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+                THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S.
+
+            CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY
+
+   TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY
+MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW
+                      AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
+
+                              (Unabridged)
+
+                      WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES
+
+                        EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY
+
+                        HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A.
+
+
+
+                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
+                                 JULY
+                                 1667
+
+
+July 1st.  Up betimes, about 9 o'clock, waked by a damned noise between a
+sow gelder and a cow and a dog, nobody after we were up being able to
+tell us what it was.  After being ready we took coach, and, being very
+sleepy, droused most part of the way to Gravesend, and there 'light, and
+down to the new batterys, which are like to be very fine, and there did
+hear a plain fellow cry out upon the folly of the King's officers above,
+to spend so much money in works at Woolwich and Deptford, and sinking of
+good ships loaden with goods, when, if half the charge had been laid out
+here, it would have secured all that, and this place too, before now.
+And I think it is not only true in this, but that the best of the actions
+of us all are so silly, that the meanest people begin to see through
+them, and contemn them.  Besides, says he, they spoil the river by it.
+Then informed ourselves where we might have some creame, and they guided
+us to one Goody Best's, a little out of the towne towards London road,
+and thither we went with the coach, and find it a mighty clean, plain
+house, and had a dish of very good creame to our liking, and so away
+presently very merry, and fell to reading of the several Advices to a
+Painter, which made us good sport, and indeed are very witty, and Creed
+did also repeat to me some of the substance of letters of old Burleigh in
+Queen Elizabeth's time, which he hath of late read in the printed
+Cabbala, which is a very fine style at this day and fit to be imitated.
+With this, and talking and laughing at the folly of our masters in the
+management of things at this day, we got home by noon, where all well,
+and then to dinner, and after dinner both of us laid down upon the couch
+and chairs and to sleep, which I did for an hour or two, and then to the
+office, where I am sorry to hear that Sir J. Minnes is likely to die this
+night, or to-morrow, I forgot to set down that we met this morning upon
+the road with Mrs. Williams going down to my Lord Bruncker; we bowed
+without speaking one to another, but I am ashamed at the folly of the man
+to have her down at this serious busy time, when the town and country is
+full of people and full of censure, and against him particularly.  At Sir
+W. Batten's my Lady tells me that she hears for certain that my Lord's
+maid of his lodging here do give out that Mrs. Williams hath been fain of
+late to sell her best clothes and jewels to get a little money upon,
+which is a sad condition.  Thence to the office, and did write to my Lord
+Bruncker to give me a little satisfaction about the certainty of the
+chain's being broke, which I begin to doubt, and the more from Sir W.
+Pen's discourse.  It is worth while to read my letter to him entered in
+my letter book.  Home in the evening to supper, and so pretty betimes,
+about 10 o'clock, to bed, and slept well.  This day letters are come that
+my sister is very ill.
+
+
+
+2nd.  Up, and put on my new silke camelott suit, made of my cloak, and
+suit now made into a vest.  So to the office, where W. Pen and myself,
+and Sir T. Harvy met, the first time we have had a meeting since the
+coming of the Dutch upon this coast.  Our only business (for we have
+little else to do, nobody being willing to trust us for anything) was to
+speak with the owners of six merchantmen which we have been taking up
+this fortnight, and are yet in no readiness, they not fitting their ships
+without money advanced to them, we owing them for what their ships have
+earned the last year.  So every thing stands still for money, while we
+want money to pay for some of the most necessary things that we promised
+ready money for in the height of our wants, as grapnells, &c.  At noon
+home to dinner, and after dinner my wife and Jane (mighty fine the girle)
+to go to see Jane's old mistress, who was to see her, and did see my wife
+the other day, and it is pleasant to hear with what kindness her old
+mistress speaks of this girle, and how she would still have her, and how
+the wench cried when she told her that she must come to her old mistress
+my wife.  They gone, I to my chamber, and there dallied a little with my
+maid Nell .  .  .  .  and so to the office where busy till night, and
+then comes Mrs. Turner, and walks with me in the garden to talk with me
+about her husband's business, and to tell me how she hears at the other
+end of the town how bad our office is spoken of by the King and Prince
+and Duke of Albemarle, and that there is not a good word said of any of
+us but of me; and me they all do speak mightily of, which, whether true
+or no, I am mighty glad to hear, but from all put together that I hear
+from other people, I am likely to pass as well as anybody.  So, she gone,
+comes my wife and to walk in the garden, Sir J. Minnes being still ill
+and so keeping us from singing, and by and by Sir W. Pen come and walked
+with us and gave us a bottle of Syder, and so we home to supper and to
+bed.  This day I am told that poor Tooker is dead, a very painfull poor
+man as ever I knew.
+
+
+
+3rd.  Up, and within most of the morning, my tailor's boy coming to alter
+something in my new suit I put on yesterday.  Then to the office and did
+business, and then (my wife being a little ill of those in bed) I to Sir
+W. Batten's and dined, and there comes in Sir Richard Ford, tells us how
+he hath been at the Sessions-house, and there it is plain that there is a
+combination of rogues in the town, that do make it their business to set
+houses on fire, and that one house they did set on fire in Aldersgate
+Streete last Easter; and that this is proved by two young men, whom one
+of them debauched by degrees to steal their fathers' plate and clothes,
+and at last to be of their company; and they had their places to take up
+what goods were flung into the streets out of the windows, when the
+houses were on fire; and this is like to be proved to a great number of
+rogues, whereof five are already found, and some found guilty this day.
+One of these boys is the son of a Montagu, of my Lord Manchester's
+family; but whose son he could not tell me.  This is a strange thing
+methinks, but I am glad that it is proved so true and discovered.  So
+home, and to enter my Journall of my late journey to this hour, and then
+to the office, where to do a little business, and then by water to White
+Hall (calling at Michell's in my way, but the rogue would not invite me
+in, I having a mind para voir his wife), and there to the Council-
+chamber, to deliver a letter to their Lordships about the state of the
+six merchantmen which we have been so long fitting out.  When I come, the
+King and the whole table full of Lords were hearing of a pitifull cause
+of a complaint of an old man, with a great grey beard, against his son,
+for not allowing him something to live on; and at last come to the
+ordering the son to allow his father L10 a year.  This cause lasted them
+near two hours; which, methinks, at this time to be the work of the
+Council-board of England, is a scandalous thing, and methought Sir W.
+Coventry to me did own as much.  Here I find all the newes is the enemy's
+landing 3,000 men near Harwich,
+
+     [Richard Browne, writing to Williamson from Aldeburgh, on July 2nd,
+     says: "The Dutch fleet of 80 sail has anchored in the bay; they were
+     expected to land, but they tacked about, and stood first northward
+     and then southward, close by Orford lighthouse, and have now passed
+     the Ness towards Harwich; they have fired no guns, but made false
+     fires" ("Calendar of State Papers," 1667, p. 258).]
+
+and attacking Landguard Fort, and being beat off thence with our great
+guns, killing some of their men, and they leaving their ladders behind
+them; but we had no Horse in the way on Suffolk side, otherwise we might
+have galled their Foot.  The Duke of York is gone down thither this day,
+while the General sat sleeping this afternoon at the Council-table.  The
+news so much talked of this Exchange, of a peace, I find by Sir Richard
+Browne arises from a letter the Swedes' agent hath received from Bredah
+and shewed at Court to-day, that they are come very near it, but I do not
+find anybody here relying upon it.  This cause being over, the Trinity
+House men, whom I did not expect to meet, were called in, and there Sir
+W. Pen made a formal speech in answer to a question of the King's,
+whether the lying of the sunk ships in the river would spoil the river.
+But, Lord! how gingerly he answered it, and with a deal of do that he did
+not know whether it would be safe as to the enemy to have them taken up,
+but that doubtless it would be better for the river to have them taken
+up.  Methought the Council found them answer like fools, and it ended in
+bidding them think more of it, and bring their answer in writing.  Thence
+I to Westminster Hall, and there hear how they talk against the present
+management of things, and against Sir W. Coventry for his bringing in of
+new commanders and casting out the old seamen, which I did endeavour to
+rectify Mrs. Michell and them in, letting them know that he hath opposed
+it all his life the most of any man in England.  After a deal of this
+tittle tattle, I to Mrs. Martin's, and there she was gone in before, but
+when I come, contrary to my expectation, I find her all in trouble, and
+what was it for but that I have got her with child .  .  .  . and is in
+exceeding grief, and swears that the child is mine, which I do not
+believe, but yet do comfort her that either it cannot be so, or if it be
+that I will take care to send for her husband, though I do hardly see how
+I can be sure of that, the ship being at sea, and as far as Scotland, but
+however I must do it, and shall find some way or other of doing it,
+though it do trouble me not a little.  Thence, not pleased, away to White
+Hall to Mr. Williamson, and by and by my Lord Arlington about Mr.
+Lanyon's business, and it is pretty to see how Mr. Williamson did
+altogether excuse himself that my business was not done when I come to my
+Lord and told him my business; "Why," says my Lord, "it hath been done,
+and the King signed it several days ago," and so it was and was in Mr.
+Williamson's hands, which made us both laugh, and I in innocent mirth, I
+remember, said, it is pretty to see in what a condition we are that all
+our matters now-a-days are undone, we know not how, and done we know not
+when.  He laughed at it, but I have since reflected on it, and find it a
+severe speech as it might be taken by a chief minister of state, as
+indeed Mr. Williamson is, for he is indeed the Secretary.  But we fell to
+other pleasant talk, and a fine gentleman he is, and so gave him L5 for
+his fee, and away home, and to Sir W. Batten's to talk a little, and then
+to the office to do a little business, and so home to supper and read
+myself asleep, and then to bed.
+
+
+
+4th.  Up, and, in vain expecting Sir R. Ford's calling on me, I took
+coach and to the Sessions-house, where I have a mind to hear Bazill
+Fielding's case--[See May 9th, 1667]--tried; and so got up to the Bench,
+my Lord Chief-Justice Keeling being Judge.  Here I stood bare, not
+challenging, though I might well enough, to be covered.  But here were
+several fine trials; among others, several brought in for making it their
+trade to set houses on fire merely to get plunder; and all proved by the
+two little boys spoken of yesterday by Sir R. Ford, who did give so good
+account of particulars that I never heard children in my life.  And I
+confess, though I was unsatisfied with the force given to such little
+boys, to take away men's lives, yet, when I was told that my Lord Chief-
+Justice did declare that there was no law against taking the oath of
+children above twelve years old, and then heard from Sir R. Ford the good
+account which the boys had given of their understanding the nature and
+consequence of an oath, and now my own observation of the sobriety and
+readiness of their answers, further than of any man of any rank that come
+to give witness this day, though some men of years and learning, I was a
+little amazed, and fully satisfied that they ought to have as much credit
+as the rest.  They proved against several, their consulting several times
+at a bawdy-house in Moore-Fields, called the Russia House, among many
+other rogueries, of setting houses on fire, that they might gather the
+goods that were flung into the streets; and it is worth considering how
+unsafe it is to have children play up and down this lewd town.  For these
+two boys, one is my Lady Montagu's (I know not what Lady Montagu) son,
+and the other of good condition, were playing in Moore-Fields, and one
+rogue, Gabriel Holmes, did come to them and teach them to drink, and then
+to bring him plate and clothes from their fathers' houses, and carry him
+into their houses, and leaving open the doors for him, and at last were
+made of their conspiracy, and were at the very burning of this house in
+Aldersgate Street, on Easter Sunday at night last, and did gather up
+goods, as they had resolved before and this Gabriel Holmes did advise to
+have had two houses set on fire, one after another, that, while they were
+quenching of one, they might be burning another.  And it is pretty that
+G. Holmes did tell his fellows, and these boys swore it, that he did set
+fire to a box of linen in the Sheriffe, Sir Joseph Shelden's' house,
+while he was attending the fire in Aldersgate Street, and the Sheriffe
+himself said that there was a fire in his house, in a box of linen, at
+the same time, but cannot conceive how this fellow should do it.  The
+boys did swear against one of them, that he had made it his part to pull
+the plug out of the engine while it was a-playing; and it really was so.
+And goods they did carry away, and the manner of the setting the house on
+fire was, that Holmes did get to a cockpit; where, it seems, there was a
+publick cockpit, and set fire to the straw in it, and hath a fire-ball at
+the end of the straw, which did take fire, and so it prevailed, and
+burned the house; and, among other things they carried away, he took six
+of the cocks that were at the cockpit; and afterwards the boys told us
+how they had one dressed, by the same token it was so hard they could not
+eat it.  But that which was most remarkable was the impudence of this
+Holmes, who hath been arraigned often, and still got away; and on this
+business was taken and broke loose just at Newgate Gate; and was last
+night luckily taken about Bow, who got loose, and run into the river, and
+hid himself in the rushes; and they pursued him with a dog, and the dog
+got him and held him till he was taken.  But the impudence of this fellow
+was such, that he denied he ever saw the boys before, or ever knew the
+Russia House, or that the people knew him; and by and by the mistress of
+the Russia House was called in, being indicted, at the same time, about
+another thing; and she denied that the fellow was of her acquaintance,
+when it was pretty to see how the little boys did presently fall upon
+her, and ask her how she durst say so, when she was always with them when
+they met at her house, and particularly when she come in in her smock
+before a dozen of them, at which the Court laughed, and put the woman
+away.  Well, this fellow Holmes was found guilty of the act of burning
+the house, and other things, that he stood indicted for.  And then there
+were other good cases, as of a woman that come to serve a gentlewoman,
+and in three days run away, betimes in the morning, with a great deal of
+plate and rings, and other good things.  It was time very well spent to
+be here.  Here I saw how favourable the judge was to a young gentleman
+that struck one of the officers, for not making him room: told him he had
+endangered the loss of his hand, but that he hoped he had not struck him,
+and would suppose that he had not struck him. About that the Court rose,
+and I to dinner with my Lord Mayor and Sheriffs; where a good dinner and
+good discourse; the judge being there.  There was also tried this morning
+Fielding, which I thought had been Bazilll--but it proved the other, and
+Bazill was killed; that killed his brother, who was found guilty of
+murder, and nobody pitied him.  The judge seems to be a worthy man, and
+able: and do intend, for these rogues that burned this house to be hung
+in some conspicuous place in the town, for an example.  After dinner to
+the Court again, where I heard some more causes, but with so much trouble
+because of the hot weather that I had no pleasure in it.  Anon the Court
+rose, and I walked to Fleet streete for my belt at the beltmaker's, and
+so home and to the office, wrote some letters, and then home to supper
+and to bed.
+
+
+
+5th.  Up, and to the office, where Sir W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, [Sir] T.
+Harvy and I met upon Mr. Gawden's accounts, and was at it all the
+morning.  This morning Sir G. Carteret did come to us, and walked in the
+garden.  It was to talk with me about some thing of my Lord Sandwich's,
+but here he told us that the great seale is passed to my Lord Annesly
+[Anglesey] for Treasurer of the Navy: so that now he do no more belong to
+us: and I confess, for his sake, I am glad of it, and do believe the
+other will have little content in it.  At noon I home to dinner with my
+wife, and after dinner to sing, and then to the office a little and Sir
+W. Batten's, where I am vexed to hear that Nan Wright, now Mrs. Markham,
+Sir W. Pen's mayde and whore, is come to sit in our pew at church, and
+did so while my Lady Batten was there.  I confess I am very much vexed at
+it and ashamed.  By and by out with [Sir] W. Pen to White Hall, where I
+staid not, but to the New Exchange to buy gloves and other little
+errands, and so home and to my office busy till night, and then walked in
+the garden with my wife, and then to supper and to sing, and so to bed.
+No news, but that the Dutch are gone clear from Harwich northward, and
+have given out they are going to Yarmouth.
+
+
+
+6th.  Up, and to the office, where some of us sat busy all the morning.
+At noon home to dinner, whither Creed come to dine with us and brings the
+first word I hear of the news of a peace, the King having letters come to
+him this noon signifying that it is concluded on, and that Mr. Coventry
+is upon his way coming over for the King's satisfaction.  The news was so
+good and sudden that I went with great joy to [Sir] W. Batten and then to
+[Sir] W. Pen to tell it them, and so home to dinner, mighty merry, and
+light at my heart only on this ground, that a continuing of the war must
+undo us, and so though peace may do the like if we do not make good use
+of it to reform ourselves and get up money, yet there is an opportunity
+for us to save ourselves.  At least, for my own particular, we shall
+continue well till I can get my money into my hands, and then I will
+shift for myself.  After dinner away, leaving Creed there, by coach to
+Westminster, where to the Swan and drank, and then to the Hall, and there
+talked a little with great joy of the peace, and then to Mrs. Martin's,
+where I met with the good news que elle ne est con child, the fear of
+which she did give me the other day, had troubled me much.  My joy in
+this made me send for wine, and thither come her sister and Mrs. Cragg,
+and I staid a good while there.  But here happened the best instance of a
+woman's falseness in the world, that her sister Doll, who went for a
+bottle of wine, did come home all blubbering and swearing against one
+Captain Vandener, a Dutchman of the Rhenish Wine House, that pulled her
+into a stable by the Dog tavern, and there did tumble her and toss her,
+calling him all the rogues and toads in the world, when she knows that
+elle hath suffered me to do any thing with her a hundred times.  Thence
+with joyful heart to White Hall to ask Mr. Williamson the news, who told
+me that Mr. Coventry is coming over with a project of a peace; which, if
+the States agree to, and our King, when their Ministers on both sides
+have shewed it them, we shall agree, and that is all: but the King, I
+hear, do give it out plain that the peace is concluded.  Thence by coach
+home, and there wrote a few letters, and then to consult with my wife
+about going to Epsum to-morrow, sometimes designing to go and then again
+not; and at last it grew late and I bethought myself of business to
+employ me at home tomorrow, and so I did not go.  This afternoon I met
+with Mr. Rolt, who tells me that he is going Cornett under Collonel
+Ingoldsby, being his old acquaintance, and Ingoldsby hath a troop now
+from under the King, and I think it is a handsome way for him, but it was
+an ominous thing, methought, just as he was bidding me his last adieu,
+his nose fell a-bleeding, which ran in my mind a pretty while after.
+This afternoon Sir Alexander Frazier, who was of council for Sir
+J. Minnes, and had given him over for a dead man, said to me at White
+Hall:--"What," says he, "Sir J. Minnes is dead."  I told him, "No! but
+that there is hopes of his life."  Methought he looked very sillily after
+it, and went his way.  Late home to supper, a little troubled at my not
+going to Epsum to-morrow, as I had resolved, especially having the Duke
+of York and [Sir] W. Coventry out of town, but it was my own fault and at
+last my judgment to stay, and so to supper and to bed.  This day, with
+great satisfaction, I hear that my Lady Jemimah is brought to bed, at
+Hinchingbroke, of a boy.
+
+
+
+7th (Lord's day).  Up, and to my chamber, there to settle some papers,
+and thither comes Mr. Moore to me and talked till church time of the news
+of the times about the peace and the bad consequences of it if it be not
+improved to good purpose of fitting ourselves for another war.  He tells
+me he heard that the discontented Parliament-men are fearful that the
+next sitting the King will put for a general excise, by which to raise
+him money, and then to fling off the Parliament, and raise a land-army
+and keep them all down like slaves; and it is gotten among them, that
+Bab. May, the Privy-purse, hath been heard to say that L300 a-year is
+enough for any country gentleman; which makes them mad, and they do talk
+of 6 or L800,000 gone into the Privy-purse this war, when in King James's
+time it arose but to L5,000, and in King Charles's but L10,000 in a year.
+He tells me that a goldsmith in town told him that, being with some plate
+with my Lady Castlemayne lately, she directed her woman (the great
+beauty), "Wilson," says she, "make a note for this, and for that, to the
+Privy-purse for money."  He tells me a little more of the baseness of the
+courses taken at Court in the case of Mr. Moyer, who is at liberty, and
+is to give L500 for his liberty; but now the great ones are divided, who
+shall have the money, the Duke of Albemarle on one hand, and another Lord
+on the other; and that it is fain to be decided by having the person's
+name put into the King's warrant for his liberty, at whose intercession
+the King shall own that he is set at liberty; which is a most lamentable
+thing, that we do professedly own that we do these things, not for right
+and justice sake, but only to gratify this or that person about the King.
+God forgive us all!  Busy till noon, and then home to dinner, and Mr.
+Moore come and dined with us, and much more discourse at and after dinner
+of the same kind, and then, he gone, I to my office busy till the
+evening, and then with my wife and Jane over to Half-way house, a very
+good walk; and there drank, and in the cool of the evening back again,
+and sang with pleasure upon the water, and were mightily pleased in
+hearing a boatfull of Spaniards sing, and so home to supper and to bed.
+Jane of late mighty fine, by reason of a laced whiske her mistress hath
+given her, which makes her a very gracefull servant.  But, above all, my
+wife and I were the most surprised in the beauty of a plain girle, which
+we met in the little lane going from Redriffe-stairs into the fields, one
+of the prettiest faces that we think we ever saw in our lives.
+
+
+
+8th.  Up, and to my chamber, and by and by comes Greeting, and to my
+flageolett with him with a pretty deal of pleasure, and then to the
+office, where [Sir] W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen and I met about putting men
+to work for the weighing of the ships in the River sunk.  Then home
+again, and there heard Mr. Caesar play some very good things on the lute
+together with myself on the violl and Greeting on the viallin.  Then with
+my wife abroad by coach, she to her tailor's, I to Westminster to Burges
+about my Tangier business, and thence to White Hall, where I spoke with
+Sir John Nicholas, who tells me that Mr. Coventry is come from Bredah, as
+was expected; but, contrary to expectation, brings with him two or three
+articles which do not please the King: as, to retrench the Act of
+Navigation, and then to ascertain what are contraband goods; and then
+that those exiled persons, who are or shall take refuge in their country,
+may be secure from any further prosecution.  Whether these will be enough
+to break the peace upon, or no, he cannot tell; but I perceive the
+certainty of peace is blown over.  So called on my wife and met Creed by
+the way, and they two and I to Charing Cross, there to see the great boy
+and girle that are lately come out of Ireland, the latter eight, the
+former but four years old, of most prodigious bigness for their age.
+I tried to weigh them in my arms, and find them twice as heavy as people
+almost twice their age; and yet I am apt to believe they are very young.
+Their father a little sorry fellow, and their mother an old Irish woman.
+They have had four children of this bigness, and four of ordinary growth,
+whereof two of each are dead.  If, as my Lord Ormond certifies, it be
+true that they are no older, it is very monstrous.  So home and to dinner
+with my wife and to pipe, and then I to the office, where busy all the
+afternoon till the evening, and then with my wife by coach abroad to Bow
+and Stratford, it being so dusty weather that there was little pleasure
+in it, and so home and to walk in the garden, and thither comes Pelling
+to us to talk, and so in and to supper, and then to bed.  All the world
+being as I hear very much damped that their hopes of peace is become
+uncertain again.
+
+
+
+9th.  Up pretty betimes and to the office, where busy till office time,
+and then we sat, but nothing to do but receive clamours about money.
+This day my Lord Anglesey, our new Treasurer, come the first time to the
+Board, and there sat with us till noon; and I do perceive he is a very
+notable man, and understanding, and will do things regular, and
+understand them himself, not trust Fenn, as Sir G. Carteret did, and will
+solicit soundly for money, which I do fear was Sir G. Carteret's fault,
+that he did not do that enough, considering the age we live in, that
+nothing will do but by solicitation, though never so good for the King or
+Kingdom, and a bad business well solicited shall, for peace sake, speed
+when a good one shall not.  But I do confess that I do think it a very
+bold act of him to take upon himself the place of Treasurer of the Navy
+at this time, but when I consider that a regular accountant never ought
+to fear any thing nor have reason I then do cease to wonder.  At noon
+home to dinner and to play on the flageolet with my wife, and then to the
+office, where very busy close at my office till late at night.  At night
+walked and sang with my wife in the garden, and so home to supper and to
+bed.  This evening news comes for certain that the Dutch are with their
+fleete before Dover, and that it is expected they will attempt something
+there.  The business of the peace is quite dashed again, so as now it is
+doubtful whether the King will condescend to what the Dutch demand, it
+being so near the Parliament, it being a thing that will, it may be,
+recommend him to them when they shall find that the not having of a peace
+lies on his side by denying some of their demands.  This morning Captain
+Clerke (Robin Clerke) was at the table, now commands the Monmouth, and
+did when the enemy passed the chaine at Chatham the other day, who said
+publickly at the table that he did admire at the order when it was
+brought him for sinking of the Monmouth (to the endangering of the ship,
+and spoiling of all her provisions) when her number of men were upon her
+that he could have carried her up the River whither he pleased, and have-
+been a guard to the rest, and could have sunk her at any time.  He did
+carry some 100 barrels of powder out of the ship to save it after the
+orders come for the sinking her.  He knew no reason at all, he declares,
+that could lead them to order the sinking her, nor the rest of the great
+ships that were sunk, but above all admires they would burn them on shore
+and sink them there, when it had been better to have sunk them long way
+in the middle of the River, for then they would not have burned them so
+low as now they did.
+
+
+
+10th.  Up, and to the office betimes, and there all the morning very busy
+causing papers to be entered and sorted to put the office in order
+against the Parliament.  At noon home to dinner, and then to the office
+again close all the afternoon upon the same occasion with great pleasure
+till late, and then with my wife and Mercer in the garden and sung, and
+then home and sung, and to supper with great content, and so to bed.  The
+Duke of York is come back last night from Harwich, the news he brings I
+know not, nor hear anything to-day from Dover, whether the enemy have
+made any attempt there as was expected.  This day our girle Mary, whom
+Payne helped us to, to be under his daughter, when she come to be our
+cook-mayde, did go away declaring that she must be where she might earn
+something one day, and spend it and play away the next.  But a good civil
+wench, and one neither wife nor I did ever give angry word to, but she
+has this silly vanity that she must play.
+
+
+
+11th.  Up betimes and to my office, and there busy till the office (which
+was only Sir T. Harvy and myself) met, and did little business and then
+broke up.  He tells me that the Council last night did sit close to
+determine of the King's answer about the peace, and that though he do not
+certainly know, yet by all discourse yesterday he do believe it is peace,
+and that the King had said it should be peace, and had bidden Alderman
+Baclewell to declare [it] upon the 'Change.  It is high time for us to
+have peace that the King and Council may get up their credits and have
+time to do it, for that indeed is the bottom of all our misery, that
+nobody have any so good opinion of the King and his Council and their
+advice as to lend money or venture their persons, or estates, or pains
+upon people that they know cannot thrive with all that we can do, but
+either by their corruption or negligence must be undone.  This indeed is
+the very bottom of every man's thought, and the certain ground that we
+must be ruined unless the King change his course, or the Parliament come
+and alter it.  At noon dined alone with my wife.  All the afternoon close
+at the office, very hard at gathering papers and putting things in order
+against the Parliament, and at night home with my wife to supper, and
+then to bed, in hopes to have all things in my office in good condition
+in a little time for any body to examine, which I am sure none else will.
+
+
+
+12th.  Up betimes and to my chamber, there doing business, and by and by
+comes Greeting and begun a new month with him, and now to learn to set
+anything from the notes upon the flageolet, but, Lord! to see how like a
+fool he goes about to give me direction would make a man mad.  I then out
+and by coach to White Hall and to the Treasury chamber, where did a
+little business, and thence to the Exchequer to Burges, about Tangier
+business, and so back again, stepping into the Hall a little, and then
+homeward by coach, and met at White Hall with Sir H. Cholmly, and so into
+his coach, and he with me to the Excise Office, there to do a little
+business also, in the way he telling me that undoubtedly the peace is
+concluded; for he did stand yesterday where he did hear part of the
+discourse at the Council table, and there did hear the King argue for it.
+Among other things, that the spirits of the seamen were down, and the
+forces of our enemies are grown too great and many for us, and he would
+not have his subjects overpressed; for he knew an Englishman would do as
+much as any man upon hopeful terms; but where he sees he is overpressed,
+he despairs soon as any other; and, besides that, they have already such
+a load of dejection upon them, that they will not be in temper a good
+while again.  He heard my Lord Chancellor say to the King, "Sir," says
+he, "the whole world do complain publickly of treachery, that things have
+been managed falsely by some of his great ministers."--"Sir," says he,
+"I am for your Majesty's falling into a speedy enquiry into the truth of
+it, and, where you meet with it, punish it.  But, at the same time,
+consider what you have to do, and make use of your time for having a
+peace; for more money will not be given without much trouble, nor is it,
+I fear, to be had of the people, nor will a little do it to put us into
+condition of doing our business."  But Sir H. Cholmly tells me he [the]
+Chancellors did say the other day at his table, "Treachery!" says he;
+"I could wish we could prove there was anything of that in it; for that
+would imply some wit and thoughtfulness; but we are ruined merely by
+folly and neglect."  And so Sir H. Cholmly tells me they did all argue
+for peace, and so he do believe that the King hath agreed to the three
+points Mr. Coventry brought over, which I have mentioned before, and is
+gone with them back.  He tells me further that the Duke of Buckingham was
+before the Council the other day, and there did carry it very
+submissively and pleasingly to the King; but to my Lord Arlington, who do
+prosecute the business, he was most bitter and sharp, and very slighting.
+As to the letter about his employing a man to cast the King's nativity,
+says he to the King, "Sir," says he, "this is none of my hand, and I
+refer it to your Majesty whether you do not know this hand."  The King
+answered, that it was indeed none of his, and that he knew whose it was,
+but could not recall it presently.  "Why," says he, "it is my sister of
+Richmond's, some frolick or other of hers of some certain person; and
+there is nothing of the King's name in it, but it is only said to be his
+by supposition, as is said."  The King, it seems, seemed not very much
+displeased with what the Duke had said; but, however, he is still in the
+Tower, and no discourse of his being out in haste, though my Lady
+Castlemayne hath so far solicited for him that the King and she are quite
+fallen out: he comes not to her, nor hath for some three or four days;
+and parted with very foul words, the King calling her a whore, and a jade
+that meddled with things she had nothing to do with at all: and she
+calling him fool; and told him if he was not a fool, he would not suffer
+his businesses to be carried on by fellows that did not understand them,
+and cause his best subjects, and those best able to serve him, to be
+imprisoned; meaning the Duke of Buckingham.  And it seems she was not
+only for his liberty, but to be restored to all his places; which, it is
+thought, he will never be.  While we were at the Excise office talking
+with Mr. Ball, it was computed that the Parliament had given the King for
+this war only, besides all prizes, and besides the L200,000 which he was
+to spend of his own revenue, to guard the sea above L5,000,000 and odd
+L100,000; which is a most prodigious sum.  Sir H. Cholmly, as a true
+English gentleman, do decry the King's expenses of his Privy-purse, which
+in King James's time did not rise to above L5000 a year, and in King
+Charles's to L10,000, do now cost us above L100,000, besides the great
+charge of the monarchy, as the Duke of York L100,000 of it, and other
+limbs of the Royal family, and the guards, which, for his part, says he,
+"I would have all disbanded, for the King is not the better by them, and
+would be as safe without them; for we have had no rebellions to make him
+fear anything."  But, contrarily, he is now raising of a land-army, which
+this Parliament and kingdom will never bear; besides, the commanders they
+put over them are such as will never be able to raise or command them;
+but the design is, and the Duke of York, he says, is hot for it, to have
+a land-army, and so to make the government like that of France, but our
+princes have not brains, or at least care and forecast enough to do that.
+It is strange how he and every body do now-a-days reflect upon Oliver,
+and commend him, what brave things he did, and made all the neighbour
+princes fear him; while here a prince, come in with all the love and
+prayers and good liking of his people, who have given greater signs of
+loyalty and willingness to serve him with their estates than ever was
+done by any people, hath lost all so soon, that it is a miracle what way
+a man could devise to lose so much in so little time.  Thence he set me
+down at my Lord Crew's and away, and I up to my Lord, where Sir Thomas
+Crew was, and by and by comes Mr. Caesar, who teaches my Lady's page upon
+the lute, and here Mr. Caesar did play some very fine things indeed, to
+my great liking.  Here was my Lord Hinchingbroke also, newly come from
+Hinchingbroke, where all well, but methinks I knowing in what case he
+stands for money by his demands to me and the report Mr. Moore gives of
+the management of the family, makes me, God forgive me! to contemn him,
+though I do really honour and pity them, though they deserve it not, that
+have so good an estate and will live beyond it.  To dinner, and very good
+discourse with my Lord.  And after dinner Sir Thomas Crew and I alone,
+and he tells me how I am mightily in esteem with the Parliament; there
+being harangues made in the House to the Speaker, of Mr. Pepys's
+readiness and civility to show them every thing, which I am at this time
+very glad of.  He tells me the news of the King and my Lady Castlemayne
+which I have wrote already this day, and the design of the Parliament to
+look into things very well before they give any more money, and I pray
+God they may.  Thence, after dinner, to St. James's, but missed Sir W.
+Coventry, and so home, and there find my wife in a dogged humour for my
+not dining at home, and I did give her a pull by the nose and some ill
+words, which she provoked me to by something she spoke, that we fell
+extraordinarily out, insomuch, that I going to the office to avoid
+further anger, she followed me in a devilish manner thither, and with
+much ado I got her into the garden out of hearing, to prevent shame, and
+so home, and by degrees I found it necessary to calme her, and did, and
+then to the office, where pretty late, and then to walk with her in the
+garden, and so to supper, and pretty good friends, and so to bed with my
+mind very quiet.
+
+
+
+13th.  Up pretty betimes, it being mighty hot weather, I lying this
+night, which I have not done, I believe, since a boy, I am sure not since
+I had the stone before, with only a rugg and a sheet upon me.  To my
+chamber, and my wife up to do something, and by chance we fell out again,
+but I to the office, and there we did at the board much business, though
+the most was the dividing of L5000 which the Lords Commissioners have
+with great difficulty found upon our letter to them this week that would
+have required L50,000 among a great many occasions.  After rising, my
+Lord Anglesey, this being the second time of his being with us, did take
+me aside and asked me where I lived, because he would be glad to have
+some discourse with me.  This I liked well enough, and told him I would
+wait upon him, which I will do, and so all broke up, and I home to
+dinner, where Mr. Pierce dined with us, who tells us what troubles me,
+that my Lord Buckhurst  hath got Nell away from the King's house, lies
+with her, and gives her L100 a year, so as she hath sent her parts to the
+house, and will act no more.
