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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, July 1667 + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Release Date: December 1, 2004 [EBook #4178] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, JULY 1667 *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY + MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + 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. + + + + + 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 Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, July 1667, by Samuel Pepys + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, JULY 1667 *** + +***** This file should be named 4178.txt or 4178.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/7/4178/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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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. + + + + +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 + diff --git a/old/sp63g10.zip b/old/sp63g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..1c86c1a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp63g10.zip |