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Up, and after entering my journal for 2 or 3 +days, I to church, where Mr. Mills, a dull sermon: and in our pew there +sat a great lady, which I afterwards understood to be my Lady Carlisle, +that made her husband a cuckold in Scotland, a very fine woman indeed in +person. After sermon home, where W. Hewer dined with us, and after +dinner he and I all the afternoon to read over our office letters to see +what matters can be got for our advantage or disadvantage therein. In +the evening comes Mr. Pelling and the two men that were with him +formerly, the little man that sings so good a base (Wallington) and +another that understands well, one Pigott, and Betty Turner come and sat +and supped with us, and we spent the evening mighty well in good musique, +to my great content to see myself in condition to have these and +entertain them for my own pleasure only. So they gone, we to bed. + + + +2nd. Up, and then abroad to Alderman Backewell's (who was sick of a cold +in bed), and then to the Excise Office, where I find Mr. Ball out of +humour in expectation of being put out of his office by the change of the +farm of the excise. There comes Sir H. Cholmly, and he and I to +Westminster, and there walked up and down till noon, where all the +business is that the Lords' answer is come down to the Commons, that they +are not satisfied in the Commons' Reasons: and so the Commons are hot, +and like to sit all day upon the business what to do herein, most +thinking that they will remonstrate against the Lords. Thence to Lord +Crew's, and there dined with him; where, after dinner, he took me aside, +and bewailed the condition of the nation, how the King and his brother +are at a distance about this business of the Chancellor, and the two +Houses differing.: and he do believe that there are so many about the +King like to be concerned and troubled by the Parliament, that they will +get him to dissolve or prorogue the Parliament; and the rather, for that +the King is likely, by this good husbandry of the Treasury, to get out of +debt, and the Parliament is likely to give no money. Among other things, +my Lord Crew did tell me, with grief, that he hears that the King of late +hath not dined nor supped with the Queen, as he used of late to do. +After a little discourse, Mr. Caesar, he dining there, did give us some +musique on his lute (Mr. John Crew being there) to my great content, and +then away I, and Mr. Caesar followed me and told me that my boy Tom hath +this day declared to him that he cared not for the French lute and would +learn no more, which Caesar out of faithfulness tells me that I might not +spend any more money on him in vain. I shall take the boy to task about +it, though I am contented to save my money if the boy knows not what is +good for himself. So thanked him, and indeed he is a very honest man I +believe, and away home, there to get something ready for the Lords +Commissioners of the Treasury, and so took my wife and girle and set them +at Unthanke's, and I to White Hall, and there with the Commissioners of +the Treasury, who I find in mighty good condition to go on in payment of +the seamen off, and thence I to Westminster Hall, where I met with my +cozen Roger and walked a good while with him; he tells me of the high +vote of the Commons this afternoon, which I also heard at White Hall, +that the proceedings of the Lords in the case of my Lord Clarendon are an +obstruction to justice, and of ill precedent to future times. This makes +every body wonder what will be the effect of it, most thinking that the +King will try him by his own Commission. It seems they were mighty high +to have remonstrated, but some said that was too great an appeale to the +people. Roger is mighty full of fears of the consequence of it, and +wishes the King would dissolve them. So we parted, and I bought some +Scotch cakes at Wilkinson's in King Street, and called my wife, and home, +and there to supper, talk, and to bed. Supped upon these cakes, of which +I have eat none since we lived at Westminster. This night our poor +little dogg Fancy was in a strange fit, through age, of which she has had +five or six. + + + +3rd. Up, by candlelight, the only time I think I have done so this +winter, and a coach being got over night, I to Sir W. Coventry's, the +first time I have seen him at his new house since he come to lodge there. +He tells me of the vote for none of the House to be of the Commission for +the Bill of Accounts; which he thinks is so great a disappointment to +Birch and others that expected to be of it, that he thinks, could it have +been [fore]seen, there would not have been any Bill at all. We hope it +will be the better for all that are to account; it being likely that the +men, being few, and not of the House, will hear reason. The main +business I went about was about. Gilsthrop, Sir W. Batten's clerk; who, +being upon his death-bed, and now dead, hath offered to make discoveries +of the disorders of the Navy and of L65,000 damage to the King: which +made mighty noise in the Commons' House; and members appointed to go to +him, which they did; but nothing to the purpose got from him, but +complaints of false musters, and ships being refitted with victuals and +stores at Plymouth, after they come fitted from other ports; but all this +to no purpose, nor more than we know, and will owne. But the best is, +that this loggerhead should say this, that understands nothing of the +Navy, nor ever would; and hath particularly blemished his master by name +among us. I told Sir W. Coventry of my letter to Sir R. Brookes, and his +answer to me. He advises me, in what I write to him, to be as short as I +can, and obscure, saving in things fully plain; for all that he do is to +make mischief; and that the greatest wisdom in dealing with the +Parliament in the world is to say little, and let them get out what they +can by force: which I shall observe. He declared to me much of his mind +to be ruled by his own measures, and not to go so far as many would have +him to the ruin of my Lord Chancellor, and for which they do endeavour to +do what they can against [Sir] W. Coventry. "But," says he, "I have done +my do in helping to get him out of the administration of things, for +which he is not fit; but for his life or estate I will have nothing to +say to it: besides that, my duty to my master the Duke of York is such, +that I will perish before I will do any thing to displease or disoblige +him, where the very necessity of the kingdom do not in my judgment call +me." Thence I home and to the office, where my Lord Anglesey, and all +the discourse was yesterday's vote in the Commons, wherein he told us +that, should the Lords yield to what the Commons would have in this +matter, it were to make them worse than any justice of Peace (whereas +they are the highest Court in the Kingdom) that they cannot be judges +whether an offender be to be committed or bailed, which every justice of +Peace do do, and then he showed me precedents plain in their defence. +At noon home to dinner, and busy all the afternoon, and at night home, +and there met W. Batelier, who tells me the first great news that my Lord +Chancellor is fled this day. By and by to Sir W. Pen's, where Sir R. +Ford and he and I met, with Mr. Young and Lewes, about our accounts with +my Lady Batten, which prove troublesome, and I doubt will prove to our +loss. But here I hear the whole that my Lord Chancellor is gone, and +left a paper behind him for the House of Lords, telling them the reason +of him retiring, complaining of a design for his ruin. But the paper I +must get: only the thing at present is great, and will put the King and +Commons to some new counsels certainly. So home to supper and to bed. +Sir W. Pen I find in much trouble this evening, having been called to the +Committee this afternoon, about the business of prizes. Sir Richard Ford +told us this evening an odd story of the basenesse of the late Lord +Mayor, Sir W. Bolton, in cheating the poor of the City, out of the +collections made for the people that were burned, of L1800; of which he +can give no account, and in which he hath forsworn himself plainly, so as +the Court of Aldermen have sequestered him from their Court till he do +bring in an account, which is the greatest piece of roguery that they say +was ever found in a Lord Mayor. He says also that this day hath been +made appear to them that the Keeper of Newgate, at this day, hath made +his house the only nursery of rogues, and whores, and pickpockets, and +thieves in the world; where they were bred and entertained, and the whole +society met: and that, for the sake of the Sheriffes, they durst not this +day committ him, for fear of making him let out the prisoners, but are +fain to go by artifice to deal with him. He tells me, also, speaking of +the new street that is to be made from Guild Hall down to Cheapside, that +the ground is already, most of it, bought. And tells me of one +particular, of a man that hath a piece of ground lieing in the very +middle of the street that must be; which, when the street is cut out of +it, there will remain ground enough, of each side, to build a house to +front the street. He demanded L700 for the ground, and to be excused +paying any thing for the melioration of the rest of his ground that he +was to keep. The Court consented to give him L700, only not to abate him +the consideration: which the man denied; but told them, and so they +agreed, that he would excuse the City the L700, that he might have the +benefit of the melioration without paying any thing for it. So much some +will get by having the City burned! But he told me that in other cases +ground, by this means, that was not 4d. a-foot before, will now, when +houses are built, be worth 15s. a-foot. But