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+Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, March 1667/68, by Samuel Pepys
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+Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, March 1667/68
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+Author: Samuel Pepys
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+Release Date: December 1, 2004 [EBook #4187]
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, MARCH ***
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+Produced by David Widger
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+                THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S.
+
+            CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY
+
+    TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY
+ MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW
+                      AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
+
+                              (Unabridged)
+
+                      WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES
+
+                        EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY
+
+                        HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A.
+
+                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
+                                 MARCH
+                               1667-1668
+
+March 1st (Lord's day).  Up very betimes, and by coach to Sir W.
+Coventry's; and there, largely carrying with me all my notes and papers,
+did run over our whole defence in the business of tickets, in order to the
+answering the House on Thursday next; and I do think, unless they be set
+without reason to ruin us, we shall make a good defence.  I find him in
+great anxiety, though he will not discover it, in the business of the
+proceedings of Parliament; and would as little as is possible have his
+name mentioned in our discourse to them; and particularly the business of
+selling places is now upon his hand to defend himself in; wherein I did
+help him in his defence about the flag-maker's place, which is named in
+the House.  We did here do the like about the complaint of want of
+victuals in the fleete in the year 1666, which will lie upon me to defend
+also.  So that my head is full of care and weariness in my employment.
+Thence home, and there my mind being a little lightened by my morning's
+work in the arguments I have now laid together in better method for our
+defence to the Parliament, I to talk with my wife; and in lieu of a coach
+this year, I have got my wife to be contented with her closet being made
+up this summer, and going into the country this summer for a month or two,
+to my father's, and there Mercer and Deb.  and Jane shall go with her,
+which I the rather do for the entertaining my wife, and preventing of
+fallings out between her and my father or Deb., which uses to be the fate
+of her going into the country.  After dinner by coach to Westminster, and
+there to St. Margaret's church, thinking to have seen Betty Michell, but
+she was not there, but met her father and mother and with them to her
+father's house, where I never was before, but was mighty much made of,
+with some good strong waters, which they have from their son Michell, and
+mighty good people they are.  Thence to Mrs. Martin's, where I have not
+been also a good while, and with great difficulty, company being there,
+did get an opportunity to hazer what I would con her, and here I was
+mightily taken with a starling which she hath, that was the King's, which
+he kept in his bedchamber; and do whistle and talk the most and best that
+ever I heard anything in my life.  Thence to visit Sir H. Cholmly, who
+continues still sick of his cold, and thence calling, but in vain, to
+speak with Sir G. Carteret at his house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, where I
+spoke with nobody, but home, where spent the evening talking with W. Hewer
+about business of the House, and declaring my expectation of all our being
+turned out.  Hither comes Carcasse to me about business, and there did
+confess to me of his own accord his having heretofore discovered as a
+complaint against Sir W. Batten, Sir W. Pen and me that we did prefer the
+paying of some men to man "The Flying Greyhound" to others, by order under
+our hands.  The thing upon recollection I believe is true, and do hope no
+great matter can be made of it, but yet I would be glad to have my name
+out of it, which I shall labour to do; in the mean time it weighs as a new
+trouble on my mind, and did trouble me all night.  So without supper to
+bed, my eyes being also a little overwrought of late that I could not stay
+up to read.
+
+2nd.  Up and betimes to the office, where I did much business, and several
+come to me, and among others I did prepare Mr. Warren, and by and by Sir
+D. Gawden, about what presents I have had from them, that they may not
+publish them, or if they do, that in truth I received none on the account
+of the Navy but Tangier, and this is true to the former, and in both that
+I never asked any thing of them.  I must do the like with the rest.  Mr.
+Moore was with me, and he do tell me, and so W. Hewer tells me, he hears
+this morning that all the town is full of the discourse that the Officers
+of the Navy shall be all turned out, but honest Sir John Minnes, who, God
+knows, is fitter to have been turned out himself than any of us, doing the
+King more hurt by his dotage and folly than all the rest can do by their
+knavery, if they had a mind to it.  At noon home to dinner, where was
+Mercer, and very merry as I could be with my mind so full of business, and
+so with my wife, her and the girl, to the King's house to see the "Virgin
+Martyr" again, which do mightily please me, but above all the musique at
+the coming down of the angel, which at this hearing the second time, do
+still commend me as nothing ever did, and the other musique is nothing to
+it.  Thence with my wife to the 'Change, and so, calling at the Cocke ale
+house, we home, and there I settle to business, and with my people
+preparing my great answer to the Parliament for the office about tickets
+till past 1 a o'clock at night, and then home to supper and to bed,
+keeping Mr. Gibson all night with me.  This day I have the news that my
+sister was married on Thursday last to Mr. Jackson; so that work is, I
+hope, well over.
+
+3rd.  Up betimes to work again, and then met at the Office, where to our
+great business of this answer to the Parliament; where to my great
+vexation I find my Lord Brouncker prepared only to excuse himself, while
+I, that have least reason to trouble myself, am preparing with great pains
+to defend them all: and more, I perceive, he would lodge the beginning of
+discharging ships by ticket upon me; but I care not, for I believe I shall
+get more honour by it when the Parliament, against my will, shall see how
+the whole business of the Office was done by me.  At noon rose and to
+dinner.  My wife abroad with Mercer and Deb.  buying of things, but I with
+my clerks home to dinner, and thence presently down with Lord Brouncker,
+W. Pen, T. Harvy, T. Middleton, and Mr. Tippets, who first took his place
+this day at the table, as a Commissioner, in the room of Commissioner
+Pett.  Down by water to Deptford, where the King, Queene, and Court are to
+see launched the new ship built by Mr. Shish, called "The Charles."  2 God
+send her better luck than the former!  Here some of our brethren, who went
+in a boat a little before my boat, did by appointment take opportunity of
+asking the King's leave that we might make full use of the want of money,
+in our excuse to the Parliament for the business of tickets, and other
+things they will lay to our charge, all which arose from nothing else: and
+this the King did readily agree to, and did give us leave to make our full
+use of it.  The ship being well launched, I back again by boat, setting
+[Sir] T. Middleton and Mr. Tippets on shore at Ratcliffe, I home and there
+to my chamber with Mr. Gibson, and late up till midnight preparing more
+things against our defence on Thursday next to my content, though vexed
+that all this trouble should be on me.  So to supper and to bed.
+
+4th.  Up betimes and with Sir W. Pen in his coach to White Hall, there to
+wait upon the Duke of York and the Commissioners of the Treasury, [Sir] W.
+Coventry and Sir John Duncombe, who do declare that they cannot find the
+money we demand, and we that less than what we demand will not set out the
+fleet intended, and so broke up, with no other conclusion than that they
+would let us have what they could get and we would improve that as well as
+we could.  So God bless us, and prepare us against the consequences of
+these matters.  Thence, it being a cold wet day, I home with Sir J. Minnes
+in his coach, and called by the way at my bookseller's and took home with
+me Kercher's Musurgia--very well bound, but I had no comfort to look upon
+them, but as soon as I come home fell to my work at the office, shutting
+the doors, that we, I and my clerks, might not be interrupted, and so,
+only with room for a little dinner, we very busy all the day till night
+that the officers met for me to give them the heads of what I intended to
+say, which I did with great discontent to see them all rely on me that
+have no reason at all to trouble myself about it, nor have any thanks from
+them for my labour, but contrarily Brouncker looked mighty dogged, as
+thinking that I did not intend to do it so as to save him.  This troubled
+me so much as, together with the shortness of the time and muchness of the
+business, did let me be at it till but about ten at night, and then quite
+weary, and dull, and vexed, I could go no further, but resolved to leave
+the rest to to-morrow morning, and so in full discontent and weariness did
+give over and went home, with[out] supper vexed and sickish to bed, and
+there slept about three hours, but then waked, and never in so much
+trouble in all my life of mind, thinking of the task I have upon me, and
+upon what dissatisfactory grounds, and what the issue of it may be to me.
+
+5th.  With these thoughts I lay troubling myself till six o'clock,
+restless, and at last getting my wife to talk to me to comfort me, which
+she at last did, and made me resolve to quit my hands of this Office, and
+endure the trouble of it no longer than till I can clear myself of it. So
+with great trouble, but yet with some ease, from this discourse with my
+wife, I up, and to my Office, whither come my clerks, and so I did huddle
+the best I could some more notes for my discourse to-day, and by nine
+o'clock was ready, and did go down to the Old Swan, and there by boat,
+with T. H[ater] and W. H[ewer] with me, to Westminster, where I found
+myself come time enough, and my brethren all ready.  But I full of
+thoughts and trouble touching the issue of this day; and, to comfort
+myself, did go to the Dog and drink half-a-pint of mulled sack, and in the
+Hall [Westminster] did drink a dram of brandy at Mrs. Hewlett's; and with
+the warmth of this did find myself in better order as to courage, truly.
+So we all up to the lobby; and between eleven and twelve o'clock, were
+called in, with the mace before us, into the House, where a mighty full
+House; and we stood at the bar, namely, Brouncker, Sir J. Minnes, Sir T.
