Some suspect her poisoned, but it will be
+best known when her body is opened, which will be to-day, she dying
+yesterday morning.  The Duke of York is troubled for her; but hath
+declared he will never have another public mistress again; which I shall
+be glad of, and would the King would do the like.  He tells me how the
+Parliament is grown so jealous of the King's being unfayre to them in the
+business of the Bill for examining Accounts, Irish Bill, and the business
+of the Papists, that they will not pass the business for money till they
+see themselves secure that those Bills will pass; which they do observe
+the Court to keep off till all the Bills come together, that the King may
+accept what he pleases, and what he pleases to reject, which will undo
+all our business and the kingdom too.  He tells me how Mr. Henry Howard,
+of Norfolke, hath given our Royal Society all his grandfather's library:
+which noble gift they value at L1000; and gives them accommodation to
+meet in at his house, Arundell House, they being now disturbed at Gresham
+College.  Thence 'lighting at the Temple to the ordinary hard by and eat
+a bit of meat, and then by coach to fetch my wife from her brother's, and
+thence to the Duke's house, and saw "Macbeth," which, though I saw it
+lately, yet appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially
+in divertisement, though it be a deep tragedy; which is a strange
+perfection in a tragedy, it being most proper here, and suitable.  So
+home, it being the last play now I am to see till a fortnight hence, I
+being from the last night entered into my vowes for the year coming on.
+Here I met with the good newes of Hogg's bringing in two prizes more to
+Plymouth, which if they prove but any part of them, I hope, at least, we
+shall be no losers by them.  So home from the office, to write over fair
+my vowes for this year, and then to supper, and to bed.  In great peace
+of mind having now done it, and brought myself into order again and a
+resolution of keeping it, and having entered my journall to this night,
+so to bed, my eyes failing me with writing.
+
+
+
+8th.  Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning.  At noon home
+to dinner, where my uncle Thomas with me to receive his quarterage.  He
+tells me his son Thomas is set up in Smithfield, where he hath a shop--
+I suppose, a booth.  Presently after dinner to the office, and there set
+close to my business and did a great deal before night, and am resolved
+to stand to it, having been a truant too long.  At night to Sir W.
+Batten's to consider some things about our prizes, and then to other
+talk, and among other things he tells me that he hears for certain that
+Sir W. Coventry hath resigned to the King his place of Commissioner of
+the Navy, the thing he bath often told me that he had a mind to do, but I
+am surprised to think that he hath done it, and am full of thoughts all
+this evening after I heard it what may be the consequences of it to me.
+So home and to supper, and then saw the catalogue of my books, which my
+brother had wrote out, now perfectly alphabeticall, and so to bed.  Sir
+Richard Ford did this evening at Sir W. Batten's tell us that upon
+opening the body of my Lady Denham it is said that they found a vessel
+about her matrix which had never been broke by her husband, that caused
+all pains in her body.  Which if true is excellent invention to clear
+both the Duchesse from poison or the Duke from lying with her.
+
+
+
+9th.  Up, and with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen in a hackney-coach to
+White Hall, the way being most horribly bad upon the breaking up of the
+frost, so as not to be passed almost.  There did our usual [business]
+with the Duke of York, and here I do hear, by my Lord Bruncker, that for
+certain Sir W. Coventry hath resigned his place of Commissioner; which I
+believe he hath done upon good grounds of security to himself, from all
+the blame which must attend our office this next year; but I fear the
+King will suffer by it.  Thence to Westminster Hall, and there to the
+conference of the Houses about the word "Nuisance,"
+
+     [In the "Bill against importing Cattle from Ireland and other parts
+     beyond the Seas," the Lords proposed to insert "Detriment and
+     Mischief" in place of "Nuisance," but the Commons stood to their
+     word, and gained their way.  The Lords finally consented that
+     "Nuisance" should stand in the Bill.]
+
+which the Commons would have, and the Lords will not, in the Irish Bill.
+The Commons do it professedly to prevent the King's dispensing with it;
+which Sir Robert Howard and others did expressly repeat often: viz., "the
+King nor any King ever could do any thing which was hurtful to their
+people."  Now the Lords did argue, that it was an ill precedent, and that
+which will ever hereafter be used as a way of preventing the King's
+dispensation with acts; and therefore rather advise to pass the Bill
+without that word, and let it go, accompanied with a petition, to the
+King, that he will not dispense with it; this being a more civil way to
+the King.  They answered well, that this do imply that the King should
+pass their Bill, and yet with design to dispense with it; which is to
+suppose the King guilty of abusing them.  And more, they produce
+precedents for it; namely, that against new buildings and about leather,
+wherein the word "Nuisance" is used to the purpose: and further, that
+they do not rob the King of any right he ever had, for he never had a
+power to do hurt to his people, nor would exercise it; and therefore
+there is no danger, in the passing this Bill, of imposing on his
+prerogative; and concluded, that they think they ought to do this, so as
+the people may really have the benefit of it when it is passed, for never
+any people could expect so reasonably to be indulged something from a
+King, they having already given him so much money, and are likely to give
+more.  Thus they broke up, both adhering to their opinions; but the
+Commons seemed much more full of judgment and reason than the Lords.
+Then the Commons made their Report to the Lords of their vote, that their
+Lordships' proceedings in the Bill for examining Accounts were
+unparliamentary; they having, while a Bill was sent up to them from the
+Commons about the business, petitioned his Majesty that he would do the
+same thing by his Commission.  They did give their reasons: viz., that it
+had no precedent; that the King ought not to be informed of anything
+passing in the Houses till it comes to a Bill; that it will wholly break
+off all correspondence between the two Houses, and in the issue wholly
+infringe the very use and being of Parliaments.  Having left their
+arguments with the Lords they all broke up, and I by coach to the
+ordinary by the Temple, and there dined alone on a rabbit, and read a
+book I brought home from Mrs. Michell's, of the proceedings of the
+Parliament in the 3rd and 4th year of the late King, a very good book for
+speeches and for arguments of law.  Thence to Faythorne, and bought a
+head or two; one of them my Lord of Ormond's, the best I ever saw, and
+then to Arundell House, where first the Royall Society meet, by the
+favour of Mr. Harry Howard, who was there, and has given us his
+grandfather's library, a noble gift, and a noble favour and undertaking
+it is for him to make his house the seat for this college.  Here was an
+experiment shown about improving the use of powder for creating of force
+in winding up of springs and other uses of great worth.  And here was a
+great meeting of worthy noble persons; but my Lord Bruncker, who
+pretended to make a congratulatory speech upon their coming hither, and
+in thanks to Mr. Howard, do it in the worst manner in the world, being
+the worst speaker, so as I do wonder at his parts and the unhappiness of
+his speaking.  Thence home by coach and to the office, and then home to
+supper, Mercer and her sister there, and to cards, and then to bed.  Mr.
