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+Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, October 1667, by Samuel Pepys
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+Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, October 1667
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+Author: Samuel Pepys
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+Release Date: December 1, 2004 [EBook #4181]
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, ***
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+Produced by David Widger
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+                THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S.
+
+            CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY
+
+    TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY
+ MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW
+                      AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
+
+                              (Unabridged)
+
+                      WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES
+
+                        EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY
+
+                        HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A.
+
+                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
+                                 OCTOBER
+                                  1667
+
+October 1st.  All the morning busy at the office, pleased mightily with my
+girle that we have got to wait on my wife.  At noon dined with Sir G.
+Carteret and the rest of our officers at his house in Broad Street, they
+being there upon his accounts.  After dinner took coach and to my wife,
+who was gone before into the Strand, there to buy a nightgown, where I
+found her in a shop with her pretty girle, and having bought it away home,
+and I thence to Sir G. Carteret's again, and so took coach alone, it now
+being almost night, to White Hall, and there in the Boarded-gallery did
+hear the musick with which the King is presented this night by Monsieur
+Grebus, the master of his musick; both instrumentall--I think twenty-four
+violins--and vocall; an English song upon Peace.  But, God forgive me!  I
+never was so little pleased with a concert of musick in my life.  The
+manner of setting of words and repeating them out of order, and that with
+a number of voices, makes me sick, the whole design of vocall musick being
+lost by it.  Here was a great press of people; but I did not see many
+pleased with it, only the instrumental musick he had brought by practice
+to play very just.  So thence late in the dark round by the wall home by
+coach, and there to sing and sup with my wife, and look upon our pretty
+girle, and so to bed.
+
+2nd.  Up, and very busy all the morning, upon my accounts of Tangier, to
+present to the Commissioners of the Treasury in the afternoon, and the
+like upon the accounts of the office.  This morning come to me Mr. Gawden
+about business, with his gold chain about his neck, as being Sheriffe of
+the City this year.  At noon to the Treasury Office again, and there dined
+and did business, and then by coach to the New Exchange, and there met my
+wife and girl, and took them to the King's house to see "The Traytour,"
+which still I like as a very good play; and thence, round by the wall,
+home, having drunk at the Cock ale-house, as I of late have used to do,
+and so home and to my chamber to read, and so to supper and to bed.
+
+3rd.  Up, and going out of doors, I understand that Sir W. Batten is gone
+to bed on a sudden again this morning, being struck very ill, and I
+confess I have observed him for these last two months to look very ill and
+to look worse and worse.  I to St. James's (though it be a sitting day) to
+the Duke of York, about the Tangier Committee, which met this morning, and
+he come to us, and the Charter for the City of Tangier was read and the
+form of the Court Merchant.  That being done Sir W. Coventry took me into
+the gallery, and walked with me an hour, discoursing of Navy business, and
+with much kindness to, and confidence in, me still; which I must endeavour
+to preserve, and will do; and, good man! all his care how to get the Navy
+paid off, and that all other things therein may go well. He gone, I thence
+to my Lady Peterborough, who sent for me; and with her an hour talking
+about her husband's pension, and how she hath got an order for its being
+paid again; though, I believe, for all that order, it will hardly be; but
+of that I said nothing; but her design is to get it paid again: and how to
+raise money upon it, to clear it from the engagement which lies upon it to
+some citizens, who lent her husband money, without her knowledge, upon it,
+to vast loss.  She intends to force them to take their money again, and
+release her husband of those hard terms.  The woman is a very wise woman,
+and is very plain in telling me how her plate and jewels are at pawne for
+money, and how they are forced to live beyond their estate, and do get
+nothing by his being a courtier.  The lady I pity, and her family.  Having
+done with her, and drunk two glasses of her meade, which she did give me,
+and so to the Treasurer's Office, and there find my Lord Bruncker and
+[Sir] W. Pen at dinner with Sir G. Carteret about his accounts, where I
+dined and talked and settled some business, and then home, and there took
+out my wife and Willet, thinking to have gone to a play, but both houses
+were begun, and so we to the 'Change, and thence to my tailor's, and
+there, the coachman desiring to go home to change his horses, we went with
+him into a nasty end of all St. Giles's, and there went into a nasty room,
+a chamber of his, where he hath a wife and child, and there staid, it
+growing dark too, and I angry thereat, till he shifted his horses, and
+then home apace, and there I to business late, and so home, to supper, and
+walk in the garden with my wife and girle, with whom we are mightily
+pleased, and after talking and supping, to bed.  This noon, going home, I
+did call on Will Lincolne and agree with him to carry me to Brampton.
+
+4th.  Up, and to White Hall to attend the Council about Commissioner
+Pett's business, along with my Lord Bruncker and Sir W. Pen, and in the
+Robe-chamber the Duke of York come to us, the officers of the Navy, and
+there did meet together about Navy business, where Sir W. Coventry was
+with us, and among other things did recommend his Royal Highness, now the
+prizes were disposing, to remember Sir John Harman to the King, for some
+bounty, and also for my Lady Minnes, which was very nobly done of him.
+Thence all of us to attend the Council, where we were anon called on, and
+there was a long hearing of Commissioner Pett, who was there, and there
+were the two Masters Attendant of Chatham called in, who do deny their
+having any order from Commissioner Pett about bringing up the great ships,
+which gives the lie to what he says; but, in general, I find him to be but
+a weak, silly man, and that is guilty of horrid neglect in this business
+all along.  Here broke off without coming to an issue, but that there
+should be another hearing on Monday next.  So the Council rose, and I
+staid walking up and down the galleries till the King went to dinner, and
+then I to my Lord Crew's to dinner; but he having dined, I took a very
+short leave, confessing I had not dined; and so to an ordinary hard by the
+Temple-gate, where I have heretofore been, and there dined--cost me 10d.
+And so to my Lord Ashly's, where after dinner Sir H. Cholmly, Creed and I,
+with his Lordship, about Mr. Yeabsly's business, where having come to
+agreement with him abating him L1000 of what he demands for ships lost, I
+to Westminster, to Mrs. Martin's lodging, whither I sent for her, and
+there hear that her husband is come from sea, which is sooner than I
+expected; and here I staid and drank, and so did toucher elle and away,
+and so by coach to my tailor's, and thence to my Lord Crew's, and there
+did stay with him an hour till almost night, discoursing about the ill
+state of my Lord Sandwich, that he can neither be got to be called home,
+nor money got to maintain him there; which will ruin his family.  And the
+truth is, he do almost deserve it, for by all relation he hath, in a
+little more than a year and a half, spent L20,000 of the King's money, and
+the best part of L10,000 of his own; which is a most prodigious expence,
+more than ever Embassador spent there, and more than these Commissioners
+of the Treasury will or do allow.  And they demand an account before they
+will give him any more money; which puts all his friends to a loss what to
+answer.  But more money we must get him, or to be called home.  I offer to
+speak to Sir W. Coventry about it; but my Lord will not advise to it,
+without consent of Sir G. Carteret. So home, and there to see Sir W.
+Batten, who fell sick yesterday morning: He is asleep: and so I could not
+see him; but in an hour after, word is brought me that he is so ill, that
+it is believed he cannot live till to-morrow, which troubles me and my
+wife mightily, partly out of kindness, he being a good neighbour and
+partly because of the money he owes me, upon our bargain of the late
+prize.  So home and to supper and to bed.
+
+5th.  Up, and to the Office; and there all the morning; none but my Lord
+Anglesey and myself; but much surprized with the news of the death of Sir
+W. Batten, who died this morning, having been but two days sick.  Sir W.
+Pen and I did dispatch a letter this morning to Sir W. Coventry, to
+recommend Colonel Middleton, who we think a most honest and understanding
+man, and fit for that place.  Sir G. Carteret did also come this morning,
+and walked with me in the garden; and concluded not to concern [himself]
+or have any advice made to Sir W. Coventry, in behalf of my Lord
+Sandwich's business; so I do rest satisfied, though I do think they are
+all mad, that they will judge Sir W. Coventry an enemy, when he is indeed
+no such man to any body, but is severe and just, as he ought to be, where
+he sees things ill done.  At noon home, and by coach to Temple Bar to a
+India shop, and there bought a gown and sash, which cost me 26s., and so
+she [Mrs. Pepys] and Willet away to the 'Change, and I to my Lord Crew,
+and there met my Lord Hinchingbroke and Lady Jemimah, and there dined with
+them and my Lord, where pretty merry, and after dinner my Lord Crew and
+Hinchingbroke and myself went aside to discourse about my Lord Sandwich's
+business, which is in a very ill state for want of money, and so parted,
+and I to my tailor's, and there took up my wife and Willet, who staid
+there for me, and to the Duke of York's playhouse, but the house so full,
+it being a new play, "The Coffee House," that we could not get in, and so
+to the King's house: and there, going in, met with Knepp, and she took us
+up into the tireing-rooms: and to the women's shift, where Nell was
+dressing herself, and was all unready, and is very pretty, prettier than I
+thought.  And so walked all up and down the house above, and then below
+into the scene-room, and there sat down, and she gave us fruit and here I
+read the questions to Knepp, while she answered me, through all her part
+of "Flora's Figary's," which was acted to-day.  But, Lord! to see how they
+were both painted would make a man mad, and did make me loath them; and
+what base company of men comes among them, and how lewdly they talk!  and
+how poor the men are in clothes, and yet what a shew they make on the
+stage by candle-light, is very observable.  But to see how Nell cursed,
+for having so few people in the pit, was pretty; the other house carrying
+away all the people at the new play, and is said, now-a-days, to have
+generally most company, as being better players.  By and by into the pit,
+and there saw the play, which is pretty good, but my belly was full of
+what I had seen in the house, and so, after the play done, away home, and
+there to the writing my letters, and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+6th (Lord's day).  Up, and dressed myself, and so walked out with the boy
+to Smithfield to Cow Lane, to Lincolne's, and there spoke with him, and
+agreed upon the hour to-morrow, to set out towards Brampton; but vexed
+that he is not likely to go himself, but sends another for him.  Here I
+took a hackney coach, and to White Hall, and there met Sir W. Coventry,
+and discoursed with him, and then with my Lord Bruncker, and many others,
+to end my matters in order to my going into the country to-morrow for five
+or six days, which I have not done for above three years.  Walked with
+Creed into the Park a little, and at last went into the Queen's side, and
+there saw the King and Queen, and saw the ladies, in order to my hearing
+any news stirring to carry into the country, but met with none, and so
+away home by coach, and there dined, and W. How come to see me, and after
+dinner parted, and I to my writing to my Lord Sandwich, which is the
+greatest business I have to do before my going into the country, and in
+the evening to my office to set matters to rights there, and being in the
+garden Sir W. Pen did come to me, and fell to discourse about the business
+of "The Flying Greyhound," wherein I was plain to him and he to me, and at
+last concluded upon my writing a petition to the Duke of York for a
+certain ship, The Maybolt Gallyott, and he offers to give me L300 for my
+success, which, however, I would not oblige him to, but will see the issue
+of it by fair play, and so I did presently draw a petition, which he
+undertakes to proffer to the Duke of York, and solicit for me, and will
+not seem to doubt of his success.  So I wrote, and did give it him, and
+left it with him, and so home to supper, where Pelling comes and sits with
+me, and there tells us how old Mr. Batelier is dead this last night in the
+night, going to bed well, which I am mightily troubled for, he being a
+good man.  Supper done, and he gone, I to my chamber to write my journal
+to this night, and so to bed.
+
+7th.  Up betimes, and did do several things towards the settling all
+matters both of house and office in order for my journey this day, and did
+leave my chief care, and the key of my closet, with Mr. Hater, with
+directions what papers to secure, in case of fire or other accident; and
+so, about nine o'clock, I, and my wife, and Willet, set out in a coach I
+have hired, with four horses; and W. Hewer and Murford rode by us on
+horseback; and so my wife and she in their morning gowns, very handsome
+and pretty, and to my great liking.  We set out, and so out at Allgate,
+and so to the Green Man, and so on to Enfield, in our way seeing Mr.
+Lowther and his lady in a coach, going to Walthamstow; and he told us that
+he would overtake us at night, he being to go that way.  So we to Enfield,
+and there bayted, it being but a foul, bad day, and there Lowther and Mr.
+Burford, an acquaintance of his, did overtake us, and there drank and eat
+together; and, by and by, we parted, we going before them, and very merry,
+my wife and girle and I talking, and telling tales, and singing, and
+before night come to Bishop Stafford, where Lowther and his friend did
+meet us again, and carried us to the Raynedeere, where Mrs. Aynsworth,
+
+     [Elizabeth Aynsworth, here mentioned, was a noted procurerss at
+     Cambridge, banished from that town by the university authorities for
+     her evil courses.  She subsequently kept the Rein Deer Inn at
+     Bishops Stortford, at which the Vice-Chancellor, and some of the
+     heads of colleges, had occasion to sleep, in their way to London,
+     and were nobly entertained, their supper being served off plate.
+     The next morning their hostess refused to make any charge, saying,
+     that she was still indebted to the Vice-Chancellor, who, by driving
+     her out of Cambridge, had made her fortune.  No tradition of this
+     woman has been preserved at Bishops Stortford; but it appears, from
+     the register of that parish, that she was buried there 26th of
+     March, 1686.  It is recorded in the "History of Essex," vol. iii.,
+     (p. 130) 8vo., 1770, and in a pamphlet in the British Museum,
+     entitled, "Boteler's Case," that she was implicated in the murder of
+     Captain Wood, a Hertfordshire gentleman, at Manuden, in Essex, and
+     for which offence a person named Boteler was executed at Chelmsford,
+     September 10th, 1667, and that Mrs. Aynsworth, tried at the same
+     time as an accessory before the fact, was acquitted for want of
+     evidence; though in her way to the jail she endeavoured to throw
+     herself into the river, but was prevented.  See Postea, May 25th,
+     1668.--B.]
+
+who lived heretofore at Cambridge, and whom I knew better than they think
+for, do live.  It was the woman that, among other things, was great with
+my cozen Barnston, of Cottenham, and did use to sing to him, and did teach
+me "Full forty times over," a very lewd song: a woman they are very well
+acquainted with, and is here what she was at Cambridge, and all the good
+fellows of the country come hither.  Lowther and his friend stayed and
+drank, and then went further this night; but here we stayed, and supped,
+and lodged.  But, as soon as they were gone, and my supper getting ready,
+I fell to write my letter to my Lord Sandwich, which I could not finish
+before my coming from London; so did finish it to my good content, and a
+good letter, telling him the present state of all matters, and did get a
+man to promise to carry it to-morrow morning, to be there, at my house, by
+noon, and I paid him well for it; so, that being done, and my mind at
+ease, we to supper, and so to bed, my wife and I in one bed, and the girl
+in another, in the same room, and lay very well, but there was so much
+tearing company in the house, that we could not see my landlady; so I had
+no opportunity of renewing my old acquaintance with her, but here we slept
+very well.
+
+8th.  Up pretty betimes, though not so soon as we intended, by reason of
+Murford's not rising, and then not knowing how to open our door, which,
+and some other pleasant simplicities of the fellow, did give occasion to
+us to call him.  Sir Martin Marrall, and W. Hewer being his helper and
+counsellor, we did call him, all this journey, Mr. Warner, which did give
+us good occasion of mirth now and then.  At last, rose, and up, and broke
+our fast, and then took coach, and away, and at Newport did call on Mr.
+Lowther, and he and his friend, and the master of the house, their friend,
+where they were, a gentleman, did presently get a-horseback and overtook
+us, and went with us to Audley-End, and did go along with us all over the
+house and garden: and mighty merry we were.  The house indeed do appear
+very fine, but not so fine as it hath heretofore to me; particularly the
+ceilings are not so good as I always took them to be, being nothing so
+well wrought as my Lord Chancellor's are; and though the figure of the
+house without be very extraordinary good, yet the stayre-case is exceeding
+poor; and a great many pictures, and not one good one in the house but one
+of Harry the Eighth, done by Holben; and not one good suit of hangings in
+all the house, but all most ancient things, such as I would not give the
+hanging-up of in my house; and the other furniture, beds and other things,
+accordingly.
+
+     [Mr. George T. Robinson, F.S.A., in a paper on "Decorative Plaster
+     Work," read before the Society of Arts in April, 1891, refers to the
+     ceilings at Audley End as presenting an excellent idea of the state
+     of the stuccoer's art in the middle of James I.'s reign, and adds,
+     "Few houses in England can show so fine a series of the same date
+     .  .  .  The great hall has medallions in the square portions of the
+     ceiling formed by its dividing timber beams.  The large saloon on
+     the principal floor-a room about 66 feet long by 30 feet wide-has a
+     very remarkable ceiling of the pendentive type, which presents many
+     peculiarities, the most notable of which, that these not only depend
+     from the ceiling, but the outside ones spring from the walls in a
+     natural and structural manner.  This is a most unusual circumstance
+     in the stucco work of the time, the reason for the omission of this
+     reasonable treatment evidently being the unwillingness of the
+     stuccoer to omit his elaborate frieze in which he took such delight"
+     ("Journal Soc. of Arts," vol. xxxix., p. 449)]
+
+Only the gallery is good, and, above all things, the cellars, where we
+went down and drank of much good liquor; and indeed the cellars are fine:
+and here my wife and I did sing to my great content.  And then to the
+garden, and there eat many grapes, and took some with us and so away
+thence, exceeding well satisfied, though not to that degree that, by my
+old esteem of the house, I ought and did expect to have done, the
+situation of it not pleasing me.  Here we parted with Lowther and his
+friends, and away to Cambridge, it being foul, rainy weather, and there
+did take up at the Rose, for the sake of Mrs. Dorothy Drawwater, the
+vintner's daughter, which is mentioned in the play of Sir Martin Marrall.
+Here we had a good chamber, and bespoke a good supper; and then I took my
+wife, and W. Hewer, and Willet, it holding up a little, and shewed them
+Trinity College and St. John's Library, and went to King's College Chapel,
+to see the outside of it only; and so to our inne, and with much pleasure
+did this, they walking in their pretty morning gowns, very handsome, and I
+proud to find myself in condition to do this; and so home to our lodging,
+and there by and by, to supper, with much good sport, talking with the
+Drawers concerning matters of the town, and persons whom I remember, and
+so, after supper, to cards; and then to bed, lying, I in one bed, and my
+wife and girl in another, in the same room, and very merry talking
+together, and mightily pleased both of us with the girl. Saunders, the
+only violin in my time, is, I hear, dead of the plague in the late plague
+there.
+
+9th.  Up, and got ready, and eat our breakfast; and then took coach: and
+the poor, as they did yesterday, did stand at the coach to have something
+given them, as they do to all great persons; and I did give them
+something: and the town musique did also come and play: but, Lord! what
+sad music they made!  However, I was pleased with them, being all of us in
+very good humour, and so through the town, and observed at our College of
+Magdalene the posts new painted, and understand that the Vice-Chancellor'
+is there this year.  And so away for Huntingdon mightily pleased all along
+the road to remember old stories; and come to Brampton at about noon, and
+there find my father and sister and brother all well and here laid up our
+things, and up and down to see the garden with my father, and the house,
+and do altogether find it very pretty; especially the little parlour and
+the summerhouses in the garden, only the wall do want greens upon it, and
+the house is too low-roofed; but that is only because of my coming from a
+house with higher ceilings.  But altogether is very pretty; and I bless
+God that I am like to have such a pretty place to retire to: and I did
+walk with my father without doors, and do find a very convenient way of
+laying out money there in building, which will make a very good seat, and
+the place deserves it, I think, very well.  By and by to dinner, and after
+dinner I walked up to Hinchingbroke, where my Lady expected me; and there
+spent all the afternoon with her: the same most excellent, good, discreet
+lady that ever she was; and, among other things, is mightily pleased with
+the lady that is like to be her son Hinchingbroke's wife, which I am
+mightily glad of.  By and by my wife comes with Willet, my wife in her
+velvett vest, which is mighty fine, and becomes her exceedingly.  I am
+pleased with my Lady Paulina and Anne, who both are grown very proper
+ladies, and handsome enough.  But a thousand questions my Lady asked me,
+till she could think of no more almost, but walked up and down the house,
+with me. But I do find, by her, that they are reduced to great straits for
+money, having been forced to sell her plate, 8 or L900 worth; and she is
+now going to sell a suit of her best hangings, of which I could almost
+wish to buy a piece or two, if the pieces will be broke.  But the house is
+most excellently furnished, and brave rooms and good pictures, so that it
+do please me infinitely beyond Audley End.  Here we staid till night
+walking and talking and drinking, and with mighty satisfaction my Lady
+with me alone most of the day talking of my Lord's bad condition to be
+kept in Spayne without money and at a great expense, which (as we will
+save the family) we must labour to remove.  Night being come, we took
+leave with all possible kindness, and so home, and there Mr. Shepley staid
+with us and sapped, and full of good country discourse, and when supper
+done took his leave, and we all to bed, only I a little troubled that my
+father tells me that he is troubled that my wife shows my sister no
+countenance, and, him but very little, but is as a stranger in the house;
+and I do observe she do carry herself very high; but I perceive there was
+some great falling out when she was here last, but the reason I have no
+mind to enquire after, for vexing myself, being desirous to pass my time
+with as much mirth as I can while I am abroad.  So all to bed. My wife and
+I in the high bed in our chamber, and Willet in the trundle bed, which she
+desired to lie in, by us.
+
+10th.  Waked in the morning with great pain of the collique, by cold taken
+yesterday, I believe, with going up and down in my shirt, but with rubbing
+my belly, keeping of it warm, I did at last come to some ease, and rose,
+and up to walk up and down the garden with my father, to talk of all our
+concernments: about a husband for my sister, whereof there is at present
+no appearance; but we must endeavour to find her one now, for she grows
+old and ugly: then for my brother; and resolve he shall stay here this
+winter, and then I will either send him to Cambridge for a year, till I
+get him some church promotion, or send him to sea as a chaplain, where he
+may study, and earn his living.  Then walked round about our Greene, to
+see whether, in case I cannot buy out my uncle Thomas and his son's right
+in this house, that I can buy another place as good thereabouts to build
+on, and I do not see that I can.  But this, with new building, may be made
+an excellent pretty thing, and I resolve to look after it as soon as I
+can, and Goody Gorum dies.  By this time it was almost noon, and then my
+father and I and wife and Willet abroad, by coach round the towne of
+Brampton, to observe any other place as good as ours, and find none; and
+so back with great pleasure; and thence went all of us, my sister and
+brother, and W. Hewer, to dinner to Hinchingbroke, where we had a good
+plain country dinner, but most kindly used; and here dined the Minister of
+Brampton and his wife, who is reported a very good, but poor man.  Here I
+spent alone with my Lady, after dinner, the most of the afternoon, and
+anon the two twins were sent for from schoole, at Mr. Taylor's, to come to
+see me, and I took them into the garden, and there, in one of the
+summer-houses, did examine them, and do find them so well advanced in
+their learning, that I was amazed at it: they repeating a whole ode
+without book out of Horace, and did give me a very good account of any
+thing almost, and did make me very readily very good Latin, and did give
+me good account of their Greek grammar, beyond all possible expectation;
+and so grave and manly as I never saw, I confess, nor could have believed;
+so that they will be fit to go to Cambridge in two years at most.  They
+are both little, but very like one another, and well-looked children.
+Then in to my Lady again, and staid till it was almost night again, and
+then took leave for a great while again, but with extraordinary kindness
+from my Lady, who looks upon me like one of her own family and interest.
+So thence, my wife and people by the highway, and I walked over the park
+with Mr. Shepley, and through the grove, which is mighty pretty, as is
+imaginable, and so over their drawbridge to Nun's Bridge, and so to my
+father's, and there sat and drank, and talked a little, and then parted.
+And he being gone, and what company there was, my father and I, with a
+dark lantern; it being now night, into the garden with my wife, and there
+went about our great work to dig up my gold. But, Lord!  what a tosse I
+was for some time in, that they could not justly tell where it was; that I
+begun heartily to sweat, and be angry, that they should not agree better
+upon the place, and at last to fear that it was gone but by and by poking
+with a spit, we found it, and then begun with a spudd to lift up the
+ground.  But, good God! to see how sillily they did it, not half a foot
+under ground, and in the sight of the world from a hundred places, if any
+body by accident were near hand, and within sight of a neighbour's window,
+and their hearing also, being close by: only my father says that he saw
+them all gone to church before he begun the work, when he laid the money,
+but that do not excuse it to me.  But I was out of my wits almost, and the
+more from that, upon my lifting up the earth with the spudd, I did discern
+that I had scattered the pieces of gold round about the ground among the
+grass and loose earth; and taking up the iron head-pieces wherein they
+were put, I perceive the earth was got among the gold, and wet, so that
+the bags were all rotten, and all the notes, that I could not tell what in
+the world to say to it, not knowing how to judge what was wanting, or what
+had been lost by Gibson in his coming down: which, all put together, did
+make me mad; and at last was forced to take up the head-pieces, dirt and
+all, and as many of the scattered pieces as I could with the dirt discern
+by the candlelight, and carry them up into my brother's chamber, and there
+locke them up till I had eat a little supper: and then, all people going
+to bed, W. Hewer and I did all alone, with several pails of water and
+basins, at last wash the dirt off of the pieces, and parted the pieces and
+the dirt, and then begun to tell [them]; and by a note which I had of the
+value of the whole in my pocket, do find that there was short above a
+hundred pieces, which did make me mad; and considering that the
+neighbour's house was so near that we could not suppose we could speak one
+to another in the garden at the place where the gold lay--especially my
+father being deaf--but they must know what we had been doing on, I feared
+that they might in the night come and gather some pieces and prevent us
+the next morning; so W. Hewer and I out again about midnight, for it was
+now grown so late, and there by candlelight did make shift to gather
+forty-five pieces more.  And so in, and to cleanse them: and by this time
+it was past two in the morning; and so to bed, with my mind pretty quiet
+to think that I have recovered so many.  And then to bed, and I lay in the
+trundle-bed, the girl being gone to bed to my wife, and there lay in some
+disquiet all night, telling of the clock till it was daylight.
+
+11th.  And then rose and called W. Hewer, and he and I, with pails and a
+sieve, did lock ourselves into the garden, and there gather all the earth
+about the place into pails, and then sift those pails in one of the
+summer-houses, just as they do for dyamonds in other parts of the world;
+and there, to our great content, did with much trouble by nine o'clock
+(and by the time we emptied several pails and could not find one), we did
+make the last night's forty-five up seventy-nine: so that we are come to
+about twenty or thirty of what I think the true number should be; and
+perhaps within less; and of them I may reasonably think that Mr. Gibson
+might lose some: so that I am pretty well satisfied that my loss is not
+great, and do bless God that it is so well,
+
+     [About the year 1842, in removing the foundation of an old wall,
+     adjoining a mansion at Brampton, always considered the quondam
+     residence of the Pepys family, an iron pot, full of silver coins,
+     was discovered, and taken to the Earl of Sandwich, the owner of the
+     house, in whose possession they still remain.  The pot was so much
+     corroded, that a small piece of it only could be preserved.  The
+     coins were chiefly half-crowns of Elizabeth and the two elder
+     Stuarts, and all of a date anterior to the Restoration.  Although
+     Pepys states that the treasure which he caused to be buried was gold
+     exclusively, it is very probable that, in the confusion, a pot full
+     of silver money was packed up with the rest; but, at all events, the
+     coincidence appeared too singular to pass over without notice.--B.]
+
+and do leave my father to make a second examination of the dirt, which he
+promises he will do, and, poor man, is mightily troubled for this
+accident, but I declared myself very well satisfied, and so indeed I am;
+and my mind at rest in it, being but an accident, which is unusual; and so
+gives me some kind of content to remember how painful it is sometimes to
+keep money, as well as to get it, and how doubtful I was how to keep it
+all night, and how to secure it to London: and so got all my gold put up
+in bags.  And so having the last night wrote to my Lady Sandwich to lend
+me John Bowles to go along with me my journey, not telling her the reason,
+that it was only to secure my gold, we to breakfast, and then about ten
+o'clock took coach, my wife and I, and Willet, and W. Hewer, and Murford
+and Bowles (whom my Lady lent me), and my brother John on horseback; and
+with these four I thought myself pretty safe.  But, before we went out,
+the Huntingdon musick come to me and played, and it was better than that
+of Cambridge.  Here I took leave of my father, and did give my sister 20s.
+She cried at my going; but whether it was at her unwillingness for my
+going, or any unkindness of my wife's, or no, I know not; but, God forgive
+me!  I take her to be so cunning and ill-natured, that I have no great
+love for her; but only [she] is my sister, and must be provided for.  My
+gold I put into a basket, and set under one of the seats; and so my work
+every quarter of an hour was to look to see whether all was well; and I
+did ride in great fear all the day, but it was a pleasant day, and good
+company, and I mightily contented.  Mr. Shepley saw me beyond St. Neots,
+and there parted, and we straight to Stevenage, through Bald Lanes, which
+are already very bad; and at Stevenage we come well before night, and all
+sat, and there with great care I got the gold up to the chamber, my wife
+carrying one bag, and the girl another, and W. Hewer the rest in the
+basket, and set it all under a bed in our chamber; and then sat down to
+talk, and were very pleasant, satisfying myself, among other things, from
+John Bowles, in some terms of hunting, and about deere, bucks, and does.
+And so anon to supper, and very merry we were, and a good supper, and
+after supper to bed.  Brecocke alive still, and the best host I know
+almost.
+
+12th.  Up, and eat our breakfast, and set out about nine o'clock, and so
+to Barnett, where we staid and baited, the weather very good all day and
+yesterday, and by five o'clock got home, where I find all well; and did
+bring my gold, to my heart's content, very safe home, having not this day
+carried it in a basket, but in our hands: the girl took care of one, and
+my wife another bag, and I the rest, I being afraid of the bottom of the
+coach, lest it should break, and therefore was at more ease in my mind
+than I was yesterday.  At home we find that Sir W. Batten's burial was
+to-day carried from hence, with a hundred or two of coaches, to
+Walthamstow, and there buried.  Here I hear by Mr. Pierce the surgeon; and
+then by Mr. Lewes, and also by Mr. Hater, that the Parliament hath met on
+Thursday last, and adjourned to Monday next.  The King did make them a
+very kind speech, promising them to leave all to them to do, and call to
+account what and whom they pleased; and declared by my Lord Keeper how
+many, thirty-six, actes he had done since he saw them; among others,
+disbanding the army, and putting all Papists out of employment, and
+displacing persons that had managed their business ill, that the
+Parliament is mightily pleased with the King's speech, and voted giving
+him thanks for what he said and hath done; and, among things, would by
+name thank him for displacing my Lord Chancellor, for which a great many
+did speak in the House, but it was opposed by some, and particularly Harry
+Coventry, who got that it should be put to a Committee to consider what
+particulars to mention in their thanks to the King, saying that it was too
+soon to give thanks for the displacing of a man, before they knew or had
+examined what was the cause of his displacing.  And so it rested; but this
+do shew that they are and will be very high; and Mr. Pierce do tell me
+that he fears, and do hear, that it hath been said among them, that they
+will move for the calling my Lord Sandwich home, to bring him to account;
+which do trouble me mightily; but I trust it will not be so. Anon comes
+home Sir W. Pen from the burial, and he and I to walk in the garden, where
+he did confirm the most of this news, and so to talk of our particular
+concernments, and among the rest he says that Lady Batten and her
+children-in-law are all broke in pieces, and that there is but L800 found
+in the world, of money; and is in great doubt what we shall do towards the
+doing ourselves right with them, about the prize-money.  This troubles me,
+but we will fall to work upon that next week close.  Then he tells me he
+did deliver my petition into the hands of Sir W. Coventry, who did take it
+with great kindness and promised to present it to the Duke of York, and
+that himself has since seen the Duke of York, but it was in haste, and
+thinks the Duke of York did tell him that the thing was done, but he is
+confident that it either is or will be done.  This do please me mightily.
+So after a little talk more I away home to supper with John Bowles and
+brother and wife (who, I perceive, is already a little jealous of my being
+fond of Willet, but I will avoid giving her any cause to continue in that
+mind, as much as possible), and before that did go with Sir W. Pen to my
+Lady Batten, whom I had not seen since she was a widow, which she took
+unkindly, but I did excuse it; and the house being full of company, and of
+several factions, she against the children, and they against one another
+and her, I away, and home to supper, and after supper to bed.
+
+13th (Lord's day).  Up, and by water to White Hall, and thence walked to
+Sir W. Coventry's lodgings, but he was gone out, so I to St. James's, and
+there to the Duke of York's chamber: and there he was dressing; and many
+Lords and Parliament-men come to kiss his hands, they being newly come to
+town.  And there the Duke of York did of himself call me to him, and tell
+me that he had spoke to the King, and that the King had granted me the
+ship I asked for; and did, moreover, say that he was mightily satisfied
+with my service, and that he would be willing to do anything that was in
+his power for me: which he said with mighty kindness; which I did return
+him thanks for, and departed with mighty joy, more than I did expect. And
+so walked over the Park to White Hall, and there met Sir H. Cholmly, who
+walked with me, and told me most of the news I heard last night of the
+Parliament; and thinks they will do all things very well, only they will
+be revenged of my Lord Chancellor; and says, however, that he thinks there
+will be but two things proved on him; and that one is, that he may have
+said to the King, and to others, words to breed in the King an ill opinion
+of the Parliament--that they were factious, and that it was better to
+dissolve them: and this, he thinks, they will be able to prove; but what
+this will amount to, he knows not.  And next, that he hath taken money for
+several bargains that have been made with the Crown; and did instance one
+that is already complained of: but there are so many more involved in it,
+that, should they unravel things of this sort, every body almost will be
+more or less concerned.  But these are the two great points which he
+thinks they will insist on, and prove against him. Thence I to the Chapel,
+and there heard the sermon and a pretty good anthem, and so home by water
+to dinner, where Bowies and brother, and a good dinner, and in the
+afternoon to make good my journal to this day, and so by water again to
+White Hall, and thence only walked to Mrs. Martin's, and there sat with
+her and her sister and Borroughs.  .  .  and there drank and talked and
+away by water home, and there walked with Sir W. Pen, and told him what
+the Duke of York told me to-day about the ship I begged; and he was knave
+enough, of his own accord, but, to be sure, in order to his own advantage,
+to offer me to send for the master of the vessel, "The Maybolt Galliott,"
+and bid him to get her furnished as for a long voyage, and I to take no
+notice of it, that she might be the more worth to me: so that here he is a
+very knave to the King, and I doubt not his being the same to me on
+occasion.  So in a doors and supped with my wife and brother, W. Hewer,
+and Willett, and so evened with W. Hewer for my expenses upon the road
+this last journey, and do think that the whole journey will cost me little
+less than L18 or L20, one way or other; but I am well pleased with it, and
+so after supper to bed.
+
+14th.  Up, and by water to White Hall, and thence walked to St. James's,
+and there to Mr. Wren's; and he told me that my business was done about my
+warrant on the Maybolt Galliott; which I did see, and though it was not so
+full in the reciting of my services as the other was in that of Sir W.
+Pen's, yet I was well pleased with it, and do intend to fetch it away
+anon.  Thence with Sir Thomas Allen, in a little sorry coach which he hath
+set up of late, and Sir Jeremy Smith, to White Hall, and there I took
+water and went to Westminster Hall, and there hear that the House is this
+day again upon the business of giving the King the thanks of the House for
+his speech, and, among other things, for laying aside of my Lord
+Chancellor.  Thence I to Mrs. Martin's, where by appointment comes to me
+Mrs. Howlett, which I was afraid was to have told me something of my
+freedom with her daughter, but it was not so, but only to complain to me
+of her son-in-law, how he abuses and makes a slave of her, and his mother
+is one that encourages him in it, so that they are at this time upon very
+bad terms one with another, and desires that I would take a time to advise
+him and tell him what it becomes him to do, which office I am very glad
+of, for some ends of my own also con sa fille, and there drank and parted,
+I mightily satisfied with this business, and so home by water with Sir W.
+Warren, who happened to be at Westminster, and there I pretty strange to
+him, and little discourse, and there at the office Lord Bruncker, W. Pen,
+T. Hater and I did some business, and so home to dinner, and thence I out
+to visit Sir G. Carteret and ladies there; and from him do understand that
+the King himself (but this he told me as a great secret) is satisfied that
+this thanks which he expects from the House, for the laying aside of my
+Lord Chancellor, is a thing irregular; but, since it is come into the
+House, he do think it necessary to carry it on, and will have it, and hath
+made his mind known to be so, to some of the House.  But Sir G. Carteret
+do say he knows nothing of what my Lord Bruncker told us to-day, that the
+King was angry with the Duke of York yesterday, and advised him not to
+hinder what he had a mind to have done, touching this business; which is
+news very bad, if true.  Here I visited my Lady Carteret, who hath been
+sick some time, but now pretty well, but laid on her bed.  Thence to my
+Lord Crew, to see him after my coming out of the country, and he seems
+satisfied with some steps they have made in my absence towards my Lord
+Sandwich's relief for money: and so I have no more to do, nor will trouble
+myself more about it till they send for me.  He tells me also that the
+King will have the thanks of the House go on: and commends my Lord
+Keeper's speech for all but what he was forced to say, about the reason of
+the King's sending away the House so soon the last time, when they were
+met, but this he was forced to do. Thence to Westminster Hall, and there
+walked with Mr. Scowen, who tells me that it is at last carried in the
+House that the thanks shall be given to the King--among other things,
+particularly for the removal of my Lord Chancellor; but he tells me it is
+a strange act, and that which he thinks would never have been, but that
+the King did insist upon it, that, since it come into the House, it might
+not be let fall.  After walking there awhile I took coach and to the Duke
+of York's House, and there went in for nothing into the pit, at the last
+act, to see Sir Martin Marrall, and met my wife, who was there, and my
+brother, and W. Hewer and Willett, and carried them home, still being
+pleased with the humour of the play, almost above all that ever I saw.
+Home, and there do find that John Bowles is not yet come thither.  I
+suppose he is playing the good fellow in the town.  So to the office a
+while, and then home to supper and to bed.
+
+15th.  Up, and to the office, where, Sir W. Pen being ill of the gout, we
+all of us met there in his parlour and did the business of the office, our
+greatest business now being to manage the pay of the ships in order and
+with speed to satisfy the Commissioners of the Treasury.  This morning my
+brother set out for Brampton again, and is gone.  At noon home to dinner,
+and thence my wife and I and Willet to the Duke of York's house, where,
+after long stay, the King and Duke of York come, and there saw "The
+Coffee-house," the most ridiculous, insipid play that ever I saw in my
+life, and glad we were that Betterton had no part in it.  But here, before
+the play begun, my wife begun to complain to me of Willet's confidence in
+sitting cheek by jowl by us, which was a poor thing; but I perceive she is
+already jealous of my kindness to her, so that I begin to fear this girle
+is not likely to stay long with us.  The play done, we home by coach, it
+being moonlight, and got well home, and I to my chamber to settle some
+papers, and so to supper and to bed.
+
+16th.  Up, and at home most of the morning with Sir H. Cholmly, about some
+accounts of his; and for news he tells me that the Commons and Lords have
+concurred, and delivered the King their thanks, among other things, for
+his removal of the Chancellor; who took their thanks very well, and, among
+other things, promised them, in these words, never, in any degree, to
+entertain the Chancellor any employment again.  And he tells me that it is
+very true, he hath it from one that was by, that the King did, give the
+Duke of York a sound reprimand; told him that he had lived with him with
+more kindness than ever any brother King lived with a brother, and that he
+lived as much like a monarch as himself, but advised him not to cross him
+in his designs about the Chancellor; in which the Duke of York do very
+wisely acquiesce, and will be quiet as the King bade him, but presently
+commands all his friends to be silent in the business of the Chancellor,
+and they were so: but that the Chancellor hath done all that is possible
+to provoke the King, and to bring himself to lose his head by enraging of
+people.  He gone, I to the office, busy all the morning. At noon to Broad
+Street to Sir G. Carteret and Lord Bruncker, and there dined with them,
+and thence after dinner with Bruncker to White Hall, where the Duke of
+York is now newly come for this winter, and there did our usual business,
+which is but little, and so I away to the Duke of York's house, thinking
+as we appointed, to meet my wife there, but she was not; and more, I was
+vexed to see Young (who is but a bad actor at best) act Macbeth in the
+room of Betterton, who, poor man! is sick: but, Lord! what a prejudice it
+wrought in me against the whole play, and everybody else agreed in
+disliking this fellow.  Thence home, and there find my wife gone home;
+because of this fellow's acting of the part, she went out of the house
+again.  There busy at my chamber with Mr. Yeabsly, and then with Mr.
+Lewes, about public business late, and so to supper and to bed.
+
+17th.  Up, and being sent for by my Lady Batten, I to her, and there she
+found fault with my not seeing her since her being a widow, which I
+excused as well as I could, though it is a fault, but it is my nature not
+to be forward in visits.  But here she told me her condition, which is
+good enough, being sole executrix, to the disappointment of all her
+husband's children, and prayed my friendship about the accounts of the
+prizes, which I promised her.  And here do see what creatures widows are
+in weeping for their husbands, and then presently leaving off; but I
+cannot wonder at it, the cares of the world taking place of all other
+passions.  Thence to the office, where all the morning busy, and at noon
+home to dinner, where Mr. John Andrews and his wife come and dined with
+me, and pretty merry we were, only I out of humour the greatest part of
+the dinner, by reason that my people had forgot to get wine ready, I
+having none in my house, which I cannot say now these almost three years,
+I think, without having two or three sorts, by which we were fain to stay
+a great while, while some could be fetched.  When it come I begun to be
+merry, and merry we were, but it was an odd, strange thing to observe of
+Mr. Andrews what a fancy he hath to raw meat, that he eats it with no
+pleasure unless the blood run about his chops, which it did now by a leg
+of mutton that was not above half boiled; but, it seems, at home all his
+meat is dressed so, and beef and all, and [he] eats it so at nights also.
+Here most of our discourse is of the business of the Parliament, who run
+on mighty furiously, having yesterday been almost all the morning
+complaining against some high proceedings of my Lord Chief Justice
+Keeling, that the gentlemen of the country did complain against him in the
+House, and run very high.  It is the man that did fall out with my cozen
+Roger Pepys, once, at the Assizes there, and would have laid him by the
+heels; but, it seems, a very able lawyer.  After dinner I to the office,
+where we all met with intent to proceed to the publique sale of several
+prize ships, but upon discourse my Lord Anglesey did discover (which
+troubled me that he that is a stranger almost should do more than we
+ourselves could) that the appraisements made by our officers were not
+above half of what he had been offered for one of them, and did make it
+good by bringing a gentleman to give us L700 for the Wildboare, which they
+valued but at L276, which made us all startle and stop the sale, and I did
+propose to acquaint the Duke of York with it, and accordingly we did agree
+on it, and I wrote a severe letter about it, and we are to attend him with
+it to-morrow about it.  This afternoon my Lord Anglesey tells us that the
+House of Commons have this morning run into the inquiry in many things;
+as, the sale of Dunkirke, the dividing of the fleete the last year, the
+business of the prizes with my Lord Sandwich, and many other things; so
+that now they begin to fall close upon it, and God knows what will be the
+end of it, but a Committee they have chosen to inquire into the
+miscarriages of the war.  Having done, and being a little tired, Sir W.
+Pen and I in his coach out to Mile End Green, and there drank a cup of
+Byde's ale, and so talking about the proceedings of Parliament, and how
+little a thing the King is become to be forced to suffer it, though I
+declare my being satisfied that things should be enquired into, we back
+again home, and I to my office to my letters, and so home to supper and to
+bed.
+
+18th.  Up, and by coach with Sir W. Pen to White Hall, and there attended
+the Duke of York; but first we find him to spend above an hour in private
+in his closet with Sir W. Coventry; which I was glad to see, that there is
+so much confidence between them.  By and by we were called in and did our
+usual business, and complained of the business yesterday discovered of our
+officers abusing the King in the appraisement of the prizes.  Here it was
+worth observing that the Duke of York, considering what third rate ships
+to keep abroad, the Rupert was thought on, but then it was said that
+Captain Hubbert was Commander of her and that the King had a mind for
+Spragg to command the ship, which would not be well to be by turning out
+Hubbert, who is a good man, but one the Duke of York said he did not know
+whether he did so well conforme, as at this lime to please the people and
+Parliament.  Sir W. Coventry answered, and the Duke of York merrily agreed
+to it, that it was very hard to know what it was that the Parliament would
+call conformity at this time, and so it stopped, which I only observe to
+see how the Parliament's present temper do amuse them all.  Thence to
+several places to buy a hat, and books, and neckcloths, and several
+errands I did before I got home, and, among others, bought me two new pair
+of spectacles of Turlington, who, it seems, is famous for them; and his
+daughter, he being out of the way, do advise me two very young sights, as
+that that will help me most, and promises me great ease from them, and I
+will try them.  At the Exchange I met Creed, and took him home with me,
+and dined, and among other things he tells me that Sir Robert Brookes is
+the man that did mention the business in Parliament yesterday about my
+Lord Sandwich, but that it was seconded by nobody, but the matter will
+fall before the Committee for miscarriages.  Thence, after dinner, my wife
+and he, and I, and Willet to the King's house, and saw "Brenoralt," which
+is a good tragedy, that I like well, and parted after the play, and so
+home, and there a little at my office, and so to my chamber, and spent
+this night late in telling over all my gold, and putting it into proper
+bags and my iron chest, being glad with my heart to see so much of it here
+again, but cannot yet tell certainly how much I have lost by Gibson in his
+journey, and my father's burying of it in the dirt.  At this late, but did
+it to my mind, and so to supper and to bed.
+
+19th.  At the office all the morning, where very busy, and at noon home to
+a short dinner, being full of my desire of seeing my Lord Orrery's new
+play this afternoon at the King's house, "The Black Prince," the first
+time it is acted; where, though we come by two o'clock, yet there was no
+room in the pit, but we were forced to go into one of the upper boxes, at
+4s. a piece, which is the first time I ever sat in a box in my life.  And
+in the same box come, by and by, behind me, my Lord Barkeley [of Stratton]
+and his lady; but I did not turn my face to them to be known, so that I
+was excused from giving them my seat; and this pleasure I had, that from
+this place the scenes do appear very fine indeed, and much better than in
+the pit.  The house infinite full, and the King and Duke of York was
+there.  By and by the play begun, and in it nothing particular but a very
+fine dance for variety of figures, but a little too long.  But, as to the
+contrivance, and all that was witty (which, indeed, was much, and very
+witty), was almost the same that had been in his two former plays of
+"Henry the 5th" and "Mustapha," and the same points and turns of wit in
+both, and in this very same play often repeated, but in excellent
+language, and were so excellent that the whole house was mightily pleased
+with it all along till towards the end he comes to discover the chief of
+the plot of the play by the reading of along letter, which was so long and
+some things (the people being set already to think too long) so
+unnecessary that they frequently begun to laugh, and to hiss twenty times,
+that, had it not been for the King's being there, they had certainly
+hissed it off the stage.  But I must confess that, as my Lord Barkeley
+says behind me, the having of that long letter was a thing so absurd, that
+he could not imagine how a man of his parts could possibly fall into it;
+or, if he did, if he had but let any friend read it, the friend would have
+told him of it; and, I must confess, it is one of the most remarkable
+instances that ever I did or expect to meet with in my life of a wise
+man's not being wise at all times, and in all things, for nothing could be
+more ridiculous than this, though the letter of itself at another time
+would be thought an excellent letter, and indeed an excellent Romance, but
+at the end of the play, when every body was weary of sitting, and were
+already possessed with the effect of the whole letter; to trouble them
+with a letter a quarter of an hour long, was a most absurd thing.  After
+the play done, and nothing pleasing them from the time of the letter to
+the end of the play, people being put into a bad humour of disliking
+(which is another thing worth the noting), I home by coach, and could not
+forbear laughing almost all the way home, and all the evening to my going
+to bed, at the ridiculousness of the letter, and the more because my wife
+was angry with me, and the world, for laughing, because the King was
+there, though she cannot defend the length of the letter.  So after having
+done business at the office, I home to supper and to bed.
+
+20th (Lord's day).  Up, and put on my new tunique of velvett; which is
+very plain, but good.  This morning is brought to me an order for the
+presenting the Committee of Parliament to-morrow with a list of the
+commanders and ships' names of all the fleetes set out since the war, and
+particularly of those ships which were divided from the fleete with Prince
+Rupert;
+
+     [This question of the division of the fleet in May, 1666, was one
+     over which endless controversy as to responsibility was raised.
+     When Prince Rupert, with twenty ships, was detached to prevent the
+     junction of the French squadron with the Dutch, the Duke of
+     Albemarle was left with fifty-four ships against eighty belonging to
+     the Dutch.  Albemarle's tactics are praised by Captain Mahan.]
+
+which gives me occasion to see that they are busy after that business, and
+I am glad of it.  So I alone to church, and then home, and there Mr. Deane
+comes and dines with me by invitation, and both at and after dinner he and
+I spent all the day till it was dark in discourse of business of the Navy
+and the ground of the many miscarriages, wherein he do inform me in many
+more than I knew, and I had desired him to put them in writing, and many
+indeed they are and good ones; and also we discoursed of the business of
+shipping, and he hath promised me a draught of the ship he is now
+building, wherein I am mightily pleased.  This afternoon comes to me
+Captain O'Bryan, about a ship that the King hath given him; and he and I
+to talk of the Parliament; and he tells me that the business of the Duke
+of York's slackening sail in the first fight, at the beginning of the war,
+is brought into question, and Sir W. Pen and Captain Cox are to appear
+to-morrow about it; and it is thought will at last be laid upon Mr.
+Bruncker's giving orders from the Duke of York (which the Duke of York do
+not own) to Captain Cox to do it; but it seems they do resent this very
+highly, and are mad in going through all business, where they can lay any
+fault.  I am glad to hear, that in the world I am as kindly spoke of as
+any body; for, for aught I see, there is bloody work like to be, Sir W.
+Coventry having been forced to produce a letter in Parliament wherein the
+Duke of Albemarle did from Sheernesse write in what good posture all
+things were at Chatham, and that the chain was so well placed that he
+feared no attempt of the enemy: so that, among other things, I see every
+body is upon his own defence, and spares not to blame another to defend
+himself, and the same course I shall take.  But God knows where it will
+end!  He gone, and Deane, I to my chamber for a while, and then comes
+Pelling the apothecary to see us, and sat and supped with me (my wife
+being gone to bed sick of the cholique), and then I to bed, after supper.
+Pelting tells me that my Lady Duchesse Albemarle was at Mrs. Turner's this
+afternoon, she being ill, and did there publickly talk of business, and of
+our Office; and that she believed that I was safe, and had done well; and
+so, I thank God!  I hear every body speaks of me; and indeed, I think,
+without vanity, I may expect to be profited rather than injured by this
+inquiry, which the Parliament makes into business.
+
+21st.  Up, and betimes got a coach at the Exchange, and thence to St.
+James's, where I had forgot that the Duke of York and family were gone to
+White Hall, and thence to Westminster Hall and there walked a little,
+finding the Parliament likely to be busy all this morning about the
+business of Mr. Bruncker for advising Cox and Harman to shorten sail when
+they were in pursuit of the Dutch after the first great victory.  I went
+away to Mr. Creed's chamber, there to meet Sir H. Cholmly, about business
+of Mr. Yeabsly, where I was delivered of a great fear that they would
+question some of the orders for payment of money which I had got them
+signed at the time of the plague, when I was here alone, but all did pass.
+Thence to Westminster again, and up to the lobby, where many commanders of
+the fleete were, and Captain Cox, and Mr. Pierce, the Surgeon; the last of
+whom hath been in the House, and declared that he heard Bruncker advise;
+and give arguments to, Cox, for the safety of the Duke of York's person,
+to shorten sail, that they might not be in the middle of the enemy in the
+morning alone; and Cox denying to observe his advice, having received the
+Duke of York's commands over night to keep within cannon-shot (as they
+then were) of the enemy, Bruncker did go to Harman, and used the same
+arguments, and told him that he was sure it would be well pleasing to the
+King that care should be taken of not endangering the Duke of York; and,
+after much persuasion, Harman was heard to say, "Why, if it must be, then
+lower the topsail."  And so did shorten sail, to the loss, as the
+Parliament will have it, of the greatest victory that ever was, and which
+would have saved all the expence of blood, and money, and honour, that
+followed; and this they do resent, so as to put it to the question,
+whether Bruncker should not be carried to the Tower: who do confess that,
+out of kindness to the Duke of York's safety, he did advise that they
+should do so, but did not use the Duke of York's name therein; and so it
+was only his error in advising it, but the greatest theirs in taking it,
+contrary to order.  At last, it ended that it should be suspended till
+Harman comes home; and then the Parliament-men do all tell me that it will
+fall heavy, and, they think, be fatal to Bruncker or him.  Sir W. Pen
+tells me he was gone to bed, having been all day labouring, and then not
+able to stand, of the goute, and did give order for the keeping the sails
+standing, as they then were, all night.  But, which I wonder at, he tells
+me that he did not know the next day that they had shortened sail, nor
+ever did enquire into it till about ten days ago, that this begun to be
+mentioned; and, indeed, it is charged privately as a fault on the Duke of
+York, that he did not presently examine the reason of the breach of his
+orders, and punish it. But Cox tells me that he did finally refuse it; and
+what prevailed with Harman he knows not, and do think that we might have
+done considerable service on the enemy the next day, if this had not been
+done.  Thus this business ended to-day, having kept them till almost two
+o'clock; and then I by coach with Sir W. Pen as far as St. Clement's,
+talking of this matter, and there set down; and I walked to Sir G.
+Carteret's, and there dined with him and several Parliament-men, who, I
+perceive, do all look upon it as a thing certain that the Parliament will
+enquire into every thing, and will be very severe where they can find any
+fault.  Sir W. Coventry, I hear, did this day make a speech, in apology
+for his reading the letter of the Duke of Albemarle, concerning the good
+condition which Chatham was in before the enemy come thither: declaring
+his simple intention therein, without prejudice to my Lord.  And I am told
+that he was also with the Duke of Albemarle yesterday to excuse it; but
+this day I do hear, by some of Sir W. Coventry's friends, that they think
+he hath done himself much injury by making this man, and his interest, so
+much his enemy.  After dinner, I away to Westminster, and up to the
+Parliament-house, and there did wait with great patience, till seven at
+night, to be called in to the Committee, who sat all this afternoon,
+examining the business of Chatham; and at last was called in, and told,
+that the least they expected from us Mr. Wren had promised them, and only
+bade me to bring all my fellow-officers thitherto attend them tomorrow,
+afternoon.  Sir Robert Brookes in the chair: methinks a sorry fellow to be
+there, because a young man; and yet he seems to speak very well.  I gone
+thence, my cozen Pepys comes out to me, and walks in the Hall with me, and
+bids me prepare to answer to every thing; for they do seem to lodge the
+business of Chatham upon the Commissioners of the Navy, and they are
+resolved to lay the fault heavy somewhere, and to punish it: and prays me
+to prepare to save myself, and gives me hints what to prepare against;
+which I am obliged to him for, and do begin to mistrust lest some unhappy
+slip or other after all my diligence and pains may not be found (which I
+can [not] foresee) that may prove as fatal to a man as the constant course
+of negligence and unfaithfulness of other men.  Here we parted, and I to
+White Hall to Mr. Wren's chamber, thereto advise with him about the list
+of ships and commanders which he is to present to the Parliament, and took
+coach (little Michell being with me, whom I took with me from Westminster
+Hall), and setting him down in Gracious street home myself, where I find
+my wife and the two Mercers and Willett and W. Batelier have been dancing,
+but without a fidler.  I had a little pleasure in talking with these, but
+my head and heart full of thoughts between hope and fear and doubts what
+will become of us and me particularly against a furious Parliament.  Then
+broke up and to bed, and there slept pretty well till about four o'clock,
+and from that time could not, but my thoughts running on speeches to the
+Parliament to excuse myself from the blame which by other men's negligence
+will 'light, it may be, upon the office.  This day I did get a list of the
+fourteen particular miscarriages which are already before the Committee to
+be examined; wherein, besides two or three that will concern this Office
+much, there are those of the prizes, and that of Bergen, and not following
+the Dutch ships, against my Lord Sandwich; that, I fear, will ruine him,
+unless he hath very good luck, or they may be in better temper before he
+can come to be charged: but my heart is full of fear for him and his
+family.  I hear that they do prosecute the business against my Lord Chief
+Justice Keeling with great severity.
+
+22nd.  Slept but ill all the last part of the night, for fear of this
+day's success in Parliament: therefore up, and all of us all the morning
+close, till almost two o'clock, collecting all we had to say and had done
+from the beginning, touching the safety of the River Medway and Chatham.
+And, having done this, and put it into order, we away, I not having time
+to eat my dinner; and so all in my Lord Bruncker's coach, that is to say,
+Bruncker, W. Pen, T. Harvy, and myself, talking of the other great matter
+with which they charge us, that is, of discharging men by ticket, in order
+to our defence in case that should be asked.  We come to the
+Parliament-door, and there, after a little waiting till the Committee was
+sat, we were, the House being very full, called in: Sir W. Pen went in and
+sat as a Member; and my Lord Bruncker would not at first go in, expecting
+to have a chair set for him, and his brother had bid him not go in, till
+he was called for; but, after a few words, I had occasion to mention him,
+and so he was called in, but without any more chair or respect paid him
+than myself: and so Bruncker, and T. Harvy, and I, were there to answer:
+and I had a chair brought me to lean my books upon: and so did give them
+such an account, in a series of the whole business that had passed the
+Office touching the matter, and so answered all questions given me about
+it, that I did not perceive but they were fully satisfied with me and the
+business as to our Office: and then Commissioner Pett (who was by at all
+my discourse, and this held till within an hour after candlelight, for I
+had candles brought in to read my papers by) was to answer for himself, we
+having lodged all matters with him for execution. But, Lord! what a
+tumultuous thing this Committee is, for all the reputation they have of a
+great council, is a strange consideration; there being as impertinent
+questions, and as disorderly proposed, as any man could make.  But
+Commissioner Pett, of all men living, did make the weakest defence for
+himself: nothing to the purpose, nor to satisfaction, nor certain; but
+sometimes one thing and sometimes another, sometimes for himself and
+sometimes against him; and his greatest failure was, that I observed, from
+his [not] considering whether the question propounded was his part to
+answer or no, and the thing to be done was his work to do: the want of
+which distinction will overthrow him; for he concerns himself in giving an
+account of the disposal of the boats, which he had no reason at all to do,
+or take any blame upon him for them.  He charged the not carrying up of
+"The Charles" upon the Tuesday, to the Duke of Albemarle; but I see the
+House is mighty favourable to the Duke of Albemarle, and would give little
+weight to it.  And something of want of armes he spoke, which Sir J.
+Duncomb answered with great imperiousness and earnestness; but, for all
+that, I do see the House is resolved to be better satisfied in the
+business of the unreadiness of Sherenesse, and want of armes and
+ammunition there and every where: and all their officers were here to-day
+attending, but only one called in, about armes for boats, to answer
+Commissioner Pett.  None of my brethren said anything but me there, but
+only two or three silly words my Lord Bruncker gave, in answer to one
+question about the number of men there were in the King's Yard at the
+time.  At last, the House dismissed us, and shortly after did adjourne the
+debate till Friday next: and my cozen Pepys did come out and joy me in my
+acquitting myself so well, and so did several others, and my
+fellow-officers all very brisk to see themselves so well acquitted; which
+makes me a little proud, but yet not secure but we may yet meet with a
+back-blow which we see not.  So, with our hearts very light, Sir W. Pen
+and I in his coach home, it being now near eight o'clock, and so to the
+office, and did a little business by the post, and so home, hungry, and
+eat a good supper, and so, with my mind well at ease, to bed.  My wife not
+very well of those.
+
+23rd.  Up, and Sir W. Pen and I in his coach to White Hall, there to
+attend the Duke of York; but come a little too late, and so missed it:
+only spoke with him, and heard him correct my Lord Barkeley, who fell foul
+on Sir Edward Spragg, who, it seems, said yesterday to the House, that if
+the Officers of the Ordnance had done as much work at Shereness in ten
+weeks as "The Prince" did in ten days, he could have defended the place
+against the Dutch: but the Duke of York told him that every body must have
+liberty, at this time, to make their own defence, though it be to the
+charging of the fault upon any other, so it be true; so I perceive the
+whole world is at work in blaming one another.  Thence Sir W. Pen and I
+back into London; and there saw the King, with his kettle-drums and
+trumpets, going to the Exchange, to lay the first stone of the first
+pillar of the new building of the Exchange; which, the gates being shut, I
+could not get in to see: but, with Sir W. Pen, to Captain Cocke's to drink
+a dram of brandy, and so he to the Treasury office about Sir G. Carteret's
+accounts, and I took coach and back again toward Westminster; but in my
+way stopped at the Exchange, and got in, the King being newly gone; and
+there find the bottom of the first pillar laid.  And here was a shed set
+up, and hung with tapestry, and a canopy of state, and some good victuals
+and wine, for the King, who, it seems, did it; and so a great many people,
+as Tom Killigrew, and others of the Court there, and there I did eat a
+mouthful and drink a little, and do find Mr. Gawden in his gowne as
+Sheriffe, and understand that the King hath this morning knighted him upon
+the place, which I am mightily pleased with; and I think the other
+Sheriffe, who is Davis, the little fellow, my schoolfellow,--the
+bookseller, who was one of Audley's' Executors, and now become Sheriffe;
+which is a strange turn, methinks.  Here mighty merry (there being a good
+deal of good company) for a quarter of an hour, and so I away and to
+Westminster Hall, where I come just as the House rose; and there, in the
+Hall, met with Sir W. Coventry, who is in pain to defend himself in the
+business of tickets, it being said that the paying of the ships at Chatham
+by ticket was by his direction, and he hath wrote to me to find his
+letters, and shew them him, but I find none; but did there argue the case
+with him, and I think no great blame can be laid on us for that matter,
+only I see he is fearfull.  And he tells me his mistake in the House the
+other day, which occasions him much trouble, in shewing of the House the
+Duke of Albemarle's letter about the good condition of Chatham, which he
+is sorry for, and, owns as a mistake, the thing not being necessary to
+have been done; and confesses that nobody can escape from such error, some
+times or other.  He says the House was well satisfied with my Report
+yesterday; and so several others told me in the Hall that my Report was
+very good and satisfactory, and that I have got advantage by it in the
+House: I pray God it may prove so!  And here, after the Hall pretty empty,
+I did walk a few turns with Commissioner Pett, and did give the poor weak
+man some advice for his advantage how to better his pleading for himself,
+which I think he will if he can remember and practise, for I would not
+have the man suffer what he do not deserve, there being enough of what he
+do deserve to lie upon him.  Thence to Mrs. Martin's, and there staid till
+two o'clock, and drank and talked, and did give her L3 to buy my
+goddaughter her first new gowne .  .  .  .  and so away homeward, and in
+my way met Sir W. Pen in Cheapside, and went into his coach, and back
+again and to the King's playhouse, and there saw "The Black Prince" again:
+which is now mightily bettered by that long letter being printed, and so
+delivered to every body at their going in, and some short reference made
+to it in heart in the play, which do mighty well; but, when all is done, I
+think it the worst play of my Lord Orrery's. But here, to my great
+satisfaction, I did see my Lord Hinchingbroke and his mistress, with her
+father and mother; and I am mightily pleased with the young lady, being
+handsome enough--and, indeed, to my great liking, as I would have her.  I
+could not but look upon them all the play; being exceeding pleased with my
+good hap to see them, God bring them together! and they are now already
+mighty kind to one another, and he is as it were one of their family.  The
+play done I home, and to the office a while, and then home to supper, very
+hungry, and then to my chamber, to read the true story, in Speed, of the
+Black Prince, and so to bed.  This day, it was moved in the House that a
+day might be appointed to bring in an, impeachment against the Chancellor,
+but it was decried as being irregular; but that, if there was ground for
+complaint, it might be brought to the Committee for miscarriages, and, if
+they thought good, to present it to the House; and so it was carried.
+They did also vote this day thanks to be given to the Prince and Duke of
+Albemarle, for their care and conduct in the last year's war, which is a
+strange act; but, I know not how, the blockhead Albemarle hath strange
+luck to be loved, though he be, and every man must know it, the heaviest
+man in the world, but stout and honest to his country.  This evening late,
+Mr. Moore come to me to prepare matters for my Lord Sandwich's defence;
+wherein I can little assist, but will do all I can; and am in great fear
+of nothing but the damned business of the prizes, but I fear my Lord will
+receive a cursed deal of trouble by it.
+
+24th.  Up, and to the office, where all the morning very busy, and at noon
+took Mr. Hater home with me to dinner, and instantly back again to write
+what letters I had to write, that I might go abroad with my wife, who was
+not well, only to jumble her, and so to the Duke of York's playhouse; but
+there Betterton not being yet well, we would not stay, though since I hear
+that Smith do act his part in "The Villaine," which was then acted, as
+well or better than he, which I do not believe; but to Charing Cross,
+there to see Polichinelli.  But, it being begun, we in to see a Frenchman,
+at the house, where my wife's father last lodged, one Monsieur Prin, play
+on the trump-marine,
+
+     [The trumpet marine is a stringed instrument having a triangular-
+     shaped body or chest and a long neck, a single string raised on a
+     bridge and running along the body and neck.  It was played with a
+     bow.]
+
+which he do beyond belief; and, the truth is, it do so far outdo a trumpet
+as nothing more, and he do play anything very true, and it is most
+admirable and at first was a mystery to me that I should hear a whole
+concert of chords together at the end of a pause, but he showed me that it
+was only when the last notes were 5ths or 3rds, one to another, and then
+their sounds like an Echo did last so as they seemed to sound all
+together.  The instrument is open at the end, I discovered; but he would
+not let me look into it, but I was mightily pleased with it, and he did
+take great pains to shew me all he could do on it, which was very much,
+and would make an excellent concert, two or three of them, better than
+trumpets can ever do, because of their want of compass.  Here we also saw
+again the two fat children come out of Ireland, and a brother and sister
+of theirs now come, which are of little ordinary growth, like other
+people.  But, Lord!  how strange it is to observe the difference between
+the same children, come out of the same little woman's belly! Thence to
+Mile-End Greene, and there drank, and so home bringing home night with us,
+and so to the office a little, and then to bed.
+
+25th.  Up, and all the morning close till two o'clock, till I had not time
+to eat my dinner, to make our answer ready for the Parliament this
+afternoon, to shew how Commissioner Pett was singly concerned in the
+executing of all orders from Chatham, and that we did properly lodge all
+orders with him.  Thence with Sir W. Pen to the Parliament Committee, and
+there we all met, and did shew, my Lord Bruncker and I, our commissions
+under the Great Seal in behalf of all the rest, to shew them our duties,
+and there I had no more matters asked me, but were bid to withdraw, and
+did there wait, I all the afternoon till eight at, night, while they were
+examining several about the business of Chatham again, and particularly my
+Lord Bruncker did meet with two or three blurs that he did not think of.
+One from Spragg, who says that "The Unity" was ordered up contrary to his
+order, by my Lord Bruncker and Commissioner Pett.  Another by Crispin, the
+waterman, who said he was upon "The Charles;" and spoke to Lord Bruncker
+coming by in his boat, to know whether they should carry up "The Charles,"
+they being a great many naked men without armes, and he told them she was
+well as she was.  Both these have little in them indeed, but yet both did
+stick close against him; and he is the weakest man in the world to make
+his defence, and so is like to have much fault laid on him therefrom.
+Spragg was in with them all the afternoon, and hath much fault laid on him
+for a man that minded his pleasure, and little else of his whole charge.
+I walked in the lobby, and there do hear from Mr. Chichly that they were
+(the Commissioners of the Ordnance) shrewdly put to it yesterday, being
+examined with all severity and were hardly used by them, much otherwise
+than we, and did go away with mighty blame; and I am told by every body
+that it is likely to stick mighty hard upon them: at which every body is
+glad, because of Duncomb's pride, and their expecting to have the thanks
+of the House whereas they have deserved, as the Parliament apprehends, as
+bad as bad can be.  Here is great talk of an impeachment brought in
+against my Lord Mordaunt, and that another will be brought in against my
+Lord Chancellor in a few days. Here I understand for certain that they
+have ordered that my Lord Arlington's letters, and Secretary Morrice's
+letters of intelligence, be consulted, about the business of the Dutch
+fleete's coming abroad, which is a very high point, but this they have
+done, but in what particular manner I cannot justly say, whether it was
+not with the King's leave first asked.  Here late, as I have said, and at
+last they broke up, and we had our commissions again, and I do hear how
+Birch is the high man that do examine and trouble every body with his
+questions, and they say that he do labour all he can to clear Pett, but it
+seems a witness has come in tonight, C. Millett, who do declare that he
+did deliver a message from the Duke of Albemarle time enough for him to
+carry up "The Charles," and he neglected it, which will stick very hard,
+it seems, on him.  So Sir W. Pen and I in his coach home, and there to
+supper, a good supper, and so weary, and my eyes spent, to bed.
+
+26th.  Up, and we met all this morning at Sir W. Pen's roome, the office
+being fowle with the altering of our garden door.  There very busy, and at
+noon home, where Mrs. Pierce and her daughter's husband and Mr. Corbet
+dined with me.  I had a good dinner for them, and mighty merry.  Pierce
+and I very glad at the fate of the officers of Ordnance, that they are
+like to have so much blame on them.  Here Mrs. Pierce tells me that the
+two Marshalls at the King's house are Stephen Marshall's, the great
+Presbyterian's daughters: and that Nelly and Beck Marshall, falling out
+the other day, the latter called the other my Lord Buckhurst's whore. Nell
+answered then, "I was but one man's whore, though I was brought up in a
+bawdy-house to fill strong waters to the guests; and you are a whore to
+three or four, though a Presbyter's praying daughter!"  which was very
+pretty.  Mrs. Pierce is still very pretty, but paints red on her face,
+which makes me hate her, that I thank God I take no pleasure in her at all
+more.  After much mirth and good company at dinner, I to the office and
+left them, and Pendleton also, who come in to see my wife and talk of
+dancing, and there I at the office all the afternoon very busy, and did
+much business, with my great content to see it go off of hand, and so
+home, my eyes spent, to supper and to bed.
+
+27th (Lord's day).  Up, and to my office, there, with W. Hewer, to dictate
+a long letter to the Duke of York, about the bad state of the office, it
+being a work I do think fit for the office to do, though it be to no
+purpose but for their vindication in these bad times; for I do now learn
+many things tending to our safety which I did not wholly forget before,
+but do find the fruits of, and would I had practised them more, as, among
+other things, to be sure to let our answers to orders bear date presently
+after their date, that we may be found quick in our execution. This did us
+great good the other day before the Parliament.  All the morning at this,
+at noon home to dinner, with my own family alone.  After dinner, I down to
+Deptford, the first time that I went to look upon "The Maybolt," which the
+King hath given me, and there she is; and I did meet with Mr. Uthwayte,
+who do tell me that there are new sails ordered to be delivered her, and a
+cable, which I did not speak of at all to him.  So, thereupon, I told him
+I would not be my own hindrance so much as to take her into my custody
+before she had them, which was all I said to him, but desired him to take
+a strict inventory of her, that I might not be cheated by the master nor
+the company, when they come to understand that the vessel is gone away,
+which he hath promised me, and so away back again home, reading all the
+way the book of the collection of oaths in the several offices of this
+nation, which is worth a man's reading, and so away home, and there my boy
+and I to sing, and at it all the evening, and to supper, and so to bed.
+This evening come Sir J. Minnes to me, to let me know that a
+Parliament-man hath been with him, to tell him that the Parliament intend
+to examine him particularly about Sir W. Coventry's selling of places, and
+about my Lord Bruncker's discharging the ships at Chatham by ticket: for
+the former of which I am more particularly sorry that that business of
+[Sir] W. Coventry should come up again; though this old man tells me, and,
+I believe, that he can say nothing to it.
+
+28th.  Up, and by water to White Hall (calling at Michell's and drank a
+dram of strong water, but it being early I did not see his wife), and
+thence walked to Sir W. Coventry's lodging, but he was gone out, and so
+going towards St. James's I find him at his house which is fitting for
+him; and there I to him, and was with him above an hour alone, discoursing
+of the matters of the nation, and our Office, and himself. He owns that he
+is, at this day, the chief person aymed at by the Parliament--that is, by
+the friends of my Lord Chancellor, and also by the Duke of Albemarle, by
+reason of his unhappy shewing of the Duke of Albemarle's letter, the other
+day, in the House; but that he thinks that he is not liable to any hurt
+they can fasten on him for anything, he is so well armed to justify
+himself in every thing, unless in the old business of selling places, when
+he says every body did; and he will now not be forward to tell his own
+story, as he hath been; but tells me he is grown wiser, and will put them
+to prove any thing, and he will defend himself: besides that, he will
+dispute the statute, thinking that it will not be found to reach him.  We
+did talk many things, which, as they come into my mind now, I shall set
+down without order: that he is weary of public employment; and neither
+ever designed, nor will ever, if his commission were brought to him wrapt
+in gold, would he accept of any single place in the State, as particularly
+Secretary of State; which, he says, the world discourses Morrice is
+willing to resign, and he thinks the King might have thought of him, but
+he would not, by any means, now take it, if given him, nor anything, but
+in commission with others, who may bear part of the blame; for now he
+observes well, that whoever did do anything singly are now in danger,
+however honest and painful they were, saying that he himself was the only
+man, he thinks, at the council-board that spoke his mind clearly, as he
+thought, to the good of the King; and the rest, who sat silent, have
+nothing said to them, nor are taken notice of.  That the first time the
+King did take him so closely into his confidence and ministry of affairs
+was upon the business of Chatham, when all the disturbances were there,
+and in the kingdom; and then, while everybody was fancying for himself,
+the King did find him to persuade him to call for the Parliament,
+declaring that it was against his own proper interest, forasmuch as [it
+was] likely they would find faults with him, as well as with others, but
+that he would prefer the service of the King before his own: and,
+thereupon, the King did take him into his special notice, and, from that
+time to this, hath received him so; and that then he did see the folly and
+mistakes of the Chancellor in the management of things, and saw that
+matters were never likely to be done well in that sort of conduct, and did
+persuade the King to think fit of the taking away the seals from the
+Chancellor, which, when it was done, he told me that he himself, in his
+own particular, was sorry for it; for, while he stood, there was he and my
+Lord Arlington to stand between him and harm: whereas now there is only my
+Lord Arlington, and he is now down, so that all their fury is placed upon
+him but that he did tell the King, when he first moved it, that, if he
+thought the laying of him, W. Coventry, aside, would at all facilitate the
+removing of the Chancellor, he would most willingly submit to it,
+whereupon the King did command him to try the Duke of York about it, and
+persuade him to it, which he did, by the King's command, undertake, and
+compass, and the Duke of York did own his consent to the King, but
+afterwards was brought to be of another mind for the Chancellor, and now
+is displeased with him, and [so is] the Duchesse, so that she will not see
+him; but he tells me the Duke of York seems pretty kind, and hath said
+that he do believe that W. Coventry did mean well, and do it only out of
+judgment.  He tells me that he never was an intriguer in his life, nor
+will be, nor of any combination of persons to set up this, or fling down
+that, nor hath, in his own business, this Parliament, spoke to three
+members to say any thing for him, but will stand upon his own defence, and
+will stay by it, and thinks that he is armed against all they can [say],
+but the old business of selling places, and in that thinks they cannot
+hurt him. However, I do find him mighty willing to have his name used as
+little as he can, and he was glad when I did deliver him up a letter of
+his to me, which did give countenance to the discharging of men by ticket
+at Chatham, which is now coming in question; and wherein, I confess, I am
+sorry to find him so tender of appearing, it being a thing not only good
+and fit, all that was done in it, but promoted and advised by him.  But he
+thinks the House is set upon wresting anything to his prejudice that they
+can pick up.  He tells me he did never, as a great many have, call the
+Chancellor rogue and knave, and I know not what; but all that he hath
+said, and will stand by, is, that his counsels were not good, nor the
+manner of his managing of things.  I suppose he means suffering the King
+to run in debt; for by and by the King walking in the parke, with a great
+crowd of his idle people about him, I took occasion to say that it was a
+sorry thing to be a poor King, and to have others to come to correct the
+faults of his own servants, and that this was it that brought us all into
+this condition.  He answered that he would never be a poor King, and then
+the other would mend of itself.  "No," says he, "I would eat bread and
+drink water first, and this day discharge all the idle company about me,
+and walk only with two footmen; and this I have told the King, and this
+must do it at last."  I asked him how long the King would suffer this. He
+told me the King must suffer it yet longer, that he would not advise the
+King to do otherwise; for it would break out again worse, if he should
+break them up before the core be come up.  After this, we fell to other
+talk, of my waiting upon him hereafter, it may be, to read a chapter in
+Seneca, in this new house, which he hath bought, and is making very fine,
+when we may be out of employment, which he seems to wish more than to
+fear, and I do believe him heartily.  Thence home, and met news from Mr.
+Townsend of the Wardrobe that old Young, the yeoman taylor, whose place my
+Lord Sandwich promised my father, is dead.  Upon which, resolving
+presently that my father shall not be troubled with it, but I hope I shall
+be able to enable him to end his days where he is, in quiet, I went forth
+thinking to tell Mrs. Ferrers (Captain Ferrers's wife), who do expect it
+after my father, that she may look after it, but upon second thoughts
+forbore it, and so back again home, calling at the New Exchange, and there
+buying "The Indian Emperour," newly printed, and so home to dinner, where
+I had Mr. Clerke, the sollicitor, and one of the Auditor's clerks to
+discourse about the form of making up my accounts for the Exchequer, which
+did give me good satisfaction, and so after dinner, my wife, and Mercer,
+who grows fat, and Willett, and I, to the King's house, and there saw "The
+Committee," a play I like well, and so at night home and to the office,
+and so to my chamber about my accounts, and then to Sir W. Pen's to speak
+with Sir John Chichly, who desired my advice about a prize which he hath
+begged of the King, and there had a great deal of his foolish talk of
+ladies and love and I know not what, and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+29th.  Up, and at the office, my Lord Bruncker and I close together till
+almost 3 after noon, never stirring, making up a report for the Committee
+this afternoon about the business of discharging men by ticket, which it
+seems the House is mighty earnest in, but is a foolery in itself, yet
+gives me a great deal of trouble to draw up a defence for the Board, as if
+it was a crime; but I think I have done it to very good purpose.  Then to
+my Lady Williams's, with her and my Lord, and there did eat a snapp of
+good victuals, and so to Westminster Hall, where we find the House not up,
+but sitting all this day about the method of bringing in the charge
+against my Lord Chancellor; and at last resolved for a Committee to draw
+up the heads, and so rose, and no Committee to sit tonight.  Here Sir W.
+Coventry and Lord Bruncker and I did in the Hall (between the two Courts
+at the top of the Hall) discourse about a letter of [Sir] W. Coventry's to
+Bruncker, whereon Bruncker did justify his discharging men by ticket, and
+insists on one word which Sir W. Coventry would not seem very earnest to
+have left out, but I did see him concerned, and did after labour to
+suppress the whole letter, the thing being in itself really impertinent,
+but yet so it is that [Sir] W. Coventry do not desire to have his name
+used in this business, and I have prevailed with Bruncker for it.  Thence
+Bruncker and I to the King's House, thinking to have gone into a box
+above, for fear of being seen, the King being there, but the play being 3
+acts done we would not give 4s., and so away and parted, and I home, and
+there after a little supper to bed, my eyes ill, and head full of thoughts
+of the trouble this Parliament gives us.
+
+30th.  All the morning till past noon preparing over again our report this
+afternoon to the Committee of Parliament about tickets, and then home to
+eat a bit, and then with Sir W. Pen to White Hall, where we did a very
+little business with the Duke of York at our usual meeting, only I
+perceive that he do leave all of us, as the King do those about him, to
+stand and fall by ourselves, and I think is not without some cares himself
+what the Parliament may do in matters wherein his honour is concerned.
+Thence to the Parliament-house; where, after the Committee was sat, I was
+called in; and the first thing was upon the complaint of a dirty slut that
+was there, about a ticket which she had lost, and had applied herself to
+me for another.  .  .  . I did give them a short and satisfactory answer
+to that; and so they sent her away, and were ashamed of their foolery, in
+giving occasion to 500 seamen and seamen's wives to come before them, as
+there was this afternoon.  But then they fell to the business of tickets,
+and I did give them the best answer I could, but had not scope to do it in
+the methodical manner which I had prepared myself for, but they did ask a
+great many broken rude questions about it, and were mightily hot whether
+my Lord Bruncker had any order to discharge whole ships by ticket, and
+because my answer was with distinction, and not direct, I did perceive
+they were not so fully satisfied therewith as I could wish they were.  So
+my Lord Bruncker was called in, and they could fasten nothing on him that
+I could see, nor indeed was there any proper matter for blame, but I do
+see, and it was said publicly in the House by Sir T. Clerges that Sir W.
+Batten had designed the business of discharging men by ticket and an order
+after the thing was done to justify my Lord Bruncker for having done it.
+But this I did not owne at all, nor was it just so, though he did indeed
+do something like it, yet had contributed as much to it as any man of the
+board by sending down of tickets to do it.  But, Lord! to see that we
+should be brought to justify ourselves in a thing of necessity and profit
+to the King, and of no profit or convenience to us, but the contrary.  We
+being withdrawn, we heard no more of it, but there staid late and do hear
+no more, only my cozen Pepys do tell me that he did hear one or two
+whisper as if they thought that I do bogle at the business of my Lord
+Bruncker, which is a thing I neither did or have reason to do in his
+favour, but I do not think it fit to make him suffer for a thing that
+deserves well.  But this do trouble me a little that anything should stick
+to my prejudice in any of them, and did trouble me so much that all the
+way home with Sir W. Pen I was not at good ease, nor all night, though
+when I come home I did find my wife, and Betty Turner, the two Mercers,
+and Mrs. Parker, an ugly lass, but yet dances well, and speaks the best of
+them, and W. Batelier, and Pembleton dancing; and here I danced with them,
+and had a good supper, and as merry as I could be, and so they being gone
+we to bed.
+
+31st.  Up, and all the morning at the office, and at noon Mr. Creed and
+Yeabsly dined with me (my wife gone to dine with Mrs. Pierce and see a
+play with her), and after dinner in comes Mr. Turner, of Eynsbury, lately
+come to town, and also after him Captain Hill of the "Coventry," who lost
+her at Barbadoes, and is come out of France, where he hath been long
+prisoner.  After a great deal of mixed discourse, and then Mr. Turner and
+I alone a little in my closet, talking about my Lord Sandwich (who I hear
+is now ordered by the King to come home again), we all parted, and I by
+water, calling at Michell's, and saw and once kissed su wife, but I do
+think that he is jealous of her, and so she dares not stand out of his
+sight; so could not do more, but away by water to the Temple, and there,
+after spending a little time in my bookseller's shop, I to Westminster;
+and there at the lobby do hear by Commissioner Pett, to my great
+amazement, that he is in worse condition than before, by the coming in of
+the Duke of Albemarle's and Prince Rupert's Narratives' this day; wherein
+the former do most severely lay matters upon him, so as the House this day
+have, I think, ordered him to the Tower again, or something like it; so
+that the poor man is likely to be overthrown, I doubt, right or wrong, so
+infinite fond they are of any thing the Duke of Albemarle says or writes
+to them!  I did then go down, and there met with Colonel Reames and cozen
+Roger Pepys; and there they do tell me how the Duke of Albemarle and the
+Prince have laid blame on a great many, and particularly on our Office in
+general; and particularly for want of provision, wherein I shall come to
+be questioned again in that business myself; which do trouble me.  But my
+cozen Pepys and I had much discourse alone: and he do bewail the
+constitution of this House, and says there is a direct caball and faction,
+as much as is possible between those for and those against the Chancellor,
+and so in other factions, that there is nothing almost done honestly and
+with integrity; only some few, he says, there are, that do keep out of all
+plots and combinations, and when their time comes will speak and see right
+done, if possible; and that he himself is looked upon to be a man that
+will be of no faction, and so they do shun to make him; and I am glad of
+it.  He tells me that he thanks God he never knew what it was to be
+tempted to be a knave in his life; till he did come into the House of
+Commons, where there is nothing done but by passion, and faction, and
+private interest.  Reames did tell me of a fellow last night (one Kelsy, a
+commander of a fire-ship, who complained for want of his money paid him)
+did say that he did see one of the Commissioners of the Navy bring in
+three waggon-loads of prize-goods into Greenwich one night; but that the
+House did take no notice of it, nor enquire; but this is me, and I must
+expect to be called to account, and answer what I did as well as I can.
+So thence away home, and in Holborne, going round, it being dark, I espied
+Sir D. Gawden's coach, and so went out of mine into his; and there had
+opportunity to talk of the business of victuals, which the Duke of
+Albemarle and Prince did complain that they were in want of the last year:
+but we do conclude we shall be able to show quite the contrary of that;
+only it troubles me that we must come to contend with these great persons,
+which will overrun us.  So with some disquiet in my mind on this account I
+home, and there comes Mr. Yeabsly, and he and I to even some accounts,
+wherein I shall be a gainer about L200, which is a seasonable profit, for
+I have got nothing a great while; and he being gone, I to bed.
+
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+     Commons, where there is nothing done but by passion, and faction
+     Disquiet all night, telling of the clock till it was daylight
+     Painful to keep money, as well as to get it
+     Sorry thing to be a poor King
+     Spares not to blame another to defend himself
+     Wise man's not being wise at all times
+
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+                THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S.
+
+            CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY
+
+   TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY
+MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW
+                      AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
+
+                              (Unabridged)
+
+                      WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES
+
+                        EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY
+
+                        HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A.
+
+
+
+                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
+                                 OCTOBER
+                                  1667
+
+
+October 1st.  All the morning busy at the office, pleased mightily with
+my girle that we have got to wait on my wife.  At noon dined with Sir G.
+Carteret and the rest of our officers at his house in Broad Street, they
+being there upon his accounts.  After dinner took coach and to my wife,
+who was gone before into the Strand, there to buy a nightgown, where I
+found her in a shop with her pretty girle, and having bought it away
+home, and I thence to Sir G. Carteret's again, and so took coach alone,
+it now being almost night, to White Hall, and there in the Boarded-
+gallery did hear the musick with which the King is presented this night
+by Monsieur Grebus, the master of his musick; both instrumentall--I think
+twenty-four violins--and vocall; an English song upon Peace.  But, God
+forgive me!  I never was so little pleased with a concert of musick in my
+life.  The manner of setting of words and repeating them out of order,
+and that with a number of voices, makes me sick, the whole design of
+vocall musick being lost by it.  Here was a great press of people; but I
+did not see many pleased with it, only the instrumental musick he had
+brought by practice to play very just.  So thence late in the dark round
+by the wall home by coach, and there to sing and sup with my wife, and
+look upon our pretty girle, and so to bed.
+
+
+
+2nd.  Up, and very busy all the morning, upon my accounts of Tangier, to
+present to the Commissioners of the Treasury in the afternoon, and the
+like upon the accounts of the office.  This morning come to me Mr. Gawden
+about business, with his gold chain about his neck, as being Sheriffe of
+the City this year.  At noon to the Treasury Office again, and there
+dined and did business, and then by coach to the New Exchange, and there
+met my wife and girl, and took them to the King's house to see "The
+Traytour," which still I like as a very good play; and thence, round by
+the wall, home, having drunk at the Cock ale-house, as I of late have
+used to do, and so home and to my chamber to read, and so to supper and
+to bed.
+
+
+
+3rd.  Up, and going out of doors, I understand that Sir W. Batten is gone
+to bed on a sudden again this morning, being struck very ill, and I
+confess I have observed him for these last two months to look very ill
+and to look worse and worse.  I to St. James's (though it be a sitting
+day) to the Duke of York, about the Tangier Committee, which met this
+morning, and he come to us, and the Charter for the City of Tangier was
+read and the form of the Court Merchant.  That being done Sir W. Coventry
+took me into the gallery, and walked with me an hour, discoursing of Navy
+business, and with much kindness to, and confidence in, me still; which I
+must endeavour to preserve, and will do; and, good man! all his care how
+to get the Navy paid off, and that all other things therein may go well.
+He gone, I thence to my Lady Peterborough, who sent for me; and with her
+an hour talking about her husband's pension, and how she hath got an
+order for its being paid again; though, I believe, for all that order,
+it will hardly be; but of that I said nothing; but her design is to get
+it paid again: and how to raise money upon it, to clear it from the
+engagement which lies upon it to some citizens, who lent her husband
+money, without her knowledge, upon it, to vast loss.  She intends to
+force them to take their money again, and release her husband of those
+hard terms.  The woman is a very wise woman, and is very plain in telling
+me how her plate and jewels are at pawne for money, and how they are
+forced to live beyond their estate, and do get nothing by his being a
+courtier.  The lady I pity, and her family.  Having done with her, and
+drunk two glasses of her meade, which she did give me, and so to the
+Treasurer's Office, and there find my Lord Bruncker and [Sir] W. Pen at
+dinner with Sir G. Carteret about his accounts, where I dined and talked
+and settled some business, and then home, and there took out my wife and
+Willet, thinking to have gone to a play, but both houses were begun, and
+so we to the 'Change, and thence to my tailor's, and there, the coachman
+desiring to go home to change his horses, we went with him into a nasty
+end of all St. Giles's, and there went into a nasty room, a chamber of
+his, where he hath a wife and child, and there staid, it growing dark
+too, and I angry thereat, till he shifted his horses, and then home
+apace, and there I to business late, and so home, to supper, and walk in
+the garden with my wife and girle, with whom we are mightily pleased, and
+after talking and supping, to bed.  This noon, going home, I did call on
+Will Lincolne and agree with him to carry me to Brampton.
+
+
+
+4th.  Up, and to White Hall to attend the Council about Commissioner
+Pett's business, along with my Lord Bruncker and Sir W. Pen, and in the
+Robe-chamber the Duke of York come to us, the officers of the Navy, and
+there did meet together about Navy business, where Sir W. Coventry was
+with us, and among other things did recommend his Royal Highness, now the
+prizes were disposing, to remember Sir John Harman to the King, for some
+bounty, and also for my Lady Minnes, which was very nobly done of him.
+Thence all of us to attend the Council, where we were anon called on, and
+there was a long hearing of Commissioner Pett, who was there, and there
+were the two Masters Attendant of Chatham called in, who do deny their
+having any order from Commissioner Pett about bringing up the great
+ships, which gives the lie to what he says; but, in general, I find him
+to be but a weak, silly man, and that is guilty of horrid neglect in this
+business all along.  Here broke off without coming to an issue, but that
+there should be another hearing on Monday next.  So the Council rose, and
+I staid walking up and down the galleries till the King went to dinner,
+and then I to my Lord Crew's to dinner; but he having dined, I took a
+very short leave, confessing I had not dined; and so to an ordinary hard
+by the Temple-gate, where I have heretofore been, and there dined--cost
+me 10d.  And so to my Lord Ashly's, where after dinner Sir H. Cholmly,
+Creed and I, with his Lordship, about Mr. Yeabsly's business, where
+having come to agreement with him abating him L1000 of what he demands
+for ships lost, I to Westminster, to Mrs. Martin's lodging, whither I
+sent for her, and there hear that her husband is come from sea, which is
+sooner than I expected; and here I staid and drank, and so did toucher
+elle and away, and so by coach to my tailor's, and thence to my Lord
+Crew's, and there did stay with him an hour till almost night,
+discoursing about the ill state of my Lord Sandwich, that he can neither
+be got to be called home, nor money got to maintain him there; which will
+ruin his family.  And the truth is, he do almost deserve it, for by all
+relation he hath, in a little more than a year and a half, spent L20,000
+of the King's money, and the best part of L10,000 of his own; which is a
+most prodigious expence, more than ever Embassador spent there, and more
+than these Commissioners of the Treasury will or do allow.  And they
+demand an account before they will give him any more money; which puts
+all his friends to a loss what to answer.  But more money we must get
+him, or to be called home.  I offer to speak to Sir W. Coventry about it;
+but my Lord will not advise to it, without consent of Sir G. Carteret.
+So home, and there to see Sir W. Batten, who fell sick yesterday morning:
+He is asleep: and so I could not see him; but in an hour after, word is
+brought me that he is so ill, that it is believed he cannot live till
+to-morrow, which troubles me and my wife mightily, partly out of
+kindness, he being a good neighbour and partly because of the money he
+owes me, upon our bargain of the late prize.  So home and to supper and
+to bed.
+
+
+
+5th.  Up, and to the Office; and there all the morning; none but my Lord
+Anglesey and myself; but much surprized with the news of the death of Sir
+W. Batten, who died this morning, having been but two days sick.  Sir W.
+Pen and I did dispatch a letter this morning to Sir W. Coventry, to
+recommend Colonel Middleton, who we think a most honest and understanding
+man, and fit for that place.  Sir G. Carteret did also come this morning,
+and walked with me in the garden; and concluded not to concern [himself]
+or have any advice made to Sir W. Coventry, in behalf of my Lord
+Sandwich's business; so I do rest satisfied, though I do think they are
+all mad, that they will judge Sir W. Coventry an enemy, when he is indeed
+no such man to any body, but is severe and just, as he ought to be, where
+he sees things ill done.  At noon home, and by coach to Temple Bar to a
+India shop, and there bought a gown and sash, which cost me 26s., and so
+she [Mrs. Pepys] and Willet away to the 'Change, and I to my Lord Crew,
+and there met my Lord Hinchingbroke and Lady Jemimah, and there dined
+with them and my Lord, where pretty merry, and after dinner my Lord Crew
+and Hinchingbroke and myself went aside to discourse about my Lord
+Sandwich's business, which is in a very ill state for want of money, and
+so parted, and I to my tailor's, and there took up my wife and Willet,
+who staid there for me, and to the Duke of York's playhouse, but the
+house so full, it being a new play, "The Coffee House," that we could not
+get in, and so to the King's house: and there, going in, met with Knepp,
+and she took us up into the tireing-rooms: and to the women's shift,
+where Nell was dressing herself, and was all unready, and is very pretty,
+prettier than I thought.  And so walked all up and down the house above,
+and then below into the scene-room, and there sat down, and she gave us
+fruit and here I read the questions to Knepp, while she answered me,
+through all her part of "Flora's Figary's," which was acted to-day.  But,
+Lord! to see how they were both painted would make a man mad, and did
+make me loath them; and what base company of men comes among them, and
+how lewdly they talk!  and how poor the men are in clothes, and yet what
+a shew they make on the stage by candle-light, is very observable.  But
+to see how Nell cursed, for having so few people in the pit, was pretty;
+the other house carrying away all the people at the new play, and is
+said, now-a-days, to have generally most company, as being better
+players.  By and by into the pit, and there saw the play, which is pretty
+good, but my belly was full of what I had seen in the house, and so,
+after the play done, away home, and there to the writing my letters, and
+so home to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+6th (Lord's day).  Up, and dressed myself, and so walked out with the boy
+to Smithfield to Cow Lane, to Lincolne's, and there spoke with him, and
+agreed upon the hour to-morrow, to set out towards Brampton; but vexed
+that he is not likely to go himself, but sends another for him.  Here I
+took a hackney coach, and to White Hall, and there met Sir W. Coventry,
+and discoursed with him, and then with my Lord Bruncker, and many others,
+to end my matters in order to my going into the country to-morrow for
+five or six days, which I have not done for above three years.  Walked
+with Creed into the Park a little, and at last went into the Queen's
+side, and there saw the King and Queen, and saw the ladies, in order to
+my hearing any news stirring to carry into the country, but met with
+none, and so away home by coach, and there dined, and W. How come to see
+me, and after dinner parted, and I to my writing to my Lord Sandwich,
+which is the greatest business I have to do before my going into the
+country, and in the evening to my office to set matters to rights there,
+and being in the garden Sir W. Pen did come to me, and fell to discourse
+about the business of "The Flying Greyhound," wherein I was plain to him
+and he to me, and at last concluded upon my writing a petition to the
+Duke of York for a certain ship, The Maybolt Gallyott, and he offers to
+give me L300 for my success, which, however, I would not oblige him to,
+but will see the issue of it by fair play, and so I did presently draw a
+petition, which he undertakes to proffer to the Duke of York, and solicit
+for me, and will not seem to doubt of his success.  So I wrote, and did
+give it him, and left it with him, and so home to supper, where Pelling
+comes and sits with me, and there tells us how old Mr. Batelier is dead
+this last night in the night, going to bed well, which I am mightily
+troubled for, he being a good man.  Supper done, and he gone, I to my
+chamber to write my journal to this night, and so to bed.
+
+
+
+7th.  Up betimes, and did do several things towards the settling all
+matters both of house and office in order for my journey this day, and
+did leave my chief care, and the key of my closet, with Mr. Hater, with
+directions what papers to secure, in case of fire or other accident; and
+so, about nine o'clock, I, and my wife, and Willet, set out in a coach I
+have hired, with four horses; and W. Hewer and Murford rode by us on
+horseback; and so my wife and she in their morning gowns, very handsome
+and pretty, and to my great liking.  We set out, and so out at Allgate,
+and so to the Green Man, and so on to Enfield, in our way seeing Mr.
+Lowther and his lady in a coach, going to Walthamstow; and he told us
+that he would overtake us at night, he being to go that way.  So we to
+Enfield, and there bayted, it being but a foul, bad day, and there
+Lowther and Mr. Burford, an acquaintance of his, did overtake us, and
+there drank and eat together; and, by and by, we parted, we going before
+them, and very merry, my wife and girle and I talking, and telling tales,
+and singing, and before night come to Bishop Stafford, where Lowther and
+his friend did meet us again, and carried us to the Raynedeere, where
+Mrs. Aynsworth,
+
+     [Elizabeth Aynsworth, here mentioned, was a noted procurerss at
+     Cambridge, banished from that town by the university authorities for
+     her evil courses.  She subsequently kept the Rein Deer Inn at
+     Bishops Stortford, at which the Vice-Chancellor, and some of the
+     heads of colleges, had occasion to sleep, in their way to London,
+     and were nobly entertained, their supper being served off plate.
+     The next morning their hostess refused to make any charge, saying,
+     that she was still indebted to the Vice-Chancellor, who, by driving
+     her out of Cambridge, had made her fortune.  No tradition of this
+     woman has been preserved at Bishops Stortford; but it appears, from
+     the register of that parish, that she was buried there 26th of
+     March, 1686.  It is recorded in the "History of Essex," vol. iii.,
+     (p. 130) 8vo., 1770, and in a pamphlet in the British Museum,
+     entitled, "Boteler's Case," that she was implicated in the murder of
+     Captain Wood, a Hertfordshire gentleman, at Manuden, in Essex, and
+     for which offence a person named Boteler was executed at Chelmsford,
+     September 10th, 1667, and that Mrs. Aynsworth, tried at the same
+     time as an accessory before the fact, was acquitted for want of
+     evidence; though in her way to the jail she endeavoured to throw
+     herself into the river, but was prevented.  See Postea, May 25th,
+     1668.--B.]
+
+who lived heretofore at Cambridge, and whom I knew better than they think
+for, do live.  It was the woman that, among other things, was great with
+my cozen Barnston, of Cottenham, and did use to sing to him, and did
+teach me "Full forty times over," a very lewd song: a woman they are very
+well acquainted with, and is here what she was at Cambridge, and all the
+good fellows of the country come hither.  Lowther and his friend stayed
+and drank, and then went further this night; but here we stayed, and
+supped, and lodged.  But, as soon as they were gone, and my supper
+getting ready, I fell to write my letter to my Lord Sandwich, which I
+could not finish before my coming from London; so did finish it to my
+good content, and a good letter, telling him the present state of all
+matters, and did get a man to promise to carry it to-morrow morning, to
+be there, at my house, by noon, and I paid him well for it; so, that
+being done, and my mind at ease, we to supper, and so to bed, my wife and
+I in one bed, and the girl in another, in the same room, and lay very
+well, but there was so much tearing company in the house, that we could
+not see my landlady; so I had no opportunity of renewing my old
+acquaintance with her, but here we slept very well.
+
+
+
+8th.  Up pretty betimes, though not so soon as we intended, by reason of
+Murford's not rising, and then not knowing how to open our door, which,
+and some other pleasant simplicities of the fellow, did give occasion to
+us to call him.  Sir Martin Marrall, and W. Hewer being his helper and
+counsellor, we did call him, all this journey, Mr. Warner, which did give
+us good occasion of mirth now and then.  At last, rose, and up, and broke
+our fast, and then took coach, and away, and at Newport did call on Mr.
+Lowther, and he and his friend, and the master of the house, their
+friend, where they were, a gentleman, did presently get a-horseback and
+overtook us, and went with us to Audley-End, and did go along with us all
+over the house and garden: and mighty merry we were.  The house indeed do
+appear very fine, but not so fine as it hath heretofore to me;
+particularly the ceilings are not so good as I always took them to be,
+being nothing so well wrought as my Lord Chancellor's are; and though the
+figure of the house without be very extraordinary good, yet the stayre-
+case is exceeding poor; and a great many pictures, and not one good one
+in the house but one of Harry the Eighth, done by Holben; and not one
+good suit of hangings in all the house, but all most ancient things, such
+as I would not give the hanging-up of in my house; and the other
+furniture, beds and other things, accordingly.
+
+     [Mr. George T. Robinson, F.S.A., in a paper on "Decorative Plaster
+     Work," read before the Society of Arts in April, 1891, refers to the
+     ceilings at Audley End as presenting an excellent idea of the state
+     of the stuccoer's art in the middle of James I.'s reign, and adds,
+     "Few houses in England can show so fine a series of the same date .
+     .  .  .  The great hall has medallions in the square portions of the
+     ceiling formed by its dividing timber beams.  The large saloon on
+     the principal floor-a room about 66 feet long by 30 feet wide-has a
+     very remarkable ceiling of the pendentive type, which presents many
+     peculiarities, the most notable of which, that these not only depend
+     from the ceiling, but the outside ones spring from the walls in a
+     natural and structural manner.  This is a most unusual circumstance
+     in the stucco work of the time, the reason for the omission of this
+     reasonable treatment evidently being the unwillingness of the
+     stuccoer to omit his elaborate frieze in which he took such delight"
+     ("Journal Soc. of Arts," vol. xxxix., p. 449)]
+
+Only the gallery is good, and, above all things, the cellars, where we
+went down and drank of much good liquor; and indeed the cellars are fine:
+and here my wife and I did sing to my great content.  And then to the
+garden, and there eat many grapes, and took some with us and so away
+thence, exceeding well satisfied, though not to that degree that, by my
+old esteem of the house, I ought and did expect to have done, the
+situation of it not pleasing me.  Here we parted with Lowther and his
+friends, and away to Cambridge, it being foul, rainy weather, and there
+did take up at the Rose, for the sake of Mrs. Dorothy Drawwater, the
+vintner's daughter, which is mentioned in the play of Sir Martin Marrall.
+Here we had a good chamber, and bespoke a good supper; and then I took my
+wife, and W. Hewer, and Willet, it holding up a little, and shewed them
+Trinity College and St. John's Library, and went to King's College
+Chapel, to see the outside of it only; and so to our inne, and with much
+pleasure did this, they walking in their pretty morning gowns, very
+handsome, and I proud to find myself in condition to do this; and so home
+to our lodging, and there by and by, to supper, with much good sport,
+talking with the Drawers concerning matters of the town, and persons whom
+I remember, and so, after supper, to cards; and then to bed, lying, I in
+one bed, and my wife and girl in another, in the same room, and very
+merry talking together, and mightily pleased both of us with the girl.
+Saunders, the only violin in my time, is, I hear, dead of the plague in
+the late plague there.
+
+
+
+9th.  Up, and got ready, and eat our breakfast; and then took coach: and
+the poor, as they did yesterday, did stand at the coach to have something
+given them, as they do to all great persons; and I did give them
+something: and the town musique did also come and play: but, Lord! what
+sad music they made!  However, I was pleased with them, being all of us
+in very good humour, and so through the town, and observed at our College
+of Magdalene the posts new painted, and understand that the Vice-
+Chancellor' is there this year.  And so away for Huntingdon mightily
+pleased all along the road to remember old stories; and come to Brampton
+at about noon, and there find my father and sister and brother all well
+and here laid up our things, and up and down to see the garden with my
+father, and the house, and do altogether find it very pretty; especially
+the little parlour and the summerhouses in the garden, only the wall do
+want greens upon it, and the house is too low-roofed; but that is only
+because of my coming from a house with higher ceilings.  But altogether
+is very pretty; and I bless God that I am like to have such a pretty
+place to retire to: and I did walk with my father without doors, and do
+find a very convenient way of laying out money there in building, which
+will make a very good seat, and the place deserves it, I think, very
+well.  By and by to dinner, and after dinner I walked up to
+Hinchingbroke, where my Lady expected me; and there spent all the
+afternoon with her: the same most excellent, good, discreet lady that
+ever she was; and, among other things, is mightily pleased with the lady
+that is like to be her son Hinchingbroke's wife, which I am mightily glad
+of.  By and by my wife comes with Willet, my wife in her velvett vest,
+which is mighty fine, and becomes her exceedingly.  I am pleased with my
+Lady Paulina and Anne, who both are grown very proper ladies, and
+handsome enough.  But a thousand questions my Lady asked me, till she
+could think of no more almost, but walked up and down the house, with me.
+But I do find, by her, that they are reduced to great straits for money,
+having been forced to sell her plate, 8 or L900 worth; and she is now
+going to sell a suit of her best hangings, of which I could almost wish
+to buy a piece or two, if the pieces will be broke.  But the house is
+most excellently furnished, and brave rooms and good pictures, so that it
+do please me infinitely beyond Audley End.  Here we staid till night
+walking and talking and drinking, and with mighty satisfaction my Lady
+with me alone most of the day talking of my Lord's bad condition to be
+kept in Spayne without money and at a great expense, which (as we will
+save the family) we must labour to remove.  Night being come, we took
+leave with all possible kindness, and so home, and there Mr. Shepley
+staid with us and sapped, and full of good country discourse, and when
+supper done took his leave, and we all to bed, only I a little troubled
+that my father tells me that he is troubled that my wife shows my sister
+no countenance, and, him but very little, but is as a stranger in the
+house; and I do observe she do carry herself very high; but I perceive
+there was some great falling out when she was here last, but the reason I
+have no mind to enquire after, for vexing myself, being desirous to pass
+my time with as much mirth as I can while I am abroad.  So all to bed.
+My wife and I in the high bed in our chamber, and Willet in the trundle
+bed, which she desired to lie in, by us.
+
+
+
+10th.  Waked in the morning with great pain of the collique, by cold
+taken yesterday, I believe, with going up and down in my shirt, but with
+rubbing my belly, keeping of it warm, I did at last come to some ease,
+and rose, and up to walk up and down the garden with my father, to talk
+of all our concernments: about a husband for my sister, whereof there is
+at present no appearance; but we must endeavour to find her one now, for
+she grows old and ugly: then for my brother; and resolve he shall stay
+here this winter, and then I will either send him to Cambridge for a
+year, till I get him some church promotion, or send him to sea as a
+chaplain, where he may study, and earn his living.  Then walked round
+about our Greene, to see whether, in case I cannot buy out my uncle
+Thomas and his son's right in this house, that I can buy another place.
