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Up, and to dress myself, and call as I use Deb. to brush and +dress me . . . , and I to my office, where busy till noon, and then +out to bespeak some things against my wife's going into the country +to-morrow, and so home to dinner, my wife and I alone, she being mighty +busy getting her things ready for her journey, I all the afternoon with +her looking after things on the same account, and then in the afternoon +out and all alone to the King's house, and there sat in an upper box, to +hide myself, and saw "The Black Prince," a very good play; but only the +fancy, most of it, the same as in the rest of my Lord Orrery's plays; but +the dance very stately; but it was pretty to see how coming after dinner +and with no company with me to talk to, and at a play that I had seen, +and went to now not for curiosity but only idleness, I did fall asleep +the former part of the play, but afterward did mind it and like it very +well. Thence called at my bookseller's, and took Mr. Boyle's Book of +Formes, newly reprinted, and sent my brother my old one. So home, and +there to my chamber till anon comes Mr. Turner and his wife and daughter, +and Pelting, to sup with us and talk of my wife's journey to-morrow, her +daughter going with my wife; and after supper to talk with her husband +about the Office, and his place, which, by Sir J. Minnes's age and +inability, is very uncomfortable to him, as well as without profit, or +certainty what he shall do, when Sir J. Minnes dies, which is a sad +condition for a man that hath lived so long in the Office as Mr. Turner +hath done. But he aymes, and I advise him to it, to look for Mr. +Ackworth's place, in case he should be removed. His wife afterwards did +take me into my closet, and give me a cellar + + [A box to hold bottles. "Run for the cellar of strong waters + quickly" + --Ben Jonson, Magnetic Lady, act iii., sc. r.] + +of waters of her own distilling for my father, to be carried down with my +wife and her daughter to-morrow, which was very handsome. So broke up +and to bed. + + + +2nd. Up, after much pleasant talk with my wife, and upon some +alterations I will make in my house in her absence, and I do intend to +lay out some money thereon. So she and I up, and she got her ready to be +gone, and by and by comes Betty Turner and her mother, and W. Batelier, +and they and Deb., to whom I did give 10s. this morning, to oblige her to +please her mistress (and ego did baiser her mouche), and also Jane, and +so in two coaches set out about eight o'clock towards the carrier, there +for to take coach for my father's, that is to say, my wife and Betty +Turner, Deb., and Jane; but I meeting my Lord Anglesey going to the +Office, was forced to 'light in Cheapside, and there took my leave of +them (not baisado Deb., which je had a great mind to), left them to go to +their coach, and I to the office, where all the morning busy, and so at +noon with my other clerks (W. Hewer being a day's journey with my wife) +to dinner, where Mr. Pierce come and dined with me, and then with Lord +Brouncker (carrying his little kinswoman on my knee, his coach being +full), to the Temple, where my Lord and I 'light and to Mr. Porter's +chamber, where Cocke and his counsel, and so to the attorney's, whither +the Sollicitor-Generall come, and there, their cause about their +assignments on the LI,250,000 Act was argued, where all that was to be +said for them was said, and so answered by the Sollicitor-Generall beyond +what I expected, that I said not one word all my time, rather choosing to +hold my tongue, and so mind my reputation with the Sollicitor-Generall, +who did mightily approve of my speech in Parliament, than say anything +against him to no purpose. This I believe did trouble Cocke and these +gentlemen, but I do think this best for me, and so I do think that the +business will go against them, though it is against my judgment, and I am +sure against all justice to the men to be invited to part with their +goods and be deceived afterward of their security for payment. Thence +with Lord Brouncker to the Royall Society, where they were just done; but +there I was forced to subscribe to the building of a College, and did +give L40; and several others did subscribe, some greater and some less +sums; but several I saw hang off: and I doubt it will spoil the Society, +for it breeds faction and ill-will, and becomes burdensome to some that +cannot, or would not, do it. Here, to my great content, I did try the +use of the Otacousticon,--[Ear trumpet.]--which was only a great glass +bottle broke at the bottom, putting the neck to my eare, and there I did +plainly hear the dashing of the oares of the boats in the Thames to +Arundell gallery window, which, without it, I could not in the least do, +and may, I believe, be improved to a great height, which I am mighty glad +of. Thence with Lord Brouncker and several of them to the King's Head +Taverne by Chancery Lane, and there did drink and eat and talk, and, +above the rest, I did hear of Mr. Hooke and my Lord an account of the +reason of concords and discords in musique, which they say is from the +equality of vibrations; but I am not satisfied in it, but will at my +leisure think of it more, and see how far that do go to explain it. So +late at night home with Mr. Colwell, and parted, and I to the office, and +then to Sir W. Pen to confer with him, and Sir R. Ford and Young, about +our St. John Baptist prize, and so home, without more supper to bed, my +family being now little by the departure of my wife and two maids. + + + +3rd. Up, and Captain Perryman come to me to tell me how Tatnell told him +that this day one How is to charge me before the Commissioners of Prizes +to the value of L8000 in prizes, which I was troubled to hear, so fearful +I am, though I know that there is not a penny to be laid to my charge +that I dare not own, or that I have not owned under my hand, but upon +recollection it signifies nothing to me, and so I value it not, being +sure that I can have nothing in the world to my hurt known from the +business. So to the office, where all the morning to despatch business, +and so home to dinner with my clerks, whose company is of great pleasure +to me for their good discourse in any thing of the navy I have a mind to +talk of. After dinner by water from the Tower to White Hall, there to +attend the Duke of York as usual, and particularly in a fresh complaint +the Commissioners of the Treasury do make to him, and by and by to the +Council this day of our having prepared certificates on the Exchequer to +the further sum of near L50,000, and soon as we had done with the Duke of +York we did attend the Council; and were there called in, and did hear +Mr. Sollicitor [General] make his Report to the Council in the business; +which he did in a most excellent manner of words, but most cruelly severe +against us, and so were some of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, +as men guilty of a practice with the tradesmen, to the King's prejudice. +I was unwilling to enter into a contest with them; but took advantage of +two or three words last spoke, and brought it to a short issue in good +words, that if we had the King's order to hold our hands, we would, which +did end the matter: and they all resolved we should have it, and so it +ended: and so we away; I vexed that I did not speak more in a cause so +fit to be spoke in, and wherein we had so much advantage; but perhaps