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+Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, September 1667, by Samuel Pepys
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+Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, September 1667
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+Author: Samuel Pepys
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+Release Date: December 1, 2004 [EBook #4180]
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, ***
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+
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+Produced by David Widger
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+
+                THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S.
+
+            CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY
+
+    TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY
+ MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW
+                      AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
+
+                              (Unabridged)
+
+                      WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES
+
+                        EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY
+
+                        HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A.
+
+                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
+                                SEPTEMBER
+                                   1667
+
+September 1st (Lord's day).  Up, and betimes by water from the Tower, and
+called at the Old Swan for a glass of strong water, and sent word to have
+little Michell and his wife come and dine with us to-day; and so, taking
+in a gentleman and his lady that wanted a boat, I to Westminster. Setting
+them on shore at Charing Cross, I to Mrs. Martin's, where I had two pair
+of cuffs which I bespoke, and there did sit and talk with her .  .  .  .
+and here I did see her little girle my goddaughter, which will be
+pretty, and there having staid a little I away to Creed's chamber, and
+when he was ready away to White Hall, where I met with several people and
+had my fill of talk.  Our new Lord-keeper, Bridgeman, did this day, the
+first time, attend the King to chapel with his Seal. Sir H. Cholmly tells
+me there are hopes that the women will also have a rout, and particularly
+that my Lady Castlemayne is coming to a composition with the King to be
+gone; but how true this is, I know not. Blancfort is made Privy-purse to
+the Duke of York; the Attorney-general is made Chief justice, in the room
+of my Lord Bridgeman; the Solicitor-general is made Attorney-general; and
+Sir Edward Turner made Solicitor-general.  It is pretty to see how strange
+every body looks, nobody knowing whence this arises; whether from my Lady
+Castlemayne, Bab. May, and their faction; or from the Duke of York,
+notwithstanding his great appearance of defence of the Chancellor; or from
+Sir William Coventry, and some few with him.  But greater changes are yet
+expected.  So home and by water to dinner, where comes Pelting and young
+Michell and his wife, whom I have not seen a great while, poor girle, and
+then comes Mr. Howe, and all dined with me very merry, and spent all the
+afternoon, Pelting, Howe, and I, and my boy, singing of Lock's response to
+the Ten Commandments, which he hath set very finely, and was a good while
+since sung before the King, and spoiled in the performance, which
+occasioned his printing them for his vindication, and are excellent good.
+They parted, in the evening my wife and I to walk in the garden and there
+scolded a little, I being doubtful that she had received a couple of fine
+pinners (one of point de Gesne), which I feared she hath from some [one]
+or other of a present; but, on the contrary, I find she hath bought them
+for me to pay for them, without my knowledge.  This do displease me much;
+but yet do so much please me better than if she had received them the
+other way, that I was not much angry, but fell to other discourse, and so
+to my chamber, and got her to read to me for saving of my eyes, and then,
+having got a great cold, I know not how, I to bed and lay ill at ease all
+the night.
+
+2nd.  This day is kept in the City as a publick fast for the fire this day
+twelve months: but I was not at church, being commanded, with the rest, to
+attend the Duke of York; and, therefore, with Sir J. Minnes to St.
+James's, where we had much business before the Duke of York, and observed
+all things to be very kind between the Duke of York and W. Coventry, which
+did mightily joy me.  When we had done, Sir W. Coventry called me down
+with him to his chamber, and there told me that he is leaving the Duke of
+York's service, which I was amazed at.  But he tells me that it is not
+with the least unkindness on the Duke of York's side, though he expects,
+and I told him he was in the right, it will be interpreted otherwise,
+because done just at this time; "but," says he, "I did desire it a good
+while since, and the Duke of York did, with much entreaty, grant it,
+desiring that I would say nothing of it, that he might have time and
+liberty to choose his successor, without being importuned for others whom
+he should not like:" and that he hath chosen Mr. Wren, which I am glad of,
+he being a very ingenious man; and so Sir W. Coventry says of him, though
+he knows him little; but particularly commends him for the book he writ in
+answer to "Harrington's Oceana," which, for that reason, I intend to buy.
+He tells me the true reason is, that he, being a man not willing to
+undertake more business than he can go through, and being desirous to have
+his whole time to spend upon the business of the Treasury, and a little
+for his own ease, he did desire this of the Duke of York.  He assures me
+that the kindness with which he goes away from the Duke of York is one of
+the greatest joys that ever he had in the world.  I used some freedom with
+him, telling him how the world hath discoursed of his having offended the
+Duke of York, about the late business of the Chancellor.  He do not deny
+it, but says that perhaps the Duke of York might have some reason for it,
+he opposing him in a thing wherein he was so earnest but tells me, that,
+notwithstanding all that, the Duke of York does not now, nor can blame
+him; for he tells me that he was the man that did propose the removal of
+the Chancellor; and that he did still persist in it, and at this day
+publickly owns it, and is glad of it; but that the Duke of York knows that
+he did first speak of it to the Duke of York, before he spoke to any
+mortal creature besides, which was fair dealing: and the Duke of York was
+then of the same mind with him, and did speak of it to the King; though
+since, for reasons best known to himself, he was afterwards altered.  I
+did then desire to know what was the great matter that grounded his desire
+of the Chancellor's removal?  He told me many things not fit to be spoken,
+and yet not any thing of his being unfaithful to the King; but, 'instar
+omnium', he told me, that while he was so great at the Council-board, and
+in the administration of matters, there was no room for any body to
+propose any remedy to what was amiss, or to compass any thing, though
+never so good for the kingdom, unless approved of by the Chancellor, he
+managing all things with that greatness which now will be removed, that
+the King may have the benefit of others' advice.  I then told him that the
+world hath an opinion that he hath joined himself with my Lady
+Castlemayne's faction in this business; he told me, he cannot help it, but
+says they are in an errour: but for first he will never, while he lives,
+truckle under any body or any faction, but do just as his own reason and
+judgment directs; and, when he cannot use that freedom, he will have
+nothing to do in public affairs but then he added, that he never was the
+man that ever had any discourse with my Lady Castlemayne, or with others
+from her, about this or any public business, or ever made her a visit, or
+at least not this twelvemonth, or been in her lodgings but when called on
+any business to attend the King there, nor hath had any thing to do in
+knowing her mind in this business.  He ended all with telling me that he
+knows that he that serves a Prince must expect, and be contented to stand,
+all fortunes, and be provided to retreat, and that that he is most willing
+to do whenever the King shall please.  And so we parted, he setting me
+down out of his coach at Charing Cross, and desired me to tell Sir W. Pen
+what he had told me of his leaving the Duke of York's service, that his
+friends might not be the last that know it. I took a coach and went
+homewards; but then turned again, and to White Hall, where I met with many
+people; and, among other things, do learn that there is some fear that
+Mr. Bruncker is got into the King's favour, and will be cherished there;
+which will breed ill will between the King and Duke of York, he lodging at
+this time in White Hall since he was put away from the Duke of York: and
+he is great with Bab. May, my Lady Castlemayne, and that wicked crew.  But
+I find this denied by Sir G. Carteret, who tells me that he is sure he
+hath no kindness from the King; that the King at first, indeed, did
+endeavour to persuade the Duke of York from putting him away; but when,
+besides this business of his ill words concerning his Majesty in the
+business of the Chancellor, he told him that he hath had, a long time, a
+mind to put him away for his ill offices, done between him and his wife,
+the King held his peace, and said no more, but wished him to do what he
+pleased with him; which was very noble.  I met with Fenn; and he tells me,
+as I do hear from some others, that the business of the Chancellor's had
+proceeded from something of a mistake, for the Duke of York did first tell
+the King that the Chancellor had a desire to be eased of his great
+trouble; and that the King, when the Chancellor come to him, did wonder to
+hear him deny it, and the Duke of York was forced to deny to the King that
+ever he did tell him so in those terms: but the King did answer that he
+was sure that he did say some such thing to him; but, however, since it
+had gone so far, did desire him to be contented with it, as a thing very
+convenient for him as well as for himself (the King), and so matters
+proceeded, as we find. Now it is likely the Chancellor might, some time or
+other, in a compliment or vanity, say to the Duke of York, that he was
+weary of this burden, and I know not what; and this comes of it.  Some
+people, and myself among them, are of good hope from this change that
+things are reforming; but there are others that do think but that it is a
+hit of chance, as all other our greatest matters are, and that there is no
+general plot or contrivance in any number of people what to do next,
+though, I believe, Sir W. Coventry may in himself have further designs;
+and so that, though other changes may come, yet they shall be accidental
+and laid upon [not] good principles of doing good.  Mr. May shewed me the
+King's new buildings, in order to their having of some old sails for the
+closing of the windows this winter.  I dined with Sir G. Carteret, with
+whom dined Mr. Jack Ashburnham and Dr. Creeton, who I observe to be a most
+good man and scholar.  In discourse at dinner concerning the change of
+men's humours and fashions touching meats, Mr. Ashburnham told us, that he
+remembers since the only fruit in request, and eaten by the King and Queen
+at table as the best fruit, was the Katharine payre, though they knew at
+the time other fruits of France and our own country.  After dinner comes
+in Mr. Townsend; and there I was witness of a horrid rateing, which Mr.
+Ashburnham, as one of the Grooms of the King's Bedchamber, did give him
+for want of linen for the King's person; which he swore was not to be
+endured, and that the King would not endure it, and that the King his
+father, would have hanged his Wardrobe-man should he have been served so
+the King having at this day no handkerchers, and but three bands to his
+neck, he swore.  Mr. Townsend answered want of money, and the owing of the
+linen-draper L5000; and that he hath of late got many rich things
+made--beds, and sheets, and saddles, and all without money, and he can go
+no further but still this old man, indeed, like an old loving servant, did
+cry out for the King's person to be neglected. But, when he was gone,
+Townsend told me that it is the grooms taking away the King's linen at the
+quarter's end, as their fees, which makes this great want: for, whether
+the King can get it or no, they will run away at the quarter's end with
+what he hath had, let the King get more as he can. All the company gone,
+Sir G. Carteret and I to talk: and it is pretty to observe how already he
+says that he did always look upon the Chancellor indeed as his friend,
+though he never did do him any service at all, nor ever got any thing by
+him, nor was he a man apt, and that, I think, is true, to do any man any
+kindness of his own nature; though I do know that he was believed by all
+the world to be the greatest support of Sir G. Carteret with the King of
+any man in England: but so little is now made of it!  He observes that my
+Lord Sandwich will lose a great friend in him; and I think so too, my Lord
+Hinchingbroke being about a match calculated purely out of respect to my
+Lord Chancellor's family.  By and by Sir G. Carteret, and Townsend, and I,
+to consider of an answer to the Commissioners of the Treasury about my
+Lord Sandwich's profits in the Wardrobe; which seem, as we make them, to
+be very small, not L1000 a-year; but only the difference in measure at
+which he buys and delivers out to the King, and then 6d. in the pound from
+the tradesmen for what money he receives for him; but this, it is
+believed, these Commissioners will endeavour to take away.  From him I
+went to see a great match at tennis, between Prince Rupert and one Captain
+Cooke, against Bab. May and the elder Chichly; where the King was, and
+Court; and it seems are the best players at tennis in the nation.  But
+this puts me in mind of what I observed in the morning, that the King,
+playing at tennis, had a steele-yard carried to him, and I was told it was
+to weigh him after he had done playing; and at noon Mr. Ashburnham told me
+that it is only the King's curiosity, which he usually hath of weighing
+himself before and after his play, to see how much he loses in weight by
+playing: and this day he lost 4 lbs.  Thence home and took my wife out to
+Mile End Green, and there I drank, and so home, having a very fine
+evening.  Then home, and I to Sir W. Batten and [Sir] W. Pen, and there
+discoursed of Sir W. Coventry's leaving the Duke of York, and Mr. Wren's
+succeeding him.  They told me both seriously, that they had long cut me
+out for Secretary to the Duke of York, if ever [Sir] W. Coventry left him;
+which, agreeing with what I have heard from other hands heretofore, do
+make me not only think that something of that kind hath been thought on,
+but do comfort me to see that the world hath such an esteem of my
+qualities as to think me fit for any such thing.  Though I am glad, with
+all my heart, that I am not so; for it would never please me to be forced
+to the attendance that that would require, and leave my wife and family to
+themselves, as I must do in such a case; thinking myself now in the best
+place that ever man was in to please his own mind in, and, therefore, I
+will take care to preserve it.  So to bed, my cold remaining though not so
+much upon me. This day Nell, an old tall maid, come to live with us, a
+cook maid recommended by Mr. Batelier.
+
+3rd.  All the morning, business at the office, dined at home, then in the
+afternoon set my wife down at the Exchange, and I to St. James's, and
+there attended the Duke of York about the list of ships that we propose to
+sell: and here there attended Mr. Wren the first time, who hath not yet, I
+think, received the Duke of York's seal and papers.  At our coming hither,
+we found the Duke and Duchesse all alone at dinner, methought melancholy;
+or else I thought so, from the late occasion of the Chancellor's fall,
+who, they say, however, takes it very contentedly. Thence I to White Hall
+a little, and so took up my wife at the 'Change, and so home, and at the
+office late, and so home to supper and to bed, our boy ill.
+
+4th.  By coach to White Hall to the Council-chamber; and there met with
+Sir W. Coventry going in, who took me aside, and told me that he was just
+come from delivering up his seal and papers to Mr. Wren; and told me he
+must now take his leave of me as a naval man, but that he shall always
+bear respect to his friends there, and particularly to myself, with great
+kindness; which I returned to him with thanks, and so, with much kindness
+parted: and he into, the Council. I met with Sir Samuel Morland, who
+chewed me two orders upon the Exchequer, one of L600, and another of L400,
+for money assigned to him, which he would have me lend him money upon, and
+he would allow 12 per cent.  I would not meddle with them, though they are
+very good; and would, had I not so much money out already on public
+credit.  But I see by this his condition all trade will be bad.  I staid
+and heard Alderman Barker's case of his being abused by the Council of
+Ireland, touching his lands there: all I observed there is the silliness
+of the King, playing with his dog all the while, and not minding the
+business,
+
+     [Lord Rochester wrote
+
+                   "His very dog at council board
+                    Sits grave and wise as any lord."
+
+     Poems, 1697; p. 150.--The king's dogs were constantly stolen from
+     him, and he advertised for their return.  Some of these amusing
+     advertisements are printed in "Notes and Queries" (seventh series,
+     vol. vii., p. 26).]
+
+and what he said was mighty weak; but my Lord Keeper I observe to be a
+mighty able man.  The business broke off without any end to it, and so I
+home, and thence with my wife and W. Hewer to Bartholomew fayre, and there
+Polichinelli, where we saw Mrs. Clerke and all her crew; and so to a
+private house, and sent for a side of pig, and eat it at an acquaintance
+of W. Hewer's, where there was some learned physic and chymical books, and
+among others, a natural "Herball" very fine. Here we staid not, but to the
+Duke of York's play house, and there saw "Mustapha," which, the more I
+see, the more I like; and is a most admirable poem, and bravely acted;
+only both Betterton and Harris could not contain from laughing in the
+midst of a most serious part from the ridiculous mistake of one of the men
+upon the stage; which I did not like.  Thence home, where Batelier and his
+sister Mary come to us and sat and talked, and so, they gone, we to supper
+and to bed.
+
+5th.  Up, and all the morning at the office, where we sat till noon, and
+then I home to dinner, where Mary Batelier and her brother dined with us,
+who grows troublesome in his talking so much of his going to Marseilles,
+and what commissions he hath to execute as a factor, and a deal of do of
+which I am weary.  After dinner, with Sir W. Pen, my wife, and Mary
+Batelier to the Duke of York's house, and there saw "Heraclius," which is
+a good play; but they did so spoil it with their laughing, and being all
+of them out, and with the noise they made within the theatre, that I was
+ashamed of it, and resolve not to come thither again a good while,
+believing that this negligence, which I never observed before, proceeds
+only from their want of company in the pit, that they have no care how
+they act.  My wife was ill, and so I was forced to go out of the house
+with her to Lincoln's Inn walks, and there in a corner she did her
+business, and was by and by well, and so into the house again, but sick of
+their ill acting.  So home and to the office, where busy late, then home
+to supper and to bed.  This morning was told by Sir W. Batten, that he do
+hear from Mr. Grey, who hath good intelligence, that our Queen is to go
+into a nunnery, there to spend her days; and that my Lady Castlemayne is
+going into France, and is to have a pension of L4000 a-year.  This latter
+I do more believe than the other, it being very wise in her to do it, and
+save all she hath, besides easing the King and kingdom of a burden and
+reproach.
+
+6th.  Up, and to Westminster to the Exchequer, and then into the Hall, and
+there bought "Guillim's Heraldry" for my wife, and so to the Swan, and
+thither come Doll Lane, and je did toucher her, and drank, and so away, I
+took coach and home, where I find my wife gone to Walthamstow by
+invitation with Sir W. Batten, and so I followed, taking up Mrs. Turner,
+and she and I much discourse all the way touching the baseness of Sir W.
+Pen and sluttishness of his family, and how the world do suspect that his
+son Lowther, who is sick of a sore mouth, has got the pox.  So we come to
+Sir W. Batten's, where Sir W. Pen and his Lady, and we and Mrs. Shipman,
+and here we walked and had an indifferent good dinner, the victuals very
+good and cleanly dressed and good linen, but no fine meat at all.  After
+dinner we went up and down the house, and I do like it very well, being
+furnished with a great deal of very good goods.  And here we staid, I
+tired with the company, till almost evening, and then took leave, Turner
+and I together again, and my wife with [Sir] W. Pen.  At Aldgate I took my
+wife into our coach, and so to Bartholomew fair, and there, it being very
+dirty, and now night, we saw a poor fellow, whose legs were tied behind
+his back, dance upon his hands with his arse above his head, and also
+dance upon his crutches, without any legs upon the ground to help him,
+which he did with that pain that I was sorry to see it, and did pity him
+and give him money after he had done.  Then we to see a piece of
+clocke-work made by an Englishman--indeed, very good, wherein all the
+several states of man's age, to 100 years old, is shewn very pretty and
+solemne; and several other things more cheerful, and so we ended, and took
+a link, the women resolving to be dirty, and walked up and down to get a
+coach; and my wife, being a little before me, had been like to be taken up
+by one, whom we saw to be Sam Hartlib.  My wife had her wizard on: yet we
+cannot say that he meant any hurt; for it was as she was just by a
+coach-side, which he had, or had a mind to take up; and he asked her,
+"Madam, do you go in this coach?" but, soon as he saw a man come to her (I
+know not whether he knew me) he departed away apace.  By and by did get a
+coach, and so away home, and there to supper, and to bed.
+
+7th.  Up, and to the office, where all the morning.  At noon home to
+dinner, where Goodgroome was teaching my wife, and dined with us, and I
+did tell him of my intention to learn to trill, which he will not promise
+I shall obtain, but he will do what can be done, and I am resolved to
+learn.  All the afternoon at the office, and towards night out by coach
+with my wife, she to the 'Change, and I to see the price of a copper
+cisterne for the table, which is very pretty, and they demand L6 or L7 for
+one; but I will have one.  Then called my wife at the 'Change, and bought
+a nightgown for my wife: cost but 24s., and so out to Mile End to drink,
+and so home to the office to end my letters, and so home to supper and to
+bed.
+
+8th (Lord's day).  Up, and walked to St. James's; but there I find Sir W.
+Coventry gone from his chamber, and Mr. Wren not yet come thither.  But I
+up to the Duke of York, and there, after being ready, my Lord Bruncker and
+I had an audience, and thence with my Lord Bruncker to White Hall, and he
+told me, in discourse, how that, though it is true that Sir W. Coventry
+did long since propose to the Duke of York the leaving his service, as
+being unable to fulfill it, as he should do, now he hath so much public
+business, and that the Duke of York did bid him to say nothing of it, but
+that he would take time to please himself in another to come in his place;
+yet the Duke's doing it at this time, declaring that he hath found out
+another, and this one of the Chancellor's servants, he cannot but think
+was done with some displeasure, and that it could not well be otherwise,
+that the Duke of York should keep one in that place, that had so eminently
+opposed him in the defence of his father-in-law, nor could the Duchesse
+ever endure the sight of him, to be sure.  But he thinks that the Duke of
+York and he are parted upon clear terms of friendship.  He tells me he do
+believe that my Lady Castlemayne is compounding with the King for a
+pension, and to leave the Court; but that her demands are mighty high: but
+he believes the King is resolved, and so do every body else I speak with,
+to do all possible to please the Parliament; and he do declare that he
+will deliver every body up to them to give an account of their actions:
+and that last Friday, it seems, there was an Act of Council passed, to put
+out all Papists in office, and to keep out any from coming in.  I went to
+the King's Chapel to the closet, and there I hear Cresset sing a tenor
+part along with the Church musick very handsomely, but so loud that people
+did laugh at him, as a thing done for ostentation.  Here I met Sir G.
+Downing, who would speak with me, and first to inquire what I paid for my
+kid's leather gloves I had on my hand, and shewed me others on his, as
+handsome, as good in all points, cost him but 12d. a pair, and mine me 2s.
+He told me he had been seven years finding out a man that could dress
+English sheepskin as it should be--and, indeed, it is now as good, in all
+respects, as kid, and he says will save L100,000 a-year, that goes out to
+France for kid's skins.  Thus he labours very worthily to advance our own
+trade, but do it with mighty vanity and talking.  But then he told me of
+our base condition, in the treaty with Holland and France, about our
+prisoners, that whereas before we did clear one another's prisoners, man
+for man, and we upon the publication of the peace did release all our's,
+300 at Leith, and others in other places for nothing, the Dutch do keep
+theirs, and will not discharge them with[out] paying their debts according
+to the Treaty.  That his instruments in Holland, writing to our
+Embassadors about this to Bredagh, they answer them that they do not know
+of any thing that they have done therein, but left it just as it was
+before.  To which, when they answer, that by the treaty their Lordships
+had [not] bound our countrymen to pay their debts in prison, they answer
+they cannot help it, and we must get them off as cheap as we can.  On this
+score, they demand L1100 for Sir G. Ascue, and L5000 for the one province
+of Zealand, for the prisoners that we have therein.  He says that this is
+a piece of shame that never any nation committed, and that our very Lords
+here of the Council, when he related this matter to them, did not remember
+that they had agreed to this article; and swears that all their articles
+are alike, as the giving away Polleroon, and Surinam, and Nova Scotia,
+which hath a river 300 miles up the country, with copper mines more than
+Swedeland, and Newcastle coals, the only place in America that hath coals
+that we know of; and that Cromwell did value those places, and would for
+ever have made much of them; but we have given them away for nothing,
+besides a debt to the King of Denmarke.  But, which is most of all, they
+have discharged those very particular demands of merchants of the Guinny
+Company and others, which he, when he was there, had adjusted with the
+Dutch, and come to an agreement in writing, and they undertaken to
+satisfy, and that this was done in black and white under their hands; and
+yet we have forgiven all these, and not so much as sent to Sir G. Downing
+to know what he had done, or to confer with him about any one point of the
+treaty, but signed to what they would have, and we here signed to whatever
+in grosse was brought over by Mr. Coventry.  And [Sir G. Downing] tells
+me, just in these words, "My Lord Chancellor had a mind to keep himself
+from being questioned by clapping up a peace upon any terms."  When I
+answered that there was other privy-councillors to be advised with besides
+him, and that, therefore, this whole peace could not be laid to his
+charge, he answered that nobody durst say any thing at the council-table
+but himself, and that the King was as much afeard of saying any thing
+there as the meanest privy-councillor; and says more, that at this day the
+King, in familiar talk, do call the Chancellor "the insolent man," and
+says that he would not let him speak himself in Council: which is very
+high, and do shew that the Chancellor is like to be in a bad state, unless
+he can defend himself better than people think.  And yet Creed tells me
+that he do hear that my Lord Cornbury do say that his father do long for
+the coming of the Parliament, in order to his own vindication, more than
+any one of his enemies.  And here it comes into my head to set down what
+Mr. Rawlinson, whom I met in Fenchurch Street on Friday last, looking over
+his ruines there, told me, that he was told by one of my Lord Chancellor's
+gentlemen lately (--------byname), that a grant coming to him to be
+sealed, wherein the King hath given her [Lady Castlemaine], or somebody by
+her means, a place which he did not like well of, he did stop the grant;
+saying, that he thought this woman would sell everything shortly: which
+she hearing of, she sent to let him know that she had disposed of this
+place, and did not doubt, in a little time, to dispose of his.  This
+Rawlinson do tell me my Lord Chancellor's own gentleman did tell him
+himself.  Thence, meeting Creed, I with him to the Parke, there to walk a
+little, and to the Queen's Chapel and there hear their musique, which I
+liked in itself pretty well as to the composition, but their voices are
+very harsh and rough that I thought it was some instruments they had that
+made them sound so.  So to White Hall, and saw the King and Queen at
+dinner; and observed (which I never did before), the formality, but it is
+but a formality, of putting a bit of bread wiped upon each dish into the
+mouth of every man that brings a dish;  but it should be in the sauce.
+Here were some Russes come to see the King at dinner: among others, the
+interpreter, a comely Englishman, in the Envoy's own clothes; which the
+Envoy, it seems, in vanity did send to show his fine clothes upon this
+man's back, which is one, it seems, of a comelier presence than himself:
+and yet it is said that none of their clothes are their own, but taken out
+of the King's own Wardrobe; and which they dare not bring back dirty or
+spotted, but clean, or are in danger of being beaten, as they say:
+insomuch that, Sir Charles Cotterell says, when they are to have an
+audience they never venture to put on their clothes till he appears to
+come to fetch them; and, as soon as ever they come home, put them off
+again.  I to Sir G. Carteret's to dinner; where Mr. Cofferer Ashburnham;
+who told a good story of a prisoner's being condemned at Salisbury for a
+small matter.  While he was on the bench with his father-in-law, judge
+Richardson, and while they were considering to transport him to save his
+life, the fellow flung a great stone at the judge, that missed him, but
+broke through the wainscoat. Upon this, he had his hand cut off, and was
+hanged presently!  Here was a gentleman, one Sheres, one come lately from
+my Lord Sandwich, with an express; but, Lord!  I was almost ashamed to see
+him, lest he should know that I have not yet wrote one letter to my Lord
+since his going.  I had no discourse with him, but after dinner Sir G.
+Carteret and I to talk about some business of his, and so I to Mrs.
+Martin, where was Mrs. Burroughs, and also fine Mrs. Noble, my partner in
+the christening of Martin's child, did come to see it, and there we sat
+and talked an hour, and then all broke up and I by coach home, and there
+find Mr. Pelling and Howe, and we to sing and good musique till late, and
+then to supper, and Howe lay at my house, and so after supper to bed with
+much content, only my mind a little troubled at my late breach of vowes,
+which however I will pay my forfeits, though the badness of my eyes,
+making me unfit to read or write long, is my excuse, and do put me upon
+other pleasures and employment which I should refrain from in observation
+of my vowes.
+
+9th.  Up; and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon comes
+Creed to dine with me.  After dinner, he and I and my wife to the
+Bear-Garden, to see a prize fought there.  But, coming too soon, I left
+them there and went on to White Hall, and there did some business with the
+Lords of the Treasury; and here do hear, by Tom Killigrew and Mr. Progers,
+that for certain news is come of Harman's having spoiled nineteen of
+twenty-two French ships, somewhere about the Barbadoes, I think they said;
+but wherever it is, it is a good service, and very welcome.  Here I fell
+in talk with Tom Killigrew about musick, and he tells me that he will
+bring me to the best musick in England (of which, indeed, he is master),
+and that is two Italians and Mrs. Yates, who, he says, is come to sing the
+Italian manner as well as ever he heard any: says that Knepp won't take
+pains enough, but that she understands her part so well upon the stage,
+that no man or woman in the House do the like.  Thence I by water to the
+Bear-Garden, where now the yard was full of people, and those most of them
+seamen, striving by force to get in, that I was afeard to be seen among
+them, but got into the ale-house, and so by a back-way was put into the
+bull-house, where I stood a good while all alone among the bulls, and was
+afeard I was among the bears, too; but by and by the door opened, and I
+got into the common pit; and there, with my cloak about my face, I stood
+and saw the prize fought, till one of them, a shoemaker, was so cut in
+both his wrists that he could not fight any longer, and then they broke
+off: his enemy was a butcher.  The sport very good, and various humours to
+be seen among the rabble that is there.  Thence carried Creed to White
+Hall, and there my wife and I took coach and home, and both of us to Sir
+W. Batten's, to invite them to dinner on Wednesday next, having a whole
+buck come from Hampton Court, by the warrant which Sir Stephen Fox did
+give me.  And so home to supper and to bed, after a little playing on the
+flageolet with my wife, who do outdo therein whatever I expected of her.
+
+10th.  Up, and all the morning at the Office, where little to do but
+bemoan ourselves under the want of money; and indeed little is, or can be
+done, for want of money, we having not now received one penny for any
+service in many weeks, and none in view to receive, saving for paying of
+some seamen's wages.  At noon sent to by my Lord Bruncker to speak with
+him, and it was to dine with him and his Lady Williams (which I have not
+now done in many months at their own table) and Mr. Wren, who is come to
+dine with them, the first time he hath been at the office since his being
+the Duke of York's Secretary.  Here we sat and eat and talked and of some
+matters of the office, but his discourse is as yet but weak in that
+matter, and no wonder, he being new in it, but I fear he will not go about
+understanding with the impatience that Sir W. Coventry did.  Having dined,
+I away, and with my wife and Mercer, set my wife down at the 'Change, and
+the other at White Hall, and I to St. James's, where we all met, and did
+our usual weekly business with the Duke of York.  But, Lord! methinks both
+he and we are mighty flat and dull over what we used to be, when Sir W.
+Coventry was among us.  Thence I into St. James's Park, and there met Mr.
+Povy; and he and I to walk an hour or more in the Pell Mell, talking of
+the times.  He tells me, among other things, that this business of the
+Chancellor do breed a kind of inward distance between the King and the
+Duke of York, and that it cannot be avoided; for though the latter did at
+first move it through his folly, yet he is made to see that he is wounded
+by it, and is become much a less man than he was, and so will be: but he
+tells me that they are, and have always been, great dissemblers one
+towards another; and that their parting heretofore in France is never to
+be thoroughly reconciled between them.  He tells me that he believes there
+is no such thing like to be, as a composition with my Lady Castlemayne,
+and that she shall be got out of the way before the Parliament comes; for
+he says she is as high as ever she was, though he believes the King is as
+weary of her as is possible, and would give any thing to remove her, but
+he is so weak in his passion that he dare not do it; that he do believe
+that my Lord Chancellor will be doing some acts in the Parliament which
+shall render him popular; and that there are many people now do speak
+kindly of him that did not before; but that, if he do do this, it must
+provoke the King, and that party that removed him.  He seems to doubt what
+the King of France will do, in case an accommodation shall be made between
+Spain and him for Flanders, for then he will have nothing more easy to do
+with his army than to subdue us.  Parted with him at White Hall, and,
+there I took coach and took up my wife and Mercer, and so home and I to
+the office, where ended my letters, and then to my chamber with my boy to
+lay up some papers and things that lay out of order against to-morrow, to
+make it clear against the feast that I am to have.  Here Mr. Pelling come
+to sit with us, and talked of musique and the musicians of the town, and
+so to bed, after supper.
+
+11th.  Up, and with Mr. Gawden to the Exchequer.  By the way, he tells me
+this day he is to be answered whether he must hold Sheriffe or no; for he
+would not hold unless he may keep it at his office, which is out of the
+city (and so my Lord Mayor must come with his sword down, whenever he
+comes thither), which he do, because he cannot get a house fit for him in
+the city, or else he will fine for it.  Among others that they have in
+nomination for Sheriffe, one is little Chaplin, who was his servant, and a
+very young man to undergo that place; but as the city is now, there is no
+great honour nor joy to be had, in being a public officer.  At the
+Exchequer I looked after my business, and when done went home to the
+'Change, and there bought a case of knives for dinner, and a dish of fruit
+for 5s., and bespoke other things, and then home, and here I find all
+things in good order, and a good dinner towards.  Anon comes Sir W. Batten
+and his lady, and Mr. Griffith, their ward, and Sir W. Pen and his lady,
+and Mrs. Lowther, who is grown, either through pride or want of manners, a
+fool, having not a word to say almost all dinner; and, as a further mark
+of a beggarly, proud fool, hath a bracelet of diamonds and rubies about
+her wrist, and a sixpenny necklace about her neck, and not one good rag of
+clothes upon her back; and Sir John Chichly in their company, and Mrs.
+Turner.  Here I had an extraordinary good and handsome dinner for them,
+better than any of them deserve or understand, saving Sir John Chichly and
+Mrs. Turner, and not much mirth, only what I by discourse made, and that
+against my genius.  After dinner I took occasion to break up the company
+soon as I could, and all parted, Sir W. Batten and I by water to White
+Hall, there to speak with the Commissioners of the Treasury, who are
+mighty earnest for our hastening all that may be the paying off of the
+Seamen, now there is money, and are considering many other thins for
+easing of charge, which I am glad of, but vexed to see that J. Duncomb
+should be so pressing in it as if none of us had like care with him.
+Having done there, I by coach to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there
+saw part of "The Ungratefull Lovers;" and sat by Beck Marshall, who is
+very handsome near hand.  Here I met Mrs. Turner and my wife as we agreed,
+and together home, and there my wife and I part of the night at the
+flageolet, which she plays now any thing upon almost at first sight and in
+good time.  But here come Mr. Moore, and sat and discoursed with me of
+publique matters: the sum of which is, that he do doubt that there is more
+at the bottom than the removal of the Chancellor; that is, he do verily
+believe that the King do resolve to declare the Duke of Monmouth
+legitimate, and that we shall soon see it. This I do not think the Duke of
+York will endure without blows; but his poverty, and being lessened by
+having the Chancellor fallen and [Sir] W. Coventry gone from him, will
+disable him from being able to do any thing almost, he being himself
+almost lost in the esteem of people; and will be more and more, unless my
+Lord Chancellor, who is already begun to be pitied by some people, and to
+be better thought of than was expected, do recover himself in Parliament.
+He would seem to fear that this difference about the Crowne (if there be
+nothing else) will undo us.  He do say that, that is very true; that my
+Lord [Chancellor] did lately make some stop of some grants of L2000 a-year
+to my Lord Grandison, which was only in his name, for the use of my Lady
+Castlemaine's children; and that this did incense her, and she did speak
+very scornful words, and sent a scornful message to him about it.  He
+gone, after supper, I to bed, being mightily pleased with my wife's
+playing so well upon the flageolet, and I am resolved she shall learn to
+play upon some instrument, for though her eare be bad, yet I see she will
+attain any thing to be done by her hand.
+
+12th.  Up, and at the office all the morning till almost noon, and then I
+rode from the office (which I have not done five times I think since I
+come thither) and to the Exchequer for some tallies for Tangier; and that
+being done, to the Dog taverne, and there I spent half a piece upon the
+clerks, and so away, and I to Mrs. Martin's, but she not at home, but
+staid and drunk with her sister and landlady, and by that time it was time
+to go to a play, which I did at the Duke's house, where "Tu Quoque" was
+the first time acted, with some alterations of Sir W. Davenant's; but the
+play is a very silly play, methinks; for I, and others that sat by me, Mr.
+Povy and Mr. Progers, were weary of it; but it will please the citizens.
