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Pen's, only with Mrs. Turner and her husband, on a +damned venison pasty, that stunk like a devil. However, I did not know +it till dinner was done. We had nothing but only this, and a leg of +mutton, and a pullet or two. Mrs. Markham was here, with her great +belly. I was very merry, and after dinner, upon a motion of the women, +I was got to go to the play with them-the first I have seen since before +the Dutch coming upon our coast, and so to the King's house, to see "The +Custome of the Country." The house mighty empty--more than ever I saw +it--and an ill play. After the play, we into the house, and spoke with +Knipp, who went abroad with us by coach to the Neat Houses in the way to +Chelsy; and there, in a box in a tree, we sat and sang, and talked and +eat; my wife out of humour, as she always is, when this woman is by. +So, after it was dark, we home. Set Knepp [Pepy's spells the name of +this friend often with an 'i' but sometimes with and 'e'. D.W.]down at +home, who told us the story how Nell is gone from the King's house, and +is kept by my Lord Buckhurst. Then we home, the gates of the City shut, +it being so late: and at Newgate we find them in trouble, some thieves +having this night broke open prison. So we through, and home; and our +coachman was fain to drive hard from two or three fellows, which he said +were rogues, that he met at the end of Blow-bladder Street, next +Cheapside. So set Mrs. Turner home, and then we home, and I to the +Office a little; and so home and to bed, my wife in an ill humour still. + + + +2nd. Up, but before I rose my wife fell into angry discourse of my +kindness yesterday to Mrs. Knipp, and leading her, and sitting in the +coach hand in hand, and my arm about her middle, and in some bad words +reproached me with it. I was troubled, but having much business in my +head and desirous of peace rose and did not provoke her. So she up and +come to me and added more, and spoke basely of my father, who I perceive +did do something in the country, at her last being there, that did not +like her, but I would not enquire into anything, but let her talk, and +when ready away to the Office I went, where all the morning I was, only +Mr. Gawden come to me, and he and I home to my chamber, and there +reckoned, and there I received my profits for Tangier of him, and L250 on +my victualling score. He is a most noble-minded man as ever I met with, +and seems to own himself much obliged to me, which I will labour to make +him; for he is a good man also: we talked on many good things relating to +the King's service, and, in fine, I had much matter of joy by this +morning's work, receiving above L400 of him, on one account or other; and +a promise that, though I lay down my victualling place, yet, as long as +he continues victualler, I shall be the better by him. To the office +again, and there evened all our business with Mr. Kinaston about Colonel +Norwood's Bill of Exchange from Tangier, and I am glad of it, for though +he be a good man, yet his importunity tries me. So home to dinner, where +Mr. Hater with me and W. Hewer, because of their being in the way after +dinner, and so to the office after dinner, where and with my Lord +Bruneker at his lodgings all the afternoon and evening making up our +great account for the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, but not so as +pleased me yet. So at 12 at night home to supper and to bed, my wife +being gone in an ill humour to bed before me. This noon my wife comes to +me alone, and tells me she had those [?? D.W.]--upon her and bid me +remember it. I asked her why, and she said she had a reason. I do think +by something too she said to-day, that she took notice that I had not +lain with her this half-year, that she thinks that I have some doubt that +she might be with child by somebody else. Which God knows never entered +into my head, or whether my father observed any thing at Brampton with +Coleman I know not. But I do not do well to let these beginnings of +discontents take so much root between us. + + + +3rd. Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning. Then at noon to +dinner, and to the office again, there to enable myself, by finishing our +great account, to give it to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury; +which I did, and there was called in to them, to tell them only the total +of our debt of the Navy on the 25th of May last, which is above L950,000. +Here I find them mighty hot in their answer to the Council-board about +our Treasurer's threepences of the Victualling, and also against the +present farm of the Customes, which they do most highly inveigh against. +So home again by coach, and there hard to work till very late and my eyes +began to fail me, which now upon very little overworking them they do, +which grieves me much. Late home, to supper, and to bed. + + + +4th (Lord's day). Busy at my Office from morning till night, in writing +with my own hand fair our large general account of the expence and debt +of the Navy, which lasted me till night to do, that I was almost blind, +and Mr. Gibson with me all day long, and dined with me, and excellent +discourse I had with him, he understanding all the business of the Navy +most admirably. To walk a little with my wife at night in the garden, it +being very hot weather again, and so to supper and to bed. + + + +5th. Up, and with Sir W. Batten in the morning to St. James's, where we +did our ordinary business with the Duke of York, where I perceive they +have taken the highest resolution in the world to become good husbands, +and to retrench all charge; and to that end we are commanded to give him +an account of the establishment in the seventh year of the late King's +reign, and how offices and salaries have been increased since; and I hope +it will end in the taking away some of our Commissioners, though it may +be to the lessening of some of our salaries also. After done with the +Duke of York, and coming out through his dressing-room, I there spied +Signor Francisco tuning his gittar, and Monsieur de Puy with him, who did +make him play to me, which he did most admirably--so well as I was +mightily troubled that all that pains should have been taken upon so bad +an instrument. Walked over the Park with Mr. Gawden, end with him by +coach home, and to the Exchange, where I hear the ill news of our loss +lately of four rich ships, two from Guinea, one from Gallipoly, all with +rich oyles; and the other from Barbadoes, worth, as is guessed, L80,000. +But here is strong talk, as if Harman had taken some of the Dutch East +India ships, but I dare not yet believe it, and brought them into Lisbon. + + ["Sept. 6, 1667. John Clarke to James Hickes. A vessel arrived + from Harwich brings news that the English lost 600 to 700 men in the + attempt on St. Christopher; that Sir John Harman was not then there, + but going with 11 ships, and left a ketch at Barbadoes to bring more + soldiers after him; that the ketch met a French sloop with a packet + from St. Christopher to their fleet at Martinico, and took her, + whereupon Sir John Harman sailed there and fell upon their fleet of + 27 sail, 25 of which he sank, and burnt the others, save two which + escaped; also that he left three of his fleet there, and went with + the rest to Nevis, to make another attempt on St. Christopher. + "Calendar of State Payers, 1667, p. 447] + +Home, and dined with my wife at Sir W. Pen's, where a very good pasty of +venison, better than we expected, the last stinking basely, and after +dinner he and my wife and I to the Duke of York's house, and there saw +"Love Trickes, or the School of Compliments;" a silly play, only Miss +[Davis's] dancing in a shepherd's clothes did please us mightily. Thence +without much pleasure home and to my Office, so home, to supper, and to +bed. My wife mighty angry with Nell, who is turned a very gossip, and +gads abroad as soon as our backs are turned, and will put her away +tomorrow, which I am not sorry for. + + + +6th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning very full of business. +A full Board. Here, talking of news, my Lord Anglesey did tell us that +the Dutch do make a further bogle with us about two or three things, +which they will be satisfied in, he says, by us easily; but only in one, +it seems, they do demand that we shall not interrupt their East Indiamen +coming home, and of which they are in some fear; and we are full of hopes +that we have 'light upon some of them, and carried them into Lisbon, by +Harman; which God send! But they, which do shew the low esteem they have +of us, have the confidence to demand that we shall have a cessation on +our parts, and yet they at liberty to take what they will; which is such +an affront, as another cannot be devised greater. At noon home to +dinner, where I find Mrs. Wood, formerly Bab. Shelden, and our Mercer, +who is dressed to-day in a paysan dress, that looks mighty pretty. We +dined and sang and laughed mighty merry, and then I to the Office, only +met at the door with Mrs. Martin and Mrs. Burroughs, who I took in and +drank with, but was afraid my wife should see them, they being, +especially the first, a prattling gossip, and so after drinking with them +parted, and I to the Office, busy as long as my poor eyes would endure, +which troubles me mightily and then into the garden with my wife, and to +Sir W. Batten's with [Sir] W. Pen and [Sir] J. Minnes, and there eat a +melon and talked, and so home to supper and to bed. My wife, as she said +last night, hath put away Nell to-day, for her gossiping abroad and +telling of stories. Sir W. Batten did tell me to-night that the Council +have ordered a hearing before them of Carcasses business, which do vex me +mightily, that we should be troubled so much by an idle rogue, a servant +of our own, and all my thoughts to-night have been how to manage the +matter before the Council. + + + +7th. Up, and at the office very busy, and did much business all the +morning. My wife abroad with her maid Jane and Tom all the afternoon, +being gone forth to eat some pasties at "The Bottle of Hay," in St. +John's Street, as you go to Islington, of which she is mighty fond, +and I dined at home alone, and at the office close all the afternoon, +doing much business to my great content. This afternoon Mr. Pierce, the +surgeon, comes to me about business, and tells me that though the King +and my Lady Castlemayne are friends again, she is not at White Hall, but +at Sir D. Harvy's, whither the King goes to her; and he says she made him +ask her forgiveness upon his knees, and promised to offend her no more +so: that, indeed, she did threaten to bring all his bastards to his +closet-door, and hath nearly hectored him out of his wits. I at my +office till night, and then home to my pipe, my wife not coming home, +which vexed me. I then into the garden, and there walked alone in the +garden till 10 at night, when she come home, having been upon the water +and could not get home sooner. So to supper, and to bed. + + + +8th. Up, and all the morning at the office, where busy, and at noon home +to dinner, where Creed dined with us, who tells me that Sir Henry +Bellasses is dead of the duell he fought about ten days ago, with Tom +Porter; and it is pretty to see how the world talk of them as a couple of +fools, that killed one another out of love. After dinner to the office a +while, and then with my wife to the Temple, where I light and sent her to +her tailor's. I to my bookseller's; where, by and by, I met Mr. Evelyn, +and talked of several things, but particularly of the times: and he tells +me that wise men do prepare to remove abroad what they have, for that we +must be ruined, our case being past relief, the kingdom so much in debt, +and the King minding nothing but his lust, going two days a-week to see +my Lady Castlemayne at Sir D. Harvy's. He gone, I met with Mr. Moore, +who tells me that my Lord Hinchingbroke is now with his mistress, but +not that he is married, as W. Howe come and told us the other day. +So by coach to White Hall, and there staid a little, thinking to see +Sir G. Carteret, but missed him, and so by coach took up my wife, and so +home, and as far as Bow, where we staid and drank, and there, passing by +Mr. Lowther and his lady, they stopped and we talked a little with them, +they being in their gilt coach, and so parted; and presently come to us +Mr. Andrews, whom I had not seen a good while, who, as other merchants +do, do all give over any hopes of things doing well, and so he spends his +time here most, playing at bowles. After dining together at the coach- +side, we with great pleasure home, and so to the office, where I +despatched my business, and home to supper, and to bed. + + + +9th. Up, and betimes with Sir H. Cholmly upon some accounts of Tangier, +and then he and I to Westminster, to Mr. Burges, and then walked in the +Hall, and he and I talked, and he do really declare that he expects that +of necessity this kingdom will fall back again to a commonwealth, and +other wise men are of the same mind: this family doing all that silly men +can do, to make themselves unable to support their kingdom, minding their +lust and their pleasure, and making their government so chargeable, that +people do well remember better things were done, and better managed, and +with much less charge under a commonwealth than they have been by this +King, and do seem to resolve to wind up his businesses and get money in +his hand against the turn do come. After some talk I by coach and there +dined, and with us Mr. Batelier by chance coming in to speak with me, and +when I come home, and find Mr. Goodgroome, my wife's singing-master, +there I did soundly rattle him for neglecting her so much as he hath +done--she not having learned three songs these three months and more. +After dinner my wife abroad with Mrs. Turner, and I to the office, where +busy all the afternoon, and in the evening by coach to St. James's, and +there met Sir W. Coventry; and he and I walked in the Park an hour. And +then to his chamber, where he read to me the heads of the late great +dispute between him and the rest of the Commissioners of the Treasury, +and our new Treasurer of the Navy where they have overthrown him the last +Wednesday, in the great dispute touching his having the payment of the +Victualler, which is now settled by Council that he is not to have it +and, indeed, they have been most just, as well as most severe and bold, +in the doing this against a man of his quality; but I perceive he do +really make no difference between any man. He tells me this day it is +supposed the peace is ratified at Bredah, and all that matter over. We +did talk of many retrenchments of charge of the Navy which he will put in +practice, and every where else; though, he tells me, he despairs of being +able to do what ought to be done for the saving of the kingdom, which I +tell him, as indeed all the world is almost in hopes of, upon the +proceeding of these gentlemen for the regulating of the Treasury, it +being so late, and our poverty grown so great, that they want where to +set their feet, to begin to do any thing. He tells me how weary he hath +for this year and a half been of the war; and how in the Duke of York's +bedchamber, at Christ Church, at Oxford, when the Court was there, he did +labour to persuade the Duke to fling off the care of the Navy, and get it +committed to other hands; which, if he had done, would have been much to +his honour, being just come home with so much honour from sea as he did. +I took notice of the sharp letter he wrote, which he sent us to read +yesterday, to Sir Edward Spragg, where he is very plain about his leaving +his charge of the ships at Gravesend, when the enemy come last up, and +several other things: a copy whereof I have kept. But it is done like a +most worthy man; and he says it is good, now and then, to tell these +gentlemen their duties, for they need it. And it seems, as he tells me, +all our Knights are fallen out one with another, he, and Jenings, and +Hollis, and (his words were) they are disputing which is the coward among +them; and yet men that take the greatest liberty of censuring others! +Here, with him, very late, till I could hardly get a coach or link +willing to go through the ruines; but I do, but will not do it again, +being, indeed, very dangerous. So home and to supper, and bed, my head +most full of an answer I have drawn this noon to the Committee of the +Council to whom Carcasses business is referred to be examined again. + + + +10th. Up, and to the Office, and there finished the letter about +Carcasse, and sent it away, I think well writ, though it troubles me we +should be put to trouble by this rogue so much. At the office all the +morning, and at noon home to dinner, where I sang and piped with my wife +with great pleasure, and did hire a coach to carry us to Barnett +to-morrow. After dinner I to the office, and there wrote as long as my +eyes would give me leave, and then abroad and to the New Exchange, to the +bookseller's there, where I hear of several new books coming out-- +Mr. Spratt's History of the Royal Society, and Mrs. Phillips's' poems. +Sir John Denham's poems are going to be all printed together; and, among +others, some new things; and among them he showed me a copy of verses of +his upon Sir John Minnes's going heretofore to Bullogne to eat a pig. + + [The collected edition of Denham's poems is dated 1668. The verses + referred to are inscribed "To Sir John Mennis being invited from + Calice to Bologne to eat a pig," and two of the lines run + + "Little Admiral John + To Bologne is gone."] + +Cowley, he tells me, is dead; who, it seems, was a mighty civil, serious +man; which I did not know before. Several good plays are likely to be +abroad soon, as Mustapha and Henry the 5th. Here having staid and +divertised myself a good while, I home again and to finish my letters by +the post, and so home, and betimes to bed with my wife because of rising +betimes to-morrow. + + + +11th (Lord's day). Up by four o'clock, and ready with Mrs. Turner to +take coach before five; which we did, and set on our journey, and got to +the Wells at Barnett by seven o'clock, and there found many people +a-drinking; but the morning is a very cold morning, so as we were very +cold all the way in the coach. Here we met Joseph Batelier, and I talked +with him, and here was W. Hewer also, and his uncle Steventon: so, after +drinking three glasses and the women nothing, we back by coach to +Barnett, where to the Red Lyon, where we 'light, and went up into the +great Room, and there drank, and eat some of the best cheese-cakes that +ever I eat in my life, and so took coach again, and W. Hewer on horseback +with us, and so to Hatfield, to the inn, next my Lord Salisbury's house, +and there rested ourselves, and drank, and bespoke dinner; and so to +church, it being just church-time, and there we find my Lord and my Lady +Sands and several fine ladies of the family, and a great many handsome +faces and genteel persons more in the church, and did hear a most +excellent good sermon, which pleased me mightily, and very devout; +it being upon, the signs of saving grace, where it is in a man, and one +sign, which held him all this day, was, that where that grace was, there +is also the grace of prayer, which he did handle very finely. In this +church lies the former Lord of Salisbury, Cecil, buried in a noble tomb. +So the church being done, we to our inn, and there dined very well, and +mighty merry; and as soon as we had dined we walked out into the Park +through the fine walk of trees, and to the Vineyard, and there shewed +them that, which is in good order, and indeed a place of great delight; +which, together with our fine walk through the Park, was of as much +pleasure as could be desired in the world for country pleasure and good +ayre. Being come back, and weary with the walk, for as I made it, it was +pretty long, being come back to our inne, there the women had pleasure in +putting on some straw hats, which are much worn in this country, and did +become them mightily, but especially my wife. So, after resting awhile, +we took coach again, and back to Barnett, where W. Hewer took us into his +lodging, which is very handsome, and there did treat us very highly with +cheesecakes, cream, tarts, and other good things; and then walked into +the garden, which was pretty, and there filled my pockets full of +filberts, and so with much pleasure. Among other things, I met in this +house with a printed book of the Life of O. Cromwell, to his honour as a +soldier and politician, though as a rebell, the first of that kind that +ever I saw, and it is well done. Took coach again, and got home with +great content, just at day shutting in, and so as soon as home eat a +little and then to bed, with exceeding great content at our day's work. + + + +12th. My wife waked betimes to call up her maids to washing, and so to +bed again, whom I then hugged, it being cold now in the mornings . . . +. Up by and by, and with Mr. Gawden by coach to St. James's, where we +find the Duke gone a-hunting with the King, but found Sir W. Coventry +within, with whom we discoursed, and he did largely discourse with us +about our speedy falling upon considering of retrenchments in the expense +of the Navy, which I will put forward as much as I can. So having done +there I to Westminster Hall to Burges, and then walked to the New +Exchange, and there to my bookseller's, and did buy Scott's Discourse of +Witches; and do hear Mr. Cowley mightily lamented his death, by Dr. Ward, +the Bishop of Winchester, and Dr. Bates, who were standing there, as the +best poet of our nation, and as good a man. Thence I to the +printseller's, over against the Exchange towards Covent Garden, and there +bought a few more prints of cittys, and so home with them, and my wife +and maids being gone over the water to the whitster's + + [A bleacher of linen. "The whitsters of Datchet Mead" are referred + to by Mrs. Ford ("Merry Wives of Windsor," act iii., sc. 3).] + +with their clothes, this being the first time of her trying this way of +washing her linen, I dined at Sir W. Batten's, and after dinner, all +alone to the King's playhouse, and there did happen to sit just before +Mrs. Pierce, and Mrs. Knepp, who pulled me by the hair; and so I +addressed myself to them, and talked to them all the intervals of the +play, and did give them fruit. The play is "Brenoralt," which I do find +but little in, for my part. Here was many fine ladies-among others, the +German Baron, with his lady, who is envoye from the Emperour, and their +fine daughter, which hath travelled all Europe over with them, it seems; +and is accordingly accomplished, and indeed, is a wonderful pretty woman. +Here Sir Philip Frowde, who sat next to me, did tell me how Sir H. +Belasses is dead, and that the quarrel between him and Tom Porter, who is +fled, did arise in the ridiculous fashion that I was first told it, which +is a strange thing between two so good friends. The play being done, +I took the women, and Mrs. Corbett, who was with them, by coach, it +raining, to Mrs. Manuel's, the Jew's wife, formerly a player, who we +heard sing with one of the Italians that was there; and, indeed, she +sings mightily well; and just after the Italian manner, but yet do not +please me like one of Mrs. Knepp's songs, to a good English tune, the +manner of their ayre not pleasing me so well as the fashion of our own, +nor so natural. Here I sat a little and then left them, and then by +coach home, and my wife not come home, so the office a little and then +home, and my wife come; and so, saying nothing where I had been, we to +supper and pipe, and so to bed. + + + +13th. Up, and to the office, where we sat busy all the morning. At noon +home to dinner all alone, my wife being again at the whitster's. After +dinner with Sir W. Pen to St. James's, where the rest come and attended +the Duke of York, with our usual business; who, upon occasion, told us +that he did expect this night or to-morrow to hear from Breda of the +consummation of the peace. Thence Sir W. Pen and I to the King's house, +and there saw "The Committee," which I went to with some prejudice, not +liking it before, but I do now find it a very good play, and a great deal +of good invention in it; but Lacy's part is so well performed that it +would set off anything. The play being done, we with great pleasure +home, and there I to the office to finish my letters, and then home to my +chamber to sing and pipe till my wife comes home from her washing, which +was nine at night, and a dark and rainy night, that I was troubled at her +staying out so long. But she come well home, and so to supper and to +bed. + + + +14th. Up, and to the office, where we held a meeting extraordinary upon +some particular business, and there sat all the morning. At noon, my +wife being gone to the whitster's again to her clothes, I to dinner to +Sir W. Batten's, where much of our discourse concerning Carcasse, who it +seems do find success before the Council, and do everywhere threaten us +with what he will prove against us, which do vex us to see that we must +be subjected to such a rogue of our own servants as this is. By and by +to talk of our prize at Hull, and Sir W. Batten offering, again and +again, seriously how he would sell his part for L1000 and I considering +the knavery of Hogg and his company, and the trouble we may have with the +Prince Rupert about the consort ship, and how we are linked with Sir R. +Ford, whose son-in-law too is got thither, and there we intrust him with +all our concern, who I doubt not is of the same trade with his father-in- +law for a knave, and then the danger of the sea, if it shall be brought +about, or bad debts contracted in the sale, but chiefly to be eased of my +fears about all or any of this, I did offer my part to him for L700. +With a little beating the bargain, we come to a perfect agreement for +L666 13s. 4d., which is two-thirds of L1000, which is my proportion of +the prize. I went to my office full of doubts and joy concerning what I +had done; but, however, did put into writing the heads of our agreement, +and returned to Sir W. Batten, and we both signed them; and Sir R. Ford, +being come thither since, witnessed them. So having put it past further +dispute I away, satisfied, and took coach and to the King's playhouse, +and there saw "The Country Captain," which is a very ordinary play. +Methinks I had no pleasure therein at all, and so home again and to my +business hard till my wife come home from her clothes, and so with her to +supper and to bed. No news yet come of the ratification of the peace +which we have expected now every hour since yesterday. + + + +15th. Up, and to the office betimes, where busy, and sat all the +morning, vexed with more news of Carcasses proceedings at the Council, +insomuch as we four, [Sir] J. Minnes, [Sir] W. Batten, (Sir) W. Pen, and +myself, did make an appointment to dine with Sir W. Coventry to-day to +discourse it with him, which we did by going thither as soon as the +office was up, and there dined, and very merry, and many good stories, +and after dinner to our discourse about Carcasse, and how much we are +troubled that we should be brought, as they say we shall, to defend our +report before the Council-board with him, and to have a clerk imposed on +us. He tells us in short that there is no intention in the Lords for the +latter, but wholly the contrary. That they do not desire neither to do +anything in disrespect to the Board, and he will endeavour to prevent, +as he hath done, our coming to plead at the table with our clerk, and do +believe the whole will amount to nothing at the Council, only what he +shall declare in behalf of the King against the office, if he offers +anything, will and ought to be received, to which we all shew a +readiness, though I confess even that (though I think I am as clear as +the clearest of them), yet I am troubled to think what trouble a rogue +may without cause give a man, though it be only by bespattering a man, +and therefore could wish that over, though I fear nothing to be proved. +Thence with much satisfaction, and Sir W. Pen and I to the Duke's house, +where a new play. The King and Court there: the house full, and an act +begun. And so went to the King's, and there saw "The Merry Wives of +Windsor:" which did not please me at all, in no part of it, and so after +the play done we to the Duke's house, where my wife was by appointment in +Sir W. Pen's coach, and she home, and we home, and I to my office, where +busy till letters done, and then home to supper and to bed. + + + +16th. Up, and at the office all the morning, and so at noon to dinner, +and after dinner my wife and I to the Duke's playhouse, where we saw the +new play acted yesterday, "The Feign Innocence, or Sir Martin Marr-all; " +a play made by my Lord Duke of Newcastle, but, as every body says, +corrected by Dryden. It is the most entire piece of mirth, a complete +farce from one end to the other, that certainly was ever writ. I never +laughed so in all my life. I laughed till my head [ached] all the +evening and night with the laughing; and at very good wit therein, not +fooling. The house full, and in all things of mighty content to me. +Thence to the New Exchange with my wife, where, at my bookseller's, I saw +"The History of the Royall Society," which, I believe, is a fine book, +and have bespoke one in quires. So home, and I to the office a little, +and so to my chamber, and read the history of 88--[See 10th of this +month.]--in Speede, in order to my seeing the play thereof acted +to-morrow at the King's house. So to supper in some pain by the sudden +change of the weather cold and my drinking of cold drink, which I must I +fear begin to leave off, though I shall try it as long as I can without +much pain. But I find myself to be full of wind, and my anus to be knit +together as it is always with cold. Every body wonders that we have no +news from Bredah of the ratification of the peace; and do suspect that +there is some stop in it. So to bed. + + + +17th. Up, and all the morning at the office, where we sat, and my head +was full of the business of Carcasse, who hath a hearing this morning +before the Council and hath summonsed at least thirty persons, and which +is wondrous, a great many of them, I hear, do declare more against him +than for him, and yet he summonses people without distinction. Sure he +is distracted. At noon home to dinner, and presently my wife and I and +Sir W. Pen to the King's playhouse, where the house extraordinary full; +and there was the King and Duke of York to see the new play, "Queen +Elizabeth's Troubles and the History of Eighty Eight." I confess I have +sucked in so much of the sad story of Queen Elizabeth, from my cradle, +that I was ready to weep for her sometimes; but the play is the most +ridiculous that sure ever come upon the stage; and, indeed, is merely a +shew, only shews the true garbe of the Queen in those days, just as we +see Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth painted; but the play is merely a +puppet play, acted by living puppets. Neither the design nor language +better; and one stands by and tells us the meaning of things: only I was +pleased to see Knipp dance among the milkmaids, and to hear her sing a +song to Queen Elizabeth; and to see her come out in her night-gowne with +no lockes on, but her bare face and hair only tied up in a knot behind; +which is the comeliest dress that ever I saw her in to her advantage. +Thence home and went as far as Mile End with Sir W. Pen, whose coach took +him up there for his country-house; and after having drunk there, at the +Rose and Crowne, a good house for Alderman Bides ale,--[John Bide, +brewer, Sheriff of London in 1647.--B.]-- we parted, and we home, and +there I finished my letters, and then home to supper and to bed. + + + +18th (Lord's day). Up, and being ready, walked up and down to Cree +Church, to see it how it is; but I find no alteration there, as they say +there was, for my Lord Mayor and Aldermen to come to sermon, as they do +every Sunday, as they did formerly to Paul's. Walk back home and to our +own church, where a dull sermon and our church empty of the best sort of +people, they being at their country houses, and so home, and there dined +with me Mr. Turner and his daughter Betty. + + [Betty Turner, who is frequently mentioned after this date, appears + to have been a daughter of Serjeant John Turner and his wife Jane, + and younger sister of Theophila Turner (see January 4th, 6th, + 1668-69).] + +Her mother should, but they were invited to Sir J. Minnes, where she +dined and the others here with me. Betty is grown a fine lady as to +carriage and discourse. I and my wife are mightily pleased with her. +We had a good haunch of venison, powdered and boiled, and a good dinner +and merry. After dinner comes Mr. Pelling the Potticary, whom I had sent +for to dine with me, but he was engaged. After sitting an hour to talk +we broke up, all leaving Pelling to talk with my wife, and I walked +towards White Hall, but, being wearied, turned into St. Dunstan's Church, +where I heard an able sermon of the minister of the place; and stood by a +pretty, modest maid, whom I did labour to take by the hand and the body; +but she would not, but got further and further from me; and, at last, I +could perceive her to take pins out of her pocket to prick me if I should +touch her again--which seeing I did forbear, and was glad I did spy her +design. And then I fell to gaze upon another pretty maid in a pew close +to me, and she on me; and I did go about to take her by the hand, which +she suffered a little and then withdrew. So the sermon ended, and the +church broke up, and my amours ended also, and so took coach and home, +and there took up my wife, and to Islington with her, our old road, but +before we got to Islington, between that and Kingsland, there happened an +odd adventure: one of our coach-horses fell sick of the staggers, so as +he was ready to fall down. The coachman was fain to 'light, and hold him +up, and cut his tongue to make him bleed, and his tail. The horse +continued shaking every part of him, as if he had been in an ague, a good +while, and his blood settled in his tongue, and the coachman thought and +believed he would presently drop down dead; then he blew some tobacco in +his nose, upon which the horse sneezed, and, by and by, grows well, and +draws us the rest of our way, as well as ever he did; which was one of +the strangest things of a horse I ever observed, but he says it is usual. +It is the staggers. Staid and eat and drank at Islington, at the old +house, and so home, and to my chamber to read, and then to supper and to +bed. + + + +19th. Up, and at the office all the morning very busy. Towards noon I +to Westminster about some tallies at the Exchequer, and then straight +home again and dined, and then to sing with my wife with great content, +and then I to the office again, where busy, and then out and took coach +and to the Duke of York's house, all alone, and there saw "Sir Martin +Marr-all" again, though I saw him but two days since, and do find it the +most comical play that ever I saw in my life. Soon as the play done I +home, and there busy till night, and then comes Mr. Moore to me only to +discourse with me about some general things touching the badness of the +times, how ill they look, and he do agree with most people that I meet +with, that we shall fall into a commonwealth in a few years, whether we +will or no; for the charge of a monarchy is such as the kingdom cannot be +brought to bear willingly, nor are things managed so well nowadays under +it, as heretofore. He says every body do think that there is something +extraordinary that keeps us so long from the news of the peace being +ratified, which the King and the Duke of York have expected these six +days. He gone, my wife and I and Mrs. Turner walked in the garden a good +while till 9 at night, and then parted, and I home to supper and to read +a little (which I cannot refrain, though I have all the reason in the +world to favour my eyes, which every day grow worse and worse by over- +using them), and then to bed. + + + +20th. Up, and to my chamber to set down my journall for the last three +days, and then to the office, where busy all the morning. At noon home +to dinner, and then with my wife abroad, set her down at the Exchange, +and I to St. James's, where find Sir W. Coventry alone, and fell to +discourse of retrenchments; and thereon he tells how he hath already +propounded to the Lords Committee of the Councils how he would have the +Treasurer of the Navy a less man, that might not sit at the Board, but be +subject to the Board. He would have two Controllers to do his work and +two Surveyors, whereof one of each to take it by turns to reside at +Portsmouth and Chatham by a