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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, November 1667 + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Release Date: December 1, 2004 [EBook #4182] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY + MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + NOVEMBER + 1667 + +November 1st. Up betimes, and down to the waterside (calling and drinking +a dram of the bottle at Michell's, but saw not Betty), and thence to White +Hall and to Sir W. Coventry's lodging, where he and I alone a good while, +where he gives me the full of the Duke of Albemarle's and Prince's +narratives, given yesterday by the House, wherein they fall foul of him +and Sir G. Carteret in something about the dividing of the fleete, and the +Prince particularly charging the Commissioners of the Navy with +negligence, he says the Commissioners of the Navy whereof Sir W. Coventry +is one. He tells me that he is prepared to answer any particular most +thoroughly, but the quality of the persons do make it difficult for him, +and so I do see is in great pain, poor man, though he deserves better than +twenty such as either of them, for his abilities and true service to the +King and kingdom. He says there is incoherences, he believes, to be found +between their two reports, which will be pretty work to consider. The +Duke of Albemarle charges W. Coventry that he should tell him, when he +come down to the fleete with Sir G. Carteret, to consult about dividing +the fleete, that the Dutch would not be out in six weeks, which W. +Coventry says is as false as is possible, and he can prove the contrary by +the Duke of Albemarle's own letters. The Duke of Albemarle says that he +did upon sight of the Dutch call a council of officers, and they did +conclude they could not avoid fighting the Dutch; and yet we did go to the +enemy, and found them at anchor, which is a pretty contradiction. And he +tells me that Spragg did the other day say in the House, that the Prince, +at his going from the Duke of Albemarle with his fleete, did tell him that +if the Dutch should come on, the Duke was to follow him, the Prince, with +his fleete, and not fight the Dutch. Out of all this a great deal of good +might well be picked. But it is a sad consideration that all this picking +of holes in one another's coats--nay, and the thanks of the House to the +Prince and the Duke of Albemarle, and all this envy and design to ruin Sir +W. Coventry--did arise from Sir W. Coventry's unfortunate mistake the +other day, in producing of a letter from the Duke of Albemarle, touching +the good condition of all things at Chatham just before the Dutch come up, +and did us that fatal mischiefe; for upon this they are resolved to undo +him, and I pray God they do not. He tells me upon my demanding it that he +thinks the King do not like this their bringing these narratives, and that +they give out that they would have said more but that the King hath +hindered them, that I suppose is about my Lord Sandwich. He is getting a +copy of the Narratives, which I shall then have, and so I parted from him +and away to White Hall, where I met Mr. Creed and Yeabsly, and discoursed +a little about Mr. Yeabsly's business and accounts, and so I to chapel and +there staid, it being All-Hallows day, and heard a fine anthem, made by +Pelham (who is come over) in France, of which there was great expectation, +and indeed is a very good piece of musique, but still I cannot call the +Anthem anything but instrumentall musique with the voice, for nothing is +made of the words at all. I this morning before chapel visited Sir G. +Carteret, who is vexed to see how things are likely to go, but cannot help +it, and yet seems to think himself mighty safe. I also visited my Lord +Hinchingbroke, at his chamber at White Hall, where I found Mr. Turner, +Moore, and Creed, talking of my Lord Sandwich, whose case I doubt is but +bad, and, I fear, will not escape being worse, though some of the company +did say otherwise. But I am mightily pleased with my Lord Hinchingbroke's +sobriety and few words. After chapel I with Creed to the Exchange, and +after much talk he and I there about securing of some money either by land +or goods to be always at our command, which we think a thing advisable in +this critical time, we parted, and I to the Sun Taverne with Sir W. Warren +(with whom I have not drank many a day, having for some time been strange +to him), and there did put it to him to advise me how to dispose of my +prize, which he will think of and do to my best advantage. We talked of +several other things relating to his service, wherein I promise +assistance, but coldly, thinking it policy to do so, and so, after eating +a short dinner, I away home, and there took out my wife, and she and I +alone to the King's playhouse, and there saw a silly play and an old one, +"The Taming of a Shrew," and so home and I to my office a little, and then +home to supper and to bed. + +2nd. Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning; at noon home, and +after dinner my wife and Willett and I to the King's playhouse, and there +saw "Henry the Fourth:" and contrary to expectation, was pleased in +nothing more than in Cartwright's speaking of Falstaffe's speech about +"What is Honour?" The house full of Parliament-men, it being holyday with +them: and it was observable how a gentleman of good habit, sitting just +before us, eating of some fruit in the midst of the play, did drop down as +dead, being choked; but with much ado Orange Moll did thrust her finger +down his throat, and brought him to life again. After the play, we home, +and I busy at the office late, and then home to supper and to bed. + +3rd (Lord's day). Up, and with my wife to church, and thither comes Roger +Pepys to our pew, and thence home to dinner, whither comes by invitation +Mr. Turner, the minister, and my cozen Roger brought with him Jeffrys, the +apothecary at Westminster, who is our kinsman, and we had much discourse +of Cottenhamshire, and other things with great pleasure. My cozen Roger +did tell me of a bargain which I may now have in Norfolke, that my +she-cozen, Nan Pepys, is going to sell, the title whereof is very good, +and the pennyworth is also good enough; but it is out of the way so of my +life, that I shall never enjoy it, nor, it may be, see it, and so I shall +have nothing to do with it. After dinner to talk, and I find by discourse +Mr. Turner to be a man mighty well read in the Roman history, which is +very pleasant. By and by Roger went, and Mr. Turner spent an hour talking +over my Lord Sandwich's condition as to this Parliament, which we fear may +be bad, and the condition of his family, which can be no better, and then +having little to comfort ourselves but that this humour will not last +always in the Parliament, and that [it] may well have a great many more as +great men as he enquired into, and so we parted, and I to my chamber, and +there busy all the evening, and then my wife and I to supper, and so to +bed, with much discourse and pleasure one with another. + +4th. Up betimes, and by water with Sir R. Ford (who is going to +Parliament) to Westminster; and there landing at the New Exchange stairs, +I to Sir W. Coventry: and there he read over to me the Prince's and the +Duke of Albemarle's Narratives; wherein they are very severe against him +and our Office. But [Sir] W. Coventry do contemn them; only that their +persons and qualities are great, and so I do perceive [he] is afeard of +them, though he will not confess it. But he do say that, if he can get +out of these briars, he will never trouble himself with Princes nor Dukes +again. He finds several things in their Narratives, which are both +inconsistent and foolish, as well as untrue, especially as to what the +Duke of Albemarle avers of his knowing of the enemy's being abroad sooner +than he says it, which [Sir] W. Coventry will shew him his own letter +against him, for I confess I do see so much, that, were I but well +possessed of what I should have in the world, I think I could willingly +retreat, and trouble myself no more with it. Thence home, and there met +Sir H. Cholmly, and he and I to the Excise Office to see what tallies are +paying, and thence back to the Old Exchange, by the way talking of news, +and he owning Sir W. Coventry, in his opinion, to be one of the worthiest +men in the nation, as I do really think he is. He tells me he do think +really that they will cut off my Lord Chancellor's head, the Chancellor at +this day showing as much pride as is possible to those few that venture +their fortunes by coming to see him; and that the Duke of York is troubled +much, knowing that those that fling down the Chancellor cannot stop there, +but will do something to him, to prevent his having it in his power +hereafter to avenge himself and father-in-law upon them. And this Sir H. +Cholmly fears may be by divorcing the Queen and getting another, or +declaring the Duke of Monmouth legitimate; which God forbid! He tells me +he do verily believe that there will come in an impeachment of High +Treason against my Lord of Ormond; among other things, for ordering the +quartering of soldiers in Ireland on free quarters; which, it seems, is +High Treason in that country, and was one of the things that lost the Lord +Strafford his head, and the law is not yet repealed; which, he says, was a +mighty oversight of him not to have it repealed, which he might with ease +have done, or have justified himself by an Act. From the Exchange I took +a coach, and went to Turlington, the great spectacle-maker, for advice, +who dissuades me from using old spectacles, but rather young ones, and do +tell me that nothing can wrong my eyes more than for me to use +reading-glasses, which do magnify much. Thence home, and there dined, and +then abroad and left my wife and Willett at her tailor's, and I to White +Hall, where the Commissioners of the Treasury do not sit, and therefore I +to Westminster to the Hall, and there meeting with Col. Reames I did very +cheaply by him get copies of the Prince's and Duke of Albemarle's +Narratives, which they did deliver the other day to the House, of which I +am mighty glad, both for my present information and for my future +satisfaction. So back by coach, and took up my wife, and away home, and +there in my chamber all the evening among my papers and my accounts of +Tangier to my great satisfaction, and so to supper and to bed. + +5th. Up, and all the morning at the office. At noon home to dinner, and +thence out with my wife and girle, and left them at her tailor's, and I to +the Treasury, and there did a little business for Tangier, and so took +them up again, and home, and when I had done at the office, being post +night, I to my chamber, and there did something more, and so to supper and +to bed. + +6th. Up, and to Westminster, where to the Parliament door, and there +spoke with Sir G. Downing, to see what was done yesterday at the Treasury +for Tangier, and it proved as good as nothing, so that I do see we shall +be brought to great straits for money there. He tells me here that he is +passing a Bill to make the Excise and every other part of the King's +Revenue assignable on the Exchequer, which indeed will be a very good +thing. This he says with great glee as an act of his, and how poor a +thing this was in the beginning, and with what envy he carried it on, and +how my Lord Chancellor could never endure him for it since he first begun +it. He tells me that the thing the House is just now upon is that of +taking away the charter from the Company of Woodmongers, whose frauds, it +seems, have been mightily laid before them. He tells me that they are +like to fly very high against my Lord Chancellor. Thence I to the House +of Lords, and there first saw Dr. Fuller, as Bishop of Lincoln, to sit +among the Lords. Here I spoke with the Duke of York and the Duke of +Albemarle about Tangier; but methinks both of them do look very coldly one +upon another, and their discourse mighty cold, and little to the purpose +about our want of money. Thence homeward, and called at Allestry's, the +bookseller, who is bookseller to the Royal Society, and there did buy +three or four books, and find great variety of French and foreign books. +And so home and to dinner, and after dinner with my wife to a play, and +the girl--"Macbeth," which we still like mightily, though mighty short of +the content we used to have when Betterton acted, who is still sick. So +home, troubled with the way and to get a coach, and so to supper and to +bed. This day, in the Paynted-chamber, I met and walked with Mr. George +Montagu, who thinks it may go hard with my Lord Sandwich, but he says the +House is offended with Sir W. Coventry much, and that he do endeavour to +gain them again in the most precarious manner in all things that is +possible. + +7th. Up, and at the office hard all the morning, and at noon resolved +with Sir W. Pen to go see "The Tempest," an old play of Shakespeare's, +acted, I hear, the first day; and so my wife, and girl, and W. Hewer by +themselves, and Sir W. Pen and I afterwards by ourselves; and forced to +sit in the side balcone over against the musique-room at the Duke's house, +close by my Lady Dorset and a great many great ones. The house mighty +full; the King and Court there and the most innocent play that ever I saw; +and a curious piece of musique in an echo of half sentences, the echo +repeating the former half, while the man goes on to the latter; which is +mighty pretty. The play [has] no great wit, but yet good, above ordinary +plays. Thence home with [Sir] W. Pen, and there all mightily pleased with +the play; and so to supper and to bed, after having done at the office. + +8th. Called up betimes by Sir H. Cholmly, and he and I to good purpose +most of the morning--I in my dressing-gown with him, on our Tangier +accounts, and stated them well; and here he tells me that he believes it +will go hard with my Lord Chancellor. Thence I to the office, where met +on some special, business; and here I hear that the Duke of York is very +ill; and by and by word brought us that we shall not need to attend to-day +the Duke of York, for he is not well, which is bad news. They being gone, +I to my workmen, who this day come to alter my office, by beating down the +wall, and making me a fayre window both there, and increasing the window +of my closet, which do give me some present trouble; but will be mighty +pleasant. So all the whole day among them to very late, and so home +weary, to supper, and to bed, troubled for the Duke of York his being +sick. + +9th. Up and to my workmen, who are at work close again, and I at the +office all the morning, and there do hear by a messenger that Roger Pepys +would speak with me, so before the office up I to Westminster, and there +find the House very busy, and like to be so all day, about my Lord +Chancellor's impeachment, whether treason or not, where every body is +mighty busy. I spoke with my cozen Roger, whose business was only to give +me notice that Carcasse hath been before the Committee; and to warn me of +it, which is a great courtesy in him to do, and I desire him to continue +to do so. This business of this fellow, though it may be a foolish thing, +yet it troubles me, and I do plainly see my weakness that I am not a man +able to go through trouble, as other men, but that I should be a miserable +man if I should meet with adversity, which God keep me from! He desirous +to get back into the House, he having his notes in his hand, the lawyers +being now speaking to the point of whether treason or not treason, the +article of advising the King to break up the Parliament, and to govern by +the sword. Thence I down to the Hall, and there met Mr. King, the +Parliament-man for Harwich, and there he did shew, and let me take a copy +of, all the articles against my Lord Chancellor, and what members they +were that undertook to bring witnesses to make them good, of which I was +mighty glad, and so away home, and to dinner and to my workmen, and in the +afternoon out to get Simpson the joyner to come to work at my office, and +so back home and to my letters by the post to-night, and there, by W. Pen, +do hear that this article was overvoted in the House not to be a ground of +impeachment of treason, at which I was glad, being willing to have no +blood spilt, if I could help it. So home to supper, and glad that the +dirty bricklayers' work of my office is done, and home to supper and to +bed. + +10th (Lord's day). Mighty cold, and with my wife to church, where a lazy +sermon. Here was my Lady Batten in her mourning at church, but I took no +notice of her. At noon comes Michell and his wife to dine with us, and +pretty merry. I glad to see her still. After dinner Sir W. Pen and I to +White Hall, to speak with Sir W. Coventry; and there, beyond all we looked +for, do hear that the Duke of York hath got, and is full of, the +small-pox; and so we to his lodgings; and there find most of the family +going to St. James's, and the gallery doors locked up, that nobody might +pass to nor fro and a sad house, I am sure. I am sad to consider the +effects of his death, if he should miscarry; but Dr. Frazier tells me that +he is in as good condition as a man can be in his case. The eruption +appeared last night; it seems he was let blood on Friday. Thence, not +finding [Sir] W. Coventry, and going back again home, we met him coming +with the Lord Keeper, and so returned and spoke with him in White Hall +Garden, two or three turns, advising with him what we should do about +Carcasse's bringing his letter into the Committee of Parliament, and he +told us that the counsel he hath too late learned is, to spring nothing in +the House, nor offer anything, but just what is drawn out of a man: that +this is the best way of dealing with a Parliament, and that he hath paid +dear, and knows not how much more he may pay, for not knowing it sooner, +when he did unnecessarily produce the Duke of Albemarle's letter about +Chatham, which if demanded would have come out with all the advantages in +the world to Sir W. Coventry, but, as he brought it out himself, hath +drawn much evil upon him. After some talk of this kind, we back home, and +there I to my chamber busy all the evening, and then to supper and to bed, +my head running all night upon our businesses in Parliament and what +examinations we are likely to go under before they have done with us, +which troubles me more than it should a wise man and a man the best able +to defend himself, I believe, of our own whole office, or any other, I am +apt to think. + +11th. Up, and to Simpson at work in my office, and thence with Sir G. +Carteret (who come to talk with me) to Broad Streete, where great crowding +of people for money, at which he blamed himself. Thence with him and Lord +Bruncker to Captain Cocke's (he out of doors), and there drank their +morning draught, and thence [Sir] G. Carteret and I toward the Temple in +coach together; and there he did tell me how the King do all he can in the +world to overthrow my Lord Chancellor, and that notice is taken of every +man about the King that is not seen to promote the ruine of the +Chancellor; and that this being another great day in his business, he +dares not but be there. He tells me that as soon as Secretary Morrice +brought the Great Seale from my Lord Chancellor, Bab. May fell upon his +knees, and catched the King about the legs, and joyed him, and said that +this was the first time that ever he could call him King of England, being +freed from this great man: which was a most ridiculous saying. And he +told me that, when first my Lord Gerard, a great while ago, come to the +King, and told him that the Chancellor did say openly that the King was a +lazy person and not fit to govern, which is now made one of the things in +the people's mouths against the Chancellor, "Why," says the King, "that is +no news, for he hath told me so twenty times, and but the other day he +told me so;" and made matter of mirth at it: but yet this light discourse +is likely to prove bad to him. I 'light at the Temple, and went to my +tailor's and mercer's about a cloake, to choose the stuff, and so to my +bookseller's and bought some books, and so home to dinner, and Simpson my +joyner with me, and after dinner, my wife, and I, and Willett, to the +King's play-house, and there saw "The Indian Emperour," a good play, but +not so good as people cry it up, I think, though above all things Nell's +ill speaking of a great part made me mad. Thence with great trouble and +charge getting a coach (it being now and having been all this day a most +cold and foggy, dark, thick day), we home, and there I to my office, and +saw it made clean from top to bottom, till I feared I took cold in walking +in a damp room while it is in washing, and so home to supper and to bed. +This day I had a whole doe sent me by Mr. Hozier, which is a fine present, +and I had the umbles of it for dinner. This day I hear Kirton, my +bookseller, poor man, is dead, I believe, of grief for his losses by the +fire. + +12th. Up, and to the Office, where sat all the morning; and there hear +the Duke of York do yet do very well with his smallpox: pray God he may +continue to do so! This morning also, to my astonishment, I hear that +yesterday my Lord Chancellor, to another of his Articles, that of +betraying the King's councils to his enemies, is voted to have matter +against him for an impeachment of High Treason, and that this day the +impeachment is to be carried up to the House of Lords which is very high, +and I am troubled at it; for God knows what will follow, since they that +do this must do more to secure themselves against any that will revenge +this, if it ever come in their power! At noon home to dinner, and then to +my office, and there saw every thing finished, so as my papers are all in +order again and my office twice as pleasant as ever it was, having a noble +window in my closet and another in my office, to my great content, and so +did business late, and then home to supper and to bed. + +13th. Up, and down to the Old Swan, and so to Westminster; where I find +the House sitting, and in a mighty heat about Commissioner Pett, that they +would have him impeached, though the Committee have yet brought in but +part of their Report: and this heat of the House is much heightened by Sir +Thomas Clifford telling them, that he was the man that did, out of his own +purse, employ people at the out-ports to prevent the King of Scots to +escape after the battle of Worcester. The House was in a great heat all +this day about it; and at last it was carried, however, that it should be +referred back to the Committee to make further enquiry. I here spoke with +Roger Pepys, who sent for me, and it was to tell me that the Committee is +mighty full of the business of buying and selling of tickets, and to +caution me against such an enquiry (wherein I am very safe), and that they +have already found out Sir Richard Ford's son to have had a hand in it, +which they take to be the same as if the father had done it, and I do +believe the father may be as likely to be concerned in it as his son. But +I perceive by him they are resolved to find out the bottom of the business +if it be possible. By and by I met with Mr. Wren, who tells me that the +Duke of York is in as good condition as is possible for a man, in his +condition of the smallpox. He, I perceive, is mightily concerned in the +business of my Lord Chancellor, the impeachment against whom is gone up to +the House of Lords; and great differences there are in the Lords' House +about it, and the Lords are very high one against another. Thence home to +dinner, and as soon as dinner done I and my wife and Willet to the Duke of +York's, house, and there saw the Tempest again, which is very pleasant, +and full of so good variety that I cannot be more pleased almost in a +comedy, only the seamen's part a little too tedious. Thence home, and +there to my chamber, and do begin anew to bind myself to keep my old vows, +and among the rest not to see a play till Christmas but once in every +other week, and have laid aside L10, which is to be lost to the poor, if I +do. This I hope in God will bind me, for I do find myself mightily +wronged in my reputation, and indeed in my purse and business, by my late +following of my pleasure for so long time as I have done. So to supper +and then to bed. This day Mr. Chichly told me, with a seeming trouble, +that the House have stopped his son Jack (Sir John) his going to France, +that he may be a witness against my Lord Sandwich: which do trouble me, +though he can, I think, say little. + +14th. At the office close all the morning. At noon, all my clerks with +me to dinner, to a venison pasty; and there comes Creed, and dined with +me, and he tells me how high the Lords were in the Lords' House about the +business of the Chancellor, and that they are not yet agreed to impeach +him. After dinner, he and I, and my wife and girl, the latter two to +their tailor's, and he and I to the Committee of the Treasury, where I had +a hearing, but can get but L6000 for the pay of the garrison, in lieu of +above L16,000; and this Alderman Backewell gets remitted there, and I am +glad of it. Thence by coach took up my wife and girl, and so home, and +set down Creed at Arundell House, going to the Royal Society, whither I +would be glad to go, but cannot. Thence home, and to the Office, where +about my letters, and so home to supper, and to bed, my eyes being bad +again; and by this means, the nights, now-a-days, do become very long to +me, longer than I can sleep out. + +15th. Up, and to Alderman Backewell's + + [Edward Backwell, goldsmith and alderman of the City of London. He + was a man of considerable wealth during the Commonwealth. After the + Restoration he negotiated Charles II.'s principal money + transactions. He was M.P. for Wendover in the parliament of 1679, + and in the Oxford parliament of 1680. According to the writer of + the life in the "Diet. of Nat. Biog. "his heirs did not ultimately + suffer any pecuniary loss by the closure of the Exchequer. Mr. + Hilton Price stated that Backwell removed to Holland in 1676, and + died therein 1679; but this is disproved by the pedigree in + Lipscomb's "Hist. of Bucks," where the date of his death is given + as 1683, as well as by the fact that he sat for Wendover in 1679 and + 1680, as stated above.] + +and there discoursed with him about the remitting of this L6000 to +Tangier, which he hath promised to do by the first post, and that will be +by Monday next, the 18th, and he and I agreed that I would take notice of +it that so he may be found to have done his best upon the desire of the +Lords Commissioners. From this we went to discourse of his condition, and +he with some vain glory told me that the business of Sheernesse did make +him quite mad, and indeed might well have undone him; but yet that he did +the very next day pay here and got bills to answer his promise to the King +for the Swedes Embassadors (who were then doing our business at the treaty +at Breda) L7000, and did promise the Bankers there, that if they would +draw upon him all that he had of theirs and L10,000 more, he would answer +it. He told me that Serjeant Maynard come to him for a sum of money that +he had in his hands of his, and so did many others, and his answer was, +What countrymen are you? And when they told him, why then, says he, here +is a tally upon the Receiver of your country for so [much], and to yours +for so much, and did offer to lay by tallies to the full value of all that +he owed in the world, and L40,000 more for the security thereof, and not +to touch a penny of his own till the full of what he owed was paid, which +so pleased every body that he hath mastered all, so that he hath lent the +Commissioners of the Treasury above L40,000 in money since that business, +and did this morning offer to a lady who come to give him notice that she +should need her money L3000, in twenty days, he bid her if she pleased +send for it to-day and she should have it. Which is a very great thing, +and will make them greater than ever they were, I am apt to think, in some +time. Thence to Westminster, and there I walked with several, and do hear +that there is to be a conference between the two Houses today; so I +stayed: and it was only to tell the Commons that the Lords cannot agree to +the confining or sequestring of the Earle of Clarendon from the +Parliament, forasmuch as they do not specify any particular crime which +they lay upon him and call Treason. This the House did receive, and so +parted: at which, I hear, the Commons are like to grow very high, and will +insist upon their privileges, and the Lords will own theirs, though the +Duke of Buckingham, Bristoll, and others, have been very high in the House +of Lords to have had him committed. This is likely to breed ill blood. +Thence I away home, calling at my mercer's and tailor's, and there find, +as I expected, Mr. Caesar and little Pelham Humphreys, lately returned +from France, and is an absolute Monsieur, as full of form, and confidence, +and vanity, and disparages everything, and everybody's skill but his own. +The truth is, every body says he is very able, but to hear how he laughs +at all the King's musick here, as Blagrave and others, that they cannot +keep time nor tune, nor understand anything; and that Grebus, the +Frenchman, the King's master of the musick, how he understands nothing, +nor can play on any instrument, and so cannot compose: and that he will +give him a lift out of his place; and that he and the King are mighty +great! and that he hath already spoke to the King of Grebus would make a +man piss. I had a good dinner for them, as a venison pasty and some fowl, +and after dinner we did play, he on the theorbo. Mr. Caesar on his French +lute, and I on the viol, but made but mean musique, nor do I see that this +Frenchman do so much wonders on the theorbo, but without question he is a +good musician, but his vanity do offend me. They gone, towards night, I +to the office awhile, and then home and to my chamber, where busy till by +and by comes Mr. Moore, and he staid and supped and talked with me about +many things, and tells me his great fear that all things will go to ruin +among us, for that the King hath, as he says Sir Thomas Crew told him, +been heard to say that the quarrel is not between my Lord Chancellor and +him, but his brother and him; which will make sad work among us if that be +once promoted, as to be sure it will, Buckingham and Bristoll being now +the only counsel the King follows, so as Arlington and Coventry are come +to signify little. He tells me they are likely to fall upon my Lord +Sandwich; but, for my part, sometimes I am apt to think they cannot do him +much harm, he telling me that there is no great fear of the business of +Resumption! By and by, I got him to read part of my Lord Cooke's chapter +of treason, which is mighty well worth reading, and do inform me in many +things, and for aught I see it is useful now to know what these crimes +are. And then to supper, and after supper he went away, and so I got the +girl to comb my head, and then to bed, my eyes bad. This day, Poundy, the +waterman, was with me, to let me know that he was summonsed to bear +witness against me to Prince Rupert's people (who have a commission to +look after the business of prize-goods) about the business of the +prize-goods I was concerned in: but I did desire him to speak all he knew, +and not to spare me, nor did promise nor give him any thing, but sent him +away with good words, to bid him say all he knew to be true. This do not +trouble me much. + +16th. At the office all the morning, and at noon took my Lord Bruncker +into the garden, and there told him of his man Carcasses proceedings +against the Office in the House of Commons. I did [not] desire nor advise +him anything, but in general, that the end of this might be ruin to the +Office, but that we shall be brought to fencing for ourselves, and that +will be no profit to the office, but let it light where it would I thought +I should be as well as any body. This I told him, and so he seeming to be +ignorant of it, and not pleased with it, we broke off by Sir Thos. Harvy's +coming to us from the Pay Office, whither we had sent a smart letter we +had writ to him this morning about keeping the clerks at work at the +making up the books, which I did to place the fault somewhere, and now I +let him defend himself. He was mighty angry, and particularly with me, +but I do not care, but do rather desire it, for I will not spare him, that +we shall bear the blame, and such an idle fellow as he have L500 a year +for nothing. So we broke off, and I home to dinner, and then to the +office, and having spent the afternoon on letters, I took coach in the +evening, and to White Hall, where there is to be a performance of musique +of Pelham's before the King. The company not come; but I did go into the +musique-room, where Captain Cocke and many others; and here I did hear the +best and the smallest organ go that ever I saw in my life, and such a one +as, by the grace of God, I will have the next year, if I continue in this +condition, whatever it cost me. I never was so pleased in my life. +Thence, it being too soon, I to Westminster Hall, it being now about 7 at +night, and there met Mr. Gregory, my old acquaintance, an understanding +gentleman; and he and I walked an hour together, talking of the bad +prospect of the times; and the sum of what I learn from him is this: That +the King is the most concerned in the world against the Chancellor, and +all people that do not appear against him, and therefore is angry with the +Bishops, having said that he had one Bishop on his side (Crofts ), and but +one: that Buckingham and Bristoll are now his only Cabinet Council; + + [The term Cabinet Council, as stated by Clarendon, originated thus, + in 1640: "The bulk and burden of the state affairs lay principally + upon the shoulders of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Earl of + Strafford, and the Lord Cottington; some others being joined to + them, as the Earl of Northumberland for ornament, the Bishop of + London for his place, the two Secretaries, Sir H. Vane and Sir + Francis Windebank, for service and communication of intelligence: + only the Marquis of Hamilton, indeed, by his skill and interest, + bore as great a part as he had a mind to do, and had the skill to + meddle no further than he had a mind. These persons made up the + committee of state, which was reproachfully after called the junto, + and enviously then in the Court the Cabinet Council" ("History of + the Rebellion," vol. i., p. 211, edit. 1849).] + +and that, before the Duke of York fell sick, Buckingham was admitted to +the King of his Cabinet, and there stayed with him several hours, and the +Duke of York shut out. That it is plain that there is dislike between the +King and Duke of York, and that it is to be feared that the House will go +so far against the Chancellor, that they must do something to undo the +Duke of York, or will not think themselves safe. That this Lord Vaughan, +that is so great against the Chancellor, is one of the lewdest fellows of +the age, worse than Sir Charles Sidly; and that he was heard to swear, God +damn him, he would do my Lord Clarendon's business. That he do find that +my Lord Clarendon hath more friends in both Houses than he believes he +would have, by reason that they do see what are the hands that pull him +down; which they do not like. That Harry Coventry was scolded at by the +King severely the other day; and that his answer was that, if he must not +speak what he thought in this business in Parliament, he must not come +thither. And he says that by this very business Harry Coventry hath got +more fame and common esteem than any gentleman in England hath at this +day, and is an excellent and able person. That the King, who not long ago +did say of Bristoll, that he was a man able in three years to get himself +a fortune in any kingdom in the world, and lose all again in three months, +do now hug him, and commend his parts every where, above all the world. +How fickle is this man [the King], and how unhappy we like to be! That he +fears some furious courses will be taken against the Duke of York; and +that he hath heard that it was designed, if they cannot carry matters +against the Chancellor, to impeach the Duke of York himself, which God +forbid! That Sir Edward Nicholas, whom he served while Secretary, is one +of the best men in the world, but hated by the Queen-Mother, for a service +he did the old King against her mind and her favourites; and that she and +my Lady Castlemayne did make the King to lay him aside: but this man says +that he is one of the most perfect heavenly and charitable men in the +whole world. That the House of Commons resolve to stand by their +proceedings, and have chosen a Committee to draw up the reasons thereof to +carry to the Lords; which is likely to breed great heat between them. +That the Parliament, after all this, is likely to give the King no money; +and, therefore, that it is to be wondered what makes the King give way to +so great extravagancies, which do all tend to the making him less than he +is, and so will, every day more and more: and by this means every creature +is divided against the other, that there never was so great an uncertainty +in England, of what would, be the event of things, as at this day; nobody +being at ease, or safe. Being full of his discourse, and glad of the +rencontre, I to White Hall; and there got into the theater-room, and there +heard both the vocall and instrumentall musick, where the little fellow' +stood keeping time; but for my part, I see no great matter, but quite the +contrary in both sorts of musique. The composition I believe is very +good, but no more of delightfulness to the eare or understanding but what +is very ordinary. Here was the King and Queen, and some of the ladies; +among whom none more jolly than my Lady Buckingham, her Lord being once +more a great man. Thence by coach home and to my office, ended my +letters, and then home to supper, and, my eyes being bad, to bed. + +17th (Lord's day). Up, and to church with my wife. A dull sermon of Mr. +Mills, and then home, without strangers to dinner, and then my wife to +read, and I to the office, enter my journall to this day, and so home with +great content that it is done, but with sorrow to my eyes. Then home, and +got my wife to read to me out of Fuller's Church History, when by and by +comes Captain Cocke, who sat with me all the evening, talking, and I find +by him, as by all others, that we are like to expect great confusions, and +most of our discourse was the same, and did agree with that the last +night, particularly that about the difference between the King and the +Duke of York which is like to be. He tells me that he hears that Sir W. +Coventry was, a little before the Duke of York fell sick, with the Duke of +York in his closet, and fell on his knees, and begged his pardon for what +he hath done to my Lord Chancellor; but this I dare not soon believe. But +he tells me another thing, which he says he had from the person himself +who spoke with the Duke of Buckingham, who, he says, is a very sober and +worthy man, that he did lately speak with the Duke of Buckingham about his +greatness now with the King, and told him-"But, sir, these things that the +King do now, in suffering the Parliament to do all this, you know are not +fit for the King to suffer, and you know how often you have said to me +that the King was a weak man, and unable to govern, but to be governed, +and that you could command him as you listed; why do you suffer him to go +on in these things?"--"Why," says the Duke of Buckingham, "I do suffer him +to do this, that I may hereafter the better command him." This he swears +to me the person himself to whom the Duke of Buckingham said this did tell +it him, and is a man of worth, understanding, and credit. He told me one +odd passage by the Duke of Albemarle, speaking how hasty a man he is, and +how for certain he would have killed Sir W. Coventry, had he met him in a +little time after his shewing his letter in the House. He told me that a +certain lady, whom he knows, did tell him that, she being certainly +informed that some of the Duke of Albemarle's family did say that the Earl +of Torrington was a bastard, [she] did think herself concerned to tell the +Duke of Albemarle of it, and did first tell the Duchesse, and was going to +tell the old man, when the Duchesse pulled her back by the sleeve, and +hindered her, swearing to her that if he should hear it, he would +certainly kill the servant that should be found to have said it, and +therefore prayed her to hold her peace. One thing more he told me, which +is, that Garraway is come to town, and is thinking how to bring the House +to mind the public state of the nation and to put off these particular +piques against man and man, and that he propounding this to Sir W. +Coventry, Sir W. Coventry did give no encouragement to it: which he says +is that by their running after other men he may escape. But I do believe +this is not true neither. But however I am glad that Garraway is here, +and that he do begin to think of the public condition in reference to our +neighbours that we are in, and in reference to ourselves, whereof I am +mightily afeard of trouble. So to supper, and he gone and we to bed. + +18th. Up, and all the morning at my office till 3 after noon with Mr. +Hater about perfecting my little pocket market book of the office, till my +eyes were ready to fall out of my head, and then home to dinner, glad that +I had done so much, and so abroad to White Hall, to the Commissioners of +the Treasury, and there did a little business with them, and so home, +leaving multitudes of solicitors at their door, of one sort or other, +complaining for want of such despatch as they had in my Lord Treasurer's +time, when I believe more business was despatched, but it was in his +manner to the King's wrong. Among others here was Gresham College coming +about getting a grant of Chelsey College for their Society, which the +King, it seems, hath given them his right in; but they met with some other +pretences, I think; to it, besides the King's. Thence took up my wife, +whom I had left at her tailor's, and home, and there, to save my eyes, got +my wife at home to read again, as last night, in the same book, till W. +Batelier come and spent the evening talking with us, and supped with us, +and so to bed. + +19th. To the office, and thence before noon I, by the Board's direction, +to the Parliament House to speak with Sir R. Brookes about the meaning of +an order come to us this day to bring all the books of the office to the +Committee. I find by him that it is only about the business of an order +of ours for paying off the ships by ticket, which they think I on behalf +of my Lord Bruncker do suppress, which vexes me, and more at its +occasioning the bringing them our books. So home and to dinner, where Mr. +Shepley with me, newly come out of the country, but I was at little +liberty to talk to him, but after dinner with two contracts to the +Committee, with Lord Bruncker and Sir T. Harvy, and there did deliver +them, and promised at their command more, but much against my will. And +here Sir R. Brookes did take me alone, and pray me to prevent their +trouble, by discovering the order he would have. I told him I would +suppress none, nor could, but this did not satisfy him, and so we parted, +I vexed that I should bring on myself this suspicion. Here I did stand by +unseen, and did hear their impertinent yet malicious examinations of some +rogues about the business of Bergen, wherein they would wind in something +against my Lord Sandwich (it was plain by their manner of examining, as +Sir Thomas Crew did afterwards observe to me, who was there), but all +amounted to little I think. But here Sir Thomas Crew and W. Hewer, who +was there also, did tell me that they did hear Captain Downing give a +cruel testimony against my Lord Bruncker, for his neglect, and doing +nothing, in the time of straits at Chatham, when he was spoke to, and did +tell the Committee that he, Downing, did presently after, in Lord +Bruncker's hearing, tell the Duke of Albemarle, that if he might advise +the King, he should hang both my Lord Bruncker and Pett. This is very +hard. Thence with W. Hewer and our messenger, Marlow, home by coach, and +so late at letters, and then home to supper, and my wife to read and then +to bed. This night I wrote to my father, in answer to a new match which +is proposed (the executor of Ensum, my sister's former servant) for my +sister, that I will continue my mind of giving her L500, if he likes of +the match. My father did also this week, by Shepley, return me up a +'guinny, which, it seems, upon searching the ground, they have found since +I was there. I was told this day that Lory Hide, + + [Laurence Hyde, second son of Lord Chancellor Clarendon (1614-1711). + He held many important offices, and was First Lord of the Treasury, + 1679-84; created Earl of Rochester in 1681, and K.G. 1685.] + +second son of my Lord Chancellor, did some time since in the House say, +that if he thought his father was guilty but of one of the things then +said against him, he would be the first that should call for judgement +against him: which Mr. Waller, the poet, did say was spoke like the old +Roman, like Brutus, for its greatness and worthiness. + +20th. Up, and all the morning at my office shut up with Mr. Gibson, I +walking and he reading to me the order books of the office from the +beginning of the war, for preventing the Parliament's having them in their +hands before I have looked them over and seen the utmost that can be said +against us from any of our orders, and to my great content all the morning +I find none. So at noon home to dinner with my clerks, who have of late +dined frequently with me, and I do purpose to have them so still, by that +means I having opportunity to talk with them about business, and I love +their company very well. All the morning Mr. Hater and the boy did shut +up themselves at my house doing something towards the finishing the +abstract book of our contracts for my pocket, which I shall now want very +much. After dinner I stayed at home all the afternoon, and Gibson with +me; he and I shut up till about ten at night. We went through all our +orders, and towards the end I do meet with two or three orders for our +discharging of two or three little vessels by ticket without money, which +do plunge me; but, however, I have the advantage by this means to study an +answer and to prepare a defence, at least for myself. So he gone I to +supper, my mind busy thinking after our defence in this matter, but with +vexation to think that a thing of this kind, which in itself brings +nothing but trouble and shame to us, should happen before all others to +become a charge against us. This afternoon Mr. Mills come and visited me, +and stayed a little with me (my wife being to be godmother to his child +to-morrow), and among other talk he told me how fully satisfactory my +first Report was to the House in the business of Chatham: which I am glad +to hear; and the more, for that I know that he is a great creature of Sir +R. Brookes's. + +21st. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon home, +where my wife not very well, but is to go to Mr. Mills's child's +christening, where she is godmother, Sir J. Minnes and Sir R. Brookes her +companions. I left her after dinner (my clerks dining with me) to go with +Sir J. Minnes, and I to the office, where did much business till after +candlelight, and then my eyes beginning to fail me, I out and took coach +to Arundell House, where the meeting of Gresham College was broke up; but +there meeting Creed, I with him to the taverne in St. Clement's +Churchyard, where was Deane Wilkins, Dr. Whistler, Dr. Floyd, a divine +admitted, I perceive, this day, and other brave men; and there, among +other things of news, I do hear, that upon the reading of the House of +Commons's Reasons of the manner of their proceedings in the business of my +Lord Chancellor, the Reasons were so bad, that my Lord Bristoll himself +did declare that he would not stand to what he had, and did still, advise +the Lords to concur to, upon any of the Reasons of the House of Commons; +but if it was put to the question whether it should be done on their +Reasons, he would be against them; and indeed it seems the +Reasons--however they come to escape the House of Commons, which shews how +slightly the greatest matters are done in this world, and even in +Parliaments were none of them of strength, but the principle of them +untrue; they saying, that where any man is brought before a judge, accused +of Treason in general, without specifying the particular, the judge do +there constantly and is obliged to commit him. Whereas the question being +put by the Lords to my Lord Keeper, he said that quite the contrary was +true: and then, in the Sixth Article (I will get a copy of them if I can) +there are two or three things strangely asserted to the diminishing of the +King's power, as is said, at least things that heretofore would not have +been heard of. But then the question being put among the Lords, as my +Lord Bristoll advised, whether, upon the whole matter and Reasons that had +been laid before them, they would commit my Lord Clarendon, it was carried +five to one against it; there being but three Bishops against him, of whom +Cosens and Dr. Reynolds were two, and I know not the third. This made the +opposite Lords, as Bristoll and Buckingham, so mad, that they declared and +protested against it, speaking very broad that there was mutiny and +rebellion in the hearts of the Lords, and that they desired they might +enter their dissents, which they did do, in great fury. So that upon the +Lords sending to the Commons, as I am told, to have a conference for them +to give their answer to the Commons's Reasons, the Commons did desire a +free conference: but the Lords do deny it; and the reason is, that they +hold not the Commons any Court, but that themselves only are a Court, and +the Chief Court of judicature, and therefore are not to dispute the laws +and method of their own Court with them that are none, and so will not +submit so much as to have their power disputed. And it is conceived that +much of this eagerness among the Lords do arise from the fear some of them +have, that they may be dealt with in the same manner themselves, and +therefore do stand upon it now. It seems my Lord Clarendon hath, as is +said and believed, had his horses several times in his coach, ready to +carry him to the Tower, expecting a message to that purpose; but by this +means his case is like to be laid by. From this we fell to other +discourse, and very good; among the rest they discourse of a man that is a +little frantic, that hath been a kind of minister, Dr. Wilkins saying that +he hath read for him in his church, that is poor and a debauched man, that +the College' have hired for 20s. to have some of the blood of a sheep let +into his body; and it is to be done on Saturday next. + + [This was Arthur Coga, who had studied at Cambridge, and was said to + be a bachelor of divinity. He was indigent, and "looked upon as a + very freakish and extravagant man." Dr. King, in a letter to the + Hon. Robert Boyle, remarks "that Mr. Coga was about thirty-two + years of age; that he spoke Latin well, when he was in company, + which he liked, but that his brain was sometimes a little too warm." + The experiment was performed on November 23rd, 1667, by Dr. King, at + Arundel House, in the presence of many spectators of quality, and + four or five physicians. Coga wrote a description of his own case + in Latin, and when asked why he had not the blood of some other + creature, instead of that of a sheep, transfused into him, answered, + "Sanguis ovis symbolicam quandam facultatem habet cum sanguine + Christi, quia Christus est agnus Dei" (Birch's "History of the Royal + Society," vol. ii., pp. 214-16). Coga was the first person in + England to be experimented upon; previous experiments were made by + the transfusion of the blood of one dog into another. See November + 14th, 1666 (vol. vi., p. 64).] + +They purpose to let in about twelve ounces; which, they compute, is what +will be let in in a minute's time by a watch. They differ in the opinion +they have of the effects of it; some think it may have a good effect upon +him as a frantic man by cooling his blood, others that it will not have +any effect at all. But the man is a healthy man, and by this means will +be able to give an account what alteration, if any, he do find in himself, +and so may be usefull. On this occasion, Dr. Whistler told a pretty story +related by Muffet, a good author, of Dr. Caius, that built Keys College; +that, being very old, and living only at that time upon woman's milk, he, +while he fed upon the milk of an angry, fretful woman, was so himself; and +then, being advised to take it of a good-natured, patient woman, he did +become so, beyond the common temper of his age. Thus much nutriment, they +observed, might do. Their discourse was very fine; and if I should be put +out of my office, I do take great content in the liberty I shall be at of +frequenting these gentlemen's company. Broke up thence and home, and there +to my wife in her chamber, who is not well (of those), and there she tells +me great stories of the gossiping women of the parish--what this, and what +that woman was; and, among the rest, how Mrs. Hollworthy is the veriest +confident bragging gossip of them all, which I should not have believed; +but that Sir R. Brookes, her partner, was mighty civil to her, and taken +with her, and what not. My eyes being bad I spent the evening with her in +her chamber talking and inventing a cypher to put on a piece of plate, +which I must give, better than ordinary, to the Parson's child, and so to +bed, and through my wife's illness had a bad night of it, and she a worse, +poor wretch! + +22nd. Up betimes, and drinking my morning draught of strong water with +Betty Michell, I had not opportunity para baiser la, I by water to White +Hall, and there met Creed, and thence with him to Westminster Hall, where +we talked long together of news, and there met with Cooling, my Lord +Chamberlain's Secretary, and from him learn the truth of all I heard last +night; and understand further, that this stiffness of the Lords is in no +manner of kindness to my Lord Chancellor, for he neither hath, nor do, nor +for the future likely can oblige any of them, but rather the contrary; but +that they do fear what the consequence may be to themselves, should they +yield in his case, as many of them have reason. And more, he shewed me how +this is rather to the wrong and prejudice of my Lord Chancellor; for that +it is better for him to come to be tried before the Lords, where he can +have right and make interest, than, when the Parliament is up, be +committed by the King, and tried by a Court on purpose made by the King, +of what Lords the King pleases, who have a mind to have his head. So that +my Lord [Cornbury] himself, his son, he tells me, hath moved, that if they +have Treason against my Lord of Clarendon, that they would specify it and +send it up to the Lords, that he might come to his trial; so full of +intrigues this business is! Having now a mind to go on and to be rid of +Creed, I could not, but was forced to carry him with me to the Excise +Office, and thence to the Temple, and there walked a good while in the +Temple church, observing the plainness of Selden's tomb, and how much +better one of his executors hath, who is buried by him, and there I parted +with him and took coach and home, where to dinner. + +23rd. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon home to +dinner, and all the afternoon also busy till late preparing things to +fortify myself and fellows against the Parliament; and particularly myself +against what I fear is thought, that I have suppressed the Order of the +Board by which the discharging the great ships off at Chatham by tickets +was directed; whereas, indeed, there was no such Order. So home at night +to supper and to bed. + +24th (Lord's day). In my chamber all the morning (having lain long in +bed) till Mr. Shepley come to dine with me, and there being to return to +Hinchinbroke speedily, I did give him as good account how matters go here +as I could. After dinner, he being gone, I to the office, and there for +want of other of my clerks, sent to Mr. Gibbs, whom I never used till now, +for the writing over of my little pocket Contract-book; and there I +laboured till nine at night with him, in drawing up the history of all +that hath passed concerning tickets, in order to the laying the whole, and +clearing myself and Office, before Sir R. Brookes; and in this I took +great pains, and then sent him away, and proceeded, and had W. Hewer come +to me, and he and I till past twelve at night in the Office, and he, which +was a good service, did so inform me in the consequences of my writing +this report, and that what I said would not hold water, in denying this +Board to have ever ordered the discharging out of the service whole ships +by ticket, that I did alter my whole counsel, and fall to arme myself with +good reasons to justify the Office in so doing, which hath been but rare, +and having done this, I went, with great quiet in my mind, home, though +vexed that so honest a business should bring me so much trouble; but +mightily was pleased to find myself put out of my former design; and so, +after supper, to bed. + +25th. Up, and all the morning finishing my letter to Sir Robert Brookes, +which I did with great content, and yet at noon when I come home to dinner +I read it over again after it was sealed and delivered to the messenger, +and read it to my clerks who dined with me, and there I did resolve upon +some alteration, and caused it to be new writ, and so to the office after +dinner, and there all the afternoon mighty busy, and at night did take +coach thinking to have gone to Westminster, but it was mighty dark and +foul, and my business not great, only to keep my eyes from reading by +candle, being weary, but being gone part of my way I turned back, and so +home, and there to read, and my wife to read to me out of Sir Robert +Cotton's book about warr, which is very fine, showing how the Kings of +England have raised money by the people heretofore upon the people, and +how they have played upon the kings also. So after supper I to bed. This +morning Sir W. Pen tells me that the House was very hot on Saturday last +upon the business of liberty of speech in the House, and damned the vote +in the beginning of the Long Parliament against it; I so that he fears +that there may be some bad thing which they have a mind to broach, which +they dare not do without more security than they now have. God keep us, +for things look mighty ill! + +26th. Up, all the morning at the office, and then home to dinner, where +dined Mr. Clerke, solicitor, with me, to discourse about my Tangier +accounts, which I would fain make up, but I have not time. After dinner, +by coach as far as the Temple, and there saw a new book, in folio, of all +that suffered for the King in the late times, which I will buy, it seems +well writ, and then back to the Old Exchange, and there at my goldsmith's +bought a basin for my wife to give the Parson's child, to which the other +day she was godmother. It cost me; L10 14s. besides graving, which I do +with the cypher of the name, Daniel Mills, and so home to the office, and +then home to supper and hear my wife read, and then to bed. This +afternoon, after dinner, come to me Mr. Warren, and there did tell me that +he come to pay his debt to me for the kindness I did him in getting his +last ship out, which I must also remember was a service to the King, +though I did not tell him so, as appeared by my advising with the board, +and there writing to Sir W. Coventry to get the pass for the ship to go +for it to Genoa. Now that which he had promised me for the courtesy was I +take it 100 pieces or more, I think more, and also for the former courtesy +I had done for the getting of his first ship out for this hemp he did +promise me a consideration upon the return of the goods, but I never did +to this day demand any thing of him, only about a month ago he told me +that now his ship was come, and he would come out of my debt, but told me +that whereas he did expect to have had some profit by the voyage, it had +proved of loss to him, by the loss of some ships, or some accidents, I +know not what, and so that he was not able to do what he intended, but +told me that he would present me with sixty pieces in gold. I told him I +would demand nothing of his promises, though they were much greater, nor +would have thus much, but if he could afford to give me but fifty pieces, +it should suffice me. So now he brought something in a paper, which since +proves to be fifty pieces. But before I would take them I told him that I +did not insist on anything, and therefore prayed him to consult his +ability before he did part with them: and so I refused them once or twice +till he did the third time offer them, and then I took them, he saying +that he would present me with as many more if I would undertake to get him +L500 paid on his bills. I told him I would by no means have any promise +of the kind, nor would have any kindness from him for any such service, +but that I should do my utmost for nothing to do him that justice, and +would endeavour to do what I could for him, and so we parted, he owning +himself mightily engaged to me for my kind usage of him in accepting of so +small a matter in satisfaction of all that he owed me; which I enter at +large for my justification if anything of this should be hereafter +enquired after. This evening also comes to me to my closet at the Office +Sir John Chichly, of his own accord, to tell me what he shall answer to +the Committee, when, as he expects, he shall be examined about my Lord +Sandwich; which is so little as will not hurt my Lord at all, I know. He +do profess great generousness towards my Lord, and that this jealousy of +my Lord's of him is without ground, but do mightily inveigh against Sir +Roger Cuttance, and would never have my Lord to carry him to sea again, as +being a man that hath done my Lord more hurt than ever he can repair by +his ill advice, and disobliging every body. He will by no means seem to +crouch to my Lord, but says that he hath as good blood in his veins as any +man, though not so good a title, but that he will do nothing to wrong or +prejudice my Lord, and I hope he will not, nor I believe can; but he tells +me that Sir E. Spragg and Utber are the men that have done my Lord the +most wrong, and did bespatter him the most at Oxford, and that my Lord was +misled to believe that all that was there said was his, which indeed it +was not, and says that he did at that time complain to his father of this +his misfortune. This I confess is strange to me touching these two men, +but yet it may well enough as the world goes, though I wonder I confess at +the latter of the two, who always professes great love to my Lord. Sir +Roger Cuttance was with me in the morning, and there gives me an account +so clear about Bergen and the other business against my Lord, as I do not +see what can be laid to my Lord in either, and tells me that Pen, however +he now dissembles it, did on the quarter deck of my Lord's ship, after he +come on board, when my Lord did fire a gun for the ships to leave pursuing +the enemy, Pen did say, before a great many, several times, that his heart +did leap in his belly for joy when he heard the gun, and that it was the +best thing that could be done for securing the fleet. He tells me also +that Pen was the first that did move and persuade my Lord to the breaking +bulke, as a thing that was now the time to do right to the commanders of +the great ships, who had no opportunity of getting anything by prizes, now +his Lordship might distribute to everyone something, and he himself did +write down before my Lord the proportions for each man. This I am glad +of, though it may be this dissembling fellow may, twenty to one, deny it. + +27th. Up, and all the morning at my Lord Bruncker's lodgings with Sir J. +Minnes and [Sir] W. Pen about Sir W. Warren's accounts, wherein I do not +see that they are ever very likely to come to an understanding of them, as +Sir J. Minnes hath not yet handled them. Here till noon, and then home to +dinner, where Mr. Pierce comes to me, and there, in general, tells me how +the King is now fallen in and become a slave to the Duke of Buckingham, +led by none but him, whom he, Mr. Pierce, swears he knows do hate the very +person of the King, and would, as well as will, certainly ruin him. He do +say, and I think with right, that the King do in this do the most +ungrateful part of a master to a servant that ever was done, in this +carriage of his to my Lord Chancellor: that, it may be, the Chancellor may +have faults, but none such as these they speak of; that he do now really +fear that all is going to ruin, for he says he hears that Sir W. Coventry +hath been, just before his sickness, with the Duke of York, to ask his +forgiveness and peace for what he had done; for that he never could +foresee that what he meant so well, in the councilling to lay by the +Chancellor, should come to this. As soon as dined, I with my boy Tom to +my bookbinder's, where all the afternoon long till 8 or 9 at night seeing +him binding up two or three collections of letters and papers that I had +of him, but above all things my little abstract pocket book of contracts, +which he will do very neatly. Then home to read, sup, and to bed. + +28th. Up, and at the office all this morning, and then home to dinner, +and then by coach sent my wife to the King's playhouse, and I to White +Hall, there intending, with Lord Bruncker, Sir J. Minnes, and Sir T. Harvy +to have seen the Duke of York, whom it seems the King and Queen have +visited, and so we may now well go to see him. But there was nobody could +speak with him, and so we parted, leaving a note in Mr. Wren's chamber +that we had been there, he being at the free conference of the two Houses +about this great business of my Lord Chancellor's, at which they were at +this hour, three in the afternoon, and there they say my Lord Anglesey do +his part admirablyably, and each of us taking a copy of the Guinny +Company's defence to a petition against them to the Parliament the other +day. So I away to the King's playhouse, and there sat by my wife, and saw +"The Mistaken Beauty," which I never, I think, saw before, though an old +play; and there is much in it that I like, though the name is but improper +to it--at least, that name, it being also called "The Lyer," which is +proper enough. Here I met with Sir. Richard Browne, who wondered to find +me there, telling the that I am a man of so much business, which +character, I thank God, I have ever got, and have for a long time had and +deserved, and yet am now come to be censured in common with the office for +a man of negligence. Thence home and to the office to my letters, and +then home to supper and to bed. + +29th. Waked about seven o'clock this morning with a noise I supposed I +heard, near our chamber, of knocking, which, by and by, increased: and I, +more awake, could, distinguish it better. I then waked my wife, and both +of us wondered at it, and lay so a great while, while that increased, and +at last heard it plainer, knocking, as if it were breaking down a window +for people to get out; and then removing of stools and chairs; and +plainly, by and by, going up and down our stairs. We lay, both of us, +afeard; yet I would have rose, but my wife would not let me. Besides, I +could not do it without making noise; and we did both conclude that +thieves were in the house, but wondered what our people did, whom we +thought either killed, or afeard, as we were. Thus we lay till the clock +struck eight, and high day. At last, I removed my gown and slippers +safely to the other side of the bed over my wife: and there safely rose, +and put on my gown and breeches, and then, with a firebrand in my hand, +safely opened the door, and saw nor heard any thing. Then (with fear, I +confess) went to the maid's chamber-door, and all quiet and safe. Called +Jane up, and went down safely, and opened my chamber door, where all well. +Then more freely about, and to the kitchen, where the cook-maid up, and +all safe. So up again, and when Jane come, and we demanded whether she +heard no noise, she said, "yes, and was afeard," but rose with the other +maid, and found nothing; but heard a noise in the great stack of chimnies +that goes from Sir J. Minnes through our house; and so we sent, and their +chimnies have been swept this morning, and the noise was that, and nothing +else. It is one of the most extraordinary accidents in my life, and gives +ground to think of Don Quixote's adventures how people may be surprised, +and the more from an accident last night, that our young gibb-cat + + [A male cat. "Gib" is a contraction of the Christian name Gilbert + (Old French), "Tibert". + + "I am melancholy as a gib-cat" + + Shakespeare, I Henry IV, act i., sc. 3. + + Gib alone is also used, and a verb made from it--"to gib," or act + like a cat.] + +did leap down our stairs from top to bottom, at two leaps, and frighted +us, that we could not tell well whether it was the cat or a spirit, and do +sometimes think this morning that the house might be haunted. Glad to +have this so well over, and indeed really glad in my mind, for I was much +afeard, I dressed myself and to the office both forenoon and afternoon, +mighty hard putting papers and things in order to my extraordinary +satisfaction, and consulting my clerks in many things, who are infinite +helps to my memory and reasons of things, and so being weary, and my eyes +akeing, having overwrought them to-day reading so much shorthand, I home +and there to supper, it being late, and to bed. This morning Sir W. Pen +and I did walk together a good while, and he tells me that the Houses are +not likely to agree after their free conference yesterday, and he fears +what may follow. + +30th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and then by coach to +Arundel House, to the election of Officers for the next year; where I was +near being chosen of the Council, but am glad I was not, for I could not +have attended, though, above all things, I could wish it; and do take it +as a mighty respect to have been named there. The company great, and the +elections long, and then to Cary House, a house now of entertainment, next +my Lord Ashly's; and there, where I have heretofore heard Common Prayer in +the time of Dr. Mossum, we after two hours' stay, sitting at the table +with our napkins open, had our dinners brought, but badly done. But here +was good company. I choosing to sit next Dr. Wilkins, Sir George Ent, and +others whom I value, there talked of several things. Among others Dr. +Wilkins, talking of the universal speech, of which he hath a book coming +out, did first inform me how man was certainly made for society, he being +of all creatures the least armed for defence, and of all creatures in the +world the young ones are not able to do anything to help themselves, nor +can find the dug without being put to it, but would die if the mother did +not help it; and, he says, were it not for speech man would be a very mean +creature. Much of this good discourse we had. But here, above all, I was +pleased to see the person who had his blood taken out. He speaks well, +and did this day give the Society a relation thereof in Latin, saying that +he finds himself much better since, and as a new man, but he is cracked a +little in his head, though he speaks very reasonably, and very well. He +had but 20s. for his suffering it, and is to have the same again tried +upon him: the first sound man that ever had it tried on him in England, +and but one that we hear of in France, which was a porter hired by the +virtuosos. Here all the afternoon till within night. Then I took coach +and to the Exchange, where I was to meet my wife, but she was gone home, +and so I to Westminster Hall, and there took a turn or two, but meeting +with nobody to discourse with, returned to Cary House, and there stayed +and saw a pretty deception of the sight by a glass with water poured into +it, with a stick standing up with three balls of wax upon it, one distant +from the other. How these balls did seem double and disappear one after +another, mighty pretty! Here Mr. Carcasse did come to me, and brought +first Mr. Colwall, our Treasurer, and then Dr. Wilkins to engage me to be +his friend, and himself asking forgiveness and desiring my friendship, +saying that the Council have now ordered him to be free to return to the +Office to be employed. I promised him my friendship, and am glad of this +occasion, having desired it; for there is nobody's ill tongue that I fear +like his, being a malicious and cunning bold fellow. Thence, paying our +shot, 6s. apiece, I home, and there to the office and wrote my letters, +and then home, my eyes very sore with yesterday's work, and so home and +tried to make a piece by my eare and viall to "I wonder what the grave," +&c., and so to supper and to bed, where frighted a good while and my wife +again with noises, and my wife did rise twice, but I think it was Sir John +Minnes's people again late cleaning their house, for it was past I o'clock +in the morning before we could fall to sleep, and so slept. But I +perceive well what the care of money and treasure in a man's house is to a +man that fears to lose it. My Lord Anglesey told me this day that he did +believe the House of Commons would, the next week, yield to the Lords; +but, speaking with others this day, they conclude they will not, but that +rather the King will accommodate it by committing my Lord Clarendon +himself. I remember what Mr. Evelyn said, that he did believe we should +soon see ourselves fall into a Commonwealth again. Joseph Williamson I +find mighty kind still, but close, not daring to say anything almost that +touches upon news or state of affairs. + + + + + ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + + Anthem anything but instrumentall musique with the voice + Chief Court of judicature (House of Lords) + Confidence, and vanity, and disparages everything + Had the umbles of it for dinner + I am not a man able to go through trouble, as other men + Liberty of speech in the House + Nor offer anything, but just what is drawn out of a man + Through my wife's illness had a bad night of it, and she a worse + What I said would not hold water + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Diary of Samuel Pepys, November 1667 +by Samuel Pepys + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + +***** This file should be named 4182.txt or 4182.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/8/4182/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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Up betimes, and down to the waterside (calling and +drinking a dram of the bottle at Michell's, but saw not Betty), and +thence to White Hall and to Sir W. Coventry's lodging, where he and I +alone a good while, where he gives me the full of the Duke of Albemarle's +and Prince's narratives, given yesterday by the House, wherein they fall +foul of him and Sir G. Carteret in something about the dividing of the +fleete, and the Prince particularly charging the Commissioners of the +Navy with negligence, he says the Commissioners of the Navy whereof Sir +W. Coventry is one. He tells me that he is prepared to answer any +particular most thoroughly, but the quality of the persons do make it +difficult for him, and so I do see is in great pain, poor man, though he +deserves better than twenty such as either of them, for his abilities and +true service to the King and kingdom. He says there is incoherences, he +believes, to be found between their two reports, which will be pretty +work to consider. The Duke of Albemarle charges W. Coventry that he +should tell him, when he come down to the fleete with Sir G. Carteret, to +consult about dividing the fleete, that the Dutch would not be out in six +weeks, which W. Coventry says is as false as is possible, and he can +prove the contrary by the Duke of Albemarle's own letters. The Duke of +Albemarle says that he did upon sight of the Dutch call a council of +officers, and they did conclude they could not avoid fighting the Dutch; +and yet we did go to the enemy, and found them at anchor, which is a +pretty contradiction. And he tells me that Spragg did the other day say +in the House, that the Prince, at his going from the Duke of Albemarle +with his fleete, did tell him that if the Dutch should come on, the Duke +was to follow him, the Prince, with his fleete, and not fight the Dutch. +Out of all this a great deal of good might well be picked. But it is a +sad consideration that all this picking of holes in one another's coats-- +nay, and the thanks of the House to the Prince and the Duke of Albemarle, +and all this envy and design to ruin Sir W. Coventry--did arise from Sir +W. Coventry's unfortunate mistake the other day, in producing of a letter +from the Duke of Albemarle, touching the good condition of all things at +Chatham just before the Dutch come up, and did us that fatal mischiefe; +for upon this they are resolved to undo him, and I pray God they do not. +He tells me upon my demanding it that he thinks the King do not like this +their bringing these narratives, and that they give out that they would +have said more but that the King hath hindered them, that I suppose is +about my Lord Sandwich. He is getting a copy of the Narratives, which I +shall then have, and so I parted from him and away to White Hall, where I +met Mr. Creed and Yeabsly, and discoursed a little about Mr. Yeabsly's +business and accounts, and so I to chapel and there staid, it being All- +Hallows day, and heard a fine anthem, made by Pelham (who is come over) +in France, of which there was great expectation, and indeed is a very +good piece of musique, but still I cannot call the Anthem anything but +instrumentall musique with the voice, for nothing is made of the words at +all. I this morning before chapel visited Sir G. Carteret, who is vexed +to see how things are likely to go, but cannot help it, and yet seems to +think himself mighty safe. I also visited my Lord Hinchingbroke, at his +chamber at White Hall, where I found Mr. Turner, Moore, and Creed, +talking of my Lord Sandwich, whose case I doubt is but bad, and, I fear, +will not escape being worse, though some of the company did say +otherwise. But I am mightily pleased with my Lord Hinchingbroke's +sobriety and few words. After chapel I with Creed to the Exchange, and +after much talk he and I there about securing of some money either by +land or goods to be always at our command, which we think a thing +advisable in this critical time, we parted, and I to the Sun Taverne with +Sir W. Warren (with whom I have not drank many a day, having for some +time been strange to him), and there did put it to him to advise me how +to dispose of my prize, which he will think of and do to my best +advantage. We talked of several other things relating to his service, +wherein I promise assistance, but coldly, thinking it policy to do so, +and so, after eating a short dinner, I away home, and there took out my +wife, and she and I alone to the King's playhouse, and there saw a silly +play and an old one, "The Taming of a Shrew," and so home and I to my +office a little, and then home to supper and to bed. + + + +2nd. Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning; at noon home, +and after dinner my wife and Willett and I to the King's playhouse, and +there saw "Henry the Fourth:" and contrary to expectation, was pleased in +nothing more than in Cartwright's speaking of Falstaffe's speech about +"What is Honour?" The house full of Parliament-men, it being holyday +with them: and it was observable how a gentleman of good habit, sitting +just before us, eating of some fruit in the midst of the play, did drop +down as dead, being choked; but with much ado Orange Moll did thrust her +finger down his throat, and brought him to life again. After the play, +we home, and I busy at the office late, and then home to supper and to +bed. + + + +3rd (Lord's day). Up, and with my wife to church, and thither comes +Roger Pepys to our pew, and thence home to dinner, whither comes by +invitation Mr. Turner, the minister, and my cozen Roger brought with him +Jeffrys, the apothecary at Westminster, who is our kinsman, and we had +much discourse of Cottenhamshire, and other things with great pleasure. +My cozen Roger did tell me of a bargain which I may now have in Norfolke, +that my she-cozen, Nan Pepys, is going to sell, the title whereof is very +good, and the pennyworth is also good enough; but it is out of the way so +of my life, that I shall never enjoy it, nor, it may be, see it, and so I +shall have nothing to do with it. After dinner to talk, and I find by +discourse Mr. Turner to be a man mighty well read in the Roman history, +which is very pleasant. By and by Roger went, and Mr. Turner spent an +hour talking over my Lord Sandwich's condition as to this Parliament, +which we fear may be bad, and the condition of his family, which can be +no better, and then having little to comfort ourselves but that this +humour will not last always in the Parliament, and that [it] may well +have a great many more as great men as he enquired into, and so we +parted, and I to my chamber, and there busy all the evening, and then my +wife and I to supper, and so to bed, with much discourse and pleasure one +with another. + + + +4th. Up betimes, and by water with Sir R. Ford (who is going to +Parliament) to Westminster; and there landing at the New Exchange stairs, +I to Sir W. Coventry: and there he read over to me the Prince's and the +Duke of Albemarle's Narratives; wherein they are very severe against him +and our Office. But [Sir] W. Coventry do contemn them; only that their +persons and qualities are great, and so I do perceive [he] is afeard of +them, though he will not confess it. But he do say that, if he can get +out of these briars, he will never trouble himself with Princes nor Dukes +again. He finds several things in their Narratives, which are both +inconsistent and foolish, as well as untrue, especially as to what the +Duke of Albemarle avers of his knowing of the enemy's being abroad sooner +than he says it, which [Sir] W. Coventry will shew him his own letter +against him, for I confess I do see so much, that, were I but well +possessed of what I should have in the world, I think I could willingly +retreat, and trouble myself no more with it. Thence home, and there met +Sir H. Cholmly, and he and I to the Excise Office to see what tallies are +paying, and thence back to the Old Exchange, by the way talking of news, +and he owning Sir W. Coventry, in his opinion, to be one of the worthiest +men in the nation, as I do really think he is. He tells me he do think +really that they will cut off my Lord Chancellor's head, the Chancellor +at this day showing as much pride as is possible to those few that +venture their fortunes by coming to see him; and that the Duke of York is +troubled much, knowing that those that fling down the Chancellor cannot +stop there, but will do something to him, to prevent his having it in his +power hereafter to avenge himself and father-in-law upon them. And this +Sir H. Cholmly fears may be by divorcing the Queen and getting another, +or declaring the Duke of Monmouth legitimate; which God forbid! He tells +me he do verily believe that there will come in an impeachment of High +Treason against my Lord of Ormond; among other things, for ordering the +quartering of soldiers in Ireland on free quarters; which, it seems, is +High Treason in that country, and was one of the things that lost the +Lord Strafford his head, and the law is not yet repealed; which, he says, +was a mighty oversight of him not to have it repealed, which he might +with ease have done, or have justified himself by an Act. From the +Exchange I took a coach, and went to Turlington, the great spectacle- +maker, for advice, who dissuades me from using old spectacles, but rather +young ones, and do tell me that nothing can wrong my eyes more than for +me to use reading-glasses, which do magnify much. Thence home, and there +dined, and then abroad and left my wife and Willett at her tailor's, and +I to White Hall, where the Commissioners of the Treasury do not sit, and +therefore I to Westminster to the Hall, and there meeting with Col. +Reames I did very cheaply by him get copies of the Prince's and Duke of +Albemarle's Narratives, which they did deliver the other day to the +House, of which I am mighty glad, both for my present information and for +my future satisfaction. So back by coach, and took up my wife, and away +home, and there in my chamber all the evening among my papers and my +accounts of Tangier to my great satisfaction, and so to supper and to +bed. + + + +5th. Up, and all the morning at the office. At noon home to dinner, and +thence out with my wife and girle, and left them at her tailor's, and I +to the Treasury, and there did a little business for Tangier, and so took +them up again, and home, and when I had done at the office, being post +night, I to my chamber, and there did something more, and so to supper +and to bed. + + + +6th. Up, and to Westminster, where to the Parliament door, and there +spoke with Sir G. Downing, to see what was done yesterday at the Treasury +for Tangier, and it proved as good as nothing, so that I do see we shall +be brought to great straits for money there. He tells me here that he is +passing a Bill to make the Excise and every other part of the King's +Revenue assignable on the Exchequer, which indeed will be a very good +thing. This he says with great glee as an act of his, and how poor a +thing this was in the beginning, and with what envy he carried it on, and +how my Lord Chancellor could never endure him for it since he first begun +it. He tells me that the thing the House is just now upon is that of +taking away the charter from the Company of Woodmongers, whose frauds, it +seems, have been mightily laid before them. He tells me that they are +like to fly very high against my Lord Chancellor. Thence I to the House +of Lords, and there first saw Dr. Fuller, as Bishop of Lincoln, to sit +among the Lords. Here I spoke with the Duke of York and the Duke of +Albemarle about Tangier; but methinks both of them do look very coldly +one upon another, and their discourse mighty cold, and little to the +purpose about our want of money. Thence homeward, and called at +Allestry's, the bookseller, who is bookseller to the Royal Society, and +there did buy three or four books, and find great variety of French and +foreign books. And so home and to dinner, and after dinner with my wife +to a play, and the girl--"Macbeth," which we still like mightily, though +mighty short of the content we used to have when Betterton acted, who is +still sick. So home, troubled with the way and to get a coach, and so to +supper and to bed. This day, in the Paynted-chamber, I met and walked +with Mr. George Montagu, who thinks it may go hard with my Lord Sandwich, +but he says the House is offended with Sir W. Coventry much, and that he +do endeavour to gain them again in the most precarious manner in all +things that is possible. + + + +7th. Up, and at the office hard all the morning, and at noon resolved +with Sir W. Pen to go see "The Tempest," an old play of Shakespeare's, +acted, I hear, the first day; and so my wife, and girl, and W. Hewer by +themselves, and Sir W. Pen and I afterwards by ourselves; and forced to +sit in the side balcone over against the musique-room at the Duke's +house, close by my Lady Dorset and a great many great ones. The house +mighty full; the King and Court there and the most innocent play that +ever I saw; and a curious piece of musique in an echo of half sentences, +the echo repeating the former half, while the man goes on to the latter; +which is mighty pretty. The play [has] no great wit, but yet good, above +ordinary plays. Thence home with [Sir] W. Pen, and there all mightily +pleased with the play; and so to supper and to bed, after having done at +the office. + + + +8th. Called up betimes by Sir H. Cholmly, and he and I to good purpose +most of the morning--I in my dressing-gown with him, on our Tangier +accounts, and stated them well; and here he tells me that he believes it +will go hard with my Lord Chancellor. Thence I to the office, where met +on some special, business; and here I hear that the Duke of York is very +ill; and by and by word brought us that we shall not need to attend +to-day the Duke of York, for he is not well, which is bad news. They +being gone, I to my workmen, who this day come to alter my office, by +beating down the wall, and making me a fayre window both there, and +increasing the window of my closet, which do give me some present +trouble; but will be mighty pleasant. So all the whole day among them to +very late, and so home weary, to supper, and to bed, troubled for the +Duke of York his being sick. + + + +9th. Up and to my workmen, who are at work close again, and I at the +office all the morning, and there do hear by a messenger that Roger Pepys +would speak with me, so before the office up I to Westminster, and there +find the House very busy, and like to be so all day, about my Lord +Chancellor's impeachment, whether treason or not, where every body is +mighty busy. I spoke with my cozen Roger, whose business was only to +give me notice that Carcasse hath been before the Committee; and to warn +me of it, which is a great courtesy in him to do, and I desire him to +continue to do so. This business of this fellow, though it may be a +foolish thing, yet it troubles me, and I do plainly see my weakness that +I am not a man able to go through trouble, as other men, but that I +should be a miserable man if I should meet with adversity, which God keep +me from! He desirous to get back into the House, he having his notes in +his hand, the lawyers being now speaking to the point of whether treason +or not treason, the article of advising the King to break up the +Parliament, and to govern by the sword. Thence I down to the Hall, and +there met Mr. King, the Parliament-man for Harwich, and there he did +shew, and let me take a copy of, all the articles against my Lord +Chancellor, and what members they were that undertook to bring witnesses +to make them good, of which I was mighty glad, and so away home, and to +dinner and to my workmen, and in the afternoon out to get Simpson the +joyner to come to work at my office, and so back home and to my letters +by the post to-night, and there, by W. Pen, do hear that this article was +overvoted in the House not to be a ground of impeachment of treason, at +which I was glad, being willing to have no blood spilt, if I could help +it. So home to supper, and glad that the dirty bricklayers' work of my +office is done, and home to supper and to bed. + + + +10th (Lord's day). Mighty cold, and with my wife to church, where a lazy +sermon. Here was my Lady Batten in her mourning at church, but I took no +notice of her. At noon comes Michell and his wife to dine with us, and +pretty merry. I glad to see her still. After dinner Sir W. Pen and I to +White Hall, to speak with Sir W. Coventry; and there, beyond all we +looked for, do hear that the Duke of York hath got, and is full of, the +small-pox; and so we to his lodgings; and there find most of the family +going to St. James's, and the gallery doors locked up, that nobody might +pass to nor fro and a sad house, I am sure. I am sad to consider the +effects of his death, if he should miscarry; but Dr. Frazier tells me +that he is in as good condition as a man can be in his case. The +eruption appeared last night; it seems he was let blood on Friday. +Thence, not finding [Sir] W. Coventry, and going back again home, we met +him coming with the Lord Keeper, and so returned and spoke with him in +White Hall Garden, two or three turns, advising with him what we should +do about Carcasse's bringing his letter into the Committee of Parliament, +and he told us that the counsel he hath too late learned is, to spring +nothing in the House, nor offer anything, but just what is drawn out of a +man: that this is the best way of dealing with a Parliament, and that he +hath paid dear, and knows not how much more he may pay, for not knowing +it sooner, when he did unnecessarily produce the Duke of Albemarle's +letter about Chatham, which if demanded would have come out with all the +advantages in the world to Sir W. Coventry, but, as he brought it out +himself, hath drawn much evil upon him. After some talk of this kind, +we back home, and there I to my chamber busy all the evening, and then +to supper and to bed, my head running all night upon our businesses in +Parliament and what examinations we are likely to go under before they +have done with us, which troubles me more than it should a wise man and a +man the best able to defend himself, I believe, of our own whole office, +or any other, I am apt to think. + + + +11th. Up, and to Simpson at work in my office, and thence with Sir G. +Carteret (who come to talk with me) to Broad Streete, where great +crowding of people for money, at which he blamed himself. Thence with +him and Lord Bruncker to Captain Cocke's (he out of doors), and there +drank their morning draught, and thence [Sir] G. Carteret and I toward +the Temple in coach together; and there he did tell me how the King do +all he can in the world to overthrow my Lord Chancellor, and that notice +is taken of every man about the King that is not seen to promote the +ruine of the Chancellor; and that this being another great day in his +business, he dares not but be there. He tells me that as soon as +Secretary Morrice brought the Great Seale from my Lord Chancellor, Bab. +May fell upon his knees, and catched the King about the legs, and joyed +him, and said that this was the first time that ever he could call him +King of England, being freed from this great man: which was a most +ridiculous saying. And he told me that, when first my Lord Gerard, a +great while ago, come to the King, and told him that the Chancellor did +say openly that the King was a lazy person and not fit to govern, which +is now made one of the things in the people's mouths against the +Chancellor, "Why," says the King, "that is no news, for he hath told me +so twenty times, and but the other day he told me so;" and made matter of +mirth at it: but yet this light discourse is likely to prove bad to him. +I 'light at the Temple, and went to my tailor's and mercer's about a +cloake, to choose the stuff, and so to my bookseller's and bought some +books, and so home to dinner, and Simpson my joyner with me, and after +dinner, my wife, and I, and Willett, to the King's play-house, and there +saw "The Indian Emperour," a good play, but not so good as people cry it +up, I think, though above all things Nell's ill speaking of a great part +made me mad. Thence with great trouble and charge getting a coach (it +being now and having been all this day a most cold and foggy, dark, thick +day), we home, and there I to my office, and saw it made clean from top +to bottom, till I feared I took cold in walking in a damp room while it +is in washing, and so home to supper and to bed. This day I had a whole +doe sent me by Mr. Hozier, which is a fine present, and I had the umbles +of it for dinner. This day I hear Kirton, my bookseller, poor man, is +dead, I believe, of grief for his losses by the fire. + + + +12th. Up, and to the Office, where sat all the morning; and there hear +the Duke of York do yet do very well with his smallpox: pray God he may +continue to do so! This morning also, to my astonishment, I hear that +yesterday my Lord Chancellor, to another of his Articles, that of +betraying the King's councils to his enemies, is voted to have matter +against him for an impeachment of High Treason, and that this day the +impeachment is to be carried up to the House of Lords which is very high, +and I am troubled at it; for God knows what will follow, since they that +do this must do more to secure themselves against any that will revenge +this, if it ever come in their power! At noon home to dinner, and then +to my office, and there saw every thing finished, so as my papers are all +in order again and my office twice as pleasant as ever it was, having a +noble window in my closet and another in my office, to my great content, +and so did business late, and then home to supper and to bed. + + + +13th. Up, and down to the Old Swan, and so to Westminster; where I find +the House sitting, and in a mighty heat about Commissioner Pett, that +they would have him impeached, though the Committee have yet brought in +but part of their Report: and this heat of the House is much heightened +by Sir Thomas Clifford telling them, that he was the man that did, out of +his own purse, employ people at the out-ports to prevent the King of +Scots to escape after the battle of Worcester. The House was in a great +heat all this day about it; and at last it was carried, however, that it +should be referred back to the Committee to make further enquiry. I here +spoke with Roger Pepys, who sent for me, and it was to tell me that the +Committee is mighty full of the business of buying and selling of +tickets, and to caution me against such an enquiry (wherein I am very +safe), and that they have already found out Sir Richard Ford's son to +have had a hand in it, which they take to be the same as if the father +had done it, and I do believe the father may be as likely to be concerned +in it as his son. But I perceive by him they are resolved to find out +the bottom of the business if it be possible. By and by I met with Mr. +Wren, who tells me that the Duke of York is in as good condition as is +possible for a man, in his condition of the smallpox. He, I perceive, is +mightily concerned in the business of my Lord Chancellor, the impeachment +against whom is gone up to the House of Lords; and great differences +there are in the Lords' House about it, and the Lords are very high one +against another. Thence home to dinner, and as soon as dinner done I and +my wife and Willet to the Duke of York's, house, and there saw the +Tempest again, which is very pleasant, and full of so good variety that I +cannot be more pleased almost in a comedy, only the seamen's part a +little too tedious. Thence home, and there to my chamber, and do begin +anew to bind myself to keep my old vows, and among the rest not to see a +play till Christmas but once in every other week, and have laid aside +L10, which is to be lost to the poor, if I do. This I hope in God will +bind me, for I do find myself mightily wronged in my reputation, and +indeed in my purse and business, by my late following of my pleasure for +so long time as I have done. So to supper and then to bed. This day Mr. +Chichly told me, with a seeming trouble, that the House have stopped his +son Jack (Sir John) his going to France, that he may be a witness against +my Lord Sandwich: which do trouble me, though he can, I think, say +little. + + + +14th. At the office close all the morning. At noon, all my clerks with +me to dinner, to a venison pasty; and there comes Creed, and dined with +me, and he tells me how high the Lords were in the Lords' House about the +business of the Chancellor, and that they are not yet agreed to impeach +him. After dinner, he and I, and my wife and girl, the latter two to +their tailor's, and he and I to the Committee of the Treasury, where I +had a hearing, but can get but L6000 for the pay of the garrison, in lieu +of above L16,000; and this Alderman Backewell gets remitted there, and I +am glad of it. Thence by coach took up my wife and girl, and so home, +and set down Creed at Arundell House, going to the Royal Society, whither +I would be glad to go, but cannot. Thence home, and to the Office, where +about my letters, and so home to supper, and to bed, my eyes being bad +again; and by this means, the nights, now-a-days, do become very long to +me, longer than I can sleep out. + + + +15th. Up, and to Alderman Backewell's + + [Edward Backwell, goldsmith and alderman of the City of London. He + was a man of considerable wealth during the Commonwealth. After the + Restoration he negotiated Charles II.'s principal money + transactions. He was M.P. for Wendover in the parliament of 1679, + and in the Oxford parliament of 1680. According to the writer of + the life in the "Diet. of Nat. Biog. "his heirs did not ultimately + suffer any pecuniary loss by the closure of the Exchequer. Mr. + Hilton Price stated that Backwell removed to Holland in 1676, and + died therein 1679; but this is disproved by the pedigree in + Lipscomb's "Hist. of Bucks," where the date of his death is given + as 1683, as well as by the fact that he sat for Wendover in 1679 and + 1680, as stated above.] + +and there discoursed with him about the remitting of this L6000 to +Tangier, which he hath promised to do by the first post, and that will be +by Monday next, the 18th, and he and I agreed that I would take notice of +it that so he may be found to have done his best upon the desire of the +Lords Commissioners. From this we went to discourse of his condition, +and he with some vain glory told me that the business of Sheernesse did +make him quite mad, and indeed might well have undone him; but yet that +he did the very next day pay here and got bills to answer his promise to +the King for the Swedes Embassadors (who were then doing our business at +the treaty at Breda) L7000, and did promise the Bankers there, that if +they would draw upon him all that he had of theirs and L10,000 more, he +would answer it. He told me that Serjeant Maynard come to him for a sum +of money that he had in his hands of his, and so did many others, and his +answer was, What countrymen are you? And when they told him, why then, +says he, here is a tally upon the Receiver of your country for so [much], +and to yours for so much, and did offer to lay by tallies to the full +value of all that he owed in the world, and L40,000 more for the security +thereof, and not to touch a penny of his own till the full of what he +owed was paid, which so pleased every body that he hath mastered all, so +that he hath lent the Commissioners of the Treasury above L40,000 in +money since that business, and did this morning offer to a lady who come +to give him notice that she should need her money L3000, in twenty days, +he bid her if she pleased send for it to-day and she should have it. +Which is a very great thing, and will make them greater than ever they +were, I am apt to think, in some time. Thence to Westminster, and there +I walked with several, and do hear that there is to be a conference +between the two Houses today; so I stayed: and it was only to tell the +Commons that the Lords cannot agree to the confining or sequestring of +the Earle of Clarendon from the Parliament, forasmuch as they do not +specify any particular crime which they lay upon him and call Treason. +This the House did receive, and so parted: at which, I hear, the Commons +are like to grow very high, and will insist upon their privileges, and +the Lords will own theirs, though the Duke of Buckingham, Bristoll, and +others, have been very high in the House of Lords to have had him +committed. This is likely to breed ill blood. Thence I away home, +calling at my mercer's and tailor's, and there find, as I expected, Mr. +Caesar and little Pelham Humphreys, lately returned from France, and is +an absolute Monsieur, as full of form, and confidence, and vanity, and +disparages everything, and everybody's skill but his own. The truth is, +every body says he is very able, but to hear how he laughs at all the +King's musick here, as Blagrave and others, that they cannot keep time +nor tune, nor understand anything; and that Grebus, the Frenchman, the +King's master of the musick, how he understands nothing, nor can play on +any instrument, and so cannot compose: and that he will give him a lift +out of his place; and that he and the King are mighty great! and that he +hath already spoke to the King of Grebus would make a man piss. I had a +good dinner for them, as a venison pasty and some fowl, and after dinner +we did play, he on the theorbo. Mr. Caesar on his French lute, and I on +the viol, but made but mean musique, nor do I see that this Frenchman do +so much wonders on the theorbo, but without question he is a good +musician, but his vanity do offend me. They gone, towards night, I to +the office awhile, and then home and to my chamber, where busy till by +and by comes Mr. Moore, and he staid and supped and talked with me about +many things, and tells me his great fear that all things will go to ruin +among us, for that the King hath, as he says Sir Thomas Crew told him, +been heard to say that the quarrel is not between my Lord Chancellor and +him, but his brother and him; which will make sad work among us if that +be once promoted, as to be sure it will, Buckingham and Bristoll being +now the only counsel the King follows, so as Arlington and Coventry are +come to signify little. He tells me they are likely to fall upon my Lord +Sandwich; but, for my part, sometimes I am apt to think they cannot do +him much harm, he telling me that there is no great fear of the business +of Resumption! By and by, I got him to read part of my Lord Cooke's +chapter of treason, which is mighty well worth reading, and do inform me +in many things, and for aught I see it is useful now to know what these +crimes are. And then to supper, and after supper he went away, and so I +got the girl to comb my head, and then to bed, my eyes bad. This day, +Poundy, the waterman, was with me, to let me know that he was summonsed +to bear witness against me to Prince Rupert's people (who have a +commission to look after the business of prize-goods) about the business +of the prize-goods I was concerned in: but I did desire him to speak all +he knew, and not to spare me, nor did promise nor give him any thing, but +sent him away with good words, to bid him say all he knew to be true. +This do not trouble me much. + + + +16th. At the office all the morning, and at noon took my Lord Bruncker +into the garden, and there told him of his man Carcasses proceedings +against the Office in the House of Commons. I did [not] desire nor +advise him anything, but in general, that the end of this might be ruin +to the Office, but that we shall be brought to fencing for ourselves, and +that will be no profit to the office, but let it light where it would I +thought I should be as well as any body. This I told him, and so he +seeming to be ignorant of it, and not pleased with it, we broke off by +Sir Thos. Harvy's coming to us from the Pay Office, whither we had sent a +smart letter we had writ to him this morning about keeping the clerks at +work at the making up the books, which I did to place the fault +somewhere, and now I let him defend himself. He was mighty angry, and +particularly with me, but I do not care, but do rather desire it, for I +will not spare him, that we shall bear the blame, and such an idle fellow +as he have L500 a year for nothing. So we broke off, and I home to +dinner, and then to the office, and having spent the afternoon on +letters, I took coach in the evening, and to White Hall, where there is +to be a performance of musique of Pelham's before the King. The company +not come; but I did go into the musique-room, where Captain Cocke and +many others; and here I did hear the best and the smallest organ go that +ever I saw in my life, and such a one as, by the grace of God, I will +have the next year, if I continue in this condition, whatever it cost me. +I never was so pleased in my life. Thence, it being too soon, I to +Westminster Hall, it being now about 7 at night, and there met Mr. +Gregory, my old acquaintance, an understanding gentleman; and he and I +walked an hour together, talking of the bad prospect of the times; and +the sum of what I learn from him is this: That the King is the most +concerned in the world against the Chancellor, and all people that do not +appear against him, and therefore is angry with the Bishops, having said +that he had one Bishop on his side (Crofts ), and but one: that +Buckingham and Bristoll are now his only Cabinet Council; + + [The term Cabinet Council, as stated by Clarendon, originated thus, + in 1640: "The bulk and burden of the state affairs lay principally + upon the shoulders of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Earl of + Strafford, and the Lord Cottington; some others being joined to + them, as the Earl of Northumberland for ornament, the Bishop of + London for his place, the two Secretaries, Sir H. Vane and Sir + Francis Windebank, for service and communication of intelligence: + only the Marquis of Hamilton, indeed, by his skill and interest, + bore as great a part as be had a mind to do, and had the skill to + meddle no further than he had a mind. These persons made up the + committee of state, which was reproachfully after called the junto, + and enviously then in the Court the Cabinet Council" ("History of + the Rebellion," vol. i., p. 211, edit. 1849).] + +and that, before the Duke of York fell sick, Buckingham was admitted to +the King of his Cabinet, and there stayed with him several hours, and the +Duke of York shut out. That it is plain that there is dislike between +the King and Duke of York, and that it is to be feared that the House +will go so far against the Chancellor, that they must do something to +undo the Duke of York, or will not think themselves safe. That this Lord +Vaughan, that is so great against the Chancellor, is one of the lewdest +fellows of the age, worse than Sir Charles Sidly; and that he was heard +to swear, God damn him, he would do my Lord Clarendon's business. That +he do find that my Lord Clarendon hath more friends in both Houses than +he believes he would have, by reason that they do see what are the hands +that pull him down; which they do not like. That Harry Coventry was +scolded at by the King severely the other day; and that his answer was +that, if he must not speak what he thought in this business in +Parliament, he must not come thither. And he says that by this very +business Harry Coventry hath got more fame and common esteem than any +gentleman in England hath at this day, and is an excellent and able +person. That the King, who not long ago did say of Bristoll, that he was +a man able in three years to get himself a fortune in any kingdom in the +world, and lose all again in three months, do now hug him, and commend +his parts every where, above all the world. How fickle is this man [the +King], and how unhappy we like to be! That he fears some furious courses +will be taken against the Duke of York; and that he hath heard that it +was designed, if they cannot carry matters against the Chancellor, to +impeach the Duke of York himself, which God forbid! That Sir Edward +Nicholas, whom he served while Secretary, is one of the best men in the +world, but hated by the Queen-Mother, for a service he did the old King +against her mind and her favourites; and that she and my Lady Castlemayne +did make the King to lay him aside: but this man says that he is one of +the most perfect heavenly and charitable men in the whole world. That +the House of Commons resolve to stand by their proceedings, and have +chosen a Committee to draw up the reasons thereof to carry to the Lords; +which is likely to breed great heat between them. That the Parliament, +after all this, is likely to give the King no money; and, therefore, +that it is to be wondered what makes the King give way to so great +extravagancies, which do all tend to the making him less than he is, +and so will, every day more and more: and by this means every creature is +divided against the other, that there never was so great an uncertainty +in England, of what would, be the event of things, as at this day; nobody +being at ease, or safe. Being full of his discourse, and glad of the +rencontre, I to White Hall; and there got into the theater-room, and +there heard both the vocall and instrumentall musick, where the little +fellow' stood keeping time; but for my part, I see no great matter, but +quite the contrary in both sorts of musique. The composition I believe +is very good, but no more of delightfulness to the eare or understanding +but what is very ordinary. Here was the King and Queen, and some of the +ladies; among whom none more jolly than my Lady Buckingham, her Lord +being once more a great man. Thence by coach home and to my office, +ended my letters, and then home to supper, and, my eyes being bad, to +bed. + + + +17th (Lord's day). Up, and to church with my wife. A dull sermon of Mr. +Mills, and then home, without strangers to dinner, and then my wife to +read, and I to the office, enter my journall to this day, and so home +with great content that it is done, but with sorrow to my eyes. Then +home, and got my wife to read to me out of Fuller's Church History, when +by and by comes Captain Cocke, who sat with me all the evening, talking, +and I find by him, as by all others, that we are like to expect great +confusions, and most of our discourse was the same, and did agree with +that the last night, particularly that about the difference between the +King and the Duke of York which is like to be. He tells me that he hears +that Sir W. Coventry was, a little before the Duke of York fell sick, +with the Duke of York in his closet, and fell on his knees, and begged +his pardon for what he hath done to my Lord Chancellor; but this I dare +not soon believe. But he tells me another thing, which he says he had +from the person himself who spoke with the Duke of Buckingham, who, he +says, is a very sober and worthy man, that he did lately speak with the +Duke of Buckingham about his greatness now with the King, and told him- +"But, sir, these things that the King do now, in suffering the Parliament +to do all this, you know are not fit for the King to suffer, and you know +how often you have said to me that the King was a weak man, and unable to +govern, but to be governed, and that you could command him as you listed; +why do you suffer him to go on in these things?"