he tells me that the common +standard now reckoned on between man and man, in places where there is no +alteration of circumstances, but only the houses burnt, there the ground, +which, with a house on it, did yield L100 a-year, is now reputed worth +L33 6s. 8d.; and that this is the common market-price between one man and +another, made upon a good and moderate medium. + + + +4th. At the office all the morning. At noon to dinner, and presently +with my wife abroad, whom and her girle I leave at Unthanke's, and so to +White Hall in expectation of waiting on the Duke of York to-day, but was +prevented therein, only at Mr. Wren's chamber there I hear that the House +of Lords did send down the paper which my Lord Chancellor left behind +him, directed to the Lords, to be seditious and scandalous; and the +Commons have voted that it be burned by the hands of the hangman, and +that the King be desired to agree to it. I do hear, also, that they have +desired the King to use means to stop his escape out of the nation. Here +I also heard Mr. Jermin, who was there in the chamber upon occasion of +Sir Thomas Harvy's telling him of his brother's having a child, and +thereby taking away his hopes (that is, Mr. Jermin's) of L2000 a year. +He swore, God damn him, he did not desire to have any more wealth than he +had in the world, which indeed is a great estate, having all his uncle's, +my Lord St. Alban's, and my Lord hath all the Queen-Mother's. But when +Sir Thos. Harvy told him that "hereafter you will wish it more;"-- +"By God," answers he, "I won't promise what I shall do hereafter." +Thence into the House, and there spied a pretty woman with spots on her +face, well clad, who was enquiring for the guard chamber; I followed her, +and there she went up, and turned into the turning towards the chapel, +and I after her, and upon the stairs there met her coming up again, and +there kissed her twice, and her business was to enquire for Sir Edward +Bishop, one of the serjeants at armes. I believe she was a woman of +pleasure, but was shy enough to me, and so I saw her go out afterwards, +and I took a hackney coach, and away. I to Westminster Hall, and there +walked, and thence towards White Hall by coach, and spying Mrs. Burroughs +in a shop did stop and 'light and speak to her; and so to White Hall, +where I 'light and went and met her coming towards White Hall, but was +upon business, and I could not get her to go any whither and so parted, +and I home with my wife and girle (my wife not being very well, of a +great looseness day and night for these two days). So home, my wife to +read to me in Sir R. Cotton's book of warr, which is excellent reading, +and particularly I was mightily pleased this night in what we read about +the little profit or honour this kingdom ever gained by the greatest of +its conquests abroad in France. This evening come Mr. Mills and sat with +us a while, who is mighty kind and good company, and so, he gone, I to +supper and to bed. My wife an unquiet night. This day Gilsthrop is +buried, who hath made all the late discourse of the great discovery of +L65,000, of which the King bath been wronged. + + + +5th. At the office all the morning, do hear that Will Pen, Sir W. Pen's +son, is come from Ireland, but I have not seen him yet. At noon to the +'Change, where did little, but so home again and to dinner with my clerks +with me, and very good discourse and company they give me, and so to the +office all the afternoon till late, and so home to supper and to bed. +This day, not for want, but for good husbandry, I sent my father, by his +desire, six pair of my old shoes, which fit him, and are good; yet, +methought, it was a thing against my mind to have him wear my old things. + + + +6th. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes to the Duke of York, the first time that +I have seen him, or we waited on him, since his sickness; and, blessed be +God! he is not at all the worse for the smallpox, but is only a little +weak yet. We did much business with him, and so parted. My Lord +Anglesey told me how my Lord Northampton brought in a Bill into the House +of Lords yesterday, under the name of a Bill for the Honour and Privilege +of the House, and Mercy to my Lord Clarendon: which, he told me, he +opposed, saying that he was a man accused of treason by the House of +Commons; and mercy was not proper for him, having not been tried yet, and +so no mercy needful for him. However, the Duke of Buckingham and others +did desire that the Bill might be read; and it, was for banishing my Lord +Clarendon from all his Majesty's dominions, and that it should be treason +to have him found in any of them: the thing is only a thing of vanity, +and to insult over him, which is mighty poor I think, and so do every +body else, and ended in nothing, I think. By and by home with Sir J. +Minnes, who tells me that my Lord Clarendon did go away in a Custom-house +boat, and is now at Callis (Calais): and, I confess, nothing seems to +hang more heavy than his leaving of this unfortunate paper behind him, +that hath angered both Houses, and hath, I think, reconciled them in that +which otherwise would have broke them in pieces; so that I do hence, and +from Sir W. Coventry's late example and doctrine to me, learn that on +these sorts of occasions there is nothing like silence; it being seldom +any wrong to a man to say nothing, but, for the most part, it is to say +anything. This day, in coming home, Sir J. Minnes told me a pretty story +of Sir Lewes Dives, whom I saw this morning speaking with him, that +having escaped once out of prison through a house of office, and another +time in woman's apparel, and leaping over a broad canal, a soldier swore, +says he, this is a strange jade . . . . He told me also a story of my +Lord Cottington, who, wanting a son, intended to make his nephew his +heir, a country boy; but did alter his mind upon the boy's being +persuaded by another young heir, in roguery, to crow like a cock at my +Lord's table, much company being there, and the boy having a great trick +at doing that perfectly. My Lord bade them take away that fool from the +table, and so gave over the thoughts of making him his heir, from this +piece of folly. So home, and there to dinner, and after dinner abroad +with my wife and girle, set them down at Unthanke's, and I to White Hall +to the Council chamber, where I was summoned about the business of paying +of the seamen, where I heard my Lord Anglesey put to it by Sir W. +Coventry before the King for altering the course set by the Council; +which he like a wise man did answer in few words, that he had already +sent to alter it according to the Council's method, and so stopped it, +whereas many words would have set the Commissioners of the Treasury on +fire, who, I perceive, were prepared for it. Here I heard Mr. Gawden +speak to the King and Council upon some business of his before them, but +did it so well, in so good words and to the purpose, that I could never +have expected from a man of no greater learning. So went away, and in +the Lobby met Mr. Sawyer, my old chamber fellow, and stayed and had an +hour's discourse of old things with him, and I perceive he do very well +in the world, and is married he tells me and hath a child. Then home and +to the office, where Captain Cocke come to me; and, among other +discourse, tells me that he is told that an impeachment against Sir W. +Coventry will be brought in very soon. He tells me, that even those that +are against my Lord Chancellor and the Court, in the House, do not trust +nor agree one with another. He tells me that my Lord Chancellor went +away about ten at night, on Saturday last; and took boat at Westminster, +and thence by a vessel to Callis, where he believes he now is: and that +the Duke of York and Mr. Wren knew of it, and that himself did know of it +on Sunday morning: that on Sunday his coach, and people about it, went to +Twittenham, and the world thought that he had been there: that nothing +but this unhappy paper hath undone him and that he doubts that this paper +hath lost him everywhere that his withdrawing do reconcile things so far +as, he thinks the heat of their fury will be over, and that all will be +made well between the two [royal] brothers: that Holland do endeavour to +persuade the King of France to break peace with us: that the Dutch will, +without doubt, have sixty sail of ships out the next year; so knows not +what will become of us, but hopes the Parliament will find money for us +to have a fleete. He gone, I home, and there my wife made an end to me +of Sir K. Cotton's discourse of warr, which is indeed a very fine book. +So to supper and to bed. Captain Cocke did this night tell me also, +among other discourses, that he did believe that there are jealousies in +some of the House at this day against the Commissioners of the Treasury, +that by their good husbandry they will bring the King to be out of debt +and to save money, and so will not be in need of the Parliament, and then +do what he please, which is a very good piece of news that there is such +a thing to be hoped, which they would be afeard of. + + + +7th. All the morning at the office, and at noon home to dinner with my +clerks, and while we were at dinner comes Willet's aunt to see her and my +wife; she is a very fine widow and pretty handsome, but extraordinary +well carriaged and speaks very handsomely and with extraordinary +understanding, so as I spent the whole afternoon in her company with my +wife, she understanding all the things of note touching plays and +fashions and Court and everything and speaks rarely, which pleases me +mightily, and seems to love her niece very well, and was so glad (which +was pretty odde) that since she came hither her breasts begin to swell, +she being afeard before that she would