+Cowling did this day in the House-lobby tell me of the many complaints
+among people against Mr. Townsend in the Wardrobe, and advises me to
+think of my Lord Sandwich's concernment there under his care.  He did
+also tell me upon my demanding it, that he do believe there are some
+things on foot for a peace between France and us, but that we shall be
+foiled in it.
+
+
+
+10th.  Up, and at the office all the morning.  At noon home and, there
+being business to do in the afternoon, took my Lord Bruncker home with
+me, who dined with me.  His discourse and mine about the bad performances
+of the Controller's and Surveyor's places by the hands they are now in,
+and the shame to the service and loss the King suffers by it.  Then after
+dinner to the office, where we and some of the chief of the Trinity House
+met to examine the occasion of the loss of The Prince Royall,  the master
+and mates being examined, which I took and keep, and so broke up, and I
+to my letters by the post, and so home and to supper with my mind at
+pretty good ease, being entered upon minding my business, and so to bed.
+This noon Mrs. Burroughs come to me about business, whom I did baiser .
+.  .  .
+
+
+
+11th.  Up, being troubled at my being found abed a-days by all sorts of
+people, I having got a trick of sitting up later than I need, never
+supping, or very seldom, before 12 at night.  Then to the office, there
+busy all the morning, and among other things comes Sir W. Warren and
+walked with me awhile, whose discourse I love, he being a very wise man
+and full of good counsel, and his own practices for wisdom much to be
+observed, and among other things he tells me how he is fallen in with my
+Lord Bruncker, who has promised him most particular inward friendship and
+yet not to appear at the board to do so, and he tells me how my Lord
+Bruncker should take notice of the two flaggons he saw at my house at
+dinner, at my late feast, and merrily, yet I know enviously, said, I
+could not come honestly by them.  This I am glad to hear, though vexed to
+see his ignoble soul, but I shall beware of him, and yet it is fit he
+should see I am no mean fellow, but can live in the world, and have
+something.  At noon home to dinner, and then to the office with my people
+and very busy, and did dispatch to my great satisfaction abundance of
+business, and do resolve, by the grace of God, to stick to it till I have
+cleared my heart of most things wherein I am in arrear in public and
+private matters.  At night, home to supper and to bed.  This day ill news
+of my father's being very ill of his old grief the rupture, which
+troubles me.
+
+
+
+12th.  Up, still lying long in bed; then to the office, where sat very
+long.  Then home to dinner, and so to the office again, mighty busy, and
+did to the joy of my soul dispatch much business, which do make my heart
+light, and will enable me to recover all the ground I have lost (if I
+have by my late minding my pleasures lost any) and assert myself.  So
+home to supper, and then to read a little in Moore's "Antidote against
+Atheisme,"  a pretty book, and so to bed.
+
+
+
+13th (Lord's day).  Up, and to church, where young Lowther come to church
+with Sir W. Pen and his Lady and daughter, and my wife tells me that
+either they are married or the match is quite perfected, which I am apt
+to believe, because all the peoples' eyes in the church were much fixed
+upon them.  At noon sent for Mercer, who dined with us, and very merry,
+and so I, after dinner, walked to the Old Swan, thinking to have got a
+boat to White Hall, but could not, nor was there anybody at home at
+Michell's, where I thought to have sat with her .  .  .  .  So home, to
+church, a dull sermon, and then home at my chamber all the evening.  So
+to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+14th.  Up, and to the office, where busy getting beforehand with my
+business as fast as I can.  At noon home to dinner, and presently
+afterward at my office again.  I understand my father is pretty well
+again, blessed be God! and would have my Br[other] John comedown to him
+for a little while.  Busy till night, pleasing myself mightily to see
+what a deal of business goes off of a man's hands when he stays by it,
+and then, at night, before it was late (yet much business done) home to
+supper, discourse with my wife, and to bed.  Sir W. Batten tells me the
+Lords do agree at last with the Commons about the word "Nuisance" in the
+Irish Bill, and do desire a good correspondence between the two Houses;
+and that the King do intend to prorogue them the last of this month.
+
+
+
+15th.  Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning.  Here my Lord
+Bruncker would have made me promise to go with him to a play this
+afternoon, where Knipp acts Mrs. Weaver's great part in "The Indian
+Emperour," and he says is coming on to be a great actor.  But I am so
+fell to my business, that I, though against my inclination, will not go.
+At noon, dined with my wife and were pleasant, and then to the office,
+where I got Mrs. Burroughs 'sola cum ego, and did toucher ses mamailles'
+.  .  .  .  She gone, I to my business and did much, and among other
+things to-night we were all mightily troubled how to prevent the sale of
+a great deal of hemp, and timber-deals, and other good goods to-morrow at
+the candle by the Prize Office, where it will be sold for little, and we
+shall be found to want the same goods and buy at extraordinary prices,
+and perhaps the very same goods now sold, which is a most horrid evil and
+a shame.  At night home to supper and to bed with my mind mighty light to
+see the fruits of my diligence in having my business go off my hand so
+merrily.
+
+
+
+16th.  Up, and by coach to White Hall, and there to the Duke of York as
+usual.  Here Sir W. Coventry come to me aside in the Duke's chamber, to
+tell that he had not answered part of a late letter of mine, because
+'littera scripta manet'.  About his leaving the office, he tells me, [it
+is] because he finds that his business at Court will not permit him to
+attend it; and then he confesses that he seldom of late could come from
+it with satisfaction, and therefore would not take the King's money for
+nothing.  I professed my sorrow for it, and prayed the continuance of his
+favour; which he promised.  I do believe he hath [done] like a very wise
+man in reference to himself; but I doubt it will prove ill for the King,
+and for the office.  Prince Rupert, I hear to-day, is very ill; yesterday
+given over, but better to-day.  This day, before the Duke of York, the
+business of the Muster-Masters was reported, and Balty found the best of
+the whole number, so as the Duke enquired who he was, and whether he was
+a stranger by his two names, both strange, and offered that he and one
+more, who hath done next best, should have not only their owne, but part
+of the others' salary, but that I having said he was my brother-in-law,
+he did stop, but they two are ordered their pay, which I am glad of, and
+some of the rest will lose their pay, and others be laid by the heels.
