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diff --git a/4193.txt b/4193.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..148bbdb --- /dev/null +++ b/4193.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1417 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, November 1668, by Samuel Pepys + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, November 1668 + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Release Date: December 1, 2004 [EBook #4193] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY + MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + NOVEMBER + 1668 + +November 1st (Lord's day). Up, and with W. Hewer at my chamber all this +morning, going further in my great business for the Duke of York, and so +at noon to dinner, and then W. Hewer to write fair what he had writ, and +my wife to read to me all the afternoon, till anon Mr. Gibson come, and he +and I to perfect it to my full mind, and so to supper and to bed, my mind +yet at disquiet that I cannot be informed how poor Deb. stands with her +mistress, but I fear she will put her away, and the truth is, though it be +much against my mind and to my trouble, yet I think that it will be fit +that she should be gone, for my wife's peace and mine, for she cannot but +be offended at the sight of her, my wife having conceived this jealousy of +me with reason, and therefore for that, and other reasons of expense, it +will be best for me to let her go, but I shall love and pity her. This +noon Mr. Povy sent his coach for my wife and I to see, which we like +mightily, and will endeavour to have him get us just such another. + +2nd. Up, and a cold morning, by water through bridge without a cloak, and +there to Mr. Wren at his chamber at White Hall, the first time of his +coming thither this year, the Duchess coming thither tonight, and there he +and I did read over my paper that I have with so much labour drawn up +about the several answers of the officers of this Office to the Duke of +York's reflections, and did debate a little what advice to give the Duke +of York when he comes to town upon it. Here come in Lord Anglesy, and I +perceive he makes nothing of this order for his suspension, resolving to +contend and to bring it to the Council on Wednesday when the King is come +to town to-morrow, and Mr. Wren do join with him mightily in it, and do +look upon the Duke of York as concerned more in it than he. So to visit +Creed at his chamber, but his wife not come thither yet, nor do he tell me +where she is, though she be in town, at Stepney, at Atkins's. So to Mr. +Povy's to talk about a coach, but there I find my Lord Sandwich, and +Peterborough, and Hinchingbroke, Charles Harbord, and Sidney Montagu; and +there I was stopped, and dined mighty nobly at a good table, with one +little dish at a time upon it, but mighty merry. I was glad to see it: +but sorry, methought, to see my Lord have so little reason to be merry, +and yet glad, for his sake, to have him cheerful. After dinner up, and +looked up and down the house, and so to the cellar; and thence I slipt +away, without taking leave, and so to a few places about business, and +among others to my bookseller's in Duck Lane, and so home, where the house +still full of dirt by painters and others, and will not be clean a good +while. So to read and talk with my wife till by and by called to the +office about Sir W. Warren's business, where we met a little, and then +home to supper and to bed. This day I went, by Mr. Povy's direction, to a +coachmaker near him, for a coach just like his, but it was sold this very +morning. + +3rd. Up, and all the morning at the Office. At noon to dinner, and then +to the Office, and there busy till 12 at night, without much pain to my +eyes, but I did not use them to read or write, and so did hold out very +well. So home, and there to supper, and I observed my wife to eye my eyes +whether I did ever look upon Deb., which I could not but do now and then +(and to my grief did see the poor wretch look on me and see me look on +her, and then let drop a tear or two, which do make my heart relent at +this minute that I am writing this with great trouble of mind, for she is +indeed my sacrifice, poor girle); and my wife did tell me in bed by the by +of my looking on other people, and that the only way is to put things out +of sight, and this I know she means by Deb., for she tells me that her +Aunt was here on Monday, and she did tell her of her desire of parting +with Deb., but in such kind terms on both sides that my wife is mightily +taken with her. I see it will be, and it is but necessary, and therefore, +though it cannot but grieve me, yet I must bring my mind to give way to +it. We had a great deal of do this day at the Office about +Clutterbucke,--[See note to February 4th, 1663-64]--I declaring my dissent +against the whole Board's proceedings, and I believe I shall go near to +shew W. Pen a very knave in it, whatever I find my Lord Brouncker. + +4th. Up, and by coach to White Hall; and there I find the King and Duke +of York come the last night, and every body's mouth full of my Lord +Anglesey's suspension being sealed; which it was, it seems, yesterday; so +that he is prevented in his remedy at the Council; and, it seems, the two +new Treasurers did kiss the King's hand this morning, brought in by my +Lord Arlington. They walked up and down together the Court this day, and +several people joyed them; but I avoided it, that I might not be seen to +look either way. This day also I hear that my Lord Ormond is to be +declared in Council no more Deputy Governor of Ireland, his commission +being expired: and the King is prevailed with to take it out of his hands; +which people do mightily admire, saying that he is the greatest subject of +any prince in Christendome, and hath more acres of land than any, and hath +done more for his Prince than ever any yet did. But all will not do; he +must down, it seems, the Duke of Buckingham carrying all before him. But +that, that troubles me most is, that they begin to talk that the Duke of +York's regiment is ordered to be disbanded; and more, that undoubtedly his +Admiralty will follow: which do shake me mightily, and I fear will have +ill consequences in the nation, for these counsels are very mad. The Duke +of York do, by all men's report, carry himself wonderfull submissive to +the King, in the most humble manner in the world; but yet, it seems, +nothing must be spared that tends to, the keeping out of the Chancellor; +and that is the reason of all this. The great discourse now is, that the +Parliament shall be dissolved and another called, which shall give the +King the Deane and Chapter lands; and that will put him out of debt. And +it is said that Buckingham do knownly meet daily with Wildman and other +Commonwealth-men; and that when he is with them, he makes the King believe +that he is with his wenches; and something looks like the Parliament's +being dissolved, by Harry Brouncker's being now come back, and appears +this day the first day at White Hall; but hath not been yet with the King, +but is secure that he shall be well received, I hear. God bless us, when +such men as he shall be restored! But that, that pleases me most is, that +several do tell me that Pen is to be removed; and others, that he hath +resigned his place; and particularly Spragg tells me for certain that he +hath resigned it, and is become a partner with Gawden in the Victualling: +in which I think he hath done a very cunning thing; but I am sure I am +glad of it; and it will be well for the King to have him out of this +Office. Thence by coach, doing several errands, home and there to dinner, +and then to the Office, where all the afternoon till late at night, and so +home. Deb. hath been abroad to-day with her friends, poor girle, I +believe toward the getting of a place. This day a boy is sent me out of +the country from Impington by my cozen Roger Pepys' getting, whom I +visited this morning at his chamber in the Strand and carried him to +Westminster Hall, where I took a turn or two with him and Sir John Talbot, +who talks mighty high for my Lord of Ormond: and I perceive this family of +the Talbots hath been raised by my Lord. When I come home to-night I find +Deb. not come home, and do doubt whether she be not quite gone or no, but +my wife is silent to me in it, and I to her, but fell to other discourse, +and indeed am well satisfied that my house will never be at peace between +my wife and I unless I let her go, though it grieves me to the heart. My +wife and I spent much time this evening talking of our being put out of +the Office, and my going to live at Deptford