+Harvey, and myself, W. Pen being in the House, as a Member.  I perceive
+the whole House was full, and full of expectation of our defence what it
+would be, and with great prejudice.  After the Speaker had told us the
+dissatisfaction of the House, and read the Report of the Committee, I
+began our defence most acceptably and smoothly, and continued at it
+without any hesitation or losse, but with full scope, and all my reason
+free about me, as if it had been at my own table, from that time till past
+three in the afternoon; and so ended, without any interruption from the
+Speaker; but we withdrew.  And there all my Fellow-Officers, and all the
+world that was within hearing, did congratulate me, and cry up my speech
+as the best thing they ever heard; and my Fellow-Officers overjoyed in it;
+we were called in again by and by to answer only one question, touching
+our paying tickets to ticket-mongers; and so out; and we were in hopes to
+have had a vote this day in our favour, and so the generality of the House
+was; but my speech, being so long, many had gone out to dinner and come in
+again half drunk; and then there are two or three that are professed
+enemies to us and every body else; among others, Sir T. Littleton, Sir
+Thomas Lee, Mr. Wiles, the coxcomb whom I saw heretofore at the
+cock-fighting, and a few others; I say, these did rise up and speak
+against the coming to a vote now, the House not being full, by reason of
+several being at dinner, but most because that the House was to attend the
+King this afternoon, about the business of religion, wherein they pray him
+to put in force all the laws against Nonconformists and Papists; and this
+prevented it, so that they put it off to to-morrow come se'nnight.
+However, it is plain we have got great ground; and everybody says I have
+got the most honour that any could have had opportunity of getting; and so
+with our hearts mightily overjoyed at this success, we all to dinner to
+Lord Brouncker's--that is to say, myself, T. Harvey, and W. Pen, and there
+dined; and thence with Sir Anthony Morgan, who is an acquaintance of
+Brouncker's, a very wise man, we after dinner to the King's house, and
+there saw part of "The Discontented Colonel," but could take no great
+pleasure in it, because of our coming in in the middle of it.  After the
+play, home with W. Pen, and there to my wife, whom W. Hewer had told of my
+success, and she overjoyed, and I also as to my particular; and, after
+talking awhile, I betimes to bed, having had no quiet rest a good while.
+
+6th.  Up betimes, and with Sir D. Gawden to Sir W, Coventry's chamber:
+where the first word he said to me was, "Good-morrow, Mr. Pepys, that must
+be Speaker of the Parliament-house:" and did protest I had got honour for
+ever in Parliament.  He said that his brother, that sat by him, admires
+me; and another gentleman said that I could not get less than L1000 a-year
+if I would put on a gown and plead at the Chancery-bar; but, what pleases
+me most, he tells me that the Sollicitor-Generall did protest that he
+thought I spoke the best of any man in England.  After several talks with
+him alone, touching his own businesses, he carried me to White Hall, and
+there parted; and I to the Duke of York's lodgings, and find him going to
+the Park, it being a very fine morning, and I after him; and, as soon as
+he saw me, he told me, with great satisfaction, that I had converted a
+great many yesterday, and did, with great praise of me, go on with the
+discourse with me.  And, by and by, overtaking the King, the King and Duke
+of York come to me both; and he--[The King]--said, "Mr. Pepys, I am very
+glad of your success yesterday;" and fell to talk of my well speaking; and
+many of the Lords there.  My Lord Barkeley did cry the up for what they
+had heard of it; and others, Parliament-men there, about the King, did say
+that they never heard such a speech in their lives delivered in that
+manner.  Progers, of the Bedchamber, swore to me afterwards before
+Brouncker, in the afternoon, that he did tell the King that he thought I
+might teach the Sollicitor-Generall.  Every body that saw me almost come
+to me, as Joseph Williamson and others, with such eulogys as cannot be
+expressed.  From thence I went to Westminster Hall, where I met Mr. G.
+Montagu, who come to me and kissed me, and told me that he had often
+heretofore kissed my hands, but now he would kiss my lips: protesting that
+I was another Cicero, and said, all the world said the same of me.  Mr.
+Ashburnham, and every creature I met there of the Parliament, or that knew
+anything of the Parliament's actings, did salute me with this honour:--Mr.
+Godolphin;--Mr. Sands, who swore he would go twenty mile, at any time, to
+hear the like again, and that he never saw so many sit four hours together
+to hear any man in his life, as there did to hear me; Mr. Chichly,--Sir
+John Duncomb,--and everybody do say that the kingdom will ring of my
+abilities, and that I have done myself right for my whole life: and so
+Captain Cocke, and others of my friends, say that no man had ever such an
+opportunity of making his abilities known; and, that I may cite all at
+once, Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower did tell me that Mr. Vaughan did protest
+to him, and that, in his hearing it, said so to the Duke of Albemarle, and
+afterwards to W. Coventry, that he had sat twenty-six years in Parliament
+and never heard such a speech there before: for which the Lord God make me
+thankful! and that I may make use of it not to pride and vain-glory, but
+that, now I have this esteem, I may do nothing that may lessen it!  I
+spent the morning thus walking in the Hall, being complimented by
+everybody with admiration: and at noon stepped into the Legg with Sir
+William Warren, who was in the Hall, and there talked about a little of
+his business, and thence into the Hall a little more, and so with him by
+coach as far as the Temple almost, and there 'light, to follow my Lord
+Brouncker's coach, which I spied, and so to Madam Williams's, where I
+overtook him, and agreed upon meeting this afternoon, and so home to
+dinner, and after dinner with W. Pen, who come to my house to call me, to
+White Hall, to wait on the Duke of York, where he again and all the
+company magnified me, and several in the Gallery: among others, my Lord
+Gerard, who never knew me before nor spoke to me, desires his being better
+acquainted with me; and [said] that, at table where he was, he never heard
+so much said of any man as of me, in his whole life.  We waited on the
+Duke of York, and thence into the Gallery, where the House of Lords waited
+the King's coming out of the Park, which he did by and by; and there, in
+the Vane-room, my Lord Keeper delivered a message to the King, the Lords
+being about him, wherein the Barons of England, from many good arguments,
+very well expressed in the part he read out of, do demand precedence in
+England of all noblemen of either of the King's other two kingdoms, be
+their title what it will; and did shew that they were in England reputed
+but as Commoners, and sat in the House of Commons, and at conferences with
+the Lords did stand bare.  It was mighty worth my hearing: but the King
+did only say that he would consider of it, and so dismissed them.  Thence
+Brouncker and I to the Committee of Miscarriages sitting in the Court of
+Wards, expecting with Sir D. Gawden to have been heard against Prince
+Rupert's complaints for want of victuals.  But the business of Holmes's
+charge against Sir Jer. Smith, which is a most shameful scandalous thing
+for Flag officers to accuse one another of, and that this should be heard
+here before men that understand it not at all, and after it hath been
+examined and judged in before the King and Lord High Admirall and other
+able seamen to judge, it is very hard.  But this business did keep them
+all the afternoon, so we not heard but put off to another day.  Thence,
+with the Lieutenant of the Tower, in his coach home; and there, with great
+pleasure, with my wife, talking and playing at cards a little--she, and I,
+and W. Hewer, and Deb., and so, after a little supper, I to bed.
+
+7th.  Up, and to the office, where all the morning, at noon home to
+dinner, where Mercer with us, and after dinner she, my wife, Deb., and I,
+to the King's playhouse, and there saw "The Spanish Gipsys," the second
+time of acting, and the first that I saw it.  A very silly play, only
+great variety of dances, and those most excellently done, especially one
+part by one Hanes, only lately come thither from the Nursery, an
+understanding fellow, but yet, they say, hath spent L1000 a-year before he
+come thither.  This day my wife and I full of thoughts about Mrs. Pierces
+sending me word that she, and my old company, Harris and Knipp, would come
+and dine with us next Wednesday, how we should do-to receive or put them
+off, my head being, at this time, so full of business, and my wife in no
+mind to have them neither, and yet I desire it.  Come to no resolution
+tonight.  Home from the playhouse to the office, where I wrote what I had
+to write, and among others to my father to congratulate my sister's
+marriage, and so home to supper a little and then to bed.
+
+8th (Lord's day).  At my sending to desire it, Sir J. Robinson, Lieutenant
+of the Tower, did call me with his coach, and carried me to White Hall,
+where met with very many people still that did congratulate my speech the
+other day in the House of Commons, and I find all the world almost rings
+of it.  Here spent the morning walking and talking with one or other, and
+among the rest with Sir W. Coventry, who I find full of care in his own
+business, how to defend himself against those that have a mind to choke
+him; and though, I believe, not for honour and for the keeping his
+employment, but for his safety and reputation's sake, is desirous to
+preserve himself free from blame, and among other mean ways which himself
+did take notice to me to be but a mean thing he desires me to get
+information against Captain Tatnell, thereby to diminish his testimony,
+who, it seems, hath a mind to do W. Coventry hurt: and I will do it with
+all my heart; for Tatnell is a very rogue.  He would be glad, too, that I
+could find anything proper for his taking notice against Sir F. Hollis.