+I was very glad of this being ended so well.  I did also, this morning,
+move in a business wherein Mr. Hater hath concerned me, about getting a
+ship, laden with salt from France, permitted to unload, coming in after
+the King's declaration was out, which I have hopes by some dexterity to
+get done.  Then with the Duke of York to the King, to receive his
+commands for stopping the sale this day of some prize-goods at the Prize-
+Office, goods fit for the Navy; and received the King's commands, and
+carried them to the Lords' House, to my Lord Ashly, who was angry much
+thereat, and I am sorry it fell to me to carry the order, but I cannot
+help it.  So, against his will, he signed a note I writ to the
+Commissioners of Prizes, which I carried and delivered to Kingdone, at
+their new office in Aldersgate Streete.  Thence a little to the Exchange,
+where it was hot that the Prince was dead, but I did rectify it.  So home
+to dinner, and found Balty, told him the good news, and then after dinner
+away, I presently to White Hall, and did give the Duke of York a memorial
+of the salt business, against the Council, and did wait all the Council
+for answer, walking a good while with Sir Stephen Fox, who, among other
+things, told me his whole mystery in the business of the interest he pays
+as Treasurer for the Army.  They give him 12d. per pound quite through
+the Army, with condition to be paid weekly.  This he undertakes upon his
+own private credit, and to be paid by the King at the end of every four
+months.  If the King pay him not at the end of the four months, then, for
+all the time he stays longer, my Lord Treasurer, by agreement, allows him
+eight per cent. per annum for the forbearance.  So that, in fine, he hath
+about twelve per cent. from the King and the Army, for fifteen or sixteen
+months' interest; out of which he gains soundly, his expense being about
+L130,000 per annum; and hath no trouble in it, compared, as I told him,
+to the trouble I must have to bring in an account of interest.  I was,
+however, glad of being thus enlightened, and so away to the other council
+door, and there got in and hear a piece of a cause, heard before the
+King, about a ship deserted by her fellows (who were bound mutually to
+defend each other), in their way to Virginy, and taken by the enemy, but
+it was but meanly pleaded.  Then all withdrew, and by and by the Council
+rose, and I spoke with the Duke of York, and he told me my business was
+done, which I found accordingly in Sir Edward Walker's books.  And so
+away, mightily satisfied, to Arundell House, and there heard a little
+good discourse, and so home, and there to Sir W. Batten, where I heard
+the examinations in two of our prizes, which do make but little for us,
+so that I do begin to doubt their proving prize, which troubled me.  So
+home to supper with my wife, and after supper my wife told me how she had
+moved to W. Hewer the business of my sister for a wife to him, which he
+received with mighty acknowledgements, as she says, above anything; but
+says he hath no intention to alter his condition: so that I am in some
+measure sorry she ever moved it; but I hope he will think it only come
+from her.  So after supper a little to the office, to enter my journall,
+and then home to bed.  Talk there is of a letter to come from Holland,
+desiring a place of treaty; but I do doubt it.  This day I observe still,
+in many places, the smoking remains of the late fire: the ways mighty bad
+and dirty.  This night Sir R. Ford told me how this day, at Christ Church
+Hospital, they have given a living over L200 per annum to Mr. Sanchy, my
+old acquaintance, which I wonder at, he commending him mightily; but am
+glad of it.  He tells me, too, how the famous Stillingfleete was a
+Bluecoat boy.  The children at this day are provided for in the country
+by the House, which I am glad also to hear.
+
+
+
+17th.  Up, and to the office, where all the morning sitting.  At noon
+home to dinner, and then to the office busy also till very late, my heart
+joyed with the effects of my following my business, by easing my head of
+cares, and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+18th.  Up, and most of the morning finishing my entry of my journall
+during the late fire out of loose papers into this book, which did please
+me mightily when done, I, writing till my eyes were almost blind
+therewith to make an end of it.  Then all the rest of the morning, and,
+after a mouthful of dinner, all the afternoon in my closet till night,
+sorting all my papers, which have lain unsorted for all the time we were
+at Greenwich during the plague, which did please me also, I drawing on to
+put my office into a good posture, though much is behind.  This morning
+come Captain. Cocke to me, and tells me that the King comes to the House
+this day to pass the poll Bill and the Irish Bill; he tells me too that,
+though the Faction is very froward in the House, yet all will end well
+there.  But he says that one had got a Bill ready to present in the House
+against Sir W. Coventry, for selling of places, and says he is certain of
+it, and how he was withheld from doing it.  He says, that the Vice-
+chamberlaine is now one of the greatest men in England again, and was he
+that did prevail with the King to let the Irish Bill go with the word
+"Nuisance."  He told me, that Sir G. Carteret's declaration of giving
+double to any man that will prove that any of his people have demanded or
+taken any thing for forwarding the payment of the wages of any man (of
+which he sent us a copy yesterday, which we approved of) is set up, among
+other places, upon the House of Lords' door.  I do not know how wisely
+this is done.  This morning, also, there come to the office a letter from
+the Duke of York, commanding our payment of no wages to any of the
+muster-masters of the fleete the last year, but only two, my brother
+Balty, taking notice that he had taken pains therein, and one Ward, who,
+though he had not taken so much as the other, yet had done more than the
+rest.  This I was exceeding glad of for my own sake and his.  At night I,
+by appointment, home, where W. Batelier and his sister Mary, and the two
+Mercers, to play at cards and sup, and did cut our great cake lately
+given us by Russell: a very good one.  Here very merry late.  Sir W. Pen
+told me this night how the King did make them a very sharp speech in the
+House of Lords to-day, saying that he did expect to have had more Bills;
+
+     [On this day "An Act for raising Money by a Poll and otherwise
+     towards the maintenance of the present War," and "An Act prohibiting
+     the Importation of Cattle from Ireland and other parts beyond the
+     Sea, and Fish taken by Foreigners," were passed.  The king.
+     complained of the insufficient supply, and said, "'Tis high time for
+     you to make good your promises, and 'tis high time for you to be in
+     the country" ("Journals of the House of Lords," vol  xii., p. 81).]
+
+that he purposes to prorogue them on Monday come se'nnight; that whereas
+they have unjustly conceived some jealousys of his making a peace, he
+declares he knows of no such thing or treaty: and so left them.  But with
+so little effect, that as soon as he come into the House, Sir W. Coventry
+moved, that now the King hath declared his intention of proroguing them,
+it would be loss of time to go on with the thing they were upon, when
+they were called to the King, which was the calling over the defaults of
+Members appearing in the House; for that, before any person could now
+come or be brought to town, the House would be up.  Yet the Faction did
+desire to delay time, and contend so as to come to a division of the
+House; where, however, it was carried, by a few voices, that the debate
+should be laid by.  But this shews that they are not pleased, or that
+they have not any awe over them from the King's displeasure.  The company
+being gone, to bed.
+
+
+
+19th.  Up, and at the office all the morning.  Sir W. Batten tells me to
+my wonder that at his coming to my Lord Ashly, yesterday morning, to tell
+him what prize-goods he would have saved for the Navy, and not sold,
+according to the King's order on the 17th, he fell quite out with him in
+high terms; and he says, too, that they did go on to the sale yesterday,
+even of the very hempe, and other things, at which I am astonished, and
+will never wonder at the ruine of the King's affairs, if this be
+suffered.  At noon dined, and Mr. Pierce come to see me, he newly come
+from keeping his Christmas in the country.  So to the office, where very
+busy, but with great pleasure till late at night, and then home to supper
+and to bed.
+
+
+
+20th (Lord's day).  Up betimes and down to the Old Swan, there called on
+Michell and his wife, which in her night linen appeared as pretty almost
+as ever to my thinking I saw woman.  Here I drank some burnt brandy.