at her brother's, till I can +clear my accounts, and rid my hands of the town, which will take me a year +or more, and I do think it will be best for me to do so, in order to our +living cheap, and out of sight. + +5th. Up, and Willet come home in the morning, and, God forgive me! I +could not conceal my content thereat by smiling, and my wife observed it, +but I said nothing, nor she, but away to the office. Presently up by +water to White Hall, and there all of us to wait on the Duke of York, +which we did, having little to do, and then I up and down the house, till +by and by the Duke of York, who had bid me stay, did come to his closet +again, and there did call in me and Mr. Wren; and there my paper, that I +have lately taken pains to draw up, was read, and the Duke of York pleased +therewith; and we did all along conclude upon answers to my mind for the +Board, and that that, if put in execution, will do the King's business. +But I do now more and more perceive the Duke of York's trouble, and that +he do lie under great weight of mind from the Duke of Buckingham's +carrying things against him; and particularly when I advised that he would +use his interest that a seaman might come into the room of W. Pen, who is +now declared to be gone from us to that of the Victualling, and did shew +how the Office would now be left without one seaman in it, but the +Surveyour and the Controller, who is so old as to be able to do nothing, +he told me plainly that I knew his mind well enough as to seamen, but that +it must be as others will. And Wren did tell it me as a secret, that when +the Duke of York did first tell the King about Sir W. Pen's leaving of the +place, and that when the Duke of York did move the King that either +Captain Cox or Sir Jer. Smith might succeed him, the King did tell him +that that was a matter fit to be considered of, and would not agree to +either presently; and so the Duke of York could not prevail for either, +nor knows who it shall be. The Duke of York did tell me himself, that if +he had not carried it privately when first he mentioned Pen's leaving his +place to the King, it had not been done; for the Duke of Buckingham and +those of his party do cry out upon it, as a strange thing to trust such a +thing into the hands of one that stands accused in Parliament: and that +they have so far prevailed upon the King that he would not have him named +in Council, but only take his name to the Board; but I think he said that +only D. Gawden's name shall go in the patent; at least, at the time when +Sir Richard Browne asked the King the names of D. Gawden's security, the +King told him it was not yet necessary for him to declare them. And by +and by, when the Duke of York and we had done, and Wren brought into the +closet Captain Cox and James Temple About business of the Guiney Company, +and talking something of the Duke of Buckingham's concernment therein, and +says the Duke of York, "I will give the Devil his due, as they say the +Duke of Buckingham hath paid in his money to the Company," or something of +that kind, wherein he would do right to him. The Duke of York told me how +these people do begin to cast dirt upon the business that passed the +Council lately, touching Supernumeraries, as passed by virtue of his +authority there, there being not liberty for any man to withstand what the +Duke of York advises there; which, he told me, they bring only as an +argument to insinuate the putting of the Admiralty into Commission, which +by all men's discourse is now designed, and I perceive the same by him. +This being done, and going from him, I up and down the house to hear news: +and there every body's mouth full of changes; and, among others, the Duke +of York's regiment of Guards, that was raised during the late war at sea, +is to be disbanded: and also, that this day the King do intend to declare +that the Duke of Ormond is no more Deputy of Ireland, but that he will put +it into Commission. This day our new Treasurers did kiss the King's hand, +who complimented them, as they say, very highly, that he had for a long +time been abused in his Treasurer, and that he was now safe in their +hands. I saw them walk up and down the Court together all this morning; +the first time I ever saw Osborne, who is a comely gentleman. This day I +was told that my Lord Anglesey did deliver a petition on Wednesday in +Council to the King, laying open, that whereas he had heard that his +Majesty had made such a disposal of his place, which he had formerly +granted him for life upon a valuable consideration, and that, without any +thing laid to his charge, and during a Parliament's sessions, he prayed +that his Majesty would be pleased to let his case be heard before the +Council and the judges of the land, who were his proper counsel in all +matters of right: to which, I am told, the King, after my Lord's being +withdrawn, concluded upon his giving him an answer some few days hence; +and so he was called in, and told so, and so it ended. Having heard all +this I took coach and to Mr. Povy's, where I hear he is gone to the Swedes +Resident in Covent Garden, where he is to dine. I went thither, but he is +not come yet, so I to White Hall to look for him, and up and down walking +there I met with Sir Robert Holmes, who asking news I told him of Sir W. +Pen's going from us, who ketched at it so as that my heart misgives me +that he will have a mind to it, which made me heartily sorry for my words, +but he invited me and would have me go to dine with him at the +Treasurer's, Sir Thomas Clifford, where I did go and eat some oysters; +which while we were at, in comes my Lord Keeper and much company; and so I +thought it best to withdraw. And so away, and to the Swedes Agent's, and +there met Mr. Povy; where the Agent would have me stay and dine, there +being only them, and Joseph Williamson, and Sir Thomas Clayton; but what +he is I know not. Here much extraordinary noble discourse of foreign +princes, and particularly the greatness of the King of France, and of his +being fallen into the right way of making the kingdom great, which [none] +of his ancestors ever did before. I was mightily pleased with this +company and their discourse, so as to have been seldom so much in all my +life, and so after dinner up into his upper room, and there did see a +piece of perspective, but much inferior to Mr. Povy's. Thence with Mr. +Povy spent all the afternoon going up and down among the coachmakers in +Cow Lane, and did see several, and at last did pitch upon a little +chariott, whose body was framed, but not covered, at the widow's, that +made Mr. Lowther's fine coach; and we are mightily pleased with it, it +being light, and will be very genteel and sober: to be covered with +leather, and yet will hold four. Being much satisfied with this, I +carried him to White Hall; and so by coach home, where give my wife a good +account of my day's work, and so to the office, and there late, and so to +bed. + +6th. Up, and presently my wife up with me, which she professedly now do +every day to dress me, that I may not see Willet, and do eye me, whether I +cast my eye upon her, or no; and do keep me from going into the room where +she is among the upholsters at work in our blue chamber. So abroad to +White Hall by water, and so on for all this day as I have by mistake set +down in the fifth day after this mark. + + [In the margin here is the following: "Look back one leaf + for my mistake."] + +In the room of which I should have said that I was at the office all the +morning, and so to dinner, my wife with me, but so as I durst not look +upon the girle, though, God knows, notwithstanding all my protestations I +could not keep my mind from desiring it. After dinner to the office +again, and there did some business, and then by coach to see Roger Pepys +at his lodgings, next door to Arundell House, a barber's; and there I did +see a book, which my Lord Sandwich hath promised one to me of, "A +Description of the Escuriall in Spain;" which I have a great desire to +have, though I took it for a finer book when he promised it me. With him +to see my cozen Turner and The., and there sat and talked, they being +newly come out of the country; and here pretty merry, and with The. to +shew her a coach at Mr. Povy's man's, she being in want of one, and so +back again with her, and then home by coach, with my mind troubled and +finding no content, my wife being still troubled, nor can be at peace +while the girle is there, which I am troubled at on the other side. We +past the evening together, and then to bed and slept ill, she being +troubled and troubling me in the night with talk and complaints upon the +old business. This is the day's work of the 5th, though it stands under +the 6th, my mind being now so troubled that it is no wonder that I fall +into this mistake more than ever I did in my life before. + +7th. Up, and at the office all the morning, and so to it again after +dinner, and there busy late, choosing to employ myself rather than go home +to trouble with my wife, whom, however, I am forced to comply with, and +indeed I do pity her as having cause enough for her grief. So to bed, and +there slept ill because of my wife. This afternoon I did go out towards +Sir D. Gawden's, thinking to have bespoke a place for my coach and horses, +when I have them, at the Victualling Office; but find the way so bad and +long that I returned, and looked up and down for places elsewhere, in an +inne, which I hope to get with more convenience than there. + +8th (Lord's day). Up, and at my chamber all the morning, setting papers +to rights, with my boy; and so to dinner at noon. The girle with us, but +my wife troubled thereat to see her, and do tell me so, which troubles me, +for I love the girle. At my chamber again to work all the afternoon till +night, when Pelling comes, who wonders to find my wife so dull and +melancholy, but God knows she hath too much cause. However, as pleasant +as we can, we supped together, and so made the boy read to me, the poor +girle not appearing at supper, but hid herself in her chamber. So that I +could wish in that respect that she was out of the house, for our peace is +broke to all of us while she is here, and so to bed, where my wife mighty +unquiet all night, so as my bed is become burdensome to me. + +9th. Up, and I did by a little note which I flung to Deb. advise her that +I did continue to deny that ever I kissed her, and so she might govern +herself. The truth is that I did adventure upon God's pardoning me this +lie, knowing how heavy a thing it would be for me to the ruin of the poor +girle, and next knowing that if my wife should know all it were impossible +ever for her to be at peace with me again, and so our whole lives would be +uncomfortable. The girl read, and as I bid her returned me the note, +flinging it to me in passing by. And so I abroad by [coach] to White +Hall, and there to the Duke of York to wait on him, who told me that Sir +W. Pen had been with him this morning, to ask whether it would be fit for +him to sit at the Office now, because of his resolution to be gone, and to +become concerned in the Victualling. The Duke of York answered, "Yes, +till his contract was signed:" Thence I to Lord Sandwich's, and there to +see him; but was made to stay so long, as his best friends are, and when I +come to him so little pleasure, his head being full of his own business, I +think, that I have no pleasure [to] go to him. Thence to White Hall with +him, to the Committee of Tangier; a day appointed for him to give an +account of Tangier, and what he did, and found there, which, though he had +admirable matter for it, and his doings there were good, and would have +afforded a noble account, yet he did it with a mind so low and mean, and +delivered in so poor a manner, that it appeared nothing at all, nor any +body seemed to value it; whereas, he might have shewn himself to have +merited extraordinary thanks, and been held to have done a very great +service: whereas now, all that cost the King hath been at for his journey +through Spain thither, seems to be almost lost. After we were up, Creed +and I walked together, and did talk a good while of the weak report my +Lord made, and were troubled for it; I fearing that either his mind and +judgment are depressed, or that he do it out of his great neglect, and so +my fear that he do all the rest of his affairs accordingly. So I staid +about the Court a little while, and then to look for a dinner, and had it +at Hercules-Pillars, very late, all alone, costing me 10d. And so to the +Excise Office, thinking to meet Sir Stephen Fox and the Cofferer, but the +former was gone, and the latter I met going out, but nothing done, and so +I to my bookseller's, and also to Crow's, and there saw a piece of my bed, +and I find it will please us mightily. So home, and there find my wife +troubled, and I sat with her talking, and so to bed, and there very +unquiet all night. + +10th. Up, and my wife still every day as ill as she is all night, will +rise to see me out doors, telling me plainly that she dares not let me see +the girle, and so I out to the office, where all the morning, and so home +to dinner, where I found my wife mightily troubled again, more than ever, +and she tells me that it is from her examining the girle and getting a +confession now from her of all . . . . which do mightily trouble me, as +not being able to foresee the consequences of it, as to our future peace +together. So my wife would not go down to dinner, but I would dine in her +chamber with her, and there after mollifying her as much as I could we +were pretty quiet and eat, and by and by comes Mr. Hollier, and dines +there by himself after we had dined, and he being gone, we to talk again, +and she to be troubled, reproaching me with my unkindness and perjury, I +having denied my ever kissing her. As also with all her old kindnesses to +me, and my ill-using of her from the beginning, and the many temptations +she hath refused out of faithfulness to me, whereof several she was +particular in, and especially from my Lord Sandwich, by the sollicitation +of Captain Ferrers, and then afterward the courtship of my Lord +Hinchingbrooke, even to the trouble of his lady. All which I did +acknowledge and was troubled for, and wept, and at last pretty good +friends again, and so I to my office, and there late, and so home to +supper with her, and so to bed, where after half-an-hour's slumber she +wakes me and cries out that she should never sleep more, and so kept +raving till past midnight, that made me cry and weep heartily all the +while for her, and troubled for what she reproached me with as before, and +at last with new vows, and particularly that I would myself bid the girle +be gone, and shew my dislike to her, which I will endeavour to perform, +but with much trouble, and so this appeasing her, we to sleep as well as +we could till morning. + +11th. Up, and my wife with me as before, and so to the Office, where, by +a speciall desire, the new Treasurers come, and there did shew their +Patent, and the Great Seal for the suspension of my Lord Anglesey: and +here did sit and discourse of the business of the Office: and brought Mr. +Hutchinson with them, who, I hear, is to be their Paymaster, in the room +of Mr. Waith. For it seems they do turn out every servant that belongs to +the present Treasurer: and so for Fenn, do bring in Mr. Littleton, Sir +Thomas's brother, and oust all the rest. But Mr. Hutchinson do already +see that his work now will be another kind of thing than before, as to the +trouble of it. They gone, and, indeed, they appear, both of them, very +intelligent men, I home to dinner, and there with my people dined, and so +to my wife, who would not dine with [me] that she might not have the girle +come in sight, and there sat and talked a while with her and pretty quiet, +I giving no occasion of offence, and so to the office [and then by coach +to my cozen Roger Pepys, who did, at my last being with him this day +se'nnight, move me as to the supplying him with L500 this term, and L500 +the next, for two years, upon a mortgage, he having that sum to pay, a +debt left him by his father, which I did agree to, trusting to his honesty +and ability, and am resolved to do it for him, that I may not have all I +have lie in the King's hands. Having promised him this I returned home +again, where to the office], and there having done, I home and to supper +and to bed, where, after lying a little while, my wife starts up, and with +expressions of affright and madness, as one frantick, would rise, and I +would not let her, but burst out in tears myself, and so continued almost +half the night, the moon shining so that it was light, and after much +sorrow and reproaches and little ravings (though I am apt to think they +were counterfeit from her), and my promise again to discharge the girle +myself, all was quiet again, and so to sleep. + +12th. Up, and she with me as heretofore, and so I to the Office, where +all the morning, and at noon to dinner, and Mr. Wayth, who, being at my +office about business, I took him with me to talk and understand his +matters, who is in mighty trouble from the Committee of Accounts about his +contracting with this Office for sayle-cloth, but no hurt can be laid at +his door in it, but upon us for doing it, if any, though we did it by the +Duke of York's approval, and by him I understand that the new Treasurers +do intend to bring in all new Instruments, and so having dined we parted, +and I to my wife and to sit with her a little, and then called her and +Willet to my chamber, and there did, with tears in my eyes, which I could +not help, discharge her and advise her to be gone as soon as she could, +and never to see me, or let me see her more while she was in the house, +which she took with tears too, but I believe understands me to be her +friend, and I am apt to believe by what my wife hath of late told me is a +cunning girle, if not a slut. Thence, parting kindly with my wife, I away +by coach to my cozen Roger, according as by mistake (which the trouble of +my mind for some days has occasioned, in this and another case a day or +two before) is set down in yesterday's notes, and so back again, and with +Mr. Gibson late at my chamber making an end of my draught of a letter for +the Duke of York, in answer to the answers of this Office, which I have +now done to my mind, so as, if the Duke likes it, will, I think, put an +end to a great deal of the faults of this Office, as well as my trouble +for them. So to bed, and did lie now a little better than formerly, but +with little, and yet with some trouble. + +13th. Up, and with Sir W. Pen by coach to White Hall, where to the Duke +of York, and there did our usual business; and thence I to the +Commissioners of the Treasury, where I staid, and heard an excellent case +argued between my Lord Gerard and the Town of Newcastle, about a piece of +ground which that Lord hath got a grant of, under the Exchequer Seal, +which they were endeavouring to get of the King under the Great Seal. I +liked mightily the Counsel for the town, Shaftow, their Recorder, and Mr. +Offly. But I was troubled, and so were the Lords, to hear my Lord fly out +against their great pretence of merit from the King, for their sufferings +and loyalty; telling them that they might thank him for that repute which +they have for their loyalty, for that it was he that forced them to be so, +against their wills, when he was there: and, moreover, did offer a paper +to the Lords to read from the Town, sent in 1648; but the Lords would not +read it; but I believe it was something about bringing the King to trial, +or some such thing, in that year. Thence I to the Three Tuns Tavern, by +Charing Cross, and there dined with W. Pen, Sir J. Minnes, and +Commissioner Middleton; and as merry as my mind could be, that hath so +much trouble upon it at home. And thence to White Hall, and there staid +in Mr. Wren's chamber with him, reading over my draught of a letter, which +Mr. Gibson then attended me with; and there he did like all, but doubted +whether it would be necessary for the Duke to write in so sharp a style to +the Office, as I had drawn it in; which I yield to him, to consider the +present posture of the times and the Duke of York and whether it were not +better to err on that hand than the other. He told me that he did not +think it was necessary for the Duke of York to do so, and that it would +not suit so well with his nature nor greatness; which last, perhaps, is +true, but then do too truly shew the effects of having Princes in places, +where order and discipline should be. I left it to him to do as the Duke +of York pleases; and so fell to other talk, and with great freedom, of +public things; and he told me, upon my several inquiries to that purpose, +that he did believe it was not yet resolved whether the Parliament should +ever meet more or no, the three great rulers of things now standing +thus:--The Duke of Buckingham is absolutely against their meeting, as +moved thereto by his people that he advises with, the people of the late +times, who do never expect to have any thing done by this Parliament for +their religion, and who do propose that, by the sale of the Church-lands, +they shall be able to put the King out of debt: my Lord Keeper is utterly +against putting away this and choosing another Parliament, lest they prove +worse than this, and will make all the King's friends, and the King +himself, in a desperate condition: my Lord Arlington know not which is +best for him, being to seek whether this or the next will use him worst. +He tells me that he believes that it is intended to call this Parliament, +and try them with a sum of money; and, if they do not like it, then to +send them going, and call another, who will, at the ruin of the Church +perhaps, please the King with what he will for a time. And he tells me, +therefore, that he do believe that this policy will be endeavoured by the +Church and their friends--to seem to promise the King money, when it shall +be propounded, but make the King and these great men buy it dear, before +they have it. He tells me that he is really persuaded that the design of +the Duke of Buckingham is, by bringing the state into such a condition as, +if the King do die without issue, it shall, upon his death, break into +pieces again; and so put by the Duke of York, who they have disobliged, +they know, to that degree, as to despair of his pardon. He tells me that +there is no way to rule the King but by brisknesse, which the Duke of +Buckingham hath above all men; and that the Duke of York having it not, +his best way is what he practices, that is to say, a good temper, which +will support him till the Duke of Buckingham and Lord Arlington fall out, +which cannot be long first, the former knowing that the latter did, in the +time of the Chancellor, endeavour with the Chancellor to hang him at that +time, when he was proclaimed against. And here, by the by, he told me +that the Duke of Buckingham did, by his friends, treat with my Lord +Chancellor, by the mediation of Matt. Wren and Matt. Clifford, to fall in +with my Lord Chancellor; which, he tells me, he did advise my Lord +Chancellor to accept of, as that, that with his own interest and the Duke +of York's, would undoubtedly have assured all to him and his family; but +that my Lord Chancellor was a man not to be advised, thinking himself too +high to be counselled: and so all is come to nothing; for by that means +the Duke of Buckingham became desperate, and was forced to fall in with +Arlington, to his [the Chancellor's] ruin. Thence I home, and there to +talk, with great pleasure all the evening, with my wife, who tells me that +Deb, has been abroad to-day, and is come home and says she has got a place +to go to, so as she will be gone tomorrow morning. This troubled me, and +the truth is, I have a good mind to have the maidenhead of this girl, +which I should not doubt to have if je could get time para be con her. +But she will be gone and I not know whither. Before we went to bed my +wife told me she would not have me to see her or give her her wages, and +so I did give my wife L10 for her year and half a quarter's wages, which +she went into her chamber and paid her, and so to bed, and there, blessed +be God! we did sleep well and with peace, which I had not done in now +almost twenty nights together. This afternoon I went to my coachmaker and +Crow's, and there saw things go on to my great content. This morning, at +the Treasury-chamber, I did meet Jack Fenn, and there he did shew me my +Lord Anglesey's petition and the King's answer: the former good and stout, +as I before did hear it: but the latter short and weak, saying that he was +not, by what the King had done, hindered from taking the benefit of his +laws, and that the reason he had to suspect his mismanagement of his money +in Ireland, did make him think it unfit to trust him with his Treasury in +England, till he was satisfied in the former. + +14th. Up, and had a mighty mind to have seen or given her a little money, +to which purpose I wrapt up 40s. in paper, thinking to have given her a +little money, but my wife rose presently, and would not let me be out of +her sight, and went down before me into the kitchen, and come up and told +me that she was in the kitchen, and therefore would have me go round the +other way; which she repeating and I vexed at it, answered her a little +angrily, upon which she instantly flew out into a rage, calling me dog and +rogue, and that I had a rotten heart; all which, knowing that I deserved +it, I bore with, and word being brought presently up that she was gone +away by coach with her things, my wife was friends, and so all quiet, and +I to the Office, with my heart sad, and find that I cannot forget the +girl, and vexed I know not where to look for her. And more troubled to +see how my wife is by this means likely for ever to have her hand over me, +that I shall for ever be a slave to her--that is to say, only in matters +of pleasure, but in other things she will make [it] her business, I know, +to please me and to keep me right to her, which I will labour to be +indeed, for she deserves it of me, though it will be I fear a little time +before I shall be able to wear Deb, out of my mind. At the Office all the +morning, and merry at noon, at dinner; and after dinner to the Office, +where all the afternoon, doing much business, late. My mind being free of +all troubles, I thank God, but only for my thoughts of this girl, which +hang after her. And so at night home to supper, and then did sleep with +great content with my wife. I must here remember that I have lain with my +moher as a husband more times since this falling out than in I believe +twelve months before. And with more pleasure to her than I think in all +the time of our marriage before. + +15th (Lord's day). Up, and after long lying with pleasure talking with my +wife, and then up to look up and down our house, which will when our +upholster hath done be mighty fine, and so to my chamber, and there did do +several things among my papers, and so to the office to write down my +journal for 6 or 7 days, my mind having been so troubled as never to get +the time to do it before, as may appear a little by the mistakes I have +made in this book within these few days. At noon comes Mr. Shepley to +dine with me and W. Howe, and there dined and pretty merry, and so after +dinner W. Howe to tell me what hath happened between him and the +Commissioners of late, who are hot again, more than ever, about my Lord +Sandwich's business of prizes, which I am troubled for, and the more +because of the great security and neglect with which, I think, my Lord do +look upon this matter, that may yet, for aught I know, undo him. They +gone, and Balty being come from the Downs, not very well, is come this day +to see us, I to talk with him, and with some pleasure, hoping that he will +make a good man. I in the evening to my Office again, to make an end of +my journall, and so home to my chamber with W. Hewer to settle some +papers, and so to supper and to bed, with my mind pretty quiet, and less +troubled about Deb. than I was, though yet I am troubled, I must confess, +and would be glad to find her out, though I fear it would be my ruin. +This evening there come to sit with us Mr. Pelling, who wondered to see my +wife and I so dumpish, but yet it went off only as my wife's not being +well, and, poor wretch, she hath no cause to be well, God knows. + +16th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and there at the robe chamber at a +Committee for Tangier, where some of us--my Lord Sandwich, Sir W. +Coventry, and myself, with another or two--met to debate the business of +the Mole, and there drew up reasons for the King's taking of it into his +own hands, and managing of it upon accounts with Sir H. Cholmley. This +being done I away to Holborne, about Whetstone's Park, where I never was +in my life before, where I understand by my wife's discourse that Deb. is +gone, which do trouble me mightily that the poor girle should be in a +desperate condition forced to go thereabouts, and there not hearing of any +such man as Allbon, with whom my wife said she now was, I to the Strand, +and there by sending Drumbleby's boy, my flageolet maker, to Eagle Court, +where my wife also by discourse lately let fall that he did lately live, I +find that this Dr. Allbon is a kind of poor broken fellow that dare not +shew his head nor be known where he is gone, but to Lincoln's Inn Fields I +went to Mr. Povy's, but missed him, and so hearing only that this Allbon +is gone to Fleet Street, I did only call at Martin's, my bookseller's, and +there bought "Cassandra," and some other French books for my wife's +closet, and so home, having eat nothing but two pennyworths of oysters, +opened for me by a woman in the Strand, while the boy went to and again to +inform me about this man, and therefore home and to dinner, and so all the +afternoon at the office, and there late busy, and so home to supper, and +pretty pleasant with my wife to bed, rested pretty well. + +17th. Up, and to the Office all the morning, where the new Treasurers +come, their second time, and before they sat down, did discourse with the +Board, and particularly my Lord Brouncker, about their place, which they +challenge, as having been heretofore due, and given to their predecessor; +which, at last, my Lord did own hath been given him only out of courtesy +to his quality, and that he did not take it as a right at the Board: so +they, for the present, sat down, and did give him the place, but, I think, +with an intent to have the Duke of York's directions about it. My wife and +maids busy now, to make clean the house above stairs, the upholsters +having done there, in her closet and the blue room, and they are mighty +pretty. At my office all the afternoon and at night busy, and so home to +my wife, and pretty pleasant, and at mighty ease in my mind, being in +hopes to find Deb., and without trouble or the knowledge of my wife. So +to supper at night and to bed. + +18th. Lay long in bed talking with my wife, she being unwilling to have +me go abroad, saying and declaring herself jealous of my going out for +fear of my going to Deb., which I do deny, for which God forgive me, for I +was no sooner out about noon but I did go by coach directly to Somerset +House, and there enquired among the porters there for Dr. Allbun, and the +first I spoke with told me he knew him, and that he was newly gone into +Lincoln's Inn Fields, but whither he could not tell me, but that one of +his fellows not then in the way did carry a chest of drawers thither with +him, and that when he comes he would ask him. This put me into some +hopes, and I to White Hall, and thence to Mr. Povy's, but he at dinner, +and therefore I away and walked up and down the Strand between the two +turnstiles, hoping to see her out of a window, and then employed a porter, +one Osberton, to find out this Doctor's lodgings thereabouts, who by +appointment comes to me to Hercules pillars, where I dined alone, but +tells me that he cannot find out any such, but will enquire further. +Thence back to White Hall to the Treasury a while, and thence to the +Strand, and towards night did meet with the porter that carried the chest +of drawers with this Doctor, but he would not tell me where he lived, +being his good master, he told me, but if I would have a message to him he +would deliver it. At last I told him my business was not with him, but a +little gentlewoman, one Mrs. Willet, that is with him, and sent him to see +how she did from her friend in London, and no other token. He goes while +I walk in Somerset House, walk there in the Court; at last he comes back +and tells me she is well, and that I may see her if I will, but no more. +So I could not be commanded by my reason, but I must go this very night, +and so by coach, it being now dark, I to her, close by my tailor's, and +she come into the coach to me, and je did baiser her . . . . I did +nevertheless give her the best council I could, to have a care of her +honour, and to fear God, and suffer no man para avoir to do con her as je +have done, which she promised. Je did give her 20s. and directions para +laisser sealed in paper at any time the name of the place of her being at +Herringman's, my bookseller in the 'Change, by which I might go para her, +and so bid her good night with much content to my mind, and resolution to +look after her no more till I heard from her. And so home, and there told +my wife a fair tale, God knows, how I spent the whole day, with which the +poor wretch was satisfied, or at least seemed so, and so to supper and to +bed, she having been mighty busy all day in getting of her house in order +against to-morrow to hang up our new hangings and furnishing our best +chamber. + +19th. Up, and at the Office all the morning, with my heart full of joy to +think in what a safe condition all my matters now stand between my wife +and Deb, and me, and at noon running up stairs to see the upholsters, who +are at work upon hanging my best room, and setting up my new bed, I find +my wife sitting sad in the dining room; which enquiring into the reason +of, she begun to call me all the false, rotten-hearted rogues in the +world, letting me understand that I was with Deb. yesterday, which, +thinking it impossible for her ever to understand, I did a while deny, but +at last did, for the ease of my mind and hers, and for ever to discharge +my heart of this wicked business, I did confess all, and above stairs in +our bed chamber there I did endure the sorrow of her threats and vows and +curses all the afternoon, and, what was worse, she swore by all that was +good that she would slit the nose of this girle, and be gone herself this +very night from me, and did there demand 3 or L400 of me to buy my peace, +that she might be gone without making any noise, or else protested that +she would make all the world know of it. So with most perfect confusion +of face and heart, and sorrow and shame, in the greatest agony in the +world I did pass this afternoon, fearing that it will never have an end; +but at last I did call for W. Hewer, who I was forced to make privy now to +all, and the poor fellow did cry like a child, [and] obtained what I could +not, that she would be pacified upon condition that I would give it under +my hand never to see or speak with Deb, while I live, as I did before with +Pierce and Knepp, and which I did also, God knows, promise for Deb. too, +but I have the confidence to deny it to the perjury of myself. So, before +it was late, there was, beyond my hopes as well as desert, a durable +peace; and so to supper, and pretty kind words, and to bed, and there je +did hazer con eile to her content, and so with some rest spent the night +in bed, being most absolutely resolved, if ever I can master this bout, +never to give her occasion while I live of more trouble of this or any +other kind, there being no curse in the world so great as this of the +differences between myself and her, and therefore I do, by the grace of +God, promise never to offend her more, and did this night begin to pray to +God upon my knees alone in my chamber, which God knows I cannot yet do +heartily; but I hope God will give me the grace more and more every day to +fear Him, and to be true to my poor wife. This night the upholsters did +finish the hanging of my best chamber, but my sorrow and trouble is so +great about this business, that it puts me out of all joy in looking upon +it or minding how it was. + +20th. This morning up, with mighty kind words between my poor wife and I; +and so to White Hall by water, W. Hewer with me, who is to go with me +every where, until my wife be in condition to go out along with me +herself; for she do plainly declare that she dares not trust me out alone, +and therefore made it a piece of our league that I should alway take +somebody with me, or her herself, which I am mighty willing to, being, by +the grace of God, resolved never to do her wrong more. We landed at the +Temple, and there I bid him call at my cozen Roger Pepys's lodgings, and I +staid in the street for him, and so took water again at the Strand stairs; +and so to White Hall, in my way I telling him plainly and truly my +resolutions, if I can get over this evil, never to give new occasion for +it. He is, I think, so honest and true a servant to us both, and one that +loves us, that I was not much troubled at his being privy to all this, but +rejoiced in my heart that I had him to assist in the making us friends, +which he did truly and heartily, and with good success, for I did get him +to go to Deb. to tell her that I had told my wife all of my being with her +the other night, that so if my wife should send she might not make the +business worse by denying it. While I was at White Hall with the Duke of +York, doing our ordinary business with him, here being also the first time +the new Treasurers. W. Hewer did go to her and come back again, and so I +took him into St. James's Park, and there he did tell me he had been with +her, and found what I said about my manner of being with her true, and had +given her advice as I desired. I did there enter into more talk about my +wife and myself, and he did give me great assurance of several particular +cases to which my wife had from time to time made him privy of her loyalty +and truth to me after many and great temptations, and I believe them +truly. I did also discourse the unfitness of my leaving of my employment +now in many respects to go into the country, as my wife desires, but that +I would labour to fit myself for it, which he thoroughly understands, and +do agree with me in it; and so, hoping to get over this trouble, we about +our business to Westminster Hall to meet Roger Pepys, which I did, and did +there discourse of the business of lending him L500 to answer some +occasions of his, which I believe to be safe enough, and so took leave of +him and away by coach home, calling on my coachmaker by the way, where I +like my little coach mightily. But when I come home, hoping for a further +degree of peace and quiet, I find my wife upon her bed in a horrible rage +afresh, calling me all the bitter names, and, rising, did fall to revile +me in the bitterest manner in the world, and could not refrain to strike +me and pull my hair, which I resolved to bear with, and had good reason to +bear it. So I by silence and weeping did prevail with her a little to be +quiet, and she would not eat her dinner without me; but yet by and by into +a raging fit she fell again, worse than before, that she would slit the +girl's nose, and at last W. Hewer come in and come up, who did allay her +fury, I flinging myself, in a sad desperate condition, upon the bed in the +blue room, and there lay while they spoke together; and at last it come to +this, that if I would call Deb. whore under my hand and write to her that +I hated her, and would never see her more, she would believe me and trust +in me, which I did agree to, only as to the name of whore I would have +excused, and therefore wrote to her sparing that word, which my wife +thereupon tore it, and would not be satisfied till, W. Hewer winking upon +me, I did write so with the name of a whore as that I did fear she might +too probably have been prevailed upon to have been a whore by her carriage +to me, and therefore as such I did resolve never to see her more. This +pleased my wife, and she gives it W. Hewer to carry to her with a sharp +message from her. So from that minute my wife begun to be kind to me, and +we to kiss and be friends, and so continued all the evening, and fell to +talk of other matters, with great comfort, and after supper to bed. This +evening comes Mr. Billup to me, to read over Mr. Wren's alterations of my +draught of a letter for the Duke of York to sign, to the Board; which I +like mighty well, they being not considerable, only in mollifying some +hard terms, which I had thought fit to put in. From this to other +discourse; and do find that the Duke of York and his master, Mr. Wren, do +look upon this service of mine as a very seasonable service to the Duke of +York, as that which he will have to shew to his enemies in his own +justification, of his care of the King's business; and I am sure I am +heartily glad of it, both for the King's sake and the Duke of York's, and +my own also; for, if I continue, my work, by this means, will be the less, +and my share in the blame also. He being gone, I to my wife again, and so +spent the evening with very great joy, and the night also with good sleep +and rest, my wife only troubled in her rest, but less than usual, for +which the God of Heaven be praised. I did this night promise to my wife +never to go to bed without calling upon God upon my knees by prayer, and I +begun this night, and hope I shall never forget to do the like all my +life; for I do find that it is much the best for my soul and body to live +pleasing to God and my poor wife, and will ease me of much care as well as +much expense. + +21st. Up, with great joy to my wife and me, and to the office, where W. +Hewer did most honestly bring me back the part of my letter to Deb. +wherein I called her whore, assuring me that he did not shew it her, and +that he did only give her to understand that wherein I did declare my +desire never to see her, and did give her the best Christian counsel he +could, which was mighty well done of him. But by the grace of God, though +I love the poor girl and wish her well, as having gone too far toward the +undoing her, yet I will never enquire after or think of her more, my peace +being certainly to do right to my wife. At the Office all the morning; +and after dinner abroad with W. Hewer to my Lord Ashly's, where my Lord +Barkeley and Sir Thomas Ingram met upon Mr. Povy's account, where I was in +great pain about that part of his account wherein I am concerned, above +L150, I think; and Creed hath declared himself dissatisfied with it, so +far as to desire to cut his "Examinatur" out of the paper, as the only +condition in which he would be silent in it. This Povy had the wit to +yield to; and so when it come to be inquired into, I did avouch the truth +of the account as to that particular, of my own knowledge, and so it went +over as a thing good and just--as, indeed, in the bottom of it, it is; +though in strictness, perhaps, it would not so well be understood. This +Committee rising, I, with my mind much satisfied herein, away by coach +home, setting Creed into Southampton Buildings, and so home; and there +ended my letters, and then home to my wife, where I find my house clean +now, from top to bottom, so as I have not seen it many a day, and to the +full satisfaction of my mind, that I am now at peace, as to my poor wife, +as to the dirtiness of my house, and as to seeing an end, in a great +measure, to my present great disbursements upon my house, and coach and +horses. + +22nd (Lord's day). My wife and I lay long, with mighty content; and so +rose, and she spent the whole day making herself clean, after four or five +weeks being in continued dirt; and I knocking up nails, and making little +settlements in my house, till noon, and then eat a bit of meat in the +kitchen, I all alone. And so to the Office, to set down my journall, for +some days leaving it imperfect, the matter being mighty grievous to me, +and my mind, from the nature of it; and so in, to solace myself with my +wife, whom I got to read to me, and so W. Hewer and the boy; and so, after +supper, to bed. This day my boy's livery is come home, the first I ever +had, of greene, lined with red; and it likes me well enough. + +23rd. Up, and called upon by W. Howe, who went, with W. Hewer with me, by +water, to the Temple; his business was to have my advice about a place he +is going to buy--the Clerk of the Patent's place, which I understand not, +and so could say little to him, but fell to other talk, and setting him in +at the Temple, we to White Hall, and there I to visit Lord Sandwich, who +is now so reserved, or moped rather, I think, with his own business, that +he bids welcome to no man, I think, to his satisfaction. However, I bear +with it, being willing to give him as little trouble as I can, and to +receive as little from him, wishing only that I had my money in my purse, +that I have lent him; but, however, I shew no discontent at all. So to +White Hall, where a Committee of Tangier expected, but none met. I met +with Mr. Povy, who I discoursed with about publick business, who tells me +that this discourse which I told him of, of the Duke of Monmouth being +made Prince of Wales, hath nothing in it; though he thinks there are all +the endeavours used in the world to overthrow the Duke of York. He would +not have me doubt of my safety in the Navy, which I am doubtful of from +the reports of a general removal; but he will endeavour to inform me, what +he can gather from my Lord Arlington. That he do think that the Duke of +Buckingham hath a mind rather to overthrow all the kingdom, and bring in a +Commonwealth, wherein he may think to be General of their Army, or to make +himself King, which, he believes, he may be led to, by some advice he hath +had with conjurors, which he do affect. Thence with W. Hewer, who goes up +and down with me like a jaylour, but yet with great love and to my great +good liking, it being my desire above all things to please my wife +therein. I took up my wife and boy at Unthank's, and from there to +Hercules Pillars, and there dined, and thence to our upholster's, about +some things more to buy, and so to see our coach, and so to the +looking-glass man's, by the New Exchange, and so to buy a picture for our +blue chamber chimney, and so home; and there I made my boy to read to me +most of the night, to get through the Life of the Archbishop of +Canterbury. At supper comes Mary Batelier, and with us all the evening, +prettily talking, and very innocent company she is; and she gone, we with +much content to bed, and to sleep, with mighty rest all night. + +24th. Up, and at the Office all the morning, and at noon home to dinner, +where Mr. Gentleman, the cook, and an old woman, his third or fourth wife, +come and dined with us, to enquire about a ticket of his son's, that is +dead; and after dinner, I with Mr. Hosier to my closet, to discourse of +the business of balancing Storekeeper's accounts, which he hath taken +great pains in reducing to a method, to my great satisfaction; and I shall +be glad both for the King's sake and his, that the thing may be put in +practice, and will do my part to promote it. That done, he gone, I to the +Office, where busy till night; and then with comfort to sit with my wife, +and get her to read to me, and so to supper, and to bed, with my mind at +mighty ease. + +25th. Up, and by coach with W. Hewer to see W. Coventry; but he gone out, +I to White Hall, and there waited on Lord Sandwich, which I have little +encouragement to do, because of the difficulty of seeing him, and the +little he hath to say to me when I do see him, or to any body else, but +his own idle people about him, Sir Charles Harbord, &c. Thence walked +with him to White Hall, where to the Duke of York; and there the Duke, and +Wren, and I, by appointment in his closet, to read over our letter to the +Office, which he heard, and signed it, and it is to my mind, Mr. Wren +having made it somewhat sweeter to the Board, and yet with all the advice +fully, that I did draw it up with. He [the Duke] said little more to us +now, his head being full of other business; but I do see that he do +continue to put a value upon my advice; and so Mr. Wren and I to his +chamber, and there talked: and he seems to hope that these people, the +Duke of Buckingham and Arlington, will run themselves off of their legs; +they being forced to be always putting the King upon one idle thing or +other, against the easiness of his nature, which he will never be able to +bear, nor they to keep him to, and so will lose themselves. And, for +instance of their little progress, he tells me that my Lord of Ormond is +like yet to carry it, and to continue in his command in Ireland; at least, +they cannot get the better of him yet. But he tells me that the Keeper is +wrought upon, as they say, to give his opinion for the dissolving of the +Parliament, which, he thinks, will undo him in the eyes of the people. He +do not seem to own the hearing or fearing of any thing to be done in the +Admiralty, to the lessening of the Duke of York, though he hears how the +town talk's full of it. Thence I by coach home, and there find my cozen +Roger come to dine with me, and to seal his mortgage for the L500 I lend +him; but he and I first walked to the 'Change, there to look for my uncle +Wight, and get him to dinner with us. So home, buying a barrel of oysters +at my old oyster-woman's, in Gracious Street, but over the way to where +she kept her shop before. So home, and there merry at dinner; and the +money not being ready, I carried Roger Pepys to Holborn Conduit, and there +left him going to Stradwick's, whom we avoided to see, because of our long +absence, and my wife and I to the Duke of York's house, to see "The +Duchesse of Malfy," a sorry play, and sat with little pleasure, for fear +of my wife's seeing me look about, and so I was uneasy all the while, +though I desire and resolve never to give her trouble of that kind more. +So home, and there busy at the Office a while, and then home, where my +wife to read to me, and so to supper, and to bed. This evening, to my +great content, I got Sir Richard Ford to give me leave to set my coach in +his yard. + +26th. Up, and at the Office all the morning, where I was to have +delivered the Duke of York's letter of advice to the Board, in answer to +our several answers to his great letter; but Lord Brouncker not being +there, and doubtful to deliver it before the new Treasurers, I forbore it +to next sitting. So home at noon to dinner, where I find Mr. Pierce and +his wife but I was forced to shew very little pleasure in her being there +because of my vow to my wife; and therefore was glad of a very bad +occasion for my being really troubled, which is, at W. Hewer's losing of a +tally of L1000, which I sent him this day to receive of the Commissioners +of Excise. So that though I hope at the worst I shall be able to get +another, yet I made use of this to get away as soon as I had dined, and +therefore out with him to the Excise Office to make a stop of its payment, +and so away to the coachmaker's and several other places, and so away +home, and there to my business at the office, and thence home, and there +my wife to read to me, and W. Hewer to set some matters of accounts right +at my chamber, to bed. + +27th. Up, and with W. Hewer to see W. Coventry again, but missed him +again, by coming too late, the man of [all] the world that I am resolved +to preserve an interest in. Thence to White Hall, and there at our usual +waiting on the Duke of York; and that being done, I away to the Exchequer, +to give a stop, and take some advice about my lost tally, wherein I shall +have some remedy, with trouble, and so home, and there find Mr. Povy, by +appointment, to dine with me; where a pretty good dinner, but for want of +thought in my wife it was but slovenly dressed up; however, much pleasant +discourse with him, and some serious; and he tells me that he would, by +all means, have me get to be a Parliament-man the next Parliament, which +he believes there will be one, which I do resolve of. By and by comes my +cozen Roger, and dines with us; and, after dinner, did seal his mortgage, +wherein I do wholly rely on his honesty, not having so much as read over +what he hath given me for it, nor minded it, but do trust to his integrity +therein. They all gone, I to the office and there a while, and then home +to ease my eyes and make my wife read to me. + +28th. Up, and all the morning at the Office, where, while I was sitting, +one comes and tells me that my coach is come. So I was forced to go out, +and to Sir Richard Ford's, where I spoke to him, and he is very willing to +have it brought in, and stand there; and so I ordered it, to my great +content, it being mighty pretty, only the horses do not please me, and, +therefore, resolve to have better. At noon home to dinner, and so to the +office again all the afternoon, and did a great deal of business, and so +home to supper and to bed, with my mind at pretty good ease, having this +day presented to the Board the Duke of York's letter, which, I perceive, +troubled Sir W. Pen, he declaring himself meant in that part, that +concerned excuse by sickness; but I do not care, but am mightily glad that +it is done, and now I shall begin to be at pretty good ease in the Office. +This morning, to my great content, W. Hewer tells me that a porter is +come, who found my tally in Holborne, and brings it him, for which he +gives him 20s. + +29th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed with pleasure with my wife, with whom +I have now a great deal of content, and my mind is in other things also +mightily more at ease, and I do mind my business better than ever and am +more at peace, and trust in God I shall ever be so, though I cannot yet +get my mind off from thinking now and then of Deb., but I do ever since my +promise a while since to my wife pray to God by myself in my chamber every +night, and will endeavour to get my wife to do the like with me ere long, +but am in much fear of what she lately frighted me with about her being a +Catholique; and I dare not, therefore, move her to go to church, for fear +she should deny me; but this morning, of her own accord, she spoke of +going to church the next Sunday, which pleases me mightily. This morning +my coachman's clothes come home; and I like the livery mightily, and so I +all the morning at my chamber, and dined with my wife, and got her to read +to me in the afternoon, till Sir W. Warren, by appointment, comes to me, +who spent two hours, or three, with me, about his accounts of Gottenburgh, +which are so confounded, that I doubt they will hardly ever pass without +my doing something, which he desires of me, and which, partly from fear, +and partly from unwillingness to wrong the King, and partly from its being +of no profit to me, I am backward to give way to, though the poor man do +indeed deserve to be rid of this trouble, that he hath lain so long under, +from the negligence of this Board. We afterwards fell to other talk, and +he tells me, as soon as he saw my coach yesterday, he wished that the +owner might not contract envy by it; but I told him it was now manifestly +for my profit to keep a coach, and that, after employments like mine for +eight years, it were hard if I could not be justly thought to be able to +do that. + + [Though our journalist prided himself not a little upon becoming + possessed of a carriage, the acquisition was regarded with envy and + jealousy by his enemies, as will appear by the following extract + from the scurrilous pamphlet, "A Hue and Cry after P. and H. and + Plain Truth (or a Private Discourse between P. and H.)," in which + Pepys and Hewer are severely handled: "There is one thing more you + must be mightily sorry for with all speed. Your presumption in your + coach, in which you daily ride, as if you had been son and heir to + the great Emperor Neptune, or as if you had been infallibly to have + succeeded him in his government of the Ocean, all which was + presumption in the highest degree. First, you had upon the fore + part of your chariot, tempestuous waves and wrecks of ships; on your + left hand, forts and great guns, and ships a-fighting; on your right + hand was a fair harbour and galleys riding, with their flags and + pennants spread, kindly saluting each other, just like P[epys] and + H[ewer]. Behind it were high curled waves and ships a-sinking, and + here and there an appearance of some bits of land."] + +He gone, my wife and I to supper; and so she to read, and made an end of +the Life of Archbishop Laud, which is worth reading, as informing a man +plainly in the posture of the Church, and how the things of it were +managed with the same self-interest and design that every other thing is, +and have succeeded accordingly. So to bed. + +30th. Up betimes, and with W. Hewer, who is my guard, to White Hall, to a +Committee of Tangier, where the business of Mr. Lanyon + + [John Lanyon, agent of the Navy Commissioners at Plymouth. The + cause of complaint appears to have been connected with his contract + for Tangier. In 1668 a charge was made against Lanyon and Thomas + Yeabsley that they had defrauded the king in the freighting of the + ship "Tiger" ("Calendar of State Papers," 1668-69, p. 138).] + +took up all the morning; and where, poor man! he did manage his business +with so much folly, and ill fortune to boot, that the Board, before his +coming in, inclining, of their own accord, to lay his cause aside, and +leave it to the law, but he pressed that we would hear it, and it ended to +the making him appear a very knave, as well as it did to me a fool also, +which I was sorry for. Thence by water, Mr. Povy, Creed, and I, to +Arundell House, and there I did see them choosing their Council, it being +St. Andrew's-day; and I had his Cross + + [The cross of St. Andrew, like that of St. Patrick, is a saltire. + The two, combined with the red cross of St. George, form the Union + flag.] + +set on my hat, as the rest had, and cost me 2s., and so leaving them I +away by coach home to dinner, and my wife, after dinner, went the first +time abroad to take the maidenhead of her coach, calling on Roger Pepys, +and visiting Mrs. Creed, and my cozen Turner, while I at home all the +afternoon and evening, very busy and doing much work, to my great content. +Home at night, and there comes Mrs. Turner and Betty to see us, and supped +with us, and I shewed them a cold civility for fear of troubling my wife, +and after supper, they being gone, we to bed. Thus ended this month, with +very good content, that hath been the most sad to my heart and the most +expenseful to my purse on things of pleasure, having furnished my wife's +closet and the best chamber, and a coach and horses, that ever I yet knew +in the world: and do put me into the greatest condition of outward state +that ever I was in, or hoped ever to be, or desired: and this at a time +when we do daily expect great changes in this Office: and by all reports +we must, all of us, turn out. But my eyes are come to that condition that +I am not able to work: and therefore that, and my wife's desire, make me +have no manner of trouble in my thoughts about it. So God do his will in +it! + + + + + ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + + Calling me dog and rogue, and that I had a rotten heart + Have me get to be a Parliament-man the next Parliament + I have a good mind to have the maidenhead of this girl + Resolve never to give her trouble of that kind more + Should alway take somebody with me, or her herself + There being no curse in the world so great as this + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Diary of Samuel Pepys, November 1668 +by Samuel Pepys + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + +***** This file should be named 4193.txt or 4193.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/9/4193/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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