+At noon, after sermon, I to dinner with Sir G. Carteret to Lincoln's Inn
+Fields, where I find mighty deal of company--a solemn day for some of his
+and her friends, and dine in the great dining-room above stairs, where Sir
+G. Carteret himself, and I, and his son, at a little table by, the great
+table being full of strangers.  Here my Lady Jem. do promise to come, and
+bring my Lord Hinchingbroke and his lady some day this week, to dinner to
+me, which I am glad of.  After dinner, I up with her husband, Sir Philip
+Carteret, to his closet, where, beyond expectation, I do find many pretty
+things, wherein he appears to be ingenious, such as in painting, and
+drawing, and making of watches, and such kind of things, above my
+expectation; though, when all is done, he is a shirke, who owns his owing
+me L10 for his lady two or three years ago, and yet cannot provide to pay
+me.  The company by and by parted, and G. Carteret and I to White Hall,
+where I set him down and took his coach as far as the Temple, it raining,
+and there took a hackney and home, and so had my head combed, and then to
+bed.
+
+9th.  Up betimes, and anon with Sir W. Warren, who come to speak with me,
+by coach to White Hall, and there met Lord Brouncker: and he and I to the
+Commissioners of the Treasury, where I find them mighty kind to me, more,
+I think, than was wont.  And here I also met Colvill, the goldsmith; who
+tells me, with great joy, how the world upon the 'Change talks of me; and
+how several Parliamentmen, viz., Boscawen and Major [Lionel] Walden, of
+Huntingdon, who, it seems, do deal with him, do say how bravely I did
+speak, and that the House was ready to have given me thanks for it; but
+that, I think, is a vanity.  Thence I with Lord Brouncker, and did take up
+his mistress, Williams, and so to the 'Change, only to shew myself, and
+did a little business there, and so home to dinner, and then to the office
+busy till the evening, and then to the Excize Office, where I find Mr.
+Ball in a mighty trouble that he is to be put out of his place at
+Midsummer, the whole Commission being to cease, and the truth is I think
+they are very fair dealing men, all of them.  Here I did do a little
+business, and then to rights home, and there dispatched many papers, and
+so home late to supper and to bed, being eased of a great many thoughts,
+and yet have a great many more to remove as fast as I can, my mind being
+burdened with them, having been so much employed upon the public business
+of the office in their defence before the Parliament of late, and the
+further cases that do attend it.
+
+10th.  Up, and to the office betimes, where all the morning.  At noon home
+to dinner with my clerks, and after dinner comes Kate Joyce, who tells me
+she is putting off her house, which I am glad of, but it was pleasant that
+she come on purpose to me about getting a ticket paid, and in her way
+hither lost her ticket, so that she is at a great loss what to do.--There
+comes in then Mrs. Mercer, the mother, the first time she has been here
+since her daughter lived with us, to see my wife, and after a little talk
+I left them and to the office, and thence with Sir D. Gawden to
+Westminster Hall, thinking to have attended the Committee about the
+Victualling business, but they did not meet, but here we met Sir R.
+Brookes, who do mightily cry up my speech the other day, saying my
+fellow-officers are obliged to me, as indeed they are.  Thence with Sir D.
+Gawden homewards, calling at Lincolne's Inn Fields: but my Lady Jemimah
+was not within: and so to Newgate, where he stopped to give directions to
+the jaylor about a Knight, one Sir Thomas Halford brought in yesterday for
+killing one Colonel Temple, falling out at a taverne. So thence as far as
+Leadenhall, and there I 'light, and back by coach to Lincoln's Inn Fields;
+but my Lady was not come in, and so I am at a great loss whether she and
+her brother Hinchingbroke and sister will dine with me to-morrow or no,
+which vexes me.  So home; and there comes Mr. Moore to me, who tells me
+that he fears my Lord Sandwich will meet with very great difficulties to
+go through about the prizes, it being found that he did give orders for
+more than the King's letter do justify; and then for the Act of
+Resumption, which he fears will go on, and is designed only to do him
+hurt, which troubles me much.  He tells me he believes the Parliament will
+not be brought to do anything in matters of religion, but will adhere to
+the Bishops.  So he gone, I up to supper, where I find W. Joyce and Harman
+come to see us, and there was also Mrs. Mercer and her two daughters, and
+here we were as merry as that fellow Joyce could make us with his mad
+talking, after the old wont, which tired me.  But I was mightily pleased
+with his singing; for the rogue hath a very good eare, and a good voice.
+Here he stayed till he was almost drunk, and then away at about ten at
+night, and then all broke up, and I to bed.
+
+11th.  Up, and betimes to the office, where busy till 8 o'clock, and then
+went forth, and meeting Mr. Colvill, I walked with, him to his building,
+where he is building a fine house, where he formerly lived, in Lumbard
+Street: and it will be a very fine street.  Thence walked down to the
+Three Cranes and there took boat to White Hall, where by direction I
+waited on the Duke of York about office business, and so by water to
+Westminster, where walking in the Hall most of the morning, and up to my
+Lady Jem. in Lincoln's Inn Fields to get her to appoint the day certain
+when she will come and dine with me, and she hath appointed Saturday next.
+So back to Westminster; and there still walked, till by and by comes Sir
+W. Coventry, and with him Mr. Chichly and Mr. Andrew Newport, I to dinner
+with them to Mr. Chichly's, in Queene Street, in Covent Garden.  A very
+fine house, and a man that lives in mighty great fashion, with all things
+in a most extraordinary manner noble and rich about him, and eats in the
+French fashion all; and mighty nobly served with his servants, and very
+civilly; that I was mighty pleased with it: and good discourse.  He is a
+great defender of the Church of England, and against the Act for
+Comprehension, which is the work of this day, about which the House is
+like to sit till night.  After dinner, away with them back to Westminster,
+where, about four o'clock, the House rises, and hath done nothing more in
+the business than to put off the debate to this day month.  In the mean
+time the King hath put out his proclamations this day, as the House
+desired, for the putting in execution the Act against Nonconformists and
+Papists, but yet it is conceived that for all this some liberty must be
+given, and people will have it.  Here I met with my cozen Roger Pepys, who
+is come to town, and hath been told of my performance before the House the
+other day, and is mighty proud of it, and Captain Cocke met me here
+to-day, and told me that the Speaker says he never heard such a defence
+made; in all his life, in the House; and that the Sollicitor-Generall do
+commend me even to envy.  I carried cozen Roger as far as the Strand,
+where, spying out of the coach Colonel Charles George Cocke, formerly a
+very great man, and my father's customer, whom I have carried clothes to,
+but now walks like a poor sorry sneake, he stopped, and I 'light to him.
+This man knew me, which I would have willingly avoided, so much pride I
+had, he being a man of mighty height and authority in his time, but now
+signifies nothing.  Thence home, where to the office a while and then
+home, where W. Batelier was and played at cards and supped with us, my
+eyes being out of order for working, and so to bed.
+
+12th.  Up, and to the office, where all the morning, at noon home, and
+after dinner with wife and Deb., carried them to Unthanke's, and I to
+Westminster Hall expecting our being with the Committee this afternoon
+about Victualling business, but once more waited in vain.  So after a turn
+or two with Lord Brouncker, I took my wife up and left her at the 'Change
+while I to Gresham College, there to shew myself; and was there greeted by
+Dr. Wilkins, Whistler, and others, as the patron of the Navy Office, and
+one that got great fame by my late speech to the Parliament. Here I saw a
+great trial of the goodness of a burning glass, made of a new figure, not
+spherical (by one Smithys, I think, they call him), that did burn a glove
+of my Lord Brouncker's from the heat of a very little fire, which a
+burning glass of the old form, or much bigger, could not do, which was
+mighty pretty.  Here I heard Sir Robert Southwell give an account of some
+things committed to him by the Society at his going to Portugall, which he
+did deliver in a mighty handsome manner.
+
+     [At the meeting of the Royal Society on March 12th, 1668, "Mr.
+     Smethwick's glasses were tried again; and his telescope being
+     compared with another longer telescope, and the object-glasses
+     exchanged, was still found to exceed the other in goodness; and his
+     burning concave being compared with a spherical burning-glass of
+     almost twice the diameter, and held to the fire, it burnt gloves,
+     whereas the other spherical ones would not burn at all."--"Sir
+     Robert Southwell being lately returned from Portugal, where he had
+     been ambassador from the king, and being desired to acquaint the
+     society with what he had done with respect to the instructions,
+     which he had received from them before his departure from England,
+     related, that he had lodged the astronomical quadrant, which the
+     society had sent to Portugal to make observations with there, with a
+     body of men at Lisbon, who had applied themselves among other kinds
+     of literature to mathematics" (Birch's "History of the Royal
+     Society," vol.  ii., p.  256).]
+
+Thence went away home, and there at my office as long as my eyes would
+endure, and then home to supper, and to talk with Mr. Pelling, who tells
+me what a fame I have in the City for my late performance; and upon the
+whole I bless God for it.  I think I have, if I can keep it, done myself a
+great deal of repute.  So by and by to bed.
