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+Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, February 1966/67, by Samuel Pepys
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+Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, February 1966/67
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+Author: Samuel Pepys
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+Release Date: December 1, 2004 [EBook #4173]
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, ***
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+Produced by David Widger
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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.
+                                 FEBRUARY
+                                 1666-1667
+
+February 1st.  Up, and to the office, where I was all the morning doing
+business, at noon home to dinner, and after dinner down by water, though
+it was a thick misty and rainy day, and walked to Deptford from Redriffe,
+and there to Bagwell's by appointment, where the 'mulier etoit within
+expecting me venir .  .  .  .  By and by 'su marido' come in, and there
+without any notice taken by him we discoursed of our business of getting
+him the new ship building by Mr. Deane, which I shall do for him.  Thence
+by and by after a little talk I to the yard, and spoke with some of the
+officers, but staid but little, and the new clerk of the 'Chequer, Fownes,
+did walk to Redriffe back with me.  I perceive he is a very child, and is
+led by the nose by Cowly and his kinsman that was his clerk, but I did
+make him understand his duty, and put both understanding and spirit into
+him, so that I hope he will do well.  [Much surprised to hear this day at
+Deptford that Mrs. Batters is going already to be married to him, that is
+now the Captain of her husband's ship.  She seemed the most passionate
+mourner in the world.  But I believe it cannot be true.]--(The passage
+between brackets is written in the margin of the MS.)--Thence by water to
+Billingsgate; thence to the Old Swan, and there took boat, it being now
+night, to Westminster Hall, there to the Hall, and find Doll Lane, and
+'con elle' I went to the Bell Taverne, and 'ibi je' did do what I would
+'con elle' as well as I could, she 'sedendo sobre' thus far and making
+some little resistance.  But all with much content, and 'je tenai' much
+pleasure 'cum ista'.  There parted, and I by coach home, and to the
+office, where pretty late doing business, and then home, and merry with my
+wife, and to supper.  My brother and I did play with the base, and I upon
+my viallin, which I have not seen out of the case now I think these three
+years, or more, having lost the key, and now forced to find an expedient
+to open it.  Then to bed.
+
+2nd.  Up, and to the office.  This day I hear that Prince Rupert is to be
+trepanned.  God give good issue to it.  Sir W. Pen looks upon me, and I on
+him, and speak about business together at the table well enough, but no
+friendship or intimacy since our late difference about his closet, nor do
+I desire to have any.  At noon dined well, and my brother and I to write
+over once more with my own hand my catalogue of books, while he reads to
+me.  After something of that done, and dined, I to the office, where all
+the afternoon till night busy.  At night, having done all my office
+matters, I home, and my brother and I to go on with my catalogue, and so
+to supper.  Mrs. Turner come to me this night again to condole her
+condition and the ill usage she receives from my Lord Bruncker, which I
+could never have expected from him, and shall be a good caution to me
+while I live.  She gone, I to supper, and then to read a little, and to
+bed.  This night comes home my new silver snuffe-dish, which I do give
+myself for my closet, which is all I purpose to bestow in plate of myself,
+or shall need, many a day, if I can keep what I have.  So to bed. I am
+very well pleased this night with reading a poem I brought home with me
+last night from Westminster Hall, of Dryden's' upon the present war; a
+very good poem.
+
+3rd (Lord's day).  Up, and with Sir W. Batten and [Sir] W. Pen to White
+Hall, and there to Sir W. Coventry's chamber, and there staid till he was
+ready, talking, and among other things of the Prince's being trepanned,
+which was in doing just as we passed through the Stone Gallery, we asking
+at the door of his lodgings, and were told so.  We are all full of wishes
+for the good success; though I dare say but few do really concern
+ourselves for him in our hearts.  Up to the Duke of York, and with him did
+our business we come about, and among other things resolve upon a meeting
+at the office to-morrow morning, Sir W. Coventry to be there to determine
+of all things necessary for the setting of Sir W. Pen to work in his
+Victualling business.  This did awake in me some thoughts of what might in
+discourse fall out touching my imployment, and did give me some
+apprehension of trouble.  Having done here, and after our laying our
+necessities for money open to the Duke of York, but nothing obtained
+concerning it, we parted, and I with others into the House, and there hear
+that the work is done to the Prince in a few minutes without any pain at
+all to him, he not knowing when it was done.  It was performed by Moulins.
+ Having cut the outward table, as they call it, they find the inner all
+corrupted, so as it come out without any force; and their fear is, that
+the whole inside of his head is corrupted like that, which do yet make
+them afeard of him; but no ill accident appeared in the doing of the
+thing, but all with all imaginable success, as Sir Alexander Frazier did
+tell me himself, I asking him, who is very kind to me.  I to the Chapel a
+little, but hearing nothing did take a turn into the Park, and then back
+to Chapel and heard a very good Anthem to my heart's delight, and then to
+Sir G. Carteret's to dinner, and before dinner did walk with him alone a
+good while, and from him hear our case likely for all these acts to be bad
+for money, which troubles me, the year speeding so fast, and he tells me
+that he believes the Duke of York will go to sea with the fleete, which I
+am sorry for in respect to his person, but yet there is no person in
+condition to command the fleete, now the Captains are grown so great, but
+him, it being impossible for anybody else but him to command any order or
+discipline among them.  He tells me there is nothing at all in the late
+discourse about my Lord Sandwich and the French Embassador meeting and
+contending for the way, which I wonder at, to see the confidence of report
+without any ground.  By and by to dinner, where very good company.  Among
+other discourse, we talked much of Nostradamus
+
+     [Michael Nostradamus, a physician and astrologer, born in the
+     diocese of Avignon, 1503.  Amongst other predictions, one was
+     interpreted as foreshowing the singular death of Hen. II. of France,
+     by which his reputation was increased.]
+
+his prophecy of these times, and the burning of the City of London, some
+of whose verses are put into Booker's' Almanack this year; and Sir G.
+Carteret did tell a story, how at his death he did make the town swear
+that he should never be dug up, or his tomb opened, after he was buried;
+but they did after sixty years do it, and upon his breast they found a
+plate of brasse, saying what a wicked and unfaithful people the people of
+that place were, who after so many vows should disturb and open him such a
+day and year and hour; which, if true, is very strange.  Then we fell to
+talking of the burning of the City; and my Lady Carteret herself did tell
+us how abundance of pieces of burnt papers were cast by the wind as far as
+Cranborne; and among others she took up one, or had one brought her to
+see, which was a little bit of paper that had been printed, whereon there
+remained no more nor less than these words: "Time is, it is done."   After
+dinner I went and took a turn into the Park, and then took boat and away
+home, and there to my chamber and to read, but did receive some letters
+from Sir W. Coventry, touching the want of victuals to Kempthorne's'
+fleete going to the Streights and now in the Downes: which did trouble me,
+he saying that this disappointment might prove fatal; and the more,
+because Sir W. Coventry do intend to come to the office upon business
+to-morrow morning, and I shall not know what answer to give him. This did
+mightily trouble my mind; however, I fell to read a little in Hakewill's
+Apology, and did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of the saying
+that the world do not grow old at all, but is in as good condition in all
+respects as ever it was as to nature.  I continued reading this book with
+great pleasure till supper, and then to bed sooner than ordinary, for
+rising betimes in the morning to-morrow.  So after reading my usual vows
+to bed, my mind full of trouble against to-morrow, and did not sleep any
+good time of the night for thoughts of to-morrow morning's trouble.
+
+4th.  I up, with my head troubled to think of the issue of this morning,
+so made ready and to the office, where Mr. Gawden comes, and he and I
+discoursed the business well, and thinks I shall get off well enough; but
+I do by Sir W. Coventry's silence conclude that he is not satisfied in my
+management of my place and the charge it puts the King to, which I confess
+I am not in present condition through my late laziness to give any good
+answer to.  But here do D. Gawden give me a good cordiall this morning, by
+telling me that he do give me five of the eight hundred pounds on his
+account remaining in my hands to myself, for the service I do him in my
+victualling business, and L100 for my particular share of the profits of
+my Tangier imployment as Treasurer.  This do begin to make my heart glad,
+and I did dissemble it the better, so when Sir W. Coventry did come, and
+the rest met, I did appear unconcerned, and did give him answer pretty
+satisfactory what he asked me; so that I did get off this meeting without
+any ground lost, but rather a great deal gained by interposing that which
+did belong to my duty to do, and neither [Sir] W. Coventry nor (Sir) W.
+Yen did oppose anything thereunto, which did make my heart very glad.  All
+the morning at this work, Sir W. Pen making a great deal of do for the
+fitting him in his setting out in his employment, and I do yield to any
+trouble that he gives me without any contradiction.  Sir W. Coventry being
+gone, we at noon to dinner to Sir W. Pen's, he inviting me and my wife,
+and there a pretty good dinner, intended indeed for Sir W. Coventry, but
+he would not stay.  So here I was mighty merry and all our differences
+seemingly blown over, though he knows, if he be not a fool, that I love
+him not, and I do the like that he hates me.  Soon as dined, my wife and I
+out to the Duke's playhouse, and there saw "Heraclius," an excellent play,
+to my extraordinary content; and the more from the house being very full,
+and great company; among others, Mrs. Steward, very fine, with her locks
+done up with puffes, as my wife calls them: and several other great ladies
+had their hair so, though I do not like it; but my wife do mightily--but
+it is only because she sees it is the fashion.  Here I saw my Lord
+Rochester and his lady, Mrs. Mallet, who hath after all this ado married
+him; and, as I hear some say in the pit, it is a great act of charity, for
+he hath no estate.  But it was pleasant to see how every body rose up when
+my Lord John Butler, the Duke of Ormond's son, come into the pit towards
+the end of the play, who was a servant--[lover]--to Mrs. Mallet, and now
+smiled upon her, and she on him.  I had sitting next to me a woman, the
+likest my Lady Castlemayne that ever I saw anybody like another; but she
+is a whore, I believe, for she is acquainted with every fine fellow, and
+called them by their name, Jacke, and Tom, and before the end of the play
+frisked to another place.  Mightily pleased with the play, we home by
+coach, and there a little to the office, and then to my chamber, and there
+finished my Catalogue of my books with my own hand, and so to supper and
+to bed, and had a good night's rest, the last night's being troublesome,
+but now my heart light and full of resolution of standing close to my
+business.
+
+5th.  Up, and to the office, where all the morning doing business, and
+then home to dinner.  Heard this morning that the Prince is much better,
+and hath good rest.  All the talk is that my Lord Sandwich hath perfected
+the peace with Spayne, which is very good, if true.  Sir H. Cholmly was
+with me this morning, and told me of my Lord Bellasses's base dealings
+with him by getting him to give him great gratuities to near L2000 for his
+friendship in the business of the Mole, and hath been lately underhand
+endeavouring to bring another man into his place as Governor, so as to
+receive his money of Sir H. Cholmly for nothing.  Dined at home, and after
+dinner come Mrs. Daniel and her sister and staid and talked a little, and
+then I to the office, and after setting my things in order at the office I
+abroad with my wife and little Betty Michell, and took them against my
+vowes, but I will make good my forfeit, to the King's house, to show them
+a play, "The Chances."  A good play I find it, and the actors most good in
+it; and pretty to hear Knipp sing in the play very properly, "All night I
+weepe;" and sung it admirably.  The whole play pleases me well: and most
+of all, the sight of many fine ladies--among others, my Lady Castlemayne
+and Mrs. Middleton: the latter of the two hath also a very excellent face
+and body, I think.  Thence by coach to the New Exchange, and there laid
+out money, and I did give Betty Michell two pair of gloves and a
+dressing-box; and so home in the dark, over the ruins, with a link.  I was
+troubled with my pain, having got a bruise on my right testicle, I know
+not how.  But this I did make good use of to make my wife shift sides with
+me, and I did come to sit 'avec' Betty Michell, and there had her 'main',
+which 'elle' did give me very frankly now, and did hazer whatever I
+'voudrais avec la', which did 'plaisir' me 'grandement', and so set her at
+home with my mind mighty glad of what I have prevailed for so far; and so
+home, and to the office, and did my business there, and then home to
+supper, and after to set some things right in my chamber, and so to bed.
+This morning, before I went to the office, there come to me Mr. Young and
+Whistler, flaggmakers, and with mighty earnestness did present me with,
+and press me to take a box, wherein I could not guess there was less than
+L100 in gold: but I do wholly refuse it, and did not at last take it.  The
+truth is, not thinking them safe men to receive such a gratuity from, nor
+knowing any considerable courtesy that ever I did do them, but desirous to
+keep myself free from their reports, and to have it in my power to say I
+had refused their offer.
+
+6th.  Up, lying a little long in bed, and by water to White Hall, and
+there find the Duke of York gone out, he being in haste to go to the
+Parliament, and so all my Brethren were gone to the office too.  So I to
+Sir Ph. Warwicke's about my Tangier business, and then to Westminster
+Hall, and walked up and down, and hear that the Prince do still rest well
+by day and night, and out of pain; so as great hopes are conceived of him:
+though I did meet Dr. Clerke and Mr. Pierce, and they do say they believe
+he will not recover it, they supposing that his whole head within is eaten
+by this corruption, which appeared in this piece of the inner table.  Up
+to the Parliament door, and there discoursed with Roger Pepys, who goes
+out of town this week, the Parliament rising this week also.  So down to
+the Hall and there spied Betty Michell, and so I sent for burnt wine to
+Mrs. Michell's, and there did drink with the two mothers, and by that
+means with Betty, poor girle, whom I love with all my heart.  And God
+forgive me, it did make me stay longer and hover all the morning up and
+down the Hall to 'busquer occasions para ambulare con elle.  But ego ne
+pouvoir'.  So home by water and to dinner, and then to the office, where
+we sat upon Denis Gawden's accounts, and before night I rose and by water
+to White Hall, to attend the Council; but they sat not to-day.  So to Sir
+W. Coventry's chamber, and find him within, and with a letter from the
+Downes in his hands, telling the loss of the St. Patricke coming from
+Harwich in her way to Portsmouth; and would needs chase two ships (she
+having the Malago fire-ship in company) which from English colours put up
+Dutch, and he would clap on board the Vice-Admirall; and after long
+dispute the Admirall comes on the other side of him, and both together
+took him.  Our fire-ship (Seely) not coming in to fire all three, but come
+away, leaving her in their possession, and carried away by them: a ship
+built at Bristoll the last year, of fifty guns and upwards, and a most
+excellent good ship.  This made him very melancholy.  I to talk of our
+wants of money, but I do find that he is not pleased with that discourse,
+but grieves to hear it, and do seem to think that Sir G. Carteret do not
+mind the getting of money with the same good cheer that he did heretofore,
+nor do I think he hath the same reason.  Thence to Westminster Hall,
+thinking to see Betty Michell, she staying there all night, and had hopes
+to get her out alone, but missed, and so away by coach home, and to Sir W.
+Batten's, to tell him my bad news, and then to the office, and home to
+supper, where Mrs. Hewer was, and after supper and she gone, W. Hewer
+talking with me very late of the ill manner of Sir G. Carteret's accounts
+being kept, and in what a sad condition he would be if either Fenn or
+Wayth should break or die, and am resolved to take some time to tell Sir
+G. Carteret or my Lady of it, I do love them so well and their family.  So
+to bed, my pain pretty well gone.
+
+7th.  Lay long with pleasure with my wife, and then up and to the office,
+where all the morning, and then home to dinner, and before dinner I went
+into my green dining room, and there talking with my brother upon matters
+relating to his journey to Brampton to-morrow, and giving him good counsel
+about spending the time when he shall stay in the country with my father,
+I looking another way heard him fall down, and turned my head, and he was
+fallen down all along upon the ground dead, which did put me into a great
+fright; and, to see my brotherly love!  I did presently lift him up from
+the ground, he being as pale as death; and, being upon his legs, he did
+presently come to himself, and said he had something come into his stomach
+very hot.  He knew not what it was, nor ever had such a fit before.  I
+never was so frighted but once, when my wife was ill at Ware upon the
+road, and I did continue trembling a good while and ready to weepe to see
+him, he continuing mighty pale all dinner and melancholy, that I was loth
+to let him take his journey tomorrow; but he began to be pretty well, and
+after dinner my wife and Barker fell to singing, which pleased me pretty
+well, my wife taking mighty pains and proud that she shall come to trill,
+and indeed I think she will.  So to the office, and there all the
+afternoon late doing business, and then home, and find my brother pretty
+well.  So to write a letter to my Lady Sandwich for him to carry, I having
+not writ to her a great while.  Then to supper and so to bed.  I did this
+night give him 20s. for books, and as much for his pocket, and 15s. to
+carry him down, and so to bed.  Poor fellow!  he is so melancholy, and
+withal, my wife says, harmless, that I begin to love him, and would be
+loth he should not do well.
+
+8th.  This morning my brother John come up to my bedside, and took his
+leave of us, going this day to Brampton.  My wife loves him mightily as
+one that is pretty harmless, and I do begin to fancy him from yesterday's
+accident, it troubling me to think I should be left without a brother or
+sister, which is the first time that ever I had thoughts of that kind in
+my life.  He gone, I up, and to the office, where we sat upon the
+Victuallers' accounts all the morning.  At noon Lord Bruncker, Sir W.
+Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, and myself to the Swan in Leadenhall Street to
+dinner, where an exceedingly good dinner and good discourse.  Sir W.
+Batten come this morning from the House, where the King hath prorogued
+this Parliament to October next.  I am glad they are up.  The Bill for
+Accounts was not offered, the party being willing to let it fall; but the
+King did tell them he expected it.  They are parted with great
+heartburnings, one party against the other.  Pray God bring them hereafter
+together in better temper!  It is said that the King do intend himself in
+this interval to take away Lord Mordaunt's government, so as to do
+something to appease the House against they come together, and let them
+see he will do that of his own accord which is fit, without their forcing
+him; and that he will have his Commission for Accounts go on which will be
+good things.  At dinner we talked much of Cromwell; all saying he was a
+brave fellow, and did owe his crowne he got to himself as much as any man
+that ever got one.  Thence to the office, and there begun the account
+which Sir W. Pen by his late employment hath examined, but begun to
+examine it in the old manner, a clerk to read the Petty warrants, my Lord
+Bruncker upon very good ground did except against it, and would not suffer
+him to go on.  This being Sir W. Pen's clerk he took it in snuff, and so
+hot they grew upon it that my Lord Bruncker left the office.  He gone
+(Sir) W. Pen ranted like a devil, saying that nothing but ignorance could
+do this.  I was pleased at heart all this while.  At last moved to have
+Lord Bruncker desired to return, which he did, and I read the petty
+warrants all the day till late at night, that I was very weary, and
+troubled to have my private business of my office stopped to attend this,
+but mightily pleased at this falling out, and the truth is [Sir] W. Pen do
+make so much noise in this business of his, and do it so little and so
+ill, that I think the King will be little the better by changing the hand.
+So up and to my office a little, but being at it all day I could not do
+much there.  So home and to supper, to teach Barker to sing another piece
+of my song, and then to bed.
+
+9th.  To the office, where we sat all the morning busy.  At noon home to
+dinner, and then to my office again, where also busy, very busy late, and
+then went home and read a piece of a play, "Every Man in his
+Humour,"--[Ben Jonson's well-known play.]--wherein is the greatest
+propriety of speech that ever I read in my life: and so to bed.  This noon
+come my wife's watchmaker, and received L12 of me for her watch; but
+Captain Rolt coming to speak with me about a little business, he did judge
+of the work to be very good work, and so I am well contented, and he hath
+made very good, that I knew, to Sir W. Pen and Lady Batten.
+
+10th (Lord's day).  Up and with my wife to church, where Mr. Mills made an
+unnecessary sermon upon Original Sin, neither understood by himself nor
+the people.  Home, where Michell and his wife, and also there come Mr.