have none, which was a pretty kind +of content she gave herself. She tells us that Catelin is likely to be +soon acted, which I am glad to hear, but it is at the King's House. But +the King's House is at present and hath for some days been silenced upon +some difference [between] Hart and Moone. She being gone I to the +office, and there late doing business, and so home to supper and to bed. +Only this evening I must remember that my Lady Batten sent for me, and it +was to speak to me before her overseers about my bargain with Sir W. +Batten about the prize, to which I would give no present answer, but am +well enough contented that they begin the discourse of it, and so away to +the office again, and then home to supper and to bed. Somebody told me +this, that they hear that Thomson, with the wooden leg, and Wildman, the +Fifth-Monarchy man, a great creature of the Duke of Buckingham's, are in +nomination to be Commissioners, among others, upon the Bill of Accounts. + + + +8th (Lord's day). All the morning at my chamber doing something towards +the settling of my papers and accounts, which have been out of order a +great while. At noon to dinner, where W. How with us, and after dinner, +he being gone, I to my chamber again till almost night, and then took +boat, the tide serving, and so to White Hall, where I saw the Duchesse of +York, in a fine dress of second mourning for her mother, being black, +edged with ermine, go to make her first visit to the Queene since the +Duke of York was sick; and by and by, she being returned, the Queene come +and visited her. But it was pretty to observe that Sir W. Coventry and +I, walking an hour and more together in the Matted Gallery, he observed, +and so did I, how the Duchesse, as soon as she spied him, turned her head +a one side. Here he and I walked thus long, which we have not done a +great while before. Our discourse was upon everything: the unhappiness +of having our matters examined by people that understand them not; that +it was better for us in the Navy to have men that do understand the +whole, and that are not passionate; that we that have taken the most +pains are called upon to answer for all crimes, while those that, like +Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes, did sit and do nothing, do lie still +without any trouble; that, if it were to serve the King and kingdom again +in a war, neither of us could do more, though upon this experience we +might do better than we did; that the commanders, the gentlemen that +could never be brought to order, but undid all, are now the men that find +fault and abuse others; that it had been much better for the King to have +given Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten L1000 a-year to have sat still, +than to have had them in his business this war: that the serving a Prince +that minds not his business is most unhappy for them that serve him well, +and an unhappiness so great that he declares he will never have more to +do with a war, under him. That he hath papers which do flatly contradict +the Duke of Albemarle's Narrative; and that he hath been with the Duke of +Albemarle and shewed him them, to prevent his falling into another like +fault: that the Duke of Albemarle seems to be able to answer them; but he +thinks that the Duke of Albemarle and the Prince are contented to let +their Narratives sleep, they being not only contradictory in some things +(as he observed about the business of the Duke of Albemarle's being to +follow the Prince upon dividing the fleete, in case the enemy come out), +but neither of them to be maintained in others. That the business the +other night of my Lord Anglesey at the Council was happily got over for +my Lord, by his dexterous silencing it, and the rest, not urging it +further; forasmuch as, had the Duke of Buckingham come in time enough, +and had got it by the end, he, would have toused him in it; Sir W. +Coventry telling me that my Lord Anglesey did, with such impudence, +maintain the quarrel against the Commons and some of the Lords, in the +business of my Lord Clarendon, that he believes there are enough would be +glad but of this occasion to be revenged of him. He tells me that he +hears some of the Thomsons are like to be of the Commission for the +Accounts, and Wildman, which he much wonders at, as having been a false +fellow to every body, and in prison most of the time since the King's +coming in. But he do tell me that the House is in such a condition that +nobody can tell what to make of them, and, he thinks, they were never in +before; that every body leads, and nobody follows; and that he do now +think that, since a great many are defeated in their expectation of being +of the Commission, now they would put it into such hands as it shall get +no credit from: for, if they do look to the bottom and see the King's +case, they think they are then bound to give the King money; whereas, +they would be excused from that, and therefore endeavour to make this +business of the Accounts to signify little. I spoke with him about my +Lord Sandwich's business, in which he is very friendly, and do say that +the unhappy business of the prizes is it that hath brought all this +trouble upon him, and the only thing that made any thing else mentioned, +and it is true. So having discoursed with him, I spent some time with +Sir Stephen Fox about the business of our adjusting the new method of the +Excise between the Guards household and Tangier, the Lords Commissioners +of the Treasury being now resolved to bring all their management into a +course of payment by orders, and not by tallies, and I am glad of it, and +so by water home late, and very dark, and when come home there I got my +wife to read, and then come Captain Cocke to me; and there he tells me, +to my great satisfaction, that Sir Robert Brookes did dine with him +today; and that he told him, speaking of me, that he would make me the +darling of the House of Commons, so much he is satisfied concerning me. +And this Cocke did tell me that I might give him thanks for it; and I do +think it may do me good, for he do happen to be held a considerable +person, of a young man, both for sobriety and ability. Then to discourse +of business of his own about some hemp of his that is come home to +receive it into the King's stores, and then parted, and by and by my wife +and I to supper, she not being well, her flux being great upon her, and +so to bed. + + + +9th. All the morning busy at the office, doing very considerable +business, and thither comes Sir G. Carteret to talk with me; who seems to +think himself safe as to his particular, but do doubt what will become of +the whole kingdom, things being so broke in pieces. He tells me that the +King himself did the other day very particularly tell the whole story of +my Lord Sandwich's not following the Dutch ships, with which he is +charged; and shews the reasons of it to be the only good course he could +have taken, and do discourse it very knowingly. This I am glad of, +though, as the King is now, his favour, for aught I see, serves very +little in stead at this day, but rather is an argument against a man; and +the King do not concern himself to relieve or justify any body, but is +wholly negligent of everybody's concernment. This morning I was troubled +with my Lord Hinchingbroke's sending to borrow L200 of me; but I did +answer that I had none, nor could borrow any; for I am resolved I will +not be undone for any body, though I would do much for my Lord Sandwich-- +for it is to answer a bill of exchange of his, and I perceive he hath +made use of all other means in the world to do it, but I am resolved to +serve him, but not ruin myself, as it may be to part with so much of the +little I have by me to keep if I should by any turn of times lose the +rest. At noon I to the 'Change, and there did a little business, and +among other things called at Cade's, the stationer, where he tells me how +my Lord Gerard is troubled for several things in the House of Commons, +and in one wherein himself is concerned; and, it seems, this Lord is a +very proud and wicked man, and the Parliament is likely to order him. +Then home to dinner, and then a little abroad, thinking to have gone to +the other end of the town, but it being almost night I would not, but +home again, and there to my chamber, and all alone did there draw up my +answer to Sir Rob. Brookes's letter, and when I had done it went down to +my clerks at the office for their opinion which at this time serves me to +very good purpose, they having many things in their heads which I had not +in the businesses of the office now in dispute. Having done with this, +then I home and to supper very late, and to bed. My [wife] being yet +very ill of her looseness, by which she is forced to lie from me to-night +in the girl's chamber. + + + +10th. Up, and all the morning at the office, and then home with my +people to dinner, and very merry, and then to my office again, where did +much business till night, that my eyes begun to be sore, and then forced +to leave off, and by coach set my wife at her tailor's and Willet, and I +to Westminster Hall, and there walked a good while till 8 at night, and +there hear to my great content that the King did send a message to the +House to-day that he would adjourne them on the 17th instant to February; +by which time, at least, I shall have more respite to prepare things on +my own behalf, and the Office, against their return. Here met Mr. +Hinxton, the organist, walking, and I walked with him; and, asking him +many questions, I do find that he can no more give an intelligible answer +to a man that is not a great master in his art, than another man. And +this confirms me that it is only want of an ingenious man that is master +in musique, to bring musique to a certainty, and