+
+13th.  Up betimes to my office, where to fit myself for attending the
+Parliament again, not to make any more speech, which, while my fame is
+good, I will avoid, for fear of losing it; but only to answer to what
+objections will be made against us.  Thence walked to the Old Swan and
+drank at Michell's, whose house is going up apace.  Here I saw Betty, but
+could not baiser la, and so to Westminster, there to the Hall, where up to
+my cozen Roger Pepys at the Parliament door, and there he took me aside,
+and told me how he was taken up by one of the House yesterday, for moving
+for going on with the King's supply of money, without regard to the
+keeping pace therewith, with the looking into miscarriages, and was told
+by this man privately that it did arise because that he had a kinsman
+concerned therein; and therefore he would prefer the safety of his kinsman
+to the good of the nation, and that there was great things against us and
+against me, for all my fine discourse the other day.  But I did bid him be
+at no pain for me; for I knew of nothing but what I was very well prepared
+to answer; and so I think I am, and therefore was not at all disquieted by
+this.  Thence he to the House, and I to the Hall, where my Lord Brouncker
+and the rest waiting till noon and not called for by the House, they being
+upon the business of money again, and at noon all of us to Chatelin's, the
+French house in Covent Garden, to dinner--Brouncker, J. Minnes, W. Pen, T.
+Harvey, and myself--and there had a dinner cost us 8s. 6d.  a-piece, a
+damned base dinner, which did not please us at all, so that I am not fond
+of this house at all, but do rather choose the Beare.  After dinner to
+White Hall to the Duke of York, and there did our usual business,
+complaining of our standing still in every-respect for want of money, but
+no remedy propounded, but so I must still be.  Thence with our company to
+the King's playhouse, where I left them, and I, my head being full of
+to-morrow's dinner, I to my Lord Crew's, there to invite Sir Thomas Crew;
+and there met with my Lord Hinchingbroke and his lady, the first time I
+spoke to her.  I saluted her; and she mighty civil and; with my Lady
+Jemimah, do all resolve to be very merry to-morrow at my house.  My Lady
+Hinchingbroke I cannot say is a beauty, nor ugly; but is altogether a
+comely lady enough, and seems very good-humoured, and I mighty glad of the
+occasion of seeing her before to-morrow.  Thence home; and there find one
+laying of my napkins against tomorrow in figures of all sorts, which is
+mighty pretty; and, it seems, it is his trade, and he gets much money by
+it; and do now and then furnish tables with plate and linnen for a feast
+at so much, which is mighty pretty, and a trade I could not have thought
+of.  I find my wife upon the bed not over well, her breast being broke out
+with heat, which troubles her, but I hope it will be for her good.  Thence
+I to Mrs. Turner, and did get her to go along with me to the French
+pewterer's, and there did buy some new pewter against to-morrow; and
+thence to White Hall, to have got a cook of her acquaintance, the best in
+England, as she says.  But after we had with much ado found him, he could
+not come, nor was Mr. Gentleman in town, whom next I would have had, nor
+would Mrs. Stone let her man Lewis come, whom this man recommended to me;
+so that I was at a mighty loss what in the world to do for a cooke,
+Philips being out of town.  Therefore, after staying here at Westminster a
+great while, we back to London, and there to Philips's, and his man
+directed us to Mr. Levett's, who could not come, and he sent to two more,
+and they could not; so that, at last, Levett as a great kindness did
+resolve he would leave his business and come himself, which set me in
+great ease in my mind, and so home, and there with my wife setting all
+things in order against to-morrow, having seen Mrs. Turner at home, and so
+late to bed.
+
+14th.  Up very betimes, and with Jane to Levett's, there to conclude upon
+our dinner; and thence to the pewterer's, to buy a pewter sesterne,
+
+     [A pewter cistern was formerly part of the furniture of a well-
+     appointed dining-room; the plates were rinsed in it, when necessary,
+     during the meal.  A magnificent silver cistern is still preserved in
+     the dining-room at Burghley House, the seat of the Marquis of
+     Exeter.  It is said to be the largest piece of plate in England, and
+     was once the subject of a curious wager.--B.]
+
+which I have ever hitherto been without, and so up and down upon several
+occasions to set matters in order, and that being done I out of doors to
+Westminster Hall, and there met my Lord Brouncker, who tells me that our
+business is put off till Monday, and so I was mighty glad that I was eased
+of my attendance here, and of any occasion that might put me out of
+humour, as it is likely if we had been called before the Parliament.
+Therefore, after having spoke with Mr. Godolphin and cozen Roger, I away
+home, and there do find everything in mighty good order, only my wife not
+dressed, which troubles me.  Anon comes my company, viz., my Lord
+Hinchingbroke and his lady, Sir Philip Carteret and his, lady, Godolphin
+and my cozen Roger, and Creed: and mighty merry; and by and by to dinner,
+which was very good and plentifull: (I should have said, and Mr. George
+Montagu), who come at a very little warning, which was exceeding kind of
+him.  And there, among other things, my Lord had Sir Samuel Morland's late
+invention for casting up of sums of L. s. d.;
+
+     [The same as Morland's so-called calculating machine.  Sir Samuel
+     published in 1673 "The Description and Use of two Arithmetick
+     Instruments, together with a short Treatise of Arithmetic, as
+     likewise a Perpetual Almanack and severall useful tables."]
+
+which is very pretty, but not very useful.  Most of our discourse was of
+my Lord Sandwich and his family, as being all of us of the family; and
+with extraordinary pleasure all the afternoon, thus together eating and
+looking over my closet: and my Lady Hinchingbroke I find a very
+sweet-natured and well-disposed lady, a lover of books and pictures, and
+of good understanding.  About five o'clock they went; and then my wife and
+I abroad by coach into Moorefields, only for a little ayre, and so home
+again, staying no where, and then up to her chamber, there to talk with
+pleasure of this day's passages, and so to bed.  This day I had the
+welcome news of our prize being come safe from Holland, so as I shall have
+hopes, I hope, of getting my money of my Lady Batten, or good part of it.
+
+15th (Lord's day).  Up and walked, it being fine dry weather, to Sir W.
+Coventry's, overtaking my boy Ely (that was), and he walked with me, being
+grown a man, and I think a sober fellow.  He parted at Charing Cross, and
+I to Sir W. Coventry's, and there talked with him about the Commissioners
+of Accounts, who did give in their report yesterday to the House, and do
+lay little upon us as aggravate any thing at present, but only do give an
+account of the dissatisfactory account they receive from Sir G. Carteret,
+which I am sorry for, they saying that he tells them not any time when he
+paid any sum, which is fit for them to know for the computing of interest,
+but I fear he is hardly able to tell it.  They promise to give them an
+account of the embezzlement of prizes, wherein I shall be something
+concerned, but nothing that I am afeard of, I thank God.  Thence walked
+with W. Coventry into the Park, and there met the King and the Duke of
+York, and walked a good while with them: and here met Sir Jer. Smith, who
+tells me he is like to get the better of Holmes, and that when he is come
+to an end of that, he will do Hollis's business for him, in the House, for
+his blasphemies, which I shall be glad of. So to White Hall, and there
+walked with this man and that man till chapel done, and, the King dined
+and then Sir Thomas Clifford, the Comptroller, took me with him to dinner
+to his lodgings, where my Lord Arlington and a great deal of good and
+great company; where I very civilly used by them, and had a most excellent
+dinner: and good discourse of Spain, Mr. Godolphin being there;
+particularly of the removal of the bodies of all the dead Kings of Spain
+that could be got together, and brought to the Pantheon at the Escuriall,
+when it was finished, and there placed before the altar, there to lie for
+ever; and there was a sermon made to them upon this text, "Arida ossa,
+audite verbum Dei;" and a most eloquent sermon, as they say, who say they
+have read it.  After dinner, away hence, and I to Mrs. Martin's, and there
+spent the afternoon, and did hazer con elle, and here was her sister and
+Mrs. Burrows, and so in the evening got a coach and home, and there find
+Mr. Pelting and W. Hewer, and there talked and supped, Pelting being gone,
+and mightily pleased with a picture that W. Hewer brought hither of
+several things painted upon a deale board, which board is so well painted
+that in my whole life I never was so well pleased or surprized with any
+picture, and so troubled that so good pictures should be painted upon a
+piece of bad deale.  Even after I knew that it was not board, but only the
+picture of a board, I could not remove my fancy.  After supper to bed,
+being very sleepy, and, I bless God, my mind being at very good present
+rest.
+
+16th.  Up, to set my papers and books in order, and put up my plate since
+my late feast, and then to Westminster, by water, with Mr. Hater, and
+there, in the Hall, did walk all the morning, talking with one or other,
+expecting to have our business in the House; but did now a third time wait
+to no purpose, they being all this morning upon the business of Barker's
+petition about the making void the Act of Settlement in Ireland, which
+makes a great deal of hot work: and, at last, finding that by all men's
+opinion they could not come to our matter today, I with Sir W. Pen home,
+and there to dinner, where I find, by Willet's crying, that her mistress
+had been angry with her: but I would take no notice of it.  Busy all the
+afternoon at the office, and then by coach to the Excize Office, but lost
+my labour, there being nobody there, and so back again home, and after a
+little at the office I home, and there spent the evening with my wife
+talking and singing, and so to bed with my mind pretty well at ease. This
+evening W. Pen and Sir R. Ford and I met at the first's house to talk of
+our prize that is now at last come safe over from Holland, by which I hope
+to receive some if not all the benefit of my bargain with W. Batten for my
+share in it, which if she had miscarried I should have doubted of my Lady
+Batten being left little able to have paid me.
+
+17th.  Up betimes and to the office, where all the morning busy, and then
+at noon home to dinner, and so again to the office awhile, and then abroad
+to the Excize-Office, where I met Mr. Ball, and did receive the paper I
+went for; and there fell in talk with him, who, being an old cavalier, do
+swear and curse at the present state of things, that we should be brought
+to this, that we must be undone and cannot be saved; that the Parliament
+is sitting now, and will till midnight, to find how to raise this
+L300,000, and he doubts they will not do it so as to be seasonable for the
+King: but do cry out against our great men at Court; how it is a fine
+thing for a Secretary of State to dance a jigg, and that it was not so
+heretofore; and, above all, do curse my Lord of Bristoll, saying the worst
+news that ever he heard in his life, or that the Devil could ever bring
+us, was this Lord's coming to prayers the other day in the House of Lords,
+by which he is coming about again from being a Papist, which will undo
+this nation; and he says he ever did say, at the King's first coming in,
+that this nation could not be safe while that man was alive.  Having done
+there, I away towards Westminster, but seeing by the coaches the House to
+be up, I stopped at the 'Change (where, I met Mrs. Turner, and did give
+her a pair of gloves), and there bought several things for my wife, and so
+to my bookseller's, and there looked for Montaigne's Essays,
+
+     [This must have been Florio's translation, as Cotton's was not
+     published until 1685.]
+
+which I heard by my Lord Arlington and Lord Blaney so much commended, and
+intend to buy it, but did not now, but home, where at the office did some
+business, as much as my eyes would give leave, and so home to supper,
+Mercer with us talking and singing, and so to bed.  The House, I hear,
+have this day concluded upon raising L100,000 of the L300,000 by wine, and
+the rest by a poll-[tax], and have resolved to excuse the Church, in
+expectation that they will do the more of themselves at this juncture; and
+I do hear that Sir W. Coventry did make a speech in behalf of the Clergy.
+
+18th.  Up betimes to Westminster, where met with cozen Roger and Creed and
+walked with them, and Roger do still continue of the mind that there is no
+other way of saving this nation but by dissolving this Parliament and
+calling another; but there are so many about the King that will not be
+able to stand, if a new Parliament come, that they will not persuade the
+King to it.  I spent most of the morning walking with one or other, and
+anon met Doll Lane at the Dog tavern, and there je did hater what I did
+desire with her .  .  .  and I did give her as being my valentine 20s. to
+buy what elle would.  Thence away by coach to my bookseller's, and to
+several places to pay my debts, and to Ducke Lane, and there bought
+Montaigne's Essays, in English, and so away home to dinner, and after
+dinner with W. Pen to White Hall, where we and my Lord Brouncker attended
+the Council, to discourse about the fitness of entering of men presently
+for the manning of the fleete, before one ship is in condition to receive
+them.  W. Coventry did argue against it: I was wholly silent, because I
+saw the King, upon the earnestness of the Prince, was willing to it,
+crying very sillily, "If ever you intend to man the fleete, without being
+cheated by the captains and pursers, you may go to bed, and resolve never
+to have it manned;" and so it was, like other things, over-ruled that all
+volunteers should be presently entered.  Then there was another great
+business about our signing of certificates to the Exchequer for [prize]
+goods, upon the L1,20,000 Act, which the Commissioners of the Treasury did
+all oppose, and to the laying fault upon us.  But I did then speak to the
+justifying what we had done, even to the angering of Duncomb and Clifford,
+which I was vexed at: but, for all that, I did set the Office and myself
+right, and went away with the victory, my Lord Keeper saying that he would
+not advise the Council to order us to sign no more certificates.  But,
+before I began to say anything in this matter, the King and the Duke of
+York talking at the Council-table, before all the Lords, of the Committee
+of Miscarriages, how this entering of men before the ships could be ready
+would be reckoned a miscarriage; "Why," says the King, "it is then but Mr.
+Pepys making of another speech to them;" which made all the Lords, and
+there were by also the Atturny and Sollicitor-Generall, look upon me.
+Thence Sir W. Coventry, W. Pen and I, by hackney-coach to take a little
+ayre in Hyde Parke, the first time I have been there this year; and we did
+meet many coaches going and coming, it being mighty pleasant weather; and
+so, coming back again, I 'light in the Pell Mell; and there went to see
+Sir H. Cholmly, who continues very ill of his cold.  And there come in Sir
+H. Yelverton, whom Sir H. Cholmly commended me to his acquaintance, which
+the other received, but without remembering to me, or I him, of our being
+school-fellows together; and I said nothing of it.  But he took notice of
+my speech the other day at the bar of the House; and indeed I perceive he
+is a wise man by his manner of discourse, and here he do say that the town
+is full of it, that now the Parliament hath resolved upon L300,000, the
+King, instead of fifty, will set out but twenty-five ships, and the Dutch
+as many; and that Smith is to command them, who is allowed to have the
+better of Holmes in the late dispute, and is in good esteem in the
+Parliament, above the other. Thence home, and there, in favour to my eyes,
+stayed at home, reading the ridiculous History of my Lord Newcastle, wrote
+by his wife, which shews her to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and
+he an asse to suffer her to write what she writes to him, and of him.
+
+     ["The Life of the thrice noble, high, and puissant Prince, William
+     Cavendish, Duke .  .  .  of Newcastle," by his duchess, of which the
+     first edition, in folio, was published in 1667.]
+
+Betty Turner sent my wife the book to read, and it being a fair print, to
+ease my eyes, which would be reading, I read that.  Anon comes Mrs. Turner
+and sat and talked with us, and most about the business of Ackworth,
+
+     [William Acworth, storekeeper at Woolwich, was accused of converting
+     stores to his own use (see "Calendar of State Papers," 1667-68, p.
+     279).]
+
+which comes before us to-morrow, that I would favour it, but I do not
+think, notwithstanding all the friendship I can shew him, that he can
+escape, and therefore it had been better that he had followed the advice I
+sent him the other day by Mrs. Turner, to make up the business.  So
+parted, and I to bed, my eyes being very bad; and I know not how in the
+world to abstain from reading.
+
+19th.  Up, and betimes to the Old Swan, and by water to White Hall, and
+thence to W. Coventry's, where stayed but a little to talk with him, and
+thence by water back again, it being a mighty fine, clear spring morning.
+Back to the Old Swan, and drank at Michell's, whose house goes up apace,
+but I could not see Betty, and thence walked all along Thames Street,
+which I have not done since it was burned, as far as Billingsgate; and
+there do see a brave street likely to be, many brave houses being built,
+and of them a great many by Mr. Jaggard; but the raising of the street
+will make it mighty fine.  So to the office, where busy all the morning.
+At noon home to dinner, and thence to the office, very busy till five
+o'clock, and then to ease my eyes I took my wife out and Deb. to the
+'Change, and there bought them some things, and so home again and to the
+office, ended my letters, and so home to read a little more in last
+night's book, with much sport, it being a foolish book, and so to supper
+and to bed.  This afternoon I was surprized with a letter without a name
+to it, very well writ, in a good stile, giving me notice of my cozen Kate
+Joyce's being likely to ruin herself by marriage, and by ill reports
+already abroad of her, and I do fear that this keeping of an inne may
+spoil her, being a young and pretty comely woman, and thought to be left
+well.  I did answer the letter with thanks and good liking, and am
+resolved to take the advice he gives me, and go see her, and find out what
+I can: but if she will ruin herself, I cannot help it, though I should be
+troubled for it.
+
+20th.  Up betimes, and to my Office, where we had a meeting extraordinary
+to consider of several things, among others the sum of money fit to be
+demanded ready money, to enable us to set out 27 ships, every body being
+now in pain for a fleete, and everybody endeavouring to excuse themselves
+for the not setting out of one, and our true excuse is lack of money. At
+it all the morning, and so at noon home to dinner with my clerks, my wife
+and Deb. being busy at work above in her chamber getting things ready and
+fine for her going into the country a week or two hence.  I away by coach
+to White Hall, where we met to wait on the Duke of York, and, soon as
+prayers were done, it being Good Friday, he come to us, and we did a
+little business and presented him with our demand of money, and so broke
+up, and I thence by coach to Kate Joyce's, being desirous and in pain to
+speak with her about the business that I received a letter yesterday, but
+had no opportunity of speaking with her about it, company being with her,
+so I only invited her to come and dine with me on Sunday next, and so away
+home, and for saving my eyes at my chamber all the evening pricking down
+some things, and trying some conclusions upon my viall, in order to the
+inventing a better theory of musique than hath yet been abroad; and I
+think verily I shall do it.  So to supper with my wife, who is in very
+good humour with her working, and so am I, and so to bed.  This day at
+Court I do hear that Sir W. Pen do command this summer's fleete; and Mr.
+Progers of the Bedchamber, as a secret, told me that the Prince Rupert is
+troubled at it, and several friends of his have been with him to know the
+reason of it; so that he do pity Sir W. Pen, whom he hath great kindness
+for, that he should not at any desire of his be put to this service, and
+thereby make the Prince his enemy, and contract more envy from other
+people.  But I am not a whit sorry if it should be so, first for the
+King's sake, that his work will be better done by Sir W. Pen than the
+Prince, and next that Pen, who is a false rogue, may be bit a little by
+it.