+as good thereabouts to build on, and I do not see that I can.  But this,
+with new building, may be made an excellent pretty thing, and I resolve
+to look after it as soon as I can, and Goody Gorum dies.  By this time it
+was almost noon, and then my father and I and wife and Willet abroad, by
+coach round the towne of Brampton, to observe any other place as good as
+ours, and find none; and so back with great pleasure; and thence went all
+of us, my sister and brother, and W. Hewer, to dinner to Hinchingbroke,
+where we had a good plain country dinner, but most kindly used; and here
+dined the Minister of Brampton and his wife, who is reported a very good,
+but poor man.  Here I spent alone with my Lady, after dinner, the most of
+the afternoon, and anon the two twins were sent for from schoole, at Mr.
+Taylor's, to come to see me, and I took them into the garden, and there,
+in one of the summer-houses, did examine them, and do find them so well
+advanced in their learning, that I was amazed at it: they repeating a
+whole ode without book out of Horace, and did give me a very good account
+of any thing almost, and did make me very readily very good Latin, and
+did give me good account of their Greek grammar, beyond all possible
+expectation; and so grave and manly as I never saw, I confess, nor could
+have believed; so that they will be fit to go to Cambridge in two years
+at most.  They are both little, but very like one another, and well-
+looked children.  Then in to my Lady again, and staid till it was almost
+night again, and then took leave for a great while again, but with
+extraordinary kindness from my Lady, who looks upon me like one of her
+own family and interest.  So thence, my wife and people by the highway,
+and I walked over the park with Mr. Shepley, and through the grove, which
+is mighty pretty, as is imaginable, and so over their drawbridge to Nun's
+Bridge, and so to my father's, and there sat and drank, and talked a
+little, and then parted.  And he being gone, and what company there was,
+my father and I, with a dark lantern; it being now night, into the garden
+with my wife, and there went about our great work to dig up my gold.
+But, Lord!  what a tosse I was for some time in, that they could not
+justly tell where it was; that I begun heartily to sweat, and be angry,
+that they should not agree better upon the place, and at last to fear
+that it was gone but by and by poking with a spit, we found it, and then
+begun with a spudd to lift up the ground.  But, good God! to see how
+sillily they did it, not half a foot under ground, and in the sight of
+the world from a hundred places, if any body by accident were near hand,
+and within sight of a neighbour's window, and their hearing also, being
+close by: only my father says that he saw them all gone to church before
+he begun the work, when he laid the money, but that do not excuse it to
+me.  But I was out of my wits almost, and the more from that, upon my
+lifting up the earth with the spudd, I did discern that I had scattered
+the pieces of gold round about the ground among the grass and loose
+earth; and taking up the iron head-pieces wherein they were put, I
+perceive the earth was got among the gold, and wet, so that the bags were
+all rotten, and all the notes, that I could not tell what in the world to
+say to it, not knowing how to judge what was wanting, or what had been
+lost by Gibson in his coming down: which, all put together, did make me
+mad; and at last was forced to take up the head-pieces, dirt and all, and
+as many of the scattered pieces as I could with the dirt discern by the
+candlelight, and carry them up into my brother's chamber, and there locke
+them up till I had eat a little supper: and then, all people going to
+bed, W. Hewer and I did all alone, with several pails of water and
+basins, at last wash the dirt off of the pieces, and parted the pieces
+and the dirt, and then begun to tell [them]; and by a note which I had of
+the value of the whole in my pocket, do find that there was short above a
+hundred pieces, which did make me mad; and considering that the
+neighbour's house was so near that we could not suppose we could speak
+one to another in the garden at the place where the gold lay--especially
+my father being deaf--but they must know what we had been doing on, I
+feared that they might in the night come and gather some pieces and
+prevent us the next morning; so W. Hewer and I out again about midnight,
+for it was now grown so late, and there by candlelight did make shift to
+gather forty-five pieces more.  And so in, and to cleanse them: and by
+this time it was past two in the morning; and so to bed, with my mind
+pretty quiet to think that I have recovered so many.  And then to bed,
+and I lay in the trundle-bed, the girl being gone to bed to my wife, and
+there lay in some disquiet all night, telling of the clock till it was
+daylight.
+
+
+
+11th.  And then rose and called W. Hewer, and he and I, with pails and a
+sieve, did lock ourselves into the garden, and there gather all the earth
+about the place into pails, and then sift those pails in one of the
+summer-houses, just as they do for dyamonds in other parts of the world;
+and there, to our great content, did with much trouble by nine o'clock
+(and by the time we emptied several pails and could not find one), we did
+make the last night's forty-five up seventy-nine: so that we are come to
+about twenty or thirty of what I think the true number should be; and
+perhaps within less; and of them I may reasonably think that Mr. Gibson
+might lose some: so that I am pretty well satisfied that my loss is not
+great, and do bless God that it is so well,
+
+     [About the year 1842, in removing the foundation of an old wall,
+     adjoining a mansion at Brampton, always considered the quondam
+     residence of the Pepys family, an iron pot, full of silver coins,
+     was discovered, and taken to the Earl of Sandwich, the owner of the
+     house, in whose possession they still remain.  The pot was so much
+     corroded, that a small piece of it only could be preserved.  The
+     coins were chiefly half-crowns of Elizabeth and the two elder
+     Stuarts, and all of a date anterior to the Restoration.  Although
+     Pepys states that the treasure which he caused to be buried was gold
+     exclusively, it is very probable that, in the confusion, a pot full
+     of silver money was packed up with the rest; but, at all events, the
+     coincidence appeared too singular to pass over without notice.--B.]
+
+and do leave my father to make a second examination of the dirt, which he
+promises he will do, and, poor man, is mightily troubled for this
+accident, but I declared myself very well satisfied, and so indeed I am;
+and my mind at rest in it, being but an accident, which is unusual; and
+so gives me some kind of content to remember how painful it is sometimes
+to keep money, as well as to get it, and how doubtful I was how to keep
+it all night, and how to secure it to London: and so got all my gold put
+up in bags.  And so having the last night wrote to my Lady Sandwich to
+lend me John Bowles to go along with me my journey, not telling her the
+reason, that it was only to secure my gold, we to breakfast, and then
+about ten o'clock took coach, my wife and I, and Willet, and W. Hewer,
+and Murford and Bowles (whom my Lady lent me), and my brother John on
+horseback; and with these four I thought myself pretty safe.  But, before
+we went out, the Huntingdon musick come to me and played, and it was
+better than that of Cambridge.  Here I took leave of my father, and did
+give my sister 20s.  She cried at my going; but whether it was at her
+unwillingness for my going, or any unkindness of my wife's, or no, I know
+not; but, God forgive me!  I take her to be so cunning and ill-natured,
+that I have no great love for her; but only [she] is my sister, and must
+be provided for.  My gold I put into a basket, and set under one of the
+seats; and so my work every quarter of an hour was to look to see whether
+all was well; and I did ride in great fear all the day, but it was a
+pleasant day, and good company, and I mightily contented.  Mr. Shepley
+saw me beyond St. Neots, and there parted, and we straight to Stevenage,
+through Bald Lanes, which are already very bad; and at Stevenage we come
+well before night, and all sat, and there with great care I got the gold
+up to the chamber, my wife carrying one bag, and the girl another, and W.
+Hewer the rest in the basket, and set it all under a bed in our chamber;
+and then sat down to talk, and were very pleasant, satisfying myself,
+among other things, from John Bowles, in some terms of hunting, and about
+deere, bucks, and does.  And so anon to supper, and very merry we were,
+and a good supper, and after supper to bed.  Brecocke alive still, and
+the best host I know almost.
+
+
+
+12th.  Up, and eat our breakfast, and set out about nine o'clock, and so
+to Barnett, where we staid and baited, the weather very good all day and
+yesterday, and by five o'clock got home, where I find all well; and did
+bring my gold, to my heart's content, very safe home, having not this day
+carried it in a basket, but in our hands: the girl took care of one, and
+my wife another bag, and I the rest, I being afraid of the bottom of the
+coach, lest it should break, and therefore was at more ease in my mind
+than I was yesterday.  At home we find that Sir W. Batten's burial was
+to-day carried from hence, with a hundred or two of coaches, to
+Walthamstow, and there buried.  Here I hear by Mr. Pierce the surgeon;
+and then by Mr. Lewes, and also by Mr. Hater, that the Parliament hath
+met on Thursday last, and adjourned to Monday next.  The King did make
+them a very kind speech, promising them to leave all to them to do, and
+call to account what and whom they pleased; and declared by my Lord
+Keeper how many, thirty-six, actes he had done since he saw them; among
+others, disbanding the army, and putting all Papists out of employment,
+and displacing persons that had managed their business ill, that the
+Parliament is mightily pleased with the King's speech, and voted giving
+him thanks for what he said and hath done; and, among things, would by
+name thank him for displacing my Lord Chancellor, for which a great many
+did speak in the House, but it was opposed by some, and particularly
+Harry Coventry, who got that it should be put to a Committee to consider
+what particulars to mention in their thanks to the King, saying that it
+was too soon to give thanks for the displacing of a man, before they knew
+or had examined what was the cause of his displacing.  And so it rested;
+but this do shew that they are and will be very high; and Mr. Pierce do
+tell me that he fears, and do hear, that it hath been said among them,
+that they will move for the calling my Lord Sandwich home, to bring him
+to account; which do trouble me mightily; but I trust it will not be so.
+Anon comes home Sir W. Pen from the burial, and he and I to walk in the
+garden, where he did confirm the most of this news, and so to talk of our
+particular concernments, and among the rest he says that Lady Batten and
+her children-in-law are all broke in pieces, and that there is but L800
+found in the world, of money; and is in great doubt what we shall do
+towards the doing ourselves right with them, about the prize-money.  This
+troubles me, but we will fall to work upon that next week close.  Then he
+tells me he did deliver my petition into the hands of Sir W. Coventry,
+who did take it with great kindness and promised to present it to the
+Duke of York, and that himself has since seen the Duke of York, but it
+was in haste, and thinks the Duke of York did tell him that the thing was
+done, but he is confident that it either is or will be done.  This do
+please me mightily.  So after a little talk more I away home to supper
+with John Bowles and brother and wife (who, I perceive, is already a
+little jealous of my being fond of Willet, but I will avoid giving her
+any cause to continue in that mind, as much as possible), and before that
+did go with Sir W. Pen to my Lady Batten, whom I had not seen since she
+was a widow, which she took unkindly, but I did excuse it; and the house
+being full of company, and of several factions, she against the children,
+and they against one another and her, I away, and home to supper, and
+after supper to bed.
+
+
+
+13th (Lord's day).  Up, and by water to White Hall, and thence walked to
+Sir W. Coventry's lodgings, but he was gone out, so I to St. James's, and
+there to the Duke of York's chamber: and there he was dressing; and many
+Lords and Parliament-men come to kiss his hands, they being newly come to
+town.  And there the Duke of York did of himself call me to him, and tell
+me that he had spoke to the King, and that the King had granted me the
+ship I asked for; and did, moreover, say that he was mightily satisfied
+with my service, and that he would be willing to do anything that was in
+his power for me: which he said with mighty kindness; which I did return
+him thanks for, and departed with mighty joy, more than I did expect.
+And so walked over the Park to White Hall, and there met Sir H. Cholmly,
+who walked with me, and told me most of the news I heard last night of
+the Parliament; and thinks they will do all things very well, only they
+will be revenged of my Lord Chancellor; and says, however, that he thinks
+there will be but two things proved on him; and that one is, that he may
+have said to the King, and to others, words to breed in the King an ill
+opinion of the Parliament--that they were factious, and that it was
+better to dissolve them: and this, he thinks, they will be able to prove;
+but what this will amount to, he knows not.  And next, that he hath taken
+money for several bargains that have been made with the Crown; and did
+instance one that is already complained of: but there are so many more
+involved in it, that, should they unravel things of this sort, every body
+almost will be more or less concerned.  But these are the two great
+points which he thinks they will insist on, and prove against him.
+Thence I to the Chapel, and there heard the sermon and a pretty good
+anthem, and so home by water to dinner, where Bowies and brother, and a
+good dinner, and in the afternoon to make good my journal to this day,
+and so by water again to White Hall, and thence only walked to Mrs.
+Martin's, and there sat with her and her sister and Borroughs.  .  .  and
+there drank and talked and away by water home, and there walked with Sir
+W. Pen, and told him what the Duke of York told me to-day about the ship
+I begged; and he was knave enough, of his own accord, but, to be sure, in
+order to his own advantage, to offer me to send for the master of the
+vessel, "The Maybolt Galliott," and bid him to get her furnished as for a
+long voyage, and I to take no notice of it, that she might be the more
+worth to me: so that here he is a very knave to the King, and I doubt not
+his being the same to me on occasion.  So in a doors and supped with my
+wife and brother, W. Hewer, and Willett, and so evened with W. Hewer for
+my expenses upon the road this last journey, and do think that the whole
+journey will cost me little less than L18 or L20, one way or other; but I
+am well pleased with it, and so after supper to bed.
+
+
+
+14th.  Up, and by water to White Hall, and thence walked to St. James's,
+and there to Mr. Wren's; and he told me that my business was done about
+my warrant on the Maybolt Galliott; which I did see, and though it was
+not so full in the reciting of my services as the other was in that of
+Sir W. Pen's, yet I was well pleased with it, and do intend to fetch it
+away anon.  Thence with Sir Thomas Allen, in a little sorry coach which
+he hath set up of late, and Sir Jeremy Smith, to White Hall, and there I
+took water and went to Westminster Hall, and there hear that the House is
+this day again upon the business of giving the King the thanks of the
+House for his speech, and, among other things, for laying aside of my
+Lord Chancellor.  Thence I to Mrs. Martin's, where by appointment comes
+to me Mrs. Howlett, which I was afraid was to have told me something of
+my freedom with her daughter, but it was not so, but only to complain to
+me of her son-in-law, how he abuses and makes a slave of her, and his
+mother is one that encourages him in it, so that they are at this time
+upon very bad terms one with another, and desires that I would take a
+time to advise him and tell him what it becomes him to do, which office I
+am very glad of, for some ends of my own also con sa fille, and there
+drank and parted, I mightily satisfied with this business, and so home by
+water with Sir W. Warren, who happened to be at Westminster, and there I
+pretty strange to him, and little discourse, and there at the office Lord
+Bruncker, W. Pen, T. Hater and I did some business, and so home to
+dinner, and thence I out to visit Sir G. Carteret and ladies there; and
+from him do understand that the King himself (but this he told me as a
+great secret) is satisfied that this thanks which he expects from the
+House, for the laying aside of my Lord Chancellor, is a thing irregular;
+but, since it is come into the House, he do think it necessary to carry
+it on, and will have it, and hath made his mind known to be so, to some
+of the House.  But Sir G. Carteret do say he knows nothing of what my
+Lord Bruncker told us to-day, that the King was angry with the Duke of
+York yesterday, and advised him not to hinder what he had a mind to have
+done, touching this business; which is news very bad, if true.  Here I
+visited my Lady Carteret, who hath been sick some time, but now pretty
+well, but laid on her bed.  Thence to my Lord Crew, to see him after my
+coming out of the country, and he seems satisfied with some steps they
+have made in my absence towards my Lord Sandwich's relief for money: and
+so I have no more to do, nor will trouble myself more about it till they
+send for me.  He tells me also that the King will have the thanks of the
+House go on: and commends my Lord Keeper's speech for all but what he was
+forced to say, about the reason of the King's sending away the House so
+soon the last time, when they were met, but this he was forced to do.
+Thence to Westminster Hall, and there walked with Mr. Scowen, who tells
+me that it is at last carried in the House that the thanks shall be given
+to the King--among other things, particularly for the removal of my Lord
+Chancellor; but he tells me it is a strange act, and that which he thinks
+would never have been, but that the King did insist upon it, that, since
+it come into the House, it might not be let fall.  After walking there
+awhile I took coach and to the Duke of York's House, and there went in
+for nothing into the pit, at the last act, to see Sir Martin Marrall,
+and met my wife, who was there, and my brother, and W. Hewer and Willett,
+and carried them home, still being pleased with the humour of the play,
+almost above all that ever I saw.  Home, and there do find that John
+Bowles is not yet come thither.  I suppose he is playing the good fellow
+in the town.  So to the office a while, and then home to supper and to
+bed.
+
+
+
+15th.  Up, and to the office, where, Sir W. Pen being ill of the gout, we
+all of us met there in his parlour and did the business of the office,
+our greatest business now being to manage the pay of the ships in order
+and with speed to satisfy the Commissioners of the Treasury.  This
+morning my brother set out for Brampton again, and is gone.  At noon home
+to dinner, and thence my wife and I and Willet to the Duke of York's
+house, where, after long stay, the King and Duke of York come, and there
+saw "The Coffee-house," the most ridiculous, insipid play that ever I saw
+in my life, and glad we were that Betterton had no part in it.  But here,
+before the play begun, my wife begun to complain to me of Willet's
+confidence in sitting cheek by jowl by us, which was a poor thing; but I
+perceive she is already jealous of my kindness to her, so that I begin to
+fear this girle is not likely to stay long with us.  The play done, we
+home by coach, it being moonlight, and got well home, and I to my chamber
+to settle some papers, and so to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+16th.  Up, and at home most of the morning with Sir H. Cholmly, about
+some accounts of his; and for news he tells me that the Commons and Lords
+have concurred, and delivered the King their thanks, among other things,
+for his removal of the Chancellor; who took their thanks very well, and,
+among other things, promised them, in these words, never, in any degree,
+to entertain the Chancellor any employment again.  And he tells me that
+it is very true, he hath it from one that was by, that the King did, give
+the Duke of York a sound reprimand; told him that he had lived with him
+with more kindness than ever any brother King lived with a brother, and
+that he lived as much like a monarch as himself, but advised him not to
+cross him in his designs about the Chancellor; in which the Duke of York
+do very wisely acquiesce, and will be quiet as the King bade him, but
+presently commands all his friends to be silent in the business of the
+Chancellor, and they were so: but that the Chancellor hath done all that
+is possible to provoke the King, and to bring himself to lose his head
+by enraging of people.  He gone, I to the office, busy all the morning.
+At noon to Broad Street to Sir G. Carteret and Lord Bruncker, and there
+dined with them, and thence after dinner with Bruncker to White Hall,
+where the Duke of York is now newly come for this winter, and there did
+our usual business, which is but little, and so I away to the Duke of
+York's house, thinking as we appointed, to meet my wife there, but she
+was not; and more, I was vexed to see Young (who is but a bad actor at
+best) act Macbeth in the room of Betterton, who, poor man! is sick: but,
+Lord! what a prejudice it wrought in me against the whole play, and
+everybody else agreed in disliking this fellow.  Thence home, and there
+find my wife gone home; because of this fellow's acting of the part, she
+went out of the house again.  There busy at my chamber with Mr. Yeabsly,
+and then with Mr. Lewes, about public business late, and so to supper and
+to bed.
+
+
+
+17th.  Up, and being sent for by my Lady Batten, I to her, and there she
+found fault with my not seeing her since her being a widow, which I
+excused as well as I could, though it is a fault, but it is my nature not
+to be forward in visits.  But here she told me her condition, which is
+good enough, being sole executrix, to the disappointment of all her
+husband's children, and prayed my friendship about the accounts of the
+prizes, which I promised her.  And here do see what creatures widows are
+in weeping for their husbands, and then presently leaving off; but I
+cannot wonder at it, the cares of the world taking place of all other
+passions.  Thence to the office, where all the morning busy, and at noon
+home to dinner, where Mr. John Andrews and his wife come and dined with
+me, and pretty merry we were, only I out of humour the greatest part of
+the dinner, by reason that my people had forgot to get wine ready, I
+having none in my house, which I cannot say now these almost three years,
+I think, without having two or three sorts, by which we were fain to stay
+a great while, while some could be fetched.  When it come I begun to be
+merry, and merry we were, but it was an odd, strange thing to observe of
+Mr. Andrews what a fancy he hath to raw meat, that he eats it with no
+pleasure unless the blood run about his chops, which it did now by a leg
+of mutton that was not above half boiled; but, it seems, at home all his
+meat is dressed so, and beef and all, and [he] eats it so at nights also.
+Here most of our discourse is of the business of the Parliament, who run
+on mighty furiously, having yesterday been almost all the morning
+complaining against some high proceedings of my Lord Chief Justice
+Keeling, that the gentlemen of the country did complain against him in
+the House, and run very high.  It is the man that did fall out with my
+cozen Roger Pepys, once, at the Assizes there, and would have laid him
+by the heels; but, it seems, a very able lawyer.  After dinner I to the
+office, where we all met with intent to proceed to the publique sale of
+several prize ships, but upon discourse my Lord Anglesey did discover
+(which troubled me that he that is a stranger almost should do more than
+we ourselves could) that the appraisements made by our officers were not
+above half of what he had been offered for one of them, and did make it
+good by bringing a gentleman to give us L700 for the Wildboare, which
+they valued but at L276, which made us all startle and stop the sale, and
+I did propose to acquaint the Duke of York with it, and accordingly we
+did agree on it, and I wrote a severe letter about it, and we are to
+attend him with it to-morrow about it.  This afternoon my Lord Anglesey
+tells us that the House of Commons have this morning run into the inquiry
+in many things; as, the sale of Dunkirke, the dividing of the fleete the
+last year, the business of the prizes with my Lord Sandwich, and many
+other things; so that now they begin to fall close upon it, and God knows
+what will be the end of it, but a Committee they have chosen to inquire
+into the miscarriages of the war.  Having done, and being a little tired,
+Sir W. Pen and I in his coach out to Mile End Green, and there drank a
+cup of Byde's ale, and so talking about the proceedings of Parliament,
+and how little a thing the King is become to be forced to suffer it,
+though I declare my being satisfied that things should be enquired into,
+we back again home, and I to my office to my letters, and so home to
+supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+18th.  Up, and by coach with Sir W. Pen to White Hall, and there attended
+the Duke of York; but first we find him to spend above an hour in private
+in his closet with Sir W. Coventry; which I was glad to see, that there
+is so much confidence between them.  By and by we were called in and did
+our usual business, and complained of the business yesterday discovered
+of our officers abusing the King in the appraisement of the prizes.  Here
+it was worth observing that the Duke of York, considering what third rate
+ships to keep abroad, the Rupert was thought on, but then it was said
+that Captain Hubbert was Commander of her and that the King had a mind
+for Spragg to command the ship, which would not be well to be by turning
+out Hubbert, who is a good man, but one the Duke of York said he did not
+know whether he did so well conforme, as at this lime to please the
+people and Parliament.  Sir W. Coventry answered, and the Duke of York
+merrily agreed to it, that it was very hard to know what it was that the
+Parliament would call conformity at this time, and so it stopped, which I
+only observe to see how the Parliament's present temper do amuse them
+all.  Thence to several places to buy a hat, and books, and neckcloths,
+and several errands I did before I got home, and, among others, bought me
+two new pair of spectacles of Turlington, who, it seems, is famous for
+them; and his daughter, he being out of the way, do advise me two very
+young sights, as that that will help me most, and promises me great ease
+from them, and I will try them.  At the Exchange I met Creed, and took
+him home with me, and dined, and among other things he tells me that Sir
+Robert Brookes is the man that did mention the business in Parliament
+yesterday about my Lord Sandwich, but that it was seconded by nobody, but
+the matter will fall before the Committee for miscarriages.  Thence,
+after dinner, my wife and he, and I, and Willet to the King's house, and
+saw "Brenoralt," which is a good tragedy, that I like well, and parted
+after the play, and so home, and there a little at my office, and so to
+my chamber, and spent this night late in telling over all my gold, and
+putting it into proper bags and my iron chest, being glad with my heart
+to see so much of it here again, but cannot yet tell certainly how much I
+have lost by Gibson in his journey, and my father's burying of it in the
+dirt.  At this late, but did it to my mind, and so to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+19th.  At the office all the morning, where very busy, and at noon home
+to a short dinner, being full of my desire of seeing my Lord Orrery's new
+play this afternoon at the King's house, "The Black Prince," the first
+time it is acted; where, though we come by two o'clock, yet there was no
+room in the pit, but we were forced to go into one of the upper boxes, at
+4s. a piece, which is the first time I ever sat in a box in my life.  And
+in the same box come, by and by, behind me, my Lord Barkeley
+[of Stratton] and his lady; but I did not turn my face to them to be
+known, so that I was excused from giving them my seat; and this pleasure
+I had, that from this place the scenes do appear very fine indeed, and
+much better than in the pit.  The house infinite full, and the King and
+Duke of York was there.  By and by the play begun, and in it nothing
+particular but a very fine dance for variety of figures, but a little too
+long.  But, as to the contrivance, and all that was witty (which, indeed,
+was much, and very witty), was almost the same that had been in his two
+former plays of "Henry the 5th" and "Mustapha," and the same points and
+turns of wit in both, and in this very same play often repeated, but in
+excellent language, and were so excellent that the whole house was
+mightily pleased with it all along till towards the end he comes to
+discover the chief of the plot of the play by the reading of along
+letter, which was so long and some things (the people being set already
+to think too long) so unnecessary that they frequently begun to laugh,
+and to hiss twenty times, that, had it not been for the King's being
+there, they had certainly hissed it off the stage.  But I must confess
+that, as my Lord Barkeley says behind me, the having of that long letter
+was a thing so absurd, that he could not imagine how a man of his parts
+could possibly fall into it; or, if he did, if he had but let any friend
+read it, the friend would have told him of it; and, I must confess, it is
+one of the most remarkable instances that ever I did or expect to meet
+with in my life of a wise man's not being wise at all times, and in all
+things, for nothing could be more ridiculous than this, though the letter
+of itself at another time would be thought an excellent letter, and
+indeed an excellent Romance, but at the end of the play, when every body
+was weary of sitting, and were already possessed with the effect of the
+whole letter; to trouble them with a letter a quarter of an hour long,
+was a most absurd thing.  After the play done, and nothing pleasing them
+from the time of the letter to the end of the play, people being put into
+a bad humour of disliking (which is another thing worth the noting), I
+home by coach, and could not forbear laughing almost all the way home,
+and all the evening to my going to bed, at the ridiculousness of the
+letter, and the more because my wife was angry with me, and the world,
+for laughing, because the King was there, though she cannot defend the
+length of the letter.  So after having done business at the office, I
+home to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+20th (Lord's day).  Up, and put on my new tunique of velvett; which is
+very plain, but good.  This morning is brought to me an order for the
+presenting the Committee of Parliament to-morrow with a list of the
+commanders and ships' names of all the fleetes set out since the war,
+and particularly of those ships which were divided from the fleete with
+Prince Rupert;
+
+     [This question of the division of the fleet in May, 1666, was one
+     over which endless controversy as to responsibility was raised.
+     When Prince Rupert, with twenty ships, was detached to prevent the
+     junction of the French squadron with the Dutch, the Duke of
+     Albemarle was left with fifty-four ships against eighty belonging to
+     the Dutch.  Albemarle's tactics are praised by Captain Mahan.]
+
+which gives me occasion to see that they are busy after that business,
+and I am glad of it.  So I alone to church, and then home, and there Mr.
+Deane comes and dines with me by invitation, and both at and after dinner
+he and I spent all the day till it was dark in discourse of business of
+the Navy and the ground of the many miscarriages, wherein he do inform me
+in many more than I knew, and I had desired him to put them in writing,
+and many indeed they are and good ones; and also we discoursed of the
+business of shipping, and he hath promised me a draught of the ship he is
+now building, wherein I am mightily pleased.  This afternoon comes to me
+Captain O'Bryan, about a ship that the King hath given him; and he and I
+to talk of the Parliament; and he tells me that the business of the Duke
+of York's slackening sail in the first fight, at the beginning of the
+war, is brought into question, and Sir W. Pen and Captain Cox are to
+appear to-morrow about it; and it is thought will at last be laid upon
+Mr. Bruncker's giving orders from the Duke of York (which the Duke of
+York do not own) to Captain Cox to do it; but it seems they do resent
+this very highly, and are mad in going through all business, where they
+can lay any fault.  I am glad to hear, that in the world I am as kindly
+spoke of as any body; for, for aught I see, there is bloody work like to
+be, Sir W. Coventry having been forced to produce a letter in Parliament
+wherein the Duke of Albemarle did from Sheernesse write in what good
+posture all things were at Chatham, and that the chain was so well placed
+that he feared no attempt of the enemy: so that, among other things, I
+see every body is upon his own defence, and spares not to blame another
+to defend himself, and the same course I shall take.  But God knows where
+it will end!  He gone, and Deane, I to my chamber for a while, and then
+comes Pelling the apothecary to see us, and sat and supped with me (my
+wife being gone to bed sick of the cholique), and then I to bed, after
+supper.  Pelting tells me that my Lady Duchesse Albemarle was at Mrs.
+Turner's this afternoon, she being ill, and did there publickly talk of
+business, and of our Office; and that she believed that I was safe, and
+had done well; and so, I thank God!  I hear every body speaks of me; and
+indeed, I think, without vanity, I may expect to be profited rather than
+injured by this inquiry, which the Parliament makes into business.
+
+
+
+21st.  Up, and betimes got a coach at the Exchange, and thence to St.
+James's, where I had forgot that the Duke of York and family were gone to
+White Hall, and thence to Westminster Hall and there walked a little,
+finding the Parliament likely to be busy all this morning about the
+business of Mr. Bruncker for advising Cox and Harman to shorten sail when
+they were in pursuit of the Dutch after the first great victory.  I went
+away to Mr. Creed's chamber, there to meet Sir H. Cholmly, about business
+of Mr. Yeabsly, where I was delivered of a great fear that they would
+question some of the orders for payment of money which I had got them
+signed at the time of the plague, when I was here alone, but all did
+pass.  Thence to Westminster again, and up to the lobby, where many
+commanders of the fleete were, and Captain Cox, and Mr. Pierce, the
+Surgeon; the last of whom hath been in the House, and declared that he
+heard Bruncker advise; and give arguments to, Cox, for the safety of the
+Duke of York's person, to shorten sail, that they might not be in the
+middle of the enemy in the morning alone; and Cox denying to observe his
+advice, having received the Duke of York's commands over night to keep
+within cannon-shot (as they then were) of the enemy, Bruncker did go to
+Harman, and used the same arguments, and told him that he was sure it
+would be well pleasing to the King that care should be taken of not
+endangering the Duke of York; and, after much persuasion, Harman was
+heard to say, "Why, if it must be, then lower the topsail."  And so did
+shorten sail, to the loss, as the Parliament will have it, of the
+greatest victory that ever was, and which would have saved all the
+expence of blood, and money, and honour, that followed; and this they do
+resent, so as to put it to the question, whether Bruncker should not be
+carried to the Tower: who do confess that, out of kindness to the Duke of
+York's safety, he did advise that they should do so, but did not use the
+Duke of York's name therein; and so it was only his error in advising it,
+but the greatest theirs in taking it, contrary to order.  At last, it
+ended that it should be suspended till Harman comes home; and then the
+Parliament-men do all tell me that it will fall heavy, and, they think,
+be fatal to Bruncker or him.  Sir W. Pen tells me he was gone to bed,
+having been all day labouring, and then not able to stand, of the goute,
+and did give order for the keeping the sails standing, as they then were,
+all night.  But, which I wonder at, he tells me that he did not know the
+next day that they had shortened sail, nor ever did enquire into it till
+about ten days ago, that this begun to be mentioned; and, indeed, it is
+charged privately as a fault on the Duke of York, that he did not
+presently examine the reason of the breach of his orders, and punish it.
+But Cox tells me that he did finally refuse it; and what prevailed with
+Harman he knows not, and do think that we might have done considerable
+service on the enemy the next day, if this had not been done.  Thus this
+business ended to-day, having kept them till almost two o'clock; and then
+I by coach with Sir W. Pen as far as St. Clement's, talking of this
+matter, and there set down; and I walked to Sir G. Carteret's, and there
+dined with him and several Parliament-men, who, I perceive, do all look
+upon it as a thing certain that the Parliament will enquire into every
+thing, and will be very severe where they can find any fault.  Sir W.
+Coventry, I hear, did this day make a speech, in apology for his reading
+the letter of the Duke of Albemarle, concerning the good condition which
+Chatham was in before the enemy come thither: declaring his simple
+intention therein, without prejudice to my Lord.  And I am told that he
+was also with the Duke of Albemarle yesterday to excuse it; but this day
+I do hear, by some of Sir W. Coventry's friends, that they think he hath
+done himself much injury by making this man, and his interest, so much
+his enemy.  After dinner, I away to Westminster, and up to the
+Parliament-house, and there did wait with great patience, till seven at
+night, to be called in to the Committee, who sat all this afternoon,
+examining the business of Chatham; and at last was called in, and told,
+that the least they expected from us Mr. Wren had promised them, and only
+bade me to bring all my fellow-officers thitherto attend them tomorrow,
+afternoon.  Sir Robert Brookes in the chair: methinks a sorry fellow to
+be there, because a young man; and yet he seems to speak very well.  I
+gone thence, my cozen Pepys comes out to me, and walks in the Hall with
+me, and bids me prepare to answer to every thing; for they do seem to
+lodge the business of Chatham upon the Commissioners of the Navy, and
+they are resolved to lay the fault heavy somewhere, and to punish it: and
+prays me to prepare to save myself, and gives me hints what to prepare
+against; which I am obliged to him for, and do begin to mistrust lest
+some unhappy slip or other after all my diligence and pains may not be
+found (which I can [not] foresee) that may prove as fatal to a man as the
+constant course of negligence and unfaithfulness of other men.  Here we
+parted, and I to White Hall to Mr. Wren's chamber, thereto advise with
+him about the list of ships and commanders which he is to present to the
+Parliament, and took coach (little Michell being with me, whom I took
+with me from Westminster Hall), and setting him down in Gracious street
+home myself, where I find my wife and the two Mercers and Willett and W.
+Batelier have been dancing, but without a fidler.  I had a little
+pleasure in talking with these, but my head and heart full of thoughts
+between hope and fear and doubts what will become of us and me
+particularly against a furious Parliament.  Then broke up and to bed, and
+there slept pretty well till about four o'clock, and from that time could
+not, but my thoughts running on speeches to the Parliament to excuse
+myself from the blame which by other men's negligence will 'light, it may
+be, upon the office.  This day I did get a list of the fourteen
+particular miscarriages which are already before the Committee to be
+examined; wherein, besides two or three that will concern this Office
+much, there are those of the prizes, and that of Bergen, and not
+following the Dutch ships, against my Lord Sandwich; that, I fear, will
+ruine him, unless he hath very good luck, or they may be in better temper
+before he can come to be charged: but my heart is full of fear for him
+and his family.  I hear that they do prosecute the business against my
+Lord Chief Justice Keeling with great severity.
+
+
+
+22nd.  Slept but ill all the last part of the night, for fear of this
+day's success in Parliament: therefore up, and all of us all the morning
+close, till almost two o'clock, collecting all we had to say and had done
+from the beginning, touching the safety of the River Medway and Chatham.
+And, having done this, and put it into order, we away, I not having time
+to eat my dinner; and so all in my Lord Bruncker's coach, that is to say,
+Bruncker, W. Pen, T. Harvy, and myself, talking of the other great matter
+with which they charge us, that is, of discharging men by ticket, in
+order to our defence in case that should be asked.  We come to the
+Parliament-door, and there, after a little waiting till the Committee was
+sat, we were, the House being very full, called in: Sir W. Pen went in
+and sat as a Member; and my Lord Bruncker would not at first go in,
+expecting to have a chair set for him, and his brother had bid him not go
+in, till he was called for; but, after a few words, I had occasion to
+mention him, and so he was called in, but without any more chair or
+respect paid him than myself: and so Bruncker, and T. Harvy, and I, were
+there to answer: and I had a chair brought me to lean my books upon: and
+so did give them such an account, in a series of the whole business that
+had passed the Office touching the matter, and so answered all questions
+given me about it, that I did not perceive but they were fully satisfied
+with me and the business as to our Office: and then Commissioner Pett
+(who was by at all my discourse, and this held till within an hour after
+candlelight, for I had candles brought in to read my papers by) was to
+answer for himself, we having lodged all matters with him for execution.
+But, Lord! what a tumultuous thing this Committee is, for all the
+reputation they have of a great council, is a strange consideration;
+there being as impertinent questions, and as disorderly proposed, as any
+man could make.  But Commissioner Pett, of all men living, did make the
+weakest defence for himself: nothing to the purpose, nor to satisfaction,
+nor certain; but sometimes one thing and sometimes another, sometimes for
+himself and sometimes against him; and his greatest failure was, that I
+observed, from his [not] considering whether the question propounded was
+his part to answer or no, and the thing to be done was his work to do:
+the want of which distinction will overthrow him; for he concerns himself
+in giving an account of the disposal of the boats, which he had no reason
+at all to do, or take any blame upon him for them.  He charged the not
+carrying up of "The Charles" upon the Tuesday, to the Duke of Albemarle;
+but I see the House is mighty favourable to the Duke of Albemarle, and
+would give little weight to it.  And something of want of armes he spoke,
+which Sir J. Duncomb answered with great imperiousness and earnestness;
+but, for all that, I do see the House is resolved to be better satisfied
+in the business of the unreadiness of Sherenesse, and want of armes and
+ammunition there and every where: and all their officers were here to-day
+attending, but only one called in, about armes for boats, to answer
+Commissioner Pett.  None of my brethren said anything but me there, but
+only two or three silly words my Lord Bruncker gave, in answer to one
+question about the number of men there were in the King's Yard at the
+time.  At last, the House dismissed us, and shortly after did adjourne
+the debate till Friday next: and my cozen Pepys did come out and joy me
+in my acquitting myself so well, and so did several others, and my
+fellow-officers all very brisk to see themselves so well acquitted; which
+makes me a little proud, but yet not secure but we may yet meet with a
+back-blow which we see not.  So, with our hearts very light, Sir W. Pen
+and I in his coach home, it being now near eight o'clock, and so to the
+office, and did a little business by the post, and so home, hungry, and
+eat a good supper, and so, with my mind well at ease, to bed.  My wife
+not very well of those.
+
+
+
+23rd.  Up, and Sir W. Pen and I in his coach to White Hall, there to
+attend the Duke of York; but come a little too late, and so missed it:
+only spoke with him, and heard him correct my Lord Barkeley, who fell
+foul on Sir Edward Spragg, who, it seems, said yesterday to the House,
+that if the Officers of the Ordnance had done as much work at Shereness
+in ten weeks as "The Prince" did in ten days, he could have defended the
+place against the Dutch: but the Duke of York told him that every body
+must have liberty, at this time, to make their own defence, though it be
+to the charging of the fault upon any other, so it be true; so I perceive
+the whole world is at work in blaming one another.  Thence Sir W. Pen and
+I back into London; and there saw the King, with his kettle-drums and
+trumpets, going to the Exchange, to lay the first stone of the first
+pillar of the new building of the Exchange; which, the gates being shut,
+I could not get in to see: but, with Sir W. Pen, to Captain Cocke's to
+drink a dram of brandy, and so he to the Treasury office about Sir G.
+Carteret's accounts, and I took coach and back again toward Westminster;
+but in my way stopped at the Exchange, and got in, the King being newly
+gone; and there find the bottom of the first pillar laid.  And here was a
+shed set up, and hung with tapestry, and a canopy of state, and some good
+victuals and wine, for the King, who, it seems, did it; and so a great
+many people, as Tom Killigrew, and others of the Court there, and there I
+did eat a mouthful and drink a little, and do find Mr. Gawden in his
+gowne as Sheriffe, and understand that the King hath this morning
+knighted him upon the place, which I am mightily pleased with; and I
+think the other Sheriffe, who is Davis, the little fellow, my
+schoolfellow,--the bookseller, who was one of Audley's' Executors, and
+now become Sheriffe; which is a strange turn, methinks.  Here mighty
+merry (there being a good deal of good company) for a quarter of an hour,
+and so I away and to Westminster Hall, where I come just as the House
+rose; and there, in the Hall, met with Sir W. Coventry, who is in pain to
+defend himself in the business of tickets, it being said that the paying
+of the ships at Chatham by ticket was by his direction, and he hath wrote
+to me to find his letters, and shew them him, but I find none; but did
+there argue the case with him, and I think no great blame can be laid on
+us for that matter, only I see he is fearfull.  And he tells me his
+mistake in the House the other day, which occasions him much trouble, in
+shewing of the House the Duke of Albemarle's letter about the good
+condition of Chatham, which he is sorry for, and, owns as a mistake, the
+thing not being necessary to have been done; and confesses that nobody
+can escape from such error, some times or other.  He says the House was
+well satisfied with my Report yesterday; and so several others told me in
+the Hall that my Report was very good and satisfactory, and that I have
+got advantage by it in the House: I pray God it may prove so!  And here,
+after the Hall pretty empty, I did walk a few turns with Commissioner
+Pett, and did give the poor weak man some advice for his advantage how to
+better his pleading for himself, which I think he will if he can remember
+and practise, for I would not have the man suffer what he do not deserve,
+there being enough of what he do deserve to lie upon him.  Thence to Mrs.
+Martin's, and there staid till two o'clock, and drank and talked, and did
+give her L3 to buy my goddaughter her first new gowne .  .  .  .  and so
+away homeward, and in my way met Sir W. Pen in Cheapside, and went into
+his coach, and back again and to the King's playhouse, and there saw "The
+Black Prince" again: which is now mightily bettered by that long letter
+being printed, and so delivered to every body at their going in, and some
+short reference made to it in heart in the play, which do mighty well;
+but, when all is done, I think it the worst play of my Lord Orrery's.
+But here, to my great satisfaction, I did see my Lord Hinchingbroke and
+his mistress, with her father and mother; and I am mightily pleased with
+the young lady, being handsome enough--and, indeed, to my great liking,
+as I would have her.  I could not but look upon them all the play; being
+exceeding pleased with my good hap to see them, God bring them together!
+and they are now already mighty kind to one another, and he is as it were
+one of their family.  The play done I home, and to the office a while,
+and then home to supper, very hungry, and then to my chamber, to read the
+true story, in Speed, of the Black Prince, and so to bed.  This day, it
+was moved in the House that a day might be appointed to bring in an,
+impeachment against the Chancellor, but it was decried as being
+irregular; but that, if there was ground for complaint, it might be
+brought to the Committee for miscarriages, and, if they thought good, to
+present it to the House; and so it was carried.  They did also vote this
+day thanks to be given to the Prince and Duke of Albemarle, for their
+care and conduct in the last year's war, which is a strange act; but, I
+know not how, the blockhead Albemarle hath strange luck to be loved,
+though he be, and every man must know it, the heaviest man in the world,
+but stout and honest to his country.  This evening late, Mr. Moore come
+to me to prepare matters for my Lord Sandwich's defence; wherein I can
+little assist, but will do all I can; and am in great fear of nothing but
+the damned business of the prizes, but I fear my Lord will receive a
+cursed deal of trouble by it.
+
+
+
+24th.  Up, and to the office, where all the morning very busy, and at
+noon took Mr. Hater home with me to dinner, and instantly back again to
+write what letters I had to write, that I might go abroad with my wife,
+who was not well, only to jumble her, and so to the Duke of York's
+playhouse; but there Betterton not being yet well, we would not stay,
+though since I hear that Smith do act his part in "The Villaine," which
+was then acted, as well or better than he, which I do not believe; but to
+Charing Cross, there to see Polichinelli.  But, it being begun, we in to
+see a Frenchman, at the house, where my wife's father last lodged, one
+Monsieur Prin, play on the trump-marine,
+
+     [The trumpet marine is a stringed instrument having a triangular-
+     shaped body or chest and a long neck, a single string raised on a
+     bridge and running along the body and neck.  It was played with a
+     bow.]
+
+which he do beyond belief; and, the truth is, it do so far outdo a
+trumpet as nothing more, and he do play anything very true, and it is
+most admirable and at first was a mystery to me that I should hear a
+whole concert of chords together at the end of a pause, but he showed me
+that it was only when the last notes were 5ths or 3rds, one to another,
+and then their sounds like an Echo did last so as they seemed to sound
+all together.  The instrument is open at the end, I discovered; but he
+would not let me look into it, but I was mightily pleased with it, and he
+did take great pains to shew me all he could do on it, which was very
+much, and would make an excellent concert, two or three of them, better
+than trumpets can ever do, because of their want of compass.  Here we
+also saw again the two fat children come out of Ireland, and a brother
+and sister of theirs now come, which are of little ordinary growth, like
+other people.  But, Lord!  how strange it is to observe the difference
+between the same children, come out of the same little woman's belly!
+Thence to Mile-End Greene, and there drank, and so home bringing home
+night with us, and so to the office a little, and then to bed.
+
+
+
+25th.  Up, and all the morning close till two o'clock, till I had not
+time to eat my dinner, to make our answer ready for the Parliament this
+afternoon, to shew how Commissioner Pett was singly concerned in the
+executing of all orders from Chatham, and that we did properly lodge all
+orders with him.  Thence with Sir W. Pen to the Parliament Committee, and
+there we all met, and did shew, my Lord Bruncker and I, our commissions
+under the Great Seal in behalf of all the rest, to shew them our duties,
+and there I had no more matters asked me, but were bid to withdraw, and
+did there wait, I all the afternoon till eight at, night, while they were
+examining several about the business of Chatham again, and particularly
+my Lord Bruncker did meet with two or three blurs that he did not think
+of.  One from Spragg, who says that "The Unity" was ordered up contrary
+to his order, by my Lord Bruncker and Commissioner Pett.  Another by
+Crispin, the waterman, who said he was upon "The Charles;" and spoke to
+Lord Bruncker coming by in his boat, to know whether they should carry up
+"The Charles," they being a great many naked men without armes, and he
+told them she was well as she was.  Both these have little in them
+indeed, but yet both did stick close against him; and he is the weakest
+man in the world to make his defence, and so is like to have much fault
+laid on him therefrom.  Spragg was in with them all the afternoon, and
+hath much fault laid on him for a man that minded his pleasure, and
+little else of his whole charge.  I walked in the lobby, and there do
+hear from Mr. Chichly that they were (the Commissioners of the Ordnance)
+shrewdly put to it yesterday, being examined with all severity and were
+hardly used by them, much otherwise than we, and did go away with mighty
+blame; and I am told by every body that it is likely to stick mighty hard
+upon them: at which every body is glad, because of Duncomb's pride, and
+their expecting to have the thanks of the House whereas they have
+deserved, as the Parliament apprehends, as bad as bad can be.  Here is
+great talk of an impeachment brought in against my Lord Mordaunt, and
+that another will be brought in against my Lord Chancellor in a few days.
+Here I understand for certain that they have ordered that my Lord
+Arlington's letters, and Secretary Morrice's letters of intelligence, be
+consulted, about the business of the Dutch fleete's coming abroad, which
+is a very high point, but this they have done, but in what particular
+manner I cannot justly say, whether it was not with the King's leave
+first asked.  Here late, as I have said, and at last they broke up, and
+we had our commissions again, and I do hear how Birch is the high man
+that do examine and trouble every body with his questions, and they say
+that he do labour all he can to clear Pett, but it seems a witness has
+come in tonight, C. Millett, who do declare that he did deliver a message
+from the Duke of Albemarle time enough for him to carry up "The Charles,"
+and he neglected it, which will stick very hard, it seems, on him.  So
+Sir W. Pen and I in his coach home, and there to supper, a good supper,
+and so weary, and my eyes spent, to bed.
+
+
+
+26th.  Up, and we met all this morning at Sir W. Pen's roome, the office
+being fowle with the altering of our garden door.  There very busy, and
+at noon home, where Mrs. Pierce and her daughter's husband and Mr. Corbet
+dined with me.  I had a good dinner for them, and mighty merry.  Pierce
+and I very glad at the fate of the officers of Ordnance, that they are
+like to have so much blame on them.  Here Mrs. Pierce tells me that the
+two Marshalls at the King's house are Stephen Marshall's, the great
+Presbyterian's daughters: and that Nelly and Beck Marshall, falling out
+the other day, the latter called the other my Lord Buckhurst's whore.
+Nell answered then, "I was but one man's whore, though I was brought up
+in a bawdy-house to fill strong waters to the guests; and you are a whore
+to three or four, though a Presbyter's praying daughter!"  which was very
+pretty.  Mrs. Pierce is still very pretty, but paints red on her face,
+which makes me hate her, that I thank God I take no pleasure in her at
+all more.  After much mirth and good company at dinner, I to the office
+and left them, and Pendleton also, who come in to see my wife and talk of
+dancing, and there I at the office all the afternoon very busy, and did
+much business, with my great content to see it go off of hand, and so
+home, my eyes spent, to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+27th (Lord's day).  Up, and to my office, there, with W. Hewer, to
+dictate a long letter to the Duke of York, about the bad state of the
+office, it being a work I do think fit for the office to do, though it be
+to no purpose but for their vindication in these bad times; for I do now
+learn many things tending to our safety which I did not wholly forget
+before, but do find the fruits of, and would I had practised them more,
+as, among other things, to be sure to let our answers to orders bear date
+presently after their date, that we may be found quick in our execution.
+This did us great good the other day before the Parliament.  All the
+morning at this, at noon home to dinner, with my own family alone.  After
+dinner, I down to Deptford, the first time that I went to look upon "The
+Maybolt," which the King hath given me, and there she is; and I did meet
+with Mr. Uthwayte, who do tell me that there are new sails ordered to be
+delivered her, and a cable, which I did not speak of at all to him.  So,
+thereupon, I told him I would not be my own hindrance so much as to take
+her into my custody before she had them, which was all I said to him, but
+desired him to take a strict inventory of her, that I might not be
+cheated by the master nor the company, when they come to understand that
+the vessel is gone away, which he hath promised me, and so away back
+again home, reading all the way the book of the collection of oaths in
+the several offices of this nation, which is worth a man's reading, and
+so away home, and there my boy and I to sing, and at it all the evening,
+and to supper, and so to bed.  This evening come Sir J. Minnes to me, to
+let me know that a Parliament-man hath been with him, to tell him that
+the Parliament intend to examine him particularly about Sir W. Coventry's
+selling of places, and about my Lord Bruncker's discharging the ships at
+Chatham by ticket: for the former of which I am more particularly sorry
+that that business of [Sir] W. Coventry should come up again; though this
+old man tells me, and, I believe, that he can say nothing to it.
+
+
+
+28th.  Up, and by water to White Hall (calling at Michell's and drank a
+dram of strong water, but it being early I did not see his wife), and
+thence walked to Sir W. Coventry's lodging, but he was gone out, and so
+going towards St. James's I find him at his house which is fitting for
+him; and there I to him, and was with him above an hour alone,
+discoursing of the matters of the nation, and our Office, and himself.
+He owns that he is, at this day, the chief person aymed at by the
+Parliament--that is, by the friends of my Lord Chancellor, and also by
+the Duke of Albemarle, by reason of his unhappy shewing of the Duke of
+Albemarle's letter, the other day, in the House; but that he thinks that
+he is not liable to any hurt they can fasten on him for anything, he is
+so well armed to justify himself in every thing, unless in the old
+business of selling places, when he says every body did; and he will now
+not be forward to tell his own story, as he hath been; but tells me he
+is grown wiser, and will put them to prove any thing, and he will defend
+himself: besides that, he will dispute the statute, thinking that it will
+not be found to reach him.  We did talk many things, which, as they come
+into my mind now, I shall set down without order: that he is weary of
+public employment; and neither ever designed, nor will ever, if his
+commission were brought to him wrapt in gold, would he accept of any
+single place in the State, as particularly Secretary of State; which,
+he says, the world discourses Morrice is willing to resign, and he thinks
+the King might have thought of him, but he would not, by any means,
+now take it, if given him, nor anything, but in commission with others,
+who may bear part of the blame; for now he observes well, that whoever
+did do anything singly are now in danger, however honest and painful they
+were, saying that he himself was the only man, he thinks, at the council-
+board that spoke his mind clearly, as he thought, to the good of the
+King; and the rest, who sat silent, have nothing said to them, nor are
+taken notice of.  That the first time the King did take him so closely
+into his confidence and ministry of affairs was upon the business of
+Chatham, when all the disturbances were there, and in the kingdom; and
+then, while everybody was fancying for himself, the King did find him to
+persuade him to call for the Parliament, declaring that it was against
+his own proper interest, forasmuch as [it was] likely they would find
+faults with him, as well as with others, but that he would prefer the
+service of the King before his own: and, thereupon, the King did take him
+into his special notice, and, from that time to this, hath received him
+so; and that then he did see the folly and mistakes of the Chancellor in
+the management of things, and saw that matters were never likely to be
+done well in that sort of conduct, and did persuade the King to think fit
+of the taking away the seals from the Chancellor, which, when it was
+done, he told me that he himself, in his own particular, was sorry for
+it; for, while he stood, there was he and my Lord Arlington to stand
+between him and harm: whereas now there is only my Lord Arlington, and
+he is now down, so that all their fury is placed upon him but that he did
+tell the King, when he first moved it, that, if he thought the laying of
+him, W. Coventry, aside, would at all facilitate the removing of the
+Chancellor, he would most willingly submit to it, whereupon the King did
+command him to try the Duke of York about it, and persuade him to it,
+which he did, by the King's command, undertake, and compass, and the Duke
+of York did own his consent to the King, but afterwards was brought to be
+of another mind for the Chancellor, and now is displeased with him, and
+[so is] the Duchesse, so that she will not see him; but he tells me the
+Duke of York seems pretty kind, and hath said that he do believe that
+W. Coventry did mean well, and do it only out of judgment.  He tells me
+that he never was an intriguer in his life, nor will be, nor of any
+combination of persons to set up this, or fling down that, nor hath, in
+his own business, this Parliament, spoke to three members to say any
+thing for him, but will stand upon his own defence, and will stay by it,
+and thinks that he is armed against all they can [say], but the old
+business of selling places, and in that thinks they cannot hurt him.
+However, I do find him mighty willing to have his name used as little as
+he can, and he was glad when I did deliver him up a letter of his to me,
+which did give countenance to the discharging of men by ticket at
+Chatham, which is now coming in question; and wherein, I confess, I am
+sorry to find him so tender of appearing, it being a thing not only good
+and fit, all that was done in it, but promoted and advised by him.  But
+he thinks the House is set upon wresting anything to his prejudice that
+they can pick up.  He tells me he did never, as a great many have, call
+the Chancellor rogue and knave, and I know not what; but all that he hath
+said, and will stand by, is, that his counsels were not good, nor the
+manner of his managing of things.  I suppose he means suffering the King
+to run in debt; for by and by the King walking in the parke, with a great
+crowd of his idle people about him, I took occasion to say that it was a
+sorry thing to be a poor King, and to have others to come to correct the
+faults of his own servants, and that this was it that brought us all into
+this condition.  He answered that he would never be a poor King, and then
+the other would mend of itself.  "No," says he, "I would eat bread and
+drink water first, and this day discharge all the idle company about me,
+and walk only with two footmen; and this I have told the King, and this
+must do it at last."  I asked him how long the King would suffer this.
+He told me the King must suffer it yet longer, that he would not advise
+the King to do otherwise; for it would break out again worse, if he
+should break them up before the core be come up.  After this, we fell to
+other talk, of my waiting upon him hereafter, it may be, to read a
+chapter in Seneca, in this new house, which he hath bought, and is making
+very fine, when we may be out of employment, which he seems to wish more
+than to fear, and I do believe him heartily.  Thence home, and met news
+from Mr. Townsend of the Wardrobe that old Young, the yeoman taylor,
+whose place my Lord Sandwich promised my father, is dead.  Upon which,
+resolving presently that my father shall not be troubled with it, but I
+hope I shall be able to enable him to end his days where he is, in quiet,
+I went forth thinking to tell Mrs. Ferrers (Captain Ferrers's wife), who
+do expect it after my father, that she may look after it, but upon second
+thoughts forbore it, and so back again home, calling at the New Exchange,
+and there buying "The Indian Emperour," newly printed, and so home to
+dinner, where I had Mr. Clerke, the sollicitor, and one of the Auditor's
+clerks to discourse about the form of making up my accounts for the
+Exchequer, which did give me good satisfaction, and so after dinner, my
+wife, and Mercer, who grows fat, and Willett, and I, to the King's house,
+and there saw "The Committee," a play I like well, and so at night home
+and to the office, and so to my chamber about my accounts, and then to
+Sir W. Pen's to speak with Sir John Chichly, who desired my advice about
+a prize which he hath begged of the King, and there had a great deal of
+his foolish talk of ladies and love and I know not what, and so home to
+supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+29th.  Up, and at the office, my Lord Bruncker and I close together till
+almost 3 after noon, never stirring, making up a report for the Committee
+this afternoon about the business of discharging men by ticket, which it
+seems the House is mighty earnest in, but is a foolery in itself, yet
+gives me a great deal of trouble to draw up a defence for the Board, as
+if it was a crime; but I think I have done it to very good purpose.  Then
+to my Lady Williams's, with her and my Lord, and there did eat a snapp of
+good victuals, and so to Westminster Hall, where we find the House not
+up, but sitting all this day about the method of bringing in the charge
+against my Lord Chancellor; and at last resolved for a Committee to draw
+up the heads, and so rose, and no Committee to sit tonight.  Here Sir
+W. Coventry and Lord Bruncker and I did in the Hall (between the two
+Courts at the top of the Hall) discourse about a letter of [Sir]
+W. Coventry's to Bruncker, whereon Bruncker did justify his discharging
+men by ticket, and insists on one word which Sir W. Coventry would not
+seem very earnest to have left out, but I did see him concerned, and did
+after labour to suppress the whole letter, the thing being in itself
+really impertinent, but yet so it is that [Sir] W. Coventry do not desire
+to have his name used in this business, and I have prevailed with
+Bruncker for it.  Thence Bruncker and I to the King's House, thinking to
+have gone into a box above, for fear of being seen, the King being there,
+but the play being 3 acts done we would not give 4s., and so away and
+parted, and I home, and there after a little supper to bed, my eyes ill,
+and head full of thoughts of the trouble this Parliament gives us.
+
+
+
+30th.  All the morning till past noon preparing over again our report
+this afternoon to the Committee of Parliament about tickets, and then
+home to eat a bit, and then with Sir W. Pen to White Hall, where we did a
+very little business with the Duke of York at our usual meeting, only I
+perceive that he do leave all of us, as the King do those about him, to
+stand and fall by ourselves, and I think is not without some cares
+himself what the Parliament may do in matters wherein his honour is
+concerned.  Thence to the Parliament-house; where, after the Committee
+was sat, I was called in; and the first thing was upon the complaint of a
+dirty slut that was there, about a ticket which she had lost, and had
+applied herself to me for another.  .  .  . I did give them a short and
+satisfactory answer to that; and so they sent her away, and were ashamed
+of their foolery, in giving occasion to 500 seamen and seamen's wives to
+come before them, as there was this afternoon.  But then they fell to the
+business of tickets, and I did give them the best answer I could, but had
+not scope to do it in the methodical manner which I had prepared myself
+for, but they did ask a great many broken rude questions about it, and
+were mightily hot whether my Lord Bruncker had any order to discharge
+whole ships by ticket, and because my answer was with distinction, and
+not direct, I did perceive they were not so fully satisfied therewith as
+I could wish they were.  So my Lord Bruncker was called in, and they
+could fasten nothing on him that I could see, nor indeed was there any
+proper matter for blame, but I do see, and it was said publicly in the
+House by Sir T. Clerges that Sir W. Batten had designed the business of
+discharging men by ticket and an order after the thing was done to
+justify my Lord Bruncker for having done it.  But this I did not owne at
+all, nor was it just so, though he did indeed do something like it, yet
+had contributed as much to it as any man of the board by sending down of
+tickets to do it.  But, Lord! to see that we should be brought to justify
+ourselves in a thing of necessity and profit to the King, and of no
+profit or convenience to us, but the contrary.  We being withdrawn, we
+heard no more of it, but there staid late and do hear no more, only my
+cozen Pepys do tell me that he did hear one or two whisper as if they
+thought that I do bogle at the business of my Lord Bruncker, which is a
+thing I neither did or have reason to do in his favour, but I do not
+think it fit to make him suffer for a thing that deserves well.  But this
+do trouble me a little that anything should stick to my prejudice in any
+of them, and did trouble me so much that all the way home with Sir W. Pen
+I was not at good ease, nor all night, though when I come home I did find
+my wife, and Betty Turner, the two Mercers, and Mrs. Parker, an ugly
+lass, but yet dances well, and speaks the best of them, and W. Batelier,
+and Pembleton dancing; and here I danced with them, and had a good
+supper, and as merry as I could be, and so they being gone we to bed.
+
+
+
+31st.  Up, and all the morning at the office, and at noon Mr. Creed and
+Yeabsly dined with me (my wife gone to dine with Mrs. Pierce and see a
+play with her), and after dinner in comes Mr. Turner, of Eynsbury, lately
+come to town, and also after him Captain Hill of the "Coventry," who lost
+her at Barbadoes, and is come out of France, where he hath been long
+prisoner.  After a great deal of mixed discourse, and then Mr. Turner and
+I alone a little in my closet, talking about my Lord Sandwich (who I hear
+is now ordered by the King to come home again), we all parted, and I by
+water, calling at Michell's, and saw and once kissed su wife, but I do
+think that he is jealous of her, and so she dares not stand out of his
+sight; so could not do more, but away by water to the Temple, and there,
+after spending a little time in my bookseller's shop, I to Westminster;
+and there at the lobby do hear by Commissioner Pett, to my great
+amazement, that he is in worse condition than before, by the coming in of
+the Duke of Albemarle's and Prince Rupert's Narratives' this day; wherein
+the former do most severely lay matters upon him, so as the House this
+day have, I think, ordered him to the Tower again, or something like it;
+so that the poor man is likely to be overthrown, I doubt, right or wrong,
+so infinite fond they are of any thing the Duke of Albemarle says or
+writes to them!  I did then go down, and there met with Colonel Reames
+and cozen Roger Pepys; and there they do tell me how the Duke of
+Albemarle and the Prince have laid blame on a great many, and
+particularly on our Office in general; and particularly for want of
+provision, wherein I shall come to be questioned again in that business
+myself; which do trouble me.  But my cozen Pepys and I had much discourse
+alone: and he do bewail the constitution of this House, and says there is
+a direct caball and faction, as much as is possible between those for and
+those against the Chancellor, and so in other factions, that there is
+nothing almost done honestly and with integrity; only some few, he says,
+there are, that do keep out of all plots and combinations, and when their
+time comes will speak and see right done, if possible; and that he
+himself is looked upon to be a man that will be of no faction, and so
+they do shun to make him; and I am glad of it.  He tells me that he
+thanks God he never knew what it was to be tempted to be a knave in his
+life; till he did come into the House of Commons, where there is nothing
+done but by passion, and faction, and private interest.  Reames did tell
+me of a fellow last night (one Kelsy, a commander of a fire-ship, who
+complained for want of his money paid him) did say that he did see one of
+the Commissioners of the Navy bring in three waggon-loads of prize-goods
+into Greenwich one night; but that the House did take no notice of it,
+nor enquire; but this is me, and I must expect to be called to account,
+and answer what I did as well as I can.  So thence away home, and in
+Holborne, going round, it being dark, I espied Sir D. Gawden's coach, and
+so went out of mine into his; and there had opportunity to talk of the
+business of victuals, which the Duke of Albemarle and Prince did complain
+that they were in want of the last year: but we do conclude we shall be
+able to show quite the contrary of that; only it troubles me that we must
+come to contend with these great persons, which will overrun us.  So with
+some disquiet in my mind on this account I home, and there comes Mr.
+Yeabsly, and he and I to even some accounts, wherein I shall be a gainer
+about L200, which is a seasonable profit, for I have got nothing a great
+while; and he being gone, I to bed.
+
+
+
+
+ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:
+
+Commons, where there is nothing done but by passion, and faction
+Disquiet all night, telling of the clock till it was daylight
+Painful to keep money, as well as to get it
+Sorry thing to be a poor King
+Spares not to blame another to defend himself
+Wise man's not being wise at all times
+
+
+
+
+End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v65
+by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley
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