ease in composition. +Having done this, I home, taking up my wife and girle, and there to +supper and to bed, having finished my letters, among which one to +Commissioner Middleton, who is now coming up to town from Portsmouth, to +enter upon his Surveyorship. + + + + +11th. By coach to White Hall, and there attended the Duke of York, as we +are wont, who is now grown pretty well, and goes up and down White Hall, +and this night will be at the Council, which I am glad of. Thence to +Westminster Hall, and there walked most of the morning, and among others +did there meet my cozen Roger Pepys, who intends to go to Impington on +this day s'ennight, the Parliament break up the night before. Here I met +Rolt and Sir John Chichly, and Harris, the player, and there we talked of +many things, and particularly of "Catiline," which is to be suddenly +acted at the King's house; and there all agree that it cannot be well +done at that house, there not being good actors enow: and Burt' acts +Cicero, which they all conclude he will not be able to do well. The King +gives them L500 for robes, there being, as they say, to be sixteen +scarlett robes. Thence home to dinner, and would have had Harris home +with me, but it was too late for him to get to the playhouse after it, +and so home to dinner, and spent the afternoon talking with my wife and +people at home till the evening, and then comes Sir W. Warren to talk +about some business of his and mine: and he, I find, would have me not to +think that the Parliament, in the mind they are in, and having so many +good offices in their view to dispose of, will leave any of the King's +officers in, but will rout all, though I am likely to escape as well as +any, if any can escape; and I think he is in the right, and I do look for +it accordingly. Then we fell to discourse of my little vessel, "The +Maybolt," and he thinks that it will be best for me to employ her for a +voyage to Newcastle for coles, they being now dear, and the voyage not +long, nor dangerous yet; and I think I shall go near to do so. Then, +talking of his business, I away to the office, where very busy, and +thither comes Sir W. Pen, and he and I walked together in the garden, and +there told me what passed to-day with him in the Committee, by my Lord +Sandwich's breaking bulk of the prizes; and he do seem to me that he hath +left it pretty well understood by them, he saying that what my Lord did +was done at the desire, and with the advice, of the chief officers of the +fleete, and that it was no more than admirals heretofore have done in +like cases, which, if it be true that he said it, is very well, and did +please me well. He being gone, I to my office again and there late, and +so weary home. + + + +12th. Rose before day, and took coach, by daylight, and to Westminster +to Sir G. Downing's, and there met Sir Stephen Fox, and thence he and I +to Sir Robert Longs to discourse the business of our orders for money, he +for the guards, and I for Tangier, and were a little angry in our +concerns, one against the other, but yet parted good friends, and I think +I got ground by it. Thence straight to the office, and there sat all the +morning, and then home to dinner, and after dinner I all alone to the +Duke of York's house, and saw "The Tempest," which, as often as I have +seen it, I do like very well, and the house very full. But I could take +little pleasure more than the play, for not being able to look about, for +fear of being seen. Here only I saw a French lady in the pit, with a +tunique, just like one of ours, only a handkercher about her neck; but +this fashion for a woman did not look decent. Thence walked to my +bookseller's, and there he did give me a list of the twenty who were +nominated for the Commission in Parliament for the Accounts: and it is +strange that of the twenty the Parliament could not think fit to choose +their nine, but were fain to add three that were not in the list of the +twenty, they being many of them factious people and ringleaders in the +late troubles; so that Sir John Talbott did fly out and was very hot in +the business of Wildman's being named, and took notice how he was +entertained in the bosom of the Duke of Buckingham, a Privy-counsellor; +and that it was fit to be observed by the House, and punished. The men +that I know of the nine I like very well; that is, Mr. Pierrepont, Lord +Brereton, and Sir William Turner; and I do think the rest are so, too; +but such as will not be able to do this business as it ought to be, to do +any good with. Here I did also see their votes against my Lord Chiefe +Justice Keeling, that his proceedings were illegal, and that he was a +contemner of Magna Charta (the great preserver of our lives, freedoms, +and properties) and an introduction to arbitrary government; which is +very high language, and of the same sound with that in the year 1640. +I home, and there wrote my letters, and so to supper and to bed. This +day my Lord Chancellor's letter was burned at the 'Change.' + + + +13th. Up, lying long all alone (my wife lying for these two or three +days of sickness alone), thinking of my several businesses in hand, and +then rose and to the office, being in some doubt of having my cozen Roger +and Lord Hinchinbroke and Sir Thos. Crew by my cozens invitation at +dinner to-day, and we wholly unprovided. So I away to Westminster, to +the Parliament-door, to speak with Roger: and here I saw my Lord Keeling +go into the House to the barr, to have his business heard by the whole +House to-day; and a great crowd of people to stare upon him. Here I hear +that the Lords' Bill for banishing and disabling my Lord Clarendon from +bearing any office, or being in the King's dominions, and its being made +felony for any to correspond with him but his own children, is brought to +the Commons: but they will not agree to it, being not satisfied with that +as sufficient, but will have a Bill of Attainder brought in against him: +but they make use of this against the Lords, that they, that would not +think there was cause enough to commit him without hearing, will have him +banished without hearing. By and by comes out my cozen Roger to me, he +being not willing to be in the House at the business of my Lord Keeling, +lest he should be called upon to complain against him for his abusing him +at Cambridge, very wrongfully and shamefully, but not to his reproach, +but to the Chief justice's in the end, when all the world cried shame +upon him for it. So he with me home, and Creed, whom I took up by the +way, going thither, and they to dine with me, and pretty merry, and among +other pieces of news, it is now fresh that the King of Portugall is +deposed, and his brother made King; and that my Lord Sandwich is gone +from Madrid with great honour to Lisbon, to make up, at this juncture, a +peace to the advantage, as the Spaniard would have it, of Spain. I wish +it may be for my Lord's honour, if it be so; but it seems my Lord is in +mighty estimation in Spain. After dinner comes Mr. Moore, and he and I +alone a while, he telling me my Lord Sandwich's credit is like to be +undone, if the bill of L200 my Lord Hinchingbroke wrote to me about be +not paid to-morrow, and that, if I do not help him about it, they have no +way but to let it be protested. So, finding that Creed hath supplied +them with L150 in their straits, and that this is no bigger sum, I am +very willing to serve my Lord, though not in this kind; but yet I will +endeavour to get this done for them, and the rather because of some plate +that was lodged the other day with me, by my Lady's order, which may be +in part of security for my money, as I may order it, for, for ought I +see, there is no other to be hoped for. This do trouble me; but yet it +is good luck that the sum is no bigger. He gone, I with my cozen Roger +to Westminster Hall; and there we met the House rising: and they have +voted my Lord Chief Justice Keeling's proceedings illegal; but that, out +of particular respect to him, and the mediation of a great many, they +have resolved to proceed no further against him. After a turn or two +with my cozen, I away with Sir W. Warren, who met me here by my desire, +and to Exeter House, and there to counsel, to Sir William Turner, about +the business of my bargain with my Lady Batten; and he do give me good +advice, and that I am safe, but that there is a great many pretty +considerations in it that makes it necessary for me to be silent yet for +a while till we see whether the ship be safe or no; for she is drove to +the coast of Holland, where she now is in the Texell, so that it is not +prudence for me yet to resolve whether I will stand by the bargain or no, +and so home, and Sir W. Warren and I walked upon Tower Hill by moonlight +a great while, consulting business of the office and our present +condition, which is but bad, it being most likely that the Parliament +will change all hands, and so let them, so I may keep but what I have. +Thence home, and there spent the evening at home with my wife and +entering my journal, and so to supper and to bed, troubled with my +parting with the L200, which I must lend my Lord Sandwich to answer his +bill of exchange. + + + +14th. Up and to the office, where busy, and after dinner also to the +office again till night, when Mr. Moore come to me to discourse about the +L200 I must supply my Lord Hinchingbroke, and I promised him to do it, +though much against my will. So home, to supper and to bed. + + + +15th (Lord's day). Up, and to church, where I heard a German preach, in +a tone hard to be understood, but yet an extraordinary good sermon, and +wholly to my great content. So home, and there all alone with wife and +girle to dinner, and then I busy at my chamber all the afternoon, and +looking over my plate, which indeed is a very fine quantity, God