+
+21st.  Up betimes to the office, and there we sat all the morning, at noon
+home with my clerks, a good dinner, and then to the Office, and wrote my
+letters, and then abroad to do several things, and pay what little scores
+I had, and among others to Mrs. Martin's, and there did give 20s. to Mrs.
+Cragg, her landlady, who was my Valentine in the house, as well as Doll
+Lane .  .  .  .  So home and to the office, there to end my letters, and
+so home, where Betty Turner was to see my wife, and she being gone I to my
+chamber to read a little again, and then after supper to bed.
+
+22nd (Easter day).  I up, and walked to the Temple, and there got a coach,
+and to White Hall, where spoke with several people, and find by all that
+Pen is to go to sea this year with this fleete; and they excuse the
+Prince's going, by saying it is not a command great enough for him. Here I
+met with Brisband, and, after hearing the service at the King's chapel,
+where I heard the Bishop of Norwich, Dr. Reynolds, the old presbyterian,
+begin a very plain sermon, he and I to the Queen's chapel, and there did
+hear the Italians sing; and indeed their musick did appear most admirable
+to me, beyond anything of ours: I was never so well satisfied in my life
+with it.  So back to White Hall, and there met Mr. Pierce, and adjusted
+together how we should spend to-morrow together, and so by coach I home to
+dinner, where Kate Joyce was, as I invited her, and had a good dinner,
+only she and us; and after dinner she and I alone to talk about her
+business, as I designed; and I find her very discreet, and she assures me
+she neither do nor will incline to the doing anything towards marriage,
+without my advice, and did tell me that she had many offers, and that
+Harman and his friends would fain have her; but he is poor, and hath poor
+friends, and so it will not be advisable: but that there is another, a
+tobacconist, one Holinshed, whom she speaks well of, to be a plain, sober
+man, and in good condition, that offers her very well, and submits to me
+my examining and inquiring after it, if I see good, which I do like of it,
+for it will be best for her to marry, I think, as soon as she can--at
+least, to be rid of this house; for the trade will not agree with a young
+widow, that is a little handsome, at least ordinary people think her so.
+Being well satisfied with her answer, she anon went away, and I to my
+closet to make a few more experiments of my notions in musique, and so
+then my wife and I to walk in the garden, and then home to supper and to
+bed.
+
+23rd.  Up, and after discoursing with my wife about many things touching
+this day's dinner, I abroad, and first to the taverne to pay what I owe
+there, but missed of seeing the mistress of the house, and there bespoke
+wine for dinner, and so away thence, and to Bishopsgate Streete, thinking
+to have found a Harpsicon-maker that used to live there before the fire,
+but he is gone, and I have a mind forthwith to have a little Harpsicon
+made me to confirm and help me in my musique notions, which my head is
+now-a-days full of, and I do believe will come to something that is very
+good.  Thence to White Hall, expecting to have heard the Bishop of
+Lincolne, my friend, preach, for so I understood he would do yesterday,
+but was mistaken, and therefore away presently back again, and there find
+everything in good order against dinner, and at noon come Mr. Pierce and
+she, and Mrs. Manuel, the Jew's wife, and Mrs. Corbet, and Mrs. Pierces
+boy and girl.  But we are defeated of Knepp, by her being forced to act
+to-day, and also of Harris, which did trouble me, they being my chief
+guests.  However, I had an extraordinary good dinner, and the better
+because dressed by my own servants, and were mighty merry; and here was
+Mr. Pelling by chance come and dined with me; and after sitting long at
+dinner, I had a barge ready at Tower-wharfe, to take us in, and so we
+went, all of us, up as high as Barne-Elms, a very fine day, and all the
+way sang; and Mrs. Manuel sings very finely, and is a mighty discreet,
+sober-carriaged woman, that both my wife and I are mightily taken with
+her, and sings well, and without importunity or the contrary.  At
+Barne-Elms we walked round, and then to the barge again, and had much
+merry talk, and good singing; and come before it was dark to the New
+Exchange stairs, and there landed, and walked up to Mrs. Pierces, where we
+sat awhile, and then up to their dining-room.  And so, having a violin and
+theorbo, did fall to dance, here being also Mrs. Floyd come hither, and by
+and by Mr. Harris.  But there being so few of us that could dance, and my
+wife not being very well, we had not much pleasure in the dancing: there
+was Knepp also, by which with much pleasure we did sing a little, and so,
+about ten o'clock, I took coach with my wife and Deb., and so home, and
+there to bed.
+
+24th.  Up pretty betimes, and so there comes to me Mr. Shish, to desire my
+appearing for him to succeed Mr. Christopher Pett, lately dead, in his
+place of Master-Shipwright of Deptford and Woolwich, which I do resolve to
+promote what I can.  So by and by to White Hall, and there to the Duke of
+York's chamber, where I understand it is already resolved by the King and
+Duke of York that Shish shall have the place.  From the Duke's chamber Sir
+W. Coventry and I to walk in the Matted Gallery; and there, among other
+things, he tells me of the wicked design that now is at last contriving
+against him, to get a petition presented from people that the money they
+have paid to W. Coventry for their places may be repaid them back; and
+that this is set on by Temple and Hollis of the Parliament, and, among
+other mean people in it, by Captain Tatnell: and he prays me that I will
+use some effectual way to sift Tatnell what he do, and who puts him on in
+this business, which I do undertake, and will do with all my skill for his
+service, being troubled that he is still under this difficulty.  Thence up
+and down Westminster by Mrs. Burroughes her mother's shop, thinking to
+have seen her, but could not, and therefore back to White Hall, where
+great talk of the tumult at the other end of the town, about Moore-fields,
+among the 'prentices, taking the liberty of these holydays to pull down
+bawdy-houses.
+
+     [It was customary for the apprentices of the metropolis to avail
+     themselves of their holidays, especially on Shrove Tuesday, to
+     search after women of ill fame, and to confine them during the
+     season of Lent.  See a "Satyre against Separatists," 1642.
+
+          "Stand forth, Shrove Tuesday, one a' the silenc'st bricklayers;
+          'Tis in your charge to pull down bawdy-houses."
+
+                    Middleton's Inner Temple Masque, 1619,
+                         Works, ed.  Bullen, vii., 209.]
+
+And, Lord! to see the apprehensions which this did give to all people at
+Court, that presently order was given for all the soldiers, horse and
+foot, to be in armes!  and forthwith alarmes were beat by drum and trumpet
+through Westminster, and all to their colours, and to horse, as if the
+French were coming into the town!  So Creed, whom I met here, and I to
+Lincolne's Inn-fields, thinking to have gone into the fields to have seen
+the 'prentices; but here we found these fields full of soldiers all in a
+body, and my Lord Craven commanding of them, and riding up and down to
+give orders, like a madman.  And some young men we saw brought by soldiers
+to the Guard at White Hall, and overheard others that stood by say, that
+it was only for pulling down the bawdy-houses; and none of the bystanders
+finding fault with them, but rather of the soldiers for hindering them.
+And we heard a justice of the Peace this morning say to the King, that he
+had been endeavouring to suppress this tumult, but could not; and that,
+imprisoning some [of them] in the new prison at Clerkenwell, the rest did
+come and break open the prison and release them; and that they do give out
+that they are for pulling down the bawdy-houses, which is one of the
+greatest grievances of the nation.  To which the King made a very poor,
+cold, insipid answer: "Why, why do they go to them, then?"  and that was
+all, and had no mind to go on with the discourse.  Mr. Creed and I to
+dinner to my Lord Crew, where little discourse, there being none but us at
+the table, and my Lord and my Lady Jemimah, and so after dinner away,
+Creed and I to White Hall, expecting a Committee of Tangier, but come too
+late.  So I to attend the Council, and by and by were called in with Lord
+Brouncker and Sir W. Pen to advise how to pay away a little money to most
+advantage to the men of the yards, to make them dispatch the ships going
+out, and there did make a little speech, which was well liked, and after
+all it was found most satisfactory to the men, and best for the king's
+dispatch, that what money we had should be paid weekly to the men for
+their week's work until a greater sum could be got to pay them their
+arrears and then discharge them.  But, Lord!  to see what shifts and what
+cares and thoughts there was employed in this matter how to do the King's
+work and please the men and stop clamours would make a man think the King
+should not eat a bit of good meat till he has got money to pay the men,
+but I do not see the least print of care or thoughts in him about it at
+all.  Having done here, I out and there met Sir Fr. Hollis, who do still
+tell me that, above all things in the world, he wishes he had my tongue in
+his mouth, meaning since my speech in Parliament.  He took Lord Brouncker
+and me down to the guards, he and his company being upon the guards
+to-day; and there he did, in a handsome room to that purpose, make us
+drink, and did call for his bagpipes, which, with pipes of ebony, tipt
+with silver, he did play beyond anything of that kind that ever I heard in
+my life; and with great pains he must have obtained it, but with pains
+that the instrument do not deserve at all; for, at the best, it is mighty
+barbarous musick.  So home and there to my chamber, to prick out my song,
+"It is Decreed," intending to have it ready to give Mr. Harris on
+Thursday, when we meet, for him to sing, believing that he will do it more
+right than a woman that sings better, unless it were Knepp, which I cannot
+have opportunity to teach it to.  This evening I come home from White Hall
+with Sir W. Pen, who fell in talk about his going to sea this year, and
+the difficulties that arise to him by it, by giving offence to the Prince,
+and occasioning envy to him, and many other things that make it a bad
+matter, at this time of want of money and necessaries, and bad and uneven
+counsels at home,--for him to go abroad: and did tell me how much with the
+King and Duke of York he had endeavoured to be excused, desiring the
+Prince might be satisfied in it, who hath a mind to go; but he tells me
+they will not excuse him, and I believe it, and truly do judge it a piece
+of bad fortune to W. Pen.
+
+25th.  Up, and walked to White Hall, there to wait on the Duke of York,
+which I did: and in his chamber there, first by hearing the Duke of York
+call me by my name, my Lord Burlington did come to me, and with great
+respect take notice of me and my relation to my Lord Sandwich, and express
+great kindness to me; and so to talk of my Lord Sandwich's concernments.
+By and by the Duke of York is ready; and I did wait for an opportunity of
+speaking my mind to him about Sir J. Minnes, his being unable to do the
+King any service, which I think do become me to do in all respects, and
+have Sir W. Coventry's concurrence therein, which I therefore will seek a
+speedy opportunity to do, come what will come of it.  The Duke of York and
+all with him this morning were full of the talk of the 'prentices, who are
+not yet [put] down, though the guards and militia of the town have been in
+armes all this night, and the night before; and the 'prentices have made
+fools of them, sometimes by running from them and flinging stones at them.
+Some blood hath been spilt, but a great many houses pulled down; and,
+among others, the Duke of York was mighty merry at that of Damaris Page's,
+the great bawd of the seamen; and the Duke of York complained merrily that
+he hath lost two tenants, by their houses being pulled down, who paid him
+for their wine licenses L15 a year.  But here it was said how these idle
+fellows have had the confidence to say that they did ill in contenting
+themselves in pulling down the little bawdyhouses, and did not go and pull
+down the great bawdy-house at White Hall.  And some of them have the last
+night had a word among them, and it was "Reformation and Reducement."
+This do make the courtiers ill at ease to see this spirit among people,
+though they think this matter will not come to much: but it speaks
+people's minds; and then they do say that there are men of understanding
+among them, that have been of Cromwell's army: but how true that is, I
+know not.  Thence walked a little to Westminster, but met with nobody to
+spend any time with, and so by coach homeward, and in Seething Lane met
+young Mrs. Daniel, and I stopt, and she had been at my house, but found
+nobody within, and tells me that she drew me for her Valentine this year,
+so I took her into the coach, and was going to the other end of the town,
+thinking to have taken her abroad, but remembering that I was to go out
+with my wife this afternoon, .  .  .  and so to a milliner at the corner
+shop going into Bishopsgate and Leadenhall Street, and there did give her
+eight pair of gloves, and so dismissed her, and so I home and to dinner,
+and then with my wife to the King's playhouse to see "The Storme," which
+we did, but without much pleasure, it being but a mean play compared with
+"The Tempest," at the Duke of York's house, though Knepp did act her part
+of grief very well.  Thence with my wife and Deb. by coach to Islington,
+to the old house, and there eat and drank till it was almost night, and
+then home, being in fear of meeting the 'prentices, who are many of them
+yet, they say, abroad in the fields, but we got well home, and so I to my
+chamber a while, and then to supper and to bed.
+
+26th.  Up betimes to the office, where by and by my Lord Brouncker and I
+met and made an end of our business betimes.  So I away with him to Mrs.
+Williams's, and there dined, and thence I alone to the Duke of York's
+house, to see the new play, called "The Man is the Master," where the
+house was, it being not above one o'clock, very full.  But my wife and
+Deb. being there before, with Mrs. Pierce and Corbet and Betty Turner,
+whom my wife carried with her, they made me room; and there I sat, it
+costing me 8s. upon them in oranges, at 6d. a-piece.  By and by the King
+come; and we sat just under him, so that I durst not turn my back all the
+play.  The play is a translation out of French, and the plot Spanish, but
+not anything extraordinary at all in it, though translated by Sir W.
+Davenant, and so I found the King and his company did think meanly of it,
+though there was here and there something pretty: but the most of the
+mirth was sorry, poor stuffe, of eating of sack posset and slabbering
+themselves, and mirth fit for clownes; the prologue but poor, and the
+epilogue little in it but the extraordinariness of it, it being sung by
+Harris and another in the form of a ballet.  Thence, by agreement, we all
+of us to the Blue Balls, hard by, whither Mr. Pierce also goes with us,
+who met us at the play, and anon comes Manuel, and his wife, and Knepp,
+and Harris, who brings with him Mr. Banister, the great master of musique;
+and after much difficulty in getting of musique, we to dancing, and then
+to a supper of some French dishes, which yet did not please me, and then
+to dance and sing; and mighty merry we were till about eleven or twelve at
+night, with mighty great content in all my company, and I did, as I love
+to do, enjoy myself in my pleasure as being the height of what we take
+pains for and can hope for in this world, and therefore to be enjoyed
+while we are young and capable of these joys.  My wife extraordinary fine
+to-day, in her flower tabby suit, bought a year and more ago, before my
+mother's death put her into mourning, and so not worn till this day: and
+every body in love with it; and indeed she is very fine and handsome in
+it.  I having paid the reckoning, which come to almost L4., we parted: my
+company and William Batelier, who was also with us, home in a coach, round
+by the Wall, where we met so many stops by the Watches, that it cost us
+much time and some trouble, and more money, to every Watch, to them to
+drink; this being encreased by the trouble the 'prentices did lately give
+the City, so that the Militia and Watches are very strict at this time;
+and we had like to have met with a stop for all night at the Constable's
+watch, at Mooregate, by a pragmatical Constable; but we come well home at
+about two in the morning, and so to bed.  This noon, from Mrs. Williams's,
+my Lord Brouncker sent to Somersett House to hear how the Duchess of
+Richmond do; and word was brought him that she is pretty well, but mighty
+full of the smallpox, by which all do conclude she will be wholly spoiled,
+which is the greatest instance of the uncertainty of beauty that could be
+in this age; but then she hath had the benefit of it to be first married,
+and to have kept it so long, under the greatest temptations in the world
+from a King, and yet without the least imputation.  This afternoon, at the
+play, Sir Fr. Hollis spoke to me as a secret, and matter of confidence in
+me, and friendship to Sir W. Pen, who is now out of town, that it were
+well he were made acquainted that he finds in the House of Commons, which
+met this day, several motions made for the calling strictly again upon the
+Miscarriages, and particularly in the business of the Prises, and the not
+prosecuting of the first victory, only to give an affront to Sir W. Pen,
+whose going to sea this year do give them matter of great dislike.  So
+though I do not much trouble myself for him, yet I am sorry that he should
+have this fall so unhappily without any fault, but rather merit of his own
+that made him fitter for this command than any body else, and the more for
+that this business of his may haply occasion their more eager pursuit
+against the whole body of the office.
+
+27th.  Up, and walked to the waterside, and thence to White Hall to the
+Duke of York's chamber, where he being ready he went to a Committee of
+Tangier, where I first understand that my Lord Sandwich is, in his coming
+back from Spayne, to step over thither, to see in what condition the place
+is, which I am glad of, hoping that he will be able to do some good there,
+for the good of the place, which is so much out of order.  Thence to walk
+a little in Westminster Hall, where the Parliament I find sitting, but
+spoke with nobody to let me know what they are doing, nor did I enquire.
+Thence to the Swan and drank, and did baiser Frank, and so down by water
+back again, and to the Exchange a turn or two, only to show myself, and
+then home to dinner, where my wife and I had a small squabble, but I first
+this day tried the effect of my silence and not provoking her when she is
+in an ill humour, and do find it very good, for it prevents its coming to
+that height on both sides which used to exceed what was fit between us.
+So she become calm by and by and fond, and so took coach, and she to the
+mercer's to buy some lace, while I to White Hall, but did nothing, but
+then to Westminster Hall and took a turn, and so to Mrs. Martin's, and
+there did sit a little and talk and drink, and did hazer con her, and so
+took coach and called my wife at Unthanke's, and so up and down to the
+Nursery, where they did not act, then to the New Cockpit, and there
+missed, and then to Hide Parke, where many coaches, but the dust so great,
+that it was troublesome, and so by night home, where to my chamber and
+finished my pricking out of my song for Mr. Harris ("It is decreed"), and
+so a little supper, being very sleepy and weary since last night, and so
+by to o'clock to bed and slept well all night.  This day, at noon, comes
+Mr. Pelling to me, and shews me the stone cut lately out of Sir Thomas
+Adams' (the old comely Alderman's) body, which is very large indeed,
+bigger I think than my fist, and weighs above twenty-five ounces and,
+which is very miraculous, he never in all his life had any fit of it, but
+lived to a great age without pain, and died at last of something else,
+without any sense of this in all his life.  This day Creed at White Hall
+in discourse told me what information he hath had, from very good hands,
+of the cowardice and ill-government of Sir Jer. Smith and Sir Thomas
+Allen, and the repute they have both of them abroad in the Streights, from
+their deportment when they did at several times command there; and that,
+above all Englishmen that ever were there, there never was any man that
+behaved himself like poor Charles Wager, whom the very Moores do mention,
+with teares sometimes.
