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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, December 1668 + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Release Date: December 1, 2004 [EBook #4194] + +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. + DECEMBER + 1668 + +December 1st. Up, and to the office, where sat all the morning, and at +noon with my people to dinner, and so to the office, very busy till night, +and then home and made my boy read to me Wilkins's Reall Character, which +do please me mightily, and so after supper to bed with great pleasure and +content with my wife. This day I hear of poor Mr. Clerke, the solicitor, +being dead, of a cold, after being not above two days ill, which troubles +me mightily, poor man! + +2nd. Up, and at the office all the morning upon some accounts of Sir D. +Gawden, and at noon abroad with W. Hewer, thinking to have found Mr. Wren +at Captain Cox's, to have spoke something to him about doing a favour for +Will's uncle Steventon, but missed him. And so back home and abroad with +my wife, the first time that ever I rode in my own coach, which do make my +heart rejoice, and praise God, and pray him to bless it to me and continue +it. So she and I to the King's playhouse, and there sat to avoid seeing +Knepp in a box above where Mrs. Williams happened to be, and there saw +"The Usurper;" a pretty good play, in all but what is designed to resemble +Cromwell and Hugh Peters, which is mighty silly. The play done, we to +White Hall; where my wife staid while I up to the Duchesse's and Queen's +side, to speak with the Duke of York: and here saw all the ladies, and +heard the silly discourse of the King, with his people about him, telling +a story of my Lord Rochester's having of his clothes stole, while he was +with a wench; and his gold all gone, but his clothes found afterwards +stuffed into a feather bed by the wench that stole them. I spoke with the +Duke of York, just as he was set down to supper with the King, about our +sending of victuals to Sir Thomas Allen's fleet hence to Cales [Cadiz] to +meet him. And so back to my wife in my coach, and so with great content +and joy home, where I made my boy to make an end of the Reall Character, +which I begun a great while ago, and do please me infinitely, and indeed +is a most worthy labour, and I think mighty easy, though my eyes make me +unable to attempt any thing in it. To-day I hear that Mr. Ackworth's +cause went for him at Guildhall, against his accusers, which I am well +enough pleased with. + +3rd. Up betimes, and by water with W. Hewer to White Hall, and there to +Mr. Wren, who gives me but small hopes of the favour I hoped for Mr. +Steventon, Will's uncle, of having leave, being upon the point of death, +to surrender his place, which do trouble me, but I will do what I can. So +back again to the Office, Sir Jer. Smith with me; who is a silly, prating, +talking man; but he tells me what he hears, that Holmes and Spragg now +rule all with the Duke of Buckingham, as to seabusiness, and will be great +men: but he do prophesy what will be the fruit of it; so I do. So to the +Office, where we sat all the morning; and at noon home to dinner, and then +abroad again, with my wife, to the Duke of York's playhouse, and saw "The +Unfortunate Lovers;" a mean play, I think, but some parts very good, and +excellently acted. We sat under the boxes, and saw the fine ladies; among +others, my Lady Kerneguy, a who is most devilishly painted. And so home, +it being mighty pleasure to go alone with my poor wife, in a coach of our +own, to a play, and makes us appear mighty great, I think, in the world; +at least, greater than ever I could, or my friends for me, have once +expected; or, I think, than ever any of my family ever yet lived, in my +memory, but my cozen Pepys in Salisbury Court. So to the office, and +thence home to supper and to bed. + +4th. Up, and with W. Hewer by water to White Hall, and there did wait as +usual upon the Duke of York, where, upon discoursing something touching +the Ticket-Office, which by letter the Board did give the Duke of York +their advice, to be put upon Lord Brouncker, Sir J. Minnes did foolishly +rise up and complain of the Office, and his being made nothing of; and +this before Sir Thomas Littleton, who would be glad of this difference +among us, which did trouble me mightily; and therefore I did forbear to +say what I otherwise would have thought fit for me to say on this +occasion, upon so impertinent a speech as this doting fool made--but, I +say, I let it alone, and contented myself that it went as I advised, as to +the Duke of York's judgment, in the thing disputed. And so thence away, +my coach meeting me there and carrying me to several places to do little +jobs, which is a mighty convenience, and so home, where by invitation I +find my aunt Wight, who looked over all our house, and is mighty pleased +with it, and indeed it is now mighty handsome, and rich in furniture. By +and by comes my uncle, and then to dinner, where a venison pasty and very +merry, and after dinner I carried my wife and her to Smithfield, where +they sit in the coach, while Mr. Pickering, who meets me there, and I, and +W. Hewer, and a friend of his, a jockey, did go about to see several pairs +of horses, for my coach; but it was late, and we agreed on none, but left +it to another time: but here I do see instances of a piece of craft and +cunning that I never dreamed of, concerning the buying and choosing of +horses. So Mr. Pickering, to whom I am much beholden for his kindness +herein, and I parted; and I with my people home, where I left them, and I +to the office, to meet about some business of Sir W. Warren's accounts, +where I vexed to see how ill all the Comptroller's business is likely to +go on, so long as ever Sir J. Minnes lives; and so troubled I was, that I +thought it a good occasion for me to give my thoughts of it in writing, +and therefore wrote a letter at the Board, by the help of a tube, to Lord +Brouncker, and did give it him, which I kept a copy of, and it may be of +use to me hereafter to shew, in this matter. This being done, I home to +my aunt, who supped with us, and my uncle also: and a good-humoured woman +she is, so that I think we shall keep her acquaintance; but mighty proud +she is of her wedding-ring, being lately set with diamonds; cost her about +L12: and I did commend it mightily to her, but do not think it very +suitable for one of our quality. After supper they home, and we to bed. + +5th. Up, after a little talk with my wife, which troubled me, she being +ever since our late difference mighty watchful of sleep and dreams, and +will not be persuaded but I do dream of Deb., and do tell me that I speak +in my dreams and that this night I did cry, Huzzy, and it must be she, and +now and then I start otherwise than I used to do, she says, which I know +not, for I do not know that I dream of her more than usual, though I +cannot deny that my thoughts waking do run now and then against my will +and judgment upon her, for that only is wanting to undo me, being now in +every other thing as to my mind most happy, and may still be so but for my +own fault, if I be catched loving any body but my wife again. So up and +to the office, and at noon to dinner, and thence to office, where late, +mighty busy, and despatching much business, settling papers in my own +office, and so home to supper, and to bed. No news stirring, but that my +Lord of Ormond is likely to go to Ireland again, which do shew that the +Duke of Buckingham do not rule all so absolutely; and that, however, we +shall speedily have more changes in the Navy: and it is certain that the +Nonconformists do now preach openly in houses, in many places, and among +others the house that was heretofore Sir G. Carteret's, in Leadenhall +Streete, and have ready access to the King. And now the great dispute is, +whether this Parliament or another; and my great design, if I continue in +the Navy, is to get myself to be a Parliament-man. + +6th (Lord's day). Up, and with my wife to church; which pleases me +mightily, I being full of fear that she would never go to church again, +after she had declared to me that she was a Roman Catholique. But though +I do verily think she fears God, and is truly and sincerely righteous, yet +I do see she is not so strictly so a Catholique as not to go to church +with me, which pleases me mightily. Here Mills made a lazy sermon, upon +Moses's meeknesse, and so home, and my wife and I alone to dinner, and +then she to read a little book concerning speech in general, a translation +late out of French; a most excellent piece as ever I read, proving a soul +in man, and all the ways and secrets by which nature teaches speech in +man, which do please me most infinitely to read. By and by my wife to +church, and I to my Office to complete my Journall for the last three +days, and so home to my chamber to settle some papers, and so to spend the +evening with my wife and W. Hewer talking over the business of the Office, +and particularly my own Office, how I will make it, and it will become, in +a little time, an Office of ease, and not slavery, as it hath for so many +years been. So to supper, and to bed. + +7th. Up by candlelight, the first time I have done so this winter, but I +had lost my labour so often to visit Sir W. Coventry, and not visited him +so long, that I was resolved to get time enough, and so up, and with W. +Hewer, it being the first frosty day we have had this winter, did walk it +very well to W. Coventry's, and there alone with him an hour talking of +the Navy, which he pities, but says he hath no more mind to be found +meddling with the Navy, lest it should do it hurt, as well as him, to be +found to meddle with it. So to talk of general things: and telling him +that, with all these doings, he, I thanked God, stood yet; he told me, +Yes, but that he thought his continuing in, did arise from his enemies my +Lord of Buckingham and Arlington's seeing that he cared so little if he +was out; and he do protest to me that he is as weary of the Treasury, as +ever he was of the Navy. He tells me that he do believe that their heat +is over almost, as to the Navy, there being now none left of the old stock +but my Lord Brouncker, J. Minnes, who is ready to leave the world, and +myself. But he tells me that he do foresee very great wants and great +disorders by reason thereof; insomuch, as he is represented to the King by +his enemies as a melancholy man, and one that is still prophesying ill +events, so as the King called him Visionaire, which being told him, he +said he answered the party, that, whatever he foresaw, he was not afeard +as to himself of any thing, nor particularly of my Lord Arlington, so much +as the Duke of Buckingham hath been, nor of the Duke of Buckingham, so +much as my Lord Arlington at this time is. But he tells me that he hath +been always looked upon as a melancholy man; whereas, others that would +please the King do make him believe that all is safe: and so he hath heard +my Lord Chancellor openly say to the King, that he was now a glorious +prince, and in a glorious condition, because of some one accident that +hath happened, or some one rub that hath been removed; "when," says W. +Coventry, "they reckoned their one good meal, without considering that +there was nothing left in the cup board for to-morrow." After this and +other discourse of this kind, I away, and walked to my Lord Sandwich's, +and walked with him to White Hall, and took a quarter of an hour's walk in +the garden with him, which I had not done for so much time with him since +his coming into England; and talking of his own condition, and +particularly of the world's talk of his going to Tangier. I find, if his +conditions can be made profitable and safe as to money, he would go, but +not else; but, however, will seem not averse to it, because of +facilitating his other accounts now depending, which he finds hard to get +through, but yet hath some hopes, the King, he says, speaking very kindly +to him. Thence to a Committee of Tangier, and so with W. Hewer to +Westminster to Sir R. Longs office, and so to the Temple, but did nothing, +the Auditor not being within, and so home to dinner, and after dinner out +again with my wife to the Temple, and up and down to do a little business, +and back again, and so to my office, and did a little business, and so +home, and W. Hewer with me, to read and talk, and so to supper, and then +to bed in mighty good humour. This afternoon, passing through Queen's +Street, I saw pass by our coach on foot Deb., which, God forgive me, did +put me into some new thoughts of her, and for her, but durst not shew +them, and I think my wife did not see her, but I did get my thoughts free +of her soon as I could. + +8th. Up, and Sir H. Cholmly betimes with me, about some accounts and +moneys due to him: and he gone, I to the Office, where sat all the +morning; and here, among other things, breaks out the storm W. Hewer and I +have long expected from the Surveyor,--[Colonel Middleton.]--about W. +Hewer's conspiring to get a contract, to the burdening of the stores with +kerseys and cottons, of which he hath often complained, and lately more +than ever; and now he did it by a most scandalous letter to the Board, +reflecting on my Office: and, by discourse, it fell to such high words +between him and me, as can hardly ever be forgot; I declaring I would +believe W. Hewer as soon as him, and laying the fault, if there be any, +upon himself; he, on the other hand, vilifying of my word and W. Hewer's, +calling him knave, and that if he were his clerk, he should lose his ears. +At last, I closed the business for this morning with making the thing +ridiculous, as it is, and he swearing that the King should have right in +it, or he would lose his place. The Office was cleared of all but +ourselves and W. Hewer; but, however, the world did by the beginning see +what it meant, and it will, I believe, come to high terms between us, +which I am sorry for, to have any blemish laid upon me or mine, at this +time, though never so unduly, for fear of giving occasion to my real +discredit: and therefore I was not only all the rest of the morning vexed, +but so went home to dinner, where my wife tells me of my Lord Orrery's new +play "Tryphon," at the Duke of York's house, which, however, I would see, +and therefore put a bit of meat in our mouths, and went thither; where, +with much ado, at half-past one, we got into a blind hole in the 18d. +place, above stairs, where we could not hear well, but the house infinite +full, but the prologue most silly, and the play, though admirable, yet no +pleasure almost in it, because just the very same design, and words, and +sense, and plot, as every one of his plays have, any one of which alone +would be held admirable, whereas so many of the same design and fancy do +but dull one another; and this, I perceive, is the sense of every body +else, as well as myself, who therefore showed but little pleasure in it. +So home, mighty hot, and my mind mightily out of order, so as I could not +eat any supper, or sleep almost all night, though I spent till twelve at +night with W. Hewer to consider of our business: and we find it not only +most free from any blame of our side, but so horrid scandalous on the +other, to make so groundless a complaint, and one so shameful to him, that +it could not but let me see that there is no need of my being troubled; +but such is the weakness of my nature, that I could not help it, which +vexes me, showing me how unable I am to live with difficulties. + +9th. Up, and to the Office, but did little there, my mind being still +uneasy, though more and more satisfied that there is no occasion for it; +but abroad with my wife to the Temple, where I met with Auditor Wood's +clerk, and did some business with him, and so to see Mr. Spong, and found +him out by Southampton Market, and there carried my wife, and up to his +chamber, a bye place, but with a good prospect of the fields; and there I +had most infinite pleasure, not only with his ingenuity in general, but in +particular with his shewing me the use of the Parallelogram, by which he +drew in a quarter of an hour before me, in little, from a great, a most +neat map of England--that is, all the outlines, which gives me infinite +pleasure, and foresight of pleasure, I shall have with it; and therefore +desire to have that which I have bespoke, made. Many other pretty things +he showed us, and did give me a glass bubble, to try the strength of +liquors with. + + [This seems to refer to the first form of the Hon. Robert Boyle's + hydrometer, which he described in a paper in the "Philosophical + Transactions" for June, 1675, under the title of a "New Essay + instrument." In this paper the author refers to a glass instrument + exhibited many years before by himself, "consisting of a bubble + furnished with a long and slender stem, which was to be put into + several liquors to compare and estimate their specific gravity." + Boyle describes this glass bubble in a paper in "Philosophical + Transactions," vol. iv., No. 50, p. 1001, 1669, entitled, "The + Weights of Water in Water with ordinary Balances and Weights."] + +This done, and having spent 6d. in ale in the coach, at the door of the +Bull Inn, with the innocent master of the house, a Yorkshireman, for his +letting us go through his house, we away to Hercules Pillars, and there +eat a bit of meat: and so, with all speed, back to the Duke of York's +house, where mighty full again; but we come time enough to have a good +place in the pit, and did hear this new play again, where, though I better +understood it than before, yet my sense of it and pleasure was just the +same as yesterday, and no more, nor any body else's about us. So took our +coach and home, having now little pleasure to look about me to see the +fine faces, for fear of displeasing my wife, whom I take great comfort +now, more than ever, in pleasing; and it is a real joy to me. So home, and +to my Office, where spent an hour or two; and so home to my wife, to +supper and talk, and so to bed. + +10th. Up, and to the Office, where busy all the morning: Middleton not +there, so no words or looks of him. At noon, home to dinner; and so to +the Office, and there all the afternoon busy; and at night W. Hewer home +with me; and we think we have got matter enough to make Middleton appear a +coxcomb. But it troubled me to have Sir W. Warren meet me at night, going +out of the Office home, and tell me that Middleton do intend to complain +to the Duke of York: but, upon consideration of the business, I did go to +bed, satisfied that it was best for me that he should; and so my trouble +was over, and to bed, and slept well. + +11th. Up, and with W. Hewer by water to Somerset House; and there I to my +Lord Brouncker, before he went forth to the Duke of York, and there told +him my confidence that I should make Middleton appear a fool, and that it +was, I thought, best for me to complain of the wrong he hath done; but +brought it about, that my Lord desired me I would forbear, and promised +that he would prevent Middleton till I had given in my answer to the +Board, which I desired: and so away to White Hall, and there did our usual +attendance and no word spoke before the Duke of York by Middleton at all; +at which I was glad to my heart, because by this means I have time to draw +up my answer to my mind. So with W. Hewer by coach to Smithfield, but met +not Mr. Dickering, he being not come, and so he [Will] and I to a cook's +shop, in Aldersgate Street; and dined well for 19 1/2 d., upon roast beef, +pleasing ourselves with the infinite strength we have to prove Middleton a +coxcomb; and so, having dined, we back to Smithfield, and there met +Dickering, and up and down all the afternoon about horses, and did see the +knaveries and tricks of jockeys. Here I met W. Joyce, who troubled me +with his impertinencies a great while, and the like Mr. Knepp, who, it +seems, is a kind of a jockey, and would fain have been doing something for +me, but I avoided him, and the more for fear of being troubled thereby +with his wife, whom I desire but dare not see, for my vow to my wife. At +last went away and did nothing, only concluded upon giving L50 for a fine +pair of black horses we saw this day se'nnight; and so set Mr. Dickering +down near his house, whom I am much beholden to, for his care herein, and +he hath admirable skill, I perceive, in this business, and so home, and +spent the evening talking and merry, my mind at good ease, and so to bed. + +12th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon home to +dinner, and so the like mighty busy, late, all the afternoon, that I might +be ready to go to the drawing up of my answer to Middleton to-morrow, and +therefore home to supper and to bed. I hear this day that there is fallen +down a new house, not quite finished, in Lumbard Street, and that there +have been several so, they making use of bad mortar and bricks; but no +hurt yet, as God hath ordered it. This day was brought home my pair of +black coach-horses, the first I ever was master of. They cost me L50, and +are a fine pair. + +13th (Lord's day). Up, and with W. Hewer to the Office, where all the +morning, and then home to a little dinner, and presently to it again all +alone till twelve at night, drawing up my answer to Middleton, which I +think I shall do to very good purpose--at least, I satisfy myself therein; +and so to bed, weary with walking in my Office dictating to him [Hewer]. +In the night my wife very ill, vomited, but was well again by and by. + +14th. Up, and by water to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier, where, +among other things, a silly account of a falling out between Norwood, at +Tangier, and Mr. Bland, the mayor, who is fled to Cales [Cadiz]. His +complaint is ill-worded, and the other's defence the most ridiculous that +ever I saw; and so everybody else that was there, thought it; but never +did I see so great an instance of the use of grammar, and knowledge how to +tell a man's tale as this day, Bland having spoiled his business by +ill-telling it, who had work to have made himself notorious by his +mastering Norwood, his enemy, if he had known how to have used it. Thence +calling Smith, the Auditor's clerk at the Temple, I by the Exchange home, +and there looked over my Tangier accounts with him, and so to dinner, and +then set him down again by a hackney, my coachman being this day about +breaking of my horses to the coach, they having never yet drawn. Left my +wife at Unthank's, and I to the Treasury, where we waited on the Lords +Commissioners about Sir D. Gawden's matters, and so took her up again at +night, and home to the office, and so home with W. Hewer, and to talk +about our quarrel with Middleton, and so to supper and to bed. This day I +hear, and am glad, that the King hath prorogued the Parliament to October +next; and, among other reasons, it will give me time to go to France, I +hope. + +15th. Up, and to the Office, where sat all the morning, and the new +Treasurers there; and, for my life, I cannot keep Sir J. Minnes and others +of the Board from shewing our weakness, to the dishonour of the Board, +though I am not concerned but it do vex me to the heart to have it before +these people, that would be glad to find out all our weaknesses. At noon +Mrs. Mary Batelier with us, and so, after dinner, I with W. Hewer all the +afternoon till night beginning to draw up our answer to Middleton, and it +proves troublesome, because I have so much in my head at a time to say, +but I must go through with it. So at night to supper and to bed. + +16th. I did the like all day long, only a little at dinner, and so to +work again, and were at it till 2 in the morning, and so W. Hewer, who was +with me all day, home to his lodging, and I to bed, after we had finished +it. + +17th. Up, and set my man Gibson and Mr. Fists to work to write it over +fair, while I all the morning at the office sitting. At noon home to +them, and all the afternoon looking over them and examining with W. Hewer, +and so about to at night I to bed, leaving them to finish the writing it +fair, which they did by sitting up most of the night, and so home to bed. + +18th. All the morning at the office about Sir W. Warren's accounts, my +mind full of my business, having before we met gone to Lord Brouncker, and +got him to read over my paper, who owns most absolute content in it, and +the advantage I have in it, and the folly of the Surveyor. At noon home +to dinner; and then again to the office a while, and so by hackney coach +to Brooke House, and there spoke with Colonel Thomson, I by order carrying +them [the Commissioners of Accounts] our Contract-books, from the +beginning to the end of the late war. I found him finding of errors in a +ship's book, where he shewed me many, which must end in the ruin, I doubt, +of the Controller, who found them not out in the pay of the ship, or the +whole Office. But I took little notice of them to concern myself in them, +but so leaving my books I home to the Office, where the office met, and +after some other business done, fell to mine, which the Surveyor begun to +be a little brisk at the beginning; but when I come to the point to touch +him, which I had all the advantages in the world to do, he become as calm +as a lamb, and owned, as the whole Board did, their satisfaction, and +cried excuse: and so all made friends; and their acknowledgment put into +writing, and delivered into Sir J. Minnes's hand, to be kept there for the +use of the Board, or me, when I shall call for it; they desiring it might +be so, that I might not make use of it to the prejudice of the Surveyor, +whom I had an advantage over, by his extraordinary folly in this matter. +But, besides this, I have no small advantage got by this business, as I +have put several things into my letter which I should otherwise have +wanted an opportunity of saying, which pleases me mightily. So Middleton +desiring to be friends, I forgave him; and all mighty quiet, and fell to +talk of other stories, and there staid, all of us, till nine or ten at +night, more than ever we did in our lives before, together. And so home, +where I have a new fight to fight with my wife, who is under new trouble +by some news she hath heard of Deb.'s being mighty fine, and gives out +that she has a friend that gives her money, and this my wife believes to +be me, and, poor wretch! I cannot blame her, and therefore she run into +mighty extremes; but I did pacify all, and were mighty good friends, and +to bed, and I hope it will be our last struggle from this business, for I +am resolved never to give any new occasion, and great peace I find in my +mind by it. So to supper, she and I to bed. + +19th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon, eating +very little dinner, my wife and I by hackney to the King's playhouse, and +there, the pit being full, satin a box above, and saw "Catiline's +Conspiracy," yesterday being the first day: a play of much good sense and +words to read, but that do appear the worst upon the stage, I mean, the +least diverting, that ever I saw any, though most fine in clothes; and a +fine scene of the Senate, and of a fight, that ever I saw in my life. But +the play is only to be read, and therefore home, with no pleasure at all, +but only in sitting next to Betty Hall, that did belong to this house, and +was Sir Philip Howard's mistress; a mighty pretty wench, though my wife +will not think so; and I dare neither commend, nor be seen to look upon +her, or any other now, for fear of offending her. So, our own coach +coming for us, home, and to end letters, and so home, my wife to read to +me out of "The Siege of Rhodes," and so to supper, and to bed. + +20th (Lord's day). Up, and with my wife to church, and then home, and +there found W. Joyce come to dine with me, as troublesome a talking +coxcombe as ever he was, and yet once in a year I like him well enough. In +the afternoon my wife and W. Hewer and I to White Hall, where they set me +down and staid till I had been with the Duke of York, with the rest of us +of the Office, and did a little business, and then the Duke of York in +good humour did fall to tell us many fine stories of the wars in Flanders, +and how the Spaniards are the [best] disciplined foot in the world; will +refuse no extraordinary service if commanded, but scorn to be paid for it, +as in other countries, though at the same time they will beg in the +streets: not a soldier will carry you a cloak-bag for money for the world, +though he will beg a penny, and will do the thing, if commanded by his +Commander. That, in the citadel of Antwerp, a soldier hath not a liberty +of begging till he hath served three years. They will cry out against +their King and Commanders and Generals, none like them in the world, and +yet will not hear a stranger say a word of them but he will cut his +throat. That, upon a time, some of the Commanders of their army +exclaiming against their Generals, and particularly the Marquis de +Caranen, the Confessor of the Marquis coming by and hearing them, he stops +and gravely tells them that the three great trades of the world are, the +lawyers, who govern the world; the churchmen, who enjoy the world; and a +sort of fools whom they call souldiers, who make it their work to defend +the world. He told us, too, that Turenne being now become a Catholique, +he is likely to get over the head of Colbert, their interests being +contrary; the latter to promote trade + + [This reminds us of the famous reply, 'Laissez nous affaire', made + to Colbert by the French merchants, whose interests he thought to + promote by laws and regulations.--B.] + +and the sea, which, says the Duke of York, is that that we have most cause +to fear; and Turenne to employ the King and his forces by land, to +encrease his conquests. Thence to the coach to my wife, and so home, and +there with W. Hewer to my office and to do some business, and so set down +my Journall for four or five days, and then home to supper and read a +little, and to bed. W. Hewer tells me to-day that he hears that the King +of France hath declared in print, that he do intend this next summer to +forbid his Commanders to strike--[Strike topsails]--to us, but that both +we and the Dutch shall strike to him; and that he hath made his captains +swear it already, that they will observe it: which is a great thing if he +do it, as I know nothing to hinder him. + +21st. My own coach carrying me and my boy Tom, who goes with me in the +room of W. Hewer, who could not, and I dare not go alone, to the Temple, +and there set me down, the first time my fine horses ever carried me, and +I am mighty proud of them, and there took a hackney and to White Hall, +where a Committee of Tangier, but little to do, and so away home, calling +at the Exchange and buying several little things, and so home, and there +dined with my wife and people and then she, and W. Hewer, and I by +appointment out with our coach, but the old horses, not daring yet to use +the others too much, but only to enter them, and to the Temple, there to +call Talbot Pepys, and took him up, and first went into Holborne, and +there saw the woman that is to be seen with a beard. She is a little +plain woman, a Dane: her name, Ursula Dyan; about forty years old; her +voice like a little girl's; with a beard as much as any man I ever saw, +black almost, and grizly; they offered to shew my wife further +satisfaction if she desired it, refusing it to men that desired it there, +but there is no doubt but by her voice she is a woman; it begun to grow at +about seven years old, and was shaved not above seven months ago, and is +now so big as any man's almost that ever I saw; I say, bushy and thick. +It was a strange sight to me, I confess, and what pleased me mightily. +Thence to the Duke's playhouse, and saw "Macbeth." The King and Court +there; and we sat just under them and my Lady Castlemayne, and close to +the woman that comes into the pit, a kind of a loose gossip, that pretends +to be like her, and is so, something. And my wife, by my troth, appeared, +I think, as pretty as any of them; I never thought so much before; and so +did Talbot and W. Hewer, as they said, I heard, to one another. The King +and Duke of York minded me, and smiled upon me, at the handsome woman near +me but it vexed me to see Moll Davis, in the box over the King's and my +Lady Castlemayne's head, look down upon the King, and he up to her; and so +did my Lady Castlemayne once, to see who it was; but when she saw her, she +looked like fire; which troubled me. The play done, took leave of Talbot, +who goes into the country this Christmas, and so we home, and there I to +work at the office late, and so home to supper and to bed. + +22nd. At the office all the morning, and at noon to the 'Change, thinking +to meet with Langford about my father's house in Fleet Streete, but I come +too late, and so home to dinner, and all the afternoon at the office busy, +and at night home to supper and talk, and with mighty content with my +wife, and so to bed. + +23rd. Met at the Office all the morning, and at noon to the 'Change, and +there met with Langford and Mr. Franke, the landlord of my father's house +in Fleet Streete, and are come to an arbitration what my father shall give +him to be freed of his lease and building the house again. Walked up and +down the 'Change, and among others discoursed with Sir John Bankes, who +thinks this prorogation will please all but the Parliament itself, which +will, if ever they meet, be vexed at Buckingham, who yet governs all. He +says the Nonconformists are glad of it, and, he believes, will get the +upperhand in a little time, for the King must trust to them or nobody; and +he thinks the King will be forced to it. He says that Sir D. Gawden is +mightily troubled at Pen's being put upon him, by the Duke of York, and +that he believes he will get clear of it, which, though it will trouble me +to have Pen still at the Office, yet I shall think D. Gawden do well in +it, and what I would advise him to, because I love him. So home to +dinner, and then with my wife alone abroad, with our new horses, the +beautifullest almost that ever I saw, and the first time they ever carried +her, and me but once; but we are mighty proud of them. To her tailor's, +and so to the 'Change, and laid out three or four pounds in lace, for her +and me; and so home, and there I up to my Lord Brouncker, at his lodgings, +and sat with him an hour, on purpose to talk over the wretched state of +this Office at present, according to the present hands it is made up of; +wherein he do fully concur with me, and that it is our part not only to +prepare for defending it and ourselves, against the consequences of it, +but to take the best ways we can, to make it known to the Duke of York; +for, till Sir J. Minnes be removed, and a sufficient man brought into W. +Pen's place, when he is gone, it is impossible for this Office ever to +support itself. So home, and to supper and to bed. + +24th. A cold day. Up, and to the Office, where all the morning alone at +the Office, nobody meeting, being the eve of Christmas. At noon home to +dinner, and then to the Office busy, all the afternoon, and at night home +to supper, and it being now very cold, and in hopes of a frost, I begin +this night to put on a waistcoat, it being the first winter in my whole +memory that ever I staid till this day before I did so. So to bed in +mighty good humour with my wife, but sad, in one thing, and that is for my +poor eyes. + +25th (Christmas-day). Up, and continued on my waistcoat, the first day +this winter, and I to church, where Alderman Backewell, coming in late, I +beckoned to his lady to come up to us, who did, with another lady; and +after sermon, I led her down through the church to her husband and coach, +a noble, fine woman, and a good one, and one my wife shall be acquainted +with. So home, and to dinner alone with my wife, who, poor wretch! sat +undressed all day, till ten at night, altering and lacing of a noble +petticoat: while I by her, making the boy read to me the Life of Julius +Caesar, and Des Cartes' book of Musick + + ["Musicae Compendium." By Rene Des Cartes, Amsterdam, 1617; + rendered into English, London, 1653, 4to. The translator, whose + name did not appear on the title, was William, Viscount Brouncker, + Pepys's colleague, who proved his knowledge of music by the + performance.] + +--the latter of which I understand not, nor think he did well that writ +it, though a most learned man. Then, after supper, I made the boy play +upon his lute, which I have not done twice before since he come to me; and +so, my mind in mighty content, we to bed. + +26th. Lay long with pleasure, prating with my wife, and then up, and I a +little to the Office, and my head busy setting some papers and accounts to +rights, which being long neglected because of my eyes will take me up much +time and care to do, but it must be done. So home at noon to dinner, and +then abroad with my wife to a play, at the Duke of York's house, the house +full of ordinary citizens. The play was "Women Pleased," which we had +never seen before; and, though but indifferent, yet there is a good design +for a good play. So home, and there to talk, and my wife to read to me, +and so to bed. + +27th (Lord's day). Walked to White Hall and there saw the King at chapel; +but staid not to hear anything, but went to walk in the Park, with W. +Hewer, who was with me; and there, among others, met with Sir G. Downing, +and walked with him an hour, talking of business, and how the late war was +managed, there being nobody to take care of it, and telling how, when he +was in Holland, what he offered the King to do, if he might have power, +and they would give him power, and then, upon the least word, perhaps of a +woman, to the King, he was contradicted again, and particularly to the +loss of all that we lost in Guinny. He told me that he had so good spies, +that he hath had the keys taken out of De Witt's + + [The celebrated John de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland, who, + a few years afterwards, was massacred, with his brother Cornelius, + by the Dutch mob, enraged at their opposition to the elevation of + William of Orange to the Stadtholdership, when the States were + overrun by the French army, and the Dutch fleets beaten at sea by + the English. The murder of the De Witts forms one of the main + incidents of Alexandre Dumas's "Black Tulip."] + +pocket when he was a-bed, and his closet opened, and papers brought to +him, and left in his hands for an hour, and carried back and laid in the +place again, and keys put into his pocket again. He says that he hath +always had their most private debates, that have been but between two or +three of the chief of them, brought to him in an hour after, and an hour +after that, hath sent word thereof to the King, but nobody here regarded +them. But he tells me the sad news, that he is out of all expectations +that ever the debts of the Navy will be paid, if the Parliament do not +enable the King to do it by money; all they can hope for to do out of the +King's revenue being but to keep our wheels a-going on present services, +and, if they can, to cut off the growing interest: which is a sad story, +and grieves me to the heart. So home, my coach coming for me, and there +find Balty and Mr. How, who dined with me; and there my wife and I fell +out a little about the foulness of the linen of the table, but were +friends presently, but she cried, poor heart! which I was troubled for, +though I did not give her one hard word. Dinner done, she to church, and +W. How and I all the afternoon talking together about my Lord Sandwich's +suffering his business of the prizes to be managed by Sir R. Cuttance, who +is so deep in the business, more than my Lord knows of, and such a +loggerhead, and under such prejudice, that he will, we doubt, do my Lord +much wrong. In the evening, he gone, my wife to read to me and talk, and +spent the evening with much pleasure, and so to supper and to bed. + +28th. Up, called up by drums and trumpets; these things and boxes [??] +having cost me much money this Christmas already, and will do more. My +wife down by water to see her mother, and I with W. Hewer all day together +in my closet making some advance in the settling of my accounts, which +have been so long unevened that it troubles me how to set them right, +having not the use of my eyes to help me. My wife at night home, and +tells me how much her mother prays for me and is troubled for my eyes; and +I am glad to have friendship with them, and believe they are truly glad to +see their daughter come to live so well as she do. So spent the night in +talking, and so to supper and to bed. + +29th. Up, and at the Office all the morning, and at noon to dinner, and +there, by a pleasant mistake, find my uncle and aunt Wight, and three more +of their company, come to dine with me to-day, thinking that they had been +invited, which they were not; but yet we did give them a pretty good +dinner, and mighty merry at the mistake. They sat most of the afternoon +with us, and then parted, and my wife and I out, thinking to have gone to +a play, but it was too far begun, and so to the 'Change, and there she and +I bought several things, and so home, with much pleasure talking, and then +to reading, and so to supper and to bed. + +30th. Up, and vexed a little to be forced to pay 40s. for a glass of my +coach, which was broke the other day, nobody knows how, within the door, +while it was down; but I do doubt that I did break it myself with my +knees. After dinner, my wife and I to the Duke's playhouse, and there did +see King Harry the Eighth; and was mightily pleased, better than I ever +expected, with the history and shows of it. We happened to sit by Mr. +Andrews, our neighbour, and his wife, who talked so fondly to his little +boy. Thence my wife and I to the 'Change; but, in going, our neere horse +did fling himself, kicking of the coachbox over the pole; and a great deal +of trouble it was to get him right again, and we forced to 'light, and in +great fear of spoiling the horse, but there was no hurt. So to the +'Change, and then home, and there spent the evening talking, and so to +supper and to bed. + +31st. Up, and at the Office all the morning. At noon Capt. Ferrers and +Mr. Sheres + + [Henry Sheres accompanied Lord Sandwich in his embassy to Spain, and + returned to England in September, 1667, bearing letters from the + ambassador (see September 8th, 22nd, 27th). He was an officer in + the Ordnance, and served under Lord Dartmouth at the demolition of + the Mole at Tangier in 1683. He was knighted about 1684. He + translated Polybius (2 vols. 8vo., 1693), and also some of the + "Dialogues" of Lucian, included in the translation published in 1711 + (3 vols. 8vo.). Pepys bequeathed him a ring, and he died about + 1713.] + +come to me to dinner, who did, and pretty pleased with their talk of +Spayne; but my wife did not come down, I suppose because she would not, +Captain Ferrers being there, to oblige me by it. They gone, after dinner, +I to the office, and then in the evening home, being the last day of the +year, to endeavour to pay all bills and servants' wages, &c., which I did +almost to L5 that I know that I owe in the world, but to the publique; and +so with great pleasure to supper and to bed, and, blessed be God! the year +ends, after some late very great sorrow with my wife by my folly, yet +ends, I say, with great mutual peace and content, and likely to last so by +my care, who am resolved to enjoy the sweet of it, which I now possess, by +never giving her like cause of trouble. My greatest trouble is now from +the backwardness of my accounts, which I have not seen the bottom of now +near these two years, so that I know not in what condition I am in the +world, but by the grace of God, as far as my eyes will give me leave, I +will do it. + + + + + ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + + Craft and cunning concerning the buying and choosing of horses + Did see the knaveries and tricks of jockeys + Hath not a liberty of begging till he hath served three years + He told me that he had so good spies + Laissez nous affaire--Colbert + Nonconformists do now preach openly in houses + Offered to shew my wife further satisfaction if she desired + Seeing that he cared so little if he was out + Tell me that I speak in my dreams + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Diary of Samuel Pepys, December 1668 +by Samuel Pepys + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + +***** This file should be named 4194.txt or 4194.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/9/4194/ + +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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Up, and to the office, where sat all the morning, and at +noon with my people to dinner, and so to the office, very busy till +night, and then home and made my boy read to me Wilkins's Reall +Character, which do please me mightily, and so after supper to bed with +great pleasure and content with my wife. This day I hear of poor Mr. +Clerke, the solicitor, being dead, of a cold, after being not above two +days ill, which troubles me mightily, poor man! + + + +2nd. Up, and at the office all the morning upon some accounts of Sir D. +Gawden, and at noon abroad with W. Hewer, thinking to have found Mr. Wren +at Captain Cox's, to have spoke something to him about doing a favour for +Will's uncle Steventon, but missed him. And so back home and abroad with +my wife, the first time that ever I rode in my own coach, which do make +my heart rejoice, and praise God, and pray him to bless it to me and +continue it. So she and I to the King's playhouse, and there sat to +avoid seeing Knepp in a box above where Mrs. Williams happened to be, and +there saw "The Usurper;" a pretty good play, in all but what is designed +to resemble Cromwell and Hugh Peters, which is mighty silly. The play +done, we to White Hall; where my wife staid while I up to the Duchesse's +and Queen's side, to speak with the Duke of York: and here saw all the +ladies, and heard the silly discourse of the King, with his people about +him, telling a story of my Lord Rochester's having of his clothes stole, +while he was with a wench; and his gold all gone, but his clothes found +afterwards stuffed into a feather bed by the wench that stole them. I +spoke with the Duke of York, just as he was set down to supper with the +King, about our sending of victuals to Sir Thomas Allen's fleet hence to +Cales [Cadiz] to meet him. And so back to my wife in my coach, and so +with great content and joy home, where I made my boy to make an end of +the Reall Character, which I begun a great while ago, and do please me +infinitely, and indeed is a most worthy labour, and I think mighty easy, +though my eyes make me unable to attempt any thing in it. To-day I hear +that Mr. Ackworth's cause went for him at Guildhall, against his +accusers, which I am well enough pleased with. + + + +3rd. Up betimes, and by water with W. Hewer to White Hall, and there to +Mr. Wren, who gives me but small hopes of the favour I hoped for Mr. +Steventon, Will's uncle, of having leave, being upon the point of death, +to surrender his place, which do trouble me, but I will do what I can. +So back again to the Office, Sir Jer. Smith with me; who is a silly, +prating, talking man; but he tells me what he hears, that Holmes and +Spragg now rule all with the Duke of Buckingham, as to seabusiness, and +will be great men: but he do prophesy what will be the fruit of it; so I +do. So to the Office, where we sat all the morning; and at noon home to +dinner, and then abroad again, with my wife, to the Duke of York's +playhouse, and saw "The Unfortunate Lovers;" a mean play, I think, but +some parts very good, and excellently acted. We sat under the boxes, and +saw the fine ladies; among others, my Lady Kerneguy, a who is most +devilishly painted. And so home, it being mighty pleasure to go alone +with my poor wife, in a coach of our own, to a play, and makes us appear +mighty great, I think, in the world; at least, greater than ever I could, +or my friends for me, have once expected; or, I think, than ever any of +my family ever yet lived, in my memory, but my cozen Pepys in Salisbury +Court. So to the office, and thence home to supper and to bed. + + + +4th. Up, and with W. Hewer by water to White Hall, and there did wait as +usual upon the Duke of York, where, upon discoursing something touching +the Ticket-Office, which by letter the Board did give the Duke of York +their advice, to be put upon Lord Brouncker, Sir J. Minnes did foolishly +rise up and complain of the Office, and his being made nothing of; and +this before Sir Thomas Littleton, who would be glad of this difference +among us, which did trouble me mightily; and therefore I did forbear to +say what I otherwise would have thought fit for me to say on this +occasion, upon so impertinent a speech as this doting fool made--but, +I say, I let it alone, and contented myself that it went as I advised, +as to the Duke of York's judgment, in the thing disputed. And so thence +away, my coach meeting me there and carrying me to several places to do +little jobs, which is a mighty convenience, and so home, where by +invitation I find my aunt Wight, who looked over all our house, and is +mighty pleased with it, and indeed it is now mighty handsome, and rich in +furniture. By and by comes my uncle, and then to dinner, where a venison +pasty and very merry, and after dinner I carried my wife and her to +Smithfield, where they sit in the coach, while Mr. Pickering, who meets +me there, and I, and W. Hewer, and a friend of his, a jockey, did go +about to see several pairs of horses, for my coach; but it was late, and +we agreed on none, but left it to another time: but here I do see +instances of a piece of craft and cunning that I never dreamed of, +concerning the buying and choosing of horses. So Mr. Pickering, to whom +I am much beholden for his kindness herein, and I parted; and I with my +people home, where I left them, and I to the office, to meet about some +business of Sir W. Warren's accounts, where I vexed to see how ill all +the Comptroller's business is likely to go on, so long as ever Sir J. +Minnes lives; and so troubled I was, that I thought it a good occasion +for me to give my thoughts of it in writing, and therefore wrote a letter +at the Board, by the help of a tube, to Lord Brouncker, and did give it +him, which I kept a copy of, and it may be of use to me hereafter to +shew, in this matter. This being done, I home to my aunt, who supped +with us, and my uncle also: and a good-humoured woman she is, so that I +think we shall keep her acquaintance; but mighty proud she is of her +wedding-ring, being lately set with diamonds; cost her about L12: and I +did commend it mightily to her, but do not think it very suitable for one +of our quality. After supper they home, and we to bed. + + + +5th. Up, after a little talk with my wife, which troubled me, she being +ever since our late difference mighty watchful of sleep and dreams, and +will not be persuaded but I do dream of Deb., and do tell me that I speak +in my dreams and that this night I did cry, Huzzy, and it must be she, +and now and then I start otherwise than I used to do, she says, which I +know not, for I do not know that I dream of her more than usual, though I +cannot deny that my thoughts waking do run now and then against my will +and judgment upon her, for that only is wanting to undo me, being now in +every other thing as to my mind most happy, and may still be so but for +my own fault, if I be catched loving any body but my wife again. So up +and to the office, and at noon to dinner, and thence to office, where +late, mighty busy, and despatching much business, settling papers in my +own office, and so home to supper, and to bed. No news stirring, but +that my Lord of Ormond is likely to go to Ireland again, which do shew +that the Duke of Buckingham do not rule all so absolutely; and that, +however, we shall speedily have more changes in the Navy: and it is +certain that the Nonconformists do now preach openly in houses, in many +places, and among others the house that was heretofore Sir G. Carteret's, +in Leadenhall Streete, and have ready access to the King. And now the +great dispute is, whether this Parliament or another; and my great +design, if I continue in the Navy, is to get myself to be a Parliament- +man. + + + +6th (Lord's day). Up, and with my wife to church; which pleases me +mightily, I being full of fear that she would never go to church again, +after she had declared to me that she was a Roman Catholique. But though +I do verily think she fears God, and is truly and sincerely righteous, +yet I do see she is not so strictly so a Catholique as not to go to +church with me, which pleases me mightily. Here Mills made a lazy +sermon, upon Moses's meeknesse, and so home, and my wife and I alone to +dinner, and then she to read a little book concerning speech in general, +a translation late out of French; a most excellent piece as ever I read, +proving a soul in man, and all the ways and secrets by which nature +teaches speech in man, which do please me most infinitely to read. By +and by my wife to church, and I to my Office to complete my Journall for +the last three days, and so home to my chamber to settle some papers, and +so to spend the evening with my wife and W. Hewer talking over the +business of the Office, and particularly my own Office, how I will make +it, and it will become, in a little time, an Office of ease, and not +slavery, as it hath for so many years been. So to supper, and to bed. + + + +7th. Up by candlelight, the first time I have done so this winter, but I +had lost my labour so often to visit Sir W. Coventry, and not visited him +so long, that I was resolved to get time enough, and so up, and with W. +Hewer, it being the first frosty day we have had this winter, did walk +it very well to W. Coventry's, and there alone with him an hour talking +of the Navy, which he pities, but says he hath no more mind to be found +meddling with the Navy, lest it should do it hurt, as well as him, to be +found to meddle with it. So to talk of general things: and telling him +that, with all these doings, he, I thanked God, stood yet; he told me, +Yes, but that he thought his continuing in, did arise from his enemies my +Lord of Buckingham and Arlington's seeing that he cared so little if he +was out; and he do protest to me that he is as weary of the Treasury, as +ever he was of the Navy. He tells me that he do believe that their heat +is over almost, as to the Navy, there being now none left of the old +stock but my Lord Brouncker, J. Minnes, who is ready to leave the world, +and myself. But he tells me that he do foresee very great wants and +great disorders by reason thereof; insomuch, as he is represented to +the King by his enemies as a melancholy man, and one that is still +prophesying ill events, so as the King called him Visionaire, which being +told him, he said he answered the party, that, whatever he foresaw, he +was not afeard as to himself of any thing, nor particularly of my Lord +Arlington, so much as the Duke of Buckingham hath been, nor of the Duke +of Buckingham, so much as my Lord Arlington at this time is. But he +tells me that he hath been always looked upon as a melancholy man; +whereas, others that would please the King do make him believe that all +is safe: and so he hath heard my Lord Chancellor openly say to the King, +that he was now a glorious prince, and in a glorious condition, because +of some one accident that hath happened, or some one rub that hath been +removed; "when," says W. Coventry, "they reckoned their one good meal, +without considering that there was nothing left in the cup board for +to-morrow." After this and other discourse of this kind, I away, and +walked to my Lord Sandwich's, and walked with him to White Hall, and took +a quarter of an hour's walk in the garden with him, which I had not done +for so much time with him since his coming into England; and talking of +his own condition, and particularly of the world's talk of his going to +Tangier. I find, if his conditions can be made profitable and safe as +to money, he would go, but not else; but, however, will seem not averse +to it, because of facilitating his other accounts now depending, which he +finds hard to get through, but yet hath some hopes, the King, he says, +speaking very kindly to him. Thence to a Committee of Tangier, and so +with W. Hewer to Westminster to Sir R. Longs office, and so to the +Temple, but did nothing, the Auditor not being within, and so home to +dinner, and after dinner out again with my wife to the Temple, and up and +down to do a little business, and back again, and so to my office, and +did a little business, and so home, and W. Hewer with me, to read and +talk, and so to supper, and then to bed in mighty good humour. This +afternoon, passing through Queen's Street, I saw pass by our coach on +foot Deb., which, God forgive me, did put me into some new thoughts of +her, and for her, but durst not shew them, and I think my wife did not +see her, but I did get my thoughts free of her soon as I could. + + + +8th. Up, and Sir H. Cholmly betimes with me, about some accounts and +moneys due to him: and he gone, I to the Office, where sat all the +morning; and here, among other things, breaks out the storm W. Hewer and +I have long expected from the Surveyor,--[Colonel Middleton.]-- about +W. Hewer's conspiring to get a contract, to the burdening of the stores +with kerseys and cottons, of which he hath often complained, and lately +more than ever; and now he did it by a most scandalous letter to the +Board, reflecting on my Office: and, by discourse, it fell to such high +words between him and me, as can hardly ever be forgot; I declaring I +would believe W. Hewer as soon as him, and laying the fault, if there be +any, upon himself; he, on the other hand, vilifying of my word and +W. Hewer's, calling him knave, and that if he were his clerk, he should +lose his ears. At last, I closed the business for this morning with +making the thing ridiculous, as it is, and he swearing that the King +should have right in it, or he would lose his place. The Office was +cleared of all but ourselves and W. Hewer; but, however, the world did +by the beginning see what it meant, and it will, I believe, come to high +terms between us, which I am sorry for, to have any blemish laid upon +me or mine, at this time, though never so unduly, for fear of giving +occasion to my real discredit: and therefore I was not only all the rest +of the morning vexed, but so went home to dinner, where my wife tells me +of my Lord Orrery's new play "Tryphon," at the Duke of York's house, +which, however, I would see, and therefore put a bit of meat in our +mouths, and went thither; where, with much ado, at half-past one, we got +into a blind hole in the 18d. place, above stairs, where we could not +hear well, but the house infinite full, but the prologue most silly, and +the play, though admirable, yet no pleasure almost in it, because just +the very same design, and words, and sense, and plot, as every one of his +plays have, any one of which alone would be held admirable, whereas so +many of the same design and fancy do but dull one another; and this, I +perceive, is the sense of every body else, as well as myself, who +therefore showed but little pleasure in it. So home, mighty hot, and my +mind mightily out of order, so as I could not eat any supper, or sleep +almost all night, though I spent till twelve at night with W. Hewer to +consider of our business: and we find it not only most free from any +blame of our side, but so horrid scandalous on the other, to make so +groundless a complaint, and one so shameful to him, that it could not but +let me see that there is no need of my being troubled; but such is the +weakness of my nature, that I could not help it, which vexes me, showing +me how unable I am to live with difficulties. + + + +9th. Up, and to the Office, but did little there, my mind being still +uneasy, though more and more satisfied that there is no occasion for it; +but abroad with my wife to the Temple, where I met with Auditor Wood's +clerk, and did some business with him, and so to see Mr. Spong, and found +him out by Southampton Market, and there carried my wife, and up to his +chamber, a bye place, but with a good prospect of the fields; and there I +had most infinite pleasure, not only with his ingenuity in general, but +in particular with his shewing me the use of the Parallelogram, by which +he drew in a quarter of an hour before me, in little, from a great, +a most neat map of England--that is, all the outlines, which gives me +infinite pleasure, and foresight of pleasure, I shall have with it; and +therefore desire to have that which I have bespoke, made. Many other +pretty things he showed us, and did give me a glass bubble, to try the +strength of liquors with. + + [This seems to refer to the first form of the Hon. Robert Boyle's + hydrometer, which he described in a paper in the "Philosophical + Transactions" for June, 1675, under the title of a "New Essay + instrument." In this paper the author refers to a glass instrument + exhibited many years before by himself, "consisting of a bubble + furnished with a long and slender stem, which was to be put into + several liquors to compare and estimate their specific gravity." + Boyle describes this glass bubble in a paper in "Philosophical + Transactions," vol. iv., No. 50, p. 1001, 1669, entitled, "The + Weights of Water in Water with ordinary Balances and Weights."] + +This done, and having spent 6d. in ale in the coach, at the door of the +Bull Inn, with the innocent master of the house, a Yorkshireman, for his +letting us go through his house, we away to Hercules Pillars, and there +eat a bit of meat: and so, with all speed, back to the Duke of York's +house, where mighty full again; but we come time enough to have a good +place in the pit, and did hear this new play again, where, though I +better understood it than before, yet my sense of it and pleasure was +just the same as yesterday, and no more, nor any body else's about us. +So took our coach and home, having now little pleasure to look about me +to see the fine faces, for fear of displeasing my wife, whom I take great +comfort now, more than ever, in pleasing; and it is a real joy to me. +So home, and to my Office, where spent an hour or two; and so home to +my wife, to supper and talk, and so to bed. + + + +10th. Up, and to the Office, where busy all the morning: Middleton not +there, so no words or looks of him. At noon, home to dinner; and so to +the Office, and there all the afternoon busy; and at night W. Hewer home +with me; and we think we have got matter enough to make Middleton appear +a coxcomb. But it troubled me to have Sir W. Warren meet me at night, +going out of the Office home, and tell me that Middleton do intend to +complain to the Duke of York: but, upon consideration of the business, +I did go to bed, satisfied that it was best for me that he should; and +so my trouble was over, and to bed, and slept well. + + + +11th. Up, and with W. Hewer by water to Somerset House; and there I to +my Lord Brouncker, before he went forth to the Duke of York, and there +told him my confidence that I should make Middleton appear a fool, and +that it was, I thought, best for me to complain of the wrong he hath +done; but brought it about, that my Lord desired me I would forbear, and +promised that he would prevent Middleton till I had given in my answer to +the Board, which I desired: and so away to White Hall, and there did our +usual attendance and no word spoke before the Duke of York by Middleton +at all; at which I was glad to my heart, because by this means I have +time to draw up my answer to my mind. So with W. Hewer by coach to +Smithfield, but met not Mr. Dickering, he being not come, and so he +[Will] and I to a cook's shop, in Aldersgate Street; and dined well for +19 1/2 d., upon roast beef, pleasing ourselves with the infinite strength +we have to prove Middleton a coxcomb; and so, having dined, we back to +Smithfield, and there met Dickering, and up and down all the afternoon +about horses, and did see the knaveries and tricks of jockeys. Here I +met W. Joyce, who troubled me with his impertinencies a great while, and +the like Mr. Knepp, who, it seems, is a kind of a jockey, and would fain +have been doing something for me, but I avoided him, and the more for +fear of being troubled thereby with his wife, whom I desire but dare not +see, for my vow to my wife. At last went away and did nothing, only +concluded upon giving L50 for a fine pair of black horses we saw this day +se'nnight; and so set Mr. Dickering down near his house, whom I am much +beholden to, for his care herein, and he hath admirable skill, +I perceive, in this business, and so home, and spent the evening +talking and merry, my mind at good ease, and so to bed. + + + +12th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon home to +dinner, and so the like mighty busy, late, all the afternoon, that I +might be ready to go to the drawing up of my answer to Middleton +to-morrow, and therefore home to supper and to bed. I hear this day that +there is fallen down a new house, not quite finished, in Lumbard Street, +and that there have been several so, they making use of bad mortar and +bricks; but no hurt yet, as God hath ordered it. This day was brought +home my pair of black coach-horses, the first I ever was master of. +They cost me L50, and are a fine pair. + + + +13th (Lord's day). Up, and with W. Hewer to the Office, where all the +morning, and then home to a little dinner, and presently to it again all +alone till twelve at night, drawing up my answer to Middleton, which I +think I shall do to very good purpose--at least, I satisfy myself +therein; and so to bed, weary with walking in my Office dictating to +him [Hewer]. In the night my wife very ill, vomited, but was well +again by and by. + + + +14th. Up, and by water to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier, where, +among other things, a silly account of a falling out between Norwood, at +Tangier, and Mr. Bland, the mayor, who is fled to Cales [Cadiz]. His +complaint is ill-worded, and the other's defence the most ridiculous that +ever I saw; and so everybody else that was there, thought it; but never +did I see so great an instance of the use of grammar, and knowledge how +to tell a man's tale as this day, Bland having spoiled his business by +ill-telling it, who had work to have made himself notorious by his +mastering Norwood, his enemy, if he had known how to have used it. +Thence calling Smith, the Auditor's clerk at the Temple, I by the +Exchange home, and there looked over my Tangier accounts with him, and so +to dinner, and then set him down again by a hackney, my coachman being +this day about breaking of my horses to the coach, they having never yet +drawn. Left my wife at Unthank's, and I to the Treasury, where we waited +on the Lords Commissioners about Sir D. Gawden's matters, and so took her +up again at night, and home to the office, and so home with W. Hewer, +and to talk about our quarrel with Middleton, and so to supper and to +bed. This day I hear, and am glad, that the King hath prorogued the +Parliament to October next; and, among other reasons, it will give me +time to go to France, I hope. + + + +15th. Up, and to the Office, where sat all the morning, and the new +Treasurers there; and, for my life, I cannot keep Sir J. Minnes and +others of the Board from shewing our weakness, to the dishonour of the +Board, though I am not concerned but it do vex me to the heart to have it +before these people, that would be glad to find out all our weaknesses. +At noon Mrs. Mary Batelier with us, and so, after dinner, I with W. Hewer +all the afternoon till night beginning to draw up our answer to +Middleton, and it proves troublesome, because I have so much in my head +at a time to say, but I must go through with it. So at night to supper +and to bed. + + + +16th. I did the like all day long, only a little at dinner, and so to +work again, and were at it till 2 in the morning, and so W. Hewer, who +was with me all day, home to his lodging, and I to bed, after we had +finished it. + + + +17th. Up, and set my man Gibson and Mr. Fists to work to write it over +fair, while I all the morning at the office sitting. At noon home to +them, and all the afternoon looking over them and examining with W. +Hewer, and so about to at night I to bed, leaving them to finish the +writing it fair, which they did by sitting up most of the night, and so +home to bed. + + + +18th. All the morning at the office about Sir W. Warren's accounts, my +mind full of my business, having before we met gone to Lord Brouncker, +and got him to read over my paper, who owns most absolute content in it, +and the advantage I have in it, and the folly of the Surveyor. At noon +home to dinner; and then again to the office a while, and so by hackney +coach to Brooke House, and there spoke with Colonel Thomson, I by order +carrying them [the Commissioners of Accounts] our Contract-books, from +the beginning to the end of the late war. I found him finding of errors +in a ship's book, where he shewed me many, which must end in the ruin, I +doubt, of the Controller, who found them not out in the pay of the ship, +or the whole Office. But I took little notice of them to concern myself +in them, but so leaving my books I home to the Office, where the office +met, and after some other business done, fell to mine, which the Surveyor +begun to be a little brisk at the beginning; but when I come to the point +to touch him, which I had all the advantages in the world to do, he +become as calm as a lamb, and owned, as the whole Board did, their +satisfaction, and cried excuse: and so all made friends; and their +acknowledgment put into writing, and delivered into Sir J. Minnes's hand, +to be kept there for the use of the Board, or me, when I shall call for +it; they desiring it might be so, that I might not make use of it to the +prejudice of the Surveyor, whom I had an advantage over, by his +extraordinary folly in this matter. But, besides this, I have no small +advantage got by this business, as I have put several things into my +letter which I should otherwise have wanted an opportunity of saying, +which pleases me mightily. So Middleton desiring to be friends, +I forgave him; and all mighty quiet, and fell to talk of other stories, +and there staid, all of us, till nine or ten at night, more than ever we +did in our lives before, together. And so home, where I have a new fight +to fight with my wife, who is under new trouble by some news she hath +heard of Deb.'s being mighty fine, and gives out that she has a friend +that gives her money, and this my wife believes to be me, and, poor +wretch! I cannot blame her, and therefore she run into mighty extremes; +but I did pacify all, and were mighty good friends, and to bed, and I +hope it will be our last struggle from this business, for I am resolved +never to give any new occasion, and great peace I find in my mind by it. +So to supper, she and I to bed. + + + +19th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon, eating +very little dinner, my wife and I by hackney to the King's playhouse, and +there, the pit being full, satin a box above, and saw "Catiline's +Conspiracy," yesterday being the first day: a play of much good sense and +words to read, but that do appear the worst upon the stage, I mean, the +least diverting, that ever I saw any, though most fine in clothes; and a +fine scene of the Senate, and of a fight, that ever I saw in my life. +But the play is only to be read, and therefore home, with no pleasure at +all, but only in sitting next to Betty Hall, that did belong to this +house, and was Sir Philip Howard's mistress; a mighty pretty wench, +though my wife will not think so; and I dare neither commend, nor be seen +to look upon her, or any other now, for fear of offending her. So, our +own coach coming for us, home, and to end letters, and so home, my wife +to read to me out of "The Siege of Rhodes," and so to supper, and to bed. + + + +20th (Lord's day). Up, and with my wife to church, and then home, and +there found W. Joyce come to dine with me, as troublesome a talking +coxcombe as ever he was, and yet once in a year I like him well enough. +In the afternoon my wife and W. Hewer and I to White Hall, where they set +me down and staid till I had been with the Duke of York, with the rest of +us of the Office, and did a little business, and then the Duke of York in +good humour did fall to tell us many fine stories of the wars in +Flanders, and how the Spaniards are the [best] disciplined foot in the +world; will refuse no extraordinary service if commanded, but scorn to be +paid for it, as in other countries, though at the same time they will beg +in the streets: not a soldier will carry you a cloak-bag for money for +the world, though he will beg a penny, and will do the thing, if +commanded by his Commander. That, in the citadel of Antwerp, a soldier +hath not a liberty of begging till he hath served three years. They will +cry out against their King and Commanders and Generals, none like them in +the world, and yet will not hear a stranger say a word of them but he +will cut his throat. That, upon a time, some of the Commanders of their +army exclaiming against their Generals, and particularly the Marquis de +Caranen, the Confessor of the Marquis coming by and hearing them, he +stops and gravely tells them that the three great trades of the world +are, the lawyers, who govern the world; the churchmen, who enjoy the +world; and a sort of fools whom they call souldiers, who make it their +work to defend the world. He told us, too, that Turenne being now become +a Catholique, he is likely to get over the head of Colbert, their +interests being contrary; the latter to promote trade + + [This reminds us of the famous reply, 'Laissez nous affaire', made + to Colbert by the French merchants, whose interests he thought to + promote by laws and regulations.--B.] + +and the sea, which, says the Duke of York, is that that we have most +cause to fear; and Turenne to employ the King and his forces by land, +to encrease his conquests. Thence to the coach to my wife, and so home, +and there with W. Hewer to my office and to do some business, and so set +down my Journall for four or five days, and then home to supper and read +a little, and to bed. W. Hewer tells me to-day that he hears that the +King of France hath declared in print, that he do intend this next summer +to forbid his Commanders to strike--[Strike topsails]--to us, but that +both we and the Dutch shall strike to him; and that he hath made his +captains swear it already, that they will observe it: which is a great +thing if he do it, as I know nothing to hinder him. + + + +21st. My own coach carrying me and my boy Tom, who goes with me in the +room of W. Hewer, who could not, and I dare not go alone, to the Temple, +and there set me down, the first time my fine horses ever carried me, and +I am mighty proud of them, and there took a hackney and to White Hall, +where a Committee of Tangier, but little to do, and so away home, calling +at the Exchange and buying several little things, and so home, and there +dined with my wife and people and then she, and W. Hewer, and I by +appointment out with our coach, but the old horses, not daring yet to use +the others too much, but only to enter them, and to the Temple, there to +call Talbot Pepys, and took him up, and first went into Holborne, and +there saw the woman that is to be seen with a beard. She is a little +plain woman, a Dane: her name, Ursula Dyan; about forty years old; her +voice like a little girl's; with a beard as much as any man I ever saw, +black almost, and grizly; they offered to shew my wife further +satisfaction if she desired it, refusing it to men that desired it there, +but there is no doubt but by her voice she is a woman; it begun to grow +at about seven years old, and was shaved not above seven months ago, +and is now so big as any man's almost that ever I saw; I say, bushy and +thick. It was a strange sight to me, I confess, and what pleased me +mightily. Thence to the Duke's playhouse, and saw "Macbeth." The King +and Court there; and we sat just under them and my Lady Castlemayne, +and close to the woman that comes into the pit, a kind of a loose gossip, +that pretends to be like her, and is so, something. And my wife, by my +troth, appeared, I think, as pretty as any of them; I never thought so +much before; and so did Talbot and W. Hewer, as they said, I heard, to +one another. The King and Duke of York minded me, and smiled upon me, +at the handsome woman near me but it vexed me to see Moll Davis, in the +box over the King's and my Lady Castlemayne's head, look down upon the +King, and he up to her; and so did my Lady Castlemayne once, to see who +it was; but when she saw her, she looked like fire; which troubled me. +The play done, took leave of Talbot, who goes into the country this +Christmas, and so we home, and there I to work at the office late, +and so home to supper and to bed. + + + +22nd. At the office all the morning, and at noon to the 'Change, +thinking to meet with Langford about my father's house in Fleet Streete, +but I come too late, and so home to dinner, and all the afternoon at the +office busy, and at night home to supper and talk, and with mighty +content with my wife, and so to bed. + + + +23rd. Met at the Office all the morning, and at noon to the 'Change, and +there met with Langford and Mr. Franke, the landlord of my father's house +in Fleet Streete, and are come to an arbitration what my father shall +give him to be freed of his lease and building the house again. Walked +up and down the 'Change, and among others discoursed with Sir John +Bankes, who thinks this prorogation will please all but the Parliament +itself, which will, if ever they meet, be vexed at