I +might have provoked the Sollicitor and the Commissioners of the Treasury, +and therefore, since, I am not sorry that I forbore. Thence my Lord +Brouncker and I to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw the latter +part of "The Master and the Man," and thence by coach to Duck Lane, to +look out for Marsanne, in French, a man that has wrote well of musique, +but it is not to be had, but I have given order for its being sent for +over, and I did here buy Des Cartes his little treatise of musique, and +so home, and there to read a little, and eat a little, though I find that +my having so little taste do make me so far neglect eating that, unless +company invite, I do not love to spend time upon eating, and so bring +emptiness and the Cholique. So to bed. This day I hear that Prince +Rupert and Holmes do go to sea: and by this there is a seeming friendship +and peace among our great seamen; but the devil a bit is there any love +among them, or can be. + + + +4th. Up betimes, and by coach towards White Hall, and took Aldgate +Street in my way, and there called upon one Hayward, that makes +virginalls, and did there like of a little espinette, and will have him +finish it for me; for I had a mind to a small harpsichon, but this takes +up less room, and will do my business as to finding out of chords, and I +am very well pleased that I have found it. Thence to White Hall, and +after long waiting did get a small running Committee of Tangier, where I +staid but little, and little done but the correcting two or three +egregious faults in the Charter for Tangier after it had so long lain +before the Council and been passed there and drawn up by the Atturney +Generall, so slightly are all things in this age done. Thence home to +the office by water, where we sat till noon, and then I moved we might go +to the Duke of York and the King presently to get out their order in +writing that was ordered us yesterday about the business of certificates, +that we might be secure against the tradesmen who (Sir John Banks by +name) have told me this day that they will complain in Parliament against +us for denying to do them right. So we rose of a sudden, being mighty +sensible of this inconvenience we are liable to should we delay to give +them longer, and yet have no order for our indemnity. I did dine with +Sir W. Pen, where my Lady Batten did come with desire of meeting me +there, and speaking with me about the business of the L500 we demand of +her for the Chest. She do protest, before God, she never did see the +account, but that it was as her husband in his life-time made it, and he +did often declare to her his expecting L500, and that we could not deny +it him for his pains in that business, and that he hath left her worth +nothing of his own in the world, and that therefore she could pay nothing +of it, come what will come, but that he hath left her a beggar, which I +am sorry truly for, though it is a just judgment upon people that do live +so much beyond themselves in housekeeping and vanity, as they did. I did +give her little answer, but generally words that might not trouble her, +and so to dinner, and after dinner Sir W. Pen and I away by water to +White Hall, and there did attend the Duke of York, and he did carry us to +the King's lodgings: but he was asleep in his closet; so we stayed in the +Green-Roome, where the Duke of York did tell us what rules he had, of +knowing the weather, and did now tell us we should have rain before to- +morrow, it having been a dry season for some time, and so it did rain all +night almost; and pretty rules he hath, and told Brouncker and me some of +them, which were such as no reason seems ready to be given. By and by +the King comes out, and he did easily agree to what we moved, and would +have the Commissioners of the Navy to meet us with him to-morrow morning: +and then to talk of other things; about the Quakers not swearing, and how +they do swear in the business of a late election of a Knight of the Shire +of Hartfordshire in behalf of one they have a mind to have; and how my +Lord of Pembroke says he hath heard him (the Quaker) at the tennis-court +swear to himself when he loses: and told us what pretty notions my Lord +Pembroke hath of the first chapter of Genesis, how Adam's sin was not the +sucking (which he did before) but the swallowing of the apple, by which +the contrary elements begun to work in him, and to stir up these +passions, and a great deal of such fooleries, which the King made mighty +mockery at. Thence my Lord Brouncker and I into the Park in his coach, +and there took a great deal of ayre, saving that it was mighty dusty, and +so a little unpleasant. Thence to Common Garden with my Lord, and there +I took a hackney and home, and after having done a few letters at the +office, I home to a little supper and so to bed, my eyes being every day +more and more weak and apt to be tired. + + + +5th (Lord's day). Up, and to my chamber, and there to the writing fair +some of my late musique notions, and so to church, where I have not been +a good while, and thence home, and dined at home, with W. Hewer with me; +and after dinner, he and I a great deal of good talk touching this +Office, how it is spoiled by having so many persons in it, and so much +work that is not made the work of any one man, but of all, and so is +never done; and that the best way to have it well done, were to have the +whole trust in one, as myself, to set whom I pleased to work in the +several businesses of the Office, and me to be accountable for the whole, +and that would do it, as I would find instruments: but this is not to be +compassed; but something I am resolved to do about Sir J. Minnes before +it be long. Then to my chamber again, to my musique, and so to church; +and then home, and thither comes Captain Silas Taylor to me, the +Storekeeper of Harwich, where much talk, and most of it against Captain +Deane, whom I do believe to be a high, proud fellow; but he is an active +man, and able in his way, and so I love him. He gone, I to my musique +again, and to read a little, and to sing with Mr. Pelling, who come to +see me, and so spent the evening, and then to supper and to bed. I hear +that eight of the ringleaders in the late tumults of the 'prentices at +Easter are condemned to die. + + [Four were executed on May 9th, namely, Thomas Limmerick, Edward + Cotton, Peter Massenger, and Richard Beasley. They were drawn, + hanged, and quartered at Tyburn, and two of their heads fixed upon + London Bridge ("The London Gazette," No. 259). See "The Tryals of + such persons as under the notion of London Apprentices were + tumultuously assembled in Moore Fields, under colour of pulling down + bawdy-houses," 4to., London, 1668. "It is to be observed," says + "The London Gazette," "to the just vindication of the City, that + none of the persons apprehended upon the said tumult were found to + be apprentices, as was given out, but some idle persons, many of + them nursed in the late Rebellion, too readily embracing any + opportunity of making their own advantages to the disturbance of the + peace, and injury of others."] + + + +6th. Betimes I to Alderman Backewell, and with him to my Lord Ashly's, +where did a little business about Tangier, and to talk about the business +of certificates, wherein, contrary to what could be believed, the King +and Duke of York themselves, in my absence, did call for some of the +Commissioners of the Treasury, and give them directions about the +business [of the certificates], which I, despairing to do any thing on a +Sunday, and not thinking that they would think of it themselves, did rest +satisfied, and stayed at home all yesterday, leaving it to do something +in this day; but I find that the King and Duke of York had been so +pressing in it, that my Lord Ashly was more forward with the doing of it +this day, than I could have been. And so I to White Hall with Alderman +Backewell in his coach, with Mr. Blany; my Lord's Secretary: and there +did draw up a rough draught of what order I would have, and did carry it +in, and had it read twice and approved of, before my Lord Ashly and three +more of the Commissioners of the Treasury, and then went up to the +Council-chamber, where the Duke of York, and Prince Rupert, and the rest +of the Committee of the Navy were sitting: and I did get some of them to +read it there: and they would have had it passed presently, but Sir John +Nicholas desired they would first have it approved by a full Council: +and, therefore, a Council Extraordinary was readily summoned against the +afternoon, and the Duke of York run presently to the King, as if now they +were really set to mind their business, which God grant! So I thence to +Westminster, and walked in the Hall and up and down, the House being +called over to-day, and little news, but some talk as if the agreement +between France and Spain were like to be, which would be bad for us, and +at noon with Sir Herbert Price to Mr. George Montagu's to dinner, being +invited by him in the hall, and there mightily made of, even to great +trouble to me to be so commended before my face, with that flattery and +importunity, that I was quite troubled with it. Yet he is a fine +gentleman, truly, and his lady a fine woman; and, among many sons that I +saw there, there was a little daughter that is mighty pretty, of which he +is infinite fond: and, after dinner, did make her play on the gittar and +sing, which she did mighty prettily, and seems to have a mighty musical +soul, keeping time with most excellent spirit. Here I met with Mr. +Brownlow, my old schoolfellow, who come thither, I suppose, as a suitor +to one of the young ladies that were there, and a sober man he seems to +be. But here Mr. Montagu did tell me how Mr. Vaughan, in that very room, +did say that I was a great man, and had great understanding, and I know +not what, which, I confess, I was a little proud of, if I may believe +him. Here I do hear, as a great secret, that the King, and Duke of York +and Duchesse, and my Lady Castlemayne, are now all agreed in a strict +league, and all things like to go very current, and that it is not +impossible to have my Lord Clarendon, in time, here again. But I do hear +that my Lady Castlemayne is horribly vexed at the late libell, + + ["The Poor Whores' Petition to the most splendid, illustrious, + serene and eminent Lady of Pleasure the Countess of Castlemayne, + &c., signed by us, Madam Cresswell and Damaris Page, this present + 25th day of March, 1668." This sham petition occasioned a pretended + answer, entitled, "The Gracious Answer of the Most Illustrious Lady + of Pleasure, the Countess of Castlem . . . . to the Poor Whores' + Petition." It is signed, "Given at our Closset, in King Street, + Westminster, die Veneris, April 24, 1668. Castlem . . . ." + Compare Evelyn, April 2nd, 1668.] + +the petition of the poor whores about the town, whose houses were pulled +down the other day. I have got one of them, but it is not very witty, +but devilish severe against her and the King and I wonder how it durst be +printed and spread abroad, which shews that the times are loose, and come +to a great disregard of the King, or Court, or Government. Thence I to +White Hall to attend the Council, and when the Council rose we find my +order mightily enlarged by the Sollicitor Generall, who was called +thither, making it more safe for him and the Council, but their order is +the same in the command of it that I drew, and will I think defend us +well. So thence, meeting Creed, he and I to the new Cocke-pitt by the +King's gate, and there saw the manner of it, and the mixed rabble of +people that come thither; and saw two battles of cocks, wherein is no +great sport, but only to consider how these creatures, without any +provocation, do fight and kill one another, and aim only at one another's +heads, and by their good will not leave till one of them be killed; and +thence to the Park in a hackney coach, so would not go into the tour, but +round about the Park, and to the House, and there at the door eat and +drank; whither come my Lady Kerneagy, of whom Creed tells me more +particulars; how her Lord, finding her and the Duke of York at the King's +first coming in too kind, did get it out of her that he did dishonour +him, and so bid her continue . . . , which is the most pernicious and +full piece of revenge that ever I heard of; and he at this day owns it +with great glory, and looks upon the Duke of York and the world with +great content in the ampleness of his revenge. Thence (where the place +was now by the last night's rain very pleasant, and no dust) to White +Hall, and set Creed down, and I home and to my chamber, and there about +my musique notions again, wherein I take delight and find great +satisfaction in them, and so, after a little supper, to bed. This day, +in the afternoon, stepping with the Duke of York into St. James's Park, +it rained: and I was forced to lend the Duke of York my cloak, which he +wore through the Park. + + + +7th. Up, and at the office all the morning, where great hurry to be made +in the fitting forth of this present little fleet, but so many rubs by +reason of want of money, and people's not believing us in cases where we +had money unless (which in several cases, as in hiring of vessels, cannot +be) they be paid beforehand, that every thing goes backward instead of +forward. At noon comes Mr. Clerke, my solicitor, and the Auditor's men +with my account drawn up in the Exchequer way with their queries, which +are neither many nor great, or hard to answer upon it, and so dined with +me, and then I by coach to the King's playhouse, and there saw "The +English Monsieur;"' sitting for privacy sake in an upper box: the play +hath much mirth in it as to that particular humour. After the play done, +I down to Knipp, and did stay her undressing herself; and there saw the +several players, men and women go by; and pretty to see how strange they +are all, one to another, after the play is done. Here I saw a wonderful +pretty maid of her own, that come to undress her, and one so pretty that +she says she intends not to keep her, for fear of her being undone in her +service, by coming to the playhouse. Here I hear Sir W. Davenant is just +now dead; and so who will succeed him in the mastership of the house is +not yet known. The eldest Davenport is, it seems, gone from this house +to be kept by somebody; which I am glad of, she being a very bad actor. +I took her then up into a coach and away to the Park, which is now very +fine after some rain, but the company was going away most, and so I took +her to the Lodge, and there treated her and had a deal of good talk, and +now and then did baiser la, and that was all, and that as much or more +than I had much mind to because of her paint. She tells me mighty news, +that my Lady Castlemayne is mightily in love with Hart of their house: +and he is much with her in private, and she goes to him, and do give him +many presents; and that the thing is most certain, and Becke Marshall +only privy to it, and the means of bringing them together, which is a +very odd thing; and by this means she is even with the King's love to +Mrs. Davis. This done, I carried her and set her down at Mrs. Manuel's, +but stayed not there myself, nor went in; but straight home, and there to +my letters, and so home to bed. + + + +8th. Up, and at my office all the morning, doing business, and then at +noon home to dinner all alone. Then to White Hall with Sir J. Minnes in +his coach to attend the Duke of York upon our usual business, which was +this day but little, and thence with Lord Brouncker to the Duke of York's +playhouse, where we saw "The Unfortunate Lovers," no extraordinary play, +methinks, and thence I to Drumbleby's, and there did talk a great deal +about pipes; and did buy a recorder, which I do intend to learn to play +on, the sound of it being, of all sounds in the world, most pleasing to +me. Thence home, and to visit Mrs. Turner, where among other talk, Mr. +Foly and her husband being there, she did tell me of young Captain +Holmes's marrying of Pegg Lowther last Saturday by stealth, which I was +sorry for, he being an idle rascal, and proud, and worth little, I doubt; +and she a mighty pretty, well-disposed lady, and good fortune. Her +mother and friends take on mightily; but the sport is, Sir Robert Holmes +do seem to be mad too with his brother, and will disinherit him, saying +that he hath ruined himself, marrying below himself, and to his +disadvantage; whereas, I said, in this company, that I had married a +sister lately, with little above half that portion, that he should have +kissed her breech before he should have had her, which, if R. Holmes +should hear, would make a great quarrel; but it is true I am heartily +sorry for the poor girl that is undone by it. So home to my chamber, to +be fingering of my Recorder, and getting of the scale of musique without +book, which I at last see is necessary for a man that would understand +musique, as it is now taught to understand, though it be a ridiculous and +troublesome way, and I know I shall be able hereafter to show the world a +simpler way; but, like the old hypotheses in philosophy, it must be +learned, though a man knows a better. Then to supper, and to bed. This +morning Mr. Christopher Pett's widow and daughter come to me, to desire +my help to the King and Duke of York, and I did promise, and do pity her. + + + +9th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning sitting, then at noon +home to dinner with my people, and so to the office again writing of my +letters, and then abroad to my bookseller's, and up and down to the Duke +of York's playhouse, there to see, which I did, Sir W. Davenant's corpse +carried out towards Westminster, there to be buried. Here were many +coaches and six horses, and many hacknies, that made it look, methought, +as if it were the buriall of a poor poet. He seemed to have many +children, by five or six in the first mourning-coach, all boys. And +there I left them coming forth, and I to the New Exchange, there to meet +Mrs. Burroughs, and did take her in a carosse and carry elle towards the +Park, kissing her . . . , but did not go into any house, but come back +and set her down at White Hall, and did give her wrapt in paper for my +Valentine's gift for the last year before this, which I never did yet +give her anything for, twelve half-crowns, and so back home and there to +my office, where come a packet from the Downes from my brother Balty, +who, with Harman, is arrived there, of which this day come the first +news. And now the Parliament will be satisfied, I suppose, about the +business they have so long desired between Brouncker and Harman about not +prosecuting the first victory. Balty is very well, and I hope hath +performed his work well, that I may get him into future employment. I +wrote to him this night, and so home, and there to the perfecting my +getting the scale of musique without book, which I have done to +perfection backward and forward, and so to supper and to bed. + + + +10th (Friday) All the morning at Office. At noon with W. Pen to Duke of +York, and attended Council. So to piper and Duck Lane, and there kissed +bookseller's wife, and bought Legend. So home, coach. Sailor. Mrs. +Hannam dead. News of Peace. Conning my gamut. + + [The entries from April 10th to April 19th are transcribed from + three leaves (six pages) of rough notes, which are inserted in the + MS. The rough notes were made to serve for a sort of account book, + but the amounts paid are often not registered in the fair copy when + he came to transcribe his notes into the Diary.] + + + +12th (Sunday). Dined at Brouncker's, and saw the new book. Peace. +Cutting away sails. + + + +13th (Monday). Spent at Michel's 6d.; in the Folly, 1s.; + + [The Folly was a floating house of entertainment on the Thames, + which at this time was a fashionable resort.] + +oysters, 1s.; coach to W. Coventry about Mrs. Pett, 1s.; thence to +Commissioners of Treasury, and so to Westminster Hall by water, 6d. With +G. Montagu and Roger Pepys, and spoke with Birch and Vaughan, all in +trouble about the prize business. So to Lord Crew's (calling for a low +pipe by the way), where Creed and G. M. and G. C. come, 1s. So with +Creed to a play. Little laugh, 4s. Thence towards the Park by coach, +2s. 6d. Come home, met with order of Commissioners of Accounts, which +put together with the rest vexed me, and so home to supper and to bed. + + + +14th (Tuesday). Up betimes by water to the Temple. In the way read the +Narrative about prizes; and so to Lord Crew's bedside, and then to +Westminster, where I hear Pen is, and sent for by messenger last night. +Thence to Commissioners of Accounts and there examined, and so back to +Westminster Hall, where all the talk of committing all to the Tower, and +Creed and I to the Quaker's, dined together. Thence to the House, where +rose about four o'clock; and, with much ado, Pen got to Thursday to bring +in his answer; so my Lord escapes to-day. Thence with Godage and G. +Montagu to G. Carteret's, and there sat their dinner-time: and hear +myself, by many Parliament-men, mightily commended. Thence to a play, +"Love's Cruelty," and so to my Lord Crew's, who glad of this day's time +got, and so home, and there office, and then home to supper and to bed, +my eyes being the better upon leaving drinking at night. Water, 1s. +Porter, 6d. Water, 6d. Dinner, 3s. 6d. Play part, 2s. Oranges, 1s. +Home coach, 1s. 6d. + + + +15th. After playing a little upon my new little flageolet, that is so +soft that pleases me mightily, betimes to my office, where most of the +morning. Then by coach, 1s., and meeting Lord Brouncker, 'light at the +Exchange, and thence by water to White Hall, 1s., and there to the +Chapel, expecting wind musick and to the Harp-and-Ball, and drank all +alone, 2d. Back, and to the fiddling concert, and heard a practice +mighty good of Grebus, and thence to Westminster Hall, where all cry out +that the House will be severe with Pen; but do hope well concerning the +buyers, that we shall have no difficulty, which God grant! Here met +Creed, and, about noon, he and I, and Sir P. Neale to the Quaker's, and +there dined with a silly Executor of Bishop Juxon's, and cozen Roger +Pepys. Business of money goes on slowly in the House. Thence to White +Hall by water, and there with the Duke of York a little, but stayed not, +but saw him and his lady at his little pretty chapel, where I never was +before: but silly devotion, God knows! Thence I left Creed, and to the +King's playhouse, into a corner of the 18d. box, and there saw "The +Maid's Tragedy," a good play. Coach, 1s.: play and oranges, 2s. 6d. +Creed come, dropping presently here, but he did not see me, and come to +the same place, nor would I be seen by him. Thence to my Lord Crew's, +and there he come also after, and there with Sir T. Crew bemoaning my +Lord's folly in leaving his old interest, by which he hath now lost all. +An ill discourse in the morning of my Lord's being killed, but this +evening Godolphin tells us here that my Lord is well. Thence with Creed +to the Cock ale-house, and there spent 6d., and so by coach home, 2s. +6d., and so to bed. + + + +16th. Th[ursday]. Greeting's book, is. Begun this day to learn the +Recorder. To the office, where all the morning. Dined with my clerks: +and merry at Sir W. Pen's crying yesterday, as they say, to the King, +that he was his martyr. So to White Hall by coach to Commissioners of +[the] Treasury about certificates, but they met not, 2s. To Westminster +by water. To Westminster Hall, where I hear W. Pen is ordered to be +impeached, 6d. There spoke with many, and particularly with G. Montagu: +and went with him and Creed to his house, where he told how W. Pen hath +been severe to Lord Sandwich; but the Coventrys both labouring to save +him, by laying it on Lord Sandwich, which our friends cry out upon, and I +am silent, but do believe they did it as the only way to save him. It +could not be carried to commit him. It is thought the House do coole: +W. Coventry's being for him, provoked Sir R. Howard and his party; +Court, all for W. Pen. Thence to White Hall, but no meeting of the +Commissioners, and there met Mr. Hunt, and thence to Mrs. Martin's, and, +there did what I would, she troubled for want of employ for her husband, +spent on her 1s. Thence to the Hall to walk awhile and ribbon, spent is. +So [to] Lord Crew's, and there with G. Carteret and my Lord to talk, and +they look upon our matters much the better, and by this and that time is +got, 1s. So to the Temple late, and by water, by moonshine, home, 1s. +Cooks, 6d. Wrote my letters to my Lady Sandwich, and so home, where +displeased to have my maid bring her brother, a countryman, to lye there, +and so to bed. + + + +17th (Friday). Called up by Balty's coming, who gives me a good account +of his voyage, and pleases me well, and I hope hath got something. This +morning paid the Royall Society L1 6s., and so to the office all the +morning. At noon home to dinner with my people, and there much pretty +discourse of Balty's. So by coach to White Hall: the coachman on Ludgate +Hill 'lighted, and beat a fellow with a sword, 2s. 6d. Did little +business with the Duke of York. Hear that the House is upon the business +of Harman, who, they say, takes all on himself. Thence, with Brouncker, +to the King's house, and saw "The Surprizall," where base singing, only +Knepp,' who come, after her song in the clouds, to me in the pit, and +there, oranges, 2s. After the play, she, and I, and Rolt, by coach, 6s. +6d., to Kensington, and there to the Grotto, and had admirable pleasure +with their singing, and fine ladies listening to us: with infinite +pleasure, I enjoyed myself: so to the tavern there, and did spend 16s. +6d., and the gardener 2s. Mighty merry, and sang all the way to the +town, a most pleasant evening, moonshine, and set them at her house in +Covent Garden, and I home and to bed. + + + +18th (Saturday). Up, and my bookseller brought home books, bound--the +binding comes to 17s. Advanced to my maid Bridget L1. Sir W. Pen at the +Office, seemingly merry. Do hear this morning that Harman is committed +by the Parliament last night, the day he come up, which is hard; but he +took all upon himself first, and then when a witness come in to say +otherwise, he would have retracted; and the House took it so ill, they +would commit him. Thence home to dinner with my clerks, and so to White +Hall by water, 1s., and there a short Committee for Tangier, and so I to +the King's playhouse, 1s., and to the play of the "Duke of Lerma," 2s. +6d., and oranges, 1s. Thence by coach to Westminster, 1s., and the House +just up, having been about money business, 1s. So home by coach, 3s., +calling in Duck Lane, and did get Des Cartes' Musique in English,' and so +home and wrote my letters, and then to my chamber to save my eyes, and to +bed. + + + +19th (Sunday). Lay long. Roger Pepys and his son come, and to Church +with me, where W. Pen was, and did endeavour to shew himself to the +Church. Then home to dinner, and Roger Pepys did tell me the whole story +of Harman, how he prevaricated, and hath undoubtedly been imposed on, and +wheedled; and he is called the miller's man that, in Richard the Third's +time, was hanged for his master. + + [The story alluded to by Pepys, which belongs not to the reign of + Richard III., but to that of Edward VI., occurred during a seditious + outbreak at Bodmin, in Cornwall, and is thus related by Holinshed: + "At the same time, and neare the same place [Bodmin], dwelled a + miller, that had beene a greate dooer in that rebellion, for whom + also Sir Anthonie Kingston sought: but the miller being thereof + warned, called a good tall fellow that he had to his servant, and + said unto him, 'I have business to go from home; if anie therefore + come to ask for me, saie thou art the owner of the mill, and the man + for whom they shall so aske, and that thou hast kept this mill for + the space of three yeares; but in no wise name me.' The servant + promised his maister so to doo. And shortlie after, came Sir + Anthonie Kingston to the miller's house, and calling for the miller, + the servant came forth, and answered that he was the miller. 'How + long,' quoth Sir Anthonie, 'hast thou kept this mill?' He answered, + 'Three years.'--'Well, then,' said he, 'come on: thou must go with + me;' and caused his men to laie hands on him, and to bring him to + the next tree, saieing to him, 'Thou hast been a busie knave, and + therefore here shalt thou hang.' Then cried the fellow out, and + saide that he was not the miller, but the miller's man. 'Well, + then,' said Sir Anthonie, 'thou art a false knave to be in two + tales: therefore,' said he, 'hang him up;' and so incontinentlie + hanged he was indeed. After he was dead, one that was present told + Sir Anthonie, 'Surelie, sir, this was but the miller's man.'--`What + then!' said he, 'could he ever have done his maister better service + than to hang for him?'"