+
+28th.  Up, and to the office, where all the morning busy, and at noon home
+to dinner with my clerks; and though my head full of business, yet I had a
+desire to end this holyday week with a play; and so, with my wife and
+Deb., to the King's house, and there saw "The Indian Emperour," a very
+good play indeed, and thence directly home, and to my writing of my
+letters, and so home to supper and to bed for fearing my eyes.  Our
+greatest business at the office to-day is our want of money for the
+setting forth of these ships that are to go out, and my people at dinner
+tell me that they do verily doubt that the want of men will be so great,
+as we must press; and if we press, there will be mutinies in the town; for
+the seamen are said already to have threatened the pulling down of the
+Treasury Office; and if they do once come to that, it will not be long
+before they come to ours.
+
+29th (Lord's day).  Up, and I to Church, where I have not been these many
+weeks before, and there did first find a strange Reader, who could not
+find in the Service-book the place for churching women, but was fain to
+change books with the clerke: and then a stranger preached, a seeming able
+man; but said in his pulpit that God did a greater work in raising of an
+oake-tree from an akehorne, than a man's body raising it, at the last day,
+from his dust (shewing the possibility of the Resurrection): which was,
+methought, a strange saying.  At home to dinner, whither comes and dines
+with me W. Howe, and by invitation Mr. Harris and Mr. Banister, most
+extraordinary company both, the latter for musique of all sorts, the
+former for everything: here we sang, and Banister played on the theorbo,
+and afterwards Banister played on his flageolet, and I had very good
+discourse with him about musique, so confirming some of my new notions
+about musique that it puts me upon a resolution to go on and make a scheme
+and theory of musique not yet ever made in the world.  Harris do so
+commend my wife's picture of Mr. Hales's, that I shall have him draw
+Harris's head; and he hath also persuaded me to have Cooper draw my
+wife's, which, though it cost L30, yet I will have done.  Thus spent the
+afternoon most deliciously, and then broke up and walked with them as far
+as the Temple, and there parted, and I took coach to Westminster, but
+there did nothing, meeting nobody that I had a mind to speak with, and so
+home, and there find Mr. Pelling, and then also comes Mrs. Turner, and
+supped and talked with us, and so to bed.  I do hear by several that Sir
+W. Pen's going to sea do dislike the Parliament mightily, and that they
+have revived the Committee of Miscarriages to find something to prevent
+it; and that he being the other day with the Duke of Albemarle to ask his
+opinion touching his going to sea, the Duchess overheard and come in to
+him, and asks W. Pen how he durst have the confidence to offer to go to
+sea again, to the endangering the nation, when he knew himself such a
+coward as he was, which, if true, is very severe.
+
+30th.  Up betimes, and so to the office, there to do business till about
+to o'clock, and then out with my wife and Deb. and W. Hewer by coach to
+Common-garden Coffee-house, where by appointment I was to meet Harris;
+which I did, and also Mr. Cooper, the great painter, and Mr. Hales: and
+thence presently to Mr. Cooper's house, to see some of his work, which is
+all in little, but so excellent as, though I must confess I do think the
+colouring of the flesh to be a little forced, yet the painting is so
+extraordinary, as I do never expect to see the like again.  Here I did see
+Mrs. Stewart's picture as when a young maid, and now just done before her
+having the smallpox: and it would make a man weep to see what she was
+then, and what she is like to be, by people's discourse, now.  Here I saw
+my Lord Generall's picture, and my Lord Arlington and Ashly's, and several
+others; but among the rest one Swinfen, that was Secretary to my Lord
+Manchester, Lord Chamberlain, with Cooling, done so admirably as I never
+saw any thing: but the misery was, this fellow died in debt, and never
+paid Cooper for his picture; but, it being seized on by his creditors,
+among his other goods, after his death, Cooper himself says that he did
+buy it, and give L25 out of his purse for it, for what he was to have had
+but L30.  Being infinitely satisfied with this sight, and resolving that
+my wife shall be drawn by him when she comes out of the country, I away
+with Harris and Hales to the Coffee-house, sending my people away, and
+there resolve for Hales to begin Harris's head for me, which I will be at
+the cost of.  After a little talk, I away to White Hall and Westminster,
+where I find the Parliament still bogling about the raising of this money:
+and every body's mouth full now; and Mr. Wren himself tells me that the
+Duke of York declares to go to sea himself this year; and I perceive it is
+only on this occasion of distaste of the Parliament against W. Pen's
+going, and to prevent the Prince's: but I think it is mighty hot counsel
+for the Duke of York at this time to go out of the way; but, Lord! what a
+pass are all our matters come to!  At noon by appointment to Cursitor's
+Alley, in Chancery Lane, to meet Captain Cocke and some other creditors of
+the Navy, and their Counsel, Pemberton, North, Offly, and Charles Porter;
+and there dined, and talked of the business of the assignments on the
+Exchequer of the L1,250,000 on behalf of our creditors; and there I do
+perceive that the Counsel had heard of my performance in the
+Parliamenthouse lately, and did value me and what I said accordingly.  At
+dinner we had a great deal of good discourse about Parliament: their
+number being uncertain, and always at the will of the King to encrease, as
+he saw reason to erect a new borough.  But all concluded that the bane of
+the Parliament hath been the leaving off the old custom of the places
+allowing wages to those that served them in Parliament, by which they
+chose men that understood their business and would attend it, and they
+could expect an account from, which now they cannot; and so the Parliament
+is become a company of men unable to give account for the interest of the
+place they serve for. Thence, the meeting of the Counsel with the King's
+Counsel this afternoon being put off by reason of the death of Serjeant
+Maynard's lady, I to White Hall, where the Parliament was to wait on the
+King; and they did: and it was to be told that he did think fit to tell
+them that they might expect to be adjourned at Whitsuntide, and that they
+might make haste to raise their money; but this, I fear, will displease
+them, who did expect to sit as long as they pleased, and whether this be
+done by the King upon some new counsel I know not, for the King must be
+beholding to them till they do settle this business of money.  Great talk
+to-day as if Beaufort was come into the Channel with about 20 ships, and
+it makes people apprehensive, but yet the Parliament do not stir a bit
+faster in the business of money.  Here I met with Creed, expecting a
+Committee of Tangier, but the Committee met not, so he and I up and down,
+having nothing to do, and particularly to the New Cockpit by the King's
+Gate in Holborne, but seeing a great deal of rabble we did refuse to go
+in, but took coach and to Hide Park, and there till all the tour was
+empty, and so he and I to the Lodge in the Park, and there eat and drank
+till it was night, and then carried him to White Hall, having had
+abundance of excellent talk with him in reproach of the times and
+managements we live under, and so I home, and there to talk and to supper
+with my wife, and so to bed.
+
+31st.  Up pretty betimes and to the office, where we sat all the morning,
+and at noon I home to dinner, where uncle Thomas dined with me, as he do
+every quarter, and I paid him his pension; and also comes Mr. Hollier a
+little fuddled, and so did talk nothing but Latin, and laugh, that it was
+very good sport to see a sober man in such a humour, though he was not
+drunk to scandal.  At dinner comes a summons for this office and the
+Victualler to attend a Committee of Parliament this afternoon, with Sir D.
+Gawden, which I accordingly did, with my papers relating to the sending of
+victuals to Sir John Harman's fleete; and there, Sir R. Brookes in the
+chair, we did give them a full account, but, Lord! to see how full they
+are and immoveable in their jealousy that some means are used to keep
+Harman from coming home, for they have an implacable desire to know the
+bottom of the not improving the first victory, and would lay it upon
+Brouncker.  Having given them good satisfaction I away thence, up and
+down, wanting a little to see whether I could get Mrs. Burroughes out, but
+elle being in the shop ego did speak con her much, she could not then go
+far, and so I took coach and away to Unthanke's, and there took up my wife
+and Deb., and to the Park, where, being in a hackney, and they undressed,
+was ashamed to go into the tour, but went round the park, and so with
+pleasure home, where Mr. Pelting come and sat and talked late with us, and
+he being gone, I called Deb. to take pen, ink, and paper and write down
+what things come into my head for my wife to do in order to her going into
+the country, and the girl, writing not so well as she would do, cried, and
+her mistress construed it to be sullenness, and so away angry with her
+too, but going to bed she undressed me, and there I did give her good
+advice and baiser la, elle weeping still.
+
+
+
+
+
+     ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:
+
+     Act against Nonconformists and Papists
+     Bookseller's, and there looked for Montaigne's Essays
+     Bought Montaigne's Essays, in English
+     But if she will ruin herself, I cannot help it
+     Endangering the nation, when he knew himself such a coward
+     I know not how in the world to abstain from reading
+     Inventing a better theory of musique
+     King, "it is then but Mr. Pepys making of another speech to them"
+     Never saw so many sit four hours together to hear any man
+     Not eat a bit of good meat till he has got money to pay the men
+     Slabbering themselves, and mirth fit for clownes
+     To be enjoyed while we are young and capable of these joys
+     Tried the effect of my silence and not provoking her
+     Trouble, and more money, to every Watch, to them to drink
+     Uncertainty of beauty
+     Without importunity or the contrary
+
+
+
+
+
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