+My wife also was there, I having sent for her to meet me there, and W.
+Hewer.  After the play we home, and there I to the office and despatched
+my business, and then home, and mightily pleased with my wife's playing on
+the flageolet, she taking out any tune almost at first sight, and keeping
+time to it, which pleases me mightily.  So to supper and to bed.
+
+13th.  Called up by people come to deliver in ten chaldron of coals,
+brought in one of our prizes from Newcastle.  The rest we intend to sell,
+we having above ten chaldron between us.  They sell at about 28s. or 29s.
+per chaldron; but Sir W. Batten hath sworn that he was a cuckold that
+sells under 30s., and that makes us lay up all but what we have for our
+own spending, which is very pleasant; for I believe we shall be glad to
+sell them for less.  To the office, and there despatched business till ten
+o'clock, and then with Sir W. Batten and my wife and Mrs. Turner by
+hackney-coach to Walthamstow, to Mr. Shipman's to dinner, where Sir W. Pen
+and my Lady and Mrs. Lowther (the latter of which hath got a sore nose,
+given her, I believe, from her husband, which made me I could not look
+upon her with any pleasure), and here a very good and plentifull wholesome
+dinner, and, above all thing, such plenty of milk meats, she keeping a
+great dairy, and so good as I never met with.  The afternoon proved very
+foul weather, the morning fair.  We staid talking till evening, and then
+home, and there to my flageolet with my wife, and so to bed without any
+supper, my belly being full and dinner not digested.  It vexed me to hear
+how Sir W. Pen, who come alone from London, being to send his coachman for
+his wife and daughter, and bidding his coachman in much anger to go for
+them (he being vexed, like a rogue, to do anything to please his wife),
+his coachman Tom was heard to say a pox, or God rot her, can she walk
+hither?  These words do so mad me that I could find in my heart to give
+him or my Lady notice of them.
+
+14th.  Up, and to the office, where all the morning busy.  At noon comes
+Mr. Pierce and dined with me to advise about several matters of his
+relating to the office and his purse, and here he told me that the King
+and Duke of York and the whole Court is mighty joyful at the Duchesse of
+York's being brought to bed this day, or yesterday, of a son; which will
+settle men's minds mightily.  And he tells me that he do think that what
+the King do, of giving the Duke of Monmouth the command of his Guards, and
+giving my Lord Gerard L12,000 for it, is merely to find an employment for
+him upon which he may live, and not out of any design to bring him into
+any title to the Crowne; which Mr. Moore did the other day put me into
+great fear of.  After dinner, he gone, my wife to the King's play-house to
+see "The Northerne Castle," which I think I never did see before.  Knipp
+acted in it, and did her part very extraordinary well; but the play is but
+a mean, sorry play; but the house very full of gallants. It seems, it hath
+not been acted a good while.  Thence to the Exchange for something for my
+wife, and then home and to the office, and then home to our flageolet, and
+so to bed, being mightily troubled in mind at the liberty I give myself of
+going to plays upon pretence of the weakness of my eyes, that cannot
+continue so long together at work at my office, but I must remedy it.
+
+15th (Lord's day).  Up to my chamber, there to set some papers to rights.
+By and by to church, where I stood, in continual fear of Mrs. Markham's
+coming to church, and offering to come into our pew, to prevent which,
+soon as ever I heard the great door open, I did step back, and clap my
+breech to our pew-door, that she might be forced to shove me to come in;
+but as God would have it, she did not come.  Mr. Mills preached, and after
+sermon, by invitation, he and his wife come to dine with me, which is the
+first time they have been in my house; I think, these five years, I
+thinking it not amiss, because of their acquaintance in our country, to
+shew them some respect.  Mr. Turner and his wife, and their son the
+Captain, dined with me, and I had a very good dinner for them, and very
+merry, and after dinner, he [Mr. Mills] was forced to go, though it
+rained, to Stepney, to preach.  We also to church, and then home, and
+there comes Mr. Pelling, with two men, by promise, one Wallington and
+Piggott, the former whereof, being a very little fellow, did sing a most
+excellent bass, and yet a poor fellow, a working goldsmith, that goes
+without gloves to his hands.  Here we sung several good things, but I am
+more and more confirmed that singing with many voices is not singing, but
+a sort of instrumental musique, the sense of the words being lost by not
+being heard, and especially as they set them with Fuges of words, one
+after another, whereas singing properly, I think, should be but with one
+or two voices at most and the counterpoint.  They supped with me, and so
+broke, up, and then my wife and I to my chamber, where, through the
+badness of my eyes, she was forced to read to me, which she do very well,
+and was Mr. Boyle's discourse upon the style of the Scripture,' which is a
+very fine piece, and so to bed.
+
+16th.  Up, and several come to me, among others Mr. Yeabsly of Plymouth,
+to discourse about their matters touching Tangier, and by and by Sir H.
+Cholmly, who was with me a good while; who tells me that the Duke of
+York's child is christened, the Duke of Albemarle and the Marquis of
+Worcester' godfathers, and my Lady Suffolke godmother; and they have named
+it Edgar, which is a brave name.  But it seems they are more joyful in the
+Chancellor's family, at the birth of this Prince, than in wisdom they
+should, for fear it should give the King cause of jealousy.  Sir H.
+Cholmly do not seem to think there is any such thing can be in the King's
+intention as that of raising the Duke of Monmouth to the Crowne, though he
+thinks there may possibly be some persons that would, and others that
+would be glad to have the Queen removed to some monastery, or somewhere or
+other, to make room for a new wife; for they will all be unsafe under the
+Duke of York.  He says the King and Parliament will agree; that is, that
+the King will do any thing that they will have him.  We together to the
+Exchequer about our Tangier orders, and so parted at the New Exchange,
+where I staid reading Mrs. Phillips's poems till my wife and Mercer called
+me to Mrs. Pierces, by invitation to dinner, where I find her painted,
+which makes me loathe her, and the nastiest poor dinner that made me sick,
+only here I met with a Fourth Advice to the Painter upon the coming in of
+the Dutch to the River and end of the war, that made my heart ake to read,
+it being too sharp, and so true.  Here I also saw a printed account of the
+examinations taken, touching the burning of the City of London, shewing
+the plot of the Papists therein; which, it seems, hath been ordered and to
+have been burnt by the hands of the hangman, in Westminster Palace.  I
+will try to get one of them.  After dinner she showed us her closet, which
+is pretty, with her James's picture done by Hales, but with a mighty bad
+hand, which is his great fault that he do do negligently, and the drapery
+also not very good.  Being tired of being here, and sick of their damned
+sluttish dinner, my wife and Mercer and I away to the King's play-house,
+to see the "Scornfull Lady;" but it being now three o'clock there was not
+one soul in the pit; whereupon, for shame, we would not go in, but,
+against our wills, went all to see "Tu Quoque" again, where there is a
+pretty store of company, and going with a prejudice the play appeared
+better to us.  Here we saw Madam Morland, who is grown mighty fat, but is
+very comely.  But one of the best arts of our sport was a mighty pretty
+lady that sat behind, that did laugh so heartily and constantly, that it
+did me good to hear her.  Thence to the King's house, upon a wager of mine
+with my wife, that there would be no acting there today, there being no
+company: so I went in and found a pretty good company there, and saw their
+dance at the end of he play, and so to the coach again, and to the Cock
+ale house, and there drank in our coach, and so home, and my wife read to
+me as last night, and so to bed vexed with our dinner to-day, and myself
+more with being convinced that Mrs. Pierce paints, so that henceforth to
+be sure I shall loathe her.
+
+17th.  Up, and at the office all the morning, where Mr. Wren come to us
+and sat with us, only to learn, and do intend to come once or twice a week
+and sit with us.  In the afternoon walked to the Old Swan, the way mighty
+dirty, and there called at Michell's, and there had opportunity para kiss
+su moher, but elle did receive it with a great deal of seeming regret,
+which did vex me.  But however I do not doubt overcoming her as I did the
+moher of the monsieur at Deptford.  So thence by water to Westminster, to
+Burgess, and there did receive my orders for L1500 more for Tangier.
+Thence to the Hall, and there talked a little with Mrs. Michell, and so to
+Mrs. Martin's to pay for my cuffs and drink with her . .  .  .  And by and
+by away by coach and met with Sir H. Cholmly, and with him to the Temple,
+and there in Playford's shop did give him some of my Exchequer orders and
+took his receipts, and so parted and home, and there to my business hard
+at the office, and then home, my wife being at Mrs. Turner's, who and her
+husband come home with her, and here staid and talked and staid late, and
+then went away and we to bed.  But that which vexed me much this evening
+is that Captain Cocke and Sir W. Batten did come to me, and sat, and drank
+a bottle of wine, and told me how Sir W. Pen hath got an order for the
+"Flying Greyhound" for himself, which is so false a thing, and the part of
+a knave, as nothing almost can be more. This vexed me; but I resolve to
+bring it before the Duke, and try a pull for it.
+
+18th.  Up betimes and to Captain Cocke, in his coach which he sent for me,
+and he not being ready I walked in the Exchange, which is now made pretty,
+by having windows and doors before all their shops, to keep out the cold.
+By and by to him, and he being ready, he and I out in his coach to my Lord
+Chancellor's; there to Mr. Wren's chamber, who did tell us the whole of
+Sir W. Pen's having the order for this ship of ours, and we went with him
+to St. James's, and there I did see the copy of it, which is built upon a
+suggestion of his having given the King a ship of his, "The Prosperous,"
+wherein is such a cheat as I have the best advantage in the world over
+him, and will make him do reason, or lay him on his back.  This I was very
+glad of, and having done as far as I could in it we returned, and I home,
+and there at the office all the morning, and at noon with my Lord Bruncker
+to the Treasurer's office to look over the clerks who are there making up
+the books, but in such a manner as it is a shame to see.  Then home to
+dinner, and after dinner, my mind mighty full of this business of Sir W.
+Pen's, to the office, and there busy all the afternoon.  This evening Sir
+W. Batten and [Sir] W. Pen and I met at [Sir] W. Batten's house, and there
+I took an opportunity to break the business, at which [Sir] W. Pen is much
+disturbed, and would excuse it the most he can, but do it so basely, that
+though he do offer to let go his pretence to her, and resign up his order
+for her, and come in only to ask his share of her (which do very well
+please me, and give me present satisfaction), yet I shall remember him for
+a knave while I live.  But thus my mind is quieted for the present more
+than I thought I should be, and am glad that I shall have no need of
+bidding him open defiance, which I would otherwise have done, and made a
+perpetual war between us.  So to the office, and there busy pretty late,
+and so home and to supper with my wife, and so to bed.
+
+19th.  Up, and all the morning at the office.  At noon home to dinner, W.
+Hewer and I and my wife, when comes my cozen, Kate Joyce, and an aunt of
+ours, Lettice, formerly Haynes, and now Howlett, come to town to see her
+friends, and also Sarah Kite, with her little boy in her armes, a very
+pretty little boy.  The child I like very well, and could wish it my own.
+My wife being all unready, did not appear.  I made as much of them as I
+could such ordinary company; and yet my heart was glad to see them, though
+their condition was a little below my present state, to be familiar with.
+She tells me how the lifeguard, which we thought a little while since was
+sent down into the country about some insurrection, was sent to
+Winchcombe, to spoil the tobacco there, which it seems the people there do
+plant contrary to law, and have always done, and still been under force
+and danger of having it spoiled, as it hath been oftentimes, and yet they
+will continue to plant it.
+
+     [Winchcombe St. Peter, a market-town in Gloucestershire.  Tobacco
+     was first cultivated in this parish, after its introduction into
+     England, in 1583, and it proved, a considerable source of profit to
+     the inhabitants, till the trade was placed under restrictions.  The
+     cultivation was first prohibited during the Commonwealth, and
+     various acts were passed in the reign of Charles II. for the same
+     purpose.  Among the king's pamphlets in the British Museum is a
+     tract entitled "Harry Hangman's Honour, or Glostershire Hangman's
+     Request to the Smokers and Tobacconists of London," dated June 11th,
+     1655.  The author writes: "The very planting of tobacco hath proved
+     the decay of my trade, for since it hath been planted in
+     Glostershire, especially at Winchcomb, my trade hath proved nothing
+     worth."  He adds: "Then 'twas a merry world with me, for indeed
+     before tobacco was there planted, there being no kind of trade to
+     employ men, and very small tillage, necessity compelled poor men to
+     stand my friends by stealing of sheep and other cattel, breaking of
+     hedges, robbing of orchards, and what not."]
+
+The place, she says, is a miserable poor place.  They gone, I to the
+office, where all the afternoon very busy, and at night, when my eyes were
+weary of the light, I and my wife to walk in the garden, and then home to
+supper and pipe, and then to bed.
+
+20th.  At the office doing business all the morning.  At noon expected
+Creed to have come to dine with me and brought Mr. Sheres (the gentleman
+lately come from my Lord Sandwich) with him; but they come not, so there
+was a good dinner lost.  After dinner my wife and Jane about some business
+of hers abroad, and then I to the office, where, having done my business,
+I out to pay some debts: among others to the taverne at the end of
+Billiter Lane, where my design was to see the pretty mistress of the
+house, which I did, and indeed is, as I always thought, one of the
+modestest, prettiest, plain women that ever I saw.  Thence was met in the
+street by Sir W. Pen, and he and I by coach to the King's playhouse, and
+there saw "The Mad Couple,"  which I do not remember that I have seen; it
+is a pretty pleasant play.  Thence home, and my wife and I to walk in the
+garden, she having been at the same play with Jane, in the 18d. seat, to
+shew Jane the play, and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+21st.  All the morning at the office, dined at home, and expected Sheres
+again, but he did not come, so another dinner lost by the folly of Creed.
+After having done some business at the office, I out with my wife to
+Sheres's lodging and left an invitation for him to dine with me tomorrow,
+and so back and took up my wife at the Exchange, and then kissed Mrs.
+Smith's pretty hand, and so with my wife by coach to take some ayre (but
+the way very dirty) as far as Bow, and so drinking (as usual) at Mile End
+of Byde's ale, we home and there busy at my letters till late, and so to
+walk by moonshine with my wife, and so to bed.  The King, Duke of York,
+and the men of the Court, have been these four or five days a-hunting at
+Bagshot.
+
+22nd (Lord's day).  At my chamber all the morning making up some accounts,
+to my great content.  At noon comes Mr. Sheres, whom I find a good,
+ingenious man, but do talk a little too much of his travels.  He left my
+Lord Sandwich well, but in pain to be at home for want of money, which
+comes very hardly.  Most of the afternoon talking of Spain, and informing
+him against his return how things are here, and so spent most of the
+afternoon, and then he parted, and then to my chamber busy till my eyes
+were almost blind with writing and reading, and I was fain to get the boy
+to come and write for me, and then to supper, and Pelling come to me at
+supper, and then to sing a Psalm with him, and so parted and to bed, after
+my wife had read some thing to me (to save my eyes) in a good book.  This
+night I did even my accounts of the house, which I have to my great shame
+omitted now above two months or more, and therefore am content to take my
+wife's and mayd's accounts as they give them, being not able to correct
+them, which vexes me; but the fault being my own, contrary to my wife's
+frequent desires, I cannot find fault, but am resolved never to let them
+come to that pass again.  The truth is, I have indulged myself more in
+pleasure for these last two months than ever I did in my life before,
+since I come to be a person concerned in business; and I doubt, when I
+come to make up my accounts, I shall find it so by the expence.
+
+23rd.  Up, and walked to the Exchange, there to get a coach but failed,
+and so was forced to walk a most dirty walk to the Old Swan, and there
+took boat, and so to the Exchange, and there took coach to St. James's and
+did our usual business with the Duke of York.  Thence I walked over the
+Park to White Hall and took water to Westminster, and there, among other
+things, bought the examinations of the business about the Fire of London,
+which is a book that Mrs. Pierce tells me hath been commanded to be burnt.
+The examinations indeed are very plain.  Thence to the Excise office, and
+so to the Exchange, and did a little business, and so home and took up my
+wife, and so carried her to the other end, where I 'light at my Lord
+Ashly's, by invitation, to dine there, which I did, and Sir H. Cholmly,
+Creed, and Yeabsly, upon occasion of the business of Yeabsly, who, God
+knows, do bribe him very well for it; and it is pretty to see how this
+great man do condescend to these things, and do all he can in his
+examining of his business to favour him, and yet with great cunning not to
+be discovered but by me that am privy to it.  At table it is worth
+remembering that my Lord tells us that the House of Lords is the last
+appeal that a man can make, upon a poynt of interpretation of the law, and
+that therein they are above the judges; and that he did assert this in the
+Lords' House upon the late occasion of the quarrel between my Lord
+Bristoll and the Chancellor, when the former did accuse the latter of
+treason, and the judges did bring it in not to be treason: my Lord Ashly
+did declare that the judgment of the judges was nothing in the presence of
+their Lordships, but only as far as they were the properest men to bring
+precedents; but not to interpret the law to their Lordships, but only the
+inducements of their persuasions: and this the Lords did concur in.
+Another pretty thing was my Lady Ashly's speaking of the bad qualities of
+glass-coaches; among others, the flying open of the doors upon any great
+shake: but another was, that my Lady Peterborough being in her
+glass-coach, with the glass up, and seeing a lady pass by in a coach whom
+she would salute, the glass was so clear, that she thought it had been
+open, and so ran her head through the glass, and cut all her forehead!
+After dinner, before we fell to the examination of Yeabsly's business, we
+were put into my Lord's room before he could come to us, and there had
+opportunity to look over his state of his accounts of the prizes; and
+there saw how bountiful the King hath been to several people and hardly
+any man almost, Commander of the Navy of any note, but hath had some
+reward or other out of it; and many sums to the Privy-purse, but not so
+many, I see, as I thought there had been: but we could not look quite
+through it.  But several Bedchamber-men and people about the Court had
+good sums; and, among others, Sir John Minnes and Lord Bruncker have L200
+a-piece for looking to the East India prizes, while I did their work for
+them.  By and by my Lord come, and we did look over Yeabsly's business a
+little; and I find how prettily this cunning Lord can be partial and
+dissemble it in this case, being privy to the bribe he is to receive.
+This done; we away, and with Sir H. Cholmly to Westminster; who by the way
+told me how merry the king and Duke of York and Court were the other day,
+when they were abroad a-hunting.  They come to Sir G. Carteret's house at
+Cranbourne, and there were entertained, and all made drunk; and that all
+being drunk, Armerer did come to the King, and swore to him, "By God,
+Sir," says he, "you are not so kind to the Duke of York of late as you
+used to be."--"Not I?" says the King.  "Why so?"--"Why," says he, "if you
+are, let us drink his health."--"Why, let us," says the King.  Then he
+fell on his knees, and drank it; and having done, the King began to drink
+it.  "Nay, Sir," says Armerer, "by God you must do it on your knees!"  So
+he did, and then all the company: and having done it, all fell a-crying
+for joy, being all maudlin and kissing one another, the King the Duke of
+York, and the Duke of York the King: and in such a maudlin pickle as never
+people were: and so passed the day.  But Sir H. Cholmly tells me, that the
+King hath this good luck, that the next day he hates to have any body
+mention what he had done the day before, nor will suffer any body to gain
+upon him that way; which is a good quality. Parted with Sir H. Cholmly at
+White Hall, and there I took coach and took up my wife at Unthanke's, and
+so out for ayre, it being a mighty pleasant day, as far as Bow, and so
+drank by the way, and home, and there to my chamber till by and by comes
+Captain Cocke about business; who tells me that Mr. Bruncker is lost for
+ever, notwithstanding my Lord Bruncker hath advised with him, Cocke, how
+he might make a peace with the Duke of York and Chancellor, upon promise
+of serving him in the Parliament but Cocke says that is base to offer, and
+will have no success neither.  He says that Mr. Wren hath refused a
+present of Tom Wilson's for his place of Store-keeper of Chatham, and is
+resolved never to take any thing; which is both wise in him, and good to
+the King's service.  He stayed with me very late, here being Mrs. Turner
+and W. Batelier drinking and laughing, and then to bed.
+
+24th.  Up, and to the Office, where all the morning very busy.  At noon
+home, where there dined with me Anthony Joyce and his wife, and Will and
+his wife, and my aunt Lucett, that was here the other day, and Sarah Kite,
+and I had a good dinner for them, and were as merry as I could be in that
+company where W. Joyce is, who is still the same impertinent fellow that
+ever he was.  After dinner I away to St. James's, where we had an audience
+of the Duke of York of many things of weight, as the confirming an
+establishment of the numbers of men on ships in peace and other things of
+weight, about which we stayed till past candle-light, and so Sir W. Batten
+and W. Pen and I fain to go all in a hackney-coach round by London Wall,
+for fear of cellars, this being the first time I have been forced to go
+that way this year, though now I shall begin to use it. We tired one coach
+upon Holborne-Conduit Hill, and got another, and made it a long journey
+home.  Where to the office and then home, and at my business till twelve
+at night, writing in short hand the draught of a report to make to the
+King and Council to-morrow, about the reason of not having the book of the
+Treasurer made up.  This I did finish to-night to the spoiling of my eyes,
+I fear.  This done, then to bed.  This evening my wife tells me that W.
+Batelier hath been here to-day, and brought with him the pretty girl he
+speaks of, to come to serve my wife as a woman, out of the school at Bow.
+My wife says she is extraordinary handsome, and inclines to have her, and
+I am glad of it--at least, that if we must have one, she should be
+handsome.  But I shall leave it wholly to my wife, to do what she will
+therein.
+
+25th.  Up as soon as I could see and to the office to write over fair with
+Mr. Hater my last night's work, which I did by nine o'clock, and got it
+signed, and so with Sir H. Cholmly, who come to me about his business, to
+White Hall: and thither come also my Lord Bruncker: and we by and by
+called in, and our paper read; and much discourse thereon by Sir G.
+Carteret, my Lord Anglesey, Sir W. Coventry, and my Lord Ashly, and
+myself: but I could easily discern that they none of them understood the
+business; and the King at last ended it with saying lazily, "Why," says
+he, "after all this discourse, I now come to understand it; and that is,
+that there can nothing be done in this more than is possible," which was
+so silly as I never heard: "and therefore," says he, "I would have these
+gentlemen to do as much as possible to hasten the Treasurer's accounts;
+and that is all."  And so we broke up: and I confess I went away ashamed,
+to see how slightly things are advised upon there.  Here I saw the Duke of
+Buckingham sit in Council again, where he was re-admitted, it seems, the
+last Council-day: and it is wonderful to see how this man is come again to
+his places, all of them, after the reproach and disgrace done him: so that
+things are done in a most foolish manner quite through.  The Duke of
+Buckingham did second Sir W. Coventry in the advising the King that he
+would not concern himself in the owning or not owning any man's accounts,
+or any thing else, wherein he had not the same satisfaction that would
+satisfy the Parliament; saying, that nothing would displease the
+Parliament more than to find him defending any thing that is not right,
+nor justifiable to the utmost degree but methought he spoke it but very
+poorly.  After this, I walked up and down the Gallery till noon; and here
+I met with Bishop Fuller, who, to my great joy, is made, which I did not
+hear before, Bishop of Lincoln.  At noon I took coach, and to Sir G.
+Carteret's, in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, to the house that is my Lord's, which
+my Lord lets him have: and this is the first day of dining there. And
+there dined with him and his lady my Lord Privy-seale, who is indeed a
+very sober man; who, among other talk, did mightily wonder at the reason
+of the growth of the credit of banquiers, since it is so ordinary a thing
+for citizens to break, out of knavery.  Upon this we had much discourse;
+and I observed therein, to the honour of this City, that I have not heard
+of one citizen of London broke in all this war, this plague, this fire,
+and this coming up of the enemy among us; which he owned to be very
+considerable.
+
+     [This remarkable fact is confirmed by Evelyn, in a letter to Sir
+     Samuel Tuke, September 27th, 1666.  See "Correspondence," vol.
+     iii., p. 345, edit. 1879.]
+
+After dinner I to the King's playhouse, my eyes being so bad since last
+night's straining of them, that I am hardly able to see, besides the pain
+which I have in them.  The play was a new play; and infinitely full: the
+King and all the Court almost there.  It is "The Storme," a play of
+Fletcher's;' which is but so-so, methinks; only there is a most admirable
+dance at the end, of the ladies, in a military manner, which indeed did
+please me mightily.  So, it being a mighty wet day and night, I with much
+ado got a coach, and, with twenty stops which he made, I got him to carry
+me quite through, and paid dear for it, and so home, and there comes my
+wife home from the Duke of York's playhouse, where she hath been with my
+aunt and Kate Joyce, and so to supper, and betimes to bed, to make amends
+for my last night's work and want of sleep.
+
+26th.  Up, and to my chamber, whither Jonas Moore comes, and, among other
+things, after our business done, discoursing of matters of the office, I
+shewed him my varnished things, which he says he can outdo much, and tells
+me the mighty use of Napier's bones;
+
+     [John Napier or Neper (1550-1617), laird of Merchiston (now
+     swallowed up in the enlarged Edinburgh of to-day, although the old
+     castle still stands), and the inventor of logarithms.  He published
+     his "Rabdologiae seu numerationis per virgulas libri duo" in 1617,
+     and the work was reprinted and translated into Italian (1623) and
+     Dutch (1626).  In 1667 William Leybourn published "The Art of
+     Numbering by Speaking Rods, vulgarly termed Napier's Bones."]
+
+so that I will have a pair presently.  To the office, where busy all the
+morning sitting, and at noon home to dinner, and then with my wife abroad
+to the King's playhouse, to shew her yesterday's new play, which I like as
+I did yesterday, the principal thing extraordinary being the dance, which
+is very good.  So to Charing Cross by coach, about my wife's business, and
+then home round by London Wall, it being very dark and dirty, and so to
+supper, and, for the ease of my eyes, to bed, having first ended all my
+letters at the office.
+
+27th.  Up, and to the office, where very busy all the morning.  While I
+was busy at the Office, my wife sends for me to come home, and what was it
+but to see the pretty girl which she is taking to wait upon her: and
+though she seems not altogether so great a beauty as she had before told
+me, yet indeed she is mighty pretty; and so pretty, that I find I shall be
+too much pleased with it, and therefore could be contented as to my
+judgement, though not to my passion, that she might not come, lest I may
+be found too much minding her, to the discontent of my wife.  She is to
+come next week.  She seems, by her discourse, to be grave beyond her
+bigness and age, and exceeding well bred as to her deportment, having been
+a scholar in a school at Bow these seven or eight years.  To the office
+again, my head running on this pretty girl, and there till noon, when
+Creed and Sheres come and dined with me; and we had a great deal of pretty
+discourse of the ceremoniousness of the Spaniards, whose ceremonies are so
+many and so known, that, Sheres tells me, upon all occasions of joy or
+sorrow in a Grandee's family, my Lord Embassador is fain to send one with
+an 'en hora buena', if it be upon a marriage, or birth of a child, or a
+'pesa me', if it be upon the death of a child, or so.  And these
+ceremonies are so set, and the words of the compliment, that he hath been
+sent from my Lord, when he hath done no more than send in word to the
+Grandee that one was there from the Embassador; and he knowing what was
+his errand, that hath been enough, and he never spoken with him: nay,
+several Grandees having been to marry a daughter, have wrote letters to my
+Lord to give him notice, and out of the greatness of his wisdom to desire
+his advice, though people he never saw; and then my Lord he answers by
+commending the greatness of his discretion in making so good an alliance,
+&c., and so ends.  He says that it is so far from dishonour to a man to
+give private revenge for an affront, that the contrary is a disgrace; they
+holding that he that receives an affront is not fit to appear in the sight
+of the world till he hath revenged himself; and therefore, that a
+gentleman there that receives an affront oftentimes never appears again in
+the world till he hath, by some private way or other, revenged himself:
+and that, on this account, several have followed their enemies privately
+to the Indys, thence to Italy, thence to France and back again, watching
+for an opportunity to be revenged.  He says my Lord was fain to keep a
+letter from the Duke of York to the Queen of Spain a great while in his
+hands, before he could think fit to deliver it, till he had learnt whether
+the Queen would receive it, it being directed to his cozen.  He says that
+many ladies in Spain, after they are found to be with child, do never stir
+out of their beds or chambers till they are brought to bed: so ceremonious
+they are in that point also.  He tells me of their wooing by serenades at
+the window, and that their friends do always make the match; but yet that
+they have opportunities to meet at masse at church, and there they make
+love: that the Court there hath no dancing, nor visits at night to see the
+King or Queen, but is always just like a cloyster, nobody stirring in it:
+that my Lord Sandwich wears a beard now, turned up in the Spanish manner.
+But that which pleases me most indeed is, that the peace which he hath
+made with Spain is now printed here, and is acknowledged by all the
+merchants to be the best peace that ever England had with them: and it
+appears that the King thinks it so, for this is printed before the
+ratification is gone over; whereas that with France and Holland was not in
+a good while after, till copys come over of it in English out of Holland
+and France, that it was a reproach not to have it printed here.  This I am
+mighty glad of; and is the first and only piece of good news, or thing fit
+to be owned, that this nation hath done several years.  After dinner I to
+the office, and they gone, anon comes Pelling, and he and I to Gray's Inne
+Fields, thinking to have heard Mrs. Knight sing at her lodgings, by a
+friend's means of his;
+
+     [Mrs. Knight, a celebrated singer and mistress of Charles II. There
+     is in Waller's "Poems" a song sung by her to the queen on her
+     birthday.  In her portrait, engraved by Faber, after Kneller, she is
+     represented in mourning, and in a devout posture before a crucifix.
+     Evelyn refers to her singing as incomparable, and adds that she had
+     "the greatest reach of any English woman; she had been lately
+     roaming in Italy, and was much improv'd in that quality" ("Diary,"
+     December 2nd, 1674).]
+
+but we come too late; so must try another time.  So lost our labour, and I
+by coach home, and there to my chamber, and did a great deal of good
+business about my Tangier accounts, and so with pleasure discoursing with
+my wife of our journey shortly to Brampton, and of this little girle,
+which indeed runs in my head, and pleases me mightily, though I dare not
+own it, and so to supper and to bed.
+
+28th.  Up, having slept not so much to-night as I used to do, for my
+thoughts being so full of this pretty little girle that is coming to live
+with us, which pleases me mightily.  All the morning at the Office, busy
+upon an Order of Council, wherein they are mightily at a loss what to
+advise about our discharging of seamen by ticket, there being no money to
+pay their wages before January, only there is money to pay them since
+January, provided by the Parliament, which will be a horrid disgrace to
+the King and Crowne of England that no man shall reckon himself safe, but
+where the Parliament takes care.  And this did move Mr. Wren at the table
+to-day to say, that he did believe if ever there be occasion more to raise
+money, it will become here, as it is in Poland, that there are two
+treasurers--one for the King, and the other for the kingdom.  At noon
+dined at home, and Mr. Hater with me, and Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, dropped
+in, who I feared did come to bespeak me to be godfather to his son, which
+I am unwilling now to be, having ended my liking to his wife, since I find
+she paints.  After dinner comes Sir Fr. Hollis to me about business; and I
+with him by coach to the Temple, and there I 'light; all the way he
+telling me romantic lies of himself and his family, how they have been
+Parliamentmen for Grimsby, he and his forefathers, this 140 years; and his
+father is now: and himself, at this day, stands for to be, with his
+father, by the death of his fellow-burgess; and that he believes it will
+cost him as much as it did his predecessor, which was L300 in ale, and L52
+in buttered ale; which I believe is one of his devilish lies.  Here I
+'light and to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw a piece of "Sir
+Martin Marrall," with great delight, though I have seen it so often, and
+so home, and there busy late, and so home to my supper and bed.
+
+29th (Lord's day).  Up, and put off first my summer's silk suit, and put
+on a cloth one.  Then to church, and so home to dinner, my wife and I
+alone to a good dinner.  All the afternoon talking in my chamber with my
+wife, about my keeping a coach the next year, and doing some things to my
+house, which will cost money--that is, furnish our best chamber with
+tapestry, and other rooms with pictures.  In the evening read good
+books--my wife to me; and I did even my kitchen accounts.  Then to supper,
+and so to bed.
+
+30th.  By water to White Hall, there to a committee of Tangier, but they
+not met yet, I went to St. James's, there thinking to have opportunity to
+speak to the Duke of York about the petition I have to make to him for
+something in reward for my service this war, but I did waive it.  Thence
+to White Hall, and there a Committee met, where little was done, and
+thence to the Duke of York to Council, where we the officers of the Navy
+did attend about the business of discharging the seamen by tickets, where
+several of the Lords spoke and of our number none but myself, which I did
+in such manner as pleased the King and Council.  Speaking concerning the
+difficulty of pleasing of seamen and giving them assurance to their
+satisfaction that they should be paid their arrears of wages, my Lord
+Ashly did move that an assignment for money on the Act might be put into
+the hands of the East India Company, or City of London, which he thought
+the seamen would believe.  But this my Lord Anglesey did very handsomely
+oppose, and I think did carry it that it will not be: and it is indeed a
+mean thing that the King should so far own his own want of credit as to
+borrow theirs in this manner.  My Lord Anglesey told him that this was the
+way indeed to teach the Parliament to trust the King no more for the time
+to come, but to have a kingdom's Treasurer distinct from the King's. Home
+at noon to dinner, where I expected to have had our new girle, my wife's
+woman, but she is not yet come.  I abroad after dinner to White Hall, and
+there among other things do hear that there will be musique to-morrow
+night before the King.  So to Westminster, where to the Swan .  . .  .
+and drank and away to the Hall, and thence to Mrs. Martin's, to bespeak
+some linen, and there je did avoir all with her, and drank, and away,
+having first promised my goddaughter a new coat-her first coat. So by
+coach home, and there find our pretty girl Willet come, brought by Mr.
+Batelier, and she is very pretty, and so grave as I never saw a little
+thing in my life.  Indeed I think her a little too good for my family, and
+so well carriaged as I hardly ever saw.  I wish my wife may use her well.
+Now I begin to be full of thought for my journey the next week, if I can
+get leave, to Brampton.  Tonight come and sat with me Mr. Turner and his
+wife and tell me of a design of sending their son Franke to the East Indy
+Company's service if they can get him entertainment, which they are
+promised by Sir Andr. Rickard, which I do very well like of.  So the
+company broke up and to bed.
+
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+     Act of Council passed, to put out all Papists in office
+     And a deal of do of which I am weary
+     But do it with mighty vanity and talking
+     Feared she hath from some [one] or other of a present
+     Fell a-crying for joy, being all maudlin and kissing one another
+     Found to be with child, do never stir out of their beds
+     Had his hand cut off, and was hanged presently!
+     Hates to have any body mention what he had done the day before
+     House of Lords is the last appeal that a man can make
+     I find her painted, which makes me loathe her (cosmetics)
+     King do resolve to declare the Duke of Monmouth legitimate
+     Lady Castlemayne is compounding with the King for a pension
+     My intention to learn to trill
+     Never, while he lives, truckle under any body or any faction
+     Pressing in it as if none of us had like care with him
+     Singing with many voices is not singing
+     Their condition was a little below my present state
+     Weary of it; but it will please the citizens
+     Weigh him after he had done playing
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+                THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S.
+
+            CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY
+
+   TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY
+MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW
+                      AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
+
+                              (Unabridged)
+
+                      WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES
+
+                        EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY
+
+                        HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A.
+
+
+
+                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
+                                SEPTEMBER
+                                   1667
+
+
+September 1st (Lord's day).  Up, and betimes by water from the Tower, and
+called at the Old Swan for a glass of strong water, and sent word to have
+little Michell and his wife come and dine with us to-day; and so, taking
+in a gentleman and his lady that wanted a boat, I to Westminster.
+Setting them on shore at Charing Cross, I to Mrs. Martin's, where I had
+two pair of cuffs which I bespoke, and there did sit and talk with her
+.  .  .  .  . and here I did see her little girle my goddaughter, which
+will be pretty, and there having staid a little I away to Creed's
+chamber, and when he was ready away to White Hall, where I met with
+several people and had my fill of talk.  Our new Lord-keeper, Bridgeman,
+did this day, the first time, attend the King to chapel with his Seal.
+Sir H. Cholmly tells me there are hopes that the women will also have a
+rout, and particularly that my Lady Castlemayne is coming to a
+composition with the King to be gone; but how true this is, I know not.
+Blancfort is made Privy-purse to the Duke of York; the Attorney-general
+is made Chief justice, in the room of my Lord Bridgeman; the Solicitor-
+general is made Attorney-general; and Sir Edward Turner made Solicitor-
+general.  It is pretty to see how strange every body looks, nobody
+knowing whence this arises; whether from my Lady Castlemayne, Bab. May,
+and their faction; or from the Duke of York, notwithstanding his great
+appearance of defence of the Chancellor; or from Sir William Coventry,
+and some few with him.  But greater changes are yet expected.  So home
+and by water to dinner, where comes Pelting and young Michell and his
+wife, whom I have not seen a great while, poor girle, and then comes
+Mr. Howe, and all dined with me very merry, and spent all the afternoon,
+Pelting, Howe, and I, and my boy, singing of Lock's response to the Ten
+Commandments, which he hath set very finely, and was a good while since
+sung before the King, and spoiled in the performance, which occasioned
+his printing them for his vindication, and are excellent good.  They
+parted, in the evening my wife and I to walk in the garden and there
+scolded a little, I being doubtful that she had received a couple of fine
+pinners (one of point de Gesne), which I feared she hath from some [one]
+or other of a present; but, on the contrary, I find she hath bought them
+for me to pay for them, without my knowledge.  This do displease me much;
+but yet do so much please me better than if she had received them the
+other way, that I was not much angry, but fell to other discourse, and so
+to my chamber, and got her to read to me for saving of my eyes, and then,
+having got a great cold, I know not how, I to bed and lay ill at ease all
+the night.
+
+
+
+2nd.  This day is kept in the City as a publick fast for the fire this
+day twelve months: but I was not at church, being commanded, with the
+rest, to attend the Duke of York; and, therefore, with Sir J. Minnes to
+St. James's, where we had much business before the Duke of York, and
+observed all things to be very kind between the Duke of York and W.
+Coventry, which did mightily joy me.  When we had done, Sir W. Coventry
+called me down with him to his chamber, and there told me that he is
+leaving the Duke of York's service, which I was amazed at.  But he tells
+me that it is not with the least unkindness on the Duke of York's side,
+though he expects, and I told him he was in the right, it will be
+interpreted otherwise, because done just at this time; "but," says he,
+"I did desire it a good while since, and the Duke of York did, with much
+entreaty, grant it, desiring that I would say nothing of it, that he
+might have time and liberty to choose his successor, without being
+importuned for others whom he should not like:" and that he hath chosen
+Mr. Wren, which I am glad of, he being a very ingenious man; and so Sir
+W. Coventry says of him, though he knows him little; but particularly
+commends him for the book he writ in answer to "Harrington's Oceana,"
+which, for that reason, I intend to buy.  He tells me the true reason is,
+that he, being a man not willing to undertake more business than he can
+go through, and being desirous to have his whole time to spend upon the
+business of the Treasury, and a little for his own ease, he did desire
+this of the Duke of York.  He assures me that the kindness with which he
+goes away from the Duke of York is one of the greatest joys that ever he
+had in the world.  I used some freedom with him, telling him how the
+world hath discoursed of his having offended the Duke of York, about the
+late business of the Chancellor.  He do not deny it, but says that
+perhaps the Duke of York might have some reason for it, he opposing him
+in a thing wherein he was so earnest but tells me, that, notwithstanding
+all that, the Duke of York does not now, nor can blame him; for he tells
+me that he was the man that did propose the removal of the Chancellor;
+and that he did still persist in it, and at this day publickly owns it,
+and is glad of it; but that the Duke of York knows that he did first
+speak of it to the Duke of York, before he spoke to any mortal creature
+besides, which was fair dealing: and the Duke of York was then of the
+same mind with him, and did speak of it to the King; though since, for
+reasons best known to himself, he was afterwards altered.  I did then
+desire to know what was the great matter that grounded his desire of the
+Chancellor's removal?  He told me many things not fit to be spoken, and
+yet not any thing of his being unfaithful to the King; but, 'instar
+omnium', he told me, that while he was so great at the Council-board,
+and in the administration of matters, there was no room for any body to
+propose any remedy to what was amiss, or to compass any thing, though
+never so good for the kingdom, unless approved of by the Chancellor, he
+managing all things with that greatness which now will be removed, that
+the King may have the benefit of others' advice.  I then told him that
+the world hath an opinion that he hath joined himself with my Lady
+Castlemayne's faction in this business; he told me, he cannot help it,
+but says they are in an errour: but for first he will never, while he
+lives, truckle under any body or any faction, but do just as his own
+reason and judgment directs; and, when he cannot use that freedom, he
+will have nothing to do in public affairs but then he added, that he
+never was the man that ever had any discourse with my Lady Castlemayne,
+or with others from her, about this or any public business, or ever made
+her a visit, or at least not this twelvemonth, or been in her lodgings
+but when called on any business to attend the King there, nor hath had
+any thing to do in knowing her mind in this business.  He ended all with
+telling me that he knows that he that serves a Prince must expect, and be
+contented to stand, all fortunes, and be provided to retreat, and that
+that he is most willing to do whenever the King shall please.  And so we
+parted, he setting me down out of his coach at Charing Cross, and desired
+me to tell Sir W. Pen what he had told me of his leaving the Duke of
+York's service, that his friends might not be the last that know it.
+I took a coach and went homewards; but then turned again, and to White
+Hall, where I met with many people; and, among other things, do learn.
+that there is some fear that Mr. Bruncker is got into the King's favour,
+and will be cherished there; which will breed ill will between the King
+and Duke of York, he lodging at this time in White Hall since he was put
+away from the Duke of York: and he is great with Bab. May, my Lady
+Castlemayne, and that wicked crew.  But I find this denied by Sir G.
+Carteret, who tells me that he is sure he hath no kindness from the King;
+that the King at first, indeed, did endeavour to persuade the Duke of
+York from putting him away; but when, besides this business of his ill
+words concerning his Majesty in the business of the Chancellor, he told
+him that he hath had, a long time, a mind to put him away for his ill
+offices, done between him and his wife, the King held his peace, and said
+no more, but wished him to do what he pleased with him; which was very
+noble.  I met with Fenn; and he tells me, as I do hear from some others,
+that the business of the Chancellor's had proceeded from something of a
+mistake, for the Duke of York did first tell the King that the Chancellor
+had a desire to be eased of his great trouble; and that the King, when
+the Chancellor come to him, did wonder to hear him deny it, and the Duke
+of York was forced to deny to the King that ever he did tell him so in
+those terms: but the King did answer that he was sure that he did say
+some such thing to him; but, however, since it had gone so far, did
+desire him to be contented with it, as a thing very convenient for him as
+well as for himself (the King), and so matters proceeded, as we find.
+Now it is likely the Chancellor might, some time or other, in a
+compliment or vanity, say to the Duke of York, that he was weary of this
+burden, and I know not what; and this comes of it.  Some people, and
+myself among them, are of good hope from this change that things are
+reforming; but there are others that do think but that it is a hit of
+chance, as all other our greatest matters are, and that there is no
+general plot or contrivance in any number of people what to do next,
+though, I believe, Sir W. Coventry may in himself have further designs;
+and so that, though other changes may come, yet they shall be accidental
+and laid upon [not] good principles of doing good.  Mr. May shewed me the
+King's new buildings, in order to their having of some old sails for the
+closing of the windows this winter.  I dined with Sir G. Carteret, with
+whom dined Mr. Jack Ashburnham and Dr. Creeton, who I observe to be a
+most good man and scholar.  In discourse at dinner concerning the change
+of men's humours and fashions touching meats, Mr. Ashburnham told us,
+that he remembers since the only fruit in request, and eaten by the King
+and Queen at table as the best fruit, was the Katharine payre, though
+they knew at the time other fruits of France and our own country.  After
+dinner comes in Mr. Townsend; and there I was witness of a horrid
+rateing, which Mr. Ashburnham, as one of the Grooms of the King's
+Bedchamber, did give him for want of linen for the King's person; which
+he swore was not to be endured, and that the King would not endure it,
+and that the King his father, would have hanged his Wardrobe-man should
+he have been served so the King having at this day no handkerchers, and
+but three bands to his neck, he swore.  Mr. Townsend answered want of
+money, and the owing of the linen-draper L5000; and that he hath of late
+got many rich things made--beds, and sheets, and saddles, and all without
+money, and he can go no further but still this old man, indeed, like an
+old loving servant, did cry out for the King's person to be neglected.
+But, when he was gone, Townsend told me that it is the grooms taking away
+the King's linen at the quarter's end, as their fees, which makes this
+great want: for, whether the King can get it or no, they will run away at
+the quarter's end with what he hath had, let the King get more as he can.
+All the company gone, Sir G. Carteret and I to talk: and it is pretty to
+observe how already he says that he did always look upon the Chancellor
+indeed as his friend, though he never did do him any service at all, nor
+ever got any thing by him, nor was he a man apt, and that, I think, is
+true, to do any man any kindness of his own nature; though I do know that
+he was believed by all the world to be the greatest support of Sir G.
+Carteret with the King of any man in England: but so little is now made
+of it!  He observes that my Lord Sandwich will lose a great friend in
+him; and I think so too, my Lord Hinchingbroke being about a match
+calculated purely out of respect to my Lord Chancellor's family.  By and
+by Sir G. Carteret, and Townsend, and I, to consider of an answer to the
+Commissioners of the Treasury about my Lord Sandwich's profits in the
+Wardrobe; which seem, as we make them, to be very small, not L1000
+a-year; but only the difference in measure at which he buys and delivers
+out to the King, and then 6d. in the pound from the tradesmen for what
+money he receives for him; but this, it is believed, these Commissioners
+will endeavour to take away.  From him I went to see a great match at
+tennis, between Prince Rupert and one Captain Cooke, against Bab. May and
+the elder Chichly; where the King was, and Court; and it seems are the
+best players at tennis in the nation.  But this puts me in mind of what I
+observed in the morning, that the King, playing at tennis, had a steele-
+yard carried to him, and I was told it was to weigh him after he had done
+playing; and at noon Mr. Ashburnham told me that it is only the King's
+curiosity, which he usually hath of weighing himself before and after his
+play, to see how much he loses in weight by playing: and this day he lost
+4 lbs.  Thence home and took my wife out to Mile End Green, and there I
+drank, and so home, having a very fine evening.  Then home, and I to Sir
+W. Batten and [Sir] W. Pen, and there discoursed of Sir W. Coventry's
+leaving the Duke of York, and Mr. Wren's succeeding him.  They told me
+both seriously, that they had long cut me out for Secretary to the Duke
+of York, if ever [Sir] W. Coventry left him; which, agreeing with what I
+have heard from other hands heretofore, do make me not only think that
+something of that kind hath been thought on, but do comfort me to see
+that the world hath such an esteem of my qualities as to think me fit for
+any such thing.  Though I am glad, with all my heart, that I am not so;
+for it would never please me to be forced to the attendance that that
+would require, and leave my wife and family to themselves, as I must do
+in such a case; thinking myself now in the best place that ever man was
+in to please his own mind in, and, therefore, I will take care to
+preserve it.  So to bed, my cold remaining though not so much upon me.
+This day Nell, an old tall maid, come to live with us, a cook maid
+recommended by Mr. Batelier.
+
+
+
+3rd.  All the morning, business at the office, dined at home, then in the
+afternoon set my wife down at the Exchange, and I to St. James's, and
+there attended the Duke of York about the list of ships that we propose
+to sell: and here there attended Mr. Wren the first time, who hath not
+yet, I think, received the Duke of York's seal and papers.  At our coming
+hither, we found the Duke and Duchesse all alone at dinner, methought
+melancholy; or else I thought so, from the late occasion of the
+Chancellor's fall, who, they say, however, takes it very contentedly.
+Thence I to White Hall a little, and so took up my wife at the 'Change,
+and so home, and at the office late, and so home to supper and to bed,
+our boy ill.
+
+
+
+4th.  By coach to White Hall to the Council-chamber; and there met with
+Sir W. Coventry going in, who took me aside, and told me that he was just
+come from delivering up his seal and papers to Mr. Wren; and told me he
+must now take his leave of me as a naval man,
+
+     [One is reminded of Sir Winston Churchill referring to himself in
+     his correspondence with Franklin Roosevelt in the early days of WW
+     II., as "Former Naval Person."  D.W.]
+
+but that he shall always bear respect to his friends there, and
+particularly to myself, with great kindness; which I returned to him
+with thanks, and so, with much kindness parted: and he into, the Council.
+I met with Sir Samuel Morland, who chewed me two orders upon the
+Exchequer, one of L600, and another of L400, for money assigned to him,
+which he would have me lend him money upon, and he would allow 12 per
+cent.  I would not meddle with them, though they are very good; and
+would, had I not so much money out already on public credit.  But I see
+by this his condition all trade will be bad.  I staid and heard Alderman
+Barker's case of his being abused by the Council of Ireland, touching his
+lands there: all I observed there is the silliness of the King, playing
+with his dog all the while, and not minding the business,
+
+     [Lord Rochester wrote
+
+                   "His very dog at council board
+                    Sits grave and wise as any lord."
+
+     Poems, 1697; p. 150.--The king's dogs were constantly stolen from
+     him, and he advertised for their return.  Some of these amusing
+     advertisements are printed in "Notes and Queries" (seventh series,
+     vol. vii., p. 26).]
+
+and what he said was mighty weak; but my Lord Keeper I observe to be a
+mighty able man.  The business broke off without any end to it, and so I
+home, and thence with my wife and W. Hewer to Bartholomew fayre, and
+there Polichinelli, where we saw Mrs. Clerke and all her crew; and so to
+a private house, and sent for a side of pig, and eat it at an
+acquaintance of W. Hewer's, where there was some learned physic
+and chymical books, and among others, a natural "Herball" very fine.
+Here we staid not, but to the Duke of York's play house, and there saw
+"Mustapha," which, the more I see, the more I like; and is a most
+admirable poem, and bravely acted; only both Betterton and Harris could
+not contain from laughing in the midst of a most serious part from the
+ridiculous mistake of one of the men upon the stage; which I did not
+like.  Thence home, where Batelier and his sister Mary come to us and sat
+and talked, and so, they gone, we to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+5th.  Up, and all the morning at the office, where we sat till noon, and
+then I home to dinner, where Mary Batelier and her brother dined with us,
+who grows troublesome in his talking so much of his going to Marseilles,
+and what commissions he hath to execute as a factor, and a deal of do of
+which I am weary.  After dinner, with Sir W. Pen, my wife, and Mary
+Batelier to the Duke of York's house, and there saw "Heraclius," which is
+a good play; but they did so spoil it with their laughing, and being all
+of them out, and with the noise they made within the theatre, that I was
+ashamed of it, and resolve not to come thither again a good while,
+believing that this negligence, which I never observed before, proceeds
+only from their want of company in the pit, that they have no care how
+they act.  My wife was ill, and so I was forced to go out of the house
+with her to Lincoln's Inn walks, and there in a corner she did her
+business, and was by and by well, and so into the house again, but sick
+of their ill acting.--[Obviously there were no "Rest Rooms" in the
+theatres of the 17th century.  D.W.]--So home and to the office, where
+busy late, then home to supper and to bed.  This morning was told by Sir
+W. Batten, that he do hear from Mr. Grey, who hath good intelligence,
+that our Queen is to go into a nunnery, there to spend her days; and that
+my Lady Castlemayne is going into France, and is to have a pension of
+L4000 a-year.  This latter I do more believe than the other, it being
+very wise in her to do it, and save all she hath, besides easing the King
+and kingdom of a burden and reproach.
+
+
+
+6th.  Up, and to Westminster to the Exchequer, and then into the Hall,
+and there bought "Guillim's Heraldry" for my wife, and so to the Swan,
+and thither come Doll Lane, and je did toucher her, and drank, and so
+away, I took coach and home, where I find my wife gone to Walthamstow by
+invitation with Sir W. Batten, and so I followed, taking up Mrs. Turner,
+and she and I much discourse all the way touching the baseness of Sir W.
+Pen and sluttishness of his family, and how the world do suspect that his
+son Lowther, who is sick of a sore mouth, has got the pox.  So we come to
+Sir W. Batten's, where Sir W. Pen and his Lady, and we and Mrs. Shipman,
+and here we walked and had an indifferent good dinner, the victuals very
+good and cleanly dressed and good linen, but no fine meat at all.  After
+dinner we went up and down the house, and I do like it very well, being
+furnished with a great deal of very good goods.  And here we staid, I
+tired with the company, till almost evening, and then took leave, Turner
+and I together again, and my wife with [Sir] W. Pen.  At Aldgate I took
+my wife into our coach, and so to Bartholomew fair, and there, it being
+very dirty, and now night, we saw a poor fellow, whose legs were tied
+behind his back, dance upon his hands with his arse above his head, and
+also dance upon his crutches, without any legs upon the ground to help
+him, which he did with that pain that I was sorry to see it, and did pity
+him and give him money after he had done.  Then we to see a piece of
+clocke-work made by an Englishman--indeed, very good, wherein all the
+several states of man's age, to 100 years old, is shewn very pretty and
+solemne; and several other things more cheerful, and so we ended, and
+took a link, the women resolving to be dirty, and walked up and down to
+get a coach; and my wife, being a little before me, had been like to be
+taken up by one, whom we saw to be Sam Hartlib.  My wife had her wizard
+on: yet we cannot say that he meant any hurt; for it was as she was just
+by a coach-side, which he had, or had a mind to take up; and he asked
+her, "Madam, do you go in this coach?" but, soon as he saw a man come to
+her (I know not whether he knew me) he departed away apace.  By and by
+did get a coach, and so away home, and there to supper, and to bed.
+
+
+
+7th.  Up, and to the office, where all the morning.  At noon home to
+dinner, where Goodgroome was teaching my wife, and dined with us, and I
+did tell him of my intention to learn to trill, which he will not promise
+I shall obtain, but he will do what can be done, and I am resolved to
+learn.  All the afternoon at the office, and towards night out by coach
+with my wife, she to the 'Change, and I to see the price of a copper
+cisterne for the table, which is very pretty, and they demand L6 or L7
+for one; but I will have one.  Then called my wife at the 'Change, and
+bought a nightgown for my wife: cost but 24s., and so out to Mile End to
+drink, and so home to the office to end my letters, and so home to supper
+and to bed.
+
+
+
+8th (Lord's day).  Up, and walked to St. James's; but there I find Sir W.
+Coventry gone from his chamber, and Mr. Wren not yet come thither.  But I
+up to the Duke of York, and there, after being ready, my Lord Bruncker
+and I had an audience, and thence with my Lord Bruncker to White Hall,
+and he told me, in discourse, how that, though it is true that Sir W.
+Coventry did long since propose to the Duke of York the leaving his
+service, as being unable to fulfill it, as he should do, now he hath so
+much public business, and that the Duke of York did bid him to say
+nothing of it, but that he would take time to please himself in another
+to come in his place; yet the Duke's doing it at this time, declaring
+that he hath found out another, and this one of the Chancellor's
+servants, he cannot but think was done with some displeasure, and that it
+could not well be otherwise, that the Duke of York should keep one in
+that place, that had so eminently opposed him in the defence of his
+father-in-law, nor could the Duchesse ever endure the sight of him, to be
+sure.  But he thinks that the Duke of York and he are parted upon clear
+terms of friendship.  He tells me he do believe that my Lady Castlemayne
+is compounding with the King for a pension, and to leave the Court; but
+that her demands are mighty high: but he believes the King is resolved,
+and so do every body else I speak with, to do all possible to please the
+Parliament; and he do declare that he will deliver every body up to them
+to give an account of their actions: and that last Friday, it seems,
+there was an Act of Council passed, to put out all Papists in office, and
+to keep out any from coming in.  I went to the King's Chapel to the
+closet, and there I hear Cresset sing a tenor part along with the Church
+musick very handsomely, but so loud that people did laugh at him, as a
+thing done for ostentation.  Here I met Sir G. Downing, who would speak
+with me, and first to inquire what I paid for my kid's leather gloves I
+had on my hand, and shewed me others on his, as handsome, as good in all
+points, cost him but 12d. a pair, and mine me 2s.  He told me he had been
+seven years finding out a man that could dress English sheepskin as it
+should be--and, indeed, it is now as good, in all respects, as kid, and
+he says will save L100,000 a-year, that goes out to France for kid's
+skins.  Thus he labours very worthily to advance our own trade, but do it
+with mighty vanity and talking.  But then he told me of our base
+condition, in the treaty with Holland and France, about our prisoners,
+that whereas before we did clear one another's prisoners, man for man,
+and we upon the publication of the peace did release all our's, 300 at
+Leith, and others in other places for nothing, the Dutch do keep theirs,
+and will not discharge them with[out] paying their debts according to the
+Treaty.  That his instruments in Holland, writing to our Embassadors
+about this to Bredagh, they answer them that they do not know of any
+thing that they have done therein, but left it just as it was before.  To
+which, when they answer, that by the treaty their Lordships had [not]
+bound our countrymen to pay their debts in prison, they answer they
+cannot help it, and we must get them off as cheap as we can.  On this
+score, they demand L1100 for Sir G. Ascue, and L5000 for the one province
+of Zealand, for the prisoners that we have therein.  He says that this is
+a piece of shame that never any nation committed, and that our very Lords
+here of the Council, when he related this matter to them, did not
+remember that they had agreed to this article; and swears that all their
+articles are alike, as the giving away Polleroon, and Surinam, and Nova
+Scotia, which hath a river 300 miles up the country, with copper mines
+more than Swedeland, and Newcastle coals, the only place in America that
+hath coals that we know of; and that Cromwell did value those places, and
+would for ever have made much of them; but we have given them away for
+nothing, besides a debt to the King of Denmarke.  But, which is most of
+all, they have discharged those very particular demands of merchants of
+the Guinny Company and others, which he, when he was there, had adjusted
+with the Dutch, and come to an agreement in writing, and they undertaken
+to satisfy, and that this was done in black and white under their hands;
+and yet we have forgiven all these, and not so much as sent to Sir G.
+Downing to know what he had done, or to confer with him about any one
+point of the treaty, but signed to what they would have, and we here
+signed to whatever in grosse was brought over by Mr. Coventry.  And [Sir
+G. Downing] tells me, just in these words, "My Lord Chancellor had a mind
+to keep himself from being questioned by clapping up a peace upon any
+terms."  When I answered that there was other privy-councillors to be
+advised with besides him, and that, therefore, this whole peace could not
+be laid to his charge, he answered that nobody durst say any thing at the
+council-table but himself, and that the King was as much afeard of saying
+any thing there as the meanest privy-councillor; and says more, that at
+this day the King, in familiar talk, do call the Chancellor "the insolent
+man," and says that he would not let him speak himself in Council: which
+is very high, and do shew that the Chancellor is like to be in a bad
+state, unless he can defend himself better than people think.  And yet
+Creed tells me that he do hear that my Lord Cornbury do say that his
+father do long for the coming of the Parliament, in order to his own
+vindication, more than any one of his enemies.  And here it comes into my
+head to set down what Mr. Rawlinson, whom I met in Fenchurch Street on
+Friday last, looking over his ruines there, told me, that he was told by
+one of my Lord Chancellor's gentlemen lately (-------- byname), that a
+grant coming to him to be sealed, wherein the King hath given her [Lady
+Castlemaine], or somebody by her means, a place which he did not like
+well of, he did stop the grant; saying, that he thought this woman would
+sell everything shortly: which she hearing of, she sent to let him know
+that she had disposed of this place, and did not doubt, in a little time,
+to dispose of his.  This Rawlinson do tell me my Lord Chancellor's own
+gentleman did tell him himself.  Thence, meeting Creed, I with him to the
+Parke, there to walk a little, and to the Queen's Chapel and there hear
+their musique, which I liked in itself pretty well as to the composition,
+but their voices are very harsh and rough that I thought it was some
+instruments they had that made them sound so.  So to White Hall, and saw
+the King and Queen at dinner; and observed (which I never did before),
+the formality, but it is but a formality, of putting a bit of bread wiped
+upon each dish into the mouth of every man that brings a dish;  but it
+should be in the sauce.  Here were some Russes come to see the King at
+dinner: among others, the interpreter, a comely Englishman, in the
+Envoy's own clothes; which the Envoy, it seems, in vanity did send to
+show his fine clothes upon this man's back, which is one, it seems, of a
+comelier presence than himself: and yet it is said that none of their
+clothes are their own, but taken out of the King's own Wardrobe; and
+which they dare not bring back dirty or spotted, but clean, or are in
+danger of being beaten, as they say: insomuch that, Sir Charles Cotterell
+says, when they are to have an audience they never venture to put on
+their clothes till he appears to come to fetch them; and, as soon as ever
+they come home, put them off again.  I to Sir G. Carteret's to dinner;
+where Mr. Cofferer Ashburnham; who told a good story of a prisoner's
+being condemned at Salisbury for a small matter.  While he was on the
+bench with his father-in-law, judge Richardson, and while they were
+considering to transport him to save his life, the fellow flung a great
+stone at the judge, that missed him, but broke through the wainscoat.
+Upon this, he had his hand cut off, and was hanged presently!  Here was a
+gentleman, one Sheres, one come lately from my Lord Sandwich, with an
+express; but, Lord!  I was almost ashamed to see him, lest he should know
+that I have not yet wrote one letter to my Lord since his going.  I had
+no discourse with him, but after dinner Sir G. Carteret and I to talk
+about some business of his, and so I to Mrs. Martin, where was Mrs.
+Burroughs, and also fine Mrs. Noble, my partner in the christening of
+Martin's child, did come to see it, and there we sat and talked an hour,
+and then all broke up and I by coach home, and there find Mr. Pelling and
+Howe, and we to sing and good musique till late, and then to supper, and
+Howe lay at my house, and so after supper to bed with much content, only
+my mind a little troubled at my late breach of vowes, which however I
+will pay my forfeits, though the badness of my eyes, making me unfit to
+read or write long, is my excuse, and do put me upon other pleasures and
+employment which I should refrain from in observation of my vowes.
+
+
+
+9th.  Up; and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon comes
+Creed to dine with me.  After dinner, he and I and my wife to the Bear-
+Garden, to see a prize fought there.  But, coming too soon, I left them
+there and went on to White Hall, and there did some business with the
+Lords of the Treasury; and here do hear, by Tom Killigrew and Mr.
+Progers, that for certain news is come of Harman's having spoiled
+nineteen of twenty-two French ships, somewhere about the Barbadoes, I
+think they said; but wherever it is, it is a good service, and very
+welcome.  Here I fell in talk with Tom Killigrew about musick, and he
+tells me that he will bring me to the best musick in England (of which,
+indeed, he is master), and that is two Italians and Mrs. Yates, who, he
+says, is come to sing the Italian manner as well as ever he heard any:
+says that Knepp won't take pains enough, but that she understands her
+part so well upon the stage, that no man or woman in the House do the
+like.  Thence I by water to the Bear-Garden, where now the yard was full
+of people, and those most of them seamen, striving by force to get in,
+that I was afeard to be seen among them, but got into the ale-house, and
+so by a back-way was put into the bull-house, where I stood a good while
+all alone among the bulls, and was afeard I was among the bears, too; but
+by and by the door opened, and I got into the common pit; and there, with
+my cloak about my face, I stood and saw the prize fought, till one of
+them, a shoemaker, was.  so cut in both his wrists that he could not
+fight any longer, and then they broke off: his enemy was a butcher.  The
+sport very good, and various humours to be seen among the rabble that is
+there.  Thence carried Creed to White Hall, and there my wife and I took
+coach and home, and both of us to Sir W. Batten's, to invite them to
+dinner on Wednesday next, having a whole buck come from Hampton Court, by
+the warrant which Sir Stephen Fox did give me.  And so home to supper and
+to bed, after a little playing on the flageolet with my wife, who do
+outdo therein whatever I expected of her.
+
+
+
+10th.  Up, and all the morning at the Office, where little to do but
+bemoan ourselves under the want of money; and indeed little is, or can be
+done, for want of money, we having not now received one penny for any
+service in many weeks, and none in view to receive, saving for paying of
+some seamen's wages.  At noon sent to by my Lord Bruncker to speak with
+him, and it was to dine with him and his Lady Williams (which I have not
+now done in many months at their own table) and Mr. Wren, who is come to
+dine with them, the first time he hath been at the office since his being
+the Duke of York's Secretary.  Here we sat and eat and talked and of some
+matters of the office, but his discourse is as yet but weak in that
+matter, and no wonder, he being new in it, but I fear he will not go
+about understanding with the impatience that Sir W. Coventry did.  Having
+dined, I away, and with my wife and Mercer, set my wife down at the
+'Change, and the other at White Hall, and I to St. James's, where we all
+met, and did our usual weekly business with the Duke of York.  But, Lord!
+methinks both he and we are mighty flat and dull over what we used to be,
+when Sir W. Coventry was among us.  Thence I into St. James's Park, and
+there met Mr. Povy; and he and I to walk an hour or more in the Pell
+Mell, talking of the times.  He tells me, among other things, that this
+business of the Chancellor do breed a kind of inward distance between the
+King and the Duke of York, and that it cannot be avoided; for though the
+latter did at first move it through his folly, yet he is made to see that
+he is wounded by it, and is become much a less man than he was, and so
+will be: but he tells me that they are, and have always been, great
+dissemblers one towards another; and that their parting heretofore in
+France is never to be thoroughly reconciled between them.  He tells me
+that he believes there is no such thing like to be, as a composition with
+my Lady Castlemayne, and that she shall be got out of the way before the
+Parliament comes; for he says she is as high as ever she was, though he
+believes the King is as weary of her as is possible, and would give any
+thing to remove her, but he is so weak in his passion that he dare not do
+it; that he do believe that my Lord Chancellor will be doing some acts in
+the Parliament which shall render him popular; and that there are many
+people now do speak kindly of him that did not before; but that, if he do
+do this, it must provoke the King, and that party that removed him.  He
+seems to doubt what the King of France will do, in case an accommodation
+shall be made between Spain and him for Flanders, for then he will have
+nothing more easy to do with his army than to subdue us.  Parted with him
+at White Hall, and, there I took coach and took up my wife and Mercer,
+and so home and I to the office, where ended my letters, and then to my
+chamber with my boy to lay up some papers and things that lay out of
+order against to-morrow, to make it clear against the feast that I am to
+have.  Here Mr. Pelling come to sit with us, and talked of musique and
+the musicians of the town, and so to bed, after supper.
+
+
+
+11th.  Up, and with Mr. Gawden to the Exchequer.  By the way, he tells me
+this day he is to be answered whether he must hold Sheriffe or no; for he
+would not hold unless he may keep it at his office, which is out of the
+city (and so my Lord Mayor must come with his sword down, whenever he
+comes thither), which he do, because he cannot get a house fit for him in
+the city, or else he will fine for it.  Among others that they have in
+nomination for Sheriffe, one is little Chaplin, who was his servant, and
+a very young man to undergo that place; but as the city is now, there is
+no great honour nor joy to be had, in being a public officer.  At the
+Exchequer I looked after my business, and when done went home to the
+'Change, and there bought a case of knives for dinner, and a dish of
+fruit for 5s., and bespoke other things, and then home, and here I find
+all things in good order, and a good dinner towards.  Anon comes Sir W.
+Batten and his lady, and Mr. Griffith, their ward, and Sir W. Pen and his
+lady, and Mrs. Lowther, who is grown, either through pride or want of
+manners, a fool, having not a word to say almost all dinner; and, as a
+further mark of a beggarly, proud fool, hath a bracelet of diamonds and
+rubies about her wrist, and a sixpenny necklace about her neck, and not
+one good rag of clothes upon her back; and Sir John Chichly in their
+company, and Mrs. Turner.  Here I had an extraordinary good and handsome
+dinner for them, better than any of them deserve or understand, saving
+Sir John Chichly and Mrs. Turner, and not much mirth, only what I by
+discourse made, and that against my genius.  After dinner I took occasion
+to break up the company soon as I could, and all parted, Sir W. Batten
+and I by water to White Hall, there to speak with the Commissioners of
+the Treasury, who are mighty earnest for our hastening all that may be
+the paying off of the Seamen, now there is money, and are considering
+many other thins for easing of charge, which I am glad of, but vexed to
+see that J. Duncomb should be so pressing in it as if none of us had like
+care with him.  Having done there, I by coach to the Duke of York's
+playhouse, and there saw part of "The Ungratefull Lovers;" and sat by
+Beck Marshall, who is very handsome near hand.  Here I met Mrs. Turner
+and my wife as we agreed, and together home, and there my wife and I part
+of the night at the flageolet, which she plays now any thing upon almost
+at first sight and in good time.  But here come Mr. Moore, and sat and
+discoursed with me of publique matters: the sum of which is, that he do
+doubt that there is more at the bottom than the removal of the
+Chancellor; that is, he do verily believe that the King do resolve to
+declare the Duke of Monmouth legitimate, and that we shall soon see it.
+This I do not think the Duke of York will endure without blows; but his
+poverty, and being lessened by having the Chancellor fallen and [Sir] W.
+Coventry gone from him, will disable him from being able to do any thing
+almost, he being himself almost lost in the esteem of people; and will be
+more and more, unless my Lord Chancellor, who is already begun to be
+pitied by some people, and to be better thought of than was expected, do
+recover himself in Parliament.  He would seem to fear that this
+difference about the Crowne (if there be nothing else) will undo us.  He
+do say that, that is very true; that my Lord [Chancellor] did lately make
+some stop of some grants of L2000 a-year to my Lord Grandison, which was
+only in his name, for the use of my Lady Castlemaine's children; and that
+this did incense her, and she did speak very scornful words, and sent a
+scornful message to him about it.  He gone, after supper, I to bed, being
+mightily pleased with my wife's playing so well upon the flageolet, and I
+am resolved she shall learn to play upon some instrument, for though her
+eare be bad, yet I see she will attain any thing to be done by her hand.
+
+
+
+12th.  Up, and at the office all the morning till almost noon, and then I
+rode from the office (which I have not done five times I think since I
+come thither) and to the Exchequer for some tallies for Tangier; and that
+being done, to the Dog taverne, and there I spent half a piece upon the
+clerks, and so away, and I to Mrs. Martin's, but she not at home, but
+staid and drunk with her sister and landlady, and by that time it was
+time to go to a play, which I did at the Duke's house, where "Tu Quoque"
+was the first time acted, with some alterations of Sir W. Davenant's; but
+the play is a very silly play, methinks; for I, and others that sat by
+me, Mr. Povy and Mr. Progers, were weary of it; but it will please the
+citizens.  My wife also was there, I having sent for her to meet me
+there, and W. Hewer.  After the play we home, and there I to the office
+and despatched my business, and then home, and mightily pleased with my
+wife's playing on the flageolet, she taking out any tune almost at first
+sight, and keeping time to it, which pleases me mightily.  So to supper
+and to bed.
+
+
+
+13th.  Called up by people come to deliver in ten chaldron of coals,
+brought in one of our prizes from Newcastle.  The rest we intend to sell,
+we having above ten chaldron between us.  They sell at about 28s. or 29s.
+per chaldron; but Sir W. Batten hath sworn that he was a cuckold that
+sells under 30s., and that makes us lay up all but what we have for our
+own spending, which is very pleasant; for I believe we shall be glad to
+sell them for less.  To the office, and there despatched business till
+ten o'clock, and then with Sir W. Batten and my wife and Mrs. Turner by
+hackney-coach to Walthamstow, to Mr. Shipman's to dinner, where Sir W.
+Pen and my Lady and Mrs. Lowther (the latter of which hath got a sore
+nose, given her, I believe, from her husband, which made me I could not
+look upon her with any pleasure), and here a very good and plentifull
+wholesome dinner, and, above all thing, such plenty of milk meats, she
+keeping a great dairy, and so good as I never met with.  The afternoon
+proved very foul weather, the morning fair.  We staid talking till
+evening, and then home, and there to my flageolet with my wife, and so to
+bed without any supper, my belly being full and dinner not digested.  It
+vexed me to hear how Sir W. Pen, who come alone from London, being to
+send his coachman for his wife and daughter, and bidding his coachman in
+much anger to go for them (he being vexed, like a rogue, to do anything
+to please his wife), his coachman Tom was heard to say a pox, or God rot
+her, can she walk hither?  These words do so mad me that I could find in
+my heart to give him or my Lady notice of them.
+
+
+
+14th.  Up, and to the office, where all the morning busy.  At noon comes
+Mr. Pierce and dined with me to advise about several matters of his
+relating to the office and his purse, and here he told me that the King
+and Duke of York and the whole Court is mighty joyful at the Duchesse of
+York's being brought to bed this day, or yesterday, of a son; which will
+settle men's minds mightily.  And he tells me that he do think that what
+the King do, of giving the Duke of Monmouth the command of his Guards,
+and giving my Lord Gerard L12,000 for it, is merely to find an employment
+for him upon which he may live, and not out of any design to bring him
+into any title to the Crowne; which Mr. Moore did the other day put me
+into great fear of.  After dinner, he gone, my wife to the King's play-
+house to see "The Northerne Castle," which I think I never did see
+before.  Knipp acted in it, and did her part very extraordinary well; but
+the play is but a mean, sorry play; but the house very full of gallants.
+It seems, it hath not been acted a good while.  Thence to the Exchange
+for something for my wife, and then home and to the office, and then home
+to our flageolet, and so to bed, being mightily troubled in mind at the
+liberty I give myself of going to plays upon pretence of the weakness of
+my eyes, that cannot continue so long together at work at my office, but
+I must remedy it.
+
+
+
+15th (Lord's day).  Up to my chamber, there to set some papers to rights.
+By and by to church, where I stood, in continual fear of Mrs. Markham's
+coming to church, and offering to come into our pew, to prevent which,
+soon as ever I heard the great door open, I did step back, and clap my
+breech to our pew-door, that she might be forced to shove me to come in;
+but as God would have it, she did not come.  Mr. Mills preached, and
+after sermon, by invitation, he and his wife come to dine with me, which
+is the first time they have been in my house; I think, these five years,
+I thinking it not amiss, because of their acquaintance in our country, to
+shew them some respect.  Mr. Turner and his wife, and their son the
+Captain, dined with me, and I had a very good dinner for them, and very
+merry, and after dinner, he [Mr. Mills] was forced to go, though it
+rained, to Stepney, to preach.  We also to church, and then home, and
+there comes Mr. Pelling, with two men, by promise, one Wallington and
+Piggott, the former whereof, being a very little fellow, did sing a most
+excellent bass, and yet a poor fellow, a working goldsmith, that goes
+without gloves to his hands.  Here we sung several good things, but I am
+more and more confirmed that singing with many voices is not singing, but
+a sort of instrumental musique, the sense of the words being lost by not
+being heard, and especially as they set them with Fuges of words, one
+after another, whereas singing properly, I think, should be but with one
+or two voices at most and the counterpoint.  They supped with me, and so
+broke, up, and then my wife and I to my chamber, where, through the
+badness of my eyes, she was forced to read to me, which she do very well,
+and was Mr. Boyle's discourse upon the style of the Scripture,' which is
+a very fine piece, and so to bed.
+
+
+
+16th.  Up, and several come to me, among others Mr. Yeabsly of Plymouth,
+to discourse about their matters touching Tangier, and by and by Sir H.
+Cholmly, who was with me a good while; who tells me that the Duke of
+York's child is christened, the Duke of Albemarle and the Marquis of
+Worcester' godfathers, and my Lady Suffolke godmother; and they have
+named it Edgar, which is a brave name.  But it seems they are more joyful
+in the Chancellor's family, at the birth of this Prince, than in wisdom
+they should, for fear it should give the King cause of jealousy.  Sir H.
+Cholmly do not seem to think there is any such thing can be in the King's
+intention as that of raising the Duke of Monmouth to the Crowne, though
+he thinks there may possibly be some persons that would, and others that
+would be glad to have the Queen removed to some monastery, or somewhere
+or other, to make room for a new wife; for they will all be unsafe under
+the Duke of York.  He says the King and Parliament will agree; that is,
+that the King will do any thing that they will have him.  We together to
+the Exchequer about our Tangier orders, and so parted at the New
+Exchange, where I staid reading Mrs. Phillips's poems till my wife and
+Mercer called me to Mrs. Pierces, by invitation to dinner, where I find
+her painted, which makes me loathe her, and the nastiest poor dinner that
+made me sick, only here I met with a Fourth Advice to the Painter upon
+the coming in of the Dutch to the River and end of the war, that made my
+heart ake to read, it being too sharp, and so true.  Here I also saw a
+printed account of the examinations taken, touching the burning of the
+City of London, shewing the plot of the Papists therein; which, it seems,
+hath been ordered and to have been burnt by the hands of the hangman, in
+Westminster Palace.  I will try to get one of them.  After dinner she
+showed us her closet, which is pretty, with her James's picture done by
+Hales, but with a mighty bad hand, which is his great fault that he do do
+negligently, and the drapery also not very good.  Being tired of being
+here, and sick of their damned sluttish dinner, my wife and Mercer and I
+away to the King's play-house, to see the "Scornfull Lady;" but it being
+now three o'clock there was not one soul in the pit; whereupon, for
+shame, we would not go in, but, against our wills, went all to see "Tu
+Quoque" again, where there is a pretty store of company, and going with a
+prejudice the play appeared better to us.  Here we saw Madam Morland, who
+is grown mighty fat, but is very comely.  But one of the best arts of our
+sport was a mighty pretty lady that sat behind, that did laugh so
+heartily and constantly, that it did me good to hear her.  Thence to the
+King's house, upon a wager of mine with my wife, that there would be no
+acting there today, there being no company: so I went in and found a
+pretty good company there, and saw their dance at the end of he play, and
+so to the coach again, and to the Cock ale house, and there drank in our
+coach, and so home, and my wife read to me as last night, and so to bed
+vexed with our dinner to-day, and myself more with being convinced that
+Mrs. Pierce paints, so that henceforth to be sure I shall loathe her.
+
+
+
+17th.  Up, and at the office all the morning, where Mr. Wren come to us
+and sat with us, only to learn, and do intend to come once or twice a
+week and sit with us.  In the afternoon walked to the Old Swan, the way
+mighty dirty, and there called at Michell's, and there had opportunity
+para kiss su moher, but elle did receive it with a great deal of seeming
+regret, which did vex me.  But however I do not doubt overcoming her as I
+did the moher of the monsieur at Deptford.  So thence by water to
+Westminster, to Burgess, and there did receive my orders for L1500 more
+for Tangier.  Thence to the Hall, and there talked a little with Mrs.
+Michell, and so to Mrs. Martin's to pay for my cuffs and drink with her .
+.  .  .  And by and by away by coach and met with Sir H. Cholmly, and
+with him to the Temple, and there in Playford's shop did give him some of
+my Exchequer orders and took his receipts, and so parted and home, and
+there to my business hard at the office, and then home, my wife being at
+Mrs. Turner's, who and her husband come home with her, and here staid and
+talked and staid late, and then went away and we to bed.  But that which
+vexed me much this evening is that Captain Cocke and Sir W. Batten did
+come to me, and sat, and drank a bottle of wine, and told me how Sir W.
+Pen hath got an order for the "Flying Greyhound" for himself, which is so
+false a thing, and the part of a knave, as nothing almost can be more.
+This vexed me; but I resolve to bring it before the Duke, and try a pull
+for it.
+
+
+
+18th.  Up betimes and to Captain Cocke, in his coach which he sent for
+me, and he not being ready I walked in the Exchange, which is now made
+pretty, by having windows and doors before all their shops, to keep out
+the cold.  By and by to him, and he being ready, he and I out in his
+coach to my Lord Chancellor's; there to Mr. Wren's chamber, who did tell
+us the whole of Sir W. Pen's having the order for this ship of ours, and
+we went with him to St. James's, and there I did see the copy of it,
+which is built upon a suggestion of his having given the King a ship of
+his, "The Prosperous," wherein is such a cheat as I have the best
+advantage in the world over him, and will make him do reason, or lay him
+on his back.  This I was very glad of, and having done as far as I could
+in it we returned, and I home, and there at the office all the morning,
+and at noon with my Lord Bruncker to the Treasurer's office to look over
+the clerks who are there making up the books, but in such a manner as it
+is a shame to see.  Then home to dinner, and after dinner, my mind mighty
+full of this business of Sir W. Pen's, to the office, and there busy all
+the afternoon.  This evening Sir W. Batten and [Sir] W. Pen and I met at
+[Sir] W. Batten's house, and there I took an opportunity to break the
+business, at which [Sir] W. Pen is much disturbed, and would excuse it
+the most he can, but do it so basely, that though he do offer to let go
+his pretence to her, and resign up his order for her, and come in only to
+ask his share of her (which do very well please me, and give me present
+satisfaction), yet I shall remember him for a knave while I live.  But
+thus my mind is quieted for the present more than I thought I should be,
+and am glad that I shall have no need of bidding him open defiance, which
+I would otherwise have done, and made a perpetual war between us.  So to
+the office, and there busy pretty late, and so home and to supper with my
+wife, and so to bed.
+
+
+
+19th.  Up, and all the morning at the office.  At noon home to dinner, W.
+Hewer and I and my wife, when comes my cozen, Kate Joyce, and an aunt of
+ours, Lettice, formerly Haynes, and now Howlett, come to town to see her
+friends, and also Sarah Kite, with her little boy in her armes, a very
+pretty little boy.  The child I like very well, and could wish it my own.
+My wife being all unready, did not appear.  I made as much of them as I
+could such ordinary company; and yet my heart was glad to see them,
+though their condition was a little below my present state, to be
+familiar with.  She tells me how the lifeguard, which we thought a little
+while since was sent down into the country about some insurrection, was
+sent to Winchcombe, to spoil the tobacco there, which it seems the people
+there do plant contrary to law, and have always done, and still been
+under force and danger of having it spoiled, as it hath been oftentimes,
+and yet they will continue to plant it.
+
+     [Winchcombe St. Peter, a market-town in Gloucestershire.  Tobacco
+     was first cultivated in this parish, after its introduction into
+     England, in 1583, and it proved, a considerable source of profit to
+     the inhabitants, till the trade was placed under restrictions.  The
+     cultivation was first prohibited during the Commonwealth, and
+     various acts were passed in the reign of Charles II. for the same
+     purpose.  Among the king's pamphlets in the British Museum is a
+     tract entitled "Harry Hangman's Honour, or Glostershire Hangman's
+     Request to the Smokers and Tobacconists of London," dated June 11th,
+     1655.  The author writes: "The very planting of tobacco hath proved
+     the decay of my trade, for since it hath been planted in
+     Glostershire, especially at Winchcomb, my trade hath proved nothing
+     worth."  He adds: "Then 'twas a merry world with me, for indeed
+     before tobacco was there planted, there being no kind of trade to
+     employ men, and very small tillage, necessity compelled poor men to
+     stand my friends by stealing of sheep and other cattel, breaking of
+     hedges, robbing of orchards, and what not."]
+
+The place, she says, is a miserable poor place.  They gone, I to the
+office, where all the afternoon very busy, and at night, when my eyes
+were weary of the light, I and my wife to walk in the garden, and then
+home to supper and pipe, and then to bed.
+
+
+
+20th.  At the office doing business all the morning.  At noon expected
+Creed to have come to dine with me and brought Mr. Sheres (the gentleman
+lately come from my Lord Sandwich) with him; but they come not, so there
+was a good dinner lost.  After dinner my wife and Jane about some
+business of hers abroad, and then I to the office, where, having done my
+business, I out to pay some debts: among others to the taverne at the end
+of Billiter Lane, where my design was to see the pretty mistress of the
+house, which I did, and indeed is, as I always thought, one of the
+modestest, prettiest, plain women that ever I saw.  Thence was met in the
+street by Sir W. Pen, and he and I by coach to the King's playhouse, and
+there saw "The Mad Couple,"  which I do not remember that I have seen; it
+is a pretty pleasant play.  Thence home, and my wife and I to walk in the
+garden, she having been at the same play with Jane, in the 18d. seat, to
+shew Jane the play, and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+21st.  All the morning at the office, dined at home, and expected Sheres
+again, but he did not come, so another dinner lost by the folly of Creed.
+After having done some business at the office, I out with my wife to
+Sheres's lodging and left an invitation for him to dine with me tomorrow,
+and so back and took up my wife at the Exchange, and then kissed Mrs.
+Smith's pretty hand, and so with my wife by coach to take some ayre (but
+the way very dirty) as far as Bow, and so drinking (as usual) at Mile End
+of Byde's ale, we home and there busy at my letters till late, and so to
+walk by moonshine with my wife, and so to bed.  The King, Duke of York,
+and the men of the Court, have been these four or five days a-hunting at
+Bagshot.
+
+
+
+22nd (Lord's day).  At my chamber all the morning making up some
+accounts, to my great content.  At noon comes Mr. Sheres, whom I find a
+good, ingenious man, but do talk a little too much of his travels.  He
+left my Lord Sandwich well, but in pain to be at home for want of money,
+which comes very hardly.  Most of the afternoon talking of Spain, and
+informing him against his return how things are here, and so spent most
+of the afternoon, and then he parted, and then to my chamber busy till my
+eyes were almost blind with writing and reading, and I was fain to get
+the boy to come and write for me, and then to supper, and Pelling come to
+me at supper, and then to sing a Psalm with him, and so parted and to
+bed, after my wife had read some thing to me (to save my eyes) in a good
+book.  This night I did even my accounts of the house, which I have to my
+great shame omitted now above two months or more, and therefore am
+content to take my wife's and mayd's accounts as they give them, being
+not able to correct them, which vexes me; but the fault being my own,
+contrary to my wife's frequent desires, I cannot find fault, but am
+resolved never to let them come to that pass again.  The truth is, I have
+indulged myself more in pleasure for these last two months than ever I
+did in my life before, since I come to be a person concerned in business;
+and I doubt, when I come to make up my accounts, I shall find it so by
+the expence.
+
+
+
+23rd.  Up, and walked to the Exchange, there to get a coach but failed,
+and so was forced to walk a most dirty walk to the Old Swan, and there
+took boat, and so to the Exchange, and there took coach to St. James's
+and did our usual business with the Duke of York.  Thence I walked over
+the Park to White Hall and took water to Westminster, and there, among
+other things, bought the examinations of the business about the Fire of
+London, which is a book that Mrs. Pierce tells me hath been commanded to
+be burnt.  The examinations indeed are very plain.  Thence to the Excise
+office, and so to the Exchange, and did a little business, and so home
+and took up my wife, and so carried her to the other end, where I 'light
+at my Lord Ashly's, by invitation, to dine there, which I did, and Sir H.
+Cholmly, Creed, and Yeabsly, upon occasion of the business of Yeabsly,
+who, God knows, do bribe him very well for it; and it is pretty to see
+how this great man do condescend to these things, and do all he can in
+his examining of his business to favour him, and yet with great cunning
+not to be discovered but by me that am privy to it.  At table it is worth
+remembering that my Lord tells us that the House of Lords is the last
+appeal that a man can make, upon a poynt of interpretation of the law,
+and that therein they are above the judges; and that he did assert this
+in the Lords' House upon the late occasion of the quarrel between my Lord
+Bristoll and the Chancellor, when the former did accuse the latter of
+treason, and the judges did bring it in not to be treason: my Lord Ashly
+did declare that the judgment of the judges was nothing in the presence
+of their Lordships, but only as far as they were the properest men to
+bring precedents; but not to interpret the law to their Lordships, but
+only the inducements of their persuasions: and this the Lords did concur
+in.  Another pretty thing was my Lady Ashly's speaking of the bad
+qualities of glass-coaches; among others, the flying open of the doors
+upon any great shake: but another was, that my Lady Peterborough being in
+her glass-coach, with the glass up, and seeing a lady pass by in a coach
+whom she would salute, the glass was so clear, that she thought it had
+been open, and so ran her head through the glass, and cut all her
+forehead!  After dinner, before we fell to the examination of Yeabsly's
+business, we were put into my Lord's room before he could come to us, and
+there had opportunity to look over his state of his accounts of the
+prizes; and there saw how bountiful the King hath been to several people
+and hardly any man almost, Commander of the Navy of any note, but hath
+had some reward or other out of it; and many sums to the Privy-purse, but
+not so many, I see, as I thought there had been: but we could not look
+quite through it.  But several Bedchamber-men and people about the Court
+had good sums; and, among others, Sir John Minnes and Lord Bruncker have
+L200 a-piece for looking to the East India prizes, while I did their work
+for them.  By and by my Lord come, and we did look over Yeabsly's
+business a little; and I find how prettily this cunning Lord can be
+partial and dissemble it in this case, being privy to the bribe he is to
+receive.  This done; we away, and with Sir H. Cholmly to Westminster; who
+by the way told me how merry the king and Duke of York and Court were the
+other day, when they were abroad a-hunting.  They come to Sir G.