+
+     [Lord Buckhurst and Nell Gwyn, with the help of Sir Charles Sedley,
+     kept "merry house" at Epsom next door to the King's Head Inn (see
+     Cunningham's "Story of Nell Gwyn," ed.  1892, p. 57)]
+
+And yesterday Sir Thomas Crew told me that Lacy lies a-dying of the pox,
+and yet hath his whore by him, whom he will have to look on, he says,
+though he can do no more; nor would receive any ghostly advice from a
+Bishop, an old acquaintance of his, that went to see him. He says there
+is a strangeness between the King and my Lady Castlemayne, as I was told
+yesterday.  After dinner my wife and I to the New Exchange, to pretty
+maid Mrs. Smith's shop, where I left my wife, and I to Sir W. Coventry,
+and there had the opportunity of talk with him, who I perceive do not
+like our business of the change of the Treasurer's hand, and he tells me
+that he is entered the lists with this new Treasurer before the King in
+taking away the business of the Victualling money from his hand, and the
+Regiment, and declaring that he hath no right to the 3d. per by his
+patent, for that it was always heretofore given by particular Privy Seal,
+and that the King and Council just upon his coming in had declared L2000
+a year sufficient.  This makes him angry, but Sir W. Coventry I perceive
+cares not, but do every day hold up his head higher and higher, and this
+day I have received an order from the Commissioners of the Treasury to
+pay no more pensions for Tangier, which I am glad of, and he tells me
+they do make bold with all things of that kind.  Thence I to White Hall,
+and in the street I spied Mrs. Borroughs, and took a means to meet and
+salute her and talk a little, and then parted, and I home by coach,
+taking up my wife at the Exchange, and there I am mightily pleased with
+this Mrs. Smith, being a very pleasant woman.  So home, and resolved upon
+going to Epsum tomorrow, only for ayre, and got Mrs. Turner to go with
+us, and so home and to supper (after having been at the office) and to
+bed.  It is an odd and sad thing to say, that though this be a peace
+worse than we had before, yet every body's fear almost is, that the Dutch
+will not stand by their promise, now the King hath consented to all they
+would have.  And yet no wise man that I meet with, when he comes to think
+of it, but wishes, with all his heart, a war; but that the King is not a
+man to be trusted with the management of it.  It was pleasantly said by a
+man in this City, a stranger, to one that told him that the peace was
+concluded, "Well," says he, "and have you a peace?"--"Yes," says the
+other.--"Why, then," says he, "hold your peace!" partly reproaching us
+with the disgracefulness of it, that it is not fit to be mentioned; and
+next, that we are not able to make the Dutch keep it, when they have a
+mind to break it.  Sir Thomas Crew yesterday, speaking of the King of
+France, how great a man he is, why, says he, all the world thought that
+when the last Pope died, there would have been such bandying between the
+Crowns of France and Spain, whereas, when he was asked what he would have
+his ministers at Rome do, why, says he, let them choose who they will;
+if the Pope will do what is fit, the Pope and I will be friends.  If he
+will not, I will take a course with him: therefore, I will not trouble
+myself; and thereupon the election was despatched in a little time--I
+think in a day, and all ended.
+
+     [Of Clement IX., Giulio Rispogliosi, elected June 20th, 1667, N.S.
+     He was succeeded by Clement X. in 1670.]
+
+
+
+14th (Lord's day).  Up, and my wife, a little before four, and to make us
+ready; and by and by Mrs. Turner come to us, by agreement, and she and I
+staid talking below, while my wife dressed herself, which vexed me that
+she was so long about it keeping us till past five o'clock before she was
+ready.  She ready; and, taking some bottles of wine, and beer, and some
+cold fowle with us into the coach, we took coach and four horses, which I
+had provided last night, and so away.  A very fine day, and so towards
+Epsum, talking all the way pleasantly, and particularly of the pride and
+ignorance of Mrs. Lowther, in having of her train carried up?  The
+country very fine, only the way very dusty.  We got to Epsum by eight
+o'clock, to the well; where much company, and there we 'light, and I
+drank the water: they did not, but do go about and walk a little among
+the women, but I did drink four pints, and had some very good stools by
+it.  Here I met with divers of our town, among others with several of the
+tradesmen of our office, but did talk but little with them, it growing
+hot in the sun, and so we took coach again and to the towne, to the
+King's Head, where our coachman carried us, and there had an ill room for
+us to go into, but the best in the house that was not taken up.  Here we
+called for drink, and bespoke dinner; and hear that my Lord Buckhurst and
+Nelly are lodged at the next house, and Sir Charles Sidly with them and
+keep a merry house.  Poor girl! I pity her; but more the loss of her at
+the King's house.  Here I saw Gilsthrop, Sir W. Batten's clerk that hath
+been long sick, he looks like a dying man, with a consumption got, as is
+believed, by the pox, but God knows that the man is in a sad condition,
+though he finds himself much better since his coming thither, he says.
+W. Hewer rode with us, and I left him and the women, and myself walked to
+church, where few people, contrary to what I expected, and none I knew,
+but all the Houblons, brothers, and them after sermon I did salute, and
+walk with towards my inne, which was in their way to their lodgings.
+They come last night to see their elder brother, who stays here at the
+waters, and away to-morrow.  James did tell me that I was the only happy
+man of the Navy, of whom, he says, during all this freedom the people
+have taken of speaking treason, he hath not heard one bad word of me,
+which is a great joy to me; for I hear the same of others, but do know
+that I have deserved as well as most.  We parted to meet anon, and I to
+my women into a better room, which the people of the house borrowed for
+us, and there to dinner, a good dinner, and were merry, and Pendleton
+come to us, who happened to be in the house, and there talked and were
+merry.  After dinner, he gone, we all lay down after dinner (the day
+being wonderful hot) to sleep, and each of us took a good nap, and then
+rose; and Tom Wilson come to see me, and sat and talked an hour; and I
+perceive he hath been much acquainted with Dr. Fuller (Tom) and Dr.
+Pierson, and several of the great cavalier parsons during the late
+troubles; and I was glad to hear him talk of them, which he did very
+ingeniously, and very much of Dr. Fuller's art of memory, which he did
+tell me several instances of.  By and by he parted, and we took coach and
+to take the ayre, there being a fine breeze abroad; and I went and
+carried them to the well, and there filled some bottles of water to carry
+home with me; and there talked with the two women that farm the well, at
+L12 per annum, of the lord of the manor, Mr. Evelyn (who with his lady,
+and also my Lord George Barkeley's lady, and their fine daughter, that
+the King of France liked so well, and did dance so rich in jewells before
+the King at the Ball I was at, at our Court, last winter, and also their
+son, a Knight of the Bath, were at church this morning).  Here W. Hewer's
+horse broke loose, and we had the sport to see him taken again.  Then I
+carried them to see my cozen Pepys's house, and 'light, and walked round
+about it, and they like it, as indeed it deserves, very well, and is a
+pretty place; and then I walked them to the wood hard by, and there got
+them in the thickets till they had lost themselves, and I could not find
+the way into any of the walks in the wood, which indeed are very
+pleasant, if I could have found them.  At last got out of the wood again;
+and I, by leaping down the little bank, coming out of the wood, did
+sprain my right foot, which brought me great present pain, but presently,
+with walking, it went away for the present, and so the women and W. Hewer
+and I walked upon the Downes, where a flock of sheep was; and the most
+pleasant and innocent sight that ever I saw in my life--we find a
+shepherd and his little boy reading, far from any houses or sight of
+people, the Bible to him; so I made the boy read to me, which he did,
+with the forced tone that children do usually read, that was mighty
+pretty, and then I did give him something, and went to the father, and
+talked with him; and I find he had been a servant in my cozen Pepys's
+house, and told me what was become of their old servants.  He did content
+himself mightily in my liking his boy's reading, and did bless God for
+him, the most like one of the old patriarchs that ever I saw in my life,
+and it brought those thoughts of the old age of the world in my mind for
+two or three days after.  We took notice of his woolen knit stockings of
+two colours mixed, and of his shoes shod with iron shoes, both at the toe
+and heels, and with great nails in the soles of his feet, which was
+mighty pretty: and, taking notice of them, "Why," says the poor man, "the
+downes, you see, are full of stones, and we are faine to shoe ourselves
+thus; and these," says he, "will make the stones fly till they sing
+before me."  I did give the poor man something, for which he was mighty
+thankful, and I tried to cast stones with his horne crooke.  He values
+his dog mightily, that would turn a sheep any way which he would have
+him, when he goes to fold them: told me there was about eighteen scoare
+sheep in his flock, and that he hath four shillings a week the year round
+for keeping of them: so we posted thence with mighty pleasure in the
+discourse we had with this poor man, and Mrs. Turner, in the common
+fields here, did gather one of the prettiest nosegays that ever I saw in
+my life.  So to our coach, and through Mr. Minnes's wood, and looked upon
+Mr. Evelyn's house; and so over the common, and through Epsum towne to
+our inne, in the way stopping a poor woman with her milk-pail, and in one
+of my gilt tumblers did drink our bellyfulls of milk, better than any
+creame; and so to our inne, and there had a dish of creame, but it was
+sour, and so had no pleasure in it; and so paid our reckoning, and took
+coach, it being about seven at night, and passed and saw the people
+walking with their wives and children to take the ayre, and we set out
+for home, the sun by and by going down, and we in the cool of the evening
+all the way with much pleasure home, talking and pleasing ourselves with
+the pleasure of this day's work, Mrs. Turner mightily pleased with my
+resolution, which, I tell her, is never to keep a country-house, but to
+keep a coach, and with my wife on the Saturday to go sometimes for a day
+to this place, and then quit to another place; and there is more variety
+and as little charge, and no trouble, as there is in a country-house.
+Anon it grew dark, and as it grew dark we had the pleasure to see several
+glow-wormes, which was mighty pretty, but my foot begins more and more to
+pain me, which Mrs. Turner, by keeping her warm hand upon it, did much
+ease; but so that when we come home, which was just at eleven at night,
+I was not able to walk from the lane's end to my house without being
+helped, which did trouble me, and therefore to bed presently, but, thanks
+be to God, found that I had not been missed, nor any business happened in
+my absence.  So to bed, and there had a cerecloth laid to my foot and leg
+alone, but in great pain all night long.
+
+
+
+15th.  So as I was not able to go to-day to wait on the Duke of York with
+my fellows, but was forced in bed to write the particulars for their
+discourse there, and kept my bed all day, and anon comes Mrs. Turner,
+and new-dressed my foot, and did it so, that I was at much ease
+presently, and so continued all day, so as I slept much and well in the
+daytime, and in the evening rose and eat something, where our poor Jane
+very sad for the death of her poor brother, who hath left a wife and two
+small children.  I did give her 20s. in money, and what wine she needed,
+for the burying him.  This evening come to see me Pelling, and we did
+sing together, and he sings well indeed, and after supper I was willing
+to go to bed to ease my foot again, which I did, and slept well all
+night.
+
+
+
+16th.  In the morning I was able to put on a wide shoe on the foot, and
+to the office without much pain, and there sat all the morning.  At noon
+home to dinner, where Creed to discourse of our Tangier business, which
+stands very bad in the business of money, and therefore we expect to have
+a committee called soon, and to acquaint them among other things with the
+order come to me for the not paying of any more pensions.  We dined
+together, and after dinner I to the office, and there very late, very
+busy, doing much business indeed, and so with great comfort home to
+supper, and so to bed to ease my foot, which toward night began to ake.
+
+
+
+17th.  Up, and to my chamber to set down my Journall of Sunday last with
+much pleasure, and my foot being pretty well, but yet I am forced to
+limp.  Then by coach, set my wife down at the New Exchange, and I to
+White Hall to the Treasury chamber, but to little purpose.  So to Mr.
+Burges to as little.  There to the Hall and talked with Mrs. Michell, who
+begins to tire me about doing something for her elder son, which I am
+willing to do, but know not what.  Thence to White Hall again, and thence
+away, and took up my wife at Unthanke's, and left her at the 'Change, and
+so I to Bennet's to take up a bill for the last silk I had for my vest
+and coat, which I owe them for, and so to the Excise Office, and there
+did a little business, and so to Temple Bar and staid at my bookseller's
+till my wife calls me, and so home, where I am saluted with the news of
+Hogg's bringing a rich Canary prize to Hull:
+
+     [Thomas Pointer to Samuel Pepys (Hull, July 15th): "Capt. Hogg has
+     brought in a great prize laden with Canary wine; also Capt. Reeves
+     of the 'Panther,' and the 'Fanfan,' whose commander is slain, have
+     come in with their prizes" ("Calendar of State Papers," 1667,
+     p. 298).]
