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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.--[This is rather fine of Pepys who "ruins" +several women each week and yet considers himself on fit to judge. D.W.] + + + +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 + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v71 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + diff --git a/old/sp72g10.zip b/old/sp72g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..b3cc1c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp72g10.zip |