+Carter, my old acquaintance of Magdalene College, who hath not been here
+of many years.  He hath spent his time in the North with the Bishop of
+Carlisle much.  He is grown a very comely person, and of good discourse,
+and one that I like very much.  We had much talk of our old acquaintance
+of the College, concerning their various fortunes; wherein, to my joy, I
+met not with any that have sped better than myself.  After dinner he went
+away, and awhile after them Michell and his wife, whom I love mightily,
+and then I to my chamber there to my Tangier accounts, which I had let run
+a little behind hand, but did settle them very well to my satisfaction,
+but it cost me sitting up till two in the morning, and the longer by
+reason that our neighbour, Mrs. Turner, poor woman, did come to take her
+leave of us, she being to quit her house to-morrow to my Lord Bruncker,
+who hath used her very unhandsomely.  She is going to lodgings, and do
+tell me very odde stories how Mrs. Williams do receive the applications of
+people, and hath presents, and she is the hand that receives all, while my
+Lord Bruncker do the business, which will shortly come to be loud talk if
+she continues here, I do foresee, and bring my Lord no great credit.  So
+having done all my business, to bed.
+
+11th.  Up, and by water to the Temple, and thence to Sir Ph. Warwicke's
+about my Tangier warrant for tallies, and there met my Lord Bellasses and
+Creed, and discoursed about our business of money, but we are defeated as
+to any hopes of getting [any] thing upon the Poll Bill, which I seem but
+not much troubled at, it not concerning me much.  Thence with Creed to
+Westminster Hall, and there up and down, and heard that Prince Rupert is
+still better and better; and that he did tell Dr. Troutbecke expressly
+that my Lord Sandwich is ordered home.  I hear, too, that Prince Rupert
+hath begged the having of all the stolen prize-goods which he can find,
+and that he is looking out anew after them, which at first troubled me;
+but I do see it cannot come to anything, but is done by Hayes, or some of
+his little people about him.  Here, among other newes, I bought the King's
+speech at proroguing the House the other day, wherein are some words which
+cannot but import some prospect of a peace, which God send us!  After
+walking a good while in the Hall, it being Term time, I home by water,
+calling at Michell's and giving him a fair occasion to send his wife to
+the New Exchange to meet my wife and me this afternoon.  So home to
+dinner, and after dinner by coach to Lord Bellasses, and with him to
+Povy's house, whom we find with Auditor Beale and Vernatty about their
+accounts still, which is never likely to have end.  Our business was to
+speak with Vernatty, who is certainly a most cunning knave as ever was
+born.  Having done what we had to do there, my Lord carried me and set me
+down at the New Exchange, where I staid at Pottle's shop till Betty
+Michell come, which she did about five o'clock, and was surprised not to
+'trouver my muger' I there; but I did make an excuse good enough, and so I
+took 'elle' down, and over the water to the cabinet-maker's, and there
+bought a dressing-box for her for 20s., but would require an hour's time
+to make fit.  This I was glad of, thinking to have got 'elle' to enter to
+a 'casa de biber', but 'elle' would not, so I did not much press it, but
+suffered 'elle' to enter 'a la casa de uno de sus hermanos', and so I past
+my time walking up and down, and among other places, to one Drumbleby, a
+maker of flageolets, the best in towne.  He not within, my design to
+bespeak a pair of flageolets of the same tune, ordered him to come to me
+in a day or two, and so I back to the cabinet-maker's and there staid; and
+by and by Betty comes, and here we staid in the shop and above seeing the
+workmen work, which was pretty, and some exceeding good work, and very
+pleasant to see them do it, till it was late quite dark, and the mistresse
+of the shop took us into the kitchen and there talked and used us very
+prettily, and took her for my wife, which I owned and her big belly, and
+there very merry, till my thing done, and then took coach and home
+.  .  . But now comes our trouble, I did begin to fear that 'su marido'
+might go to my house to 'enquire pour elle', and there, 'trouvant' my
+'muger'--[wife in Spanish.]--at home, would not only think himself, but
+give my 'femme' occasion to think strange things. This did trouble me
+mightily, so though 'elle' would not seem to have me trouble myself about
+it, yet did agree to the stopping the coach at the streete's end, and 'je
+allois con elle' home, and there presently hear by him that he had newly
+sent 'su mayde' to my house to see for her mistresse.  This do much
+perplex me, and I did go presently home Betty whispering me behind the
+'tergo de her mari', that if I would say that we did come home by water,
+'elle' could make up 'la cose well satis', and there in a sweat did walk
+in the entry ante my door, thinking what I should say a my 'femme', and as
+God would have it, while I was in this case (the worst in reference a my
+'femme' that ever I was in in my life), a little woman comes stumbling to
+the entry steps in the dark; whom asking who she was, she enquired for my
+house.  So knowing her voice, and telling her 'su donna' is come home she
+went away.  But, Lord!  in what a trouble was I, when she was gone, to
+recollect whether this was not the second time of her coming, but at last
+concluding that she had not been here before, I did bless myself in my
+good fortune in getting home before her, and do verily believe she had
+loitered some time by the way, which was my great good fortune, and so I
+in a-doors and there find all well. So my heart full of joy, I to the
+office awhile, and then home, and after supper and doing a little business
+in my chamber I to bed, after teaching Barker a little of my song.
+
+12th.  Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, with several
+things (among others) discoursed relating to our two new assistant
+controllers, but especially Sir W. Pen, who is mighty troublesome in it.
+At noon home to dinner, and then to the office again, and there did much
+business, and by and by comes Mr. Moore, who in discourse did almost
+convince me that it is necessary for my Lord Sandwich to come home end
+take his command at sea this year, for that a peace is like to be.  Many
+considerations he did give me hereupon, which were very good both in
+reference to the publick and his private condition.  By and by with Lord
+Bruncker by coach to his house, there to hear some Italian musique: and
+here we met Tom Killigrew, Sir Robert Murray, and the Italian Signor
+Baptista, who hath composed a play in Italian for the Opera, which T.
+Killigrew do intend to have up; and here he did sing one of the acts. He
+himself is the poet as well as the musician; which is very much, and did
+sing the whole from the words without any musique prickt, and played all
+along upon a harpsicon most admirably, and the composition most excellent.
+The words I did not understand, and so know not how they are fitted, but
+believe very well, and all in the recitativo very fine.  But I perceive
+there is a proper accent in every country's discourse, and that do reach
+in their setting of notes to words, which, therefore, cannot be natural to
+any body else but them; so that I am not so much smitten with it as, it
+may be, I should be, if I were acquainted with their accent.  But the
+whole composition is certainly most excellent; and the poetry, T.
+Killigrew and Sir R. Murray, who understood the words, did say was
+excellent.  I confess I was mightily pleased with the musique.  He
+pretends not to voice, though it be good, but not excellent. This done, T.
+Killigrew and I to talk: and he tells me how the audience at his house is
+not above half so much as it used to be before the late fire.  That Knipp
+is like to make the best actor that ever come upon the stage, she
+understanding so well: that they are going to give her L30 a-year more.
+That the stage is now by his pains a thousand times better and more
+glorious than ever heretofore.  Now, wax-candles, and many of them; then,
+not above 3 lbs. of tallow: now, all things civil, no rudeness anywhere;
+then, as in a bear-garden then, two or three fiddlers; now, nine or ten of
+the best then, nothing but rushes upon the ground, and every thing else
+mean; and now, all otherwise: then, the Queen seldom and the King never
+would come; now, not the King only for state, but all civil people do
+think they may come as well as any.  He tells me that he hath gone several
+times, eight or ten times, he tells me, hence to Rome to hear good
+musique; so much he loves it, though he never did sing or play a note.
+That he hath ever endeavoured in the late King's time, and in this, to
+introduce good musique, but he never could do it, there never having been
+any musique here better than ballads.  Nay, says, "Hermitt poore" and
+"Chevy Chese"
+
+     ["Like hermit poor in pensive place obscure" is found in "The
+     Phoenix Nest," 1593, and in Harl.  MS. No. 6910, written soon after
+     1596.  It was set to music by Alfonso Ferrabosco, and published in
+     his "Ayres," 1609.  The song was a favourite with Izaak Walton, and
+     is alluded to in "Hudibras" (Part I., canto ii., line 1169).  See
+     Rimbault's "Little Book of Songs and Ballads," 1851, p. 98.  Both
+     versions of the famous ballad of "Chevy Chase" are printed in
+     Percy's "Reliques."]
+
+was all the musique we had; and yet no ordinary fiddlers get so much money
+as ours do here, which speaks our rudenesse still.  That he hath gathered
+our Italians from several Courts in Christendome, to come to make a
+concert for the King, which he do give L200 a-year a-piece to: but badly
+paid, and do come in the room of keeping four ridiculous gundilows,
+
+     [The gondolas mentioned before, as sent by the Doge of Venice.  See
+     September 12th, 1661]
+
+he having got, the King to put them away, and lay out money this way; and
+indeed I do commend him for it, for I think it is a very noble
+undertaking.  He do intend to have some times of the year these operas to
+be performed at the two present theatres, since he is defeated in what he
+intended in Moorefields on purpose for it; and he tells me plainly that
+the City audience was as good as the Court, but now they are most gone.
+Baptista tells me that Giacomo Charissimi is still alive at Rome, who was
+master to Vinnecotio, who is one of the Italians that the King hath here,
+and the chief composer of them.  My great wonder is, how this man do to
+keep in memory so perfectly the musique of the whole act, both for the
+voice and the instrument too.  I confess I do admire it: but in recitativo
+the sense much helps him, for there is but one proper way of discoursing
+and giving the accents.  Having done our discourse, we all took coaches,
+my Lord's and T. Killigrew's, and to Mrs. Knipp's chamber, where this
+Italian is to teach her to sing her part.  And so we all thither, and
+there she did sing an Italian song or two very fine, while he played the
+bass upon a harpsicon there; and exceedingly taken I am with her singing,
+and believe that she will do miracles at that and acting.  Her little girl
+is mighty pretty and witty.  After being there an hour, and I mightily
+pleased with this evening's work, we all parted, and I took coach and
+home, where late at my office, and then home to enter my last three days'
+Journall; and so to supper and to bed, troubled at nothing, but that these
+pleasures do hinder me in my business, and the more by reason of our being
+to dine abroad to-morrow, and then Saturday next is appointed to meet
+again at my Lord Bruncker's lodgings, and there to have the whole quire of
+Italians; but then I do consider that this is all the pleasure I live for
+in the world, and the greatest I can ever expect in the best of my life,
+and one thing more, that by hearing this man to-night, and I think Captain
+Cooke to-morrow, and the quire of Italians on Saturday, I shall be truly
+able to distinguish which of them pleases me truly best, which I do much
+desire to know and have good reason and fresh occasion of judging.
+
+13th.  Up, and by water to White Hall, where to the Duke of York, and
+there did our usual business; but troubled to see that, at this time,
+after our declaring a debt to the Parliament of L900,000, and nothing paid
+since, but the debt increased, and now the fleete to set out; to hear that
+the King hath ordered but L35,000 for the setting out of the fleete, out
+of the Poll Bill, to buy all provisions, when five times as much had been
+little enough to have done any thing to purpose.  They have, indeed,
+ordered more for paying off of seamen and the Yards to some time, but not
+enough for that neither.  Another thing is, the acquainting the Duke of
+York with the case of Mr. Lanyon, our agent at Plymouth, who has trusted
+us to L8000 out of purse; we are not in condition, after so many promises,
+to obtain him a farthing, nor though a message was carried by Sir G.
+Carteret and Sir W. Coventry to the Commissioners for Prizes, that he
+might have L3000 out of L20,000 worth of prizes to be shortly sold there,
+that he might buy at the candle and pay for the goods out of bills, and
+all would [not] do any thing, but that money must go all another way,
+while the King's service is undone, and those that trust him perish.
+These things grieve me to the heart.  The Prince, I hear, is every day
+better and better.  So away by water home, stopping at Michell's, where
+Mrs. Martin was, and I there drank with them and whispered with Betty, who
+tells me all is well, but was prevented in something she would have said,
+her 'marido venant' just then, a news which did trouble me, and so drank
+and parted and home, and there took up my wife by coach, and to Mrs.
+Pierce's, there to take her up, and with them to Dr. Clerke's, by
+invitation, where we have not been a great while, nor had any mind to go
+now, but that the Dr., whom I love, would have us choose a day.  Here was
+his wife, painted, and her sister Worshipp, a widow now and mighty pretty
+in her mourning.  Here was also Mr. Pierce and Mr. Floyd, Secretary to the
+Lords Commissioners of Prizes, and Captain Cooke, to dinner, an ill and
+little mean one, with foul cloth and dishes, and everything poor.
+Discoursed most about plays and the Opera, where, among other vanities,
+Captain Cooke had the arrogance to say that he was fain to direct Sir W.
+Davenant in the breaking of his verses into such and such lengths,
+according as would be fit for musick, and how he used to swear at
+Davenant, and command him that way, when W. Davenant would be angry, and
+find fault with this or that note--but a vain coxcomb I perceive he is,
+though he sings and composes so well.  But what I wondered at, Dr. Clerke
+did say that Sir W. Davenant is no good judge of a dramatick poem, finding
+fault with his choice of Henry the 5th, and others, for the stage, when I
+do think, and he confesses, "The Siege of Rhodes" as good as ever was
+writ.  After dinner Captain Cooke and two of his boys to sing, but it was
+indeed both in performance and composition most plainly below what I heard
+last night, which I could not have believed.  Besides overlooking the
+words which he sung, I find them not at all humoured as they ought to be,
+and as I believed he had done all he had sett.  Though he himself do
+indeed sing in a manner as to voice and manner the best I ever heard yet,
+and a strange mastery he hath in making of extraordinary surprising
+closes, that are mighty pretty, but his bragging that he do understand
+tones and sounds as well as any man in the world, and better than Sir W.
+Davenant or any body else, I do not like by no means, but was sick of it
+and of him for it.  He gone, Dr. Clerke fell to reading a new play, newly
+writ, of a friend's of his; but, by his discourse and confession
+afterwards, it was his own.  Some things, but very few, moderately good;
+but infinitely far from the conceit, wit, design, and language of very
+many plays that I know; so that, but for compliment, I was quite tired
+with hearing it.  It being done, and commending the play, but against my
+judgment, only the prologue magnifying the happiness of our former poets
+when such sorry things did please the world as was then acted, was very
+good.  So set Mrs. Pierce at home, and away ourselves home, and there to
+my office, and then my chamber till my eyes were sore at writing and
+making ready my letter and accounts for the Commissioners of Tangier
+to-morrow, which being done, to bed, hearing that there was a very great
+disorder this day at the Ticket Office, to the beating and bruising of the
+face of Carcasse very much. A foul evening this was to-night, and I
+mightily troubled to get a coach home; and, which is now my common
+practice, going over the ruins in the night, I rid with my sword drawn in
+the coach.
+
+14th.  Up and to the office, where Carcasse comes with his plaistered
+face, and called himself Sir W. Batten's martyr, which made W. Batten mad
+almost, and mighty quarrelling there was.  We spent the morning almost
+wholly upon considering some way of keeping the peace at the Ticket
+Office; but it is plain that the care of that office is nobody's work, and
+that is it that makes it stand in the ill condition it do.  At noon home
+to dinner, and after dinner by coach to my Lord Chancellor's, and there a
+meeting: the Duke of York, Duke of Albemarle, and several other Lords of
+the Commission of Tangier.  And there I did present a state of my
+accounts, and managed them well; and my Lord Chancellor did say, though he
+was, in other things, in an ill humour, that no man in England was of more
+method, nor made himself better understood than myself.  But going, after
+the business of money was over, to other businesses, of settling the
+garrison, he did fling out, and so did the Duke of York, two or three
+severe words touching my Lord Bellasses: that he would have no Governor
+come away from thence in less than three years; no, though his lady were
+with child.  "And," says the Duke of York, "there should be no Governor
+continue so, longer than three years."  "Nor," says Lord Arlington, "when
+our rules are once set, and upon good judgment declared, no Governor
+should offer to alter them."--"We must correct the many things that are
+amiss there; for," says the Lord Chancellor, "you must think we do hear of
+more things amisse than we are willing to speak before our friends'
+faces."  My Lord Bellasses would not take notice of their reflecting on
+him, and did wisely, but there were also many reflections on him.  Thence
+away by coach to Sir H. Cholmly and Fitzgerald and Creed, setting down the
+two latter at the New Exchange. And Sir H. Cholmly and I to the Temple,
+and there walked in the dark in the walks talking of newes; and he
+surprises me with the certain newes that the King did last night in
+Council declare his being in treaty with the Dutch: that they had sent him
+a very civil letter, declaring that, if nobody but themselves were
+concerned, they would not dispute the place of treaty, but leave it to his
+choice; but that, being obliged to satisfy therein a Prince of equal
+quality with himself, they must except any place in England or Spayne.
+And so the King hath chosen the Hague, and thither hath chose my Lord
+Hollis and Harry Coventry to go Embassadors to treat; which is so mean a
+thing, as all the world will believe, that we do go to beg a peace of
+them, whatever we pretend.  And it seems all our Court are mightily for a
+peace, taking this to be the time to make one, while the King hath money,
+that he may save something of what the Parliament hath given him to put
+him out of debt, so as he may need the help of no more Parliaments, as to
+the point of money: but our debt is so great, and expence daily so
+encreased, that I believe little of the money will be saved between this
+and the making of the peace up.  But that which troubles me most is, that
+we have chosen a son of Secretary Morris, a boy never used to any
+business, to go Embassador [Secretary] to the Embassy, which shows how,
+little we are sensible of the weight of the business upon us.  God
+therefore give a good end to it, for I doubt it, and yet do much more
+doubt the issue of our continuing the war, for we are in no wise fit for
+it, and yet it troubles me to think what Sir H. Cholmly says, that he
+believes they will not give us any reparation for what we have suffered by
+the war, nor put us into any better condition than what we were in before
+the war, for that will be shamefull for us. Thence parted with him and
+home through the dark over the ruins by coach, with my sword drawn, to the
+office, where dispatched some business; and so home to my chamber and to
+supper and to bed.  This morning come up to my wife's bedside, I being up
+dressing myself, little Will Mercer to be her Valentine; and brought her
+name writ upon blue paper in gold letters, done by himself, very pretty;
+and we were both well pleased with it.  But I am also this year my wife's
+Valentine, and it will cost me L5; but that I must have laid out if we had
+not been Valentines.  So to bed.
+
+15th.  Up and with Sir W. Batten and [Sir] J. Minnes by coach to White
+Hall, where we attended upon the Duke of York to complain of the disorders
+the other day among the seamen at the Pay at the Ticket Office, and that
+it arises from lack of money, and that we desire, unless better provided
+for with money, to have nothing more to do with the payment of tickets, it
+being not our duty; and the Duke of York and [Sir] W. Coventry did agree
+to it, so that I hope we shall be rid of that trouble. This done, I moved
+for allowance for a house for Mr. Turner, and got it granted.  Then away
+to Westminster Hall, and there to the Exchequer about my tallies, and so
+back to White Hall, and so with Lord Bellasses to the Excise Office, where
+met by Sir H. Cholmly to consider about our business of money there, and
+that done, home and to dinner, where I hear Pegg Pen is married this day
+privately; no friends, but two or three relations on his side and hers.
+Borrowed many things of my kitchen for dressing their dinner.  So after
+dinner to the office, and there busy and did much business, and late at
+it.  Mrs. Turner come to me to hear how matters went; I told her of our
+getting rent for a house for her.  She did give me account of this wedding
+to-day, its being private being imputed to its being just before Lent, and
+so in vain to make new clothes till Easter, that they might see the
+fashions as they are like to be this summer; which is reason good enough.
+Mrs. Turner tells me she hears [Sir W. Pen] gives L4500 or 4000 with her.
+They are gone to bed, so I wish them much sport, and home to supper and to
+bed.  They own the treaty for a peace publickly at Court, and the
+Commissioners providing themselves to go over as soon as a passe comes for
+them.
+
+16th.  Up, and to the office, where all the morning.  Among other things
+great heat we were all in on one side or other in the examining witnesses
+against Mr. Carcasse about his buying of tickets, and a cunning knave I do
+believe he is, and will appear, though I have thought otherwise
+heretofore.  At noon home to dinner, and there find Mr. Andrews, and
+Pierce and Hollyard, and they dined with us and merry, but we did rise
+soon for saving of my wife's seeing a new play this afternoon, and so away
+by coach, and left her at Mrs. Pierces, myself to the Excise Office about
+business, and thence to the Temple to walk a little only, and then to
+Westminster to pass away time till anon, and here I went to Mrs. Martin's
+to thank her for her oysters .  .  .  .  Thence away to my Lord
+Bruncker's, and there was Sir Robert Murray, whom I never understood so
+well as now by this opportunity of discourse with him, a most excellent
+man of reason and learning, and understands the doctrine of musique, and
+everything else I could discourse of, very finely.  Here come Mr. Hooke,
+Sir George Ent, Dr. Wren, and many others; and by and by the musique, that
+is to say, Signor Vincentio, who is the master-composer, and six more,
+whereof two eunuches, so tall, that Sir T. Harvey said well that he
+believes they do grow large by being gelt as our oxen do, and one woman
+very well dressed and handsome enough, but would not be kissed, as Mr.
+Killigrew, who brought the company in, did acquaint us.  They sent two
+harpsicons before; and by and by, after tuning them, they begun; and, I
+confess, very good musique they made; that is, the composition exceeding
+good, but yet not at all more pleasing to me than what I have heard in
+English by Mrs. Knipp, Captain Cooke, and others.  Nor do I dote on the
+eunuches; they sing, indeed, pretty high, and have a mellow kind of sound,
+but yet I have been as well satisfied with several women's voices and men
+also, as Crispe of the Wardrobe.  The women sung well, but that which
+distinguishes all is this, that in singing, the words are to be
+considered, and how they are fitted with notes, and then the common accent
+of the country is to be known and understood by the hearer, or he will
+never be a good judge of the vocal musique of another country.  So that I
+was not taken with this at all, neither understanding the first, nor by
+practice reconciled to the latter, so that their motions, and risings and
+fallings, though it may be pleasing to an Italian, or one that understands
+the tongue, yet to me it did not, but do from my heart believe that I
+could set words in English, and make musique of them more agreeable to any
+Englishman's eare (the most judicious) than any Italian musique set for
+the voice, and performed before the same man, unless he be acquainted with
+the Italian accent of speech.  The composition as to the musique part was
+exceeding good, and their justness in keeping time by practice much before
+any that we have, unless it be a good band of practised fiddlers.  So
+away, here being Captain Cocke, who is stole away, leaving them at it, in
+his coach, and to Mrs. Pierce's, where I took up my wife, and there I find
+Mrs. Pierce's little girl is my Valentine, she having drawn me; which I
+was not sorry for, it easing me of something more that I must have given
+to others.  But here I do first observe the fashion of drawing of mottos
+as well as names; so that Pierce, who drew my wife, did draw also a motto,
+and this girl drew another for me.  What mine was I have forgot; but my
+wife's was, "Most virtuous and most fair;" which, as it may be used, or an
+anagram made upon each name, might be very pretty.  Thence with Cocke and
+my wife, set him at home, and then we home.  To the office, and there did
+a little business, troubled that I have so much been hindered by matters
+of pleasure from my business, but I shall recover it I hope in a little
+time.  So home and to supper, not at all smitten with the musique
+to-night, which I did expect should have been so extraordinary, Tom
+Killigrew crying it up, and so all the world, above all things in the
+world, and so to bed.  One wonder I observed to-day, that there was no
+musique in the morning to call up our new-married people, which is very
+mean, methinks, and is as if they had married like dog and bitch.
+
+17th (Lord's day).  Up, and called at Michell's, and took him and his wife
+and carried them to Westminster, I landing at White Hall, and having no
+pleasure in the way 'con elle'; and so to the Duke's, where we all met and
+had a hot encounter before the Duke of York about the business of our
+payments at the Ticket Office, where we urged that we had nothing to do to
+be troubled with the pay, having examined the tickets.  Besides, we are
+neglected, having not money sent us in time, but to see the baseness of my
+brethren, not a man almost put in a word but Sir W. Coventry, though at
+the office like very devils in this point.  But I did plainly declare
+that, without money, no fleete could be expected, and desired the Duke of
+York to take notice of it, and notice was taken of it, but I doubt will do
+no good.  But I desire to remember it as a most prodigious thing that to
+this day my Lord Treasurer hath not consulted counsel, which Sir W.
+Coventry and I and others do think is necessary, about the late Poll act,
+enough to put the same into such order as that any body dare lend money
+upon it, though we have from this office under our hands related the
+necessity thereof to the Duke of York, nor is like to be determined in,
+for ought I see, a good while had not Sir W. Coventry plainly said that he
+did believe it would be a better work for the King than going to church
+this morning, to send for the Atturney Generall to meet at the Lord
+Treasurer's this afternoon and to bring the thing to an issue, saying that
+himself, were he going to the Sacrament, would not think he should offend
+God to leave it and go to the ending this work, so much it is of moment to
+the King and Kingdom.  Hereupon the Duke of York said he would presently
+speak to the King, and cause it to be done this afternoon.  Having done
+here we broke up; having done nothing almost though for all this, and by
+and by I met Sir G. Carteret, and he is stark mad at what has passed this
+morning, and I believe is heartily vexed with me: I said little, but I am
+sure the King will suffer if some better care be not taken than he takes
+to look after this business of money.  So parted, and I by water home and
+to dinner, W. Hewer with us, a good dinner and-very merry, my wife and I,
+and after dinner to my chamber, to fit some things against: the Council
+anon, and that being done away to White Hall by water, and thence to my
+Lord Chancellor's, where I met with, and had much pretty discourse with,
+one of the Progers's that knows me; and it was pretty to hear him tell me,
+of his own accord, as a matter of no shame, that in Spayne he had a pretty
+woman, his mistress, whom, when money grew scarce with him, he was forced
+to leave, and afterwards heard how she and her husband lived well, she
+being kept by an old fryer who used her as his whore; but this, says he,
+is better than as our ministers do, who have wives that lay up their
+estates, and do no good nor relieve any poor--no, not our greatest
+prelates, and I think he is in the right for my part.  Staid till the
+Council was up, and attended the King and Duke of York round the Park, and
+was asked several questions by both; but I was in pain, lest they should
+ask me what I could not answer; as the Duke of York did the value of the
+hull of the St. Patrick lately lost, which I told him I could not
+presently answer; though I might have easily furnished myself to answer
+all those questions.  They stood a good while to see the ganders and geese
+tread one another in the water, the goose being all the while kept for a
+great while: quite under water, which was new to me, but they did make
+mighty sport of it, saying (as the King did often) "Now you shall see a
+marriage, between this and that," which did not please me.  They gone, by
+coach to my Lord Treasurer's, as the Duke of York told me, to settle the
+business of money for the navy, I walked into the Court to and again till
+night, and there met Colonell Reames, and he and I walked together a great
+while complaining of the ill-management of things, whereof he is as full
+as I am.  We ran over many persons and things, and see nothing done like
+men like to do well while the King minds his pleasures so much.  We did
+bemoan it that nobody would or had authority enough with the King to tell
+him how all things go to rack and will be lost.  Then he and I parted, and
+I to Westminster to the Swan, and there staid till Michell and his wife
+come. Old Michell and his wife come to see me, and there we drank and
+laughed a little, and then the young ones and I took boat, it being fine
+moonshine. I did to my trouble see all the way that 'elle' did get as
+close 'a su marido' as 'elle' could, and turn her 'mains' away 'quand je'
+did endeavour to take one.  .  .  .  So that I had no pleasure at all 'con
+elle ce' night.  When we landed I did take occasion to send him back a the
+bateau while I did get a 'baiser' or two, and would have taken 'la' by
+'la' hand, but 'elle' did turn away, and 'quand' I said shall I not
+'toucher' to answered 'ego' no love touching, in a slight mood.  I seemed
+not to take notice of it, but parted kindly; 'su marido' did alter with me
+almost a my case, and there we parted, and so I home troubled at this, but
+I think I shall make good use of it and mind my business more. At home, by
+appointment, comes Captain Cocke to me, to talk of State matters, and
+about the peace; who told me that the whole business is managed between
+Kevet, Burgomaster of Amsterdam, and my Lord Arlington, who hath, by the
+interest of his wife there, some interest.  We have proposed the Hague,
+but know not yet whether the Dutch will like it; or; if they do, whether
+the French will.  We think we shall have the help of the information of
+their affairs and state, and the helps of the Prince of Orange his
+faction; but above all, that De Witt, who hath all this while said he
+cannot get peace, his mouth will now be stopped, so that he will be forced
+to offer fit terms for fear of the people; and, lastly, if France or
+Spayne do not please us, we are in a way presently to clap up a peace with
+the Dutch, and secure them.  But we are also in treaty with France, as he
+says: but it must be to the excluding our alliance with the King of Spayne
+or House of Austria; which we do not know presently what will be
+determined in.  He tells me the Vice-Chamberlaine is so great with the
+King, that, let the Duke of York, and Sir W. Coventry, and this office, do
+or say what they will, while the King lives, Sir G. Carteret will do what
+he will; and advises me to be often with him, and eat and drink with him.;
+and tells me that he doubts he is jealous of me, and was mighty mad to-day
+at our discourse to him before the Duke of York.  But I did give him my
+reasons that the office is concerned to declare that, without money, the
+King's work cannot go on. From that discourse we ran to others, and among
+the others he assures me that Henry Bruncker is one of the shrewdest
+fellows for parts in England, and a dangerous man; that if ever the
+Parliament comes again Sir W. Coventry cannot stand, but in this I believe
+him not; that, while we want money so much in the Navy, the Officers of
+the Ordnance have at this day L300,000 good in tallys, which they can
+command money upon, got by their over-estimating their charge in getting
+it reckoned as a fifth part of the expense of the Navy; that Harry
+Coventry, who is to go upon this treaty with Lord Hollis (who he confesses
+to be a very wise man) into Holland, is a mighty quick, ready man, but not
+so weighty as he should be, he knowing him so well in his drink as he do;
+that, unless the King do do something against my Lord Mordaunt and the
+Patent for the Canary Company, before the Parliament next meets, he do
+believe there will be a civil war before there will be any more money
+given, unless it may be at their perfect disposal; and that all things are
+now ordered to the provoking of the Parliament against they come next, and
+the spending the King's money, so as to put him into a necessity of having
+it at the time it is prorogued for, or sooner.  Having discoursed all this
+and much more, he away, and I to supper and to read my vows, and to bed.
+My mind troubled about Betty Michell, 'pour sa carriage' this night
+'envers moy', but do hope it will put me upon doing my business.  This
+evening, going to the Queen's side to see the ladies, I did find the
+Queene, the Duchesse of York, and another or two, at cards, with the room
+full of great ladies and men; which I was amazed at to see on a Sunday,
+having not believed it; but, contrarily, flatly denied the same a little
+while since to my cozen Roger Pepys?  I did this day, going by water, read
+the answer to "The Apology for Papists," which did like me mightily, it
+being a thing as well writ as I think most things that ever I read in my
+life, and glad I am that I read it.
+
+18th.  Up, and to my bookbinder's, and there mightily pleased to see some
+papers of the account we did give the Parliament of the expense of the
+Navy sewed together, which I could not have conceived before how prettily
+it was done.  Then by coach to the Exchequer about some tallies, and
+thence back again home, by the way meeting Mr. Weaver, of Huntingdon, and
+did discourse our business of law together, which did ease my mind, for I
+was afeard I have omitted doing what I in prudence ought to have done. So
+home and to dinner, and after dinner to the office, where je had Mrs.
+Burrows all sola a my closet, and did there 'baiser and toucher ses
+mamelles' .  .  .  .  Thence away, and with my wife by coach to the Duke
+of York's play-house, expecting a new play, and so stayed not no more than
+other people, but to the King's house, to "The Mayd's Tragedy;" but vexed
+all the while with two talking ladies and Sir Charles Sedley; yet pleased
+to hear their discourse, he being a stranger.  And one of the ladies
+would, and did sit with her mask on, all the play, and, being exceeding
+witty as ever I heard woman, did talk most pleasantly with him; but was, I
+believe, a virtuous woman, and of quality.  He would fain know who she
+was, but she would not tell; yet did give him many pleasant hints of her
+knowledge of him, by that means setting his brains at work to find, out
+who she was, and did give him leave to use all means to find out who she
+was, but pulling off her mask.  He was mighty witty, and she also making
+sport with him very inoffensively, that a more pleasant 'rencontre' I
+never heard.  But by that means lost the pleasure of the play wholly, to
+which now and then Sir Charles Sedley's exceptions against both words and
+pronouncing were very pretty.  So home and to the office, did much
+business, then home, to supper, and to bed.
+
+19th.  Up, and to the office, where all the morning doing little business,
+our want of money being so infinite great.  At noon home, and there find
+old Mr. Michell and Howlett come to desire mine and my wife's company to
+dinner to their son's, and so away by coach with them, it being Betty's
+wedding-day a year, as also Shrove Tuesday.  Here I made myself mighty
+merry, the two old women being there also, and a mighty pretty dinner we
+had in this little house, to my exceeding great content, and my wife's,
+and my heart pleased to see Betty.  But I have not been so merry a very
+great while as with them, every thing pleasing me there as much as among
+so mean company I could be pleased.  After dinner I fell to read the Acts
+about the building of the City again;
+
+     [Burnet wrote ("History of his Own Time," book ii.): "An act passed
+     in this session for rebuilding the city of London, which gave Lord
+     Chief Justice Hale a great reputation, for it was drawn with so true
+     a judgment, and so great foresight, that the whole city was raised
+     out of its ashes without any suits of law."]
+
+and indeed the laws seem to be very good, and I pray God I may live to see
+it built in that manner!  Anon with much content home, walking with my
+wife and her woman, and there to my office, where late doing much
+business, and then home to supper and to bed.  This morning I hear that
+our discourse of peace is all in the dirt; for the Dutch will not like of
+the place, or at least the French will not agree to it; so that I do
+wonder what we shall do, for carry on the war we cannot.  I long to hear
+the truth of it to-morrow at Court.
+
+20th.  Up, with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen by coach to White Hall, by
+the way observing Sir W. Pen's carrying a favour to Sir W. Coventry, for
+his daughter's wedding, and saying that there was others for us, when we
+will fetch them, which vexed me, and I am resolved not to wear it when he
+orders me one.  His wedding hath been so poorly kept, that I am ashamed of
+it; for a fellow that makes such a flutter as he do.  When we come to the
+Duke of York here, I heard discourse how Harris of his play-house is sick,
+and everybody commends him, and, above all things, for acting the
+Cardinall.  Here they talk also how the King's viallin,--[violin]--
+Bannister, is mad that the King hath a Frenchman come to be chief of some
+part of the King's musique, at which the Duke of York made great mirth.
+Then withdrew to his closett, all our business, lack of money and prospect
+of the effects of it, such as made Sir W. Coventry say publickly before us
+all, that he do heartily wish that his Royal Highness had nothing to do in
+the Navy, whatever become of him; so much dishonour, he says, is likely to
+fall under the management of it.  The Duke of York was angry, as much as
+he could be, or ever I saw him, with Sir G. Carteret, for not paying the
+masters of some ships on Monday last, according to his promise, and I do
+think Sir G. Carteret will make himself unhappy by not taking some course
+either to borrow more money or wholly lay aside his pretence to the charge
+of raising money, when he hath nothing to do to trouble himself with.
+Thence to the Exchequer, and there find the people in readiness to
+dispatch my tallies to-day, though Ash Wednesday.  So I back by coach to
+London to Sir Robt. Viner's and there got L100, and come away with it and
+pay my fees round, and so away with the 'Chequer men to the Leg in King
+Street, and there had wine for them; and here was one in company with
+them, that was the man that got the vessel to carry over the King from
+Bredhemson, who hath a pension of 200 per annum, but ill paid, and the man
+is looking after getting of a prizeship to live by; but the trouble is,
+that this poor man, who hath received no part of his money these four
+years, and is ready to starve almost, must yet pay to the Poll Bill for
+this pension.  He told me several particulars of the King's coming
+thither, which was mighty pleasant, and shews how mean a thing a king is,
+how subject to fall, and how like other men he is in his afflictions.
+Thence with my tallies home, and a little dinner, and then with my wife by
+coach to Lincoln's Inn Fields, sent her to her brother's, and I with Lord
+Bellasses to the Lord Chancellor's.  Lord Bellasses tells me how the King
+of France hath caused the stop to be made to our proposition of treating
+in The Hague; that he being greater than they, we may better come and
+treat at Paris: so that God knows what will become of the peace!  He tells
+me, too, as a grand secret, that he do believe the peace offensive and
+defensive between Spayne and us is quite finished, but must not be known,
+to prevent the King of France's present falling upon Flanders.  He do
+believe the Duke of York will be made General of the Spanish armies there,
+and Governor of Flanders, if the French should come against it, and we
+assist the Spaniard: that we have done the Spaniard abundance of mischief
+in the West Indys, by our privateers at Jamaica, which they lament
+mightily, and I am sorry for it to have it done at this time. By and by,
+come to my Lord Chancellor, who heard mighty quietly my complaints for
+lack of money, and spoke mighty kind to me, but little hopes of help
+therein, only his good word.  He do prettily cry upon Povy's account with
+sometimes seeming friendship and pity, and this day quite the contrary.
+He do confess our streights here and every where else arise from our
+outspending our revenue.  I mean that the King do do so.  Thence away,
+took up my wife; who tells me her brother hath laid out much money upon
+himself and wife for clothes, which I am sorry to hear, it requiring great
+expense.  So home and to the office a while, and then home to supper,
+where Mrs. Turner come to us, and sat and talked.  Poor woman, I pity her,
+but she is very cunning.  She concurs with me in the falseness of Sir W.
+Pen's friendship, and she tells pretty storms of my Lord Bruncker since he
+come to our end of the town, of people's applications to Mrs. Williams.
+So, she gone, I back to my accounts of Tangier, which I am settling,
+having my new tallies from the Exchequer this day, and having set all
+right as I could wish, then to bed.
+
+21st. Up, and to the Office, where sat all the morning, and there a most
+furious conflict between Sir W. Pen and I, in few words, and on a sudden
+occasion, of no great moment, but very bitter, and stared on one another,
+and so broke off; and to our business, my heart as full of spite as it
+could hold, for which God forgive me and him!  At the end of the day come
+witnesses on behalf of Mr. Carcasse; but, instead of clearing him, I find
+they were brought to recriminate Sir W. Batten, and did it by oath very
+highly, that made the old man mad, and, I confess, me ashamed, so that I
+caused all but ourselves to withdraw; being sorry to have such things
+declared in the open office, before 100 people.  But it was done home, and
+I do believe true, though (Sir) W. Batten denies all, but is cruel mad,
+and swore one of them, he or Carcasse, should not continue in the Office,
+which is said like a fool.  He gone, for he would not stay, and [Sir] W.
+Pen gone a good while before, Lord Bruncker, Sir T. Harvy, and I, staid
+and examined the witnesses, though amounting to little more than a
+reproaching of Sir W. Batten.  I home, my head and mind vexed about the
+conflict between Sir W. Pen and I, though I have got, nor lost any ground
+by it.  At home was Mr. Daniel and wife and sister, and dined with us, and
+I disturbed at dinner, Colonell Fitzgerald coming to me about tallies,
+which I did go and give him, and then to the office, where did much
+business and walked an hour or two with Lord Bruncker, who is mightily
+concerned in this business for Carcasse and against Sir W. Batten, and I
+do hope it will come to a good height, for I think it will be good for the
+King as well as for me, that they two do not agree, though I do, for ought
+I see yet, think that my Lord is for the most part in the right.  He gone,
+I to the office again to dispatch business, and late at night comes in Sir
+W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, and [Sir] J. Minnes to the office, and what was
+it but to examine one Jones, a young merchant, who was said to have spoke
+the worst against Sir W. Batten, but he do deny it wholly, yet I do
+believe Carcasse will go near to prove all that was sworn in the morning,
+and so it be true I wish it may.  That done, I to end my letters, and then
+home to supper, and set right some accounts of Tangier, and then to bed.
+
+22nd.  Up, and to the office, where I awhile, and then home with Sir H.
+Cholmly to give him some tallies upon the business of the Mole at Tangier,
+and then out with him by coach to the Excise Office, there to enter them,
+and so back again with him to the Exchange, and there I took another
+coach, and home to the office, and to my business till dinner, the rest of
+our officers having been this morning upon the Victuallers' accounts.  At
+dinner all of us, that is to say, Lord Bruncker, [Sir] J. Minnes, [Sir] W.
+Batten, [Sir] T. Harvy, and myself, to Sir W. Pen's house, where some
+other company.  It is instead of a wedding dinner for his daughter, whom I
+saw in palterly clothes, nothing new but a bracelet that her servant had
+given her, and ugly she is, as heart can wish.  A sorry dinner, not any
+thing handsome or clean, but some silver plates they borrowed of me.  My
+wife was here too.  So a great deal of talk, and I seemingly merry, but
+took no pleasure at all.  We had favours given us all, and we put them in
+our hats, I against my will, but that my Lord and the rest did, I being
+displeased that he did carry Sir W. Coventry's himself several days ago,
+and the people up and down the town long since, and we must have them but
+to-day.  After dinner to talk a little, and then I away to my office, to
+draw up a letter of the state of the Office and Navy for the Duke of York
+against Sunday next, and at it late, and then home to supper and to bed,
+talking with my wife of the poorness and meanness of all that Sir W. Pen
+and the people about us do, compared with what we do.
+
+23rd.  This day I am, by the blessing of God, 34 years old, in very good
+health and mind's content, and in condition of estate much beyond whatever
+my friends could expect of a child of theirs, this day 34 years. The
+Lord's name be praised! and may I be ever thankful for it.  Up betimes to
+the office, in order to my letter to the Duke of York to-morrow, and then
+the office met and spent the greatest part about this letter.  At noon
+home to dinner, and then to the office again very close at it all the day
+till midnight, making an end and writing fair this great letter and other
+things to my full content, it abundantly providing for the vindication of
+this office, whatever the success be of our wants of money.  This evening
+Sir W. Batten come to me to the office on purpose, out of spleen (of which
+he is full to Carcasse!), to tell me that he is now informed of many
+double tickets now found of Carcasses making which quite overthrows him.
+It is strange to see how, though I do believe this fellow to be a rogue,
+and could be contented to have him removed, yet to see him persecuted by
+Sir W. Batten, who is as bad himself, and that with so much rancour, I am
+almost the fellow's friend. But this good I shall have from it, that the
+differences between Sir W. Batten and my Lord Bruncker will do me no hurt.
+
+24th (Lord's day).  Up, and with [Sir] W. Batten, by coach; he set me down
+at my Lord Bruncker's (his feud there not suffering him to 'light
+himself), and I with my Lord by and by when ready to White Hall, and by
+and by up to the Duke of York, and there presented our great letter and
+other papers, and among the rest my report of the victualling, which is
+good, I think, and will continue my pretence to the place, which I am
+still afeard Sir W. Coventry's employment may extinguish.  We have
+discharged ourselves in this letter fully from blame in the bad success of
+the Navy, if money do not come soon to us, and so my heart is at pretty
+good rest in this point.  Having done here, Sir W. Batten and I home by
+coach, and though the sermon at our church was begun, yet he would 'light
+to go home and eat a slice of roast beef off the spit, and did, and then
+he and I to church in the middle of the sermon.  My Lady Pen there saluted
+me with great content to tell me that her daughter and husband are still
+in bed, as if the silly woman thought it a great matter of honour, and
+did, going out of the church, ask me whether we did not make a great show
+at Court today, with all our favours in our hats. After sermon home, and
+alone with my wife dined.  Among other things my wife told me how ill a
+report our Mercer hath got by her keeping of company, so that she will not
+send for her to dine with us or be with us as heretofore; and, what is
+more strange, tells me that little Mis. Tooker hath got a clap as young as
+she is, being brought up loosely by her mother .  .  .  .  In the
+afternoon away to White Hall by water, and took a turn or two in the Park,
+and then back to White Hall, and there meeting my Lord Arlington, he, by I
+know not what kindness, offered to carry me along with him to my Lord
+Treasurer's, whither, I told him, I was going.  I believe he had a mind to
+discourse of some Navy businesses, but Sir Thomas Clifford coming into the
+coach to us, we were prevented; which I was sorry for, for I had a mind to
+begin an acquaintance with him.  He speaks well, and hath pretty slight
+superficial parts, I believe.  He, in our going, talked much of the plain
+habit of the Spaniards; how the King and Lords themselves wear but a cloak
+of Colchester bayze, and the ladies mantles, in cold weather, of white
+flannell: and that the endeavours frequently of setting up the manufacture
+of making these stuffs there have only been prevented by the Inquisition:
+the English and Dutchmen that have been sent for to work, being taken with
+a Psalmbook or Testament, and so clapped up, and the house pulled down by
+the Inquisitors; and the greatest Lord in Spayne dare not say a word
+against it, if the word Inquisition be but mentioned. At my Lord
+Treasurer's 'light and parted with them, they going into Council, and I
+walked with Captain Cocke, who takes mighty notice of the differences
+growing in our office between Lord Bruncker and [Sir] W. Batten, and among
+others also, and I fear it may do us hurt, but I will keep out of them.
+By and by comes Sir S. Fox, and he and I walked and talked together on
+many things, but chiefly want of money, and the straits the King brings
+himself and affairs into for want of it.  Captain Cocke did tell me what I
+must not forget: that the answer of the Dutch, refusing The Hague for a
+place of treaty, and proposing the Boysse, Bredah, Bergen-op-Zoome, or
+Mastricht, was seemingly stopped by the Swede's Embassador (though he did
+show it to the King, but the King would take no notice of it, nor does
+not) from being delivered to the King; and he hath wrote to desire them to
+consider better of it: so that, though we know their refusal of the place,
+yet they know not that we know it, nor is the King obliged to show his
+sense of the affront.  That the Dutch are in very great straits, so as to
+be said to be not able to set out their fleete this year.  By and by comes
+Sir Robert Viner and my Lord Mayor to ask the King's directions about
+measuring out the streets according to the new Act for building of the
+City, wherein the King is to be pleased.
+
+     [See Sir Christopher Wren's "Proposals for rebuilding the City of
+     London after the great fire, with an engraved Plan of the principal
+     Streets and Public Buildings," in Elmes's "Memoirs of Sir
+     Christopher Wren," Appendix, p.61.  The originals are in All Souls'
+     College Library, Oxford.--B.]
+
+But he says that the way proposed in Parliament, by Colonel Birch, would
+have been the best, to have chosen some persons in trust, and sold the
+whole ground, and let it be sold again by them, with preference to the old
+owner, which would have certainly caused the City to be built where these
+Trustees pleased; whereas now, great differences will be, and the streets
+built by fits, and not entire till all differences be decided. This, as he
+tells it, I think would have been the best way.  I enquired about the
+Frenchman
+
+     ["One Hubert, a French papist, was seized in Essex, as he was
+     getting out of the way in great confusion.  He confessed he had
+     begun the fire, and persisted in his confession to his death, for he
+     was hanged upon no other evidence but that of his own confession.
+     It is true he gave so broken an account of the whole matter that he
+     was thought mad.  Yet he was blindfolded, and carried to several
+     places of the city, and then his eyes being opened, he was asked if
+     that was the place, and he being carried to wrong places, after he
+     looked round about for some time, he said that was not the place,
+     but when he was brought to the place where it first broke out, he
+     affirmed that was the true place.  "Burnet's Own Time," book ii.
+     Archbishop Tillotson, according to Burnet, believed that London was
+     burnt by design.]
+
+that was said to fire the City, and was hanged for it, by his own
+confession, that he was hired for it by a Frenchman of Roane, and that he
+did with a stick reach in a fire-ball in at a window of the house: whereas
+the master of the house, who is the King's baker, and his son, and
+daughter, do all swear there was no such window, and that the fire did not
+begin thereabouts.  Yet the fellow, who, though a mopish besotted fellow,
+did not speak like a madman, did swear that he did fire it: and did not
+this like a madman; for, being tried on purpose, and landed with his
+keeper at the Tower Wharf, he could carry the keeper to the very house.
+Asking Sir R. Viner what he thought was the cause of the fire, he tells
+me, that the baker, son, and his daughter, did all swear again and again,
+that their oven was drawn by ten o'clock at night; that, having occasion
+to light a candle about twelve, there was not so much fire in the
+bakehouse as to light a match for a candle, so that they were fain to go
+into another place to light it; that about two in the morning they felt
+themselves almost choked with smoke, and rising, did find the fire coming
+upstairs; so they rose to save themselves; but that, at that time, the
+bavins--[brushwood, or faggots used for lighting fires]--were not on fire
+in the yard.  So that they are, as they swear, in absolute ignorance how
+this fire should come; which is a strange thing, that so horrid an effect
+should have so mean and uncertain a beginning.  By and by called in to the
+King and Cabinet, and there had a few insipid words about money for
+Tangier, but to no purpose.  Thence away walked to my boat at White Hall,
+and so home and to supper, and then to talk with W. Hewer about business
+of the differences at present among the people of our office, and so to my
+journall and to bed.  This night going through bridge by water, my
+waterman told me how the mistress of the Beare tavern, at the bridge-foot,
+did lately fling herself into the Thames, and drowned herself; which did
+trouble me the more, when they tell me it was she that did live at the
+White Horse tavern in Lumbard Streete, which was a most beautiful woman,
+as most I have seen.  It seems she hath had long melancholy upon her, and
+hath endeavoured to make away with herself often.
+
+25th.  Lay long in bed, talking with pleasure with my poor wife, how she
+used to make coal fires, and wash my foul clothes with her own hand for
+me, poor wretch! in our little room at my Lord Sandwich's; for which I
+ought for ever to love and admire her, and do; and persuade myself she
+would do the same thing again, if God should reduce us to it.  So up and
+by coach abroad to the Duke of Albemarle's about sending soldiers down to
+some ships, and so home, calling at a belt-maker's to mend my belt, and so
+home and to dinner, where pleasant with my wife, and then to the office,
+where mighty busy all the day, saving going forth to the 'Change to pay
+for some things, and on other occasions, and at my goldsmith's did observe
+the King's new medall, where, in little, there is Mrs. Steward's face as
+well done as ever I saw anything in my whole life, I think: and a pretty
+thing it is, that he should choose her face to represent Britannia by.  So
+at the office late very busy and much business with great joy dispatched,
+and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+26th.  Up, and to the office, where all the morning.  And here did receive
+another reference from Sir W. Coventry about the business of some of the
+Muster-Masters, concerning whom I had returned their small performances,
+which do give me a little more trouble for fear [Sir] W. Coventry should
+think I had a design to favour my brother Balty, and to that end to
+disparage all the rest.  But I shall clear all very well, only it do
+exercise my thoughts more than I am at leisure for.  At home find Balty
+and his wife very fine, which I did not like, for fear he do spend too
+much of his money that way, and lay [not] up anything.  After dinner to
+the office again, where by and by Lord Bruncker, [Sir] W. Batten, [Sir] J.
+Minnes and I met about receiving Carcasses answers to the depositions
+against him.  Wherein I did see so much favour from my Lord to him that I
+do again begin to see that my Lord is not right at the bottom, and did
+make me the more earnest against him, though said little. My Lord rising,
+declaring his judgement in his behalf, and going away, I did hinder our
+arguing it by ourselves, and so broke up the meeting, and myself went full
+of trouble to my office, there to write over the deposition and his
+answers side by side, and then home to supper and to bed with some trouble
+of mind to think of the issue of this, how it will breed ill blood among
+us here.
+
+27th.  Up by candle-light, about six o'clock, it being bitter cold weather
+again, after all our warm weather, and by water down to Woolwich
+rope-yard, I being this day at a leisure, the King and Duke of York being
+gone down to Sheerenesse this morning to lay out the design for a
+fortification there to the river Medway; and so we do not attend the Duke
+of York as we should otherwise have done, and there to the Dock Yard to
+enquire of the state of things, and went into Mr. Pett's; and there,
+beyond expectation, he did present me with a Japan cane, with a silver
+head, and his wife sent me by him a ring, with a Woolwich stone;
+
+     [Woolwich stones, still collected in that locality, are simply
+     waterworn pebbles of flint, which, when broken with a hammer,
+     exhibit on the smooth surface some resemblance to the human face;
+     and their possessors are thus enabled to trace likenesses of
+     friends, or eminent public characters.  The late Mr. Tennant, the
+     geologist, of the Strand, had a collection of such stones.  In the
+     British Museum is a nodule of globular or Egyptian jasper, which, in
+     its fracture, bears a striking resemblance to the well-known
+     portrait of Chaucer.  It is engraved in Rymsdyk's "Museum
+     Britannicum," tab.  xxviii.  A flint, showing Mr. Pitt's face, used
+     once to be exhibited at the meetings of the Pitt Club.--B.]
+
+now much in request; which I accepted, the values not being great, and
+knowing that I had done them courtesies, which he did own in very high
+terms; and then, at my asking, did give me an old draught of an
+ancient-built ship, given him by his father, of the Beare, in Queen
+Elizabeth's time.  This did much please me, it being a thing I much
+desired to have, to shew the difference in the build of ships now and
+heretofore.  Being much taken with this kindness, I away to Blackwall and
+Deptford, to satisfy myself there about the King's business, and then
+walked to Redriffe, and so home about noon; there find Mr. Hunt, newly
+come out of the country, who tells me the country is much impoverished by
+the greatness of taxes: the farmers do break every day almost, and L1000
+a-year become not worth L500.  He dined with us, and we had good
+discourse of the general ill state of things, and, by the way, he told me
+some ridiculous pieces of thrift of Sir G. Downing's, who is his
+countryman, in inviting some poor people, at Christmas last, to charm the
+country people's mouths; but did give them nothing but beef, porridge,
+pudding, and pork, and nothing said all dinner, but only his mother would
+say, "It's good broth, son."  He would answer, "Yes, it is good broth."
+Then, says his lady, Confirm all, and say, "Yes, very good broth."  By and
+by she would begin and say, "Good pork:"--"Yes," says the mother, "good
+pork."  Then he cries, "Yes, very good pork."  And so they said of all
+things; to which nobody made any answer, they going there not out of love
+or esteem of them, but to eat his victuals, knowing him to be a niggardly
+fellow; and with this he is jeered now all over the country. This day just
+before dinner comes Captain Story, of Cambridge, to me to the office,
+about a bill for prest money,
+
+     [Money paid to men who enlist into the public service; press money.
+     So called because those who receive it are to be prest or ready when
+     called on ("Encyclopaedic Dictionary ").]
+
+for men sent out of the country and the countries about him to the fleete
+the last year; but, Lord! to see the natures of men; how this man, hearing
+of my name, did ask me of my country, and told me of my cozen Roger, that
+he was not so wise a man as his father; for that he do not agree in
+Parliament with his fellow burgesses and knights of the shire, whereas I
+know very well the reason; for he is not so high a flyer as Mr. Chichley
+and others, but loves the King better than any of them, and to better
+purpose.  But yet, he says that he is a very honest gentleman, and thence
+runs into a hundred stories of his own services to the King, and how he at
+this day brings in the taxes before anybody here thinks they are
+collected: discourse very absurd to entertain a stranger with.  He being
+gone, and I glad of it, I home then to dinner.  After dinner with my wife
+by coach abroad, andset Mr. Hunt down at the Temple and her at her
+brother's, and I to White Hall to meet [Sir] W. Coventry, but found him
+not, but met Mr. Cooling, who tells me of my Lord Duke of Buckingham's
+being sent for last night, by a Serjeant at Armes, to the Tower, for
+treasonable practices, and that the King is infinitely angry with him, and
+declared him no longer one of his Council.  I know not the reason of it,
+or occasion.  To Westminster Hall, and there paid what I owed for books,
+and so by coach, took up my wife to the Exchange, and there bought things
+for Mrs. Pierces little daughter, my Valentine, and so to their house,
+where we find Knipp, who also challengeth me for her Valentine. She looks
+well, sang well, and very merry we were for half an hour. Tells me Harris
+is well again, having been very ill, and so we home, and I to the office;
+then, at night, to Sir W. Pen's, and sat with my Lady, and the young
+couple (Sir William out of town) talking merrily; but they make a very
+sorry couple, methinks, though rich.  So late home and to bed.
+
+28th.  Up, and there comes to me Drumbleby with a flageolet, made to suit
+with my former and brings me one Greeting, a master, to teach my wife. I
+agree by the whole with him to teach her to take out any lesson of herself
+for L4.  She was not ready to begin to-day, but do to-morrow. So I to the
+office, where my Lord Bruncker and I only all the morning, and did
+business.  At noon to the Exchange and to Sir Rob. Viner's about settling
+my accounts there.  So back home and to dinner, where Mr. Holliard dined
+with us, and pleasant company he is.  I love his company, and he secures
+me against ever having the stone again.  He gives it me, as his opinion,
+that the City will never be built again together, as is expected, while
+any restraint is laid upon them.  He hath been a great loser, and would be
+a builder again, but, he says, he knows not what restrictions there will
+be, so as it is unsafe for him to begin. He gone, I to the office, and
+there busy till night doing much business, then home and to my accounts,
+wherein, beyond expectation, I succeeded so well as to settle them very
+clear and plain, though by borrowing of monies this month to pay D.
+Gawden, and chopping and changing with my Tangier money, they were become
+somewhat intricate, and, blessed be God; upon the evening my accounts, I
+do appear L6800 creditor: This done, I to supper about 12 at night, and so
+to bed.  The weather for three or four days being come to be exceeding
+cold again as any time this year.  I did within these six days see smoke
+still remaining of the late fire in the City; and it is strange to think
+how, to this very day, I cannot sleep at night without great terrors of
+fire, and this very night I could not sleep till almost two in the morning
+through thoughts of fire.  Thus this month is ended with great content of
+mind to me, thriving in my estate, and the affairs in my offices going
+pretty well as to myself.  This afternoon Mr. Gawden was with me and tells
+me more than I knew before--that he hath orders to get all the victuals he
+can to Plymouth, and the Western ports, and other outports, and some to
+Scotland, so that we do intend to keep but a flying fleete this year;
+which, it may be, may preserve us a year longer, but the end of it must be
+ruin.  Sir J. Minnes this night tells me, that he hears for certain, that
+ballads are made of us in Holland for begging of a peace; which I
+expected, but am vexed at. So ends this month, with nothing of weight upon
+my mind, but for my father and mother, who are both very ill, and have
+been so for some weeks: whom God help!  but I do fear my poor father will
+hardly be ever thoroughly well again.
+
+
+
+
+     ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:
+
+     Being taken with a Psalmbook or Testament
+     Consider that this is all the pleasure I live for in the world
+     Dinner, an ill and little mean one, with foul cloth and dishes
+     If the word Inquisition be but mentioned
+     King's service is undone, and those that trust him perish
+     Mean, methinks, and is as if they had married like dog and bitch
+     Musique in the morning to call up our new-married people
+     Must yet pay to the Poll Bill for this pension (unreceived)
+     New medall, where, in little, there is Mrs. Steward's face
+     Not thinking them safe men to receive such a gratuity
+     Only because she sees it is the fashion (She likes it)
+     Prince's being trepanned, which was in doing just as we passed
+     Proud that she shall come to trill
+     Receive the applications of people, and hath presents
+     Seems she hath had long melancholy upon her
+     Sermon upon Original Sin, neither understood by himself
+     Sick of it and of him for it
+     The world do not grow old at all
+     Then home, and merry with my wife
+     Though he knows, if he be not a fool, that I love him not
+     To my joy, I met not with any that have sped better than myself
+     Used to make coal fires, and wash my foul clothes
+
+
+
+
+
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