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Up, it being very cold weather again after a good deal of +warm summer weather, and to the office, where I settled to do much +business to-day. By and by sent for to Sir G. Carteret to discourse of +the business of the Navy, and our wants, and the best way of bestowing +the little money we have, which is about L30,000, but, God knows, we have +need of ten times as much, which do make my life uncomfortable, I +confess, on the King's behalf, though it is well enough as to my own +particular, but the King's service is undone by it. Having done with +him, back again to the office, and in the streets, in Mark Lane, I do +observe, it being St. David's day, the picture of a man dressed like a +Welchman, hanging by the neck upon one of the poles that stand out at the +top of one of the merchants' houses, in full proportion, and very +handsomely done; which is one of the oddest sights I have seen a good +while, for it was so like a man that one would have thought it was indeed +a man. + + [From "Poor Robin's Almanack" for 1757 it appears that, in former + times in England, a Welshman was burnt in effigy on this + anniversary. Mr. W. C. Hazlitt, in his edition of Brand's "Popular + Antiquities," adds "The practice to which Pepys refers . . . was + very common at one time; and till very lately bakers made + gingerbread Welshmen, called taffies, on St. David's day, which were + made to represent a man skewered" (vol. i., pp. 60,61).] + +Being returned home, I find Greeting, the flageolet-master, come, and +teaching my wife; and I do think my wife will take pleasure in it, and it +will be easy for her, and pleasant. So I, as I am well content with the +charge it will occasion me. So to the office till dinner-time, and then +home to dinner, and before dinner making my wife to sing. Poor wretch! +her ear is so bad that it made me angry, till the poor wretch cried to +see me so vexed at her, that I think I shall not discourage her so much +again, but will endeavour to make her understand sounds, and do her good +that way; for she hath a great mind to learn, only to please me; and, +therefore, I am mighty unjust to her in discouraging her so much, but we +were good friends, and to dinner, and had she not been ill with those and +that it were not Friday (on which in Lent there are no plays) I had +carried her to a play, but she not being fit to go abroad, I to the +office, where all the afternoon close examining the collection of my +papers of the accounts of the Navy since this war to my great content, +and so at night home to talk and sing with my-wife, and then to supper +and so to bed with great pleasure. But I cannot but remember that just +before dinner one of my people come up to me, and told me a man come from +Huntingdon would speak with me, how my heart come into my mouth doubting +that my father, who has been long sicke, was dead. It put me into a +trembling, but, blessed be [God]! it was no such thing, but a countryman +come about ordinary business to me, to receive L50 paid to my father in +the country for the Perkins's for their legacy, upon the death of their +mother, by my uncle's will. So though I get nothing at present, at least +by the estate, I am fain to pay this money rather than rob my father, and +much good may it do them that I may have no more further trouble from +them. I hear to-day that Tom Woodall, the known chyrurgeon, is killed at +Somerset House by a Frenchman, but the occasion Sir W. Batten could not +tell me. + + + +2nd. Up, and to the office, where sitting all the morning, and among +other things did agree upon a distribution of L30,000 and odd, which is +the only sum we hear of like to come out of all the Poll Bill for the use +of this office for buying of goods. I did herein some few courtesies for +particular friends I wished well to, and for the King's service also, and +was therefore well pleased with what was done. Sir W. Pen this day did +bring an order from the Duke of York for our receiving from him a small +vessel for a fireship, and taking away a better of the King's for it, it +being expressed for his great service to the King. This I am glad of, +not for his sake, but that it will give me a better ground, I believe, to +ask something for myself of this kind, which I was fearful to begin. This +do make Sir W. Pen the most kind to me that can be. I suppose it is +this, lest it should find any opposition from me, but I will not oppose, +but promote it. After dinner, with my wife, to the King's house to see +"The Mayden Queene," a new play of Dryden's, mightily commended for the +regularity of it, and the strain and wit; and, the truth is, there is a +comical part done by Nell, + + ["Her skill increasing with her years, other poets sought to obtain + recommendations of her wit and beauty to the success of their + writings. I have said that Dryden was one of the principal + supporters of the King's house, and ere long in one of his new plays + a principal character was set apart for the popular comedian. The + drama was a tragi-comedy called 'Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen,' + and an additional interest was attached to its production from the + king having suggested the plot to its author, and calling it `his + play.'"--Cunningham's Story of Nell Gwyn, ed: 1892, pp. 38,39.] + +which is Florimell, that I never can hope ever to see the like done +again, by man or woman. The King and Duke of York were at the play. But +so great performance of a comical part was never, I believe, in the world +before as Nell do this, both as a mad girle, then most and best of all +when she comes in like a young gallant; and hath the notions and carriage +of a spark the most that ever I saw any man have. It makes me, I +confess, admire her. Thence home and to the office, where busy a while, +and then home to read the lives of Henry 5th and 6th, very fine, in +Speede, and to bed. This day I did pay a bill of L50 from my father, +being so much out of my own purse gone to pay my uncle Robert's legacy to +my aunt Perkins's child. + + + +3rd (Lord's day). Lay long, merrily talking with my wife, and then up +and to church, where a dull sermon of Mr. Mills touching Original Sin, +and then home, and there find little Michell and his wife, whom I love +mightily. Mightily contented I was in their company, for I love her +much; and so after dinner I left them and by water from the Old Swan to +White Hall, where, walking in the galleries, I in the first place met Mr. +Pierce, who tells me the story of Tom Woodall, the surgeon, killed in a +drunken quarrel, and how the Duke of York hath a mind to get him [Pierce] +one of his places in St. Thomas's Hospitall. Then comes Mr. Hayward, the +Duke of York's servant, and tells us that the Swede's Embassador hath +been here to-day with news that it is believed that the Dutch will yield +to have the treaty at London or Dover, neither of which will get our King +any credit, we having already consented to have it at The Hague; which, +it seems, De Witt opposed, as a thing wherein the King of England must +needs have some profound design, which in my conscience he hath not. +They do also tell me that newes is this day come to the King, that the +King of France is come with his army to the frontiers of Flanders, +demanding leave to pass through their country towards Poland, but is +denied, and thereupon that he is gone into the country. How true this is +I dare not believe till I hear more. From them I walked into the Parke, +it being a fine but very cold day; and there took two or three turns the +length of the Pell Mell: and there I met Serjeant Bearcroft, who was sent +for the Duke of Buckingham, to have brought him prisoner to the Tower. +He come to towne this day, and brings word that, being overtaken and +outrid by the Duchesse of Buckingham within a few miles of the Duke's +house of Westhorp, he believes she got thither about a quarter of an +hour before him, and so had time to consider; so that, when he come, the +doors were kept shut against him. The next day, coming with officers of +the neighbour market-town to force open the doors, they were open for +him, but the Duke gone; so he took horse presently, and heard upon the +road that the Duke of Buckingham was gone before him for London: so that +he believes he is this day also come to towne before him; but no newes is +yet heard of him. This is all he brings. Thence to my Lord +Chancellor's, and there, meeting Sir H. Cholmly, he and I walked in my +Lord's garden, and talked; among other things, of the treaty: and he says +there will certainly be a peace, but I cannot believe it. He tells me +that the Duke of Buckingham his crimes, as far as he knows, are his being +of a caball with some discontented persons of the late House of Commons, +and opposing the desires of the King in all his matters in that House; +and endeavouring to become popular, and advising how the Commons' House +should proceed, and how he would order the House of Lords. And that he +hath been endeavouring to have the King's nativity calculated; which was +done, and the fellow now in the Tower about it; which itself hath +heretofore, as he says, been held treason, and people died for it; but by +the Statute of Treasons, in Queen Mary's times and since, it hath been +left out. He tells me that this silly Lord hath provoked, by his ill- +carriage, the Duke of York, my Lord Chancellor, and all the great +persons; and therefore, most likely, will die. He tells me, too, many +practices of treachery against this King; as betraying him in Scotland, +and giving Oliver an account of the King's private councils; which the +King knows very well, and hath yet pardoned him. + + [Two of our greatest poets have drawn the character of the Duke of + Buckingham in brilliant verse, and both have condemned him to + infamy. There is enough in Pepys's reports to corroborate the main + features of Dryden's magnificent portrait of Zimri in "Absolom and + Achitophel": + + "In the first rank of these did Zimri stand; + A man so various that he seemed to be + Not one, but all mankind's epitome; + Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; + Was everything by starts, and nothing long, + + But, in the course of one revolving moon, + Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon; + Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, + Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking, + * * * * * * * + He laughed himself from Court, then sought relief + By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief." + + Pope's facts are not correct, and hence the effect of his picture is + impaired. In spite of the duke's constant visits to the Tower, + Charles II. still continued his friend; but on the death of the + king, expecting little from James, he retired to his estate at + Helmsley, in Yorkshire, to nurse his property and to restore his + constitution. He died on April 16th, 1687, at Kirkby Moorside, + after a few days' illness, caused by sitting on the damp grass when + heated from a fox chase. The scene of his death was the house of a + tenant, not "the worst inn's worst room" (Moral Essays," epist. + iii.). He was buried in Westminster Abbey.] + +Here I passed away a little time more talking with him and Creed, whom I +met there, and so away, Creed walking with me to White Hall, and there I +took water and stayed at Michell's to drink. I home, and there to read +very good things in Fuller's "Church History," and "Worthies," and so to +supper, and after supper had much good discourse with W. Hewer, who +supped with us, about the ticket office and the knaveries and extortions +every day used there, and particularly of the business of Mr. Carcasse, +whom I fear I shall find a very rogue. So parted with him, and then to +bed. + + + +4th. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes and [Sir] W. Batten by barge to Deptford +by eight in the morning, where to the King's yard a little to look after +business there, and then to a private storehouse to look upon some +cordage of Sir W. Batten's, and there being a hole formerly made for a +drain for tarr to run into, wherein the barrel stood still, full of +stinking water, Sir W. Batten did fall with one leg into it, which might +have been very bad to him by breaking a leg or other hurt, but, thanks be +to God, he only sprained his foot a little. So after his shifting his +stockings at a strong water shop close by, we took barge again, and so to +Woolwich, where our business was chiefly to look upon the ballast wharfe +there, which is offered us for the King's use to hire, but we do not +think it worth the laying out much money upon, unless we could buy the +fee-simple of it, which cannot be sold us, so we wholly flung it off: So +to the Dockyard, and there staid a while talking about business of the +yard, and thence to the Rope-yard, and so to the White Hart and there +dined, and Captain Cocke with us, whom we found at the Rope-yard, and +very merry at dinner, and many pretty tales of Sir J. Minnes, which I +have entered in my tale book. But by this time Sir W. Batten was come to +be in much pain in his foot, so as he was forced to be carried down in a +chair to the barge again, and so away to Deptford, and there I a little +in the yard, and then to Bagwell's, where I find his wife washing, and +also I did 'hazer tout que je voudrais con' her, and then sent for her +husband, and discoursed of his going to Harwich this week to his charge +of the new ship building there, which I have got him, and so away, walked +to Redriffe, and there took boat and away home, and upon Tower Hill, near +the ticket office, meeting with my old acquaintance Mr. Chaplin, the +cheesemonger, and there fell to talk of news, and he tells me that for +certain the King of France is denied passage with his army through +Flanders, and that he hears that the Dutch do stand upon high terms with +us, and will have a promise of not being obliged to strike the flag to us +before they will treat with us, and other high things, which I am ashamed +of and do hope will never be yielded to. That they do make all +imaginable preparations, but that he believes they will be in mighty want +of men; that the King of France do court us mightily. He tells me too +that our Lord-Treasurer is going to lay down, and that Lord Arlington is +to be Lord Treasurer, but I believe nothing of it, for he is not yet of +estate visible enough to have the charge I suppose upon him. So being +parted from him I home to the office, and after having done business +there I home to supper, and there mightily pleased with my wife's +beginning the flagellette, believing that she will come to very well +thereon. This day in the barge I took Berckenshaw's translation of +Alsted his Templum, but the most ridiculous book, as he has translated +it, that ever I saw in my life, I declaring that I understood not three +lines together from one end of the book to the other. + + + +5th. Up, and to the office, where met and sat all the morning, doing +little for want of money, but only bear the countenance of an office. At +noon home to dinner, and then to the office again, and there comes Martin +my purser, and I walked with him awhile in the garden, I giving him good +advice to beware of coming any more with high demands for supernumeraries +or other things, for now Sir W. Pen is come to mind the business, the +passing of his accounts will not be so easy as the last. He tells me he +will never need it again, it being as easy, and to as much purpose to do +the same thing otherwise, and how he do keep his Captain's table, and by +that means hath the command of his Captains, and do not fear in a 5th- +rate ship constantly employed to get a L1000 in five years time, and this +year, besides all his spendings, which are I fear high, he hath got at +this day clear above L150 in a voyage of about five or six months, which +is a brave trade. He gone I to the office, and there all the afternoon +late doing much business, and then to see Sir W. Batten, whose leg is all +but better than it was, and like to do well. I by discourse do perceive +he and his Lady are to their hearts out with my Lord Bruncker and Mrs. +Williams, to which I added something, but, I think, did not venture too +far with them. But, Lord! to see to what a poor content any acquaintance +among these people, or the people of the world, as they now-adays go, is +worth; for my part I and my wife will keep to one another and let the +world go hang, for there is nothing but falseness in it. So home to +supper and hear my wife and girle sing a little, and then to bed with +much content of mind. + + + +6th. Up, and with [Sir] W. Pen to White Hall by coach, and by the way +agreed to acquaint [Sir] W. Coventry with the business of Mr. Carcasse, +and he and I spoke to Sir W. Coventry that we might move it to the Duke +of York, which I did in a very indifferent, that is, impartial manner, +but vexed I believe Lord Bruncker. Here the Duke of York did acquaint +us, and the King did the like also, afterwards coming in, with his +resolution of altering the manner of the war this year; that is, we shall +keep what fleete we have abroad in several squadrons: so that now all is +come out; but we are to keep it as close as we can, without hindering the +work that is to be done in preparation to this. Great preparations there +are to fortify Sheernesse and the yard at Portsmouth, and forces are +drawing down to both those places, and elsewhere by the seaside; so that +we have some fear of an invasion; and the Duke of York himself did +declare his expectation of the enemy's blocking us up here in the River, +and therefore directed that we should send away all the ships that we +have to fit out hence. Sir W. Pen told me, going with me this morning to +White Hall, that for certain the Duke of Buckingham is brought into the +Tower, and that he hath had an hour's private conference with the King +before he was sent thither. To Westminster Hall. There bought some news +books, and, as every where else, hear every body complain of the dearness +of coals, being at L4 per chaldron, the weather, too, being become most +bitter cold, the King saying to-day that it was the coldest day he ever +knew in England. Thence by coach to my Lord Crew's, where very welcome. +Here I find they are in doubt where the Duke of Buckingham is; which +makes me mightily reflect on the uncertainty of all history, when, in a +business of this moment, and of this day's growth, we cannot tell the +truth. Here dined my old acquaintance, Mr. Borfett, that was my Lord +Sandwich's chaplain, and my Lady Wright and Dr. Boreman, who is preacher +at St. Gyles's in the Fields, who, after dinner, did give my Lord an +account of two papist women lately converted, whereof one wrote her +recantation, which he shewed under her own hand mighty well drawn, so as +my Lord desired a copy of it, after he had satisfied himself from the +Doctor, that to his knowledge she was not a woman under any necessity. +Thence by coach home and staid a very little, and then by water to +Redriffe, and walked to Bagwell's, where 'la moher' was 'defro, sed' +would not have me 'demeurer' there 'parce que' Mrs. Batters and one of my +'ancillas', I believe Jane (for she was gone abroad to-day), was in the +town, and coming thither; so I away presently, esteeming it a great +escape. So to the yard and spoke a word or two, and then by water home, +wondrous cold, and reading a ridiculous ballad made in praise of the Duke +of Albemarle, to the tune of St. George, the tune being printed, too; and +I observe that people have some great encouragement to make ballads of +him of this kind. There are so many, that hereafter he will sound like +Guy of Warwicke. Then abroad with my wife, leaving her at the 'Change, +while I to Sir H. Cholmly's, a pretty house, and a fine, worthy, well- +disposed gentleman he is. He and I to Sir Ph. Warwicke's, about money +for Tangier, but to little purpose. H. Cholmley tells me, among other +things, that he hears of little hopes of a peace, their demands being so +high as we shall never grant, and could tell me that we shall keep no +fleete abroad this year, but only squadrons. And, among other things, +that my Lord Bellasses, he believes, will lose his command of Tangier by +his corrupt covetous ways of .endeavouring to sell his command, which I +am glad [of], for he is a man of no worth in the world but compliment. +So to the 'Change, and there bought 32s. worth of things for Mrs. Knipp, +my Valentine, which is pretty to see how my wife is come to convention +with me, that, whatever I do give to anybody else, I shall give her as +much, which I am not much displeased with. So home and to the office and +Sir W. Batten, to tell him what I had done to-day about Carcasse's +business, and God forgive me I am not without design to give a blow to +Sir W. Batten by it. So home, where Mr. Batelier supped with us and +talked away the evening pretty late, and so he gone and we to bed. + + + +7th. So up, and to the office, my head full of Carcasse's business; then +hearing that Knipp is at my house, I home, and it was about a ticket for +a friend of hers. I do love the humour of the jade very well. So to the +office again, not being able to stay, and there about noon my Lord +Bruncker did begin to talk of Carcasse's business. Only Commissioner +Pett, my Lord, and I there, and it was pretty to see how Pett hugged the +occasion of having anything against Sir W. Batten, which I am not much +troubled at, for I love him not neither. Though I did really endeavour +to quash it all I could, because I would prevent their malice taking +effect. My Lord I see is fully resolved to vindicate Carcasse, though to +the undoing of Sir W. Batten, but I believe he will find himself in a +mistake, and do himself no good, and that I shall be glad of, for though +I love the treason I hate the traitor. But he is vexed at my moving it +to the Duke of York yesterday, which I answered well, so as I think he +could not answer. But, Lord! it is pretty to see how Pett hugs this +business, and how he favours my Lord Bruncker; who to my knowledge hates +him, and has said more to his disadvantage, in my presence, to the King +and Duke of York than any man in England, and so let them thrive one with +another by cheating one another, for that is all I observe among them. +Thence home late, and find my wife hath dined, and she and Mrs. Hewer +going to a play. Here was Creed, and he and I to Devonshire House, to a +burial of a kinsman of Sir R. Viner's; and there I received a ring, and +so away presently to Creed, who staid for me at an alehouse hard by, and +thence to the Duke's playhouse, where he parted, and I in and find my +wife and Mrs. Hewer, and sat by them and saw "The English Princesse, or +Richard the Third;" a most sad, melancholy play, and pretty good; but +nothing eminent in it, as some tragedys are; only little Mis. Davis did +dance a jig after the end of the play, and there telling the next day's +play; so that it come in by force only to please the company to see her +dance in boy's 'clothes; and, the truth is, there is no comparison +between Nell's dancing the other day at the King's house in boy's clothes +and this, this being infinitely beyond the other. Mere was Mr. Clerke +and Pierce, to whom one word only of "How do you," and so away home, Mrs: +Hewer with us, and I to the office and so to [Sir] W. Batten's, and there +talked privately with him and [Sir] W. Pen about business of Carcasse +against tomorrow, wherein I think I did give them proof enough of my +ability as well as friendship to [Sir] W. Batten, and the