knows, +more than ever I expected to see of my own, and more than is fit for a +man of no better quality than I am. In the evening comes Mrs. Turner to +visit us, who hath been long sick, and she sat and supped with us, and +after supper, her son Francke being there, now upon the point of his +going to the East Indys, I did give him "Lex Mercatoria," and my wife my +old pair of tweezers, which are pretty, and my book an excellent one for +him. Most of our talk was of the great discourse the world hath against +my Lady Batten, for getting her husband to give her all, and disinherit +his eldest son; though the truth is, the son, as they say, did play the +knave with his father when time was, and the father no great matter +better with him, nor with other people also. So she gone, we to bed. + + + +16th. Up, and to several places, to pay what I owed. Among others, to +my mercer, to pay for my fine camlott cloak, which costs me, the very +stuff, almost L6; and also a velvet coat-the outside cost me above L8. +And so to Westminster, where I find the House mighty busy upon a petition +against my Lord Gerard, which lays heavy things to his charge, of his +abusing the King in his Guards; and very hot the House is upon it. I +away home to dinner alone with wife and girle, and so to the office, +where mighty busy to my great content late, and then home to supper, talk +with my wife, and to bed. It was doubtful to-day whether the House +should be adjourned to-morrow or no. + + + +17th. Up, and to the office, where very busy all the morning, and then +in the afternoon I with Sir W. Pen and Sir T. Harvy to White Hall to +attend the Duke of York, who is now as well as ever, and there we did our +usual business with him, and so away home with Sir W. Pen, and there to +the office, where pretty late doing business, my wife having been abroad +all day with Mrs. Turner buying of one thing or other. This day I do +hear at White Hall that the Duke of Monmouth is sick, and in danger of +the smallpox. So home to supper and to bed. + + + +18th. Up, and to my goldsmith's in the morning, to look after the +providing of L60 for Mr. Moore, towards the answering of my Lord +Sandwich's bill of exchange, he being come to be contented with my +lending him L60 in part of it, which pleases me, I expecting to have been +forced to answer the whole bill; and this, which I do do, I hope to +secure out of the plate, which was delivered into my custody of my Lord's +the other day by Mr. Cooke, and which I did get Mr. Stokes, the +goldsmith, last night to weigh at my house, and there is enough to secure +L100. Thence home to the office, and there all the morning by particular +appointment with Sir W. Pen, Sir R. Ford, and those that are concerned +for my Lady Batten (Mr. Wood, Young, and Lewes), to even the accounts of +our prize business, and at noon broke up, and to dinner, every man to his +own home, and to it till late at night again, and we did come to some +end, and I am mightily put to it how to order the business of my +bargaine, but my industry is to keep it off from discourse till the ship +be brought home safe, and this I did do, and so we broke up, she +appearing in our debts about L1500, and so we parted, and I to my +business, and home to my wife, who is troubled with the tooth ake, and +there however I got her to read to me the History of Algiers, which I +find a very pretty book, and so to supper with much pleasure talking, and +to bed. The Parliament not adjourned yet. + + + +19th. Up, and to the Office, where Commissioner Middleton first took +place at the Board as Surveyor of the Navy; and indeed I think will be an +excellent officer; I am sure much beyond what his predecessor was. At +noon, to avoid being forced to invite him to dinner, it being his first +day, and nobody inviting him, I did go to the 'Change with Sir W. Pen in +his coach, who first went to Guildhall, whither I went with him, he to +speak with Sheriff Gawden--I only for company; and did here look up and +down this place, where I have not been before since the fire; and I see +that the city are got a pace on in the rebuilding of Guildhall. Thence +to the 'Change, where I stayed very little, and so home to dinner, and +there find my wife mightily out of order with her teeth. At the office +all the afternoon, and at night by coach to Westminster, to the Hall, +where I met nobody, and do find that this evening the King by message +(which he never did before) hath passed several bills, among others that +for the Accounts, and for banishing my Lord Chancellor, and hath +adjourned the House to February; at which I am glad, hoping in this time +to get leisure to state my Tangier Accounts, and to prepare better for +the Parliament's enquiries. Here I hear how the House of Lords, with +great severity, if not tyranny, have ordered poor Carr, who only erred in +the manner of the presenting his petition against my Lord Gerard, it +being first printed before it was presented; which was, it, seems, by +Colonel Sands's going into the country, into whose hands he had put it: +the poor man is ordered to stand in the pillory two or three times, and +his eares cut, and be imprisoned I know not how long. But it is believed +that the Commons, when they meet, will not be well pleased with it; and +they have no reason, I think. Having only heard this from Mrs. Michell, +I away again home, and there to supper and to bed, my wife exceeding ill +in her face with the tooth ake, and now her face has become mightily +swelled that I am mightily troubled for it. + + + +20th. Up, and all the morning at the office with Sir R. Ford and the +same company as on Wednesday about my Lady Batten's accounts. At noon +home to dinner, where my poor wife in bed in mighty pain, her left cheek +so swelled as that we feared it would break, and so were fain to send for +Mr. Hollier, who come, and seems doubtful of the defluxions of humours +that may spoil her face, if not timely cured. He laid a poultice to it +and other directions, and so away, and I to the office, where on the same +accounts very late, and did come pretty near a settlement. So at night +to Sir W. Pen's with Sir R. Ford, and there was Sir D. Gawden, and there +we only talked of sundry things; and I have found of late, by discourse, +that the present sort of government is looked upon as a sort of +government that we never had yet--that is to say, a King and House of +Commons against the House of Lords; for so indeed it is, though neither +of the two first care a fig for one another, nor the third for them both, +only the Bishops are afeard of losing ground, as I believe they will. +So home to my poor wife, who is in mighty pain, and her face miserably +swelled: so as I was frighted to see it, and I was forced to lie below in +the great chamber, where I have not lain many a day, and having sat up +with her, talking and reading and pitying her, I to bed. + + + +21st. At the office all the morning, and at noon home to dinner with my +Clerks and Creed, who among other things all alone, after dinner, talking +of the times, he tells me that the Nonconformists are mighty high, and +their meetings frequented and connived at; and they do expect to have +their day now soon; for my Lord of Buckingham is a declared friend to +them, and even to the Quakers, who had very good words the other day from +the King himself: and, what is more, the Archbishop of Canterbury is +called no more to the Cabal, nor, by the way, Sir W. Coventry; which I am +sorry for, the Cabal at present being, as he says, the King, and Duke of +Buckingham, and Lord Keeper, the Duke of Albemarle, and Privy Seale. The +Bishops, differing from the King in the late business in the House of +Lords, having caused this and what is like to follow, for every body is +encouraged nowadays to speak, and even to preach, as I have heard one of +them, as bad things against them as ever in the year 1640; which is a +strange change. He gone, I to the office, where busy till late at night, +and then home to sit with my wife, who is a little better, and her cheek +asswaged. I read to her out of "The History of Algiers," which is mighty +pretty reading, and did discourse alone about my sister Pall's match, +which is now on foot with one Jackson, another nephew of Mr. Phillips's, +to whom he hath left his estate. + + + +22nd (Lord's day). Up, and my wife, poor wretch, still in pain, and then +to dress myself and down to my chamber to settle some papers, and thither +come to me Willet with an errand from her mistress, and this time I first +did give her a little kiss, she being a very pretty humoured girle, and +so one that I do love mightily. Thence to my office, and there did a +little business, and so to church, where a dull sermon, and then home, +and Cozen Kate Joyce come and dined with me and Mr. Holliard; but by +chance I offering occasion to him to discourse of the Church of Rome, +Lord! how he run on to discourse with the greatest vehemence and +importunity in the world, as the only thing in the world that he is full +of, and it was good sport to me to see him so earnest on so little +occasion. She come to see us and to tell me that her husband is going to +build his house again, and would borrow of me L300, which I shall upon +good security be willing to do, and so told her, being willing to have +some money out of my hands upon good security. After dinner up to my +wife again, who is in great pain still with her tooth, and there, they +gone, I spent the most of the afternoon and night reading and talking to +bear her company, and so to supper and to bed. + + + +23rd. Up before day, and by coach to Sir W. Coventry's, and with him to +White Hall, and there walked a great while with him in the garden till +the Commissioners of the Treasury met, and there talked over many +businesses, and particularly he tells me that by my desire he hath moved +the Duke of York that Sir J. Minnes might be removed from the Navy, at +least the Controller's place, and his business put on my Lord Brouncker +and Sir W. Pen; that the Committee for Accounts are good sober men, and +such as he thinks we shall have fair play from; that he hopes that the +kingdom will escape ruin in general, notwithstanding all our fears, and +yet I find he do seem not very confident in it. So to the Commissioners +of the Treasury, and there I had a dispute before them with Sir Stephen +Fox about our orders for money, who is very angry, but I value it not. +But, Lord! to see with what folly my Lord Albemarle do speak in this +business would make a man wonder at the good fortune of such a fool. +Thence meeting there with Creed, he and I to the Exchange, and there I +saw Carr stand in the pillory for the business of my Lord Gerard, which +is supposed will make a hot business in the House of Commons, when they +shall come to sit again, the Lords having ordered this with great +injustice, as all people think, his only fault being the printing his +petition before, by accident, his petition be read in the House. Here +walked up and down the Exchange with Creed, and then home to dinner, and +there hear by Creed that the Bishops of Winchester and of Rochester, and +the Dean of the Chapel, and some other great prelates, are suspended: and +a cloud upon the Archbishop ever since the late business in the House of +Lords; and I believe it will be a heavy blow to the Clergy. This noon I +bought a sermon of Dr. Floyd's, which Creed read a great part of to me +and Mr. Hollier, who dined with me, but as well writ and as good, against +the Church of Rome, as ever I read; but, Lord! how Hollier, poor man, was +taken with it. They gone I to the office, and there very late with Mr. +Willson and my people about the making of a new contract for the +victualler, which do and will require a great deal of pains of me, and so +to supper and to bed, my wife being pretty well all this day by reason of +her imposthume being broke in her cheek into her mouth. This day, at the +'Change, Creed shewed me Mr. Coleman, of whom my wife hath so good an +opinion, and says that he is as very a rogue for women as any in the +world; which did disquiet me, like a fool, and run in my mind a great +while. + + + +24th. Up, and all the morning at the office, and at noon with my clerks +to dinner, and then to the office again, busy at the office till six at +night, and then by coach to St. James's, it being about six at night; my +design being to see the ceremonys, this night being the eve of Christmas, +at the Queen's chapel. But it being not begun I to Westminster Hall, and +there staid and walked, and then to the Swan, and there drank and talked, +and did banter a little Frank, and so to White Hall, and sent my coach +round, I through the Park to chapel, where I got in up almost to the +rail, and with a great deal of patience staid from nine at night to two +in the morning, in a very great crowd; and there expected, but found +nothing extraordinary, there being nothing but a high masse. The Queen +was there, and some ladies. But, Lord! what an odde thing it was for me +to be in a crowd of people, here a footman, there a beggar, here a fine +lady, there a zealous poor papist, and here a Protestant, two or three +together, come to see the shew. I was afeard of my pocket being picked +very much . . . . Their musique very good indeed, but their service I +confess too frivolous, that there can be no zeal go along with it, and I +do find by them themselves that they do run over their beads with one +hand, and point and play and talk and make signs with the other in the +midst of their masse. But all things very rich and beautiful; and I see +the papists have the wit, most of them, to bring cushions to kneel on, +which I wanted, and was mightily troubled to kneel. All being done, and +I sorry for my coming, missing of what I expected; which was, to have had +a child born and dressed there, and a great deal of do: but we broke up, +and nothing like it done: and there I left people receiving the +Sacrament: and the Queen gone, and ladies; only my Lady Castlemayne, who +looked prettily in her night-clothes, and so took my coach, which waited, +and away through Covent Garden, to set down two gentlemen and a lady, who +come thither to see also, and did make mighty mirth in their talk of the +folly of this religion. And so I stopped, having set them down and drank +some burnt wine at the Rose Tavern door, while the constables come, and +two or three Bellmen went by, + + + +25th. It being a fine, light, moonshine morning, and so home round the +city, and stopped and dropped money at five or six places, which I was +the willinger to do, it being Christmas-day, and so home, and there find +my wife in bed, and Jane and the maids making pyes, and so I to bed, and +slept well, and rose about nine, and to church, and there heard a dull +sermon of Mr. Mills, but a great many fine people at church; and so home. +Wife and girl and I alone at dinner--a good Christmas dinner, and all the +afternoon at home, my wife reading to me "The History of the Drummer of +Mr. Mompesson," which is a strange story of spies, and worth reading +indeed. In the evening comes Mr. Pelling, and he sat and supped with us; +and very good company, he reciting to us many copies of good verses of +Dr. Wilde, who writ "Iter Boreale," and so to bed, my boy being gone with +W. Hewer and Mr. Hater to Mr. Gibson's in the country to dinner and lie +there all night. + + + +26th. Up and to Westminster, and there to the Swan, and by chance met +Mr. Spicer and another 'Chequer clerk, and there made them drink, and +there talked of the credit the 'Chequer is now come to and will in a +little time, and so away homeward, and called at my bookseller's, and +there bought Mr. Harrington's works, "Oceana," &c., and two other books, +which cost me L4, and so home, and there eat a bit, and then with my wife +to the King's playhouse, and there saw "The Surprizall;" which did not +please me to-day, the actors not pleasing me; and especially Nell's +acting of a serious part, which she spoils. Here met with Sir W. Pen, +and sat by him, and home by coach with him, and there to my office a +while, and then home to supper and to bed. I hear this day that Mrs. +Stewart do at this day keep a great court at Somerset House, with her +husband the Duke of Richmond, she being visited for her beauty's sake by +people, as the Queen is, at nights; and they say also that she is likely +to go to Court again, and there put my Lady Castlemayne's nose out of +joynt. God knows that would make a great turn. This day I was invited +to have gone to my cozen Mary Pepys' burial, my uncle Thomas' daughter, +but could not. + + + +27th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and there walked with Creed in the +Matted gallery till by and by a Committee for Tangier met: the Duke of +York there; and there I did discourse over to them their condition as to +money, which they were all mightily, as I could desire, satisfied with, +but the Duke of Albemarle, who takes the part of the Guards against us in +our supplies of money, which is an odd consideration for a dull, heavy +blockhead as he is, understanding no more of either than a goose: but the +ability and integrity of Sir W. Coventry, in all the King's concernments, +I do and must admire. After the Committee up, I and Sir W. Coventry +walked an hour in the gallery, talking over many businesses, and he tells +me that there are so many things concur to make him and his Fellow +Commissioners unable to go through the King's work that he do despair of +it, every body becoming an enemy to them in their retrenchments, and the +King unstable, the debts great and the King's present occasions for money +great and many and pressing, the bankers broke and every body keeping in +their money, while the times are doubtful what will stand. But he says +had they come in two years ago they doubt not to have done what the King +would by this time, or were the King in the condition as heretofore, when +the Chancellor was great, to be able to have what sums of money they +pleased of the Parliament, and then the ill administration was such that +instead of making good use of this power and money he suffered all to go +to ruin. But one such sum now would put all upon their legs, and now the +King would have the Parliament give him money when they are in an ill +humour and will not be willing to give any, nor are very able, and +besides every body distrusts what they give the King will be lost; +whereas six months hence, when they see that the King can live without +them, and is become steady, and to manage what he has well, he doubts not +but their doubts would be removed, and would be much more free as well as +more able to give him money. He told me how some of his enemies at the +Duke of York's had got the Duke of York's commission for the +Commissioners of his estate changed, and he and Brouncker and Povy left +out: that this they did do to disgrace and impose upon him at this time; +but that he, though he values not the thing, did go and tell the Duke of +York what he heard, and that he did not think that he had given him any +reason to do this, out of his belief that he would not be as faithful and +serviceable to him as the best of those that have got him put out. +Whereupon the Duke of York did say that it arose only from his not +knowing whether now he would have time to regard his affairs; and that, +if he should, he would put him into the commission with his own hand, +though the commission be passed. He answered that he had been faithful +to him, and done him good service therein, so long as he could attend it; +and if he had been