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diff --git a/4180.txt b/4180.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a857925 --- /dev/null +++ b/4180.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1612 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, September 1667, by Samuel Pepys + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, September 1667 + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Release Date: December 1, 2004 [EBook #4180] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY + MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + 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. + + + + + ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + + 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 the Project Gutenberg EBook of Diary of Samuel Pepys, September 1667 +by Samuel Pepys + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + +***** This file should be named 4180.txt or 4180.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/8/4180/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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