+Carteret's house at Cranbourne, and there were entertained, and all made
+drunk; and that all being drunk, Armerer did come to the King, and swore
+to him, "By God, Sir," says he, "you are not so kind to the Duke of York
+of late as you used to be."--"Not I?" says the King.  "Why so?"--"Why,"
+says he, "if you are, let us drink his health."--"Why, let us," says the
+King.  Then he fell on his knees, and drank it; and having done, the King
+began to drink it.  "Nay, Sir," says Armerer, "by God you must do it on
+your knees!"  So he did, and then all the company: and having done it,
+all fell a-crying for joy, being all maudlin and kissing one another,
+the King the Duke of York, and the Duke of York the King: and in such a
+maudlin pickle as never people were: and so passed the day.  But Sir H.
+Cholmly tells me, that the King hath this good luck, that the next day he
+hates to have any body mention what he had done the day before, nor will
+suffer any body to gain upon him that way; which is a good quality.
+Parted with Sir H. Cholmly at White Hall, and there I took coach and took
+up my wife at Unthanke's, and so out for ayre, it being a mighty pleasant
+day, as far as Bow, and so drank by the way, and home, and there to my
+chamber till by and by comes Captain Cocke about business; who tells me
+that Mr. Bruncker is lost for ever, notwithstanding my Lord Bruncker hath
+advised with him, Cocke, how he might make a peace with the Duke of York
+and Chancellor, upon promise of serving him in the Parliament but Cocke
+says that is base to offer, and will have no success neither.  He says
+that Mr. Wren hath refused a present of Tom Wilson's for his place of
+Store-keeper of Chatham, and is resolved never to take any thing; which
+is both wise in him, and good to the King's service.  He stayed with me
+very late, here being Mrs. Turner and W. Batelier drinking and laughing,
+and then to bed.
+
+
+
+24th.  Up, and to the Office, where all the morning very busy.  At noon
+home, where there dined with me Anthony Joyce and his wife, and Will and
+his wife, and my aunt Lucett, that was here the other day, and Sarah
+Kite, and I had a good dinner for them, and were as merry as I could be
+in that company where W. Joyce is, who is still the same impertinent
+fellow that ever he was.  After dinner I away to St. James's, where we
+had an audience of the Duke of York of many things of weight, as the
+confirming an establishment of the numbers of men on ships in peace and
+other things of weight, about which we stayed till past candle-light, and
+so Sir W. Batten and W. Pen and I fain to go all in a hackney-coach round
+by London Wall, for fear of cellars, this being the first time I have
+been forced to go that way this year, though now I shall begin to use it.
+We tired one coach upon Holborne-Conduit Hill, and got another, and made
+it a long journey home.  Where to the office and then home, and at my
+business till twelve at night, writing in short hand the draught of a
+report to make to the King and Council to-morrow, about the reason of not
+having the book of the Treasurer made up.  This I did finish to-night to
+the spoiling of my eyes, I fear.  This done, then to bed.  This evening
+my wife tells me that W. Batelier hath been here to-day, and brought with
+him the pretty girl he speaks of, to come to serve my wife as a woman,
+out of the school at Bow.  My wife says she is extraordinary handsome,
+and inclines to have her, and I am glad of it--at least, that if we must
+have one, she should be handsome.  But I shall leave it wholly to my
+wife, to do what she will therein.
+
+
+
+25th.  Up as soon as I could see and to the office to write over fair
+with Mr. Hater my last night's work, which I did by nine o'clock, and got
+it signed, and so with Sir H. Cholmly, who come to me about his business,
+to White Hall: and thither come also my Lord Bruncker: and we by and by
+called in, and our paper read; and much discourse thereon by Sir G.
+Carteret, my Lord Anglesey, Sir W. Coventry, and my Lord Ashly, and
+myself: but I could easily discern that they none of them understood the
+business; and the King at last ended it with saying lazily, "Why," says
+he, "after all this discourse, I now come to understand it; and that is,
+that there can nothing be done in this more than is possible," which was
+so silly as I never heard: "and therefore," says he, "I would have these
+gentlemen to do as much as possible to hasten the Treasurer's accounts;
+and that is all."  And so we broke up: and I confess I went away ashamed,
+to see how slightly things are advised upon there.  Here I saw the Duke
+of Buckingham sit in Council again, where he was re-admitted, it seems,
+the last Council-day: and it is wonderful to see how this man is come
+again to his places, all of them, after the reproach and disgrace done
+him: so that things are done in a most foolish manner quite through.  The
+Duke of Buckingham did second Sir W. Coventry in the advising the King
+that he would not concern himself in the owning or not owning any man's
+accounts, or any thing else, wherein he had not the same satisfaction
+that would satisfy the Parliament; saying, that nothing would displease
+the Parliament more than to find him defending any thing that is not
+right, nor justifiable to the utmost degree but methought he spoke it but
+very poorly.  After this, I walked up and down the Gallery till noon; and
+here I met with Bishop Fuller, who, to my great joy, is made, which I did
+not hear before, Bishop of Lincoln.  At noon I took coach, and to Sir G.
+Carteret's, in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, to the house that is my Lord's,
+which my Lord lets him have: and this is the first day of dining there.
+And there dined with him and his lady my Lord Privy-seale, who is indeed
+a very sober man; who, among other talk, did mightily wonder at the
+reason of the growth of the credit of banquiers, since it is so ordinary
+a thing for citizens to break, out of knavery.  Upon this we had much
+discourse; and I observed therein, to the honour of this City, that I
+have not heard of one citizen of London broke in all this war, this
+plague, this fire, and this coming up of the enemy among us; which he
+owned to be very considerable.
+
+     [This remarkable fact is confirmed by Evelyn, in a letter to Sir
+     Samuel Tuke, September 27th, 1666.  See "Correspondence," vol.
+     iii., p. 345, edit. 1879.]
+
+After dinner I to the King's playhouse, my eyes being so bad since last
+night's straining of them, that I am hardly able to see, besides the pain
+which I have in them.  The play was a new play; and infinitely full: the
+King and all the Court almost there.  It is "The Storme," a play of
+Fletcher's;' which is but so-so, methinks; only there is a most admirable
+dance at the end, of the ladies, in a military manner, which indeed did
+please me mightily.  So, it being a mighty wet day and night, I with much
+ado got a coach, and, with twenty stops which he made, I got him to carry
+me quite through, and paid dear for it, and so home, and there comes my
+wife home from the Duke of York's playhouse, where she hath been with my
+aunt and Kate Joyce, and so to supper, and betimes to bed, to make amends
+for my last night's work and want of sleep.
+
+
+
+26th.  Up, and to my chamber, whither Jonas Moore comes, and, among other
+things, after our business done, discoursing of matters of the office, I
+shewed him my varnished things, which he says he can outdo much, and
+tells me the mighty use of Napier's bones;
+
+     [John Napier or Neper (1550-1617), laird of Merchiston (now
+     swallowed up in the enlarged Edinburgh of to-day, although the old
+     castle still stands), and the inventor of logarithms.  He published
+     his "Rabdologiae seu numerationis per virgulas libri duo" in 1617,
+     and the work was reprinted and translated into Italian (1623) and
+     Dutch (1626).  In 1667 William Leybourn published "The Art of
+     Numbering by Speaking Rods, vulgarly termed Napier's Bones."]
+
+so that I will have a pair presently.  To the office, where busy all the
+morning sitting, and at noon home to dinner, and then with my wife abroad
+to the King's playhouse, to shew her yesterday's new play, which I like
+as I did yesterday, the principal thing extraordinary being the dance,
+which is very good.  So to Charing Cross by coach, about my wife's
+business, and then home round by London Wall, it being very dark and
+dirty, and so to supper, and, for the ease of my eyes, to bed, having
+first ended all my letters at the office.
+
+
+
+27th.  Up, and to the office, where very busy all the morning.  While I
+was busy at the Office, my wife sends for me to come home, and what was
+it but to see the pretty girl which she is taking to wait upon her: and
+though she seems not altogether so great a beauty as she had before told
+me, yet indeed she is mighty pretty; and so pretty, that I find I shall
+be too much pleased with it, and therefore could be contented as to my
+judgement, though not to my passion, that she might not come, lest I may
+be found too much minding her, to the discontent of my wife.  She is to
+come next week.  She seems, by her discourse, to be grave beyond her
+bigness and age, and exceeding well bred as to her deportment, having
+been a scholar in a school at Bow these seven or eight years.  To the
+office again, my head running on this pretty girl, and there till noon,
+when Creed and Sheres come and dined with me; and we had a great deal of
+pretty discourse of the ceremoniousness of the Spaniards, whose
+ceremonies are so many and so known, that, Sheres tells me, upon all
+occasions of joy or sorrow in a Grandee's family, my Lord Embassador is
+fain to send one with an 'en hora buena', if it be upon a marriage, or
+birth of a child, or a 'pesa me', if it be upon the death of a child, or
+so.  And these ceremonies are so set, and the words of the compliment,
+that he hath been sent from my Lord, when he hath done no more than send
+in word to the Grandee that one was there from the Embassador; and he
+knowing what was his errand, that hath been enough, and he never spoken
+with him: nay, several Grandees having been to marry a daughter, have
+wrote letters to my Lord to give him notice, and out of the greatness of
+his wisdom to desire his advice, though people he never saw; and then my
+Lord he answers by commending the greatness of his discretion in making
+so good an alliance, &c., and so ends.  He says that it is so far from
+dishonour to a man to give private revenge for an affront, that the
+contrary is a disgrace; they holding that he that receives an affront is
+not fit to appear in the sight of the world till he hath revenged
+himself; and therefore, that a gentleman there that receives an affront
+oftentimes never appears again in the world till he hath, by some private
+way or other, revenged himself: and that, on this account, several have
+followed their enemies privately to the Indys, thence to Italy, thence to
+France and back again, watching for an opportunity to be revenged.  He
+says my Lord was fain to keep a letter from the Duke of York to the Queen
+of Spain a great while in his hands, before he could think fit to deliver
+it, till he had learnt whether the Queen would receive it, it being
+directed to his cozen.  He says that many ladies in Spain, after they are
+found to be with child, do never stir out of their beds or chambers till
+they are brought to bed: so ceremonious they are in that point also.  He
+tells me of their wooing by serenades at the window, and that their
+friends do always make the match; but yet that they have opportunities to
+meet at masse at church, and there they make love: that the Court there
+hath no dancing, nor visits at night to see the King or Queen, but is
+always just like a cloyster, nobody stirring in it: that my Lord Sandwich
+wears a beard now, turned up in the Spanish manner.  But that which
+pleases me most indeed is, that the peace which he hath made with Spain
+is now printed here, and is acknowledged by all the merchants to be the
+best peace that ever England had with them: and it appears that the King
+thinks it so, for this is printed before the ratification is gone over;
+whereas that with France and Holland was not in a good while after, till
+copys come over of it in English out of Holland and France, that it was a
+reproach not to have it printed here.  This I am mighty glad of; and is
+the first and only piece of good news, or thing fit to be owned, that
+this nation hath done several years.  After dinner I to the office, and
+they gone, anon comes Pelling, and he and I to Gray's Inne Fields,
+thinking to have heard Mrs. Knight sing at her lodgings, by a friend's
+means of his;
+
+     [Mrs. Knight, a celebrated singer and mistress of Charles II. There
+     is in Waller's "Poems" a song sung by her to the queen on her
+     birthday.  In her portrait, engraved by Faber, after Kneller, she is
+     represented in mourning, and in a devout posture before a crucifix.
+     Evelyn refers to her singing as incomparable, and adds that she had
+     "the greatest reach of any English woman; she had been lately
+     roaming in Italy, and was much improv'd in that quality" ("Diary,"
+     December 2nd, 1674).]
+
+but we come too late; so must try another time.  So lost our labour, and
+I by coach home, and there to my chamber, and did a great deal of good
+business about my Tangier accounts, and so with pleasure discoursing with
+my wife of our journey shortly to Brampton, and of this little girle,
+which indeed runs in my head, and pleases me mightily, though I dare not
+own it, and so to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+28th.  Up, having slept not so much to-night as I used to do, for my
+thoughts being so full of this pretty little girle that is coming to live
+with us, which pleases me mightily.  All the morning at the Office, busy
+upon an Order of Council, wherein they are mightily at a loss what to
+advise about our discharging of seamen by ticket, there being no money to
+pay their wages before January, only there is money to pay them since
+January, provided by the Parliament, which will be a horrid disgrace to
+the King and Crowne of England that no man shall reckon himself safe, but
+where the Parliament takes care.  And this did move Mr. Wren at the table
+to-day to say, that he did believe if ever there be occasion more to
+raise money, it will become here, as it is in Poland, that there are two
+treasurers--one for the King, and the other for the kingdom.  At noon
+dined at home, and Mr. Hater with me, and Mr. Pierce, the surgeon,
+dropped in, who I feared did come to bespeak me to be godfather to his
+son, which I am unwilling now to be, having ended my liking to his wife,
+since I find she paints.  After dinner comes Sir Fr. Hollis to me about
+business; and I with him by coach to the Temple, and there I 'light; all
+the way he telling me romantic lies of himself and his family, how they
+have been Parliamentmen for Grimsby, he and his forefathers, this 140
+years; and his father is now: and himself, at this day, stands for to be,
+with his father, by the death of his fellow-burgess; and that he believes
+it will cost him as much as it did his predecessor, which was L300 in
+ale, and L52 in buttered ale; which I believe is one of his devilish
+lies.  Here I 'light and to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw a
+piece of "Sir Martin Marrall," with great delight, though I have seen it
+so often, and so home, and there busy late, and so home to my supper and
+bed.
+
+
+
+29th (Lord's day).  Up, and put off first my summer's silk suit, and put
+on a cloth one.  Then to church, and so home to dinner, my wife and I
+alone to a good dinner.  All the afternoon talking in my chamber with my
+wife, about my keeping a coach the next year, and doing some things to my
+house, which will cost money--that is, furnish our best chamber with
+tapestry, and other rooms with pictures.  In the evening read good books
+--my wife to me; and I did even my kitchen accounts.  Then to supper, and
+so to bed.
+
+
+
+30th.  By water to White Hall, there to a committee of Tangier, but they
+not met yet, I went to St. James's, there thinking to have opportunity to
+speak to the Duke of York about the petition I have to make to him for
+something in reward for my service this war, but I did waive it.  Thence
+to White Hall, and there a Committee met, where little was done, and
+thence to the Duke of York to Council, where we the officers of the Navy
+did attend about the business of discharging the seamen by tickets, where
+several of the Lords spoke and of our number none but myself, which I did
+in such manner as pleased the King and Council.  Speaking concerning the
+difficulty of pleasing of seamen and giving them assurance to their
+satisfaction that they should be paid their arrears of wages, my Lord
+Ashly did move that an assignment for money on the Act might be put into
+the hands of the East India Company, or City of London, which he thought
+the seamen would believe.  But this my Lord Anglesey did very handsomely
+oppose, and I think did carry it that it will not be: and it is indeed a
+mean thing that the King should so far own his own want of credit as to
+borrow theirs in this manner.  My Lord Anglesey told him that this was
+the way indeed to teach the Parliament to trust the King no more for the
+time to come, but to have a kingdom's Treasurer distinct from the King's.
+Home at noon to dinner, where I expected to have had our new girle, my
+wife's woman, but she is not yet come.  I abroad after dinner to White
+Hall, and there among other things do hear that there will be musique to-
+morrow night before the King.  So to Westminster, where to the Swan .  .
+.  .  and drank and away to the Hall, and thence to Mrs. Martin's,
+to bespeak some linen, and there je did avoir all with her, and drank,
+and away, having first promised my goddaughter a new coat-her first coat.
+So by coach home, and there find our pretty girl Willet come, brought by
+Mr. Batelier, and she is very pretty, and so grave as I never saw a
+little thing in my life.  Indeed I think her a little too good for my
+family, and so well carriaged as I hardly ever saw.  I wish my wife may
+use her well.  Now I begin to be full of thought for my journey the next
+week, if I can get leave, to Brampton.  Tonight come and sat with me Mr.
+Turner and his wife and tell me of a design of sending their son Franke
+to the East Indy Company's service if they can get him entertainment,
+which they are promised by Sir Andr. Rickard, which I do very well like
+of.  So the company broke up and to bed.
+
+
+
+
+ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:
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+Act of Council passed, to put out all Papists in office
+And a deal of do of which I am weary
+But do it with mighty vanity and talking
+Feared she hath from some [one] or other of a present
+Fell a-crying for joy, being all maudlin and kissing one another
+Found to be with child, do never stir out of their beds
+Had his hand cut off, and was hanged presently!
+Hates to have any body mention what he had done the day before
+House of Lords is the last appeal that a man can make
+I find her painted, which makes me loathe her (cosmetics)
+King do resolve to declare the Duke of Monmouth legitimate
+Lady Castlemayne is compounding with the King for a pension
+My intention to learn to trill
+Never, while he lives, truckle under any body or any faction
+Pressing in it as if none of us had like care with him
+Singing with many voices is not singing
+Their condition was a little below my present state
+Weary of it; but it will please the citizens
+Weigh him after he had done playing
+
+
+
+
+End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v64
+by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley
+
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