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diff --git a/4172.txt b/4172.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..830c3b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/4172.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1487 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, January 1966/67, by Samuel Pepys + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, January 1966/67 + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Release Date: December 1, 2004 [EBook #4172] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY + MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + + 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 + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Diary of Samuel Pepys, January 1966/67 +by Samuel Pepys + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + +***** This file should be named 4172.txt or 4172.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/7/4172/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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