+They shewed me their house, which, poor people, they have built, and is
+very pretty.  I invited them to dine with me, and so away to White Hall
+to Sir W. Coventry, with whom I have not been alone a good while, and
+very kind he is, and tells me how the business is now ordered by order of
+council for my Lord Bruncker to assist Sir J. Minnes in all matters of
+accounts relating to the Treasurer, and Sir W. Pen in all matters
+relating to the victuallers' and pursers' accounts, which I am very glad
+of, and the more for that I think it will not do me any hurt at all.
+Other discourse, much especially about the heat the House was in
+yesterday about the ill management of the Navy, which I was sorry to
+hear; though I think they were well answered, both by Sir G. Carteret
+and [Sir] W. Coventry, as he informs me the substance of their speeches.
+Having done with him, home mightily satisfied with my being with him,
+and coming home I to church, and there, beyond expectation, find our
+seat, and all the church crammed, by twice as many people as used to be:
+and to my great joy find Mr. Frampton in the pulpit; so to my great joy
+I hear him preach, and I think the best sermon, for goodness and oratory,
+without affectation or study, that ever I heard in my life.  The truth
+is, he preaches the most like an apostle that ever I heard man; and it
+was much the best time that ever I spent in my life at church.  His text,
+Ecclesiastes xi., verse 8th--the words, "But if a man live many years,
+and rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness, for
+they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity."  He done, I home, and
+there Michell and his wife, and we dined and mighty merry, I mightily
+taken more and more with her.  After dinner I with my brother away by
+water to White Hall, and there walked in the Parke, and a little to my
+Lord Chancellor's, where the King and Cabinet met, and there met Mr.
+Brisband, with whom good discourse, to White Hall towards night, and
+there he did lend me "The Third Advice to a Paynter," a bitter satyre
+upon the service of the Duke of Albemarle the last year.  I took it home
+with me, and will copy it, having the former, being also mightily pleased
+with it.  So after reading it, I to Sir W. Pen to discourse a little with
+him about the business of our prizes, and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+21st.  Up betimes, and with, Sir W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, [Sir] R. Ford,
+by coach to the Swede's Resident's in the Piatza, to discourse with him
+about two of our prizes, wherein he puts in his concernment as for his
+countrymen.  We had no satisfaction, nor did give him any, but I find him
+a cunning fellow.  He lives in one of the great houses there, but ill-
+furnished; and come to us out of bed in his furred mittens and furred
+cap.  Thence to Exeter House to the Doctors Commons, and there with our
+Proctors to Dr. Walker, who was not very well, but, however, did hear our
+matters, and after a dull seeming hearing of them read, did discourse
+most understandingly of them, as well as ever I heard man, telling us all
+our grounds of pretence to the prize would do no good, and made it appear
+but thus, and thus, it may be, but yet did give us but little reason to
+expect it would prove, which troubled us, but I was mightily taken to
+hear his manner of discourse.  Thence with them to Westminster Hall, they
+setting me down at White Hall, where I missed of finding Sir G. Carteret,
+up to the Lords' House, and there come mighty seasonably to hear the
+Solicitor about my Lord Buckingham's pretence to the title of Lord Rosse.
+Mr. Atturny Montagu is also a good man, and so is old Sir P. Ball; but
+the Solicitor and Scroggs after him are excellent men.  Here spoke with
+my Lord Bellasses about getting some money for Tangier, which he doubts
+we shall not be able to do out of the Poll Bill, it being so strictly
+tied for the Navy.  He tells me the Lords have passed the Bill for the
+accounts with some little amendments.  So down to the Hall, and thence
+with our company to Exeter House, and then did the business I have said
+before, we doing nothing the first time of going, it being too early.
+At home find Lovett, to whom I did give my Lady Castlemayne's head to do.
+He is talking of going into Spayne to get money by his art, but I doubt
+he will do no good, he being a man of an unsettled head.  Thence by water
+down to Deptford, the first time I have been by water a great while, and
+there did some little business and walked home, and there come into my
+company three drunken seamen, but one especially, who told me such
+stories, calling me Captain, as made me mighty merry, and they would leap
+and skip, and kiss what mayds they met all the way.  I did at first give
+them money to drink, lest they should know who I was, and so become
+troublesome to me.  Parted at Redriffe, and there home and to the office,
+where did much business, and then to Sir W. Batten's, where [Sir] W. Pen,
+[Sir] R. Ford, and I to hear a proposition [Sir] R. Ford was to acquaint
+us with from the Swedes Embassador, in manner of saying, that for money
+he might be got to our side and relinquish the trouble he may give us.
+Sir W. Pen did make a long simple declaration of his resolution to give
+nothing to deceive any poor man of what was his right by law, but ended
+in doing whatever any body else would, and we did commission Sir R. Ford
+to give promise of not beyond L350 to him and his Secretary, in case they
+did not oppose us in the Phoenix (the net profits of which, as [Sir] R.
+Ford cast up before us, the Admiral's tenths, and ship's thirds, and
+other charges all cleared, will amount to L3,000) and that we did gain
+her.  [Sir] R. Ford did pray for a curse upon his family, if he was privy
+to anything more than he told us (which I believe he is a knave in), yet
+we all concluded him the most fit man for it and very honest, and so left
+it wholly to him to manage as he pleased.  Thence to the office a little
+while longer, and so home, where W. Hewer's mother was, and Mrs. Turner,
+our neighbour, and supped with us.  His mother a well-favoured old little
+woman, and a good woman, I believe.  After we had supped, and merry, we
+parted late, Mrs. Turner having staid behind to talk a little about her
+lodgings, which now my Lord Bruncker upon Sir W. Coventry's surrendering
+do claim, but I cannot think he will come to live in them so as to need
+to put them out.  She gone, we to bed all.  This night, at supper, comes
+from Sir W. Coventry the Order of Councill for my Lord Bruncker to do all
+the Comptroller's part relating to the Treasurer's accounts, and Sir W.
+Pen, all relating to the Victualler's, and Sir J. Minnes to do the rest.
+This, I hope, will do much better for the King than now, and, I think,
+will give neither of them ground to over-top me, as I feared they would;
+which pleases me mightily.  This evening, Mr. Wren and Captain Cocke
+called upon me at the office, and there told me how the House was in
+better temper to-day, and hath passed the Bill for the remainder of the
+money, but not to be passed finally till they have done some other things
+which they will have passed with it; wherein they are very open, what
+their meaning is, which was but doubted before, for they do in all
+respects doubt the King's pleasing them.
+
+
+
+22nd.  Up, and there come to me Darnell the fiddler, one of the Duke's
+house, and brought me a set of lessons, all three parts, I heard them
+play to the Duke of York after Christmas at his lodgings, and bid him get
+me them.  I did give him a crowne for them, and did enquire after the
+musique of the "Siege of Rhodes," which, he tells me, he can get me,
+which I am mighty glad of.  So to the office, where among other things I
+read the Councill's order about my Lord Bruncker and Sir W. Pen to be
+assistants to the Comptroller, which quietly went down with Sir J.
+Minnes, poor man, seeming a little as if he would be thought to have
+desired it, but yet apparently to his discontent; and, I fear, as the
+order runs, it will hardly do much good.  At noon to dinner, and there
+comes a letter from Mrs. Pierce, telling me she will come and dine with
+us on Thursday next, with some of the players, Knipp, &c., which I was
+glad of, but my wife vexed, which vexed me; but I seemed merry, but know
+not how to order the matter, whether they shall come or no.  After dinner
+to the office, and there late doing much business, and so home to supper,
+and to bed.
+
+
+
+23rd.  Up, and with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen to White Hall, and there
+to the Duke of York, and did our usual business.  Having done there, I to
+St. James's, to see the organ Mrs. Turner told me of the other night, of
+my late Lord Aubigney's; and I took my Lord Bruncker with me, he being
+acquainted with my present Lord Almoner, Mr. Howard, brother to the Duke
+of Norfolke; so he and I thither and did see the organ, but I do not like
+it, it being but a bauble, with a virginal! joining to it: so I shall not
+meddle with it.  Here we sat and talked with him a good while, and he
+seems a good-natured gentleman: here I observed the deske which he hath,
+[made] to remove, and is fastened to one of the armes of his chayre.  I
+do also observe the counterfeit windows there was, in the form of doors
+with looking-glasses instead of windows, which makes the room seem both
+bigger and lighter, I think; and I have some thoughts to have the like in
+one of my rooms.  He discoursed much of the goodness of the musique in
+Rome, but could not tell me how long musique had been in any perfection
+in that church, which I would be glad to know.  He speaks much of the
+great buildings that this Pope,
+
+     [Fabio Chigi, of Siena, succeeded Innocent X. in 1655 as Alexander
+     VII.  He died May, 1667, and was succeeded by Clement IX.]
+
+whom, in mirth to us, he calls Antichrist, hath done in his time.  Having
+done with the discourse, we away, and my Lord and I walking into the Park
+back again, I did observe the new buildings: and my Lord, seeing I had a
+desire to see them, they being the place for the priests and fryers, he
+took me back to my Lord Almoner; and he took us quite through the whole
+house and chapel, and the new monastery, showing me most excellent pieces
+in wax-worke: a crucifix given by a Pope to Mary Queen of Scotts, where a
+piece of the Cross is;
+
+     [Pieces of "the Cross" were formerly held in such veneration, and
+     were so common, that it has been often said enough existed to build
+     a ship.  Most readers will remember the distinction which Sir W.
+     Scott represents Louis XI. (with great appreciation of that
+     monarch's character), as drawing between an oath taken on a false
+     piece and one taken on a piece of the true cross.  Sir Thomas More,
+     a very devout believer in relics, says ("Works," p. 119), that
+     Luther wished, in a sermon of his, that he had in his hand all the
+     pieces of the Holy Cross; and said that if he so had, he would throw
+     them there as never sun should shine on them:--and for what
+     worshipful reason would the wretch do such villainy to the cross of
+     Christ?  Because, as he saith, that there is so much gold now
+     bestowed about the garnishing of the pieces of the Cross, that there
+     is none left for poore folke.  Is not this a high reason?  As though
+     all the gold that is now bestowed about the pieces of the Holy Cross
+     would not have failed to have been given to poor men, if they had
+     not been bestowed about the garnishing of the Cross! and as though
+     there were nothing lost, but what is bestowed about Christ's Cross!"
+     "Wolsey, says Cavendish, on his fall, gave to Norris, who brought
+     him a ring of gold as a token of good will from Henry, "a little
+     chaine of gold, made like a bottle chain, with a cross of gold,
+     wherein was a piece of the Holy Cross, which he continually wore
+     about his neck, next his body; and said, furthermore, 'Master
+     Norris, I assure you, when I was in prosperity, although it seem but
+     small in value, yet I would not gladly have departed with the same
+     for a thousand pounds.'" Life, ed.  1852, p. 167.  Evelyn mentions,
+     "Diary," November 17th, 1664, that he saw in one of the chapels in
+     St. Peter's a crucifix with a piece of the true cross in it.
+     Amongst the jewels of Mary Queen of Scots was a cross of gold, which
+     had been pledged to Hume of Blackadder for L1000 (Chalmers's "Life,"
+     vol. i., p. 31 ).--B.]
+
+two bits set in the manner of a cross in the foot of the crucifix:
+several fine pictures, but especially very good prints of holy pictures.
+I saw the dortoire--[dormitory]--and the cells of the priests, and we
+went into one; a very pretty little room, very clean, hung with pictures,
+set with books.  The Priest was in his cell, with his hair clothes to his
+skin, bare-legged, with a sandal! only on, and his little bed without
+sheets, and no feather bed; but yet, I thought, soft enough.  His cord
+about his middle; but in so good company, living with ease, I thought it
+a very good life.  A pretty library they have.  And I was in the
+refectoire, where every man his napkin, knife, cup of earth,
+
+     [The translators expect that we will know what was likely to them a
+     commmon term.  Probably 'terra cotta'.  D.W.]
+
+and basin of the same; and a place for one to sit and read while the rest
+are at meals.  And into the kitchen I went, where a good neck of mutton
+at the fire, and other victuals boiling.  I do not think they fared very
+hard.  Their windows all looking into a fine garden and the Park; and
+mighty pretty rooms all.  I wished myself one of the Capuchins.  Having
+seen what we could here, and all with mighty pleasure, so away with the
+Almoner in his coach, talking merrily about the difference in our
+religions, to White Hall, and there we left him.  I in my Lord Bruncker's
+coach, he carried me to the Savoy, and there we parted.  I to the Castle
+Tavern, where was and did come all our company, Sir W. Batten, [Sir] W.
+Pen, [Sir] R. Ford, and our Counsel Sir Ellis Layton, Walt Walker, Dr.
+Budd, Mr. Holder, and several others, and here we had a bad dinner of our
+preparing, and did discourse something of our business of our prizes,
+which was the work of the day.  I staid till dinner was over, and there
+being no use of me I away after dinner without taking leave, and to the
+New Exchange, there to take up my wife and Mercer, and to Temple Bar to
+the Ordinary, and had a dish of meat for them, they having not dined, and
+thence to the King's house, and there saw "The Numerous Lieutenant," a
+silly play, I think; only the Spirit in it that grows very tall, and then
+sinks again to nothing, having two heads breeding upon one, and then
+Knipp's singing, did please us.  Here, in a box above, we spied Mrs.
+Pierce; and, going out, they called us, and so we staid for them; and
+Knipp took us all in, and brought to us Nelly; a most pretty woman, who
+acted the great part of Coelia to-day very fine, and did it pretty well:
+I kissed her, and so did my wife; and a mighty pretty soul she is.  We
+also saw Mrs. Halls which is my little Roman-nose black girl, that is
+mighty pretty: she is usually called Betty.  Knipp made us stay in a box
+and see the dancing preparatory to to-morrow for "The Goblins," a play of
+Suckling's, not acted these twenty-five years; which was pretty; and so
+away thence, pleased with this sight also, and specially kissing of Nell.
