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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 this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v77 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + |