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+Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, March 1966/67, by Samuel Pepys
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+Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, March 1966/67
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+Author: Samuel Pepys
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+Release Date: December 1, 2004 [EBook #4174]
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, MARCH ***
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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.
+                                  MARCH
+                                1666-1667
+
+March 1st.  Up, it being very cold weather again after a good deal of warm
+summer weather, and to the office, where I settled to do much business
+to-day.  By and by sent for to Sir G. Carteret to discourse of the
+business of the Navy, and our wants, and the best way of bestowing the
+little money we have, which is about L30,000, but, God knows, we have need
+of ten times as much, which do make my life uncomfortable, I confess, on
+the King's behalf, though it is well enough as to my own particular, but
+the King's service is undone by it.  Having done with him, back again to
+the office, and in the streets, in Mark Lane, I do observe, it being St.
+David's day, the picture of a man dressed like a Welchman, hanging by the
+neck upon one of the poles that stand out at the top of one of the
+merchants' houses, in full proportion, and very handsomely done; which is
+one of the oddest sights I have seen a good while, for it was so like a
+man that one would have thought it was indeed a man.
+
+     [From "Poor Robin's Almanack" for 1757 it appears that, in former
+     times in England, a Welshman was burnt in effigy on this
+     anniversary.  Mr. W. C. Hazlitt, in his edition of Brand's "Popular
+     Antiquities," adds "The practice to which Pepys refers .  .  .  was
+     very common at one time; and till very lately bakers made
+     gingerbread Welshmen, called taffies, on St. David's day, which were
+     made to represent a man skewered" (vol. i., pp. 60,61).]
+
+Being returned home, I find Greeting, the flageolet-master, come, and
+teaching my wife; and I do think my wife will take pleasure in it, and it
+will be easy for her, and pleasant.  So I, as I am well content with the
+charge it will occasion me.  So to the office till dinner-time, and then
+home to dinner, and before dinner making my wife to sing.  Poor wretch!
+her ear is so bad that it made me angry, till the poor wretch cried to see
+me so vexed at her, that I think I shall not discourage her so much again,
+but will endeavour to make her understand sounds, and do her good that
+way; for she hath a great mind to learn, only to please me; and,
+therefore, I am mighty unjust to her in discouraging her so much, but we
+were good friends, and to dinner, and had she not been ill with those and
+that it were not Friday (on which in Lent there are no plays) I had
+carried her to a play, but she not being fit to go abroad, I to the
+office, where all the afternoon close examining the collection of my
+papers of the accounts of the Navy since this war to my great content, and
+so at night home to talk and sing with my-wife, and then to supper and so
+to bed with great pleasure.  But I cannot but remember that just before
+dinner one of my people come up to me, and told me a man come from
+Huntingdon would speak with me, how my heart come into my mouth doubting
+that my father, who has been long sicke, was dead.  It put me into a
+trembling, but, blessed be [God]! it was no such thing, but a countryman
+come about ordinary business to me, to receive L50 paid to my father in
+the country for the Perkins's for their legacy, upon the death of their
+mother, by my uncle's will.  So though I get nothing at present, at least
+by the estate, I am fain to pay this money rather than rob my father, and
+much good may it do them that I may have no more further trouble from
+them.  I hear to-day that Tom Woodall, the known chyrurgeon, is killed at
+Somerset House by a Frenchman, but the occasion Sir W. Batten could not
+tell me.
+
+2nd.  Up, and to the office, where sitting all the morning, and among
+other things did agree upon a distribution of L30,000 and odd, which is
+the only sum we hear of like to come out of all the Poll Bill for the use
+of this office for buying of goods.  I did herein some few courtesies for
+particular friends I wished well to, and for the King's service also, and
+was therefore well pleased with what was done.  Sir W. Pen this day did
+bring an order from the Duke of York for our receiving from him a small
+vessel for a fireship, and taking away a better of the King's for it, it
+being expressed for his great service to the King.  This I am glad of, not
+for his sake, but that it will give me a better ground, I believe, to ask
+something for myself of this kind, which I was fearful to begin. This do
+make Sir W. Pen the most kind to me that can be.  I suppose it is this,
+lest it should find any opposition from me, but I will not oppose, but
+promote it.  After dinner, with my wife, to the King's house to see "The
+Mayden Queene," a new play of Dryden's, mightily commended for the
+regularity of it, and the strain and wit; and, the truth is, there is a
+comical part done by Nell,
+
+     ["Her skill increasing with her years, other poets sought to obtain
+     recommendations of her wit and beauty to the success of their
+     writings.   I have said that Dryden was one of the principal
+     supporters of the King's house, and ere long in one of his new plays
+     a principal character was set apart for the popular comedian.  The
+     drama was a tragi-comedy called 'Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen,'
+     and an additional interest was attached to its production from the
+     king having suggested the plot to its author, and calling it 'his
+     play.'"--Cunningham's Story of Nell Gwyn, ed: 1892, pp. 38,39.]
+
+which is Florimell, that I never can hope ever to see the like done again,
+by man or woman.  The King and Duke of York were at the play.  But so
+great performance of a comical part was never, I believe, in the world
+before as Nell do this, both as a mad girle, then most and best of all
+when she comes in like a young gallant; and hath the notions and carriage
+of a spark the most that ever I saw any man have.  It makes me, I confess,
+admire her.  Thence home and to the office, where busy a while, and then
+home to read the lives of Henry 5th and 6th, very fine, in Speede, and to
+bed.  This day I did pay a bill of L50 from my father, being so much out
+of my own purse gone to pay my uncle Robert's legacy to my aunt Perkins's
+child.
+
+3rd (Lord's day).  Lay long, merrily talking with my wife, and then up and
+to church, where a dull sermon of Mr. Mills touching Original Sin, and
+then home, and there find little Michell and his wife, whom I love
+mightily.  Mightily contented I was in their company, for I love her much;
+and so after dinner I left them and by water from the Old Swan to White
+Hall, where, walking in the galleries, I in the first place met Mr.
+Pierce, who tells me the story of Tom Woodall, the surgeon, killed in a
+drunken quarrel, and how the Duke of York hath a mind to get him [Pierce]
+one of his places in St. Thomas's Hospitall.  Then comes Mr. Hayward, the
+Duke of York's servant, and tells us that the Swede's Embassador hath been
+here to-day with news that it is believed that the Dutch will yield to
+have the treaty at London or Dover, neither of which will get our King any
+credit, we having already consented to have it at The Hague; which, it
+seems, De Witt opposed, as a thing wherein the King of England must needs
+have some profound design, which in my conscience he hath not. They do
+also tell me that newes is this day come to the King, that the King of
+France is come with his army to the frontiers of Flanders, demanding leave
+to pass through their country towards Poland, but is denied, and thereupon
+that he is gone into the country.  How true this is I dare not believe
+till I hear more.  From them I walked into the Parke, it being a fine but
+very cold day; and there took two or three turns the length of the Pell
+Mell: and there I met Serjeant Bearcroft, who was sent for the Duke of
+Buckingham, to have brought him prisoner to the Tower. He come to towne
+this day, and brings word that, being overtaken and outrid by the Duchesse
+of Buckingham within a few miles of the Duke's house of Westhorp,  he
+believes she got thither about a quarter of an hour before him, and so had
+time to consider; so that, when he come, the doors were kept shut against
+him.  The next day, coming with officers of the neighbour market-town to
+force open the doors, they were open for him, but the Duke gone; so he
+took horse presently, and heard upon the road that the Duke of Buckingham
+was gone before him for London: so that he believes he is this day also
+come to towne before him; but no newes is yet heard of him.  This is all
+he brings.  Thence to my Lord Chancellor's, and there, meeting Sir H.
+Cholmly, he and I walked in my Lord's garden, and talked; among other
+things, of the treaty: and he says there will certainly be a peace, but I
+cannot believe it.  He tells me that the Duke of Buckingham his crimes, as
+far as he knows, are his being of a caball with some discontented persons
+of the late House of Commons, and opposing the desires of the King in all
+his matters in that House; and endeavouring to become popular, and
+advising how the Commons' House should proceed, and how he would order the
+House of Lords.  And that he hath been endeavouring to have the King's
+nativity calculated; which was done, and the fellow now in the Tower about
+it; which itself hath heretofore, as he says, been held treason, and
+people died for it; but by the Statute of Treasons, in Queen Mary's times
+and since, it hath been left out.  He tells me that this silly Lord hath
+provoked, by his ill-carriage, the Duke of York, my Lord Chancellor, and
+all the great persons; and therefore, most likely, will die.  He tells me,
+too, many practices of treachery against this King; as betraying him in
+Scotland, and giving Oliver an account of the King's private councils;
+which the King knows very well, and hath yet pardoned him.
+
+     [Two of our greatest poets have drawn the character of the Duke of
+     Buckingham in brilliant verse, and both have condemned him to
+     infamy. There is enough in Pepys's reports to corroborate the main
+     features of Dryden's magnificent portrait of Zimri in "Absolom and
+     Achitophel":
+
+               "In the first rank of these did Zimri stand;
+               A man so various that he seemed to be
+               Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
+               Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong;
+               Was everything by starts, and nothing long,
+
+               But, in the course of one revolving moon,
+               Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon;
+               Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking,
+               Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking,
+                    *   *   *   *   *   *   *
+               He laughed himself from Court, then sought relief
+               By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief."
+
+     Pope's facts are not correct, and hence the effect of his picture is
+     impaired.  In spite of the duke's constant visits to the Tower,
+     Charles II. still continued his friend; but on the death of the
+     king, expecting little from James, he retired to his estate at
+     Helmsley, in Yorkshire, to nurse his property and to restore his
+     constitution.  He died on April 16th, 1687, at Kirkby Moorside,
+     after a few days' illness, caused by sitting on the damp grass when
+     heated from a fox chase.  The scene of his death was the house of a
+     tenant, not "the worst inn's worst room" ("Moral Essays," epist.
+     iii.).  He was buried in Westminster Abbey.]
+
+Here I passed away a little time more talking with him and Creed, whom I
+met there, and so away, Creed walking with me to White Hall, and there I
+took water and stayed at Michell's to drink.  I home, and there to read
+very good things in Fuller's "Church History," and "Worthies," and so to
+supper, and after supper had much good discourse with W. Hewer, who supped
+with us, about the ticket office and the knaveries and extortions every
+day used there, and particularly of the business of Mr. Carcasse, whom I
+fear I shall find a very rogue.  So parted with him, and then to bed.
+
+4th.  Up, and with Sir J. Minnes and [Sir] W. Batten by barge to Deptford
+by eight in the morning, where to the King's yard a little to look after
+business there, and then to a private storehouse to look upon some cordage
+of Sir W. Batten's, and there being a hole formerly made for a drain for
+tarr to run into, wherein the barrel stood still, full of stinking water,
+Sir W. Batten did fall with one leg into it, which might have been very
+bad to him by breaking a leg or other hurt, but, thanks be to God, he only
+sprained his foot a little.  So after his shifting his stockings at a
+strong water shop close by, we took barge again, and so to Woolwich, where
+our business was chiefly to look upon the ballast wharfe there, which is
+offered us for the King's use to hire, but we do not think it worth the
+laying out much money upon, unless we could buy the fee-simple of it,
+which cannot be sold us, so we wholly flung it off: So to the Dockyard,
+and there staid a while talking about business of the yard, and thence to
+the Rope-yard, and so to the White Hart and there dined, and Captain Cocke
+with us, whom we found at the Rope-yard, and very merry at dinner, and
+many pretty tales of Sir J. Minnes, which I have entered in my tale book.
+But by this time Sir W. Batten was come to be in much pain in his foot, so
+as he was forced to be carried down in a chair to the barge again, and so
+away to Deptford, and there I a little in the yard, and then to Bagwell's,
+where I find his wife washing, and also I did 'hazer tout que je voudrais
+con' her, and then sent for her husband, and discoursed of his going to
+Harwich this week to his charge of the new ship building there, which I
+have got him, and so away, walked to Redriffe, and there took boat and
+away home, and upon Tower Hill, near the ticket office, meeting with my
+old acquaintance Mr. Chaplin, the cheesemonger, and there fell to talk of
+news, and he tells me that for certain the King of France is denied
+passage with his army through Flanders, and that he hears that the Dutch
+do stand upon high terms with us, and will have a promise of not being
+obliged to strike the flag to us before they will treat with us, and other
+high things, which I am ashamed of and do hope will never be yielded to.
+That they do make all imaginable preparations, but that he believes they
+will be in mighty want of men; that the King of France do court us
+mightily.  He tells me too that our Lord-Treasurer is going to lay down,
+and that Lord Arlington is to be Lord Treasurer, but I believe nothing of
+it, for he is not yet of estate visible enough to have the charge I
+suppose upon him.  So being parted from him I home to the office, and
+after having done business there I home to supper, and there mightily
+pleased with my wife's beginning the flagellette, believing that she will
+come to very well thereon.  This day in the barge I took Berckenshaw's
+translation of Alsted his Templum, but the most ridiculous book, as he has
+translated it, that ever I saw in my life, I declaring that I understood
+not three lines together from one end of the book to the other.
+
+5th.  Up, and to the office, where met and sat all the morning, doing
+little for want of money, but only bear the countenance of an office.  At
+noon home to dinner, and then to the office again, and there comes Martin
+my purser, and I walked with him awhile in the garden, I giving him good
+advice to beware of coming any more with high demands for supernumeraries
+or other things, for now Sir W. Pen is come to mind the business, the
+passing of his accounts will not be so easy as the last.  He tells me he
+will never need it again, it being as easy, and to as much purpose to do
+the same thing otherwise, and how he do keep his Captain's table, and by
+that means hath the command of his Captains, and do not fear in a 5th-rate
+ship constantly employed to get a L1000 in five years time, and this year,
+besides all his spendings, which are I fear high, he hath got at this day
+clear above L150 in a voyage of about five or six months, which is a brave
+trade.  He gone I to the office, and there all the afternoon late doing
+much business, and then to see Sir W. Batten, whose leg is all but better
+than it was, and like to do well.  I by discourse do perceive he and his
+Lady are to their hearts out with my Lord Bruncker and Mrs. Williams, to
+which I added something, but, I think, did not venture too far with them.
+But, Lord! to see to what a poor content any acquaintance among these
+people, or the people of the world, as they now-adays go, is worth; for my
+part I and my wife will keep to one another and let the world go hang, for
+there is nothing but falseness in it.  So home to supper and hear my wife
+and girle sing a little, and then to bed with much content of mind.
+
+6th.  Up, and with [Sir] W. Pen to White Hall by coach, and by the way
+agreed to acquaint [Sir] W. Coventry with the business of Mr. Carcasse,
+and he and I spoke to Sir W. Coventry that we might move it to the Duke of
+York, which I did in a very indifferent, that is, impartial manner, but
+vexed I believe Lord Bruncker.  Here the Duke of York did acquaint us, and
+the King did the like also, afterwards coming in, with his resolution of
+altering the manner of the war this year; that is, we shall keep what
+fleete we have abroad in several squadrons: so that now all is come out;
+but we are to keep it as close as we can, without hindering the work that
+is to be done in preparation to this.  Great preparations there are to
+fortify Sheernesse and the yard at Portsmouth, and forces are drawing down
+to both those places, and elsewhere by the seaside; so that we have some
+fear of an invasion; and the Duke of York himself did declare his
+expectation of the enemy's blocking us up here in the River, and therefore
+directed that we should send away all the ships that we have to fit out
+hence.  Sir W. Pen told me, going with me this morning to White Hall, that
+for certain the Duke of Buckingham is brought into the Tower, and that he
+hath had an hour's private conference with the King before he was sent
+thither.  To Westminster Hall.  There bought some news books, and, as
+every where else, hear every body complain of the dearness of coals, being
+at L4 per chaldron, the weather, too, being become most bitter cold, the
+King saying to-day that it was the coldest day he ever knew in England.
+Thence by coach to my Lord Crew's, where very welcome. Here I find they
+are in doubt where the Duke of Buckingham is; which makes me mightily
+reflect on the uncertainty of all history, when, in a business of this
+moment, and of this day's growth, we cannot tell the truth.  Here dined my
+old acquaintance, Mr. Borfett, that was my Lord Sandwich's chaplain, and
+my Lady Wright and Dr. Boreman, who is preacher at St. Gyles's in the
+Fields, who, after dinner, did give my Lord an account of two papist women
+lately converted, whereof one wrote her recantation, which he shewed under
+her own hand mighty well drawn, so as my Lord desired a copy of it, after
+he had satisfied himself from the Doctor, that to his knowledge she was
+not a woman under any necessity. Thence by coach home and staid a very
+little, and then by water to Redriffe, and walked to Bagwell's, where 'la
+moher' was 'defro, sed' would not have me 'demeurer' there 'parce que'
+Mrs. Batters and one of my 'ancillas', I believe Jane (for she was gone
+abroad to-day), was in the town, and coming thither; so I away presently,
+esteeming it a great escape.  So to the yard and spoke a word or two, and
+then by water home, wondrous cold, and reading a ridiculous ballad made in
+praise of the Duke of Albemarle, to the tune of St. George, the tune being
+printed, too; and I observe that people have some great encouragement to
+make ballads of him of this kind.  There are so many, that hereafter he
+will sound like Guy of Warwicke.  Then abroad with my wife, leaving her at
+the 'Change, while I to Sir H. Cholmly's, a pretty house, and a fine,
+worthy, well-disposed gentleman he is.  He and I to Sir Ph.  Warwicke's,
+about money for Tangier, but to little purpose.  H. Cholmley tells me,
+among other things, that he hears of little hopes of a peace, their
+demands being so high as we shall never grant, and could tell me that we
+shall keep no fleete abroad this year, but only squadrons.  And, among
+other things, that my Lord Bellasses, he believes, will lose his command
+of Tangier by his corrupt covetous ways of .endeavouring to sell his
+command, which I am glad [of], for he is a man of no worth in the world
+but compliment. So to the 'Change, and there bought 32s. worth of things
+for Mrs. Knipp, my Valentine, which is pretty to see how my wife is come
+to convention with me, that, whatever I do give to anybody else, I shall
+give her as much, which I am not much displeased with.  So home and to the
+office and Sir W. Batten, to tell him what I had done to-day about
+Carcasse's business, and God forgive me I am not without design to give a
+blow to Sir W. Batten by it.  So home, where Mr. Batelier supped with us
+and talked away the evening pretty late, and so he gone and we to bed.
+
+7th.  So up, and to the office, my head full of Carcasse's business; then
+hearing that Knipp is at my house, I home, and it was about a ticket for a
+friend of hers.  I do love the humour of the jade very well.  So to the
+office again, not being able to stay, and there about noon my Lord
+Bruncker did begin to talk of Carcasse's business.  Only Commissioner
+Pett, my Lord, and I there, and it was pretty to see how Pett hugged the
+occasion of having anything against Sir W. Batten, which I am not much
+troubled at, for I love him not neither.  Though I did really endeavour to
+quash it all I could, because I would prevent their malice taking effect.
+My Lord I see is fully resolved to vindicate Carcasse, though to the
+undoing of Sir W. Batten, but I believe he will find himself in a mistake,
+and do himself no good, and that I shall be glad of, for though I love the
+treason I hate the traitor.  But he is vexed at my moving it to the Duke
+of York yesterday, which I answered well, so as I think he could not
+answer.  But, Lord! it is pretty to see how Pett hugs this business, and
+how he favours my Lord Bruncker; who to my knowledge hates him, and has
+said more to his disadvantage, in my presence, to the King and Duke of
+York than any man in England, and so let them thrive one with another by
+cheating one another, for that is all I observe among them. Thence home
+late, and find my wife hath dined, and she and Mrs. Hewer going to a play.
+Here was Creed, and he and I to Devonshire House, to a burial of a kinsman
+of Sir R. Viner's; and there I received a ring, and so away presently to
+Creed, who staid for me at an alehouse hard by, and thence to the Duke's
+playhouse, where he parted, and I in and find my wife and Mrs. Hewer, and
+sat by them and saw "The English Princesse, or Richard the Third;" a most
+sad, melancholy play, and pretty good; but nothing eminent in it, as some
+tragedys are; only little Mis. Davis did dance a jig after the end of the
+play, and there telling the next day's play; so that it come in by force
+only to please the company to see her dance in boy's 'clothes; and, the
+truth is, there is no comparison between Nell's dancing the other day at
+the King's house in boy's clothes and this, this being infinitely beyond
+the other.  Mere was Mr. Clerke and Pierce, to whom one word only of "How
+do you," and so away home, Mrs: Hewer with us, and I to the office and so
+to [Sir] W. Batten's, and there talked privately with him and [Sir] W. Pen
+about business of Carcasse against tomorrow, wherein I think I did give
+them proof enough of my ability as well as friendship to [Sir] W. Batten,
+and the honour of the office, in my sense of the rogue's business.  So
+back to finish my office business, and then home to supper, and to bed.
+This day, Commissioner Taylor come to me for advice, and would force me to
+take ten pieces in gold of him, which I had no mind to, he being become
+one of our number at the Board.  This day was reckoned by all people the
+coldest day that ever was remembered in England; and, God knows! coals at
+a very great price.
+
+8th.  Up, and to the Old Swan, where drank at Michell's, but not seeing
+her whom I love I by water to White Hall, and there acquainted Sir G.
+Carteret betimes what I had to say this day before the Duke of York in the
+business of Carcasse, which he likes well of, being a great enemy to him,
+and then I being too early here to go to Sir W. Coventry's chamber, having
+nothing to say to him, and being able to give him but a bad account of the
+business of the office (which is a shame to me, and that which I shall rue
+if I do not recover), to the Exchequer about getting a certificate of Mr.
+Lanyon's entered at Sir R. Longs office, and strange it is to see what
+horrid delays there are at this day in the business of money, there being
+nothing yet come from my Lord Treasurer to set the business of money in
+action since the Parliament broke off, notwithstanding the greatness and
+number of the King's occasions for it. So to the Swan, and there had three
+or four baisers of the little ancilla there, and so to Westminster Hall,
+where I saw Mr. Martin, the purser, come through with a picture in his
+hand, which he had bought, and observed how all the people of the Hall did
+fleer and laugh upon him, crying, "There is plenty grown upon a sudden;"
+and, the truth is, I was a little troubled that my favour should fall on
+so vain a fellow as he, and the more because, methought, the people do
+gaze upon me as the man that had raised him, and as if they guessed whence
+my kindness to him springs. So thence to White Hall, where I find all met
+at the Duke of York's chamber; and, by and by, the Duke of York comes, and
+Carcasse is called in, and I read the depositions and his answers, and he
+added with great confidence and good words, even almost to persuasion,
+what to say; and my Lord Bruncker, like a very silly solicitor, argued
+against me and us all for him; and, being asked first by the Duke of York
+his opinion, did give it for his being excused.  I next did answer the
+contrary very plainly, and had, in this dispute, which vexed and will
+never be forgot by my Lord, many occasions of speaking severely, and did,
+against his bad practices.  Commissioner Pett, like a fawning rogue, sided
+with my Lord, but to no purpose; and [Sir] W. Pen, like a cunning rogue,
+spoke mighty indifferently, and said nothing in all the fray, like a knave
+as he is. But [Sir] W. Batten spoke out, and did come off himself by the
+Duke's kindness very well; and then Sir G. Carteret, and Sir W. Coventry,
+and the Duke of York himself, flatly as I said; and so he was declared
+unfit to continue in, and therefore to be presently discharged the office;
+which, among other good effects, I hope, will make my Lord Bruncker not
+'alloquer' so high, when he shall consider he hath had such a publick
+foyle as this is.  So home with [Sir] W. Batten, and [Sir] W. Pen, by
+coach, and there met at the office, and my Lord Bruncker presently after
+us, and there did give order to Mr. Stevens for securing the tickets in
+Carcasses hands, which my Lord against his will could not refuse to sign,
+and then home to dinner, and so away with my wife by coach, she to Mrs.
+Pierce's and I to my Lord Bellasses, and with him to [my] Lord
+Treasurer's, where by agreement we met with Sir H. Cholmly, and there sat
+and talked all the afternoon almost about one thing or other, expecting
+Sir Philip Warwicke's coming, but he come not, so we away towards night,
+Sir H. Cholmly and I to the Temple, and there parted, telling me of my
+Lord Bellasses's want of generosity, and that he [Bellasses] will
+certainly be turned out of his government, and he thinks himself stands
+fair for it.  So home, and there found, as I expected, Mrs. Pierce and Mr.
+Batelier; he went for Mrs. Jones, but no Mrs. Knipp come, which vexed me,
+nor any other company.  So with one fidler we danced away the evening, but
+I was not well contented with the littleness of the room, and my wife's
+want of preparing things ready, as they should be, for supper, and bad.
+So not very merry, though very well pleased.  So after supper to bed, my
+wife and Mrs. Pierce, and her boy James and I. Yesterday I began to make
+this mark (V) stand instead of three pricks, which therefore I must
+observe every where, it being a mark more easy to make.
+
+9th.  Up, and to the office, where sat all the morning busy.  At noon home
+to dinner, where Mrs. Pierce did continue with us and her boy (who I still
+find every day more and more witty beyond his age), and did dine with us,
+and by and by comes in her husband and a brother-in-law of his, a parson,
+one of the tallest biggest men that ever I saw in my life.  So to the
+office, where a meeting extraordinary about settling the number and wages
+of my Lord Bruncker's clerks for his new work upon the Treasurer's
+accounts, but this did put us upon running into the business of yesterday
+about Carcasse, wherein I perceive he is most dissatisfied with me, and I
+am not sorry for it, having all the world but him of my side therein, for
+it will let him know another time that he is not to expect our submitting
+to him in every thing, as I think he did heretofore expect.  He did speak
+many severe words to me, and I returned as many to him, so that I do think
+there cannot for a great while, be, any right peace between us, and I care
+not a fart for it; but however, I must look about me and mind my business,
+for I perceive by his threats and enquiries he is and will endeavour to
+find out something against me or mine.  Breaking up here somewhat brokenly
+I home, and carried Mrs. Pierce and wife to the New Exchange, and there
+did give her and myself a pair of gloves, and then set her down at home,
+and so back again straight home and thereto do business, and then to Sir
+W. Batten's, where [Sir] W. Pen and others, and mighty merry, only I have
+got a great cold, and the scolding this day at the office with my Lord
+Bruncker hath made it worse, that I am not able to speak.  But, Lord! to
+see how kind Sir W. Batten and his Lady are to me upon this business of my
+standing by [Sir] W. Batten against Carcasse, and I am glad of it.
+Captain Cocke, who was here to-night, did tell us that he is certain that
+yesterday a proclamation was voted at the Council, touching the
+proclaiming of my Lord Duke of Buckingham a traytor, and that it will be
+out on Monday. So home late, and drank some buttered ale, and so to bed
+and to sleep. This cold did most certainly come by my staying a little too
+long bare-legged yesterday morning when I rose while I looked out fresh
+socks and thread stockings, yesterday's having in the night, lying near
+the window, been covered with snow within the window, which made me I
+durst not put them on.
+
+10th (Lord's day).  Having my cold still grown more upon me, so as I am
+not able to speak, I lay in bed till noon, and then up and to my chamber
+with a good fire, and there spent an hour on Morly's Introduction to
+Musique, a very good but unmethodical book.  Then to dinner, my wife and
+I, and then all the afternoon alone in my chamber preparing a letter for
+Commissioner Taylor to the City about getting his accounts for The Loyal
+London,
+
+     [The "Loyal London" was the ship given to the king by the City.  It
+     was launched at Deptford on June 10th, 1666]
+
+by him built for them, stated and discharged, they owing him still about
+L4000.  Towards the evening comes Mr. Spong to see me, whose discourse
+about several things I proposed to him was very good, better than I have
+had with any body a good while.  He gone, I to my business again, and anon
+comes my Lady Pen and her son-in law and daughter, and there we talked all
+the evening away, and then to supper; and after supper comes Sir W. Pen,
+and there we talked together, and then broke up, and so to bed.  He tells
+me that our Mr. Turner has seen the proclamation against the Duke of
+Buckingham, and that therefore it is true what we heard last night.
+Yesterday and to-day I have been troubled with a hoarseness through cold
+that I could not almost speak.
+
+11th.  Up, and with my cold still upon me and hoarseness, but I was forced
+to rise and to the office, where all the morning busy, and among other
+things Sir W. Warren come to me, to whom of late I have been very strange,
+partly from my indifference how more than heretofore to get money, but
+most from my finding that he is become great with my Lord Bruncker, and so
+I dare not trust him as I used to do, for I will not be inward with him
+that is open to another.  By and by comes Sir H. Cholmly to me about
+Tangier business, and then talking of news he tells me how yesterday the
+King did publiquely talk of the King of France's dealing with all the
+Princes of Christendome.  As to the States of Holland, he [the King of
+France] hath advised them, on good grounds, to refuse to treat with us at
+the Hague, because of having opportunity of spies, by reason of our
+interest in the House of Orange; and then, it being a town in one
+particular province, it would not be fit to have it, but in a town wherein
+the provinces have equal interest, as at Mastricht, and other places
+named.  That he advises them to offer no terms, nor accept of any, without
+his privity and consent, according to agreement; and tells them, if not
+so, he hath in his power to be even with them, the King of England being
+come to offer him any terms he pleases; and that my Lord St. Albans is now
+at Paris, Plenipotentiary, to make what peace he pleases; and so he can
+make it, and exclude them, the Dutch, if he sees fit.  A copy of this
+letter of the King of France's the Spanish Ambassador here gets, and comes
+and tells all to our King; which our King denies, and says the King of
+France only uses his power of saying anything.  At the same time, the King
+of France writes to the Emperor, that he is resolved to do all things to
+express affection to the Emperor, having it now in his power to make what
+peace he pleases between the King of England and him, and the States of
+the United Provinces; and, therefore, that he would not have him to
+concern himself in a friendship with us; and assures him that, on that
+regard, he will not offer anything to his disturbance, in his interest in
+Flanders, or elsewhere.  He writes, at the same time, to Spayne, to tell
+him that he wonders to hear of a league almost ended between the Crown of
+Spayne and England, by my Lord Sandwich, and all without his privity,
+while he was making a peace upon what terms he pleased with England: that
+he is a great lover of the Crown of Spayne, and would take the King and
+his affairs, during his minority, into his protection, nor would offer to
+set his foot in Flanders, or any where else, to disturb him; and,
+therefore, would not have him to trouble himself to make peace with any
+body; only he hath a desire to offer an exchange, which he thinks may be
+of moment to both sides: that is, that he [France] will enstate the King
+of Spayne in the kingdom of Portugall, and he and the Dutch will put him
+into possession of Lisbon; and, that being done, he [France] may have
+Flanders: and this, they say; do mightily take in Spayne, which is
+sensible of the fruitless expence Flanders, so far off, gives them; and
+how much better it would be for them to be master of Portugall; and the
+King of France offers, for security herein, that the King of England shall
+be bond for him, and that he will countersecure the King of England with
+Amsterdam; and, it seems, hath assured our King, that if he will make a
+league with him, he will make a peace exclusive to the Hollander.  These
+things are almost romantique, but yet true, as Sir H. Cholmly tells me the
+King himself did relate it all yesterday; and it seems as if the King of
+France did think other princes fit for nothing but to make sport for him:
+but simple princes they are, that are forced to suffer this from him.  So
+at noon with Sir W. Pen by coach to the Sun in Leadenhall Streete, where
+Sir R. Ford, Sir W. Batten, and Commissioner Taylor (whose feast it was)
+were, and we dined and had a very good dinner.  Among other discourses Sir
+R. Ford did tell me that he do verily believe that the city will in few
+years be built again in all the greatest streets, and answered the
+objections I did give to it.  Here we had the proclamation this day come
+out against the Duke of Buckingham, commanding him to come in to one of
+the Secretaries, or to the Lieutenant of the Tower.  A silly, vain man to
+bring himself to this: and there be many hard circumstances in the
+proclamation of the causes of this proceeding of the King's, which speak
+great displeasure of the King's, and crimes of his.  Then to discourse of
+the business of the day, that is, to see Commissioner Taylor's accounts
+for his ship he built, The Loyall London, and it is pretty to see how
+dully this old fellow makes his demands, and yet plaguy wise sayings will
+come from the man sometimes, and also how Sir R. Ford and [Sir] W. Batten
+did with seeming reliance advise him what to do, and how to come prepared
+to answer objections to the Common Council.  Thence away to the office,
+where late busy, and then home to supper, mightily pleased with my wife's
+trill, and so to bed.  This night Mr. Carcasse did come to me again to
+desire favour, and that I would mediate that he might be restored, but I
+did give him no kind answer at all, but was very angry, and I confess a
+good deal of it from my Lord Bruncker's simplicity and passion.
+
+12th.  Up, and to the office, where all-the morning, and my Lord Bruncker
+mighty quiet, and no words all day, which I wonder at, expecting that he
+would have fallen again upon the business of Carcasse, and the more for
+that here happened that Perkins, who was the greatest witness of all
+against him, was brought in by Sir W. Batten to prove that he did really
+belong to The Prince, but being examined was found rather a fool than
+anything, as not being able to give any account when he come in nor when
+he come out of her, more than that he was taken by the Dutch in her, but
+did agree in earnest to Sir W. Pen's saying that she lay up all, the
+winter before at Lambeth.  This I confess did make me begin to doubt the
+truth of his evidence, but not to doubt the faults of Carcasse, for he was
+condemned by, many other better evidences than his, besides the whole
+world's report.  At noon home, and there find Mr. Goodgroome, whose
+teaching of my wife only by singing over and over again to her, and
+letting her sing with him, not by herself, to correct her faults, I do not
+like at all, but was angry at it; but have this content, that I do think
+she will come to sing pretty well, and to trill in time, which pleases me
+well.  He dined with us, and then to the office, when we had a sorry
+meeting to little purpose, and then broke up, and I to my office, and busy
+late to good purpose, and so home to supper and to bed.  This day a poor
+seaman, almost starved for want of food, lay in our yard a-dying.  I sent
+him half-a-crown, and we ordered his ticket to be paid.
+
+13th.  Up, and with [Sir] W. Batten to the Duke of York to our usual
+attendance, where I did fear my Lord Bruncker might move something in
+revenge that might trouble me, but he did not, but contrarily had the
+content to hear Sir G. Carteret fall foul on him in the Duke of York's bed
+chamber for his directing people with tickets and petitions to him,
+bidding him mind his Controller's place and not his, for if he did he
+should be too hard for him, and made high words, which I was glad of.
+Having done our usual business with the Duke of York, I away; and meeting
+Mr. D. Gawden in the presence-chamber, he and I to talk; and among other
+things he tells me, and I do find every where else, also, that our masters
+do begin not to like of their councils in fitting out no fleete, but only
+squadrons, and are finding out excuses for it; and, among others, he tells
+me a Privy-Councillor did tell him that it was said in Council that a
+fleete could not be set out this year, for want of victuals, which gives
+him and me a great alarme, but me especially for had it been so, I ought
+to have represented it; and therefore it puts me in policy presently to
+prepare myself to answer this objection, if ever it should come about, by
+drawing up a state of the Victualler's stores, which I will presently do.
+So to Westminster Hall, and there staid and talked, and then to Sir G.
+Carteret's, where I dined with the ladies, he not at home, and very well
+used I am among them, so that I am heartily ashamed that my wife hath not
+been there to see them; but she shall very shortly.  So home by water, and
+stepped into Michell's, and there did baiser my Betty, 'que aegrotat' a
+little.  At home find Mr. Holliard, and made him eat a bit of victuals.
+Here I find Mr. Greeten, who teaches my wife on the flageolet, and I think
+she will come to something on it.  Mr. Holliard advises me to have my
+father come up to town, for he doubts else in the country he will never
+find ease, for, poor man, his grief is now grown so great upon him that he
+is never at ease, so I will have him up at Easter.  By and by by coach,
+set down Mr. Holliard near his house at Hatton Garden and myself to Lord
+Treasurer's, and sent my wife to the New Exchange.  I staid not here, but
+to Westminster Hall, and thence to Martin's, where he and she both within,
+and with them the little widow that was once there with her when I was
+there, that dissembled so well to be grieved at hearing a tune that her,
+late husband liked, but there being so much company, I had no pleasure
+here, and so away to the Hall again, and there met Doll Lane coming out,
+and 'par contrat did hazer bargain para aller to the cabaret de vin',
+called the Rose, and 'ibi' I staid two hours, 'sed' she did not 'venir',
+'lequel' troubled me, and so away by coach and took up my wife, and away
+home, and so to Sir W. Batten's, where I am told that it is intended by
+Mr. Carcasse to pray me to be godfather with Lord Bruncker to-morrow to
+his child, which I suppose they tell me in mirth, but if he should ask me
+I know not whether I should refuse it or no.  Late at my office preparing
+a speech against to-morrow morning, before the King, at my Lord
+Treasurer's, and the truth is it run in my head all night.  So home to
+supper and to bed.  The Duke of Buckingham is concluded gone over sea,
+and, it is thought, to France.
+
+14th.  Up, and with Sir W. Batten and [Sir] W. Pen to my Lord Treasurer's,
+where we met with my Lord Bruncker an hour before the King come, and had
+time to talk a little of our business.  Then come much company, among
+others Sir H. Cholmly, who tells me that undoubtedly my Lord Bellasses
+will go no more as Governor to Tangier, and that he do put in fair for it,
+and believes he shall have it, and proposes how it may conduce to his
+account and mine in the business of money.  Here we fell into talk with
+Sir Stephen Fox, and, among other things, of the Spanish manner of
+walking, when three together, and shewed me how, which was pretty, to
+prevent differences.  By and by comes the King and Duke of York, and
+presently the officers of the Ordnance were called; my Lord Berkeley, Sir
+John Duncomb, and Mr. Chichly; then we, my Lord Bruncker, [Sir] W. Batten,
+[Sir] W. Pen, and myself; where we find only the King and Duke of York,
+and my Lord Treasurer, and Sir G. Carteret; where I only did speak, laying
+down the state of our wants, which the King and Duke of York seemed very
+well pleased with, and we did get what we asked, L500,000, assigned upon
+the eleven months' tax: but that is not so much ready money, or what will
+raise L40,000 per week, which we desired, and the business will want.  Yet
+are we fain to come away answered, when, God knows, it will undo the
+King's business to have matters of this moment put off in this manner.
+The King did prevent my offering anything by and by as Treasurer for
+Tangier, telling me that he had ordered us L30,000 on the same tax; but
+that is not what we would have to bring our payments to come within a
+year.  So we gone out, in went others; viz., one after another, Sir
+Stephen Fox for the army, Captain Cocke for sick and wounded, Mr.
+Ashburnham for the household.  Thence [Sir] W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, and
+I, back again; I mightily pleased with what I had said and done, and the
+success thereof.  But, it being a fine clear day, I did, 'en gayete de
+coeur', propose going to Bow for ayre sake, and dine there, which they
+embraced, and so [Sir] W. Batten and I (setting [Sir] W. Pen down at Mark
+Lane end) straight to Bow, to the Queen's Head, and there bespoke our
+dinner, carrying meat with us from London; and anon comes [Sir] W. Pen
+with my wife and Lady Batten, and then Mr. Lowder with his mother and
+wife.  While [Sir] W. Batten and I were alone, we had much friendly
+discourse, though I will never trust him far; but we do propose getting
+"The Flying Greyhound," our privateer, to us and [Sir] W. Pen at the end
+of the year when we call her home, by begging her of the King, and I do
+not think we shall be denied her.  They being come, we to oysters and so
+to talk, very pleasant I was all day, and anon to dinner, and I made very
+good company.  Here till the evening, so as it was dark almost before we
+got home (back again in the same method, I think, we went), and spent the
+night talking at Sir W. Batten's, only a little at my office, to look over
+the Victualler's contract, and draw up some arguments for him to plead for
+his charges in transportation of goods beyond the ports which the letter
+of one article in his contract do lay upon him.  This done I home to
+supper and to bed.  Troubled a little at my fear that my Lord Bruncker
+should tell Sir W. Coventry of our neglecting the office this afternoon
+(which was intended) to look after our pleasures, but nothing will fall
+upon me alone about this.
+
+15th.  Up, and pleased at Tom's teaching of Barker something to sing a 3rd
+part to a song, which will please mightily.  So I to the office all the
+morning, and at noon to the 'Change, where I do hear that letters this day
+come to Court do tell us that we are likely not to agree, the Dutch
+demanding high terms, and the King of France the like, in a most braving
+manner.  The merchants do give themselves over for lost, no man knowing
+what to do, whether to sell or buy, not knowing whether peace or war to
+expect, and I am told that could that be now known a man might get L20,000
+in a week's time by buying up of goods in case there should be war.
+Thence home and dined well, and then with my wife, set her at Unthanke's
+and I to Sir G. Carteret, where talked with the ladies a while, and my
+Lady Carteret talks nothing but sorrow and afflictions coming on us, and
+indeed I do fear the same.  So away and met Dr. Fuller, Bishop of
+Limricke, and walked an hour with him in the Court talking of newes only,
+and he do think that matters will be bad with us.  Then to Westminster
+Hall, and there spent an hour or two walking up and down, thinking 'para
+avoir' got out Doll Lane, 'sed je ne' could do it, having no opportunity
+'de hazer le, ainsi lost the tota' afternoon, and so away and called my
+wife and home, where a little at the office, and then home to my closet to
+enter my journalls, and so to supper and to bed.  This noon come little
+Mis. Tooker, who is grown a little woman; ego had opportunity 'para baiser
+her .  .  .  .  This morning I was called up by Sir John Winter, poor man!
+come in his sedan from the other end of the town, before I was up, and
+merely about the King's business, which is a worthy thing of him, and I
+believe him to be a worthy good man, and I will do him the right to tell
+the Duke of it, who did speak well of him the other day.  It was about
+helping the King in the business of bringing down his timber to the
+sea-side, in the Forest of Deane.
+
+16th.  Up, and to the office, where all the morning; at noon home to
+dinner, and then to the office again in the afternoon, and there all day
+very busy till night, and then, having done much business, home to supper,
+and so to bed.  This afternoon come home Sir J. Minnes, who has been down,
+but with little purpose, to pay the ships below at the Nore. This evening,
+having done my letters, I did write out the heads of what I had prepared
+to speak to the King the other day at my Lord Treasurer's, which I do
+think convenient to keep by me for future use.  The weather is now grown
+warm again, after much cold; and it is observable that within these eight
+days I did see smoke remaining, coming out of some cellars, from the late
+great fire, now above six months since.  There was this day at the office
+(as he is most days) Sir W. Warren, against whom I did manifestly plead,
+and heartily too, God forgive me!  But the reason is because I do find
+that he do now wholly rely almost upon my Lord Bruncker, though I confess
+I have no greater ground of my leaving him than the confidence which I
+perceive he hath got in my Lord Bruncker, whose seeming favours only do
+obtain of him as much compensation as, I believe (for he do know well the
+way of using his bounties), as mine more real.  Besides, my Lord and I
+being become antagonistic, I do not think it safe for me to trust myself
+in the hands of one whom I know to be a knave, and using all means to
+become gracious there.
+
+17th (Lord's day).  Up betime with my wife, and by coach with Sir W. Pen
+and Sir Thomas Allen to White Hall, there my wife and I the first time
+that ever we went to my Lady Jemimah's chamber at Sir Edward Carteret's
+lodgings.  I confess I have been much to blame and much ashamed of our not
+visiting her sooner, but better now than never.  Here we took her before
+she was up, which I was sorry for, so only saw her, and away to chapel,
+leaving further visit till after sermon.  I put my wife into the pew
+below, but it was pretty to see, myself being but in a plain band, and
+every way else ordinary, how the verger took me for her man, I think, and
+I was fain to tell him she was a kinswoman of my Lord Sandwich's, he
+saying that none under knights-baronets' ladies are to go into that pew.
+So she being there, I to the Duke of York's lodging, where in his
+dressing-chamber he talking of his journey to-morrow or next day to
+Harwich, to prepare some fortifications there; so that we are wholly upon
+the defensive part this year, only we have some expectations that we may
+by our squadrons annoy them in their trade by the North of Scotland and to
+the Westward.  Here Sir W. Pen did show the Duke of York a letter of
+Hogg's about a prize he drove in within the Sound at Plymouth, where the
+Vice-Admiral claims her.  Sir W. Pen would have me speak to the latter,
+which I did, and I think without any offence, but afterwards I was sorry
+for it, and Sir W. Pen did plainly say that he had no mind to speak to the
+Duke of York about it, so that he put me upon it, but it shall be, the
+last time that I will do such another thing, though I think no manner of
+hurt done by it to me at all.  That done I to walk in the Parke, where to
+the Queene's Chapel, and there heard a fryer preach with his cord about
+his middle, in Portuguese, something I could understand, showing that God
+did respect the meek and humble, as well as the high and rich. He was full
+of action, but very decent and good, I thought, and his manner of delivery
+very good.  Then I went back to White Hall, and there up to the closet,
+and spoke with several people till sermon was ended, which was preached by
+the Bishop of Hereford, an old good man, that they say made an excellent
+sermon.  He was by birth a Catholique, and a great gallant, having L1500
+per annum, patrimony, and is a Knight Barronet; was turned from his
+persuasion by the late Archbishop Laud.  He and the Bishop of Exeter, Dr.
+Ward, are the two Bishops that the King do say he cannot have bad sermons
+from.  Here I met with Sir H. Cholmly, who tells me, that undoubtedly my
+Lord Bellasses do go no more to Tangier, and that he do believe he do
+stand in a likely way to go Governor; though he says, and showed me, a
+young silly Lord, one Lord Allington, who hath offered a great sum of
+money to go, and will put hard for it, he having a fine lady, and a great
+man would be glad to have him out of the way.  After Chapel I down and
+took out my wife from the pew, where she was talking with a lady whom I
+knew not till I was gone.  It was Mrs. Ashfield of Brampton, who had with
+much civility been, it seems, at our house to see her.  I am sorry I did
+not show her any more respect.  With my wife to Sir G. Carteret's, where
+we dined and mightily made of, and most extraordinary people they are to
+continue friendship with for goodness, virtue, and nobleness and interest.
+After dinner he and I alone awhile and did joy ourselves in my Lord
+Sandwich's being out of the way all this time.  He concurs that we are in
+a way of ruin by thus being forced to keep only small squadrons out, but
+do tell me that it was not choice, but only force, that we could not keep
+out the whole fleete.  He tells me that the King is very kind to my Lord
+Sandwich, and did himself observe to him (Sir G. Carteret), how those very
+people, meaning the Prince and Duke of Albemarle, are punished in the same
+kind as they did seek to abuse my Lord Sandwich.  Thence away, and got a
+hackney coach and carried my wife home, and there only drank, and myself
+back again to my Lord Treasurer's, where the King, Duke of York, and Sir
+G. Carteret and Lord Arlington were and none else, so I staid not, but to
+White Hall, and there meeting nobody I would speak with, walked into the
+Park and took two or three turns all alone, and then took coach and home,
+where I find Mercer, who I was glad to see, but durst [not] shew so, my
+wife being displeased with her, and indeed I fear she is grown a very
+gossip.  I to my chamber, and there fitted my arguments which I had
+promised Mr. Gawden in his behalf in some pretences to allowance of the
+King, and then to supper, and so to my chamber a little again, and then to
+bed.  Duke of Buckingham not heard of yet.
+
+18th.  Up betimes, and to the office to write fair my paper for D. Gawden
+against anon, and then to other business, where all the morning. D. Gawden
+by and by comes, and I did read over and give him the paper, which I think
+I have much obliged him in.  A little before noon comes my old good
+friend, Mr. Richard Cumberland,--[Richard Cumberland, afterwards Bishop of
+Peterborough]--to see me, being newly come to town, whom I have not seen
+almost, if not quite, these seven years.  In his plain country-parson's
+dress.  I could not spend much time with him, but prayed him come with his
+brother, who was with him, to dine with me to-day; which he did do and I
+had a great deal of his good company; and a most excellent person he is as
+any I know, and one that I am sorry should be lost and buried in a little
+country town, and would be glad to remove him thence; and the truth is, if
+he would accept of my sister's fortune, I should give L100 more with him
+than to a man able to settle her four times as much as, I fear, he is able
+to do; and I will think of it, and a way how to move it, he having in
+discourse said he was not against marrying, nor yet engaged.  I shewed him
+my closet, and did give him some very good musique, Mr. Caesar being here
+upon his lute.  They gone I to the office, where all the afternoon very
+busy, and among other things comes Captain Jenifer to me, a great servant
+of my Lord Sandwich's, who tells me that he do hear for certain, though I
+do not yet believe it, that Sir W. Coventry is to be Secretary of State,
+and my Lord Arlington Lord Treasurer.  I only wish that the latter were as
+fit for the latter office as the former is for the former, and more fit
+than my Lord Arlington. Anon Sir W. Pen come and talked with me in the
+garden, and tells me that for certain the Duke of Richmond is to marry
+Mrs. Stewart, he having this day brought in an account of his estate and
+debts to the King on that account.  At night home to supper and so to bed.
+My father's letter this day do tell me of his own continued illness, and
+that my mother grows so much worse, that he fears she cannot long
+continue, which troubles me very much.  This day, Mr. Caesar told me a
+pretty experiment of his, of angling with a minikin, a gut-string
+varnished over, which keeps it from swelling, and is beyond any hair for
+strength and smallness.  The secret I like mightily.
+
+19th.  Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning.  At noon dined
+at home very pleasantly with my wife, and after dinner with a great deal
+of pleasure had her sing, which she begins to do with some pleasure to me,
+more than I expected.  Then to the office again, where all the afternoon
+close, and at night home to supper and to bed.  It comes in my mind this
+night to set down how a house was the other day in Bishopsgate Street
+blowed up with powder; a house that was untenanted, and between a flax
+shop and a-----------, both bad for fire; but, thanks be to God, it did no
+more hurt; and all do conclude it a plot.  I would also remember to my
+shame how I was pleased yesterday, to find the righteous maid of Magister
+Griffin sweeping of 'nostra' office, 'elle con the Roman nariz and bonne'
+body which I did heretofore like, and do still refresh me to think 'que
+elle' is come to us, that I may 'voir her aliquando'. This afternoon I am
+told again that the town do talk of my Lord Arlington's being to be Lord
+Treasurer, and Sir W. Coventry to be Secretary of State; and that for
+certain the match is concluded between the Duke of Richmond and Mrs.
+Stewart, which I am well enough pleased with; and it is pretty to consider
+how his quality will allay people's talk; whereas, had a meaner person
+married her, he would for certain have been reckoned a cuckold at
+first-dash.
+
+20th.  Up pretty betimes, and to the Old Swan, and there drank at
+Michell's, but his wife is not there, but gone to her mother's, who is
+ill, and so hath staid there since Sunday.  Thence to Westminster Hall and
+drank at the Swan, and 'baiserais the petite misse'; and so to Mrs.
+Martin's.  .  .  .  I sent for some burnt wine, and drank and then away,
+not pleased with my folly, and so to the Hall again, and there staid a
+little, and so home by water again, where, after speaking with my wife, I
+with Sir W. Batten and [Sir] J. Minnes to our church to the vestry, to be
+assessed by the late Poll Bill, where I am rated as an Esquire, and for my
+office, all will come to about L50.  But not more than I expected, nor so
+much by a great deal as I ought to be, for all my offices.  So shall be
+glad to escape so.  Thence by water again to White Hall, and there up into
+the house, and do hear that newes is come now that the enemy do incline
+again to a peace, but could hear no particulars, so do not believe it.  I
+had a great mind to have spoke with the King, about a business proper
+enough for me, about the French prize man-of-war, how he would have her
+altered, only out of a desire to show myself mindful of business, but my
+linen was so dirty and my clothes mean, that I neither thought it fit to
+do that, nor go to other persons at the Court, with whom I had business,
+which did vex me, and I must remedy [it].  Here I hear that the Duke of
+Richmond and Mrs. Stewart were betrothed last night.  Thence to
+Westminster Hall again, and there saw Betty Michell, and bought a pair of
+gloves of her, she being fain to keep shop there, her mother being sick,
+and her father gathering of the tax.  I 'aimais her de toute my corazon'.
+Thence, my mind wandering all this day upon 'mauvaises amours' which I be
+merry for.  So home by water again, where I find my wife gone abroad, so I
+to Sir W. Batten to dinner, and had a good dinner of ling and herring pie,
+very good meat, best of the kind that ever I had.  Having dined, I by
+coach to the Temple, and there did buy a little book or two, and it is
+strange how "Rycaut's Discourse of Turky," which before the fire I was
+asked but 8s. for, there being all but twenty-two or thereabouts burned, I
+did now offer 20s., and he demands 50s., and I think I shall give it him,
+though it be only as a monument of the fire.  So to the New Exchange,
+where I find my wife, and so took her to Unthanke's, and left her there,
+and I to White Hall, and thence to Westminster, only out of idleness, and
+to get some little pleasure to my 'mauvais flammes', but sped not, so back
+and took up my wife; and to Polichinelli at Charing Crosse, which is
+prettier and prettier, and so full of variety that it is extraordinary
+good entertainment.  Thence by coach home, that is, my wife home, and I to
+the Exchange, and there met with Fenn, who tells me they have yet no
+orders out of the Exchequer for money upon the Acts, which is a thing not
+to be borne by any Prince of understanding or care, for no money can be
+got advanced upon the Acts only from the weight of orders in form out of
+the Exchequer so long time after the passing of the Acts.  So home to the
+office a little, where I met with a sad letter from my brother, who tells
+me my mother is declared by the doctors to be past recovery, and that my
+father is also very ill every hour: so that I fear we shall see a sudden
+change there.  God fit them and us for it!  So to Sir W. Pen's, where my
+wife was, and supped with a little, but yet little mirth, and a bad, nasty
+supper, which makes me not love the family, they do all things so meanly,
+to make a little bad show upon their backs.  Thence home and to bed, very
+much troubled about my father's and my mother's illness.
+
+21st.  Up, and to the office, where sat all the morning.  At noon home to
+dinner, and had some melancholy discourse with my wife about my mother's
+being so ill and my father, and after dinner to cheer myself, I having the
+opportunity of Sir W. Coventry and the Duke of York's being out of town, I
+alone out and to the Duke of York's play-house, where unexpectedly I come
+to see only the young men and women of the house act; they having liberty
+to act for their own profit on Wednesdays and Fridays this Lent: and the
+play they did yesterday, being Wednesday, was so well-taken, that they
+thought fit to venture it publickly to-day; a play of my Lord Falkland's'
+called "The Wedding Night," a kind of a tragedy, and some things very good
+in it, but the whole together, I thought, not so. I confess I was well
+enough pleased with my seeing it: and the people did do better, without
+the great actors, than I did expect, but yet far short of what they do
+when they are there, which I was glad to find the difference of.  Thence
+to rights home, and there to the office to my business hard, being sorry
+to have made this scape without my wife, but I have a good salvo to my
+oath in doing it.  By and by, in the evening, comes Sir W. Batten's Mingo
+to me to pray me to come to his master and Sir Richard Ford, who have very
+ill news to tell me.  I knew what it was, it was about our trial for a
+good prize to-day, "The Phoenix,"
+
+     [There are references to the "Phoenix," a Dutch ship taken as a
+     prize, among the State Papers (see "Calendar," 1666-67, p. 404).
+     Pepys appears to have got into trouble at a later date in respect to
+     this same ship, for among the Rawlinson MSS. (A. 170) are "Papers
+     relating to the charge brought against him in the House of Commons
+     in 1689 with reference to the ship Phoenix and the East India
+     Company in 1681-86."]
+
+a worth two or L3000.  I went to them, where they told me with much
+trouble how they had sped, being cast and sentenced to make great
+reparation for what we had embezzled, and they did it so well that I was
+much troubled at it, when by and by Sir W. Batten asked me whether I was
+mortified enough, and told me we had got the day, which was mighty welcome
+news to me and us all.  But it is pretty to see what money will do.
+Yesterday, Walker was mighty cold on our behalf, till Sir W. Batten
+promised him, if we sped in this business of the goods, a coach; and if at
+the next trial we sped for the ship, we would give him a pair of horses.
+And he hath strove for us today like a prince, though the Swedes' Agent
+was there with all the vehemence he could to save the goods, but yet we
+carried it against him.  This put me in mighty good heart, and then we go
+to Sir W. Pen, who is come back to-night from Chatham, and did put him
+into the same condition, and then comforted him. So back to my office, and
+wrote an affectionate and sad letter to my father about his and my
+mother's illness, and so home to supper and to bed late.
+
+22nd.  Up and by coach to Sir Ph. Warwicke about business for Tangier
+about money, and then to Sir Stephen Fox to give him account of a little
+service I have done him about money coming to him from our office, and
+then to Lovett's and saw a few baubling things of their doing which are
+very pretty, but the quality of the people, living only by shifts, do not
+please me, that it makes me I do no more care for them, nor shall have
+more acquaintance with them after I have got my Lady Castlemayne's picture
+home.  So to White Hall, where the King at Chapel, and I would not stay,
+but to Westminster to Howlett's, and there, he being not well, I sent for
+a quart of claret and burnt it and drank, and had a 'basado' or three or
+four of Sarah, whom 'je trouve ici', and so by coach to Sir Robt. Viner's
+about my accounts with him, and so to the 'Change, where I hear for
+certain that we are going on with our treaty of peace, and that we are to
+treat at Bredah.  But this our condescension people do think will undo us,
+and I do much fear it.  So home to dinner, where my wife having dressed
+herself in a silly dress of a blue petticoat uppermost, and a white satin
+waistcoat and whitehood, though I think she did it because her gown is
+gone to the tailor's, did, together with my being hungry, which always
+makes me peevish, make me angry, but when my belly was full were friends
+again, and dined and then by water down to Greenwich and thence walked to
+Woolwich, all the way reading Playford's "Introduction to Musique,"
+wherein are some things very pretty.  At Woolwich I did much business,
+taking an account of the state of the ships there under hand, thence to
+Blackwall, and did the like for two ships we have repairing there, and
+then to Deptford and did the like there, and so home.  Captain Perriman
+with me from Deptford, telling me many particulars how the King's business
+is ill ordered, and indeed so they are, God knows!  So home and to the
+office, where did business, and so home to my chamber, and then to supper
+and to bed.  Landing at the Tower to-night I met on Tower Hill with
+Captain Cocke and spent half an hour walking in the dusk of the evening
+with him, talking of the sorrowful condition we are in, that we must be
+ruined if the Parliament do not come and chastize us, that we are resolved
+to make a peace whatever it cost, that the King is disobliging the
+Parliament in this interval all that may be, yet his money is gone and he
+must have more, and they likely not to give it, without a great deal of
+do.  God knows what the issue of it will be.  But the considering that the
+Duke of York, instead of being at sea as Admirall, is now going from port
+to port, as he is at this day at Harwich, and was the other day with the
+King at Sheernesse, and hath ordered at Portsmouth how fortifications
+shall be made to oppose the enemy, in case of invasion, [which] is to us a
+sad consideration, and as shameful to the nation, especially after so many
+proud vaunts as we have made against the Dutch, and all from the folly of
+the Duke of Albemarle, who made nothing of beating them, and Sir John
+Lawson he always declared that we never did fail to beat them with lesser
+numbers than theirs, which did so prevail with the King as to throw us
+into this war.
+
+23rd.  At the office all the morning, where Sir W. Pen come, being
+returned from Chatham, from considering the means of fortifying the river
+Medway, by a chain at the stakes, and ships laid there with guns to keep
+the enemy from coming up to burn our ships; all our care now being to
+fortify ourselves against their invading us.  At noon home to dinner, and
+then to the office all the afternoon again, where Mr. Moore come, who
+tells me that there is now no doubt made of a peace being agreed on, the
+King having declared this week in Council that they would treat at
+Bredagh.  He gone I to my office, where busy late, and so to supper and to
+bed.  Vexed with our mayde Luce, our cook-mayde, who is a good drudging
+servant in everything else, and pleases us, but that she will be drunk,
+and hath been so last night and all this day, that she could not make
+clean the house.  My fear is only fire.
+
+24th (Lord's day).  With Sir W. Batten to White Hall, and there I to Sir
+G. Carteret, who is mighty cheerful, which makes me think and by some
+discourse that there is expectation of a peace, but I did not ask [him].
+Here was Sir J. Minnes also: and they did talk of my Lord Bruncker, whose
+father, it seems, did give Mr. Ashburnham and the present Lord Digby L1200
+to be made an Irish lord, and swore the same day that he had not 12d. left
+to pay for his dinner: they make great mirth at this, my Lord Bruncker
+having lately given great matter of offence both to them and us all, that
+we are at present mightily displeased with him.  By and by to the Duke of
+York, where we all met, and there was the King also; and all our discourse
+was about fortifying of the Medway and Harwich, which is to be entrenched
+quite round, and Portsmouth: and here they advised with Sir Godfry Lloyd
+and Sir Bernard de Gum, the two great engineers, and had the plates drawn
+before them; and indeed all their care they now take is to fortify
+themselves, and are not ashamed of it: for when by and by my Lord
+Arlington come in with letters, and seeing the King and Duke of York give
+us and the officers of the Ordnance directions in this matter, he did move
+that we might do it as privately as we could, that it might not come into
+the Dutch Gazette presently, as the King's and Duke of York's going down
+the other day to Sheerenesse was, the week after, in the Harlem Gazette.
+The King and Duke of York both laughed at it, and made no matter, but
+said, "Let us be safe, and let them talk, for there is nothing will
+trouble them more, nor will prevent their coming more, than to hear that
+we are fortifying ourselves."  And the Duke of York said further, "What
+said Marshal Turenne, when some in vanity said that the enemies were
+afraid, for they entrenched themselves?  'Well,' says he, 'I would they
+were not afraid, for then they would not entrench themselves, and so we
+could deal with them the better.'"  Away thence, and met with Sir H.
+Cholmly, who tells me that he do believe the government of Tangier is
+bought by my Lord Allington for a sum of money to my Lord Arlington, and
+something to Lord Bellasses, who (he did tell me particularly how) is as
+very a false villain as ever was born, having received money of him here
+upon promise and confidence of his return, forcing him to pay it by
+advance here, and promising to ask no more there, when at the same time he
+was treating with my Lord Allington to sell his command to him, and yet
+told Sir H. Cholmly nothing of it, but when Sir H. Cholmly told him what
+he had heard, he confessed that my Lord Allington had spoken to him of it,
+but that he was a vain man to look after it, for he was nothing fit for
+it, and then goes presently to my Lord Allington and drives on the
+bargain, yet tells Lord Allington what he himself had said of him, as
+[though] Sir H. Cholmly had said them. I am glad I am informed hereof, and
+shall know him for a Lord, &c.  Sir H. Cholmly tells me further that he is
+confident there will be a peace, and that a great man did tell him that my
+Lord Albemarle did tell him the other day at White Hall as a secret that
+we should have a peace if any thing the King of France can ask and our
+King can give will gain it, which he is it seems mad at.  Thence back with
+Sir W. Batten and [Sir] W. Pen home, and heard a piece of sermon, and so
+home to dinner, where Balty come, very fine, and dined with us, and after
+dinner with me by water to White Hall, and there he and I did walk round
+the Park, I giving him my thoughts about the difficulty of getting
+employment for him this year, but advised him how to employ himself, and I
+would do what I could.  So he and I parted, and I to Martin's, where I
+find her within, and 'su hermano' and 'la veuve' Burroughs.  Here I did
+'demeurer toda' the afternoon .  .  .  .  By and by come up the mistress
+of the house, Crags, a pleasant jolly woman.  I staid all but a little,
+and away home by water through bridge, a brave evening, and so home to
+read, and anon to supper, W. Hewer with us, and then to read myself to
+sleep again, and then to bed, and mightily troubled the most of the night
+with fears of fire, which I cannot get out of my head to this day since
+the last great fire. I did this night give the waterman who uses to carry
+me 10s. at his request, for the painting of his new boat, on which shall
+be my arms.
+
+25th.  (Ladyday.) Up, and with Sir W. Batten and [Sir] W. Pen by coach to
+Exeter House to our lawyers to have consulted about our trial to-morrow,
+but missed them, so parted, and [Sir] W. Pen and I to Mr. Povy's about a
+little business of [Sir] W. Pen's, where we went over Mr. Povy's house,
+which lies in the same good condition as ever, which is most extraordinary
+fine, and he was now at work with a cabinet-maker, making of a new inlaid
+table.  Having seen his house, we away, having in our way thither called
+at Mr. Lilly's, who was working; and indeed his pictures are without doubt
+much beyond Mr. Hales's, I think I may say I am convinced: but a mighty
+proud man he is, and full of state.  So home, and to the office, and by
+and by to dinner, a poor dinner, my wife and I, at Sir W. Pen's, and then
+he and I before to Exeter House, where I do not stay, but to the King's
+playhouse; and by and by comes Mr. Lowther and his wife and mine, and into
+a box, forsooth, neither of them being dressed, which I was almost ashamed
+of.  Sir W. Pen and I in the pit, and here saw "The Mayden Queene" again;
+which indeed the more I see the more I like, and is an excellent play, and
+so done by Nell, her merry part, as cannot be better done in nature, I
+think.  Thence home, and there I find letters from my brother, which tell
+me that yesterday when he wrote my mother did rattle in the throat so as
+they did expect every moment her death, which though I have a good while
+expected did much surprise me, yet was obliged to sup at Sir W. Pen's and
+my wife, and there counterfeited some little mirth, but my heart was sad,
+and so home after supper and to bed, and much troubled in my sleep of my
+being crying by my mother's bedside, laying my head over hers and crying,
+she almost dead and dying, and so waked, but what is strange, methought
+she had hair over her face, and not the same kind of face as my mother
+really hath, but yet did not consider that, but did weep over her as my
+mother, whose soul God have mercy of.
+
+26th.  Up with a sad heart in reference to my mother, of whose death I
+undoubtedly expect to hear the next post, if not of my father's also, who
+by his pain as well as his grief for her is very ill, but on my own behalf
+I have cause to be joyful this day, it being my usual feast day, for my
+being cut of the stone this day nine years, and through God's blessing am
+at this day and have long been in as good condition of health as ever I
+was in my life or any man in England is, God make me thankful for it!  But
+the condition I am in, in reference to my mother, makes it unfit for me to
+keep my usual feast.  Unless it shall please God to send her well (which I
+despair wholly of), and then I will make amends for it by observing
+another day in its room.  So to the office, and at the office all the
+morning, where I had an opportunity to speak to Sir John Harman about my
+desire to have my brother Balty go again with him to sea as he did the
+last year, which he do seem not only contented but pleased with, which I
+was glad of.  So at noon home to dinner, where I find Creed, who dined
+with us, but I had not any time to talk with him, my head being busy, and
+before I had dined was called away by Sir W. Batten, and both of us in his
+coach (which I observe his coachman do always go now from hence towards
+White Hall through Tower Street, and it is the best way) to Exeter House,
+where the judge was sitting, and after several little causes comes on
+ours, and while the several depositions and papers were at large reading
+(which they call the preparatory), and being cold by being forced to sit
+with my hat off close to a window in the Hall, Sir W. Pen and I to the
+Castle Tavern hard by and got a lobster, and he and I staid and eat it,
+and drank good wine; I only burnt wine, as my whole custom of late hath
+been, as an evasion, God knows, for my drinking of wine (but it is an
+evasion which will not serve me now hot weather is coming, that I cannot
+pretend, as indeed I really have done, that I drank it for cold), but I
+will leave it off, and it is but seldom, as when I am in women's company,
+that I must call for wine, for I must be forced to drink to them.  Having
+done here then we back again to the Court, and there heard our cause
+pleaded; Sir [Edward] Turner, Sir W. Walker, and Sir Ellis Layton being
+our counsel against only Sir Robert Wiseman on the other.  The second of
+our three counsel was the best, and indeed did speak admirably, and is a
+very shrewd man.  Nevertheless, as good as he did make our case, and the
+rest, yet when Wiseman come to argue (nay, and though he did begin so
+sillily that we laughed in scorn in our sleeves at him), yet he did so
+state the case, that the judge did not think fit to decide the cause
+to-night, but took to to-morrow, and did stagger us in our hopes, so as to
+make us despair of the success.  I am mightily pleased with the judge, who
+seems a very rational, learned, and uncorrupt man, and much good reading
+and reason there is heard in hearing of this law argued, so that the thing
+pleased me, though our success doth shake me.  Thence Sir W. Pen and I
+home and to write letters, among others a sad one to my father upon fear
+of my mother's death, and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+27th.  [Sir] W. Pen and I to White Hall, and in the coach did begin our
+discourse again about Balty, and he promises me to move it this very day.
+He and I met my Lord Bruncker at Sir G. Carteret's by appointment, there
+to discourse a little business, all being likely to go to rack for lack of
+money still.  Thence to the Duke of York's lodgings, and did our usual
+business, and Sir W. Pen telling me that he had this morning spoke of
+Balty to Sir W. Coventry, and that the thing was done, I did take notice
+of it also to [Sir] W. Coventry, who told me that he had both the thing
+and the person in his head before to have done it, which is a double
+pleasure to me.  Our business with the Duke being done, [Sir] W. Pen and I
+towards the Exchequer, and in our way met Sir G. Downing going to chapel,
+but we stopped, and he would go with us back to the Exchequer and showed
+us in his office his chests full and ground and shelves full of money, and
+says that there is L50,000 at this day in his office of people's money,
+who may demand it this day, and might have had it away several weeks ago
+upon the late Act, but do rather choose to have it continue there than to
+put it into the Banker's hands, and I must confess it is more than I
+should have believed had I not seen it, and more than ever I could have
+expected would have arisen for this new Act in so short a time, and if it
+do so now already what would it do if the money was collected upon the Act
+and returned into the Exchequer so timely as it ought to be.  But it comes
+into my mind here to observe what I have heard from Sir John Bankes,
+though I cannot fully conceive the reason of it, that it will be
+impossible to make the Exchequer ever a true bank to all intents, unless
+the Exchequer stood nearer the Exchange, where merchants might with ease,
+while they are going about their business, at all hours, and without
+trouble or loss of time, have their satisfaction, which they cannot have
+now without much trouble, and loss of half a day, and no certainty of
+having the offices open.  By this he means a bank for common practise and
+use of merchants, and therein I do agree with him.  Being parted from Sir
+W. Pen and [Sir] G. Downing, I to Westminster Hall and there met Balty,
+whom I had sent for, and there did break the business of my getting him
+the place of going again as Muster-Master with Harman this voyage to the
+West Indys, which indeed I do owe to Sir W. Pen.  He is mighty glad of it,
+and earnest to fit himself for it, but I do find, poor man, that he is
+troubled how to dispose of his wife, and apparently it is out of fear of
+her, and his honour, and I believe he hath received some cause of this his
+jealousy and care, and I do pity him in it, and will endeavour to find out
+some way to do, it for him.  Having put him in a way of preparing himself
+for the voyage, I did go to the Swan, and there sent for Jervas, my old
+periwig maker, and he did bring me a periwig, but it was full of nits, so
+as I was troubled to see it (it being his old fault), and did send him to
+make it clean, and in the mean time, having staid for him a good while,
+did go away by water to the Castle Taverne, by Exeter House, and there met
+Sir W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, and several others, among the rest Sir Ellis
+Layton, who do apply himself to discourse with me, and I think by his
+discourse, out of his opinion of my interest in Sir W. Coventry, the man I
+find a wonderful witty, ready man for sudden answers and little tales, and
+sayings very extraordinary witty, but in the bottom I doubt he is not so.
+Yet he pretends to have studied men, and the truth is in several that I do
+know he did give me a very inward account of them.  But above all things
+he did give me a full account, upon my demand, of this judge of the
+Admiralty, Judge Jenkins; who, he says, is a man never practised in this
+Court, but taken merely for his merit and ability's sake from Trinity
+Hall, where he had always lived; only by accident the business of the want
+of a Judge being proposed to the present Archbishop of Canterbury that now
+is, he did think of this man and sent for him up: and here he is, against
+the 'gre' and content of the old Doctors, made judge, but is a very
+excellent man both for judgment and temper, yet majesty enough, and by all
+men's report, not to be corrupted.  After dinner to the Court, where Sir
+Ellis Layton did make a very silly motion in our behalf, but did neither
+hurt nor good.  After him Walker and Wiseman; and then the judge did
+pronounce his sentence; for some part of the goods and ship, and the
+freight of the whole, to be free, and returned and paid by us; and the
+remaining, which was the greater part, to be ours.  The loss of so much
+troubles us, but we have got a pretty good part, thanks be to God!  So we
+are not displeased nor yet have cause to triumph, as we did once expect.
+Having seen the end of this, I being desirous to be at home to see the
+issue of any country letters about my mother, which I expect shall give me
+tidings of her death, I directly home and there to the office, where I
+find no letter from my father or brother, but by and by the boy tells me
+that his mistress sends me word that she hath opened my letter, and that
+she is loth to send me any more news.  So I home, and there up to my wife
+in our chamber, and there received from my brother the newes of my
+mother's dying on Monday, about five or six o'clock in the afternoon, and
+that the last time she spoke of her children was on Friday last, and her
+last words were, "God bless my poor Sam!" The reading hereof did set me
+a-weeping heartily, and so weeping to myself awhile, and my wife also to
+herself, I then spoke to my wife respecting myself, and indeed, having
+some thoughts how much better both for her and us it is than it might have
+been had she outlived my father and me or my happy present condition in
+the world, she being helpless, I was the sooner at ease in my mind, and
+then found it necessary to go abroad with my wife to look after the
+providing mourning to send into the country, some to-morrow, and more
+against Sunday, for my family, being resolved to put myself and wife, and
+Barker and Jane, W. Hewer and Tom, in mourning, and my two under-mayds, to
+give them hoods and scarfs and gloves.  So to my tailor's, and up and
+down, and then home and to my office a little, and then to supper and to
+bed, my heart sad and afflicted, though my judgment at ease.
+
+28th.  My tailor come to me betimes this morning, and having given him
+directions, I to the office and there all the morning.  At noon dined
+well.  Balty, who is mighty thoughtful how to dispose of his wife, and
+would fain have me provide a place for her, which the thoughts of what I
+should do with her if he should miscarry at sea makes me avoid the
+offering him that she should be at my house.  I find he is plainly jealous
+of her being in any place where she may have ill company, and I do pity
+him for it, and would be glad to help him, and will if I can. Having
+dined, I down by water with Sir W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, and [Sir] R. Ford
+to our prize, part of whose goods were condemned yesterday--"The
+Lindeboome"--and there we did drink some of her wine, very good. But it
+did grate my heart to see the poor master come on board, and look about
+into every corner, and find fault that she was not so clean as she used to
+be, though methought she was very clean; and to see his new masters come
+in, that had nothing to do with her, did trouble me to see him.  Thence to
+Blackwall and there to Mr. Johnson's, to see how some works upon some of
+our repaired ships go on, and at his house eat and drank and mighty
+extraordinary merry (too merry for me whose mother died so lately, but
+they know it not, so cannot reproach me therein, though I reproach
+myself), and in going home had many good stories of Sir W. Batten and one
+of Sir W. Pen, the most tedious and silly and troublesome (he forcing us
+to hear him) that ever I heard in my life.  So to the office awhile,
+troubled with Sir W. Pen's impertinences, he being half foxed at
+Johnson's, and so to bed.
+
+29th.  Lay long talking with my wife about Balty, whom I do wish very well
+to, and would be glad to advise him, for he is very sober and willing to
+take all pains.  Up and to Sir W. Batten, who I find has had some words
+with Sir W. Pen about the employing of a cooper about our prize wines,
+[Sir] W. Batten standing and indeed imposing upon us Mr. Morrice, which I
+like not, nor do [Sir] W. Pen, and I confess the very thoughts of what our
+goods will come to when we have them do discourage me in going any further
+in the adventure.  Then to the office till noon, doing business, and then
+to the Exchange, and thence to the Sun Taverne and dined with [Sir] W.
+Batten, [Sir] R. Ford, and the Swede's Agent to discourse of a composition
+about our prizes that are condemned, but did do little, he standing upon
+high terms and we doing the like.  I home, and there find Balty and his
+wife got thither both by my wife for me to give them good advice, for her
+to be with his father and mother all this time of absence, for saving of
+money, and did plainly and like a friend tell them my mind of the
+necessity of saving money, and that if I did not find they did endeavour
+it, I should not think fit to trouble myself for them, but I see she is
+utterly against being with his father and mother, and he is fond of her,
+and I perceive the differences between the old people and them are too
+great to be presently forgot, and so he do propose that it will be cheaper
+for him to put her to board at a place he is offered at Lee, and I, seeing
+that I am not like to be troubled with the finding a place, and having
+given him so much good advice, do leave them to stand and fall as they
+please, having discharged myself as a friend, and not likely to be
+accountable for her nor be troubled with her, if he should miscarry I
+mean, as to her lodging, and so broke up. Then he and I to make a visit to
+[Sir] W. Pen, who hath thought fit to show kindness to Balty in this
+business, indeed though he be a false rogue, but it was he knew a thing
+easy to do.  Thence together to my shoemaker's, cutler's, tailor's, and up
+and down about my mourning, and in my way do observe the great streets in
+the city are marked out with piles drove into the ground; and if ever it
+be built in that form with so fair streets, it will be a noble sight.  So
+to the Council chamber, but staid not there, but to a periwigg-maker's of
+his acquaintance, and there bought two periwiggs, mighty fine; indeed, too
+fine, I thought, for me; but he persuaded me, and I did buy them for L4
+10s. the two.  Then to the Exchange and bought gloves, and so to the
+Bull-Head Taverne, whither he brought my, French gun; and one Truelocke,
+the famous gunsmith, that is a mighty ingenious man, and he did take my
+gun in pieces, and made me understand the secrets thereof and upon the
+whole I do find it a very good piece of work, and truly wrought; but for
+certain not a thing to be used much with safety: and he do find that this
+very gun was never yet shot off: I was mighty satisfied with it and him,
+and the sight of so much curiosity of this kind.  Here he brought also a
+haberdasher at my desire, and I bought a hat of him, and so away and
+called away my wife from his house, and so home and to read, and then to
+supper and to bed, my head full in behalf of Balty, who tells me strange
+stories of his mother.  Among others, how she, in his absence in Ireland,
+did pawne all the things that he had got in his service under Oliver, and
+run of her own accord, without her husband's leave, into Flanders, and
+that his purse, and 4s. a week which his father receives of the French
+church, is all the subsistence his father and mother have, and that about
+L20 a year maintains them; which, if it please God, I will find one way or
+other to provide for them, to remove that scandal away.
+
+30th.  Up, and the French periwigg maker of whom I bought two yesterday
+comes with them, and I am very well pleased with them.  So to the office,
+where all the morning.  At noon home to dinner, and thence with my wife's
+knowledge and leave did by coach go see the silly play of my Lady
+Newcastle's,  called "The Humourous Lovers;" the most silly thing that
+ever come upon a stage.  I was sick to see it, but yet would not but have
+seen it, that I might the better understand her.  Here I spied Knipp and
+Betty, of the King's house, and sent Knipp oranges, but, having little
+money about me, did not offer to carry them abroad, which otherwise I had,
+I fear, been tempted to.  So with [Sir] W. Pen home (he being at the play
+also), a most summer evening, and to my office, where, among other things,
+a most extraordinary letter to the Duke of York touching the want of money
+and the sad state of the King's service thereby, and so to supper and to
+bed.
+
+31st (Lord's day).  Up, and my tailor's boy brings my mourning clothes
+home, and my wife hers and Barker's, but they go not to church this
+morning.  I to church, and with my mourning, very handsome, and new
+periwigg, make a great shew.  After church home to dinner, and there come
+Betty Michell and her husband.  I do and shall love her, but, poor wretch,
+she is now almost ready to lie down.  After dinner Balty (who dined also
+with us) and I with Sir J. Minnes in his coach to White Hall, but did
+nothing, but by water to Strand Bridge and thence walked to my Lord
+Treasurer's, where the King, Duke of York, and the Caball, and much
+company without; and a fine day.  Anon come out from the Caball my Lord
+Hollis and Mr. H. Coventry, who, it is conceived, have received their
+instructions from the King this day; they being to begin their journey
+towards their treaty at Bredagh speedily, their passes being come.  Here I
+saw the Lady Northumberland and her daughter-in-law, my Lord Treasurer's
+daughter, my Lady Piercy, a beautiful lady indeed.  So away back by water,
+and left Balty at White Hall and I to Mrs. Martin .  .  . .  and so by
+coach home, and there to my chamber, and then to supper and bed, having
+not had time to make up my accounts of this month at this very day, but
+will in a day or two, and pay my forfeit for not doing it, though business
+hath most hindered me.  The month shuts up only with great desires of
+peace in all of us, and a belief that we shall have a peace, in most
+people, if a peace can be had on any terms, for there is a necessity of
+it; for we cannot go on with the war, and our masters are afraid to come
+to depend upon the good will of the Parliament any more, as I do hear.
+
+
+
+
+     ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:
+
+     Angling with a minikin, a gut-string varnished over
+     Better now than never
+     Bring me a periwig, but it was full of nits
+     Buying up of goods in case there should be war
+     For I will not be inward with him that is open to another
+     He is a man of no worth in the world but compliment
+     History of this day's growth, we cannot tell the truth
+     I love the treason I hate the traitor
+     King of France did think other princes fit for nothing
+     My wife will keep to one another and let the world go hang
+     No man knowing what to do, whether to sell or buy
+     Not more than I expected, nor so much by a great deal as I ought
+     Now above six months since (smoke from the cellars)
+     Reparation for what we had embezzled
+     Uncertainty of all history
+     Whatever I do give to anybody else, I shall give her
+
+
+
+
+
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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.
+                                  MARCH
+                                1666-1667
+
+
+March 1st.  Up, it being very cold weather again after a good deal of
+warm summer weather, and to the office, where I settled to do much
+business to-day.  By and by sent for to Sir G. Carteret to discourse of
+the business of the Navy, and our wants, and the best way of bestowing
+the little money we have, which is about L30,000, but, God knows, we have
+need of ten times as much, which do make my life uncomfortable, I
+confess, on the King's behalf, though it is well enough as to my own
+particular, but the King's service is undone by it.  Having done with
+him, back again to the office, and in the streets, in Mark Lane, I do
+observe, it being St. David's day, the picture of a man dressed like a
+Welchman, hanging by the neck upon one of the poles that stand out at the
+top of one of the merchants' houses, in full proportion, and very
+handsomely done; which is one of the oddest sights I have seen a good
+while, for it was so like a man that one would have thought it was indeed
+a man.
+
+     [From "Poor Robin's Almanack" for 1757 it appears that, in former
+     times in England, a Welshman was burnt in effigy on this
+     anniversary.  Mr. W. C. Hazlitt, in his edition of Brand's "Popular
+     Antiquities," adds "The practice to which Pepys refers .  .  .  was
+     very common at one time; and till very lately bakers made
+     gingerbread Welshmen, called taffies, on St. David's day, which were
+     made to represent a man skewered" (vol. i., pp. 60,61).]
+
+Being returned home, I find Greeting, the flageolet-master, come, and
+teaching my wife; and I do think my wife will take pleasure in it, and it
+will be easy for her, and pleasant.  So I, as I am well content with the
+charge it will occasion me.  So to the office till dinner-time, and then
+home to dinner, and before dinner making my wife to sing.  Poor wretch!
+her ear is so bad that it made me angry, till the poor wretch cried to
+see me so vexed at her, that I think I shall not discourage her so much
+again, but will endeavour to make her understand sounds, and do her good
+that way; for she hath a great mind to learn, only to please me; and,
+therefore, I am mighty unjust to her in discouraging her so much, but we
+were good friends, and to dinner, and had she not been ill with those and
+that it were not Friday (on which in Lent there are no plays) I had
+carried her to a play, but she not being fit to go abroad, I to the
+office, where all the afternoon close examining the collection of my
+papers of the accounts of the Navy since this war to my great content,
+and so at night home to talk and sing with my-wife, and then to supper
+and so to bed with great pleasure.  But I cannot but remember that just
+before dinner one of my people come up to me, and told me a man come from
+Huntingdon would speak with me, how my heart come into my mouth doubting
+that my father, who has been long sicke, was dead.  It put me into a
+trembling, but, blessed be [God]! it was no such thing, but a countryman
+come about ordinary business to me, to receive L50 paid to my father in
+the country for the Perkins's for their legacy, upon the death of their
+mother, by my uncle's will.  So though I get nothing at present, at least
+by the estate, I am fain to pay this money rather than rob my father, and
+much good may it do them that I may have no more further trouble from
+them.  I hear to-day that Tom Woodall, the known chyrurgeon, is killed at
+Somerset House by a Frenchman, but the occasion Sir W. Batten could not
+tell me.
+
+
+
+2nd.  Up, and to the office, where sitting all the morning, and among
+other things did agree upon a distribution of L30,000 and odd, which is
+the only sum we hear of like to come out of all the Poll Bill for the use
+of this office for buying of goods.  I did herein some few courtesies for
+particular friends I wished well to, and for the King's service also, and
+was therefore well pleased with what was done.  Sir W. Pen this day did
+bring an order from the Duke of York for our receiving from him a small
+vessel for a fireship, and taking away a better of the King's for it, it
+being expressed for his great service to the King.  This I am glad of,
+not for his sake, but that it will give me a better ground, I believe, to
+ask something for myself of this kind, which I was fearful to begin. This
+do make Sir W. Pen the most kind to me that can be.  I suppose it is
+this, lest it should find any opposition from me, but I will not oppose,
+but promote it.  After dinner, with my wife, to the King's house to see
+"The Mayden Queene," a new play of Dryden's, mightily commended for the
+regularity of it, and the strain and wit; and, the truth is, there is a
+comical part done by Nell,
+
+     ["Her skill increasing with her years, other poets sought to obtain
+     recommendations of her wit and beauty to the success of their
+     writings.   I have said that Dryden was one of the principal
+     supporters of the King's house, and ere long in one of his new plays
+     a principal character was set apart for the popular comedian.  The
+     drama was a tragi-comedy called 'Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen,'
+     and an additional interest was attached to its production from the
+     king having suggested the plot to its author, and calling it `his
+     play.'"--Cunningham's Story of Nell Gwyn, ed: 1892, pp. 38,39.]
+
+which is Florimell, that I never can hope ever to see the like done
+again, by man or woman.  The King and Duke of York were at the play.  But
+so great performance of a comical part was never, I believe, in the world
+before as Nell do this, both as a mad girle, then most and best of all
+when she comes in like a young gallant; and hath the notions and carriage
+of a spark the most that ever I saw any man have.  It makes me, I
+confess, admire her.  Thence home and to the office, where busy a while,
+and then home to read the lives of Henry 5th and 6th, very fine, in
+Speede, and to bed.  This day I did pay a bill of L50 from my father,
+being so much out of my own purse gone to pay my uncle Robert's legacy to
+my aunt Perkins's child.
+
+
+
+3rd (Lord's day).  Lay long, merrily talking with my wife, and then up
+and to church, where a dull sermon of Mr. Mills touching Original Sin,
+and then home, and there find little Michell and his wife, whom I love
+mightily.  Mightily contented I was in their company, for I love her
+much; and so after dinner I left them and by water from the Old Swan to
+White Hall, where, walking in the galleries, I in the first place met Mr.
+Pierce, who tells me the story of Tom Woodall, the surgeon, killed in a
+drunken quarrel, and how the Duke of York hath a mind to get him [Pierce]
+one of his places in St. Thomas's Hospitall.  Then comes Mr. Hayward, the
+Duke of York's servant, and tells us that the Swede's Embassador hath
+been here to-day with news that it is believed that the Dutch will yield
+to have the treaty at London or Dover, neither of which will get our King
+any credit, we having already consented to have it at The Hague; which,
+it seems, De Witt opposed, as a thing wherein the King of England must
+needs have some profound design, which in my conscience he hath not.
+They do also tell me that newes is this day come to the King, that the
+King of France is come with his army to the frontiers of Flanders,
+demanding leave to pass through their country towards Poland, but is
+denied, and thereupon that he is gone into the country.  How true this is
+I dare not believe till I hear more.  From them I walked into the Parke,
+it being a fine but very cold day; and there took two or three turns the
+length of the Pell Mell: and there I met Serjeant Bearcroft, who was sent
+for the Duke of Buckingham, to have brought him prisoner to the Tower.
+He come to towne this day, and brings word that, being overtaken and
+outrid by the Duchesse of Buckingham within a few miles of the Duke's
+house of Westhorp,  he believes she got thither about a quarter of an
+hour before him, and so had time to consider; so that, when he come, the
+doors were kept shut against him.  The next day, coming with officers of
+the neighbour market-town to force open the doors, they were open for
+him, but the Duke gone; so he took horse presently, and heard upon the
+road that the Duke of Buckingham was gone before him for London: so that
+he believes he is this day also come to towne before him; but no newes is
+yet heard of him.  This is all he brings.  Thence to my Lord
+Chancellor's, and there, meeting Sir H. Cholmly, he and I walked in my
+Lord's garden, and talked; among other things, of the treaty: and he says
+there will certainly be a peace, but I cannot believe it.  He tells me
+that the Duke of Buckingham his crimes, as far as he knows, are his being
+of a caball with some discontented persons of the late House of Commons,
+and opposing the desires of the King in all his matters in that House;
+and endeavouring to become popular, and advising how the Commons' House
+should proceed, and how he would order the House of Lords.  And that he
+hath been endeavouring to have the King's nativity calculated; which was
+done, and the fellow now in the Tower about it; which itself hath
+heretofore, as he says, been held treason, and people died for it; but by
+the Statute of Treasons, in Queen Mary's times and since, it hath been
+left out.  He tells me that this silly Lord hath provoked, by his ill-
+carriage, the Duke of York, my Lord Chancellor, and all the great
+persons; and therefore, most likely, will die.  He tells me, too, many
+practices of treachery against this King; as betraying him in Scotland,
+and giving Oliver an account of the King's private councils; which the
+King knows very well, and hath yet pardoned him.
+
+     [Two of our greatest poets have drawn the character of the Duke of
+     Buckingham in brilliant verse, and both have condemned him to
+     infamy. There is enough in Pepys's reports to corroborate the main
+     features of Dryden's magnificent portrait of Zimri in "Absolom and
+     Achitophel":
+
+               "In the first rank of these did Zimri stand;
+               A man so various that he seemed to be
+               Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
+               Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong;
+               Was everything by starts, and nothing long,
+
+               But, in the course of one revolving moon,
+               Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon;
+               Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking,
+               Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking,
+                    *   *   *   *   *   *   *
+               He laughed himself from Court, then sought relief
+               By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief."
+
+     Pope's facts are not correct, and hence the effect of his picture is
+     impaired.  In spite of the duke's constant visits to the Tower,
+     Charles II. still continued his friend; but on the death of the
+     king, expecting little from James, he retired to his estate at
+     Helmsley, in Yorkshire, to nurse his property and to restore his
+     constitution.  He died on April 16th, 1687, at Kirkby Moorside,
+     after a few days' illness, caused by sitting on the damp grass when
+     heated from a fox chase.  The scene of his death was the house of a
+     tenant, not "the worst inn's worst room" (Moral Essays," epist.
+     iii.).  He was buried in Westminster Abbey.]
+
+Here I passed away a little time more talking with him and Creed, whom I
+met there, and so away, Creed walking with me to White Hall, and there I
+took water and stayed at Michell's to drink.  I home, and there to read
+very good things in Fuller's "Church History," and "Worthies," and so to
+supper, and after supper had much good discourse with W. Hewer, who
+supped with us, about the ticket office and the knaveries and extortions
+every day used there, and particularly of the business of Mr. Carcasse,
+whom I fear I shall find a very rogue.  So parted with him, and then to
+bed.
+
+
+
+4th.  Up, and with Sir J. Minnes and [Sir] W. Batten by barge to Deptford
+by eight in the morning, where to the King's yard a little to look after
+business there, and then to a private storehouse to look upon some
+cordage of Sir W. Batten's, and there being a hole formerly made for a
+drain for tarr to run into, wherein the barrel stood still, full of
+stinking water, Sir W. Batten did fall with one leg into it, which might
+have been very bad to him by breaking a leg or other hurt, but, thanks be
+to God, he only sprained his foot a little.  So after his shifting his
+stockings at a strong water shop close by, we took barge again, and so to
+Woolwich, where our business was chiefly to look upon the ballast wharfe
+there, which is offered us for the King's use to hire, but we do not
+think it worth the laying out much money upon, unless we could buy the
+fee-simple of it, which cannot be sold us, so we wholly flung it off: So
+to the Dockyard, and there staid a while talking about business of the
+yard, and thence to the Rope-yard, and so to the White Hart and there
+dined, and Captain Cocke with us, whom we found at the Rope-yard, and
+very merry at dinner, and many pretty tales of Sir J. Minnes, which I
+have entered in my tale book.  But by this time Sir W. Batten was come to
+be in much pain in his foot, so as he was forced to be carried down in a
+chair to the barge again, and so away to Deptford, and there I a little
+in the yard, and then to Bagwell's, where I find his wife washing, and
+also I did 'hazer tout que je voudrais con' her, and then sent for her
+husband, and discoursed of his going to Harwich this week to his charge
+of the new ship building there, which I have got him, and so away, walked
+to Redriffe, and there took boat and away home, and upon Tower Hill, near
+the ticket office, meeting with my old acquaintance Mr. Chaplin, the
+cheesemonger, and there fell to talk of news, and he tells me that for
+certain the King of France is denied passage with his army through
+Flanders, and that he hears that the Dutch do stand upon high terms with
+us, and will have a promise of not being obliged to strike the flag to us
+before they will treat with us, and other high things, which I am ashamed
+of and do hope will never be yielded to.  That they do make all
+imaginable preparations, but that he believes they will be in mighty want
+of men; that the King of France do court us mightily.  He tells me too
+that our Lord-Treasurer is going to lay down, and that Lord Arlington is
+to be Lord Treasurer, but I believe nothing of it, for he is not yet of
+estate visible enough to have the charge I suppose upon him.  So being
+parted from him I home to the office, and after having done business
+there I home to supper, and there mightily pleased with my wife's
+beginning the flagellette, believing that she will come to very well
+thereon.  This day in the barge I took Berckenshaw's translation of
+Alsted his Templum, but the most ridiculous book, as he has translated
+it, that ever I saw in my life, I declaring that I understood not three
+lines together from one end of the book to the other.
+
+
+
+5th.  Up, and to the office, where met and sat all the morning, doing
+little for want of money, but only bear the countenance of an office.  At
+noon home to dinner, and then to the office again, and there comes Martin
+my purser, and I walked with him awhile in the garden, I giving him good
+advice to beware of coming any more with high demands for supernumeraries
+or other things, for now Sir W. Pen is come to mind the business, the
+passing of his accounts will not be so easy as the last.  He tells me he
+will never need it again, it being as easy, and to as much purpose to do
+the same thing otherwise, and how he do keep his Captain's table, and by
+that means hath the command of his Captains, and do not fear in a 5th-
+rate ship constantly employed to get a L1000 in five years time, and this
+year, besides all his spendings, which are I fear high, he hath got at
+this day clear above L150 in a voyage of about five or six months, which
+is a brave trade.  He gone I to the office, and there all the afternoon
+late doing much business, and then to see Sir W. Batten, whose leg is all
+but better than it was, and like to do well.  I by discourse do perceive
+he and his Lady are to their hearts out with my Lord Bruncker and Mrs.
+Williams, to which I added something, but, I think, did not venture too
+far with them.  But, Lord! to see to what a poor content any acquaintance
+among these people, or the people of the world, as they now-adays go, is
+worth; for my part I and my wife will keep to one another and let the
+world go hang, for there is nothing but falseness in it.  So home to
+supper and hear my wife and girle sing a little, and then to bed with
+much content of mind.
+
+
+
+6th.  Up, and with [Sir] W. Pen to White Hall by coach, and by the way
+agreed to acquaint [Sir] W. Coventry with the business of Mr. Carcasse,
+and he and I spoke to Sir W. Coventry that we might move it to the Duke
+of York, which I did in a very indifferent, that is, impartial manner,
+but vexed I believe Lord Bruncker.  Here the Duke of York did acquaint
+us, and the King did the like also, afterwards coming in, with his
+resolution of altering the manner of the war this year; that is, we shall
+keep what fleete we have abroad in several squadrons: so that now all is
+come out; but we are to keep it as close as we can, without hindering the
+work that is to be done in preparation to this.  Great preparations there
+are to fortify Sheernesse and the yard at Portsmouth, and forces are
+drawing down to both those places, and elsewhere by the seaside; so that
+we have some fear of an invasion; and the Duke of York himself did
+declare his expectation of the enemy's blocking us up here in the River,
+and therefore directed that we should send away all the ships that we
+have to fit out hence.  Sir W. Pen told me, going with me this morning to
+White Hall, that for certain the Duke of Buckingham is brought into the
+Tower, and that he hath had an hour's private conference with the King
+before he was sent thither.  To Westminster Hall.  There bought some news
+books, and, as every where else, hear every body complain of the dearness
+of coals, being at L4 per chaldron, the weather, too, being become most
+bitter cold, the King saying to-day that it was the coldest day he ever
+knew in England.  Thence by coach to my Lord Crew's, where very welcome.
+Here I find they are in doubt where the Duke of Buckingham is; which
+makes me mightily reflect on the uncertainty of all history, when, in a
+business of this moment, and of this day's growth, we cannot tell the
+truth.  Here dined my old acquaintance, Mr. Borfett, that was my Lord
+Sandwich's chaplain, and my Lady Wright and Dr. Boreman, who is preacher
+at St. Gyles's in the Fields, who, after dinner, did give my Lord an
+account of two papist women lately converted, whereof one wrote her
+recantation, which he shewed under her own hand mighty well drawn, so as
+my Lord desired a copy of it, after he had satisfied himself from the
+Doctor, that to his knowledge she was not a woman under any necessity.
+Thence by coach home and staid a very little, and then by water to
+Redriffe, and walked to Bagwell's, where 'la moher' was 'defro, sed'
+would not have me 'demeurer' there 'parce que' Mrs. Batters and one of my
+'ancillas', I believe Jane (for she was gone abroad to-day), was in the
+town, and coming thither; so I away presently, esteeming it a great
+escape.  So to the yard and spoke a word or two, and then by water home,
+wondrous cold, and reading a ridiculous ballad made in praise of the Duke
+of Albemarle, to the tune of St. George, the tune being printed, too; and
+I observe that people have some great encouragement to make ballads of
+him of this kind.  There are so many, that hereafter he will sound like
+Guy of Warwicke.  Then abroad with my wife, leaving her at the 'Change,
+while I to Sir H. Cholmly's, a pretty house, and a fine, worthy, well-
+disposed gentleman he is.  He and I to Sir Ph.  Warwicke's, about money
+for Tangier, but to little purpose.  H. Cholmley tells me, among other
+things, that he hears of little hopes of a peace, their demands being so
+high as we shall never grant, and could tell me that we shall keep no
+fleete abroad this year, but only squadrons.  And, among other things,
+that my Lord Bellasses, he believes, will lose his command of Tangier by
+his corrupt covetous ways of .endeavouring to sell his command, which I
+am glad [of], for he is a man of no worth in the world but compliment.
+So to the 'Change, and there bought 32s. worth of things for Mrs. Knipp,
+my Valentine, which is pretty to see how my wife is come to convention
+with me, that, whatever I do give to anybody else, I shall give her as
+much, which I am not much displeased with.  So home and to the office and
+Sir W. Batten, to tell him what I had done to-day about Carcasse's
+business, and God forgive me I am not without design to give a blow to
+Sir W. Batten by it.  So home, where Mr. Batelier supped with us and
+talked away the evening pretty late, and so he gone and we to bed.
+
+
+
+7th.  So up, and to the office, my head full of Carcasse's business; then
+hearing that Knipp is at my house, I home, and it was about a ticket for
+a friend of hers.  I do love the humour of the jade very well.  So to the
+office again, not being able to stay, and there about noon my Lord
+Bruncker did begin to talk of Carcasse's business.  Only Commissioner
+Pett, my Lord, and I there, and it was pretty to see how Pett hugged the
+occasion of having anything against Sir W. Batten, which I am not much
+troubled at, for I love him not neither.  Though I did really endeavour
+to quash it all I could, because I would prevent their malice taking
+effect.  My Lord I see is fully resolved to vindicate Carcasse, though to
+the undoing of Sir W. Batten, but I believe he will find himself in a
+mistake, and do himself no good, and that I shall be glad of, for though
+I love the treason I hate the traitor.  But he is vexed at my moving it
+to the Duke of York yesterday, which I answered well, so as I think he
+could not answer.  But, Lord! it is pretty to see how Pett hugs this
+business, and how he favours my Lord Bruncker; who to my knowledge hates
+him, and has said more to his disadvantage, in my presence, to the King
+and Duke of York than any man in England, and so let them thrive one with
+another by cheating one another, for that is all I observe among them.
+Thence home late, and find my wife hath dined, and she and Mrs. Hewer
+going to a play.  Here was Creed, and he and I to Devonshire House, to a
+burial of a kinsman of Sir R. Viner's; and there I received a ring, and
+so away presently to Creed, who staid for me at an alehouse hard by, and
+thence to the Duke's playhouse, where he parted, and I in and find my
+wife and Mrs. Hewer, and sat by them and saw "The English Princesse, or
+Richard the Third;" a most sad, melancholy play, and pretty good; but
+nothing eminent in it, as some tragedys are; only little Mis. Davis did
+dance a jig after the end of the play, and there telling the next day's
+play; so that it come in by force only to please the company to see her
+dance in boy's 'clothes; and, the truth is, there is no comparison
+between Nell's dancing the other day at the King's house in boy's clothes
+and this, this being infinitely beyond the other.  Mere was Mr. Clerke
+and Pierce, to whom one word only of "How do you," and so away home, Mrs:
+Hewer with us, and I to the office and so to [Sir] W. Batten's, and there
+talked privately with him and [Sir] W. Pen about business of Carcasse
+against tomorrow, wherein I think I did give them proof enough of my
+ability as well as friendship to [Sir] W. Batten, and the honour of the
+office, in my sense of the rogue's business.  So back to finish my office
+business, and then home to supper, and to bed.  This day, Commissioner
+Taylor come to me for advice, and would force me to take ten pieces in
+gold of him, which I had no mind to, he being become one of our number at
+the Board.  This day was reckoned by all people the coldest day that ever
+was remembered in England; and, God knows! coals at a very great price.
+
+
+
+8th.  Up, and to the Old Swan, where drank at Michell's, but not seeing
+her whom I love I by water to White Hall, and there acquainted Sir G.
+Carteret betimes what I had to say this day before the Duke of York in
+the business of Carcasse, which he likes well of, being a great enemy to
+him, and then I being too early here to go to Sir W. Coventry's chamber,
+having nothing to say to him, and being able to give him but a bad
+account of the business of the office (which is a shame to me, and that
+which I shall rue if I do not recover), to the Exchequer about getting a
+certificate of Mr. Lanyon's entered at Sir R. Longs office, and strange
+it is to see what horrid delays there are at this day in the business of
+money, there being nothing yet come from my Lord Treasurer to set the
+business of money in action since the Parliament broke off,
+notwithstanding the greatness and number of the King's occasions for it.
+So to the Swan, and there had three or four baisers of the little ancilla
+there, and so to Westminster Hall, where I saw Mr. Martin, the purser,
+come through with a picture in his hand, which he had bought, and
+observed how all the people of the Hall did fleer and laugh upon him,
+crying, "There is plenty grown upon a sudden;" and, the truth is, I was a
+little troubled that my favour should fall on so vain a fellow as he, and
+the more because, methought, the people do gaze upon me as the man that
+had raised him, and as if they guessed whence my kindness to him springs.
+So thence to White Hall, where I find all met at the Duke of York's
+chamber; and, by and by, the Duke of York comes, and Carcasse is called
+in, and I read the depositions and his answers, and he added with great
+confidence and good words, even almost to persuasion, what to say; and my
+Lord Bruncker, like a very silly solicitor, argued against me and us all
+for him; and, being asked first by the Duke of York his opinion, did give
+it for his being excused.  I next did answer the contrary very plainly,
+and had, in this dispute, which vexed and will never be forgot by my
+Lord, many occasions of speaking severely, and did, against his bad
+practices.  Commissioner Pett, like a fawning rogue, sided with my Lord,
+but to no purpose; and [Sir] W. Pen, like a cunning rogue, spoke mighty
+indifferently, and said nothing in all the fray, like a knave as he is.
+But [Sir] W. Batten spoke out, and did come off himself by the Duke's
+kindness very well; and then Sir G. Carteret, and Sir W. Coventry, and
+the Duke of York himself, flatly as I said; and so he was declared unfit
+to continue in, and therefore to be presently discharged the office;
+which, among other good effects, I hope, will make my Lord Bruncker not
+'alloquer' so high, when he shall consider he hath had such a publick
+foyle as this is.  So home with [Sir] W. Batten, and [Sir] W. Pen, by
+coach, and there met at the office, and my Lord Bruncker presently after
+us, and there did give order to Mr. Stevens for securing the tickets in
+Carcasses hands, which my Lord against his will could not refuse to sign,
+and then home to dinner, and so away with my wife by coach, she to Mrs.
+Pierce's and I to my Lord Bellasses, and with him to [my] Lord
+Treasurer's, where by agreement we met with Sir H. Cholmly, and there sat
+and talked all the afternoon almost about one thing or other, expecting
+Sir Philip Warwicke's coming, but he come not, so we away towards night,
+Sir H. Cholmly and I to the Temple, and there parted, telling me of my
+Lord Bellasses's want of generosity, and that he [Bellasses] will
+certainly be turned out of his government, and he thinks himself stands
+fair for it.  So home, and there found, as I expected, Mrs. Pierce and
+Mr. Batelier; he went for Mrs. Jones, but no Mrs. Knipp come, which vexed
+me, nor any other company.  So with one fidler we danced away the
+evening, but I was not well contented with the littleness of the room,
+and my wife's want of preparing things ready, as they should be, for
+supper, and bad.  So not very merry, though very well pleased.  So after
+supper to bed, my wife and Mrs. Pierce, and her boy James and I.
+Yesterday I began to make this mark (V) stand instead of three pricks,
+which therefore I must observe every where, it being a mark more easy to
+make.
+
+
+
+9th.  Up, and to the office, where sat all the morning busy.  At noon
+home to dinner, where Mrs. Pierce did continue with us and her boy (who I
+still find every day more and more witty beyond his age), and did dine
+with us, and by and by comes in her husband and a brother-in-law of his,
+a parson, one of the tallest biggest men that ever I saw in my life.  So
+to the office, where a meeting extraordinary about settling the number
+and wages of my Lord Bruncker's clerks for his new work upon the
+Treasurer's accounts, but this did put us upon running into the business
+of yesterday about Carcasse, wherein I perceive he is most dissatisfied
+with me, and I am not sorry for it, having all the world but him of my
+side therein, for it will let him know another time that he is not to
+expect our submitting to him in every thing, as I think he did heretofore
+expect.  He did speak many severe words to me, and I returned as many to
+him, so that I do think there cannot for a great while, be, any right
+peace between us, and I care not a fart for it; but however, I must look
+about me and mind my business, for I perceive by his threats and
+enquiries he is and will endeavour to find out something against me or
+mine.  Breaking up here somewhat brokenly I home, and carried Mrs. Pierce
+and wife to the New Exchange, and there did give her and myself a pair of
+gloves, and then set her down at home, and so back again straight home
+and thereto do business, and then to Sir W. Batten's, where [Sir] W. Pen
+and others, and mighty merry, only I have got a great cold, and the
+scolding this day at the office with my Lord Bruncker hath made it worse,
+that I am not able to speak.  But, Lord! to see how kind Sir W. Batten
+and his Lady are to me upon this business of my standing by [Sir] W.
+Batten against Carcasse, and I am glad of it.  Captain Cocke, who was
+here to-night, did tell us that he is certain that yesterday a
+proclamation was voted at the Council, touching the proclaiming of my
+Lord Duke of Buckingham a traytor, and that it will be out on Monday.
+So home late, and drank some buttered ale, and so to bed and to sleep.
+This cold did most certainly come by my staying a little too long bare-
+legged yesterday morning when I rose while I looked out fresh socks and
+thread stockings, yesterday's having in the night, lying near the window,
+been covered with snow within the window, which made me I durst not put
+them on.
+
+
+
+10th (Lord's day).  Having my cold still grown more upon me, so as I am
+not able to speak, I lay in bed till noon, and then up and to my chamber
+with a good fire, and there spent an hour on Morly's Introduction to
+Musique, a very good but unmethodical book.  Then to dinner, my wife and
+I, and then all the afternoon alone in my chamber preparing a letter for
+Commissioner Taylor to the City about getting his accounts for The Loyal
+London,
+
+     [The "Loyal London" was the ship given to the king by the City.  It
+     was launched at Deptford on June loth, 1666]
+
+by him built for them, stated and discharged, they owing him still about
+L4000.  Towards the evening comes Mr. Spong to see me, whose discourse
+about several things I proposed to him was very good, better than I have
+had with any body a good while.  He gone, I to my business again, and
+anon comes my Lady Pen and her son-in law and daughter, and there we
+talked all the evening away, and then to supper; and after supper comes
+Sir W. Pen, and there we talked together, and then broke up, and so to
+bed.  He tells me that our Mr. Turner has seen the proclamation against
+the Duke of Buckingham, and that therefore it is true what we heard last
+night.  Yesterday and to-day I have been troubled with a hoarseness
+through cold that I could not almost speak.
+
+
+
+11th.  Up, and with my cold still upon me and hoarseness, but I was
+forced to rise and to the office, where all the morning busy, and among
+other things Sir W. Warren come to me, to whom of late I have been very
+strange, partly from my indifference how more than heretofore to get
+money, but most from my finding that he is become great with my Lord
+Bruncker, and so I dare not trust him as I used to do, for I will not be
+inward with him that is open to another.  By and by comes Sir H. Cholmly
+to me about Tangier business, and then talking of news he tells me how
+yesterday the King did publiquely talk of the King of France's dealing
+with all the Princes of Christendome.  As to the States of Holland, he
+[the King of France] hath advised them, on good grounds, to refuse to
+treat with us at the Hague, because of having opportunity of spies, by
+reason of our interest in the House of Orange; and then, it being a town
+in one particular province, it would not be fit to have it, but in a town
+wherein the provinces have equal interest, as at Mastricht, and other
+places named.  That he advises them to offer no terms, nor accept of any,
+without his privity and consent, according to agreement; and tells them,
+if not so, he hath in his power to be even with them, the King of England
+being come to offer him any terms he pleases; and that my Lord St. Albans
+is now at Paris, Plenipotentiary, to make what peace he pleases; and so
+he can make it, and exclude them, the Dutch, if he sees fit.  A copy of
+this letter of the King of France's the Spanish Ambassador here gets, and
+comes and tells all to our King; which our King denies, and says the King
+of France only uses his power of saying anything.  At the same time, the
+King of France writes to the Emperor, that he is resolved to do all
+things to express affection to the Emperor, having it now in his power to
+make what peace he pleases between the King of England and him, and the
+States of the United Provinces; and, therefore, that he would not have
+him to concern himself in a friendship with us; and assures him that,
+on that regard, he will not offer anything to his disturbance, in his
+interest in Flanders, or elsewhere.  He writes, at the same time, to
+Spayne, to tell him that he wonders to hear of a league almost ended
+between the Crown of Spayne and England, by my Lord Sandwich, and all
+without his privity, while he was making a peace upon what terms he
+pleased with England: that he is a great lover of the Crown of Spayne,
+and would take the King and his affairs, during his minority, into his
+protection, nor would offer to set his foot in Flanders, or any where
+else, to disturb him; and, therefore, would not have him to trouble
+himself to make peace with any body; only he hath a desire to offer an
+exchange, which he thinks may be of moment to both sides: that is, that
+he [France] will enstate the King of Spayne in the kingdom of Portugall,
+and he and the Dutch will put him into possession of Lisbon; and, that
+being done, he [France] may have Flanders: and this, they say; do
+mightily take in Spayne, which is sensible of the fruitless expence
+Flanders, so far off, gives them; and how much better it would be for
+them to be master of Portugall; and the King of France offers, for
+security herein, that the King of England shall be bond for him, and that
+he will countersecure the King of England with Amsterdam; and, it seems,
+hath assured our King, that if he will make a league with him, he will
+make a peace exclusive to the Hollander.  These things are almost
+romantique, but yet true, as Sir H. Cholmly tells me the King himself did
+relate it all yesterday; and it seems as if the King of France did think
+other princes fit for nothing but to make sport for him: but simple
+princes they are, that are forced to suffer this from him.  So at noon
+with Sir W. Pen by coach to the Sun in Leadenhall Streete, where Sir R.
+Ford, Sir W. Batten, and Commissioner Taylor (whose feast it was) were,
+and we dined and had a very good dinner.  Among other discourses Sir R.
+Ford did tell me that he do verily believe that the city will in few
+years be built again in all the greatest streets, and answered the
+objections I did give to it.  Here we had the proclamation this day come
+out against the Duke of Buckingham, commanding him to come in to one of
+the Secretaries, or to the Lieutenant of the Tower.  A silly, vain man to
+bring himself to this: and there be many hard circumstances in the
+proclamation of the causes of this proceeding of the King's, which speak
+great displeasure of the King's, and crimes of his.  Then to discourse of
+the business of the day, that is, to see Commissioner Taylor's accounts
+for his ship he built, The Loyall London, and it is pretty to see how
+dully this old fellow makes his demands, and yet plaguy wise sayings will
+come from the man sometimes, and also how Sir R. Ford and [Sir] W. Batten
+did with seeming reliance advise him what to do, and how to come prepared
+to answer objections to the Common Council.  Thence away to the office,
+where late busy, and then home to supper, mightily pleased with my wife's
+trill, and so to bed.  This night Mr. Carcasse did come to me again to
+desire favour, and that I would mediate that he might be restored, but I
+did give him no kind answer at all, but was very angry, and I confess a
+good deal of it from my Lord Bruncker's simplicity and passion.
+
+
+
+12th.  Up, and to the office, where all-the morning, and my Lord Bruncker
+mighty quiet, and no words all day, which I wonder at, expecting that he
+would have fallen again upon the business of Carcasse, and the more for
+that here happened that Perkins, who was the greatest witness of all
+against him, was brought in by Sir W. Batten to prove that he did really
+belong to The Prince, but being examined was found rather a fool than
+anything, as not being able to give any account when he come in nor when
+he come out of her, more than that he was taken by the Dutch in her, but
+did agree in earnest to Sir W. Pen's saying that she lay up all, the
+winter before at Lambeth.  This I confess did make me begin to doubt the
+truth of his evidence, but not to doubt the faults of Carcasse, for he
+was condemned by, many other better evidences than his, besides the whole
+world's report.  At noon home, and there find Mr. Goodgroome, whose
+teaching of my wife only by singing over and over again to her, and
+letting her sing with him, not by herself, to correct her faults, I do
+not like at all, but was angry at it; but have this content, that I do
+think she will come to sing pretty well, and to trill in time, which
+pleases me well.  He dined with us, and then to the office, when we had a
+sorry meeting to little purpose, and then broke up, and I to my office,
+and busy late to good purpose, and so home to supper and to bed.  This
+day a poor seaman, almost starved for want of food, lay in our yard a-
+dying.  I sent him half-a-crown, and we ordered his ticket to be paid.
+
+
+
+13th.  Up, and with [Sir] W. Batten to the Duke of York to our usual
+attendance, where I did fear my Lord Bruncker might move something in
+revenge that might trouble me, but he did not, but contrarily had the
+content to hear Sir G. Carteret fall foul on him in the Duke of York's
+bed chamber for his directing people with tickets and petitions to him,
+bidding him mind his Controller's place and not his, for if he did he
+should be too hard for him, and made high words, which I was glad of.
+Having done our usual business with the Duke of York, I away; and meeting
+Mr. D. Gawden in the presence-chamber, he and I to talk; and among other
+things he tells me, and I do find every where else, also, that our
+masters do begin not to like of their councils in fitting out no fleete,
+but only squadrons, and are finding out excuses for it; and, among
+others, he tells me a Privy-Councillor did tell him that it was said in
+Council that a fleete could not be set out this year, for want of
+victuals, which gives him and me a great alarme, but me especially for
+had it been so, I ought to have represented it; and therefore it puts me
+in policy presently to prepare myself to answer this objection, if ever
+it should come about, by drawing up a state of the Victualler's stores,
+which I will presently do.  So to Westminster Hall, and there staid and
+talked, and then to Sir G. Carteret's, where I dined with the ladies, he
+not at home, and very well used I am among them, so that I am heartily
+ashamed that my wife hath not been there to see them; but she shall very
+shortly.  So home by water, and stepped into Michell's, and there did
+baiser my Betty, 'que aegrotat' a little.  At home find Mr. Holliard, and
+made him eat a bit of victuals.  Here I find Mr. Greeten, who teaches my
+wife on the flageolet, and I think she will come to something on it.  Mr.
+Holliard advises me to have my father come up to town, for he doubts else
+in the country he will never find ease, for, poor man, his grief is now
+grown so great upon him that he is never at ease, so I will have him up
+at Easter.  By and by by coach, set down Mr. Holliard near his house at
+Hatton Garden and myself to Lord Treasurer's, and sent my wife to the New
+Exchange.  I staid not here, but to Westminster Hall, and thence to
+Martin's, where he and she both within, and with them the little widow
+that was once there with her when I was there, that dissembled so well to
+be grieved at hearing a tune that her, late husband liked, but there
+being so much company, I had no pleasure here, and so away to the Hall
+again, and there met Doll Lane coming out, and 'par contrat did hazer
+bargain para aller to the cabaret de vin', called the Rose, and 'ibi' I
+staid two hours, 'sed' she did not 'venir', 'lequel' troubled me, and so
+away by coach and took up my wife, and away home, and so to Sir W.
+Batten's, where I am told that it is intended by Mr. Carcasse to pray me
+to be godfather with Lord Bruncker to-morrow to his child, which I
+suppose they tell me in mirth, but if he should ask me I know not whether
+I should refuse it or no.  Late at my office preparing a speech against
+to-morrow morning, before the King, at my Lord Treasurer's, and the truth
+is it run in my head all night.  So home to supper and to bed.  The Duke
+of Buckingham is concluded gone over sea, and, it is thought, to France.
+
+
+
+14th.  Up, and with Sir W. Batten and [Sir] W. Pen to my Lord
+Treasurer's, where we met with my Lord Bruncker an hour before the King
+come, and had time to talk a little of our business.  Then come much
+company, among others Sir H. Cholmly, who tells me that undoubtedly my
+Lord Bellasses will go no more as Governor to Tangier, and that he do put
+in fair for it, and believes he shall have it, and proposes how it may
+conduce to his account and mine in the business of money.  Here we fell
+into talk with Sir Stephen Fox, and, among other things, of the Spanish
+manner of walking, when three together, and shewed me how, which was
+pretty, to prevent differences.  By and by comes the King and Duke of
+York, and presently the officers of the Ordnance were called; my Lord
+Berkeley, Sir John Duncomb, and Mr. Chichly; then we, my Lord Bruncker,
+[Sir] W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, and myself; where we find only the King
+and Duke of York, and my Lord Treasurer, and Sir G. Carteret; where I
+only did speak, laying down the state of our wants, which the King and
+Duke of York seemed very well pleased with, and we did get what we asked,
+L500,000, assigned upon the eleven months' tax: but that is not so much
+ready money, or what will raise L40,000 per week, which we desired, and
+the business will want.  Yet are we fain to come away answered, when, God
+knows, it will undo the King's business to have matters of this moment
+put off in this manner.  The King did prevent my offering anything by and
+by as Treasurer for Tangier, telling me that he had ordered us L30,000 on
+the same tax; but that is not what we would have to bring our payments to
+come within a year.  So we gone out, in went others; viz., one after
+another, Sir Stephen Fox for the army, Captain Cocke for sick and
+wounded, Mr. Ashburnham for the household.  Thence [Sir] W. Batten, [Sir]
+W. Pen, and I, back again; I mightily pleased with what I had said and
+done, and the success thereof.  But, it being a fine clear day, I did,
+'en gayete de coeur', propose going to Bow for ayre sake, and dine there,
+which they embraced, and so [Sir] W. Batten and I (setting [Sir] W. Pen
+down at Mark Lane end) straight to Bow, to the Queen's Head, and there
+bespoke our dinner, carrying meat with us from London; and anon comes
+[Sir] W. Pen with my wife and Lady Batten, and then Mr. Lowder with his
+mother and wife.  While [Sir] W. Batten and I were alone, we had much
+friendly discourse, though I will never trust him far; but we do propose
+getting "The Flying Greyhound," our privateer, to us and [Sir] W. Pen at
+the end of the year when we call her home, by begging her of the King,
+and I do not think we shall be denied her.  They being come, we to
+oysters and so to talk, very pleasant I was all day, and anon to dinner,
+and I made very good company.  Here till the evening, so as it was dark
+almost before we got home (back again in the same method, I think, we
+went), and spent the night talking at Sir W. Batten's, only a little at
+my office, to look over the Victualler's contract, and draw up some
+arguments for him to plead for his charges in transportation of goods
+beyond the ports which the letter of one article in his contract do lay
+upon him.  This done I home to supper and to bed.  Troubled a little at
+my fear that my Lord Bruncker should tell Sir W. Coventry of our
+neglecting the office this afternoon (which was intended) to look after
+our pleasures, but nothing will fall upon me alone about this.
+
+
+
+15th.  Up, and pleased at Tom's teaching of Barker something to sing a
+3rd part to a song, which will please mightily.  So I to the office all
+the morning, and at noon to the 'Change, where I do hear that letters
+this day come to Court do tell us that we are likely not to agree, the
+Dutch demanding high terms, and the King of France the like, in a most
+braving manner.  The merchants do give themselves over for lost, no man
+knowing what to do, whether to sell or buy, not knowing whether peace or
+war to expect, and I am told that could that be now known a man might get
+L20,000 in a week's time by buying up of goods in case there should be
+war.  Thence home and dined well, and then with my wife, set her at
+Unthanke's and I to Sir G. Carteret, where talked with the ladies a
+while, and my Lady Carteret talks nothing but sorrow and afflictions
+coming on us, and indeed I do fear the same.  So away and met Dr. Fuller,
+Bishop of Limricke, and walked an hour with him in the Court talking of
+newes only, and he do think that matters will be bad with us.  Then to
+Westminster Hall, and there spent an hour or two walking up and down,
+thinking 'para avoir' got out Doll Lane, 'sed je ne' could do it, having
+no opportunity 'de hazer le, ainsi lost the tota' afternoon, and so away
+and called my wife and home, where a little at the office, and then home
+to my closet to enter my journalls, and so to supper and to bed.  This
+noon come little Mis. Tooker, who is grown a little woman; ego had
+opportunity 'para baiser her .  .  .  .  This morning I was called up by
+Sir John Winter, poor man!  come in his sedan from the other end of the
+town, before I was up, and merely about the King's business, which is a
+worthy thing of him, and I believe him to be a worthy good man, and I
+will do him the right to tell the Duke of it, who did speak well of him
+the other day.  It was about helping the King in the business of bringing
+down his timber to the sea-side, in the Forest of Deane.
+
+
+
+16th.  Up, and to the office, where all the morning; at noon home to
+dinner, and then to the office again in the afternoon, and there all day
+very busy till night, and then, having done much business, home to
+supper, and so to bed.  This afternoon come home Sir J. Minnes, who has
+been down, but with little purpose, to pay the ships below at the Nore.
+This evening, having done my letters, I did write out the heads of what I
+had prepared to speak to the King the other day at my Lord Treasurer's,
+which I do think convenient to keep by me for future use.  The weather is
+now grown warm again, after much cold; and it is observable that within
+these eight days I did see smoke remaining, coming out of some cellars,
+from the late great fire, now above six months since.  There was this day
+at the office (as he is most days) Sir W. Warren, against whom I did
+manifestly plead, and heartily too, God forgive me!  But the reason is
+because I do find that he do now wholly rely almost upon my Lord
+Bruncker, though I confess I have no greater ground of my leaving him
+than the confidence which I perceive he hath got in my Lord Bruncker,
+whose seeming favours only do obtain of him as much compensation as, I
+believe (for he do know well the way of using his bounties), as mine more
+real.  Besides, my Lord and I being become antagonistic, I do not think
+it safe for me to trust myself in the hands of one whom I know to be a
+knave, and using all means to become gracious there.
+
+
+
+17th (Lord's day).  Up betime with my wife, and by coach with Sir W. Pen
+and Sir Thomas Allen to White Hall, there my wife and I the first time
+that ever we went to my Lady Jemimah's chamber at Sir Edward Carteret's
+lodgings.  I confess I have been much to blame and much ashamed of our
+not visiting her sooner, but better now than never.  Here we took her
+before she was up, which I was sorry for, so only saw her, and away to
+chapel, leaving further visit till after sermon.  I put my wife into the
+pew below, but it was pretty to see, myself being but in a plain band,
+and every way else ordinary, how the verger took me for her man, I think,
+and I was fain to tell him she was a kinswoman of my Lord Sandwich's, he
+saying that none under knights-baronets' ladies are to go into that pew.
+So she being there, I to the Duke of York's lodging, where in his
+dressing-chamber he talking of his journey to-morrow or next day to
+Harwich, to prepare some fortifications there; so that we are wholly upon
+the defensive part this year, only we have some expectations that we may
+by our squadrons annoy them in their trade by the North of Scotland and
+to the Westward.  Here Sir W. Pen did show the Duke of York a letter of
+Hogg's about a prize he drove in within the Sound at Plymouth, where the
+Vice-Admiral claims her.  Sir W. Pen would have me speak to the latter,
+which I did, and I think without any offence, but afterwards I was sorry
+for it, and Sir W. Pen did plainly say that he had no mind to speak to
+the Duke of York about it, so that he put me upon it, but it shall be,
+the last time that I will do such another thing, though I think no manner
+of hurt done by it to me at all.  That done I to walk in the Parke, where
+to the Queene's Chapel, and there heard a fryer preach with his cord
+about his middle, in Portuguese, something I could understand, showing
+that God did respect the meek and humble, as well as the high and rich.
+He was full of action, but very decent and good, I thought, and his
+manner of delivery very good.  Then I went back to White Hall, and there
+up to the closet, and spoke with several people till sermon was ended,
+which was preached by the Bishop of Hereford, an old good man, that they
+say made an excellent sermon.  He was by birth a Catholique, and a great
+gallant, having L1500 per annum, patrimony, and is a Knight Barronet; was
+turned from his persuasion by the late Archbishop Laud.  He and the
+Bishop of Exeter, Dr. Ward, are the two Bishops that the King do say he
+cannot have bad sermons from.  Here I met with Sir H. Cholmly, who tells
+me, that undoubtedly my Lord Bellasses do go no more to Tangier, and that
+he do believe he do stand in a likely way to go Governor; though he says,
+and showed me, a young silly Lord, one Lord Allington, who hath offered a
+great sum of money to go, and will put hard for it, he having a fine
+lady, and a great man would be glad to have him out of the way.  After
+Chapel I down and took out my wife from the pew, where she was talking
+with a lady whom I knew not till I was gone.  It was Mrs. Ashfield of
+Brampton, who had with much civility been, it seems, at our house to see
+her.  I am sorry I did not show her any more respect.  With my wife to
+Sir G. Carteret's, where we dined and mightily made of, and most
+extraordinary people they are to continue friendship with for goodness,
+virtue, and nobleness and interest.  After dinner he and I alone awhile
+and did joy ourselves in my Lord Sandwich's being out of the way all this
+time.  He concurs that we are in a way of ruin by thus being forced to
+keep only small squadrons out, but do tell me that it was not choice, but
+only force, that we could not keep out the whole fleete.  He tells me
+that the King is very kind to my Lord Sandwich, and did himself observe
+to him (Sir G. Carteret), how those very people, meaning the Prince and
+Duke of Albemarle, are punished in the same kind as they did seek to
+abuse my Lord Sandwich.  Thence away, and got a hackney coach and carried
+my wife home, and there only drank, and myself back again to my Lord
+Treasurer's, where the King, Duke of York, and Sir G. Carteret and Lord
+Arlington were and none else, so I staid not, but to White Hall, and
+there meeting nobody I would speak with, walked into the Park and took
+two or three turns all alone, and then took coach and home, where I find
+Mercer, who I was glad to see, but durst [not] shew so, my wife being
+displeased with her, and indeed I fear she is grown a very gossip.  I to
+my chamber, and there fitted my arguments which I had promised Mr. Gawden
+in his behalf in some pretences to allowance of the King, and then to
+supper, and so to my chamber a little again, and then to bed.  Duke of
+Buckingham not heard of yet.
+
+
+
+18th.  Up betimes, and to the office to write fair my paper for D. Gawden
+against anon, and then to other business, where all the morning.
+D. Gawden by and by comes, and I did read over and give him the paper,
+which I think I have much obliged him in.  A little before noon comes my
+old good friend, Mr. Richard Cumberland,--[Richard Cumberland, afterwards
+Bishop of Peterborough]--to see me, being newly come to town, whom I have
+not seen almost, if not quite, these seven years.  In his plain country-
+parson's dress.  I could not spend much time with him, but prayed him
+come with his brother, who was with him, to dine with me to-day; which he
+did do and I had a great deal of his good company; and a most excellent
+person he is as any I know, and one that I am sorry should be lost and
+buried in a little country town, and would be glad to remove him thence;
+and the truth is, if he would accept of my sister's fortune, I should
+give L100 more with him than to a man able to settle her four times as
+much as, I fear, he is able to do; and I will think of it, and a way how
+to move it, he having in discourse said he was not against marrying, nor
+yet engaged.  I shewed him my closet, and did give him some very good
+musique, Mr. Caesar being here upon his lute.  They gone I to the office,
+where all the afternoon very busy, and among other things comes Captain
+Jenifer to me, a great servant of my Lord Sandwich's, who tells me that
+he do hear for certain, though I do not yet believe it, that Sir W.
+Coventry is to be Secretary of State, and my Lord Arlington Lord
+Treasurer.  I only wish that the latter were as fit for the latter office
+as the former is for the former, and more fit than my Lord Arlington.
+Anon Sir W. Pen come and talked with me in the garden, and tells me that
+for certain the Duke of Richmond is to marry Mrs. Stewart, he having this
+day brought in an account of his estate and debts to the King on that
+account.  At night home to supper and so to bed.  My father's letter this
+day do tell me of his own continued illness, and that my mother grows so
+much worse, that he fears she cannot long continue, which troubles me
+very much.  This day, Mr. Caesar told me a pretty experiment of his, of
+angling with a minikin, a gut-string varnished over, which keeps it from
+swelling, and is beyond any hair for strength and smallness.  The secret
+I like mightily.
+
+
+
+19th.  Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning.  At noon
+dined at home very pleasantly with my wife, and after dinner with a great
+deal of pleasure had her sing, which she begins to do with some pleasure
+to me, more than I expected.  Then to the office again, where all the
+afternoon close, and at night home to supper and to bed.  It comes in my
+mind this night to set down how a house was the other day in Bishopsgate
+Street blowed up with powder; a house that was untenanted, and between a
+flax shop and a  -----------, both bad for fire; but, thanks be to God,
+it did no more hurt; and all do conclude it a plot.  I would also
+remember to my shame how I was pleased yesterday, to find the righteous
+maid of Magister Griffin sweeping of 'nostra' office, 'elle con the Roman
+nariz and bonne' body which I did heretofore like, and do still refresh
+me to think 'que elle' is come to us, that I may 'voir her aliquando'.
+This afternoon I am told again that the town do talk of my Lord
+Arlington's being to be Lord Treasurer, and Sir W. Coventry to be
+Secretary of State; and that for certain the match is concluded between
+the Duke of Richmond and Mrs. Stewart, which I am well enough pleased
+with; and it is pretty to consider how his quality will allay people's
+talk; whereas, had a meaner person married her, he would for certain have
+been reckoned a cuckold at first-dash.
+
+
+
+20th.  Up pretty betimes, and to the Old Swan, and there drank at
+Michell's, but his wife is not there, but gone to her mother's, who is
+ill, and so hath staid there since Sunday.  Thence to Westminster Hall
+and drank at the Swan, and 'baiserais the petite misse'; and so to Mrs.
+Martin's.  .  .  .  I sent for some burnt wine, and drank and then away,
+not pleased with my folly, and so to the Hall again, and there staid a
+little, and so home by water again, where, after speaking with my wife,
+I with Sir W. Batten and [Sir] J. Minnes to our church to the vestry, to
+be assessed by the late Poll Bill, where I am rated as an Esquire, and
+for my office, all will come to about L50.  But not more than I expected,
+nor so much by a great deal as I ought to be, for all my offices.  So
+shall be glad to escape so.  Thence by water again to White Hall, and
+there up into the house, and do hear that newes is come now that the
+enemy do incline again to a peace, but could hear no particulars, so do
+not believe it.  I had a great mind to have spoke with the King, about a
+business proper enough for me, about the French prize man-of-war, how he
+would have her altered, only out of a desire to show myself mindful of
+business, but my linen was so dirty and my clothes mean, that I neither
+thought it fit to do that, nor go to other persons at the Court, with
+whom I had business, which did vex me, and I must remedy [it].  Here I
+hear that the Duke of Richmond and Mrs. Stewart were betrothed last
+night.  Thence to Westminster Hall again, and there saw Betty Michell,
+and bought a pair of gloves of her, she being fain to keep shop there,
+her mother being sick, and her father gathering of the tax.  I 'aimais
+her de toute my corazon'.  Thence, my mind wandering all this day upon
+'mauvaises amours' which I be merry for.  So home by water again, where I
+find my wife gone abroad, so I to Sir W. Batten to dinner, and had a good
+dinner of ling and herring pie, very good meat, best of the kind that
+ever I had.  Having dined, I by coach to the Temple, and there did buy a
+little book or two, and it is strange how "Rycaut's Discourse of Turky,"
+which before the fire I was asked but 8s. for, there being all but
+twenty-two or thereabouts burned, I did now offer 20s., and he demands
+50s., and I think I shall give it him, though it be only as a monument of
+the fire.  So to the New Exchange, where I find my wife, and so took her
+to Unthanke's, and left her there, and I to White Hall, and thence to
+Westminster, only out of idleness, and to get some little pleasure to my
+'mauvais flammes', but sped not, so back and took up my wife; and to
+Polichinelli at Charing Crosse, which is prettier and prettier, and so
+full of variety that it is extraordinary good entertainment.  Thence by
+coach home, that is, my wife home, and I to the Exchange, and there met
+with Fenn, who tells me they have yet no orders out of the Exchequer for
+money upon the Acts, which is a thing not to be borne by any Prince of
+understanding or care, for no money can be got advanced upon the Acts
+only from the weight of orders in form out of the Exchequer so long time
+after the passing of the Acts.  So home to the office a little, where I
+met with a sad letter from my brother, who tells me my mother is declared
+by the doctors to be past recovery, and that my father is also very ill
+every hour: so that I fear we shall see a sudden change there.  God fit
+them and us for it!  So to Sir W. Pen's, where my wife was, and supped
+with a little, but yet little mirth, and a bad, nasty supper, which makes
+me not love the family, they do all things so meanly, to make a little
+bad show upon their backs.  Thence home and to bed, very much troubled
+about my father's and my mother's illness.
+
+
+
+21st.  Up, and to the office, where sat all the morning.  At noon home to
+dinner, and had some melancholy discourse with my wife about my mother's
+being so ill and my father, and after dinner to cheer myself, I having
+the opportunity of Sir W. Coventry and the Duke of York's being out of
+town, I alone out and to the Duke of York's play-house, where
+unexpectedly I come to see only the young men and women of the house act;
+they having liberty to act for their own profit on Wednesdays and Fridays
+this Lent: and the play they did yesterday, being Wednesday, was so well-
+taken, that they thought fit to venture it publickly to-day; a play of my
+Lord Falkland's' called "The Wedding Night," a kind of a tragedy, and
+some things very good in it, but the whole together, I thought, not so.
+I confess I was well enough pleased with my seeing it: and the people did
+do better, without the great actors, than I did expect, but yet far short
+of what they do when they are there, which I was glad to find the
+difference of.  Thence to rights home, and there to the office to my
+business hard, being sorry to have made this scape without my wife, but I
+have a good salvo to my oath in doing it.  By and by, in the evening,
+comes Sir W. Batten's Mingo to me to pray me to come to his master and
+Sir Richard Ford, who have very ill news to tell me.  I knew what it was,
+it was about our trial for a good prize to-day, "The Phoenix,"
+
+     [There are references to the "Phoenix," a Dutch ship taken as a
+     prize, among the State Papers (see "Calendar," 1666-67, p. 404).
+     Pepys appears to have got into trouble at a later date in respect to
+     this same ship, for among the Rawlinson MSS. (A. 170) are "Papers
+     relating to the charge brought against him in the House of Commons
+     in 1689 with reference to the ship Phoenix and the East India
+     Company in 1681-86."]
+
+a worth two or L3000.  I went to them, where they told me with much
+trouble how they had sped, being cast and sentenced to make great
+reparation for what we had embezzled, and they did it so well that I was
+much troubled at it, when by and by Sir W. Batten asked me whether I was
+mortified enough, and told me we had got the day, which was mighty
+welcome news to me and us all.  But it is pretty to see what money will
+do.  Yesterday, Walker was mighty cold on our behalf, till Sir W. Batten
+promised him, if we sped in this business of the goods, a coach; and if
+at the next trial we sped for the ship, we would give him a pair of
+horses.  And he hath strove for us today like a prince, though the
+Swedes' Agent was there with all the vehemence he could to save the
+goods, but yet we carried it against him.  This put me in mighty good
+heart, and then we go to Sir W. Pen, who is come back to-night from
+Chatham, and did put him into the same condition, and then comforted him.
+So back to my office, and wrote an affectionate and sad letter to my
+father about his and my mother's illness, and so home to supper and to
+bed late.
+
+
+
+22nd.  Up and by coach to Sir Ph. Warwicke about business for Tangier
+about money, and then to Sir Stephen Fox to give him account of a little
+service I have done him about money coming to him from our office, and
+then to Lovett's and saw a few baubling things of their doing which are
+very pretty, but the quality of the people, living only by shifts, do not
+please me, that it makes me I do no more care for them, nor shall have
+more acquaintance with them after I have got my Lady Castlemayne's
+picture home.  So to White Hall, where the King at Chapel, and I would
+not stay, but to Westminster to Howlett's, and there, he being not well,
+I sent for a quart of claret and burnt it and drank, and had a 'basado'
+or three or four of Sarah, whom 'je trouve ici', and so by coach to Sir
+Robt. Viner's about my accounts with him, and so to the 'Change, where I
+hear for certain that we are going on with our treaty of peace, and that
+we are to treat at Bredah.  But this our condescension people do think
+will undo us, and I do much fear it.  So home to dinner, where my wife
+having dressed herself in a silly dress of a blue petticoat uppermost,
+and a white satin waistcoat and whitehood, though I think she did it
+because her gown is gone to the tailor's, did, together with my being
+hungry, which always makes me peevish, make me angry, but when my belly
+was full were friends again, and dined and then by water down to
+Greenwich and thence walked to Woolwich, all the way reading Playford's
+"Introduction to Musique," wherein are some things very pretty.  At
+Woolwich I did much business, taking an account of the state of the ships
+there under hand, thence to Blackwall, and did the like for two ships we
+have repairing there, and then to Deptford and did the like there, and so
+home.  Captain Perriman with me from Deptford, telling me many
+particulars how the King's business is ill ordered, and indeed so they
+are, God knows!  So home and to the office, where did business, and so
+home to my chamber, and then to supper and to bed.  Landing at the Tower
+to-night I met on Tower Hill with Captain Cocke and spent half an hour
+walking in the dusk of the evening with him, talking of the sorrowful
+condition we are in, that we must be ruined if the Parliament do not come
+and chastize us, that we are resolved to make a peace whatever it cost,
+that the King is disobliging the Parliament in this interval all that may
+be, yet his money is gone and he must have more, and they likely not to
+give it, without a great deal of do.  God knows what the issue of it will
+be.  But the considering that the Duke of York, instead of being at sea
+as Admirall, is now going from port to port, as he is at this day at
+Harwich, and was the other day with the King at Sheernesse, and hath
+ordered at Portsmouth how fortifications shall be made to oppose the
+enemy, in case of invasion, [which] is to us a sad consideration, and as
+shameful to the nation, especially after so many proud vaunts as we have
+made against the Dutch, and all from the folly of the Duke of Albemarle,
+who made nothing of beating them, and Sir John Lawson he always declared
+that we never did fail to beat them with lesser numbers than theirs,
+which did so prevail with the King as to throw us into this war.
+
+
+
+23rd.  At the office all the morning, where Sir W. Pen come, being
+returned from Chatham, from considering the means of fortifying the river
+Medway, by a chain at the stakes, and ships laid there with guns to keep
+the enemy from coming up to burn our ships; all our care now being to
+fortify ourselves against their invading us.  At noon home to dinner, and
+then to the office all the afternoon again, where Mr. Moore come, who
+tells me that there is now no doubt made of a peace being agreed on, the
+King having declared this week in Council that they would treat at
+Bredagh.  He gone I to my office, where busy late, and so to supper and
+to bed.  Vexed with our mayde Luce, our cook-mayde, who is a good
+drudging servant in everything else, and pleases us, but that she will be
+drunk, and hath been so last night and all this day, that she could not
+make clean the house.  My fear is only fire.
+
+
+
+24th (Lord's day).  With Sir W. Batten to White Hall, and there I to Sir
+G. Carteret, who is mighty cheerful, which makes me think and by some
+discourse that there is expectation of a peace, but I did not ask [him].
+Here was Sir J. Minnes also: and they did talk of my Lord Bruncker, whose
+father, it seems, did give Mr. Ashburnham and the present Lord Digby
+L1200 to be made an Irish lord, and swore the same day that he had not
+12d. left to pay for his dinner: they make great mirth at this, my Lord
+Bruncker having lately given great matter of offence both to them and us
+all, that we are at present mightily displeased with him.  By and by to
+the Duke of York, where we all met, and there was the King also; and all
+our discourse was about fortifying of the Medway and Harwich, which is to
+be entrenched quite round, and Portsmouth: and here they advised with Sir
+Godfry Lloyd  and Sir Bernard de Gum, the two great engineers, and had
+the plates drawn before them; and indeed all their care they now take is
+to fortify themselves, and are not ashamed of it: for when by and by my
+Lord Arlington come in with letters, and seeing the King and Duke of York
+give us and the officers of the Ordnance directions in this matter, he
+did move that we might do it as privately as we could, that it might not
+come into the Dutch Gazette presently, as the King's and Duke of York's
+going down the other day to Sheerenesse was, the week after, in the
+Harlem Gazette.  The King and Duke of York both laughed at it, and made
+no matter, but said, "Let us be safe, and let them talk, for there is
+nothing will trouble them more, nor will prevent their coming more, than
+to hear that we are fortifying ourselves."  And the Duke of York said
+further, "What said Marshal Turenne, when some in vanity said that the
+enemies were afraid, for they entrenched themselves?  `Well,' says he,
+'I would they were not afraid, for then they would not entrench
+themselves, and so we could deal with them the better.'"  Away thence,
+and met with Sir H. Cholmly, who tells me that he do believe the
+government of Tangier is bought by my Lord Allington for a sum of money
+to my Lord Arlington, and something to Lord Bellasses, who (he did tell
+me particularly how) is as very a false villain as ever was born, having
+received money of him here upon promise and confidence of his return,
+forcing him to pay it by advance here, and promising to ask no more
+there, when at the same time he was treating with my Lord Allington to
+sell his command to him, and yet told Sir H. Cholmly nothing of it, but
+when Sir H. Cholmly told him what he had heard, he confessed that my Lord
+Allington had spoken to him of it, but that he was a vain man to look
+after it, for he was nothing fit for it, and then goes presently to my
+Lord Allington and drives on the bargain, yet tells Lord Allington what
+he himself had said of him, as [though] Sir H. Cholmly had said them.
+I am glad I am informed hereof, and shall know him for a Lord, &c.  Sir
+H. Cholmly tells me further that he is confident there will be a peace,
+and that a great man did tell him that my Lord Albemarle did tell him the
+other day at White Hall as a secret that we should have a peace if any
+thing the King of France can ask and our King can give will gain it,
+which he is it seems mad at.  Thence back with Sir W. Batten and [Sir] W.
+Pen home, and heard a piece of sermon, and so home to dinner, where Balty
+come, very fine, and dined with us, and after dinner with me by water to
+White Hall, and there he and I did walk round the Park, I giving him my
+thoughts about the difficulty of getting employment for him this year,
+but advised him how to employ himself, and I would do what I could.  So
+he and I parted, and I to Martin's, where I find her within, and 'su
+hermano' and 'la veuve' Burroughs.  Here I did 'demeurer toda' the
+afternoon .  .  .  .  By and by come up the mistress of the house, Crags,
+a pleasant jolly woman.  I staid all but a little, and away home by water
+through bridge, a brave evening, and so home to read, and anon to supper,
+W. Hewer with us, and then to read myself to sleep again, and then to
+bed, and mightily troubled the most of the night with fears of fire,
+which I cannot get out of my head to this day since the last great fire.
+I did this night give the waterman who uses to carry me 10s. at his
+request, for the painting of his new boat, on which shall be my arms.
+
+
+
+25th.  (Ladyday.) Up, and with Sir W. Batten and [Sir] W. Pen by coach to
+Exeter House to our lawyers to have consulted about our trial to-morrow,
+but missed them, so parted, and [Sir] W. Pen and I to Mr. Povy's about a
+little business of [Sir] W. Pen's, where we went over Mr. Povy's house,
+which lies in the same good condition as ever, which is most
+extraordinary fine, and he was now at work with a cabinet-maker, making
+of a new inlaid table.  Having seen his house, we away, having in our way
+thither called at Mr. Lilly's, who was working; and indeed his pictures
+are without doubt much beyond Mr. Hales's, I think I may say I am
+convinced: but a mighty proud man he is, and full of state.  So home,
+and to the office, and by and by to dinner, a poor dinner, my wife and I,
+at Sir W. Pen's, and then he and I before to Exeter House, where I do not
+stay, but to the King's playhouse; and by and by comes Mr. Lowther and
+his wife and mine, and into a box, forsooth, neither of them being
+dressed, which I was almost ashamed of.  Sir W. Pen and I in the pit, and
+here saw "The Mayden Queene" again; which indeed the more I see the more
+I like, and is an excellent play, and so done by Nell, her merry part, as
+cannot be better done in nature, I think.  Thence home, and there I find
+letters from my brother, which tell me that yesterday when he wrote my
+mother did rattle in the throat so as they did expect every moment her
+death, which though I have a good while expected did much surprise me,
+yet was obliged to sup at Sir W. Pen's and my wife, and there
+counterfeited some little mirth, but my heart was sad, and so home after
+supper and to bed, and much troubled in my sleep of my being crying by my
+mother's bedside, laying my head over hers and crying, she almost dead
+and dying, and so waked, but what is strange, methought she had hair over
+her face, and not the same kind of face as my mother really hath, but yet
+did not consider that, but did weep over her as my mother, whose soul God
+have mercy of.
+
+
+
+26th.  Up with a sad heart in reference to my mother, of whose death I
+undoubtedly expect to hear the next post, if not of my father's also, who
+by his pain as well as his grief for her is very ill, but on my own
+behalf I have cause to be joyful this day, it being my usual feast day,
+for my being cut of the stone this day nine years, and through God's
+blessing am at this day and have long been in as good condition of health
+as ever I was in my life or any man in England is, God make me thankful
+for it!  But the condition I am in, in reference to my mother, makes it
+unfit for me to keep my usual feast.  Unless it shall please God to send
+her well (which I despair wholly of), and then I will make amends for it
+by observing another day in its room.  So to the office, and at the
+office all the morning, where I had an opportunity to speak to Sir John
+Harman about my desire to have my brother Balty go again with him to sea
+as he did the last year, which he do seem not only contented but pleased
+with, which I was glad of.  So at noon home to dinner, where I find
+Creed, who dined with us, but I had not any time to talk with him, my
+head being busy, and before I had dined was called away by Sir W. Batten,
+and both of us in his coach (which I observe his coachman do always go
+now from hence towards White Hall through Tower Street, and it is the
+best way) to Exeter House, where the judge was sitting, and after several
+little causes comes on ours, and while the several depositions and papers
+were at large reading (which they call the preparatory), and being cold
+by being forced to sit with my hat off close to a window in the Hall, Sir
+W. Pen and I to the Castle Tavern hard by and got a lobster, and he and I
+staid and eat it, and drank good wine; I only burnt wine, as my whole
+custom of late hath been, as an evasion, God knows, for my drinking of
+wine (but it is an evasion which will not serve me now hot weather is
+coming, that I cannot pretend, as indeed I really have done, that I drank
+it for cold), but I will leave it off, and it is but seldom, as when I am
+in women's company, that I must call for wine, for I must be forced to
+drink to them.  Having done here then we back again to the Court, and
+there heard our cause pleaded; Sir [Edward] Turner, Sir W. Walker, and
+Sir Ellis Layton being our counsel against only Sir Robert Wiseman on the
+other.  The second of our three counsel was the best, and indeed did
+speak admirably, and is a very shrewd man.  Nevertheless, as good as he
+did make our case, and the rest, yet when Wiseman come to argue (nay, and
+though he did begin so sillily that we laughed in scorn in our sleeves at
+him), yet he did so state the case, that the judge did not think fit to
+decide the cause to-night, but took to to-morrow, and did stagger us in
+our hopes, so as to make us despair of the success.  I am mightily
+pleased with the judge, who seems a very rational, learned, and uncorrupt
+man, and much good reading and reason there is heard in hearing of this
+law argued, so that the thing pleased me, though our success doth shake
+me.  Thence Sir W. Pen and I home and to write letters, among others a
+sad one to my father upon fear of my mother's death, and so home to
+supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+27th.  [Sir] W. Pen and I to White Hall, and in the coach did begin our
+discourse again about Balty, and he promises me to move it this very day.
+He and I met my Lord Bruncker at Sir G. Carteret's by appointment, there
+to discourse a little business, all being likely to go to rack for lack
+of money still.  Thence to the Duke of York's lodgings, and did our usual
+business, and Sir W. Pen telling me that he had this morning spoke of
+Balty to Sir W. Coventry, and that the thing was done, I did take notice
+of it also to [Sir] W. Coventry, who told me that he had both the thing
+and the person in his head before to have done it, which is a double
+pleasure to me.  Our business with the Duke being done, [Sir] W. Pen and
+I towards the Exchequer, and in our way met Sir G. Downing going to
+chapel, but we stopped, and he would go with us back to the Exchequer and
+showed us in his office his chests full and ground and shelves full of
+money, and says that there is L50,000 at this day in his office of
+people's money, who may demand it this day, and might have had it away
+several weeks ago upon the late Act, but do rather choose to have it
+continue there than to put it into the Banker's hands, and I must confess
+it is more than I should have believed had I not seen it, and more than
+ever I could have expected would have arisen for this new Act in so short
+a time, and if it do so now already what would it do if the money was
+collected upon the Act and returned into the Exchequer so timely as it
+ought to be.  But it comes into my mind here to observe what I have heard
+from Sir John Bankes, though I cannot fully conceive the reason of it,
+that it will be impossible to make the Exchequer ever a true bank to all
+intents, unless the Exchequer stood nearer the Exchange, where merchants
+might with ease, while they are going about their business, at all hours,
+and without trouble or loss of time, have their satisfaction, which they
+cannot have now without much trouble, and loss of half a day, and no
+certainty of having the offices open.  By this he means a bank for common
+practise and use of merchants, and therein I do agree with him.  Being
+parted from Sir W. Pen and [Sir] G. Downing, I to Westminster Hall and
+there met Balty, whom I had sent for, and there did break the business of
+my getting him the place of going again as Muster-Master with Harman this
+voyage to the West Indys, which indeed I do owe to Sir W. Pen.  He is
+mighty glad of it, and earnest to fit himself for it, but I do find, poor
+man, that he is troubled how to dispose of his wife, and apparently it is
+out of fear of her, and his honour, and I believe he hath received some
+cause of this his jealousy and care, and I do pity him in it, and will
+endeavour to find out some way to do, it for him.  Having put him in a
+way of preparing himself for the voyage, I did go to the Swan, and there
+sent for Jervas, my old periwig maker, and he did bring me a periwig, but
+it was full of nits, so as I was troubled to see it (it being his old
+fault), and did send him to make it clean, and in the mean time, having
+staid for him a good while, did go away by water to the Castle Taverne,
+by Exeter House, and there met Sir W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, and several
+others, among the rest Sir Ellis Layton, who do apply himself to
+discourse with me, and I think by his discourse, out of his opinion of my
+interest in Sir W. Coventry, the man I find a wonderful witty, ready man
+for sudden answers and little tales, and sayings very extraordinary
+witty, but in the bottom I doubt he is not so.  Yet he pretends to have
+studied men, and the truth is in several that I do know he did give me a
+very inward account of them.  But above all things he did give me a full
+account, upon my demand, of this judge of the Admiralty, Judge Jenkins;
+who, he says, is a man never practised in this Court, but taken merely
+for his merit and ability's sake from Trinity Hall, where he had always
+lived; only by accident the business of the want of a Judge being
+proposed to the present Archbishop of Canterbury that now is, he did
+think of this man and sent for him up: and here he is, against the 'gre'
+and content of the old Doctors, made judge, but is a very excellent man
+both for judgment and temper, yet majesty enough, and by all men's
+report, not to be corrupted.  After dinner to the Court, where Sir Ellis
+Layton did make a very silly motion in our behalf, but did neither hurt
+nor good.  After him Walker and Wiseman; and then the judge did pronounce
+his sentence; for some part of the goods and ship, and the freight of the
+whole, to be free, and returned and paid by us; and the remaining, which
+was the greater part, to be ours.  The loss of so much troubles us, but
+we have got a pretty good part, thanks be to God!  So we are not
+displeased nor yet have cause to triumph, as we did once expect.  Having
+seen the end of this, I being desirous to be at home to see the issue of
+any country letters about my mother, which I expect shall give me tidings
+of her death, I directly home and there to the office, where I find no
+letter from my father or brother, but by and by the boy tells me that his
+mistress sends me word that she hath opened my letter, and that she is
+loth to send me any more news.  So I home, and there up to my wife in our
+chamber, and there received from my brother the newes of my mother's
+dying on Monday, about five or six o'clock in the afternoon, and that the
+last time she spoke of her children was on Friday last, and her last
+words were, "God bless my poor Sam!" The reading hereof did set me a-
+weeping heartily, and so weeping to myself awhile, and my wife also to
+herself, I then spoke to my wife respecting myself, and indeed, having
+some thoughts how much better both for her and us it is than it might
+have been had she outlived my father and me or my happy present condition
+in the world, she being helpless, I was the sooner at ease in my mind,
+and then found it necessary to go abroad with my wife to look after the
+providing mourning to send into the country, some to-morrow, and more
+against Sunday, for my family, being resolved to put myself and wife, and
+Barker and Jane, W. Hewer and Tom, in mourning, and my two under-mayds,
+to give them hoods and scarfs and gloves.  So to my tailor's, and up and
+down, and then home and to my office a little, and then to supper and to
+bed, my heart sad and afflicted, though my judgment at ease.
+
+
+
+28th.  My tailor come to me betimes this morning, and having given him
+directions, I to the office and there all the morning.  At noon dined
+well.  Balty, who is mighty thoughtful how to dispose of his wife, and
+would fain have me provide a place for her, which the thoughts of what I
+should do with her if he should miscarry at sea makes me avoid the
+offering him that she should be at my house.  I find he is plainly
+jealous of her being in any place where she may have ill company, and I
+do pity him for it, and would be glad to help him, and will if I can.
+Having dined, I down by water with Sir W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, and [Sir]
+R. Ford to our prize, part of whose goods were condemned yesterday--
+"The Lindeboome"--and there we did drink some of her wine, very good.
+But it did grate my heart to see the poor master come on board, and look
+about into every corner, and find fault that she was not so clean as she
+used to be, though methought she was very clean; and to see his new
+masters come in, that had nothing to do with her, did trouble me to see
+him.  Thence to Blackwall and there to Mr. Johnson's, to see how some
+works upon some of our repaired ships go on, and at his house eat and
+drank and mighty extraordinary merry (too merry for me whose mother died
+so lately, but they know it not, so cannot reproach me therein, though I
+reproach myself), and in going home had many good stories of Sir W.
+Batten and one of Sir W. Pen, the most tedious and silly and troublesome
+(he forcing us to hear him) that ever I heard in my life.  So to the
+office awhile, troubled with Sir W. Pen's impertinences, he being half
+foxed at Johnson's, and so to bed.
+
+
+
+29th.  Lay long talking with my wife about Balty, whom I do wish very
+well to, and would be glad to advise him, for he is very sober and
+willing to take all pains.  Up and to Sir W. Batten, who I find has had
+some words with Sir W. Pen about the employing of a cooper about our
+prize wines, [Sir] W. Batten standing and indeed imposing upon us Mr.
+Morrice, which I like not, nor do [Sir] W. Pen, and I confess the very
+thoughts of what our goods will come to when we have them do discourage
+me in going any further in the adventure.  Then to the office till noon,
+doing business, and then to the Exchange, and thence to the Sun Taverne
+and dined with [Sir] W. Batten, [Sir] R. Ford, and the Swede's Agent to
+discourse of a composition about our prizes that are condemned, but did
+do little, he standing upon high terms and we doing the like.  I home,
+and there find Balty and his wife got thither both by my wife for me to
+give them good advice, for her to be with his father and mother all this
+time of absence, for saving of money, and did plainly and like a friend
+tell them my mind of the necessity of saving money, and that if I did not
+find they did endeavour it, I should not think fit to trouble myself for
+them, but I see she is utterly against being with his father and mother,
+and he is fond of her, and I perceive the differences between the old
+people and them are too great to be presently forgot, and so he do
+propose that it will be cheaper for him to put her to board at a place he
+is offered at Lee, and I, seeing that I am not like to be troubled with
+the finding a place, and having given him so much good advice, do leave
+them to stand and fall as they please, having discharged myself as a
+friend, and not likely to be accountable for her nor be troubled with
+her, if he should miscarry I mean, as to her lodging, and so broke up.
+Then he and I to make a visit to [Sir] W. Pen, who hath thought fit to
+show kindness to Balty in this business, indeed though he be a false
+rogue, but it was he knew a thing easy to do.  Thence together to my
+shoemaker's, cutler's, tailor's, and up and down about my mourning, and
+in my way do observe the great streets in the city are marked out with
+piles drove into the ground; and if ever it be built in that form with so
+fair streets, it will be a noble sight.  So to the Council chamber, but
+staid not there, but to a periwigg-maker's of his acquaintance, and there
+bought two periwiggs, mighty fine; indeed, too fine, I thought, for me;
+but he persuaded me, and I did buy them for L4 10s. the two.  Then to the
+Exchange and bought gloves, and so to the Bull-Head Taverne, whither he
+brought my, French gun; and one Truelocke, the famous gunsmith, that is a
+mighty ingenious man, and he did take my gun in pieces, and made me
+understand the secrets thereof and upon the whole I do find it a very
+good piece of work, and truly wrought; but for certain not a thing to be
+used much with safety: and he do find that this very gun was never yet
+shot off: I was mighty satisfied with it and him, and the sight of so
+much curiosity of this kind.  Here he brought also a haberdasher at my
+desire, and I bought a hat of him, and so away and called away my wife
+from his house, and so home and to read, and then to supper and to bed,
+my head full in behalf of Balty, who tells me strange stories of his
+mother.  Among others, how she, in his absence in Ireland, did pawne all
+the things that he had got in his service under Oliver, and run of her
+own accord, without her husband's leave, into Flanders, and that his
+purse, and 4s. a week which his father receives of the French church, is
+all the subsistence his father and mother have, and that about L20 a year
+maintains them; which, if it please God, I will find one way or other to
+provide for them, to remove that scandal away.
+
+
+
+30th.  Up, and the French periwigg maker of whom I bought two yesterday
+comes with them, and I am very well pleased with them.  So to the office,
+where all the morning.  At noon home to dinner, and thence with my wife's
+knowledge and leave did by coach go see the silly play of my Lady
+Newcastle's,  called "The Humourous Lovers;" the most silly thing that
+ever come upon a stage.  I was sick to see it, but yet would not but have
+seen it, that I might the better understand her.  Here I spied Knipp and
+Betty, of the King's house, and sent Knipp oranges, but, having little
+money about me, did not offer to carry them abroad, which otherwise I
+had, I fear, been tempted to.  So with [Sir] W. Pen home (he being at the
+play also), a most summer evening, and to my office, where, among other
+things, a most extraordinary letter to the Duke of York touching the want
+of money and the sad state of the King's service thereby, and so to
+supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+31st (Lord's day).  Up, and my tailor's boy brings my mourning clothes
+home, and my wife hers and Barker's, but they go not to church this
+morning.  I to church, and with my mourning, very handsome, and new
+periwigg, make a great shew.  After church home to dinner, and there come
+Betty Michell and her husband.  I do and shall love her, but, poor
+wretch, she is now almost ready to lie down.  After dinner Balty (who
+dined also with us) and I with Sir J. Minnes in his coach to White Hall,
+but did nothing, but by water to Strand Bridge and thence walked to my
+Lord Treasurer's, where the King, Duke of York, and the Caball, and much
+company without; and a fine day.  Anon come out from the Caball my Lord
+Hollis and Mr. H. Coventry, who, it is conceived, have received their
+instructions from the King this day; they being to begin their journey
+towards their treaty at Bredagh speedily, their passes being come.  Here
+I saw the Lady Northumberland and her daughter-in-law, my Lord
+Treasurer's daughter, my Lady Piercy, a beautiful lady indeed.  So away
+back by water, and left Balty at White Hall and I to Mrs. Martin .  .  .
+.  and so by coach home, and there to my chamber, and then to supper and
+bed, having not had time to make up my accounts of this month at this
+very day, but will in a day or two, and pay my forfeit for not doing it,
+though business hath most hindered me.  The month shuts up only with
+great desires of peace in all of us, and a belief that we shall have a
+peace, in most people, if a peace can be had on any terms, for there is a
+necessity of it; for we cannot go on with the war, and our masters are
+afraid to come to depend upon the good will of the Parliament any more,
+as I do hear.
+
+
+
+
+ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:
+
+Angling with a minikin, a gut-string varnished over
+Better now than never
+Bring me a periwig, but it was full of nits
+Buying up of goods in case there should be war
+For I will not be inward with him that is open to another
+He is a man of no worth in the world but compliment
+History of this day's growth, we cannot tell the truth
+I love the treason I hate the traitor
+King of France did think other princes fit for nothing
+My wife will keep to one another and let the world go hang
+No man knowing what to do, whether to sell or buy
+Not more than I expected, nor so much by a great deal as I ought
+Now above six months since (smoke from the cellars)
+Reparation for what we had embezzled
+Uncertainty of all history
+Whatever I do give to anybody else, I shall give her
+
+
+
+
+End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v58
+by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley
+
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