--B.] + +So after dinner I took them by water to White Hall, taking in a very +pretty woman at Paul's Wharf, and there landed we, and I left Roger Pepys +and to St. Margaret's Church, and there saw Betty, and so to walk in the +Abbey with Sir John Talbot, who would fain have pumped me about the +prizes, but I would not let him, and so to walk towards Michell's to see +her, but could not, and so to Martin's, and her husband was at home, and +so took coach and to the Park, and thence home and to bed betimes. Water +1s., coach 5s. Balty borrowed L2. + + + +20th. Up betimes and to the getting ready my answer to the Committee of +Accounts to several questions, which makes me trouble, though I know of +no blame due to me from any, let them enquire what they can out. + + [The first part of the entry for April 20th is among the rough + notes, and stands as follows: "Monday 20. Up and busy about answer + to Committee of Accounts this morning about several questions which + vexed me though in none I have reason to be troubled. But the + business of The Flying Greyhound begins to find me some care, though + in that I am wholly void of blame." This may be compared with the + text.] + +I to White Hall, and there hear how Henry Brouncker is fled, which, I +think, will undo him: but what good it will do Harman I know not, he hath +so befooled himself; but it will be good sport to my Lord Chancellor to +hear how his great enemy is fain to take the same course that he is. +There met Robinson, who tells me that he fears his master, W. Coventry, +will this week have his business brought upon the stage again, about +selling of places, which I shall be sorry for, though the less, since I +hear his standing for Pen the other day, to the prejudice, though not to +the wrong, of my Lord Sandwich; and yet I do think what he did, he did +out of a principle of honesty. Thence to Committee of Accounts, and +delivered my paper, and had little discourse, and was unwilling to stay +long with them to enter into much, but away and glad to be from them, +though very civil to me, but cunning and close I see they are. So to +Westminster Hall, and there find the Parliament upon the Irish business, +where going into the Speaker's chamber I did hear how plainly one lawyer +of counsel for the complainants did inveigh by name against all the late +Commissioners there. Thence with Creed, thinking, but failed, of dining +with Lord Crew, and so he and I to Hercules Pillars, and there dined, and +thence home by coach, and so with Jack Fenn to the Chamberlain of London +to look after the state of some Navy assignments that are in his hands, +and thence away, and meeting Sir William Hooker, the Alderman, he did cry +out mighty high against Sir W. Pen for his getting such an estate, and +giving L15,000 with his daughter, which is more, by half, than ever he +did give; but this the world believes, and so let them. Thence took +coach and I all alone to Hyde Park (passing through Duck Lane among the +booksellers, only to get a sight of the pretty little woman I did salute +the other night, and did in passing), and so all the evening in the Park, +being a little unwilling to be seen there, and at night home, and thereto +W. Pen's and sat and talked there with his wife and children a good +while, he being busy in his closet, I believe preparing his defence in +Parliament, and so home to bed. + + + +21st. Up, and at the office all the morning, at noon dined at home, and +thence took Mrs. Turner out and carried her to the King's house, and saw +"The Indian Emperour;" and after that done, took Knepp out, and to +Kensington; and there walked in the garden, and then supped, and mighty +merry, there being also in the house Sir Philip Howard, and some company, +and had a dear reckoning, but merry, and away, it being quite night, +home, and dark, about 9 o'clock or more, and in my coming had the +opportunity the first time in my life to be bold with Knepp . . . , +and so left her at home, and so Mrs. Turner and I home to my letters and +to bed. Here hear how Sir W. Pen's impeachment was read, and agreed to, +in the House this day, and ordered to be engrossed; and he suspended the +House--[From sitting as a member pending the impeachment.-B.]-- Harman +set at liberty; and Brouncker put out of the House, and a writ for a new +election, and an impeachment ordered to be brought in against him, he +being fled! + + [Sir Charles Berkeley, jun. was chosen in his room. In the sea- + fight off Southwold Bay on June 3rd, 1665, the English triumphed + over the Dutch, but the very considerable victory was not followed + up. During the night, while the Duke of York slept, Henry + Brouncker, his groom of the bedchamber, ordered the lieutenant to + shorten sail, by which means the progress of the whole fleet was + retarded, the Duke of York's being the leading ship. The duke + affirmed that he first heard of Brouncker's unjustifiable action in + July, and yet he kept the culprit in his service for nearly two + years after the offence had come to his knowledge. After Brouncker + had been dismissed from the duke's service, the House of Commons + ejected him. The whole matter is one of the unsolved difficulties + of history. See Lister's "Life of Clarendon," ii., 334 335] + + + +22nd. Up, and all the morning at my office busy. At noon, it being +washing day, I toward White Hall, and stopped and dined all alone at +Hercules Pillars, where I was mighty pleased to overhear a woman talk to +her counsel how she had troubled her neighbours with law, and did it very +roguishly and wittily. Thence to White Hall, and there we attended the +Duke of York as usual; and I did present Mrs. Pett, the widow, and her +petition to the Duke of York, for some relief from the King. Here was +to-day a proposition made to the Duke of York by Captain Von Hemskirke +for L20,000, to discover an art how to make a ship go two foot for one +what any ship do now, which the King inclines to try, it costing him +nothing to try; and it is referred to us to contract with the man. +Thence to attend the Council about the business of certificates to the +Exchequer, where the Commissioners of the Treasury of different minds, +some would, and my Lord Ashly would not have any more made out, and +carried it there should not. After done here, and the Council up, I by +water from the Privy-stairs to Westminster Hall; and, taking water, the +King and the Duke of York were in the new buildings; and the Duke of York +called to me whither I was going? and I answered aloud, "To wait on our +maisters at Westminster;" at which he and all the company laughed; but I +was sorry and troubled for it afterwards, for fear any Parliament-man +should have been there; and will be a caution to me for the time to come. +Met with Roger Pepys, who tells me they have been on the business of +money, but not ended yet, but will take up more time. So to the +fishmonger's, and bought a couple of lobsters, and over to the 'sparagus +garden, thinking to have met Mr. Pierce, and his wife and Knepp; but met +their servant coming to bring me to Chatelin's, the French house, in +Covent Garden, and there with musick and good company, Manuel and his +wife, and one Swaddle, a clerk of Lord Arlington's, who dances, and +speaks French well, but got drunk, and was then troublesome, and here +mighty merry till ten at night, and then I away, and got a coach, and so +home, where I find Balty and his wife come to town, and did sup with +them, and so they to bed. This night the Duke of Monmouth and a great +many blades were at Chatelin's, and I left them there, with a hackney- +coach attending him. + + + +23rd. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon comes +Knepp and Mrs. Pierce, and her daughter, and one Mrs. Foster, and dined +with me, and mighty merry, and after dinner carried them to the Tower, +and shewed them all to be seen there, and, among other things, the Crown +and Scepters and rich plate, which I myself never saw before, and indeed +is noble, and I mightily pleased with it. Thence by water to the Temple, +and thereto the Cocke alehouse, and drank, and eat a lobster, and sang, +and mighty merry. So, almost night, I carried Mrs. Pierce home, and then +Knepp and I to the Temple again, and took boat, it being darkish, and to +Fox Hall, it being now night, and a bonfire burning at Lambeth for the +King's coronation-day. And there she and I drank; . . . . and so +back, and led her home, it being now ten at night; and so got a link; +and, walking towards home, just at my entrance into the ruines at St. +Dunstan's, I was met by two rogues with clubs, who come towards us. +So I went back, and walked home quite round by the wall, and got well +home, and to bed weary, but pleased at my day's pleasure, but yet +displeased at my expence, and time I lose. + + + +24th. Up betimes, and by water to White Hall, to the Duke of York, and +there hear that this day Hopis and Temple purpose to bring in the +petition against Sir W. Coventry, which I am sorry for, but hope he will +get out of it. Here I presented Mrs. Pett and her condition to Mr. Wren +for his favour, which he promised us. Thence to Lord Brouncker and sat +and talked with him, who thinks the Parliament will, by their violence +and delay in money matters, force the King to run any hazard, and +dissolve them. Thence to Ducke Lane, and there did overlook a great many +of Monsieur Fouquet's library, that a bookseller hath bought, and I did +buy one Spanish [work], "Los Illustres Varones." + + [Nicholas Fouquet, "Surintendant des Finances" in France, had built + at Vaux a house which surpassed in magnificence any palace belonging + to Louis XIV., prior to the erection of Versailles, and caused much + envy to all the Court, especially to Colbert. Fouquet died at + Pignerol in 1680, after nineteen years' incarceration; and whilst + Pepys was buying his books in London, Colbert had become prime + minister in France, and Colbert's brother ambassador in England. + The 'viper' had caught the 'squirrel'!--B.] + +Here did I endeavour to see my pretty woman that I did baiser in las +tenebras a little while depuis. And did find her sofa in the book[shop], +but had not la confidence para alter a elle. So lost my pains. But will +another time, and so home and to my office, and then to dinner. After +dinner down to the Old Swan, and by the way called at Michell's, and +there did see Betty, and that was all, for either she is shy or foolish, +and su mardi hath no mind para laiser me see su moher. To White Hall by +water, and there did our business with the Duke of York, which was very +little, only here I do hear the Duke of York tell how Sir W. Pen's +impeachment was brought into the House of Lords to-day; and spoke with +great kindness of him: and that the Lords would not commit him till they +could find precedent for it, and did incline to favour him. Thence to +the King's playhouse, and there saw a piece of "Beggar's Bush," which I +have not seen some years, and thence home, and there to Sir W. Pen's and +supped and sat talking there late, having no where else to go, and my +eyes too bad to read right, and so home to bed. + + + +25th. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes to my Lord Brouncker, and with him all +of us to my Lord Ashly to satisfy him about the reason of what we do or +have done in the business of the tradesmen's certificates, which he seems +satisfied with, but is not, but I believe we have done what we can +justify, and he hath done what he cannot in stopping us to grant them, +and I believe it will come into Parliament and make trouble. So home and +there at the office all the morning. At noon home to dinner, and thence +after dinner to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "Sir Martin +Marr-all," which, the more I see, the more I like, and thence to +Westminster Hall, and there met with Roger Pepys; and he tells me that +nothing hath lately passed about my Lord Sandwich, but only Sir Robert +Carr did speak hardly of him. But it is hoped that nothing will be done +more, this meeting of Parliament, which the King did, by a message +yesterday, declare again, should rise the 4th of May, and then only +adjourne for three months: and this message being only adjournment, did +please them mightily, for they are desirous of their power mightily. +Thence homeward by the Coffee House in Covent Garden, thinking to have +met Harris here but could not, and so home, and there, after my letters, +I home to have my hair cut by my sister Michell and her husband, and so +to bed. This day I did first put off my waste-coate, the weather being +very hot, but yet lay in it at night, and shall, for a little time. + + + +26th (Lord's day). Lay long, and then up and to Church, and so home, +where there come and dined with me Harris, Rolt, and Bannister, and one +Bland, that sings well also, and very merry at dinner, and, after dinner, +to sing all the afternoon. But when all was done, I did begin to think +that the pleasure of these people was not worth so often charge and cost +to me, as it hath occasioned me. They being gone I and Balty walked as +far as Charing Cross, and there got a coach and to Hales's the painter, +thinking to have found Harris sitting there for his picture, which is +drawing for me. But he, and all this day's company, and Hales, were got +to the Crown tavern, at next door, and thither I to them and stayed a +minute, leaving Captain Grant telling pretty stories of people that have +killed themselves, or been accessory to it, in revenge to other people, +and to mischief other people, and thence with Hales to his house, and +there did see his beginning of Harris's picture, which I think will be +pretty like, and he promises a very good picture. Thence with Balty away +and got a coach and to Hide Park, and there up and down and did drink +some milk at the Lodge, and so home and to bed. + + + +27th. Up, and Captain Deane come to see me, and he and I toward +Westminster together, and I set him down at White Hall, while I to +Westminster Hall, and up to the Lords' House, and there saw Sir W. Pen +go into the House of Lords, where his impeachment was read to him, and he +used mighty civilly, the Duke of York being there; and two days hence, at +his desire, he is to bring in his answer, and a day then to be appointed +for his being heard with Counsel. Thence down into the Hall, and with +Creed and Godolphin walked; and do hear that to-morrow is appointed, upon +a motion on Friday last, to discourse the business of my Lord Sandwich, +moved by Sir R. Howard, that he should be sent for, home; and I fear it +will be ordered. Certain news come, I hear, this day, that the Spanish +Plenipotentiary in Flanders will not agree to the peace and terms we and +the Dutch have made for him and the King of France; and by this means the +face of things may be altered, and we forced to join with the French +against Spain, which will be an odd thing. At noon with Creed to my Lord +Crew's, and there dined; and here was a very fine-skinned lady dined, the +daughter of my Lord Roberts, and also a fine lady, Mr. John Parkhurst his +wife, that was but a boy the other day. And after dinner there comes in +my Lady Roberts herself, and with her Mr. Roberts's daughter, that was +Mrs. Boddevill, the great beauty, and a fine lady indeed, the first time +I saw her. My Lord Crew, and Sir Thomas, and I, and Creed, all the +afternoon debating of my Lord Sandwich's business, against to-morrow, and +thence I to the King's playhouse, and there saw most of "The Cardinall," +a good play, and thence to several places to pay my debts, and then home, +and there took a coach and to Mile End to take a little ayre, and thence +home to Sir W. Pen's, where I supped, and sat all the evening; and being +lighted homeward by Mrs. Markham, I blew out the candle and kissed her, +and