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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: + +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 + diff --git a/old/sp65g10.zip b/old/sp65g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..72376a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp65g10.zip |