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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1668, by Samuel Pepys
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+Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1668
+       Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian
+       Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors
+       Bright
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+Author: Samuel Pepys
+
+Commentator: Lord Braybrooke
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+Editor: Henry B. Wheatley
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+Release Date: October 12, 2006 [EBook #4195]
+Posting Date: March 22, 2009 
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, 1668 ***
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+Produced by David Widger
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+THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S.
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+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
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+(Unabridged)
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+WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES
+
+          1968
+
+By Samuel Pepys
+
+Edited With Additions By
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+Henry B. Wheatley F.S.A.
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+    LONDON
+    GEORGE BELL & SONS YORK ST.  COVENT GARDEN
+    CAMBRIDGE DEIGHTON BELL & CO.
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+
+    1893
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+
+JANUARY 1667-1668
+
+January 1st. Up, and all the morning in my chamber making up some
+accounts against this beginning of the new year, and so about noon
+abroad with my wife, who was to dine with W. Hewer and Willet at Mrs.
+Pierces, but I had no mind to be with them, for I do clearly find that
+my wife is troubled at my friendship with her and Knepp, and so dined
+with my Lord Crew, with whom was Mr. Browne, Clerk of the House of
+Lords, and Mr. John Crew. Here was mighty good discourse, as there is
+always: and among other things my Lord Crew did turn to a place in
+the Life of Sir Philip Sidney, wrote by Sir Fulke Greville, which do
+foretell the present condition of this nation, in relation to the
+Dutch, to the very degree of a prophecy; and is so remarkable that I
+am resolved to buy one of them, it being, quite throughout, a good
+discourse. Here they did talk much of the present cheapness of corne,
+even to a miracle; so as their farmers can pay no rent, but do fling
+up their lands; and would pay in corne: but, which I did observe to my
+Lord, and he liked well of it, our gentry are grown so ignorant in every
+thing of good husbandry, that they know not how to bestow this corne:
+which, did they understand but a little trade, they would be able to
+joyne together, and know what markets there are abroad, and send it
+thither, and thereby ease their tenants and be able to pay themselves.
+They did talk much of the disgrace the Archbishop is fallen under with
+the King, and the rest of the Bishops also. Thence I after dinner to the
+Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "Sir Martin Mar-all;" which I
+have seen so often, and yet am mightily pleased with it, and think it
+mighty witty, and the fullest of proper matter for mirth that ever was
+writ; and I do clearly see that they do improve in their acting of it.
+Here a mighty company of citizens, 'prentices, and others; and it makes
+me observe, that when I begun first to be able to bestow a play on
+myself, I do not remember that I saw so many by half of the ordinary
+'prentices and mean people in the pit at 2s. 6d. a-piece as now; I going
+for several years no higher than the 12d. and then the 18d. places,
+though, I strained hard to go in then when I did: so much the vanity and
+prodigality of the age is to be observed in this particular. Thence I to
+White Hall, and there walked up and down the house a while, and do
+hear nothing of anything done further in this business of the change of
+Privy-counsellors: only I hear that Sir G. Savile, one of the Parliament
+Committee of nine, for examining the Accounts, is by the King made a
+Lord, the Lord Halifax; which, I believe, will displease the Parliament.
+By and by I met with Mr. Brisband; and having it in my mind this
+Christmas to (do what I never can remember that I did) go to see the
+manner of the gaming at the Groome-Porter's, I having in my coming from
+the playhouse stepped into the two Temple-halls, and there saw the dirty
+'prentices and idle people playing; wherein I was mistaken, in thinking
+to have seen gentlemen of quality playing there, as I think it was when
+I was a little child, that one of my father's servants, John Bassum, I
+think, carried me in his arms thither. I did tell Brisband of it, and he
+did lead me thither, where, after staying an hour, they begun to play
+at about eight at night, where to see how differently one man took
+his losing from another, one cursing and swearing, and another only
+muttering and grumbling to himself, a third without any apparent
+discontent at all: to see how the dice will run good luck in one hand,
+for half an hour together, and another have no good luck at all: to see
+how easily here, where they play nothing but guinnys, a L100 is won or
+lost: to see two or three gentlemen come in there drunk, and putting
+their stock of gold together, one 22 pieces, the second 4, and the third
+5 pieces; and these to play one with another, and forget how much each
+of them brought, but he that brought the 22 thinks that he brought no
+more than the rest: to see the different humours of gamesters to change
+their luck, when it is bad, how ceremonious they are as to call for new
+dice, to shift their places, to alter their manner of throwing, and that
+with great industry, as if there was anything in it: to see how some old
+gamesters, that have no money now to spend as formerly, do come and sit
+and look on, as among others, Sir Lewis Dives, who was here, and hath
+been a great gamester in his time: to hear their cursing and damning to
+no purpose, as one man being to throw a seven if he could, and, failing
+to do it after a great many throws, cried he would be damned if ever
+he flung seven more while he lived, his despair of throwing it being so
+great, while others did it as their luck served almost every throw:
+to see how persons of the best quality do here sit down, and play with
+people of any, though meaner; and to see how people in ordinary clothes
+shall come hither, and play away 100, or 2 or 300 guinnys, without
+any kind of difficulty: and lastly, to see the formality of the
+groome-porter, who is their judge of all disputes in play and all
+quarrels that may arise therein, and how his under-officers are there
+to observe true play at each table, and to give new dice, is a
+consideration I never could have thought had been in the world, had I
+not now seen it. And mighty glad I am that I did see it, and it may be
+will find another evening, before Christmas be over, to see it again,
+when I may stay later, for their heat of play begins not till about
+eleven or twelve o'clock; which did give me another pretty observation
+of a man, that did win mighty fast when I was there. I think he won L100
+at single pieces in a little time. While all the rest envied him his
+good fortune, he cursed it, saying, "A pox on it, that it should come so
+early upon me, for this fortune two hours hence would be worth something
+to me, but then, God damn me, I shall have no such luck." This kind
+of prophane, mad entertainment they give themselves. And so I, having
+enough for once, refusing to venture, though Brisband pressed me hard,
+and tempted me with saying that no man was ever known to lose the first
+time, the devil being too cunning to discourage a gamester; and he
+offered me also to lend me ten pieces to venture; but I did refuse, and
+so went away, and took coach and home about 9 or to at night, where not
+finding my wife come home, I took the same coach again, and leaving my
+watch behind me for fear of robbing, I did go back and to Mrs. Pierces,
+thinking they might not have broken up yet, but there I find my wife
+newly gone, and not going out of my coach spoke only to Mr. Pierce in
+his nightgown in the street, and so away back again home, and there to
+supper with my wife and to talk about their dancing and doings at Mrs.
+Pierces to-day, and so to bed.
+
+2nd. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes by coach to White Hall, and there
+attended the King and the Duke of York in the Duke of York's lodgings,
+with the rest of the Officers and many of the Commanders of the fleete,
+and some of our master shipwrights, to discourse the business of having
+the topmasts of ships made to lower abaft of the mainmast; a business
+I understand not, and so can give no good account; but I do see that by
+how much greater the Council, and the number of Counsellors is, the more
+confused the issue is of their councils; so that little was said to the
+purpose regularly, and but little use was made of it, they coming to
+a very broken conclusion upon it, to make trial in a ship or two. From
+this they fell to other talk about the fleete's fighting this late war,
+and how the King's ships have been shattered; though the King said that
+the world would not have it that about ten or twenty ships in any fight
+did do any service, and that this hath been told so to him himself, by
+ignorant people. The Prince, who was there, was mightily surprised
+at it, and seemed troubled: but the King told him that it was only
+discourse of the world. But Mr. Wren whispered me in the eare, and said
+that the Duke of Albemarle had put it into his Narrative for the House,
+that not above twenty-five ships fought in the engagement wherein he
+was, but that he was advised to leave it out; but this he did write
+from sea, I am sure, or words to that effect: and did displease many
+commanders, among others, Captain Batts, who the Duke of York said was
+a very stout man, all the world knew; and that another was brought into
+his ship that had been turned out of his place when he was a boatswain,
+not long before, for being a drunkard. This the Prince took notice of,
+and would have been angry, I think, but they let their discourse fall:
+but the Duke of York was earnest in it. And the Prince said to me,
+standing by me, "God damn me, if they will turn out every man that will
+be drunk, they must turn out all the commanders in the fleete. What is
+the matter if he be drunk, so when he comes to fight he do his work? At
+least, let him be punished for his drunkenness, and not put out of his
+command presently." This he spoke, very much concerned for this idle
+fellow, one Greene. After this the King began to tell stories of the
+cowardice of the Spaniards in Flanders, when he was there, at the siege
+of Mardike and Dunkirke; which was very pretty, though he tells them but
+meanly. This being done I to Westminster Hall, and there staid a little:
+and then home, and by the way did find with difficulty the Life of Sir
+Philip Sidney (the book I mentioned yesterday). And the bookseller told
+me that he had sold four, within this week or two, which is more than
+ever he sold in all his life of them; and he could not imagine what
+should be the reason of it: but I suppose it is from the same reason of
+people's observing of this part therein, touching his prophesying our
+present condition here in England in relation to the Dutch, which is
+very remarkable. So home to dinner, where Balty's wife is come to town;
+she come last night and lay at my house, but being weary was gone to bed
+before I come home, and so I saw her not before. After dinner I took
+my wife and her girl out to the New Exchange, and there my wife bought
+herself a lace for a handkercher, which I do give her, of about L3, for
+a new year's gift, and I did buy also a lace for a band for myself, and
+so home, and there to the office busy late, and so home to my chamber,
+where busy on some accounts, and then to supper and to bed. This day my
+wife shows me a locket of dyamonds worth about L40, which W. Hewer
+do press her to accept, and hath done for a good while, out of his
+gratitude for my kindness and hers to him. But I do not like that she
+should receive it, it not being honourable for me to do it; and so do
+desire her to force him to take it back again, he leaving it against her
+will yesterday with her. And she did this evening force him to take it
+back, at which she says he is troubled; but, however, it becomes me more
+to refuse it, than to let her accept of it. And so I am well pleased
+with her returning it him. It is generally believed that France is
+endeavouring a firmer league with us than the former, in order to his
+going on with his business against Spayne the next year; which I am, and
+so everybody else is, I think, very glad of, for all our fear is, of
+his invading us. This day, at White Hall, I overheard Sir W. Coventry
+propose to the King his ordering of some particular thing in the
+Wardrobe, which was of no great value; but yet, as much as it was, it
+was of profit to the King and saving to his purse. The King answered
+to it with great indifferency, as a thing that it was no great matter
+whether it was done or no. Sir W. Coventry answered: "I see your Majesty
+do not remember the old English proverb, 'He that will not stoop for a
+pin, will never be worth a pound.'" And so they parted, the King bidding
+him do as he would; which, methought, was an answer not like a King that
+did intend ever to do well.
+
+3rd. At the office all the morning with Mr. Willson and my clerks,
+consulting again about a new contract with the Victualler of the Navy,
+and at noon home to dinner, and then to the office again, where busy
+all the afternoon preparing something for the Council about Tangier this
+evening. So about five o'clock away with it to the Council, and there do
+find that the Council hath altered its times of sitting to the mornings,
+and so I lost my labour, and back again by coach presently round by the
+city wall, it being dark, and so home, and there to the office, where
+till midnight with Mr. Willson and my people to go through with the
+Victualler's contract and the considerations about the new one, and so
+home to supper and to bed, thinking my time very well spent.
+
+4th. Up, and there to the office, where we sat all the morning; at noon
+home to dinner, where my clerks and Mr. Clerke the sollicitor with me,
+and dinner being done I to the office again, where all the afternoon
+till late busy, and then home with my mind pleased at the pleasure of
+despatching my business, and so to supper and to bed, my thoughts full,
+how to order our design of having some dancing at our house on Monday
+next, being Twelfth-day. It seems worth remembering that this day I did
+hear my Lord Anglesey at the table, speaking touching this new Act
+for Accounts, say that the House of Lords did pass it because it was a
+senseless, impracticable, ineffectual, and foolish Act; and that my Lord
+Ashly having shown this that it was so to the House of Lords, the Duke
+of Buckingham did stand up and told the Lords that they were beholden
+to my Lord Ashly, that having first commended them for a most grave and
+honourable assembly, he thought it fit for the House to pass this Act
+for Accounts because it was a foolish and simple Act: and it seems it
+was passed with but a few in the House, when it was intended to have met
+in a grand Committee upon it. And it seems that in itself it is not to
+be practiced till after this session of Parliament, by the very words of
+the Act, which nobody regarded, and therefore cannot come in force yet,
+unless the next meeting they do make a new Act for the bringing it
+into force sooner; which is a strange omission. But I perceive my Lord
+Anglesey do make a mere laughing-stock of this Act, as a thing that can
+do nothing considerable, for all its great noise.
+
+5th (Lord's day). Up, and being ready, and disappointed of a coach, it
+breaking a wheel just as it was coming for me, I walked as far as the
+Temple, it being dirty, and as I went out of my doors my cozen Anthony
+Joyce met me, and so walked part of the way with me, and it was to see
+what I would do upon what his wife a little while since did desire,
+which was to supply him L350 to enable him to go to build his house
+again. I (who in my nature am mighty unready to answer no to anything,
+and thereby wonder that I have suffered no more in my life by my
+easiness in that kind than I have) answered him that I would do it, and
+so I will, he offering me good security, and so it being left for me to
+consider the manner of doing it we parted. Taking coach as I said before
+at the Temple, I to Charing Cross, and there went into Unthanke's to
+have my shoes wiped, dirty with walking, and so to White Hall, where
+I visited the Vice-Chamberlain, who tells me, and so I find by others,
+that the business of putting out of some of the Privy-council is over,
+the King being at last advised to forbear it; for whereas he did design
+it to make room for some of the House of Commons that are against him,
+thereby to gratify them, it is believed that it will but so much the
+more fret the rest that are not provided for, and raise a new stock of
+enemies by them that are displeased, and so all they think is over: and
+it goes for a pretty saying of my Lord Anglesey's up and down the Court,
+that he should lately say to one of them that are the great promoters
+of this putting him and others out of the Council, "Well," says he, "and
+what are we to look for when we are outed? Will all things be set right
+in the nation?" The other said that he did believe that many things
+would be mended: "But," says my Lord, "will you and the rest of you be
+contented to be hanged, if you do not redeem all our misfortunes and
+set all right, if the power be put into your hands?" The other answered,
+"No, I would not undertake that:"--"Why, then," says my Lord, "I and the
+rest of us that you are labouring to put out, will be contented to be
+hanged, if we do not recover all that is past, if the King will put the
+power into our hands, and adhere wholly to our advice;" which saying as
+it was severe, so generally people have so little opinion of those
+that are likely to be uppermost that they do mightily commend my Lord
+Anglesey for this saying. From the Vice-Chamberlain up and down the
+house till Chapel done, and then did speak with several that I had a
+mind to, and so intending to go home, my Lady Carteret saw and called me
+out of her window, and so would have me home with her to Lincoln's Inn
+Fields to dinner, and there we met with my Lord Brereton, and several
+other strangers, to dine there; and I find him a very sober and serious,
+able man, and was in discourse too hard for the Bishop of Chester,
+who dined there; and who, above all books lately wrote, commending the
+matter and style of a late book, called "The Causes of the Decay of
+Piety," I do resolve at his great commendation to buy it. Here dined
+also Sir Philip Howard, a Barkeshire Howard, whom I did once hear swear
+publickly and loud in the matted gallery that he had not been at a wench
+in so long a time. He did take occasion to tell me at the table that I
+have got great ground in the Parliament, by my ready answers to all that
+was asked me there about the business of Chatham, and they would never
+let me be out of employment, of which I made little; but was glad to
+hear him, as well as others, say it. And he did say also, relating to
+Commissioner Pett, that he did not think that he was guilty of anything
+like a fault, that he was either able or concerned to amend, but only
+the not carrying up of the ships higher, he meant; but he said, three or
+four miles lower down, to Rochester Bridge, which is a strange piece of
+ignorance in a Member of Parliament at such a time as this, and after so
+many examinations in the house of this business; and did boldly declare
+that he did think the fault to lie in my Lord Middleton, who had the
+power of the place, to secure the boats that were made ready by Pett,
+and to do anything that he thought fit, and was much, though not
+altogether in the right, for Spragg, that commanded the river, ought
+rather to be charged with the want of the boats and the placing of them.
+After dinner, my Lord Brereton very gentilely went to the organ, and
+played a verse very handsomely. Thence after dinner away with Sir
+G. Carteret to White Hall, setting down my Lord Brereton at my Lord
+Brouncker's, and there up and down the house, and on the Queen's side,
+to see the ladies, and there saw the Duchesse of York, whom few pay the
+respect they used, I think, to her; but she bears all out, with a very
+great deal of greatness; that is the truth of it. And so, it growing
+night, I away home by coach, and there set my wife to read, and then
+comes Pelling, and he and I to sing a little, and then sup and so to
+bed.
+
+6th. Up, leaving my wife to get her ready, and the maids to get a supper
+ready against night for our company; and I by coach to White Hall, and
+there up and down the house, and among others met with Mr. Pierce,
+by whom I find, as I was afeard from the folly of my wife, that he
+understood that he and his wife was to dine at my house to-day, whereas
+it was to sup; and therefore I, having done my business at court, did go
+home to dinner, and there find Mr. Harris, by the like mistake, come
+to dine with me. However, we did get a pretty dinner ready for him; and
+there he and I to discourse of many things, and I do find him a very
+excellent person, such as in my whole [acquaintances] I do not know
+another better qualified for converse, whether in things of his own
+trade, or of other kinds, a man of great understanding and observation,
+and very agreeable in the manner of his discourse, and civil as far as
+is possible. I was mightily pleased with his company; and after dinner
+did take coach with him, and my wife and girl, to go to a play, and to
+carry him thither to his own house. But I 'light by the way to return
+home, thinking to have spoke with Mrs. Bagwell, who I did see to-day in
+our entry, come from Harwich, whom I have not seen these twelve months,
+I think, and more, and voudrai avoir hazer alcun with her, sed she was
+gone, and so I took coach and away to my wife at the Duke of York's
+house, in the pit, and so left her; and to Mrs. Pierce, and took her and
+her cozen Corbet, Knepp and little James, and brought them to the Duke's
+house; and, the house being full, was forced to carry them to a box,
+which did cost me 20s., besides oranges, which troubled me, though their
+company did please me. Thence, after the play, stayed till Harris was
+undressed, there being acted "The Tempest," and so he withall, all by
+coach, home, where we find my house with good fires and candles
+ready, and our Office the like, and the two Mercers, and Betty Turner,
+Pendleton, and W. Batelier. And so with much pleasure we into the house,
+and there fell to dancing, having extraordinary Musick, two viollins,
+and a base viollin, and theorbo, four hands, the Duke of Buckingham's
+musique, the best in towne, sent me by Greeting, and there we set in to
+dancing. By and by to my house, to a very good supper, and mighty merry,
+and good musick playing; and after supper to dancing and singing till
+about twelve at night; and then we had a good sack posset for them, and
+an excellent cake, cost me near 20s., of our Jane's making, which was
+cut into twenty pieces, there being by this time so many of our company,
+by the coming in of young Goodyer and some others of our neighbours,
+young men that could dance, hearing of our dancing; and anon comes in
+Mrs. Turner, the mother, and brings with her Mrs. Hollworthy, which
+pleased me mightily. And so to dancing again, and singing, with
+extraordinary great pleasure, till about two in the morning, and then
+broke up; and Mrs. Pierce and her family, and Harris and Knepp by
+coach home, as late as it was. And they gone, I took Mrs. Turner and
+Hollworthy home to my house, and there gave wine and sweetmeats; but I
+find Mrs. Hollworthy but a mean woman, I think, for understanding, only
+a little conceited, and proud, and talking, but nothing extraordinary in
+person, or discourse, or understanding. However, I was mightily pleased
+with her being there, I having long longed for to know her, and they
+being gone, I paid the fiddlers L3 among the four, and so away to bed,
+weary and mightily pleased, and have the happiness to reflect upon it
+as I do sometimes on other things, as going to a play or the like, to be
+the greatest real comfort that I am to expect in the world, and that
+it is that that we do really labour in the hopes of; and so I do really
+enjoy myself, and understand that if I do not do it now I shall not
+hereafter, it may be, be able to pay for it, or have health to take
+pleasure in it, and so fill myself with vain expectation of pleasure and
+go without it.
+
+7th. Up, weary, about 9 o'clock, and then out by coach to White Hall to
+attend the Lords of the Treasury about Tangier with Sir Stephen Fox,
+and having done with them I away back again home by coach time enough
+to dispatch some business, and after dinner with Sir W. Pen's coach (he
+being gone before with Sir D. Gawden) to White Hall to wait on the Duke
+of York, but I finding him not there, nor the Duke of York within, I
+away by coach to the Nursery, where I never was yet, and there to meet
+my wife and Mercer and Willet as they promised; but the house did not
+act to-day; and so I was at a loss for them, and therefore to the other
+two playhouses into the pit, to gaze up and down, to look for them,
+and there did by this means, for nothing, see an act in "The Schoole of
+Compliments" at the Duke of York's house, and "Henry the Fourth" at the
+King's house; but, not finding them, nor liking either of the plays, I
+took my coach again, and home, and there to my office to do business,
+and by and by they come home, and had been at the King's House, and
+saw me, but I could [not] see them, and there I walked with them in the
+garden awhile, and to sing with Mercer there a little, and so home with
+her, and taught her a little of my "It is decreed," which I have a mind
+to have her learn to sing, and she will do it well, and so after supper
+she went away, and we to bed, and there made amends by sleep for what I
+wanted last night.
+
+8th. Up, and it being dirty, I by coach (which I was forced to go to
+the charge for) to White Hall, and there did deliver the Duke of York a
+memorial for the Council about the case of Tangiers want of money; and
+I was called in there and my paper was read. I did not think fit to say
+much, but left them to make what use they pleased of my paper; and so
+went out and waited without all the morning, and at noon hear that there
+is something ordered towards our help, and so I away by coach home,
+taking up Mr. Prin at the Court-gate, it raining, and setting him down
+at the Temple: and by the way did ask him about the manner of holding of
+Parliaments, and whether the number of Knights and Burgesses were always
+the same? And he says that the latter were not; but that, for aught
+he can find, they were sent up at the discretion, at first, of the
+Sheriffes, to whom the writs are sent, to send up generally the
+Burgesses and citizens of their county: and he do find that heretofore
+the Parliament-men being paid by the country, several burroughs have
+complained of the Sheriffes putting them to the charge of sending up
+Burgesses; which is a very extraordinary thing to me, that knew not
+this, but thought that the number had been known, and always the
+same. Thence home to the office, and so with my Lord Brouncker and his
+mistress, Williams, to Captain Cocke's to dinner, where was Temple
+and Mr. Porter, and a very good dinner, and merry. Thence with Lord
+Brouncker to White Hall to the Commissioners of the Treasury at their
+sending for us to discourse about the paying of tickets, and so away,
+and I by coach to the 'Change, and there took up my wife and Mercer and
+the girl by agreement, and so home, and there with Mercer to teach
+her more of "It is decreed," and to sing other songs and talk all the
+evening, and so after supper I to even my journall since Saturday
+last, and so to bed. Yesterday Mr. Gibson, upon his discovering by my
+discourse to him that I had a willingness, or rather desire, to have him
+stay with me, than go, as he designed, on Sir W. Warren's account, to
+sea, he resolved to let go the design and wait his fortune with me,
+though I laboured hard to make him understand the uncertainty of my
+condition or service, but however he will hazard it, which I take mighty
+kindly of him, though troubled lest he may come to be a loser by it, but
+it will not be for want of my telling him what he was to think on and
+expect. However, I am well pleased with it, with regard to myself, who
+find him mighty understanding and acquainted with all things in the
+Navy, that I should, if I continue in the Navy, make great use of him.
+
+9th. Up, and to the office, having first been visited by my cozen
+Anthony Joyce about the L350 which he desires me to lend him, and which
+I have a mind enough to do, but would have it in my power to call it out
+again in a little time, and so do take a little further time to consider
+it. So to the office, where all the morning busy, and so home at noon to
+dinner with my people, where Mr. Hollier come and dined with me, and
+it is still mighty pleasant to hear him talk of Rome and the Pope, with
+what hearty zeal and hatred he talks against him. After dinner to the
+office again, where busy till night, very busy, and among other things
+wrote to my father about lending Anthony Joyce the money he desires; and
+I declare that I would do it as part of Pall's portion, and that Pall
+should have the use of the money till she be married, but I do propose
+to him to think of Mr. Cumberland rather than this Jackson that he is
+upon; and I confess I have a mighty mind to have a relation so able a
+man, and honest, and so old an acquaintance as Mr. Cumberland. I shall
+hear his answer by the next [post]. At night home and to cards with my
+wife and girle, and to supper late, and so to bed.
+
+10th. Up, and with Sir Denis Gawden, who called me, to White Hall, and
+there to wait on the Duke of York with the rest of my brethren, which we
+did a little in the King's Greenroom, while the King was in Council: and
+in this room we found my Lord Bristoll walking alone; which, wondering
+at, while the Council was sitting, I was answered that, as being a
+Catholique, he could not be of the Council, which I did not consider
+before. After broke up and walked a turn or two with Lord Brouncker
+talking about the times, and he tells me that he thinks, and so do every
+body else, that the great business of putting out some of the Council to
+make room for some of the Parliament men to gratify and wheedle them is
+over, thinking that it might do more hurt than good, and not obtain much
+upon the Parliament either. This morning there was a Persian in that
+country dress, with a turban, waiting to kiss the King's hand in the
+Vane-room, against he come out: it was a comely man as to features, and
+his dress, methinks, very comely. Thence in Sir W. Pen's coach alone (he
+going with Sir D. Gawden) to my new bookseller's, Martin's; and there
+did meet with Fournier,
+
+     [George Fournier, a Jesuit, born at Caen in 1569, was the author of
+     several nautical works.  His chief one, "L'Hydrographie," was
+     published at Paris in folio in 1663.  A second edition appeared in
+     1667.]
+
+the Frenchman, that hath wrote of the Sea and Navigation, and I could
+not but buy him, and also bespoke an excellent book, which I met with
+there, of China. The truth is, I have bought a great many books lately
+to a great value; but I think to buy no more till Christmas next, and
+those that I have will so fill my two presses that I must be forced to
+give away some to make room for them, it being my design to have no more
+at any time for my proper library than to fill them. Thence home and
+to the Exchange, there to do a little business, where I find everybody
+concerned whether we shall have out a fleete this next year or no, they
+talking of a peace concluded between France and Spayne, so that the King
+of France will have nothing to do with his army unless he comes to us;
+but I do not see in the world how we shall be able to set out a fleete
+for want of money to buy stores and pay men, for neither of which we
+shall be any more trusted. So home to dinner, and then with my wife
+and Deb. to the King's house, to see "Aglaura," which hath been always
+mightily cried up; and so I went with mighty expectation, but do find
+nothing extraordinary in it at all, and but hardly good in any degree.
+So home, and thither comes to us W. Batelier and sat with us all the
+evening, and to cards and supper, passing the evening pretty pleasantly,
+and so late at night parted, and so to bed. I find him mightily troubled
+at the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury opposing him in the business
+he hath a patent for about the business of Impost on wine, but I do see
+that the Lords have reason for it, it being a matter wherein money might
+be saved to his Majesty, and I am satisfied that they do let nothing
+pass that may save money, and so God bless them! So he being gone we to
+bed. This day I received a letter from my father, and another from my
+cozen Roger Pepys, who have had a view of Jackson's evidences of his
+estate, and do mightily like of the man, and his condition and estate,
+and do advise me to accept of the match for my sister, and to finish it
+as soon as I can; and he do it so as, I confess, I am contented to have
+it done, and so give her her portion; and so I shall be eased of one
+care how to provide for her, and do in many respects think that it may
+be a match proper enough to have her married there, and to one that may
+look after my concernments if my father should die and I continue where
+I am, and there[fore] I am well pleased with it, and so to bed.
+
+11th. Lay some time, talking with my wife in bed about Pall's business,
+and she do conclude to have her married here, and to be merry at it;
+and to have W. Hewer, and Batelier, and Mercer, and Willet bridemen and
+bridemaids, and to be very merry; and so I am glad of it, and do resolve
+to let it be done as soon as I can. So up, and to the office, where
+all the morning busy, and thence home to dinner, and from dinner with
+Mercer, who dined with us, and wife and Deb. to the King's house, there
+to see "The Wild-goose Chase," which I never saw, but have long longed
+to see it, being a famous play, but as it was yesterday I do find that
+where I expect most I find least satisfaction, for in this play I met
+with nothing extraordinary at all, but very dull inventions and designs.
+Knepp come and sat by us, and her talk pleased me a little, she telling
+me how Mis Davis is for certain going away from the Duke's house,
+the King being in love with her; and a house is taken for her, and
+furnishing; and she hath a ring given her already worth L600: that the
+King did send several times for Nelly, and she was with him, but what he
+did she knows not; this was a good while ago, and she says that the King
+first spoiled Mrs. Weaver, which is very mean, methinks, in a prince,
+and I am sorry for it, and can hope for no good to the State from having
+a Prince so devoted to his pleasure. She told me also of a play shortly
+coming upon the stage, of Sir Charles Sidly's, which, she thinks, will
+be called "The Wandering Ladys," a comedy that, she thinks, will be most
+pleasant; and also another play, called "The Duke of Lerma;" besides
+"Catelin," which she thinks, for want of the clothes which the King
+promised them, will not be acted for a good while. Thence home, and
+there to the office and did some business, and so with my wife for half
+an hour walking in the moonlight, and it being cold, frosty weather,
+walking in the garden, and then home to supper, and so by the fireside
+to have my head combed, as I do now often do, by Deb., whom I love
+should be fiddling about me, and so to bed.
+
+12th (Lord's day). Up, and to dress myself, and then called into my
+wife's chamber, and there she without any occasion fell to discourse
+of my father's coming to live with us when my sister marries. This, she
+being afeard of declaring an absolute hatred to him since his falling
+out with her about Coleman's being with her, she declares against his
+coming hither, which I not presently agreeing to, she declared, if he
+come, she would not live with me, but would shame me all over the city
+and court, which I made slight of, and so we fell very foul; and I do
+find she do keep very bad remembrances of my former unkindness to her,
+and do mightily complain of her want of money and liberty, which I will
+rather hear and bear the complaint of than grant the contrary, and so we
+had very hot work a great while: but at last I did declare as I intend,
+that my father shall not come, and that he do not desire and intend it;
+and so we parted with pretty good quiet, and so away, and being ready
+went to church, where first I saw Alderman Backewell and his lady come
+to our church, they living in Mark Lane; and I could find in my heart to
+invite her to sit with us, she being a fine lady. I come in while they
+were singing the 19th Psalm, while the sexton was gathering to his box,
+to which I did give 5s., and so after sermon home, my wife, Deb., and I
+all alone and very kind, full of good discourses, and after dinner I to
+my chamber, ordering my Tangier accounts to give to the Auditor in a day
+or two, which should have been long ago with him. At them to my great
+content all the afternoon till supper, and after supper with my wife, W.
+Hewer and Deb. pretty merry till 12 at night, and then to bed.
+
+13th. Up, and Mr. Gibbs comes to me, and I give him instructions about
+the writing fair my Tangier accounts against to-morrow. So I abroad with
+Sir W. Pen to White Hall, and there did with the rest attend the Duke of
+York, where nothing extraordinary; only I perceive there is nothing
+yet declared for the next, year, what fleete shall be abroad. Thence
+homeward by coach and stopped at Martin's, my bookseller, where I saw
+the French book which I did think to have had for my wife to translate,
+called "L'escholle des filles,"
+
+     ["L'Escole des Filles," by Helot, was burnt at the foot of the
+     gallows in 1672, and the author himself was burnt in effigy.]
+
+but when I come to look in it, it is the most bawdy, lewd book that
+ever I saw, rather worse than "Putana errante," so that I was ashamed of
+reading in it, and so away home, and there to the 'Change to discourse
+with Sir H. Cholmly, and so home to dinner, and in the evening, having
+done some business, I with my wife and girl out, and left them at
+Unthanke's, while I to White Hall to the Treasury Chamber for an order
+for Tangier, and so back, took up my wife, and home, and there busy
+about my Tangier accounts against tomorrow, which I do get ready in good
+condition, and so with great content to bed.
+
+14th. At the office all the morning, and at noon home to dinner, and
+after dinner with Mr. Clerke and Gibson to the Temple (my wife and
+girle going further by coach), and there at the Auditor's did begin the
+examining my Tangier accounts, and did make a great entry into it and
+with great satisfaction, and I am glad I am so far eased. So appointing
+another day for further part of my accounts, I with Gibson to my
+bookseller, Martin, and there did receive my book I expected of China,
+a most excellent book with rare cuts; and there fell into discourse
+with him about the burning of Paul's when the City was burned; his house
+being in the church-yard. And he tells me that it took fire first upon
+the end of a board that, among others, was laid upon the roof instead
+of lead, the lead being broke off, and thence down lower and lower: but
+that the burning of the goods under St. Fayth's arose from the goods
+taking fire in the church-yard, and so got into St. Fayth's Church; and
+that they first took fire from the Draper's side, by some timber of
+the houses that were burned falling into the church. He says that one
+warehouse of books was saved under Paul's; and he says that there were
+several dogs found burned among the goods in the church-yard, and but
+one man, which was an old man, that said he would go and save a blanket
+which he had in the church, and, being a weak old man, the fire overcome
+him, and was burned. He says that most of the booksellers do design
+to fall a-building again the next year; but he says that the Bishop of
+London do use them most basely, worse than any other landlords, and says
+he will be paid to this day the rent, or else he will not come to treat
+with them for the time to come; and will not, on that condition either,
+promise them any thing how he will use them; and, the Parliament
+sitting, he claims his privilege, and will not be cited before the Lord
+Chief justice, as others are there, to be forced to a fair dealing.
+Thence by coach to Mrs. Pierce's, where my wife and Deb. is; and there
+they fell to discourse of the last night's work at Court, where the
+ladies and Duke of Monmouth and others acted "The Indian Emperour;"
+wherein they told me these things most remark able: that not any woman
+but the Duchesse of Monmouth and Mrs. Cornwallis did any thing but like
+fools and stocks, but that these two did do most extraordinary well:
+that not any man did any thing well but Captain O'Bryan, who spoke and
+did well, but, above all things, did dance most incomparably. That she
+did sit near the players of the Duke's house; among the rest, Mis Davis,
+who is the most impertinent slut, she says, in the world; and the more,
+now the King do show her countenance; and is reckoned his mistress, even
+to the scorne of the whole world; the King gazing on her, and my Lady
+Castlemayne being melancholy and out of humour, all the play, not
+smiling once. The King, it seems, hath given her a ring of L700, which
+she shews to every body, and owns that the King did give it her; and he
+hath furnished a house for her in Suffolke Street most richly, which is
+a most infinite shame. It seems she is a bastard of Colonell Howard, my
+Lord Berkshire, and that he do pimp to her for the King, and hath got
+her for him; but Pierce says that she is a most homely jade as ever she
+saw, though she dances beyond any thing in the world. She tells me that
+the Duchesse of Richmond do not yet come to the Court, nor hath seen
+the King, nor will not, nor do he own his desire of seeing her; but hath
+used means to get her to Court, but they do not take. Thence home, and
+there I to my chamber, having a great many books brought me home from my
+bookbinder's, and so I to the new setting of my books against the next
+year, which costs me more trouble than I expected, and at it till two
+o'clock in the morning, and then to bed, the business not being yet done
+to my mind. This evening come Mr. Mills and his wife to see and sit and
+talk with us, which they did till 9 o'clock at night, and then parted,
+and I to my books.
+
+15th. Up, and to the Office, where all the morning. At noon home to
+dinner, and then to the Office again, where we met about some business
+of D. Gawden's till candle-light; and then, as late as it was, I down to
+Redriffe, and so walked by moonlight to Deptford, where I have not been
+a great while, and my business I did there was only to walk up and down
+above la casa of Bagwell, but could not see her, it being my intent to
+have spent a little time con her, she being newly come from her husband;
+but I did lose my labour, and so walked back again, but with pleasure
+by the walk, and I had the sport to see two boys swear, and stamp, and
+fret, for not being able to get their horse over a stile and ditch,
+one of them swearing and cursing most bitterly; and I would fain, in
+revenge, have persuaded him to have drove his horse through the ditch,
+by which I believe he would have stuck there. But the horse would not
+be drove, and so they were forced to go back again, and so I walked
+away homeward, and there reading all the evening, and so to bed. This
+afternoon my Lord Anglesey tells us that it is voted in Council to have
+a fleete of 50 ships out; but it is only a disguise for the Parliament
+to get some money by; but it will not take, I believe, and if it did,
+I do not think it will be such as he will get any of, nor such as will
+enable us to set out such a fleete.
+
+16th. Up, after talking with my wife with pleasure, about her learning
+on the flageolet a month or two again this winter, and all the rest of
+the year her painting, which I do love, and so to the office, where sat
+all the morning, and here Lord Anglesey tells us again that a fleete is
+to be set out; and that it is generally, he hears, said, that it is but
+a Spanish rhodomontado; and that he saying so just now to the Duke of
+Albemarle, who come to town last night, after the thing was ordered, he
+told him a story of two seamen: one wished all the guns of the ship were
+his, and that they were silver; and says the other, "You are a
+fool, for, if you can have it for wishing, why do you not wish them
+gold?"--"So," says he, "if a rhodomontado will do any good, why do you
+not say 100 ships?" And it is true; for the Dutch and French are said
+to make such preparations as 50 sail will do no good. At noon home to
+dinner with my gang of clerks, in whose society I am mightily pleased,
+and mightily with Mr. Gibson's talking;
+
+     [Richard Gibson, so frequently noticed by Pepys, was a clerk in the
+     Navy Office.  His collection of papers relating to the navy of
+     England A.D. 1650-1702, compiled, as he states, from the Admiralty
+     books in the Navy Office, are in the British Museum.--B.]
+
+he telling me so many good stories relating to the warr and practices
+of commanders, which I will find a time to recollect; and he will be an
+admirable help to my writing a history of the Navy, if ever I do. So to
+the office, where busy all the afternoon and evening, and then home.
+My work this night with my clerks till midnight at the office was to
+examine my list of ships I am making for myself and their dimensions,
+and to see how it agrees or differs from other lists, and I do find so
+great a difference between them all that I am at a loss which to take,
+and therefore think mine to be as much depended upon as any I can make
+out of them all. So little care there has been to this day to know or
+keep any history of the Navy.
+
+17th. Up, and by coach to White Hall to attend the Council there, and
+here I met first by Mr. Castle the shipwright, whom I met there, and
+then from the whole house the discourse of the duell yesterday between
+the Duke of Buckingham, Holmes, and one Jenkins, on one side, and my
+Lord of Shrewsbury, Sir John Talbot, and one Bernard Howard, on the
+other side: and all about my Lady Shrewsbury,
+
+     [Anna Maria, daughter of Robert Brudenel, second Earl of Cardigan.
+     Walpole says she held the Duke of Buckingham's horse, in the habit
+     of a page, while he was fighting the duel with her husband.  She
+     married, secondly, George Rodney Bridges, son of Sir Thomas Bridges
+     of Keynsham, Somerset, Groom of the Bedchamber to Charles IL, and
+     died April 20th, 1702.  A portrait of the Countess of Shrewsbury, as
+     Minerva, by Lely.]
+
+who is a whore, and is at this time, and hath for a great while been, a
+whore to the Duke of Buckingham. And so her husband challenged him, and
+they met yesterday in a close near Barne-Elmes, and there fought: and my
+Lord Shrewsbury is run through the body, from the right breast through
+the shoulder: and Sir John Talbot all along up one of his armes; and
+Jenkins killed upon the place, and the rest all, in a little measure,
+wounded. This will make the world think that the King hath good
+councillors about him, when the Duke of Buckingham, the greatest man
+about him, is a fellow of no more sobriety than to fight about a whore.
+And this may prove a very bad accident to the Duke of Buckingham, but
+that my Lady Castlemayne do rule all at this time as much as ever she
+did, and she will, it is believed, keep all matters well with the
+Duke of Buckingham: though this is a time that the King will be very
+backward, I suppose, to appear in such a business. And it is pretty to
+hear how the King had some notice of this challenge a week or two
+ago, and did give it to my Lord Generall to confine the Duke, or take
+security that he should not do any such thing as fight: and the Generall
+trusted to the King that he, sending for him, would do it, and the King
+trusted to the Generall; and so, between both, as everything else of the
+greatest moment do, do fall between two stools. The whole House full
+of nothing but the talk of this business; and it is said that my Lord
+Shrewsbury's case is to be feared, that he may die too; and that may
+make it much the worse for the Duke of Buckingham: and I shall not be
+much sorry for it, that we may have some sober man come in his room
+to assist in the Government. Here I waited till the Council rose, and
+talked the while, with Creed, who tells me of Mr. Harry Howard's'
+giving the Royal Society a piece of ground next to his house, to build
+a College on, which is a most generous act. And he tells me he is a
+very fine person, and understands and speaks well; and no rigid Papist
+neither, but one that would not have a Protestant servant leave his
+religion, which he was going to do, thinking to recommend himself to his
+master by it; saying that he had rather have an honest Protestant than
+a knavish Catholique. I was not called into the Council; and, therefore,
+home, first informing myself that my Lord Hinchingbroke hath been
+married this week to my Lord Burlington's daughter; so that that great
+business is over; and I mighty glad of it, though I am not satisfied
+that I have not a Favour sent me, as I see Attorney Montagu and the
+Vice-Chamberlain have. But I am mighty glad that the thing is done. So
+home, and there alone with my wife and Deb. to dinner, and after dinner
+comes Betty Turner, and I carried them to the New Exchange, and thence
+I to White Hall and did a little business at the Treasury, and so called
+them there, and so home and to cards and supper, and her mother come
+and sat at cards with us till past 12 at night, and then broke up and to
+bed, after entering my journall, which made it one before I went to bed.
+
+18th. At the office all the morning busy sitting. At noon home to
+dinner, where Betty Turner dined with us, and after dinner carried my
+wife, her and Deb. to the 'Change, where they bought some things, while
+I bought "The Mayden Queene," a play newly printed, which I like at the
+King's house so well, of Mr. Dryden's, which he himself, in his preface,
+seems to brag of, and indeed is a good play. So home again, and I late
+at the office and did much business, and then home to supper and to bed.
+
+19th (Lord's day). My wife the last night very ill of those, and waked
+me early, and hereupon I up and to church, where a dull sermon by our
+lecturer, and so home to dinner in my wife's chamber, which she is a
+little better. Then after dinner with Captain Perryman down to Redriffe,
+and so walked to Deptford, where I sent for Mr. Shish out of the Church
+to advise about my vessel, "The Maybolt," and I do resolve to sell,
+presently, for any thing rather than keep her longer, having already
+lost L100 in her value, which I was once offered and refused, and
+the ship left without any body to look to her, which vexes me. Thence
+Perryman and I back again, talking of the great miscarriages in the
+Navy, and among the principal that of having gentlemen commanders. I
+shall hereafter make use of his and others' help to reckon up and put
+down in writing what is fit to be mended in the Navy after all our sad
+experience therein. So home, and there sat with my wife all the evening,
+and Mr. Pelting awhile talking with us, who tells me that my Lord
+Shrewsbury is likely to do well, after his great wound in the late
+dwell. He gone, comes W. Hewer and supped with me, and so to talk
+of things, and he tells me that Mr. Jessop is made Secretary to the
+Commissions of Parliament for Accounts, and I am glad, and it is pretty
+to see that all the Cavalier party were not able to find the Parliament
+nine Commissioners, or one Secretary, fit for the business. So he gone,
+I to read a little in my chamber, and so to bed.
+
+20th. Up, and all the morning at the office very busy, and at noon
+by coach to Westminster, to the 'Chequer, about a warrant for Tangier
+money. In my way both coming and going I did stop at Drumbleby's, the
+pipe-maker, there to advise about the making of a flageolet to go low
+and soft; and he do shew me a way which do do, and also a fashion of
+having two pipes of the same note fastened together, so as I can play on
+one, and then echo it upon the other, which is mighty pretty. So to my
+Lord Crew's to dinner, where we hear all the good news of our making a
+league now with Holland against the French power coming over them, or us
+which is the first good act that hath been done a great while, and done
+secretly, and with great seeming wisdom; and is certainly good for us
+at this time, while we are in no condition to resist the French, if they
+should come over hither; and then a little time of peace will give us
+time to lay up something, which these Commissioners of the Treasury are
+doing; and the world do begin to see that they will do the King's work
+for him, if he will let them. Here dined Mr. Case, the minister, who,
+Lord! do talk just as I remember he used to preach, and did tell a
+pretty story of a religious lady, Queen of Navarre;
+
+     [Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre, sister of Francis I. of
+     France.  The "pretty story" was doubtless from her "Heptameron," a
+     work imitating in title and matter the "Decameron" of Boccaccio.
+     She is said to be the heroine of some of the adventures.  It is fair
+     to add that she wrote also the "Miroir dune Ame Pecheresse,"
+     translated into English by Queen Elizabeth, the title of whose book
+     was "A Godly Medytacyon of the Christian Soules," published by John
+     Bale in 1548.--B.]
+
+and my Lord also told a good story of Mr. Newman, the Minister in New
+England, who wrote the Concordance, of his foretelling his death and
+preaching a funeral sermon, and did at last bid the angels do their
+office, and died. It seems there is great presumption that there will be
+a Toleration granted: so that the Presbyterians do hold up their heads;
+but they will hardly trust the King or the Parliament what to yield
+them, though most of the sober party be for some kind of allowance to be
+given them. Thence and home, and then to the 'Change in the evening,
+and there Mr. Cade told me how my Lord Gerard is likely to meet with
+trouble, the next sitting of Parliament, about [Carr] being set in the
+pillory; and I am glad of it; and it is mighty acceptable to the world
+to hear, that, among other reductions, the King do reduce his Guards,
+which do please mightily. So to my bookbinder's with my boy, and there
+did stay late to see two or three things done that I had a mind to see
+done, and among others my Tangier papers of accounts, and so home to
+supper and to bed.
+
+21st. Up, and while at the office comes news from Kate Joyce that if I
+would see her husband alive, I must come presently. So, after the office
+was up, I to him, and W. Hewer with me, and find him in his sick bed (I
+never was at their house, this Inne, before) very sensible in discourse
+and thankful for my kindness to him, and his breath rattled in his
+throate, and they did lay pigeons to his feet while I was in the house,
+and all despair of him, and with good reason. But the story is that
+it seems on Thursday last he went sober and quiet out of doors in the
+morning to Islington, and behind one of the inns, the White Lion, did
+fling himself into a pond, was spied by a poor woman and got out by some
+people binding up hay in a barn there, and set on his head and got to
+life, and known by a woman coming that way; and so his wife and friends
+sent for. He confessed his doing the thing, being led by the Devil; and
+do declare his reason to be, his trouble that he found in having forgot
+to serve God as he ought, since he come to this new employment: and I
+believe that, and the sense of his great loss by the fire, did bring him
+to it, and so everybody concludes. He stayed there all that night, and
+come home by coach next morning, and there grew sick, and worse and
+worse to this day. I stayed awhile among the friends that were there,
+and they being now in fear that the goods and estate would be seized
+on, though he lived all this while, because of his endeavouring to drown
+himself, my cozen did endeavour to remove what she could of plate out of
+the house, and desired me to take my flagons; which I was glad of, and
+did take them away with me in great fear all the way of being seized;
+though there was no reason for it, he not being dead, but yet so fearful
+I was. So home, and there eat my dinner, and busy all the afternoon, and
+troubled at this business. In the evening with Sir D. Gawden, to Guild
+Hall, to advise with the Towne-Clerke about the practice of the City and
+nation in this case: and he thinks that it cannot be found self-murder;
+but if it be, it will fall, all the estate, to the King. So we parted,
+and I to my cozens again; where I no sooner come but news was brought
+down from his chamber that he was departed. So, at their entreaty, I
+presently took coach to White Hall, and there find Sir W. Coventry; and
+he carried me to the King, the Duke of York being with him, and there
+told my story which I had told him:
+
+     [This was not the only time that Pepys took trouble to save the
+     estate of a friend who had committed suicide.  In the "Caveat Book"
+     in the Record Office, p. 42 of the volume for 1677, is the following
+     entry: "That no grant pass of the Estate of Francis Gurney of Maldon
+     in Essex, who drowned himself in his own well on Tuesday night ye
+     12th of this instant August, at the desire of Samuel Pepys, Esquire,
+     August 20, 1677."]
+
+and the King, without more ado, granted that, if it was found, the
+estate should be to the widow and children. I presently to each
+Secretary's office, and there left caveats, and so away back again to my
+cozens, leaving a chimney on fire at White Hall, in the King's closet;
+but no danger. And so, when I come thither, I find her all in sorrow,
+but she and the rest mightily pleased with my doing this for them; and,
+indeed, it was a very great courtesy, for people are looking out for the
+estate, and the coroner will be sent to, and a jury called to examine
+his death. This being well done to my and their great joy, I home, and
+there to my office, and so to supper and to bed.
+
+22nd. Up, mightily busy all the morning at the office. At noon with
+Lord Brouncker to Sir D. Gawden's, at the Victualling-Office, to dinner,
+where I have not dined since he was Sheriff: He expected us; and a good
+dinner, and much good company; and a fine house, and especially two
+rooms, very fine, he hath built there. His lady a good lady; but my Lord
+led himself and me to a great absurdity in kissing all the ladies, but
+the finest of all the company, leaving her out, I know not how; and I
+was loath to do it, since he omitted it. Here little Chaplin dined, who
+is like to be Sheriff the next year; and a pretty humoured little man
+he is. I met here with Mr. Talents, the younger, of Magdalene College,
+Chaplain here to the Sheriff; which I was glad to see, though not
+much acquainted with him. This day come the first demand from the
+Commissioners of Accounts to us, and it contains more than we shall ever
+be able to answer while we live, and I do foresee we shall be put to
+much trouble and some shame, at least some of us. Thence stole away
+after dinner to my cozen Kate's, and there find the Crowner's jury
+sitting, but they could not end it, but put off the business to Shrove
+Tuesday next, and so do give way to the burying of him, and that is all;
+but they all incline to find it a natural death, though there are mighty
+busy people to have it go otherwise, thinking to get his estate, but are
+mistaken. Thence, after sitting with her and company a while, comforting
+her: though I can find she can, as all other women, cry, and yet talk of
+other things all in a breath. So home, and thereto cards with my wife,
+Deb., and Betty Turner, and Batelier, and after supper late to sing.
+But, Lord! how did I please myself to make Betty Turner sing, to see
+what a beast she is as to singing, not knowing how to sing one note in
+tune; but, only for the experiment, I would not for 40s. hear her sing
+a tune: worse than my wife a thousand times, so that it do a little
+reconcile me to her. So late to bed.
+
+23rd. At the Office all the morning; and at noon find the Bishop of
+Lincolne come to dine with us; and after him comes Mr. Brisband;
+and there mighty good company. But the Bishop a very extraordinary
+good-natured man, and one that is mightily pleased, as well as I am,
+that I live so near Bugden, the seat of his bishopricke, where he is
+like to reside: and, indeed, I am glad of it. In discourse, we think
+ourselves safe for this year, by this league with Holland, which pleases
+every body, and, they say, vexes France; insomuch that D'Estrades; the
+French Embassador in Holland, when he heard it, told the States that
+he would have them not forget that his master is at the head of 100,000
+men, and is but 28 years old; which was a great speech. The Bishop
+tells me he thinks that the great business of Toleration will not,
+notwithstanding this talk, be carried this Parliament; nor for the
+King's taking away the Deans' and Chapters' lands to supply his wants,
+they signifying little to him, if he had them, for his present service.
+He gone, I mightily pleased with his kindness, I to the office, where
+busy till night, and then to Mrs. Turner's, where my wife, and Deb., and
+I, and Batelier spent the night, and supped, and played at cards, and
+very merry, and so I home to bed. She is either a very prodigal woman,
+or richer than she would be thought, by her buying of the best things,
+and laying out much money in new-fashioned pewter; and, among other
+things, a new-fashioned case for a pair of snuffers, which is very
+pretty; but I could never have guessed what it was for, had I not seen
+the snuffers in it.
+
+24th. Up before day to my Tangier accounts, and then out and to a
+Committee of Tangier, where little done but discourse about reduction
+of the charge of the garrison, and thence to Westminster about orders
+at the Exchequer, and at the Swan I drank, and there met with a pretty
+ingenious young Doctor of physic, by chance, and talked with him, and
+so home to dinner, and after dinner carried my wife to the Temple, and
+thence she to a play, and I to St. Andrew's church, in Holburne, at the
+'Quest House, where the company meets to the burial of my cozen Joyce;
+and here I staid with a very great rabble of four or five hundred people
+of mean condition, and I staid in the room with the kindred till ready
+to go to church, where there is to be a sermon of Dr. Stillingfleete,
+and thence they carried him to St. Sepulchre's. But it being late,
+and, indeed, not having a black cloak to lead her [Kate Joyce] with, or
+follow the corps, I away, and saw, indeed, a very great press of people
+follow the corps. I to the King's playhouse, to fetch my wife, and there
+saw the best part of "The Mayden Queene," which, the more I see,
+the more I love, and think one of the best plays I ever saw, and
+is certainly the best acted of any thing ever the House did, and
+particularly Becke Marshall, to admiration. Found my wife and Deb., and
+saw many fine ladies, and sat by Colonell Reames, who understands and
+loves a play as well as I, and I love him for it. And so thence home;
+and, after being at the Office, I home to supper, and to bed, my eyes
+being very bad again with overworking with them.
+
+25th. Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning, and then at
+noon to the 'Change with Mr. Hater, and there he and I to a tavern to
+meet Captain Minors, which we did, and dined; and there happened to be
+Mr. Prichard, a ropemaker of his acquaintance, and whom I know also,
+and did once mistake for a fiddler, which sung well, and I asked him
+for such a song that I had heard him sing, and after dinner did fall to
+discourse about the business of the old contract between the King and
+the East India Company for the ships of the King that went thither, and
+about this did beat my brains all the afternoon, and then home and made
+an end of the accounts to my great content, and so late home tired and
+my eyes sore, to supper and to bed.
+
+26th (Lord's day). Up, and with my wife to Church, and at noon home to
+dinner. No strangers there; and all the afternoon and evening very late
+doing serious business of my Tangier accounts, and examining my East
+India accounts, with Mr. Poynter, whom I employed all this day, to
+transcribe it fair; and so to supper, W. Hewer with us, and so the girl
+to comb my head till I slept, and then to bed.
+
+27th. It being weather like the beginning of a frost and the ground dry,
+I walked as far as the Temple, and there took coach and to White Hall,
+but the Committee not being met I to Westminster, and there I do hear
+of the letter that is in the pamphlet this day of the King of France,
+declaring his design to go on against Flanders, and the grounds of
+it, which do set us mightily at rest. So to White Hall, and there a
+committee of Tangier, but little done there, only I did get two or three
+little jobs done to the perfecting two or three papers about my Tangier
+accounts. Here Mr. Povy do tell me how he is like to lose his L400
+a-year pension of the Duke of York, which he took in consideration of
+his place which was taken from him. He tells me the Duchesse is a devil
+against him, and do now come like Queen Elizabeth, and sits with the
+Duke of York's Council, and sees what they do; and she crosses out this
+man's wages and prices, as she sees fit, for saving money; but yet, he
+tells me, she reserves L5000 a-year for her own spending; and my Lady
+Peterborough, by and by, tells me that the Duchesse do lay up, mightily,
+jewells. Thence to my Lady Peterborough's, she desiring to speak with
+me. She loves to be taken dressing herself, as I always find her; and
+there, after a little talk, to please her, about her husband's pension,
+which I do not think he will ever get again, I away thence home, and all
+the afternoon mighty busy at the office, and late, preparing a letter to
+the Commissioners of Accounts, our first letter to them, and so home to
+supper, where Betty Turner was (whose brother Frank did set out toward
+the East Indies this day, his father and mother gone down with him to
+Gravesend), and there was her little brother Moses, whom I examined, and
+he is a pretty good scholar for a child, and so after supper to talk and
+laugh, and to bed.
+
+28th. Up, and to the office, and there with W. Griffin talking about
+getting the place to build a coach-house, or to hire one, which I now do
+resolve to have, and do now declare it; for it is plainly for my benefit
+for saving money. By and by the office sat, and there we concluded on
+our letter to the Commissioners of Accounts and to the several officers
+of ours about the work they are to do to answer their late great
+demands. At noon home to dinner, and after dinner set my wife and girl
+down at the Exchange, and I to White Hall; and, by and by, the Duke of
+York comes, and we had a little meeting, Anglesey, W. Pen, and I there,
+and none else: and, among other things, did discourse of the want of
+discipline in the fleete, which the Duke' of York confessed, and yet
+said that he, while he was there, did keep it in a good measure, but
+that it was now lost when he was absent; but he will endeavour to have
+it again. That he did tell the Prince and Duke of Albemarle they would
+lose all order by making such and such men commanders, which they would,
+because they were stout men: he told them that it was a reproach to the
+nation, as if there were no sober men among us, that were stout, to be
+had. That they did put out some men for cowards that the Duke of York
+had put in, but little before, for stout men; and would now, were he to
+go to sea again, entertain them in his own division, to choose: and
+did put in an idle fellow, Greene, who was hardly thought fit for
+a boatswain by him: they did put him from being a lieutenant to a
+captain's place of a second-rate ship; as idle a drunken fellow, he
+said, as any was in the fleete. That he will now desire the King to let
+him be what he is, that is, Admirall; and he will put in none but those
+that he hath great reason to think well of; and particularly says, that;
+though he likes Colonell Legg well, yet his son that was, he knows not
+how, made a captain after he had been but one voyage at sea, he should
+go to sea another apprenticeship, before ever he gives him a command. We
+did tell him of the many defects and disorders among the captains, and
+I prayed we might do it in writing to him, which he liked; and I am glad
+of an opportunity of doing it. Thence away, and took up wife and girl,
+and home, and to the office, busy late, and so to supper and to bed. My
+wife this day hears from her father and mother: they are in France, at
+Paris; he, poor good man! I think he is, gives her good counsel still,
+which I always observed of him, and thankful for my small charities to
+him. I could be willing to do something for them, were I sure not to
+bring them over again hither. Coming home, my wife and I went and saw
+Kate Joyce, who is still in mighty sorrow, and the more from something
+that Dr. Stillingfleete should simply say in his sermon, of her
+husband's manner of dying, as killing himself.
+
+29th. Up betimes, and by coach to Sir W. Coventry, whom I found in his
+chamber, and there stayed an hour and talked with him about several
+things of the Navy, and our want of money, which they indeed do supply
+us with a little, but in no degree likely to enable us to go on with the
+King's service. He is at a stand where to have more, and is in mighty
+pain for it, declaring that he believes there never was a kingdom
+so governed as this was in the time of the late Chancellor and the
+Treasurer, nobody minding or understanding any thing how things went or
+what the King had in his Treasury, or was to have, nothing in the
+world of it minded. He tells me that there are still people desirous
+to overthrow him; he resolving to stick at nothing nor no person that
+stands in his way against bringing the King out of debt, be it to
+retrench any man's place or profit, and that he cares not, for rather
+than be employed under the King, and have the King continue in this
+condition of indigence, he desires to be put out from among them,
+thinking it no honour to be a minister in such a government. He tells
+me he hath no friends in the whole Court but my Lord Keeper and Sir
+John Duncomb. He tells me they have reduced the charges of Ireland
+above L70,000 a-year, and thereby cut off good profits from my Lord
+Lieutenant; which will make a new enemy, but he cares not. He tells me
+that Townsend, of the Wardrobe, is the eeriest knave and bufflehead that
+ever he saw in his life, and wonders how my Lord Sandwich come to trust
+such a fellow, and that now Reames and--------are put in to be overseers
+there, and do great things, and have already saved a great deal of money
+in the King's liverys, and buy linnen so cheap, that he will have them
+buy the next cloth he hath, for shirts. But then this is with ready
+money, which answers all. He do not approve of my letter I drew and the
+office signed yesterday to the Commissioners of Accounts, saying that
+it is a little too submissive, and grants a little too much and too soon
+our bad managements, though we lay on want of money, yet that it will be
+time enough to plead it when they object it. Which was the opinion of
+my Lord Anglesey also; so I was ready to alter it, and did so presently,
+going from him home, and there transcribed it fresh as he would have it,
+and got it signed, and to White Hall presently and shewed it him, and so
+home, and there to dinner, and after dinner all the afternoon and till
+12 o'clock at night with Mr. Gibson at home upon my Tangier accounts,
+and did end them fit to be given the last of them to the Auditor
+to-morrow, to my great content. This evening come Betty Turner and the
+two Mercers, and W. Batelier, and they had fiddlers, and danced, and
+kept a quarter,--[A term for making a noise or disturbance.]--which
+pleased me, though it disturbed me; but I could not be with them at all.
+Mr. Gibson lay at my house all night, it was so late.
+
+30th. Up, it being fast day for the King's death, and so I and Mr.
+Gibson by water to the Temple, and there all the morning with Auditor
+Wood, and I did deliver in the whole of my accounts and run them over in
+three hours with full satisfaction, and so with great content thence,
+he and I, and our clerks, and Mr. Clerke, the solicitor, to a little
+ordinary in Hercules-pillars Ally--the Crowne, a poor, sorry place,
+where a fellow, in twelve years, hath gained an estate of, as he says,
+L600 a-year, which is very strange, and there dined, and had a good
+dinner, and very good discourse between them, old men belonging to the
+law, and here I first heard that my cozen Pepys, of Salisbury Court, was
+Marshal to my Lord Cooke when he was Lord Chief justice; which beginning
+of his I did not know to be so low: but so it was, it seems. After
+dinner I home, calling at my bookbinder's, but he not within. When come
+home, I find Kate Joyce hath been there, with sad news that her house
+stands not in the King's liberty, but the Dean of Paul's; and so, if her
+estate be forfeited, it will not be in the King's power to do her any
+good. So I took coach and to her, and there found her in trouble, as I
+cannot blame her. But I do believe this arises from somebody that hath a
+mind to fright her into a composition for her estate, which I advise her
+against; and, indeed, I do desire heartily to be able to do her service,
+she being, methinks, a piece of care I ought to take upon me, for our
+fathers' and friends' sake, she being left alone, and no friend so near
+as me, or so able to help her. After having given her my advice, I home,
+and there to my office and did business, and hear how the Committee for
+Accounts are mighty active and likely to examine every thing, but let
+them do their worst I am to be before them with our contract books
+to-morrow. So home from the office, to supper, and to bed.
+
+31st. Up; and by coach, with W. Griffin with me, and our Contract-books,
+to Durham Yard, to the Commissioners for Accounts; the first time I ever
+was there; and staid awhile before I was admitted to them. I did observe
+a great many people attending about complaints of seamen concerning
+tickets, and, among others, Mr. Carcasse, and Mr. Martin, my purser.
+And I observe a fellow, one Collins, is there, who is employed by these
+Commissioners particularly to hold an office in Bishopsgate Street,
+or somewhere thereabouts, to receive complaints of all people about
+tickets: and I believe he will have work enough. Presently I was called
+in, where I found the whole number of Commissioners, and was there
+received with great respect and kindness; and did give them great
+satisfaction, making it my endeavour to inform them what it was they
+were to expect from me, and what was the duty of other people; this
+being my only way to preserve myself, after all my pains and trouble.
+They did ask many questions, and demanded other books of me, which I did
+give them very ready and acceptable answers to; and, upon the whole, I
+observe they do go about their business like men resolved to go through
+with it, and in a very good method; like men of understanding. They have
+Mr. Jessop, their secretary: and it is pretty to see that they are fain
+to find out an old-fashioned man of Cromwell's to do their business for
+them, as well as the Parliament to pitch upon such, for the most
+part, in the list of people that were brought into the House,
+for Commissioners. I went away, with giving and receiving great
+satisfaction; and so away to White Hall to the Commissioners of the
+Treasury; where, waiting some time, I there met with Colonel Birch; and
+he and I fell into discourse; and I did give him thanks for his kindness
+to me in the Parliament-house, both before my face and behind my back.
+He told me that he knew me to be a man of the old way for taking pains,
+and did always endeavour to do me right, and prevent any thing that was
+moved that might tend to my injury; which I was obliged to him for, and
+thanked him. Thence to talk of other things, and the want of money and
+he told me of the general want of money in the country; that land sold
+for nothing, and the many pennyworths he knows of lands and houses upon
+them, with good titles in his country, at 16 years' purchase: "and,"
+says he, "though I am in debt, yet I have a mind to one thing, and that
+is a Bishop's lease;" but said, "I will yet choose such a lease before
+any other, yes," says he, plainly, "because I know they cannot stand,
+and then it will fall into the King's hands, and I in possession shall
+have an advantage by it." "And," says he, "I know they must fall, and
+they are now near it, taking all the ways they can to undo themselves,
+and showing us the way;" and thereupon told the a story of the present
+quarrel between the Bishop and Deane of Coventry and Lichfield;
+the former of which did excommunicate the latter, and caused his
+excommunication to be read in the Church while he was there; and, after
+it was read, the Deane made the service be gone through with, though
+himself, an excommunicate, was present, which is contrary to the Canon,
+and said he would justify the quire therein against the Bishop; and so
+they are at law in the Arches about it; which is a very pretty story. He
+tells me that the King is for Toleration, though the Bishops be against
+it: and that he do not doubt but it will be carried in Parliament; but
+that he fears some will stand for the tolerating of Papists with the
+rest; and that he knows not what to say, but rather thinks that the
+sober party will be without it, rather than have it upon those terms;
+and I do believe so. Here we broke off, and I home to dinner, and after
+dinner set down my wife and Deb. at the 'Change, and I to make a visit
+to Mr. Godolphin
+
+     [William Godolphin, descended from a younger branch of that family,
+     which was afterwards ennobled in the person of Sidney, Earl
+     Godolphin, Lord Treasurer.  William Godolphin was of Christ Church,
+     Oxford, and graduated M.A., January 14th, 1660-61.  He was
+     afterwards secretary to Sir H. Bennet (Lord Arlington), and M.P. for
+     Camelford.  He was a great favourite at Court, and was knighted on
+     August 28th, 1668.  In the spring of 1669 he returned to Spain as
+     Envoy Extraordinary, and in 1671 he became Ambassador.  On July
+     11th, 1696, he died at Madrid, having been for some years a Roman
+     Catholic.]
+
+at his lodgings, who is lately come from Spain from my Lord Sandwich,
+and did, the other day, meeting me in White Hall, compliment me
+mightily, and so I did offer him this visit, but missed him, and so
+back and took up my wife and set her at Mrs. Turner's, and I to my
+bookbinder's, and there, till late at night, binding up my second part
+of my Tangier accounts, and I all the while observing his working, and
+his manner of gilding of books with great pleasure, and so home, and
+there busy late, and then to bed. This day Griffin did, in discourse in
+the coach, put me in the head of the little house by our garden, where
+old goodman Taylor puts his brooms and dirt, to make me a stable of,
+which I shall improve, so as, I think, to be able to get me a stable
+without much charge, which do please me mightily. He did also in
+discourse tell me that it is observed, and is true, in the late fire of
+London, that the fire burned just as many Parish-Churches as there were
+hours from the beginning to the end of the fire; and, next, that there
+were just as many Churches left standing as there were taverns left
+standing in the rest of the City that was not burned, being, I think he
+told me, thirteen in all of each: which is pretty to observe.
+
+
+
+
+FEBRUARY 1667-1668
+
+February 1st. Up, and to the office pretty betimes, and the Board
+not meeting as soon as I wished, I was forced to go to White Hall in
+expectation of a Committee for Tangier, but when I come it was put off,
+and so home again to the office, and sat till past two o'clock; where at
+the Board some high words passed between Sir W. Pen and I, begun by me,
+and yielded to by him, I being in the right in finding fault with him
+for his neglect of duty. At noon home to dinner, and after dinner out
+with my wife, thinking to have gone to the Duke of York's playhouse,
+but was, to my great content in the saving my vow, hindered by coming a
+little too late; and so, it being a fine day, we out to Islington, and
+there to the old house and eat cheese-cakes and drank and talked, and so
+home in the evening, the ways being mighty bad, so as we had no pleasure
+in being abroad at all almost, but only the variety of it, and so to
+the office, where busy late, and then home to supper and to bed, my head
+mighty full of business now on my hands: viz., of finishing my Tangier
+Accounts; of auditing my last year's Accounts; of preparing answers to
+the Commissioners of Accounts; of drawing up several important letters
+to the Duke of York and the Commissioners of the Treasury; the marrying
+of my sister; the building of a coach and stables against summer, and
+the setting many things in the Office right; and the drawing up a new
+form of Contract with the Victualler of the Navy, and several other
+things, which pains, however, will go through with, among others the
+taking care of Kate Joyce in that now she is in at present for saving
+her estate.
+
+2nd (Lord's day). Wife took physick this day, I all day at home, and all
+the morning setting my books in order in my presses, for the following
+year, their number being much increased since the last, so as I am fain
+to lay by several books to make room for better, being resolved to keep
+no more than just my presses will contain. At noon to dinner, my wife
+coming down to me, and a very good dinner we had, of a powdered leg of
+pork and a loin of lamb roasted, and with much content she and I and
+Deb. After dinner, my head combed an hour, and then to work again, and
+at it, doing many things towards the setting my accounts and papers in
+order, and so in the evening Mr. Pelling supping with us, and to supper,
+and so to bed.
+
+3rd. Up, and to the office, where with my clerks all the morning very
+busy about several things there wherein I was behindhand. At noon home
+to dinner, and thence after dinner to the Duke of York's house, to the
+play, "The Tempest," which we have often seen, but yet I was pleased
+again, and shall be again to see it, it is so full of variety, and
+particularly this day I took pleasure to learn the tune of the seaman's
+dance, which I have much desired to be perfect in, and have made myself
+so. So home with my wife and Deb., and there at the office met to
+my trouble with a warrant from the Commissioners of Accounts for my
+attending them and Cocke two days hence, which I apprehend by Captain
+Cocke's being to go also, to be about the prizes. But, however, there is
+nothing of crime can be laid to my charge, and the worst that can be is
+to refund my L500 profit, and who can help it. So I resolve not to be
+troubled at it, though I fear I cannot bear it so, my spirit being very
+poor and mean as to the bearing with trouble that I do find of myself.
+So home, and there to my chamber and did some business,--and thence to
+supper and to bed.
+
+4th. Up, and to the office, where a full Board sat all the morning, busy
+among other things concerning a solemn letter we intend to write to
+the Duke of York about the state of the things of the Navy, for want
+of money, though I doubt it will be to little purpose. After dinner I
+abroad by coach to Kate Joyce's, where the jury did sit where they
+did before, about her husband's death, and their verdict put off for
+fourteen days longer, at the suit of somebody, under pretence of the
+King; but it is only to get money out of her to compound the matter. But
+the truth is, something they will make out of Stillingfleete's sermon,
+which may trouble us, he declaring, like a fool, in his pulpit, that he
+did confess that his losses in the world did make him do what he did.
+This do vex me to see how foolish our Protestant Divines are, while the
+Papists do make it the duty of Confessor to be secret, or else nobody
+would confess their sins to them. All being put off for to-day, I took
+my leave of Kate, who is mightily troubled at it for her estate sake,
+not for her husband; for her sorrow for that, I perceive, is all over. I
+home, and, there to my office busy till the evening, and then home, and
+there my wife and Deb. and I and Betty Turner, I employed in the putting
+new titles to my books, which we proceeded on till midnight, and then
+being weary and late to bed.
+
+5th. Up, and I to Captain Cocke's, where he and I did discourse of our
+business that we are to go about to the Commissioners of Accounts about
+our prizes, and having resolved to conceal nothing but to confess the
+truth, the truth being likely to do us most good, we parted, and I to
+White Hall, where missing of the Commissioners of the Treasury, I to the
+Commissioners of Accounts, where I was forced to stay two hours before I
+was called in, and when come in did take an oath to declare the truth to
+what they should ask me, which is a great power; I doubt more than the
+Act do, or as some say can, give them, to force a man to swear against
+himself; and so they fell to enquire about the business of prize-goods,
+wherein I did answer them as well as I could, answer them in everything
+the just truth, keeping myself to that. I do perceive at last, that,
+that they did lay most like a fault to me was, that I did buy goods upon
+my Lord Sandwich's declaring that it was with the King's allowance, and
+my believing it, without seeing the King's allowance, which is a thing
+I will own, and doubt not to justify myself in. That that vexed me most
+was, their having some watermen by, to witness my saying that they were
+rogues that they had betrayed my goods, which was upon some discontent
+with one of the watermen that I employed at Greenwich, who I did think
+did discover the goods sent from Rochester to the Custom-House officer;
+but this can do me no great harm. They were inquisitive into the
+minutest particulars, and the evening great information; but I think
+that they can do me no hurt, at the worst, more than to make me refund,
+if it must be known, what profit I did make of my agreement with Captain
+Cocke; and yet, though this be all, I do find so poor a spirit within
+me, that it makes me almost out of my wits, and puts me to so much pain,
+that I cannot think of anything, nor do anything but vex and fret, and
+imagine myself undone, so that I am ashamed of myself to myself, and do
+fear what would become of me if any real affliction should come upon
+me. After they had done with me, they called in Captain Cocke, with whom
+they were shorter; and I do fear he may answer foolishly, for he did
+speak to me foolishly before he went in; but I hope to preserve myself,
+and let him shift for himself as well as he can. So I away, walked to
+my flageolet maker in the Strand, and there staid for Captain Cocke, who
+took me up and carried me home, and there coming home and finding dinner
+done, and Mr. Cooke, who come for my Lady Sandwich's plate, which I must
+part with, and so endanger the losing of my money, which I lent upon my
+thoughts of securing myself by that plate. But it is no great sum--but
+L60: and if it must be lost, better that, than a greater sum. I away
+back again, to find a dinner anywhere else, and so I, first, to the Ship
+Tavern, thereby to get a sight of the pretty mistress of the house, with
+whom I am not yet acquainted at all, and I do always find her scolding,
+and do believe she is an ill-natured devil, that I have no great desire
+to speak to her. Here I drank, and away by coach to the Strand, there
+to find out Mr. Moore, and did find him at the Bell Inn, and there
+acquainted him with what passed between me and the Commissioners to-day
+about the prize goods, in order to the considering what to do about my
+Lord Sandwich, and did conclude to own the thing to them as done by the
+King's allowance, and since confirmed. Thence to other discourse, among
+others, he mightily commends my Lord Hinchingbroke's match and Lady,
+though he buys her L10,000 dear, by the jointure and settlement his
+father makes her; and says that the Duke of York and Duchess of York
+did come to see them in bed together, on their wedding-night, and how my
+Lord had fifty pieces of gold taken out of his pocket that night, after
+he was in bed. He tells me that an Act of Comprehension is likely to
+pass this Parliament, for admitting of all persuasions in religion
+to the public observation of their particular worship, but in certain
+places, and the persons therein concerned to be listed of this, or that
+Church; which, it is thought, will do them more hurt than good, and
+make them not own, their persuasion. He tells me that there is a pardon
+passed to the Duke of Buckingham, my Lord of Shrewsbury, and the rest,
+for the late duell and murder;
+
+     [The royal pardon was thus announced in the "Gazette" of February
+     24th, 1668: "This day his Majesty was pleased to declare at the
+     Board, that whereas, in contemplation of the eminent services
+     heretofore done to his Majesty by most of the persons who were
+     engaged in the late duel, or rencounter, wherein William Jenkins was
+     killed, he Both graciously pardon the said offence: nevertheless, He
+     is resolved from henceforth that on no pretence whatsoever any
+     pardon shall be hereafter granted to any person whatsoever for
+     killing of any man, in any duel or rencounter, but that the course
+     of law shall wholly take place in all such cases."  The warrant for
+     a pardon to George, Duke of Buckingham, is dated January 27th, 1668;
+     and on the following day was issued, "Warrant for a grant to
+     Francis, Earl of Shrewsbury, of pardon for killing William Jenkins,
+     and for all duels, assaults, or batteries on George, Duke of
+     Buckingham, Sir John Talbot, Sir Robert Holmes, or any other,
+     whether indicted or not for the same, with restitution of lands,
+     goods, &c."  ("Calendar of State Papers," 1667-68, pp. 192,193).]
+
+which he thinks a worse fault than any ill use my late Lord Chancellor
+ever put the Great Seal to, and will be so thought by the Parliament,
+for them to be pardoned without bringing them to any trial: and that my
+Lord Privy-Seal therefore would not have it pass his hand, but made it
+go by immediate warrant; or at least they knew that he would not pass
+it, and so did direct it to go by immediate warrant, that it might not
+come to him. He tells me what a character my Lord Sandwich hath sent
+over of Mr. Godolphin, as the worthiest man, and such a friend to him
+as he may be trusted in any thing relating to him in the world; as one
+whom, he says, he hath infallible assurances that he will remaine his
+friend which is very high, but indeed they say the gentleman is a fine
+man. Thence, after eating a lobster for my dinner, having eat nothing
+to-day, we broke up, here coming to us Mr. Townsend of the Wardrobe, who
+complains of the Commissioners of the Treasury as very severe against my
+Lord Sandwich, but not so much as they complain of him for a fool and
+a knave, and so I let him alone, and home, carrying Mr. Moore as far as
+Fenchurch Street, and I home, and there being vexed in my mind about my
+prize businesses I to my chamber, where my wife and I had much talk of
+W. Hewer, she telling me that he is mightily concerned for my not being
+pleased with him, and is herself mightily concerned, but I have
+much reason to blame him for his little assistance he gives me in
+my business, not being able to copy out a letter with sense or true
+spelling that makes me mad, and indeed he is in that regard of as little
+use to me as the boy, which troubles me, and I would have him know
+it,--and she will let him know it. By and by to supper, and so to bed,
+and slept but ill all night, my mind running like a fool on my prize
+business, which according to my reason ought not to trouble me at all.
+
+6th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning,, and among other
+things Sir H. Cholmly comes to me about a little business, and there
+tells me how the Parliament, which is to meet again to-day, are likely
+to fall heavy on the business of the Duke of Buckingham's pardon; and I
+shall be glad of it: and that the King hath put out of the Court the two
+Hides, my Lord Chancellor's two sons, and also the Bishops of Rochester
+and Winchester, the latter of whom should have preached before him
+yesterday, being Ash Wednesday, and had his sermon ready, but was put
+by; which is great news: He gone, we sat at the office all the morning,
+and at noon home to dinner, and my wife being gone before, I to the Duke
+of York's playhouse; where a new play of Etherige's, called "She Would
+if she Could;" and though I was there by two o'clock, there was 1000
+people put back that could not have room in the pit: and I at last,
+because my wife was there, made shift to get into the 18d. box, and
+there saw; but, Lord! how full was the house, and how silly the play,
+there being nothing in the world good in it, and few people pleased in
+it. The King was there; but I sat mightily behind, and could see but
+little, and hear not all. The play being done, I into the pit to look
+(for) my wife, and it being dark and raining, I to look my wife out, but
+could not find her; and so staid going between the two doors and through
+the pit an hour and half, I think, after the play was done; the people
+staying there till the rain was over, and to talk with one another. And,
+among the rest, here was the Duke of Buckingham to-day openly sat in
+the pit; and there I found him with my Lord Buckhurst, and Sidly, and
+Etherige, the poet; the last of whom I did hear mightily find fault
+with the actors, that they were out of humour, and had not their parts
+perfect, and that Harris did do nothing, nor could so much as sing
+a ketch in it; and so was mightily concerned while all the rest did,
+through the whole pit, blame the play as a silly, dull thing, though
+there was something very roguish and witty; but the design of the play,
+and end, mighty insipid. At last I did find my wife staying for me in
+the entry; and with her was Betty Turner, Mercer, and Deb. So I got a
+coach, and a humour took us, and I carried them to Hercules Pillars, and
+there did give them a kind of a supper of about 7s., and very merry, and
+home round the town, not through the ruines; and it was pretty how the
+coachman by mistake drives us into the ruines from London-wall into
+Coleman Street: and would persuade me that I lived there. And the truth
+is, I did think that he and the linkman had contrived some roguery; but
+it proved only a mistake of the coachman; but it was a cunning place to
+have done us a mischief in, as any I know, to drive us out of the road
+into the ruines, and there stop, while nobody could be called to help
+us. But we come safe home, and there, the girls being gone home, I to
+the office, where a while busy, my head not being wholly free of my
+trouble about my prize business, I home to bed. This evening coming home
+I did put my hand under the coats of Mercer and did touch her thigh, but
+then she did put by my hand and no hurt done, but talked and sang and
+was merry.
+
+7th. Up, and to the office, to the getting of my books in order, to
+carry to the Commissioners of Accounts this morning. This being done, I
+away first to Westminster Hall, and there met my cozen, Roger Pepys, by
+his desire, the first time I have seen him since his coming to town, the
+Parliament meeting yesterday and adjourned to Monday next; and here he
+tells me that Mr. Jackson, my sister's servant, is come to town, and
+hath this day suffered a recovery on his estate, in order to the making
+her a settlement. The young man is gone out of the Hall, so I could not
+now see him, but here I walked a good while with my cozen, and among
+other things do hear that there is a great triall between my Lord Gerard
+and Carr to-day, who is indicted for his life at the King's Bench, for
+running from his colours; but all do say that my Lord Gerard, though he
+designs the ruining of this man, will not get any thing by it. Thence
+to the Commissioners of Accounts, and there presented my books, and was
+made to sit down, and used with much respect, otherwise than the other
+day, when I come to them as a criminal about the business of the prizes.
+I sat here with them a great while, while my books were inventoried.
+And here do hear from them by discourse that they are like to undo the
+Treasurer's instruments of the Navy by making it a rule that they
+shall repay all money paid to wrong parties, which is a thing not to be
+supported by these poor creatures the Treasurer's instruments, as it
+is also hard for seamen to be ruined by their paying money to whom they
+please. I know not what will be the issue of it. I find these gentlemen
+to sit all day, and only eat a bit of bread at noon, and a glass of
+wine; and are resolved to go through their business with great severity
+and method. Thence I, about two o'clock, to Westminster Hall, by
+appointment, and there met my cozen Roger again, and Mr. Jackson, who
+is a plain young man, handsome enough for Pall, one of no education
+nor discourse, but of few words, and one altogether that, I think, will
+please me well enough. My cozen had got me to give the odd sixth L100
+presently, which I intended to keep to the birth of the first child: and
+let it go--I shall be eased of the care, and so, after little talk,
+we parted, resolving to dine together at my house tomorrow. So there
+parted, my mind pretty well satisfied with this plain fellow for my
+sister, though I shall, I see, have no pleasure nor content in him, as
+if he had been a man of reading and parts, like Cumberland, and to the
+Swan, and there sent for a bit of meat and eat and drank, and so to
+White Hall to the Duke of York's chamber, where I find him and my
+fellows at their usual meeting, discoursing about securing the Medway
+this year, which is to shut the door after the horse is stole. However,
+it is good. Having done here, my Lord Brouncker, and W. Pen, and I, and
+with us Sir Arnold Breames, to the King's playhouse, and there saw a
+piece of "Love in a Maze," a dull, silly play, I think; and after the
+play, home with W. Pen and his son Lowther, whom we met there, and then
+home and sat most of the evening with my wife and Mr. Pelting, talking,
+my head being full of business of one kind or other, and most such as do
+not please me, and so to supper and to bed.
+
+8th. Up, and to the office, where sat all day, and at noon home, and
+there find cozen Roger and Jackson by appointment come to dine with me,
+and Creed, and very merry, only Jackson hath few words, and I like him
+never the worse for it. The great talk is of Carr's coming off in all
+his trials, to the disgrace of my Lord Gerard, to that degree, and the
+ripping up of so many notorious rogueries and cheats of my Lord's, that
+my Lord, it is thought, will be ruined; and, above all things, do skew
+the madness of the House of Commons, who rejected the petition of this
+poor man by a combination of a few in the House; and, much more, the
+base proceedings (just the epitome of all our publick managements in
+this age), of the House of Lords, that ordered him to stand in the
+pillory for those very things, without hearing and examining what he
+hath now, by the seeking of my Lord Gerard himself, cleared himself of,
+in open Court, to the gaining himself the pity of all the world, and
+shame for ever to my Lord Gerard. We had a great deal of good discourse
+at table, and after dinner we four men took coach, and they set me down
+at the Old Exchange, and they home, having discoursed nothing today with
+cozen or Jackson about our business. I to Captain Cocke's, and there
+discoursed over our business of prizes, and I think I shall go near to
+state the matter so as to secure myself without wrong to him, doing nor
+saying anything but the very truth. Thence away to the Strand, to my
+bookseller's, and there staid an hour, and bought the idle, rogueish
+book, "L'escholle des filles;" which I have bought in plain binding,
+avoiding the buying of it better bound, because I resolve, as soon as
+I have read it, to burn it, that it may not stand in the list of books,
+nor among them, to disgrace them if it should be found. Thence home,
+and busy late at the office, and then home to supper and to bed. My wife
+well pleased with my sister's match, and designing how to be merry at
+their marriage. And I am well at ease in my mind to think that that care
+will be over. This night calling at the Temple, at the Auditor's, his
+man told me that he heard that my account must be brought to the view
+of the Commissioners of Tangier before it can be passed, which though I
+know no hurt in it, yet it troubled me lest there should be any or any
+designed by them who put this into the head of the Auditor, I suppose
+Auditor Beale, or Creed, because they saw me carrying my account another
+way than by them.
+
+9th (Lord's day). Up, and at my chamber all the morning and the office
+doing business, and also reading a little of "L'escholle des filles,"
+which is a mighty lewd book, but yet not amiss for a sober man once to
+read over to inform himself in the villainy of the world. At noon home
+to dinner, where by appointment Mr. Pelting come and with him three
+friends, Wallington, that sings the good base, and one Rogers, and a
+gentleman, a young man, his name Tempest, who sings very well indeed,
+and understands anything in the world at first sight. After dinner we
+into our dining-room, and there to singing all the afternoon. (By the
+way, I must remember that Pegg Pen was brought to bed yesterday of a
+girl; and, among other things, if I have not already set it down, that
+hardly ever was remembered such a season for the smallpox as these last
+two months have been, people being seen all up and down the streets,
+newly come out after the smallpox.) But though they sang fine things,
+yet I must confess that I did take no pleasure in it, or very little,
+because I understood not the words, and with the rests that the words
+are set, there is no sense nor understanding in them though they be
+English, which makes me weary of singing in that manner, it being but a
+worse sort of instrumental musick. We sang until almost night, and drank
+mighty good store of wine, and then they parted, and I to my chamber,
+where I did read through "L'escholle des filles," a lewd book, but what
+do no wrong once to read for information sake.... And after I had done
+it I burned it, that it might not be among my books to my shame, and so
+at night to supper and to bed.
+
+10th. Up, and by coach to Westminster, and there made a visit to Mr.
+Godolphin, at his chamber; and I do find him a very pretty and able
+person, a man of very fine parts, and of infinite zeal to my Lord
+Sandwich; and one that says he is, he believes, as wise and able a
+person as any prince in the world hath. He tells me that he meets with
+unmannerly usage by Sir Robert Southwell, in Portugall, who would sign
+with him in his negociations there, being a forward young man: but that
+my Lord mastered him in that point, it being ruled for my Lord here,
+at a hearing of a Committee of the Council. He says that if my Lord can
+compass a peace between Spain and Portugall, and hath the doing of it
+and the honour himself, it will be a thing of more honour than ever any
+man had, and of as much advantage. Thence to Westminster Hall, where
+the Hall mighty full: and, among other things, the House begins to sit
+to-day, and the King come. But, before the King's coming, the House of
+Commons met; and upon information given them of a Bill intended to be
+brought in, as common report said, for Comprehension, they did mightily
+and generally inveigh against it, and did vote that the King should be
+desired by the House (and the message delivered by the Privy-counsellers
+of the House) that the laws against breakers of the Act of Uniformity
+should be put in execution: and it was moved in the House that, if any
+people had a mind to bring any new laws into the House, about religion,
+they might come, as a proposer of new laws did in Athens, with ropes
+about their necks. By and by the King comes to the Lords' House, and
+there tells them of his league with Holland, and the necessity of a
+fleete, and his debts; and, therefore, want of money; and his desire
+that they would think of some way to bring in all his Protestant
+subjects to a right understanding and peace one with another; meaning
+the Bill of Comprehension. The Commons coming to their House, it was
+moved that the vote passed this morning might be suspended, because of
+the King's speech, till the House was full and called over, two days
+hence: but it was denied, so furious they are against this Bill: and
+thereby a great blow either given to the King or Presbyters, or, which
+is the rather of the two, to the House itself, by denying a thing
+desired by the King, and so much desired by much the greater part of the
+nation. Whatever the consequence be, if the King be a man of any stomach
+and heat, all do believe that he will resent this vote. Thence with
+Creed home to my house to dinner, where I met with Mr. Jackson, and find
+my wife angry with Deb., which vexes me. After dinner by coach away to
+Westminster; taking up a friend of Mr. Jackson's, a young lawyer, and
+parting with Creed at White Hall. They and I to Westminster Hall, and
+there met Roger Pepys, and with him to his chamber, and there read over
+and agreed upon the Deed of Settlement to our minds: my sister to have
+L600 presently, and she to be joyntured in L60 per annum; wherein I
+am very well satisfied. Thence I to the Temple to Charles Porter's
+lodgings, where Captain Cocke met me, and after long waiting, on
+Pemberton,
+
+     [Francis Pemberton, afterwards knighted, and made Lord Chief Justice
+     of the King's Bench in 1679.  His career was a most singular one, he
+     having been twice removed from the Bench, and twice imprisoned by
+     the House of Commons.  He twice returned to the bar, and after his
+     second return he practised with great success as a serjeant for the
+     next fourteen years till his death, June 10th, 1697.  Evelyn says,
+     "He was held to be the most learned of the judges and an honest man"
+     ("Diary," October 4th, 1683).]
+
+an able lawyer, about the business of our prizes, and left the matter
+with him to think of against to-morrow, this being a matter that do much
+trouble my mind, though there be no fault in it that I need fear the
+owning that I know of. Thence with Cocke home to his house and there
+left him, and I home, and there got my wife to read a book I bought
+to-day, and come out to-day licensed by Joseph Williamson for Lord
+Arlington, shewing the state of England's affairs relating to France at
+this time, and the whole body of the book very good and solid, after
+a very foolish introduction as ever I read, and do give a very good
+account of the advantage of our league with Holland at this time. So,
+vexed in my mind with the variety of cares I have upon me, and so to
+bed.
+
+11th. At the office all the morning, where comes a damned summons to
+attend the Committee of Miscarriages to-day, which makes me mad, that
+I should by my place become the hackney of this Office, in perpetual
+trouble and vexation, that need it least. At noon home to dinner, where
+little pleasure, my head being split almost with the variety of
+troubles upon me at this time, and cares, and after dinner by coach to
+Westminster Hall, and sent my wife and Deb. to see "Mustapha"
+acted. Here I brought a book to the Committee, and do find them; and
+particularly Sir Thomas Clarges, mighty hot in the business of tickets,
+which makes me mad to see them bite at the stone, and not at the hand
+that flings it, and here my Lord Brouncker unnecessarily orders it that
+he is called in to give opportunity to present his report of the state
+of the business of paying by ticket, which I do not think will do him
+any right, though he was made believe that it did operate mightily, and
+that Sir Fresh. Hollis did make a mighty harangue and to much purpose in
+his defence, but I believe no such effects of it, for going in afterward
+I did hear them speak with prejudice of it, and that his pleading of the
+Admiral's warrant for it now was only an evasion, if not an aspersion
+upon the Admirall, and therefore they would not admit of this his
+report, but go on with their report as they had resolved before. The
+orders they sent for this day was the first order that I have yet met
+with about this business, and was of my own single hand warranting,
+but I do think it will do me no harm, and therefore do not much trouble
+myself with it, more than to see how much trouble I am brought to who
+have best deported myself in all the King's business. Thence with Lord
+Brouncker, and set him down at Bow Streete, and so to the Duke of York's
+playhouse, and there saw the last act for nothing, where I never saw
+such good acting of any creature as Smith's part of Zanger; and I do
+also, though it was excellently acted by---------, do yet want Betterton
+mightily. Thence to the Temple, to Porter's chamber, where Cocke met me,
+and after a stay there some time, they two and I to Pemberton's chamber,
+and there did read over the Act of calling people to account, and did
+discourse all our business of the prizes; and, upon the whole, he
+do make it plainly appear, that there is no avoiding to give these
+Commissioners satisfaction in everything they will ask; and that
+there is fear lest they may find reason to make us refund for all the
+extraordinary profit made by those bargains; and do make me resolve
+rather to declare plainly, and, once for all, the truth of the whole,
+and what my profit hath been, than be forced at last to do it, and in
+the meantime live in gain, as I must always do: and with this resolution
+on my part I departed, with some more satisfaction of mind, though with
+less hopes of profit than I expected. It was pretty here to see the
+heaps of money upon this lawyer's table; and more to see how he had
+not since last night spent any time upon our business, but begun with
+telling us that we were not at all concerned in that Act; which was a
+total mistake, by his not having read over the Act at all. Thence to
+Porter's chamber, where Captain Cocke had fetched my wife out of
+the coach, and there we staid and talked and drank, he being a very
+generous, good-humoured man, and so away by coach, setting Cocke at his
+house, and we with his coach home, and there I to the office, and there
+till past one in the morning, and so home to supper and to bed, my mind
+at pretty good ease, though full of care and fear of loss. This morning
+my wife in bed told me the story of our Tom and Jane:--how the rogue did
+first demand her consent to love and marry him, and then, with pretence
+of displeasing me, did slight her; but both he and she have confessed
+the matter to her, and she hath charged him to go on with his love to
+her, and be true to her, and so I think the business will go on, which,
+for my love to her, because she is in love with him, I am pleased with;
+but otherwise I think she will have no good bargain of it, at least if
+I should not do well in my place. But if I do stand, I do intend to give
+her L50 in money, and do them all the good I can in my way.
+
+12th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning drawing up
+my narrative of my proceedings and concernments in the buying of
+prize-goods, which I am to present to the Committee for Accounts; and
+being come to a resolution to conceal nothing from them, I was at great
+ease how to draw it up without any inventions or practise to put me to
+future pain or thoughts how to carry on, and now I only discover what my
+profit was, and at worst I suppose I can be made but to refund my profit
+and so let it go. At noon home to dinner, where Mr. Jackson dined with
+me, and after dinner I (calling at the Excise Office, and setting my
+wife and Deb. at her tailor's) did with Mr. Jackson go to find my cozen
+Roger Pepys, which I did in the Parliament House, where I met him and
+Sir Thomas Crew and Mr. George Montagu, who are mighty busy how to save
+my Lord's name from being in the Report for anything which the Committee
+is commanded to report to the House of the miscarriages of the late war.
+I find they drive furiously still in the business of tickets, which is
+nonsense in itself and cannot come to any thing. Thence with cozen Roger
+to his lodgings, and there sealed the writings with Jackson, about my
+sister's marriage: and here my cozen Roger told me the pleasant passage
+of a fellow's bringing a bag of letters to-day, into the lobby of the
+House, and left them, and withdrew himself without observation. The bag
+being opened, the letters were found all of one size, and directed with
+one hand: a letter to most of the Members of the House. The House was
+acquainted with it, and voted they should be brought in, and one opened
+by the Speaker; wherein if he found any thing unfit to communicate, to
+propose a Committee to be chosen for it. The Speaker opening one, found
+it only a case with a libell in it, printed: a satire most sober and
+bitter as ever I read; and every letter was the same. So the House fell
+a-scrambling for them like boys: and my cozen Roger had one directed to
+him, which he lent me to read. So away, and took up my wife, and setting
+Jackson down at Fetter Lane end, I to the old Exchange to look Mr.
+Houblon, but, not finding him, did go home, and there late writing a
+letter to my Lord Sandwich, and to give passage to a letter of great
+moment from Mr. Godolphin to him, which I did get speedy passage for
+by the help of Mr. Houblon, who come late to me, and there directed the
+letter to Lisbon under cover of his, and here we talked of the times,
+which look very sad and distracted, and made good mirth at this day's
+passage in the House, and so parted; and going to the gate with him, I
+found his lady and another fine lady sitting an hour together, late at
+night, in their coach, while he was with me, which is so like my wife,
+that I was mighty taken with it, though troubled for it. So home to
+supper and to bed. This day Captain Cocke was with the Commissioners of
+Accounts to ask more time for his bringing in his answer about the prize
+goods, and they would not give him 14 days as he asks, but would give
+only two days, which was very hard, I think, and did trouble me for fear
+of their severity, though I have prepared my matter so as to defy it.
+
+13th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon home to
+dinner, and thence with my wife and Deb. to White Hall, setting, them at
+her tailor's, and I to the Commissioners of the Treasury, where myself
+alone did argue the business of the East India Company against their
+whole Company on behalf of the King before the Lords Commissioners, and
+to very good effect, I think, and with reputation. That business being
+over, the Lords and I had other things to talk about, and among the
+rest, about our making more assignments on the Exchequer since they bid
+us hold, whereat they were extraordinary angry with us, which troubled
+me a little, though I am not concerned in it at all. Waiting here some
+time without, I did meet with several people, among others Mr. Brisband,
+who tells me in discourse that Tom Killigrew hath a fee out of the
+Wardrobe for cap and bells,
+
+     [The Lord Chamberlain's Records contain a copy of a warrant dated
+     July 12th, 1661, "to deliver to Mr. Killegrew thirty yards of
+     velvett, three dozen of fringe, and sixteene yards of Damaske for
+     the year 1661."  The heading of this entry is "Livery for ye jester"
+     (Lowe's "Betterton," p. 70).]
+
+under the title of the King's Foole or jester; and may with privilege
+revile or jeere any body, the greatest person, without offence, by the
+privilege of his place. Thence took up my wife, and home, and there busy
+late at the office writing letters, and so home to supper and to bed.
+The House was called over to-day. This morning Sir G. Carteret come to
+the Office to see and talk with me: and he assures me that to this day
+the King is the most kind man to my Lord Sandwich in the whole world;
+that he himself do not now mind any publick business, but suffers things
+to go on at Court as they will, he seeing all likely to come to ruin:
+that this morning the Duke of York sent to him to come to make up one
+of a Committee of the Council for Navy Affairs; where, when he come, he
+told the Duke of York that he was none of them: which shews how things
+are now-a-days ordered, that there should be a Committee for the
+Navy; and the Lord Admiral not know the persons of it! And that Sir G.
+Carteret and my Lord Anglesey should be left out of it, and men wholly
+improper put into it. I do hear of all hands that there is a great
+difference at this day between my Lord Arlington and Sir W. Coventry,
+which I am sorry for.
+
+14th (Valentine's day). Up, being called up by Mercer, who come to be my
+Valentine, and so I rose and my wife, and were merry a little, I staying
+to talk, and did give her a guinny in gold for her Valentine's gift.
+There comes also my cozen Roger Pepys betimes, and comes to my wife, for
+her to be his Valentine, whose Valentine I was also, by agreement to be
+so to her every year; and this year I find it is likely to cost L4 or L5
+in a ring for her, which she desires. Cozen Roger did come also to speak
+with Sir W. Pen, who was quoted, it seems, yesterday by Sir Fr. Hollis
+to have said that if my Lord Sandwich had done so and so, we might have
+taken all the Dutch prizes at the time when he staid and let them go.
+But Sir W. Pen did tell us he should say nothing in it but what would do
+my Lord honour, and he is a knave I am able to prove if he do otherwise.
+He gone, I to my Office, to perfect my Narrative about prize-goods; and
+did carry it to the Commissioners of Accounts, who did receive it with
+great kindness, and express great value of, and respect to me: and
+my heart is at rest that it is lodged there, in so full truth and
+plainness, though it may hereafter prove some loss to me. But here I
+do see they are entered into many enquiries about prizes, by the great
+attendance of commanders and others before them, which is a work I am
+not sorry for. Thence I away, with my head busy, but my heart at pretty
+good ease, to the Old Exchange, and there met Mr. Houblon. I prayed him
+to discourse with some of the merchants that are of the Committee
+for Accounts, to see how they do resent my paper, and in general my
+particular in the relation to the business of the Navy, which he hath
+promised to do carefully for me and tell me. Here it was a mighty pretty
+sight to see old Mr. Houblon, whom I never saw before, and all his
+sons about him, all good merchants. Thence home to dinner, and had much
+discourse with W. Hewer about my going to visit Colonel Thomson, one of
+the Committee of Accounts, who, among the rest, is mighty kind to me,
+and is likely to mind our business more than any; and I would be glad to
+have a good understanding with him. Thence after dinner to White
+Hall, to attend the Duke of York, where I did let him know, too, the
+troublesome life we lead, and particularly myself, by being obliged to
+such attendances every day as I am, on one Committee or another. And
+I do find the Duke of York himself troubled, and willing not to be
+troubled with occasions of having his name used among the Parliament,
+though he himself do declare that he did give directions to Lord
+Brouncker to discharge the men at Chatham by ticket, and will own it,
+if the House call for it, but not else. Thence I attended the King and
+Council, and some of the rest of us, in a business to be heard about the
+value of a ship of one Dorrington's:--and it was pretty to observe how
+Sir W. Pen making use of this argument against the validity of an oath,
+against the King, being made by the master's mate of the ship, who was
+but a fellow of about 23 years of age--the master of the ship, against
+whom we pleaded, did say that he did think himself at that age capable
+of being master's mate of any ship; and do know that he, himself, Sir W:
+Pen, was so himself, and in no better degree at that age himself: which
+word did strike Sir W. Pen dumb, and made him open his mouth no more;
+and I saw the King and Duke of York wink at one another at it. This
+done, we into the gallery; and there I walked with several people, and
+among others my Lord Brouncker, who I do find under much trouble still
+about the business of the tickets, his very case being brought in; as
+is said, this day in the Report of the Miscarriages. And he seems to
+lay much of it on me, which I did clear and satisfy him in; and would
+be glad with all my heart to serve him in, and have done it more than
+he hath done for himself, he not deserving the least blame, but
+commendations, for this. I met with my cozen Roger Pepys and Creed;
+and from them understand that the Report was read to-day of the
+Miscarriages, wherein my Lord Sandwich is [named] about the business
+I mentioned this morning; but I will be at rest, for it can do him no
+hurt. Our business of tickets is soundly up, and many others: so they
+went over them again, and spent all the morning on the first, which is
+the dividing of the fleete; wherein hot work was, and that among great
+men, Privy-Councillors, and, they say, Sir W. Coventry; but I do not
+much fear it, but do hope that it will shew a little, of the Duke of
+Albemarle and the Prince to have been advisers in it: but whereas they
+ordered that the King's Speech should be considered today, they took
+no notice of it at all, but are really come to despise the King in all
+possible ways of chewing it. And it was the other day a strange saying,
+as I am told by my cozen Roger Pepys, in the House, when it was moved
+that the King's speech should be considered, that though the first part
+of the Speech, meaning the league that is there talked of, be the only
+good publick thing that hath been done since the King come into England,
+yet it might bear with being put off to consider, till Friday next,
+which was this day. Secretary Morrice did this day in the House, when
+they talked of intelligence, say that he was allowed but L70 a-year for
+intelligence,--[Secret service money]--whereas, in Cromwell's time, he
+[Cromwell] did allow L70,000 a-year for it; and was confirmed therein by
+Colonel Birch, who said that thereby Cromwell carried the secrets of
+all the princes of Europe at his girdle. The House is in a most broken
+condition; nobody adhering to any thing, but reviling and finding fault:
+and now quite mad at the Undertakers, as they are commonly called,
+Littleton, Lord Vaughan, Sir R. Howard, and others that are brought over
+to the Court, and did undertake to get the King money; but they despise,
+and would not hear them in the House; and the Court do do as much,
+seeing that they cannot be useful to them, as was expected. In short,
+it is plain that the King will never be able to do any thing with this
+Parliament; and that the only likely way to do better, for it cannot do
+worse, is to break this and call another Parliament; and some do think
+that it is intended. I was told to-night that my Lady Castlemayne is so
+great a gamester as to have won L5000 in one night, and lost L25,000
+in another night, at play, and hath played L1000 and L1500 at a cast.
+Thence to the Temple, where at Porter's chamber I met Captain Cocke,
+but lost our labour, our Counsellor not being within, Pemberton, and
+therefore home and late at my office, and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+15th. Up betimes, and with Captain Cocke my coach to the Temple to his
+Counsel again about the prize goods in order to the drawing up of his
+answer to them, where little done but a confirmation that our best
+interest is for him to tell the whole truth, and so parted, and I home
+to the office, where all the morning, and at noon home to dinner, and
+after dinner all the afternoon and evening till midnight almost, and
+till I had tired my own backe, and my wife's, and Deb.'s, in titleing
+of my books for the present year, and in setting them in order, which
+is now done to my very good satisfaction, though not altogether so
+completely as I think they were the last year, when my mind was more at
+leisure to mind it. So about midnight to bed, where my wife taking some
+physic overnight it wrought with her, and those coming upon her with
+great gripes, she was in mighty pain all night long, yet, God forgive
+me! I did find that I was most desirous to take my rest than to ease
+her, but there was nothing I could do to do her any good with.
+
+16th (Lord's day). Up, and to my chamber, where all the morning making a
+catalogue of my books, which did find me work, but with great pleasure,
+my chamber and books being now set in very good order, and my chamber
+washed and cleaned, which it had not been in some months before, my
+business and trouble having been so much. At noon Mr. Holliard put
+in, and dined with my wife and me, who was a little better to-day. His
+company very good. His story of his love and fortune, which hath been
+very good and very bad in the world, well worth hearing. Much discourse
+also about the bad state of the Church, and how the Clergy are come
+to be men of no worth in the world; and, as the world do now generally
+discourse, they must be reformed; and I believe the Hierarchy will in a
+little time be shaken, whether they will or no; the King being offended
+with them, and set upon it, as I hear. He gone, after dinner to have my
+head combed, and then to my chamber and read most of the evening till
+pretty late, when, my wife not being well, I did lie below stairs in our
+great chamber, where I slept well.
+
+17th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning till noon getting
+some things more ready against the afternoon for the Committee of
+Accounts, which did give me great trouble, to see how I am forced to
+dance after them in one place, and to answer Committees of Parliament
+in another. At noon thence toward the Committee, but meeting with Sir W.
+Warren in Fleet Street he and I to the Ordinary by Temple Bar and there
+dined together, and to talk, where he do seem to be very high now in
+defiance of the Board, now he says that the worst is come upon him
+to have his accounts brought to the Committee of Accounts, and he do
+reflect upon my late coldness to him, but upon the whole I do find that
+he is still a cunning fellow, and will find it necessary to be fair
+to me, and what hath passed between us of coldness to hold his tongue,
+which do please me very well. Thence to the Committee, where I did
+deliver the several things they expected from me, with great respect and
+show of satisfaction, and my mind thereby eased of some care. But thence
+I to Westminster Hall, and there spent till late at night walking to and
+again with many people, and there in general I hear of the great high
+words that were in the House on Saturday last, upon the first part of
+the Committee's Report about the dividing of the fleete; wherein some
+would have the counsels of the King to be declared, and the reasons of
+them, and who did give them; where Sir W. Coventry laid open to them the
+consequences of doing that, that the King would never have any honest
+and wise men ever to be of his Council. They did here in the House talk
+boldly of the King's bad counsellors, and how they must be all turned
+out, and many of them, and better; brought in: and the proceedings of
+the Long-Parliament in the beginning of the war were called to memory:
+and the King's bad intelligence was mentioned, wherein they were bitter
+against my Lord Arlington, saying, among other things, that whatever
+Morrice's was, who declared he had but L750 a-year allowed him for
+intelligence, the King paid too dear for my Lord Arlington's, in giving
+him L10,000 and a barony for it. Sir W. Coventry did here come to his
+defence, in the business of the letter that was sent to call back Prince
+Rupert, after he was divided from the fleete, wherein great delay was
+objected; but he did show that he sent it at one in the morning, when
+the Duke of York did give him the instructions after supper that night,
+and did clear himself well of it: only it was laid as a fault, which
+I know not how he removes, of not sending it by an express, but by
+the ordinary post; but I think I have heard he did send it to my Lord
+Arlington's; and that there it lay for some hours; it coming not to Sir
+Philip Honiwood's hand at Portsmouth till four in the afternoon that
+day, being about fifteen or sixteen hours in going; and about this,
+I think, I have heard of a falling out between my Lord Arlington,
+heretofore, and W. Coventry. Some mutterings I did hear of a design of
+dissolving the Parliament; but I think there is no ground for it
+yet, though Oliver would have dissolved them for half the trouble and
+contempt these have put upon the King and his councils. The dividing
+of the fleete, however, is, I hear, voted a miscarriage, and the not
+building a fortification at Sheernesse: and I have reason every hour to
+expect that they will vote the like of our paying men off by ticket; and
+what the consequence of that will be I know not, but I am put thereby
+into great trouble of mind. I did spend a little time at the Swan, and
+there did kiss the maid, Sarah. At noon home, and there up to my wife,
+who is still ill, and supped with her, my mind being mighty full of
+trouble for the office and my concernments therein, and so to supper
+and talking with W. Hewer in her chamber about business of the office,
+wherein he do well understand himself and our case, and it do me
+advantage to talk with him and the rest of my people. I to bed below as
+I did last night.
+
+18th. Up by break of day, and walked down to the old Swan, where I find
+little Michell building, his booth being taken down, and a foundation
+laid for a new house, so that that street is like to be a very fine
+place. I drank, but did not see Betty, and so to Charing Cross stairs,
+and thence walked to Sir W. Coventry's,
+
+     [Sir William Coventry's love of money is said by Sir John Denham to
+     have influenced him in promoting naval officers, who paid him for
+     their commissions.
+
+               "Then Painter! draw cerulian Coventry
+               Keeper, or rather Chancellor o' th' sea
+               And more exactly to express his hue,
+               Use nothing but ultra-mariuish blue.
+               To pay his fees, the silver trumpet spends,
+               And boatswain's whistle for his place depends.
+               Pilots in vain repeat their compass o'er,
+               Until of him they learn that one point more
+               The constant magnet to the pole doth hold,
+               Steel to the magnet, Coventry to gold.
+               Muscovy sells us pitch, and hemp, and tar;
+               Iron and copper, Sweden; Munster, war;
+               Ashley, prize; Warwick, custom;
+               Cart'ret, pay;
+               But Coventry doth sell the fleet away."--B.]
+
+and talked with him, who tells me how he hath been persecuted, and how
+he is yet well come off in the business of the dividing of the fleete,
+and the sending of the letter. He expects next to be troubled about the
+business of bad officers in the fleete, wherein he will bid them name
+whom they call bad, and he will justify himself, having never disposed
+of any but by the Admiral's liking. And he is able to give an account of
+all them, how they come recommended, and more will be found to have
+been placed by the Prince and Duke of Albemarle than by the Duke of York
+during the war, and as no bad instance of the badness of officers he
+and I did look over the list of commanders, and found that we could
+presently recollect thirty-seven commanders that have been killed in
+actuall service this war. He tells me that Sir Fr. Hollis is the main
+man that hath persecuted him hitherto, in the business of dividing the
+fleete, saying vainly that the want of that letter to the Prince hath
+given him that, that he shall remember it by to his grave, meaning the
+loss of his arme; when, God knows! he is as idle and insignificant a
+fellow as ever come into the fleete. He tells me that in discourse on
+Saturday he did repeat Sir Rob. Howard's words about rowling out of
+counsellors, that for his part he neither cared who they rowled in, nor
+who they rowled out, by which the word is become a word of use in the
+House, the rowling out of officers. I will remember what, in mirth, he
+said to me this morning, when upon this discourse he said, if ever there
+was another Dutch war, they should not find a Secretary; "Nor," said I,
+"a Clerk of the Acts, for I see the reward of it; and, thanked God! I
+have enough of my own to buy me a good book and a good fiddle, and I
+have a good wife;"--"Why," says he, "I have enough to buy me a good
+book, and shall not need a fiddle, because I have never a one of your
+good wives." I understand by him that we are likely to have our business
+of tickets voted a miscarriage, but [he] cannot tell me what that will
+signify more than that he thinks they will report them to the King and
+there leave them, but I doubt they will do more. Thence walked over St.
+James's Park to White Hall, and thence to Westminster Hall, and there
+walked all the morning, and did speak with several Parliament-men-among
+others, Birch, who is very kind to me, and calls me, with great respect
+and kindness, a man of business, and he thinks honest, and so long
+will stand by me, and every such man, to the death. My business was
+to instruct them to keep the House from falling into any mistaken vote
+about the business of tickets, before they were better informed. I
+walked in the Hall all the morning with my Lord Brouncker, who was in
+great pain there, and, the truth is, his business is, without reason, so
+ill resented by the generality of the House, that I was almost troubled
+to be seen to walk with him, and yet am able to justify him in all, that
+he is under so much scandal for. Here I did get a copy of the report
+itself, about our paying off men by tickets; and am mightily glad to see
+it, now knowing the state of our case, and what we have to answer to,
+and the more for that the House is like to be kept by other business
+to-day and to-morrow, so that, against Thursday, I shall be able to draw
+up some defence to put into some Member's hands, to inform them, and I
+think we may [make] a very good one, and therefore my mind is mightily
+at ease about it. This morning they are upon a Bill, brought in to-day
+by Sir Richard Temple, for obliging the King to call Parliaments every
+three years; or, if he fail, for others to be obliged to do it, and to
+keep him from a power of dissolving any Parliament in less than forty
+days after their first day of sitting, which is such a Bill as do speak
+very high proceedings, to the lessening of the King; and this they will
+carry, and whatever else they desire, before they will give any money;
+and the King must have money, whatever it cost him. I stepped to the
+Dog Tavern, and thither come to me Doll Lane, and there we did drink
+together, and she tells me she is my valentine.... Thence, she being
+gone, and having spoke with Mr. Spicer here, whom I sent for hither to
+discourse about the security of the late Act of 11 months' tax on which
+I have secured part of my money lent to Tangier. I to the Hall, and
+there met Sir W. Pen, and he and I to the Beare, in Drury Lane, an
+excellent ordinary, after the French manner, but of Englishmen; and
+there had a good fricassee, our dinner coming to 8s., which was mighty
+pretty, to my great content; and thence, he and I to the King's house,
+and there, in one of the upper boxes, saw "Flora's Vagarys," which is
+a very silly play; and the more, I being out of humour, being at a play
+without my wife, and she ill at home, and having no desire also to be
+seen, and, therefore, could not look about me. Thence to the Temple,
+and there we parted, and I to see Kate Joyce, where I find her and her
+friends in great ease of mind, the jury having this day given in their
+verdict that her husband died of a feaver. Some opposition there was,
+the foreman pressing them to declare the cause of the feaver, thinking
+thereby to obstruct it: but they did adhere to their verdict, and would
+give no reason; so all trouble is now over, and she safe in her estate,
+which I am mighty glad of, and so took leave, and home, and up to my
+wife, not owning my being at a play, and there she shews me her ring of
+a Turky-stone set with little sparks of dyamonds,
+
+     [The turquoise.  This stone was sometimes referred to simply as the
+     turkey, and Broderip ("Zoological Recreations") conjectured that the
+     bird (turkey) took its name from the blue or turquoise colour of the
+     skin about its head.]
+
+which I am to give her, as my Valentine, and I am not much troubled at
+it. It will cost me near L5--she costing me but little compared with
+other wives, and I have not many occasions to spend on her. So to my
+office, where late, and to think upon my observations to-morrow, upon
+the report of the Committee to the Parliament about the business of
+tickets, whereof my head is full, and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+19th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning drawing up an answer
+to the Report of the Committee for miscarriages to the Parliament
+touching our paying men by tickets, which I did do in a very good manner
+I think. Dined with my clerks at home, where much good discourse of
+our business of the Navy, and the trouble now upon us, more than we
+expected. After dinner my wife out with Deb., to buy some things against
+my sister's wedding, and I to the office to write fair my business I did
+in the morning, and in the evening to White Hall, where I find Sir W.
+Coventry all alone, a great while with the Duke of York, in the King's
+drawing-room, they two talking together all alone, which did mightily
+please me. Then I did get Sir W. Coventry (the Duke of York being gone)
+aside, and there read over my paper, which he liked and corrected, and
+tells me it will be hard to escape, though the thing be never so fair,
+to have it voted a miscarriage; but did advise me and my Lord Brouncker,
+who coming by did join with us, to prepare some members in it, which we
+shall do. Here I do hear how La Roche, a French captain, who was once
+prisoner here, being with his ship at Plymouth, hath played some freakes
+there, for which his men being beat out of the town, he hath put up his
+flag of defiance, and also, somewhere thereabout, did land with his men,
+and go a mile into the country, and did some pranks, which sounds pretty
+odd, to our disgrace, but we are in condition now to bear any thing.
+But, blessed be God! all the Court is full of the good news of my Lord
+Sandwich's having made a peace between Spain and Portugall, which is
+mighty great news, and, above all, to my Lord's honour, more than any
+thing he ever did; and yet I do fear it will not prevail to secure him
+in Parliament against incivilities there. Thence, took up my wife at
+Unthanke's, and so home, and there my mind being full of preparing my
+paper against to-morrow for the House, with an address from the office
+to the House, I to the office, very late, and then home to supper and to
+bed.
+
+20th. Up, and to the office a while, and thence to White Hall by coach
+with Mr. Batelier with me, whom I took up in the street. I thence by
+water to Westminster Hall, and there with Lord Brouncker, Sir T. Harvy,
+Sir J. Minnes, did wait all the morning to speak to members about our
+business, thinking our business of tickets would come before the House
+to-day, but we did alter our minds about the petition to the House,
+sending in the paper to them. But the truth is we were in a great hurry,
+but it fell out that they were most of the morning upon the business
+of not prosecuting the first victory; which they have voted one of the
+greatest miscarriages of the whole war, though they cannot lay the fault
+anywhere yet, because Harman is not come home. This kept them all the
+morning, which I was glad of. So down to the Hall, where my wife by
+agreement stayed for me at Mrs. Michell's, and there was Mercer and the
+girl, and I took them to Wilkinson's the cook's in King Street (where
+I find the master of the house hath been dead for some time), and there
+dined, and thence by one o'clock to the King's house: a new play, "The
+Duke of Lerma," of Sir Robert Howard's: where the King and Court was;
+and Knepp and Nell spoke the prologue most excellently, especially
+Knepp, who spoke beyond any creature I ever, heard. The play designed to
+reproach our King with his mistresses, that I was troubled for it, and
+expected it should be interrupted; but it ended all well, which salved
+all. The play a well-writ and good play, only its design I did not like
+of reproaching the King, but altogether a very good and most serious
+play. Thence home, and there a little to the office, and so home to
+supper, where Mercer with us, and sang, and then to bed.
+
+21st. At the office all the morning to get a little business done, I
+having, and so the whole office, been put out of doing any business
+there for this week by our trouble in attending the Parliament. Hither
+comes to me young Captain Beckford, the slopseller, and there presents
+me a little purse with gold in it, it being, as he told me, for his
+present to me, at the end of the last year. I told him I had not done
+him any service I knew of. He persisted, and I refused, but did at
+several denials; and telling him that it was not an age to take presents
+in, he told me he had reason to present me with something, and desired
+me to accept of it, which, at his so urging me, I did, and so fell to
+talk of his business, and so parted. I do not know of any manner of
+kindness I have done him this last year, nor did expect any thing. It
+was therefore very welcome to me, but yet I was not fully satisfied in
+my taking it, because of my submitting myself to the having it objected
+against me hereafter, and the rather because this morning Jacke Fen come
+and shewed me an order from the Commissioners of Accounts, wherein they
+demand of him an account upon oath of all the sums of money that have
+been by him defalked or taken from any man since their time, of enquiry
+upon any payments, and if this should, as it is to be feared, come to
+be done to us, I know not what I shall then do, but I shall take
+counsel upon it. At noon by coach towards Westminster, and met my Lord
+Brouncker, and W. Pen, and Sir T. Harvey, in King's Street, coming away
+from the Parliament House; and so I to them, and to the French ordinary,
+at the Blue Bells, in Lincolne's Inn Fields, and there dined and talked.
+And, among other things, they tell me how the House this day is still
+as backward for giving any money as ever, and do declare they will
+first have an account of the disposals of the last Poll-bill, and eleven
+months' tax: and it is pretty odde that the very first sum mentioned
+in the account brought in by Sir Robert Long, of the disposal of the
+Poll-bill money, is L5000 to my Lord Arlington for intelligence; which
+was mighty unseasonable, so soon after they had so much cried out
+against his want of intelligence. The King do also own but L250,000,
+or thereabouts, yet paid on the Poll-bill, and that he hath charged
+L350,000 upon it. This makes them mad; for that the former Poll-bill,
+that was so much less in its extent than the last, which took in all
+sexes and qualities, did come to L350,000. Upon the whole, I perceive
+they are like to do nothing in this matter to please the King, or
+relieve the State, be the case never so pressing; and, therefore, it
+is thought by a great many that the King cannot be worse if he should
+dissolve them: but there is nobody dares advise it, nor do he consider
+any thing himself. Thence, having dined for 20s., we to the Duke of York
+at White Hall, and there had our usual audience, and did little but talk
+of the proceedings of the Parliament, wherein he is as much troubled as
+we; for he is not without fears that they do ayme at doing him hurt;
+but yet he declares that he will never deny to owne what orders he hath
+given to any man to justify him, notwithstanding their having sent to
+him to desire his being tender to take upon him the doing any thing of
+that kind. Thence with Brouncker and T. Harvey to Westminster Hall, and
+there met with Colonel Birch and Sir John Lowther, and did there in the
+lobby read over what I have drawn up for our defence, wherein they own
+themselves mightily satisfied; and Birch, like a particular friend, do
+take it upon him to defend us, and do mightily do me right in all
+his discourse. Here walked in the Hall with him a great while, and
+discoursed with several members, to prepare them in our business against
+to-morrow, and meeting my cozen Roger Pepys, he showed me Granger's
+written confession,
+
+     [Pepys here refers to the extraordinary proceedings which occurred
+     between Charles, Lord Gerard, and Alexander Fitton, of which a
+     narrative was published at the Hague in 1665.  Granger was a witness
+     in the cause, and was afterwards said to be conscience-stricken from
+     his perjury.  Some notice of this case will be found in North's
+     "Examen," p. 558; but the copious and interesting note in Ormerod's
+     "History of Cheshire," Vol.  iii., p.  291, will best satisfy the
+     reader, who will not fail to be struck by the paragraph with which
+     it is closed-viz., "It is not improbable that Alexander Fitton, who,
+     in the first instance, gained rightful possession of Gawsworth under
+     an acknowledged settlement, was driven headlong into unpremeditated
+     guilt by the production of a revocation by will which Lord Gerard
+     had so long concealed.  Having lost his own fortune in the
+     prosecution of his claims, he remained in gaol till taken out by
+     James II. to be made Chancellor of Ireland (under which character
+     Hume first notices him), was knighted, and subsequently created Lord
+     Gawsworth after the abdication of James, sat in his parliament in
+     Dublin in 1689, and then is supposed to have accompanied his fallen
+     master to France.  Whether the conduct of Fitton was met, as he
+     alleges, by similar guilt on the part of Lord Gerard, God only can
+     judge; but his hand fell heavily on the representatives of that
+     noble house.  In less than half a century the husbands of its two
+     co-heiresses, James, Duke of Hamilton, and Charles, Lord Mohun, were
+     slain by each other's hands in a murderous duel arising out of a
+     dispute relative to the partition of the Fitton estates, and
+     Gawsworth itself passed to an unlineal hand, by a series of
+     alienations complicated beyond example in the annals of this
+     country."--B.]
+
+of his being forced by imprisonment, &c., by my Lord Gerard, most
+barbarously to confess his forging of a deed in behalf of Fitton, in the
+great case between him [Fitton] and my Lord Gerard; which business is
+under examination, and is the foulest against my Lord Gerard that ever
+any thing in the world was, and will, all do believe, ruine him; and I
+shall be glad of it. Thence with Lord Brouncker and T. Harvey as far as
+the New Exchange, and there at a draper's shop drawing up a short note
+of what they are to desire of the House for our having a hearing before
+they determine any thing against us, which paper is for them to show to
+what friends they meet against to-morrow, I away home to the office, and
+there busy pretty late, and here comes my wife to me, who hath been at
+Pegg Pen's christening, which, she says, hath made a flutter and noise;
+but was as mean as could be, and but little company, just like all the
+rest that that family do. So home to supper and to bed, with my head
+full of a defence before the Parliament tomorrow, and therein content
+myself very well, and with what I have done in preparing some of the
+members thereof in order thereto.
+
+22nd. Up, and by coach through Ducke Lane, and there did buy Kircher's
+Musurgia, cost me 35s., a book I am mighty glad of, expecting to find
+great satisfaction in it. Thence to Westminster Hall and the lobby, and
+up and down there all the morning, and to the Lords' House, and heard
+the Solicitor-General plead very finely, as he always do; and this was
+in defence of the East India Company against a man that complains of
+wrong from them, and thus up and down till noon in expectation of our
+business coming on in the House of Commons about tickets, but they being
+busy about my Lord Gerard's business I did give over the thoughts of
+ours coming on, and so with my wife, and Mercer, and Deb., who come to
+the Hall to me, I away to the Beare, in Drury Lane, and there bespoke a
+dish of meat; and, in the mean time, sat and sung with Mercer; and, by
+and by, dined with mighty pleasure, and excellent meat, one little dish
+enough for us all, and good wine, and all for 8s., and thence to the
+Duke's playhouse, and there saw "Albumazar," an old play, this the
+second time of acting. It is said to have been the ground of B. Jonson's
+"Alchymist;" but, saving the ridicuiousnesse of Angell's part, which
+is called Trinkilo, I do not see any thing extraordinary in it, but was
+indeed weary of it before it was done. The King here, and, indeed, all
+of us, pretty merry at the mimique tricks of Trinkilo. So home, calling
+in Ducke Lane for the book I bought this morning, and so home, and wrote
+my letters at the office, and then home to supper and to bed.
+
+23rd (Lord's day). Up, and, being desired by a messenger from Sir G.
+Carteret, I by water over to Southwarke, and so walked to the Falkon, on
+the Bank-side, and there got another boat, and so to Westminster, where
+I would have gone into the Swan; but the door was locked; and the girl
+could not let me in, and so to Wilkinson's in King Street, and there
+wiped my shoes, and so to Court, where sermon not yet done I met with
+Brisband; and he tells me, first, that our business of tickets did come
+to debate yesterday, it seems, after I was gone away, and was voted
+a miscarriage in general. He tells me in general that there is great
+looking after places, upon a presumption of a great many vacancies;
+and he did shew me a fellow at Court, a brother of my Lord Fanshaw's, a
+witty but rascally fellow, without a penny in his purse, that was asking
+him what places there were in the Navy fit for him, and Brisband tells
+me, in mirth, he told him the Clerke of the Acts, and I wish he had it,
+so I were well and quietly rid of it; for I am weary of this kind of
+trouble, having, I think, enough whereon to support myself. By and by,
+chapel done, I met with Sir W. Coventry, and he and I walked awhile
+together in the Matted Gallery; and there he told me all the proceedings
+yesterday: that the matter is found, in general, a miscarriage, but no
+persons named; and so there is no great matter to our prejudice yet,
+till, if ever, they come to particular persons. He told me Birch was
+very industrious to do what he could, and did, like a friend; but they
+were resolved to find the thing, in general, a miscarriage; and says,
+that when we shall think fit to desire its being heard, as to our own
+defence, it will be granted. He tells me how he hath, with advantage,
+cleared himself in what concerns himself therein, by his servant
+Robson, which I am glad of. He tells me that there is a letter sent by
+conspiracy to some of the House, which he hath seen, about the matter of
+selling of places, which he do believe he shall be called upon to-morrow
+for: and thinks himself well prepared to defend himself in it; and
+then neither he, nor his friends for him, are afeard of anything to
+his prejudice. Thence by coach, with Brisband, to Sir G. Carteret's, in
+Lincoln's Inn Fields, and there dined: a good dinner and good company;
+and after dinner he and I alone, discoursing of my Lord Sandwich's
+matters; who hath, in the first business before the House, been very
+kindly used beyond expectation, the matter being laid by, till his
+coming home and old Mr. Vaughan did speak for my Lord, which I am mighty
+glad of. The business of the prizes is the worst that can be said, and
+therein I do fear something may lie hard upon him; but, against this, we
+must prepare the best we can for his defence. Thence with G. Carteret to
+White Hall, where I, finding a meeting of the Committee of the Council
+for the Navy, his Royal Highness there, and Sir W. Pen, and, some of the
+Brethren of the Trinity House to attend, I did go in with them; and it
+was to be informed of the practice heretofore, for all foreign nations,
+at enmity one with another, to forbear any acts of hostility to one
+another, in the presence of any of the King of England's ships, of
+which several instances were given: and it is referred to their further
+enquiry, in order to the giving instructions accordingly to our ships
+now, during the war between Spain and France. Would to God we were in
+the same condition as heretofore, to challenge and maintain this our
+dominion! Thence with W. Pen homeward, and quite through to Mile End,
+for a little ayre; the days being now pretty long, but the ways mighty
+dirty, and here we drank at the Rose, the old house, and so back again,
+talking of the Parliament and our trouble with them and what passed
+yesterday. Going back again, Sir R. Brookes overtook us coming to town;
+who hath played the jacke with us all, and is a fellow that I must trust
+no more, he quoting me for all he hath said in this business of tickets;
+though I have told him nothing that either is not true, or I afeard to
+own. But here talking, he did discourse in this stile: "We,"--and "We"
+all along,--"will not give any money, be the pretence never so great,
+nay, though the enemy was in the River of Thames again, till we know
+what is become of the last money given;" and I do believe he do speak
+the mind of his fellows, and so let them, if the King will suffer it. He
+gone, we home, and there I to read, and my belly being full of my dinner
+to-day, I anon to bed, and there, as I have for many days, slept not an
+hour quietly, but full of dreams of our defence to the Parliament and
+giving an account of our doings. This evening, my wife did with great
+pleasure shew me her stock of jewells, encreased by the ring she hath
+made lately as my Valentine's gift this year, a Turky stone' set with
+diamonds: and, with this and what she had, she reckons that she hath
+above L150 worth of jewells, of one kind or other; and I am glad of it,
+for it is fit the wretch should have something to content herself with.
+
+24th. Up, and to my office, where most of the morning, entering my
+journal for the three days past. Thence about noon with my wife to the
+New Exchange, by the way stopping at my bookseller's, and there leaving
+my Kircher's Musurgia to be bound, and did buy "L'illustre Bassa," in
+four volumes, for my wife. Thence to the Exchange and left her; while
+meeting Dr. Gibbons there, he and I to see an organ at the Dean of
+Westminster's lodgings at the Abby, the Bishop of Rochester's; where
+he lives like a great prelate, his lodgings being very good; though at
+present under great disgrace at Court, being put by his Clerk of the
+Closet's place. I saw his lady, of whom the 'Terrae Filius' of Oxford
+was once so merry;
+
+     [A scholar appointed to make a satirical and jesting speech at an
+     Act in the University of Oxford.  Mr. Christopher Wordsworth gives,
+     in his "Social Life at the English Universities in the Eighteenth
+     Century," 1874, a list of terra-filii from 1591 to 1713 (pp. 296-
+     298, 680).  The 'terrae filius' was sometimes expelled the
+     university on account of the licence of his speech.  The practice
+     was discontinued early in the eighteenth century.]
+
+and two children, whereof one a very pretty little boy, like him, so fat
+and black. Here I saw the organ; but it is too big for my house, and the
+fashion do not please me enough; and therefore will not have it. Thence
+to the 'Change back again, leaving him, and took my wife and Deb.
+home, and there to dinner alone, and after dinner I took them to the
+Nursery,--[Theatre company of young actors in training.]--where none of
+us ever were before; where the house is better and the musique better
+than we looked for, and the acting not much worse, because I expected as
+bad as could be: and I was not much mistaken, for it was so. However,
+I was pleased well to see it once, it being worth a man's seeing to
+discover the different ability and understanding of people, and the
+different growth of people's abilities by practise. Their play was a
+bad one, called "Jeronimo is Mad Again," a tragedy. Here was some good
+company by us, who did make mighty sport at the folly of their acting,
+which I could not neither refrain from sometimes, though I was sorry for
+it. So away hence home, where to the office to do business a while, and
+then home to supper and to read, and then to bed. I was prettily served
+this day at the playhouse-door, where, giving six shillings into the
+fellow's hand for us three, the fellow by legerdemain did convey one
+away, and with so much grace faced me down that I did give him but five,
+that, though I knew the contrary, yet I was overpowered by his so grave
+and serious demanding the other shilling, that I could not deny him,
+but was forced by myself to give it him. After I come home this evening
+comes a letter to me from Captain Allen, formerly Clerk of the Ropeyard
+at Chatham, and whom I was kind to in those days, who in recompense of
+my favour to him then do give me notice that he hears of an accusation
+likely to be exhibited against me of my receiving L50 of Mason, the
+timber merchant, and that his wife hath spoke it. I am mightily beholden
+to Captain Allen for this, though the thing is to the best of my memory
+utterly false, and I do believe it to be wholly so, but yet it troubles
+me to have my name mentioned in this business, and more to consider how
+I may be liable to be accused where I have indeed taken presents,
+and therefore puts me on an enquiry, into my actings in this kind and
+prepare against a day of accusation.
+
+25th. Up, having lain the last night the first night that I have lain
+with my wife since she was last ill, which is about eight days. To the
+office, where busy all the morning. At noon comes W. Howe to me, to
+advise what answer to give to the business of the prizes, wherein I did
+give him the best advice I could; but am sorry to see so many things,
+wherein I doubt it will not be prevented but Sir Roger Cuttance and
+Mr. Pierce will be found very much concerned in goods beyond the
+distribution, and I doubt my Lord Sandwich too, which troubles me
+mightily. He gone I to dinner, and thence set my wife at the New
+Exchange, and I to Mr. Clerke, my solicitor, to the Treasury chamber,
+but the Lords did not sit, so I by water with him to the New Exchange,
+and there we parted, and I took my wife and Deb. up, and to the Nursery,
+where I was yesterday, and there saw them act a comedy, a pastorall,
+"The Faythful Shepherd," having the curiosity to see whether they did a
+comedy better than a tragedy; but they do it both alike, in the meanest
+manner, that I was sick of it, but only for to satisfy myself once in
+seeing the manner of it, but I shall see them no more, I believe. Thence
+to the New Exchange, to take some things home that my wife hath bought,
+a dressing-box, and other things for her chamber and table, that cost me
+above L4, and so home, and there to the office, and tell W. Hewer of the
+letter from Captain Allen last night, to give him caution if any thing
+should be discovered of his dealings with anybody, which I should for
+his sake as well, or more than for my own, be sorry for; and with great
+joy I do find, looking over my memorandum books, which are now of great
+use to me, and do fully reward me for all my care in keeping them, that
+I am not likely to be troubled for any thing of the kind but what I
+shall either be able beforehand to prevent, or if discovered, be able to
+justify myself in, and I do perceive, by Sir W. Warren's discourse, that
+they [the House] do all they can possibly to get out of him and others,
+what presents they have made to the Officers of the Navy; but he tells
+me that he hath denied all, though he knows that he is forsworn as to
+what relates to me. So home to supper and to bed.
+
+26th. Up, and by water to Charing Cross stairs, and thence to W.
+Coventry to discourse concerning the state of matters in the Navy, where
+he particularly acquainted me with the trouble he is like to meet with
+about the selling of places, all carried on by Sir Fr. Hollis, but
+he seems not to value it, being able to justify it to be lawful and
+constant practice, and never by him used in the least degree since he
+upon his own motion did obtain a salary of L500 in lieu thereof. Thence
+to the Treasury Chamber about a little business, and so home by coach,
+and in my way did meet W. Howe going to the Commissioners of Accounts.
+I stopped and spoke to him, and he seems well resolved what to answer
+them, but he will find them very strict, and not easily put off: So home
+and there to dinner, and after dinner comes W. Howe to tell me how he
+sped, who says he was used civilly, and not so many questions asked as
+he expected; but yet I do perceive enough to shew that they do intend
+to know the bottom of things, and where to lay the great weight of the
+disposal of these East India goods, and that they intend plainly to do
+upon my Lord Sandwich. Thence with him by coach and set him down at
+the Temple, and I to Westminster Hall, where, it being now about six
+o'clock, I find the House just risen; and met with Sir W. Coventry and
+the Lieutenant of the Tower, they having sat all day; and with great
+difficulty have got a vote for giving the King L300,000, not to be
+raised by any land-tax. The sum is much smaller than I expected,
+and than the King needs; but is grounded upon Mr. Wren's reading our
+estimates the other day of L270,000, to keep the fleete abroad, wherein
+we demanded nothing for setting and fitting of them out, which will cost
+almost L200,000, I do verily believe: and do believe that the King hath
+no cause to thank Wren for this motion. I home to Sir W. Coventry's
+lodgings, with him and the Lieutenant of the Tower, where also was Sir
+John Coventry, and Sir John Duncomb, and Sir Job Charleton. And here
+a great deal of good discourse: and they seem mighty glad to have this
+vote pass, which I did wonder at, to see them so well satisfied with so
+small a sum, Sir John Duncomb swearing, as I perceive he will freely
+do, that it was as much as the nation could beare. Among other merry
+discourse about spending of money, and how much more chargeable a man's
+living is now more than it was heretofore, Duncomb did swear that
+in France he did live of L100 a year with more plenty, and wine and
+wenches, than he believes can be done now for L200, which was pretty
+odd for him, being a Committee-man's son, to say. Having done here, and
+supped, where I eat very little, we home in Sir John Robinson's coach,
+and there to bed.
+
+27th. All the morning at the office, and at noon home to dinner, and
+thence with my wife and Deb. to the King's House, to see "The Virgin
+Martyr," the first time it hath been acted a great while: and it is
+mighty pleasant; not that the play is worth much, but it is finely acted
+by Becke Marshall. But that which did please me beyond any thing in, the
+whole world was the wind-musique when the angel comes down, which is so
+sweet that it ravished me, and indeed, in a word, did wrap up my soul so
+that it made me really sick, just as I have formerly been when in love
+with my wife; that neither then, nor all the evening going home, and
+at home, I was able to think of any thing, but remained all night
+transported, so as I could not believe that ever any musick hath that
+real command over the soul of a man as this did upon me: and makes me
+resolve to practice wind-musique, and to make my wife do the like.
+
+28th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning doing business, and
+after dinner with Sir W. Pen to White Hall, where we and the rest of us
+presented a great letter of the state of our want of money to his Royal
+Highness. I did also present a demand of mine for consideration for my
+travelling-charges of coach and boat-hire during the war, which, though
+his Royal Highness and the company did all like of, yet, contrary to my
+expectation, I find him so jealous now of doing any thing extraordinary,
+that he desired the gentlemen that they would consider it, and report
+their minds in it to him. This did unsettle my mind a great while, not
+expecting this stop: but, however, I shall do as well, I know, though it
+causes me a little stop. But that, that troubles me most is, that while
+we were thus together with the Duke of York, comes in Mr. Wren from the
+House, where, he tells us, another storm hath been all this day almost
+against the Officers of the Navy upon this complaint,--that though they
+have made good rules for payment of tickets, yet that they have not
+observed them themselves, which was driven so high as to have it urged
+that we should presently be put out of our places: and so they have at
+last ordered that we shall be heard at the bar of the House upon this
+business on Thursday next. This did mightily trouble me and us all; but
+me particularly, who am least able to bear these troubles, though I have
+the least cause to be concerned in it. Thence, therefore, to visit Sir
+H. Cholmly, who hath for some time been ill of a cold; and thence walked
+towards Westminster, and met Colonel Birch, who took me back to walk
+with him, and did give me an account of this day's heat against the Navy
+Officers, and an account of his speech on our behalf, which was very
+good; and indeed we are much beholden to him, as I, after I parted with
+him, did find by my cozen Roger, whom I went to: and he and I to his
+lodgings. And there he did tell me the same over again; and how much
+Birch did stand up in our defence; and that he do see that there are
+many desirous to have us out of the Office; and the House is so furious
+and passionate, that he thinks nobody can be secure, let him deserve
+never so well. But now, he tells me, we shall have a fair hearing of the
+House, and he hopes justice of them: but, upon the whole, he do agree
+with me that I should hold my hand as to making any purchase of land,
+which I had formerly discoursed with him about, till we see a little
+further how matters go. He tells me that that made them so mad to-day
+first was, several letters in the House about the Fanatickes, in several
+places, coming in great bodies, and turning people out of the churches,
+and there preaching themselves, and pulling the surplice over the
+Parsons' heads: this was confirmed from several places; which makes them
+stark mad, especially the hectors and bravadoes of the House, who shew
+all the zeal on this occasion. Having done with him, I home vexed in
+my mind, and so fit for no business, but sat talking with my wife and
+supped with her; and Nan Mercer come and sat all the evening with us,
+and much pretty discourse, which did a little ease me, and so to bed.
+
+29th. Up, and walked to Captain Cocke's, where Sir G. Carteret promised
+to meet me and did come to discourse about the prize-business of my Lord
+Sandwich's, which I perceive is likely to be of great ill consequence to
+my Lord, the House being mighty vehement in it. We could say little but
+advise that his friends should labour to get it put off, till he comes.
+We did here talk many things over, in lamentation of the present posture
+of affairs, and the ill condition of all people that have had anything
+to do under the King, wishing ourselves a great way off: Here they tell
+me how Sir Thomas Allen hath taken the Englishmen out of "La Roche,"
+and taken from him an Ostend prize which La Roche had fetched out of our
+harbours; and at this day La Roche keeps upon our coasts; and had the
+boldness to land some men and go a mile up into the country, and there
+took some goods belonging to this prize out of a house there; which our
+King resents, and, they say, hath wrote to the King of France about; and
+everybody do think a war will follow; and then in what a case we shall
+be for want of money, nobody knows. Thence to the office, where we sat
+all the morning, and at noon home to dinner, and to the office again in
+the afternoon, where we met to consider of an answer to the Parliament
+about the not paying of tickets according to our own orders, to which I
+hope we shall be able to give a satisfactory answer, but that the design
+of the House being apparently to remove us, I do question whether the
+best answer will prevail with them. This done I by coach with my wife
+to Martin, my bookseller's, expecting to have had my Kercher's Musurgia,
+but to my trouble and loss of trouble it was not done. So home again,
+my head full of thoughts about our troubles in the office, and so to the
+office. Wrote to my father this post, and sent him now Colvill's--[The
+Goldsmith.]--note for L600 for my sister's portion, being glad that I
+shall, I hope, have that business over before I am out of place, and I
+trust I shall be able to save a little of what I have got, and so shall
+not be troubled to be at ease; for I am weary of this life. So ends
+this month, with a great deal of care and trouble in my head about the
+answerings of the Parliament, and particularly in our payment of seamen
+by tickets.
+
+
+
+
+MARCH 1667-1668
+
+March 1st (Lord's day). Up very betimes, and by coach to Sir W.
+Coventry's; and there, largely carrying with me all my notes and papers,
+did run over our whole defence in the business of tickets, in order to
+the answering the House on Thursday next; and I do think, unless they be
+set without reason to ruin us, we shall make a good defence. I find him
+in great anxiety, though he will not discover it, in the business of the
+proceedings of Parliament; and would as little as is possible have his
+name mentioned in our discourse to them; and particularly the business
+of selling places is now upon his hand to defend himself in; wherein I
+did help him in his defence about the flag-maker's place, which is named
+in the House. We did here do the like about the complaint of want of
+victuals in the fleete in the year 1666, which will lie upon me to
+defend also. So that my head is full of care and weariness in my
+employment. Thence home, and there my mind being a little lightened by
+my morning's work in the arguments I have now laid together in better
+method for our defence to the Parliament, I to talk with my wife; and in
+lieu of a coach this year, I have got my wife to be contented with her
+closet being made up this summer, and going into the country this summer
+for a month or two, to my father's, and there Mercer and Deb. and Jane
+shall go with her, which I the rather do for the entertaining my wife,
+and preventing of fallings out between her and my father or Deb., which
+uses to be the fate of her going into the country. After dinner by coach
+to Westminster, and there to St. Margaret's church, thinking to have
+seen Betty Michell, but she was not there, but met her father and mother
+and with them to her father's house, where I never was before, but was
+mighty much made of, with some good strong waters, which they have
+from their son Michell, and mighty good people they are. Thence to
+Mrs. Martin's, where I have not been also a good while, and with great
+difficulty, company being there, did get an opportunity to hazer what I
+would con her, and here I was mightily taken with a starling which
+she hath, that was the King's, which he kept in his bedchamber; and
+do whistle and talk the most and best that ever I heard anything in my
+life. Thence to visit Sir H. Cholmly, who continues still sick of his
+cold, and thence calling, but in vain, to speak with Sir G. Carteret at
+his house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, where I spoke with nobody, but home,
+where spent the evening talking with W. Hewer about business of the
+House, and declaring my expectation of all our being turned out. Hither
+comes Carcasse to me about business, and there did confess to me of his
+own accord his having heretofore discovered as a complaint against Sir
+W. Batten, Sir W. Pen and me that we did prefer the paying of some men
+to man "The Flying Greyhound" to others, by order under our hands. The
+thing upon recollection I believe is true, and do hope no great matter
+can be made of it, but yet I would be glad to have my name out of it,
+which I shall labour to do; in the mean time it weighs as a new trouble
+on my mind, and did trouble me all night. So without supper to bed, my
+eyes being also a little overwrought of late that I could not stay up to
+read.
+
+2nd. Up and betimes to the office, where I did much business, and
+several come to me, and among others I did prepare Mr. Warren, and by
+and by Sir D. Gawden, about what presents I have had from them, that
+they may not publish them, or if they do, that in truth I received none
+on the account of the Navy but Tangier, and this is true to the former,
+and in both that I never asked any thing of them. I must do the like
+with the rest. Mr. Moore was with me, and he do tell me, and so W.
+Hewer tells me, he hears this morning that all the town is full of the
+discourse that the Officers of the Navy shall be all turned out, but
+honest Sir John Minnes, who, God knows, is fitter to have been turned
+out himself than any of us, doing the King more hurt by his dotage and
+folly than all the rest can do by their knavery, if they had a mind to
+it. At noon home to dinner, where was Mercer, and very merry as I could
+be with my mind so full of business, and so with my wife, her and the
+girl, to the King's house to see the "Virgin Martyr" again, which do
+mightily please me, but above all the musique at the coming down of the
+angel, which at this hearing the second time, do still commend me as
+nothing ever did, and the other musique is nothing to it. Thence with
+my wife to the 'Change, and so, calling at the Cocke ale house, we home,
+and there I settle to business, and with my people preparing my great
+answer to the Parliament for the office about tickets till past 1 a
+o'clock at night, and then home to supper and to bed, keeping Mr. Gibson
+all night with me. This day I have the news that my sister was married
+on Thursday last to Mr. Jackson; so that work is, I hope, well over.
+
+3rd. Up betimes to work again, and then met at the Office, where to
+our great business of this answer to the Parliament; where to my great
+vexation I find my Lord Brouncker prepared only to excuse himself, while
+I, that have least reason to trouble myself, am preparing with great
+pains to defend them all: and more, I perceive, he would lodge the
+beginning of discharging ships by ticket upon me; but I care not, for
+I believe I shall get more honour by it when the Parliament, against my
+will, shall see how the whole business of the Office was done by me. At
+noon rose and to dinner. My wife abroad with Mercer and Deb. buying of
+things, but I with my clerks home to dinner, and thence presently down
+with Lord Brouncker, W. Pen, T. Harvy, T. Middleton, and Mr. Tippets,
+who first took his place this day at the table, as a Commissioner, in
+the room of Commissioner Pett. Down by water to Deptford, where the
+King, Queene, and Court are to see launched the new ship built by Mr.
+Shish, called "The Charles." 2 God send her better luck than the former!
+Here some of our brethren, who went in a boat a little before my boat,
+did by appointment take opportunity of asking the King's leave that
+we might make full use of the want of money, in our excuse to the
+Parliament for the business of tickets, and other things they will lay
+to our charge, all which arose from nothing else: and this the King did
+readily agree to, and did give us leave to make our full use of it.
+The ship being well launched, I back again by boat, setting [Sir] T.
+Middleton and Mr. Tippets on shore at Ratcliffe, I home and there to my
+chamber with Mr. Gibson, and late up till midnight preparing more things
+against our defence on Thursday next to my content, though vexed that
+all this trouble should be on me. So to supper and to bed.
+
+4th. Up betimes and with Sir W. Pen in his coach to White Hall, there to
+wait upon the Duke of York and the Commissioners of the Treasury, [Sir]
+W. Coventry and Sir John Duncombe, who do declare that they cannot find
+the money we demand, and we that less than what we demand will not set
+out the fleet intended, and so broke up, with no other conclusion than
+that they would let us have what they could get and we would improve
+that as well as we could. So God bless us, and prepare us against the
+consequences of these matters. Thence, it being a cold wet day, I
+home with Sir J. Minnes in his coach, and called by the way at my
+bookseller's and took home with me Kercher's Musurgia--very well bound,
+but I had no comfort to look upon them, but as soon as I come home fell
+to my work at the office, shutting the doors, that we, I and my clerks,
+might not be interrupted, and so, only with room for a little dinner,
+we very busy all the day till night that the officers met for me to
+give them the heads of what I intended to say, which I did with great
+discontent to see them all rely on me that have no reason at all to
+trouble myself about it, nor have any thanks from them for my labour,
+but contrarily Brouncker looked mighty dogged, as thinking that I did
+not intend to do it so as to save him. This troubled me so much as,
+together with the shortness of the time and muchness of the business,
+did let me be at it till but about ten at night, and then quite weary,
+and dull, and vexed, I could go no further, but resolved to leave the
+rest to to-morrow morning, and so in full discontent and weariness did
+give over and went home, with[out] supper vexed and sickish to bed,
+and there slept about three hours, but then waked, and never in so much
+trouble in all my life of mind, thinking of the task I have upon me, and
+upon what dissatisfactory grounds, and what the issue of it may be to
+me.
+
+5th. With these thoughts I lay troubling myself till six o'clock,
+restless, and at last getting my wife to talk to me to comfort me, which
+she at last did, and made me resolve to quit my hands of this Office,
+and endure the trouble of it no longer than till I can clear myself of
+it. So with great trouble, but yet with some ease, from this discourse
+with my wife, I up, and to my Office, whither come my clerks, and so I
+did huddle the best I could some more notes for my discourse to-day, and
+by nine o'clock was ready, and did go down to the Old Swan, and there
+by boat, with T. H[ater] and W. H[ewer] with me, to Westminster, where I
+found myself come time enough, and my brethren all ready. But I full
+of thoughts and trouble touching the issue of this day; and, to comfort
+myself, did go to the Dog and drink half-a-pint of mulled sack, and in
+the Hall [Westminster] did drink a dram of brandy at Mrs. Hewlett's; and
+with the warmth of this did find myself in better order as to courage,
+truly. So we all up to the lobby; and between eleven and twelve o'clock,
+were called in, with the mace before us, into the House, where a mighty
+full House; and we stood at the bar, namely, Brouncker, Sir J. Minnes,
+Sir T. Harvey, and myself, W. Pen being in the House, as a Member.
+I perceive the whole House was full, and full of expectation of our
+defence what it would be, and with great prejudice. After the Speaker
+had told us the dissatisfaction of the House, and read the Report of
+the Committee, I began our defence most acceptably and smoothly, and
+continued at it without any hesitation or losse, but with full scope,
+and all my reason free about me, as if it had been at my own table, from
+that time till past three in the afternoon; and so ended, without
+any interruption from the Speaker; but we withdrew. And there all
+my Fellow-Officers, and all the world that was within hearing, did
+congratulate me, and cry up my speech as the best thing they ever heard;
+and my Fellow-Officers overjoyed in it; we were called in again by
+and by to answer only one question, touching our paying tickets to
+ticket-mongers; and so out; and we were in hopes to have had a vote
+this day in our favour, and so the generality of the House was; but my
+speech, being so long, many had gone out to dinner and come in again
+half drunk; and then there are two or three that are professed enemies
+to us and every body else; among others, Sir T. Littleton, Sir Thomas
+Lee, Mr. Wiles, the coxcomb whom I saw heretofore at the cock-fighting,
+and a few others; I say, these did rise up and speak against the coming
+to a vote now, the House not being full, by reason of several being
+at dinner, but most because that the House was to attend the King this
+afternoon, about the business of religion, wherein they pray him to
+put in force all the laws against Nonconformists and Papists; and this
+prevented it, so that they put it off to to-morrow come se'nnight.
+However, it is plain we have got great ground; and everybody says I have
+got the most honour that any could have had opportunity of getting; and
+so with our hearts mightily overjoyed at this success, we all to dinner
+to Lord Brouncker's--that is to say, myself, T. Harvey, and W. Pen, and
+there dined; and thence with Sir Anthony Morgan, who is an acquaintance
+of Brouncker's, a very wise man, we after dinner to the King's house,
+and there saw part of "The Discontented Colonel," but could take no
+great pleasure in it, because of our coming in in the middle of it.
+After the play, home with W. Pen, and there to my wife, whom W.
+Hewer had told of my success, and she overjoyed, and I also as to my
+particular; and, after talking awhile, I betimes to bed, having had no
+quiet rest a good while.
+
+6th. Up betimes, and with Sir D. Gawden to Sir W, Coventry's chamber:
+where the first word he said to me was, "Good-morrow, Mr. Pepys, that
+must be Speaker of the Parliament-house:" and did protest I had got
+honour for ever in Parliament. He said that his brother, that sat by
+him, admires me; and another gentleman said that I could not get
+less than L1000 a-year if I would put on a gown and plead at the
+Chancery-bar; but, what pleases me most, he tells me that the
+Sollicitor-Generall did protest that he thought I spoke the best of any
+man in England. After several talks with him alone, touching his own
+businesses, he carried me to White Hall, and there parted; and I to the
+Duke of York's lodgings, and find him going to the Park, it being a very
+fine morning, and I after him; and, as soon as he saw me, he told me,
+with great satisfaction, that I had converted a great many yesterday,
+and did, with great praise of me, go on with the discourse with me. And,
+by and by, overtaking the King, the King and Duke of York come to me
+both; and he--[The King]--said, "Mr. Pepys, I am very glad of your
+success yesterday;" and fell to talk of my well speaking; and many of
+the Lords there. My Lord Barkeley did cry the up for what they had heard
+of it; and others, Parliament-men there, about the King, did say that
+they never heard such a speech in their lives delivered in that manner.
+Progers, of the Bedchamber, swore to me afterwards before Brouncker, in
+the afternoon, that he did tell the King that he thought I might teach
+the Sollicitor-Generall. Every body that saw me almost come to me, as
+Joseph Williamson and others, with such eulogys as cannot be expressed.
+From thence I went to Westminster Hall, where I met Mr. G. Montagu,
+who come to me and kissed me, and told me that he had often heretofore
+kissed my hands, but now he would kiss my lips: protesting that I
+was another Cicero, and said, all the world said the same of me. Mr.
+Ashburnham, and every creature I met there of the Parliament, or that
+knew anything of the Parliament's actings, did salute me with this
+honour:--Mr. Godolphin;--Mr. Sands, who swore he would go twenty mile,
+at any time, to hear the like again, and that he never saw so many sit
+four hours together to hear any man in his life, as there did to hear
+me; Mr. Chichly,--Sir John Duncomb,--and everybody do say that the
+kingdom will ring of my abilities, and that I have done myself right for
+my whole life: and so Captain Cocke, and others of my friends, say that
+no man had ever such an opportunity of making his abilities known; and,
+that I may cite all at once, Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower did tell me
+that Mr. Vaughan did protest to him, and that, in his hearing it, said
+so to the Duke of Albemarle, and afterwards to W. Coventry, that he had
+sat twenty-six years in Parliament and never heard such a speech there
+before: for which the Lord God make me thankful! and that I may make use
+of it not to pride and vain-glory, but that, now I have this esteem, I
+may do nothing that may lessen it! I spent the morning thus walking in
+the Hall, being complimented by everybody with admiration: and at noon
+stepped into the Legg with Sir William Warren, who was in the Hall, and
+there talked about a little of his business, and thence into the Hall a
+little more, and so with him by coach as far as the Temple almost, and
+there 'light, to follow my Lord Brouncker's coach, which I spied, and so
+to Madam Williams's, where I overtook him, and agreed upon meeting this
+afternoon, and so home to dinner, and after dinner with W. Pen, who
+come to my house to call me, to White Hall, to wait on the Duke of York,
+where he again and all the company magnified me, and several in the
+Gallery: among others, my Lord Gerard, who never knew me before nor
+spoke to me, desires his being better acquainted with me; and [said]
+that, at table where he was, he never heard so much said of any man as
+of me, in his whole life. We waited on the Duke of York, and thence into
+the Gallery, where the House of Lords waited the King's coming out of
+the Park, which he did by and by; and there, in the Vane-room, my Lord
+Keeper delivered a message to the King, the Lords being about him,
+wherein the Barons of England, from many good arguments, very well
+expressed in the part he read out of, do demand precedence in England of
+all noblemen of either of the King's other two kingdoms, be their title
+what it will; and did shew that they were in England reputed but as
+Commoners, and sat in the House of Commons, and at conferences with the
+Lords did stand bare. It was mighty worth my hearing: but the King did
+only say that he would consider of it, and so dismissed them. Thence
+Brouncker and I to the Committee of Miscarriages sitting in the Court
+of Wards, expecting with Sir D. Gawden to have been heard against Prince
+Rupert's complaints for want of victuals. But the business of Holmes's
+charge against Sir Jer. Smith, which is a most shameful scandalous thing
+for Flag officers to accuse one another of, and that this should be
+heard here before men that understand it not at all, and after it hath
+been examined and judged in before the King and Lord High Admirall and
+other able seamen to judge, it is very hard. But this business did keep
+them all the afternoon, so we not heard but put off to another day.
+Thence, with the Lieutenant of the Tower, in his coach home; and there,
+with great pleasure, with my wife, talking and playing at cards a
+little--she, and I, and W. Hewer, and Deb., and so, after a little
+supper, I to bed.
+
+7th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, at noon home to
+dinner, where Mercer with us, and after dinner she, my wife, Deb., and
+I, to the King's playhouse, and there saw "The Spanish Gipsys," the
+second time of acting, and the first that I saw it. A very silly
+play, only great variety of dances, and those most excellently done,
+especially one part by one Hanes, only lately come thither from the
+Nursery, an understanding fellow, but yet, they say, hath spent L1000
+a-year before he come thither. This day my wife and I full of thoughts
+about Mrs. Pierces sending me word that she, and my old company, Harris
+and Knipp, would come and dine with us next Wednesday, how we should
+do-to receive or put them off, my head being, at this time, so full of
+business, and my wife in no mind to have them neither, and yet I desire
+it. Come to no resolution tonight. Home from the playhouse to the
+office, where I wrote what I had to write, and among others to my father
+to congratulate my sister's marriage, and so home to supper a little and
+then to bed.
+
+8th (Lord's day). At my sending to desire it, Sir J. Robinson,
+Lieutenant of the Tower, did call me with his coach, and carried me to
+White Hall, where met with very many people still that did congratulate
+my speech the other day in the House of Commons, and I find all the
+world almost rings of it. Here spent the morning walking and talking
+with one or other, and among the rest with Sir W. Coventry, who I find
+full of care in his own business, how to defend himself against those
+that have a mind to choke him; and though, I believe, not for honour
+and for the keeping his employment, but for his safety and reputation's
+sake, is desirous to preserve himself free from blame, and among other
+mean ways which himself did take notice to me to be but a mean thing
+he desires me to get information against Captain Tatnell, thereby to
+diminish his testimony, who, it seems, hath a mind to do W. Coventry
+hurt: and I will do it with all my heart; for Tatnell is a very rogue.
+He would be glad, too, that I could find anything proper for his taking
+notice against Sir F. Hollis. At noon, after sermon, I to dinner with
+Sir G. Carteret to Lincoln's Inn Fields, where I find mighty deal of
+company--a solemn day for some of his and her friends, and dine in the
+great dining-room above stairs, where Sir G. Carteret himself, and
+I, and his son, at a little table by, the great table being full of
+strangers. Here my Lady Jem. do promise to come, and bring my Lord
+Hinchingbroke and his lady some day this week, to dinner to me, which I
+am glad of. After dinner, I up with her husband, Sir Philip Carteret,
+to his closet, where, beyond expectation, I do find many pretty things,
+wherein he appears to be ingenious, such as in painting, and drawing,
+and making of watches, and such kind of things, above my expectation;
+though, when all is done, he is a shirke, who owns his owing me L10 for
+his lady two or three years ago, and yet cannot provide to pay me. The
+company by and by parted, and G. Carteret and I to White Hall, where I
+set him down and took his coach as far as the Temple, it raining, and
+there took a hackney and home, and so had my head combed, and then to
+bed.
+
+9th. Up betimes, and anon with Sir W. Warren, who come to speak with me,
+by coach to White Hall, and there met Lord Brouncker: and he and I to
+the Commissioners of the Treasury, where I find them mighty kind to
+me, more, I think, than was wont. And here I also met Colvill, the
+goldsmith; who tells me, with great joy, how the world upon the 'Change
+talks of me; and how several Parliamentmen, viz., Boscawen and Major
+[Lionel] Walden, of Huntingdon, who, it seems, do deal with him, do say
+how bravely I did speak, and that the House was ready to have given
+me thanks for it; but that, I think, is a vanity. Thence I with Lord
+Brouncker, and did take up his mistress, Williams, and so to the
+'Change, only to shew myself, and did a little business there, and so
+home to dinner, and then to the office busy till the evening, and then
+to the Excize Office, where I find Mr. Ball in a mighty trouble that he
+is to be put out of his place at Midsummer, the whole Commission being
+to cease, and the truth is I think they are very fair dealing men, all
+of them. Here I did do a little business, and then to rights home, and
+there dispatched many papers, and so home late to supper and to bed,
+being eased of a great many thoughts, and yet have a great many more to
+remove as fast as I can, my mind being burdened with them, having been
+so much employed upon the public business of the office in their defence
+before the Parliament of late, and the further cases that do attend it.
+
+10th. Up, and to the office betimes, where all the morning. At noon home
+to dinner with my clerks, and after dinner comes Kate Joyce, who tells
+me she is putting off her house, which I am glad of, but it was pleasant
+that she come on purpose to me about getting a ticket paid, and in
+her way hither lost her ticket, so that she is at a great loss what to
+do.--There comes in then Mrs. Mercer, the mother, the first time she has
+been here since her daughter lived with us, to see my wife, and after a
+little talk I left them and to the office, and thence with Sir D. Gawden
+to Westminster Hall, thinking to have attended the Committee about the
+Victualling business, but they did not meet, but here we met Sir R.
+Brookes, who do mightily cry up my speech the other day, saying my
+fellow-officers are obliged to me, as indeed they are. Thence with
+Sir D. Gawden homewards, calling at Lincolne's Inn Fields: but my Lady
+Jemimah was not within: and so to Newgate, where he stopped to give
+directions to the jaylor about a Knight, one Sir Thomas Halford brought
+in yesterday for killing one Colonel Temple, falling out at a taverne.
+So thence as far as Leadenhall, and there I 'light, and back by coach
+to Lincoln's Inn Fields; but my Lady was not come in, and so I am at
+a great loss whether she and her brother Hinchingbroke and sister will
+dine with me to-morrow or no, which vexes me. So home; and there comes
+Mr. Moore to me, who tells me that he fears my Lord Sandwich will meet
+with very great difficulties to go through about the prizes, it being
+found that he did give orders for more than the King's letter do
+justify; and then for the Act of Resumption, which he fears will go on,
+and is designed only to do him hurt, which troubles me much. He tells me
+he believes the Parliament will not be brought to do anything in matters
+of religion, but will adhere to the Bishops. So he gone, I up to supper,
+where I find W. Joyce and Harman come to see us, and there was also Mrs.
+Mercer and her two daughters, and here we were as merry as that fellow
+Joyce could make us with his mad talking, after the old wont, which
+tired me. But I was mightily pleased with his singing; for the rogue
+hath a very good eare, and a good voice. Here he stayed till he was
+almost drunk, and then away at about ten at night, and then all broke
+up, and I to bed.
+
+11th. Up, and betimes to the office, where busy till 8 o'clock, and then
+went forth, and meeting Mr. Colvill, I walked with, him to his building,
+where he is building a fine house, where he formerly lived, in Lumbard
+Street: and it will be a very fine street. Thence walked down to the
+Three Cranes and there took boat to White Hall, where by direction I
+waited on the Duke of York about office business, and so by water to
+Westminster, where walking in the Hall most of the morning, and up to my
+Lady Jem. in Lincoln's Inn Fields to get her to appoint the day certain
+when she will come and dine with me, and she hath appointed Saturday
+next. So back to Westminster; and there still walked, till by and by
+comes Sir W. Coventry, and with him Mr. Chichly and Mr. Andrew Newport,
+I to dinner with them to Mr. Chichly's, in Queene Street, in Covent
+Garden. A very fine house, and a man that lives in mighty great fashion,
+with all things in a most extraordinary manner noble and rich about him,
+and eats in the French fashion all; and mighty nobly served with his
+servants, and very civilly; that I was mighty pleased with it: and good
+discourse. He is a great defender of the Church of England, and against
+the Act for Comprehension, which is the work of this day, about which
+the House is like to sit till night. After dinner, away with them back
+to Westminster, where, about four o'clock, the House rises, and hath
+done nothing more in the business than to put off the debate to this
+day month. In the mean time the King hath put out his proclamations this
+day, as the House desired, for the putting in execution the Act against
+Nonconformists and Papists, but yet it is conceived that for all this
+some liberty must be given, and people will have it. Here I met with
+my cozen Roger Pepys, who is come to town, and hath been told of my
+performance before the House the other day, and is mighty proud of it,
+and Captain Cocke met me here to-day, and told me that the Speaker says
+he never heard such a defence made; in all his life, in the House; and
+that the Sollicitor-Generall do commend me even to envy. I carried
+cozen Roger as far as the Strand, where, spying out of the coach
+Colonel Charles George Cocke, formerly a very great man, and my father's
+customer, whom I have carried clothes to, but now walks like a poor
+sorry sneake, he stopped, and I 'light to him. This man knew me, which
+I would have willingly avoided, so much pride I had, he being a man
+of mighty height and authority in his time, but now signifies nothing.
+Thence home, where to the office a while and then home, where W.
+Batelier was and played at cards and supped with us, my eyes being out
+of order for working, and so to bed.
+
+12th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, at noon home, and
+after dinner with wife and Deb., carried them to Unthanke's, and I to
+Westminster Hall expecting our being with the Committee this afternoon
+about Victualling business, but once more waited in vain. So after a
+turn or two with Lord Brouncker, I took my wife up and left her at the
+'Change while I to Gresham College, there to shew myself; and was there
+greeted by Dr. Wilkins, Whistler, and others, as the patron of the Navy
+Office, and one that got great fame by my late speech to the Parliament.
+Here I saw a great trial of the goodness of a burning glass, made of a
+new figure, not spherical (by one Smithys, I think, they call him), that
+did burn a glove of my Lord Brouncker's from the heat of a very little
+fire, which a burning glass of the old form, or much bigger, could not
+do, which was mighty pretty. Here I heard Sir Robert Southwell give an
+account of some things committed to him by the Society at his going to
+Portugall, which he did deliver in a mighty handsome manner.
+
+     [At the meeting of the Royal Society on March 12th, 1668, "Mr.
+     Smethwick's glasses were tried again; and his telescope being
+     compared with another longer telescope, and the object-glasses
+     exchanged, was still found to exceed the other in goodness; and his
+     burning concave being compared with a spherical burning-glass of
+     almost twice the diameter, and held to the fire, it burnt gloves,
+     whereas the other spherical ones would not burn at all."--"Sir
+     Robert Southwell being lately returned from Portugal, where he had
+     been ambassador from the king, and being desired to acquaint the
+     society with what he had done with respect to the instructions,
+     which he had received from them before his departure from England,
+     related, that he had lodged the astronomical quadrant, which the
+     society had sent to Portugal to make observations with there, with a
+     body of men at Lisbon, who had applied themselves among other kinds
+     of literature to mathematics" (Birch's "History of the Royal
+     Society," vol.  ii., p.  256).]
+
+Thence went away home, and there at my office as long as my eyes would
+endure, and then home to supper, and to talk with Mr. Pelling, who tells
+me what a fame I have in the City for my late performance; and upon the
+whole I bless God for it. I think I have, if I can keep it, done myself
+a great deal of repute. So by and by to bed.
+
+13th. Up betimes to my office, where to fit myself for attending the
+Parliament again, not to make any more speech, which, while my fame is
+good, I will avoid, for fear of losing it; but only to answer to what
+objections will be made against us. Thence walked to the Old Swan and
+drank at Michell's, whose house is going up apace. Here I saw Betty, but
+could not baiser la, and so to Westminster, there to the Hall, where
+up to my cozen Roger Pepys at the Parliament door, and there he took me
+aside, and told me how he was taken up by one of the House yesterday,
+for moving for going on with the King's supply of money, without regard
+to the keeping pace therewith, with the looking into miscarriages, and
+was told by this man privately that it did arise because that he had a
+kinsman concerned therein; and therefore he would prefer the safety of
+his kinsman to the good of the nation, and that there was great things
+against us and against me, for all my fine discourse the other day. But
+I did bid him be at no pain for me; for I knew of nothing but what I was
+very well prepared to answer; and so I think I am, and therefore was not
+at all disquieted by this. Thence he to the House, and I to the Hall,
+where my Lord Brouncker and the rest waiting till noon and not called
+for by the House, they being upon the business of money again, and at
+noon all of us to Chatelin's, the French house in Covent Garden, to
+dinner--Brouncker, J. Minnes, W. Pen, T. Harvey, and myself--and there
+had a dinner cost us 8s. 6d. a-piece, a damned base dinner, which did
+not please us at all, so that I am not fond of this house at all, but do
+rather choose the Beare. After dinner to White Hall to the Duke of York,
+and there did our usual business, complaining of our standing still in
+every-respect for want of money, but no remedy propounded, but so I must
+still be. Thence with our company to the King's playhouse, where I left
+them, and I, my head being full of to-morrow's dinner, I to my Lord
+Crew's, there to invite Sir Thomas Crew; and there met with my Lord
+Hinchingbroke and his lady, the first time I spoke to her. I saluted
+her; and she mighty civil and; with my Lady Jemimah, do all resolve to
+be very merry to-morrow at my house. My Lady Hinchingbroke I cannot say
+is a beauty, nor ugly; but is altogether a comely lady enough, and seems
+very good-humoured, and I mighty glad of the occasion of seeing her
+before to-morrow. Thence home; and there find one laying of my napkins
+against tomorrow in figures of all sorts, which is mighty pretty; and,
+it seems, it is his trade, and he gets much money by it; and do now and
+then furnish tables with plate and linnen for a feast at so much, which
+is mighty pretty, and a trade I could not have thought of. I find my
+wife upon the bed not over well, her breast being broke out with heat,
+which troubles her, but I hope it will be for her good. Thence I to Mrs.
+Turner, and did get her to go along with me to the French pewterer's,
+and there did buy some new pewter against to-morrow; and thence to White
+Hall, to have got a cook of her acquaintance, the best in England, as
+she says. But after we had with much ado found him, he could not come,
+nor was Mr. Gentleman in town, whom next I would have had, nor would
+Mrs. Stone let her man Lewis come, whom this man recommended to me; so
+that I was at a mighty loss what in the world to do for a cooke, Philips
+being out of town. Therefore, after staying here at Westminster a great
+while, we back to London, and there to Philips's, and his man directed
+us to Mr. Levett's, who could not come, and he sent to two more, and
+they could not; so that, at last, Levett as a great kindness did resolve
+he would leave his business and come himself, which set me in great ease
+in my mind, and so home, and there with my wife setting all things in
+order against to-morrow, having seen Mrs. Turner at home, and so late to
+bed.
+
+14th. Up very betimes, and with Jane to Levett's, there to conclude upon
+our dinner; and thence to the pewterer's, to buy a pewter sesterne,
+
+     [A pewter cistern was formerly part of the furniture of a well-
+     appointed dining-room; the plates were rinsed in it, when necessary,
+     during the meal.  A magnificent silver cistern is still preserved in
+     the dining-room at Burghley House, the seat of the Marquis of
+     Exeter.  It is said to be the largest piece of plate in England, and
+     was once the subject of a curious wager.--B.]
+
+which I have ever hitherto been without, and so up and down upon several
+occasions to set matters in order, and that being done I out of doors to
+Westminster Hall, and there met my Lord Brouncker, who tells me that
+our business is put off till Monday, and so I was mighty glad that I was
+eased of my attendance here, and of any occasion that might put me out
+of humour, as it is likely if we had been called before the Parliament.
+Therefore, after having spoke with Mr. Godolphin and cozen Roger, I away
+home, and there do find everything in mighty good order, only my wife
+not dressed, which troubles me. Anon comes my company, viz., my Lord
+Hinchingbroke and his lady, Sir Philip Carteret and his, lady, Godolphin
+and my cozen Roger, and Creed: and mighty merry; and by and by to
+dinner, which was very good and plentifull: (I should have said, and Mr.
+George Montagu), who come at a very little warning, which was exceeding
+kind of him. And there, among other things, my Lord had Sir Samuel
+Morland's late invention for casting up of sums of L. s. d.;
+
+     [The same as Morland's so-called calculating machine.  Sir Samuel
+     published in 1673 "The Description and Use of two Arithmetick
+     Instruments, together with a short Treatise of Arithmetic, as
+     likewise a Perpetual Almanack and severall useful tables."]
+
+which is very pretty, but not very useful. Most of our discourse was of
+my Lord Sandwich and his family, as being all of us of the family; and
+with extraordinary pleasure all the afternoon, thus together eating
+and looking over my closet: and my Lady Hinchingbroke I find a very
+sweet-natured and well-disposed lady, a lover of books and pictures, and
+of good understanding. About five o'clock they went; and then my wife
+and I abroad by coach into Moorefields, only for a little ayre, and so
+home again, staying no where, and then up to her chamber, there to talk
+with pleasure of this day's passages, and so to bed. This day I had the
+welcome news of our prize being come safe from Holland, so as I shall
+have hopes, I hope, of getting my money of my Lady Batten, or good part
+of it.
+
+15th (Lord's day). Up and walked, it being fine dry weather, to Sir W.
+Coventry's, overtaking my boy Ely (that was), and he walked with me,
+being grown a man, and I think a sober fellow. He parted at Charing
+Cross, and I to Sir W. Coventry's, and there talked with him about the
+Commissioners of Accounts, who did give in their report yesterday to the
+House, and do lay little upon us as aggravate any thing at present, but
+only do give an account of the dissatisfactory account they receive from
+Sir G. Carteret, which I am sorry for, they saying that he tells them
+not any time when he paid any sum, which is fit for them to know for
+the computing of interest, but I fear he is hardly able to tell it. They
+promise to give them an account of the embezzlement of prizes, wherein
+I shall be something concerned, but nothing that I am afeard of, I thank
+God. Thence walked with W. Coventry into the Park, and there met the
+King and the Duke of York, and walked a good while with them: and here
+met Sir Jer. Smith, who tells me he is like to get the better of Holmes,
+and that when he is come to an end of that, he will do Hollis's business
+for him, in the House, for his blasphemies, which I shall be glad of. So
+to White Hall, and there walked with this man and that man till chapel
+done, and, the King dined and then Sir Thomas Clifford, the Comptroller,
+took me with him to dinner to his lodgings, where my Lord Arlington and
+a great deal of good and great company; where I very civilly used by
+them, and had a most excellent dinner: and good discourse of Spain, Mr.
+Godolphin being there; particularly of the removal of the bodies of all
+the dead Kings of Spain that could be got together, and brought to the
+Pantheon at the Escuriall, when it was finished, and there placed before
+the altar, there to lie for ever; and there was a sermon made to them
+upon this text, "Arida ossa, audite verbum Dei;" and a most eloquent
+sermon, as they say, who say they have read it. After dinner, away
+hence, and I to Mrs. Martin's, and there spent the afternoon, and did
+hazer con elle, and here was her sister and Mrs. Burrows, and so in the
+evening got a coach and home, and there find Mr. Pelting and W. Hewer,
+and there talked and supped, Pelting being gone, and mightily pleased
+with a picture that W. Hewer brought hither of several things painted
+upon a deale board, which board is so well painted that in my whole
+life I never was so well pleased or surprized with any picture, and so
+troubled that so good pictures should be painted upon a piece of bad
+deale. Even after I knew that it was not board, but only the picture of
+a board, I could not remove my fancy. After supper to bed, being very
+sleepy, and, I bless God, my mind being at very good present rest.
+
+16th. Up, to set my papers and books in order, and put up my plate since
+my late feast, and then to Westminster, by water, with Mr. Hater, and
+there, in the Hall, did walk all the morning, talking with one or other,
+expecting to have our business in the House; but did now a third time
+wait to no purpose, they being all this morning upon the business
+of Barker's petition about the making void the Act of Settlement in
+Ireland, which makes a great deal of hot work: and, at last, finding
+that by all men's opinion they could not come to our matter today, I
+with Sir W. Pen home, and there to dinner, where I find, by Willet's
+crying, that her mistress had been angry with her: but I would take no
+notice of it. Busy all the afternoon at the office, and then by coach to
+the Excize Office, but lost my labour, there being nobody there, and
+so back again home, and after a little at the office I home, and there
+spent the evening with my wife talking and singing, and so to bed with
+my mind pretty well at ease. This evening W. Pen and Sir R. Ford and I
+met at the first's house to talk of our prize that is now at last come
+safe over from Holland, by which I hope to receive some if not all the
+benefit of my bargain with W. Batten for my share in it, which if she
+had miscarried I should have doubted of my Lady Batten being left little
+able to have paid me.
+
+17th. Up betimes and to the office, where all the morning busy, and
+then at noon home to dinner, and so again to the office awhile, and then
+abroad to the Excize-Office, where I met Mr. Ball, and did receive the
+paper I went for; and there fell in talk with him, who, being an old
+cavalier, do swear and curse at the present state of things, that we
+should be brought to this, that we must be undone and cannot be saved;
+that the Parliament is sitting now, and will till midnight, to find how
+to raise this L300,000, and he doubts they will not do it so as to be
+seasonable for the King: but do cry out against our great men at Court;
+how it is a fine thing for a Secretary of State to dance a jigg, and
+that it was not so heretofore; and, above all, do curse my Lord of
+Bristoll, saying the worst news that ever he heard in his life, or that
+the Devil could ever bring us, was this Lord's coming to prayers the
+other day in the House of Lords, by which he is coming about again from
+being a Papist, which will undo this nation; and he says he ever did
+say, at the King's first coming in, that this nation could not be safe
+while that man was alive. Having done there, I away towards Westminster,
+but seeing by the coaches the House to be up, I stopped at the 'Change
+(where, I met Mrs. Turner, and did give her a pair of gloves), and there
+bought several things for my wife, and so to my bookseller's, and there
+looked for Montaigne's Essays,
+
+     [This must have been Florio's translation, as Cotton's was not
+     published until 1685.]
+
+which I heard by my Lord Arlington and Lord Blaney so much commended,
+and intend to buy it, but did not now, but home, where at the office
+did some business, as much as my eyes would give leave, and so home to
+supper, Mercer with us talking and singing, and so to bed. The House, I
+hear, have this day concluded upon raising L100,000 of the L300,000
+by wine, and the rest by a poll-[tax], and have resolved to excuse the
+Church, in expectation that they will do the more of themselves at this
+juncture; and I do hear that Sir W. Coventry did make a speech in behalf
+of the Clergy.
+
+18th. Up betimes to Westminster, where met with cozen Roger and Creed
+and walked with them, and Roger do still continue of the mind that there
+is no other way of saving this nation but by dissolving this Parliament
+and calling another; but there are so many about the King that will not
+be able to stand, if a new Parliament come, that they will not persuade
+the King to it. I spent most of the morning walking with one or other,
+and anon met Doll Lane at the Dog tavern, and there je did hater what I
+did desire with her... and I did give her as being my valentine 20s.
+to buy what elle would. Thence away by coach to my bookseller's, and
+to several places to pay my debts, and to Ducke Lane, and there bought
+Montaigne's Essays, in English, and so away home to dinner, and after
+dinner with W. Pen to White Hall, where we and my Lord Brouncker
+attended the Council, to discourse about the fitness of entering of men
+presently for the manning of the fleete, before one ship is in condition
+to receive them. W. Coventry did argue against it: I was wholly silent,
+because I saw the King, upon the earnestness of the Prince, was willing
+to it, crying very sillily, "If ever you intend to man the fleete,
+without being cheated by the captains and pursers, you may go to bed,
+and resolve never to have it manned;" and so it was, like other things,
+over-ruled that all volunteers should be presently entered. Then there
+was another great business about our signing of certificates to
+the Exchequer for [prize] goods, upon the L1,20,000 Act, which the
+Commissioners of the Treasury did all oppose, and to the laying fault
+upon us. But I did then speak to the justifying what we had done, even
+to the angering of Duncomb and Clifford, which I was vexed at: but, for
+all that, I did set the Office and myself right, and went away with the
+victory, my Lord Keeper saying that he would not advise the Council
+to order us to sign no more certificates. But, before I began to say
+anything in this matter, the King and the Duke of York talking at the
+Council-table, before all the Lords, of the Committee of Miscarriages,
+how this entering of men before the ships could be ready would be
+reckoned a miscarriage; "Why," says the King, "it is then but Mr. Pepys
+making of another speech to them;" which made all the Lords, and there
+were by also the Atturny and Sollicitor-Generall, look upon me. Thence
+Sir W. Coventry, W. Pen and I, by hackney-coach to take a little ayre in
+Hyde Parke, the first time I have been there this year; and we did meet
+many coaches going and coming, it being mighty pleasant weather; and so,
+coming back again, I 'light in the Pell Mell; and there went to see Sir
+H. Cholmly, who continues very ill of his cold. And there come in Sir H.
+Yelverton, whom Sir H. Cholmly commended me to his acquaintance, which
+the other received, but without remembering to me, or I him, of our
+being school-fellows together; and I said nothing of it. But he took
+notice of my speech the other day at the bar of the House; and indeed I
+perceive he is a wise man by his manner of discourse, and here he do say
+that the town is full of it, that now the Parliament hath resolved
+upon L300,000, the King, instead of fifty, will set out but twenty-five
+ships, and the Dutch as many; and that Smith is to command them, who is
+allowed to have the better of Holmes in the late dispute, and is in good
+esteem in the Parliament, above the other. Thence home, and there, in
+favour to my eyes, stayed at home, reading the ridiculous History of
+my Lord Newcastle, wrote by his wife, which shews her to be a mad,
+conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an asse to suffer her to write what
+she writes to him, and of him.
+
+     ["The Life of the thrice noble, high, and puissant Prince, William
+     Cavendish, Duke...  of Newcastle," by his duchess, of which the
+     first edition, in folio, was published in 1667.]
+
+Betty Turner sent my wife the book to read, and it being a fair print,
+to ease my eyes, which would be reading, I read that. Anon comes Mrs.
+Turner and sat and talked with us, and most about the business of
+Ackworth,
+
+     [William Acworth, storekeeper at Woolwich, was accused of converting
+     stores to his own use (see "Calendar of State Papers," 1667-68, p.
+     279).]
+
+which comes before us to-morrow, that I would favour it, but I do not
+think, notwithstanding all the friendship I can shew him, that he can
+escape, and therefore it had been better that he had followed the advice
+I sent him the other day by Mrs. Turner, to make up the business. So
+parted, and I to bed, my eyes being very bad; and I know not how in the
+world to abstain from reading.
+
+19th. Up, and betimes to the Old Swan, and by water to White Hall, and
+thence to W. Coventry's, where stayed but a little to talk with him,
+and thence by water back again, it being a mighty fine, clear spring
+morning. Back to the Old Swan, and drank at Michell's, whose house goes
+up apace, but I could not see Betty, and thence walked all along
+Thames Street, which I have not done since it was burned, as far as
+Billingsgate; and there do see a brave street likely to be, many brave
+houses being built, and of them a great many by Mr. Jaggard; but the
+raising of the street will make it mighty fine. So to the office, where
+busy all the morning. At noon home to dinner, and thence to the office,
+very busy till five o'clock, and then to ease my eyes I took my wife out
+and Deb. to the 'Change, and there bought them some things, and so home
+again and to the office, ended my letters, and so home to read a little
+more in last night's book, with much sport, it being a foolish book, and
+so to supper and to bed. This afternoon I was surprized with a letter
+without a name to it, very well writ, in a good stile, giving me notice
+of my cozen Kate Joyce's being likely to ruin herself by marriage, and
+by ill reports already abroad of her, and I do fear that this keeping
+of an inne may spoil her, being a young and pretty comely woman, and
+thought to be left well. I did answer the letter with thanks and good
+liking, and am resolved to take the advice he gives me, and go see her,
+and find out what I can: but if she will ruin herself, I cannot help it,
+though I should be troubled for it.
+
+20th. Up betimes, and to my Office, where we had a meeting extraordinary
+to consider of several things, among others the sum of money fit to be
+demanded ready money, to enable us to set out 27 ships, every body
+being now in pain for a fleete, and everybody endeavouring to excuse
+themselves for the not setting out of one, and our true excuse is lack
+of money. At it all the morning, and so at noon home to dinner with my
+clerks, my wife and Deb. being busy at work above in her chamber getting
+things ready and fine for her going into the country a week or two
+hence. I away by coach to White Hall, where we met to wait on the Duke
+of York, and, soon as prayers were done, it being Good Friday, he come
+to us, and we did a little business and presented him with our demand
+of money, and so broke up, and I thence by coach to Kate Joyce's,
+being desirous and in pain to speak with her about the business that I
+received a letter yesterday, but had no opportunity of speaking with her
+about it, company being with her, so I only invited her to come and dine
+with me on Sunday next, and so away home, and for saving my eyes at
+my chamber all the evening pricking down some things, and trying some
+conclusions upon my viall, in order to the inventing a better theory of
+musique than hath yet been abroad; and I think verily I shall do it. So
+to supper with my wife, who is in very good humour with her working, and
+so am I, and so to bed. This day at Court I do hear that Sir W. Pen do
+command this summer's fleete; and Mr. Progers of the Bedchamber, as a
+secret, told me that the Prince Rupert is troubled at it, and several
+friends of his have been with him to know the reason of it; so that he
+do pity Sir W. Pen, whom he hath great kindness for, that he should not
+at any desire of his be put to this service, and thereby make the Prince
+his enemy, and contract more envy from other people. But I am not a whit
+sorry if it should be so, first for the King's sake, that his work will
+be better done by Sir W. Pen than the Prince, and next that Pen, who is
+a false rogue, may be bit a little by it.
+
+21st. Up betimes to the office, and there we sat all the morning, at
+noon home with my clerks, a good dinner, and then to the Office, and
+wrote my letters, and then abroad to do several things, and pay what
+little scores I had, and among others to Mrs. Martin's, and there did
+give 20s. to Mrs. Cragg, her landlady, who was my Valentine in the
+house, as well as Doll Lane.... So home and to the office, there to end
+my letters, and so home, where Betty Turner was to see my wife, and she
+being gone I to my chamber to read a little again, and then after supper
+to bed.
+
+22nd (Easter day). I up, and walked to the Temple, and there got a
+coach, and to White Hall, where spoke with several people, and find by
+all that Pen is to go to sea this year with this fleete; and they excuse
+the Prince's going, by saying it is not a command great enough for him.
+Here I met with Brisband, and, after hearing the service at the King's
+chapel, where I heard the Bishop of Norwich, Dr. Reynolds, the old
+presbyterian, begin a very plain sermon, he and I to the Queen's chapel,
+and there did hear the Italians sing; and indeed their musick did appear
+most admirable to me, beyond anything of ours: I was never so well
+satisfied in my life with it. So back to White Hall, and there met Mr.
+Pierce, and adjusted together how we should spend to-morrow together,
+and so by coach I home to dinner, where Kate Joyce was, as I invited
+her, and had a good dinner, only she and us; and after dinner she and
+I alone to talk about her business, as I designed; and I find her very
+discreet, and she assures me she neither do nor will incline to the
+doing anything towards marriage, without my advice, and did tell me that
+she had many offers, and that Harman and his friends would fain have
+her; but he is poor, and hath poor friends, and so it will not be
+advisable: but that there is another, a tobacconist, one Holinshed, whom
+she speaks well of, to be a plain, sober man, and in good condition,
+that offers her very well, and submits to me my examining and inquiring
+after it, if I see good, which I do like of it, for it will be best for
+her to marry, I think, as soon as she can--at least, to be rid of this
+house; for the trade will not agree with a young widow, that is a little
+handsome, at least ordinary people think her so. Being well satisfied
+with her answer, she anon went away, and I to my closet to make a few
+more experiments of my notions in musique, and so then my wife and I to
+walk in the garden, and then home to supper and to bed.
+
+23rd. Up, and after discoursing with my wife about many things touching
+this day's dinner, I abroad, and first to the taverne to pay what I owe
+there, but missed of seeing the mistress of the house, and there
+bespoke wine for dinner, and so away thence, and to Bishopsgate Streete,
+thinking to have found a Harpsicon-maker that used to live there before
+the fire, but he is gone, and I have a mind forthwith to have a little
+Harpsicon made me to confirm and help me in my musique notions, which my
+head is now-a-days full of, and I do believe will come to something that
+is very good. Thence to White Hall, expecting to have heard the
+Bishop of Lincolne, my friend, preach, for so I understood he would do
+yesterday, but was mistaken, and therefore away presently back again,
+and there find everything in good order against dinner, and at noon come
+Mr. Pierce and she, and Mrs. Manuel, the Jew's wife, and Mrs. Corbet,
+and Mrs. Pierces boy and girl. But we are defeated of Knepp, by her
+being forced to act to-day, and also of Harris, which did trouble me,
+they being my chief guests. However, I had an extraordinary good dinner,
+and the better because dressed by my own servants, and were mighty
+merry; and here was Mr. Pelling by chance come and dined with me; and
+after sitting long at dinner, I had a barge ready at Tower-wharfe, to
+take us in, and so we went, all of us, up as high as Barne-Elms, a very
+fine day, and all the way sang; and Mrs. Manuel sings very finely, and
+is a mighty discreet, sober-carriaged woman, that both my wife and I are
+mightily taken with her, and sings well, and without importunity or the
+contrary. At Barne-Elms we walked round, and then to the barge again,
+and had much merry talk, and good singing; and come before it was dark
+to the New Exchange stairs, and there landed, and walked up to Mrs.
+Pierces, where we sat awhile, and then up to their dining-room. And so,
+having a violin and theorbo, did fall to dance, here being also Mrs.
+Floyd come hither, and by and by Mr. Harris. But there being so few of
+us that could dance, and my wife not being very well, we had not much
+pleasure in the dancing: there was Knepp also, by which with much
+pleasure we did sing a little, and so, about ten o'clock, I took coach
+with my wife and Deb., and so home, and there to bed.
+
+24th. Up pretty betimes, and so there comes to me Mr. Shish, to desire
+my appearing for him to succeed Mr. Christopher Pett, lately dead, in
+his place of Master-Shipwright of Deptford and Woolwich, which I do
+resolve to promote what I can. So by and by to White Hall, and there to
+the Duke of York's chamber, where I understand it is already resolved
+by the King and Duke of York that Shish shall have the place. From the
+Duke's chamber Sir W. Coventry and I to walk in the Matted Gallery; and
+there, among other things, he tells me of the wicked design that now is
+at last contriving against him, to get a petition presented from people
+that the money they have paid to W. Coventry for their places may be
+repaid them back; and that this is set on by Temple and Hollis of the
+Parliament, and, among other mean people in it, by Captain Tatnell: and
+he prays me that I will use some effectual way to sift Tatnell what he
+do, and who puts him on in this business, which I do undertake, and will
+do with all my skill for his service, being troubled that he is still
+under this difficulty. Thence up and down Westminster by Mrs. Burroughes
+her mother's shop, thinking to have seen her, but could not, and
+therefore back to White Hall, where great talk of the tumult at the
+other end of the town, about Moore-fields, among the 'prentices, taking
+the liberty of these holydays to pull down bawdy-houses.
+
+     [It was customary for the apprentices of the metropolis to avail
+     themselves of their holidays, especially on Shrove Tuesday, to
+     search after women of ill fame, and to confine them during the
+     season of Lent.  See a "Satyre against Separatists," 1642.
+
+          "Stand forth, Shrove Tuesday, one a' the silenc'st bricklayers;
+          'Tis in your charge to pull down bawdy-houses."
+
+                    Middleton's Inner Temple Masque, 1619,
+                         Works, ed.  Bullen, vii., 209.]
+
+And, Lord! to see the apprehensions which this did give to all people
+at Court, that presently order was given for all the soldiers, horse
+and foot, to be in armes! and forthwith alarmes were beat by drum and
+trumpet through Westminster, and all to their colours, and to horse, as
+if the French were coming into the town! So Creed, whom I met here, and
+I to Lincolne's Inn-fields, thinking to have gone into the fields
+to have seen the 'prentices; but here we found these fields full of
+soldiers all in a body, and my Lord Craven commanding of them, and
+riding up and down to give orders, like a madman. And some young men we
+saw brought by soldiers to the Guard at White Hall, and overheard others
+that stood by say, that it was only for pulling down the bawdy-houses;
+and none of the bystanders finding fault with them, but rather of the
+soldiers for hindering them. And we heard a justice of the Peace this
+morning say to the King, that he had been endeavouring to suppress this
+tumult, but could not; and that, imprisoning some [of them] in the new
+prison at Clerkenwell, the rest did come and break open the prison and
+release them; and that they do give out that they are for pulling down
+the bawdy-houses, which is one of the greatest grievances of the nation.
+To which the King made a very poor, cold, insipid answer: "Why, why do
+they go to them, then?" and that was all, and had no mind to go on with
+the discourse. Mr. Creed and I to dinner to my Lord Crew, where little
+discourse, there being none but us at the table, and my Lord and my Lady
+Jemimah, and so after dinner away, Creed and I to White Hall, expecting
+a Committee of Tangier, but come too late. So I to attend the Council,
+and by and by were called in with Lord Brouncker and Sir W. Pen to
+advise how to pay away a little money to most advantage to the men of
+the yards, to make them dispatch the ships going out, and there did make
+a little speech, which was well liked, and after all it was found most
+satisfactory to the men, and best for the king's dispatch, that what
+money we had should be paid weekly to the men for their week's work
+until a greater sum could be got to pay them their arrears and then
+discharge them. But, Lord! to see what shifts and what cares and
+thoughts there was employed in this matter how to do the King's work and
+please the men and stop clamours would make a man think the King should
+not eat a bit of good meat till he has got money to pay the men, but I
+do not see the least print of care or thoughts in him about it at all.
+Having done here, I out and there met Sir Fr. Hollis, who do still tell
+me that, above all things in the world, he wishes he had my tongue in
+his mouth, meaning since my speech in Parliament. He took Lord Brouncker
+and me down to the guards, he and his company being upon the guards
+to-day; and there he did, in a handsome room to that purpose, make us
+drink, and did call for his bagpipes, which, with pipes of ebony, tipt
+with silver, he did play beyond anything of that kind that ever I heard
+in my life; and with great pains he must have obtained it, but with
+pains that the instrument do not deserve at all; for, at the best, it is
+mighty barbarous musick. So home and there to my chamber, to prick out
+my song, "It is Decreed," intending to have it ready to give Mr. Harris
+on Thursday, when we meet, for him to sing, believing that he will do it
+more right than a woman that sings better, unless it were Knepp, which
+I cannot have opportunity to teach it to. This evening I come home from
+White Hall with Sir W. Pen, who fell in talk about his going to sea this
+year, and the difficulties that arise to him by it, by giving offence to
+the Prince, and occasioning envy to him, and many other things that make
+it a bad matter, at this time of want of money and necessaries, and bad
+and uneven counsels at home,--for him to go abroad: and did tell me how
+much with the King and Duke of York he had endeavoured to be excused,
+desiring the Prince might be satisfied in it, who hath a mind to go;
+but he tells me they will not excuse him, and I believe it, and truly do
+judge it a piece of bad fortune to W. Pen.
+
+25th. Up, and walked to White Hall, there to wait on the Duke of York,
+which I did: and in his chamber there, first by hearing the Duke of York
+call me by my name, my Lord Burlington did come to me, and with great
+respect take notice of me and my relation to my Lord Sandwich, and
+express great kindness to me; and so to talk of my Lord Sandwich's
+concernments. By and by the Duke of York is ready; and I did wait for
+an opportunity of speaking my mind to him about Sir J. Minnes, his being
+unable to do the King any service, which I think do become me to do in
+all respects, and have Sir W. Coventry's concurrence therein, which I
+therefore will seek a speedy opportunity to do, come what will come of
+it. The Duke of York and all with him this morning were full of the talk
+of the 'prentices, who are not yet [put] down, though the guards and
+militia of the town have been in armes all this night, and the night
+before; and the 'prentices have made fools of them, sometimes by running
+from them and flinging stones at them. Some blood hath been spilt, but
+a great many houses pulled down; and, among others, the Duke of York was
+mighty merry at that of Damaris Page's, the great bawd of the seamen;
+and the Duke of York complained merrily that he hath lost two tenants,
+by their houses being pulled down, who paid him for their wine licenses
+L15 a year. But here it was said how these idle fellows have had the
+confidence to say that they did ill in contenting themselves in pulling
+down the little bawdyhouses, and did not go and pull down the great
+bawdy-house at White Hall. And some of them have the last night had a
+word among them, and it was "Reformation and Reducement." This do make
+the courtiers ill at ease to see this spirit among people, though they
+think this matter will not come to much: but it speaks people's minds;
+and then they do say that there are men of understanding among them,
+that have been of Cromwell's army: but how true that is, I know not.
+Thence walked a little to Westminster, but met with nobody to spend any
+time with, and so by coach homeward, and in Seething Lane met young
+Mrs. Daniel, and I stopt, and she had been at my house, but found nobody
+within, and tells me that she drew me for her Valentine this year, so
+I took her into the coach, and was going to the other end of the town,
+thinking to have taken her abroad, but remembering that I was to go out
+with my wife this afternoon,... and so to a milliner at the corner shop
+going into Bishopsgate and Leadenhall Street, and there did give her
+eight pair of gloves, and so dismissed her, and so I home and to dinner,
+and then with my wife to the King's playhouse to see "The Storme," which
+we did, but without much pleasure, it being but a mean play compared
+with "The Tempest," at the Duke of York's house, though Knepp did act
+her part of grief very well. Thence with my wife and Deb. by coach to
+Islington, to the old house, and there eat and drank till it was almost
+night, and then home, being in fear of meeting the 'prentices, who are
+many of them yet, they say, abroad in the fields, but we got well home,
+and so I to my chamber a while, and then to supper and to bed.
+
+26th. Up betimes to the office, where by and by my Lord Brouncker and I
+met and made an end of our business betimes. So I away with him to Mrs.
+Williams's, and there dined, and thence I alone to the Duke of York's
+house, to see the new play, called "The Man is the Master," where the
+house was, it being not above one o'clock, very full. But my wife and
+Deb. being there before, with Mrs. Pierce and Corbet and Betty Turner,
+whom my wife carried with her, they made me room; and there I sat, it
+costing me 8s. upon them in oranges, at 6d. a-piece. By and by the King
+come; and we sat just under him, so that I durst not turn my back all
+the play. The play is a translation out of French, and the plot Spanish,
+but not anything extraordinary at all in it, though translated by Sir
+W. Davenant, and so I found the King and his company did think meanly
+of it, though there was here and there something pretty: but the most
+of the mirth was sorry, poor stuffe, of eating of sack posset and
+slabbering themselves, and mirth fit for clownes; the prologue but poor,
+and the epilogue little in it but the extraordinariness of it, it
+being sung by Harris and another in the form of a ballet. Thence, by
+agreement, we all of us to the Blue Balls, hard by, whither Mr. Pierce
+also goes with us, who met us at the play, and anon comes Manuel, and
+his wife, and Knepp, and Harris, who brings with him Mr. Banister,
+the great master of musique; and after much difficulty in getting of
+musique, we to dancing, and then to a supper of some French dishes,
+which yet did not please me, and then to dance and sing; and mighty
+merry we were till about eleven or twelve at night, with mighty great
+content in all my company, and I did, as I love to do, enjoy myself in
+my pleasure as being the height of what we take pains for and can hope
+for in this world, and therefore to be enjoyed while we are young and
+capable of these joys. My wife extraordinary fine to-day, in her flower
+tabby suit, bought a year and more ago, before my mother's death put
+her into mourning, and so not worn till this day: and every body in love
+with it; and indeed she is very fine and handsome in it. I having paid
+the reckoning, which come to almost L4., we parted: my company and
+William Batelier, who was also with us, home in a coach, round by the
+Wall, where we met so many stops by the Watches, that it cost us much
+time and some trouble, and more money, to every Watch, to them to drink;
+this being encreased by the trouble the 'prentices did lately give the
+City, so that the Militia and Watches are very strict at this time; and
+we had like to have met with a stop for all night at the Constable's
+watch, at Mooregate, by a pragmatical Constable; but we come well
+home at about two in the morning, and so to bed. This noon, from Mrs.
+Williams's, my Lord Brouncker sent to Somersett House to hear how the
+Duchess of Richmond do; and word was brought him that she is pretty
+well, but mighty full of the smallpox, by which all do conclude she will
+be wholly spoiled, which is the greatest instance of the uncertainty of
+beauty that could be in this age; but then she hath had the benefit of
+it to be first married, and to have kept it so long, under the greatest
+temptations in the world from a King, and yet without the least
+imputation. This afternoon, at the play, Sir Fr. Hollis spoke to me as
+a secret, and matter of confidence in me, and friendship to Sir W. Pen,
+who is now out of town, that it were well he were made acquainted that
+he finds in the House of Commons, which met this day, several motions
+made for the calling strictly again upon the Miscarriages, and
+particularly in the business of the Prises, and the not prosecuting of
+the first victory, only to give an affront to Sir W. Pen, whose going to
+sea this year do give them matter of great dislike. So though I do not
+much trouble myself for him, yet I am sorry that he should have this
+fall so unhappily without any fault, but rather merit of his own that
+made him fitter for this command than any body else, and the more for
+that this business of his may haply occasion their more eager pursuit
+against the whole body of the office.
+
+27th. Up, and walked to the waterside, and thence to White Hall to the
+Duke of York's chamber, where he being ready he went to a Committee
+of Tangier, where I first understand that my Lord Sandwich is, in his
+coming back from Spayne, to step over thither, to see in what condition
+the place is, which I am glad of, hoping that he will be able to do some
+good there, for the good of the place, which is so much out of order.
+Thence to walk a little in Westminster Hall, where the Parliament I find
+sitting, but spoke with nobody to let me know what they are doing, nor
+did I enquire. Thence to the Swan and drank, and did baiser Frank, and
+so down by water back again, and to the Exchange a turn or two, only to
+show myself, and then home to dinner, where my wife and I had a small
+squabble, but I first this day tried the effect of my silence and not
+provoking her when she is in an ill humour, and do find it very good,
+for it prevents its coming to that height on both sides which used to
+exceed what was fit between us. So she become calm by and by and fond,
+and so took coach, and she to the mercer's to buy some lace, while I
+to White Hall, but did nothing, but then to Westminster Hall and took a
+turn, and so to Mrs. Martin's, and there did sit a little and talk and
+drink, and did hazer con her, and so took coach and called my wife at
+Unthanke's, and so up and down to the Nursery, where they did not act,
+then to the New Cockpit, and there missed, and then to Hide Parke, where
+many coaches, but the dust so great, that it was troublesome, and so by
+night home, where to my chamber and finished my pricking out of my song
+for Mr. Harris ("It is decreed"), and so a little supper, being very
+sleepy and weary since last night, and so by to o'clock to bed and slept
+well all night. This day, at noon, comes Mr. Pelling to me, and shews
+me the stone cut lately out of Sir Thomas Adams' (the old comely
+Alderman's) body, which is very large indeed, bigger I think than my
+fist, and weighs above twenty-five ounces and, which is very miraculous,
+he never in all his life had any fit of it, but lived to a great age
+without pain, and died at last of something else, without any sense of
+this in all his life. This day Creed at White Hall in discourse told me
+what information he hath had, from very good hands, of the cowardice and
+ill-government of Sir Jer. Smith and Sir Thomas Allen, and the repute
+they have both of them abroad in the Streights, from their deportment
+when they did at several times command there; and that, above all
+Englishmen that ever were there, there never was any man that behaved
+himself like poor Charles Wager, whom the very Moores do mention, with
+teares sometimes.
+
+28th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning busy, and at noon
+home to dinner with my clerks; and though my head full of business, yet
+I had a desire to end this holyday week with a play; and so, with my
+wife and Deb., to the King's house, and there saw "The Indian Emperour,"
+a very good play indeed, and thence directly home, and to my writing of
+my letters, and so home to supper and to bed for fearing my eyes. Our
+greatest business at the office to-day is our want of money for the
+setting forth of these ships that are to go out, and my people at dinner
+tell me that they do verily doubt that the want of men will be so great,
+as we must press; and if we press, there will be mutinies in the town;
+for the seamen are said already to have threatened the pulling down of
+the Treasury Office; and if they do once come to that, it will not be
+long before they come to ours.
+
+29th (Lord's day). Up, and I to Church, where I have not been these many
+weeks before, and there did first find a strange Reader, who could not
+find in the Service-book the place for churching women, but was fain to
+change books with the clerke: and then a stranger preached, a seeming
+able man; but said in his pulpit that God did a greater work in raising
+of an oake-tree from an akehorne, than a man's body raising it, at the
+last day, from his dust (shewing the possibility of the Resurrection):
+which was, methought, a strange saying. At home to dinner, whither
+comes and dines with me W. Howe, and by invitation Mr. Harris and Mr.
+Banister, most extraordinary company both, the latter for musique of all
+sorts, the former for everything: here we sang, and Banister played on
+the theorbo, and afterwards Banister played on his flageolet, and I had
+very good discourse with him about musique, so confirming some of my
+new notions about musique that it puts me upon a resolution to go on
+and make a scheme and theory of musique not yet ever made in the world.
+Harris do so commend my wife's picture of Mr. Hales's, that I shall have
+him draw Harris's head; and he hath also persuaded me to have Cooper
+draw my wife's, which, though it cost L30, yet I will have done. Thus
+spent the afternoon most deliciously, and then broke up and walked
+with them as far as the Temple, and there parted, and I took coach to
+Westminster, but there did nothing, meeting nobody that I had a mind to
+speak with, and so home, and there find Mr. Pelling, and then also comes
+Mrs. Turner, and supped and talked with us, and so to bed. I do hear
+by several that Sir W. Pen's going to sea do dislike the Parliament
+mightily, and that they have revived the Committee of Miscarriages to
+find something to prevent it; and that he being the other day with the
+Duke of Albemarle to ask his opinion touching his going to sea, the
+Duchess overheard and come in to him, and asks W. Pen how he durst
+have the confidence to offer to go to sea again, to the endangering the
+nation, when he knew himself such a coward as he was, which, if true, is
+very severe.
+
+30th. Up betimes, and so to the office, there to do business till about
+to o'clock, and then out with my wife and Deb. and W. Hewer by coach to
+Common-garden Coffee-house, where by appointment I was to meet Harris;
+which I did, and also Mr. Cooper, the great painter, and Mr. Hales: and
+thence presently to Mr. Cooper's house, to see some of his work, which
+is all in little, but so excellent as, though I must confess I do think
+the colouring of the flesh to be a little forced, yet the painting is
+so extraordinary, as I do never expect to see the like again. Here I
+did see Mrs. Stewart's picture as when a young maid, and now just done
+before her having the smallpox: and it would make a man weep to see what
+she was then, and what she is like to be, by people's discourse,
+now. Here I saw my Lord Generall's picture, and my Lord Arlington and
+Ashly's, and several others; but among the rest one Swinfen, that was
+Secretary to my Lord Manchester, Lord Chamberlain, with Cooling, done so
+admirably as I never saw any thing: but the misery was, this fellow died
+in debt, and never paid Cooper for his picture; but, it being seized on
+by his creditors, among his other goods, after his death, Cooper himself
+says that he did buy it, and give L25 out of his purse for it, for what
+he was to have had but L30. Being infinitely satisfied with this sight,
+and resolving that my wife shall be drawn by him when she comes out of
+the country, I away with Harris and Hales to the Coffee-house, sending
+my people away, and there resolve for Hales to begin Harris's head for
+me, which I will be at the cost of. After a little talk, I away to White
+Hall and Westminster, where I find the Parliament still bogling about
+the raising of this money: and every body's mouth full now; and Mr. Wren
+himself tells me that the Duke of York declares to go to sea himself
+this year; and I perceive it is only on this occasion of distaste of the
+Parliament against W. Pen's going, and to prevent the Prince's: but I
+think it is mighty hot counsel for the Duke of York at this time to go
+out of the way; but, Lord! what a pass are all our matters come to!
+At noon by appointment to Cursitor's Alley, in Chancery Lane, to meet
+Captain Cocke and some other creditors of the Navy, and their Counsel,
+Pemberton, North, Offly, and Charles Porter; and there dined, and talked
+of the business of the assignments on the Exchequer of the L1,250,000
+on behalf of our creditors; and there I do perceive that the Counsel had
+heard of my performance in the Parliamenthouse lately, and did value
+me and what I said accordingly. At dinner we had a great deal of good
+discourse about Parliament: their number being uncertain, and always
+at the will of the King to encrease, as he saw reason to erect a new
+borough. But all concluded that the bane of the Parliament hath been the
+leaving off the old custom of the places allowing wages to those that
+served them in Parliament, by which they chose men that understood their
+business and would attend it, and they could expect an account from,
+which now they cannot; and so the Parliament is become a company of men
+unable to give account for the interest of the place they serve
+for. Thence, the meeting of the Counsel with the King's Counsel this
+afternoon being put off by reason of the death of Serjeant Maynard's
+lady, I to White Hall, where the Parliament was to wait on the King; and
+they did: and it was to be told that he did think fit to tell them that
+they might expect to be adjourned at Whitsuntide, and that they might
+make haste to raise their money; but this, I fear, will displease them,
+who did expect to sit as long as they pleased, and whether this be
+done by the King upon some new counsel I know not, for the King must be
+beholding to them till they do settle this business of money. Great talk
+to-day as if Beaufort was come into the Channel with about 20 ships, and
+it makes people apprehensive, but yet the Parliament do not stir a bit
+faster in the business of money. Here I met with Creed, expecting a
+Committee of Tangier, but the Committee met not, so he and I up and
+down, having nothing to do, and particularly to the New Cockpit by the
+King's Gate in Holborne, but seeing a great deal of rabble we did refuse
+to go in, but took coach and to Hide Park, and there till all the tour
+was empty, and so he and I to the Lodge in the Park, and there eat and
+drank till it was night, and then carried him to White Hall, having
+had abundance of excellent talk with him in reproach of the times and
+managements we live under, and so I home, and there to talk and to
+supper with my wife, and so to bed.
+
+31st. Up pretty betimes and to the office, where we sat all the morning,
+and at noon I home to dinner, where uncle Thomas dined with me, as he do
+every quarter, and I paid him his pension; and also comes Mr. Hollier
+a little fuddled, and so did talk nothing but Latin, and laugh, that it
+was very good sport to see a sober man in such a humour, though he was
+not drunk to scandal. At dinner comes a summons for this office and the
+Victualler to attend a Committee of Parliament this afternoon, with
+Sir D. Gawden, which I accordingly did, with my papers relating to
+the sending of victuals to Sir John Harman's fleete; and there, Sir R.
+Brookes in the chair, we did give them a full account, but, Lord! to see
+how full they are and immoveable in their jealousy that some means are
+used to keep Harman from coming home, for they have an implacable desire
+to know the bottom of the not improving the first victory, and would lay
+it upon Brouncker. Having given them good satisfaction I away thence,
+up and down, wanting a little to see whether I could get Mrs. Burroughes
+out, but elle being in the shop ego did speak con her much, she could
+not then go far, and so I took coach and away to Unthanke's, and there
+took up my wife and Deb., and to the Park, where, being in a hackney,
+and they undressed, was ashamed to go into the tour, but went round
+the park, and so with pleasure home, where Mr. Pelting come and sat and
+talked late with us, and he being gone, I called Deb. to take pen, ink,
+and paper and write down what things come into my head for my wife to
+do in order to her going into the country, and the girl, writing not
+so well as she would do, cried, and her mistress construed it to
+be sullenness, and so away angry with her too, but going to bed she
+undressed me, and there I did give her good advice and baiser la, elle
+weeping still.
+
+
+
+
+APRIL 1668
+
+April 1st. Up, and to dress myself, and call as I use Deb. to brush and
+dress me..., and I to my office, where busy till noon, and then out to
+bespeak some things against my wife's going into the country to-morrow,
+and so home to dinner, my wife and I alone, she being mighty busy
+getting her things ready for her journey, I all the afternoon with her
+looking after things on the same account, and then in the afternoon out
+and all alone to the King's house, and there sat in an upper box, to
+hide myself, and saw "The Black Prince," a very good play; but only the
+fancy, most of it, the same as in the rest of my Lord Orrery's plays;
+but the dance very stately; but it was pretty to see how coming after
+dinner and with no company with me to talk to, and at a play that I had
+seen, and went to now not for curiosity but only idleness, I did fall
+asleep the former part of the play, but afterward did mind it and like
+it very well. Thence called at my bookseller's, and took Mr. Boyle's
+Book of Formes, newly reprinted, and sent my brother my old one. So
+home, and there to my chamber till anon comes Mr. Turner and his wife
+and daughter, and Pelting, to sup with us and talk of my wife's journey
+to-morrow, her daughter going with my wife; and after supper to talk
+with her husband about the Office, and his place, which, by Sir J.
+Minnes's age and inability, is very uncomfortable to him, as well as
+without profit, or certainty what he shall do, when Sir J. Minnes dies,
+which is a sad condition for a man that hath lived so long in the Office
+as Mr. Turner hath done. But he aymes, and I advise him to it, to
+look for Mr. Ackworth's place, in case he should be removed. His wife
+afterwards did take me into my closet, and give me a cellar
+
+     [A box to hold bottles.  "Run for the cellar of strong waters
+     quickly"
+                    --Ben Jonson, Magnetic Lady, act iii., sc.  r.]
+
+of waters of her own distilling for my father, to be carried down with
+my wife and her daughter to-morrow, which was very handsome. So broke up
+and to bed.
+
+2nd. Up, after much pleasant talk with my wife, and upon some
+alterations I will make in my house in her absence, and I do intend to
+lay out some money thereon. So she and I up, and she got her ready to be
+gone, and by and by comes Betty Turner and her mother, and W. Batelier,
+and they and Deb., to whom I did give 10s. this morning, to oblige her
+to please her mistress (and ego did baiser her mouche), and also Jane,
+and so in two coaches set out about eight o'clock towards the carrier,
+there for to take coach for my father's, that is to say, my wife and
+Betty Turner, Deb., and Jane; but I meeting my Lord Anglesey going to
+the Office, was forced to 'light in Cheapside, and there took my leave
+of them (not baisado Deb., which je had a great mind to), left them to
+go to their coach, and I to the office, where all the morning busy, and
+so at noon with my other clerks (W. Hewer being a day's journey with my
+wife) to dinner, where Mr. Pierce come and dined with me, and then with
+Lord Brouncker (carrying his little kinswoman on my knee, his coach
+being full), to the Temple, where my Lord and I 'light and to Mr.
+Porter's chamber, where Cocke and his counsel, and so to the attorney's,
+whither the Sollicitor-Generall come, and there, their cause about their
+assignments on the L1,250,000 Act was argued, where all that was to
+be said for them was said, and so answered by the Sollicitor-Generall
+beyond what I expected, that I said not one word all my time, rather
+choosing to hold my tongue, and so mind my reputation with the
+Sollicitor-Generall, who did mightily approve of my speech in
+Parliament, than say anything against him to no purpose. This I believe
+did trouble Cocke and these gentlemen, but I do think this best for me,
+and so I do think that the business will go against them, though it is
+against my judgment, and I am sure against all justice to the men to
+be invited to part with their goods and be deceived afterward of their
+security for payment. Thence with Lord Brouncker to the Royall Society,
+where they were just done; but there I was forced to subscribe to
+the building of a College, and did give L40; and several others did
+subscribe, some greater and some less sums; but several I saw hang
+off: and I doubt it will spoil the Society, for it breeds faction and
+ill-will, and becomes burdensome to some that cannot, or would not,
+do it. Here, to my great content, I did try the use of the
+Otacousticon,--[Ear trumpet.]--which was only a great glass bottle broke
+at the bottom, putting the neck to my eare, and there I did plainly hear
+the dashing of the oares of the boats in the Thames to Arundell gallery
+window, which, without it, I could not in the least do, and may, I
+believe, be improved to a great height, which I am mighty glad of.
+Thence with Lord Brouncker and several of them to the King's Head
+Taverne by Chancery Lane, and there did drink and eat and talk, and,
+above the rest, I did hear of Mr. Hooke and my Lord an account of the
+reason of concords and discords in musique, which they say is from the
+equality of vibrations; but I am not satisfied in it, but will at my
+leisure think of it more, and see how far that do go to explain it. So
+late at night home with Mr. Colwell, and parted, and I to the office,
+and then to Sir W. Pen to confer with him, and Sir R. Ford and Young,
+about our St. John Baptist prize, and so home, without more supper to
+bed, my family being now little by the departure of my wife and two
+maids.
+
+3rd. Up, and Captain Perryman come to me to tell me how Tatnell told him
+that this day one How is to charge me before the Commissioners of
+Prizes to the value of L8000 in prizes, which I was troubled to hear, so
+fearful I am, though I know that there is not a penny to be laid to my
+charge that I dare not own, or that I have not owned under my hand, but
+upon recollection it signifies nothing to me, and so I value it not,
+being sure that I can have nothing in the world to my hurt known from
+the business. So to the office, where all the morning to despatch
+business, and so home to dinner with my clerks, whose company is of
+great pleasure to me for their good discourse in any thing of the navy
+I have a mind to talk of. After dinner by water from the Tower to White
+Hall, there to attend the Duke of York as usual, and particularly in a
+fresh complaint the Commissioners of the Treasury do make to him, and
+by and by to the Council this day of our having prepared certificates
+on the Exchequer to the further sum of near L50,000, and soon as we had
+done with the Duke of York we did attend the Council; and were there
+called in, and did hear Mr. Sollicitor [General] make his Report to
+the Council in the business; which he did in a most excellent manner of
+words, but most cruelly severe against us, and so were some of the Lords
+Commissioners of the Treasury, as men guilty of a practice with the
+tradesmen, to the King's prejudice. I was unwilling to enter into a
+contest with them; but took advantage of two or three words last spoke,
+and brought it to a short issue in good words, that if we had the King's
+order to hold our hands, we would, which did end the matter: and they
+all resolved we should have it, and so it ended: and so we away; I vexed
+that I did not speak more in a cause so fit to be spoke in, and
+wherein we had so much advantage; but perhaps I might have provoked the
+Sollicitor and the Commissioners of the Treasury, and therefore, since,
+I am not sorry that I forbore. Thence my Lord Brouncker and I to the
+Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw the latter part of "The
+Master and the Man," and thence by coach to Duck Lane, to look out for
+Marsanne, in French, a man that has wrote well of musique, but it is not
+to be had, but I have given order for its being sent for over, and I
+did here buy Des Cartes his little treatise of musique, and so home, and
+there to read a little, and eat a little, though I find that my having
+so little taste do make me so far neglect eating that, unless company
+invite, I do not love to spend time upon eating, and so bring emptiness
+and the Cholique. So to bed. This day I hear that Prince Rupert and
+Holmes do go to sea: and by this there is a seeming friendship and peace
+among our great seamen; but the devil a bit is there any love among
+them, or can be.
+
+4th. Up betimes, and by coach towards White Hall, and took Aldgate
+Street in my way, and there called upon one Hayward, that makes
+virginalls, and did there like of a little espinette, and will have him
+finish it for me; for I had a mind to a small harpsichon, but this takes
+up less room, and will do my business as to finding out of chords, and
+I am very well pleased that I have found it. Thence to White Hall, and
+after long waiting did get a small running Committee of Tangier, where
+I staid but little, and little done but the correcting two or three
+egregious faults in the Charter for Tangier after it had so long lain
+before the Council and been passed there and drawn up by the Atturney
+Generall, so slightly are all things in this age done. Thence home to
+the office by water, where we sat till noon, and then I moved we might
+go to the Duke of York and the King presently to get out their order
+in writing that was ordered us yesterday about the business of
+certificates, that we might be secure against the tradesmen who (Sir
+John Banks by name) have told me this day that they will complain in
+Parliament against us for denying to do them right. So we rose of a
+sudden, being mighty sensible of this inconvenience we are liable to
+should we delay to give them longer, and yet have no order for our
+indemnity. I did dine with Sir W. Pen, where my Lady Batten did come
+with desire of meeting me there, and speaking with me about the business
+of the L500 we demand of her for the Chest. She do protest, before God,
+she never did see the account, but that it was as her husband in his
+life-time made it, and he did often declare to her his expecting L500,
+and that we could not deny it him for his pains in that business, and
+that he hath left her worth nothing of his own in the world, and that
+therefore she could pay nothing of it, come what will come, but that he
+hath left her a beggar, which I am sorry truly for, though it is a
+just judgment upon people that do live so much beyond themselves in
+housekeeping and vanity, as they did. I did give her little answer, but
+generally words that might not trouble her, and so to dinner, and after
+dinner Sir W. Pen and I away by water to White Hall, and there did
+attend the Duke of York, and he did carry us to the King's lodgings: but
+he was asleep in his closet; so we stayed in the Green-Roome, where the
+Duke of York did tell us what rules he had, of knowing the weather, and
+did now tell us we should have rain before to-morrow, it having been
+a dry season for some time, and so it did rain all night almost; and
+pretty rules he hath, and told Brouncker and me some of them, which were
+such as no reason seems ready to be given. By and by the King comes
+out, and he did easily agree to what we moved, and would have the
+Commissioners of the Navy to meet us with him to-morrow morning: and
+then to talk of other things; about the Quakers not swearing, and how
+they do swear in the business of a late election of a Knight of the
+Shire of Hartfordshire in behalf of one they have a mind to have; and
+how my Lord of Pembroke says he hath heard him (the Quaker) at the
+tennis-court swear to himself when he loses: and told us what pretty
+notions my Lord Pembroke hath of the first chapter of Genesis, how
+Adam's sin was not the sucking (which he did before) but the swallowing
+of the apple, by which the contrary elements begun to work in him, and
+to stir up these passions, and a great deal of such fooleries, which
+the King made mighty mockery at. Thence my Lord Brouncker and I into the
+Park in his coach, and there took a great deal of ayre, saving that it
+was mighty dusty, and so a little unpleasant. Thence to Common Garden
+with my Lord, and there I took a hackney and home, and after having done
+a few letters at the office, I home to a little supper and so to bed, my
+eyes being every day more and more weak and apt to be tired.
+
+5th (Lord's day). Up, and to my chamber, and there to the writing fair
+some of my late musique notions, and so to church, where I have not been
+a good while, and thence home, and dined at home, with W. Hewer with
+me; and after dinner, he and I a great deal of good talk touching this
+Office, how it is spoiled by having so many persons in it, and so much
+work that is not made the work of any one man, but of all, and so is
+never done; and that the best way to have it well done, were to have
+the whole trust in one, as myself, to set whom I pleased to work in
+the several businesses of the Office, and me to be accountable for the
+whole, and that would do it, as I would find instruments: but this is
+not to be compassed; but something I am resolved to do about Sir J.
+Minnes before it be long. Then to my chamber again, to my musique, and
+so to church; and then home, and thither comes Captain Silas Taylor to
+me, the Storekeeper of Harwich, where much talk, and most of it against
+Captain Deane, whom I do believe to be a high, proud fellow; but he is
+an active man, and able in his way, and so I love him. He gone, I to my
+musique again, and to read a little, and to sing with Mr. Pelling, who
+come to see me, and so spent the evening, and then to supper and to
+bed. I hear that eight of the ringleaders in the late tumults of the
+'prentices at Easter are condemned to die.
+
+     [Four were executed on May 9th, namely, Thomas Limmerick, Edward
+     Cotton, Peter Massenger, and Richard Beasley.  They were drawn,
+     hanged, and quartered at Tyburn, and two of their heads fixed upon
+     London Bridge ("The London Gazette," No. 259).  See "The Tryals of
+     such persons as under the notion of London Apprentices were
+     tumultuously assembled in Moore Fields, under colour of pulling down
+     bawdy-houses," 4to., London, 1668.  "It is to be observed," says
+     "The London Gazette,"  "to the just vindication of the City, that
+     none of the persons apprehended upon the said tumult were found to
+     be apprentices, as was given out, but some idle persons, many of
+     them nursed in the late Rebellion, too readily embracing any
+     opportunity of making their own advantages to the disturbance of the
+     peace, and injury of others."]
+
+6th. Betimes I to Alderman Backewell, and with him to my Lord Ashly's,
+where did a little business about Tangier, and to talk about the
+business of certificates, wherein, contrary to what could be believed,
+the King and Duke of York themselves, in my absence, did call for some
+of the Commissioners of the Treasury, and give them directions about the
+business [of the certificates], which I, despairing to do any thing on
+a Sunday, and not thinking that they would think of it themselves,
+did rest satisfied, and stayed at home all yesterday, leaving it to do
+something in this day; but I find that the King and Duke of York had
+been so pressing in it, that my Lord Ashly was more forward with the
+doing of it this day, than I could have been. And so I to White
+Hall with Alderman Backewell in his coach, with Mr. Blany; my Lord's
+Secretary: and there did draw up a rough draught of what order I would
+have, and did carry it in, and had it read twice and approved of, before
+my Lord Ashly and three more of the Commissioners of the Treasury, and
+then went up to the Council-chamber, where the Duke of York, and Prince
+Rupert, and the rest of the Committee of the Navy were sitting: and I
+did get some of them to read it there: and they would have had it
+passed presently, but Sir John Nicholas desired they would first have it
+approved by a full Council: and, therefore, a Council Extraordinary
+was readily summoned against the afternoon, and the Duke of York run
+presently to the King, as if now they were really set to mind their
+business, which God grant! So I thence to Westminster, and walked in
+the Hall and up and down, the House being called over to-day, and little
+news, but some talk as if the agreement between France and Spain were
+like to be, which would be bad for us, and at noon with Sir Herbert
+Price to Mr. George Montagu's to dinner, being invited by him in the
+hall, and there mightily made of, even to great trouble to me to be so
+commended before my face, with that flattery and importunity, that I was
+quite troubled with it. Yet he is a fine gentleman, truly, and his lady
+a fine woman; and, among many sons that I saw there, there was a little
+daughter that is mighty pretty, of which he is infinite fond: and, after
+dinner, did make her play on the gittar and sing, which she did mighty
+prettily, and seems to have a mighty musical soul, keeping time
+with most excellent spirit. Here I met with Mr. Brownlow, my old
+schoolfellow, who come thither, I suppose, as a suitor to one of the
+young ladies that were there, and a sober man he seems to be. But here
+Mr. Montagu did tell me how Mr. Vaughan, in that very room, did say that
+I was a great man, and had great understanding, and I know not what,
+which, I confess, I was a little proud of, if I may believe him. Here
+I do hear, as a great secret, that the King, and Duke of York and
+Duchesse, and my Lady Castlemayne, are now all agreed in a strict
+league, and all things like to go very current, and that it is not
+impossible to have my Lord Clarendon, in time, here again. But I do hear
+that my Lady Castlemayne is horribly vexed at the late libell,
+
+     ["The Poor Whores' Petition to the most splendid, illustrious,
+     serene and eminent Lady of Pleasure the Countess of Castlemayne,
+     &c., signed by us, Madam Cresswell and Damaris Page, this present
+     25th day of March, 1668."  This sham petition occasioned a pretended
+     answer, entitled, "The Gracious Answer of the Most Illustrious Lady
+     of Pleasure, the Countess of Castlem....  to the Poor Whores'
+     Petition."  It is signed, "Given at our Closset, in King Street,
+     Westminster, die Veneris, April 24, 1668.  Castlem...."
+     Compare Evelyn, April 2nd, 1668.]
+
+the petition of the poor whores about the town, whose houses were pulled
+down the other day. I have got one of them, but it is not very witty,
+but devilish severe against her and the King and I wonder how it durst
+be printed and spread abroad, which shews that the times are loose, and
+come to a great disregard of the King, or Court, or Government. Thence
+I to White Hall to attend the Council, and when the Council rose we find
+my order mightily enlarged by the Sollicitor Generall, who was called
+thither, making it more safe for him and the Council, but their order
+is the same in the command of it that I drew, and will I think defend
+us well. So thence, meeting Creed, he and I to the new Cocke-pitt by
+the King's gate, and there saw the manner of it, and the mixed rabble
+of people that come thither; and saw two battles of cocks, wherein is
+no great sport, but only to consider how these creatures, without
+any provocation, do fight and kill one another, and aim only at one
+another's heads, and by their good will not leave till one of them be
+killed; and thence to the Park in a hackney coach, so would not go into
+the tour, but round about the Park, and to the House, and there at the
+door eat and drank; whither come my Lady Kerneagy, of whom Creed tells
+me more particulars; how her Lord, finding her and the Duke of York at
+the King's first coming in too kind, did get it out of her that he did
+dishonour him, and so bid her continue..., which is the most pernicious
+and full piece of revenge that ever I heard of; and he at this day owns
+it with great glory, and looks upon the Duke of York and the world with
+great content in the ampleness of his revenge. Thence (where the place
+was now by the last night's rain very pleasant, and no dust) to White
+Hall, and set Creed down, and I home and to my chamber, and there
+about my musique notions again, wherein I take delight and find great
+satisfaction in them, and so, after a little supper, to bed. This day,
+in the afternoon, stepping with the Duke of York into St. James's Park,
+it rained: and I was forced to lend the Duke of York my cloak, which he
+wore through the Park.
+
+7th. Up, and at the office all the morning, where great hurry to be made
+in the fitting forth of this present little fleet, but so many rubs by
+reason of want of money, and people's not believing us in cases where
+we had money unless (which in several cases, as in hiring of vessels,
+cannot be) they be paid beforehand, that every thing goes backward
+instead of forward. At noon comes Mr. Clerke, my solicitor, and the
+Auditor's men with my account drawn up in the Exchequer way with their
+queries, which are neither many nor great, or hard to answer upon it,
+and so dined with me, and then I by coach to the King's playhouse, and
+there saw "The English Monsieur;"' sitting for privacy sake in an upper
+box: the play hath much mirth in it as to that particular humour. After
+the play done, I down to Knipp, and did stay her undressing herself; and
+there saw the several players, men and women go by; and pretty to see
+how strange they are all, one to another, after the play is done. Here
+I saw a wonderful pretty maid of her own, that come to undress her, and
+one so pretty that she says she intends not to keep her, for fear of her
+being undone in her service, by coming to the playhouse. Here I hear
+Sir W. Davenant is just now dead; and so who will succeed him in the
+mastership of the house is not yet known. The eldest Davenport is, it
+seems, gone from this house to be kept by somebody; which I am glad of,
+she being a very bad actor. I took her then up into a coach and away to
+the Park, which is now very fine after some rain, but the company was
+going away most, and so I took her to the Lodge, and there treated her
+and had a deal of good talk, and now and then did baiser la, and that
+was all, and that as much or more than I had much mind to because of her
+paint. She tells me mighty news, that my Lady Castlemayne is mightily in
+love with Hart of their house: and he is much with her in private, and
+she goes to him, and do give him many presents; and that the thing is
+most certain, and Becke Marshall only privy to it, and the means of
+bringing them together, which is a very odd thing; and by this means she
+is even with the King's love to Mrs. Davis. This done, I carried her and
+set her down at Mrs. Manuel's, but stayed not there myself, nor went in;
+but straight home, and there to my letters, and so home to bed.
+
+8th. Up, and at my office all the morning, doing business, and then at
+noon home to dinner all alone. Then to White Hall with Sir J. Minnes in
+his coach to attend the Duke of York upon our usual business, which
+was this day but little, and thence with Lord Brouncker to the Duke
+of York's playhouse, where we saw "The Unfortunate Lovers," no
+extraordinary play, methinks, and thence I to Drumbleby's, and there did
+talk a great deal about pipes; and did buy a recorder, which I do intend
+to learn to play on, the sound of it being, of all sounds in the world,
+most pleasing to me. Thence home, and to visit Mrs. Turner, where among
+other talk, Mr. Foly and her husband being there, she did tell me
+of young Captain Holmes's marrying of Pegg Lowther last Saturday by
+stealth, which I was sorry for, he being an idle rascal, and proud, and
+worth little, I doubt; and she a mighty pretty, well-disposed lady, and
+good fortune. Her mother and friends take on mightily; but the sport
+is, Sir Robert Holmes do seem to be mad too with his brother, and will
+disinherit him, saying that he hath ruined himself, marrying below
+himself, and to his disadvantage; whereas, I said, in this company, that
+I had married a sister lately, with little above half that portion, that
+he should have kissed her breech before he should have had her, which,
+if R. Holmes should hear, would make a great quarrel; but it is true I
+am heartily sorry for the poor girl that is undone by it. So home to
+my chamber, to be fingering of my Recorder, and getting of the scale of
+musique without book, which I at last see is necessary for a man that
+would understand musique, as it is now taught to understand, though
+it be a ridiculous and troublesome way, and I know I shall be able
+hereafter to show the world a simpler way; but, like the old hypotheses
+in philosophy, it must be learned, though a man knows a better. Then
+to supper, and to bed. This morning Mr. Christopher Pett's widow and
+daughter come to me, to desire my help to the King and Duke of York, and
+I did promise, and do pity her.
+
+9th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning sitting, then at noon
+home to dinner with my people, and so to the office again writing of my
+letters, and then abroad to my bookseller's, and up and down to the Duke
+of York's playhouse, there to see, which I did, Sir W. Davenant's corpse
+carried out towards Westminster, there to be buried. Here were many
+coaches and six horses, and many hacknies, that made it look, methought,
+as if it were the buriall of a poor poet. He seemed to have many
+children, by five or six in the first mourning-coach, all boys. And
+there I left them coming forth, and I to the New Exchange, there to meet
+Mrs. Burroughs, and did take her in a carosse and carry elle towards the
+Park, kissing her..., but did not go into any house, but come back
+and set her down at White Hall, and did give her wrapt in paper for my
+Valentine's gift for the last year before this, which I never did yet
+give her anything for, twelve half-crowns, and so back home and there
+to my office, where come a packet from the Downes from my brother Balty,
+who, with Harman, is arrived there, of which this day come the first
+news. And now the Parliament will be satisfied, I suppose, about the
+business they have so long desired between Brouncker and Harman about
+not prosecuting the first victory. Balty is very well, and I hope hath
+performed his work well, that I may get him into future employment. I
+wrote to him this night, and so home, and there to the perfecting
+my getting the scale of musique without book, which I have done to
+perfection backward and forward, and so to supper and to bed.
+
+10th (Friday) All the morning at Office. At noon with W. Pen to Duke of
+York, and attended Council. So to piper and Duck Lane, and there kissed
+bookseller's wife, and bought Legend. So home, coach. Sailor. Mrs.
+Hannam dead. News of Peace. Conning my gamut.
+
+     [The entries from April 10th to April 19th are transcribed from
+     three leaves (six pages) of rough notes, which are inserted in the
+     MS. The rough notes were made to serve for a sort of account book,
+     but the amounts paid are often not registered in the fair copy when
+     he came to transcribe his notes into the Diary.]
+
+12th (Sunday). Dined at Brouncker's, and saw the new book. Peace.
+Cutting away sails.
+
+13th (Monday). Spent at Michel's 6d.; in the Folly, 1s.;
+
+     [The Folly was a floating house of entertainment on the Thames,
+     which at this time was a fashionable resort.]
+
+oysters, 1s.; coach to W. Coventry about Mrs. Pett, 1s.; thence to
+Commissioners of Treasury, and so to Westminster Hall by water, 6d. With
+G. Montagu and Roger Pepys, and spoke with Birch and Vaughan, all in
+trouble about the prize business. So to Lord Crew's (calling for a low
+pipe by the way), where Creed and G. M. and G. C. come, 1s. So with
+Creed to a play. Little laugh, 4s. Thence towards the Park by coach, 2s.
+6d. Come home, met with order of Commissioners of Accounts, which put
+together with the rest vexed me, and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+14th (Tuesday). Up betimes by water to the Temple. In the way read
+the Narrative about prizes; and so to Lord Crew's bedside, and then to
+Westminster, where I hear Pen is, and sent for by messenger last night.
+Thence to Commissioners of Accounts and there examined, and so back to
+Westminster Hall, where all the talk of committing all to the Tower, and
+Creed and I to the Quaker's, dined together. Thence to the House, where
+rose about four o'clock; and, with much ado, Pen got to Thursday to
+bring in his answer; so my Lord escapes to-day. Thence with Godage and
+G. Montagu to G. Carteret's, and there sat their dinner-time: and hear
+myself, by many Parliament-men, mightily commended. Thence to a play,
+"Love's Cruelty," and so to my Lord Crew's, who glad of this day's time
+got, and so home, and there office, and then home to supper and to bed,
+my eyes being the better upon leaving drinking at night. Water, 1s.
+Porter, 6d. Water, 6d. Dinner, 3s. 6d. Play part, 2s. Oranges, 1s. Home
+coach, 1s. 6d.
+
+15th. After playing a little upon my new little flageolet, that is so
+soft that pleases me mightily, betimes to my office, where most of the
+morning. Then by coach, 1s., and meeting Lord Brouncker, 'light at
+the Exchange, and thence by water to White Hall, 1s., and there to the
+Chapel, expecting wind musick and to the Harp-and-Ball, and drank all
+alone, 2d. Back, and to the fiddling concert, and heard a practice
+mighty good of Grebus, and thence to Westminster Hall, where all cry out
+that the House will be severe with Pen; but do hope well concerning
+the buyers, that we shall have no difficulty, which God grant! Here met
+Creed, and, about noon, he and I, and Sir P. Neale to the Quaker's, and
+there dined with a silly Executor of Bishop Juxon's, and cozen Roger
+Pepys. Business of money goes on slowly in the House. Thence to White
+Hall by water, and there with the Duke of York a little, but stayed not,
+but saw him and his lady at his little pretty chapel, where I never was
+before: but silly devotion, God knows! Thence I left Creed, and to the
+King's playhouse, into a corner of the 18d. box, and there saw "The
+Maid's Tragedy," a good play. Coach, 1s.: play and oranges, 2s. 6d.
+Creed come, dropping presently here, but he did not see me, and come to
+the same place, nor would I be seen by him. Thence to my Lord Crew's,
+and there he come also after, and there with Sir T. Crew bemoaning my
+Lord's folly in leaving his old interest, by which he hath now lost
+all. An ill discourse in the morning of my Lord's being killed, but this
+evening Godolphin tells us here that my Lord is well. Thence with Creed
+to the Cock ale-house, and there spent 6d., and so by coach home, 2s.
+6d., and so to bed.
+
+16th. Th[ursday]. Greeting's book, is. Begun this day to learn the
+Recorder. To the office, where all the morning. Dined with my clerks:
+and merry at Sir W. Pen's crying yesterday, as they say, to the King,
+that he was his martyr. So to White Hall by coach to Commissioners of
+[the] Treasury about certificates, but they met not, 2s. To Westminster
+by water. To Westminster Hall, where I hear W. Pen is ordered to be
+impeached, 6d. There spoke with many, and particularly with G. Montagu:
+and went with him and Creed to his house, where he told how W. Pen hath
+been severe to Lord Sandwich; but the Coventrys both labouring to save
+him, by laying it on Lord Sandwich, which our friends cry out upon, and
+I am silent, but do believe they did it as the only way to save him. It
+could not be carried to commit him. It is thought the House do coole: W.
+Coventry's being for him, provoked Sir R. Howard and his party;
+Court, all for W. Pen. Thence to White Hall, but no meeting of the
+Commissioners, and there met Mr. Hunt, and thence to Mrs. Martin's, and,
+there did what I would, she troubled for want of employ for her husband,
+spent on her 1s. Thence to the Hall to walk awhile and ribbon, spent is.
+So [to] Lord Crew's, and there with G. Carteret and my Lord to talk, and
+they look upon our matters much the better, and by this and that time
+is got, 1s. So to the Temple late, and by water, by moonshine, home,
+1s. Cooks, 6d. Wrote my letters to my Lady Sandwich, and so home, where
+displeased to have my maid bring her brother, a countryman, to lye
+there, and so to bed.
+
+17th (Friday). Called up by Balty's coming, who gives me a good account
+of his voyage, and pleases me well, and I hope hath got something. This
+morning paid the Royall Society L1 6s., and so to the office all the
+morning. At noon home to dinner with my people, and there much pretty
+discourse of Balty's. So by coach to White Hall: the coachman on Ludgate
+Hill 'lighted, and beat a fellow with a sword, 2s. 6d. Did little
+business with the Duke of York. Hear that the House is upon the business
+of Harman, who, they say, takes all on himself. Thence, with Brouncker,
+to the King's house, and saw "The Surprizall," where base singing, only
+Knepp,' who come, after her song in the clouds, to me in the pit, and
+there, oranges, 2s. After the play, she, and I, and Rolt, by coach, 6s.
+6d., to Kensington, and there to the Grotto, and had admirable pleasure
+with their singing, and fine ladies listening to us: with infinite
+pleasure, I enjoyed myself: so to the tavern there, and did spend 16s.
+6d., and the gardener 2s. Mighty merry, and sang all the way to the
+town, a most pleasant evening, moonshine, and set them at her house in
+Covent Garden, and I home and to bed.
+
+18th (Saturday). Up, and my bookseller brought home books, bound--the
+binding comes to 17s. Advanced to my maid Bridget L1. Sir W. Pen at the
+Office, seemingly merry. Do hear this morning that Harman is committed
+by the Parliament last night, the day he come up, which is hard; but
+he took all upon himself first, and then when a witness come in to say
+otherwise, he would have retracted; and the House took it so ill, they
+would commit him. Thence home to dinner with my clerks, and so to White
+Hall by water, 1s., and there a short Committee for Tangier, and so I to
+the King's playhouse, 1s., and to the play of the "Duke of Lerma," 2s.
+6d., and oranges, 1s. Thence by coach to Westminster, 1s., and the House
+just up, having been about money business, 1s. So home by coach, 3s.,
+calling in Duck Lane, and did get Des Cartes' Musique in English,' and
+so home and wrote my letters, and then to my chamber to save my eyes,
+and to bed.
+
+19th (Sunday). Lay long. Roger Pepys and his son come, and to Church
+with me, where W. Pen was, and did endeavour to shew himself to the
+Church. Then home to dinner, and Roger Pepys did tell me the whole story
+of Harman, how he prevaricated, and hath undoubtedly been imposed on,
+and wheedled; and he is called the miller's man that, in Richard the
+Third's time, was hanged for his master.
+
+     [The story alluded to by Pepys, which belongs not to the reign of
+     Richard III., but to that of Edward VI., occurred during a seditious
+     outbreak at Bodmin, in Cornwall, and is thus related by Holinshed:
+     "At the same time, and neare the same place [Bodmin], dwelled a
+     miller, that had beene a greate dooer in that rebellion, for whom
+     also Sir Anthonie Kingston sought: but the miller being thereof
+     warned, called a good tall fellow that he had to his servant, and
+     said unto him, 'I have business to go from home; if anie therefore
+     come to ask for me, saie thou art the owner of the mill, and the man
+     for whom they shall so aske, and that thou hast kept this mill for
+     the space of three yeares; but in no wise name me.'  The servant
+     promised his maister so to doo.  And shortlie after, came Sir
+     Anthonie Kingston to the miller's house, and calling for the miller,
+     the servant came forth, and answered that he was the miller.  'How
+     long,' quoth Sir Anthonie, 'hast thou kept this mill?' He answered,
+     'Three years.'--'Well, then,' said he, 'come on: thou must go with
+     me;' and caused his men to laie hands on him, and to bring him to
+     the next tree, saieing to him, 'Thou hast been a busie knave, and
+     therefore here shalt thou hang.'  Then cried the fellow out, and
+     saide that he was not the miller, but the miller's man.  'Well,
+     then,' said Sir Anthonie, 'thou art a false knave to be in two
+     tales: therefore,' said he, 'hang him up;' and so incontinentlie
+     hanged he was indeed.  After he was dead, one that was present told
+     Sir Anthonie, 'Surelie, sir, this was but the miller's man.'--'What
+     then!' said he, 'could he ever have done his maister better service
+     than to hang for him?'"--B.]
+
+So after dinner I took them by water to White Hall, taking in a very
+pretty woman at Paul's Wharf, and there landed we, and I left Roger
+Pepys and to St. Margaret's Church, and there saw Betty, and so to walk
+in the Abbey with Sir John Talbot, who would fain have pumped me about
+the prizes, but I would not let him, and so to walk towards Michell's to
+see her, but could not, and so to Martin's, and her husband was at home,
+and so took coach and to the Park, and thence home and to bed betimes.
+Water 1s., coach 5s. Balty borrowed L2.
+
+20th. Up betimes and to the getting ready my answer to the Committee of
+Accounts to several questions, which makes me trouble, though I know of
+no blame due to me from any, let them enquire what they can out.
+
+     [The first part of the entry for April 20th is among the rough
+     notes, and stands as follows:  "Monday 20.  Up and busy about answer
+     to Committee of Accounts this morning about several questions which
+     vexed me though in none I have reason to be troubled.  But the
+     business of The Flying Greyhound begins to find me some care, though
+     in that I am wholly void of blame."  This may be compared with the
+     text.]
+
+I to White Hall, and there hear how Henry Brouncker is fled, which, I
+think, will undo him: but what good it will do Harman I know not,
+he hath so befooled himself; but it will be good sport to my Lord
+Chancellor to hear how his great enemy is fain to take the same course
+that he is. There met Robinson, who tells me that he fears his master,
+W. Coventry, will this week have his business brought upon the stage
+again, about selling of places, which I shall be sorry for, though the
+less, since I hear his standing for Pen the other day, to the prejudice,
+though not to the wrong, of my Lord Sandwich; and yet I do think what
+he did, he did out of a principle of honesty. Thence to Committee of
+Accounts, and delivered my paper, and had little discourse, and was
+unwilling to stay long with them to enter into much, but away and glad
+to be from them, though very civil to me, but cunning and close I see
+they are. So to Westminster Hall, and there find the Parliament upon the
+Irish business, where going into the Speaker's chamber I did hear how
+plainly one lawyer of counsel for the complainants did inveigh by name
+against all the late Commissioners there. Thence with Creed, thinking,
+but failed, of dining with Lord Crew, and so he and I to Hercules
+Pillars, and there dined, and thence home by coach, and so with Jack
+Fenn to the Chamberlain of London to look after the state of some Navy
+assignments that are in his hands, and thence away, and meeting Sir
+William Hooker, the Alderman, he did cry out mighty high against Sir
+W. Pen for his getting such an estate, and giving L15,000 with his
+daughter, which is more, by half, than ever he did give; but this the
+world believes, and so let them. Thence took coach and I all alone to
+Hyde Park (passing through Duck Lane among the booksellers, only to get
+a sight of the pretty little woman I did salute the other night, and
+did in passing), and so all the evening in the Park, being a little
+unwilling to be seen there, and at night home, and thereto W. Pen's and
+sat and talked there with his wife and children a good while, he being
+busy in his closet, I believe preparing his defence in Parliament, and
+so home to bed.
+
+21st. Up, and at the office all the morning, at noon dined at home, and
+thence took Mrs. Turner out and carried her to the King's house, and
+saw "The Indian Emperour;" and after that done, took Knepp out, and to
+Kensington; and there walked in the garden, and then supped, and
+mighty merry, there being also in the house Sir Philip Howard, and some
+company, and had a dear reckoning, but merry, and away, it being quite
+night, home, and dark, about 9 o'clock or more, and in my coming had the
+opportunity the first time in my life to be bold with Knepp..., and so
+left her at home, and so Mrs. Turner and I home to my letters and to
+bed. Here hear how Sir W. Pen's impeachment was read, and agreed to, in
+the House this day, and ordered to be engrossed; and he suspended the
+House--[From sitting as a member pending the impeachment.-B.]--Harman
+set at liberty; and Brouncker put out of the House, and a writ for a new
+election, and an impeachment ordered to be brought in against him, he
+being fled!
+
+     [Sir Charles Berkeley, jun. was chosen in his room.  In the sea-
+     fight off Southwold Bay on June 3rd, 1665, the English triumphed
+     over the Dutch, but the very considerable victory was not followed
+     up.  During the night, while the Duke of York slept, Henry
+     Brouncker, his groom of the bedchamber, ordered the lieutenant to
+     shorten sail, by which means the progress of the whole fleet was
+     retarded, the Duke of York's being the leading ship.  The duke
+     affirmed that he first heard of Brouncker's unjustifiable action in
+     July, and yet he kept the culprit in his service for nearly two
+     years after the offence had come to his knowledge.  After Brouncker
+     had been dismissed from the duke's service, the House of Commons
+     ejected him.  The whole matter is one of the unsolved difficulties
+     of history.  See Lister's "Life of Clarendon," ii., 334 335]
+
+22nd. Up, and all the morning at my office busy. At noon, it being
+washing day, I toward White Hall, and stopped and dined all alone at
+Hercules Pillars, where I was mighty pleased to overhear a woman talk
+to her counsel how she had troubled her neighbours with law, and did it
+very roguishly and wittily. Thence to White Hall, and there we attended
+the Duke of York as usual; and I did present Mrs. Pett, the widow, and
+her petition to the Duke of York, for some relief from the King.
+Here was to-day a proposition made to the Duke of York by Captain Von
+Hemskirke for L20,000, to discover an art how to make a ship go two foot
+for one what any ship do now, which the King inclines to try, it costing
+him nothing to try; and it is referred to us to contract with the man.
+Thence to attend the Council about the business of certificates to the
+Exchequer, where the Commissioners of the Treasury of different minds,
+some would, and my Lord Ashly would not have any more made out, and
+carried it there should not. After done here, and the Council up, I by
+water from the Privy-stairs to Westminster Hall; and, taking water, the
+King and the Duke of York were in the new buildings; and the Duke of
+York called to me whither I was going? and I answered aloud, "To wait on
+our maisters at Westminster;" at which he and all the company
+laughed; but I was sorry and troubled for it afterwards, for fear any
+Parliament-man should have been there; and will be a caution to me for
+the time to come. Met with Roger Pepys, who tells me they have been on
+the business of money, but not ended yet, but will take up more time.
+So to the fishmonger's, and bought a couple of lobsters, and over to
+the 'sparagus garden, thinking to have met Mr. Pierce, and his wife
+and Knepp; but met their servant coming to bring me to Chatelin's, the
+French house, in Covent Garden, and there with musick and good company,
+Manuel and his wife, and one Swaddle, a clerk of Lord Arlington's, who
+dances, and speaks French well, but got drunk, and was then troublesome,
+and here mighty merry till ten at night, and then I away, and got a
+coach, and so home, where I find Balty and his wife come to town, and
+did sup with them, and so they to bed. This night the Duke of Monmouth
+and a great many blades were at Chatelin's, and I left them there, with
+a hackney-coach attending him.
+
+23rd. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon comes
+Knepp and Mrs. Pierce, and her daughter, and one Mrs. Foster, and dined
+with me, and mighty merry, and after dinner carried them to the Tower,
+and shewed them all to be seen there, and, among other things, the Crown
+and Scepters and rich plate, which I myself never saw before, and indeed
+is noble, and I mightily pleased with it. Thence by water to the Temple,
+and thereto the Cocke alehouse, and drank, and eat a lobster, and sang,
+and mighty merry. So, almost night, I carried Mrs. Pierce home, and then
+Knepp and I to the Temple again, and took boat, it being darkish, and to
+Fox Hall, it being now night, and a bonfire burning at Lambeth for the
+King's coronation-day. And there she and I drank;.... and so back, and
+led her home, it being now ten at night; and so got a link; and, walking
+towards home, just at my entrance into the ruines at St. Dunstan's, I
+was met by two rogues with clubs, who come towards us. So I went back,
+and walked home quite round by the wall, and got well home, and to
+bed weary, but pleased at my day's pleasure, but yet displeased at my
+expence, and time I lose.
+
+24th. Up betimes, and by water to White Hall, to the Duke of York,
+and there hear that this day Hopis and Temple purpose to bring in the
+petition against Sir W. Coventry, which I am sorry for, but hope he will
+get out of it. Here I presented Mrs. Pett and her condition to Mr. Wren
+for his favour, which he promised us. Thence to Lord Brouncker and sat
+and talked with him, who thinks the Parliament will, by their violence
+and delay in money matters, force the King to run any hazard, and
+dissolve them. Thence to Ducke Lane, and there did overlook a great many
+of Monsieur Fouquet's library, that a bookseller hath bought, and I did
+buy one Spanish [work], "Los Illustres Varones."
+
+     [Nicholas Fouquet, "Surintendant des Finances" in France, had built
+     at Vaux a house which surpassed in magnificence any palace belonging
+     to Louis XIV., prior to the erection of Versailles, and caused much
+     envy to all the Court, especially to Colbert.  Fouquet died at
+     Pignerol in 1680, after nineteen years' incarceration; and whilst
+     Pepys was buying his books in London, Colbert had become prime
+     minister in France, and Colbert's brother ambassador in England.
+     The 'viper' had caught the 'squirrel'!--B.]
+
+Here did I endeavour to see my pretty woman that I did baiser in las
+tenebras a little while depuis. And did find her sofa in the book[shop],
+but had not la confidence para alter a elle. So lost my pains. But will
+another time, and so home and to my office, and then to dinner. After
+dinner down to the Old Swan, and by the way called at Michell's, and
+there did see Betty, and that was all, for either she is shy or foolish,
+and su mardi hath no mind para laiser me see su moher. To White Hall by
+water, and there did our business with the Duke of York, which was
+very little, only here I do hear the Duke of York tell how Sir W. Pen's
+impeachment was brought into the House of Lords to-day; and spoke with
+great kindness of him: and that the Lords would not commit him till they
+could find precedent for it, and did incline to favour him. Thence to
+the King's playhouse, and there saw a piece of "Beggar's Bush," which I
+have not seen some years, and thence home, and there to Sir W. Pen's and
+supped and sat talking there late, having no where else to go, and my
+eyes too bad to read right, and so home to bed.
+
+25th. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes to my Lord Brouncker, and with him all
+of us to my Lord Ashly to satisfy him about the reason of what we do
+or have done in the business of the tradesmen's certificates, which he
+seems satisfied with, but is not, but I believe we have done what we can
+justify, and he hath done what he cannot in stopping us to grant them,
+and I believe it will come into Parliament and make trouble. So home and
+there at the office all the morning. At noon home to dinner, and thence
+after dinner to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "Sir
+Martin Marr-all," which, the more I see, the more I like, and thence to
+Westminster Hall, and there met with Roger Pepys; and he tells me that
+nothing hath lately passed about my Lord Sandwich, but only Sir Robert
+Carr did speak hardly of him. But it is hoped that nothing will be
+done more, this meeting of Parliament, which the King did, by a message
+yesterday, declare again, should rise the 4th of May, and then only
+adjourne for three months: and this message being only adjournment, did
+please them mightily, for they are desirous of their power mightily.
+Thence homeward by the Coffee House in Covent Garden, thinking to have
+met Harris here but could not, and so home, and there, after my letters,
+I home to have my hair cut by my sister Michell and her husband, and so
+to bed. This day I did first put off my waste-coate, the weather being
+very hot, but yet lay in it at night, and shall, for a little time.
+
+26th (Lord's day). Lay long, and then up and to Church, and so home,
+where there come and dined with me Harris, Rolt, and Bannister, and
+one Bland, that sings well also, and very merry at dinner, and, after
+dinner, to sing all the afternoon. But when all was done, I did begin
+to think that the pleasure of these people was not worth so often charge
+and cost to me, as it hath occasioned me. They being gone I and Balty
+walked as far as Charing Cross, and there got a coach and to Hales's the
+painter, thinking to have found Harris sitting there for his picture,
+which is drawing for me. But he, and all this day's company, and Hales,
+were got to the Crown tavern, at next door, and thither I to them and
+stayed a minute, leaving Captain Grant telling pretty stories of people
+that have killed themselves, or been accessory to it, in revenge to
+other people, and to mischief other people, and thence with Hales to
+his house, and there did see his beginning of Harris's picture, which I
+think will be pretty like, and he promises a very good picture. Thence
+with Balty away and got a coach and to Hide Park, and there up and down
+and did drink some milk at the Lodge, and so home and to bed.
+
+27th. Up, and Captain Deane come to see me, and he and I toward
+Westminster together, and I set him down at White Hall, while I to
+Westminster Hall, and up to the Lords' House, and there saw Sir W. Pen
+go into the House of Lords, where his impeachment was read to him,
+and he used mighty civilly, the Duke of York being there; and two days
+hence, at his desire, he is to bring in his answer, and a day then to be
+appointed for his being heard with Counsel. Thence down into the Hall,
+and with Creed and Godolphin walked; and do hear that to-morrow is
+appointed, upon a motion on Friday last, to discourse the business of my
+Lord Sandwich, moved by Sir R. Howard, that he should be sent for, home;
+and I fear it will be ordered. Certain news come, I hear, this day, that
+the Spanish Plenipotentiary in Flanders will not agree to the peace and
+terms we and the Dutch have made for him and the King of France; and by
+this means the face of things may be altered, and we forced to join with
+the French against Spain, which will be an odd thing. At noon with Creed
+to my Lord Crew's, and there dined; and here was a very fine-skinned
+lady dined, the daughter of my Lord Roberts, and also a fine lady, Mr.
+John Parkhurst his wife, that was but a boy the other day. And after
+dinner there comes in my Lady Roberts herself, and with her Mr.
+Roberts's daughter, that was Mrs. Boddevill, the great beauty, and
+a fine lady indeed, the first time I saw her. My Lord Crew, and
+Sir Thomas, and I, and Creed, all the afternoon debating of my Lord
+Sandwich's business, against to-morrow, and thence I to the King's
+playhouse, and there saw most of "The Cardinall," a good play, and
+thence to several places to pay my debts, and then home, and there took
+a coach and to Mile End to take a little ayre, and thence home to Sir
+W. Pen's, where I supped, and sat all the evening; and being lighted
+homeward by Mrs. Markham, I blew out the candle and kissed her, and so
+home to bed.
+
+28th. Up betimes, and to Sir W. Coventry's by water, but lost my labour,
+so through the Park to White Hall, and thence to my Lord Crew's to
+advise again with him about my Lord Sandwich, and so to the office,
+where till noon, and then I by coach to Westminster Hall, and there
+do understand that the business of religion, and the Act against
+Conventicles, have so taken them up all this morning, and do still, that
+my Lord Sandwich's business is not like to come on to-day, which I am
+heartily glad of. This law against Conventicles is very severe; but
+Creed, whom I met here, do tell me that, it being moved that Papists'
+meetings might be included, the House was divided upon it, and it was
+carried in the negative; which will give great disgust to the people,
+I doubt. Thence with Creed to Hercules Pillars by the Temple again,
+and there dined he and I all alone, and thence to the King's house, and
+there did see "Love in a Maze," wherein very good mirth of Lacy, the
+clown, and Wintersell, the country-knight, his master. Thence to the New
+Exchange to pay a debt of my wife's there, and so home, and there to the
+office and walk in the garden in the dark to ease my eyes, and so home
+to supper and to bed.
+
+29th. Up, and to my office, where all the morning busy. At noon dined
+at home, and my clerks with me, and thence I to White Hall, and there
+do hear how Sir W. Pen hath delivered in his answer; and the Lords have
+sent it down to the Commons, but they have not yet read it, nor taken
+notice of it, so as, I believe, they will by design defer it till they
+rise, that so he, by lying under an impeachment, may be prevented in
+his going to sea, which will vex him, and trouble the Duke of York. Did
+little business with the Duke of York, and then Lord Brouncker and I to
+the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "Love in a Tubb;" and, after
+the play done, I stepped up to Harris's dressing-room, where I never
+was, and there I observe much company come to him, and the Witts, to
+talk, after the play is done, and to assign meetings. Mine was to talk
+about going down to see "The Resolution," and so away, and thence to
+Westminster Hall, and there met with Mr. G. Montagu, and walked and
+talked; who tells me that the best fence against the Parliament's
+present fury is delay, and recommended it to me, in my friends' business
+and my own, if I have any; and is that, that Sir W. Coventry do take,
+and will secure himself; that the King will deliver up all to the
+Parliament; and being petitioned the other day by Mr. Brouncker to
+protect him, with teares in his eyes, the King did say he could not, and
+bid him shift for himself, at least till the House is up. Thence I away
+to White Hall, and there took coach home with a stranger I let into the
+coach, to club with me for it, he going into London, I set him down at
+the lower end of Cheapside, and I home, and to Sir W. Pen's, and there
+sat, and by and by, it being now about nine o'clock at night, I heard
+Mercer's voice, and my boy Tom's singing in the garden, which pleased me
+mightily, I longing to see the girl, having not seen her since my wife
+went; and so into the garden to her and sang, and then home to supper,
+and mightily pleased with her company, in talking and singing, and so
+parted, and to bed.
+
+30th. Up, and at the office all the morning. At noon Sir J. Minnes and I
+to the Dolphin Tavern, there to meet our neighbours, all of the
+Parish, this being Procession-day, to dine. And did; and much very good
+discourse; they being, most of them, very able merchants as any in
+the City: Sir Andrew Rickard, Mr. Vandeputt, Sir John Fredericke,
+Harrington, and others. They talked with Mr. Mills about the meaning
+of this day, and the good uses of it; and how heretofore, and yet in
+several places, they do whip a boy at each place they stop at in their
+procession. Thence I to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw
+"The Tempest," which still pleases me mightily, and thence to the
+New Exchange, and then home, and in the way stopped to talk with Mr.
+Brisband, who gives me an account of the rough usage Sir G. Carteret and
+his Counsel had the other day, before the Commissioners of Accounts, and
+what I do believe we shall all of us have, in a greater degree than any
+he hath had yet with them, before their three years are out, which are
+not yet begun, nor God knows when they will, this being like to be no
+session of Parliament, when they now rise. So home, and there took up
+Mrs. Turner and carried her to Mile End and drank, and so back talking,
+and so home and to bed, I being mighty cold, this being a mighty cold
+day, and I had left off my waistcoat three or four days. This evening,
+coming home in the dusk, I saw and spoke to our Nell, Pain's daughter,
+and had I not been very cold I should have taken her to Tower hill para
+together et toker her. Thus ends this month; my wife in the country,
+myself full of pleasure and expence; and some trouble for my friends, my
+Lord Sandwich, by the Parliament, and more for my eyes, which are daily
+worse and worse, that I dare not write or read almost any thing.
+The Parliament going in a few days to rise; myself so long without
+accounting now, for seven or eight months, I think, or more, that I know
+not what condition almost I am in, as to getting or spending for all
+that time, which troubles me, but I will soon do it. The kingdom in an
+ill state through poverty; a fleete going out, and no money to maintain
+it, or set it out; seamen yet unpaid, and mutinous when pressed to go
+out again; our Office able to do little, nobody trusting us, nor we
+desiring any to trust us, and yet have not money for any thing, but only
+what particularly belongs to this fleete going out, and that but lamely
+too. The Parliament several months upon an Act for L300,000, but cannot
+or will not agree upon it, but do keep it back, in spite of the King's
+desires to hasten it, till they can obtain what they have a mind, in
+revenge upon some men for the late ill managements; and he is forced to
+submit to what they please, knowing that, without it, he shall have no
+money, and they as well, that, if they give the money, the King will
+suffer them to do little more; and then the business of religion
+do disquiet every body, the Parliament being vehement against the
+Nonconformists, while the King seems to be willing to countenance them.
+So we are all poor, and in pieces--God help us! while the peace is
+like to go on between Spain and France; and then the French may be
+apprehended able to attack us. So God help us!
+
+
+
+
+MAY 1668
+
+May 1st, 1668. Up, and to the office, where all the morning busy. Then
+to Westminster Hall, and there met Sir W. Pen, who labours to have his
+answer to his impeachment, and sent down from the Lords' House, read
+by the House of Commons; but they are so busy on other matters, that he
+cannot, and thereby will, as he believes, by design, be prevented from
+going to sea this year. Here met my cozen Thomas Pepys of Deptford,
+and took some turns with him; who is mightily troubled for this Act now
+passed against Conventicles, and in few words, and sober, do lament the
+condition we are in, by a negligent Prince and a mad Parliament. Thence
+I by coach to the Temple, and there set him down, and then to Sir G.
+Carteret's to dine, but he not being at home, I back again to the New
+Exchange a little, and thence back again to Hercules Pillars, and there
+dined all alone, and then to the King's playhouse, and there saw "The
+Surprizall;" and a disorder in the pit by its raining in, from the
+cupola at top, it being a very foul day, and cold, so as there are few
+I believe go to the Park to-day, if any. Thence to Westminster Hall,
+and there I understand how the Houses of Commons and Lords are like to
+disagree very much, about the business of the East India Company and one
+Skinner; to the latter of which the Lords have awarded L5000 from the
+former, for some wrong done him heretofore; and the former appealing
+to the Commons, the Lords vote their petition a libell; and so there is
+like to follow very hot work. Thence by water, not being able to get a
+coach, nor boat but a sculler, and that with company, is being so foul
+a day, to the Old Swan, and so home, and there spent the evening, making
+Balty read to me, and so to supper and to bed.
+
+2nd. Up, and at the office all the morning. At noon with Lord Brouncker
+in his coach as far as the Temple, and there 'light and to Hercules
+Pillars, and there dined, and thence to the Duke of York's playhouse,
+at a little past twelve, to get a good place in the pit, against the new
+play, and there setting a poor man to keep my place, I out, and spent an
+hour at Martin's, my bookseller's, and so back again, where I find the
+house quite full. But I had my place, and by and by the King comes and
+the Duke of York; and then the play begins, called "The Sullen Lovers;
+or, The Impertinents," having many good humours in it, but the play
+tedious, and no design at all in it. But a little boy, for a farce, do
+dance Polichinelli, the best that ever anything was done in the world,
+by all men's report: most pleased with that, beyond anything in the
+world, and much beyond all the play. Thence to the King's house to see
+Knepp, but the play done; and so I took a hackney alone, and to the
+park, and there spent the evening, and to the lodge, and drank new milk.
+And so home to the Office, ended my letters, and, to spare my eyes,
+home, and played on my pipes, and so to bed.
+
+3rd (Lord's day). Up, and to church, where I saw Sir A. Rickard, though
+he be under the Black Rod, by order of the Lords' House, upon the
+quarrel between the East India Company and Skinner, which is like to
+come to a very great heat between the two Houses. At noon comes Mr.
+Mills and his wife, and Mr. Turner and his wife, by invitation to
+dinner, and we were mighty merry, and a very pretty dinner, of my
+Bridget and Nell's dressing, very handsome. After dinner to church
+again.... So home and with Sir W. Pen took a hackney, and he and I to
+Old Street, to a brew-house there, to see Sir Thomas Teddiman, who is
+very ill in bed of a fever, got, I believe, by the fright the Parliament
+have put him into, of late. But he is a good man, a good seaman, and
+stout. Thence Pen and I to Islington, and there, at the old house, eat,
+and drank, and merry, and there by chance giving two pretty fat boys
+each of them a cake, they proved to be Captain Holland's children, whom
+therefore I pity. So round by Hackney home, having good discourse, he
+[Pen] being very open to me in his talk, how the King ought to dissolve
+this Parliament, when the Bill of Money is passed, they being never
+likely to give him more; how he [the King] hath great opportunity of
+making himself popular by stopping this Act against Conventicles; and
+how my Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, if the Parliament continue,
+will undoubtedly fall, he having managed that place with so much
+self-seeking, and disorder, and pleasure, and some great men are
+designing to overthrow [him], as, among the rest, my Lord Orrery; and
+that this will try the King mightily, he being a firm friend to my Lord
+Lieutenant. So home; and to supper a little, and then to bed, having
+stepped, after I come home, to Alderman Backewell's about business, and
+there talked a while with him and his wife, a fine woman of the country,
+and how they had bought an estate at Buckeworth, within four mile of
+Brampton.
+
+4th. Up betimes, and by water to Charing Cross, and so to W. Coventry,
+and there talked a little with him, and thence over the Park to White
+Hall, and there did a little business at the Treasury, and so to the
+Duke, and there present Balty to the Duke of York and a letter from the
+Board to him about him, and the Duke of York is mightily pleased with
+him, and I doubt not his continuance in employment, which I am glad of.
+Thence with Sir H. Cholmly to Westminster Hall talking, and he crying
+mightily out of the power the House of Lords usurps in this business of
+the East India Company. Thence away home and there did business, and
+so to dinner, my sister Michell and I, and thence to the Duke of York's
+house, and there saw "The Impertinents" again, and with less pleasure
+than before, it being but a very contemptible play, though there are
+many little witty expressions in it; and the pit did generally say that
+of it. Thence, going out, Mrs. Pierce called me from the gallery, and
+there I took her and Mrs. Corbet by coach up and down, and took up
+Captain Rolt in the street; and at last, it being too late to go to the
+Park, I carried them to the Beare in Drury Lane, and there did treat
+them with a dish of mackrell, the first I have seen this year, and
+another dish, and mighty merry; and so carried her home, and thence home
+myself, well pleased with this evening's pleasure, and so to bed.
+
+5th. Up, and all the morning at the office. At noon home to dinner
+and Creed with me, and after dinner he and I to the Duke of York's
+playhouse; and there coming late, he and I up to the balcony-box, where
+we find my Lady Castlemayne and several great ladies; and there we sat
+with them, and I saw "The Impertinents" once more, now three times, and
+the three only days it hath been acted. And to see the folly how the
+house do this day cry up the play more than yesterday! and I for that
+reason like it, I find, the better, too; by Sir Positive At-all, I
+understand, is meant Sir Robert Howard. My Lady [Castlemaine] pretty
+well pleased with it; but here I sat close to her fine woman, Willson,
+who indeed is very handsome, but, they say, with child by the King. I
+asked, and she told me this was the first time her Lady had seen it,
+I having a mind to say something to her. One thing of familiarity I
+observed in my Lady Castlemayne: she called to one of her women, another
+that sat by this, for a little patch off her face, and put it into her
+mouth and wetted it, and so clapped it upon her own by the side of her
+mouth, I suppose she feeling a pimple rising there. Thence with Creed
+to Westminster Hall, and there met with cozen Roger, who tells me of
+the great conference this day between the Lords and Commons, about
+the business of the East India Company, as being one of the weightiest
+conferences that hath been, and managed as weightily. I am heartily
+sorry I was not there, it being upon a mighty point of the privileges
+of the subjects of England, in regard to the authority of the House of
+Lords, and their being condemned by them as the Supreme Court, which, we
+say, ought not to be, but by appeal from other Courts. And he tells
+me that the Commons had much the better of them, in reason and history
+there quoted, and believes the Lords will let it fall. Thence to walk in
+the Hall, and there hear that Mrs. Martin's child, my god-daughter,
+is dead, and so by water to the Old Swan, and thence home, and there a
+little at Sir W. Pen's, and so to bed.
+
+6th. Up, and to the office, and thence to White Hall, but come too
+late to see the Duke of York, with whom my business was, and so to
+Westminster Hall, where met with several people and talked with them,
+and among other things understand that my Lord St. John is meant by Mr.
+Woodcocke, in "The Impertinents."
+
+        ["Whilst Positive walks, like Woodcock in the park,
+          Contriving projects with a brewer's clerk."
+
+     Andrew Marvell's "Instructions to a Painter," part iii., to which is
+     subjoined the following note: "Sir Robert Howard, and Sir William
+     Bucknell, the brewer."--Works, ed.  by Capt.  E. Thompson, vol.
+     iii., p. 405.--B.]
+
+Here met with Mrs. Washington, my old acquaintance of the Hall, whose
+husband has a place in the Excise at Windsor, and it seems lives well.
+I have not seen her these 8 or 9 years, and she begins to grow old,
+I perceive, visibly. So time do alter, and do doubtless the like in
+myself. This morning the House is upon the City Bill, and they say hath
+passed it, though I am sorry that I did not think to put somebody
+in mind of moving for the churches to be allotted according to the
+convenience of the people, and not to gratify this Bishop, or that
+College. Thence by water to the New Exchange, where bought a pair of
+shoe-strings, and so to Mr. Pierces, where invited, and there was Knepp
+and Mrs. Foster and here dined, but a poor, sluttish dinner, as usual,
+and so I could not be heartily merry at it: here saw her girl's picture,
+but it is mighty far short of her boy's, and not like her neither; but
+it makes Hales's picture of her boy appear a good picture. Thence to
+White Hall, walked with Brisband, who dined there also, and thence I
+back to the King's playhouse, and there saw "The Virgin Martyr," and
+heard the musick that I like so well, and intended to have seen Knepp,
+but I let her alone; and having there done, went to Mrs. Pierces back
+again, where she was, and there I found her on a pallet in the dark...,
+that is Knepp. And so to talk; and by and by did eat some curds and
+cream, and thence away home, and it being night, I did walk in the dusk
+up and down, round through our garden, over Tower Hill, and so through
+Crutched Friars, three or four times, and once did meet Mercer and
+another pretty lady, but being surprized I could say little to them,,
+although I had an opportunity of pleasing myself with them, but left
+them, and then I did see our Nell, Payne's daughter, and her je did
+desire venir after me, and so elle did see me to, Tower Hill to our back
+entry there that comes upon the degres entrant into nostra garden...,
+and so parted, and je home to put up things against to-morrow's carrier
+for my wife; and, among others, a very fine salmon-pie, sent me by Mr.
+Steventon, W. Hewer's uncle, and so to bed.
+
+7th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon home to
+dinner, and thither I sent for Mercer to dine with me, and after dinner
+she and I called Mrs. Turner, and I carried them to the Duke of York's
+house, and there saw "The Man's the Master," which proves, upon my
+seeing it again, a very good play. Thence called Knepp from the King's
+house, where going in for her, the play being done, I did see Beck
+Marshall come dressed, off of the stage, and looks mighty fine, and
+pretty, and noble: and also Nell, in her boy's clothes, mighty pretty.
+But, Lord! their confidence! and how many men do hover about them as
+soon as they come off the stage, and how confident they are in their
+talk! Here I did kiss the pretty woman newly come, called Pegg, that was
+Sir Charles Sidly's mistress, a mighty pretty woman, and seems, but is
+not, modest. Here took up Knepp into our coach, and all of us with her
+to her lodgings, and thither comes Bannister with a song of hers, that
+he hath set in Sir Charles Sidly's play for her, which is, I think, but
+very meanly set; but this he did, before us, teach her, and it being but
+a slight, silly, short ayre, she learnt it presently. But I did get him
+to prick me down the notes of the Echo in "The Tempest," which pleases
+me mightily. Here was also Haynes, the incomparable dancer of the King's
+house, and a seeming civil man, and sings pretty well, and they gone, we
+abroad to Marrowbone, and there walked in the garden, the first time I
+ever was there; and a pretty place it is, and here we eat and drank and
+stayed till 9 at night, and so home by moonshine.... And so set Mrs.
+Knepp at her lodging, and so the rest, and I home talking with a great
+deal of pleasure, and so home to bed.
+
+8th. Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning. Towards noon I
+to Westminster and there understand that the Lords' House did sit till
+eleven o'clock last night, about the business in difference between them
+and the Commons, in the matter of the East India Company. Here took a
+turn or two, and up to my Lord Crew's, and there dined; where Mr. Case,
+the minister, a dull fellow in his talk, and all in the Presbyterian
+manner; a great deal of noise and a kind of religious tone, but very
+dull. After dinner my Lord and I together. He tells me he hears that
+there are great disputes like to be at Court, between the factions of
+the two women, my Lady Castlemayne and Mrs. Stewart, who is now well
+again, and the King hath made several public visits to her, and like to
+come to Court: the other is to go to Barkeshire-house, which is taken
+for her, and they say a Privy-Seal is passed for L5000 for it. He
+believes all will come to ruin. Thence I to White Hall, where the Duke
+of York gone to the Lords' House, where there is to be a conference on
+the Lords' side to the Commons this afternoon, giving in their Reasons,
+which I would have been at, but could not; for, going by direction to
+the Prince's chamber, there Brouncker, W. Pen, and Mr. Wren, and I, met,
+and did our business with the Duke of York. But, Lord! to see how this
+play of Sir Positive At-all,--["The Impertinents."]--in abuse of Sir
+Robert Howard, do take, all the Duke's and every body's talk being of
+that, and telling more stories of him, of the like nature, that it is
+now the town and country talk, and, they say, is most exactly true. The
+Duke of York himself said that of his playing at trap-ball is true, and
+told several other stories of him. This being done, Brouncker, Pen,
+and I to Brouncker's house, and there sat and talked, I asking many
+questions in mathematics to my Lord, which he do me the pleasure to
+satisfy me in, and here we drank and so spent an hour, and so W. Pen and
+I home, and after being with W. Pen at his house an hour, I home and to
+bed.
+
+9th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning we sat. Here I first
+hear that the Queene hath miscarryed of a perfect child, being gone
+about ten weeks, which do shew that she can conceive, though it be
+unfortunate that she cannot bring forth. Here we are told also that last
+night the Duchesse of Monmouth, dancing at her lodgings, hath sprained
+her thigh. Here we are told also that the House of Commons sat till five
+o'clock this morning, upon the business of the difference between the
+Lords and them, resolving to do something therein before they rise, to
+assert their privileges. So I at noon by water to Westminster, and there
+find the King hath waited in the Prince's chamber these two hours, and
+the Houses are not ready for him. The Commons having sent this morning,
+after their long debate therein the last night, to the Lords, that
+they do think the only expedient left to preserve unity between the two
+Houses is, that they do put a stop to any proceedings upon their late
+judgement against the East India Company, till their next meeting; to
+which the Lords returned answer that they would return answer to them by
+a messenger of their own, which they not presently doing, they were all
+inflamed, and thought it was only a trick, to keep them in suspense
+till the King come to adjourne them; and, so, rather than lose the
+opportunity of doing themselves right, they presently with great fury
+come to this vote: "That whoever should assist in the execution of the
+judgement of the Lords against the Company, should be held betrayers of
+the liberties of the people of England, and of the privileges of
+that House." This the Lords had notice of, and were mad at it; and so
+continued debating without any design to yield to the Commons, till the
+King come in, and sent for the Commons, where the Speaker made a short
+but silly speech, about their giving Him L300,000; and then the several
+Bills, their titles were read, and the King's assent signified in the
+proper terms, according to the nature of the Bills, of which about
+three or four were public Bills, and seven or eight private ones, the
+additional Bills for the building of the City and the Bill against
+Conventicles being none of them. The King did make a short, silly
+speech, which he read, giving them thanks for the money, which now,
+he said, he did believe would be sufficient, because there was peace
+between his neighbours, which was a kind of a slur, methought, to the
+Commons; and that he was sorry for what he heard of difference between
+the two Houses, but that he hoped their recesse would put them into a
+way of accommodation; and so adjourned them to the 9th of August, and
+then recollected himself, and told them the 11th; so imperfect a speaker
+he is. So the Commons went to their House, and forthwith adjourned; and
+the Lords resumed their House, the King being gone, and sat an hour or
+two after, but what they did, I cannot tell; but every body expected
+they would commit Sir Andrew Rickard, Sir Samuel Barnardiston, Mr.
+Boone, and Mr. Wynne, who were all there, and called in, upon their
+knees, to the bar of the House; and Sir John Robinson I left there,
+endeavouring to prevent their being committed to the Tower, lest he
+should thereby be forced to deny their order, because of this vote of
+the Commons, whereof he is one, which is an odde case.
+
+     [This "odd case" was that of Thomas Skinner and the East India
+     Company.  According to Ralph, the Commons had ordered Skinner, the
+     plaintiff, into the custody of the Serjeant-at-Arms, and the Lords
+     did the same by Sir Samuel Barnadiston, deputy-governor of the
+     company, as likewise Sir Andrew Rickard, Mr. Rowland Gwynn, and Mr.
+     Christopher Boone.--B.]
+
+Thence I to the Rose Taverne in Covent Garden, and there sent for a
+pullet and dined all alone, being to meet Sir W. Pen, who by and
+by come, and he and I into the King's house, and there "The Mayd's
+Tragedy," a good play, but Knepp not there; and my head and eyes out of
+order, the first from my drinking wine at dinner, and the other from my
+much work in the morning. Thence parted, and I towards the New Exchange
+and there bought a pair of black silk stockings at the hosier's that
+hath the very pretty woman to his wife, about ten doors on this side
+of the 'Change, and she is indeed very pretty, but I think a notable
+talking woman by what I heard to others there. Thence to Westminster
+Hall, where I hear the Lords are up, but what they have done I know not,
+and so walked toward White Hall and thence by water to the Tower, and so
+home and there to my letters, and so to Sir W. Pen's; and there did talk
+with Mrs. Lowther, who is very kind to me, more than usual, and I will
+make use of it. She begins to draw very well, and I think do as well, if
+not better, than my wife, if it be true that she do it herself, what she
+shews me, and so to bed, and my head akeing all night with the wine I
+drank to-day, and my eyes ill. So lay long, my head pretty well in the
+morning.
+
+10th (Lord's day). Up, and to the office, there to do, business till
+church time, when Mr. Shepley, newly come to town, come to see me,
+and we had some discourse of all matters, and particularly of my Lord
+Sandwich's concernments, and here did by the by as he would seem tell
+me that my Lady--[Lady Sandwich.]--had it in her thoughts, if she had
+occasion, to, borrow L100 of me, which I did not declare any opposition
+to, though I doubt it will be so much lost. But, however, I will not
+deny my Lady, if she ask it, whatever comes of it, though it be lost;
+but shall be glad that it is no bigger sum. And yet it vexes me though,
+and the more because it brings into my head some apprehensions what
+trouble I may here after be brought to when my Lord comes home, if
+he should ask me to come into bonds with him, as I fear he will have
+occasions to make money, but I hope I shall have the wit to deny it.
+He being gone, I to church, and so home, and there comes W. Hewer and
+Balty, and by and by I sent for Mercer to come and dine with me, and
+pretty merry, and after dinner I fell to teach her "Canite Jehovae,"
+which she did a great part presently, and so she away, and I to church,
+and from church home with my Lady Pen; and, after being there an hour
+or so talking, I took her, and Mrs. Lowther, and old Mrs. Whistler, her
+mother-in-law, by water with great pleasure as far as Chelsy, and so
+back to Spring Garden, at Fox-hall, and there walked, and eat, and
+drank, and so to water again, and set down the old woman at home at
+Durham Yard:' and it raining all the way, it troubled us; but, however,
+my cloak kept us all dry, and so home, and at the Tower wharf there we
+did send for a pair of old shoes for Mrs. Lowther, and there I did pull
+the others off and put them on, elle being peu shy, but do speak con
+mighty kindness to me that she would desire me pour su mari if it were
+to be done..... Here staid a little at Sir W. Pen's, who was gone to
+bed, it being about eleven at night, and so I home to bed.
+
+11th. Up, and to my office, where alone all the morning. About noon
+comes to me my cousin Sarah, and my aunt Livett, newly come out of
+Gloucestershire, good woman, and come to see me; I took them home, and
+made them drink, but they would not stay dinner, I being alone. But here
+they tell me that they hear that this day Kate Joyce was to be married
+to a man called Hollingshed, whom she indeed did once tell me of, and
+desired me to enquire after him. But, whatever she said of his being
+rich, I do fear, by her doing this without my advice, it is not as it
+ought to be; but, as she brews, let her bake. They being gone, I to
+dinner with Balty and his wife, who is come to town to-day from Deptford
+to see us, and after dinner I out and took a coach, and called Mercer,
+and she and I to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "The
+Tempest," and between two acts, I went out to Mr. Harris, and got him to
+repeat to me the words of the Echo, while I writ them down, having tried
+in the play to have wrote them; but, when I had done it, having done it
+without looking upon my paper, I find I could not read the blacklead.
+But now I have got the words clear, and, in going in thither, had the
+pleasure to see the actors in their several dresses, especially the
+seamen and monster, which were very droll: so into the play again. But
+there happened one thing which vexed me, which is, that the orange-woman
+did come in the pit, and challenge me for twelve oranges, which she
+delivered by my order at a late play, at night, to give to some ladies
+in a box, which was wholly untrue, but yet she swore it to be true. But,
+however, I did deny it, and did not pay her; but, for quiet, did buy 4s.
+worth of oranges of her, at 6d. a-piece. Here I saw first my Lord Ormond
+since his coming from Ireland, which is now about eight days. After the
+play done, I took Mercer by water to Spring Garden; and there with great
+pleasure walked, and eat, and drank, and sang, making people come about
+us, to hear us, and two little children of one of our neighbours that
+happened to be there, did come into our arbour, and we made them dance
+prettily. So by water, with great pleasure, down to the Bridge, and
+there landed, and took water again on the other side; and so to the
+Tower, and I saw her home, I myself home to my chamber, and by and by to
+bed.
+
+12th. Up, and to the office, where we sat, and sat all the morning. Here
+Lord Anglesey was with us, and in talk about the late difference between
+the two Houses, do tell us that he thinks the House of Lords may be in
+an error, at least, it is possible they may, in this matter of Skinner;
+and he doubts they may, and did declare his judgement in the House
+of Lords against their proceedings therein, he having hindered 100
+originall causes being brought into their House, notwithstanding that he
+was put upon defending their proceedings: but that he is confident that
+the House of Commons are in the wrong, in the method they take to remedy
+an error of the Lords, for no vote of theirs can do it; but, in all like
+cases, the Commons have done it by petition to the King, sent up to
+the Lords, and by them agreed to, and so redressed, as they did in the
+Petition of Right. He says that he did tell them indeed, which is talked
+of, and which did vex the Commons, that the Lords were "Judices nati et
+Conciliarii nati;" but all other judges among us are under salary, and
+the Commons themselves served for wages; and therefore the Lords, in
+reason, were the freer judges. At noon to dinner at home, and after
+dinner, where Creed dined with me, he and I, by water to the Temple,
+where we parted, and I both to the King's and Duke of York's playhouses,
+and there went through the houses to see what faces I could spy that I
+knew, and meeting none, I away by coach to my house, and then to Mrs.
+Mercer's, where I met with her two daughters, and a pretty-lady I never
+knew yet, one Mrs. Susan Gayet, a very pretty black lady, that speaks
+French well, and is a Catholick, and merchant's daughter, by us, and
+here was also Mrs. Anne Jones, and after sitting and talking a little, I
+took them out, and carried them through Hackney to Kingsland, and there
+walked to Sir G. Whitmore's house, where I have not been many a day;
+and so to the old house at Islington, and eat, and drank, and sang, and
+mighty merry; and so by moonshine with infinite pleasure home, and there
+sang again in Mercer's garden. And so parted, I having there seen a
+mummy in a merchant's warehouse there, all the middle of the man or
+woman's body, black and hard. I never saw any before, and, therefore, it
+pleased me much, though an ill sight; and he did give me a little bit,
+and a bone of an arme, I suppose, and so home, and there to bed.
+
+13th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and so to Sir H. Cholmly's, who
+not being up I made a short visit to Sir W. Coventry, and he and I
+through the Park to White Hall, and thence I back into the Park, and
+there met Sir H. Cholmly, and he and I to Sir Stephen Fox's, where we
+met and considered the business of the Excise, how far it is charged
+in reference to the payment of the Guards and Tangier. Thence he and I
+walked to Westminster Hall and there took a turn, it being holyday, and
+so back again, and I to the mercer's, and my tailor's about a stuff suit
+that I am going to make. Thence, at noon, to Hercules Pillars, and there
+dined all alone, and so to White Hall, some of us attended the Duke
+of York as usual, and so to attend the Council about the business of
+Hemskirke's project of building a ship that sails two feet for one of
+any other ship, which the Council did agree to be put in practice, the
+King to give him, if it proves good, L5000 in hand, and L15,000 more in
+seven years, which, for my part, I think a piece of folly for them to
+meddle with, because the secret cannot be long kept. So thence, after
+Council, having drunk some of the King's wine and water with Mr.
+Chevins, my Lord Brouncker, and some others, I by water to the Old Swan,
+and there to Michell's, and did see her and drink there, but he being
+there je ne baiser la; and so back again by water to Spring Garden all
+alone, and walked a little, and so back again home, and there a little
+to my viall, and so to bed, Mrs. Turner having sat and supped with me.
+This morning I hear that last night Sir Thomas Teddiman, poor man! did
+die by a thrush in his mouth: a good man, and stout and able, and much
+lamented; though people do make a little mirth, and say, as I believe
+it did in good part, that the business of the Parliament did break his
+heart, or, at least, put him into this fever and disorder, that caused
+his death.
+
+14th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon
+home to dinner with my people, but did not stay to dine out with them,
+but rose and straight by water to the Temple, and so to Penny's, my
+tailor's, where by and by by agreement Mercer, and she, to my great
+content, brings Mrs. Gayet, and I carried them to the King's house; but,
+coming too soon, we out again to the Rose taverne, and there I did give
+them a tankard of cool drink, the weather being very hot, and then into
+the playhouse again, and there saw "The Country Captain," a very dull
+play, that did give us no content, and besides, little company there,
+which made it very unpleasing. Thence to the waterside, at Strand
+bridge, and so up by water and to Fox-hall, where we walked a great
+while, and pleased mightily with the pleasure thereof, and the company
+there, and then in, and eat and drank, and then out again and walked,
+and it beginning to be dark, we to a corner and sang, that everybody got
+about us to hear us; and so home, where I saw them both at their doors,
+and, full of the content of this afternoon's pleasure, I home and to
+walk in the garden a little, and so home to bed.
+
+15th. Up, and betimes to White Hall, and there met with Sir H. Cholmly
+at Sir Stephen Fox's, and there was also the Cofferer, and we did there
+consider about our money and the condition of the Excise, and after much
+dispute agreed upon a state thereof and the manner of our future course
+of payments. Thence to the Duke of York, and there did a little navy
+business as we used to do, and so to a Committee for Tangier, where God
+knows how my Lord Bellasses's accounts passed; understood by nobody but
+my Lord Ashly, who, I believe, was mad to let them go as he pleased. But
+here Sir H. Cholmly had his propositions read, about a greater price for
+his work of the Mole, or to do it upon account, which, being read, he
+was bid to withdraw. But, Lord! to see how unlucky a man may be, by
+chance; for, making an unfortunate minute when they were almost tired
+with the other business, the Duke of York did find fault with it, and
+that made all the rest, that I believe he had better have given a great
+deal, and had nothing said to it to-day; whereas, I have seen other
+things more extravagant passed at first hearing, without any difficulty.
+Thence I to my Lord Brouncker's, at Mrs. Williams's, and there dined,
+and she did shew me her closet, which I was sorry to see, for fear of
+her expecting something from me; and here she took notice of my wife's
+not once coming to see her, which I am glad of; for she shall not--a
+prating, vain, idle woman. Thence with Lord Brouncker to Loriners'-hall,
+
+     [The Loriners, or Lorimers (bit-makers), of London are by reputation
+     an ancient mistery, but they were first incorporated by letters
+     patent of 10 Queen Anne (December 3rd, 1711).  Their small hall was
+     at the corner of Basinghall Street in London Wall.  The company has
+     no hall now.]
+
+by Mooregate, a hall I never heard of before, to Sir Thomas Teddiman's
+burial, where most people belonging to the sea were. And here we had
+rings: and here I do hear that some of the last words that he said were,
+that he had a very good King, God bless him! but that the Parliament had
+very ill rewarded him for all the service he had endeavoured to do
+them and his country; so that, for certain, this did go far towards his
+death. But, Lord! to see among [the company] the young commanders, and
+Thomas Killigrew and others that come, how unlike a burial this was,
+O'Brian taking out some ballads out of his pocket, which I read, and the
+rest come about me to hear! and there very merry we were all, they being
+new ballets. By and by the corpse went; and I, with my Lord Brouncker,
+and Dr. Clerke, and Mr. Pierce, as far as the foot of London-bridge;
+and there we struck off into Thames Street, the rest going to Redriffe,
+where he is to be buried. And we 'light at the Temple, and there
+parted; and I to the King's house, and there saw the last act of "The
+Committee," thinking to have seen Knepp there, but she did not act. And
+so to my bookseller's, and there carried home some books-among others,
+"Dr. Wilkins's Reall Character," and thence to Mrs. Turner's, and there
+went and sat, and she showed me her house from top to bottom, which I
+had not seen before, very handsome, and here supped, and so home, and
+got Mercer, and she and I in the garden singing till ten at night, and
+so home to a little supper, and then parted, with great content, and
+to bed. The Duchesse of Monmouth's hip is, I hear, now set again, after
+much pain. I am told also that the Countess of Shrewsbury is brought
+home by the Duke of Buckingham to his house, where his Duchess saying
+that it was not for her and the other to live together in a house, he
+answered, Why, Madam, I did think so, and, therefore, have ordered your
+coach to be ready, to carry you to your father's, which was a devilish
+speech, but, they say, true; and my Lady Shrewsbury is there, it seems.
+
+16th. Up; and to the Office, where we sat all the morning; and at
+noon, home with my people to dinner; and thence to the Office all the
+afternoon, till, my eyes weary, I did go forth by coach to the King's
+playhouse, and there saw the best part of "The Sea Voyage," where Knepp
+I see do her part of sorrow very well. I afterwards to her house; but
+she did not come presently home; and there je did kiss her ancilla,
+which is so mighty belle; and I to my tailor's, and to buy me a belt for
+my new suit against to-morrow; and so home, and there to my Office, and
+afterwards late walking in the garden; and so home to supper, and to
+bed, after Nell's cutting of my hair close, the weather being very hot.
+
+17th (Lord's day). Up, and put on my new stuff-suit, with a
+shoulder-belt, according to the new fashion, and the bands of my vest
+and tunique laced with silk lace, of the colour of my suit: and so, very
+handsome, to Church, where a dull sermon and of a stranger, and so home;
+and there I find W. Howe, and a younger brother of his, come to dine
+with me; and there comes Mercer, and brings with her Mrs. Gayet, which
+pleased me mightily; and here was also W. Hewer, and mighty merry; and
+after dinner to sing psalms. But, Lord! to hear what an excellent base
+this younger brother of W. Howe's sings, even to my astonishment, and
+mighty pleasant. By and by Gayet goes away, being a Catholick, to
+her devotions, and Mercer to church; but we continuing an hour or two
+singing, and so parted; and I to Sir W. Pen's, and there sent for a
+hackney-coach; and he and she [Lady Pen] and I out, to take the gyre. We
+went to Stepney, and there stopped at the Trinity House, he to talk
+with the servants there against to-morrow, which is a great day for the
+choice of a new Master, and thence to Mile End, and there eat and
+drank, and so home; and I supped with them--that is, eat some butter and
+radishes, which is my excuse for not eating any other of their victuals,
+which I hate, because of their sluttery: and so home, and made my boy
+read to me part of Dr. Wilkins's new book of the "Real Character;" and
+so to bed.
+
+18th. Up, and to my office, where most of the morning doing business and
+seeing my window-frames new painted, and then I out by coach to my Lord
+Bellasses, at his new house by my late Lord Treasurer's, and there met
+him and Mr. Sherwin, Auditor Beale, and Creed, about my Lord's accounts,
+and here my Lord shewed me his new house, which, indeed, is mighty
+noble, and good pictures--indeed, not one bad one in it. Thence to my
+tailor's, and there did find Mercer come with Mrs. Horsfield and Gayet
+according to my desire, and there I took them up, it being almost twelve
+o'clock, or a little more, and carried them to the King's playhouse,
+where the doors were not then open; but presently they did open; and we
+in, and find many people already come in, by private ways, into the
+pit, it being the first day of Sir Charles Sidly's new play, so long
+expected, "The Mullberry Guarden," of whom, being so reputed a wit, all
+the world do expect great matters. I having sat here awhile, and eat
+nothing to-day, did slip out, getting a boy to keep my place; and to the
+Rose Tavern, and there got half a breast of mutton, off of the spit, and
+dined all alone. And so to the play again, where the King and Queen, by
+and by, come, and all the Court; and the house infinitely full. But the
+play, when it come, though there was, here and there, a pretty saying,
+and that not very many neither, yet the whole of the play had nothing
+extraordinary in it, at all, neither of language nor design; insomuch
+that the King I did not see laugh, nor pleased the whole play from the
+beginning to the end, nor the company; insomuch that I have not been
+less pleased at a new play in my life, I think. And which made it the
+worse was, that there never was worse musick played--that is, worse
+things composed, which made me and Captain Rolt, who happened to sit
+near me, mad. So away thence, very little satisfied with the play, but
+pleased with my company. I carried them to Kensington, to the Grotto,
+and there we sang, to my great content, only vexed, in going in, to
+see a son of Sir Heneage Finch's beating of a poor little dog to death,
+letting it lie in so much pain that made me mad to see it, till, by and
+by, the servants of the house chiding of their young master, one of
+them come with a thong, and killed the dog outright presently. Thence
+to Westminster palace, and there took boat and to Fox Hall, where we
+walked, and eat, and drank, and sang, and very merry. But I find Mrs.
+Horsfield one of the veriest citizen's wives in the world, so full
+of little silly talk, and now and then a little sillily bawdy, that I
+believe if you had her sola a man might hazer all with her. So back by
+water to Westminster Palace, and there got a coach which carried us as
+far as the Minorys, and there some thing of the traces broke, and we
+forced to 'light, and walked to Mrs. Horsfield's house, it being a long
+and bad way, and dark, and having there put her in a doors, her husband
+being in bed, we left her and so back to our coach, where the coachman
+had put it in order, but could not find his whip in the dark a great
+while, which made us stay long. At last getting a neighbour to hold
+a candle out of their window Mercer found it, and so away we home at
+almost 12 at night, and setting them both at their homes, I home and to
+bed.
+
+19th. Up, and called on Mr. Pierce, who tells me that after all this ado
+Ward is come to town, and hath appeared to the Commissioners of Accounts
+and given such answers as he thinks will do every body right, and let
+the world see that their great expectations and jealousies have been
+vain in this matter of the prizes. The Commissioners were mighty
+inquisitive whether he was not instructed by letters or otherwise
+from hence from my Lord Sandwich's friends what to say and do, and
+particularly from me, which he did wholly deny, as it was true, I not
+knowing the man that I know of. He tells me also that, for certain, Mr.
+Vaughan is made Lord Chief justice, which I am glad of. He tells me,
+too; that since my Lord of Ormond's coming over, the King begins to be
+mightily reclaimed, and sups every night with great pleasure with
+the Queene: and yet, it seems, he is mighty hot upon the Duchess of
+Richmond; insomuch that, upon Sunday was se'nnight, at night, after he
+had ordered his Guards and coach to be ready to carry him to the Park,
+he did, on a sudden, take a pair of oars or sculler, and all alone, or
+but one with him, go to Somersett House, and there, the garden-door not
+being open, himself clamber over the walls to make a visit to her,
+which is a horrid shame. He gone, I to the office, where we sat all
+the morning, Sir W. Pen sick of the gout comes not out. After dinner at
+home, to White Hall, it being a very rainy day, and there a Committee
+for Tangier, where I was mightily pleased to see Sir W. Coventry fall
+upon my Lord Bellasses' business of the 3d. in every piece of it which
+he would get to himself, making the King pay 4s. 9d, while he puts them
+off for 4s. 6d., so that Sir W. Coventry continues still the same man
+for the King's good. But here Creed did vex me with saying that I ought
+first to have my account past by the Commissioners of Tangier before in
+the Exchequer. Thence W. Coventry and I in the Matted gallery, and there
+he did talk very well to me about the way to save the credit of the
+officers of the Navy, and their places too, by making use of this
+interval of Parliament to be found to be mending of matters in the
+Navy, and that nothing but this will do it, and gives an instance in
+themselves of the Treasury, whereof himself and Sir John Duncombe all
+the world knows have enemies, and my Lord Ashly a man obnoxious to most,
+and Sir Thomas Clifford one that as a man suddenly rising and a creature
+of my Lord Arlington's hath enemies enough (none of them being otherwise
+but the Duke of Albemarle), yet with all this fault they hear nothing
+of the business of the Treasury, but all well spoken of there. He is for
+the removal of Sir John Minnes, thinking that thereby the world will see
+a greater change in the hands than now they do; and I will endeavour it,
+and endeavour to do some good in the office also. So home by coach,
+and to the office, where ended my letters, and then home, and there got
+Balty to read to me out of Sorbiere's Observations in his Voyage into
+England, and then to bed.
+
+20th. Up, and with Colonell Middleton, in a new coach he hath made him,
+very handsome, to White Hall, where the Duke of York having removed his
+lodgings for this year to St. James's, we walked thither; and there
+find the Duke of York coming to White Hall, and so back to the
+Council-chamber, where the Committee of the Navy sat; and here we
+discoursed several things; but, Lord! like fools; so as it was a shame
+to see things of this importance managed by a Council that understand
+nothing of them: and, among other things, one was about this building
+of a ship with Hemskirke's secret, to sail a third faster than any other
+ship; but he hath got Prince Rupert on his side, and by that means, I
+believe, will get his conditions made better than he would otherwise, or
+ought indeed. Having done there, I met with Sir Richard Browne, and he
+took me to dinner with him to a new tavern, above Charing Cross, where
+some clients of his did give him a good dinner, and good company; among
+others, one Bovy, a solicitor, and lawyer and merchant all together, who
+hath travelled very much, did talk some things well; but only he is a
+"Sir Positive:" but the talk of their travels over the Alps very fine.
+Thence walked to the King's playhouse, and saw "The Mulberry Garden"
+again, and cannot be reconciled to it, but only to find here and there
+an independent sentence of wit, and that is all. Here met with Creed;
+and took him to Hales's, and there saw the beginnings of Harris's head
+which he draws for me, which I do not yet like. So he and I down to the
+New Exchange, and there cheapened ribbands for my wife, and so down to
+the Whey house and drank some and eat some curds, which did by and by
+make my belly ake mightily. So he and I to White Hall, and walked over
+the Park to the Mulberry-Garden,
+
+     [On the site of the present Buckingham Palace and gardens.
+     Originally a garden of mulberry trees, planted by James I. in 1609
+     with the intention of cultivating the manufacture of English silks.]
+
+where I never was before; and find it a very silly place, worse than
+Spring-garden, and but little company, and those a rascally, whoring,
+roguing sort of people, only a wilderness here, that is somewhat pretty,
+but rude. Did not stay to drink, but walked an hour and so away to
+Charing Cross, and there took coach and away home, in my way going
+into Bishopsgate Street, to bespeak places for myself and boy to go to
+Cambridge in the coach this week, and so to Brampton, to see my wife. So
+home, and to supper and to bed.
+
+21st. Up, and busy to send some things into the country, and then to
+the Office, where meets me Sir Richard Ford, who among other things
+congratulates me, as one or two did yesterday, [on] my great purchase;
+and he advises me rather to forbear, if it be not done, as a thing
+that the world will envy me in: and what is it but my cozen Tom Pepys's
+buying of Martin Abbey, in Surry! which is a mistake I am sorry for,
+and yet do fear that it may spread in the world to my prejudice. All the
+morning at the office, and at noon my clerks dined with me, and there do
+hear from them how all the town is full of the talk of a meteor, or some
+fire, that did on Saturday last fly over the City at night, which do put
+me in mind that, being then walking in the dark an hour or more myself
+in the garden, after I had done writing, I did see a light before me
+come from behind me, which made me turn back my head; and I did see a
+sudden fire or light running in the sky, as it were towards Cheapside
+ward, and it vanished very quick, which did make me bethink myself what
+holyday it was, and took it for some rocket, though it was much brighter
+than any rocket, and so thought no more of it, but it seems Mr. Hater
+and Gibson going home that night did meet with many clusters of people
+talking of it, and many people of the towns about the city did see it,
+and the world do make much discourse of it, their apprehensions being
+mighty full of the rest of the City to be burned, and the Papists to cut
+our throats. Which God prevent! Thence after dinner I by coach to the
+Temple, and there bought a new book of songs set to musique by one Smith
+of Oxford, some songs of Mr. Cowley's, and so to Westminster, and there
+to walk a little in the Hall, and so to Mrs. Martin's, and there
+did hazer cet que je voudrai mit her, and drank and sat most of the
+afternoon with her and her sister, and here she promises me her fine
+starling, which was the King's, and speaks finely, which I shall be glad
+of, and so walked to the Temple, meeting in the street with my cozen
+Alcocke, the young man, that is a good sober youth, I have not seen
+these four or five years, newly come to town to look for employment: but
+I cannot serve him, though I think he deserves well, and so I took coach
+and home to my business, and in the evening took Mrs. Turner and Mercer
+out to Mile End and drank, and then home, and sang; and eat a dish of
+greene pease, the first I have seen this year, given me by Mr. Gibson,
+extraordinary young and pretty, and so saw them at home, and so home to
+bed. Sir W. Pen continues ill of the gout.
+
+22nd. Up, and all the morning at the office busy. At noon home with my
+people to dinner, where good discourse and merry. After dinner comes
+Mr. Martin, the purser, and brings me his wife's starling, which was
+formerly the King's bird, that do speak and whistle finely, which I am
+mighty proud of and shall take pleasure in it. Thence to the Duke of
+York's house to a play, and saw Sir Martin Marr-all, where the house is
+full; and though I have seen it, I think, ten times, yet the pleasure
+I have is yet as great as ever, and is undoubtedly the best comedy ever
+was wrote. Thence to my tailor's and a mercer's for patterns to carry my
+wife of cloth and silk for a bed, which I think will please her and me,
+and so home, and fitted myself for my journey to-morrow, which I fear
+will not be pleasant, because of the wet weather, it raining very hard
+all this day; but the less it troubles me because the King and Duke of
+York and Court are at this day at Newmarket, at a great horse-race, and
+proposed great pleasure for two or three days, but are in the same wet.
+So from the office home to supper, and betimes to bed.
+
+23rd. Up by four o'clock; and, getting my things ready, and recommending
+the care of my house to W. Hewer, I with my boy Tom, whom I take with
+me, to the Bull, in Bishopsgate Street, and there, about six, took
+coach, he and I, and a gentleman and his man, there being another
+coach also, with as many more, I think, in it; and so away to Bishop's
+Stafford, and there dined, and changed horses and coach, at Mrs.
+Aynsworth's; but I took no knowledge of her. Here the gentleman and I to
+dinner, and in comes Captain Forster, an acquaintance of his, he that
+do belong to my Lord Anglesey, who had been at the late horse-races at
+Newmarket, where the King now is, and says that they had fair weather
+there yesterday, though we here, and at London, had nothing but rain,
+insomuch that the ways are mighty full of water, so as hardly to be
+passed. Here I hear Mrs. Aynsworth is going to live at London: but I
+believe will be mistaken in it; for it will be found better for her to
+be chief where she is, than to have little to do at London. There
+being many finer than she there. After dinner away again and come to
+Cambridge, after much bad way, about nine at night; and there, at the
+Rose, I met my father's horses, with a man, staying for me. But it is
+so late, and the waters so deep, that I durst not go to-night; but
+after supper to bed; and there lay very ill, by reason of some drunken
+scholars making a noise all night, and vexed for fear that the horses
+should not be taken up from grass, time enough for the morning. Well
+pleased all this journey with the conversation of him that went with me,
+who I think is a lawyer, and lives about Lynne, but his name I did not
+ask.
+
+24th (Lord's day). I up, at between two and three in the morning, and,
+calling up my boy, and father's boy, we set out by three o'clock, it
+being high day; end so through the water with very good success, though
+very deep almost all the way, and got to Brampton, where most of them
+in bed, and so I weary up to my wife's chamber, whom I find in bed, and
+pretended a little not well, and indeed she hath those upon her, but
+fell to talk and mightily pleased both of us, and upgot the rest, Betty
+Turner and Willet and Jane, all whom I was glad to see, and very merry,
+and got me ready in my new stuff clothes that I send down before me, and
+so my wife and they got ready too, while I to my father, poor man, and
+walked with him up and down the house--it raining a little, and the
+waters all over Portholme and the meadows, so as no pleasure abroad.
+Here I saw my brothers and sister Jackson, she growing fat, and, since
+being married, I think looks comelier than before: but a mighty pert
+woman she is, and I think proud, he keeping her mighty handsome, and
+they say mighty fond, and are going shortly to live at Ellington of
+themselves, and will keep malting, and grazing of cattle. At noon comes
+Mr. Phillips and dines with us, and a pretty odd-humoured man he seems
+to be; but good withal, but of mighty great methods in his eating and
+drinking, and will not kiss a woman since his wife's death. After dinner
+my Lady Sandwich sending to see whether I was come, I presently took
+horse, and find her and her family at chapel; and thither I went in to
+them, and sat out the sermon, where I heard Jervas Fullwood, now their
+chaplain, preach a very good and seraphic kind of sermon, too good for
+an ordinary congregation. After sermon, I with my Lady, and my Lady
+Hinchingbroke, and Paulina, and Lord Hinchingbroke, to the dining-room,
+saluting none of them, and there sat and talked an hour or two, with
+great pleasure and satisfaction, to my Lady, about my Lord's matters;
+but I think not with that satisfaction to her, or me, that otherwise
+would, she knowing that she did design tomorrow, and I remaining all
+the while in fear, of being asked to lend her some money, as I was
+afterward, when I had taken leave of her, by Mr. Shepley, L100, which
+I will not deny my Lady, and am willing to be found when my Lord comes
+home to have done something of that kind for them, and so he riding to
+Brampton and supping there with me he did desire it of me from my Lady,
+and I promised it, though much against my will, for I fear it is as good
+as lost. After supper, where very merry, we to bed, myself very weary
+and to sleep all night.
+
+25th. Waked betimes, and lay long.... and there fell to talking, and by
+and by rose, it being the first fair day, and yet not quite fair, that
+we have had some time, and so up, and to walk with my father again in
+the garden, consulting what to do with him and this house when Pall and
+her husband go away; and I think it will be to let it, and he go live
+with her, though I am against letting the house for any long time,
+because of having it to retire to, ourselves. So I do intend to think
+more of it before I resolve. By and by comes Mr. Cooke to see me and so
+spent the morning, and he gone by and by at noon to dinner, where Mr.
+Shepley come and we merry, all being in good humour between my wife and
+her people about her, and after dinner took horse, I promising to fetch
+her away about fourteen days hence, and so calling all of us, we men on
+horseback, and the women and my father, at Goody Gorum's, and there in
+a frolic drinking I took leave, there going with me and my boy, my two
+brothers, and one Browne, whom they call in mirth Colonell, for our
+guide, and also Mr. Shepley, to the end of Huntingdon, and another
+gentleman who accidentally come thither, one Mr. Castle; and I made them
+drink at the Chequers, where I observed the same tapster, Tom, that was
+there when I was a little boy and so we, at the end of the town, took
+leave of Shepley and the other gentleman, and so we away and got well to
+Cambridge, about seven to the Rose, the waters not being now so high as
+before. And here 'lighting, I took my boy and two brothers, and walked
+to Magdalene College: and there into the butterys, as a stranger, and
+there drank my bellyfull of their beer, which pleased me, as the best I
+ever drank: and hear by the butler's man, who was son to Goody Mulliner
+over against the College, that we used to buy stewed prunes of,
+concerning the College and persons in it; and find very few, only Mr.
+Hollins and Pechell, I think, that were of my time. But I was mightily
+pleased to come in this condition to see and ask, and thence, giving the
+fellow something, away walked to Chesterton, to see our old walk, and
+there into the Church, the bells ringing, and saw the place I used to
+sit in, and so to the ferry, and ferried over to the other side, and
+walked with great pleasure, the river being mighty high by Barnewell
+Abbey: and so by Jesus College to the town, and so to our quarters, and
+to supper, and then to bed, being very weary and sleepy and mightily
+pleased with this night's walk.
+
+26th. Up by four o'clock; and by the time we were ready, and had eat,
+we were called to the coach, where about six o'clock we set out, there
+being a man and two women of one company, ordinary people, and one lady
+alone, that is tolerably handsome, but mighty well spoken, whom I took
+great pleasure in talking to, and did get her to read aloud in a book
+she was reading, in the coach, being the King's Meditations;--[The
+meditations on death, and prayers used by Charles I. shortly before his
+execution]--and then the boy and I to sing, and so about noon come to
+Bishop's Stafford, to another house than what we were at the other
+day, and better used. And here I paid for the reckoning 11s., we dining
+together, and pretty merry; and then set out again, sleeping most part
+of the way; and got to Bishopsgate Street before eight o'clock, the
+waters being now most of them down, and we avoiding the bad way in the
+forest by a privy way, which brought us to Hodsden; and so to Tibalds,
+that road, which was mighty pleasant. So home, where we find all well,
+and brother Balty and his wife looking to the house, she mighty fine,
+in a new gold-laced 'just a cour'. I shifted myself, and so to see Mrs.
+Turner, and Mercer appearing over the way, called her in, and sat and
+talked, and then home to my house by and by, and there supped and talked
+mighty merry, and then broke up and to bed, being a little vexed at what
+W. Hewer tells me Sir John Shaw did this day in my absence say at the
+Board, complaining of my doing of him injury and the board permitting
+it, whereas they had more reason to except against his attributing that
+to me alone which I could not do but with their condent and direction,
+it being to very good service to the King, and which I shall be proud to
+have imputed to me alone. The King I hear come to town last night.
+
+27th. Up, and to the office, where some time upon Sir D. Gawden's
+accounts, and then I by water to Westminster for some Tangier orders,
+and so meeting with Mr. Sawyers my old chamber-fellow, he and I by water
+together to the Temple, he giving me an account of the base, rude usage,
+which he and Sir G. Carteret had lately, before the Commissioners of
+Accounts, where he was, as Counsel to Sir G. Carteret, which I was sorry
+to hear, they behaving themselves like most insolent and ill-mannered
+men. Thence by coach to the Exchange, and there met with Sir H. Cholmly
+at Colvill's; and there did give him some orders, and so home, and there
+to the office again, where busy till two o'clock, and then with Sir
+D. Gawden to his house, with my Lord Brouncker and Sir J. Minnes, to
+dinner, where we dined very well, and much good company, among others,
+a Dr., a fat man, whom by face I know, as one that uses to sit in our
+church, that after dinner did take me out, and walked together, who told
+me that he had now newly entered himself into Orders, in the decay of
+the Church, and did think it his duty so to do, thereby to do his part
+toward the support and reformation thereof; and spoke very soberly, and
+said that just about the same age Dr. Donne did enter into Orders. I
+find him a sober gentleman, and a man that hath seen much of the world,
+and I think may do good. Thence after dinner to the office, and there
+did a little business, and so to see Sir W. Pen, who I find still
+very ill of the goute, sitting in his great chair, made on purpose for
+persons sick of that disease, for their ease; and this very chair,
+he tells me, was made for my Lady Lambert! Thence I by coach to my
+tailor's, there to direct about the making of me another suit, and so
+to White Hall, and through St. James's Park to St. James's, thinking to
+have met with Mr. Wren, but could not, and so homeward toward the New
+Exchange, and meeting Mr. Creed he and I to drink some whey at the
+whey-house, and so into the 'Change and took a walk or two, and so home,
+and there vexed at my boy's being out of doors till ten at night, but
+it was upon my brother Jackson's business, and so I was the less
+displeased, and then made the boy to read to me out of Dr. Wilkins his
+"Real Character," and particularly about Noah's arke, where he do give
+a very good account thereof, shewing how few the number of the several
+species of beasts and fowls were that were to be in the arke, and that
+there was room enough for them and their food and dung, which do please
+me mightily and is much beyond what ever I heard of the subject, and so
+to bed.
+
+28th. Up, to set right some little matters of my Tangier accounts, and
+so to the office, where busy all the morning, and then home with my
+people to dinner, and after dinner comes about a petition for a poor
+woman whose-ticket she would get paid, and so talked a little and did
+baiser her, and so to the office, being pleased that this morning my
+bookseller brings me home Marcennus's book of musick,' which costs me
+L3 2s.; but is a very fine book. So to the office and did some business,
+and then by coach to the New Exchange, and there by agreement at my
+bookseller's shop met Mercer and Gayet, and took them by water, first
+to one of the Neat-houses, where walked in the garden, but nothing but a
+bottle of wine to be had, though pleased with seeing the garden; and so
+to Fox Hall, where with great pleasure we walked, and then to the upper
+end of the further retired walk, and there sat and sang, and brought
+great many gallants and fine people about us, and, upon the bench, we
+did by and by eat and drink what we had, and very merry: and so with
+much pleasure to the Old Swan, and walked with them home, and there left
+them, and so I home to my business at the office a little, and so to
+bed.
+
+29th. Betimes up, and up to my Tangier accounts, and then by water to
+the Council Chamber, and there received some directions from the Duke of
+York and the Committee of the Navy there about casting up the charge of
+the present summer's fleete, that so they may come within the bounds
+of the sum given by the Parliament. But it is pretty to see how Prince
+Rupert and other mad, silly people, are for setting out but a little
+fleete, there being no occasion for it; and say it will be best to save
+the money for better uses. But Sir W. Coventry did declare that,
+in wisdom, it was better to do so; but that, in obedience to the
+Parliament, he was [for] setting out the fifty sail talked on, though
+it spent all the money, and to little purpose; and that this was better
+than to leave it to the Parliament to make bad construction of their
+thrift, if any trouble should happen. Thus wary the world is grown!
+Thence back again presently home, and did business till noon: and then
+to Sir G. Carteret's to dinner, with much good company, it being the
+King's birthday, and many healths drunk: and here I did receive another
+letter from my Lord Sandwich, which troubles me to see how I have
+neglected him, in not writing, or but once, all this time of his being
+abroad; and I see he takes notice, but yet gently, of it, that it puts
+me to great trouble, and I know not how to get out of it, having no good
+excuse, and too late now to mend, he being coming home. Thence home,
+whither, by agreement, by and by comes Mercer and Gayet, and two
+gentlemen with them, Mr. Monteith and Pelham, the former a swaggering
+young handsome gentleman, the latter a sober citizen merchant. Both
+sing, but the latter with great skill-the other, no skill, but a good
+voice, and a good basse, but used to sing only tavern tunes; and so I
+spent all this evening till eleven at night singing with them, till
+I was tired of them, because of the swaggering fellow with the base,
+though the girl Mercer did mightily commend him before to me. This night
+je had agreed par' alter at Deptford, there par' avoir lain con the
+moher de Bagwell, but this company did hinder me.
+
+30th. Up, and put on a new summer black bombazin suit, and so to the
+office; and being come now to an agreement with my barber, to keep my
+perriwig in good order at 20s. a-year, I am like to go very spruce, more
+than I used to do. All the morning at the office and at noon home to
+dinner, and so to the King's playhouse, and there saw "Philaster;" where
+it is pretty to see how I could remember almost all along, ever since
+I was a boy, Arethusa, the part which I was to have acted at Sir Robert
+Cooke's; and it was very pleasant to me, but more to think what a
+ridiculous thing it would have been for me to have acted a beautiful
+woman. Thence to Mr. Pierces, and there saw Knepp also, and were merry;
+and here saw my little Lady Katherine Montagu come to town, about her
+eyes, which are sore, and they think the King's evil, poor, pretty
+lady. Here I was freed from a fear that Knepp was angry or might take
+advantage to declare the essay that je did the other day, quand je was
+con her ... Thence to the New Exchange, and there met Harris and Rolt,
+and one Richards, a tailor and great company-keeper, and with these over
+to Fox Hall, and there fell into the company of Harry Killigrew, a rogue
+newly come back out of France, but still in disgrace at our Court, and
+young Newport and others, as very rogues as any in the town, who were
+ready to take hold of every woman that come by them. And so to supper
+in an arbour: but, Lord! their mad bawdy talk did make my heart ake! And
+here I first understood by their talk the meaning of the company that
+lately were called Ballets; Harris telling how it was by a meeting of
+some young blades, where he was among them, and my Lady Bennet
+
+     [Evidently adopted as a cant expression.  The woman here alluded to
+     was a procuress well known in her day, and described in the "Tatler"
+     (No. 84) as "the celebrated Madam Bennet."  We further learn, from
+     the "Spectator" (No. 266), that she was the Lady B. to whom
+     Wycherley addressed his ironical dedication of "The Plain Dealer,"
+     which is considered as a masterpiece of raillery.  It is worthy of
+     remark that the fair sex may justly complain of almost every word in
+     the English language designating a woman having, at some time or
+     another, been used as a term of reproach; for we find Mother, Madam,
+     Mistress, and Miss, all denoting women of bad character; and here
+     Pepys adds the title of my Lady to the number, and completes the
+     ungracious catalogue.--B.]
+
+and her ladies; and their there dancing naked, and all the roguish
+things in the world. But, Lord! what loose cursed company was this, that
+I was in to-night, though full of wit; and worth a man's being in for
+once, to know the nature of it, and their manner of talk, and lives.
+Thence set Rolt and some of [them] at the New Exchange, and so I home,
+and my business being done at the office, I to bed.
+
+31st (Lord's day). Up, and to church in the morning. At noon I sent for
+Mr. Mills and his wife and daughter to dine, and they dined with me, and
+W. Hewer, and very good company, I being in good humour. They gone to
+church, comes Mr. Tempest, and he and I sang a psalm or two, and so
+parted, and I by water to the New Exchange, and there to Mrs. Pierces,
+where Knepp, and she, and W. Howe, and Mr. Pierce, and little Betty,
+over to Fox Hall, and there walked and supped with great pleasure. Here
+was Mrs. Manuel also, and mighty good company, and good mirth in
+making W. Howe spend his six or seven shillings, and so they called him
+altogether "Cully." So back, and at Somerset-stairs do understand that
+a boy is newly drowned, washing himself there, and they cannot find his
+body. So seeing them home, I home by water, W. Howe going with me, and
+after some talk he lay at my house, and all to bed. Here I hear that
+Mrs. Davis is quite gone from the Duke of York's house, and Gosnell
+comes in her room, which I am glad of. At the play at Court the other
+night, Mrs. Davis was there; and when she was to come to dance her jigg,
+the Queene would not stay to see it, which people do think it was out of
+displeasure at her being the King's whore, that she could not bear it.
+My Lady Castlemayne is, it seems, now mightily out of request, the King
+coming little to her, and thus she mighty melancholy and discontented.
+
+
+
+
+JUNE 1668
+
+June 1st. Up and with Sir J. Minnes to Westminster, and in the Hall
+there I met with Harris and Rolt, and carried them to the Rhenish
+wine-house, where I have not been in a morning--nor any tavern, I think,
+these seven years and more. Here I did get the words of a song of Harris
+that I wanted. Here also Mr. Young and Whistler by chance met us,
+and drank with us. Thence home, and to prepare business against the
+afternoon, and did walk an hour in the garden with Sir W. Warren, who
+do tell me of the great difficulty he is under in the business of
+his accounts with the Commissioners of Parliament, and I fear some
+inconveniences and troubles may be occasioned thereby to me. So to
+dinner, and then with Sir J. Minnes to White Hall, and there attended
+the Lords of the Treasury and also a committee of Council with the
+Duke of York about the charge of this year's fleete, and thence I to
+Westminster and to Mrs. Martin's, and did hazer what je would con her,
+and did once toker la thigh de su landlady, and thence all alone to Fox
+Hall, and walked and saw young Newport, and two more rogues of the town,
+seize on two ladies, who walked with them an hour with their masks on;
+perhaps civil ladies; and there I left them, and so home, and thence to
+Mr. Mills's, where I never was before, and here find, whom I indeed
+saw go in, and that did make me go thither, Mrs. Hallworthy and Mrs.
+Andrews, and here supped, and, extraordinary merry till one in the
+morning, Mr. Andrews coming to us: and mightily pleased with this
+night's company and mirth I home to bed. Mrs. Turner, too, was with us.
+
+2nd. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon home to
+dinner, and there dined with me, besides my own people, W. Batelier and
+Mercer, and we very merry. After dinner, they gone, only Mercer and I
+to sing a while, and then parted, and I out and took a coach, and called
+Mercer at their back-door, and she brought with her Mrs. Knightly, a
+little pretty sober girl, and I carried them to Old Ford, a town by Bow,
+where I never was before, and there walked in the fields very pleasant,
+and sang: and so back again, and stopped and drank at the Gun, at
+Mile End, and so to the Old Exchange door, and did buy them a pound of
+cherries, cost me 2s., and so set them down again; and I to my little
+mercer's Finch, that lives now in the Minories, where I have left my
+cloak, and did here baiser su moher, a belle femme, and there took my
+cloak which I had left there, and so by water, it being now about nine
+o'clock, down to Deptford, where I have not been many a day, and there
+it being dark I did by agreement aller a la house de Bagwell, and
+there after a little playing and baisando we did go up in the dark a su
+camera... and to my boat again, and against the tide home. Got there by
+twelve o'clock, taking into my boat, for company, a man that desired a
+passage--a certain western bargeman, with whom I had good sport, talking
+of the old woman of Woolwich, and telling him the whole story.
+
+3rd. Up, and to the office, where busy till g o'clock, and then to White
+Hall, to the Council-chamber, where I did present the Duke of York with
+an account of the charge of the present fleete, to his satisfaction; and
+this being done, did ask his leave for my going out of town five or
+six days, which he did give me, saying, that my diligence in the King's
+business was such, that I ought not to be denied when my own business
+called me any whither. Thence with Sir D. Gawden to Westminster, where
+I did take a turn or two, and met Roger Pepys, who is mighty earnest
+for me to stay from going into the country till he goes, and to bring my
+people thither for some time: but I cannot, but will find another time
+this summer for it. Thence with him home, and there to the office till
+noon, and then with Lord Brouncker, Sir J. Minnes, and Sir G. Carteret,
+upon whose accounts they have been this day to the Three Tuns to dinner,
+and thence back again home, and after doing a little business I by coach
+to the King's house, and there saw good, part of "The Scornfull Lady,"
+and that done, would have takn out Knepp, but she was engaged, and so
+to my Lord Crew's to visit him; from whom I learn nothing but that
+there hath been some controversy at the Council-table, about my Lord
+Sandwich's signing, where some would not have had him, in the treaty
+with Portugall; but all, I think, is over in it. Thence by coach
+to Westminster to the Hall, and thence to the Park, where much good
+company, and many fine ladies; and in so handsome a hackney I was, that
+I believe Sir W. Coventry and others, who looked on me, did take me to
+be in one of my own, which I was a little troubled for. So to the lodge,
+and drank a cup of new milk, and so home, and there to Mrs. Turner's,
+and sat and talked with her, and then home to bed, having laid my
+business with W. Hewer to go out of town Friday next, with hopes of a
+great deal of pleasure.
+
+4th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon home to
+dinner, where Mr. Clerke, the solicitor, dined with me and my clerks.
+After dinner I carried and set him down at the Temple, he observing to
+me how St. Sepulchre's church steeple is repaired already a good deal,
+and the Fleet Bridge is contracted for by the City to begin to be built
+this summer, which do please me mightily. I to White Hall, and walked
+through the Park for a little ayre; and so back to the Council-chamber,
+to the Committee of the Navy, about the business of fitting the present
+fleete, suitable to the money given, which, as the King orders it, and
+by what appears, will be very little; and so as I perceive the Duke of
+York will have nothing to command, nor can intend to go abroad. But it
+is pretty to see how careful these great men are to do every thing so
+as they may answer it to the Parliament, thinking themselves safe in
+nothing but where the judges, with whom they often advise, do say the
+matter is doubtful; and so they take upon themselves then to be the
+chief persons to interpret what is doubtful. Thence home, and all the
+evening to set matters in order against my going to Brampton to-morrow,
+being resolved upon my journey, and having the Duke of York's leave
+again to-day; though I do plainly see that I can very ill be spared now,
+there being much business, especially about this, which I have attended
+the Council about, and I the man that am alone consulted with; and,
+besides, my Lord Brouncker is at this time ill, and Sir W. Pen. So
+things being put in order at the Office, I home to do the like there;
+and so to bed.
+
+5th (Friday).
+
+     [The rough notes for the journal from this time to the 17th of June
+     are contained on five leaves, inserted in the book; and after them
+     follow several pages left blank for the fair copy which was never
+     made.]
+
+At Barnet, for milk, 6d. On the highway, to menders of the highway, 6d.
+Dinner at Stevenage, 5s. 6d.
+
+6th (Saturday). Spent at Huntingdon with Bowles, and Appleyard, and
+Shepley, 2s.
+
+7th (Sunday). My father, for money lent, and horse-hire L1 11s.
+
+8th (Monday). Father's servants (father having in the garden told me bad
+stories of my wife's ill words), 14s.; one that helped at the horses,
+2s.; menders of the highway, 2s. Pleasant country to Bedford, where,
+while they stay, I rode through the town; and a good country-town; and
+there, drinking, 1s. We on to Newport; and there 'light, and I and W.
+Hewer to the Church, and there give the boy 1s. So to Buckingham, a good
+old town. Here I to see the Church, which very good, and the leads, and
+a school in it: did give the sexton's boy 1s. A fair bridge here,
+with many arches: vexed at my people's making me lose so much time;
+reckoning, 13s. 4d. Mighty pleased with the pleasure of the ground
+all the day. At night to Newport Pagnell; and there a good pleasant
+country-town, but few people in it. A very fair--and like a
+Cathedral--Church; and I saw the leads, and a vault that goes far under
+ground, and here lay with Betty Turner's sparrow: the town, and so most
+of this country, well watered. Lay here well, and rose next day by four
+o'clock: few people in the town: and so away. Reckoning for supper, 19s.
+6d.; poor, 6d. Mischance to the coach, but no time lost.
+
+9th (Tuesday). When come to Oxford, a very sweet place: paid our guide,
+L1 2s. 6d.; barber, 2s. 6d.; book, Stonage, 4s.
+
+     [This must have been either Inigo Jones's "The most notable
+     Antiquity of Great Britain vulgarly called Stonehenge," printed in
+     1655, or "Chorea Gigantum, or the most famous Antiquity of Great
+     Britain, vulgarly called Stones Heng, standing on Salisbury Plain,
+     restor'd to the Danes," by Walter Charleton, M.D., and published in
+     1663.]
+
+To dinner; and then out with my wife and people, and landlord: and to
+him that showed us the schools and library, 10s.; to him that showed us
+All Souls' College, and Chichly's picture, 5s. So to see Christ Church
+with my wife, I seeing several others very fine alone, with W. Hewer,
+before dinner, and did give the boy that went with me 1s. Strawberries,
+1s. 2d. Dinner and servants, L1 0s. 6d. After come home from the
+schools, I out with the landlord to Brazen-nose College;--to the
+butteries, and in the cellar find the hand of the Child of Hales,...
+long. Butler, 2s. Thence with coach and people to Physic-garden, 1s. So
+to Friar Bacon's study: I up and saw it, and give the man 1s. Bottle of
+sack for landlord, 2s. Oxford mighty fine place; and well seated, and
+cheap entertainment. At night come to Abingdon, where had been a fair of
+custard; and met many people and scholars going home; and there did get
+some pretty good musick, and sang and danced till supper: 5s.
+
+10th (Wednesday). Up, and walked to the Hospitall:--[Christ's
+Hospital]--very large and fine; and pictures of founders, and the
+History' of the Hospitall; and is said to be worth; L700 per annum; and
+that Mr. Foly was here lately to see how their lands were settled; and
+here, in old English, the story of the occasion of it, and a rebus at
+the bottom. So did give the poor, which they would not take but in their
+box, 2s. 6d. So to the inn, and paid the reckoning and what not, 13s. So
+forth towards Hungerford, led this good way by our landlord, one Heart,
+an old but very civil and well-spoken man, more than I ever heard, of
+his quality. He gone, we forward; and I vexed at my people's not minding
+the way. So come to Hungerford, where very good trouts, eels, and
+crayfish. Dinner: a mean town. At dinner there, 12s. Thence set out with
+a guide, who saw us to Newmarket-heath, and then left us, 3s. 6d. So all
+over the Plain by the sight of the steeple, the Plain high and low,
+to Salisbury, by night; but before I come to the town, I saw a great
+fortification, and there 'light, and to it and in it; and find it
+prodigious, so as to frighten me to be in it all alone at that time of
+night, it being dark. I understand, since, it to be that, that is called
+Old Sarum. Come to the George Inne, where lay in a silk bed; and very
+good diet. To supper; then to bed.
+
+11th (Thursday). Up, and W. Hewer and I up and down the town, and find
+it a very brave place. The river goes through every street; and a most
+capacious market-place. The city great, I think greater than Hereford.
+But the Minster most admirable; as big, I think, and handsomer than
+Westminster: and a most large Close about it, and houses for the
+Officers thereof, and a fine palace for the Bishop. So to my lodging
+back, and took out my wife and people to shew them the town and Church;
+but they being at prayers, we could not be shown the Quire. A very good
+organ; and I looked in, and saw the Bishop, my friend Dr. Ward. Thence
+to the inne; and there not being able to hire coach-horses, and not
+willing to use our own, we got saddle-horses, very dear. Boy that went
+to look for them, 6d. So the three women behind W. Hewer, Murford, and
+our guide, and I single to Stonage; over the Plain and some great hills,
+even to fright us. Come thither, and find them as prodigious as any
+tales I ever heard of them, and worth going this journey to see. God
+knows what their use was! they are hard to tell, but yet maybe told.
+Give the shepherd-woman, for leading our horses, 4d. So back by Wilton,
+my Lord Pembroke's house, which we could not see, he being just coming
+to town; but the situation I do not like, nor the house promise much, it
+being in a low but rich valley. So back home; and there being 'light,
+we to the Church, and there find them at prayers again, so could not see
+the Quire; but I sent the women home, and I did go in, and saw very many
+fine tombs, and among the rest some very ancient, of the Montagus.
+
+     [The Montacutes, from whom Lord Sandwich's family claimed descent:
+     --B.]
+
+So home to dinner; and, that being done, paid the reckoning, which was
+so exorbitant; and particular in rate of my horses, and 7s. 6d. for
+bread and beer, that I was mad, and resolve to trouble the master about
+it, and get something for the poor; and come away in that humour: L2 5s.
+6d. Servants, 1s. 6d.; poor, 1s.; guide to the Stones, 2s.; poor woman
+in the street, 1s.; ribbands, 9d.; washwoman, 1s.; sempstress for W.
+Hewer, 3s.; lent W. Hewer, 3s. Thence about six o'clock, and with a
+guide went over the smooth Plain indeed till night; and then by a happy
+mistake, and that looked like an adventure, we were carried out of our
+way to a town where we would lye, since we could not go so far as we
+would. And there with great difficulty come about ten at night to a
+little inn, where we were fain to go into a room where a pedlar was in
+bed, and made him rise; and there wife and I lay, and in a truckle-bed
+Betty Turner and Willett. But good beds, and the master of the house a
+sober, understanding man, and I had good discourse with him about this
+country's matters, as wool, and corne, and other things. And he also
+merry, and made us mighty merry at supper, about manning the new ship,
+at Bristol, with none but men whose wives do master them; and it seems
+it is become in reproach to some men of estate that are such hereabouts,
+that this is become common talk. By and by to bed, glad of this mistake,
+because, it seems, had we gone on as we intended, we could not have
+passed with our coach, and must have lain on the Plain all night. This
+day from Salisbury I wrote by the post my excuse for not coming home,
+which I hope will do, for I am resolved to see the Bath, and, it may be,
+Bristol.
+
+12th (Friday). Up, finding our beds good, but lousy; which made us
+merry. We set out, the reckoning and servants coming to 9s. 6d.; my
+guide thither, 2s.; coachman, advanced, 10s. So rode a very good way,
+led to my great content by our landlord to Philips-Norton, with great
+pleasure, being now come into Somersetshire; where my wife and Deb.
+mightily joyed thereat,--[They were natives of that county.-B.]--I
+commending the country, as indeed it deserves. And the first town we
+came to was Brekington, where, we stopping for something for the horses,
+we called two or three little boys to us, and pleased ourselves with
+their manner of speech, and did make one of them kiss Deb., and another
+say the Lord's Prayer (hallowed be thy kingdom come). At Philips-Norton
+I walked to the Church, and there saw a very ancient tomb of some Knight
+Templar, I think; and here saw the tombstone whereon there were only two
+heads cut, which, the story goes, and credibly, were two sisters, called
+the Fair Maids of Foscott, that had two bodies upward and one belly, and
+there lie buried. Here is also a very fine ring of six bells, and they
+mighty tuneable. Having dined very well, 10s., we come before night to
+the Bath; where I presently stepped out with my landlord, and saw the
+baths, with people in them. They are not so large as I expected, but
+yet pleasant; and the town most of stone, and clean, though the streets
+generally narrow. I home, and being weary, went to bed without supper;
+the rest supping.
+
+13th (Saturday). Up at four o'clock, being by appointment called up to
+the Cross Bath, where we were carried one after one another, myself, and
+wife, and Betty Turner, Willet, and W. Hewer. And by and by, though we
+designed to have done before company come, much company come; very fine
+ladies; and the manner pretty enough, only methinks it cannot be clean
+to go so many bodies together in the same water. Good conversation among
+them that are acquainted here, and stay together. Strange to see how
+hot the water is; and in some places, though this is the most temperate
+bath, the springs so hot as the feet not able to endure. But strange
+to see, when women and men herein, that live all the season in these
+waters, that cannot but be parboiled, and look like the creatures of the
+bath! Carried away, wrapped in a sheet, and in a chair, home; and there
+one after another thus carried, I staying above two hours in the water,
+home to bed, sweating for an hour; and by and by, comes musick to play
+to me, extraordinary good as ever I heard at London almost, or anywhere:
+5s. Up, to go to Bristol, about eleven o'clock, and paying my landlord
+that was our guide from Chiltern, 10s., and the serjeant of the bath,
+10s., and the man that carried us in chairs, 3s. 6d. Set out towards
+Bristoll, and come thither (in a coach hired to spare our own horses);
+the way bad, but country good, about two o'clock, where set down at the
+Horse'shoe, and there, being trimmed by a very handsome fellow, 2s.,
+walked with my wife and people through the city, which is in every
+respect another London, that one can hardly know it, to stand in the
+country, no more than that. No carts, it standing generally on vaults,
+only dog-carts.
+
+     ["They draw all their heavy goods here on sleds, or sledges, which
+     they call 'gee hoes,' without wheels, which kills a multitude of
+     horses."  Another writer says, "They suffer no carts to be used in
+     the city, lest, as some say, the shake occasioned by them on the
+     pavement should affect the Bristol milk (the sherry) in the vaults,
+     which is certainly had here in the greatest perfection."  An order
+     of Common Council occurs in 1651 to prohibit the use of carts and
+     waggons-only suffering drays.  "Camden in giving our city credit for
+     its cleanliness in forming 'goutes,' says they use sledges here
+     instead of carts, lest they destroy the arches beneath which are the
+     goutes."--Chilcott's New Guide to Bristol, &c.,]
+
+So to the Three..Crowns Tavern I was directed; but, when I come in,
+the master told me that he had newly given over the selling of wine; it
+seems, grown rich; and so went to the Sun; and there Deb. going with
+W. Hewer and Betty Turner to see her uncle [Butts], and leaving my wife
+with the mistress of the house, I to see the quay, which is a most large
+and noble Vlace; and to see the new ship building by Bally, neither
+he nor Furzer being in town. It will be a fine ship. Spoke with the
+foreman, and did give the boys that kept the cabin 2s. Walked back to
+the Sun, where I find Deb. come back, and with her, her uncle, a sober
+merchant, very good company, and so like one of our sober, wealthy,
+London merchants, as pleased me mightily. Here we dined, and much good
+talk with him, 7s. 6d.: a messenger to Sir John Knight, who was not at
+home, 6d. Then walked with him [Butts] and my wife and company round the
+quay, and to the ship; and he shewed me the Custom-house, and made me
+understand many things of the place, and led us through Marsh Street,
+where our girl was born. But, Lord! the joy that was among the old poor
+people of the place, to see Mrs. Willet's daughter, it seems her mother
+being a brave woman and mightily beloved! And so brought us a back
+way by surprize to his house, where a substantial good house, and well
+furnished; and did give us good entertainment of strawberries, a whole
+venison-pasty, cold, and plenty of brave wine, and above all Bristoll
+milk,
+
+     [A sort of rum punch (milk punch), which, and turtle, were products
+     of the trade of Bristol with the West Indies.  So Byron says in the
+     first edition of his "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers"
+
+              "Too much in turtle Bristol's sons delight,
+               Too much oer bowls of rack prolong the night."
+
+     These lines will not be found in the modern editions; but the
+     following are substituted:
+
+              "Four turtle feeder's verse must needs he flat,
+               Though Bristol bloat him with the verdant fat."
+
+     Lord Macaulay says of the collations with which the sugar-refiners
+     of   Bristol regaled their visitors: "The repast was dressed in the
+     furnace, And was accompanied by a rich brewage made of the best
+     Spanish wine, and celebrated over the whole kingdom as Bristol milk"
+     ("Hist. of England," vol. i., p. 335)--B.]
+
+where comes in another poor woman, who, hearing that Deb. was here, did
+come running hither, and with her eyes so lull of tears, and heart so
+full of joy, that she could not speak when she come in, that it made me
+weep too: I protest that I was not able to speak to her, which I would
+have done, to have diverted her tears. His wife a good woman, and
+so sober and substantiall as I was never more pleased anywhere.
+Servant-maid, 2s. So thence took leave, and he with us through the city,
+where in walking I find the city pay him great respect, and he the like
+to the meanest, which pleased me mightily. He shewed us the place where
+the merchants meet here, and a fine Cross yet standing, like Cheapside.
+And so to the Horseshoe, where paid the reckoning, 2s. 6d. We back, and
+by moonshine to the Bath again, about ten-o'clock: bad way; and giving
+the coachman 1s., went all of us to bed.
+
+14th (Sunday). Up, and walked up and down the town, and saw a pretty
+good market-place, and many good streets, and very fair stone-houses.
+And so to the great Church, and there saw Bishop Montagu's tomb;
+
+     [James Montagu, Bishop of Bath and Wells in 1608, and of Winchester
+     in 1616--died 1618.  He was uncle to the Earl of Sandwich, whose
+     mother was Pepys's aunt.  Hence Pepys's curiosity respecting the
+     tomb.--B.]
+
+and, when placed, did there see many brave people come, and, among
+others, two men brought in, in litters, and set down in the chancel
+to hear: but I did not know one face. Here a good organ; but a vain,
+pragmatical fellow preached a ridiculous, affected sermon, that made
+me angry, and some gentlemen that sat next me, and sang well. So home,
+walking round the walls of the City, which are good, and the battlements
+all whole. The sexton of the church is. So home to dinner, and after
+dinner comes Mr. Butts again to see me, and he and I to church, where
+the same idle fellow preached; and I slept most of the sermon. Thence
+home, and took my wife out and the girls, and come to this church again,
+to see it, and look over the monuments, where, among others, Dr. Venner
+and Pelting, and a lady of Sir W. Walter's; he lying with his face
+broken. So to the fields a little and walked, and then home and had my
+head looked [at], and so to supper, and then comes my landlord to me, a
+sober understanding man, and did give me a good account of the antiquity
+of this town and Wells; and of two Heads, on two pillars, in Wells
+church. But he a Catholick. So he gone, I to bed.
+
+15th (Monday). Up, and with Mr. Butts to look into the baths, and find
+the King and Queen's full of a mixed sort, of good and bad, and the
+Cross only almost for the gentry. So home and did the like with my wife,
+and did pay my guides, two women, 5s.; one man, 2s. 6d.; poor, 6d.;
+woman to lay my foot-cloth, 1s. So to our inne, and there eat and paid
+reckoning, L1 8s. 6d.; servants, 3s.; poor, 1s.; lent the coach man,
+10s. Before I took coach, I went to make a boy dive in the King's bath,
+1s. I paid also for my coach and a horse to Bristol, L1 1s. 6d. Took
+coach, and away, without any of the company of the other stage-coaches,
+that go out of this town to-day; and rode all day with some trouble,
+for fear of being out of our way, over the Downes, where the life of
+the shepherds is, in fair weather only, pretty. In the afternoon come to
+Abebury, where, seeing great stones like those of Stonage standing up,
+I stopped, and took a countryman of that town, and he carried me and
+shewed me a place trenched in, like Old Sarum almost, with great stones
+pitched in it, some bigger than those at Stonage in figure, to my great
+admiration: and he told me that most people of learning, coming by, do
+come and view them, and that the King did so: and that the Mount
+cast hard by is called Selbury, from one King Seall buried there, as
+tradition says. I did give this man 1s. So took coach again, seeing one
+place with great high stones pitched round, which, I believe, was once
+some particular building, in some measure like that of Stonage. But,
+about a mile off, it was prodigious to see how full the Downes are of
+great stones; and all along the vallies, stones of considerable bigness,
+most of them growing certainly out of the ground so thick as to cover
+the ground, which makes me think the less of the wonder of Stonage, for
+hence they might undoubtedly supply themselves with stones, as well
+as those at Abebury. In my way did give to the poor and menders of the
+highway 3s. Before night, come to Marlborough, and lay at the Hart; a
+good house, and a pretty fair town for a street or two; and what is most
+singular is, their houses on one side having their pent-houses supported
+with pillars, which makes it a good walk. My wife pleased with all, this
+evening reading of "Mustapha" to me till supper, and then to supper, and
+had musique whose innocence pleased me, and I did give them 3s. So to
+bed, and lay well all night, and long, so as all the five coaches that
+come this day from Bath, as well as we, were gone out of the town before
+six.
+
+16th (Tuesday). So paying the reckoning, 14s. 4d., and servants, 2s.,
+poor 1s., set out; and overtook one coach and kept a while company with
+it, till one of our horses losing a shoe, we stopped and drank and spent
+1s. So on, and passing through a good part of this county of Wiltshire,
+saw a good house of Alexander Popham's, and another of my Lord Craven's,
+I think in Barkeshire. Come to Newbery, and there dined, which cost me,
+and musick, which a song of the old courtier of Queen Elizabeth's,
+and how he was changed upon the coming in of the King, did please me
+mightily, and I did cause W. Hewer to write it out, 3s. 6d. Then comes
+the reckoning, forced to change gold, 8s. 7d.; servants and poor, 1s.
+6d. So out, and lost our way, which made me vexed, but come into it
+again; and in the evening betimes come to Reading, and there heard my
+wife read more of "Mustapha," and then to supper, and then I to walk
+about the town, which is a very great one, I think bigger than Salsbury:
+a river runs through it, in seven branches, and unite in one, in one
+part of the town, and runs into the Thames half-a-mile off one odd sign
+of the Broad Face. W. Hewer troubled with the headake we had none of his
+company last night, nor all this day nor night to talk. Then to my inn,
+and so to bed.
+
+17th (Wednesday). Rose, and paying the reckoning, 12s. 6d.; servants
+and poor, 2s. 6d.; musick, the worst we have had, coming to our
+chamber-door, but calling us by wrong names, we lay; so set out with one
+coach in company, and through Maydenhead, which I never saw before, to
+Colebrooke by noon; the way mighty good; and there dined, and fitted
+ourselves a little to go through London, anon. Somewhat out of humour
+all day, reflecting on my wife's neglect of things, and impertinent
+humour got by this liberty of being from me, which she is never to be
+trusted with; for she is a fool. Thence pleasant way to London, before
+night, and find all very well, to great content; and there to talk with
+my wife, and saw Sir W. Pen, who is well again. I hear of the ill news
+by the great fire at Barbados. By and by home, and there with my
+people to supper, all in pretty good humour, though I find my wife
+hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being
+provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it. So I
+to bed, glad to find all so well here, and slept well.
+
+          [The rough notes end here.]
+
+18th. Up betimes and to the office, there to set my papers in order and
+books, my office having been new whited and windows made clean, and so
+to sit, where all the morning, and did receive a hint or two from my
+Lord Anglesey, as if he thought much of my taking the ayre as I have
+done; but I care not a turd; but whatever the matter is, I think he hath
+some ill-will to me, or at least an opinion that I am more the servant
+of the Board than I am. At noon home to dinner, where my wife still in a
+melancholy, fusty humour, and crying, and do not tell me plainly what it
+is; but I by little words find that she hath heard of my going to plays,
+and carrying people abroad every day, in her absence; and that I cannot
+help but the storm will break out, I think, in a little time. After
+dinner carried her by coach to St. James's, where she sat in the coach
+till I to my Lady Peterborough's, who tells me, among other things, her
+Lord's good words to the Duke of York lately, about my Lord Sandwich,
+and that the Duke of York is kind to my Lord Sandwich, which I am glad
+to hear: my business here was about her Lord's pension from Tangier.
+Here met with Povy, who tells me how hard Creed is upon him, though he
+did give him, about six months since, I think he said, fifty pieces in
+gold; and one thing there is in his accounts that I fear may touch me,
+but I shall help it, I hope. So my wife not speaking a word, going nor
+coming, nor willing to go to a play, though a new one, I to the Office,
+and did much business. At night home, where supped Mr. Turner and his
+wife, and Betty and Mercer and Pelling, as merry as the ill, melancholy
+humour that my wife was in, would let us, which vexed me; but I took no
+notice of it, thinking that will be the best way, and let it wear away
+itself. After supper, parted, and to bed; and my wife troubled all
+night, and about one o'clock goes out of the bed to the girl's bed,
+which did trouble me, she crying and sobbing, without telling the cause.
+By and by she comes back to me, and still crying; I then rose, and would
+have sat up all night, but she would have me come to bed again; and
+being pretty well pacified, we to sleep.
+
+19th. When between two and three in the morning we were waked with my
+maids crying out, "Fire, fire, in Markelane!" So I rose and looked out,
+and it was dreadful; and strange apprehensions in me, and us all, of
+being presently burnt. So we all rose; and my care presently was to
+secure my gold, and plate, and papers, and could quickly have done it,
+but I went forth to see where it was; and the whole town was presently
+in the streets; and I found it in a new-built house that stood alone
+in Minchin-lane, over against the Cloth-workers'-hall, which burned
+furiously: the house not yet quite finished; and the benefit of brick
+was well seen, for it burnt all inward, and fell down within itself;
+so no fear of doing more hurt. So homeward, and stopped at Mr. Mills's,
+where he and she at the door, and Mrs. Turner, and Betty, and Mrs.
+Hollworthy, and there I stayed and talked, and up to the church leads,
+and saw the fire, which spent itself, till all fear over. I home, and
+there we to bed again, and slept pretty well, and about nine rose, and
+then my wife fell into her blubbering again, and at length had a request
+to make to me, which was, that she might go into France, and live there,
+out of trouble; and then all come out, that I loved pleasure and
+denied her any, and a deal of do; and I find that there have been great
+fallings out between my father and her, whom, for ever hereafter, I must
+keep asunder, for they cannot possibly agree. And I said nothing, but,
+with very mild words and few, suffered her humour to spend, till we
+begun to be very quiet, and I think all will be over, and friends, and
+so I to the office, where all the morning doing business. Yesterday I
+heard how my Lord Ashly is like to die, having some imposthume in his
+breast, that he hath been fain to be cut into the body.
+
+     ["Such an operation was performed in this year, after a consultation
+     of medical men, and chiefly by Locke's advice, and the wound was
+     afterwards always kept open, a silver pipe being inserted.  This
+     saved Lord Ashley's life, and gave him health"--Christie's Life of
+     the first Earl of Shaftesbury, vol. ii., p. 34.  'Tapski' was a name
+     given to Shaftesbury in derision, and vile defamers described the
+     abscess, which had originated in a carriage accident in Holland, as
+     the result of extreme dissipation.  Lines by Duke, a friend and
+     imitator of Dryden:
+
+              "The working ferment of his active mind,
+               In his weak body's cask with pain confined,
+               Would burst the rotten vessel where 'tis pent,
+               But that 'tis tapt to give the treason vent."]
+
+At noon home to dinner, and thence by coach to White Hall, where we
+attended the Duke of York in his closet, upon our usual business. And
+thence out, and did see many of the Knights of the Garter, with the King
+and Duke of York, going into the Privychamber, to elect the Elector of
+Saxony into that Order, who, I did hear the Duke of York say, was a good
+drinker: I know not upon what score this compliment is done him. Thence
+with W. Pen, who is in great pain of the gowte, by coach round by
+Holborne home, he being at every kennel full of pain. Thence home, and
+by and by comes my wife and Deb. home, have been at the King's playhouse
+to-day, thinking to spy me there; and saw the new play, "Evening Love,"
+of Dryden's, which, though the world commends, she likes not. So to
+supper and talk, and all in good humour, and then to bed, where I slept
+not well, from my apprehensions of some trouble about some business of
+Mr. Povy's he told me of the other day.
+
+20th. Up, and talked with my wife all in good humour, and so to the
+office, where all the morning, and then home to dinner, and so she and
+I alone to the King's house, and there I saw this new play my wife saw
+yesterday, and do not like it, it being very smutty, and nothing so good
+as "The Maiden Queen," or "The Indian Emperour," of his making, that I
+was troubled at it; and my wife tells me wholly (which he confesses a
+little in the epilogue) taken out of the "Illustre Bassa." So she to
+Unthanke's and I to Mr. Povy, and there settled some business; and here
+talked of things, and he thinks there will be great revolutions, and
+that Creed will be a great man, though a rogue, he being a man of the
+old strain, which will now be up again. So I took coach, and set Povy
+down at Charing Cross, and took my wife up, and calling at the New
+Exchange at Smith's shop, and kissed her pretty hand, and so we
+home, and there able to do nothing by candlelight, my eyes being now
+constantly so bad that I must take present advice or be blind. So to
+supper, grieved for my eyes, and to bed.
+
+21st (Lord's day). Up, and to church, and home and dined with my wife
+and Deb. alone, but merry and in good humour, which is, when all is
+done, the greatest felicity of all, and after dinner she to read in the
+"Illustre Bassa" the plot of yesterday's play, which is most exactly the
+same, and so to church I alone, and thence to see Sir W. Pen, who is ill
+again, and then home, and there get my wife to read to me till supper,
+and then to bed.
+
+22nd. Up, and with Balty to St. James's, and there presented him to Mr.
+Wren about his being Muster-Master this year, which will be done. So
+up to wait on the Duke of York, and thence, with W. Coventry, walked to
+White Hall good discourse about the Navy, where want of money undoes us.
+Thence to the Harp and Ball I to drink, and so to the Coffee-house in
+Covent Garden; but met with nobody but Sir Philip Howard, who shamed
+me before the whole house there, in commendation of my speech in
+Parliament, and thence I away home to dinner alone, my wife being at her
+tailor's, and after dinner comes Creed, whom I hate, to speak with me,
+and before him comes Mrs. Daniel about business.... She gone, Creed
+and I to the King's playhouse, and saw an act or two of the new
+play ["Evening's Love"] again, but like it not. Calling this day at
+Herringman's, he tells me Dryden do himself call it but a fifth-rate
+play. Thence with him to my Lord Brouncker's, where a Council of the
+Royall Society; and there heard Mr. Harry Howard's' noble offers about
+ground for our College, and his intentions of building his own house
+there most nobly. My business was to meet Mr. Boyle, which I did, and
+discoursed about my eyes; and he did give me the best advice he could,
+but refers me to one Turberville, of Salsbury, lately come to town,
+which I will go to.
+
+     [Daubigny Turberville, of Oriel College; created M.D. at
+     Oxford,1660.  He was a physician of some eminence, and, dying at
+     Salisbury on the 21st April, 1696, aged eighty-five, he was buried
+     in the cathedral, where his monument remains.  Cassan, in his "Lives
+     of the Bishops of Sarum," part iii., p. 103, has reprinted an
+     interesting account of Turberville, from the "Memoir of Bishop Seth
+     Ward," published in 1697, by Dr. Walter Pope.  Turberville was born
+     at Wayford, co. Somerset, in 1612, and became an expert oculist; and
+     probably Pepys received great benefit from his advice, as his vision
+     does not appear to have failed during the many years that he lived
+     after discontinuing the Diary.  The doctor died rich, and
+     subsequently to his decease his sister Mary, inheriting all his
+     prescriptions, and knowing how to use them, practised as an oculist
+     in London with good reputation.--B.]
+
+Thence home, where the streets full, at our end of the town, removing
+their wine against the Act begins, which will be two days hence, to
+raise the price. I did get my store in of Batelier this night. So home
+to supper and to bed.
+
+23rd. Up, and all the morning at the office. At noon home to dinner, and
+so to the office again all the afternoon, and then to Westminster to
+Dr. Turberville about my eyes, whom I met with: and he did discourse, I
+thought, learnedly about them; and takes time before he did prescribe me
+any thing, to think of it. So I away with my wife and Deb., whom I left
+at Unthanke's, and so to Hercules Pillars, and there we three supped
+on cold powdered beef, and thence home and in the garden walked a good
+while with Deane, talking well of the Navy miscarriages and faults. So
+home to bed.
+
+24th. Up, and Creed and Colonell Atkins come to me about sending coals
+to Tangier: and upon that most of the morning. Thence Creed and I to
+Alderman Backewell's about Tangier business of money, and thence I
+by water (calling and drinking, but not baisado, at Michell's) to
+Westminster, but it being holyday did no business, only to Martin's...
+and so home again by water, and busy till dinner, and then with wife,
+Mercer, Deb., and W. Hewer to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there
+saw "The Impertinents," a pretty good play; and so by water to Spring
+Garden, and there supped, and so home, not very merry, only when we come
+home, Mercer and I sat and sung in the garden a good while, and so to
+bed.
+
+25th. Up, and to the office all the morning, and after dinner at home to
+the office again, and there all the afternoon very busy till night, and
+then home to supper and to bed.
+
+26th. All the morning doing business at the office. At noon, with my
+Fellow-Officers, to the Dolphin, at Sir G. Carteret's charge, to dinner,
+he having some accounts examined this morning. All the afternoon we all
+at Sir W. Pen's with him about the Victuallers' accounts, and then in
+the evening to Charing Cross, and there took up my wife at her tailor's,
+and so home and to walk in the garden, and then to sup and to bed.
+
+27th. At the office all the morning, at noon dined at home, and then
+my wife, and Deb., and I to the King's playhouse, and saw "The Indian
+Queene," but do not doat upon Nan Marshall's acting therein, as the
+world talks of her excellence therein. Thence with my wife to buy some
+linnen, L13 worth, for sheets, &c., at the new shop over against the
+New Exchange; [and the master, who is] come out of London--[To the
+Strand.]--since the fire, says his and other tradesmen's retail trade is
+so great here, and better than it was in London, that they believe
+they shall not return, nor the city be ever so great for retail as
+heretofore. So home and to my business, and to bed.
+
+28th (Lord's day). Up, and to church, and then home to dinner, where
+Betty Turner, Mercer, and Captain Deane, and after dinner to sing, Mr.
+Pelting coming. Then, they gone, Deane and I all the afternoon till
+night to talk of navy matters and ships with great pleasure, and so at
+night, he gone, I to supper, Pelling coming again and singing a while,
+then to bed. Much talk of the French setting out their fleete afresh;
+but I hear nothing that our King is alarmed at it, at all, but rather
+making his fleete less.
+
+29th. Called up by my Lady Peterborough's servant about some business of
+hers, and so to the office. Thence by and by with Sir J. Minnes toward
+St. James's, and I stop at Dr. Turberville's, and there did receive a
+direction for some physic, and also a glass of something to drop into my
+eyes: who gives me hopes that I may do well. Thence to St. James's,
+and thence to White Hall, where I find the Duke of York in the
+Council-chamber; where the Officers of the Navy were called in about
+Navy business, about calling in of more ships; the King of France
+having, as the Duke of York says, ordered his fleete to come in,
+notwithstanding what he had lately ordered for their staying abroad.
+Thence to the Chapel, it being St. Peter's day, and did hear an anthem
+of Silas Taylor's making; a dull, old-fashioned thing, of six and seven
+parts, that nobody could understand: and the Duke of York, when he come
+out, told me that he was a better store-keeper than anthem-maker, and
+that was bad enough, too. This morning Mr. May' shewed me the King's
+new buildings at White Hall, very fine; and among other things, his
+ceilings, and his houses of office. So home to dinner, and then with my
+wife to the King's playhouse--"The Mulberry Garden," which she had not
+seen. So by coach to Islington, and round by Hackney home with much
+pleasure, and to supper and bed.
+
+30th. Up, and at the Office all the morning: then home to dinner, where
+a stinking leg of mutton, the weather being very wet and hot to keep
+meat in. Then to the Office again, all the afternoon: we met about the
+Victualler's new contract. And so up, and to walk all the evening with
+my wife and Mrs. Turner in the garden, till supper, about eleven at
+night; and so, after supper, parted, and to bed, my eyes bad, but not
+worse, only weary with working. But, however, I very melancholy under
+the fear of my eyes being spoiled, and not to be recovered; for I am
+come that I am not able to readout a small letter, and yet my sight good
+for the little while I can read, as ever they were, I think.
+
+
+
+
+JULY 1668
+
+July 1st. Up; and all the morning we met at the office about the
+Victualler's contract. At noon home to dinner, my Cozen Roger, come
+newly to town, dined with us, and mighty importunate for our coming down
+to Impington, which I think to do, this Sturbridge fair. Thence I set
+him down at the Temple, and Commissioner Middleton dining the first time
+with me, he and I to White Hall, and so to St. James's, where we met;
+and much business with the Duke of York. And I find the Duke of York
+very hot for regulations in the Navy; and, I believe, is put on it by
+W. Coventry; and I am glad of it; and particularly, he falls heavy
+on Chatham-yard,, and is vexed that Lord Anglesey did, the other day,
+complain at the Council-table of disorders in the Navy, and not to him.
+So I to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier; and there vexed, with the
+importunity and clamours of Alderman Backewell, for my acquittance
+for money supplied by him to the garrison, before I have any order for
+paying it: so home, calling at several places-among others, the 'Change,
+and on Cooper, to know when my wife shall come to sit for her picture,
+which will be next week, and so home and to walk with my wife, and then
+to supper and to bed.
+
+2nd. Called up by a letter from W. Coventry telling me that the
+Commissioners of Accounts intend to summons me about Sir W. Warren's
+Hamburg contract, and so I up and to W. Coventry's (he and G. Carteret
+being the party concerned in it), and after conference with him about it
+to satisfaction I home again to the office. At noon home to dinner, and
+then all the afternoon busy to prepare an answer to this demand of the
+Commissioners of Accounts, and did discourse with Sir W. Warren about
+it, and so in the evening with my wife and Deb. by coach to take ayre
+to Mile-end, and so home and I to bed, vexed to be put to this frequent
+trouble in things we deserve best in.
+
+3rd. Betimes to the office, my head full of this business. Then by coach
+to the Commissioners of Accounts at Brooke House, the first time I was
+ever there, and there Sir W. Turner in the chair; and present, Lord
+Halifax, Thoms[on], Gregory, Dunster, and Osborne. I long with them,
+and see them hot set on this matter; but I did give them proper and safe
+answers. Halifax, I perceive, was industrious on my side, in behalf of
+his uncle Coventry, it being the business of fir W. Warren. Vexed only
+at their denial of a copy of what I set my hand to, and swore. Here till
+almost two o'clock, and then home to dinner, and set down presently what
+I had done and said this day, and so abroad by water to Eagle Court in
+the Strand, and there to an alehouse: met Mr. Pierce, the Surgeon, and
+Dr. Clerke, Waldron, Turberville, my physician for the eyes, and Lowre,
+to dissect several eyes of sheep and oxen, with great pleasure, and to
+my great information. But strange that this Turberville should be so
+great a man, and yet, to this day, had seen no eyes dissected, or but
+once, but desired this Dr. Lowre to give him the opportunity to see him
+dissect some. Thence to Unthanke's, to my wife, and carried her home,
+and there walked in the garden, and so to supper and to bed.
+
+4th. Up, and to see Sir W. Coventry, and give him account of my doings
+yesterday, which he well liked of, and was told thereof by my Lord
+Halifax before; but I do perceive he is much concerned for this
+business. Gives me advice to write a smart letter to the Duke of York
+about the want of money in the Navy, and desire him to communicate it
+to the Commissioners of the Treasury; for he tells me he hath hot
+work sometimes to contend with the rest for the Navy, they being all
+concerned for some other part of the King's expenses, which they would
+prefer to this, of the Navy. He shewed me his closet, with his round
+table, for him to sit in the middle, very convenient; and I borrowed
+several books of him, to collect things out of the Navy, which I have
+not, and so home, and there busy sitting all the morning, and at noon
+dined, and then all the afternoon busy, till night, and then to Mile-End
+with my wife and girl, and there drank and eat a joie of salmon, at the
+Rose and Crown, our old house; and so home to bed.
+
+5th (Lord's day). About four in the morning took four pills of Dr.
+Turberville's prescribing, for my eyes, and they wrought pretty well
+most of the morning, and I did get my wife to spend the morning reading
+of Wilkins's Reall Character. At noon comes W. Hewer and Pelling, and
+young Michell and his wife, and dined with us, and most of the afternoon
+talking; and then at night my wife to read again, and to supper and to
+bed.
+
+6th. Up, and to St. James's, and there attended the Duke of York, and
+was there by himself told how angry he was, and did declare to my Lord
+Anglesey, about his late complaining of things of the Navy to the King
+in Council, and not to him; and I perceive he is mightily concerned
+at it, and resolved to reform things therein. Thence with W. Coventry
+walked in the Park together a good while, he mighty kind to me. And hear
+many pretty stories of my Lord Chancellor's being heretofore made sport
+of by Peter Talbot the priest, in his story of the death of Cardinall
+Bleau;
+
+     [It is probable these stories, in ridicule of Clarendon, are nowhere
+     recorded.  Cardinal Jean Balue was the minister of Louis XI. of
+     France.  The reader will remember him in Sir W. Scott's "Quentin
+     Durward."  He was confined for eleven years in an iron cage invented
+     by himself in the Chateau de Loches, and died soon after he regained
+     his liberty.--B.]
+
+by Lord Cottington, in his 'Dolor de las Tyipas';
+
+     [Gripes.  It was a joke against Lord Cottington that whenever he was
+     seriously ill he declared himself a Roman Catholic, when he was well
+     again he returned to the Protestant faith.]
+
+and Tom Killigrew, in his being bred in Ram Ally, and now bound prentice
+to Lord Cottington, going to Spain with L1000, and two suits of clothes.
+Thence home to dinner, and thence to Mr. Cooper's, and there met my wife
+and W. Hewer and Deb.; and there my wife first sat for her picture: but
+he is a most admirable workman, and good company. Here comes Harris, and
+first told us how Betterton is come again upon the stage: whereupon my
+wife and company to the [Duke's] house to see "Henry the Fifth;" while I
+to attend the Duke of York at the Committee of the Navy, at the Council,
+where some high dispute between him and W. Coventry about settling
+pensions upon all Flag-Officers, while unemployed: W. Coventry against
+it, and, I think, with reason. Thence I to the playhouse, and saw a
+piece of the play, and glad to see Betterton; and so with wife and Deb.
+to Spring-garden, and eat a lobster, and so home in the evening and to
+bed. Great doings at Paris, I hear, with their triumphs for their late
+conquests! The Duchesse of Richmond sworn last week of the queen's
+Bedchamber, and the King minding little else but what he used to
+do--about his women.
+
+7th. Up, and to the office, where Kate Joyce come to me about some
+tickets of hers, but took no notice to me of her being married, but
+seemed mighty pale, and doubtful what to say or do, expecting, I
+believe, that I should begin; and not finding me beginning, said
+nothing, but, with trouble in her face, went away. At the office all
+the morning, and after dinner also all the afternoon, and in the evening
+with my wife and Deb. and Betty Turner to Unthanke's, where we are fain
+to go round by Newgate, because of Fleet Bridge being under rebuilding.
+They stayed there, and I about some business, and then presently back
+and brought them home and supped and Mrs. Turner, the mother, comes to
+us, and there late, and so to bed.
+
+8th. Betimes by water to Sir W. Coventry, and there discoursed of
+several things; and I find him much concerned in the present enquiries
+now on foot of the Commissioners of Accounts, though he reckons himself
+and the rest very safe, but vexed to see us liable to these troubles, in
+things wherein we have laboured to do best. Thence, he being to go out
+of town to-morrow, to drink Banbury waters, I to the Duke of York, to
+attend him about business of the Office; and find him mighty free to
+me, and how he is concerned to mend things in the Navy himself, and not
+leave it to other people. So home to dinner; and then with my wife
+to Cooper's, and there saw her sit; and he do do extraordinary things
+indeed. So to White Hall; and there by and by the Duke of York comes to
+the Robe-chamber, and spent with us three hours till night, in hearing
+the business of the Master-Attendants of Chatham, and the Store-keeper
+of Woolwich; and resolves to displace them all; so hot he is of giving
+proofs of his justice at this time, that it is their great fate now, to
+come to be questioned at such a time as this. Thence I to Unthanke's,
+and took my wife and Deb. home, and to supper and to bed.
+
+9th. Up, and to the office, where sat all the morning, and after noon
+to the office again till night, mighty busy getting Mr. Fist to come and
+help me, my own clerks all busy, and so in the evening to ease my eyes,
+and with my wife and Deb. and Betty Turner, by coach to Unthanke's and
+back again, and then to supper and to bed.
+
+10th. Up, and to attend the Council, but all in vain, the Council
+spending all the morning upon a business about the printing of the
+Critickes, a dispute between the first Printer, one Bee that is dead,
+and the Abstractor, who would now print his Abstract, one Poole. So home
+to dinner, and thence to Haward's to look upon an Espinette, and I did
+come near the buying one, but broke off. I have a mind to have one. So
+to Cooper's; and there find my wife and W. Hewer and Deb., sitting, and
+painting; and here he do work finely, though I fear it will not be so
+like as I expected: but now I understand his great skill in musick,
+his playing and setting to the French lute most excellently; and speaks
+French, and indeed is an excellent man. Thence, in the evening, with my
+people in a glass hackney-coach to the park, but was ashamed to be seen.
+So to the lodge, and drank milk, and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+11th. At the office all the morning. After dinner to the King's
+playhouse, to see an old play of Shirly's, called "Hide Parker" the
+first day acted; where horses are brought upon the stage but it is but
+a very moderate play, only an excellent epilogue spoke by Beck Marshall.
+Thence home and to my office, and then to supper and to bed, and
+overnight took some pills,
+
+12th. Which work with me pretty betimes, being Lord's day, and so I
+within all day. Busy all the morning upon some accounts with W. Hewer,
+and at noon, an excellent dinner, comes Pelling and W. Howe, and the
+latter staid and talked with me all the afternoon, and in the evening
+comes Mr. Mills and his wife and supped and talked with me, and so to
+bed. This last night Betty Michell about midnight cries out, and my wife
+goes to her, and she brings forth a girl, and this afternoon the child
+is christened, and my wife godmother again to a Betty.
+
+13th. Up, and to my office, and thence by water to White Hall to attend
+the Council, but did not, and so home to dinner, and so out with my
+wife, and Deb., and W. Hewer towards Cooper's, but I 'light and walked
+to Ducke Lane, and there to the bookseller's; at the Bible, whose moher
+je have a mind to, but elle no erat dentro, but I did there look upon
+and buy some books, and made way for coming again to the man, which
+pleases me. Thence to Reeves's, and there saw some, and bespoke a little
+perspective, and was mightily pleased with seeing objects in a dark
+room. And so to Cooper's, and spent the afternoon with them; and it will
+be an excellent picture. Thence my people all by water to Deptford, to
+see Balty, while I to buy my espinette,
+
+     [Espinette is the French term for a small harpsichord, at that time
+     called in England a spinet.  It was named from a fancied resemblance
+     of its quill plectra to spines or thorns.]
+
+which I did now agree for, and did at Haward's meet with Mr. Thacker,
+and heard him play on the harpsicon, so as I never heard man before,
+I think. So home, it being almost night, and there find in the garden
+Pelling, who hath brought Tempest, Wallington, and Pelham, to sings and
+there had most excellent musick late, in the dark, with great pleasure.
+Made them drink and eat; and so with much pleasure to bed, but above
+all with little Wallington. This morning I was let blood, and did bleed
+about fourteen ounces, towards curing my eyes.
+
+14th. Up, and to my office, where sat all the morning. At noon home
+to dinner, and thence all the afternoon hard at the office, we meeting
+about the Victualler's new contract; and so into the garden, my Lady
+Pen, Mrs. Turner and her daughter, my wife and I, and there supped in
+the dark and were merry, and so to bed. This day Bossc finished his copy
+of my picture, which I confess I do not admire, though my wife prefers
+him to Browne; nor do I think it like. He do it for W. Hewer, who hath
+my wife's also, which I like less. This afternoon my Lady Pickering come
+to see us: I busy, saw her not. But how natural it is for us to slight
+people out of power, and for people out of power to stoop to see those
+that while in power they contemned!
+
+15th. Up, and all the morning busy at the office to my great content,
+attending to the settling of papers there that I may have the more rest
+in winter for my eyes by how much I do the more in the settling of
+all things in the summer by daylight. At noon home to dinner, where is
+brought home the espinette I bought the other day of Haward; costs me
+L5. So to St. James's, where did our ordinary business with the Duke of
+York. So to Unthanke's to my wife, and with her and Deb. to visit Mrs.
+Pierce, whom I do not now so much affect, since she paints. But stayed
+here a while, and understood from her how my Lady Duchesse of Monmouth
+is still lame, and likely always to be so, which is a sad chance for a
+young [lady] to get, only by trying of tricks in dancing. So home, and
+there Captain Deane come and spent the evening with me, to draw some
+finishing lines on his fine draught of "The Resolution," the best ship,
+by all report, in the world, and so to bed. Wonderful hot all day and
+night, and this the first night that I remember in my life that ever I
+could lie with only a sheet and one rug. So much I am now stronger than
+ever I remember myself, at least since before I had the stone.
+
+16th. Up, and to the office, where Yeabsly and Lanyon come to town and
+to speak with me about a matter wherein they are accused of cheating the
+King before the Lords' Commissioners of Tangier, and I doubt it true,
+but I have no hand in it, but will serve them what I can. All the
+morning at the office, and at noon dined at home, and then to the office
+again, where we met to finish the draft of the Victualler's contract,
+and so I by water with my Lord Brouncker to Arundell House, to the
+Royall Society, and there saw an experiment of a dog's being tied
+through the back, about the spinal artery, and thereby made void of all
+motion; and the artery being loosened again, the dog recovers. Thence to
+Cooper's, and saw his advance on my wife's picture, which will be indeed
+very fine. So with her to the 'Change, to buy some things, and here I
+first bought of the sempstress next my bookseller's, where the pretty
+young girl is, that will be a great beauty. So home, and to supper with
+my wife in the garden, it being these two days excessively hot, and so
+to bed.
+
+17th. Up, and fitted myself to discourse before the Council about
+business of tickets. So to White Hall, where waited on the Duke of York,
+and then the Council about that business; and I did discourse to their
+liking, only was too high to assert that nothing could be invented to
+secure the King more in the business of tickets than there is; which the
+Duke of Buckingham did except against, and I could have answered, but
+forbore; but all liked very well. Thence home, and with my wife and Deb.
+to the King's House to see a play revived called The------, a sorry mean
+play, that vexed us to sit in so much heat of the weather to hear it.
+Thence to see Betty Michell newly lain in, and after a little stay we
+took water and to Spring Garden, and there walked, and supped, and staid
+late, and with much pleasure, and to bed. The weather excessive hot, so
+as we were forced to lie in two beds, and I only with a sheet and rug,
+which is colder than ever I remember I could bear.
+
+18th. At the office all the morning. At noon dined at home and Creed
+with me, who I do really begin to hate, and do use him with some
+reservedness. Here was also my old acquaintance, Will Swan, to see me,
+who continues a factious fanatick still, and I do use him civilly,
+in expectation that those fellows may grow great again. Thence to the
+office, and then with my wife to the 'Change and Unthanke's, after
+having been at Cooper's and sat there for her picture, which will be a
+noble picture, but yet I think not so like as Hales's is. So home and
+to my office, and then to walk in the garden, and home to supper and
+to bed. They say the King of France is making a war again, in Flanders,
+with the King of Spain; the King of Spain refusing to give him all that
+he says was promised him in the treaty. Creed told me this day how when
+the King was at my Lord Cornwallis's when he went last to Newmarket,
+that being there on a Sunday, the Duke of Buckingham did in the
+afternoon to please the King make a bawdy sermon to him out of
+Canticles, and that my Lord Cornwallis did endeavour to get the King a
+whore, and that must be a pretty girl the daughter of the parson of
+the place, but that she did get away, and leaped off of some place and
+killed herself, which if true is very sad.
+
+19th (Lord's day). Up, and to my chamber, and there I up and down in the
+house spent the morning getting things ready against noon, when come Mr.
+Cooper, Hales, Harris, Mr. Butler, that wrote Hudibras, and Mr. Cooper's
+cozen Jacke; and by and by comes Mr. Reeves and his wife, whom I never
+saw before: and there we dined: a good dinner, and company that pleased
+me mightily, being all eminent men in their way. Spent all the afternoon
+in talk and mirth, and in the evening parted, and then my wife and I to
+walk in the garden, and so home to supper, Mrs. Turner and husband and
+daughter with us, and then to bed.
+
+20th. Up, and to the office, where Mrs. Daniel comes.... All the morning
+at the office. Dined at home, then with Mr. Colvill to the new Excise
+Office in Aldersgate Street, and thence back to the Old Exchange, to see
+a very noble fine lady I spied as I went through, in coming; and there
+took occasion to buy some gloves, and admire her, and a mighty fine fair
+lady indeed she was. Thence idling all the afternoon to Duck Lane, and
+there saw my bookseller's moher, but get no ground there yet; and here
+saw Mrs. Michell's daughter married newly to a bookseller, and she
+proves a comely little grave woman. So to visit my Lord Crew, who is
+very sick, to great danger, by an irisipulus;--[Erysipelas.]--the first
+day I heard of it, and so home, and took occasion to buy a rest for my
+espinette at the ironmonger's by Holborn Conduit, where the fair pretty
+woman is that I have lately observed there, and she is pretty, and je
+credo vain enough. Thence home and busy till night, and so to bed.
+
+21st. Up, and to St. James's, but lost labour, the Duke abroad. So home
+to the office, where all the morning, and so to dinner, and then all the
+afternoon at the office, only went to my plate-maker's, and there spent
+an hour about contriving my little plates,
+
+     [This passage has been frequently quoted as referring to Pepys's.
+     small bookplate, with his initials S. P. and two anchors and ropes
+     entwined; but if looked at carefully with the further reference on
+     the 27th, it will be seen that it merely describes the preparation
+     of engravings of the four dockyards.]
+
+for my books of the King's four Yards. At night walked in the garden,
+and supped and to bed, my eyes bad.
+
+22nd. All the morning at the office. Dined at home, and then to White
+Hall with Symson the joyner, and after attending at the Committee of the
+Navy about the old business of tickets, where the only expedient they
+have found is to bind the Commanders and Officers by oaths. The Duke
+of York told me how the Duke of Buckingham, after the Council the other
+day, did make mirth at my position, about the sufficiency of present
+rules in the business of tickets; and here I took occasion to desire
+a private discourse with the Duke of York, and he granted it to me on
+Friday next. So to shew Symson the King's new lodgings for his chimnies,
+which I desire to have one built in that mode, and so I home, and with
+little supper, to bed. This day a falling out between my wife and Deb.,
+about a hood lost, which vexed me.
+
+23rd. Up, and all day long, but at dinner, at the Office, at work, till
+I was almost blind, which makes my heart sad.
+
+24th. Up, and by water to St. James's, having, by the way, shewn Symson
+Sir W. Coventry's chimney-pieces, in order to the making me one; and
+there, after the Duke of York was ready, he called me to his closet; and
+there I did long and largely show him the weakness of our Office, and
+did give him advice to call us to account for our duties, which he did
+take mighty well, and desired me to draw up what I would have him write
+to the Office. I did lay open the whole failings of the Office, and how
+it was his duty to find them, and to find fault with them, as Admiral,
+especially at this time, which he agreed to, and seemed much to rely
+on what I said. Thence to White Hall, and there waited to attend the
+Council, but was not called in, and so home, and after dinner back with
+Sir J. Minnes by coach, and there attended, all of us, the Duke of York,
+and had the hearing of Mr. Pett's business, the Master-Shipwright
+at Chatham, and I believe he will be put out. But here Commissioner.
+Middleton did, among others, shew his good-nature and easiness to the
+Masters-Attendants, by mitigating their faults, so as, I believe, they
+will come in again. So home, and to supper and to bed, the Duke of York
+staying with us till almost night.
+
+25th. Up, and at the Office all the morning; and at noon, after dinner,
+to Cooper's, it being a very rainy day, and there saw my wife's picture
+go on, which will be very fine indeed. And so home again to my letters,
+and then to supper and to bed.
+
+26th (Lord's day). Up, and all the morning and after dinner, the
+afternoon also, with W. Hewer in my closet, setting right my Tangier
+Accounts, which I have let alone these six months and more, but find
+them very right, and is my great comfort. So in the evening to walk with
+my wife, and to supper and to bed.
+
+27th. Busy all the morning at my office. At noon dined, and then I out
+of doors to my bookseller in Duck Lane, but su moher not at home, and it
+was pretty here to see a pretty woman pass by with a little wanton look,
+and je did sequi her round about the street from Duck Lane to Newgate
+Market, and then elle did turn back, and je did lose her. And so to see
+my Lord Crew, whom I find up; and did wait on him; but his face sore,
+but in hopes to do now very well again. Thence to Cooper's, where my
+wife's picture almost done, and mighty fine indeed. So over the water
+with my wife, and Deb., and Mercer, to Spring-Garden, and there eat and
+walked; and observe how rude some of the young gallants of the town are
+become, to go into people's arbours where there are not men, and almost
+force the women; which troubled me, to see the confidence of the vice of
+the age: and so we away by water, with much pleasure home. This day my
+plate-maker comes with my four little plates of the four Yards, cost me
+L5, which troubles me, but yet do please me also.
+
+28th. All the morning at the office, and after dinner with my wife and
+Deb. to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "The Slighted Maid,"
+but a mean play; and thence home, there being little pleasure now in a
+play, the company being but little. Here we saw Gosnell, who is become
+very homely, and sings meanly, I think, to what I thought she did.
+
+29th. Busy all the morning at the office. So home to dinner, where
+Mercer, and there comes Mr. Swan, my old acquaintance, and dines
+with me, and tells me, for a certainty, that Creed is to marry Betty
+Pickering, and that the thing is concluded, which I wonder at, and am
+vexed for. So he gone I with my wife and two girls to the King's house,
+and saw "The Mad Couple," a mean play altogether, and thence to Hyde
+Parke, where but few coaches, and so to the New Exchange, and thence by
+water home, with much pleasure, and then to sing in the garden, and so
+home to bed, my eyes for these four days being my trouble, and my heart
+thereby mighty sad.
+
+30th. Up, and by water to White Hall. There met with Mr. May, who was
+giving directions about making a close way for people to go dry from the
+gate up into the House, to prevent their going through the galleries;
+which will be very good. I staid and talked with him about the state of
+the King's Offices in general, and how ill he is served, and do still
+find him an excellent person, and so back to the office. So close at my
+office all the afternoon till evening, and then out with my wife to the
+New Exchange, and so back again.
+
+31st. Up, and at my office all the morning. About noon with Mr.
+Ashburnham to the new Excise Office, and there discoursed about
+our business, and I made him admire my drawing a thing presently in
+shorthand: but, God knows! I have paid dear for it, in my eyes. Home and
+to dinner, and then my wife and Deb. and I, with Sir J. Minnes, to White
+Hall, she going hence to the New Exchange, and the Duke of York not
+being in the way, Sir J. Minnes and I to her and took them two to the
+King's house, to see the first day of Lacy's "Monsieur Ragou," now new
+acted. The King and Court all there, and mighty merry--a farce. Thence
+Sir J. Minnes giving us, like a gentleman, his coach, hearing we had
+some business, we to the Park, and so home. Little pleasure there, there
+being little company, but mightily taken with a little chariot that we
+saw in the street, and which we are resolved to have ours like it. So
+home to walk in the garden a little, and then to bed. The month ends
+mighty sadly with me, my eyes being now past all use almost; and I am
+mighty hot upon trying the late printed experiment of paper tubes.
+
+     [An account of these tubulous spectacles ("An easy help for decayed
+     sight") is given in "The Philosophical Transactions," No. 37, pp.
+     727,731 (Hutton's Abridgment, vol. i., p. 266).  See Diary, August
+     12th and 23rd, post.]
+
+
+
+
+AUGUST 1668
+
+August 1st. All the morning at the office. After dinner my wife, and
+Deb., and I, to the King's house again, coming too late yesterday to
+hear the prologue, and do like the play better now than before; and,
+indeed, there is a great deal of true wit in it, more than in the common
+sort of plays, and so home to my business, and at night to bed, my eyes
+making me sad.
+
+2nd. (Lord's day). Up and at home all the morning, hanging, and removing
+of some pictures, in my study and house. At noon Pelling dined with me.
+After dinner, I and Tom, my boy, by water up to Putney, and there heard
+a sermon, and many fine people in the church. Thence walked to Barne
+Elmes, and there, and going and coming, did make the boy read to me
+several things, being now-a-days unable to read myself anything, for
+above two lines together, but my eyes grow weary. Home about night, and
+so to supper and then to bed.
+
+3rd. Up, and by water to White Hall and St. James's, where I did much
+business, and about noon meeting Dr. Gibbons, carried him to the Sun
+taverne, in King Street, and there made him, and some friends of his,
+drink; among others, Captain Silas Taylor, and here did get Gibbons to
+promise me some things for my flageolets. So to the Old Exchange, and
+then home to dinner, and so, Mercer dining with us, I took my wife
+and her and Deb. out to Unthanke's, while I to White Hall to the
+Commissioners of the Treasury, and so back to them and took them out to
+Islington, where we met with W. Joyce and his wife and boy, and there
+eat and drank, and a great deal of his idle talk, and so we round by
+Hackney home, and so to sing a little in the garden, and then to bed.
+
+4th. Up, and to my office a little, and then to White Hall about a
+Committee for Tangier at my Lord Arlington's, where, by Creed's being
+out of town, I have the trouble given me of drawing up answers to the
+complaints of the Turks of Algiers, and so I have all the papers put
+into my hand. Here till noon, and then back to the Office, where sat a
+little, and then to dinner, and presently to the office, where come to
+me my Lord Bellassis, Lieutenant-Colonell Fitzgerald, newly come from
+Tangier, and Sir Arthur Basset, and there I received their informations,
+and so, they being gone, I with my clerks and another of Lord
+Brouncker's, Seddon, sat up till two in the morning, drawing up my
+answers and writing them fair, which did trouble me mightily to sit up
+so long, because of my eyes.
+
+5th. So to bed about two o'clock, and then up about seven and to White
+Hall, where read over my report to Lord Arlington and Berkeley, and then
+afterward at the Council Board with great good liking, but, Lord! how it
+troubled my eyes, though I did not think I could have done it, but did
+do it, and was not very bad afterward. So home to dinner, and thence out
+to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "The Guardian;" formerly
+the same, I find, that was called "Cutter of Coleman Street;" a silly
+play. And thence to Westminster Hall, where I met Fitzgerald; and with
+him to a tavern, to consider of the instructions for Sir Thomas Allen,
+against his going to Algiers; he and I being designed to go down to
+Portsmouth by the Council's order, and by and by he and I went to the
+Duke of York, who orders me to go down to-morrow morning. So I away
+home, and there bespeak a coach; and so home and to bed, my wife being
+abroad with the Mercers walking in the fields, and upon the water.
+
+6th. Waked betimes, and my wife, at an hour's warning, is resolved to
+go with me, which pleases me, her readiness. But, before ready, comes a
+letter from Fitzgerald, that he is seized upon last night by an order
+of the General's by a file of musqueteers, and kept prisoner in his
+chamber. The Duke of York did tell me of it to-day: it is about a
+quarrel between him and Witham, and they fear a challenge: so I to him,
+and sent my wife by the coach round to Lambeth. I lost my labour going
+to his lodgings, and he in bed: and, staying a great while for him, I at
+last grew impatient, and would stay no longer; but to St. James's to Mr.
+Wren, to bid him "God be with you!" and so over the water to Fox Hall;
+and there my wife and Deb. come and took me up, and we away to Gilford,
+losing our way for three or four mile, about Cobham. At Gilford we
+dined; and, I shewed them the hospitall there of Bishop Abbot's, and
+his tomb in the church, which, and the rest of the tombs there, are kept
+mighty clean and neat, with curtains before them. So to coach again, and
+got to Lippock,2 late over Hindhead, having an old man, a guide, in the
+coach with us; but got thither with great fear of being out of our way,
+it being ten at night. Here good, honest people; and after supper, to
+bed....
+
+7th. Up, and to coach, and with a guide to Petersfield, where I find
+Sir Thomas Allen and Mr. Tippets come; the first about the business, the
+latter only in respect to me; as also Fitzgerald, who come post all
+last night, and newly arrived here. We four sat down presently to our
+business, and in an hour despatched all our talk; and did inform Sir
+Thomas Allen well in it, who, I perceive, in serious matters, is a
+serious man: and tells me he wishes all we are told be true, in our
+defence; for he finds by all, that the Turks have, to this day, been
+very civil to our merchant-men everywhere; and, if they would have broke
+with us, they never had such an opportunity over our rich merchant-men,
+as lately, coming out of the Streights. Then to dinner, and pretty
+merry: and here was Mr. Martin, the purser, and dined with us, and wrote
+some things for us. And so took coach again back; Fitzgerald with
+us, whom I was pleased with all the day, with his discourse of his
+observations abroad, as being a great soldier and of long standing
+abroad: and knows all things and persons abroad very well--I mean, the
+great soldiers of France, and Spain, and Germany; and talks very well.
+Come at night to Gilford, where the Red Lyon so full of people, and a
+wedding, that the master of the house did get us a lodging over the
+way, at a private house, his landlord's, mighty neat and fine; and there
+supped and talked with the landlord and his wife: and so to bed with
+great content, only Fitzgerald lay at the Inne. So to bed.
+
+8th. Up, and I walked out, and met Uncle Wight, whom I sent to last
+night, and Mr. Wight coming to see us, and I walked with them back to
+see my aunt at Katherine Hill, and there walked up and down the hill and
+places, about: but a dull place, but good ayre, and the house dull. But
+here I saw my aunt, after many days not seeing her--I think, a year or
+two; and she walked with me to see my wife. And here, at the Red Lyon,
+we all dined together, and mighty merry, and then parted: and we home
+to Fox Hall, where Fitzgerald and I 'light, and by water to White Hall,
+where the Duke of York being abroad, I by coach and met my wife, who
+went round, and after doing at the office a little, and finding all well
+at home, I to bed. I hear that Colbert, the French Ambassador, is come,
+and hath been at Court incognito. When he hath his audience, I know not.
+
+9th (Lord's day). Up, and walked to Holborne, where got John Powell's
+coach at the Black Swan, and he attended me at St. James's, where waited
+on the Duke of York: and both by him and several of the Privy-Council,
+beyond expectation, I find that my going to Sir Thomas Allen was looked
+upon as a thing necessary: and I have got some advantage by it, among
+them. Thence to White Hall, and thence to visit Lord Brouncker, and
+back to White Hall, where saw the Queen and ladies; and so, with Mr.
+Slingsby, to Mrs. Williams's, thinking to dine with Lord Brouncker
+there, but did not, having promised my wife to come home, though here
+I met Knepp, to my great content. So home; and, after dinner, I took my
+wife and Deb. round by Hackney, and up and down to take the ayre; and
+then home, and made visits to Mrs. Turner, and Mrs. Mercer, and Sir W.
+Pen, who is come from Epsom not well, and Sir J. Minnes, who is not well
+neither. And so home to supper, and to set my books a little right, and
+then to bed. This day Betty Michell come and dined with us, the first
+day after her lying in, whom I was glad to see.
+
+10th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and thence to Sir W. Coventry, but
+he is gone out of town this morning, so thence to my Lord Arlington's
+house, the first time I there since he come thither, at Goring House,
+a very fine, noble place; and there he received me in sight of several
+Lords with great respect. I did give him an account of my journey; and
+here, while I waited for him a little, my Lord Orrery took notice of me,
+and begun discourse of hangings, and of the improvement of shipping: I
+not thinking that he knew me, but did then discover it, with a mighty
+compliment of my abilities and ingenuity, which I am mighty proud of;
+and he do speak most excellently. Thence to Westminster Hall, and so by
+coach to the old Exchange, and there did several businesses, and so home
+to dinner, and then abroad to Duck Lane, where I saw my belle femme of
+the book vendor, but had no opportunity para hazer con her. So away to
+Cooper's, where I spent all the afternoon with my wife and girl, seeing
+him-make an end of her picture, which he did Jo my great content, though
+not so great as, I confess, I expected, being not satisfied in the
+greatness of the resemblance, nor in the blue garment: but it is most
+certainly a most rare piece of work, as to the painting. He hath L30 for
+his work--and the chrystal, and case, and gold case comes to L8 3s. 4d.;
+and which I sent him this night, that I might be out of debt. Thence my
+people home, and I to Westminster Hall about a little business, and
+so by water home [to] supper, and my wife to read a ridiculous book I
+bought today of the History of the Taylors' Company,
+
+     [The title of this book was, "The Honour of the Merchant Taylors."
+     Wherein is set forth the noble acts, valliant deeds, and heroick
+     performances of Merchant Taylors in former ages; their honourable
+     loves, and knightly adventures, their combating of foreign enemies
+     and glorious successes in honour of the English nation: together
+     with their pious....]
+
+and all the while Deb. did comb my head, and I did toker her with my
+main para very great pleasure, and so to bed.
+
+11th. Up, and by water to Sir W. Coventry to visit him, whom I find yet
+troubled at the Commissioners of Accounts, about this business of Sir
+W. Warren, which is a ridiculous thing, and can come to nothing but
+contempt, and thence to Westminster Hall, where the Parliament met
+enough to adjourne, which they did, to the 10th of November next, and so
+by water home to the office, and so to dinner, and thence at the Office
+all the afternoon till night, being mightily pleased with a little trial
+I have made of the use of a tube-spectacall of paper, tried with my
+right eye. This day I hear that, to the great joy of the Nonconformists,
+the time is out of the Act against them, so that they may meet: and they
+have declared that they will have a morning lecture
+
+     [During the troubled reign of Charles I., the House of Commons gave
+     parishioners the right of appointing lecturers at the various
+     churches without the consent of rector or vicar, and this naturally
+     gave rise to many quarrels.  In the early period of the war between
+     the king and the parliament, a course of sermons or lectures was
+     projected in aid of the parliamentary cause.  These lectures, which
+     were preached by eminent Presbyterian divines at seven o'clock on
+     the Sunday mornings, were commenced in the church of St. Mary
+     Magdalen in Milk Street, but were soon afterwards removed to St.
+     Giles's, Cripplegate.  After the Restoration the lectures were
+     collected in four volumes, and published under the title of the
+     "Cripplegate Morning Exercises," vol. i. in 1661; vol. ii. in 1674;
+     vol. iii. in 1682; and vol. iv. in 1690.  In addition there were two
+     volumes which form a supplement to the work, viz., "The Morning
+     Exercises methodized," preached at St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, edited
+     by the Rev. Thomas Case in 1660, and the "Exercises against Popery,"
+     preached in Southwark, and published in 1675 (see Demon's "Records
+     of St. Giles's, Crinnlegate," 1883, pp. 55-56).]
+
+up again, which is pretty strange; and they are connived at by the King
+every where, I hear, in City and country. So to visit W. Pen, who is yet
+ill, and then home, where W. Batelier and Mrs. Turner come and sat and
+supped with us, and so they gone we to bed. This afternoon my wife, and
+Mercer, and Deb., went with Pelting to see the gypsies at Lambeth, and
+have their fortunes told; but what they did, I did not enquire.
+
+12th. Up, and all the morning busy at my office. Thence to the Excise
+Office, and so to the Temple to take counsel about Major Nicholls's
+business for the King. So to several places about business, and among
+others to Drumbleby's about the mouths for my paper tubes, and so to
+the 'Change and home. Met Captain Cocke, who tells me that he hears for
+certain the Duke of York will lose the authority of an Admiral, and be
+governed by a Committee: and all our Office changed; only they are in
+dispute whether I shall continue or no, which puts new thoughts in
+me, but I know not whether to be glad or sorry. Home to dinner, where
+Pelting dines with us, and brings some partridges, which is very good
+meat; and, after dinner, I, and wife, and Mercer, and Deb., to the Duke
+of York's house, and saw "Mackbeth," to our great content, and then
+home, where the women went to the making of my tubes, and I to the
+office, and then come Mrs. Turner and her husband to advise about their
+son, the Chaplain, who is turned out of his ship, a sorrow to them,
+which I am troubled for, and do give them the best advice I can, and so
+they gone we to bed.
+
+13th. Up, and Greeting comes, and there he and I tried some things of
+Mr. Locke's for two flageolets, to my great content, and this day my
+wife begins again to learn of him; for I have a great mind for her to
+be able to play a part with me. Thence I to the Office, where all the
+afternoon [morning??], and then to dinner, where W. Howe dined with me,
+who tells me for certain that Creed is like to speed in his match with
+Mrs. Betty Pickering. Here dined with me also Mr. Hollier, who is mighty
+vain in his pretence to talk Latin. So to the Office again all the
+afternoon till night, very busy, and so with much content home, and made
+my wife sing and play on the flageolet to me till I slept with great
+pleasure in bed.
+
+14th. Up, and by water to White Hall and St. James's, and to see Sir
+W. Coventry, and discourse about business of our Office, telling him my
+trouble there, to see how things are ordered. I told him also what Cocke
+told me the other day, but he says there is not much in it, though he do
+know that this hath been in the eye of some persons to compass for the
+turning all things in the navy, and that it looks so like a popular
+thing as that he thinks something may be done in it, but whether so
+general or no, as I tell it him, he knows not. Thence to White Hall, and
+there wait at the Council-chamber door a good while, talking with one or
+other, and so home by water, though but for a little while, because I
+am to return to White Hall. At home I find Symson, putting up my new
+chimney-piece, in our great chamber, which is very fine, but will cost
+a great deal of money, but it is not flung away. So back to White Hall,
+and after the council up, I with Mr. Wren, by invitation, to Sir Stephen
+Fox's to dinner, where the Cofferer and Sir Edward Savage; where many
+good stories of the antiquity and estates of many families at this day
+in Cheshire, and that part of the kingdom, more than what is on this
+side, near London. My Lady [Fox] dining with us; a very good lady, and a
+family governed so nobly and neatly as do me good to see it. Thence the
+Cofferer, Sir Stephen, and I to the Commissioners of the Treasury about
+business: and so I up to the Duke of York, who enquired for what I had
+promised him, about my observations of the miscarriages of our Office;
+
+     [This refers to the letter on the affairs of the office which Pepys
+     prepared, and respecting which, and the proceedings which grew out
+     of it, so many references are made in future pages of the Diary.]
+
+and I told him he should have it next week, being glad he called for
+it; for I find he is concerned to do something, and to secure himself
+thereby, I believe: for the world is labouring to eclipse him, I
+doubt; I mean, the factious part of the Parliament. The Office met this
+afternoon as usual, and waited on him; where, among other things, he
+talked a great while of his intentions of going to Dover soon, to be
+sworn as Lord Warden, which is a matter of great ceremony and state,
+and so to the Temple with Mr. Wren, to the Attorney's chamber, about
+business, but he abroad, and so I home, and there spent the evening
+talking with my wife and piping, and pleased with our chimney-piece, and
+so to bed.
+
+15th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning busy, and after
+dinner with my wife, Mercer, and Deb., to the King's playhouse, and
+there saw "Love's Mistresse" revived, the thing pretty good, but full of
+variety of divertisement. So home and to my business at the office, my
+eyes bad again, and so to bed.
+
+16th (Lord's day). All the morning at my Office with W. Hewer, there
+drawing up my Report to the Duke of York, as I have promised, about
+the faults of this Office, hoping thereby to have opportunity of doing
+myself [something]. At noon to dinner, and again with him to work all
+the afternoon till night, till I was weary and had despatched a good
+deal of business, and so to bed after hearing my wife read a little.
+
+17th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and so to St. James's, and thence
+with Mr. Wren by appointment in his coach to Hampstead, to speak with
+the Atturney-general, whom we met in the fields, by his old route and
+house; and after a little talk about our business of Ackeworth, went and
+saw the Lord Wotton's house and garden, which is wonderfull fine: too
+good for the house the gardens are, being, indeed, the most noble that
+ever I saw, and brave orange and lemon trees. Thence to Mr. Chichley's
+by invitation, and there dined with Sir John, his father not coming
+home. And while at dinner comes by the French Embassador Colbert's
+mules, the first I eversaw, with their sumpter-clothes mighty rich, and
+his coaches, he being to have his entry to-day: but his things, though
+rich, are not new; supposed to be the same his brother
+
+     [A mistake of Pepys's.  Colbert de Croissy, then in England, had
+     himself been the French Plenipotentiary at Aix-la-Chapelle.--B.]
+
+had the other day, at the treaty at Aix-la-Chapelle, in Flanders. Thence
+to the Duke of York's house, and there saw "Cupid's Revenge," under the
+new name of "Love Despised," that hath something very good in it, though
+I like not the whole body of it. This day the first time acted here.
+Thence home, and there with Mr. Hater and W. Hewer late, reading over
+all the principal officers' instructions in order to my great work upon
+my hand, and so to bed, my eyes very ill.
+
+18th. Up, and to my office about my great business betimes, and so to
+the office, where all the morning. At noon dined, and then to the office
+all the afternoon also, and in the evening to Sir W. Coventry's, but he
+not within, I took coach alone to the Park, to try to meet him there,
+but did not; but there were few coaches, but among the few there were
+in two coaches our two great beauties, my Lady Castlemayne and Richmond;
+the first time I saw the latter since she had the smallpox. I had much
+pleasure to see them, but I thought they were strange one to another.
+Thence going out I met a coach going, which I thought had Knepp in it,
+so I went back, but it was not she. So back to White Hall and there took
+water, and so home, and busy late about my great letter to the Duke of
+York, and so to supper and to bed....
+
+19th. Up betimes, and all day and afternoon without going out, busy upon
+my great letter to the Duke of York, which goes on to my content. W.
+Hewer and Gibson I employ with me in it. This week my people wash, over
+the water, and so I little company at home. In the evening, being busy
+above, a great cry I hear, and go down; and what should it be but Jane,
+in a fit of direct raving, which lasted half-an-hour. Beyond four or
+five of our strength to keep her down; and, when all come to all, a fit
+of jealousy about Tom, with whom she is in love. So at night, I, and my
+wife, and W. Hewer called them to us, and there I did examine all the
+thing, and them, in league. She in love, and he hath got her to promise
+him to marry, and he is now cold in it, so that I must rid my hands of
+them, which troubles me, and the more because my head is now busy upon
+other greater things. I am vexed also to be told by W. Hewer that he is
+summoned to the Commissioners of Accounts about receiving a present of
+L30 from Mr. Mason, the timber merchant, though there be no harm in
+it, that will appear on his part, he having done them several lawful
+kindnesses and never demanded anything, as they themselves have this day
+declared to the Commissioners, they being forced up by the discovery of
+somebody that they in confidence had once told it to. So to supper vexed
+and my head full of care, and so to bed.
+
+20th. Betimes at my business again, and so to the office, and dined with
+Brouncker and J. Minnes, at Sir W. Pen's at a bad pasty of venison, and
+so to work again, and at it till past twelve at night, that I might get
+my great letter
+
+     [In the Pepysian Library is a MS. (No. 2242), entitled, "Papers
+     conteyning my addresse to his Royall Highnesse James Duke of Yorke,
+     Lord High Admirall of England, &c., by letter dated the 20th of
+     August, 1668, humbly tendering him my advice touching the present
+     State of the Office of the Navy, with his Royall Highness's
+     proceedings upon the same, and their result."]
+
+to the Duke of York ready against to-morrow, which I shall do, to my
+great content. So to bed.
+
+21st. Up betimes, and with my people again to work, and finished all
+before noon: and then I by water to White Hall, and there did tell the
+Duke of York that I had done; and he hath to my great content desired
+me to come to him at Sunday next in the afternoon, to read it over, by
+which I have more time to consider and correct it. So back home and to
+the 'Change, in my way calling at Morris', my vintner's, where I love
+to see su moher, though no acquaintance accostais this day con her. Did
+several things at the 'Change, and so home to dinner. After dinner I by
+coach to my bookseller's in Duck Lane, and there did spend a little
+time and regarder su moher, and so to St. James's, where did a little
+ordinary business; and by and by comes Monsieur Colbert, the French
+Embassador, to make his first visit to the Duke of York, and then to the
+Duchess: and I saw it: a silly piece of ceremony, he saying only a few
+formal words. A comely man, and in a black suit and cloak of silk, which
+is a strange fashion, now it hath been so long left off: This day I did
+first see the Duke of York's room of pictures of some Maids of Honour,
+done by Lilly: good, but not like.
+
+     [The set of portraits known as "King Charles's Beauties," formerly
+     in Windsor Castle, but now at Hampton Court.--B.]
+
+Thence to Reeves's, and bought a reading-glass, and so to my
+bookseller's again, there to buy a Book of Martyrs,
+
+     [The popular name of John Fox's "Acts and Monuments," first
+     published in 1562-63.]
+
+which I did agree for; and so, after seeing and beginning acquaintance
+con his femme, but very little, away home, and there busy very late at
+the correcting my great letter to the Duke of York, and so to bed.
+
+22nd. Up betimes, at it again with great content, and so to the Office,
+where all the morning, and did fall out with W. Pen about his slight
+performance of his office, and so home to dinner, fully satisfied that
+this Office must sink or the whole Service be undone. To the office all
+the afternoon again, and then home to supper and to bed, my mind being
+pretty well at ease, my great letter being now finished to my full
+content; and I thank God I have opportunity of doing it, though I know
+it will set the Office and me by the ears for ever. This morning Captain
+Cocke comes, and tells me that he is now assured that it is true, what
+he told me the other day, that our whole Office will be turned out,
+only me, which, whether he says true or no, I know not, nor am much
+concerned, though I should be better contented to have it thus than
+otherwise. This afternoon, after I was weary in my business of the
+office, I went forth to the 'Change, thinking to have spoke with Captain
+Cocke, but he was not within. So I home, and took London-bridge in my
+way; walking down Fish Street and Gracious Street, to see how very fine
+a descent they have now made down the hill, that it is become very easy
+and pleasant, and going through Leaden-Hall, it being market-day, I
+did see a woman catched, that had stolen a shoulder of mutton off of a
+butcher's stall, and carrying it wrapt up in a cloth, in a basket. The
+jade was surprised, and did not deny it, and the woman so silly, as to
+let her go that took it, only taking the meat.
+
+23rd (Lord's day). Up betimes, my head busy in my great letter, and
+I did first hang up my new map of Paris in my green room, and changed
+others in other places. Then to Captain Cocke's, thinking to have talked
+more of what he told me yesterday, but he was not within. So back to
+church, and heard a good sermon of Mr. Gifford's at our church, upon
+"Seek ye first the kingdom of Heaven and its righteousness, and all
+these things shall be added to you." A very excellent and persuasive,
+good and moral sermon. Shewed, like a wise man, that righteousness is
+a surer moral way of being rich, than sin and villainy. Then home
+to dinner, where Mr. Pelting, who brought us a hare, which we had at
+dinner, and W. Howe. After dinner to the Office, Mr. Gibson and I, to
+examine my letter to the Duke of York, which, to my great joy, I did
+very well by my paper tube, without pain to my eyes. And I do mightily
+like what I have therein done; and did, according to the Duke of York's
+order, make haste to St. James's, and about four o'clock got thither:
+and there the Duke of York was ready, to expect me, and did hear it all
+over with extraordinary content; and did give me many and hearty
+thanks, and in words the most expressive tell me his sense of my good
+endeavours, and that he would have a care of me on all occasions; and
+did, with much inwardness,--[i.e., intimacy.]--tell me what was doing,
+suitable almost to what Captain Cocke tells me, of designs to make
+alterations in the Navy; and is most open to me in them, and with utmost
+confidence desires my further advice on all occasions: and he resolves
+to have my letter transcribed, and sent forthwith to the Office. So,
+with as much satisfaction as I could possibly, or did hope for, and
+obligation on the Duke of York's side professed to me, I away into the
+Park, and there met Mr. Pierce and his wife, and sister and brother,
+and a little boy, and with them to Mulberry Garden, and spent I 18s. on
+them, and there left them, she being again with child, and by it, the
+least pretty that ever I saw her. And so I away, and got a coach, and
+home, and there with my wife and W. Hewer, talking all the evening, my
+mind running on the business of the Office, to see what more I can do to
+the rendering myself acceptable and useful to all and to the King. We to
+supper, and to bed.
+
+24th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning upon considerations
+on the Victualler's contract, and then home to dinner, where my wife is
+upon hanging the long chamber where the girl lies, with the sad
+stuff that was in the best chamber, in order to the hanging that with
+tapestry. So to dinner, and then to the office again, where all the
+afternoon till night, we met to discourse upon the alterations which are
+propounded to be made in the draft of the victualler's contract which
+we did lately make, and then we being up comes Mr. Child, Papillion and
+Littleton, his partners, to discourse upon the matter with me, which
+I did, and spent all the evening with them at the office, and so, they
+being gone, I to supper and talk with my wife, and so to bed.
+
+25th. Up, and by water to St. James's, and there, with Mr. Wren, did
+discourse about my great letter, which the Duke of York hath given him:
+and he hath set it to be transcribed by Billings, his man, whom, as he
+tells me, he can most confide in for secresy, and is much pleased with
+it, and earnest to have it be; and he and I are like to be much together
+in the considering how to reform the Office, and that by the Duke of
+York's command. Thence I, mightily pleased with this success, away to
+the Office, where all the morning, my head full of this business. And
+it is pretty how Lord Brouncker this day did tell me how he hears that
+a design is on foot to remove us out of the Office: and proposes that
+we two do agree to draw up a form of a new constitution of the Office,
+there to provide remedies for the evils we are now under, so that we may
+be beforehand with the world, which I agreed to, saying nothing of my
+design; and, the truth is, he is the best man of them all, and I would
+be glad, next myself, to save him; for, as he deserves best, so I
+doubt he needs his place most. So home to dinner at noon, and all the
+afternoon busy at the office till night, and then with my mind full of
+business now in my head, I to supper and to bed.
+
+26th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning almost, busy about
+business against the afternoon, and we met a little to sign two or three
+things at the Board of moment, and thence at noon home to dinner, and so
+away to White Hall by water. In my way to the Old Swan, finding a great
+many people gathered together in Cannon Street about a man that was
+working in the ruins, and the ground did sink under him, and he sunk in,
+and was forced to be dug out again, but without hurt. Thence to White
+Hall, and it is strange to say with what speed the people employed do
+pull down Paul's steeple, and with what ease: it is said that it, and
+the choir are to be taken down this year, and another church begun
+in the room thereof, the next. At White Hall we met at the Treasury
+chamber, and there before the Lords did debate our draft of the
+victualling contract with the several bidders for it, which were Sir D.
+Gawden, Mr. Child and his fellows, and Mr. Dorrington and his, a poor
+variety in a business of this value. There till after candle-lighting,
+and so home by coach with Sir D. Gawden, who, by the way, tells me how
+the City do go on in several things towards the building of the public
+places, which I am glad to hear; and gives hope that in a few years it
+will be a glorious place; but we met with several stops and new troubles
+in the way in the streets, so as makes it bad to travel in the dark now
+through the City. So I to Mr. Batelier's by appointment, where I find
+my wife, and Deb., and Mercer; Mrs. Pierce and her husband, son, and
+daughter; and Knepp and Harris, and W. Batelier, and his sister Mary,
+and cozen Gumbleton, a good-humoured, fat young gentleman, son to the
+jeweller, that dances well; and here danced all night long, with a noble
+supper; and about two in the morning the table spread again for a noble
+breakfast beyond all moderation, that put me out of countenance, so much
+and so good. Mrs. Pierce and her people went home betimes, she being
+big with child; but Knepp and the rest staid till almost three in the
+morning, and then broke up.
+
+27th. Knepp home with us, and I to bed, and rose about six, mightily
+pleased with last night's mirth, and away by water to St. James's, and
+there, with Mr. Wren, did correct his copy of my letter, which the Duke
+of York hath signed in my very words, without alteration of a syllable.
+
+     [A copy of this letter is in the British Museum, Harl.  MS. 6003.
+     See July 24th, ante, and August 29th, Post.  In the Pepysian
+     Collection are the following: An Inquisition, by his Royal Highness
+     the Duke of York, when Lord High Admiral of England, into the
+     Management of the Navy, 1668, with his Regulations thereon, fol.
+     Also Mr. Pepys's Defence of the same upon an Inquisition thereunto
+     by Parliament, 1669, fol.--B.]
+
+And so pleased therewith, I to my Lord Brouncker, who I find within, but
+hath business, and so comes not to the Office to-day. And so I by water
+to the Office, where we sat all the morning; and, just as the Board
+rises, comes the Duke of York's letter, which I knowing, and the Board
+not being full, and desiring rather to have the Duke of York deliver
+it himself to us, I suppressed it for this day, my heart beginning to
+falsify in this business, as being doubtful of the trouble it may give
+me by provoking them; but, however, I am resolved to go through it, and
+it is too late to help it now. At noon to dinner to Captain Cocke's,
+where I met with Mr. Wren; my going being to tell him what I have done,
+which he likes, and to confer with Cocke about our Office; who tells me
+that he is confident the design of removing our Officers do hold, but
+that he is sure that I am safe enough. Which pleases me, though I do not
+much shew it to him, but as a thing indifferent. So away home, and there
+met at Sir Richard Ford's with the Duke of York's Commissioners about
+our Prizes, with whom we shall have some trouble before we make an end
+with them, and hence, staying a little with them, I with my wife, and W.
+Batelier, and Deb.; carried them to Bartholomew Fayre, where we saw the
+dancing of the ropes and nothing else, it being late, and so back home
+to supper and to bed, after having done at my office.
+
+28th. Busy at the office till toward 10 o'clock, and then by water to
+White Hall, where attending the Council's call all the morning with Lord
+Brouncker, W. Pen, and the rest, about the business of supernumeraries
+in the fleete, but were not called in. But here the Duke of York did
+call me aside, and told me that he must speak with me in the afternoon,
+with Mr. Wren, for that now he hath got the paper from my Lord Keeper
+about the exceptions taken against the management of the Navy; and so
+we are to debate upon answering them. At noon I home with W. Coventry to
+his house; and there dined with him, and talked freely with him; and did
+acquaint him with what I have done, which he is well pleased with, and
+glad of: and do tell me that there are endeavours on foot to bring the
+Navy into new, but, he fears, worse hands. After much talk with great
+content with him, I walked to the Temple, and staid at Starky's, my
+bookseller's (looking over Dr. Heylin's new book of the Life of Bishop
+Laud, a strange book of the Church History of his time), till Mr. Wren
+comes, and by appointment we to the Atturney General's chamber, and
+there read and heard the witnesses in the business of Ackeworth, most
+troublesome and perplexed by the counter swearing of the witnesses one
+against the other, and so with Mr. Wren away thence to St. [James's] for
+his papers, and so to White Hall, and after the Committee was done at
+the Council chamber about the business of Supernumeraries, wherein W.
+Pen was to do all and did, but like an ignorant illiterate coxcomb,
+the Duke of York fell to work with us, the Committee being gone, in
+the Council-chamber; and there, with his own hand, did give us his long
+letter, telling us that he had received several from us, and now did
+give us one from him, taking notice of our several duties and failures,
+and desired answer to it, as he therein desired; this pleased me well;
+and so fell to other business, and then parted. And the Duke of York,
+and Wren, and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of York's
+closet in White Hall; and there read over this paper of my Lord
+Keeper's, wherein are laid down the faults of the Navy, so silly,
+and the remedies so ridiculous, or else the same that are now already
+provided, that we thought it not to need any answer, the Duke of York
+being able himself to do it: that so it makes us admire the confidence
+of these men to offer things so silly, in a business of such moment. But
+it is a most perfect instance of the complexion of the times! and so the
+Duke of York said himself, who, I perceive, is mightily concerned in it,
+and do, again and again, recommend it to Mr. Wren and me together, to
+consider upon remedies fit to provide for him to propound to the King,
+before the rest of the world, and particularly the Commissioners of
+Accounts, who are men of understanding and order, to find our faults,
+and offer remedies of their own, which I am glad of, and will endeavour
+to do something in it. So parted, and with much difficulty, by
+candle-light, walked over the Matted Gallery, as it is now with the mats
+and boards all taken up, so that we walked over the rafters. But strange
+to see what hard matter the plaister of Paris is, that is there taken
+up, as hard as stone! And pity to see Holben's work in the ceiling
+blotted on, and only whited over! Thence; with much ado, by several
+coaches home, to supper and to bed. My wife having been this day with
+Hales, to sit for her hand to be mended, in her picture.
+
+29th. Up, and all the morning at the Office, where the Duke of York's
+long letter was read, to their great trouble, and their suspecting me to
+have been the writer of it. And at noon comes, by appointment, Harris to
+dine with me and after dinner he and I to Chyrurgeon's-hall, where they
+are building it new, very fine; and there to see their theatre; which
+stood all the fire, and, which was our business, their great picture of
+Holben's, thinking to have bought it, by the help of Mr. Pierce, for a
+little money: I did think to give L200 for it, it being said to be worth
+L1000; but it is so spoiled that I have no mind to it, and is not a
+pleasant, though a good picture. Thence carried Harris to his playhouse,
+where, though four o'clock, so few people there at "The Impertinents,"
+as I went out; and do believe they did not act, though there was my Lord
+Arlington and his company there. So I out, and met my wife in a coach,
+and stopped her going thither to meet me; and took her, and Mercer,
+and Deb., to Bartholomew Fair, and there did see a ridiculous, obscene
+little stage-play, called "Marry Andrey;" a foolish thing, but seen by
+every body; and so to Jacob Hall's dancing of the ropes; a thing worth
+seeing, and mightily followed, and so home and to the office, and then
+to bed. Writing to my father to-night not to unfurnish our house in the
+country for my sister, who is going to her own house, because I think I
+may have occasion myself to come thither; and so I do, by our being put
+out of the Office, which do not at all trouble me to think of.
+
+30th (Lord's day). Walked to St. James's and Pell Mell, and read over,
+with Sir W. Coventry, my long letter to the Duke of York, and which the
+Duke of York hath, from mine, wrote to the Board, wherein he is mightily
+pleased, and I perceive do put great value upon me, and did talk very
+openly on all matters of State, and how some people have got the bit
+into their mouths, meaning the Duke of Buckingham and his party, and
+would likely run away with all. But what pleased me mightily was to hear
+the good character he did give of my Lord Falmouth for his generosity,
+good-nature, desire of public good, and low thoughts of his own wisdom;
+his employing his interest in the King to do good offices to all people,
+without any other fault than the freedom he, do learn in France of
+thinking himself obliged to serve his King in his pleasures: and was
+W. Coventry's particular friend: and W. Coventry do tell me very odde
+circumstances about the fatality of his death, which are very strange.
+Thence to White Hall to chapel, and heard the anthem, and did dine with
+the Duke of Albemarle in a dirty manner as ever. All the afternoon, I
+sauntered up and down the house and Park. And there was a Committee for
+Tangier met, wherein Lord Middleton would, I think, have found fault
+with me for want of coles; but I slighted it, and he made nothing of it,
+but was thought to be drunk; and I see that he hath a mind to find fault
+with me and Creed, neither of us having yet applied ourselves to him
+about anything: but do talk of his profits and perquisites taken from
+him, and garrison reduced, and that it must be increased, and such
+things, as; I fear, he will be just such another as my Lord Tiviott and
+the rest, to ruin that place. So I to the Park, and there walk an hour
+or two; and in the King's garden, and saw the Queen and ladies walk;
+and I did steal some apples off the trees; and here did see my Lady
+Richmond, who is of a noble person as ever I saw, but her face worse
+than it was considerably by the smallpox: her sister' is also very
+handsome. Coming into the Park, and the door kept strictly, I had
+opportunity of handing in the little, pretty, squinting girl of the Duke
+of York's house, but did not make acquaintance with her; but let her go,
+and a little girl that was with her, to walk by themselves. So to White
+Hall in the evening, to the Queen's side, and there met the Duke of
+York; and he did tell me and W. Coventry, who was with me, how that Lord
+Anglesey did take notice of our reading his long and sharp letter to
+the Board; but that it was the better, at least he said so. The Duke of
+York, I perceive, is earnest in it, and will have good effects of it;
+telling W. Coventry that it was a letter that might have come from the
+Commissioners of Accounts, but it was better it should come first from
+him. I met Lord Brouncker, who, I perceive, and the rest, do smell that
+it comes from me, but dare not find fault with it; and I am glad of it,
+it being my glory and defence that I did occasion and write it. So by
+water home, and did spend the evening with W. Hewer, telling him how we
+are all like to be turned out, Lord Brouncker telling me this evening
+that the Duke of Buckingham did, within few hours, say that he had
+enough to turn us all out which I am not sorry for at all, for I know
+the world will judge me to go for company; and my eyes are such as I am
+not able to do the business of my Office as I used, and would desire to
+do, while I am in it. So with full content, declaring all our content
+in being released of my employment, my wife and I to bed, and W. Hewer
+home, and so all to bed.
+
+31st. Up, and to my office, there to set my journal for all the last
+week, and so by water to Westminster to the Exchequer, and thence to the
+Swan, and there drank and did baiser la fille there, and so to the New
+Exchange and paid for some things, and so to Hercules Pillars,' and
+there dined all alone, while I sent my shoe to have the heel fastened at
+Wotton's, and thence to White Hall to the Treasury chamber, where did
+a little business, and thence to the Duke of York's playhouse and there
+met my wife and Deb. and Mary Mercer and Batelier, where also W. Hewer
+was, and saw "Hamlet," which we have not seen this year before, or more;
+and mightily pleased with it; but, above all, with Betterton, the
+best part I believe, that ever man acted. Thence to the Fayre, and saw
+"Polichinelle," and so home, and after a little supper to bed. This
+night lay the first night in Deb.'s chamber, which is now hung with that
+that hung our great chamber, and is now a very handsome room. This day
+Mrs. Batelier did give my wife a mighty pretty Spaniel bitch [Flora],
+which she values mightily, and is pretty; but as a new comer, I cannot
+be fond of her.
+
+
+
+
+SEPTEMBER 1668
+
+September 1st. Up and all the morning at the office busy, and after
+dinner to the office again busy till about four, and then I abroad (my
+wife being gone to Hales's about drawing her hand new in her picture)
+and I to see Betty Michell, which I did, but su mari was dentro, and no
+pleasure. So to the Fair, and there saw several sights; among others,
+the mare that tells money,
+
+     [This is not the first learned horse of which we read.  Shakespeare,
+     "Love's Labour's Lost," act i., SC. 2, mentions "the dancing
+     horse,"' and the commentators have added many particulars of Banks's
+     bay horse.]
+
+and many things to admiration; and, among others, come to me, when she
+was bid to go to him of the company that most loved a pretty wench in
+a corner. And this did cost me 12d. to the horse, which I had flung him
+before, and did give me occasion to baiser a mighty belle fille that was
+in the house that was exceeding plain, but fort belle. At night going
+home I went to my bookseller's in Duck Lane, and find her weeping in the
+shop, so as ego could not have any discourse con her nor ask the reason,
+so departed and took coach home, and taking coach was set on by a wench
+that was naught, and would have gone along with me to her lodging in
+Shoe Lane, but ego did donner her a shilling... and left her, and home,
+where after supper, W. Batelier with us, we to bed. This day Mrs. Martin
+come to see us, and dined with us.
+
+2nd. Fast-day for the burning of London, strictly observed. I at home
+at the office all day, forenoon and afternoon, about the Victualler's
+contract and other things, and at night home to supper, having had but
+a cold dinner, Mr. Gibson with me; and this evening comes Mr. Hill to
+discourse with me about Yeabsly and Lanyon's business, wherein they are
+troubled, and I fear they have played the knave too far for me to help
+or think fit to appear for them. So he gone, and after supper, to bed,
+being troubled with a summons, though a kind one, from Mr. Jessop, to
+attend the Commissioners of Accounts tomorrow.
+
+3rd. Up, and to the Office, where busy till it was time to go to
+the Commissioners of Accounts, which I did about noon, and there was
+received with all possible respect, their business being only to
+explain the meaning of one of their late demands to us, which we had not
+answered in our answer to them, and, this being done, I away with great
+content, my mind being troubled before, and so to the Exchequer and
+several places, calling on several businesses, and particularly my
+bookseller's, among others, for "Hobbs's Leviathan,"
+
+     ["Leviathan: or the matter, forme and power of a Commonwealth
+     ecclesiasticall and civill," by Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, first
+     published in 1651.  It was reprinted in 1680, with its old date.
+     Hobbes's complete works, English and Latin, were published by Sir
+     William Molesworth in sixteen volumes 8vo. between 1839 and 1845.]
+
+which is now mightily called for; and what was heretofore sold for 8s. I
+now give 24s. for, at the second hand, and is sold for 30s., it being a
+book the Bishops will not let be printed again, and so home to dinner,
+and then to the office all the afternoon, and towards evening by water
+to the Commissioners of the Treasury, and presently back again, and
+there met a little with W. Pen and the rest about our Prize accounts,
+and so W. Pen and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to
+read over our new draft of the victualler's contract, and so broke up
+and home to supper and to bed.
+
+4th. Up, and met at the Office all the morning; and at noon my wife, and
+Deb., and Mercer, and W. Hewer and I to the Fair, and there, at the old
+house, did eat a pig, and was pretty merry, but saw no sights, my wife
+having a mind to see the play "Bartholomew-Fayre," with puppets. Which
+we did, and it is an excellent play; the more I see it, the more I love
+the wit of it; only the business of abusing the Puritans begins to grow
+stale, and of no use, they being the people that, at last, will be found
+the wisest. And here Knepp come to us, and sat with us, and thence took
+coach in two coaches, and losing one another, my wife, and Knepp, and I
+to Hercules Pillars, and there supped, and I did take from her mouth the
+words and notes of her song of "the Larke," which pleases me mightily.
+And so set her at home, and away we home, where our company come home
+before us. This night Knepp tells us that there is a Spanish woman
+lately come over, that pretends to sing as well as Mrs. Knight; both of
+which I must endeavour to hear. So, after supper, to bed.
+
+5th. Up, and at the office all the morning. At noon home to dinner, and
+to the office to work all the afternoon again till the evening, and then
+by coach to Mr. Hales's new house, where, I find, he hath finished my
+wife's hand, which is better than the other; and here I find Harris's
+picture, done in his habit of "Henry the Fifth;" mighty like a player,
+but I do not think the picture near so good as any yet he hath made for
+me: however, it is pretty well, and thence through the fair home, but
+saw nothing, it being late, and so home to my business at the office,
+and thence to supper and to bed.
+
+6th (Lord's day). Up betimes, and got myself ready to go by water, and
+about nine o'clock took boat with Henry Russell to Gravesend, coming
+thither about one, where, at the Ship, I dined; and thither come to me
+Mr. Hosier, whom I went to speak with, about several businesses of work
+that he is doing, and I would have him do, of writing work, for me. And
+I did go with him to his lodging, and there did see his wife, a pretty
+tolerable woman, and do find him upon an extraordinary good work of
+designing a method of keeping our Storekeeper's Accounts, in the Navy.
+Here I should have met with Mr. Wilson, but he is sick, and could not
+come from Chatham to me. So, having done with Hosier, I took boat again
+the beginning of the flood, and come home by nine at night, with much
+pleasure, it being a fine day. Going down I spent reading of the "Five
+Sermons of Five Several Styles," worth comparing one with another: but
+I do think, when all is done, that, contrary to the design of the book,
+the Presbyterian style and the Independent are the best of the five
+sermons to be preached in; this I do, by the best of my present judgment
+think, and coming back I spent reading of a book of warrants of our
+office in the first Dutch war, and do find that my letters and warrants
+and method will be found another gate's business than this that the
+world so much adores, and I am glad for my own sake to find it so. My
+boy was with me, and read to me all day, and we sang a while together,
+and so home to supper a little, and so to bed.
+
+7th. At the office all the morning, we met, and at noon dined at home,
+and after dinner carried my wife and Deb. to Unthanke's, and I to White
+Hall with Mr. Gibson, where the rest of our officers met us, and to the
+Commissioners of the Treasury about the Victualling contract, but staid
+not long, but thence, sending Gibson to my wife, I with Lord Brouncker
+(who was this day in an unusual manner merry, I believe with drink), J.
+Minnes, and W. Pen to Bartholomew-Fair; and there saw the dancing mare
+again, which, to-day, I find to act much worse than the other day, she
+forgetting many things, which her master beat her for, and was
+mightily vexed; and then the dancing of the ropes, and also the little
+stage-play, which is very ridiculous, and so home to the office with
+Lord Brouncker, W. Pen, and myself (J. Minnes being gone home before
+not well), and so, after a little talk together, I home to supper and to
+bed.
+
+8th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and to St. James's, there to talk
+a little with Mr. Wren about the private business we are upon, in the
+Office, where he tells me he finds that they all suspect me to be the
+author of the great letter, which I value not, being satisfied that
+it is the best thing I could ever do for myself; and so, after some
+discourse of this kind more, I back to the Office, where all the
+morning; and after dinner to it again, all the afternoon, and very late,
+and then home to supper, where met W. Batelier and Betty Turner; and,
+after some talk with them, and supper, we to bed. This day, I
+received so earnest an invitation again from Roger Pepys, to come to
+Sturbridge-Fair [at Cambridge] that I resolve to let my wife go, which
+she shall do the next week, and so to bed. This day I received two
+letters from the Duke of Richmond about his yacht, which is newly taken
+into the King's service, and I am glad of it, hoping hereby to oblige
+him, and to have occasions of seeing his noble Duchess, which I admire.
+
+9th. Up, and to the office, and thence to the Duke of Richmond's
+lodgings by his desire, by letter, yesterday. I find him at his lodgings
+in the little building in the bowling-green, at White Hall, that was
+begun to be built by Captain Rolt. They are fine rooms. I did hope to
+see his lady, the beautiful Mrs. Stuart, but she, I hear, is in the
+country. His business was about his yacht, and he seems a mighty
+good-natured man, and did presently write me a warrant for a doe from
+Cobham, when the season comes, bucks season being past. I shall make
+much of this acquaintance, that I may live to see his lady near. Thence
+to Westminster, to Sir R. Longs Office: and, going, met Mr. George
+Montagu, who talked and complimented me mightily; and long discourse I
+had with him, who, for news, tells me for certain that Trevor do come to
+be Secretary at Michaelmas, and that Morrice goes out, and he believes,
+without any compensation. He tells me that now Buckingham does rule all;
+and the other day, in the King's journey he is now on, at Bagshot, and
+that way, he caused Prince Rupert's horses to be turned out of an inne,
+and caused his own to be kept there, which the Prince complained of to
+the King, and the Duke of York seconded the complaint; but the King did
+over-rule it for Buckingham, by which there are high displeasures among
+them; and Buckingham and Arlington rule all. Thence by water home and to
+dinner, and after dinner by water again to White Hall, where Brouncker,
+W. Pen, and I attended the Commissioners of the Treasury about the
+victualling-contract, where high words between Sir Thomas Clifford and
+us, and myself more particularly, who told him that something, that he
+said was told him about this business, was a flat untruth. However,
+we went on to our business in, the examination of the draught, and so
+parted, and I vexed at what happened, and Brouncker and W. Pen and I
+home in a hackney coach. And I all that night so vexed that I did not
+sleep almost all night, which shows how unfit I am for trouble. So,
+after a little supper, vexed, and spending a little time melancholy in
+making a base to the Lark's song, I to bed.
+
+10th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and there to Sir W. Coventry's
+house, where I staid in his dining-room two hours thinking to speak with
+him, but I find Garraway and he are private, which I am glad of, Captain
+Cocke bringing them this day together. Cocke come out and talked to me,
+but it was too late for me to stay longer, and therefore to the Treasury
+chamber, where the rest met, and W. Coventry come presently after. And
+we spent the morning in finishing the Victualler's contract, and so I by
+water home, and there dined with me Batelier and his wife, and Mercer,
+and my people, at a good venison-pasty; and after dinner I and W. Howe,
+who come to see me, by water to the Temple, and met our four women, my
+wife, M. Batelier, Mercer, and Deb., at the Duke's play-house, and there
+saw "The Maid in the Mill," revived--a pretty, harmless old play. Thence
+to Unthanke's, and 'Change, where wife did a little business, while
+Mercer and I staid in the coach; and, in a quarter of an hour, I taught
+her the whole Larke's song perfectly, so excellent an eare she hath.
+Here we at Unthanke's 'light, and walked them to White Hall, my wife
+mighty angry at it, and did give me ill words before Batelier, which
+vexed me, but I made no matter of it, but vexed to myself. So landed
+them, it being fine moonshine, at the Bear, and so took water to the
+other side, and home. I to the office, where a child is laid at Sir J.
+Minnes's door, as there was one heretofore. So being good friends again,
+my wife seeking, it, by my being silent I overcoming her, we to bed.
+
+11th. Up, and at my Office all the morning, and after dinner all the
+afternoon in my house with Batelier shut up, drawing up my defence to
+the Duke of York upon his great letter, which I have industriously taken
+this opportunity of doing for my future use. At it late, and my mind and
+head mighty full of it all night.
+
+12th. At it again in the morning, and then to the Office, where till
+noon, and I do see great whispering among my brethren about their
+replies to the Duke of York, which vexed me, though I know no reason for
+it; for I have no manner of ground to fear them. At noon home to dinner,
+and, after dinner, to work all the afternoon again. At home late, and so
+to bed.
+
+13th (Lord's day). The like all this morning and afternoon, and finished
+it to my mind. So about four o'clock walked to the Temple, and there
+by coach to St. James's, and met, to my wish, the Duke of York and
+Mr. Wren; and understand the Duke of York hath received answers from
+Brouncker, W. Pen, and J. Minnes; and as soon as he saw me, he bid Mr.
+Wren read them over with me. So having no opportunity of talk with the
+Duke of York, and Mr. Wren some business to do, he put them into my
+hands like an idle companion, to, take home with me before himself had
+read them, which do give me great opportunity of altering my answer, if
+there was cause. So took a hackney and home, and after supper made my
+wife to read them all over, wherein she is mighty useful to me; and I
+find them all evasions, and in many things false, and in few, to the
+full purpose. Little said reflective on me, though W. Pen and J. Minnes
+do mean me in one or two places, and J. Minnes a little more plainly
+would lead the Duke of York to question the exactness of my keeping my
+records; but all to no purpose. My mind is mightily pleased by this, if
+I can but get time to have a copy taken of them, for my future use; but
+I must return them tomorrow. So to bed.
+
+14th. Up betimes, and walked to the Temple, and stopped, viewing the
+Exchange, and Paul's, and St. Fayth's, where strange how the very sight
+of the stones falling from the top of the steeple do make me sea-sick!
+But no hurt, I hear, hath yet happened in all this work of the steeple,
+which is very much. So from the Temple I by coach to St. James's, where
+I find Sir W. Pen and Lord Anglesey, who delivered this morning his
+answer to the Duke of York, but I could not see it. But after being
+above with the Duke of York, but said nothing, I down with Mr. Wren; and
+he and I read all over that I had, and I expounded them to him, and did
+so order it that I had them home with me, so that I shall, to my heart's
+wish, be able to take a copy of them. After dinner, I by water to, White
+Hall; and there, with the Cofferer and Sir Stephen Fox, attended
+the Commissioners of the Treasury, about bettering our fund; and are
+promised it speedily. Thence by water home, and so all the afternoon
+and evening late busy at the office, and then home to supper, and Mrs.
+Turner comes to see my wife before her journey to-morrow, but she is in
+bed, and so sat talking to little purpose with me a great while, and,
+she gone, I to bed.
+
+15th. Up mighty betimes, my wife and people, Mercer lying here all
+night, by three o'clock, and I about five; and they before, and I after
+them, to the coach in Bishopsgate Street, which was not ready to set
+out. So took wife and Mercer and Deb. and W. Hewer (who are all to set
+out this day for Cambridge, to cozen Roger Pepys's, to see Sturbridge
+Fayre); and I shewed them the Exchange, which is very finely carried on,
+with good dispatch. So walked back and saw them gone, there being only
+one man in the coach besides them; and so home to the Office, where Mrs.
+Daniel come and staid talking to little purpose with me to borrow money,
+but I did not lend her any, having not opportunity para hater allo thing
+mit her. At the office all the morning, and at noon dined with my people
+at home, and so to the office again a while, and so by water to the
+King's playhouse, to see a new play, acted but yesterday, a translation
+out of French by Dryden, called "The Ladys a la Mode:" so mean a thing
+as, when they come to say it would be acted again to-morrow, both he
+that said it, Beeson, and the pit fell a-laughing, there being this day
+not a quarter of the pit full. Thence to St. James's and White Hall to
+wait on the Duke of York, but could not come to speak to him till time
+to go home, and so by water home, and there late at the office and my
+chamber busy, and so after a little supper to bed.
+
+16th. Up; and dressing myself I did begin para toker the breasts of my
+maid Jane, which elle did give way to more than usual heretofore, so I
+have a design to try more when I can bring it to. So to the office, and
+thence to St. James's to the Duke of York, walking it to the Temple,
+and in my way observe that the Stockes are now pulled quite down; and
+it will make the coming into Cornhill and Lumber Street mighty noble. I
+stopped, too, at Paul's, and there did go into St. Fayth's Church, and
+also in the body of the west part of the Church; and do see a hideous
+sight of the walls of the Church ready to fall, that I was in fear as
+long as I was in it: and here I saw the great vaults underneath the body
+of the Church. No hurt, I hear, is done yet, since their going to pull
+down the Church and steeple; but one man, on Monday this week, fell from
+the top to a piece of the roof, of the east end, that stands next the
+steeple, and there broke himself all to pieces. It is pretty here to see
+how the late Church was but a case wrought over the old Church; for you
+may see the very old pillars standing whole within the wall of this.
+When I come to St. James's, I find the Duke of York gone with the King
+to see the muster of the Guards in Hyde Park; and their Colonel, the
+Duke of Monmouth, to take his command this day of the King's Life-Guard,
+by surrender of my Lord Gerard. So I took a hackney-coach and saw it
+all: and indeed it was mighty noble, and their firing mighty fine, and
+the Duke of Monmouth in mighty rich clothes; but the well-ordering
+of the men I understand not. Here, among a thousand coaches that were
+there, I saw and spoke to Mrs. Pierce: and by and by Mr. Wren hunts
+me out, and gives me my Lord Anglesey's answer to the Duke of York's
+letter, where, I perceive, he do do what he can to hurt me, by bidding
+the Duke of York call for my books: but this will do me all the right
+in the world, and yet I am troubled at it. So away out of the Park, and
+home; and there Mr. Gibson and I to dinner: and all the afternoon with
+him, writing over anew, and a little altering, my answer to the Duke
+of York, which I have not yet delivered, and so have the opportunity of
+doing it after seeing all their answers, though this do give me occasion
+to alter very little. This done, he to write it over, and I to the
+Office, where late, and then home; and he had finished it; and then he
+to read to me the life of Archbishop Laud, wrote by Dr. Heylin; which is
+a shrewd book, but that which I believe will do the Bishops in general
+no great good, but hurt, it pleads for so much Popish. So after supper
+to bed. This day my father's letters tell me of the death of poor Fancy,
+in the country, big with puppies, which troubles me, as being one of my
+oldest acquaintances and servants. Also good Stankes is dead.
+
+17th. Up, and all the morning sitting at the office, where every body
+grown mighty cautious in what they do, or omit to do, and at noon comes
+Knepp, with design to dine with Lord Brouncker, but she being undressed,
+and there being: much company, dined with me; and after dinner I out
+with her, and carried her to the playhouse; and in the way did give her
+five guineas as a fairing, I having given her nothing a great while, and
+her coming hither sometimes having been matter of cost to her, and so I
+to St. James's, but missed of the Duke of York, and so went back to
+the King's playhouse, and saw "Rollo, Duke of Normandy," which, for old
+acquaintance, pleased me pretty well, and so home and to my business,.
+and to read again, and to bed. This evening Batelier comes to tell me
+that he was going down to Cambridge to my company, to see the Fair,
+which vexed me, and the more because I fear he do know that Knepp did
+dine with me to-day.--[And that he might tell Mrs. Pepys.--B.]
+
+18th. Up, and to St. James's, and there took a turn or two in the Park;
+and then up to the Duke of York, and there had opportunity of delivering
+my answer to his late letter, which he did not read, but give to Mr.
+Wren, as looking on it as a thing I needed not have done, but only that
+I might not give occasion to the rest to suspect my communication with
+the Duke of York against them. So now I am at rest in that matter, and
+shall be more, when my copies are finished of their answers, which I
+am now taking with all speed. Thence to my several booksellers and
+elsewhere, about several errands, and so at noon home, and after dinner
+by coach to White Hall, and thither comes the Duke of York to us, and by
+and by met at the robe chamber upon our usual business, where the Duke
+of York I find somewhat sour, and particularly angry with Lord Anglesey
+for his not being there now, nor at other times so often as he should be
+with us. So to the King's house, and saw a piece of "Henry the Fourth;"
+at the end of the play, thinking to have gone abroad with Knepp, but it
+was too late, and she to get her part against to-morrow, in "The Silent
+Woman," and so I only set her at home, and away home myself, and there
+to read again and sup with Gibson, and so to bed.
+
+19th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning busy, and so dined
+with my people at home, and then to the King's playhouse, and there saw
+"The Silent Woman;" the best comedy, I think, that ever was wrote; and
+sitting by Shadwell the poet, he was big with admiration of it. Here was
+my Lord Brouncker and W. Pen and their ladies in the box, being grown
+mighty kind of a sudden; but, God knows, it will last but a little
+while, I dare swear. Knepp did her part mighty well. And so home
+straight, and to work, and particularly to my cozen Roger, who, W.
+Hewer and my wife writes me, do use them with mighty plenty and noble
+entertainment: so home to supper, and to bed. All the news now is, that
+Mr. Trevor is for certain now to be Secretary, in Morrice's place, which
+the Duke of York did himself tell me yesterday; and also that Parliament
+is to be adjourned to the 1st of March, which do please me well, hoping
+thereby to get my things in a little better order than I should have
+done; and the less attendances at that end of the town in winter. So
+home to supper and to bed.
+
+20th (Lord's day). Up, and to set some papers to rights in my chamber,
+and the like in my office, and so to church, at our own church, and
+heard but a dull sermon of one Dr. Hicks, who is a suitor to Mrs.
+Howell, the widow of our turner of the Navy; thence home to dinner,
+staying till past one o'clock for Harris, whom I invited, and to bring
+Shadwell the poet with him; but they come not, and so a good dinner
+lost, through my own folly. And so to dinner alone, having since church
+heard the boy read over Dryden's Reply to Sir R. Howard's Answer, about
+his Essay of Poesy, and a letter in answer to that; the last whereof is
+mighty silly, in behalf of Howard.
+
+     [The title of the letter is as follows: "A Letter from a Gentleman
+     to the Honourable Ed. Howard, Esq., occasioned by a Civiliz'd
+     Epistle of Mr. Dryden's before his Second Edition of his Indian
+     Emperour.  In the Savoy, printed by Thomas Newcomb, 1668."  The
+     "Civiliz'd Epistle" was a caustic attack on Sir Robert Howard; and
+     the Letter is signed, "Sir, your faithful and humble servant, R.
+     F."--i.e., Richard Flecknoe.]
+
+Thence walked forth and got a coach and to visit Mrs. Pierce, with
+whom, and him, I staid a little while, and do hear how the Duchesse of
+Monmouth is at this time in great trouble of the shortness of her lame
+leg, which is likely to grow shorter and shorter, that she will never
+recover it. Thence to St. Margaret's Church, thinking to have seen Betty
+Michell, but she was not there. So back, and walked to Gray's Inn walks
+a while, but little company; and so over the fields to Clerkenwell, to
+see whether I could find that the fair Botelers do live there still,
+I seeing Frances the other day in a coach with Cary Dillon, her old
+servant, but know not where she lives. So walked home, and there walked
+in the garden an hour, it being mighty pleasant weather, and so took my
+Lady Pen and Mrs. Markham home with me and sent for Mrs. Turner, and by
+and by comes Sir W. Pen and supped with me, a good supper, part of my
+dinner to-day. They gone, Mrs. Turner staid an hour talking with me....
+So parted, and I to bed.
+
+21st. Up, and betimes Sir D. Gawden with me talking about the
+Victualling business, which is now under dispute for a new contract, or
+whether it shall be put into a Commission. He gone, comes Mr. Hill to
+talk with me about Lanyon's business, and so being in haste I took him
+to the water with me, and so to White Hall, and there left him, and I
+to Sir W. Coventry, and shewed him my answer to the Duke of York's great
+letter, which he likes well. We also discoursed about the Victualling
+business, which he thinks there is a design to put into a way of
+Commission, but do look upon all things to be managed with faction, and
+is grieved under it. So to St. James's, and there the Duke of York did
+of his own accord come to me, and tell me that he had read, and do like
+of, my answers to the objections which he did give me the other day,
+about the Navy; and so did W. Coventry too, who told me that the Duke of
+York had shown him them: So to White Hall a little and the Chequer, and
+then by water home to dinner with my people, where Tong was also this
+day with me, whom I shall employ for a time, and so out again and by
+water to Somerset House, but when come thither I turned back and
+to Southwarke-Fair, very dirty, and there saw the puppet-show of
+Whittington, which was pretty to see; and how that idle thing do work
+upon people that see it, and even myself too! And thence to Jacob Hall's
+dancing on the ropes, where I saw such action as I never saw before,
+and mightily worth seeing; and here took acquaintance with a fellow that
+carried me to a tavern, whither come the musick of this booth, and by
+and by Jacob Hall himself, with whom I had a mind to speak, to hear
+whether he had ever any mischief by falls in his time. He told me, "Yes,
+many; but never to the breaking of a limb:" he seems a mighty strong
+man. So giving them a bottle or two of wine, I away with Payne, the
+waterman. He, seeing me at the play, did get a link to light me, and so
+light me to the Beare, where Bland, my waterman, waited for me with gold
+and other things he kept for me, to the value of L40 and more, which I
+had about me, for fear of my pockets being cut. So by link-light through
+the bridge, it being mighty dark, but still weather, and so home, where
+I find my draught of "The Resolution" come, finished, from Chatham; but
+will cost me, one way or other, about L12 or L13, in the board, frame,
+and garnishing, which is a little too much, but I will not be beholden
+to the King's officers that do it. So to supper, and the boy to read to
+me, and so to bed. This day I met Mr. Moore in the New Exchange, and had
+much talk of my Lord's concernments. This day also come out first the
+new five-pieces in gold, coined by the Guiny Company; and I did get two
+pieces of Mr. Holder.
+
+     [Guineas took their name from the gold brought from Guinea by the
+     African Company in 1663, who, as an encouragement to bring over gold
+     to be coined, were permitted by their charter from Charles II. to
+     have their stamp of an elephant upon the coin.  When first coined
+     they were valued at 20s., but were worth 30s. in 1695.  There were
+     likewise fivepound pieces, like the guinea, with the inscription
+     upon the rim.]
+
+22nd. Up, and to the Office, where sitting all the morning at noon, home
+to dinner, with my people, and so to the Office again, where busy all
+the afternoon, and in the evening spent my time walking in the dark, in
+the garden, to favour my eyes, which I find nothing but ease to help.
+In the garden there comes to me my Lady Pen and Mrs. Turner and Markham,
+and we sat and talked together, and I carried them home, and there eat
+a bit of something, and by and by comes Sir W. Pen, and eat with us, and
+mighty merry-in appearance, at least, he being on all occasions glad
+to be at friendship with me, though we hate one another, and know it on
+both sides. They gone, Mrs. Turner and I to walk in the garden.... So
+led her home, and I back to bed. This day Mr. Wren did give me, at
+the Board, Commissioner Middleton's answer to the Duke of York's great
+letter; so that now I have all of them.
+
+23rd. At my office busy all the morning. At noon comes Mr. Evelyn to me,
+about some business with the Office, and there in discourse tells me
+of his loss, to the value of F 500, which he hath met with, in a late
+attempt of making of bricks
+
+     [At the end of the year 1666 a Dutchman of the Prince of Orange's
+     party, named Kiviet, came over to England with proposals for
+     embanking the river from the Temple to the Tower with brick,
+     and was knighted by the king.  He was introduced to Evelyn, whom he
+     persuaded to join with him in a great undertaking for the making of
+     bricks.  On March 26th, 1667, the two went in search of brick-earth,
+     and in September articles were drawn up between them for the purpose
+     of proceeding in the manufacture.  In April, 1668, Evelyn subscribed
+     50,000 bricks for the building of a college for the Royal Society,
+     in addition to L50 given previously for the same purpose.  No more
+     information on the subject is given in Evelyn's "Diary."]
+
+upon an adventure with others, by which he presumed to have got a great
+deal of money: so that I see the most ingenious men may sometimes be
+mistaken. So to the 'Change a little, and then home to dinner, and then
+by water to White Hall, to attend the Commissioners of the Treasury with
+Alderman Backewell, about L10,000 he is to lend us for Tangier, and then
+up to a Committee of the Council, where was the Duke of York, and they
+did give us, the Officers of the Navy, the proposals of the several
+bidders for the victualling of the Navy, for us to give our answer to,
+which is the best, and whether it be better to victual by commission or
+contract, and to bring them our answer by Friday afternoon, which is
+a great deal of work. So thence back with Sir J. Minnes home, and come
+after us Sir W. Pen and Lord Brouncker, and we fell to the business, and
+I late when they were gone to digest something of it, and so to supper
+and to bed.
+
+24th. Up betimes and Sir D. Gawden with me, and I told him all, being
+very desirous for the King's sake, as well as my own, that he may be
+kept in it, and after consulting him I to the Office, where we met again
+and spent most of the morning about this business, and no other, and
+so at noon home to dinner, and then close with Mr. Gibson till night,
+drawing up our answer, which I did the most part by seven at night, and
+so to Lord Brouncker and the rest at his lodgings to read it, and they
+approved of it. So back home to supper, and made my boy read to me
+awhile, and then to bed.
+
+25th. Up, and Sir D. Gawden with me betimes to confer again about this
+business, and he gone I all the morning finishing our answer, which I
+did by noon, and so to dinner, and W. Batelier with me, who is lately
+come from Impington, beyond which I perceive he went not, whatever his
+pretence at first was; and so he tells me how well and merry all are
+there, and how nobly used by my cozen. He gone, after dinner I to work
+again, and Gibson having wrote our answer fair and got Brouncker and
+the rest to sign it, I by coach to White Hall to the Committee of the
+Council, which met late, and Brouncker and J. Minnes with me, and there
+the Duke of York present (but not W. Coventry, who I perceive do wholly
+avoid to have to do publickly in this business, being shy of appearing
+in any Navy business, which I telling him the other day that I thought
+the King might suffer by it, he told me that the occasion is now so
+small that it cannot be fatal to the service, and for the present it is
+better for him not to appear, saying that it may fare the worse for his
+appearing in it as things are now governed), where our answer was read
+and debated, and some hot words between the Duke of York and Sir T.
+Clifford, the first for and the latter against Gawden, but the whole put
+off to to-morrow's Council, for till the King goes out of town the
+next week the Council sits every day. So with the Duke of York and
+some others to his closet, and Alderman Backewell about a Committee of
+Tangier, and there did agree upon a price for pieces of eight at 4s.
+6d. Present the Duke of York, Arlington, Berkeley, Sir J. Minnes, and
+myself. They gone, the Duke of York did tell me how hot Clifford is for
+Child, and for removing of old Officers, he saying plainly to-night,
+that though D. Gawden was a man that had done the best service that he
+believed any man, or any ten men, could have done, yet that it was for
+the King's interest not to let it lie too long in one hand, lest nobody
+should be able to serve him but one. But the Duke of York did openly
+tell him that he was not for removing of old servants that have done
+well, neither in this place, nor in any other place, which is very nobly
+said. It being 7 or 8 at night, I home with Backewell by coach, and so
+walked to D. Gawden's, but he not at home, and so back to my chamber,
+the boy to read to me, and so to supper and to bed.
+
+26th. Could sleep but little last night, for my concernments in this
+business of the victualling for Sir D. Gawden, so up in the morning and
+he comes to me, and there I did tell him all, and give him my advice,
+and so he away, and I to the office, where we met and did a little
+business, and I left them and by water to attend the Council, which I
+did all the morning, but was not called in, but the Council meets again
+in the afternoon on purpose about it. So I at noon to Westminster Hall
+and there stayed a little, and at the Swan also, thinking to have got
+Doll Lane thither, but elle did not understand my signs; and so I away
+and walked to Charing Cross, and there into the great new Ordinary, by
+my Lord Mulgrave's, being led thither by Mr. Beale, one of Oliver's,
+and now of the King's Guards; and he sat with me while I had two grilled
+pigeons, very handsome and good meat: and there he and I talked of our
+old acquaintances, W. Clerke and others, he being a very civil man, and
+so walked to Westminster and there parted, and I to the Swan again,
+but did nothing, and so to White Hall, and there attended the King and
+Council, who met and heard our answer. I present, and then withdrew; and
+they sent two hours at least afterwards about it, and at last rose; and
+to my great content, the Duke of York, at coming out, told me that
+it was carried for D. Gawden at 6d. 8d., and 8 3/4d.; but with great
+difficulty, I understand, both from him and others, so much that Sir
+Edward Walker told me that he prays to God he may never live to need to
+plead his merit, for D. Gawden's sake; for that it hath stood him in
+no stead in this business at all, though both he and all the world that
+speaks of him, speaks of him as the most deserving man of any servant
+of the King's in the whole nation, and so I think he is: but it is done,
+and my heart is glad at it. So I took coach and away, and in Holborne
+overtook D. Gawden's coach, and stopped and went home, and Gibson to
+come after, and to my house, where D. Gawden did talk a little, and he
+do mightily acknowledge my kindness to him, and I know I have done the
+King and myself good service in it. So he gone, and myself in mighty
+great content in what is done, I to the office a little, and then home
+to supper, and the boy to read to me, and so to bed. This noon I went to
+my Lady Peterborough's house, and talked with her about the money due
+to her Lord, and it gives me great trouble, her importunity and
+impertinency about it. This afternoon at Court I met with Lord
+Hinchingbroke, newly come out of the country, who tells me that Creed's
+business with Mrs. Pickering will do, which I am neither troubled nor
+glad at.
+
+27th (Lord's day). Up, and to my office to finish my journall for
+five days past, and so abroad and walked to White Hall, calling in at
+Somerset House Chapel, and also at the Spanish Embassador's at York
+House, and there did hear a little masse: and so to White Hall; and
+there the King being gone to Chapel, I to walk all the morning in
+the Park, where I met Mr. Wren; and he and I walked together in the
+Pell-Mell, it being most summer weather that ever was seen: and here
+talking of several things: of the corruption of the Court, and how unfit
+it is for ingenious men, and himself particularly, to live in it, where
+a man cannot live but he must spend, and cannot get suitably, without
+breach of his honour: and did thereupon tell me of the basest thing of
+my Lord Barkeley, one of the basest things that ever was heard of of
+a man, which was this: how the Duke of York's Commissioners do let
+his wine-licenses at a bad rate, and being offered a better, they did
+persuade the Duke of York to give some satisfaction to the former to
+quit it, and let it to the latter, which being done, my Lord Barkeley
+did make the bargain for the former to have L1500 a-year to quit it;
+whereof, since, it is come to light that they were to have but L800
+and himself L700, which the Duke of York hath ever since for some years
+paid, though this second bargain hath been broken, and the Duke of York
+lost by it, [half] of what the first was. He told me that there hath
+been a seeming accommodation between the Duke of York and the Duke of
+Buckingham and Lord Arlington, the two latter desiring it; but yet that
+there is not true agreement between them, but they do labour to bring
+in all new creatures into play, and the Duke of York do oppose it, as
+particularly in this of Sir D. Gawden. Thence, he gone, I to the Queen's
+Chapel, and there heard some good singing; and so to White Hall, and saw
+the King and Queen at dinner and thence with Sir Stephen Fox to
+dinner: and the Cofferer with us; and there mighty kind usage, and good
+discourse. Thence spent all the afternoon walking in the Park, and
+then in the evening at Court, on the Queen's side; and there met Mr.
+Godolphin, who tells me that the news, is true we heard yesterday, of my
+Lord Sandwich's being come to Mount's Bay, in Cornwall, and so I heard
+this afternoon at Mrs. Pierce's, whom I went to make a short visit to.
+This night, in the Queen's drawing-room, my Lord Brouncker told me the
+difference that is now between the three Embassadors here, the Venetian,
+French, and Spaniard; the third not being willing to make a visit to the
+first, because he would not receive him at the door; who is willing
+to give him as much respect as he did to the French, who was used no
+otherwise, and who refuses now to take more of him, upon being desired
+thereto, in order to the making an accommodation in this matter, which
+is very pretty. So a boat staying for me all this evening, I home in the
+dark about eight at night, and so over the ruins from the Old Swan home
+with great trouble, and so to hear my boy read a little, and supper
+and to bed. This evening I found at home Pelling and Wallington and one
+Aldrige, and we supped and sung.
+
+28th. Up betimes, and Knepp's maid comes to me, to tell me that the
+women's day at the playhouse is to-day, and that therefore I must be
+there, to encrease their profit. I did give the pretty maid Betty that
+comes to me half-a-crown for coming, and had a baiser or two-elle being
+mighty jolie. And so I about my business. By water to St. James's,
+and there had good opportunity of speaking with the Duke of York, who
+desires me again, talking on that matter, to prepare something for him
+to do for the better managing of our Office, telling me that, my Lord
+Keeper and he talking about it yesterday, my Lord Keeper did advise him
+to do so, it being better to come from him than otherwise, which I have
+promised to do. Thence to my Lord Burlington's houses the first time
+I ever was there, it being the house built by Sir John Denham, next to
+Clarendon House; and here I visited my Lord Hinchingbroke and his lady;
+Mr. Sidney Montagu being come last night to town unexpectedly from
+Mount's Bay, where he left my Lord well, eight days since, so as we may
+now hourly expect to hear of his arrival at Portsmouth. Sidney is mighty
+grown; and I am glad I am here to see him at his first coming, though
+it cost me dear, for here I come to be necessitated to supply them with
+L500 for my Lord. He sent him up with a declaration to his friends, of
+the necessity of his being presently supplied with L2000; but I do not
+think he will get one. However, I think it becomes my duty to my Lord to
+do something extraordinary in this, and the rather because I have been
+remiss in writing to him during this voyage, more than ever I did in
+my life, and more indeed than was fit for me. By and by comes Sir W.
+Godolphin to see Mr. Sidney, who, I perceive, is much dissatisfied
+that he should come to town last night, and not yet be with my Lord
+Arlington, who, and all the town, hear of his being come to town, and
+he did, it seems, take notice of it to Godolphin this morning: so that I
+perceive this remissness in affairs do continue in my Lord's managements
+still, which I am sorry for; but, above all, to see in what a condition
+my Lord is for money, that I dare swear he do not know where to take up
+L500 of any man in England at this time, upon his word, but of myself,
+as I believe by the sequel hereof it will appear. Here I first saw and
+saluted my Lady Burlington, a very fine-speaking lady, and a good woman,
+but old, and not handsome; but a brave woman in her parts. Here my Lady
+Hinchingbroke tells me that she hath bought most of the wedding-clothes
+for Mrs. Dickering, so that the thing is gone through, and will soon
+be ended; which I wonder at, but let them do as they will. Here I also,
+standing by a candle that was brought for sealing of a letter, do set my
+periwigg a-fire, which made such an odd noise, nobody could tell what
+it was till they saw the flame, my back being to the candle. Thence to
+Westminster Hall and there walked a little, and to the Exchequer, and so
+home by water, and after eating a bit I to my vintner's, and there did
+only look upon su wife, which is mighty handsome; and so to my glove
+and ribbon shop, in Fenchurch Street, and did the like there. And there,
+stopping against the door of the shop, saw Mrs. Horsfall, now a late
+widow, in a coach. I to her, and shook her by the hand, and so she away;
+and I by coach towards the King's playhouse, and meeting W. Howe took
+him with me, and there saw "The City Match;" not acted these thirty
+years, and but a silly play: the King and Court there; the house, for
+the women's sake, mighty full. So I to White Hall, and there all the
+evening on the Queen's side; and it being a most summerlike day, and a
+fine warm evening, the Italians come in a barge under the leads, before
+the Queen's drawing-room; and so the Queen and ladies went out, and
+heard them, for almost an hour: and it was indeed very good together;
+but yet there was but one voice that alone did appear considerable, and
+that was Seignor Joanni. This done, by and by they went in; and here
+I saw Mr. Sidney Montagu kiss the Queen's hand, who was mighty kind to
+him, and the ladies looked mightily on him; and the King come by and by,
+and did talk to him. So I away by coach with Alderman Backewell home,
+who is mighty kind to me, more than ordinary, in his expressions. But I
+do hear this day what troubles me, that Sir W. Coventry is quite out
+of play, the King seldom speaking to him; and that there is a design of
+making a Lord Treasurer, and that my Lord Arlington shall be the man;
+but I cannot believe it. But yet the Duke of Buckingham hath it in his
+mind, and those with him, to make a thorough alteration in things; and,
+among the rest, Coventry to be out. The Duke of York did this day
+tell me how hot the whole party was in the business of Gawden; and
+particularly, my Lord Anglesey tells me, the Duke of Buckingham, for
+Child against Gawden; but the Duke of York did stand stoutly to it. So
+home to read and sup, and to bed.
+
+29th (Tuesday, Michaelmas day). Up, and to the Office, where all the
+morning.
+
+
+
+
+OCTOBER 1668
+
+     [In this part of the "Diary" no entry occurs for thirteen days,
+     though there are several pages left blank.  During the interval
+     Pepys went into the country, as he subsequently mentions his having
+     been at Saxham, in Suffolk, during the king's visit to Lord Crofts,
+     which took place at this time (see October 23rd, host).  He might
+     also probably have gone to Impington to fetch his wife.  The pages
+     left blank were never filled up.--B.]
+
+October 11th (Lord's day'). Up and to church, where I find Parson Mills
+come to town and preached, and the church full, most people being now
+come home to town, though the season of year is as good as summer in all
+respects. At noon dined at home with my wife, all alone, and busy all
+the afternoon in my closet, making up some papers with W. Hewer and at
+night comes Mr. Turner and his wife, and there they tell me that Mr.
+Harper is dead at Deptford, and so now all his and my care is, how
+to secure his being Storekeeper in his stead; and here they and their
+daughter, and a kinswoman that come along with them, did sup with me,
+and pretty merry, and then, they gone, and my wife to read to me, and to
+bed.
+
+12th. Up, and with Mr. Turner by water to White Hall, there to think to
+enquire when the Duke of York will be in town, in order to Mr. Turner's
+going down to Audley Ends about his place; and here I met in St. James's
+Park with one that told us that the Duke of York would be in town
+to-morrow, and so Turner parted and went home, and I also did stop my
+intentions of going to the Court, also this day, about securing
+Mr. Turner's place of Petty-purveyor to Mr. Hater. So I to my Lord
+Brouncker's, thinking to have gone and spoke to him about it, but he
+is gone out to town till night, and so, meeting a gentleman of my Lord
+Middleton's looking for me about the payment of the L1000 lately ordered
+to his Lord, in advance of his pay, which shall arise upon his going
+Governor to Tangier, I did go to his Lord's lodgings, and there spoke
+the first time with him, and find him a shrewd man, but a drinking man,
+I think, as the world says; but a man that hath seen much of the world,
+and is a Scot. I offered him my service, though I can do him little; but
+he sends his man home with me, where I made him stay, till I had gone to
+Sir W. Pen, to bespeak him about Mr. Hater, who, contrary to my fears,
+did appear very friendly, to my great content; for I was afraid of his
+appearing for his man Burroughs. But he did not; but did declare to me
+afterwards his intentions to desire an excuse in his own business, to
+be eased of the business of the Comptroller, his health not giving him
+power to stay always in town, but he must go into the country. I did
+say little to him but compliment, having no leisure to think of his
+business, or any man's but my own, and so away and home, where I find
+Sir H. Cholmly come to town; and is come hither to see me: and he is a
+man that I love mightily, as being, of a gentleman, the most industrious
+that ever I saw. He staid with me awhile talking, and telling me his
+obligations to my Lord Sandwich, which I was glad of; and that the Duke
+of Buckingham is now chief of all men in this kingdom, which I knew
+before; and that he do think the Parliament will hardly ever meet again;
+which is a great many men's thoughts, and I shall not be sorry for it.
+He being gone, I with my Lord Middleton's servant to Mr. Colvill's, but
+he was not in town, and so he parted, and I home, and there to dinner,
+and Mr. Pelling with us; and thence my wife and Mercer, and W. Hewer and
+Deb., to the King's playhouse, and I afterwards by water with them, and
+there we did hear the Eunuch (who, it seems, is a Frenchman, but long
+bred in Italy) sing, which I seemed to take as new to me, though I
+saw him on Saturday last, but said nothing of it; but such action and
+singing I could never have imagined to have heard, and do make good
+whatever Tom Hill used to tell me. Here we met with Mr. Batelier and his
+sister, and so they home with us in two coaches, and there at my house
+staid and supped, and this night my bookseller Shrewsbury comes, and
+brings my books of Martyrs, and I did pay him for them, and did this
+night make the young women before supper to open all the volumes for me.
+So to supper, and after supper to read a ridiculous nonsensical book set
+out by Will. Pen, for the Quakers; but so full of nothing but nonsense,
+that I was ashamed to read in it. So they gone, we to bed.
+
+     [Penn's first work, entitled, "Truth exalted, in a short but sure
+     testimony against all those religions, faiths, and worships, that
+     have been formed and followed, in the darkness of apostacy; and for
+     that glorious light which is now risen, and shines forth, in the
+     life and doctrine of the despised Quakers....  by W. Penn,
+     whom divine love constrains, in holy contempt, to trample on Egypt's
+     glory, not fearing the King's wrath, having beheld the Majesty of
+     Him who is invisible:"  London, 1668.--B.]
+
+13th. Up, and to the office, and before the office did speak with my
+Lord Brouncker, and there did get his ready assent to T. Hater's having
+of Mr. Turner's place, and so Sir J. Minnes's also: but when we come to
+sit down at the Board, comes to us Mr. Wren this day to town, and
+tells me that James Southern do petition the Duke of York for the
+Storekeeper's place of Deptford, which did trouble me much, and also the
+Board, though, upon discourse, after he was gone, we did resolve to move
+hard for our Clerks, and that places of preferment may go according to
+seniority and merit. So, the Board up, I home with my people to dinner,
+and so to the office again, and there, after doing some business, I with
+Mr. Turner to the Duke of Albemarle's at night; and there did speak to
+him about his appearing to Mr. Wren a friend to Mr. Turner, which he did
+take kindly from me; and so away thence, well pleased with what we had
+now done, and so I with him home, stopping at my Lord Brouncker's, and
+getting his hand to a letter I wrote to the Duke of York for T. Hater,
+and also at my Lord Middleton's, to give him an account of what I had
+done this day, with his man, at Alderman Backewell's, about the getting
+of his L1000 paid;
+
+     [It was probably for this payment that the tally was obtained, the
+     loss of which caused Pepys so much anxiety.  See November 26th,
+     1668]
+
+and here he did take occasion to discourse about the business of the
+Dutch war, which, he says, he was always an enemy to; and did discourse
+very well of it, I saying little, but pleased to hear him talk; and to
+see how some men may by age come to know much, and yet by their drinking
+and other pleasures render themselves not very considerable. I did this
+day find by discourse with somebody, that this nobleman was the great
+Major-General Middleton; that was of the Scots army, in the beginning of
+the late war against the King. Thence home and to the office to finish
+my letters, and so home and did get my wife to read to me, and then Deb
+to comb my head. ...
+
+14th. Up, and by water, stopping at Michell's, and there saw Betty, but
+could have no discourse with her, but there drank. To White Hall, and
+there walked to St. James's, where I find the Court mighty full, it
+being the Duke or York's birthday; and he mighty fine, and all the
+musick, one after another, to my great content. Here I met with Sir
+H. Cholmly; and he and I to walk, and to my Lord Barkeley's new house;
+there to see a new experiment of a cart, which; by having two little
+wheeles fastened to the axle-tree, is said to make it go with half the
+ease and more, than another cart but we did not see the trial made.
+Thence I home, and after dinner to St. James's, and there met my
+brethren; but the Duke of York being gone out, and to-night being a play
+there; and a great festival, we would not stay, but went all of us to
+the King's playhouse, and there saw "The Faythful Shepherdess" again,
+that we might hear the French Eunuch sing, which we did, to our great
+content; though I do admire his action as much as his singing, being
+both beyond all I ever saw or heard. Thence with W. Pen home, and there
+to get my people to read, and to supper, and so to bed.
+
+15th. Up, and all the morning at the office, and at home at dinner,
+where, after dinner, my wife and I and Deb. out by coach to the
+upholsters in Long Lane, Alderman Reeve's, and then to Alderman Crow's,
+to see variety of hangings, and were mightily pleased therewith, and
+spent the whole afternoon thereupon; and at last I think we shall pitch
+upon the best suit of Apostles, where three pieces for my room will come
+to almost L80: so home, and to my office, and then home to supper and to
+bed. This day at the Board comes unexpected the warrants from the Duke
+of York for Mr. Turner and Hater, for the places they desire, which
+contents me mightily.
+
+16th. Up, and busy all the morning at the office, and before noon I took
+my wife by coach, and Deb., and shewed her Mr. Wren's hangings and
+bed, at St. James's, and Sir W. Coventry's in the Pell Mell, for our
+satisfaction in what we are going to buy; and so by Mr. Crow's,
+home, about his hangings, and do pitch upon buying his second suit of
+Apostles-the whole suit, which comes to L83; and this we think the best
+for us, having now the whole suit, to answer any other rooms or service.
+So home to dinner, and with Mr. Hater by water to St. James's: there Mr.
+Hater, to give Mr. Wren thanks for his kindness about his place that he
+hath lately granted him, of Petty Purveyor of petty emptions, upon the
+removal of Mr. Turner to be Storekeeper at Deptford, on the death of
+Harper. And then we all up to the Duke of York, and there did our usual
+business, and so I with J. Minnes home, and there finding my wife gone
+to my aunt Wight's, to see her the first time after her coming to town,
+and indeed the first time, I think, these two years (we having been
+great strangers one to the other for a great while), I to them; and
+there mighty kindly used, and had a barrel of oysters, and so to look
+up and down their house, they having hung a room since I was there, but
+with hangings not fit to be seen with mine, which I find all come home
+to-night, and here staying an hour or two we home, and there to supper
+and to bed.
+
+17th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning sitting, and at noon
+home to dinner, and to the office all the afternoon, and then late home,
+and there with much pleasure getting Mr. Gibbs, that writes well, to
+write the name upon my new draught of "The Resolution;" and so set it
+up, and altered the situation of some of my pictures in my closet, to
+my extraordinary content, and at it with much pleasure till almost 12
+at night. Mr. Moore and Seymour were with me this afternoon, who tell me
+that my Lord Sandwich was received mighty kindly by the King, and is in
+exceeding great esteem with him, and the rest about him; but I doubt it
+will be hard for him to please both the King and the Duke of York, which
+I shall be sorry for. Mr. Moore tells me the sad condition my Lord is
+in, in his estate and debts; and the way he now lives in, so high, and
+so many vain servants about him, that he must be ruined, if he do not
+take up, which, by the grace of God, I will put him upon, when I come to
+see him.
+
+18th (Lord's day). Up, and with my boy Tom all the morning altering the
+places of my pictures with great pleasure, and at noon to dinner, and
+then comes Mr. Shales to see me, and I with him to recommend him to my
+Lord Brouncker's service, which I did at Madam Williams's, and my Lord
+receives him. Thence with Brouncker to Lincolne's Inn, and Mr. Ball,
+to visit Dr. Wilkins, now newly Bishop of Chester: and he received us
+mighty kindly; and had most excellent discourse from him about his Book
+of Reall Character: and so I with Lord Brouncker to White Hall, and
+there saw the Queen and some ladies, and with Lord Brouncker back, it
+again being a rainy evening, and so my Lord forced to lend me his coach
+till I got a hackney, which I did, and so home and to supper, and got my
+wife to read to me, and so to bed.
+
+19th. Up, and to my office to set down my Journall for some days past,
+and so to other business. At the office all the morning upon some
+business of Sir W. Warren's, and at noon home to dinner, and thence
+out by coach with my wife and Deb. and Mr. Harman, the upholster, and
+carried them to take measure of Mr. Wren's bed at St. James's, I being
+resolved to have just such another made me, and thence set him down in
+the Strand, and my wife and I to the Duke of York's playhouse; and there
+saw, the first time acted, "The Queene of Arragon," an old Blackfriars
+play, but an admirable one, so good that I am astonished at it, and
+wonder where it hath lain asleep all this while, that I have never heard
+of it before. Here met W. Batelier and Mrs. Hunt, Deb.'s aunt; and
+saw her home--a very witty woman, and one that knows this play, and
+understands a play mighty well. Left her at home in Jewen Street, and we
+home, and to supper, and my wife to read to me, and so to bed.
+
+20th. Up, and to the office all the morning, and then home to dinner,
+having this day a new girl come to us in the room of Nell, who is
+lately, about four days since, gone away, being grown lazy and proud.
+This girl to stay only till we have a boy, which I intend to keep when
+I have a coach, which I am now about. At this time my wife and I mighty
+busy laying out money in dressing up our best chamber, and thinking of
+a coach and coachman and horses, &c.; and the more because of Creed's
+being now married to Mrs. Pickering; a thing I could never have
+expected, but it is done about seven or ten days since, as I hear out
+of the country. At noon home to dinner, and my wife and Harman and girl
+abroad to buy things, and I walked out to several places to pay debts,
+and among other things to look out for a coach, and saw many; and did
+light on one for which I bid L50, which do please me mightily, and I
+believe I shall have it. So to my tailor's, and the New Exchange, and so
+by coach home, and there, having this day bought "The Queene of Arragon"
+play, I did get my wife and W. Batelier to read it over this night by 11
+o'clock, and so to bed.
+
+21st. Lay pretty long talking with content with my wife about our
+coach and things, and so to the office, where Sir D. Gawden was to do
+something in his accounts. At noon to dinner to Mr. Batelier's, his
+mother coming this day a-housewarming to him, and several friends of
+his, to which he invited us. Here mighty merry, and his mother the same;
+I heretofore took her for a gentlewoman, and understanding. I rose from
+table before the rest, because under an obligation to go to my Lord
+Brouncker's, where to meet several gentlemen of the Royal Society, to go
+and make a visit to the French Embassador Colbert, at Leicester House,
+he having endeavoured to make one or two to my Lord Brouncker, as our
+President, but he was not within, but I come too late, they being gone
+before: but I followed to Leicester House; but they are gore in and up
+before me; and so I away to the New Exchange, and there staid for my
+wife, and she come, we to Cow Lane, and there I shewed her the coach
+which I pitch on, and she is out of herself for joy almost. But the man
+not within, so did nothing more towards an agreement, but to Mr. Crow's
+about a bed, to have his advice, and so home, and there had my wife to
+read to me, and so to supper and to bed. Memorandum: that from Crow's,
+we went back to Charing Cross, and there left my people at their
+tailor's, while I to my Lord Sandwich's lodgings, who come to town the
+last night, and is come thither to lye: and met with him within: and
+among others my new cozen Creed, who looks mighty soberly; and he and I
+saluted one another with mighty gravity, till we come to a little more
+freedom of talk about it. But here I hear that Sir Gilbert Pickering
+is lately dead, about three days since, which makes some sorrow there,
+though not much, because of his being long expected to die, having been
+in a lethargy long. So waited on my Lord to Court, and there staid and
+saw the ladies awhile: and thence to my wife, and took them up; and so
+home, and to supper and bed.
+
+22nd. Up, and W. Batelier's Frenchman, a perriwigg maker, comes and
+brings me a new one, which I liked and paid him for: a mighty genteel
+fellow. So to the office, where sat all the morning, and at noon home to
+dinner, and thence with wife and Deb. to Crow's, and there did see some
+more beds; and we shall, I think, pitch upon a camlott one, when all is
+done. Thence sent them home, and I to Arundell House, where the first
+time we have met since the vacation, and not much company: but here much
+good discourse, and afterwards my Lord and others and I to the Devil
+tavern, and there eat and drank, and so late, with Mr. Colwell, home by
+coach; and at home took him with me, and there found my uncle Wight and
+aunt, and Woolly and his wife, and there supped, and mighty merry. And
+anon they gone, and Mrs. Turner staid, who was there also to talk of
+her husband's business; and the truth is, I was the less pleased to talk
+with her, for that she hath not yet owned, in any fit manner of thanks,
+my late and principal service to her husband about his place, which I
+alone ought to have the thanks for, if they know as much as I do; but
+let it go: if they do not own it, I shall have it in my hand to teach
+them to do it. So to bed. This day word come for all the Principal
+Officers to bring them [the Commissioners of Accounts] their patents,
+which I did in the afternoon, by leaving it at their office, but am
+troubled at what should be their design therein.
+
+23rd. Up, and plasterers at work and painters about my house.
+Commissioner Middleton and I to St. James's, where with the rest of our
+company we attended on our usual business the Duke of York. Thence I
+to White Hall, to my Lord Sandwich's, where I find my Lord within, but
+busy, private; and so I staid a little talking with the young gentlemen:
+and so away with Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, towards Tyburne, to see the
+people executed; but come too late, it being done; two men and a woman
+hanged, and so back again and to my coachmaker's, and there did come a
+little nearer agreement for the coach, and so to Duck Lane, and there my
+bookseller's, and saw his moher, but elle is so big-bellied that elle is
+not worth seeing. So home, and there all alone to dinner, my wife and W.
+Hewer being gone to Deptford to see her mother, and so I to the office
+all the afternoon. In the afternoon comes my cozen, Sidney Pickering,
+to bring my wife and me his sister's Favour for her wedding, which is
+kindly done, and he gone, I to business again, and in the evening home,
+made my wife read till supper time, and so to bed. This day Pierce
+do tell me, among other news, the late frolick and debauchery of Sir
+Charles Sidly and Buckhurst, running up and down all the night with
+their arses bare, through the streets; and at last fighting, and being
+beat by the watch and clapped up all night; and how the King takes their
+parts; and my Lord Chief Justice Keeling hath laid the constable by the
+heels to answer it next Sessions: which is a horrid shame. How the
+King and these gentlemen did make the fiddlers of Thetford, this last
+progress, to sing them all the bawdy songs they could think of. How Sir
+W. Coventry was brought the other day to the Duchesse of York by the
+Duke, to kiss her hand; who did acknowledge his unhappiness to occasion
+her so much sorrow, declaring his intentions in it, and praying her
+pardon; which she did give him upon his promise to make good his
+pretences of innocence to her family, by his faithfulness to his master,
+the Duke of York. That the Duke of Buckingham is now all in all, and
+will ruin Coventry, if he can: and that W. Coventry do now rest wholly
+upon the Duke of York for his standing, which is a great turn. He tells
+me that my Lady Castlemayne, however, is a mortal enemy to the Duke of
+Buckingham, which I understand not; but, it seems, she is disgusted
+with his greatness, and his ill usage of her. That the King was drunk at
+Saxam with Sidly, Buckhurst, &c., the night that my Lord Arlington come
+thither, and would not give him audience, or could not which is true,
+for it was the night that I was there, and saw the King go up to his
+chamber, and was told that the King had been drinking. He tells me,
+too, that the Duke of York did the next day chide Bab. May for his
+occasioning the King's giving himself up to these gentlemen, to the
+neglecting of my Lord Arlington: to which he answered merrily, that, by
+God, there was no man in England that had heads to lose, durst do what
+they do, every day, with the King, and asked the Duke of York's pardon:
+which is a sign of a mad world. God bless us out of it!
+
+24th. This morning comes to me the coachmaker, and agreed with me for
+L53, and stand to the courtesy of what more I should give him upon the
+finishing of the coach: he is likely also to fit me with a coachman.
+There comes also to me Mr. Shotgrave, the operator of our Royal Society,
+to show me his method of making the Tubes for the eyes, which are
+clouterly done, so that mine are better, but I have well informed myself
+in several things from him, and so am glad of speaking with him. So to
+the office, where all the morning, and then to dinner, and so all the
+afternoon late at the office, and so home; and my wife to read to me,
+and then with much content to bed. This day Lord Brouncker tells me that
+the making Sir J. Minnes a bare Commissioner is now in doing, which I am
+glad of; but he speaks of two new Commissioners, which I do not believe.
+
+25th (Lord's day). Up, and discoursing with my wife about our house and
+many new things we are doing of, and so to church I, and there find Jack
+Fenn come, and his wife, a pretty black woman: I never saw her before,
+nor took notice of her now. So home and to dinner, and after dinner
+all the afternoon got my wife and boy to read to me, and at night W.
+Batelier comes and sups with us; and, after supper, to have my head
+combed by Deb., which occasioned the greatest sorrow to me that ever
+I knew in this world, for my wife, coming up suddenly, did find me
+embracing the girl.... I was at a wonderful loss upon it, and the girle
+also, and I endeavoured to put it off, but my wife was struck mute and
+grew angry, and so her voice come to her, grew quite out of order, and
+I to say little, but to bed, and my wife said little also, but could not
+sleep all night, but about two in the morning waked me and cried, and
+fell to tell me as a great secret that she was a Roman Catholique and
+had received the Holy Sacrament, which troubled me, but I took no
+notice of it, but she went on from one thing to another till at last it
+appeared plainly her trouble was at what she saw, but yet I did not know
+how much she saw, and therefore said nothing to her. But after her much
+crying and reproaching me with inconstancy and preferring a sorry girl
+before her, I did give her no provocation, but did promise all fair
+usage to her and love, and foreswore any hurt that I did with her, till
+at last she seemed to be at ease again, and so toward morning a little
+sleep, and so I with some little repose and rest
+
+26th. Rose, and up and by water to White Hall, but with my mind mightily
+troubled for the poor girle, whom I fear I have undone by this, my
+[wife] telling me that she would turn her out of doors. However, I was
+obliged to attend the Duke of York, thinking to have had a meeting of
+Tangier to-day, but had not; but he did take me and Mr. Wren into his
+closet, and there did press me to prepare what I had to say upon the
+answers of my fellow-officers to his great letter, which I promised
+to do against his coming to town again, the next week; and so to other
+discourse, finding plainly that he is in trouble, and apprehensions of
+the Reformers, and would be found to do what he can towards reforming,
+himself. And so thence to my Lord Sandwich's, where, after long stay,
+he being in talk with others privately, I to him; and there he, taking
+physic and keeping his chamber, I had an hour's talk with him about the
+ill posture of things at this time, while the King gives countenance to
+Sir Charles Sidly and Lord Buckhurst, telling him their late story of
+running up and down the streets a little while since all night, and
+their being beaten and clapped up all night by the constable, who is
+since chid and imprisoned for his pains. He tells me that he thinks his
+matters do stand well with the King, and hopes to have dispatch to his
+mind; but I doubt it, and do see that he do fear it, too. He told me my
+Lady Carteret's trouble about my writing of that letter of the Duke of
+York's lately to the Office, which I did not own, but declared to be
+of no injury to G. Carteret, and that I would write a letter to him
+to satisfy him therein. But this I am in pain how to do, without doing
+myself wrong, and the end I had, of preparing a justification to myself
+hereafter, when the faults of the Navy come to be found out however, I
+will do it in the best manner I can. Thence by coach home and to dinner,
+finding my wife mightily discontented, and the girle sad, and no words
+from my wife to her. So after dinner they out with me about two or three
+things, and so home again, I all the evening busy, and my wife full of
+trouble in her looks, and anon to bed, where about midnight she wakes
+me, and there falls foul of me again, affirming that she saw me hug and
+kiss the girle; the latter I denied, and truly, the other I confessed
+and no more, and upon her pressing me did offer to give her under my
+hand that I would never see Mrs. Pierce more nor Knepp, but did promise
+her particular demonstrations of my true love to her, owning some
+indiscretions in what I did, but that there was no harm in it. She at
+last upon these promises was quiet, and very kind we were, and so to
+sleep, and
+
+27th. In the morning up, but my mind troubled for the poor girle, with
+whom I could not get opportunity to speak, but to the office, my mind
+mighty full of sorrow for her, to the office, where all the morning, and
+to dinner with my people, and to the office all the afternoon, and so at
+night home, and there busy to get some things ready against to-morrow's
+meeting of Tangier, and that being done, and my clerks gone, my wife did
+towards bedtime begin to be in a mighty rage from some new matter that
+she had got in her head, and did most part of the night in bed rant
+at me in most high terms of threats of publishing my shame, and when I
+offered to rise would have rose too, and caused a candle to be light to
+burn by her all night in the chimney while she ranted, while the knowing
+myself to have given some grounds for it, did make it my business to
+appease her all I could possibly, and by good words and fair promises
+did make her very quiet, and so rested all night, and rose with perfect
+good peace, being heartily afflicted for this folly of mine that did
+occasion it, but was forced to be silent about the girle, which I have
+no mind to part with, but much less that the poor girle should be undone
+by my folly. So up with mighty kindness from my wife and a thorough
+peace, and being up did by a note advise the girle what I had done and
+owned, which note I was in pain for till she told me she had burned it.
+This evening Mr. Spong come, and sat late with me, and first told me of
+the instrument called parallelogram,
+
+     [This useful instrument, used for copying maps, plans, drawings, &c.
+     either of the same size, or larger or smaller than the originals, is
+     now named a pantograph.]
+
+which I must have one of, shewing me his practice thereon, by a map of
+England.
+
+28th. So by coach with Mr. Gibson to Chancery Lane, and there made oath
+before a Master of Chancery to the Tangier account of fees, and so to
+White Hall, where, by and by, a Committee met, my Lord Sandwich there,
+but his report was not received, it being late; but only a little
+business done, about the supplying the place with victuals. But I
+did get, to my great content, my account allowed of fees, with great
+applause by my Lord Ashly and Sir W. Pen. Thence home, calling at one or
+two places; and there about our workmen, who are at work upon my wife's
+closet, and other parts of my house, that we are all in dirt. So after
+dinner with Mr. Gibson all the afternoon in my closet, and at night to
+supper and to bed, my wife and I at good peace, but yet with some little
+grudgings of trouble in her and more in me about the poor girle.
+
+29th. At the office all the morning, where Mr. Wren first tells us
+of the order from the King, came last night to the Duke of York, for
+signifying his pleasure to the Sollicitor-General for drawing up a
+Commission for suspending of my Lord Anglesey, and putting in Sir
+Thomas. Littleton and Sir Thomas Osborne, the former a creature of
+Arlington's, and the latter of the Duke of Buckingham's, during the
+suspension. The Duke of York was forced to obey, and did grant it, he
+being to go to Newmarket this day with the King, and so the King pressed
+for it. But Mr. Wren do own that the Duke of York is the most wounded
+in this, in the world, for it is done and concluded without his privity,
+after his appearing for Lord Anglesey, and that it is plain that they do
+ayme to bring the Admiralty into Commission too, and lessen the Duke of
+York. This do put strange apprehensions into all our Board; only I think
+I am the least troubled at it, for I care not at all for it: but my Lord
+Brouncker and Pen do seem to think much of it. So home to dinner,
+full of this news, and after dinner to the office, and so home all the
+afternoon to do business towards my drawing up an account for the Duke
+of York of the answers of this office to his late great letter, and late
+at it, and so to bed, with great peace from my wife and quiet, I bless
+God.
+
+30th. Up betimes; and Mr. Povy comes to even accounts with me, which we
+did, and then fell to other talk. He tells, in short, how the King is
+made a child of, by Buckingham and Arlington, to the lessening of the
+Duke of York, whom they cannot suffer to be great, for fear of my
+Lord Chancellor's return, which, therefore, they make the King violent
+against. That he believes it is impossible these two great men can
+hold together long: or, at least, that the ambition of the former is so
+great, that he will endeavour to master all, and bring into play as
+many as he can. That Anglesey will not lose his place easily, but will
+contend in law with whoever comes to execute it. That the Duke of York,
+in all things but in his cod-piece, is led by the nose by his wife. That
+W. Coventry is now, by the Duke of York, made friends with the Duchess;
+and that he is often there, and waits on her. That he do believe that
+these present great men will break in time, and that W. Coventry will be
+a great man again; for he do labour to have nothing to do in matters
+of the State, and is so usefull to the side that he is on, that he
+will stand, though at present he is quite out of play. That my Lady
+Castlemayne hates the Duke of Buckingham. That the Duke of York hath
+expressed himself very kind to my Lord Sandwich, which I am mighty glad
+of. That we are to expect more changes if these men stand. This done,
+he and I to talk of my coach, and I got him to go see it, where he finds
+most infinite fault with it, both as to being out of fashion and heavy,
+with so good reason that I am mightily glad of his having corrected
+me in it; and so I do resolve to have one of his build, and with his
+advice, both in coach and horses, he being the fittest man in the world
+for it, and so he carried me home, and said the same to my wife. So I
+to the office and he away, and at noon I home to dinner, and all
+the afternoon late with Gibson at my chamber about my present great
+business, only a little in the afternoon at the office about Sir D.
+Gawden's accounts, and so to bed and slept heartily, my wife and I at
+good peace, but my heart troubled and her mind not at ease, I perceive,
+she against and I for the girle, to whom I have not said anything these
+three days, but resolve to be mighty strange in appearance to her. This
+night W. Batelier come and took his leave of us, he setting out for
+France to-morrow.
+
+31st. Up, and at the office all the morning. At noon home to dinner with
+my people, and afternoon to the office again, and then to my chamber
+with Gibson to do more about my great answer for the Duke of York, and
+so at night after supper to bed well pleased with my advance thereon.
+This day my Lord Anglesey was at the Office, and do seem to make nothing
+of this business of his suspension, resolving to bring it into the
+Council, where he seems not to doubt to have right, he standing upon his
+defence and patent, and hath put in his caveats to the several Offices:
+so, as soon as the King comes back again, which will be on Tuesday next,
+he will bring it into the Council. So ends this month with some quiet to
+my mind, though not perfect, after the greatest falling out with my poor
+wife, and through my folly with the girl, that ever I had, and I have
+reason to be sorry and ashamed of it, and more to be troubled for the
+poor girl's sake, whom I fear I shall by this means prove the ruin of,
+though I shall think myself concerned both to love and be a friend to
+her. This day Roger Pepys and his son Talbot, newly come to town, come
+and dined with me, and mighty glad I am to see them.
+
+
+
+
+NOVEMBER 1668
+
+November 1st (Lord's day). Up, and with W. Hewer at my chamber all this
+morning, going further in my great business for the Duke of York, and so
+at noon to dinner, and then W. Hewer to write fair what he had writ, and
+my wife to read to me all the afternoon, till anon Mr. Gibson come, and
+he and I to perfect it to my full mind, and so to supper and to bed, my
+mind yet at disquiet that I cannot be informed how poor Deb. stands with
+her mistress, but I fear she will put her away, and the truth is, though
+it be much against my mind and to my trouble, yet I think that it will
+be fit that she should be gone, for my wife's peace and mine, for she
+cannot but be offended at the sight of her, my wife having conceived
+this jealousy of me with reason, and therefore for that, and other
+reasons of expense, it will be best for me to let her go, but I shall
+love and pity her. This noon Mr. Povy sent his coach for my wife and I
+to see, which we like mightily, and will endeavour to have him get us
+just such another.
+
+2nd. Up, and a cold morning, by water through bridge without a cloak,
+and there to Mr. Wren at his chamber at White Hall, the first time of
+his coming thither this year, the Duchess coming thither tonight, and
+there he and I did read over my paper that I have with so much labour
+drawn up about the several answers of the officers of this Office to the
+Duke of York's reflections, and did debate a little what advice to
+give the Duke of York when he comes to town upon it. Here come in
+Lord Anglesy, and I perceive he makes nothing of this order for his
+suspension, resolving to contend and to bring it to the Council on
+Wednesday when the King is come to town to-morrow, and Mr. Wren do join
+with him mightily in it, and do look upon the Duke of York as concerned
+more in it than he. So to visit Creed at his chamber, but his wife not
+come thither yet, nor do he tell me where she is, though she be in town,
+at Stepney, at Atkins's. So to Mr. Povy's to talk about a coach, but
+there I find my Lord Sandwich, and Peterborough, and Hinchingbroke,
+Charles Harbord, and Sidney Montagu; and there I was stopped, and dined
+mighty nobly at a good table, with one little dish at a time upon it,
+but mighty merry. I was glad to see it: but sorry, methought, to see my
+Lord have so little reason to be merry, and yet glad, for his sake, to
+have him cheerful. After dinner up, and looked up and down the house,
+and so to the cellar; and thence I slipt away, without taking leave, and
+so to a few places about business, and among others to my bookseller's
+in Duck Lane, and so home, where the house still full of dirt by
+painters and others, and will not be clean a good while. So to read
+and talk with my wife till by and by called to the office about Sir W.
+Warren's business, where we met a little, and then home to supper and to
+bed. This day I went, by Mr. Povy's direction, to a coachmaker near him,
+for a coach just like his, but it was sold this very morning.
+
+3rd. Up, and all the morning at the Office. At noon to dinner, and then
+to the Office, and there busy till 12 at night, without much pain to my
+eyes, but I did not use them to read or write, and so did hold out very
+well. So home, and there to supper, and I observed my wife to eye my
+eyes whether I did ever look upon Deb., which I could not but do now and
+then (and to my grief did see the poor wretch look on me and see me look
+on her, and then let drop a tear or two, which do make my heart relent
+at this minute that I am writing this with great trouble of mind, for
+she is indeed my sacrifice, poor girle); and my wife did tell me in bed
+by the by of my looking on other people, and that the only way is to put
+things out of sight, and this I know she means by Deb., for she tells me
+that her Aunt was here on Monday, and she did tell her of her desire of
+parting with Deb., but in such kind terms on both sides that my wife is
+mightily taken with her. I see it will be, and it is but necessary, and
+therefore, though it cannot but grieve me, yet I must bring my mind to
+give way to it. We had a great deal of do this day at the Office about
+Clutterbucke,--[See note to February 4th, 1663-64]--I declaring my
+dissent against the whole Board's proceedings, and I believe I shall
+go near to shew W. Pen a very knave in it, whatever I find my Lord
+Brouncker.
+
+4th. Up, and by coach to White Hall; and there I find the King and Duke
+of York come the last night, and every body's mouth full of my Lord
+Anglesey's suspension being sealed; which it was, it seems, yesterday;
+so that he is prevented in his remedy at the Council; and, it seems, the
+two new Treasurers did kiss the King's hand this morning, brought in by
+my Lord Arlington. They walked up and down together the Court this day,
+and several people joyed them; but I avoided it, that I might not be
+seen to look either way. This day also I hear that my Lord Ormond is
+to be declared in Council no more Deputy Governor of Ireland, his
+commission being expired: and the King is prevailed with to take it out
+of his hands; which people do mightily admire, saying that he is the
+greatest subject of any prince in Christendome, and hath more acres of
+land than any, and hath done more for his Prince than ever any yet did.
+But all will not do; he must down, it seems, the Duke of Buckingham
+carrying all before him. But that, that troubles me most is, that
+they begin to talk that the Duke of York's regiment is ordered to be
+disbanded; and more, that undoubtedly his Admiralty will follow: which
+do shake me mightily, and I fear will have ill consequences in the
+nation, for these counsels are very mad. The Duke of York do, by all
+men's report, carry himself wonderfull submissive to the King, in the
+most humble manner in the world; but yet, it seems, nothing must be
+spared that tends to, the keeping out of the Chancellor; and that is
+the reason of all this. The great discourse now is, that the Parliament
+shall be dissolved and another called, which shall give the King the
+Deane and Chapter lands; and that will put him out of debt. And it
+is said that Buckingham do knownly meet daily with Wildman and other
+Commonwealth-men; and that when he is with them, he makes the King
+believe that he is with his wenches; and something looks like the
+Parliament's being dissolved, by Harry Brouncker's being now come back,
+and appears this day the first day at White Hall; but hath not been yet
+with the King, but is secure that he shall be well received, I hear. God
+bless us, when such men as he shall be restored! But that, that pleases
+me most is, that several do tell me that Pen is to be removed; and
+others, that he hath resigned his place; and particularly Spragg tells
+me for certain that he hath resigned it, and is become a partner with
+Gawden in the Victualling: in which I think he hath done a very cunning
+thing; but I am sure I am glad of it; and it will be well for the King
+to have him out of this Office. Thence by coach, doing several errands,
+home and there to dinner, and then to the Office, where all the
+afternoon till late at night, and so home. Deb. hath been abroad to-day
+with her friends, poor girle, I believe toward the getting of a place.
+This day a boy is sent me out of the country from Impington by my cozen
+Roger Pepys' getting, whom I visited this morning at his chamber in the
+Strand and carried him to Westminster Hall, where I took a turn or
+two with him and Sir John Talbot, who talks mighty high for my Lord of
+Ormond: and I perceive this family of the Talbots hath been raised by my
+Lord. When I come home to-night I find Deb. not come home, and do doubt
+whether she be not quite gone or no, but my wife is silent to me in it,
+and I to her, but fell to other discourse, and indeed am well satisfied
+that my house will never be at peace between my wife and I unless I let
+her go, though it grieves me to the heart. My wife and I spent much time
+this evening talking of our being put out of the Office, and my going to
+live at Deptford at her brother's, till I can clear my accounts, and rid
+my hands of the town, which will take me a year or more, and I do think
+it will be best for me to do so, in order to our living cheap, and out
+of sight.
+
+5th. Up, and Willet come home in the morning, and, God forgive me! I
+could not conceal my content thereat by smiling, and my wife observed
+it, but I said nothing, nor she, but away to the office. Presently up
+by water to White Hall, and there all of us to wait on the Duke of York,
+which we did, having little to do, and then I up and down the house,
+till by and by the Duke of York, who had bid me stay, did come to his
+closet again, and there did call in me and Mr. Wren; and there my paper,
+that I have lately taken pains to draw up, was read, and the Duke of
+York pleased therewith; and we did all along conclude upon answers to
+my mind for the Board, and that that, if put in execution, will do the
+King's business. But I do now more and more perceive the Duke of York's
+trouble, and that he do lie under great weight of mind from the Duke
+of Buckingham's carrying things against him; and particularly when I
+advised that he would use his interest that a seaman might come into the
+room of W. Pen, who is now declared to be gone from us to that of the
+Victualling, and did shew how the Office would now be left without one
+seaman in it, but the Surveyour and the Controller, who is so old as
+to be able to do nothing, he told me plainly that I knew his mind well
+enough as to seamen, but that it must be as others will. And Wren did
+tell it me as a secret, that when the Duke of York did first tell the
+King about Sir W. Pen's leaving of the place, and that when the Duke of
+York did move the King that either Captain Cox or Sir Jer. Smith might
+succeed him, the King did tell him that that was a matter fit to be
+considered of, and would not agree to either presently; and so the Duke
+of York could not prevail for either, nor knows who it shall be.
+The Duke of York did tell me himself, that if he had not carried it
+privately when first he mentioned Pen's leaving his place to the King,
+it had not been done; for the Duke of Buckingham and those of his party
+do cry out upon it, as a strange thing to trust such a thing into the
+hands of one that stands accused in Parliament: and that they have so
+far prevailed upon the King that he would not have him named in Council,
+but only take his name to the Board; but I think he said that only D.
+Gawden's name shall go in the patent; at least, at the time when Sir
+Richard Browne asked the King the names of D. Gawden's security, the
+King told him it was not yet necessary for him to declare them. And by
+and by, when the Duke of York and we had done, and Wren brought into
+the closet Captain Cox and James Temple About business of the Guiney
+Company, and talking something of the Duke of Buckingham's concernment
+therein, and says the Duke of York, "I will give the Devil his due, as
+they say the Duke of Buckingham hath paid in his money to the Company,"
+or something of that kind, wherein he would do right to him. The Duke
+of York told me how these people do begin to cast dirt upon the business
+that passed the Council lately, touching Supernumeraries, as passed by
+virtue of his authority there, there being not liberty for any man to
+withstand what the Duke of York advises there; which, he told me, they
+bring only as an argument to insinuate the putting of the Admiralty into
+Commission, which by all men's discourse is now designed, and I perceive
+the same by him. This being done, and going from him, I up and down the
+house to hear news: and there every body's mouth full of changes; and,
+among others, the Duke of York's regiment of Guards, that was raised
+during the late war at sea, is to be disbanded: and also, that this day
+the King do intend to declare that the Duke of Ormond is no more Deputy
+of Ireland, but that he will put it into Commission. This day our new
+Treasurers did kiss the King's hand, who complimented them, as they say,
+very highly, that he had for a long time been abused in his Treasurer,
+and that he was now safe in their hands. I saw them walk up and down the
+Court together all this morning; the first time I ever saw Osborne, who
+is a comely gentleman. This day I was told that my Lord Anglesey did
+deliver a petition on Wednesday in Council to the King, laying open,
+that whereas he had heard that his Majesty had made such a disposal of
+his place, which he had formerly granted him for life upon a valuable
+consideration, and that, without any thing laid to his charge, and
+during a Parliament's sessions, he prayed that his Majesty would be
+pleased to let his case be heard before the Council and the judges of
+the land, who were his proper counsel in all matters of right: to which,
+I am told, the King, after my Lord's being withdrawn, concluded upon his
+giving him an answer some few days hence; and so he was called in, and
+told so, and so it ended. Having heard all this I took coach and to Mr.
+Povy's, where I hear he is gone to the Swedes Resident in Covent Garden,
+where he is to dine. I went thither, but he is not come yet, so I to
+White Hall to look for him, and up and down walking there I met with Sir
+Robert Holmes, who asking news I told him of Sir W. Pen's going from us,
+who ketched at it so as that my heart misgives me that he will have a
+mind to it, which made me heartily sorry for my words, but he invited
+me and would have me go to dine with him at the Treasurer's, Sir Thomas
+Clifford, where I did go and eat some oysters; which while we were at,
+in comes my Lord Keeper and much company; and so I thought it best to
+withdraw. And so away, and to the Swedes Agent's, and there met Mr.
+Povy; where the Agent would have me stay and dine, there being only
+them, and Joseph Williamson, and Sir Thomas Clayton; but what he is I
+know not. Here much extraordinary noble discourse of foreign princes,
+and particularly the greatness of the King of France, and of his being
+fallen into the right way of making the kingdom great, which [none] of
+his ancestors ever did before. I was mightily pleased with this company
+and their discourse, so as to have been seldom so much in all my life,
+and so after dinner up into his upper room, and there did see a piece of
+perspective, but much inferior to Mr. Povy's. Thence with Mr. Povy spent
+all the afternoon going up and down among the coachmakers in Cow Lane,
+and did see several, and at last did pitch upon a little chariott,
+whose body was framed, but not covered, at the widow's, that made Mr.
+Lowther's fine coach; and we are mightily pleased with it, it being
+light, and will be very genteel and sober: to be covered with leather,
+and yet will hold four. Being much satisfied with this, I carried him to
+White Hall; and so by coach home, where give my wife a good account of
+my day's work, and so to the office, and there late, and so to bed.
+
+6th. Up, and presently my wife up with me, which she professedly now do
+every day to dress me, that I may not see Willet, and do eye me, whether
+I cast my eye upon her, or no; and do keep me from going into the room
+where she is among the upholsters at work in our blue chamber. So abroad
+to White Hall by water, and so on for all this day as I have by mistake
+set down in the fifth day after this mark.
+
+     [In the margin here is the following: "Look back one leaf
+     for my mistake."]
+
+In the room of which I should have said that I was at the office all the
+morning, and so to dinner, my wife with me, but so as I durst not look
+upon the girle, though, God knows, notwithstanding all my protestations
+I could not keep my mind from desiring it. After dinner to the office
+again, and there did some business, and then by coach to see Roger Pepys
+at his lodgings, next door to Arundell House, a barber's; and there I
+did see a book, which my Lord Sandwich hath promised one to me of, "A
+Description of the Escuriall in Spain;" which I have a great desire to
+have, though I took it for a finer book when he promised it me. With him
+to see my cozen Turner and The., and there sat and talked, they being
+newly come out of the country; and here pretty merry, and with The. to
+shew her a coach at Mr. Povy's man's, she being in want of one, and so
+back again with her, and then home by coach, with my mind troubled and
+finding no content, my wife being still troubled, nor can be at peace
+while the girle is there, which I am troubled at on the other side.
+We past the evening together, and then to bed and slept ill, she being
+troubled and troubling me in the night with talk and complaints upon the
+old business. This is the day's work of the 5th, though it stands under
+the 6th, my mind being now so troubled that it is no wonder that I fall
+into this mistake more than ever I did in my life before.
+
+7th. Up, and at the office all the morning, and so to it again after
+dinner, and there busy late, choosing to employ myself rather than go
+home to trouble with my wife, whom, however, I am forced to comply with,
+and indeed I do pity her as having cause enough for her grief. So to
+bed, and there slept ill because of my wife. This afternoon I did go out
+towards Sir D. Gawden's, thinking to have bespoke a place for my coach
+and horses, when I have them, at the Victualling Office; but find the
+way so bad and long that I returned, and looked up and down for places
+elsewhere, in an inne, which I hope to get with more convenience than
+there.
+
+8th (Lord's day). Up, and at my chamber all the morning, setting papers
+to rights, with my boy; and so to dinner at noon. The girle with us, but
+my wife troubled thereat to see her, and do tell me so, which troubles
+me, for I love the girle. At my chamber again to work all the afternoon
+till night, when Pelling comes, who wonders to find my wife so dull and
+melancholy, but God knows she hath too much cause. However, as pleasant
+as we can, we supped together, and so made the boy read to me, the poor
+girle not appearing at supper, but hid herself in her chamber. So that I
+could wish in that respect that she was out of the house, for our peace
+is broke to all of us while she is here, and so to bed, where my wife
+mighty unquiet all night, so as my bed is become burdensome to me.
+
+9th. Up, and I did by a little note which I flung to Deb. advise her
+that I did continue to deny that ever I kissed her, and so she might
+govern herself. The truth is that I did adventure upon God's pardoning
+me this lie, knowing how heavy a thing it would be for me to the ruin of
+the poor girle, and next knowing that if my wife should know all it were
+impossible ever for her to be at peace with me again, and so our whole
+lives would be uncomfortable. The girl read, and as I bid her returned
+me the note, flinging it to me in passing by. And so I abroad by [coach]
+to White Hall, and there to the Duke of York to wait on him, who told me
+that Sir W. Pen had been with him this morning, to ask whether it would
+be fit for him to sit at the Office now, because of his resolution to
+be gone, and to become concerned in the Victualling. The Duke of
+York answered, "Yes, till his contract was signed:" Thence I to Lord
+Sandwich's, and there to see him; but was made to stay so long, as his
+best friends are, and when I come to him so little pleasure, his head
+being full of his own business, I think, that I have no pleasure [to]
+go to him. Thence to White Hall with him, to the Committee of Tangier;
+a day appointed for him to give an account of Tangier, and what he did,
+and found there, which, though he had admirable matter for it, and his
+doings there were good, and would have afforded a noble account, yet he
+did it with a mind so low and mean, and delivered in so poor a manner,
+that it appeared nothing at all, nor any body seemed to value it;
+whereas, he might have shewn himself to have merited extraordinary
+thanks, and been held to have done a very great service: whereas now,
+all that cost the King hath been at for his journey through Spain
+thither, seems to be almost lost. After we were up, Creed and I walked
+together, and did talk a good while of the weak report my Lord made, and
+were troubled for it; I fearing that either his mind and judgment are
+depressed, or that he do it out of his great neglect, and so my fear
+that he do all the rest of his affairs accordingly. So I staid about
+the Court a little while, and then to look for a dinner, and had it at
+Hercules-Pillars, very late, all alone, costing me 10d. And so to the
+Excise Office, thinking to meet Sir Stephen Fox and the Cofferer, but
+the former was gone, and the latter I met going out, but nothing done,
+and so I to my bookseller's, and also to Crow's, and there saw a piece
+of my bed, and I find it will please us mightily. So home, and there
+find my wife troubled, and I sat with her talking, and so to bed, and
+there very unquiet all night.
+
+10th. Up, and my wife still every day as ill as she is all night, will
+rise to see me out doors, telling me plainly that she dares not let me
+see the girle, and so I out to the office, where all the morning, and so
+home to dinner, where I found my wife mightily troubled again, more
+than ever, and she tells me that it is from her examining the girle and
+getting a confession now from her of all.... which do mightily trouble
+me, as not being able to foresee the consequences of it, as to our
+future peace together. So my wife would not go down to dinner, but I
+would dine in her chamber with her, and there after mollifying her as
+much as I could we were pretty quiet and eat, and by and by comes Mr.
+Hollier, and dines there by himself after we had dined, and he being
+gone, we to talk again, and she to be troubled, reproaching me with my
+unkindness and perjury, I having denied my ever kissing her. As also
+with all her old kindnesses to me, and my ill-using of her from the
+beginning, and the many temptations she hath refused out of faithfulness
+to me, whereof several she was particular in, and especially from
+my Lord Sandwich, by the sollicitation of Captain Ferrers, and then
+afterward the courtship of my Lord Hinchingbrooke, even to the trouble
+of his lady. All which I did acknowledge and was troubled for, and wept,
+and at last pretty good friends again, and so I to my office, and
+there late, and so home to supper with her, and so to bed, where after
+half-an-hour's slumber she wakes me and cries out that she should never
+sleep more, and so kept raving till past midnight, that made me cry
+and weep heartily all the while for her, and troubled for what
+she reproached me with as before, and at last with new vows, and
+particularly that I would myself bid the girle be gone, and shew
+my dislike to her, which I will endeavour to perform, but with much
+trouble, and so this appeasing her, we to sleep as well as we could till
+morning.
+
+11th. Up, and my wife with me as before, and so to the Office, where,
+by a speciall desire, the new Treasurers come, and there did shew their
+Patent, and the Great Seal for the suspension of my Lord Anglesey: and
+here did sit and discourse of the business of the Office: and brought
+Mr. Hutchinson with them, who, I hear, is to be their Paymaster, in
+the room of Mr. Waith. For it seems they do turn out every servant
+that belongs to the present Treasurer: and so for Fenn, do bring in
+Mr. Littleton, Sir Thomas's brother, and oust all the rest. But Mr.
+Hutchinson do already see that his work now will be another kind of
+thing than before, as to the trouble of it. They gone, and, indeed, they
+appear, both of them, very intelligent men, I home to dinner, and there
+with my people dined, and so to my wife, who would not dine with [me]
+that she might not have the girle come in sight, and there sat and
+talked a while with her and pretty quiet, I giving no occasion of
+offence, and so to the office [and then by coach to my cozen Roger
+Pepys, who did, at my last being with him this day se'nnight, move me
+as to the supplying him with L500 this term, and L500 the next, for two
+years, upon a mortgage, he having that sum to pay, a debt left him by
+his father, which I did agree to, trusting to his honesty and ability,
+and am resolved to do it for him, that I may not have all I have lie in
+the King's hands. Having promised him this I returned home again, where
+to the office], and there having done, I home and to supper and to
+bed, where, after lying a little while, my wife starts up, and with
+expressions of affright and madness, as one frantick, would rise, and
+I would not let her, but burst out in tears myself, and so continued
+almost half the night, the moon shining so that it was light, and after
+much sorrow and reproaches and little ravings (though I am apt to think
+they were counterfeit from her), and my promise again to discharge the
+girle myself, all was quiet again, and so to sleep.
+
+12th. Up, and she with me as heretofore, and so I to the Office, where
+all the morning, and at noon to dinner, and Mr. Wayth, who, being at
+my office about business, I took him with me to talk and understand his
+matters, who is in mighty trouble from the Committee of Accounts about
+his contracting with this Office for sayle-cloth, but no hurt can be
+laid at his door in it, but upon us for doing it, if any, though we did
+it by the Duke of York's approval, and by him I understand that the
+new Treasurers do intend to bring in all new Instruments, and so having
+dined we parted, and I to my wife and to sit with her a little, and then
+called her and Willet to my chamber, and there did, with tears in my
+eyes, which I could not help, discharge her and advise her to be gone as
+soon as she could, and never to see me, or let me see her more while
+she was in the house, which she took with tears too, but I believe
+understands me to be her friend, and I am apt to believe by what my wife
+hath of late told me is a cunning girle, if not a slut. Thence, parting
+kindly with my wife, I away by coach to my cozen Roger, according as by
+mistake (which the trouble of my mind for some days has occasioned, in
+this and another case a day or two before) is set down in yesterday's
+notes, and so back again, and with Mr. Gibson late at my chamber making
+an end of my draught of a letter for the Duke of York, in answer to the
+answers of this Office, which I have now done to my mind, so as, if the
+Duke likes it, will, I think, put an end to a great deal of the faults
+of this Office, as well as my trouble for them. So to bed, and did lie
+now a little better than formerly, but with little, and yet with some
+trouble.
+
+13th. Up, and with Sir W. Pen by coach to White Hall, where to the
+Duke of York, and there did our usual business; and thence I to the
+Commissioners of the Treasury, where I staid, and heard an excellent
+case argued between my Lord Gerard and the Town of Newcastle, about a
+piece of ground which that Lord hath got a grant of, under the Exchequer
+Seal, which they were endeavouring to get of the King under the
+Great Seal. I liked mightily the Counsel for the town, Shaftow, their
+Recorder, and Mr. Offly. But I was troubled, and so were the Lords,
+to hear my Lord fly out against their great pretence of merit from the
+King, for their sufferings and loyalty; telling them that they might
+thank him for that repute which they have for their loyalty, for that
+it was he that forced them to be so, against their wills, when he was
+there: and, moreover, did offer a paper to the Lords to read from the
+Town, sent in 1648; but the Lords would not read it; but I believe it
+was something about bringing the King to trial, or some such thing,
+in that year. Thence I to the Three Tuns Tavern, by Charing Cross, and
+there dined with W. Pen, Sir J. Minnes, and Commissioner Middleton; and
+as merry as my mind could be, that hath so much trouble upon it at home.
+And thence to White Hall, and there staid in Mr. Wren's chamber with
+him, reading over my draught of a letter, which Mr. Gibson then attended
+me with; and there he did like all, but doubted whether it would be
+necessary for the Duke to write in so sharp a style to the Office, as I
+had drawn it in; which I yield to him, to consider the present posture
+of the times and the Duke of York and whether it were not better to err
+on that hand than the other. He told me that he did not think it was
+necessary for the Duke of York to do so, and that it would not suit so
+well with his nature nor greatness; which last, perhaps, is true, but
+then do too truly shew the effects of having Princes in places, where
+order and discipline should be. I left it to him to do as the Duke of
+York pleases; and so fell to other talk, and with great freedom,
+of public things; and he told me, upon my several inquiries to that
+purpose, that he did believe it was not yet resolved whether the
+Parliament should ever meet more or no, the three great rulers of things
+now standing thus:--The Duke of Buckingham is absolutely against their
+meeting, as moved thereto by his people that he advises with, the people
+of the late times, who do never expect to have any thing done by this
+Parliament for their religion, and who do propose that, by the sale of
+the Church-lands, they shall be able to put the King out of debt: my
+Lord Keeper is utterly against putting away this and choosing another
+Parliament, lest they prove worse than this, and will make all the
+King's friends, and the King himself, in a desperate condition: my Lord
+Arlington know not which is best for him, being to seek whether this
+or the next will use him worst. He tells me that he believes that it is
+intended to call this Parliament, and try them with a sum of money; and,
+if they do not like it, then to send them going, and call another, who
+will, at the ruin of the Church perhaps, please the King with what he
+will for a time. And he tells me, therefore, that he do believe that
+this policy will be endeavoured by the Church and their friends--to seem
+to promise the King money, when it shall be propounded, but make the
+King and these great men buy it dear, before they have it. He tells me
+that he is really persuaded that the design of the Duke of Buckingham
+is, by bringing the state into such a condition as, if the King do die
+without issue, it shall, upon his death, break into pieces again; and
+so put by the Duke of York, who they have disobliged, they know, to that
+degree, as to despair of his pardon. He tells me that there is no way to
+rule the King but by brisknesse, which the Duke of Buckingham hath above
+all men; and that the Duke of York having it not, his best way is what
+he practices, that is to say, a good temper, which will support him till
+the Duke of Buckingham and Lord Arlington fall out, which cannot be
+long first, the former knowing that the latter did, in the time of the
+Chancellor, endeavour with the Chancellor to hang him at that time, when
+he was proclaimed against. And here, by the by, he told me that the Duke
+of Buckingham did, by his friends, treat with my Lord Chancellor, by
+the mediation of Matt. Wren and Matt. Clifford, to fall in with my Lord
+Chancellor; which, he tells me, he did advise my Lord Chancellor to
+accept of, as that, that with his own interest and the Duke of York's,
+would undoubtedly have assured all to him and his family; but that my
+Lord Chancellor was a man not to be advised, thinking himself too high
+to be counselled: and so all is come to nothing; for by that means the
+Duke of Buckingham became desperate, and was forced to fall in with
+Arlington, to his [the Chancellor's] ruin. Thence I home, and there to
+talk, with great pleasure all the evening, with my wife, who tells me
+that Deb, has been abroad to-day, and is come home and says she has got
+a place to go to, so as she will be gone tomorrow morning. This troubled
+me, and the truth is, I have a good mind to have the maidenhead of this
+girl, which I should not doubt to have if je could get time para be con
+her. But she will be gone and I not know whither. Before we went to bed
+my wife told me she would not have me to see her or give her her wages,
+and so I did give my wife L10 for her year and half a quarter's wages,
+which she went into her chamber and paid her, and so to bed, and there,
+blessed be God! we did sleep well and with peace, which I had not
+done in now almost twenty nights together. This afternoon I went to my
+coachmaker and Crow's, and there saw things go on to my great content.
+This morning, at the Treasury-chamber, I did meet Jack Fenn, and there
+he did shew me my Lord Anglesey's petition and the King's answer: the
+former good and stout, as I before did hear it: but the latter short and
+weak, saying that he was not, by what the King had done, hindered from
+taking the benefit of his laws, and that the reason he had to suspect
+his mismanagement of his money in Ireland, did make him think it unfit
+to trust him with his Treasury in England, till he was satisfied in the
+former.
+
+14th. Up, and had a mighty mind to have seen or given her a little
+money, to which purpose I wrapt up 40s. in paper, thinking to have given
+her a little money, but my wife rose presently, and would not let me be
+out of her sight, and went down before me into the kitchen, and come up
+and told me that she was in the kitchen, and therefore would have me go
+round the other way; which she repeating and I vexed at it, answered her
+a little angrily, upon which she instantly flew out into a rage, calling
+me dog and rogue, and that I had a rotten heart; all which, knowing that
+I deserved it, I bore with, and word being brought presently up that she
+was gone away by coach with her things, my wife was friends, and so all
+quiet, and I to the Office, with my heart sad, and find that I cannot
+forget the girl, and vexed I know not where to look for her. And more
+troubled to see how my wife is by this means likely for ever to have her
+hand over me, that I shall for ever be a slave to her--that is to say,
+only in matters of pleasure, but in other things she will make [it] her
+business, I know, to please me and to keep me right to her, which I will
+labour to be indeed, for she deserves it of me, though it will be I fear
+a little time before I shall be able to wear Deb, out of my mind. At the
+Office all the morning, and merry at noon, at dinner; and after dinner
+to the Office, where all the afternoon, doing much business, late. My
+mind being free of all troubles, I thank God, but only for my thoughts
+of this girl, which hang after her. And so at night home to supper, and
+then did sleep with great content with my wife. I must here remember
+that I have lain with my moher as a husband more times since this
+falling out than in I believe twelve months before. And with more
+pleasure to her than I think in all the time of our marriage before.
+
+15th (Lord's day). Up, and after long lying with pleasure talking with
+my wife, and then up to look up and down our house, which will when our
+upholster hath done be mighty fine, and so to my chamber, and there did
+do several things among my papers, and so to the office to write down my
+journal for 6 or 7 days, my mind having been so troubled as never to get
+the time to do it before, as may appear a little by the mistakes I have
+made in this book within these few days. At noon comes Mr. Shepley to
+dine with me and W. Howe, and there dined and pretty merry, and so
+after dinner W. Howe to tell me what hath happened between him and the
+Commissioners of late, who are hot again, more than ever, about my Lord
+Sandwich's business of prizes, which I am troubled for, and the more
+because of the great security and neglect with which, I think, my Lord
+do look upon this matter, that may yet, for aught I know, undo him. They
+gone, and Balty being come from the Downs, not very well, is come this
+day to see us, I to talk with him, and with some pleasure, hoping that
+he will make a good man. I in the evening to my Office again, to make
+an end of my journall, and so home to my chamber with W. Hewer to settle
+some papers, and so to supper and to bed, with my mind pretty quiet, and
+less troubled about Deb. than I was, though yet I am troubled, I must
+confess, and would be glad to find her out, though I fear it would be my
+ruin. This evening there come to sit with us Mr. Pelling, who wondered
+to see my wife and I so dumpish, but yet it went off only as my wife's
+not being well, and, poor wretch, she hath no cause to be well, God
+knows.
+
+16th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and there at the robe chamber at
+a Committee for Tangier, where some of us--my Lord Sandwich, Sir W.
+Coventry, and myself, with another or two--met to debate the business of
+the Mole, and there drew up reasons for the King's taking of it into his
+own hands, and managing of it upon accounts with Sir H. Cholmley. This
+being done I away to Holborne, about Whetstone's Park, where I never was
+in my life before, where I understand by my wife's discourse that Deb.
+is gone, which do trouble me mightily that the poor girle should be in
+a desperate condition forced to go thereabouts, and there not hearing
+of any such man as Allbon, with whom my wife said she now was, I to the
+Strand, and there by sending Drumbleby's boy, my flageolet maker, to
+Eagle Court, where my wife also by discourse lately let fall that he did
+lately live, I find that this Dr. Allbon is a kind of poor broken
+fellow that dare not shew his head nor be known where he is gone, but
+to Lincoln's Inn Fields I went to Mr. Povy's, but missed him, and so
+hearing only that this Allbon is gone to Fleet Street, I did only call
+at Martin's, my bookseller's, and there bought "Cassandra," and some
+other French books for my wife's closet, and so home, having eat nothing
+but two pennyworths of oysters, opened for me by a woman in the Strand,
+while the boy went to and again to inform me about this man, and
+therefore home and to dinner, and so all the afternoon at the office,
+and there late busy, and so home to supper, and pretty pleasant with my
+wife to bed, rested pretty well.
+
+17th. Up, and to the Office all the morning, where the new Treasurers
+come, their second time, and before they sat down, did discourse with
+the Board, and particularly my Lord Brouncker, about their place,
+which they challenge, as having been heretofore due, and given to their
+predecessor; which, at last, my Lord did own hath been given him only
+out of courtesy to his quality, and that he did not take it as a right
+at the Board: so they, for the present, sat down, and did give him
+the place, but, I think, with an intent to have the Duke of York's
+directions about it. My wife and maids busy now, to make clean the house
+above stairs, the upholsters having done there, in her closet and the
+blue room, and they are mighty pretty. At my office all the afternoon
+and at night busy, and so home to my wife, and pretty pleasant, and at
+mighty ease in my mind, being in hopes to find Deb., and without trouble
+or the knowledge of my wife. So to supper at night and to bed.
+
+18th. Lay long in bed talking with my wife, she being unwilling to have
+me go abroad, saying and declaring herself jealous of my going out for
+fear of my going to Deb., which I do deny, for which God forgive me,
+for I was no sooner out about noon but I did go by coach directly to
+Somerset House, and there enquired among the porters there for Dr.
+Allbun, and the first I spoke with told me he knew him, and that he was
+newly gone into Lincoln's Inn Fields, but whither he could not tell me,
+but that one of his fellows not then in the way did carry a chest of
+drawers thither with him, and that when he comes he would ask him. This
+put me into some hopes, and I to White Hall, and thence to Mr. Povy's,
+but he at dinner, and therefore I away and walked up and down the Strand
+between the two turnstiles, hoping to see her out of a window, and then
+employed a porter, one Osberton, to find out this Doctor's lodgings
+thereabouts, who by appointment comes to me to Hercules pillars, where
+I dined alone, but tells me that he cannot find out any such, but will
+enquire further. Thence back to White Hall to the Treasury a while, and
+thence to the Strand, and towards night did meet with the porter that
+carried the chest of drawers with this Doctor, but he would not tell me
+where he lived, being his good master, he told me, but if I would have
+a message to him he would deliver it. At last I told him my business was
+not with him, but a little gentlewoman, one Mrs. Willet, that is with
+him, and sent him to see how she did from her friend in London, and no
+other token. He goes while I walk in Somerset House, walk there in the
+Court; at last he comes back and tells me she is well, and that I
+may see her if I will, but no more. So I could not be commanded by my
+reason, but I must go this very night, and so by coach, it being now
+dark, I to her, close by my tailor's, and she come into the coach to me,
+and je did baiser her.... I did nevertheless give her the best council I
+could, to have a care of her honour, and to fear God, and suffer no man
+para avoir to do con her as je have done, which she promised. Je did
+give her 20s. and directions para laisser sealed in paper at any time
+the name of the place of her being at Herringman's, my bookseller in the
+'Change, by which I might go para her, and so bid her good night with
+much content to my mind, and resolution to look after her no more till
+I heard from her. And so home, and there told my wife a fair tale,
+God knows, how I spent the whole day, with which the poor wretch was
+satisfied, or at least seemed so, and so to supper and to bed, she
+having been mighty busy all day in getting of her house in order against
+to-morrow to hang up our new hangings and furnishing our best chamber.
+
+19th. Up, and at the Office all the morning, with my heart full of joy
+to think in what a safe condition all my matters now stand between
+my wife and Deb, and me, and at noon running up stairs to see the
+upholsters, who are at work upon hanging my best room, and setting up my
+new bed, I find my wife sitting sad in the dining room; which enquiring
+into the reason of, she begun to call me all the false, rotten-hearted
+rogues in the world, letting me understand that I was with Deb.
+yesterday, which, thinking it impossible for her ever to understand, I
+did a while deny, but at last did, for the ease of my mind and hers, and
+for ever to discharge my heart of this wicked business, I did confess
+all, and above stairs in our bed chamber there I did endure the sorrow
+of her threats and vows and curses all the afternoon, and, what was
+worse, she swore by all that was good that she would slit the nose of
+this girle, and be gone herself this very night from me, and did there
+demand 3 or L400 of me to buy my peace, that she might be gone without
+making any noise, or else protested that she would make all the world
+know of it. So with most perfect confusion of face and heart, and sorrow
+and shame, in the greatest agony in the world I did pass this afternoon,
+fearing that it will never have an end; but at last I did call for W.
+Hewer, who I was forced to make privy now to all, and the poor fellow
+did cry like a child, [and] obtained what I could not, that she would be
+pacified upon condition that I would give it under my hand never to see
+or speak with Deb, while I live, as I did before with Pierce and Knepp,
+and which I did also, God knows, promise for Deb. too, but I have the
+confidence to deny it to the perjury of myself. So, before it was late,
+there was, beyond my hopes as well as desert, a durable peace; and so
+to supper, and pretty kind words, and to bed, and there je did hazer con
+eile to her content, and so with some rest spent the night in bed, being
+most absolutely resolved, if ever I can master this bout, never to give
+her occasion while I live of more trouble of this or any other kind,
+there being no curse in the world so great as this of the differences
+between myself and her, and therefore I do, by the grace of God, promise
+never to offend her more, and did this night begin to pray to God upon
+my knees alone in my chamber, which God knows I cannot yet do heartily;
+but I hope God will give me the grace more and more every day to fear
+Him, and to be true to my poor wife. This night the upholsters did
+finish the hanging of my best chamber, but my sorrow and trouble is so
+great about this business, that it puts me out of all joy in looking
+upon it or minding how it was.
+
+20th. This morning up, with mighty kind words between my poor wife and
+I; and so to White Hall by water, W. Hewer with me, who is to go with
+me every where, until my wife be in condition to go out along with me
+herself; for she do plainly declare that she dares not trust me out
+alone, and therefore made it a piece of our league that I should alway
+take somebody with me, or her herself, which I am mighty willing to,
+being, by the grace of God, resolved never to do her wrong more. We
+landed at the Temple, and there I bid him call at my cozen Roger Pepys's
+lodgings, and I staid in the street for him, and so took water again at
+the Strand stairs; and so to White Hall, in my way I telling him plainly
+and truly my resolutions, if I can get over this evil, never to give
+new occasion for it. He is, I think, so honest and true a servant to us
+both, and one that loves us, that I was not much troubled at his being
+privy to all this, but rejoiced in my heart that I had him to assist in
+the making us friends, which he did truly and heartily, and with good
+success, for I did get him to go to Deb. to tell her that I had told my
+wife all of my being with her the other night, that so if my wife should
+send she might not make the business worse by denying it. While I was at
+White Hall with the Duke of York, doing our ordinary business with him,
+here being also the first time the new Treasurers. W. Hewer did go to
+her and come back again, and so I took him into St. James's Park, and
+there he did tell me he had been with her, and found what I said about
+my manner of being with her true, and had given her advice as I desired.
+I did there enter into more talk about my wife and myself, and he did
+give me great assurance of several particular cases to which my wife had
+from time to time made him privy of her loyalty and truth to me after
+many and great temptations, and I believe them truly. I did also
+discourse the unfitness of my leaving of my employment now in many
+respects to go into the country, as my wife desires, but that I would
+labour to fit myself for it, which he thoroughly understands, and do
+agree with me in it; and so, hoping to get over this trouble, we about
+our business to Westminster Hall to meet Roger Pepys, which I did, and
+did there discourse of the business of lending him L500 to answer some
+occasions of his, which I believe to be safe enough, and so took leave
+of him and away by coach home, calling on my coachmaker by the way,
+where I like my little coach mightily. But when I come home, hoping for
+a further degree of peace and quiet, I find my wife upon her bed in a
+horrible rage afresh, calling me all the bitter names, and, rising, did
+fall to revile me in the bitterest manner in the world, and could not
+refrain to strike me and pull my hair, which I resolved to bear with,
+and had good reason to bear it. So I by silence and weeping did prevail
+with her a little to be quiet, and she would not eat her dinner without
+me; but yet by and by into a raging fit she fell again, worse than
+before, that she would slit the girl's nose, and at last W. Hewer come
+in and come up, who did allay her fury, I flinging myself, in a sad
+desperate condition, upon the bed in the blue room, and there lay while
+they spoke together; and at last it come to this, that if I would call
+Deb. whore under my hand and write to her that I hated her, and would
+never see her more, she would believe me and trust in me, which I
+did agree to, only as to the name of whore I would have excused, and
+therefore wrote to her sparing that word, which my wife thereupon tore
+it, and would not be satisfied till, W. Hewer winking upon me, I did
+write so with the name of a whore as that I did fear she might too
+probably have been prevailed upon to have been a whore by her carriage
+to me, and therefore as such I did resolve never to see her more. This
+pleased my wife, and she gives it W. Hewer to carry to her with a sharp
+message from her. So from that minute my wife begun to be kind to me,
+and we to kiss and be friends, and so continued all the evening, and
+fell to talk of other matters, with great comfort, and after supper
+to bed. This evening comes Mr. Billup to me, to read over Mr. Wren's
+alterations of my draught of a letter for the Duke of York to sign, to
+the Board; which I like mighty well, they being not considerable, only
+in mollifying some hard terms, which I had thought fit to put in. From
+this to other discourse; and do find that the Duke of York and his
+master, Mr. Wren, do look upon this service of mine as a very seasonable
+service to the Duke of York, as that which he will have to shew to his
+enemies in his own justification, of his care of the King's business;
+and I am sure I am heartily glad of it, both for the King's sake and the
+Duke of York's, and my own also; for, if I continue, my work, by this
+means, will be the less, and my share in the blame also. He being gone,
+I to my wife again, and so spent the evening with very great joy, and
+the night also with good sleep and rest, my wife only troubled in her
+rest, but less than usual, for which the God of Heaven be praised. I did
+this night promise to my wife never to go to bed without calling upon
+God upon my knees by prayer, and I begun this night, and hope I shall
+never forget to do the like all my life; for I do find that it is much
+the best for my soul and body to live pleasing to God and my poor wife,
+and will ease me of much care as well as much expense.
+
+21st. Up, with great joy to my wife and me, and to the office, where
+W. Hewer did most honestly bring me back the part of my letter to Deb.
+wherein I called her whore, assuring me that he did not shew it her, and
+that he did only give her to understand that wherein I did declare my
+desire never to see her, and did give her the best Christian counsel
+he could, which was mighty well done of him. But by the grace of God,
+though I love the poor girl and wish her well, as having gone too far
+toward the undoing her, yet I will never enquire after or think of her
+more, my peace being certainly to do right to my wife. At the Office all
+the morning; and after dinner abroad with W. Hewer to my Lord Ashly's,
+where my Lord Barkeley and Sir Thomas Ingram met upon Mr. Povy's
+account, where I was in great pain about that part of his account
+wherein I am concerned, above L150, I think; and Creed hath declared
+himself dissatisfied with it, so far as to desire to cut his
+"Examinatur" out of the paper, as the only condition in which he would
+be silent in it. This Povy had the wit to yield to; and so when it come
+to be inquired into, I did avouch the truth of the account as to that
+particular, of my own knowledge, and so it went over as a thing good
+and just--as, indeed, in the bottom of it, it is; though in strictness,
+perhaps, it would not so well be understood. This Committee rising, I,
+with my mind much satisfied herein, away by coach home, setting Creed
+into Southampton Buildings, and so home; and there ended my letters,
+and then home to my wife, where I find my house clean now, from top
+to bottom, so as I have not seen it many a day, and to the full
+satisfaction of my mind, that I am now at peace, as to my poor wife,
+as to the dirtiness of my house, and as to seeing an end, in a great
+measure, to my present great disbursements upon my house, and coach and
+horses.
+
+22nd (Lord's day). My wife and I lay long, with mighty content; and so
+rose, and she spent the whole day making herself clean, after four or
+five weeks being in continued dirt; and I knocking up nails, and making
+little settlements in my house, till noon, and then eat a bit of meat in
+the kitchen, I all alone. And so to the Office, to set down my journall,
+for some days leaving it imperfect, the matter being mighty grievous to
+me, and my mind, from the nature of it; and so in, to solace myself with
+my wife, whom I got to read to me, and so W. Hewer and the boy; and so,
+after supper, to bed. This day my boy's livery is come home, the first I
+ever had, of greene, lined with red; and it likes me well enough.
+
+23rd. Up, and called upon by W. Howe, who went, with W. Hewer with me,
+by water, to the Temple; his business was to have my advice about a
+place he is going to buy--the Clerk of the Patent's place, which I
+understand not, and so could say little to him, but fell to other talk,
+and setting him in at the Temple, we to White Hall, and there I to visit
+Lord Sandwich, who is now so reserved, or moped rather, I think, with
+his own business, that he bids welcome to no man, I think, to his
+satisfaction. However, I bear with it, being willing to give him as
+little trouble as I can, and to receive as little from him, wishing only
+that I had my money in my purse, that I have lent him; but, however,
+I shew no discontent at all. So to White Hall, where a Committee of
+Tangier expected, but none met. I met with Mr. Povy, who I discoursed
+with about publick business, who tells me that this discourse which I
+told him of, of the Duke of Monmouth being made Prince of Wales, hath
+nothing in it; though he thinks there are all the endeavours used in the
+world to overthrow the Duke of York. He would not have me doubt of my
+safety in the Navy, which I am doubtful of from the reports of a general
+removal; but he will endeavour to inform me, what he can gather from my
+Lord Arlington. That he do think that the Duke of Buckingham hath a
+mind rather to overthrow all the kingdom, and bring in a Commonwealth,
+wherein he may think to be General of their Army, or to make himself
+King, which, he believes, he may be led to, by some advice he hath had
+with conjurors, which he do affect. Thence with W. Hewer, who goes up
+and down with me like a jaylour, but yet with great love and to my
+great good liking, it being my desire above all things to please my
+wife therein. I took up my wife and boy at Unthank's, and from there to
+Hercules Pillars, and there dined, and thence to our upholster's,
+about some things more to buy, and so to see our coach, and so to the
+looking-glass man's, by the New Exchange, and so to buy a picture for
+our blue chamber chimney, and so home; and there I made my boy to read
+to me most of the night, to get through the Life of the Archbishop of
+Canterbury. At supper comes Mary Batelier, and with us all the evening,
+prettily talking, and very innocent company she is; and she gone, we
+with much content to bed, and to sleep, with mighty rest all night.
+
+24th. Up, and at the Office all the morning, and at noon home to dinner,
+where Mr. Gentleman, the cook, and an old woman, his third or fourth
+wife, come and dined with us, to enquire about a ticket of his son's,
+that is dead; and after dinner, I with Mr. Hosier to my closet, to
+discourse of the business of balancing Storekeeper's accounts, which
+he hath taken great pains in reducing to a method, to my great
+satisfaction; and I shall be glad both for the King's sake and his, that
+the thing may be put in practice, and will do my part to promote it.
+That done, he gone, I to the Office, where busy till night; and then
+with comfort to sit with my wife, and get her to read to me, and so to
+supper, and to bed, with my mind at mighty ease.
+
+25th. Up, and by coach with W. Hewer to see W. Coventry; but he gone
+out, I to White Hall, and there waited on Lord Sandwich, which I have
+little encouragement to do, because of the difficulty of seeing him, and
+the little he hath to say to me when I do see him, or to any body else,
+but his own idle people about him, Sir Charles Harbord, &c. Thence
+walked with him to White Hall, where to the Duke of York; and there the
+Duke, and Wren, and I, by appointment in his closet, to read over our
+letter to the Office, which he heard, and signed it, and it is to my
+mind, Mr. Wren having made it somewhat sweeter to the Board, and yet
+with all the advice fully, that I did draw it up with. He [the Duke]
+said little more to us now, his head being full of other business; but
+I do see that he do continue to put a value upon my advice; and so Mr.
+Wren and I to his chamber, and there talked: and he seems to hope that
+these people, the Duke of Buckingham and Arlington, will run themselves
+off of their legs; they being forced to be always putting the King upon
+one idle thing or other, against the easiness of his nature, which he
+will never be able to bear, nor they to keep him to, and so will lose
+themselves. And, for instance of their little progress, he tells me
+that my Lord of Ormond is like yet to carry it, and to continue in his
+command in Ireland; at least, they cannot get the better of him yet. But
+he tells me that the Keeper is wrought upon, as they say, to give his
+opinion for the dissolving of the Parliament, which, he thinks, will
+undo him in the eyes of the people. He do not seem to own the hearing
+or fearing of any thing to be done in the Admiralty, to the lessening of
+the Duke of York, though he hears how the town talk's full of it. Thence
+I by coach home, and there find my cozen Roger come to dine with me, and
+to seal his mortgage for the L500 I lend him; but he and I first walked
+to the 'Change, there to look for my uncle Wight, and get him to dinner
+with us. So home, buying a barrel of oysters at my old oyster-woman's,
+in Gracious Street, but over the way to where she kept her shop before.
+So home, and there merry at dinner; and the money not being ready, I
+carried Roger Pepys to Holborn Conduit, and there left him going to
+Stradwick's, whom we avoided to see, because of our long absence, and my
+wife and I to the Duke of York's house, to see "The Duchesse of Malfy,"
+a sorry play, and sat with little pleasure, for fear of my wife's seeing
+me look about, and so I was uneasy all the while, though I desire and
+resolve never to give her trouble of that kind more. So home, and there
+busy at the Office a while, and then home, where my wife to read to me,
+and so to supper, and to bed. This evening, to my great content, I got
+Sir Richard Ford to give me leave to set my coach in his yard.
+
+26th. Up, and at the Office all the morning, where I was to have
+delivered the Duke of York's letter of advice to the Board, in answer
+to our several answers to his great letter; but Lord Brouncker not being
+there, and doubtful to deliver it before the new Treasurers, I forbore
+it to next sitting. So home at noon to dinner, where I find Mr. Pierce
+and his wife but I was forced to shew very little pleasure in her being
+there because of my vow to my wife; and therefore was glad of a very bad
+occasion for my being really troubled, which is, at W. Hewer's losing
+of a tally of L1000, which I sent him this day to receive of the
+Commissioners of Excise. So that though I hope at the worst I shall be
+able to get another, yet I made use of this to get away as soon as I had
+dined, and therefore out with him to the Excise Office to make a stop of
+its payment, and so away to the coachmaker's and several other places,
+and so away home, and there to my business at the office, and thence
+home, and there my wife to read to me, and W. Hewer to set some matters
+of accounts right at my chamber, to bed.
+
+27th. Up, and with W. Hewer to see W. Coventry again, but missed him
+again, by coming too late, the man of [all] the world that I am resolved
+to preserve an interest in. Thence to White Hall, and there at our
+usual waiting on the Duke of York; and that being done, I away to the
+Exchequer, to give a stop, and take some advice about my lost tally,
+wherein I shall have some remedy, with trouble, and so home, and there
+find Mr. Povy, by appointment, to dine with me; where a pretty good
+dinner, but for want of thought in my wife it was but slovenly dressed
+up; however, much pleasant discourse with him, and some serious; and he
+tells me that he would, by all means, have me get to be a Parliament-man
+the next Parliament, which he believes there will be one, which I do
+resolve of. By and by comes my cozen Roger, and dines with us; and,
+after dinner, did seal his mortgage, wherein I do wholly rely on his
+honesty, not having so much as read over what he hath given me for it,
+nor minded it, but do trust to his integrity therein. They all gone, I
+to the office and there a while, and then home to ease my eyes and make
+my wife read to me.
+
+28th. Up, and all the morning at the Office, where, while I was sitting,
+one comes and tells me that my coach is come. So I was forced to go out,
+and to Sir Richard Ford's, where I spoke to him, and he is very willing
+to have it brought in, and stand there; and so I ordered it, to my great
+content, it being mighty pretty, only the horses do not please me, and,
+therefore, resolve to have better. At noon home to dinner, and so to the
+office again all the afternoon, and did a great deal of business, and so
+home to supper and to bed, with my mind at pretty good ease, having this
+day presented to the Board the Duke of York's letter, which, I perceive,
+troubled Sir W. Pen, he declaring himself meant in that part, that
+concerned excuse by sickness; but I do not care, but am mightily glad
+that it is done, and now I shall begin to be at pretty good ease in
+the Office. This morning, to my great content, W. Hewer tells me that a
+porter is come, who found my tally in Holborne, and brings it him, for
+which he gives him 20s.
+
+29th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed with pleasure with my wife, with whom
+I have now a great deal of content, and my mind is in other things also
+mightily more at ease, and I do mind my business better than ever and am
+more at peace, and trust in God I shall ever be so, though I cannot yet
+get my mind off from thinking now and then of Deb., but I do ever since
+my promise a while since to my wife pray to God by myself in my chamber
+every night, and will endeavour to get my wife to do the like with me
+ere long, but am in much fear of what she lately frighted me with about
+her being a Catholique; and I dare not, therefore, move her to go
+to church, for fear she should deny me; but this morning, of her own
+accord, she spoke of going to church the next Sunday, which pleases me
+mightily. This morning my coachman's clothes come home; and I like the
+livery mightily, and so I all the morning at my chamber, and dined with
+my wife, and got her to read to me in the afternoon, till Sir W. Warren,
+by appointment, comes to me, who spent two hours, or three, with me,
+about his accounts of Gottenburgh, which are so confounded, that I doubt
+they will hardly ever pass without my doing something, which he desires
+of me, and which, partly from fear, and partly from unwillingness to
+wrong the King, and partly from its being of no profit to me, I am
+backward to give way to, though the poor man do indeed deserve to be rid
+of this trouble, that he hath lain so long under, from the negligence of
+this Board. We afterwards fell to other talk, and he tells me, as
+soon as he saw my coach yesterday, he wished that the owner might not
+contract envy by it; but I told him it was now manifestly for my profit
+to keep a coach, and that, after employments like mine for eight years,
+it were hard if I could not be justly thought to be able to do that.
+
+     [Though our journalist prided himself not a little upon becoming
+     possessed of a carriage, the acquisition was regarded with envy and
+     jealousy by his enemies, as will appear by the following extract
+     from the scurrilous pamphlet, "A Hue and Cry after P. and H. and
+     Plain Truth (or a Private Discourse between P. and H.)," in which
+     Pepys and Hewer are severely handled: "There is one thing more you
+     must be mightily sorry for with all speed.  Your presumption in your
+     coach, in which you daily ride, as if you had been son and heir to
+     the great Emperor Neptune, or as if you had been infallibly to have
+     succeeded him in his government of the Ocean, all which was
+     presumption in the highest degree.  First, you had upon the fore
+     part of your chariot, tempestuous waves and wrecks of ships; on your
+     left hand, forts and great guns, and ships a-fighting; on your right
+     hand was a fair harbour and galleys riding, with their flags and
+     pennants spread, kindly saluting each other, just like P[epys] and
+     H[ewer]. Behind it were high curled waves and ships a-sinking, and
+     here and there an appearance of some bits of land."]
+
+He gone, my wife and I to supper; and so she to read, and made an end of
+the Life of Archbishop Laud, which is worth reading, as informing a
+man plainly in the posture of the Church, and how the things of it were
+managed with the same self-interest and design that every other thing
+is, and have succeeded accordingly. So to bed.
+
+30th. Up betimes, and with W. Hewer, who is my guard, to White Hall, to
+a Committee of Tangier, where the business of Mr. Lanyon
+
+     [John Lanyon, agent of the Navy Commissioners at Plymouth.  The
+     cause of complaint appears to have been connected with his contract
+     for Tangier.  In 1668 a charge was made against Lanyon and Thomas
+     Yeabsley that they had defrauded the king in the freighting of the
+     ship "Tiger" ("Calendar of State Papers," 1668-69, p. 138).]
+
+took up all the morning; and where, poor man! he did manage his business
+with so much folly, and ill fortune to boot, that the Board, before his
+coming in, inclining, of their own accord, to lay his cause aside, and
+leave it to the law, but he pressed that we would hear it, and it ended
+to the making him appear a very knave, as well as it did to me a fool
+also, which I was sorry for. Thence by water, Mr. Povy, Creed, and I,
+to Arundell House, and there I did see them choosing their Council, it
+being St. Andrew's-day; and I had his Cross
+
+     [The cross of St. Andrew, like that of St. Patrick, is a saltire.
+     The two, combined with the red cross of St. George, form the Union
+     flag.]
+
+set on my hat, as the rest had, and cost me 2s., and so leaving them I
+away by coach home to dinner, and my wife, after dinner, went the first
+time abroad to take the maidenhead of her coach, calling on Roger Pepys,
+and visiting Mrs. Creed, and my cozen Turner, while I at home all
+the afternoon and evening, very busy and doing much work, to my great
+content. Home at night, and there comes Mrs. Turner and Betty to see
+us, and supped with us, and I shewed them a cold civility for fear of
+troubling my wife, and after supper, they being gone, we to bed. Thus
+ended this month, with very good content, that hath been the most sad
+to my heart and the most expenseful to my purse on things of pleasure,
+having furnished my wife's closet and the best chamber, and a coach
+and horses, that ever I yet knew in the world: and do put me into the
+greatest condition of outward state that ever I was in, or hoped ever to
+be, or desired: and this at a time when we do daily expect great changes
+in this Office: and by all reports we must, all of us, turn out. But
+my eyes are come to that condition that I am not able to work: and
+therefore that, and my wife's desire, make me have no manner of trouble
+in my thoughts about it. So God do his will in it!
+
+
+
+
+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, DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, 1668 N.S., COMPLETE:
+
+     A book the Bishops will not let be printed again
+     Act against Nonconformists and Papists
+     All things to be managed with faction
+     And will not kiss a woman since his wife's death
+     And the woman so silly, as to let her go that took it
+     And they did lay pigeons to his feet
+     As all other women, cry, and yet talk of other things
+     At work, till I was almost blind, which makes my heart sad
+     Beating of a poor little dog to death, letting it lie
+     Being very poor and mean as to the bearing with trouble
+     Being the people that, at last, will be found the wisest
+     Best fence against the Parliament's present fury is delay
+     Bite at the stone, and not at the hand that flings it
+     Bookseller's, and there looked for Montaigne's Essays
+     Bought Montaigne's Essays, in English
+     Bristol milk (the sherry) in the vaults
+     Burned it, that it might not be among my books to my shame
+     Business of abusing the Puritans begins to grow stale
+     But get no ground there yet
+     But this the world believes, and so let them
+     But what they did, I did not enquire
+     But if she will ruin herself, I cannot help it
+     Calling me dog and rogue, and that I had a rotten heart
+     Cannot get suitably, without breach of his honour
+     Cannot be clean to go so many bodies together in the same water
+     Carry them to a box, which did cost me 20s., besides oranges
+     Caustic attack on Sir Robert Howard
+     City to be burned, and the Papists to cut our throats
+     City pay him great respect, and he the like to the meanest
+     Coach to W. Coventry about Mrs. Pett, 1s.
+     Come to see them in bed together, on their wedding-night
+     Cost me L5, which troubles me, but yet do please me also
+     Craft and cunning concerning the buying and choosing of horses
+     Declared, if he come, she would not live with me
+     Did see the knaveries and tricks of jockeys
+     Disorder in the pit by its raining in, from the cupola
+     Doe from Cobham, when the season comes, bucks season being past
+     Down to the Whey house and drank some and eat some curds
+     Eat some butter and radishes
+     Endangering the nation, when he knew himself such a coward
+     Espinette is the French term for a small harpsichord
+     Ever have done his maister better service than to hang for him?
+     Family governed so nobly and neatly as do me good to see it
+     Fear what would become of me if any real affliction should come
+     Fear that the goods and estate would be seized (after suicide)
+     Fears some will stand for the tolerating of Papists
+     Force a man to swear against himself
+     Forced to change gold, 8s. 7d.; servants and poor, 1s. 6d.
+     Forgetting many things, which her master beat her for
+     Frequent trouble in things we deserve best in
+     Glad to be at friendship with me, though we hate one another
+     Greater number of Counsellors is, the more confused the issue
+     Hath not a liberty of begging till he hath served three years
+     Have me get to be a Parliament-man the next Parliament
+     He that will not stoop for a pin, will never be worth a pound
+     He told me that he had so good spies
+     How natural it is for us to slight people out of power
+     I know not how in the world to abstain from reading
+     I have a good mind to have the maidenhead of this girl
+     I could have answered, but forbore
+     I away with great content, my mind being troubled before
+     I know not whether to be glad or sorry
+     In my nature am mighty unready to answer no to anything
+     Inventing a better theory of musique
+     It may be, be able to pay for it, or have health
+     King, "it is then but Mr. Pepys making of another speech to them"
+     L'escholle des filles, a lewd book
+     Lady Castlemayne do rule all at this time as much as ever
+     Laissez nous affaire--Colbert
+     Little company there, which made it very unpleasing
+     Little pleasure now in a play, the company being but little
+     Live of L100 a year with more plenty, and wine and wenches
+     Made him admire my drawing a thing presently in shorthand
+     Making their own advantages to the disturbance of the peace
+     My wife having a mind to see the play "Bartholomew-Fayre"
+     My wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits
+     My wife, coming up suddenly, did find me embracing the girl
+     My wife's neglect of things, and impertinent humour
+     My heart beginning to falsify in this business
+     Never saw so many sit four hours together to hear any man
+     No pleasure--only the variety of it
+     No man was ever known to lose the first time
+     Nonconformists do now preach openly in houses
+     Not eat a bit of good meat till he has got money to pay the men
+     Offered to shew my wife further satisfaction if she desired
+     Parliament being vehement against the Nonconformists
+     Pictures of some Maids of Honor: good, but not like
+     Presbyterian style and the Independent are the best
+     Resolve never to give her trouble of that kind more
+     Resolved to go through it, and it is too late to help it now
+     Ridiculous nonsensical book set out by Will. Pen, for the Quaker
+     Rough notes were made to serve for a sort of account book
+     Saw two battles of cocks, wherein is no great sport
+     Saw "Mackbeth," to our great content
+     Seeing that he cared so little if he was out
+     She loves to be taken dressing herself, as I always find her
+     Should alway take somebody with me, or her herself
+     Shows how unfit I am for trouble
+     Sir, your faithful and humble servant
+     Slabbering themselves, and mirth fit for clownes
+     So out, and lost our way, which made me vexed
+     So time do alter, and do doubtless the like in myself
+     Suffered her humour to spend, till we begun to be very quiet
+     Tell me that I speak in my dreams
+     The factious part of the Parliament
+     The manner of the gaming
+     The most ingenious men may sometimes be mistaken
+     The devil being too cunning to discourage a gamester
+     Their ladies in the box, being grown mighty kind of a sudden
+     There being no curse in the world so great as this
+     There setting a poor man to keep my place
+     This kind of prophane, mad entertainment they give themselves
+     Though I know it will set the Office and me by the ears for ever
+     To be enjoyed while we are young and capable of these joys
+     Tried the effect of my silence and not provoking her
+     Trouble, and more money, to every Watch, to them to drink
+     Troubled me, to see the confidence of the vice of the age
+     Turn out every man that will be drunk, they must turn out all
+     Uncertainty of beauty
+     Up, finding our beds good, but lousy; which made us merry
+     Vexed me, but I made no matter of it, but vexed to myself
+     Weather being very wet and hot to keep meat in.
+     When he was seriously ill he declared himself a Roman Catholic
+     Where I expect most I find least satisfaction
+     Where a pedlar was in bed, and made him rise
+     Whip a boy at each place they stop at in their procession
+     Whom I find in bed, and pretended a little not well
+     With hangings not fit to be seen with mine
+     Without importunity or the contrary
+     Work that is not made the work of any one man
+
+
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