+We away, Mr. Pierce and I, on foot to his house, the women by coach.  In
+our way we find the Guards of horse in the street, and hear the occasion
+to be news that the seamen are in a mutiny, which put me into a great
+fright; so away with my wife and Mercer home preparing against to-morrow
+night to have Mrs. Pierce and Knipp and a great deal more company to
+dance; and, when I come home, hear of no disturbance there of the seamen,
+but that one of them, being arrested to-day, others do go and rescue him.
+So to the office a little, and then home to supper, and to my chamber
+awhile, and then to bed.
+
+
+
+24th.  Up, and to the office, full of thoughts how to order the business
+of our merry meeting to-night.  So to the office, where busy all the
+morning.  [While we were sitting in the morning at the office, we were
+frighted with news of fire at Sir W. Batten's by a chimney taking fire,
+and it put me into much fear and trouble, but with a great many hands and
+pains it was soon stopped.]  At noon home to dinner, and presently to the
+office to despatch my business, and also we sat all the afternoon to
+examine the loss of The Bredagh, which was done by as plain negligence as
+ever ship was.  We being rose, I entering my letters and getting the
+office swept and a good fire made and abundance of candles lighted, I
+home, where most of my company come of this end of the town-Mercer and
+her sister, Mr. Batelier and Pembleton (my Lady Pen, and Pegg, and Mr.
+Lowther, but did not stay long, and I believe it was by Sir W. Pen's
+order; for they had a great mind to have staid), and also Captain Rolt.
+And, anon, at about seven or eight o'clock, comes Mr. Harris, of the
+Duke's playhouse, and brings Mrs. Pierce with him, and also one dressed
+like a country-mayde with a straw hat on; which, at first, I could not
+tell who it was, though I expected Knipp: but it was she coming off the
+stage just as she acted this day in "The Goblins;" a merry jade.  Now my
+house is full, and four fiddlers that play well.  Harris I first took to
+my closet; and I find him a very curious and understanding person in all
+pictures and other things, and a man of fine conversation; and so is
+Rolt.  So away with all my company down to the office, and there fell to
+dancing, and continued at it an hour or two, there coming Mrs. Anne
+Jones, a merchant's daughter hard by, who dances well, and all in mighty
+good humour, and danced with great pleasure; and then sung and then
+danced, and then sung many things of three voices--both Harris and Rolt
+singing their parts excellently.  Among other things, Harris sung his
+Irish song--the strangest in itself, and the prettiest sung by him, that
+ever I heard.  Then to supper in the office, a cold, good supper, and
+wondrous merry.  Here was Mrs. Turner also, but the poor woman sad about
+her lodgings, and Mrs. Markham: after supper to dancing again and
+singing, and so continued till almost three in the morning, and then,
+with extraordinary pleasure, broke up only towards morning, Knipp fell a
+little ill, and so my wife home with her to put her to bed, and we
+continued dancing and singing; and, among other things, our Mercer
+unexpectedly did happen to sing an Italian song I know not, of which they
+two sung the other two parts to, that did almost ravish me, and made me
+in love with her more than ever with her singing.  As late as it was, yet
+Rolt and Harris would go home to-night, and walked it, though I had a bed
+for them; and it proved dark, and a misly night, and very windy.  The
+company being all gone to their homes, I up with Mrs. Pierce to Knipp,
+who was in bed; and we waked her, and there I handled her breasts and did
+'baiser la', and sing a song, lying by her on the bed, and then left my
+wife to see Mrs. Pierce in bed to her, in our best chamber, and so to bed
+myself, my mind mightily satisfied with all this evening's work, and
+thinking it to be one of the merriest enjoyment I must look for in the
+world, and did content myself therefore with the thoughts of it, and so
+to bed; only the musique did not please me, they not being contented with
+less than 30s.
+
+
+
+25th.  Lay pretty long, then to the office, where Lord Bruncker and Sir
+J. Minnes and I did meet, and sat private all the morning about dividing
+the Controller's work according to the late order of Council, between
+them two and Sir W. Pen, and it troubled me to see the poor honest man,
+Sir J. Minnes, troubled at it, and yet the King's work cannot be done
+without it.  It was at last friendlily ended, and so up and home to
+dinner with my wife.  This afternoon I saw the Poll Bill, now printed;
+wherein I do fear I shall be very deeply concerned, being to be taxed for
+all my offices, and then for my money that I have, and my title, as well
+as my head.  It is a very great tax; but yet I do think it is so
+perplexed, it will hardly ever be collected duly.  The late invention of
+Sir G. Downing's is continued of bringing all the money into the
+Exchequer; and Sir G. Carteret's three pence is turned for all the money
+of this act into but a penny per pound, which I am sorry for.  After
+dinner to the office again, where Lord Bruncker, [Sir] W. Batten, and
+[Sir] W. Pen and I met to talk again about the Controller's office, and
+there [Sir] W. Pen would have a piece of the great office cut out to make
+an office for him, which I opposed to the making him very angry, but I
+think I shall carry it against him, and then I care not.  So a little
+troubled at this fray, I away by coach with my wife, and left her at the
+New Exchange, and I to my Lord Chancellor's, and then back, taking up my
+wife to my Lord Bellasses, and there spoke with Mr. Moone, who tells me
+that the peace between us and Spayne is, as he hears, concluded on, which
+I should be glad of, and so home, and after a little at my office, home
+to finish my journall for yesterday and to-day, and then a little supper
+and to bed.  This day the House hath passed the Bill for the Assessment,
+which I am glad of; and also our little Bill, for giving any one of us in
+the office the power of justice of peace, is done as I would have it.
+
+
+
+26th.  Up, and at the office.  Sat all the morning, where among other
+things I did the first unkind [thing] that ever I did design to Sir W.
+Warren, but I did it now to some purpose, to make him sensible how little
+any man's friendship shall avail him if he wants money.  I perceive he do
+nowadays court much my Lord Bruncker's favour, who never did any man much
+courtesy at the board, nor ever will be able, at least so much as myself.
+Besides, my Lord would do him a kindness in concurrence with me, but he
+would have the danger of the thing to be done lie upon me, if there be
+any danger in it (in drawing up a letter to Sir W. Warren's advantage),
+which I do not like, nor will endure.  I was, I confess, very angry, and
+will venture the loss of Sir W. Warren's kindnesses rather than he shall
+have any man's friendship in greater esteem than mine.  At noon home to
+dinner, and after dinner to the office again, and there all the
+afternoon, and at night poor Mrs. Turner come and walked in the garden
+for my advice about her husband and her relating to my Lord Bruncker's
+late proceedings with them.  I do give her the best I can, but yet can
+lay aside some ends of my own in what advice I do give her.  So she being
+gone I to make an end of my letters, and so home to supper and to bed,
+Balty lodging here with my brother, he being newly returned from
+mustering in the river.
+
+
+
+27th (Lord's day).  Up betimes, and leaving my wife to go by coach to
+hear Mr. Frampton preach, which I had a mighty desire she should, I down
+to the Old Swan, and there to Michell and staid while he and she dressed
+themselves, and here had a 'baiser' or two of her, whom I love mightily;
+and then took them in a sculler (being by some means or other
+disappointed of my own boat) to White Hall, and so with them to
+Westminster, Sir W. Coventry, Bruncker and I all the morning together
+discoursing of the office business, and glad of the Controller's business
+being likely to be put into better order than formerly, and did discourse
+of many good things, but especially of having something done to bringing
+the Surveyor's matters into order also.  Thence I up to the King's
+closet, and there heard a good Anthem, and discoursed with several people
+here about business, among others with Lord Bellasses, and so from one to
+another after sermon till the King had almost dined, and then home with
+Sir G. Carteret and dined with him, being mightily ashamed of my not
+having seen my Lady Jemimah so long, and my wife not at all yet since she
+come, but she shall soon do it.  I thence to Sir Philip Warwicke, by
+appointment, to meet Lord Bellasses, and up to his chamber, but find him
+unwilling to discourse of business on Sundays; so did not enlarge, but
+took leave, and went down and sat in a low room, reading Erasmus "de
+scribendis epistolis," a very good book, especially one letter of advice
+to a courtier most true and good, which made me once resolve to tear out
+the two leaves that it was writ in, but I forebore it.  By and by comes
+Lord Bellasses, and then he and I up again to Sir P. Warwicke and had
+much discourse of our Tangier business, but no hopes of getting any
+money.  Thence I through the garden into the Park, and there met with
+Roger Pepys, and he and I to walk in the Pell Mell.  I find by him that
+the House of Parliament continues full of ill humours, and he seems to
+dislike those that are troublesome more than needs, and do say how, in
+their late Poll Bill, which cost so much time, the yeomanry, and indeed
+two-thirds of the nation, are left out to be taxed, that there is not
+effectual provision enough made for collecting of the money; and then,
+that after a man his goods are distrained and sold, and the overplus
+returned, I am to have ten days to make my complaints of being over-rated
+if there be cause, when my goods are sold, and that is too late.  These
+things they are resolved to look into again, and mend them before they
+rise, which they expect at furthest on Thursday next.  Here we met with
+Mr. May, and he and we to talk of several things, of building, and such
+like matters; and so walked to White Hall, and there I skewed my cozen
+Roger the Duchesse of York sitting in state, while her own mother stands
+by her; he had a desire, and I shewed him my Lady Castlemayne, whom he
+approves to be very handsome, and wonders that she cannot be as good
+within as she is fair without.  Her little black boy came by him; and, a
+dog being in his way, the little boy called to the dog: "Pox of this
+dog!"--"Now," says he, blessing himself, "would I whip this child till
+the blood come, if it were my child!"  and I believe he would.  But he do
+by no means like the liberty of the Court, and did come with expectation
+of finding them playing at cards to-night, though Sunday; for such
+stories he is told, but how true I know not.
+
+     [There is little reason to doubt that it was such as Evelyn
+     describes it at a later time.  "I can never forget the inexpressible
+     luxury and prophaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and, as it
+     were, total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening) which
+     this day se'nnight I was witness of; the King sitting and toying
+     with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarin, &c.  A French
+     boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty
+     of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset
+     round a large table, a bank of at least L2,000 in gold before them;
+     upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflexions with
+     astonishment.  Six days after was all in the dust."--Diary,
+     February, 1685.--B.]
+
+After walking up and down the Court with him, it being now dark and past
+six at night, I walked to the Swan in the Palace yard and there with much
+ado did get a waterman, and so I sent for the Michells, and they come,
+and their father Howlett and his wife with them, and there we drank, and
+so into the boat, poor Betty's head aching.  We home by water, a fine
+moonshine and warm night, it having been also a very summer's day for
+warmth.  I did get her hand to me under my cloak .  .  .  .  So there we
+parted at their house, and he walked almost home with me, and then I home
+and to supper, and to read a little and to bed.  My wife tells me Mr.
+Frampton is gone to sea, and so she lost her labour to-day in thinking to
+hear him preach, which I am sorry for.
+
+
+
+28th.  Up, and down to the Old Swan, and there drank at Michell's and saw
+Betty, and so took boat and to the Temple, and thence to my tailor's and
+other places about business in my way to Westminster, where I spent the
+morning at the Lords' House door, to hear the conference between the two
+Houses about my Lord Mordaunt, of which there was great expectation, many
+hundreds of people coming to hear it.  But, when they come, the Lords did
+insist upon my Lord Mordaunt's having leave to sit upon a stool uncovered
+within their burr, and that he should have counsel, which the Commons
+would not suffer, but desired leave to report their Lordships' resolution
+to the House of Commons; and so parted for this day, which troubled me,
+I having by this means lost the whole day.  Here I hear from Mr. Hayes
+that Prince Rupert is very bad still, and so bad, that he do now yield to
+be trepanned.  It seems, as Dr. Clerke also tells me, it is a clap of the
+pox which he got about twelve years ago, and hath eaten to his head and
+come through his scull, so his scull must be opened, and there is great
+fear of him.  Much work I find there is to do in the two Houses in a
+little time, and much difference there is between the two Houses in many
+things to be reconciled; as in the Bill for examining our accounts; Lord
+Mordaunt's Bill for building the City, and several others.  A little
+before noon I went to the Swan and eat a bit of meat, thinking I should
+have had occasion to have stayed long at the house, but I did not, but so
+home by coach, calling at Broad Street and taking the goldsmith home with
+me, and paid him L15 15s. for my silver standish.  He tells me gold holds
+up its price still, and did desire me to let him have what old 20s.
+pieces I have, and he would give me 3s. 2d.  change for each.  He gone,
+I to the office, where business all the afternoon, and at night comes Mr.
+Gawden at my desire to me, and to-morrow I shall pay him some money, and
+shall see what present he will make me, the hopes of which do make me to
+part with my money out of my chest, which I should not otherwise do, but
+lest this alteration in the Controller's office should occasion my losing
+my concernment in the Victualling, and so he have no more need of me.
+He gone, I to the office again, having come thence home with him to talk,
+and so after a little more business I to supper.  I then sent for Mercer,
+and began to teach her "It is decreed," which will please me well, and so
+after supper and reading a little, and my wife's cutting off my hair
+short, which is grown too long upon my crown of my head, I to bed.  I met
+this day in Westminster Hall Sir W. Batten and [Sir] W. Pen, and the
+latter since our falling out the other day do look mighty reservedly upon
+me, and still he shall do so for me, for I will be hanged before I seek
+to him, unless I see I need it.
+
+
+
+29th.  Up to the office all the morning, where Sir W. Pen and I look much
+askewe one upon another, though afterward business made us speak friendly
+enough, but yet we hate one another.  At noon home to dinner, and then to
+the office, where all the afternoon expecting Mr. Gawden to come for some
+money I am to pay him, but he comes not, which makes me think he is
+considering whether it be necessary to make the present he hath promised,
+it being possible this alteration in the Controller's duty may make my
+place in the Victualling unnecessary, so that I am a little troubled at
+it.  Busy till late at night at the office, and Sir W. Batten come to me,
+and tells me that there is newes upon the Exchange to-day, that my Lord
+Sandwich's coach and the French Embassador's at Madrid, meeting and
+contending for the way, they shot my Lord's postilion and another man
+dead; and that we have killed 25 of theirs, and that my Lord is well.
+How true this is I cannot tell, there being no newes of it at all at
+Court, as I am told late by one come thence, so that I hope it is not so.
+By and by comes Mrs. Turner to me, to make her complaint of her sad usage
+she receives from my Lord Bruncker, that he thinks much she hath not
+already got another house, though he himself hath employed her night and
+day ever since his first mention of the matter, to make part of her house
+ready for him, as he ordered, and promised she should stay till she had
+fitted herself; by which and what discourse I do remember he had of the
+business before Sir W. Coventry on Sunday last I perceive he is a rotten-
+hearted, false man as any else I know, even as Sir W. Pen himself, and,
+therefore, I must beware of him accordingly, and I hope I shall.  I did
+pity the woman with all my heart, and gave her the best council I could;
+and so, falling to other discourse, I made her laugh and merry, as sad as
+she came to me; so that I perceive no passion in a woman can be lasting
+long; and so parted and I home, and there teaching my girle Barker part
+of my song "It is decreed," which she will sing prettily, and so after
+supper to bed.
+
+
+
+30th.  Fast-day for the King's death.  I all the morning at my chamber
+making up my month's accounts, which I did before dinner to my thorough
+content, and find myself but a small gainer this month, having no manner
+of profits, but just my salary, but, blessed be God! that I am able to
+save out of that, living as I do.  So to dinner, then to my chamber all
+the afternoon, and in the evening my wife and I and Mercer and Barker to
+little Michell's, walked, with some neats' tongues and cake and wine, and
+there sat with the little couple with great pleasure, and talked and eat
+and drank, and saw their little house, which is very pretty; and I much
+pleased therewith, and so walked home, about eight at night, it being a
+little moonshine and fair weather, and so into the garden, and, with
+Mercer, sang till my wife put me in mind of its being a fast day; and so
+I was sorry for it, and stopped, and home to cards awhile, and had
+opportunity 'para baiser' Mercer several times, and so to bed.
+
+
+
+31st.  Up, and to the office, where we met and sat all the morning.  At
+noon home to dinner, and by and by Mr. Osborne comes from Mr. Gawden, and
+takes money and notes for L4000, and leaves me acknowledgment for L4000
+and odd; implying as if D. Gawden would give the L800 between Povy and
+myself, but how he will divide it I know-not, till I speak with him, so
+that my content is not yet full in the business.  In the evening stept
+out to Sir Robert Viner's to get the money ready upon my notes to
+D. Gawden, and there hear that Mr. Temple is very ill.  I met on the
+'Change with Captain Cocke, who tells me that he hears new certainty of
+the business of Madrid, how our Embassador and the French met, and says
+that two or three of my Lord's men, and twenty one of the French men are
+killed, but nothing at Court of it. He fears the next year's service
+through the badness of our counsels at White Hall, but that if they were
+wise, and the King would mind his business, he might do what he would
+yet.  The Parliament is not yet up, being finishing some bills.  So home
+and to the office, and late home to supper, and to talk with my wife,
+with pleasure, and to bed.  I met this evening at Sir R. Viner's our Mr.
+Turner, who I find in a melancholy condition about his being removed out
+of his house, but I find him so silly and so false that I dare not tell
+how to trust any advice to him, and therefore did speak only generally to
+him, but I doubt his condition is very miserable, and do pity his family.
+Thus the month ends: myself in very good health and content of mind in my
+family.  All our heads full in the office at this dividing of the
+Comptroller's duty, so that I am in some doubt how it may prove to
+intrench upon my benefits, but it cannot be much.  The Parliament, upon
+breaking up, having given the King money with much ado, and great heats,
+and neither side pleased, neither King nor them.  The imperfection of the
+Poll Bill, which must be mended before they rise, there being several
+horrible oversights to the prejudice of the King, is a certain sign of
+the care anybody hath of the King's business.  Prince Rupert very ill,
+and to be trepanned on Saturday next.  Nobody knows who commands the
+fleete next year, or, indeed, whether we shall have a fleete or no.
+Great preparations in Holland and France, and the French have lately
+taken Antego
+
+     [Antigua, one of the West India Islands (Leeward Islands),
+     discovered by Columbus in 1493, who is said to have named it after a
+     church at Seville called Santa Maria la Antigua.  It was first
+     settled by a few English families in 1632, and in 1663 another
+     settlement was made under Lord Willoughby, to whom the entire island
+     was granted by Charles II.  In 1666 it was invaded by a French
+     force, which laid waste all the settlement.  It was reconquered by
+     the English, and formally restored to them by the treaty of Breda.]
+
+from us, which vexes us.  I am in a little care through my at last
+putting a great deal of money out of my hands again into the King's upon
+tallies for Tangier, but the interest which I wholly lost while in my
+trunk is a temptation while things look safe, as they do in some measure
+for six months, I think, and I would venture but little longer.
+
+
+
+
+ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:
+
+Baker's house in Pudding Lane, where the late great fire begun
+Bill against importing Cattle from Ireland
+But my wife vexed, which vexed me
+Clap of the pox which he got about twelve years ago
+Come to us out of bed in his furred mittens and furred cap
+Court full of great apprehensions of the French
+Declared he will never have another public mistress again
+Desk fastened to one of the armes of his chayre
+Do outdo the Lords infinitely (debates in the Commons)
+Enough existed to build a ship (Pieces of the true Cross)
+Enviously, said, I could not come honestly by them
+Erasmus "de scribendis epistolis"
+For I will be hanged before I seek to him, unless I see I need
+Gold holds up its price still
+Have not any awe over them from the King's displeasure (Commons)
+He will do no good, he being a man of an unsettled head
+I did get her hand to me under my cloak
+I perceive no passion in a woman can be lasting long
+Mazer or drinking-bowl turned out of some kind of wood
+Mirrors which makes the room seem both bigger and lighter
+Outdo for neatness and plenty anything done by any of them
+Poll Bill
+Saying, that for money he might be got to our side
+Sermon without affectation or study
+Some ends of my own in what advice I do give her
+The pleasure of my not committing these things to my memory
+Very great tax; but yet I do think it is so perplexed
+Where a piece of the Cross is
+Whip this child till the blood come, if it were my child!
+Whom, in mirth to us, he calls Antichrist
+Wonders that she cannot be as good within as she is fair without
+Yet let him remember the days of darkness
+
+
+
+
+End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v56
+by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley
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