+
+and Sir W. Batten do offer me L1000 down for my particular share, beside
+Sir Richard Ford's part, which do tempt me; but yet I would not take it,
+but will stand and fall with the company.  He and two more, the Panther
+and Fanfan, did enter into consortship; and so they have all brought in
+each a prize, though ours worth as much as both theirs, and more.
+However, it will be well worth having, God be thanked for it!  This news
+makes us all very glad.  I at Sir W. Batten's did hear the particulars of
+it; and there for joy he did give the company that were there a bottle or
+two of his own last year's wine, growing at Walthamstow, than which the
+whole company said they never drank better foreign wine in their lives.
+Home, and to dinner, and by and by comes Mr. Pierce, who is interested in
+the Panther, for some advice, and then comes Creed, and he and I spent
+the whole afternoon till eight at night walking and talking of sundry
+things public and private in the garden, but most of all of the unhappy
+state of this nation at this time by the negligence of the King and his
+Council.  The Duke of Buckingham is, it seems, set at liberty, without
+any further charge against him or other clearing of him, but let to go
+out; which is one of the strangest instances of the fool's play with
+which all publick things are done in this age, that is to be apprehended.
+And it is said that when he was charged with making himself popular--as
+indeed he is, for many of the discontented Parliament, Sir Robert Howard
+and Sir Thomas Meres, and others, did attend at the Council-chamber when
+he was examined--he should answer, that whoever was committed to prison
+by my Lord Chancellor or my Lord Arlington, could not want being popular.
+But it is worth considering the ill state a Minister of State is in,
+under such a Prince as ours is; for, undoubtedly, neither of those two
+great men would have been so fierce against the Duke of Buckingham at the
+Council-table the other day, had they [not] been assured of the King's
+good liking, and supporting them therein: whereas, perhaps at the desire
+of my Lady Castlemayne, who, I suppose, hath at last overcome the King,
+the Duke of Buckingham is well received again, and now these men
+delivered up to the interest he can make for his revenge.  He told me
+over the story of Mrs. Stewart, much after the manner which I was told it
+long since, and have entered it in this book, told me by Mr. Evelyn; only
+he says it is verily believed that the King did never intend to marry her
+to any but himself, and that the Duke of York and Lord Chancellor were
+jealous of it; and that Mrs. Stewart might be got with child by the King,
+or somebody else, and the King own a marriage before his contract, for it
+is but a contract, as he tells me, to this day, with the Queene, and so
+wipe their noses of the Crown; and that, therefore, the Duke of York and
+Chancellor did do all they could to forward the match with my Lord Duke
+of Richmond, that she might be married out of the way; but, above all, it
+is a worthy part that this good lady hath acted.  Thus we talked till
+night and then parted, and so I to my office and did business, and so
+home to supper, and there find my sister Michell
+
+     [The wife of Balthazar St. Michel, Mrs. Pepys's brother.--B.  Leigh,
+     opposite to Sheerness.--R.]
+
+come from Lee to see us; but do tattle so much of the late business of
+the Dutch coming thither that I was weary of it.  Yet it is worth
+remembering what she says: that she hath heard both seamen and soldiers
+swear they would rather serve the Dutch than the King, for they should be
+better used.
+
+     [Reference has already been made to Andrew Marvell's "Instructions
+     to a Painter", in which the unpaid English sailors are described as
+     swimming to the Dutch ships, where they received the money which was
+     withheld from them on their own ships.]
+
+She saw "The Royal Charles" brought into the river by them; and how they
+shot off their great guns for joy, when they got her out of Chatham
+River.  I would not forget that this very day when we had nothing to do
+almost but five merchantmen to man in the River, which have now been
+about it some weeks, I was asked at Westminster, what the matter was that
+there was such ado kept in pressing of men, as it seems there is
+thereabouts at this day.  So after supper we all to bed, my foot very
+well again, I thank God.
+
+
+
+18th.  Up and to the office, where busy all the morning, and most of our
+time taken up with Carcasse upon some complaints brought in against him,
+and many other petitions about tickets lost, which spends most of our
+time.  Home to dinner, and then to the office again, where very well
+employed at the office till evening; and then being weary, took out my
+wife and Will Batelier by coach to Islington, but no pleasure in our
+going, the way being so dusty that one durst not breathe.  Drank at the
+old house, and so home, and then to the office a little, and so home to
+supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+19th.  Up and comes the flageolet master, and brings me two new great
+Ivory pipes which cost me 32s., and so to play, and he being done, and
+Balty's wife taking her leave of me, she going back to Lee to-day, I to
+Westminster and there did receive L15,000 orders out of the Exchequer in
+part of a bigger sum upon the eleven months tax for Tangier, part of
+which I presently delivered to Sir H. Cholmly, who was there, and thence
+with Mr. Gawden to Auditor Woods and Beales to examine some precedents in
+his business of the Victualling on his behalf, and so home, and in my way
+by coach down Marke Lane, mightily pleased and smitten to see, as I
+thought, in passing, the pretty woman, the line-maker's wife that lived
+in Fenchurch Streete, and I had great mind to have gone back to have
+seen, but yet would correct my nature and would not.  So to dinner with
+my wife, and then to sing, and so to the office, where busy all the
+afternoon late, and to Sir W. Batten's and to Sir R. Ford's, we all to
+consider about our great prize at Hull, being troubled at our being
+likely to be troubled with Prince Rupert, by reason of Hogg's consorting
+himself with two privateers of the Prince's, and so we study how to ease
+or secure ourselves.  So to walk in the garden with my wife, and then to
+supper and to bed.  One tells me that, by letter from Holland, the people
+there are made to believe that our condition in England is such as they
+may have whatever they will ask; and that so they are mighty high, and
+despise us, or a peace with us; and there is too much reason for them to
+do so.  The Dutch fleete are in great squadrons everywhere still about
+Harwich, and were lately at Portsmouth; and the last letters say at
+Plymouth, and now gone to Dartmouth to destroy our Streights' fleete
+lately got in thither; but God knows whether they can do it any hurt, or
+no, but it was pretty news come the other day so fast, of the Dutch
+fleets being in so many places, that Sir W. Batten at table cried, "By
+God," says he, "I think the Devil shits Dutchmen."
+
+
+
+20th.  Up and to the office, where all the morning, and then towards the
+'Change, at noon, in my way observing my mistake yesterday in Mark Lane,
+that the woman I saw was not the pretty woman I meant, the line-maker's
+wife, but a new-married woman, very pretty, a strong-water seller: and in
+going by, to my content, I find that the very pretty daughter at the Ship
+tavern, at the end of Billiter Lane, is there still, and in the bar: and,
+I believe, is married to him that is new come, and hath new trimmed the
+house.  Home to dinner, and then to the office, we having dispatched away
+Mr. Oviatt to Hull, about our prizes there; and I have wrote a letter of
+thanks by him to Lord Bellasses, who had writ to me to offer all his
+service for my interest there, but I dare not trust him. In the evening
+late walking in the garden with my wife, and then to bed.
+
+
+
+21st (Lord's day).  Up betimes, and all the morning, and then to dinner
+with my wife alone, and then all the afternoon in like manner, in my
+chamber, making up my Tangier accounts and drawing a letter, which I have
+done at last to my full content, to present to the Lords Commissioners
+for Tangier tomorrow; and about seven at night, when finished my letter
+and weary, I and my wife and Mercer up by water to Barne Elmes, where we
+walked by moonshine, and called at Lambeth, and drank and had cold meat
+in the boat, and did eat, and sang, and down home, by almost twelve at
+night, very fine and pleasant, only could not sing ordinary songs with
+the freedom that otherwise I would.  Here Mercer tells me that the pretty
+maid of the Ship tavern I spoke of yesterday is married there, which I am
+glad of.  So having spent this night, with much serious pleasure to
+consider that I am in a condition to fling away an angell
+
+     [The angel coin was so called from the figure of the Archangel
+     Michael in conflict with the dragon on the obverse.  On the reverse
+     was a representation of a ship with a large cross as a mast.  The
+     last angel coined was in Charles I.'s reign, and the value varied
+     from 6s. 8d. to 10s.]
+
+in such a refreshment to myself and family, we home and to bed, leaving
+Mercer, by the way, at her own door.
+
+
+
+22nd.  Up, and with Sir W. Batten and [Sir] J. Minnes to St. James's,
+where the first time I have been there since the enemy's being with us,
+where little business but lack of money, which now is so professed by Sir
+W. Coventry as nothing is more, and the King's whole business owned to be
+at a stand for want of it.  So up to my Lord Chancellor's, where was a
+Committee of Tangier in my Lord's roome, where he is to hear causes,
+where all the judges' pictures hang up, very fine.  Here I read my letter
+to them, which was well received, and they did fall seriously to
+discourse the want of money and other particulars, and to some pretty
+good purpose.  But to see how Sir W. Coventry did oppose both my Lord
+Chancellor and the Duke of York himself, about the Order of the
+Commissioners of the Treasury to me for not paying of pensions, and with
+so much reason, and eloquence so natural, was admirable.  And another
+thing, about his pressing for the reduction of the charge of Tangier,
+which they would have put off to another time; "But," says he, "the King
+suffers so much by the putting off of the consideration of reductions of
+charge, that he is undone; and therefore I do pray you, sir, to his
+Royal Highness, that when any thing offers of the kind, you will not let
+it escape you."  Here was a great bundle of letters brought hither, sent
+up from sea, from a vessel of ours that hath taken them after they had
+been flung over by a Dutchman; wherein, among others, the Duke of York
+did read the superscription of one to De Witt, thus "To the most wise,
+foreseeing and discreet, These, &c.;" which, I thought with myself, I
+could have been glad might have been duly directed to any one of them at
+the table, though the greatest men in this kingdom.  The Duke of York,
+the Lord Chancellor, my Lord Duke of Albemarle, Arlington, Ashley,
+Peterborough, and Coventry (the best of them all for parts), I perceive
+they do all profess their expectation of a peace, and that suddenly, and
+do advise of things accordingly, and do all speak of it (and expressly, I
+remember, the Duke of Albemarle), saying that they hoped for it.  Letters
+were read at the table from Tangier that Guiland is wholly lost, and that
+he do offer Arzill to us to deliver it to us.  But Sir W. Coventry did
+declare his opinion that we should have nothing to do with it, and said
+that if Tangier were offered us now, as the King's condition is, he would
+advise against the taking it; saying, that the King's charge is too
+great, and must be brought down, it being, like the fire of this City,
+never to be mastered till you have brought it under you; and that these
+places abroad are but so much charge to the King, and we do rather
+hitherto strive to greaten them than lessen them; and then the King is
+forced to part with them, "as," says he, "he did with Dunkirke, by my
+Lord Tiviott's making it so chargeable to the King as he did that, and
+would have done Tangier, if he had lived: I perceive he is the only man
+that do seek the King's profit, and is bold to deliver what he thinks on
+every occasion.  Having broke up here, I away with Mr. Gawden in his
+coach to the 'Change, and there a, little, and then home and dined, and
+then to the office, and by and by with my wife to White Hall (she to
+Unthanke's), and there met Creed and did a little business at the
+Treasury chamber, and then to walk in Westminster Hall an hour or two,
+with much pleasure reflecting upon our discourse to-day at the Tangier
+meeting, and crying up the worth of Sir W. Coventry.  Creed tells me of
+the fray between the Duke of Buckingham at the Duke's playhouse the last
+Saturday (and it is the first day I have heard that they have acted at
+either the King's or Duke's houses this month or six weeks) and Henry
+Killigrew, whom the Duke of Buckingham did soundly beat and take away his
+sword, and make a fool of, till the fellow prayed him to spare his life;
+and I am glad of it; for it seems in this business the Duke of Buckingham
+did carry himself very innocently and well, and I wish he had paid this
+fellow's coat well.  I heard something of this at the 'Change to-day: and
+it is pretty to hear how people do speak kindly of the Duke of
+Buckingham, as one that will enquire into faults; and therefore they do
+mightily favour him.  And it puts me in mind that, this afternoon,
+Billing, the Quaker, meeting me in the Hall, come to me, and after a
+little discourse did say, "Well," says he, "now you will be all called to
+an account;" meaning the Parliament is drawing near.  This done I took
+coach and took up my wife, and so home, and after a little at the office
+I home to my chamber a while, and then to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+23rd: Up betimes and to the office, doing something towards our great
+account to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, and anon the office
+sat, and all the morning doing business.  At noon home to dinner, and
+then close to my business all the afternoon.  In the evening Sir R. Ford
+is come back from the Prince and tells Sir W. Batten and me how basely
+Sir W. Pen received our letter we sent him about the prizes at Hull, and
+slily answered him about the Prince's leaving all his concerns to him,
+but the Prince did it afterward by letter brought by Sir R. Ford to us,
+which Sir W. Pen knows not of, but a very rogue he is.  By and by comes
+sudden news to me by letter from the Clerke of the Cheque at Gravesend,
+that there were thirty sail of Dutch men-of-war coming up into the Hope
+this last tide: which I told Sir W. Pen of; but he would not believe it,
+but laughed, and said it was a fleete of Billanders,
+
+     ["Bilander.  A small merchant vessel with two masts, particularly
+     distinguished from other vessels with two masts by the form of her
+     mainsail, which is bent to the whole length of her yard, hanging
+     fore and aft, and inclined to the horizon at an angle of about 45
+     deg.  Few vessels are now rigged in this manner, and the name is
+     rather indiscriminately used."--Smyth's Sailor's Word-Book.]
+
+and that the guns that were heard was the salutation of the Swede's
+Ambassador that comes over with them.  But within half an hour comes
+another letter from Captain Proud, that eight of them were come into the
+Hope, and thirty more following them, at ten this morning.  By and by
+comes an order from White Hall to send down one of our number to Chatham,
+fearing that, as they did before, they may make a show first up hither,
+but then go to Chatham: so my Lord Bruncker do go, and we here are
+ordered to give notice to the merchant men-of-war, gone below the
+barricado at Woolwich, to come up again.  So with much trouble to supper,
+home and to bed.
+
+
+
+24th.  Betimes this morning comes a letter from the Clerke of the Cheque
+at Gravesend to me, to tell me that the Dutch fleete did come all into
+the Hope yesterday noon, and held a fight with our ships from thence till
+seven at night; that they had burned twelve fire-ships, and we took one
+of their's, and burned five of our fire-ships.  But then rising and going
+to Sir W. Batten, he tells me that we have burned one of their men-of-
+war, and another of theirs is blown up: but how true this is, I know not.
+But these fellows are mighty bold, and have had the fortune of the wind
+easterly this time to bring them up, and prevent our troubling them with
+our fire-ships; and, indeed, have had the winds at their command from the
+beginning, and now do take the beginning of the spring, as if they had
+some great design to do.  I to my office, and there hard at work all the
+morning, to my great content, abstracting the contract book into my
+abstract book, which I have by reason of the war omitted for above two
+years, but now am endeavouring to have all my books ready and perfect
+against the Parliament comes, that upon examination I may be in condition
+to value myself upon my perfect doing of my own duty.  At noon home to
+dinner, where my wife mighty musty,--[Dull, heavy, spiritless]--but I
+took no notice of it, but after dinner to the office, and there with Mr.
+Harper did another good piece of work about my late collection of the
+accounts of the Navy presented to the Parliament at their last session,
+which was left unfinished, and now I have done it which sets my mind at
+my ease, and so, having tired myself, I took a pair of oares about five
+o'clock, which I made a gally at Redriffe, and so with very much pleasure
+down to Gravesend, all the way with extraordinary content reading of
+Boyle's Hydrostatickes, which the more I read and understand, the more I
+admire, as a most excellent piece of philosophy; as we come nearer
+Gravesend, we hear the Dutch fleete and ours a-firing their guns most
+distinctly and loud.  But before we got to Gravesend they ceased, and it
+grew darkish, and so I landed only (and the flood being come) and went up
+to the Ship and discoursed with the landlord of the house, who undeceives
+me in what I heard this morning about the Dutch having lost two men-of-
+war, for it is not so, but several of their fire-ships.  He do say, that
+this afternoon they did force our ships to retreat, but that now they are
+gone down as far as Shield-haven: but what the event hath been of this
+evening's guns they know not, but suppose not much, for they have all
+this while shot at good distance one from another.  They seem confident
+of the security of this town and the River above it, if the enemy should
+come up so high; their fortifications being so good, and guns many.  But
+he do say that people do complain of Sir Edward Spragg, that he hath not
+done extraordinary; and more of Sir W. Jenings, that he come up with his
+tamkins
+
+     [Tamkin, or tampion, the wooden stopper of a cannon placed in the
+     muzzle to exclude water or dust.]
+
+in his guns.  Having discoursed this a little with him, and eat a bit of
+cold venison and drank, I away, took boat, and homeward again, with great
+pleasure, the moon shining, and it being a fine pleasant cool evening,
+and got home by half-past twelve at night, and so to bed.
+
+
+
+25th.  Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning.  At noon home
+to dinner, and there sang with much pleasure with my wife, and so to the
+office again, and busy all the afternoon.  At night Sir W. Batten, [Sir]
+W. Pen, and myself, and Sir R. Ford, did meet in the garden to discourse
+about our prizes at Hull.  It appears that Hogg is the eeriest rogue, the
+most observable embezzler, that ever was known.  This vexes us, and made
+us very free and plain with Sir W. Pen, who hath been his great patron,
+and as very a rogue as he.  But he do now seem to own that his opinion
+is changed of him, and that he will joyne with us in our strictest
+inquiries, and did sign to the letters we had drawn, which he had refused
+before, and so seemingly parted good friends, and then I demanded of Sir
+R. Ford and the rest, what passed to-day at the meeting of the
+Parliament: who told me that, contrary to all expectation by the King
+that there would be but a thin meeting, there met above 300 this first
+day, and all the discontented party; and, indeed, the whole House seems
+to be no other almost.  The Speaker told them, as soon as they were sat,
+that he was ordered by the King to let them know he was hindered by some
+important business to come to them and speak to them, as he intended;
+and, therefore, ordered him to move that they would adjourn themselves
+till Monday next, it being very plain to all the House that he expects to
+hear by that time of the sealing of the peace, which by letters, it
+seems, from my Lord Holis, was to be sealed the last Sunday.
+
+     [The peace was signed on the 31st.  See August 9th.--B.]
+
+But before they would come to the question whether they would adjourn,
+Sir Thomas Tomkins steps up and tells them, that all the country is
+grieved at this new raised standing army; and that they thought
+themselves safe enough in their trayn-bands; and that, therefore, he
+desired the King might be moved to disband them.  Then rises Garraway and
+seconds him, only with this explanation, which he said he believed the
+other meant; that, as soon as peace should be concluded, they might be
+disbanded.  Then rose Sir W. Coventry, and told them that he did approve
+of what the last gentleman said; but also, that at the same time he did
+no more than what, he durst be bold to say, he knew to be the King's
+mind, that as soon as peace was concluded he would do it of himself.
+Then rose Sir Thomas Littleton, and did give several reasons for the
+uncertainty of their meeting again but to adjourne, in case news comes of
+the peace being ended before Monday next, and the possibility of the
+King's having some about him that may endeavour to alter his own, and the
+good part of his Council's advice, for the keeping up of the land-army;
+and, therefore, it was fit that they did present it to the King as their
+desire, that, as soon as peace was concluded, the land-army might be laid
+down, and that this their request might be carried to the King by them of
+their House that were Privy-councillors; which was put to the vote, and
+carried 'nemine contradicente'.  So after this vote passed, they
+adjourned: but it is plain what the effects of this Parliament will be,
+if they be suffered to sit, that they will fall foul upon the faults of
+the Government; and I pray God they may be permitted to do it, for
+nothing else, I fear, will save the King and kingdom than the doing it
+betimes.  They gone, I to walk with my wife in the garden, and then home
+to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+26th.  Up, and betimes to the office, where Mr. Hater and I together all
+the morning about the perfecting of my abstract book of contracts and
+other things to my great content.  At noon home to dinner, and then to
+the office again all the afternoon doing of other good things there, and
+being tired, I then abroad with my wife and left her at the New Exchange,
+while I by water thence to Westminster to the Hall, but shops were shut
+up, and so to White Hall by water, and thence took up my wife at
+Unthanke's, and so home, mightily tired with the dust in riding in a
+coach, it being mighty troublesome.  So home and to my office, and there
+busy very late, and then to walk a little with my wife, and then to
+supper and to bed.  No news at all this day what we have done to the
+enemy, but that the enemy is fallen down, and we after them, but to
+little purpose.
+
+
+
+27th.  Up and to the office, where I hear that Sir John Coventry is come
+over from Bredah, a nephew, I think, of Sir W. Coventry's: but what
+message he brings I know not.  This morning news is come that Sir Jos.
+Jordan is come from Harwich, with sixteen fire-ships and four other
+little ships of war: and did attempt to do some execution upon the enemy,
+but did it without discretion, as most do say, so as that they have been
+able to do no good, but have lost four of their fire ships.  They
+attempted [this], it seems, when the wind was too strong, that our
+grapplings could not hold: others say we come to leeward of them, but all
+condemn it as a foolish management.  They are come to Sir Edward Spragg
+about Lee, and the Dutch are below at the Nore.  At the office all the
+morning; and at noon to the 'Change, where I met Fenn; and he tells me
+that Sir John Coventry do bring the confirmation of the peace; but I do
+not find the 'Change at all glad of it, but rather the worse, they
+looking upon it as a peace made only to preserve the King for a time in
+his lusts and ease, and to sacrifice trade and his kingdoms only to his
+own pleasures: so that the hearts of merchants are quite down.  He tells
+me that the King and my Lady Castlemayne are quite broke off, and she is
+gone away, and is with child, and swears the King shall own it; and she
+will have it christened in the Chapel at White Hall so, and owned for the
+King's, as other Kings have done; or she will bring it into White Hall
+gallery, and dash the brains of it out before the King's face.
+
+     [Charles owned only four children by Lady Castlemaine-Anne, Countess
+     of Sussex, and the Dukes of Southampton, Grafton, and
+     Northumberland.  The last of these was born in 1665.  The paternity
+     of all her other children was certainly doubtful.  See pp. 50,52.]
+
+He tells me that the King and Court were never in the world so bad as
+they are now for gaming, swearing, whoring, and drinking, and the most
+abominable vices that ever were in the world; so that all must come to
+nought.  He told me that Sir G. Carteret was at this end of the town; so
+I went to visit him in Broad Street; and there he and I together: and he
+is mightily pleased with my Lady Jem's having a son; and a mighty glad
+man he is.  He [Sir George Carteret] tells me, as to news, that the peace
+is now confirmed, and all that over.  He says it was a very unhappy
+motion in the House the other day about the land-army; for, whether the
+King hath a mind of his own to do the thing desired or no, his doing it
+will be looked upon as a thing done only in fear of the Parliament.  He
+says that the Duke of York is suspected to be the great man that is for
+raising of this army, and bringing things to be commanded by an army; but
+he believes that he is wronged, and says that he do know that he is
+wronged therein.  He do say that the Court is in a way to ruin all for
+their pleasures; and says that he himself hath once taken the liberty to
+tell the King the necessity of having, at least, a show of religion in
+the Government, and sobriety; and that it was that, that did set up and
+keep up Oliver, though he was the greatest rogue in the world, and that
+it is so fixed in the nature of the common Englishman that it will not
+out of him.  He tells me that while all should be labouring to settle the
+kingdom, they are at Court all in factions, some for and others against
+my Lord Chancellor, and another for and against another man, and the King
+adheres to no man, but this day delivers himself up to this, and the next
+to that, to the ruin of himself and business; that he is at the command
+of any woman like a slave, though he be the best man to the Queene in the
+world, with so much respect, and never lies a night from her: but yet
+cannot command himself in the presence of a woman he likes.  Having had
+this discourse, I parted, and home to dinner, and thence to the, office
+all the afternoon to my great content very busy.  It raining this day all
+day to our great joy, it having not rained, I think, this month before,
+so as the ground was everywhere so burned and dry as could be; and no
+travelling in the road or streets in London, for dust.  At night late
+home to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+28th (Lord's day).  Up and to my chamber, where all the morning close,
+to draw up a letter to Sir W. Coventry upon the tidings of peace, taking
+occasion, before I am forced to it, to resign up to his Royall Highness
+my place of the Victualling, and to recommend myself to him by promise of
+doing my utmost to improve this peace in the best manner we may, to save
+the kingdom from ruin.  By noon I had done this to my good content, and
+then with my wife all alone to dinner, and so to my chamber all the
+afternoon to write my letter fair, and sent it away, and then to talk
+with my wife, and read, and so by daylight (the only time I think I have
+done it this year) to supper, and then to my chamber to read and so to
+bed, my mind very much eased after what I have done to-day.
+
+
+
+29th.  Up, and with Sir W. Batten to St. James's, to Sir W. Coventry's
+chamber; where, among other things, he come to me, and told me that he
+had received my yesterday's letters, and that we concurred very well in
+our notions; and that, as to my place which I had offered to resign of
+the Victualling, he had drawn up a letter at the same time for the Duke
+of York's signing for the like places in general raised during this war;
+and that he had done me right to the Duke of York, to let him know that
+I had, of my own accord, offered to resign mine.  The letter do bid us to
+do all things, particularizing several, for the laying up of the ships,
+and easing the King of charge; so that the war is now professedly over.
+By and by up to the Duke of York's chamber; and there all the talk was
+about Jordan's coming with so much indiscretion, with his four little
+frigates and sixteen fire-ships from Harwich, to annoy the enemy.  His
+failures were of several sorts, I know not which the truest: that he come
+with so strong a gale of wind, that his grapplings would not hold; that
+he did come by their lee; whereas if he had come athwart their hawse,
+they would have held; that they did not stop a tide, and come up with a
+windward tide, and then they would not have come so fast.  Now, there
+happened to be Captain Jenifer by, who commanded the Lily in this
+business, and thus says that, finding the Dutch not so many as they
+expected, they did not know but that there were more of them above, and
+so were not so earnest to the setting upon these; that they did do what
+they could to make the fire-ships fall in among the enemy; and, for their
+lives, neither Sir J. Jordan nor others could, by shooting several times
+at them, make them go in; and it seems they were commanded by some idle
+fellows, such as they could of a sudden gather up at Harwich; which is a
+sad consideration that, at such a time as this, where the saving the
+reputation of the whole nation lay at stake, and after so long a war,
+the King had not credit to gather a few able men to command these
+vessels.  He says, that if they had come up slower, the enemy would,
+with their boats and their great sloops, which they have to row with a
+great many men, they would, and did, come and cut up several of our
+fireships, and would certainly have taken most of them, for they do come
+with a great provision of these boats on purpose, and to save their men,
+which is bravely done of them, though they did, on this very occasion,
+shew great fear, as they say, by some men leaping overboard out of a
+great ship, as these were all of them of sixty and seventy guns a-piece,
+which one of our fireships laid on board, though the fire did not take.
+But yet it is brave to see what care they do take to encourage their men
+to provide great stores of boats to save them, while we have not credit
+to find one boat for a ship.  And, further, he told us that this new way
+used by Deane, and this Sir W. Coventry observed several times, of
+preparing of fire-ships, do not do the work; for the fire, not being
+strong and quick enough to flame up, so as to take the rigging and sails,
+lies smothering a great while, half an hour before it flames, in which
+time they can get her off safely, though, which is uncertain, and did
+fail in one or two this bout, it do serve to burn our own ships.  But
+what a shame it is to consider how two of our ships' companies did desert
+their ships for fear of being taken by their boats, our little frigates
+being forced to leave them, being chased by their greater!  And one more
+company did set their ship on fire, and leave her; which afterwards a
+Feversham fisherman come up to, and put out the fire, and carried safe
+into Feversham, where she now is, which was observed by the Duke of York,
+and all the company with him, that it was only want of courage, and a
+general dismay and abjectness of spirit upon all our men; and others did
+observe our ill management, and God Almighty's curse upon all that we
+have in hand, for never such an opportunity was of destroying so many
+good ships of theirs as we now had.  But to see how negligent we were in
+this business, that our fleete of Jordan's should not have any notice
+where Spragg was, nor Spragg of Jordan's, so as to be able to meet and
+join in the business, and help one another; but Jordan, when he saw
+Spragg's fleete above, did think them to be another part of the enemy's
+fleete!  While, on the other side, notwithstanding our people at Court
+made such a secret of Jordan's design that nobody must know it, and even
+this Office itself must not know it; nor for my part I did not, though
+Sir W. Batten says by others' discourse to him he had heard something of
+it; yet De Ruyter, or he that commanded this fleete, had notice of it,
+and told it to a fisherman of ours that he took and released on Thursday
+last, which was the day before our fleete came to him.  But then, that,
+that seems most to our disgrace, and which the Duke of York did take
+special and vehement notice of, is, that when the Dutch saw so many fire-
+ships provided for them, themselves lying, I think, about the Nore, they
+did with all their great ships, with a North-east wind, as I take it they
+said, but whatever it was, it was a wind that we should not have done it
+with, turn down to the Middle-ground; which the Duke of York observed,
+never was nor would have been undertaken by ourselves.  And whereas some
+of the company answered, it was their great fear, not their choice that
+made them do it, the Duke of York answered, that it was, it may be, their
+fear and wisdom that made them do it; but yet their fear did not make
+them mistake, as we should have done, when we have had no fear upon us,
+and have run our ships on ground.  And this brought it into my mind, that
+they managed their retreat down this difficult passage, with all their
+fear, better than we could do ourselves in the main sea, when the Duke of
+Albemarle run away from the Dutch, when the Prince was lost, and the
+Royal Charles and the other great ships come on ground upon the Galloper.
+Thus, in all things, in wisdom, courage, force, knowledge of our own
+streams, and success, the Dutch have the best of us, and do end the war
+with victory on their side.  The Duke of York being ready, we into his
+closet, but, being in haste to go to the Parliament House, he could not
+stay.  So we parted, and to Westminster Hall, where the Hall full of
+people to see the issue of the day, the King being come to speak to the
+House to-day.  One thing extraordinary was, this day a man, a Quaker,
+came naked through the Hall, only very civilly tied about the privities
+to avoid scandal, and with a chafing-dish of fire and brimstone burning
+upon his head, did pass through the Hall, crying, "Repent! repent!"
+I up to the Painted Chamber, thinking to have got in to have heard the
+King's speech, but upon second thoughts did not think it would be worth
+the crowd, and so went down again into the Hall and there walked with
+several, among others my Lord Rutherford, who is come out of Scotland,
+and I hope I may get some advantage by it in reference to the business of
+the interest of the great sum of money I paid him long since without
+interest.  But I did not now move him in it.  But presently comes down
+the House of Commons, the King having made then a very short and no
+pleasing speech to them at all, not at all giving them thanks for their
+readiness to come up to town at this busy time; but told them that he did
+think he should have had occasion for them, but had none, and therefore
+did dismiss them to look after their own occasions till October; and that
+he did wonder any should offer to bring in a suspicion that he intended
+to rule by an army, or otherwise than by the laws of the land, which he
+promised them he would do; and so bade them go home and settle the minds
+of the country in that particular; and only added, that he had made a
+peace which he did believe they would find reasonable, and a good peace,
+but did give them none of the particulars thereof.  Thus they are
+dismissed again to their general great distaste, I believe the greatest
+that ever Parliament was, to see themselves so fooled, and the nation in
+certain condition of ruin, while the King, they see, is only governed by
+his lust, and women, and rogues about him.  The Speaker, they found, was
+kept from coming in the morning to the House on purpose, till after the
+King was come to the House of Lords, for fear they should be doing
+anything in the House of Commons to the further dissatisfaction of the
+King and his courtiers.  They do all give up the kingdom for lost that I
+speak to; and do hear what the King says, how he and the Duke of York do
+do what they can to get up an army, that they may need no more
+Parliaments: and how my Lady Castlemayne hath, before the late breach
+between her and the King, said to the King that he must rule by an army,
+or all would be lost, and that Bab. May hath given the like advice to the
+King, to crush the English gentlemen, saying that L300 a-year was enough
+for any man but them that lived at Court.  I am told that many petitions
+were provided for the Parliament, complaining of the wrongs they have
+received from the Court and courtiers, in city and country, if the
+Parliament had but sat: and I do perceive they all do resolve to have a
+good account of the money spent before ever they give a farthing more:
+and the whole kingdom is everywhere sensible of their being abused,
+insomuch that they forced their Parliament-men to come up to sit; and my
+cozen Roger told me that (but that was in mirth) he believed, if he had
+not come up, he should have had his house burned.  The kingdom never in
+so troubled a condition in this world as now; nobody pleased with the
+peace, and yet nobody daring to wish for the continuance of the war, it
+being plain that nothing do nor can thrive under us.  Here I saw old good
+Mr. Vaughan, and several of the great men of the Commons, and some of
+them old men, that are come 200 miles, and more, to attend this session-
+of Parliament; and have been at great charge and disappointments in their
+other private business; and now all to no purpose, neither to serve their
+country, content themselves, nor receive any thanks from the King.  It is
+verily expected by many of them that the King will continue the
+prorogation in October, so as, if it be possible, never to have [this]
+Parliament more.  My Lord Bristoll took his place in the House of Lords
+this day, but not in his robes; and when the King come in, he withdrew
+but my Lord of Buckingham was there as brisk as ever, and sat in his
+robes; which is a monstrous thing, that a man proclaimed against, and put
+in the Tower, and all, and released without any trial, and yet not
+restored to his places: But, above all, I saw my Lord Mordaunt as merry
+as the best, that it seems hath done such further indignities to Mr.
+Taylor' since the last sitting of Parliament as would hang [him], if
+there were nothing else, would the King do what were fit for him; but
+nothing of that is now likely to be.  After having spent an hour or two
+in the hall, my cozen Roger and I and Creed to the Old Exchange, where I
+find all the merchants sad at this peace and breaking up of the
+Parliament, as men despairing of any good to the nation, which is a
+grievous consideration; and so home, and there cozen Roger and Creed
+to dinner with me, and very merry:--but among other things they told me
+of the strange, bold sermon of Dr. Creeton yesterday, before the King;
+how he preached against the sins of the Court, and particularly against
+adultery, over and over instancing how for that single sin in David,
+the whole nation was undone; and of our negligence in having our castles
+without ammunition and powder when the Dutch come upon us; and how we
+have no courage now a-days, but let our ships be taken out of our
+harbour.  Here Creed did tell us the story of the dwell last night, in
+Coventgarden, between Sir H. Bellasses and Tom Porter.  It is worth
+remembering the silliness of the quarrell, and is a kind of emblem of the
+general complexion of this whole kingdom at present.  They two it seems
+dined yesterday at Sir Robert Carr's, where it seems people do drink
+high, all that come.  It happened that these two, the greatest friends in
+the world, were talking together: and Sir H. Bellasses talked a little
+louder than ordinary to Tom Porter, giving of him some advice.  Some of
+the company standing by said, "What! are they quarrelling, that they talk
+so high?"  Sir H. Bellasses hearing it, said, "No!" says he: "I would
+have you know that I never quarrel, but I strike; and take that as a rule
+of mine!"--"How?" says Tom Porter, "strike!  I would I could see the man
+in England that durst give me a blow!"  with that Sir H. Bellasses did
+give him a box of the eare; and so they were going to fight there, but
+were hindered.  And by and by Tom Porter went out; and meeting Dryden the
+poet, told him of the business, and that he was resolved to fight Sir H.
+Bellasses presently; for he knew, if he did not, they should be made
+friends to-morrow, and then the blow would rest upon him; which he would
+prevent, and desired Dryden to let him have his boy to bring him notice
+which way Sir H. Bellasses goes.  By and by he is informed that Sir H.
+Bellasses's coach was coming: so Tom Porter went down out of the Coffee-
+house where he stayed for the tidings, and stopped the coach, and bade
+Sir H. Bellasses come out.  "Why," says H. Bellasses, "you will not hurt
+me coming out, will you?"--"No," says Tom Porter.  So out he went, and
+both drew: and H. Bellasses having drawn and flung away his scabbard, Tom
+Porter asked him whether he was ready?  The other answering him he was,
+they fell to fight, some of their acquaintance by.  They wounded one
+another, and H. Bellasses so much that it is feared he will die: and
+finding himself severely wounded, he called to Tom Porter, and kissed
+him, and bade him shift for himself; "for," says he, "Tom, thou hast hurt
+me; but I will make shift to stand upon my legs till thou mayest
+withdraw, and the world not take notice of you, for I would not have thee
+troubled for what thou hast done."  And so whether he did fly or no I
+cannot tell: but Tom Porter shewed H. Bellasses that he was wounded too:
+and they are both ill, but H. Bellasses to fear of life.  And this is a
+fine example; and H. Bellasses a Parliament-man too, and both of them
+most extraordinary friends!  Among other discourse, my cozen Roger told
+us a thing certain, that the Archbishop of Canterbury; that now is, do
+keep a wench, and that he is as very a wencher as can be; and tells us it
+is a thing publickly known that Sir Charles Sidley had got away one of
+the Archbishop's wenches from him, and the Archbishop sent to him to let
+him know that she was his kinswoman, and did wonder that he would offer
+any dishonour to one related to him.  To which Sir Charles Sidley is said
+to answer, "A pox take his Grace! pray tell his Grace that I believe he
+finds himself too old, and is afraid that I should outdo him among his
+girls, and spoil his trade."  But he makes no more of doubt to say that
+the Archbishop is a wencher, and known to be so, which is one of the most
+astonishing things that I have heard of, unless it be, what for certain
+he says is true, that my Lady Castlemayne hath made a Bishop lately,
+namely,--her uncle, Dr. Glenham, who, I think they say, is Bishop of
+Carlisle; a drunken, swearing rascal, and a scandal to the Church; and do
+now pretend to be Bishop of Lincoln, in competition with Dr. Raynbow, who
+is reckoned as worthy a man as most in the Church for piety and learning:
+which are things so scandalous to consider, that no man can doubt but we
+must be undone that hears of them.  After dinner comes W. How and a son
+of Mr. Pagett's to see me, with whom I drank, but could not stay, and so
+by coach with cozen Roger (who before his going did acquaint me in
+private with an offer made of his marrying of Mrs. Elizabeth Wiles, whom
+I know; a kinswoman of Mr. Honiwood's, an ugly old maid, but a good
+housewife; and is said to have L2500 to her portion; but if I can find
+that she hath but L2000, which he prays me to examine, he says he will
+have her, she being one he hath long known intimately, and a good
+housewife, and discreet woman; though I am against it in my heart, she
+being not handsome at all) and it hath been the very bad fortune of the
+Pepyses that ever I knew, never to marry an handsome woman, excepting Ned
+Pepys and Creed, set the former down at the Temple resolving to go to
+Cambridge to-morrow, and Creed and I to White Hall to the Treasury
+chamber there to attend, but in vain, only here, looking out of the
+window into the garden, I saw the King (whom I have not had any desire to
+see since the Dutch come upon the coast first to Sheerness, for shame
+that I should see him, or he me, methinks, after such a dishonour) come
+upon the garden; with him two or three idle Lords; and instantly after
+him, in another walk, my Lady Castlemayne, led by Bab. May: at which I
+was surprised, having but newly heard the stories of the King and her
+being parted for ever.  So I took Mr. Povy, who was there, aside, and he
+told me all, how imperious this woman is, and hectors the King to
+whatever she will.  It seems she is with child, and the King says he did
+not get it: with that she made a slighting "puh" with her mouth, and went
+out of the house, and never come in again till the King went to Sir
+Daniel Harvy's to pray her; and so she is come to-day, when one would
+think his mind should be full of some other cares, having but this
+morning broken up such a Parliament, with so much discontent, and so many
+wants upon him, and but yesterday heard such a sermon against adultery.
+But it seems she hath told the King, that whoever did get it, he should
+own it; and the bottom of the quarrel is this:--She is fallen in love
+with young Jermin who hath of late lain with her oftener than the King,
+and is now going to marry my Lady Falmouth; the King he is mad at her
+entertaining Jermin, and she is mad at Jermin's going to marry from her:
+so they are all mad; and thus the kingdom is governed! and they say it is
+labouring to make breaches between the Duke of Richmond and his lady that
+the King may get her to him.  But he tells me for certain that nothing is
+more sure than that the King, and Duke of York, and the Chancellor, are
+desirous and labouring all they can to get an army, whatever the King
+says to the Parliament; and he believes that they are at last resolved to
+stand and fall all three together: so that he says match of the Duke of
+York with the Chancellor's daughter hath undone the nation.  He tells me
+also that the King hath not greater enemies in the world than those of
+his own family; for there is not an officer in the house almost but
+curses him for letting them starve, and there is not a farthing of money
+to be raised for the buying them bread.  Having done talking with him I
+to Westminster Hall, and there talked and wandered up and down till the
+evening to no purpose, there and to the Swan, and so till the evening,
+and so home, and there to walk in the garden with my wife, telling her of
+my losing L300 a year by my place that I am to part with, which do a
+little trouble me, but we must live with somewhat more thrift, and so
+home to supper and to play on the flageolet, which do do very prettily,
+and so to bed.  Many guns were heard this afternoon, it seems, at White
+Hall and in the Temple garden very plain; but what it should be nobody
+knows, unless the Dutch be driving our ships up the river.  To-morrow we
+shall know.
+
+
+
+30th.  Up and to the office, where we sat busy all the morning.  At noon
+home to dinner, where Daniel and his wife with us, come to see whether I
+could get him any employment.  But I am so far from it, that I have the
+trouble upon my mind how to dispose of Mr. Gibson and one or two more I
+am concerned for in the Victualling business, which are to be now
+discharged.  After dinner by coach to White Hall, calling on two or three
+tradesmen and paying their bills, and so to White Hall, to the Treasury-
+chamber, where I did speak with the Lords, and did my business about
+getting them to assent to 10 per cent. interest on the 11 months tax, but
+find them mightily put to it for money.  Here I do hear that there are
+three Lords more to be added to them; my Lord Bridgewater, my Lord
+Anglesey, and my Lord Chamberlaine.  Having done my business, I to
+Creed's chamber, and thence out with Creed to White Hall with him; in our
+way, meeting with Mr. Cooling, my Lord Chamberlain's secretary, on
+horseback, who stopped to speak with us, and he proved very drunk, and
+did talk, and would have talked all night with us, I not being able to
+break loose from him, he holding me so by the hand.  But, Lord! to see
+his present humour, how he swears at every word, and talks of the King
+and my Lady Castlemayne in the plainest words in the world.  And from him
+I gather that the story I learned yesterday is true--that the King hath
+declared that he did not get the child of which she is conceived at this
+time, he having not as he says lain with her this half year.  But she
+told him, "God damn me, but you shall own it!"  It seems, he is jealous
+of Jermin, and she loves him so, that the thoughts of his marrying of my
+Lady Falmouth puts her into fits of the mother; and he, it seems, hath
+lain with her from time to time, continually, for a good while; and once,
+as this Cooling says, the King had like to have taken him a-bed with her,
+but that he was fain to creep under the bed into her closet .  .  .  .
+But it is a pretty thing he told us how the King, once speaking of the
+Duke of York's being mastered by his wife, said to some of the company
+by, that he would go no more abroad with this Tom Otter (meaning the Duke
+of York) and his wife.  Tom Killigrew, being by, answered, "Sir," says
+he, "pray which is the best for a man, to be a Tom Otter to his wife or
+to his mistress?"  meaning the King's being so to my Lady Castlemayne.
+Thus he went on; and speaking then of my Lord Sandwich, whom he professed
+to love exceedingly, says Creed, "I know not what, but he is a man,
+methinks, that I could love for himself, without other regards."  .  .  .
+He talked very lewdly; and then took notice of my kindness to him on
+shipboard seven years ago, when the King was coming over, and how much he
+was obliged to me; but says, pray look upon this acknowledgement of a
+kindness in me to be a miracle; for, says he, "it is against the law at
+Court for a man that borrows money of me, even to buy his place with, to
+own it the next Sunday;" and then told us his horse was a bribe, and his
+boots a bribe; and told us he was made up of bribes, as an Oxford scholar
+is set out with other men's goods when he goes out of town, and that he
+makes every sort of tradesman to bribe him; and invited me home to his
+house, to taste of his bribe wine.  I never heard so much vanity from a
+man in my life; so, being now weary of him, we parted, and I took coach,
+and carried Creed to the Temple.  There set him down, and to my office,
+where busy late till my eyes begun to ake, and then home to supper: a
+pullet, with good sauce, to my liking, and then to play on the flageolet
+with my wife, which she now does very prettily, and so to bed.
+
+
+
+31st.  Up, and after some time with Greeting upon my flageolet I to my
+office, and there all the morning busy.  Among other things, Sir W.
+Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, and myself did examine a fellow of our private man-
+of-war, who we have found come up from Hull, with near L500 worth of
+pieces of eight, though he will confess but 100 pieces.  But it appears
+that there have been fine doings there.  At noon dined at home, and then
+to the office, where busy again till the evening, when Major Halsey and
+Kinaston to adjust matters about Mrs. Rumbald's bill of exchange, and
+here Major Halsey, speaking much of my doing business, and understanding
+business, told me how my Lord Generall do say that I am worth them all,
+but I have heard that Halsey hath said the same behind my back to others.
+Then abroad with my wife by coach to Marrowbone, where my Lord Mayor and
+Aldermen, it seem, dined to-day: and were just now going away, methought,
+in a disconsolate condition, compared with their splendour they formerly
+had, when the City was standing.  Here my wife and I drank at the gate,
+not 'lighting, and then home with much pleasure, and so to my chamber,
+and my wife and I to pipe, and so to supper and to bed.
+
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+
+
+ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:
+
+20s. in money, and what wine she needed, for the burying him
+Archbishop is a wencher, and known to be so
+Bold to deliver what he thinks on every occasion
+Cast stones with his horne crooke
+Court is in a way to ruin all for their pleasures
+Dash the brains of it out before the King's face
+Dog, that would turn a sheep any way which
+Dutch fleets being in so many places
+Fool's play with which all publick things are done
+Good purpose of fitting ourselves for another war (A Peace)
+He was charged with making himself popular
+King governed by his lust, and women, and rogues about him
+King is at the command of any woman like a slave
+King the necessity of having, at least, a show of religion
+Never to keep a country-house, but to keep a coach
+Nobody being willing to trust us for anything
+She has this silly vanity that she must play
+So every thing stands still for money
+They are all mad; and thus the kingdom is governed!
+What way a man could devise to lose so much in so little time
+
+
+
+
+End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v62
+by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley
+