kind of rotation; he would have but only one +Clerk of the Acts. He do tell me he hath propounded how the charge of +the Navy in peace shall come within L200,000, by keeping out twenty-four +ships in summer, and ten in the winter. And several other particulars we +went over of retrenchment: and I find I must provide some things to offer +that I may be found studious to lessen the King's charge. By and by +comes my Lord Bruncker, and then we up to the Duke of York, and there had +a hearing of our usual business, but no money to be heard of--no, not +L100 upon the most pressing service that can be imagined of bringing in +the King's timber from Whittlewood, while we have the utmost want of it, +and no credit to provide it elsewhere, and as soon as we had done with +the Duke of York, Sir W. Coventry did single [out] Sir W. Pen and me, and +desired us to lend the King some money, out of the prizes we have taken +by Hogg. He did not much press it, and we made but a merry answer +thereto; but I perceive he did ask it seriously, and did tell us that +there never was so much need of it in the world as now, we being brought +to the lowest straits that can be in the world. This troubled me much. +By and by Sir W. Batten told me that he heard how Carcasse do now give +out that he will hang me, among the rest of his threats of him and Pen, +which is the first word I ever heard of the kind from him concerning me. +It do trouble me a little, though I know nothing he can possibly find to +fasten on me. Thence, with my Lord Bruncker to the Duke's Playhouse +(telling my wife so at the 'Change, where I left her), and there saw +"Sir Martin Marr-all" again, which I have now seen three times, and it +hath been acted but four times, and still find it a very ingenious play, +and full of variety. So home, and to the office, where my eyes would not +suffer me to do any thing by candlelight, and so called my wife and +walked in the garden. She mighty pressing for a new pair of cuffs, which +I am against the laying out of money upon yet, which makes her angry. So +home to supper and to bed. + + + +21st. Up, and my wife and I fell out about the pair of cuffs, which she +hath a mind to have to go to see the ladies dancing to-morrow at Betty +Turner's school; and do vex me so that I am resolved to deny them her. +However, by-and-by a way was found that she had them, and I well +satisfied, being unwilling to let our difference grow higher upon so +small an occasion and frowardness of mine. Then to the office, my Lord +Bruncker and I all the morning answering petitions, which now by a new +Council's order we are commanded to set a day in a week apart for, and we +resolve to do it by turn, my Lord and I one week and two others another. +At noon home to dinner, and then my wife and I mighty pleasant abroad, +she to the New Exchange and I to the Commissioners of the Treasury, who +do sit very close, and are bringing the King's charges as low as they +can; but Sir W. Coventry did here again tell me that he is very serious +in what he said to Sir W. Pen and me yesterday about our lending of money +to the King; and says that people do talk that we had had the King's +ships at his cost to take prizes, and that we ought to lend the King +money more than other people. I did tell him I will consider it, and so +parted; and do find I cannot avoid it. So to Westminster Hall and there +staid a while, and thence to Mrs. Martin's, and there did take a little +pleasure both with her and her sister. Here sat and talked, and it is a +strange thing to see the impudence of the woman, that desires by all +means to have her mari come home, only that she might beat liberty to +have me para toker her, which is a thing I do not so much desire. Thence +by coach, took up my wife, and home and out to Mile End, and there drank, +and so home, and after some little reading in my chamber, to supper and +to bed. This day I sent my cozen Roger a tierce of claret, which I give +him. This morning come two of Captain Cooke's boys, whose voices are +broke, and are gone from the Chapel, but have extraordinary skill; and +they and my boy, with his broken voice, did sing three parts; their names +were Blaewl and Loggings; but, notwithstanding their skill, yet to hear +them sing with their broken voices, which they could not command to keep +in tune, would make a man mad--so bad it was. + + + +22nd. Up, and to the office; whence Lord Bruncker, J. Minnes, W. Pen, +and I, went to examine some men that are put in there, for rescuing of +men that were pressed into the service: and we do plainly see that the +desperate condition that we put men into for want of their pay, makes +them mad, they being as good men as ever were in the world, and would as +readily serve the King again, were they but paid. Two men leapt +overboard, among others, into the Thames, out of the vessel into which +they were pressed, and were shot by the soldiers placed there to keep +them, two days since; so much people do avoid the King's service! And +then these men are pressed without money, and so we cannot punish them +for any thing, so that we are forced only to make a show of severity by +keeping them in prison, but are unable to punish them. Returning to the +office, did ask whether we might visit Commissioner Pett, to which, I +confess, I have no great mind; and it was answered that he was close +prisoner, and we could not; but the Lieutenant of the Tower would send +for him to his lodgings, if we would: so we put it off to another time. +Returned to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon to +Captain Cocke's to dinner; where Lord Bruncker and his Lady, Matt. Wren, +and Bulteale, and Sir Allen Apsly; the last of whom did make good sport, +he being already fallen under the retrenchments of the new Committee, as +he is Master Falconer; + + [The post of Master Falconer was afterwards granted to Charles's son + by Nell Gwyn, and it is still held by the Duke of St. Albans, as an + hereditary office.--B.] + +which makes him mad, and swears that we are doing that the Parliament +would have done--that is, that we are now endeavouring to destroy one +another. But it was well observed by some at the table, that they do +not think this retrenching of the King's charge will be so acceptable to +the Parliament, they having given the King a revenue of so many +L100,000's a-year more than his predecessors had, that he might live in +pomp, like a king. After dinner with my Lord Bruncker and his mistress +to the King's playhouse, and there saw "The Indian Emperour;" where I +find Nell come again, which I am glad of; but was most infinitely +displeased with her being put to act the Emperour's daughter; which is a +great and serious part, which she do most basely. The rest of the play, +though pretty good, was not well acted by most of them, methought; so +that I took no great content in it. But that, that troubled me most was, +that Knipp sent by Moll' to desire to speak to me after the play; and she +beckoned to me at the end of the play, and I promised to come; but it was +so late, and I forced to step to Mrs. Williams's lodgings with my Lord +Bruncker and her, where I did not stay, however, for fear of her shewing +me her closet, and thereby forcing me to give her something; and it was +so late, that for fear of my wife's coming home before me, I was forced +to go straight home, which troubled me. Home and to the office a little, +and then home and to my chamber to read, and anon, late, comes home my +wife, with Mr. Turner and Mrs. Turner, with whom she supped, having been +with Mrs. Turner to-day at her daughter's school, to see her daughters +dancing, and the rest, which she says is fine. They gone, I to supper +and to bed. My wife very fine to-day, in her new suit of laced cuffs and +perquisites. This evening Pelling comes to me, and tells me that this +night the Dutch letters are come, and that the peace was proclaimed there +the 19th inst., and that all is finished; which, for my life, I know not +whether to be glad or sorry for, a peace being so necessary, and yet the +peace is so bad in its terms. + + + +23rd. Up, and Greeting comes, who brings me a tune for two flageolets, +which we played, and is a tune played at the King's playhouse, which goes +so well, that I will have more of them, and it will be a mighty pleasure +for me to have my wife able to play a part with me, which she will +easily, I find, do. Then abroad to White Hall in a hackney-coach with +Sir W. Pen: and in our way, in the narrow street near Paul's, going the +backway by Tower Street, and the coach being forced to put back, he was +turning himself into a cellar,--[So much of London was yet in ruins.--B] +--which made people cry out to us, and so we were forced to leap out--he +out of one, and I out of the other boote; + + [The "boot" was originally a projection on each side of the coach, + where the passengers sat with their backs to the carriage. Such a + "boot" is seen in the carriage containing the attendants of Queen + Elizabeth, in Hoefnagel's well-known picture of Nonsuch Palace, + dated 1582. Taylor, the Water Poet, the inveterate opponent of the + introduction of coaches, thus satirizes the one in which he was + forced to take his place as a passenger: "It wears two boots and no + spurs, sometimes having two pairs of legs in one boot; and + oftentimes against nature most preposterously it makes fair ladies + wear the boot. Moreover, it makes people imitate sea-crabs, in + being drawn sideways, as they are when they sit in the boot of the + coach." In course of time these projections were abolished, and the + coach then consisted of three parts, viz., the body, the boot (on + the top of which the coachman sat), and the baskets at the back.] + +Query, whether a glass-coach would have permitted us to have made the +escape?--[See note on introduction of glass coaches, September 23rd, +1667.]--neither of us getting any hurt; nor could the coach have got +much hurt had we been in it; but, however, there was cause enough for us +to do what we could to save ourselves. So being all dusty, we put into +the Castle tavern, by the Savoy, and there brushed ourselves, and then to +White Hall with our fellows to attend the Council, by order upon some +proposition of my Lord Anglesey, we were called in. The King there: and +it was about considering how the fleete might be discharged at their +coming in shortly (the peace being now ratified, and it takes place on +Monday next, which Sir W. Coventry said would make some clashing between +some of us twenty to one, for want of more warning, but the wind has kept +the boats from coming over), whether by money or tickets, and cries out +against tickets, but the matter was referred for us to provide an answer +to, which we must do in a few days. So we parted, and I to Westminster +to the Exchequer, to see what sums of money other people lend upon the +Act; and find of all sizes from L1000 to L100 nay, to L50, nay, to L20, +nay, to L5: for I find that one Dr. Reade, Doctor of Law, gives no more, +and others of them L20; which is a poor thing, methinks, that we should +stoop so low as to borrow such sums. Upon the whole, I do think to lend, +since I must lend, L300, though, God knows! it is much against my will to +lend any, unless things were in better condition, and likely to continue +so. Thence home and there to dinner, and after dinner by coach out +again, setting my wife down at Unthanke's, and I to the Treasury-chamber, +where I waited, talking with Sir G. Downing, till the Lords met. He +tells me how he will make all the Exchequer officers, of one side and +t'other, to lend the King money upon the Act; and that the least clerk +shall lend money, and he believes the least will L100: but this I do not +believe. He made me almost ashamed that we of the Navy had not in all +this time lent any; so that I find it necessary I should, and so will +speedily do it, before any of my fellows begin, and lead me to a bigger +sum. By and by the Lords come; and I perceive Sir W. Coventry is the +man, and nothing done till he comes. Among other things, I hear him +observe, looking over a paper, that Sir John Shaw is a miracle of a man, +for he thinks he executes more places than any man in England; for there +he finds him a Surveyor of some of the King's woods, and so reckoned up +many other places, the most inconsistent in the world. Their business +with me was to consider how to assigne such of our commanders as will +take assignements upon the Act for their wages; and the consideration +thereof was referred to me to give them an answer the next sitting: +which is a horrid poor thing: but they scruple at nothing of honour in +the case. So away hence, and called my wife, and to the King's house, +and saw "The Mayden Queene," which pleases us mightily; and then away, +and took up Mrs. Turner at her door, and so to Mile End, and there drank, +and so back to her house, it being a fine evening, and there supped. +The first time I ever was there since they lived there; and she hath all +things so neat and well done, that I am mightily pleased with her, and +all she do. So here very merry, and then home and to bed, my eyes being +very bad. I find most people pleased with their being at ease, and safe +of a peace, that they may know no more charge or hazard of an ill-managed +war: but nobody speaking of the peace with any content or pleasure, but +are silent in it, as of a thing they are ashamed of; no, not at Court, +much less in the City. + + + +24th (St. Bartholomew's day). This morning was proclaimed the peace +between us and the States of the United Provinces, and also of the King +of France and Denmarke; and in the afternoon the Proclamations were +printed and come out; and at night the bells rung, but no bonfires that I +hear of any where, partly from the dearness of firing, but principally +from the little content most people have in the peace. All the morning +at the office. At noon dined, and Creed with me, at home. After dinner +we to a play, and there saw "The Cardinall" at the King's house, +wherewith I am mightily pleased; but, above all, with Becke Marshall. +But it is pretty to observe how I look up and down for, and did spy +Knipp; but durst not own it to my wife that I see her, for fear of +angering her, who do not like my kindness to her, and so I was forced not +to take notice of her, and so homeward, leaving Creed at the Temple: and +my belly now full with plays, that I do intend to bind myself to see no +more till Michaelmas. So with my wife to Mile End, and there drank of +Bides ale, and so home. Most of our discourse is about our keeping a +coach the next year, which pleases my wife mightily; and if I continue as +able as now, it will save us money. This day comes a letter from the +Duke of York to the Board to invite us, which is as much as to fright us, +into the lending the King money; which is a poor thing, and most +dishonourable, and shows in what a case we are at the end of the war to +our neighbours. And the King do now declare publickly to give 10 per +cent. to all lenders; which makes some think that the Dutch themselves +will send over money, and lend it upon our publick faith, the Act of +Parliament. So home and to my office, wrote a little, and then home to +supper and to bed. + + + +25th (Lord's day). Up, and to church, and thence home; and Pelling comes +by invitation to dine with me, and much pleasant discourse with him. +After dinner, away by water to White Hall, where I landed Pelling, who is +going to his wife, where she is in the country, at Parson's Greene: and +myself to Westminster, and there at the Swan I did baiser Frank, and to +the parish church, thinking to see Betty Michell; and did stay an hour in +the crowd, thinking, by the end of a nose that I saw, that it had been +her; but at last the head turned towards me, and it was her mother, which +vexed me, and so I back to my boat, which had broke one of her oars in +rowing, and had now fastened it again; and so I up to Putney, and there +stepped into the church, to look upon the fine people there, whereof +there is great store, and the young ladies; and so walked to Barne-Elmes, +whither I sent Russel, reading of Boyle's Hydrostatickes, which are of +infinite delight. I walked in the Elmes a good while, and then to my +boat, and leisurely home, with great pleasure to myself; and there +supped, and W. Hewer with us, with whom a great deal of good talk +touching the Office, and so to bed. + + + +26th. Up, and Greeting come, and I reckoned with him for his teaching of +my wife and me upon the flageolet to this day, and so paid him for having +as much as he can teach us. Then to the Office, where we sat upon a +particular business all the morning: and my Lord Anglesey with us: who, +and my Lord Bruncker, do bring us news how my Lord Chancellor's seal is +to be taken away from him to-day. The thing is so great and sudden to +me, that it put me into a very great admiration what should be the +meaning of it; and they do not own that they know what it should be: but +this is certain, that the King did resolve it on Saturday, and did +yesterday send the Duke of Albemarle, the only man fit for those works, +to him for his purse: to which the Chancellor answered, that he received +it from the King, and would deliver it to the King's own hand, and so +civilly returned the Duke of Albemarle without it; and this morning my +Lord Chancellor is to be with the King, to come to an end in the +business. After sitting, we rose, and my wife being gone abroad with +Mrs. Turner to her washing at the whitster's, I dined at Sir W. Batten's, +where Mr. Boreman was, who come from White Hall; who tells us that he saw +my Lord Chancellor come in his coach with some of his men, without his +Seal, to White Hall to his chamber; and thither the King and Duke of York +come and staid together alone, an hour or more: and it is said that the +King do say that he will have the Parliament meet, and that it will +prevent much trouble by having of him out of their enmity, by his place +being taken away; for that all their enmity will be at him. It is said +also that my Lord Chancellor answers, that he desires he may be brought +to his trial, if he have done any thing to lose his office; and that he +will be willing, and is most desirous, to lose that, and his head both +together. Upon what terms they parted nobody knows but the Chancellor +looked sad, he says. Then in comes Sir Richard Ford, and says he hears +that there is nobody more presses