honour of the +office, in my sense of the rogue's business. So back to finish my office +business, and then home to supper, and to bed. This day, Commissioner +Taylor come to me for advice, and would force me to take ten pieces in +gold of him, which I had no mind to, he being become one of our number at +the Board. This day was reckoned by all people the coldest day that ever +was remembered in England; and, God knows! coals at a very great price. + + + +8th. Up, and to the Old Swan, where drank at Michell's, but not seeing +her whom I love I by water to White Hall, and there acquainted Sir G. +Carteret betimes what I had to say this day before the Duke of York in +the business of Carcasse, which he likes well of, being a great enemy to +him, and then I being too early here to go to Sir W. Coventry's chamber, +having nothing to say to him, and being able to give him but a bad +account of the business of the office (which is a shame to me, and that +which I shall rue if I do not recover), to the Exchequer about getting a +certificate of Mr. Lanyon's entered at Sir R. Longs office, and strange +it is to see what horrid delays there are at this day in the business of +money, there being nothing yet come from my Lord Treasurer to set the +business of money in action since the Parliament broke off, +notwithstanding the greatness and number of the King's occasions for it. +So to the Swan, and there had three or four baisers of the little ancilla +there, and so to Westminster Hall, where I saw Mr. Martin, the purser, +come through with a picture in his hand, which he had bought, and +observed how all the people of the Hall did fleer and laugh upon him, +crying, "There is plenty grown upon a sudden;" and, the truth is, I was a +little troubled that my favour should fall on so vain a fellow as he, and +the more because, methought, the people do gaze upon me as the man that +had raised him, and as if they guessed whence my kindness to him springs. +So thence to White Hall, where I find all met at the Duke of York's +chamber; and, by and by, the Duke of York comes, and Carcasse is called +in, and I read the depositions and his answers, and he added with great +confidence and good words, even almost to persuasion, what to say; and my +Lord Bruncker, like a very silly solicitor, argued against me and us all +for him; and, being asked first by the Duke of York his opinion, did give +it for his being excused. I next did answer the contrary very plainly, +and had, in this dispute, which vexed and will never be forgot by my +Lord, many occasions of speaking severely, and did, against his bad +practices. Commissioner Pett, like a fawning rogue, sided with my Lord, +but to no purpose; and [Sir] W. Pen, like a cunning rogue, spoke mighty +indifferently, and said nothing in all the fray, like a knave as he is. +But [Sir] W. Batten spoke out, and did come off himself by the Duke's +kindness very well; and then Sir G. Carteret, and Sir W. Coventry, and +the Duke of York himself, flatly as I said; and so he was declared unfit +to continue in, and therefore to be presently discharged the office; +which, among other good effects, I hope, will make my Lord Bruncker not +'alloquer' so high, when he shall consider he hath had such a publick +foyle as this is. So home with [Sir] W. Batten, and [Sir] W. Pen, by +coach, and there met at the office, and my Lord Bruncker presently after +us, and there did give order to Mr. Stevens for securing the tickets in +Carcasses hands, which my Lord against his will could not refuse to sign, +and then home to dinner, and so away with my wife by coach, she to Mrs. +Pierce's and I to my Lord Bellasses, and with him to [my] Lord +Treasurer's, where by agreement we met with Sir H. Cholmly, and there sat +and talked all the afternoon almost about one thing or other, expecting +Sir Philip Warwicke's coming, but he come not, so we away towards night, +Sir H. Cholmly and I to the Temple, and there parted, telling me of my +Lord Bellasses's want of generosity, and that he [Bellasses] will +certainly be turned out of his government, and he thinks himself stands +fair for it. So home, and there found, as I expected, Mrs. Pierce and +Mr. Batelier; he went for Mrs. Jones, but no Mrs. Knipp come, which vexed +me, nor any other company. So with one fidler we danced away the +evening, but I was not well contented with the littleness of the room, +and my wife's want of preparing things ready, as they should be, for +supper, and bad. So not very merry, though very well pleased. So after +supper to bed, my wife and Mrs. Pierce, and her boy James and I. +Yesterday I began to make this mark (V) stand instead of three pricks, +which therefore I must observe every where, it being a mark more easy to +make. + + + +9th. Up, and to the office, where sat all the morning busy. At noon +home to dinner, where Mrs. Pierce did continue with us and her boy (who I +still find every day more and more witty beyond his age), and did dine +with us, and by and by comes in her husband and a brother-in-law of his, +a parson, one of the tallest biggest men that ever I saw in my life. So +to the office, where a meeting extraordinary about settling the number +and wages of my Lord Bruncker's clerks for his new work upon the +Treasurer's accounts, but this did put us upon running into the business +of yesterday about Carcasse, wherein I perceive he is most dissatisfied +with me, and I am not sorry for it, having all the world but him of my +side therein, for it will let him know another time that he is not to +expect our submitting to him in every thing, as I think he did heretofore +expect. He did speak many severe words to me, and I returned as many to +him, so that I do think there cannot for a great while, be, any right +peace between us, and I care not a fart for it; but however, I must look +about me and mind my business, for I perceive by his threats and +enquiries he is and will endeavour to find out something against me or +mine. Breaking up here somewhat brokenly I home, and carried Mrs. Pierce +and wife to the New Exchange, and there did give her and myself a pair of +gloves, and then set her down at home, and so back again straight home +and thereto do business, and then to Sir W. Batten's, where [Sir] W. Pen +and others, and mighty merry, only I have got a great cold, and the +scolding this day at the office with my Lord Bruncker hath made it worse, +that I am not able to speak. But, Lord! to see how kind Sir W. Batten +and his Lady are to me upon this business of my standing by [Sir] W. +Batten against Carcasse, and I am glad of it. Captain Cocke, who was +here to-night, did tell us that he is certain that yesterday a +proclamation was voted at the Council, touching the proclaiming of my +Lord Duke of Buckingham a traytor, and that it will be out on Monday. +So home late, and drank some buttered ale, and so to bed and to sleep. +This cold did most certainly come by my staying a little too long bare- +legged yesterday morning when I rose while I looked out fresh socks and +thread stockings, yesterday's having in the night, lying near the window, +been covered with snow within the window, which made me I durst not put +them on. + + + +10th (Lord's day). Having my cold still grown more upon me, so as I am +not able to speak, I lay in bed till noon, and then up and to my chamber +with a good fire, and there spent an hour on Morly's Introduction to +Musique, a very good but unmethodical book. Then to dinner, my wife and +I, and then all the afternoon alone in my chamber preparing a letter for +Commissioner Taylor to the City about getting his accounts for The Loyal +London, + + [The "Loyal London" was the ship given to the king by the City. It + was launched at Deptford on June loth, 1666] + +by him built for them, stated and discharged, they owing him still about +L4000. Towards the evening comes Mr. Spong to see me, whose discourse +about several things I proposed to him was very good, better than I have +had with any body a good while. He gone, I to my business again, and +anon comes my Lady Pen and her son-in law and daughter, and there we +talked all the evening away, and then to supper; and after supper comes +Sir W. Pen, and there we talked together, and then broke up, and so to +bed. He tells me that our Mr. Turner has seen the proclamation against +the Duke of Buckingham, and that therefore it is true what we heard last +night. Yesterday and to-day I have been troubled with a hoarseness +through cold that I could not almost speak. + + + +11th. Up, and with my cold still upon me and hoarseness, but I was +forced to rise and to the office, where all the morning busy, and among +other things Sir W. Warren come to me, to whom of late I have been very +strange, partly from my indifference how more than heretofore to get +money, but most from my finding that he is become great with my Lord +Bruncker, and so I dare not trust him as I used to do, for I will not be +inward with him that is open to another. By and by comes Sir H. Cholmly +to me about Tangier business, and then talking of news he tells me how +yesterday the King did publiquely talk of the King of France's dealing +with all the Princes of Christendome. As to the States of Holland, he +[the King of France] hath advised them, on good grounds, to refuse to +treat with us at the Hague, because of having opportunity of spies, by +reason of our interest in the House of Orange; and then, it being a town +in one particular province, it would not be fit to have it, but in a town +wherein the provinces have equal interest, as at Mastricht, and other +places named. That he advises them to offer no terms, nor accept of any, +without his privity and consent, according to agreement; and tells them, +if not so, he hath in his power to be even with them, the King of England +being come to offer him any terms he pleases; and that my Lord St. Albans +is now at Paris, Plenipotentiary, to make what peace he pleases; and so +he can make it, and exclude them, the Dutch, if he sees fit. A copy of +this letter of the King of France's the Spanish Ambassador here gets, and +comes and tells all to our King; which our King denies, and says the King +of France only uses his power of saying anything. At the same time, the +King of France writes to the Emperor, that he is resolved to do all +things to express affection to the Emperor, having it now in his power to +make what peace he pleases between the King of England and him, and the +States of the United Provinces; and, therefore, that he would not have +him to concern himself in a friendship with us; and assures him that, +on that regard, he will not offer anything to his disturbance, in his +interest in Flanders, or elsewhere. He writes, at the same time, to +Spayne, to tell him that he wonders to hear of a league almost ended +between the Crown of Spayne and England, by my Lord Sandwich, and all +without his privity, while he was making a peace upon what terms he +pleased with England: that he is a great lover of the Crown of Spayne, +and would take the King and his affairs, during his minority, into his +protection, nor would offer to set his foot in Flanders, or any where +else, to disturb him; and, therefore, would not have him to trouble +himself to make peace with any body; only he hath a desire to offer an +exchange, which he thinks may be of moment to both sides: that is, that +he [France] will enstate the King of Spayne in the kingdom of Portugall, +and he and the Dutch will put him into possession of Lisbon; and, that +being done, he [France] may have Flanders: and this, they say; do +mightily take in Spayne, which is sensible of the fruitless expence +Flanders, so far off, gives them; and how much better it would be for +them to be master of Portugall; and the King of France offers, for +security herein, that the King of England shall be bond for him, and that +he will countersecure the King of England with Amsterdam; and, it seems, +hath assured our King, that if he will make a league with him, he will +make a peace exclusive to the Hollander. These things are almost +romantique, but yet true, as Sir H. Cholmly tells me the King himself did +relate it all yesterday; and it seems as if the King of France did think +other princes fit for nothing but to make sport for him: but simple +princes they are, that are forced to suffer this from him. So at noon +with Sir W. Pen by coach to the Sun in Leadenhall Streete, where Sir R. +Ford, Sir W. Batten, and Commissioner Taylor (whose feast it was) were, +and we dined and had a very good dinner. Among other discourses Sir R. +Ford did tell me that he do verily believe that the city will in few +years be built again in all the greatest streets, and answered the +objections I did give to it. Here we had the proclamation this day come +out against the Duke of Buckingham, commanding him to come in to one of +the Secretaries, or to the Lieutenant of the Tower. A silly, vain man to +bring himself to this: and there be many hard circumstances in the +proclamation of the causes of this proceeding of the King's, which speak +great displeasure of the King's, and crimes of his. Then to discourse of +the business of the day, that is, to see Commissioner Taylor's accounts +for his ship he built, The Loyall London, and it is pretty to see how +dully this old fellow makes his demands, and yet plaguy wise sayings will +come from the man sometimes, and also how Sir R. Ford and [Sir] W. Batten +did with seeming reliance advise him what to do, and how to come prepared +to answer objections to the Common Council. Thence away to the office, +where late busy, and then home to supper, mightily pleased with my wife's +trill, and so to bed. This night Mr. Carcasse did come to me again to +desire favour, and that I would mediate that he might be restored, but I +did give him no kind answer at all, but was very angry, and I confess a +good deal of it from my Lord Bruncker's simplicity and passion. + + + +12th. Up, and to the office, where all-the morning, and my Lord Bruncker +mighty quiet, and no words all day, which I wonder at, expecting that he +would have fallen again upon the business of Carcasse, and the more for +that here happened that Perkins, who was the greatest witness of all +against him, was brought in by Sir W. Batten to prove that he did really +belong to The Prince, but being examined was found rather a fool than +anything, as not being able to give any account when he come in nor when +he come out of her, more than that he was taken by the Dutch in her, but +did agree in earnest to Sir W. Pen's saying that she lay up all, the +winter before at Lambeth. This I confess did make me begin to doubt the +truth of his evidence, but not to doubt the faults of Carcasse, for he +was condemned by, many other better evidences than his, besides the whole +world's report. At noon home, and there find Mr. Goodgroome, whose +teaching of my wife only by singing over and over again to her, and +letting her sing with him, not by herself, to correct her faults, I do +not like at all, but was angry at it; but have this content, that I do +think she will come to sing pretty well, and to trill in time, which +pleases me well. He dined with us, and then to the office, when we had a +sorry meeting to little purpose, and then broke up, and I to my office, +and busy late to good purpose, and so home to supper and to bed. This +day a poor seaman, almost starved for want of food, lay in our yard a- +dying. I sent him half-a-crown, and we ordered his ticket to be paid. + + + +13th. Up, and with [Sir] W. Batten to the Duke of York to our usual +attendance, where I did fear my Lord Bruncker might move something in +revenge that might trouble me, but he did not, but contrarily had the +content to hear Sir G. Carteret fall foul on him in the Duke of York's +bed chamber for his directing people with tickets and petitions to him, +bidding him mind his Controller's place and not his, for if he did he +should be too hard for him, and made high words, which I was glad of. +Having done our usual business with the Duke of York, I away; and meeting +Mr. D. Gawden in the presence-chamber, he and I to talk; and among other +things he tells me, and I do find every where else, also, that our +masters do begin not to like of their councils in fitting out no fleete, +but only squadrons, and are finding out excuses for it; and, among +others, he tells me a Privy-Councillor did tell him that it was said in +Council that a fleete could not be set out this year, for want of +victuals, which gives him and me a great alarme, but me especially for +had it been so, I ought to have represented it; and therefore it puts me +in policy presently to prepare myself to answer this objection, if ever +it should come about, by drawing up a state of the Victualler's stores, +which I will presently do. So to Westminster Hall, and there staid and +talked, and then to Sir G. Carteret's, where I dined with the ladies, he +not at home, and very well used I am among them, so that I am heartily +ashamed that my wife hath not been there to see them; but she shall very +shortly. So home by water, and stepped into Michell's, and there did +baiser my Betty, 'que aegrotat' a little. At home find Mr. Holliard, and +made him eat a bit of victuals. Here I find Mr. Greeten, who teaches my +wife on the flageolet, and I think she will come to something on it. Mr. +Holliard advises me to have my father come up to town, for he doubts else +in the country he will never find ease, for, poor man, his grief is now +grown so great upon him that he is never at ease, so I will have him up +at Easter. By and by by coach, set down Mr. Holliard near his house at +Hatton Garden and myself to Lord Treasurer's, and sent my wife to the New +Exchange. I staid not here, but to Westminster Hall, and thence to +Martin's, where he and she both within, and with them the little widow +that was once there with her when I was there, that dissembled so well to +be grieved at hearing a tune that her, late husband liked, but there +being so much company, I had no pleasure here, and so away to the Hall +again, and there met Doll Lane coming out, and 'par contrat did hazer +bargain para aller to the cabaret de vin', called the Rose, and 'ibi' I +staid two hours, 'sed' she did not 'venir', 'lequel' troubled me, and so +away by coach and took up my wife, and away home, and so to Sir W. +Batten's, where I am told that it is intended by Mr. Carcasse to pray me +to be godfather with Lord Bruncker to-morrow to his child, which I +suppose they tell me in mirth, but if he should ask me I know not whether +I should refuse it or no. Late at my office preparing a speech against +to-morrow morning, before the King, at my Lord Treasurer's, and the truth +is it run in my head all night. So home to supper and to bed. The Duke +of Buckingham is concluded gone over sea, and, it is thought, to France. + + + +14th. Up, and with Sir W. Batten and [Sir] W. Pen to my Lord +Treasurer's, where we met with my Lord Bruncker an hour before the King +come, and had time to talk a little of our business. Then come much +company, among others Sir H. Cholmly, who tells me that undoubtedly my +Lord Bellasses will go no more as Governor to Tangier, and that he do put +in fair for it, and believes he shall have it, and proposes how it may +conduce to his account and mine in the business of money. Here we fell +into talk with Sir Stephen Fox, and, among other things, of the Spanish +manner of walking, when three together, and shewed me how, which was +pretty, to prevent differences. By and by comes the King and Duke of +York, and presently the officers of the Ordnance were called; my Lord +Berkeley, Sir John Duncomb, and Mr. Chichly; then we, my Lord Bruncker, +[Sir] W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, and myself; where we find only the King +and Duke of York, and my Lord Treasurer, and Sir G. Carteret; where I +only did speak, laying down the state of our wants, which the King and +Duke of York seemed very well pleased with, and we did get what we asked, +L500,000, assigned upon the eleven months' tax: but that is not so much +ready money, or what will raise L40,000 per week, which we desired, and +the business will want. Yet are we fain to come away answered, when, God +knows, it will undo the King's business to have matters of this moment +put off in this manner. The King did prevent my offering anything by and +by as Treasurer for Tangier, telling me that he had ordered us L30,000 on +the same tax; but that is not what we would have to bring our payments to +come within a year. So we gone out, in went others; viz., one after +another, Sir Stephen Fox for the army, Captain Cocke for sick and +wounded, Mr. Ashburnham for the household. Thence [Sir] W. Batten, [Sir] +W. Pen, and I, back again; I mightily pleased with what I had said and +done, and the success thereof. But, it being a fine clear day, I did, +'en gayete de coeur', propose going to Bow for ayre sake, and dine there, +which they embraced, and so [Sir] W. Batten and I (setting [Sir] W. Pen +down at Mark Lane end) straight to Bow, to the Queen's Head, and there +bespoke our dinner, carrying meat with us from London; and anon comes +[Sir] W. Pen with my wife and Lady Batten, and then Mr. Lowder with his +mother and wife. While [Sir] W. Batten and I were alone, we had much +friendly discourse, though I will never trust him far; but we do propose +getting "The Flying Greyhound," our privateer, to us and [Sir] W. Pen at +the end of the year when we call her home, by begging her of the King, +and I do not think we shall be denied her. They being come, we to +oysters and so to talk, very pleasant I was all day, and anon to dinner, +and I made very good company. Here till the evening, so as it was dark +almost before we got home (back again in the same method, I think, we +went), and spent the night talking at Sir W. Batten's, only a little at +my office, to look over the Victualler's contract, and draw up some +arguments for him to plead for his charges in transportation of goods +beyond the ports which the letter of one article in his contract do lay +upon him. This done I home to supper and to bed. Troubled a little at +my fear that my Lord Bruncker should tell Sir W. Coventry of our +neglecting the office this afternoon (which was intended) to look after +our pleasures, but nothing will fall upon me alone about this. + + + +15th. Up, and pleased at Tom's teaching of Barker something to sing a +3rd part to a song, which will please mightily. So I to the office all +the morning, and at noon to the 'Change, where I do hear that letters +this day come to Court do tell us that we are likely not to agree, the +Dutch demanding high terms, and the King of France the like, in a most +braving manner. The merchants do give themselves over for lost, no man +knowing what to do, whether to sell or buy, not knowing whether peace or +war to expect, and I am told that could that be now known a man might get +L20,000 in a week's time by buying up of goods in case there should be +war. Thence home and dined well, and then with my wife, set her at +Unthanke's and I to Sir G. Carteret, where talked with the ladies a +while, and my Lady Carteret talks nothing but sorrow and afflictions +coming on us, and indeed I do fear the same. So away and met Dr. Fuller, +Bishop of Limricke, and walked an hour with him in the Court talking of +newes only, and he do think that matters will be bad with us. Then to +Westminster Hall, and there spent an hour or two walking up and down, +thinking 'para avoir' got out Doll Lane, 'sed je ne' could do it, having +no opportunity 'de hazer le, ainsi lost the tota' afternoon, and so away +and called my wife and home, where a little at the office, and then home +to my closet to enter my journalls, and so to supper and to bed. This +noon come little Mis. Tooker, who is grown a little woman; ego had +opportunity 'para baiser her . . . . This morning I was called up by +Sir John Winter, poor man! come in his sedan from the other end of the +town, before I was up, and merely about the King's business, which is a +worthy thing of him, and I believe him to be a worthy good man, and I +will do him the right to tell the Duke of it, who did speak well of him +the other day. It was about helping the King in the business of bringing +down his timber to the sea-side, in the Forest of Deane. + + + +16th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning; at noon home to +dinner, and then to the office again in the afternoon, and there all day +very busy till night, and then, having done much business, home to +supper, and so to bed. This afternoon come home Sir J. Minnes, who has +been down, but with little purpose, to pay the ships below at the Nore. +This evening, having done my letters, I did write out the heads of what I +had prepared to speak to the King the other day at my Lord Treasurer's, +which I do think convenient to keep by me for future use. The weather is +now grown warm again, after much cold; and it is observable that within +these eight days I did see smoke remaining, coming out of some cellars, +from the late great fire, now above six months since. There was this day +at the office (as he is most days) Sir W. Warren, against whom I did +manifestly plead, and heartily too, God forgive me! But the reason is +because I do find that he do now wholly rely almost upon my Lord +Bruncker, though I confess I have no greater ground of my leaving him +than the confidence which I perceive he hath got in my Lord Bruncker, +whose seeming favours only do obtain of him as much compensation as, I +believe (for he do know well the way of using his bounties), as mine more +real. Besides, my Lord and I being become antagonistic, I do not think +it safe for me to trust myself in the hands of one whom I know to be a +knave, and using all means to become gracious there. + + + +17th (Lord's day). Up betime with my wife, and by coach with Sir W. Pen +and Sir Thomas Allen to White Hall, there my wife and I the first time +that ever we went to my Lady Jemimah's chamber at Sir Edward Carteret's +lodgings. I confess I have been much to blame and much ashamed of our +not visiting her sooner, but better now than never. Here we took her +before she was up, which I was sorry for, so only saw her, and away to +chapel, leaving further visit till after sermon. I put my wife into the +pew below, but it was pretty to see, myself being but in a plain band, +and every way else ordinary, how the verger took me for her man, I think, +and I was fain to tell him she was a kinswoman of my Lord Sandwich's, he +saying that none under knights-baronets' ladies are to go into that pew. +So she being there, I to the Duke of York's lodging, where in his +dressing-chamber he talking of his journey to-morrow or next day to +Harwich, to prepare some fortifications there; so that we are wholly upon +the defensive part this year, only we have some expectations that we may +by our squadrons annoy them in their trade by the North of Scotland and +to the Westward. Here Sir W. Pen did show the Duke of York a letter of +Hogg's about a prize he drove in within the Sound at Plymouth, where the +Vice-Admiral claims her. Sir W. Pen would have me speak to the latter, +which I did, and I think without any offence, but afterwards I was sorry +for it, and Sir W. Pen did plainly say that he had no mind to speak to +the Duke of York about it, so that he put me upon it, but it shall be, +the last time that I will do such another thing, though I think no manner +of hurt done by it to me at all. That done I to walk in the Parke, where +to the Queene's Chapel, and there heard a fryer preach with his cord +about his middle, in Portuguese, something I could understand, showing +that God did respect the meek and humble, as well as the high and rich. +He was full of action, but very decent and good, I thought, and his +manner of delivery very good. Then I went back to White Hall, and there +up to the closet, and spoke with several people till sermon was ended, +which was preached by the Bishop of Hereford, an old good man, that they +say made an excellent sermon. He was by birth a Catholique, and a great +gallant, having L1500 per annum, patrimony, and is a Knight Barronet; was +turned from his persuasion by the late Archbishop Laud. He and the +Bishop of Exeter, Dr. Ward, are the two Bishops that the King do say he +cannot have bad sermons from. Here I met with Sir H. Cholmly, who tells +me, that undoubtedly my Lord Bellasses do go no more to Tangier, and that +he do believe he do stand in a likely way to go Governor; though he says, +and showed me, a young silly Lord, one Lord Allington, who hath offered a +great sum of money to go, and will put hard for it, he having a fine +lady, and a great man would be glad to have him out of the way. After +Chapel I down and took out my wife from the pew, where she was talking +with a lady whom I knew not till I was gone. It was Mrs. Ashfield of +Brampton, who had with much civility been, it seems, at our house to see +her. I am sorry I did not show her any more respect. With my wife to +Sir G. Carteret's, where we dined and mightily made of, and most +extraordinary people they are to continue friendship with for goodness, +virtue, and nobleness and interest. After dinner he and I alone awhile +and did joy ourselves in my Lord Sandwich's being out of the way all this +time. He concurs that we are in a way of ruin by thus being forced to +keep only small squadrons out, but do tell me that it was not choice, but +only force, that we could not keep out the whole fleete. He tells me +that the King is very kind to my Lord Sandwich, and did himself observe +to him (Sir G. Carteret), how those very people, meaning the Prince and +Duke of Albemarle, are punished in the same kind as they did seek to +abuse my Lord Sandwich. Thence away, and got a hackney coach and carried +my wife home, and there only drank, and myself back again to my Lord +Treasurer's, where the King, Duke of York, and Sir G. Carteret and Lord +Arlington were and none else, so I staid not, but to White Hall, and +there meeting nobody I would speak with, walked into the Park and took +two or three turns all alone, and then took coach and home, where I find +Mercer, who I was glad to see, but durst [not] shew so, my wife being +displeased with her, and indeed I fear she is grown a very gossip. I to +my chamber, and there fitted my arguments which I had promised Mr. Gawden +in his behalf in some pretences to allowance of the King, and then to +supper, and so to my chamber a little again, and then to bed. Duke of +Buckingham not heard of yet. + + + +18th. Up betimes, and to the office to write fair my paper for D. Gawden +against anon, and then to other business, where all the morning. +D. Gawden by and by comes, and I did read over and give him the paper, +which I think I have much obliged him in. A little before noon comes my +old good friend, Mr. Richard Cumberland,--[Richard Cumberland, afterwards +Bishop of Peterborough]--to see me, being newly come to town, whom I have +not seen almost, if not quite, these seven years. In his plain country- +parson's dress. I could not spend much time with him, but prayed him +come with his brother, who was with him, to dine with me to-day; which he +did do and I had a great deal of his good company; and a most excellent +person he is as any I know, and one that I am sorry should be lost and +buried in a little country town, and would be glad to remove him thence; +and the truth is, if he would accept of my sister's fortune, I should +give L100 more with him than to a man able to settle her four times as +much as, I fear, he is able to do; and I will think of it, and a way how +to move it, he having in discourse said he was not against marrying, nor +yet engaged. I shewed him my closet, and did give him some very good +musique, Mr. Caesar being here upon his lute. They gone I to the office, +where all the afternoon very busy, and among other things comes Captain +Jenifer to me, a great servant of my Lord Sandwich's, who tells me that +he do hear for certain, though I do not yet believe it, that Sir W. +Coventry is to be Secretary of State, and my Lord Arlington Lord +Treasurer. I only wish that the latter were as fit for the latter office +as the former is for the former, and more fit than my Lord Arlington. +Anon Sir W. Pen come and talked with me in the garden, and tells me that +for certain the Duke of Richmond is to marry Mrs. Stewart, he having this +day brought in an account of his estate and debts to the King on that +account. At night home to supper and so to bed. My father's letter this +day do tell me of his own continued illness, and that my mother grows so +much worse, that he fears she cannot long continue, which troubles me +very much. This day, Mr. Caesar told me a pretty experiment of his, of +angling with a minikin, a gut-string varnished over, which keeps it from +swelling, and is beyond any hair for strength and smallness. The secret +I like mightily. + + + +19th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon +dined at home very pleasantly with my wife, and after dinner with a great +deal of pleasure had her sing, which she begins to do with some pleasure +to me, more than I expected. Then to the office again, where all the +afternoon close, and at night home to supper and to bed. It comes in my +mind this night to set down how a house was the other day in Bishopsgate +Street blowed up with powder; a house that was untenanted, and between a +flax shop and a -----------, both bad for fire; but, thanks be to God, +it did no more hurt; and all do conclude it a plot. I would also +remember to my shame how I was pleased yesterday, to find the righteous +maid of Magister Griffin sweeping of 'nostra' office, 'elle con the Roman +nariz and bonne' body which I did heretofore like, and do still refresh +me to think 'que elle' is come to us, that I may 'voir her aliquando'. +This afternoon I am told again that the town do talk of my Lord +Arlington's being to be Lord Treasurer, and Sir W. Coventry to be +Secretary of State; and that for certain the match is concluded between +the Duke of Richmond and Mrs. Stewart, which I am well enough pleased +with; and it is pretty to consider how his quality will allay people's +talk; whereas, had a meaner person married her, he would for certain have +been reckoned a cuckold at first-dash. + + + +20th. Up pretty betimes, and to the Old Swan, and there drank at +Michell's, but his wife is not there, but gone to her mother's, who is +ill, and so hath staid there since Sunday. Thence to Westminster Hall +and drank at the Swan, and 'baiserais the petite misse'; and so to Mrs. +Martin's. . . . I sent for some burnt wine, and drank and then away, +not pleased with my folly, and so to the Hall again, and there staid a +little, and so home by water again, where, after speaking with my wife, +I with Sir W. Batten and [Sir] J. Minnes to our church to the vestry, to +be assessed by the late Poll Bill, where I am rated as an Esquire, and +for my office, all will come to about L50. But not more than I expected, +nor so much by a great deal as I ought to be, for all my offices. So +shall be glad to escape so. Thence by water again to White Hall, and +there up into the house, and do hear that newes is come now that the +enemy do incline again to a peace, but could hear no particulars, so do +not believe it. I had a great mind to have spoke with the King, about a +business proper enough for me, about the French prize man-of-war, how he +would have her altered, only out of a desire to show myself mindful of +business, but my linen was so dirty and my clothes mean, that I neither +thought it fit to do that, nor go to other persons at the Court, with +whom I had business, which did vex me, and I must remedy [it]. Here I +hear that the Duke of Richmond and Mrs. Stewart were betrothed last +night. Thence to Westminster Hall again, and there saw Betty Michell, +and bought a pair of gloves of her, she being fain to keep shop there, +her mother being sick, and her father gathering of the tax. I 'aimais +her de toute my corazon'. Thence, my mind wandering all this day upon +'mauvaises amours' which I be merry for. So home by water again, where I +find my wife gone abroad, so I to Sir W. Batten to dinner, and had a good +dinner of ling and herring pie, very good meat, best of the kind that +ever I had. Having dined, I by coach to the Temple, and there did buy a +little book or two, and it is strange how "Rycaut's Discourse of Turky," +which before the fire I was asked but 8s. for, there being all but +twenty-two or thereabouts burned, I did now offer 20s., and he demands +50s., and I think I shall give it him, though it be only as a monument of +the fire. So to the New Exchange, where I find my wife, and so took her +to Unthanke's, and left her there, and I to White Hall, and thence to +Westminster, only out of idleness, and to get some little pleasure to my +'mauvais flammes', but sped not, so back and took up my wife; and to +Polichinelli at Charing Crosse, which is prettier and prettier, and so +full of variety that it is extraordinary good entertainment. Thence by +coach home, that is, my wife home, and I to the Exchange, and there met +with Fenn, who tells me they have yet no orders out of the Exchequer for +money upon the Acts, which is a thing not to be borne by any Prince of +understanding or care, for no money can be got advanced upon the Acts +only from the weight of orders in form out of the Exchequer so long time +after the passing of the Acts. So home to the office a little, where I +met with a sad letter from my brother, who tells me my mother is declared +by the doctors to be past recovery, and that my father is also very ill +every hour: so that I fear we shall see a sudden change there. God fit +them and us for it! So to Sir W. Pen's, where my wife was, and supped +with a little, but yet little mirth, and a bad, nasty supper, which makes +me not love the family, they do all things so meanly, to make a little +bad show upon their backs. Thence home and to bed, very much troubled +about my father's and my mother's illness. + + + +21st. Up, and to the office, where sat all the morning. At noon home to +dinner, and had some melancholy discourse with my wife about my mother's +being so ill and my father, and after dinner to cheer myself, I having +the opportunity of Sir W. Coventry and the Duke of York's being out of +town, I alone out and to the Duke of York's play-house, where +unexpectedly I come to see only the young men and women of the house act; +they having liberty to act for their own profit on Wednesdays and Fridays +this Lent: and the play they did yesterday, being Wednesday, was so well- +taken, that they thought fit to venture it publickly to-day; a play of my +Lord Falkland's' called "The Wedding Night," a kind of a tragedy, and +some things very good in it, but the whole together, I thought, not so. +I confess I was well enough pleased with my seeing it: and the people did +do better, without the great actors, than I did expect, but yet far short +of what they do when they are there, which I was glad to find the +difference of. Thence to rights home, and there to the office to my +business hard, being sorry to have made this scape without my wife, but I +have a good salvo to my oath in doing it. By and by, in the evening, +comes Sir W. Batten's Mingo to me to pray me to come to his master and +Sir Richard Ford, who have very ill news to tell me. I knew what it was, +it was about our trial for a good prize to-day, "The Phoenix," + + [There are references to the "Phoenix," a Dutch ship taken as a + prize, among the State Papers (see "Calendar," 1666-67, p. 404). + Pepys appears to have got into trouble at a later date in respect to + this same ship, for among the Rawlinson MSS. (A. 170) are "Papers + relating to the charge brought against him in the House of Commons + in 1689 with reference to the ship Phoenix and the East India + Company in 1681-86."] + +a worth two or L3000. I went to them, where they told me with much +trouble how they had sped, being cast and sentenced to make great +reparation for what we had embezzled, and they did it so well that I was +much troubled at it, when by and by Sir W. Batten asked me whether I was +mortified enough, and told me we had got the day, which was mighty +welcome news to me and us all. But it is pretty to see what money will +do. Yesterday, Walker was mighty cold on our behalf, till Sir W. Batten +promised him, if we sped in this business of the goods, a coach; and if +at the next trial we sped for the ship, we would give him a pair of +horses. And he hath strove for us today like a prince, though the +Swedes' Agent was there with all the vehemence he could to save the +goods, but yet we carried it against him. This put me in mighty good +heart, and then we go to Sir W. Pen, who is come back to-night from +Chatham, and did put him into the same condition, and then comforted him. +So back to my office, and wrote an affectionate and sad letter to my +father about his and my mother's illness, and so home to supper and to +bed late. + + + +22nd. Up and by coach to Sir Ph. Warwicke about business for Tangier +about money, and then to Sir Stephen Fox to give him account of a little +service I have done him about money coming to him from our office, and +then to Lovett's and saw a few baubling things of their doing which are +very pretty, but the quality of the people, living only by shifts, do not +please me, that it makes me I do no more care for them, nor shall have +more acquaintance with them after I have got my Lady Castlemayne's +picture home. So to White Hall, where the King at Chapel, and I would +not stay, but to Westminster to Howlett's, and there, he being not well, +I sent for a quart of claret and burnt it and drank, and had a 'basado' +or three or four of Sarah, whom 'je trouve ici', and so by coach to Sir +Robt. Viner's about my accounts with him, and so to the 'Change, where I +hear for certain that we are going on with our treaty of peace, and that +we are to treat at Bredah. But this our condescension people do think +will undo us, and I do much fear it. So home to dinner, where my wife +having dressed herself in a silly dress of a blue petticoat uppermost, +and a white satin waistcoat and whitehood, though I think she did it +because her gown is gone to the tailor's, did, together with my being +hungry, which always makes me peevish, make me angry, but when my belly +was full were friends again, and dined and then by water down to +Greenwich and thence walked to Woolwich, all the way reading Playford's +"Introduction to Musique," wherein are some things very pretty. At +Woolwich I did much business, taking an account of the state of the ships +there under hand, thence to Blackwall, and did the like for two ships we +have repairing there, and then to Deptford and did the like there, and so +home. Captain Perriman with me from Deptford, telling me many +particulars how the King's business is ill ordered, and indeed so they +are, God knows! So home and to the office, where did business, and so +home to my chamber, and then to supper and to bed. Landing at the Tower +to-night I met on Tower Hill with Captain Cocke and spent half an hour +walking in the dusk of the evening with him, talking of the sorrowful +condition we are in, that we must be ruined if the Parliament do not come +and chastize us, that we are resolved to make a peace whatever it cost, +that the King is disobliging the Parliament in this interval all that may +be, yet his money is gone and he must have more, and they likely not to +give it, without a great deal of do. God knows what the issue of it will +be. But the considering that the Duke of York, instead of being at sea +as Admirall, is now going from port to port, as he is at this day at +Harwich, and was the other day with the King at Sheernesse, and hath +ordered at Portsmouth how fortifications shall be made to oppose the +enemy, in case of invasion, [which] is to us a sad consideration, and as +shameful to the nation, especially after so many proud vaunts as we have +made against the Dutch, and all from the folly of the Duke of Albemarle, +who made nothing of beating them, and Sir John Lawson he always declared +that we never did fail to beat them with lesser numbers than theirs, +which did so prevail with the King as to throw us into this war. + + + +23rd. At the office all the morning, where Sir W. Pen come, being +returned from Chatham, from considering the means of fortifying the river +Medway, by a chain at the stakes, and ships laid there with guns to keep +the enemy from coming up to burn our ships; all our care now being to +fortify ourselves against their invading us. At noon home to dinner, and +then to the office all the afternoon again, where Mr. Moore come, who +tells me that there is now no doubt made of a peace being agreed on, the +King having declared this week in Council that they would treat at +Bredagh. He gone I to my office, where busy late, and so to supper and +to bed. Vexed with our mayde Luce, our cook-mayde, who is a good +drudging servant in everything else, and pleases us, but that she will be +drunk, and hath been so last night and all this day, that she could not +make clean the house. My fear is only fire. + + + +24th (Lord's day). With Sir W. Batten to White Hall, and there I to Sir +G. Carteret, who is mighty cheerful, which makes me think and by some +discourse that there is expectation of a peace, but I did not ask [him]. +Here was Sir J. Minnes also: and they did talk of my Lord Bruncker, whose +father, it seems, did give Mr. Ashburnham and the present Lord Digby +L1200 to be made an Irish lord, and swore the same day that he had not +12d. left to pay for his dinner: they make great mirth at this, my Lord +Bruncker having lately given great matter of offence both to them and us +all, that we are at present mightily displeased with him. By and by to +the Duke of York, where we all met, and there was the King also; and all +our discourse was about fortifying of the Medway and Harwich, which is to +be entrenched quite round, and Portsmouth: and here they advised with Sir +Godfry Lloyd and Sir Bernard de Gum, the two great engineers, and had +the plates drawn before them; and indeed all their care they now take is +to fortify themselves, and are not ashamed of it: for when by and by my +Lord Arlington come in with letters, and seeing the King and Duke of York +give us and the officers of the Ordnance directions in this matter, he +did move that we might do it as privately as we could, that it might not +come into the Dutch Gazette presently, as the King's and Duke of York's +going down the other day to Sheerenesse was, the week after, in the +Harlem Gazette. The King and Duke of York both laughed at it, and made +no matter, but said, "Let us be safe, and let them talk, for there is +nothing will trouble them more, nor will prevent their coming more, than +to hear that we are fortifying ourselves." And the Duke of York said +further, "What said Marshal Turenne, when some in vanity said that the +enemies were afraid, for they entrenched themselves? `Well,' says he, +'I would they were not afraid, for then they would not entrench +themselves, and so we could deal with them the better.'" Away thence, +and met with Sir H. Cholmly, who tells me that he do believe the +government of Tangier is bought by my Lord Allington for a sum of money +to my Lord Arlington, and something to Lord Bellasses, who (he did tell +me particularly how) is as very a false villain as ever was born, having +received money of him here upon promise and confidence of his return, +forcing him to pay it by advance here, and promising to ask no more +there, when at the same time he was treating with my Lord Allington to +sell his command to him, and yet told Sir H. Cholmly nothing of it, but +when Sir H. Cholmly told him what he had heard, he confessed that my Lord +Allington had spoken to him of it, but that he was a vain man to look +after it, for he was nothing fit for it, and then goes presently to my +Lord Allington and drives on the bargain, yet tells Lord Allington what +he himself had said of him, as [though] Sir H. Cholmly had said them. +I am glad I am informed hereof, and shall know him for a Lord, &c. Sir +H. Cholmly tells me further that he is confident there will be a peace, +and that a great man did tell him that my Lord Albemarle did tell him the +other day at White Hall as a secret that we should have a peace if any +thing the King of France can ask and our King can give will gain it, +which he is it seems mad at. Thence back with Sir W. Batten and [Sir] W. +Pen home, and heard a piece of sermon, and so home to dinner, where Balty +come, very fine, and dined with us, and after dinner with me by water to +White Hall, and there he and I did walk round the Park, I giving him my +thoughts about the difficulty of getting employment for him this year, +but advised him how to employ himself, and I would do what I could. So +he and I parted, and I to Martin's, where I find her within, and 'su +hermano' and 'la veuve' Burroughs. Here I did 'demeurer toda' the +afternoon . . . . By and by come up the mistress of the house, Crags, +a pleasant jolly woman. I staid all but a little, and away home by water +through bridge, a brave evening, and so home to read, and anon to supper, +W. Hewer with us, and then to read myself to sleep again, and then to +bed, and mightily troubled the most of the night with fears of fire, +which I cannot get out of my head to this day since the last great fire. +I did this night give the waterman who uses to carry me 10s. at his +request, for the painting of his new boat, on which shall be my arms. + + + +25th. (Ladyday.) Up, and with Sir W. Batten and [Sir] W. Pen by coach to +Exeter House to our lawyers to have consulted about our trial to-morrow, +but missed them, so parted, and [Sir] W. Pen and I to Mr. Povy's about a +little business of [Sir] W. Pen's, where we went over Mr. Povy's house, +which lies in the same good condition as ever, which is most +extraordinary fine, and he was now at work with a cabinet-maker, making +of a new inlaid table. Having seen his house, we away, having in our way +thither called at Mr. Lilly's, who was working; and indeed his pictures +are without doubt much beyond Mr. Hales's, I think I may say I am +convinced: but a mighty proud man he is, and full of state. So home, +and to the office, and by and by to dinner, a poor dinner, my wife and I, +at Sir W. Pen's, and then he and I before to Exeter House, where I do not +stay, but to the King's playhouse; and by and by comes Mr. Lowther and +his wife and mine, and into a box, forsooth, neither of them being +dressed, which I was almost ashamed of. Sir W. Pen and I in the pit, and +here saw "The Mayden Queene" again; which indeed the more I see the more +I like, and is an excellent play, and so done by Nell, her merry part, as +cannot be better done in nature, I think. Thence home, and there I find +letters from my brother, which tell me that yesterday when he wrote my +mother did rattle in the throat so as they did expect every moment her +death, which though I have a good while expected did much surprise me, +yet was obliged to sup at Sir W. Pen's and my wife, and there +counterfeited some little mirth, but my heart was sad, and so home after +supper and to bed, and much troubled in my sleep of my being crying by my +mother's bedside, laying my head over hers and crying, she almost dead +and dying, and so waked, but what is strange, methought she had hair over +her face, and not the same kind of face as my mother really hath, but yet +did not consider that, but did weep over her as my mother, whose soul God +have mercy of. + + + +26th. Up with a sad heart in reference to my mother, of whose death I +undoubtedly expect to hear the next post, if not of my father's also, who +by his pain as well as his grief for her is very ill, but on my own +behalf I have cause to be joyful this day, it being my usual feast day, +for my being cut of the stone this day nine years, and through God's +blessing am at this day and have long been in as good condition of health +as ever I was in my life or any man in England is, God make me thankful +for it! But the condition I am in, in reference to my mother, makes it +unfit for me to keep my usual feast. Unless it shall please God to send +her well (which I despair wholly of), and then I will make amends for it +by observing another day in its room. So to the office, and at the +office all the morning, where I had an opportunity to speak to Sir John +Harman about my desire to have my brother Balty go again with him to sea +as he did the last year, which he do seem not only contented but pleased +with, which I was glad of. So at noon home to dinner, where I find +Creed, who dined with us, but I had not any time to talk with him, my +head being busy, and before I had dined was called away by Sir W. Batten, +and both of us in his coach (which I observe his coachman do always go +now from hence towards White Hall through Tower Street, and it is the +best way) to Exeter House, where the judge was sitting, and after several +little causes comes on ours, and while the several depositions and papers +were at large reading (which they call the preparatory), and being cold +by being forced to sit with my hat off close to a window in the Hall, Sir +W. Pen and I to the Castle Tavern hard by and got a lobster, and he and I +staid and eat it, and drank good wine; I only burnt wine, as my whole +custom of late hath been, as an evasion, God knows, for my drinking of +wine (but it is an evasion which will not serve me now hot weather is +coming, that I cannot pretend, as indeed I really have done, that I drank +it for cold), but I will leave it off, and it is but seldom, as when I am +in women's company, that I must call for wine, for I must be forced to +drink to them. Having done here then we back again to the Court, and +there heard our cause pleaded; Sir [Edward] Turner, Sir W. Walker, and +Sir Ellis Layton being our counsel against only Sir Robert Wiseman on the +other. The second of our three counsel was the best, and indeed did +speak admirably, and is a very shrewd man. Nevertheless, as good as he +did make our case, and the rest, yet when Wiseman come to argue (nay, and +though he did begin so sillily that we laughed in scorn in our sleeves at +him), yet he did so state the case, that the judge did not think fit to +decide the cause to-night, but took to to-morrow, and did stagger us in +our hopes, so as to make us despair of the success. I am mightily +pleased with the judge, who seems a very rational, learned, and uncorrupt +man, and much good reading and reason there is heard in hearing of this +law argued, so that the thing pleased me, though our success doth shake +me. Thence Sir W. Pen and I home and to write letters, among others a +sad one to my father upon fear of my mother's death, and so home to +supper and to bed. + + + +27th. [Sir] W. Pen and I to White Hall, and in the coach did begin our +discourse again about Balty, and he promises me to move it this very day. +He and I met my Lord Bruncker at Sir G. Carteret's by appointment, there +to discourse a little business, all being likely to go to rack for lack +of money still. Thence to the Duke of York's lodgings, and did our usual +business, and Sir W. Pen telling me that he had this morning spoke of +Balty to Sir W. Coventry, and that the thing was done, I did take notice +of it also to [Sir] W. Coventry, who told me that he had both the thing +and the person in his head before to have done it, which is a double +pleasure to me. Our business with the Duke being done, [Sir] W. Pen and +I towards the Exchequer, and in our way met Sir G. Downing going to +chapel, but we stopped, and he would go with us back to the Exchequer and +showed us in his office his chests full and ground and shelves full of +money, and says that there is L50,000 at this day in his office of +people's money, who may demand it this day, and might have had it away +several weeks ago upon the late Act, but do rather choose to have it +continue there than to put it into the Banker's hands, and I must confess +it is more than I should have believed had I not seen it, and more than +ever I could have expected would have arisen for this new Act in so short +a time, and if it do so now already what would it do if the money was +collected upon the Act and returned into the Exchequer so timely as it +ought to be. But it comes into my mind here to observe what I have heard +from Sir John Bankes, though I cannot fully conceive the reason of it, +that it will be impossible to make the Exchequer ever a true bank to all +intents, unless the Exchequer stood nearer the Exchange, where merchants +might with ease, while they are going about their business, at all hours, +and without trouble or loss of time, have their satisfaction, which they +cannot have now without much trouble, and loss of half a day, and no +certainty of having the offices open. By this he means a bank for common +practise and use of merchants, and therein I do agree with him. Being +parted from Sir W. Pen and [Sir] G. Downing, I to Westminster Hall and +there met Balty, whom I had sent for, and there did break the business of +my getting him the place of going again as Muster-Master with Harman this +voyage to the West Indys, which indeed I do owe to Sir W. Pen. He is +mighty glad of it, and earnest to fit himself for it, but I do find, poor +man, that he is troubled how to dispose of his wife, and apparently it is +out of fear of her, and his honour, and I believe he hath received some +cause of this his jealousy and care, and I do pity him in it, and will +endeavour to find out some way to do, it for him. Having put him in a +way of preparing himself for the voyage, I did go to the Swan, and there +sent for Jervas, my old periwig maker, and he did bring me a periwig, but +it was full of nits, so as I was troubled to see it (it being his old +fault), and did send him to make it clean, and in the mean time, having +staid for him a good while, did go away by water to the Castle Taverne, +by Exeter House, and there met Sir W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, and several +others, among the rest Sir Ellis Layton, who do apply himself to +discourse with me, and I think by his discourse, out of his opinion of my +interest in Sir W. Coventry, the man I find a wonderful witty, ready man +for sudden answers and little tales, and sayings very extraordinary +witty, but in the bottom I doubt he is not so. Yet he pretends to have +studied men, and the truth is in several that I do know he did give me a +very inward account of them. But above all things he did give me a full +account, upon my demand, of this judge of the Admiralty, Judge Jenkins; +who, he says, is a man never practised in this Court, but taken merely +for his merit and ability's sake from Trinity Hall, where he had always +lived; only