able to have attended it more, he would not have +enriched himself with such and such estates as my Lord Chancellor hath +got, that did properly belong to his Royal Highness, as being forfeited +to the King, and so by the King's gift given to the Duke of York. +Hereupon the Duke of York did call for the commission, and hath since put +him in. This he tells me he did only to show his enemies that he is not +so low as to be trod on by them, or the Duke hath any so bad opinion of +him as they would think. Here we parted, and I with Sir H. Cholmly went +and took a turn into the Park, and there talked of several things, and +about Tangier particularly, and of his management of his business, and +among other discourse about the method he will leave his accounts in if +he should suddenly die, he says there is nothing but what is easily +understood, but only a sum of L500 which he has entered given to E. E. +S., which in great confidence he do discover to me to be my Lord +Sandwich, at the beginning of their contract for the Mole, and I suppose +the rest did the like, which was L1500, which would appear a very odd +thing for my Lord to be a profiter by the getting of the contract made +for them. But here it puts me into thoughts how I shall own my receiving +of L200 a year from him, but it is his gift, I never asked of him, and +which he did to Mr. Povy, and so there is no great matter in it. Thence +to other talk. He tells me that the business of getting the Duchess of +Richmond to Court is broke off, the Duke not suffering it; and thereby +great trouble is brought among the people that endeavoured it, and +thought they had compassed it. And, Lord! to think that at this time the +King should mind no other cares but these! He tells me that my Lord of +Canterbury is a mighty stout man, and a man of a brave, high spirit, and +cares not for this disfavour that he is under at Court, knowing that the +King cannot take away his profits during his life, and therefore do not +value it. + + [This character of Archbishop Sheldon does not tally with the + scandal that Pepys previously reported of him. Burnet has some + passages of importance on this in his "Own Time," Book II. He + affirms that Charles's final decision to throw over Clarendon was + caused by the Chancellor's favouring Mrs. Stewart's marriage with + the Duke of Richmond. The king had a conference with Sheldon on the + removal of Clarendon, but could not convert the archbishop to his + view. Lauderdale told Burnet that he had an account of the + interview from the king. "The king and Sheldon had gone into such + expostulations upon it that from that day forward Sheldon could + never recover the king's confidence."] + +Thence I home, and there to my office and wrote a letter to the Duke of +York from myself about my clerks extraordinary, which I have employed +this war, to prevent my being obliged to answer for what others do +without any reason demand allowance for, and so by this means I will be +accountable for none but my own, and they shall not have them but upon +the same terms that I have, which is a profession that with these helps +they will answer to their having performed their duties of their places. +So to dinner, and then away by coach to the Temple, and then for speed by +water thence to White Hall, and there to our usual attending the Duke of +York, and did attend him, where among other things I did present and +lodge my letter, and did speed in it as I could wish. Thence home with +Sir W. Pen and Comm. Middleton by coach, and there home and to cards with +my wife, W. Hewer, Mercer, and the girle, and mighty pleasant all the +evening, and so to bed with my wife, which I have not done since her +being ill for three weeks or thereabouts. + + + +28th. Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning, at noon home, +and there to dinner with my clerks and Mr. Pelting, and had a very good +dinner, among others a haunch of venison boiled, and merry we were, and I +rose soon from dinner, and with my wife and girle to the King's house, +and there saw "The Mad Couple," which is but an ordinary play; but only +Nell's and Hart's mad parts are most excellently done, but especially +hers: which makes it a miracle to me to think how ill she do any serious +part, as, the other day, just like a fool or changeling; and, in a mad +part, do beyond all imitation almost. [It pleased us mightily to see the +natural affection of a poor woman, the mother of one of the children +brought on the stage: the child crying, she by force got upon the stage, +and took up her child and carried it away off of the stage from Hart.] +Many fine faces here to-day. Thence home, and there to the office late, +and then home to supper and to bed. I am told to-day, which troubles me, +that great complaint is made upon the 'Change, among our merchants, that +the very Ostend little pickaroon men-of-war do offer violence to our +merchant-men, and search them, beat our masters, and plunder them, upon +pretence of carrying Frenchmen's goods. Lord! what a condition are we +come to, and that so soon after a war! + + + +29th (Lord's day). Up, and at my chamber all the day, both morning and +afternoon (only a little at dinner with my wife alone), upon the settling +of my Tangier accounts towards the evening of all reckonings now against +the new year, and here I do see the great folly of letting things go long +unevened, it being very hard for me and dangerous to state after things +are gone out of memory, and much more would be so should I have died in +this time and my accounts come to other hands, to understand which would +never be. At night comes Mrs. Turner to see us; and there, among other +talk, she tells me that Mr. William Pen, who is lately come over from +Ireland, is a Quaker again, or some very melancholy thing; that he cares +for no company, nor comes into any which is a pleasant thing, after his +being abroad so long, and his father such a hypocritical rogue, and at +this time an Atheist. She gone, I to my very great content do find my +accounts to come very even and naturally, and so to supper and to bed. + + + +30th. Up before day, and by coach to Westminster, and there first to Sir +H. Cholmly, and there I did to my great content deliver him up his little +several papers for sums of money paid him, and took his regular receipts +upon his orders, wherein I am safe. Thence to White Hall, and there to +visit Sir G. Carteret, and there was with him a great while, and my Lady +and they seem in very good humour, but by and by Sir G. Carteret and I +alone, and there we did talk of the ruinous condition we are in, the King +being going to put out of the Council so many able men; such as my Lord +Anglesey, Ashly, Hopis, Secretary Morrice (to bring in Mr. Trevor), and +the Archbishop of Canterbury, and my Lord Bridgewater. He tells me that +this is true, only the Duke of York do endeavour to hinder it, and the +Duke of York himself did tell him so: that the King and the Duke of York +do not in company disagree, but are friendly; but that there is a core in +their hearts, he doubts, which is not to be easily removed; for these men +do suffer only for their constancy to the Chancellor, or at least from +the King's ill-will against him: that they do now all they can to vilify +the clergy, and do accuse Rochester [Dolben] . . . and so do raise +scandals, all that is possible, against other of the Bishops. He do +suggest that something is intended for the Duke of Monmouth, and it may +be, against the Queene also: that we are in no manner sure against an +invasion the next year: that the Duke of Buckingham do rule all now, and +the Duke of York comes indeed to the Caball, but signifies little there. +That this new faction do not endure, nor the King, Sir W. Coventry; but +yet that he is so usefull that they cannot be without him; but that he is +not now called to the Caball. That my Lord of Buckingham, Bristoll, and +Arlington, do seem to agree in these things; but that they do not in +their hearts trust one another, but do drive several ways, all of them. +In short, he do bless himself that he is no more concerned in matters +now; and the hopes he hath of being at liberty, when his accounts are +over, to retire into the country. That he do give over the kingdom for +wholly lost. So after some other little discourse, I away, meeting with +Mr. Cooling. I with him by coach to the Wardrobe, where I never was +since the fire in Hatton Garden, but did not 'light: and he tells me he +fears that my Lord Sandwich will suffer much by Mr. Townsend's being +untrue to him, he being now unable to give the Commissioners of the +Treasury an account of his money received by many thousands of pounds, +which I am troubled for. Thence to the Old Exchange together, he telling +me that he believes there will be no such turning out of great men as is +talked of, but that it is only to fright people, but I do fear there may +be such a thing doing. He do mightily inveigh against the folly of the +King to bring his matters to wrack thus, and that we must all be undone +without help. I met with Cooling at the Temple-gate, after I had been at +both my booksellers and there laid out several pounds in books now +against the new year. From the 'Change (where I met with Captain Cocke, +who would have borrowed money of me, but I had the grace to deny him, he +would have had 3 or L400) I with Cocke and Mr. Temple (whose wife was +just now brought to bed of a boy, but he seems not to be at all taken +with it, which is a strange consideration how others do rejoice to have a +child born), to Sir G. Carteret's, in Lincoln's Inn Fields, and there did +dine together, there being there, among other company, Mr. Attorney +Montagu, and his fine lady, a fine woman. After dinner, I did understand +from my Lady Jemimah that her