Buckingham, who yet +governs all. He says the Nonconformists are glad of it, and, he +believes, will get the upperhand in a little time, for the King must +trust to them or nobody; and he thinks the King will be forced to it. +He says that Sir D. Gawden is mightily troubled at Pen's being put upon +him, by the Duke of York, and that he believes he will get clear of it, +which, though it will trouble me to have Pen still at the Office, yet I +shall think D. Gawden do well in it, and what I would advise him to, +because I love him. So home to dinner, and then with my wife alone +abroad, with our new horses, the beautifullest almost that ever I saw, +and the first time they ever carried her, and me but once; but we are +mighty proud of them. To her tailor's, and so to the 'Change, and laid +out three or four pounds in lace, for her and me; and so home, and there +I up to my Lord Brouncker, at his lodgings, and sat with him an hour, +on purpose to talk over the wretched state of this Office at present, +according to the present hands it is made up of; wherein he do fully +concur with me, and that it is our part not only to prepare for defending +it and ourselves, against the consequences of it, but to take the best +ways we can, to make it known to the Duke of York; for, till Sir +J. Minnes be removed, and a sufficient man brought into W. Pen's place, +when he is gone, it is impossible for this Office ever to support itself. +So home, and to supper and to bed. + + + +24th. A cold day. Up, and to the Office, where all the morning alone at +the Office, nobody meeting, being the eve of Christmas. At noon home to +dinner, and then to the Office busy, all the afternoon, and at night home +to supper, and it being now very cold, and in hopes of a frost, I begin +this night to put on a waistcoat, it being the first winter in my whole +memory that ever I staid till this day before I did so. So to bed in +mighty good humour with my wife, but sad, in one thing, and that is for +my poor eyes. + + + +25th (Christmas-day). Up, and continued on my waistcoat, the first day +this winter, and I to church, where Alderman Backewell, coming in late, +I beckoned to his lady to come up to us, who did, with another lady; +and after sermon, I led her down through the church to her husband and +coach, a noble, fine woman, and a good one, and one my wife shall be +acquainted with. So home, and to dinner alone with my wife, who, poor +wretch! sat undressed all day, till ten at night, altering and lacing of +a noble petticoat: while I by her, making the boy read to me the Life of +Julius Caesar, and Des Cartes' book of Musick + + ["Musicae Compendium." By Rene Des Cartes, Amsterdam, 1617; + rendered into English, London, 1653, 4to. The translator, whose + name did not appear on the title, was William, Viscount Brouncker, + Pepys's colleague, who proved his knowledge of music by the + performance.] + +--the latter of which I understand not, nor think he did well that writ +it, though a most learned man. Then, after supper, I made the boy play +upon his lute, which I have not done twice before since he come to me; +and so, my mind in mighty content, we to bed. + + + +26th. Lay long with pleasure, prating with my wife, and then up, and I +a little to the Office, and my head busy setting some papers and accounts +to rights, which being long neglected because of my eyes will take me up +much time and care to do, but it must be done. So home at noon to +dinner, and then abroad with my wife to a play, at the Duke of York's +house, the house full of ordinary citizens. The play was "Women +Pleased," which we had never seen before; and, though but indifferent, +yet there is a good design for a good play. So home, and there to talk, +and my wife to read to me, and so to bed. + + + +27th (Lord's day). Walked to White Hall and there saw the King at +chapel; but staid not to hear anything, but went to walk in the Park, +with W. Hewer, who was with me; and there, among others, met with Sir +G. Downing, and walked with him an hour, talking of business, and how the +late war was managed, there being nobody to take care of it, and telling +how, when he was in Holland, what he offered the King to do, if he might +have power, and they would give him power, and then, upon the least word, +perhaps of a woman, to the King, he was contradicted again, and +particularly to the loss of all that we lost in Guinny. He told me that +he had so good spies, that he hath had the keys taken out of De Witt's + + [The celebrated John de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland, who, + a few years afterwards, was massacred, with his brother Cornelius, + by the Dutch mob, enraged at their opposition to the elevation of + William of Orange to the Stadtholdership, when the States were + overrun by the French army, and the Dutch fleets beaten at sea by + the English. The murder of the De Witts forms one of the main + incidents of Alexandre Dumas's "Black Tulip."] + +pocket when he was a-bed, and his closet opened, and papers brought to +him, and left in his hands for an hour, and carried back and laid in the +place again, and keys put into his pocket again. He says that he hath +always had their most private debates, that have been but between two or +three of the chief of them, brought to him in an hour after, and an hour +after that, hath sent word thereof to the King, but nobody here regarded +them. But he tells me the sad news, that he is out of all expectations +that ever the debts of the Navy will be paid, if the Parliament do not +enable the King to do it by money; all they can hope for to do out of the +King's revenue being but to keep our wheels a-going on present services, +and, if they can, to cut off the growing interest: which is a sad story, +and grieves me to the heart. So home, my coach coming for me, and there +find Balty and Mr. How, who dined with me; and there my wife and I fell +out a little about the foulness of the linen of the table, but were +friends presently, but she cried, poor heart! which I was troubled for, +though I did not give her one hard word. Dinner done, she to church, +and W. How and I all the afternoon talking together about my Lord +Sandwich's suffering his business of the prizes to be managed by Sir R. +Cuttance, who is so deep in the business, more than my Lord knows of, +and such a loggerhead, and under such prejudice, that he will, we doubt, +do my Lord much wrong. In the evening, he gone, my wife to read to me +and talk, and spent the evening with much pleasure, and so to supper and +to bed. + + + +28th. Up, called up by drums and trumpets; these things and boxes [??] +having cost me much money this Christmas already, and will do more. My +wife down by water to see her mother, and I with W. Hewer all day +together in my closet making some advance in the settling of my accounts, +which have been so long unevened that it troubles me how to set them +right, having not the use of my eyes to help me. My wife at night home, +and tells me how much her mother prays for me and is troubled for my +eyes; and I am glad to have friendship with them, and believe they are +truly glad to see their daughter come to live so well as she do. So +spent the night in talking, and so to supper and to bed. + + + +29th. Up, and at the Office all the morning, and at noon to dinner, and +there, by a pleasant mistake, find my uncle and aunt Wight, and three +more of their company, come to dine with me to-day, thinking that they +had been invited, which they were not; but yet we did give them a pretty +good dinner, and mighty merry at the mistake. They sat most of the +afternoon with us, and then parted, and my wife and I out, thinking to +have gone to a play, but it was too far begun, and so to the 'Change, and +there she and I bought several things, and so home, with much pleasure +talking, and then to reading, and so to supper and to bed. + + + +30th. Up, and vexed a little to be forced to pay 40s. for a glass of my +coach, which was broke the other day, nobody knows how, within the door, +while it was down; but I do doubt that I did break it myself with my +knees. After dinner, my wife and I to the Duke's playhouse, and there +did see King Harry the Eighth; and was mightily pleased, better than I +ever expected, with the history and shows of it. We happened to sit by +Mr. Andrews, our neighbour, and his wife, who talked so fondly to his +little boy. Thence my wife and I to the 'Change; but, in going, our +neere horse did fling himself, kicking of the coachbox over the pole; and +a great deal of trouble it was to get him right again, and we forced to +'light, and in great fear of spoiling the horse, but there was no hurt. +So to the 'Change, and then home, and there spent the evening talking, +and so to supper and to bed. + + + +31st. Up, and at the Office all the morning. At noon Capt. Ferrers and +Mr. Sheres + + [Henry Sheres accompanied Lord Sandwich in his embassy to Spain, and + returned to England in September, 1667, bearing letters from the + ambassador (see September 8th, 22nd, 27th). He was an officer in + the Ordnance, and served under Lord Dartmouth at the demolition of + the Mole at Tangier in 1683. He was knighted about 1684. He + translated Polybius (2 vols. 8vo., 1693), and also some of the + "Dialogues" of Lucian, included in the translation published in 1711 + (3 vols. 8vo.). Pepys bequeathed him a ring, and he died about + 1713.] + +come to me to dinner, who did, and pretty pleased with their talk of +Spayne; but my wife did not come down, I suppose because she would not, +Captain Ferrers being there, to oblige me by it. They gone, after +dinner, I to the office, and then in the evening home, being the last day +of the year, to endeavour to pay all bills and servants' wages, &c., +which I did almost to L5 that I know that I owe in the world, but to the +publique; and so with great pleasure to supper and to bed, and, blessed +be God! the year ends, after some late very great sorrow with my wife by +my folly, yet ends, I say, with great mutual peace and content, and +likely to last so by my care, who am resolved to enjoy the sweet of it, +which I now possess, by never giving her like cause of trouble. My +greatest trouble is now from the backwardness of my accounts, which I +have not seen the bottom of now near these two years, so that I know not +in what condition I am in the world, but by the grace of God, as far as +my eyes will give me leave, I will do it. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +Craft and cunning concerning the buying and choosing of horses +Did see the knaveries and tricks of jockeys +Hath not a liberty of begging till he hath served three years +He told me that he had so good spies +Laissez nous affaire--Colbert +Nonconformists do now preach openly in houses +Offered to shew my wife further satisfaction if she desired +Seeing that he cared so little if he was out +Tell me that I speak in my dreams + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v78 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + diff --git a/old/sp79g10.zip b/old/sp79g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..524e144 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp79g10.zip |