by accident the business of the want of a Judge being +proposed to the present Archbishop of Canterbury that now is, he did +think of this man and sent for him up: and here he is, against the 'gre' +and content of the old Doctors, made judge, but is a very excellent man +both for judgment and temper, yet majesty enough, and by all men's +report, not to be corrupted. After dinner to the Court, where Sir Ellis +Layton did make a very silly motion in our behalf, but did neither hurt +nor good. After him Walker and Wiseman; and then the judge did pronounce +his sentence; for some part of the goods and ship, and the freight of the +whole, to be free, and returned and paid by us; and the remaining, which +was the greater part, to be ours. The loss of so much troubles us, but +we have got a pretty good part, thanks be to God! So we are not +displeased nor yet have cause to triumph, as we did once expect. Having +seen the end of this, I being desirous to be at home to see the issue of +any country letters about my mother, which I expect shall give me tidings +of her death, I directly home and there to the office, where I find no +letter from my father or brother, but by and by the boy tells me that his +mistress sends me word that she hath opened my letter, and that she is +loth to send me any more news. So I home, and there up to my wife in our +chamber, and there received from my brother the newes of my mother's +dying on Monday, about five or six o'clock in the afternoon, and that the +last time she spoke of her children was on Friday last, and her last +words were, "God bless my poor Sam!" The reading hereof did set me a- +weeping heartily, and so weeping to myself awhile, and my wife also to +herself, I then spoke to my wife respecting myself, and indeed, having +some thoughts how much better both for her and us it is than it might +have been had she outlived my father and me or my happy present condition +in the world, she being helpless, I was the sooner at ease in my mind, +and then found it necessary to go abroad with my wife to look after the +providing mourning to send into the country, some to-morrow, and more +against Sunday, for my family, being resolved to put myself and wife, and +Barker and Jane, W. Hewer and Tom, in mourning, and my two under-mayds, +to give them hoods and scarfs and gloves. So to my tailor's, and up and +down, and then home and to my office a little, and then to supper and to +bed, my heart sad and afflicted, though my judgment at ease. + + + +28th. My tailor come to me betimes this morning, and having given him +directions, I to the office and there all the morning. At noon dined +well. Balty, who is mighty thoughtful how to dispose of his wife, and +would fain have me provide a place for her, which the thoughts of what I +should do with her if he should miscarry at sea makes me avoid the +offering him that she should be at my house. I find he is plainly +jealous of her being in any place where she may have ill company, and I +do pity him for it, and would be glad to help him, and will if I can. +Having dined, I down by water with Sir W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, and [Sir] +R. Ford to our prize, part of whose goods were condemned yesterday-- +"The Lindeboome"--and there we did drink some of her wine, very good. +But it did grate my heart to see the poor master come on board, and look +about into every corner, and find fault that she was not so clean as she +used to be, though methought she was very clean; and to see his new +masters come in, that had nothing to do with her, did trouble me to see +him. Thence to Blackwall and there to Mr. Johnson's, to see how some +works upon some of our repaired ships go on, and at his house eat and +drank and mighty extraordinary merry (too merry for me whose mother died +so lately, but they know it not, so cannot reproach me therein, though I +reproach myself), and in going home had many good stories of Sir W. +Batten and one of Sir W. Pen, the most tedious and silly and troublesome +(he forcing us to hear him) that ever I heard in my life. So to the +office awhile, troubled with Sir W. Pen's impertinences, he being half +foxed at Johnson's, and so to bed. + + + +29th. Lay long talking with my wife about Balty, whom I do wish very +well to, and would be glad to advise him, for he is very sober and +willing to take all pains. Up and to Sir W. Batten, who I find has had +some words with Sir W. Pen about the employing of a cooper about our +prize wines, [Sir] W. Batten standing and indeed imposing upon us Mr. +Morrice, which I like not, nor do [Sir] W. Pen, and I confess the very +thoughts of what our goods will come to when we have them do discourage +me in going any further in the adventure. Then to the office till noon, +doing business, and then to the Exchange, and thence to the Sun Taverne +and dined with [Sir] W. Batten, [Sir] R. Ford, and the Swede's Agent to +discourse of a composition about our prizes that are condemned, but did +do little, he standing upon high terms and we doing the like. I home, +and there find Balty and his wife got thither both by my wife for me to +give them good advice, for her to be with his father and mother all this +time of absence, for saving of money, and did plainly and like a friend +tell them my mind of the necessity of saving money, and that if I did not +find they did endeavour it, I should not think fit to trouble myself for +them, but I see she is utterly against being with his father and mother, +and he is fond of her, and I perceive the differences between the old +people and them are too great to be presently forgot, and so he do +propose that it will be cheaper for him to put her to board at a place he +is offered at Lee, and I, seeing that I am not like to be troubled with +the finding a place, and having given him so much good advice, do leave +them to stand and fall as they please, having discharged myself as a +friend, and not likely to be accountable for her nor be troubled with +her, if he should miscarry I mean, as to her lodging, and so broke up. +Then he and I to make a visit to [Sir] W. Pen, who hath thought fit to +show kindness to Balty in this business, indeed though he be a false +rogue, but it was he knew a thing easy to do. Thence together to my +shoemaker's, cutler's, tailor's, and up and down about my mourning, and +in my way do observe the great streets in the city are marked out with +piles drove into the ground; and if ever it be built in that form with so +fair streets, it will be a noble sight. So to the Council chamber, but +staid not there, but to a periwigg-maker's of his acquaintance, and there +bought two periwiggs, mighty fine; indeed, too fine, I thought, for me; +but he persuaded me, and I did buy them for L4 10s. the two. Then to the +Exchange and bought gloves, and so to the Bull-Head Taverne, whither he +brought my, French gun; and one Truelocke, the famous gunsmith, that is a +mighty ingenious man, and he did take my gun in pieces, and made me +understand the secrets thereof and upon the whole I do find it a very +good piece of work, and truly wrought; but for certain not a thing to be +used much with safety: and he do find that this very gun was never yet +shot off: I was mighty satisfied with it and him, and the sight of so +much curiosity of this kind. Here he brought also a haberdasher at my +desire, and I bought a hat of him, and so away and called away my wife +from his house, and so home and to read, and then to supper and to bed, +my head full in behalf of Balty, who tells me strange stories of his +mother. Among others, how she, in his absence in Ireland, did pawne all +the things that he had got in his service under Oliver, and run of her +own accord, without her husband's leave, into Flanders, and that his +purse, and 4s. a week which his father receives of the French church, is +all the subsistence his father and mother have, and that about L20 a year +maintains them; which, if it please God, I will find one way or other to +provide for them, to remove that scandal away. + + + +30th. Up, and the French periwigg maker of whom I bought two yesterday +comes with them, and I am very well pleased with them. So to the office, +where all the morning. At noon home to dinner, and thence with my wife's +knowledge and leave did by coach go see the silly play of my Lady +Newcastle's, called "The Humourous Lovers;" the most silly thing that +ever come upon a stage. I was sick to see it, but yet would not but have +seen it, that I might the better understand her. Here I spied Knipp and +Betty, of the King's house, and sent Knipp oranges, but, having little +money about me, did not offer to carry them abroad, which otherwise I +had, I fear, been tempted to. So with [Sir] W. Pen home (he being at the +play also), a most summer evening, and to my office, where, among other +things, a most extraordinary letter to the Duke of York touching the want +of money and the sad state of the King's service thereby, and so to +supper and to bed. + + + +31st (Lord's day). Up, and my tailor's boy brings my mourning clothes +home, and my wife hers and Barker's, but they go not to church this +morning. I to church, and with my mourning, very handsome, and new +periwigg, make a great shew. After church home to dinner, and there come +Betty Michell and her husband. I do and shall love her, but, poor +wretch, she is now almost ready to lie down. After dinner Balty (who +dined also with us) and I with Sir J. Minnes in his coach to White Hall, +but did nothing, but by water to Strand Bridge and thence walked to my +Lord Treasurer's, where the King, Duke of York, and the Caball, and much +company without; and a fine day. Anon come out from the Caball my Lord +Hollis and Mr. H. Coventry, who, it is conceived, have received their +instructions from the King this day; they being to begin their journey +towards their treaty at Bredagh speedily, their passes being come. Here +I saw the Lady Northumberland and her daughter-in-law, my Lord +Treasurer's daughter, my Lady Piercy, a beautiful lady indeed. So away +back by water, and left Balty at White Hall and I to Mrs. Martin . . . +. and so by coach home, and there to my chamber, and then to supper and +bed, having not had time to make up my accounts of this month at this +very day, but will in a day or two, and pay my forfeit for not doing it, +though business hath most hindered me. The month shuts up only with +great desires of peace in all of us, and a belief that we shall have a +peace, in most people, if a peace can be had on any terms, for there is a +necessity of it; for we cannot go on with the war, and our masters are +afraid to come to depend upon the good will of the Parliament any more, +as I do hear. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +Angling with a minikin, a gut-string varnished over +Better now than never +Bring me a periwig, but it was full of nits +Buying up of goods in case there should be war +For I will not be inward with him that is open to another +He is a man of no worth in the world but compliment +History of this day's growth, we cannot tell the truth +I love the treason I hate the traitor +King of France did think other princes fit for nothing +My wife will keep to one another and let the world go hang +No man knowing what to do, whether to sell or buy +Not more than I expected, nor so much by a great deal as I ought +Now above six months since (smoke from the cellars) +Reparation for what we had embezzled +Uncertainty of all history +Whatever I do give to anybody else, I shall give her + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v58 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + diff --git a/old/sp59g10.zip b/old/sp59g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..c47c349 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp59g10.zip |