brother Hinchingbroke's business was to be +ended this day, as she thinks, towards his match, and they do talk here +of their intent to buy themselves some new clothes against the wedding, +which I am very glad of. After dinner I did even with Sir G. Carteret +the accounts of the interest of the money which I did so long put out for +him in Sir R. Viner's hands, and by it I think I shall be a gainer about +L28, which is a very good reward for the little trouble I have had in it. +Thence with Sir Philip Carteret to the King's playhouse, there to see +"Love's Cruelty," an old play, but which I have not seen before; and in +the first act Orange Moll come to me, with one of our porters by my +house, to tell me that Mrs. Pierce and Knepp did dine at my house to-day, +and that I was desired to come home. So I went out presently, and by +coach home, and they were just gone away so, after a very little stay +with my wife, I took coach again, and to the King's playhouse again, and +come in the fourth act; and it proves to me a very silly play, and to +everybody else, as far as I could judge. But the jest is, that here +telling Moll how I had lost my journey, she told me that Mrs. Knepp was +in the house, and so shews me to her, and I went to her, and sat out the +play, and then with her to Mrs. Manuel's, where Mrs. Pierce was, and her +boy and girl; and here I did hear Mrs. Manuel and one of the Italians, +her gallant, sing well. But yet I confess I am not delighted so much +with it, as to admire it: for, not understanding the words, I lose the +benefit of the vocalitys of the musick, and it proves only instrumental; +and therefore was more pleased to hear Knepp sing two or three little +English things that I understood, though the composition of the other, +and performance, was very fine. Thence, after sitting and talking a +pretty while, I took leave and left them there, and so to my +bookseller's, and paid for the books I had bought, and away home, +where I told my wife where I had been. But she was as mad as a devil, +and nothing but ill words between us all the evening while we sat at +cards--W. Hewer and the girl by--even to gross ill words, which I was +troubled for, but do see that I must use policy to keep her spirit down, +and to give her no offence by my being with Knepp and Pierce, of which, +though she will not own it, yet she is heartily jealous. At last it +ended in few words and my silence (which for fear of growing higher +between us I did forbear), and so to supper and to bed without one word +one to another. This day I did carry money out, and paid several debts. +Among others, my tailor, and shoemaker, and draper, Sir W. Turner, who +begun to talk of the Commission of accounts, wherein he is one; but +though they are the greatest people that ever were in the nation as to +power, and like to be our judges, yet I did never speak one word to him +of desiring favour, or bidding him joy in it, but did answer him to what +he said, and do resolve to stand or fall by my silent preparing to answer +whatever can be laid to me, and that will be my best proceeding, I think. +This day I got a little rent in my new fine camlett cloak with the latch +of Sir G. Carteret's door; but it is darned up at my tailor's, that it +will be no great blemish to it; but it troubled me. I could not but +observe that Sir Philip Carteret would fain have given me my going into a +play; but yet, when he come to the door, he had no money to pay for +himself, I having refused to accept of it for myself, but was fain; and I +perceive he is known there, and do run upon the score for plays, which is +a shame; but I perceive always he is in want of money. + + [The practice of gallants attending the theatre without payment is + illustrated by Mr. Lowe in his "Betterton," from Shadwell's "True + Widow": + + "1st Doorkeeper. Pray, sir, pay me: my masters will make me + pay it. + + 3d Man. Impudent rascal, do you ask me for money? Take that, + sirrah. + + 2nd Doorkeeper. Will you pay me, sir? + + 4th Man. No; I don't intend to stay. + + 2nd Doorkeeper. So you say every day, and see two or three + acts for nothing."] + +In the pit I met with Sir Ch. North, formerly Mr. North, who was with my +Lord at sea; and he, of his own accord, was so silly as to tell me he is +married; and for her quality (being a Lord's daughter, my Lord Grey), and +person, and beauty, and years, and estate, and disposition, he is the +happiest man in the world. I am sure he is an ugly fellow; but a good +scholar and sober gentleman; and heir to his father, now Lord North, the +old Lord being dead. + + + +31st. Up, without words to my wife, or few, and those not angry, and so +to White Hall, and there waited a long time, while the Duke of York was +with the King in the Caball, and there I and Creed stayed talking +without, in the Vane-Room, and I perceive all people's expectation is, +what will be the issue of this great business of putting these great +Lords out of the council and power, the quarrel, I perceive, being only +their standing against the will of the King in the business of the +Chancellor. Anon the Duke of York comes out, and then to a committee of +Tangier, where my Lord Middleton did come to-day, and seems to me but a +dull, heavy man; but he is a great soldier, and stout, and a needy Lord, +which will still keep that poor garrison from ever coming to be worth +anything to the King. Here, after a short meeting, we broke up, and I +home to the office, where they are sitting, and so I to them, and having +done our business rose, and I home to dinner with my people, and there +dined with me my uncle Thomas, with a mourning hat-band on, for his +daughter Mary, and here I and my people did discourse of the Act for the +accounts, + + ["An Act for taking the Accompts of the several sums of money therein + menconed," 19 and 20 Car. II., c. I. The commissioners were + empowered to call before them all Treasurers, Receivers, + Paymasters, Principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy and + Ordnance respectively, Pursers, Mustermasters and Clerks of the + Cheque, Accomptants, and all Officers and Keepers of his Majesties + Stores and Provisions for Warr as well for Land as Sea, and all + other persons whatsoever imployed in the management of the said Warr + or requisite for the discovery of any frauds relating thereunto," + &c., &c. ("Statutes of the Realm," vol. v., pp. 624,627).] + +which do give the greatest power to these people, as they report that +have read it (I having not yet read it, and indeed its nature is such as +I have no mind to go about to read it, for fear of meeting matter in it +to trouble me), that ever was given to any subjects, and too much also. +After dinner with my wife and girl to Unthanke's, and there left her, and +I to Westminster, and there to Mrs. Martin's, and did hazer con elle what +I desired, and there did drink with her, and find fault with her +husband's wearing of too fine clothes, by which I perceive he will be a +beggar, and so after a little talking I away and took up my wife again, +and so home and to the office, where Captain Perryman did give me an +account, walking in the garden, how the seamen of England are discouraged +by want of money (or otherwise by being, as he says, but I think without +cause, by their being underrated) so far as that he thinks the greatest +part are gone abroad or going, and says that it is known that there are +Irish in the town, up and down, that do labour to entice the seamen out +of the nation by giving them L3 in hand, and promise of 40s. per month, +to go into the King of France's service, which is a mighty shame, but yet +I believe is true. I did advise with him about my little vessel, "The +Maybolt," which he says will be best for me to sell, though my employing +her to Newcastle this winter, and the next spring, for coles, will be a +gainful trade, but yet make me great trouble, but I will think of it, and +so to my office, ended my letters, and so home to supper and to bed, good +friends with my wife. Thus ends the year, with great happiness to myself +and family as to health and good condition in the world, blessed be God +for it! only with great trouble to my mind in reference to the publick, +there being little hopes left but that the whole nation must in a very +little time be lost, either by troubles at home, the Parliament being +dissatisfied, and the King led into unsettled councils by some about him, +himself considering little, and divisions growing between the King and +Duke of York; or else by foreign invasion, to which we must submit if +any, at this bad point of time, should come upon us, which the King of +France is well able to do. These thoughts, and some cares upon me, +concerning my standing in this Office when the Committee of Parliament +shall come to examine our Navy matters, which they will now shortly do. +I pray God they may do the kingdom service therein, as they will have +sufficient opportunity of doing it! + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +A gainful trade, but yet make me great trouble +Every body leads, and nobody follows +Lady Castlemayne's nose out of joynt +Make a man wonder at the good fortune of such a fool +Mr. William Pen a Quaker again +Run over their beads with one hand, and point and play and talk +Silence; it being seldom any wrong to a man to say nothing +Speaks rarely, which pleases me mightily +Sport to me to see him so earnest on so little occasion +Supper and to bed without one word one to another +Voyage to Newcastle for coles + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v67 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + diff --git a/old/sp68g10.zip b/old/sp68g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..ca74f87 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp68g10.zip |