--"Why," says the Duke of +Buckingham, "I do suffer him to do this, that I may hereafter the better +command him." This he swears to me the person himself to whom the Duke +of Buckingham said this did tell it him, and is a man of worth, +understanding, and credit. He told me one odd passage by the Duke of +Albemarle, speaking how hasty a man he is, and how for certain he would +have killed Sir W. Coventry, had he met him in a little time after his +shewing his letter in the House. He told me that a certain lady, whom he +knows, did tell him that, she being certainly informed that some of the +Duke of Albemarle's family did say that the Earl of Torrington was a +bastard, [she] did think herself concerned to tell the Duke of Albemarle +of it, and did first tell the Duchesse, and was going to tell the old +man, when the Duchesse pulled her back by the sleeve, and hindered her, +swearing to her that if he should hear it, he would certainly kill the +servant that should be found to have said it, and therefore prayed her to +hold her peace. One thing more he told me, which is, that Garraway is +come to town, and is thinking how to bring the House to mind the public +state of the nation and to put off these particular piques against man +and man, and that he propounding this to Sir W. Coventry, Sir W. Coventry +did give no encouragement to it: which he says is that by their running +after other men he may escape. But I do believe this is not true +neither. But however I am glad that Garraway is here, and that he do +begin to think of the public condition in reference to our neighbours +that we are in, and in reference to ourselves, whereof I am mightily +afeard of trouble. So to supper, and he gone and we to bed. + + + +18th. Up, and all the morning at my office till 3 after noon with Mr. +Hater about perfecting my little pocket market book of the office, till +my eyes were ready to fall out of my head, and then home to dinner, glad +that I had done so much, and so abroad to White Hall, to the +Commissioners of the Treasury, and there did a little business with them, +and so home, leaving multitudes of solicitors at their door, of one sort +or other, complaining for want of such despatch as they had in my Lord +Treasurer's time, when I believe more business was despatched, but it was +in his manner to the King's wrong. Among others here was Gresham College +coming about getting a grant of Chelsey College for their Society, which +the King, it seems, hath given them his right in; but they met with some +other pretences, I think; to it, besides the King's. Thence took up my +wife, whom I had left at her tailor's, and home, and there, to save my +eyes, got my wife at home to read again, as last night, in the same book, +till W. Batelier come and spent the evening talking with us, and supped +with us, and so to bed. + + + +19th. To the office, and thence before noon I, by the Board's direction, +to the Parliament House to speak with Sir R. Brookes about the meaning of +an order come to us this day to bring all the books of the office to the +Committee. I find by him that it is only about the business of an order +of ours for paying off the ships by ticket, which they think I on behalf +of my Lord Bruncker do suppress, which vexes me, and more at its +occasioning the bringing them our books. So home and to dinner, where +Mr. Shepley with me, newly come out of the country, but I was at little +liberty to talk to him, but after dinner with two contracts to the +Committee, with Lord Bruncker and Sir T. Harvy, and there did deliver +them, and promised at their command more, but much against my will. And +here Sir R. Brookes did take me alone, and pray me to prevent their +trouble, by discovering the order he would have. I told him I would +suppress none, nor could, but this did not satisfy him, and so we parted, +I vexed that I should bring on myself this suspicion. Here I did stand +by unseen, and did hear their impertinent yet malicious examinations of +some rogues about the business of Bergen, wherein they would wind in +something against my Lord Sandwich (it was plain by their manner of +examining, as Sir Thomas Crew did afterwards observe to me, who was +there), but all amounted to little I think. But here Sir Thomas Crew and +W. Hewer, who was there also, did tell me that they did hear Captain +Downing give a cruel testimony against my Lord Bruncker, for his neglect, +and doing nothing, in the time of straits at Chatham, when he was spoke +to, and did tell the Committee that he, Downing, did presently after, in +Lord Bruncker's hearing, tell the Duke of Albemarle, that if he might +advise the King, he should hang both my Lord Bruncker and Pett. This is +very hard. Thence with W. Hewer and our messenger, Marlow, home by +coach, and so late at letters, and then home to supper, and my wife to +read and then to bed. This night I wrote to my father, in answer to a +new match which is proposed (the executor of Ensum, my sister's former +servant) for my sister, that I will continue my mind of giving her L500, +if he likes of the match. My father did also this week, by Shepley, +return me up a 'guinny, which, it seems, upon searching the ground, they +have found since I was there. I was told this day that Lory Hide, + + [Laurence Hyde, second son of Lord Chancellor Clarendon (1614-1711). + He held many important offices, and was First Lord of the Treasury, + 1679-84; created Earl of Rochester in 1681, and K.G. 1685.] + +second son of my Lord Chancellor, did some time since in the House say, +that if he thought his father was guilty but of one of the things then +said against him, he would be the first that should call for judgement +against him: which Mr. Waller, the poet, did say was spoke like the old +Roman, like Brutus, for its greatness and worthiness. + + + +20th. Up, and all the morning at my office shut up with Mr. Gibson, I +walking and he reading to me the order books of the office from the +beginning of the war, for preventing the Parliament's having them in +their hands before I have looked them over and seen the utmost that can +be said against us from any of our orders, and to my great content all +the morning I find none. So at noon home to dinner with my clerks, who +have of late dined frequently with me, and I do purpose to have them so +still, by that means I having opportunity to talk with them about +business, and I love their company very well. All the morning Mr. Hater +and the boy did shut up themselves at my house doing something towards +the finishing the abstract book of our contracts for my pocket, which I +shall now want very much. After dinner I stayed at home all the +afternoon, and Gibson with me; he and I shut up till about ten at night. +We went through all our orders, and towards the end I do meet with two or +three orders for our discharging of two or three little vessels by ticket +without money, which do plunge me; but, however, I have the advantage by +this means to study an answer and to prepare a defence, at least for +myself. So he gone I to supper, my mind busy thinking after our defence +in this matter, but with vexation to think that a thing of this kind, +which in itself brings nothing but trouble and shame to us, should happen +before all others to become a charge against us. This afternoon Mr. +Mills come and visited me, and stayed a little with me (my wife being to +be godmother to his child to-morrow), and among other talk he told me how +fully satisfactory my first Report was to the House in the business of +Chatham: which I am glad to hear; and the more, for that I know that he +is a great creature of Sir R. Brookes's. + + + +21st. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon home, +where my wife not very well, but is to go to Mr. Mills's child's +christening, where she is godmother, Sir J. Minnes and Sir R. Brookes her +companions. I left her after dinner (my clerks dining with me) to go +with Sir J. Minnes, and I to the office, where did much business till +after candlelight, and then my eyes beginning to fail me, I out and took +coach to Arundell House, where the meeting of Gresham College was broke +up; but there meeting Creed, I with him to the taverne in St. Clement's +Churchyard, where was Deane Wilkins, Dr. Whistler, Dr. Floyd, a divine +admitted, I perceive, this day, and other brave men; and there, among +other things of news, I do hear, that upon the reading of the House of +Commons's Reasons of the manner of their proceedings in the business of +my Lord Chancellor, the Reasons were so bad, that my Lord Bristoll +himself did declare that he would not stand to what he had, and did +still, advise the Lords to concur to, upon any of the Reasons of the +House of Commons; but if it was put to the question whether it should be +done on their Reasons, he would be against them; and indeed it seems the +Reasons--however they come to escape the House of Commons, which shews +how slightly the greatest matters are done in this world, and even in +Parliaments were none of them of strength, but the principle of them +untrue; they saying, that where any man is brought before a judge, +accused of Treason in general, without specifying the particular, the +judge do there constantly and is obliged to commit him. Whereas the +question being put by the Lords to my Lord Keeper, he said that quite the +contrary was true: and then, in the Sixth Article (I will get a copy of +them if I can) there are two or three things strangely asserted to the +diminishing of the King's power, as is said, at least things that +heretofore would not have been heard of. But then the question being put +among the Lords, as my Lord Bristoll advised, whether, upon the whole +matter and Reasons that had been laid before them, they would commit my +Lord Clarendon, it was carried five to one against it; there being but +three Bishops against him, of whom Cosens and Dr. Reynolds were two, and +I know not the third. This made the opposite Lords, as Bristoll and +Buckingham, so mad, that they declared and protested against it, speaking +very broad that there was mutiny and rebellion in the hearts of the +Lords, and that they desired they might enter their dissents, which they +did do, in great fury. So that upon the Lords sending to the Commons, as +I am told, to have a conference for them to give their answer to the +Commons's Reasons, the Commons did desire a free conference: but the +Lords do deny it; and the reason is, that they hold not the Commons any +Court, but that themselves only are a Court, and the Chief Court of +judicature, and therefore are not to dispute the laws and method of their +own Court with them that are none, and so will not submit so much as to +have their power disputed. And it is conceived that much of this +eagerness among the Lords do arise from the fear some of them have, that +they may be dealt with in the same manner themselves, and therefore do +stand upon it now. It seems my Lord Clarendon hath, as is said and +believed, had his horses several times in his coach, ready to carry him +to the Tower, expecting a message to that purpose; but by this means his +case is like to be laid by. From this we fell to other discourse, and +very good; among the rest they discourse of a man that is a little +frantic, that hath been a kind of minister, Dr. Wilkins saying that he +hath read for him in his church, that is poor and a debauched man, that +the College' have hired for 20s. to have some of the blood of a sheep let +into his body; and it is to be done on Saturday next. + + [This was Arthur Coga, who had studied at Cambridge, and was said to + be a bachelor of divinity. He was indigent, and "looked upon as a + very freakish and extravagant man." Dr. King, in a letter to the + Hon. Robert Boyle, remarks "that Mr. Coga was about thirty-two + years of age; that he spoke Latin well, when he was in company, + which he liked, but that his brain was sometimes a little too warm." + The experiment was performed on November 23rd, 1667, by Dr. King, at + Arundel House, in the presence of many spectators of quality, and + four or five physicians. Coga wrote a description of his own case + in Latin, and when asked why he had not the blood of some other + creature, instead of that of a sheep, transfused into him, answered, + "Sanguis ovis symbolicam quandam facultatem habet cum sanguine + Christi, quia Christus est agnus Dei" (Birch's "History of the Royal + Society," vol. ii., pp. 214-16). Coga was the first person in + England to be experimented upon; previous experiments were made by + the transfusion of the blood of one dog into another. See November + 14th, 1666 (vol. vi., p. 64).] + +They purpose to let in about twelve ounces; which, they compute, is what +will be let in in a minute's time by a watch. They differ in the opinion +they have of the effects of it; some think it may have a good effect upon +him as a frantic man by cooling his blood, others that it will not have +any effect at all. But the man is a healthy man, and by this means will +be able to give an account what alteration, if any, he do find in +himself, and so may be usefull. On this occasion, Dr. Whistler told a +pretty story related by Muffet, a good author, of Dr. Caius, that built +Keys College; that, being very old, and living only at that time upon +woman's milk, he, while he fed upon the milk of an angry, fretful woman, +was so himself; and then, being advised to take it of a good-natured, +patient woman, he did become so, beyond the common temper of his age. +Thus much nutriment, they observed, might do. Their discourse was very +fine; and if I should be put out of my office, I do take great content in +the liberty I shall be at of frequenting these gentlemen's company. +Broke up thence and home, and there to my wife in her chamber, who is not +well (of those), and there she tells me great stories of the gossiping +women of the parish--what this, and what that woman was; and, among the +rest, how Mrs. Hollworthy is the veriest confident bragging gossip of +them all, which I should not have believed; but that Sir R. Brookes, her +partner, was mighty civil to her, and taken with her, and what not. My +eyes being bad I spent the evening with her in her chamber talking and +inventing a cypher to put on a piece of plate, which I must give, better +than ordinary, to the Parson's child, and so to bed, and through my +wife's illness had a bad night of it, and she a worse, poor wretch! + + + +22nd. Up betimes, and drinking my morning draught of strong water with +Betty Michell, I had not opportunity para baiser la, I by water to White +Hall, and there met Creed, and thence with him to Westminster Hall, where +we talked long together of news, and there met with Cooling, my Lord +Chamberlain's Secretary, and from him learn the truth of all I heard last +night; and understand further, that this stiffness of the Lords is in no +manner of kindness to my Lord Chancellor, for he neither hath, nor do, +nor for the future likely can oblige any of them, but rather the +contrary; but that they do fear what the consequence may be to +themselves, should they yield in his case, as many of them have reason. +And more, he shewed me how this is rather to the wrong and prejudice of +my Lord Chancellor; for that it is better for him to come to be tried +before the Lords, where he can have right and make interest, than, when +the Parliament is up, be committed by the King, and tried by a Court on +purpose made by the King, of what Lords the King pleases, who have a mind +to have his head. So that my Lord [Cornbury] himself, his son, he tells +me, hath moved, that if they have Treason against my Lord of Clarendon, +that they would specify it and send it up to the Lords, that he might +come to his trial; so full of intrigues this business is! Having now a +mind to go on and to be rid of Creed, I could not, but was forced to +carry him with me to the Excise Office, and thence to the Temple, and +there walked a good while in the Temple church, observing the plainness +of Selden's tomb, and how much better one of his executors hath, who is +buried by him, and there I parted with him and took coach and home, where +to dinner. + + + +23rd. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon home to +dinner, and all the afternoon also busy till late preparing things to +fortify myself and fellows against the Parliament; and particularly +myself against what I fear is thought, that I have suppressed the Order +of the Board by which the discharging the great ships off at Chatham by +tickets was directed; whereas, indeed, there was no such Order. So home +at night to supper and to bed. + + + +24th (Lord's day). In my chamber all the morning (having lain long in +bed) till Mr. Shepley come to dine with me, and there being to return to +Hinchinbroke speedily, I did give him as good account how matters go here +as I could. After dinner, he being gone, I to the office, and there for +want of other of my clerks, sent to Mr. Gibbs, whom I never used till +now, for the writing over of my little pocket Contract-book; and there I +laboured till nine at night with him, in drawing up the history of all +that hath passed concerning tickets, in order to the laying the whole, +and clearing myself and Office, before Sir R. Brookes; and in this I took +great pains, and then sent him away, and proceeded, and had W. Hewer come +to me, and he and I till past twelve at night in the Office, and he, +which was a good service, did so inform me in the consequences of my +writing this report, and that what I said would not hold water, in +denying this Board to have ever ordered the discharging out of the +service whole ships by ticket, that I did alter my whole counsel, and +fall to arme myself with good reasons to justify the Office in so doing, +which hath been but rare, and having done this, I went, with great quiet +in my mind, home, though vexed that so honest a business should bring me +so much trouble; but mightily was pleased to find myself put out of my +former design; and so, after supper, to bed. + + + +25th. Up, and all the morning finishing my letter to Sir Robert Brookes, +which I did with great content, and yet at noon when I come home to +dinner I read it over again after it was sealed and delivered to the +messenger, and read it to my clerks who dined with me, and there I did +resolve upon some alteration, and caused it to be new writ, and so to the +office after dinner, and there all the afternoon mighty busy, and at +night did take coach thinking to have gone to Westminster, but it was +mighty dark and foul, and my business not great, only to keep my eyes +from reading by candle, being weary, but being gone part of my way I +turned back, and so home, and there to read, and my wife to read to me +out of Sir Robert Cotton's book about warr, which is very fine, showing +how the Kings of England have raised money by the people heretofore upon +the people, and how they have played upon the kings also. So after +supper I to bed. This morning Sir W. Pen tells me that the House was +very hot on Saturday last upon the business of liberty of speech in the +House, and damned the vote in the beginning of the Long Parliament +against it; I so that he fears that there may be some bad thing which +they have a mind to broach, which they dare not do without more security +than they now have. God keep us, for things look mighty ill! + + + +26th. Up, all the morning at the office, and then home to dinner, where +dined Mr. Clerke, solicitor, with me, to discourse about my Tangier +accounts, which I would fain make up, but I have not time. After dinner, +by coach as far as the Temple, and there saw a new book, in folio, of all +that suffered for the King in the late times, which I will buy, it seems +well writ, and then back to the Old Exchange, and there at my goldsmith's +bought a basin for my wife to give the Parson's child, to which the other +day she was godmother. It cost me; L10 14s. besides graving, which I do +with the cypher of the name, Daniel Mills, and so home to the office, and +then home to supper and hear my wife read, and then to bed. This +afternoon, after dinner, come to me Mr. Warren, and there did tell me +that he come to pay his debt to me for the kindness I did him in getting +his last ship out, which I must also remember was a service to the King, +though I did not tell him so, as appeared by my advising with the board, +and there writing to Sir W. Coventry to get the pass for the ship to go +for it to Genoa. Now that which he had promised me for the courtesy was +I take it 100 pieces or more, I think more, and also for the former +courtesy I had done for the getting of his first ship out for this hemp +he did promise me a consideration upon the return of the goods, but I +never did to this day demand any thing of him, only about a month ago he +told me that now his ship was come, and he would come out of my debt, but +told me that whereas he did expect to have had some profit by the voyage, +it had proved of loss to him, by the loss of some ships, or some +accidents, I know not what, and so that he was not able to do what he +intended, but told me that he would present me with sixty pieces in gold. +I told him I would demand nothing of his promises, though they were much +greater, nor would have thus much, but if he could afford to give me but +fifty pieces, it should suffice me. So now he brought something in a +paper, which since proves to be fifty pieces. But before I would take +them I told him that I did not insist on anything, and therefore prayed +him to consult his ability before he did part with them: and so I refused +them once or twice till he did the third time offer them, and then I took +them, he saying that he would present me with as many more if I would +undertake to get him L500 paid on his bills. I told him I would by no +means have any promise of the kind, nor would have any kindness from him +for any such service, but that I should do my utmost for nothing to do +him that justice, and would endeavour to do what I could for him, and so +we parted, he owning himself mightily engaged to me for my kind usage of +him in accepting of so small a matter in satisfaction of all that he owed +me; which I enter at large for my justification if anything of this +should be hereafter enquired after. This evening also comes to me to my +closet at the Office Sir John Chichly, of his own accord, to tell me what +he shall answer to the Committee, when, as he expects, he shall be +examined about my Lord Sandwich; which is so little as will not hurt my +Lord at all, I know. He do profess great generousness towards my Lord, +and that this jealousy of my Lord's of him is without ground, but do +mightily inveigh against Sir Roger Cuttance, and would never have my Lord +to carry him to sea again, as being a man that hath done my Lord more +hurt than ever he can repair by his ill advice, and disobliging every +body. He will by no means seem to crouch to my Lord, but says that he +hath as good blood in his veins as any man, though not so good a title, +but that he will do nothing to wrong or prejudice my Lord, and I hope he +will not, nor I believe can; but he tells me that Sir E. Spragg and Utber +are the men that have done my Lord the most wrong, and did bespatter him +the most at Oxford, and that my Lord was misled to believe that all that +was there said was his, which indeed it was not, and says that he did at +that time complain to his father of this his misfortune. This I confess +is strange to me touching these two men, but yet it may well enough as +the world goes, though I wonder I confess at the latter of the two, who +always professes great love to my Lord. Sir Roger Cuttance was with me +in the morning, and there gives me an account so clear about Bergen and +the other business against my Lord, as I do not see what can be laid to +my Lord in either, and tells me that Pen, however he now dissembles it, +did on the quarter deck of my Lord's ship, after he come on board, when +my Lord did fire a gun for the ships to leave pursuing the enemy, Pen did +say, before a great many, several times, that his heart did leap in his +belly for joy when he heard the gun, and that it was the best thing that +could be done for securing the fleet. He tells me also that Pen was the +first that did move and persuade my Lord to the breaking bulke, as a +thing that was now the time to do right to the commanders of the great +ships, who had no opportunity of getting anything by prizes, now his +Lordship might distribute to everyone something, and he himself did write +down before my Lord the proportions for each man. This I am glad of, +though it may be this dissembling fellow may, twenty to one, deny it. + + + +27th. Up, and all the morning at my Lord Bruncker's lodgings with Sir +J. Minnes and [Sir] W. Pen about Sir W. Warren's accounts, wherein I do +not see that they are ever very likely to come to an understanding of +them, as Sir J. Minnes hath not yet handled them. Here till noon, and +then home to dinner, where Mr. Pierce comes to me, and there, in general, +tells me how the King is now fallen in and become a slave to the Duke of +Buckingham, led by none but him, whom he, Mr. Pierce, swears he knows do +hate the very person of the King, and would, as well as will, certainly +ruin him. He do say, and I think with right, that the King do in this do +the most ungrateful part of a master to a servant that ever was done, in +this carriage of his to my Lord Chancellor: that, it may be, the +Chancellor may have faults, but none such as these they speak of; that he +do now really fear that all is going to ruin, for he says he hears that +Sir W. Coventry hath been, just before his sickness, with the Duke of +York, to ask his forgiveness and peace for what he had done; for that he +never could foresee that what he meant so well, in the councilling to lay +by the Chancellor, should come to this. As soon as dined, I with my boy +Tom to my bookbinder's, where all the afternoon long till 8 or 9 at night +seeing him binding up two or three collections of letters and papers that +I had of him, but above all things my little abstract pocket book of +contracts, which he will do very neatly. Then home to read, sup, and to +bed. + + + +28th. Up, and at the office all this morning, and then home to dinner, +and then by coach sent my wife to the King's playhouse, and I to White +Hall, there intending, with Lord Bruncker, Sir J. Minnes, and Sir T. +Harvy to have seen the Duke of York, whom it seems the King and Queen +have visited, and so we may now well go to see him. But there was nobody +could speak with him, and so we parted, leaving a note in Mr. Wren's +chamber that we had been there, he being at the free conference of the +two Houses about this great business of my Lord Chancellor's, at which +they were at this hour, three in the afternoon, and there they say my +Lord Anglesey do his part admirablyably, and each of us taking a copy of +the Guinny Company's defence to a petition against them to the Parliament +the other day. So I away to the King's playhouse, and there sat by my +wife, and saw "The Mistaken Beauty," which I never, I think, saw before, +though an old play; and there is much in it that I like, though the name +is but improper to it--at least, that name, it being also called "The +Lyer," which is proper enough. Here I met with Sir. Richard Browne, who +wondered to find me there, telling the that I am a man of so much +business, which character, I thank God, I have ever got, and have for a +long time had and deserved, and yet am now come to be censured in common +with the office for a man of negligence. Thence home and to the office +to my letters, and then home to supper and to bed. + + + +29th. Waked about seven o'clock this morning with a noise I supposed I +heard, near our chamber, of knocking, which, by and by, increased: and I, +more awake, could, distinguish it better. I then waked my wife, and both +of us wondered at it, and lay so a great while, while that increased, and +at last heard it plainer, knocking, as if it were breaking down a window +for people to get out; and then removing of stools and chairs; and +plainly, by and by, going up and down our stairs. We lay, both of us, +afeard; yet I would have rose, but my wife would not let me. Besides, I +could not do it without making noise; and we did both conclude that +thieves were in the house, but wondered what our people did, whom we +thought either killed, or afeard, as we were. Thus we lay till the clock +struck eight, and high day. At last, I removed my gown and slippers +safely to the other side of the bed over my wife: and there safely rose, +and put on my gown and breeches, and then, with a firebrand in my hand, +safely opened the door, and saw nor heard any thing. Then (with fear, I +confess) went to the maid's chamber-door, and all quiet and safe. Called +Jane up, and went down safely, and opened my chamber door, where all +well. Then more freely about, and to the kitchen, where the cook-maid +up, and all safe. So up again, and when Jane come, and we demanded +whether she heard no noise, she said, "yes, and was afeard," but rose +with the other maid, and found nothing; but heard a noise in the great +stack of chimnies that goes from Sir J. Minnes through our house; and so +we sent, and their chimnies have been swept this morning, and the noise +was that, and nothing else. It is one of the most extraordinary +accidents in my life, and gives ground to think of Don Quixote's +adventures how people may be surprised, and the more from an accident +last night, that our young gibb-cat + + [A male cat. "Gib" is a contraction of the Christian name Gilbert + (Old French), "Tibert"). + + "I am melancholy as a gib-cat" + + Shakespeare, I Henry IV, act i., sc. 3. + + Gib alone is also used, and a verb made from it--"to gib," or act + like a cat.] + +did leap down our stairs from top to bottom, at two leaps, and frighted +us, that we could not tell well whether it was the cat or a spirit, and +do sometimes think this morning that the house might be haunted. Glad to +have this so well over, and indeed really glad in my mind, for I was much +afeard, I dressed myself and to the office both forenoon and afternoon, +mighty hard putting papers arid things in order to my extraordinary +satisfaction, and consulting my clerks in many things, who are infinite +helps to my memory and reasons of things, and so being weary, and my eyes +akeing, having overwrought them to-day reading so much shorthand, I home +and there to supper, it being late, and to bed. This morning Sir W. Pen +and I did walk together a good while, and he tells me that the Houses are +not likely to agree after their free conference yesterday, and he fears +what may follow. + + + +30th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and then by coach to +Arundel House, to the election of Officers for the next year; where I was +near being chosen of the Council, but am glad I was not, for I could not +have attended, though, above all things, I could wish it; and do take it +as a mighty respect to have been named there. The company great, and the +elections long, and then to Cary House, a house now of entertainment, +next my Lord Ashly's; and there, where I have heretofore heard Common +Prayer in the time of Dr. Mossum, we after two hours' stay, sitting at +the table with our napkins open, had our dinners brought, but badly done. +But here was good company. I choosing to sit next Dr. Wilkins, Sir +George Ent, and others whom I value, there talked of several things. +Among others Dr. Wilkins, talking of the universal speech, of which he +hath a book coming out, did first inform me how man was certainly made +for society, he being of all creatures the least armed for defence, and +of all creatures in the world the young ones are not able to do anything +to help themselves, nor can find the dug without being put to it, but +would die if the mother did not help it; and, he says, were it not for +speech man would be a very mean creature. Much of this good discourse we +had. But here, above all, I was pleased to see the person who had his +blood taken out. He speaks well, and did this day give the Society a +relation thereof in Latin, saying that he finds himself much better +since, and as a new man, but he is cracked a little in his head, though +he speaks very reasonably, and very well. He had but 20s. for his +suffering it, and is to have the same again tried upon him: the first +sound man that ever had it tried on him in England, and but one that we +hear of in France, which was a porter hired by the virtuosos. Here all +the afternoon till within night. Then I took coach and to the Exchange, +where I was to meet my wife, but she was gone home, and so I to +Westminster Hall, and there took a turn or two, but meeting with nobody +to discourse with, returned to Cary House, and there stayed and saw a +pretty deception of the sight by a glass with water poured into it, with +a stick standing up with three balls of wax upon it, one distant from the +other. How these balls did seem double and disappear one after another, +mighty pretty! Here Mr. Carcasse did come to me, and brought first Mr. +Colwall, our Treasurer, and then Dr. Wilkins to engage me to be his +friend, and himself asking forgiveness and desiring my friendship, saying +that the Council have now ordered him to be free to return to the Office +to be employed. I promised him my friendship, and am glad of this +occasion, having desired it; for there is nobody's ill tongue that I fear +like his, being a malicious and cunning bold fellow. Thence, paying our +shot, 6s. apiece, I home, and there to the office and wrote my letters, +and then home, my eyes very sore with yesterday's work, and so home and +tried to make a piece by my eare and viall to "I wonder what the grave," +&c., and so to supper and to bed, where frighted a good while and my wife +again with noises, and my wife did rise twice, but I think it was Sir +John Minnes's people again late cleaning their house, for it was past I +o'clock in the morning before we could fall to sleep, and so slept. But +I perceive well what the care of money and treasure in a man's house is +to a man that fears to lose it. My Lord Anglesey told me this day that +he did believe the House of Commons would, the next week, yield to the +Lords; but, speaking with others this day, they conclude they will not, +but that rather the King will accommodate it by committing my Lord +Clarendon himself. I remember what Mr. Evelyn said, that he did believe +we should soon see ourselves fall into a Commonwealth again. Joseph +Williamson I find mighty kind still, but close, not daring to say +anything almost that touches upon news or state of affairs. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +Anthem anything but instrumentall musique with the voice +Chief Court of judicature (House of Lords) +Confidence, and vanity, and disparages everything +Had the umbles of it for dinner +I am not a man able to go through trouble, as other men +Liberty of speech in the House +Nor offer anything, but just what is drawn out of a man +Through my wife's illness had a bad night of it, and she a worse +What I said would not hold water + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v66 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + diff --git a/old/sp67g10.zip b/old/sp67g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..1acc1cf --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp67g10.zip |