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diff --git a/4174.txt b/4174.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fa17dc1 --- /dev/null +++ b/4174.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1789 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, March 1966/67, by Samuel Pepys + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, March 1966/67 + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Release Date: December 1, 2004 [EBook #4174] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, MARCH *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY + MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + 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 + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Diary of Samuel Pepys, March 1966/67 +by Samuel Pepys + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, MARCH *** + +***** This file should be named 4174.txt or 4174.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/7/4174/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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