so home to bed. + + + +28th. Up betimes, and to Sir W. Coventry's by water, but lost my labour, +so through the Park to White Hall, and thence to my Lord Crew's to advise +again with him about my Lord Sandwich, and so to the office, where till +noon, and then I by coach to Westminster Hall, and there do understand +that the business of religion, and the Act against Conventicles, have so +taken them up all this morning, and do still, that my Lord Sandwich's +business is not like to come on to-day, which I am heartily glad of. +This law against Conventicles is very severe; but Creed, whom I met here, +do tell me that, it being moved that Papists' meetings might be included, +the House was divided upon it, and it was carried in the negative; which +will give great disgust to the people, I doubt. Thence with Creed to +Hercules Pillars by the Temple again, and there dined he and I all alone, +and thence to the King's house, and there did see "Love in a Maze," +wherein very good mirth of Lacy, the clown, and Wintersell, the country- +knight, his master. Thence to the New Exchange to pay a debt of my +wife's there, and so home, and there to the office and walk in the garden +in the dark to ease my eyes, and so home to supper and to bed. + + + +29th. Up, and to my office, where all the morning busy. At noon dined +at home, and my clerks with me, and thence I to White Hall, and there do +hear how Sir W. Pen hath delivered in his answer; and the Lords have sent +it down to the Commons, but they have not yet read it, nor taken notice +of it, so as, I believe, they will by design defer it till they rise, +that so he, by lying under an impeachment, may be prevented in his going +to sea, which will vex him, and trouble the Duke of York. Did little +business with the Duke of York, and then Lord Brouncker and I to the Duke +of York's playhouse, and there saw "Love in a Tubb;" and, after the play +done, I stepped up to Harris's dressing-room, where I never was, and +there I observe much company come to him, and the Witts, to talk, after +the play is done, and to assign meetings. Mine was to talk about going +down to see "The Resolution," and so away, and thence to Westminster +Hall, and there met with Mr. G. Montagu, and walked and talked; who tells +me that the best fence against the Parliament's present fury is delay, +and recommended it to me, in my friends' business and my own, if I have +any; and is that, that Sir W. Coventry do take, and will secure himself; +that the King will deliver up all to the Parliament; and being petitioned +the other day by Mr. Brouncker to protect him, with teares in his eyes, +the King did say he could not, and bid him shift for himself, at least +till the House is up. Thence I away to White Hall, and there took coach +home with a stranger I let into the coach, to club with me for it, he +going into London, I set him down at the lower end of Cheapside, and I +home, and to Sir W. Pen's, and there sat, and by and by, it being now +about nine o'clock at night, I heard Mercer's voice, and my boy Tom's +singing in the garden, which pleased me mightily, I longing to see the +girl, having not seen her since my wife went; and so into the garden to +her and sang, and then home to supper, and mightily pleased with her +company, in talking and singing, and so parted, and to bed. + + + +30th. Up, and at the office all the morning. At noon Sir J. Minnes and +I to the Dolphin Tavern, there to meet our neighbours, all of the Parish, +this being Procession-day, to dine. And did; and much very good +discourse; they being, most of them, very able merchants as any in the +City: Sir Andrew Rickard, Mr. Vandeputt, Sir John Fredericke, Harrington, +and others. They talked with Mr. Mills about the meaning of this day, +and the good uses of it; and how heretofore, and yet in several places, +they do whip a boy at each place they stop at in their procession. +Thence I to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "The Tempest," +which still pleases me mightily, and thence to the New Exchange, and then +home, and in the way stopped to talk with Mr. Brisband, who gives me an +account of the rough usage Sir G. Carteret and his Counsel had the other +day, before the Commissioners of Accounts, and what I do believe we shall +all of us have, in a greater degree than any he hath had yet with them, +before their three years are out, which are not yet begun, nor God knows +when they will, this being like to be no session of Parliament, when they +now rise. So home, and there took up Mrs. Turner and carried her to Mile +End and drank, and so back talking, and so home and to bed, I being +mighty cold, this being a mighty cold day, and I had left off my +waistcoat three or four days. This evening, coming home in the dusk, I +saw and spoke to our Nell, Pain's daughter, and had I not been very cold +I should have taken her to Tower hill para together et toker her. Thus +ends this month; my wife in the country, myself full of pleasure and +expence; and some trouble for my friends, my Lord Sandwich, by the +Parliament, and more for my eyes, which are daily worse and worse, that I +dare not write or read almost any thing. The Parliament going in a few +days to rise; myself so long without accounting now, for seven or eight +months, I think, or more, that I know not what condition almost I am in, +as to getting or spending for all that time, which troubles me, but I +will soon do it. The kingdom in an ill state through poverty; a fleete +going out, and no money to maintain it, or set it out; seamen yet unpaid, +and mutinous when pressed to go out again; our Office able to do little, +nobody trusting us, nor we desiring any to trust us, and yet have not +money for any thing, but only what particularly belongs to this fleete +going out, and that but lamely too. The Parliament several months upon +an Act for L300,000, but cannot or will not agree upon it, but do keep it +back, in spite of the King's desires to hasten it, till they can obtain +what they have a mind, in revenge upon some men for the late ill +managements; and he is forced to submit to what they please, knowing +that, without it, he shall have no money, and they as well, that, if they +give the money, the King will suffer them to do little more; and then the +business of religion do disquiet every body, the Parliament being +vehement against the Nonconformists, while the King seems to be willing +to countenance them. So we are all poor, and in pieces--God help us! +while the peace is like to go on between Spain and France; and then the +French may be apprehended able to attack us. So God help us! + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +Best fence against the Parliament's present fury is delay +But this the world believes, and so let them +Coach to W. Coventry about Mrs. Pett, 1s. +Ever have done his maister better service than to hang for him? +Making their own advantages to the disturbance of the peace +Parliament being vehement against the Nonconformists +Rough notes were made to serve for a sort of account book +Saw two battles of cocks, wherein is no great sport +Whip a boy at each place they stop at in their procession +Work that is not made the work of any one man + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v72 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + diff --git a/old/sp73g10.zip b/old/sp73g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..ec06153 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp73g10.zip |