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+                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 this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v78
+by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley
+
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