to reconcile the King and Chancellor +than the Duke of Albemarle and Duke of Buckingham: the latter of which is +very strange, not only that he who was so lately his enemy should do it, +but that this man, that but the other day was in danger of losing his own +head, should so soon come to be a mediator for others: it shows a wise +Government. They all say that he [Clarendon] is but a poor man, not +worth above L3000 a-year in land; but this I cannot believe: and all do +blame him for having built so great a house, till he had got a better +estate. Having dined, Sir J. Minnes and I to White Hall, where we could +be informed in no more than we were told before, nobody knowing the +result of the meeting, but that the matter is suspended. So I walked to +the King's playhouse, there to meet Sir W. Pen, and saw "The Surprizall," +a very mean play, I thought: or else it was because I was out of humour, +and but very little company in the house. But there Sir W. Pen and I had +a great deal of discourse with Moll; who tells us that Nell is already +left by my Lord Buckhurst, and that he makes sport of her, and swears she +hath had all she could get of him; and Hart, + + [Charles Hart, great-nephew of Shakespeare, a favourite actor. He + is credited with being Nell Gwyn's first lover (or Charles I., as + the wits put it), and with having brought her on the stage. He died + of stone, and was buried at Stanmore Magna, Middlesex, where he had + a country house.] + +her great admirer, now hates her; and that she is very poor, and hath +lost my Lady Castlemayne, who was her great friend also but she is come +to the House, but is neglected by them all. + + [Lord Buckhurst's liaison with Nell Gwyn probably came to an end + about this time. We learn from Pepys that in January, 1667-68, the + king sent several times for Nelly (see January 11th, 1667-68). + Nell's eldest son by Charles II., Charles Beauclerc, was not born + till May 8th, 1670. He was created Earl of Burford in 1676 and Duke + of St. Albans in 1684.] + +Thence with Sir W. Pen home, and I to the office, where late about +business, and then home to supper, and so to bed. + + + +27th. Up, and am invited betimes to be godfather tomorrow to Captain +Poole's child with my Lady Pen and Lady Batten, which I accepted out of +complaisance to them, and so to the office, where we sat all the morning. +At noon dined at home, and then my wife and I, with Sir W. Pen, to the +New Exchange, set her down, and he and I to St. James's, where Sir J. +Minnes, [Sir] W. Batten, and we waited upon the Duke of York, but did +little business, and he, I perceive, his head full of other business, and +of late hath not been very ready to be troubled with any of our business. +Having done with him, Sir J. Minnes, [Sir] W. Batten and I to White Hall, +and there hear how it is like to go well enough with my Lord Chancellor; +that he is like to keep his Seal, desiring that he may stand his trial in +Parliament, if they will accuse him of any thing. Here Sir J. Minnes and +I looking upon the pictures; and Mr. Chevins, being by, did take us, of +his own accord, into the King's closet, to shew us some pictures, which, +indeed, is a very noble place, and exceeding great variety of brave +pictures, and the best hands. I could have spent three or four hours +there well, and we had great liberty to look and Chevins seemed to take +pleasure to shew us, and commend the pictures. Having done here, I to +the Exchange, and there find my wife gone with Sir W. Pen. So I to visit +Colonel Fitzgerald, who hath been long sick at Woolwich, where most of +the officers and soldiers quartered there, since the Dutch being in the +river, have died or been sick, and he among the rest; and, by the growth +of his beard and gray [hairs], I did not know him. His desire to speak +with me was about the late command for my paying no more pensions for +Tangier. Thence home, and there did business, and so in the evening home +to supper and to bed. This day Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, was with me; and +tells me how this business of my Lord Chancellor's was certainly designed +in my Lady Castlemayne's chamber; and that, when he went from the King on +Monday morning, she was in bed, though about twelve o'clock, and ran out +in her smock into her aviary looking into White Hall garden; and thither +her woman brought her her nightgown; and stood joying herself at the old +man's going away: and several of the gallants of White Hall, of which +there were many staying to see the Chancellor return, did talk to her in +her birdcage; among others, Blancford, telling her she was the bird of +paradise. + + [Clarendon refers to this scene in the continuation of his Life (ed. + 1827, vol. iii., p. 291), and Lister writes: "Lady Castlemaine rose + hastily from her noontide bed, and came out into her aviary, anxious + to read in the saddened air of her distinguished enemy some presage + of his fall" ("Life of Clarendon," vol. ii., p. 412).] + + + +28th. Up; and staid undressed till my tailor's boy did mend my vest, in +order to my going to the christening anon. Then out and to White Hall, +to attend the Council, by their order, with an answer to their demands +touching our advice for the paying off of the seamen, when the ships +shall come in, which answer is worth seeing, shewing the badness of our +condition. There, when I come, I was forced to stay till past twelve +o'clock, in a crowd of people in the lobby, expecting the hearing of the +great cause of Alderman Barker against my Lord Deputy of Ireland, for his +ill usage in his business of land there; but the King and Council sat so +long, as they neither heard them nor me. So when they rose, I into the +House, and saw the King and Queen at dinner, and heard a little of their +viallins' musick, and so home, and there to dinner, and in the afternoon +with my Lady Batten, Pen, and her daughter, and my wife, to Mrs. Poole's, +where I mighty merry among the women, and christened the child, a girl, +Elizabeth, which, though a girl, yet my Lady Batten would have me to give +the name. After christening comes Sir W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, and Mr. +Lowther, and mighty merry there, and I forfeited for not kissing the two +godmothers presently after the christening, before I kissed the mother, +which made good mirth; and so anon away, and my wife and I took coach and +went twice round Bartholomew fayre; which I was glad to see again, after +two years missing it by the plague, and so home and to my chamber a +little, and so to supper and to bed. + + + +29th. Up, and Mr. Moore comes to me, and among other things tells me +that my Lord Crew and his friends take it very ill of me that my Lord +Sandwich's sea-fee should be retrenched, and so reported from this +Office, and I give them no notice of it. The thing, though I know to be +false--at least, that nothing went from our office towards it--yet it +troubled me, and therefore after the office rose I went and dined with my +Lord Crew, and before dinner I did enter into that discourse, and +laboured to satisfy him; but found, though he said little, yet that he +was not yet satisfied; but after dinner did pray me to go and see how it +was, whether true or no. Did tell me if I was not their friend, they +could trust to nobody, and that he did not forget my service and love to +my Lord, and adventures for him in dangerous times, and therefore would +not willingly doubt me now; but yet asked my pardon if, upon this news, +he did begin to fear it. This did mightily trouble me: so I away thence +to White Hall, but could do nothing. So home, and there wrote all my +letters, and then, in the evening, to White Hall again, and there met Sir +Richard Browne, Clerk to the Committee for retrenchments, who assures me +no one word was ever yet mentioned about my Lord's salary. This pleased +me, and I to Sir G. Carteret, who I find in the same doubt about it, and +assured me he saw it in our original report, my Lord's name with a +discharge against it. This, though I know to be false, or that it must +be a mistake in my clerk, I went back to Sir R. Browne and got a sight of +their paper, and find how the mistake arose, by the ill copying of it out +for the Council from our paper sent to the Duke of York, which I took +away with me and shewed Sir G. Carteret, and thence to my Lord Crew, and +the mistake ended very merrily, and to all our contents, particularly my +own, and so home, and to the office, and then to my chamber late, and so +to supper and to bed. I find at Sir G. Carteret's that they do mightily +joy themselves in the hopes of my Lord Chancellor's getting over this +trouble; and I make them believe, and so, indeed, I do believe he will, +that my Lord Chancellor is become popular by it. I find by all hands +that the Court is at this day all to pieces, every man of a faction of +one sort or other, so as it is to be feared what it will come to. But +that, that pleases me is, I hear to-night that Mr. Bruncker is turned +away yesterday by the Duke of York, for some bold words he was heard by +Colonel Werden to say in the garden, the day the Chancellor was with the +King--that he believed the King would be hectored out of everything. For +this the Duke of York, who all say hath been very strong for his father- +in-law at this trial, hath turned him away: and every body, I think, is +glad of it; for he was a pestilent rogue, an atheist, that would have +sold his King and country for 6d. almost, so covetous and wicked a rogue +he is, by all men's report. But one observed to me, that there never was +the occasion of men's holding their tongues at Court and everywhere else +as there is at this day, for nobody knows which side will be uppermost. + + + +30th. Up, and to White Hall, where at the Council Chamber I hear +Barker's business is like to come to a hearing to-day, having failed the +last day. I therefore to Westminster to see what I could do in my +'Chequer business about Tangier, and finding nothing to be done, +returned, and in the Lobby staid till almost noon expecting to hear +Barker's business, but it was not called, so I come away. Here I met +with Sir G. Downing, who tells me of Sir W. Pen's offering to lend L500; +and I tell him of my L300, which he would have me to lend upon the credit +of the latter part of the Act; saying, that by that means my 10 per cent. +will continue to me the longer. But I understand better, and will do it +upon the L380,000, which will come to be paid the sooner; there being no +delight in lending money now, to be paid by the King two years hence. +But here he and Sir William Doyly were attending the Council as +Commissioners for sick and wounded, and prisoners: and they told me their +business, which was to know how we shall do to release our prisoners; for +it seems the Dutch have got us to agree in the treaty, as they fool us in +anything, that the dyet of the prisoners on both sides shall be paid for, +before they be released; which they have done, knowing ours to run high, +they having more prisoners of ours than we have of theirs; so that they +are able and most ready to discharge the debt of theirs, but we are +neither able nor willing to do that for ours, the debt of those in +Zealand only, amounting to above L5000 for men taken in the King's own +ships, besides others taken in merchantmen, which expect, as is usual, +that the King should redeem them; but I think he will not, by what Sir G. +Downing says. This our prisoners complain of there; and say in their +letters, which Sir G. Downing shewed me, that they have made a good feat +that they should be taken in the service of the King, and the King not +pay for their victuals while prisoners for him. But so far they are from +doing thus with their men, as we do to discourage ours, that I find in +the letters of some of our prisoners there, which he shewed me, that they +have with money got our men, that they took, to work and carry their +ships home for them; and they have been well rewarded, and released when +they come into Holland: which is done like a noble, brave, and wise +people. Having staid out my time that I thought fit for me to return +home, I home and there took coach and with my wife to Walthamstow; to Sir +W. Pen's, by invitation, the first time I have been there, and there find +him and all their guests (of our office only) at dinner, which was a very +bad dinner, and everything suitable, that I never knew people in my life +that make their flutter, that do things so meanly. I was sick to see it, +but was merry at some ridiculous humours of my Lady Batten, who, as being +an ill-bred woman, would take exceptions at anything any body said, and I +made good sport at it. After dinner into the garden and wilderness, +which is like the rest of the house, nothing in order, nor looked after. +By and by comes newes that my Lady Viner was come to see Mrs. Lowther, +which I was glad of, and all the pleasure I had here was to see her, +which I did, and saluted her, and find she is pretty, though not so +eminently so as people talked of her, and of very pretty carriage and +discourse. I sat with them and her an hour talking and pleasant, and +then slunk away alone without taking leave, leaving my wife there to +come home with them, and I to Bartholomew fayre, to walk up and down; +and there, among other things, find my Lady Castlemayne at a puppet-play, +"Patient Grizill," + + [The well-known story, first told by Boccaccio, then by Petrarca, + afterwards by Chaucer, and which has since become proverbial. Tom + Warton, writing about 1770, says, "I need not mention that it is to + this day represented in England, on a stage of the lowest species, + and of the highest antiquity: I mean at a puppet show" ("Hist. of + English Poetry," sect. xv.).--B.] + +and the street full of people expecting her coming out. I confess I did +wonder at her courage to come abroad, thinking the people would abuse +her; but they, silly people! do not know her work she makes, and +therefore suffered her with great respect to take coach, and she away, +without any trouble at all, which I wondered at, I confess. I only +walked up and down, and, among others, saw Tom Pepys, the turner, who +hath a shop, and I think lives in the fair when the fair is not. I only +asked how he did as he stood in the street, and so up and down sauntering +till late and then home, and there discoursed with my wife of our bad +entertainment to-day, and so to bed. I met Captain Cocke to-day at the +Council Chamber and took him with me to Westminster, who tells me that +there is yet expectation that the Chancellor will lose the Seal, and that +he is sure that the King hath said it to him who told it him, and he +fears we shall be soon broke in pieces, and assures me that there have +been high words between the Duke of York and Sir W. Coventry, for his +being so high against the Chancellor; so as the Duke of York would not +sign some papers that he brought, saying that he could not endure the +sight of him: and that Sir W. Coventry answered, that what he did was in +obedience to the King's commands; and that he did not think any man fit +to serve a Prince, that did not know how to retire and live a country +life. This is all I hear. + + + +31st. At the office all the morning; where, by Sir W. Pen, I do hear +that the Seal was fetched away to the King yesterday from the Lord +Chancellor by Secretary Morrice; which puts me into a great horror, +to have it done after so much debate and confidence that it would not be +done at last. When we arose I took a turn with Lord Bruncker in the +garden, and he tells me that he hath of late discoursed about this +business with Sir W. Coventry, who he finds is the great man in the doing +this business of the Chancellor's, and that he do persevere in it, though +against the Duke of York's opinion, to which he says that the Duke of +York was once of the same mind, and if he hath thought fit since, for any +reason, to alter his mind, he hath not found any to alter his own, and so +desires to be excused, for it is for the King's and kingdom's good. And +it seems that the Duke of York himself was the first man that did speak +to the King of this, though he hath since altered his mind; and that W. +Coventry did tell the Duke of York that he was not fit to serve a Prince +that did not know how to retire, and live a private life; and that he was +ready for that, if it be his and the King's pleasure. After having wrote +my letters at the office in the afternoon, I in the evening to White Hall +to see how matters go, and there I met with Mr. Ball, of the Excise- +office, and he tells me that the Seal is delivered to Sir Orlando +Bridgeman; the man of the whole nation that is the best spoken of, and +will please most people; and therefore I am mighty glad of it. He was +then at my Lord Arlington's, whither I went, expecting to see him come +out; but staid so long, and Sir W. Coventry coming thither, whom I had +not a mind should see me there idle upon a post-night, I went home +without seeing him; but he is there with his Seal in his hand. So I +home, took up my wife, whom I left at Unthanke's, and so home, and after +signing my letters to bed. This day, being dissatisfied with my wife's +learning so few songs of Goodgroome, I did come to a new bargain with him +to teach her songs at so much, viz.; 10s. a song, which he accepts of, +and will teach her. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +Beginnings of discontents take so much root between us +Eat some of the best cheese-cakes that ever I eat in my life +Hugged, it being cold now in the mornings . . . . +I would not enquire into anything, but let her talk +Ill-bred woman, would take exceptions at anything any body said +Kingdom will fall back again to a commonwealth +Little content most people have in the peace +Necessary, and yet the peace is so bad in its terms +Never laughed so in all my life. I laughed till my head ached +Nobody knows which side will be uppermost +Sermon ended, and the church broke up, and my amours ended also +Spends his time here most, playing at bowles +Take pins out of her pocket to prick me if I should touch her +The gates of the City shut, it being so late +They want where to set their feet, to begin to do any thing +Troubled to think what trouble a rogue may without cause give +Wise men do prepare to remove abroad what they have + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v63 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + |