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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, +arid 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. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +And they did lay pigeons to his feet +As all other women, cry, and yet talk of other things +Carry them to a box, which did cost me 20s., besides oranges +Declared, if he come, she would not live with me +Fear that the goods and estate would be seized (after suicide) +Fears some will stand for the tolerating of Papists +Greater number of Counsellors is, the more confused the issue +He that will not stoop for a pin, will never be worth a pound +In my nature am mighty unready to answer no to anything +It may be, be able to pay for it, or have health +Lady Castlemayne do rule all at this time as much as ever +No man was ever known to lose the first time +She loves to be taken dressing herself, as I always find her +The devil being too cunning to discourage a gamester +The manner of the gaming +This kind of prophane, mad entertainment they give themselves +Turn out every man that will be drunk, they must turn out all +Where I expect most I find least satisfaction + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v69 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + 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, arid 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 2os., +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. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +Being very poor and mean as to the bearing with trouble +Bite at the stone, and not at the hand that flings it +Burned it, that it might not be among my books to my shame +Come to see them in bed together, on their wedding-night +Fear what would become of me if any real affliction should come +Force a man to swear against himself +L'escholle des filles, a lewd book +Live of L100 a year with more plenty, and wine and wenches +No pleasure--only the variety of it + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v70 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + 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.--[This is rather fine of Pepys who "ruins" +several women each week and yet considers himself on fit to judge. D.W.] + + + +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. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +Act against Nonconformists and Papists +Bookseller's, and there looked for Montaigne's Essays +Bought Montaigne's Essays, in English +But if she will ruin herself, I cannot help it +Endangering the nation, when he knew himself such a coward +I know not how in the world to abstain from reading +Inventing a better theory of musique +King, "it is then but Mr. Pepys making of another speech to them" +Never saw so many sit four hours together to hear any man +Not eat a bit of good meat till he has got money to pay the men +Slabbering themselves, and mirth fit for clownes +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 +Uncertainty of beauty +Without importunity or the contrary + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v71 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + 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 LI,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! + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +Best fence against the Parliament's present fury is delay +But this the world believes, and so let them +Coach to W. Coventry about Mrs. Pett, 1s. +Ever have done his maister better service than to hang for him? +Making their own advantages to the disturbance of the peace +Parliament being vehement against the Nonconformists +Rough notes were made to serve for a sort of account book +Saw two battles of cocks, wherein is no great sport +Whip a boy at each place they stop at in their procession +Work that is not made the work of any one man + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v72 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + 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 arid 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. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +And will not kiss a woman since his wife's death +Beating of a poor little dog to death, letting it lie +City to be burned, and the Papists to cut our throats +Disorder in the pit by its raining in, from the cupola +Down to the Whey house and drank some and eat some curds +Eat some butter and radishes +Little company there, which made it very unpleasing +So time do alter, and do doubtless the like in myself +There setting a poor man to keep my place +Whom I find in bed, and pretended a little not well + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v73 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + JUNE & JULY + 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--[?? D.W.]--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. + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + 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.--[Mr. Unthanke was +Mrs. Pepys tailor. D.W.] + + + +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.] + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +At work, till I was almost blind, which makes my heart sad +Bristol milk (the sherry) in the vaults +But get no ground there yet +Cannot be clean to go so many bodies together in the same water +City pay him great respect, and he the like to the meanest +Cost me L5, which troubles me, but yet do please me also +Espinette is the French term for a small harpsichord +Forced to change gold, 8s. 7d.; servants and poor, 1s. 6d. +Frequent trouble in things we deserve best in +How natural it is for us to slight people out of power +I could have answered, but forbore +Little pleasure now in a play, the company being but little +Made him admire my drawing a thing presently in shorthand +My wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits +My wife's neglect of things, and impertinent humour +So out, and lost our way, which made me vexed +Suffered her humour to spend, till we begun to be very quiet +Troubled me, to see the confidence of the vice of the age +Up, finding our beds good, but lousy; which made us merry +Weather being very wet and hot to keep meat in. +When he was seriously ill he declared himself a Roman Catholic +Where a pedlar was in bed, and made him rise + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v74 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + 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, + + [Alexander Pope definition of 'True Wit': + + "Nature to advantage dress'd, + What has oft' been thought, + But ne'r so well express'd." + + D.W.] + +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, + + [Charles Colbert, Marquis de Croissy, brother of Jean Baptiste + Colbert, the great minister.--B.--(Who knew enough not to flaunt + his greatness as did his predecessor Fouguet.--D.W.)] + +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. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +And the woman so silly, as to let her go that took it +But what they did, I did not enquire +Family governed so nobly and neatly as do me good to see it +I know not whether to be glad or sorry +My heart beginning to falsify in this business +Pictures of some Maids of Honor: good, but not like +Resolved to go through it, and it is too late to help it now +Saw "Mackbeth," to our great content +The factious part of the Parliament +Though I know it will set the Office and me by the ears for ever + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v75 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER + 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--[?? D.W.]--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. + + [Again he brings in some German: here he has lost confidence + in his secret shorthand code: we also see French, Spanish, Italian + and Latin--he slips into these other languages when describing + activities or which he is not over-proud. D.W.] + +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. + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + 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. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +A book the Bishops will not let be printed again +All things to be managed with faction +Being the people that, at last, will be found the wisest +Business of abusing the Puritans begins to grow stale +Cannot get suitably, without breach of his honour +Caustic attack on Sir Robert Howard +Doe from Cobham, when the season comes, bucks season being past +Forgetting many things, which her master beat her for +Glad to be at friendship with me, though we hate one another +I away with great content, my mind being troubled before +My wife having a mind to see the play "Bartholomew-Fayre" +My wife, coming up suddenly, did find me embracing the girl +Presbyterian style and the Independent are the best +Ridiculous nonsensical book set out by Will. Pen, for the Quaker +Shows how unfit I am for trouble +Sir, your faithful and humble servant +The most ingenious men may sometimes be mistaken +Their ladies in the box, being grown mighty kind of a sudden +Vexed me, but I made no matter of it, but vexed to myself +With hangings not fit to be seen with mine + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v76 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + NOVEMBER + 1668 + + +November 1st (Lord's day). Up, and with W. Hewer at my chamber all this +morning, going further in my great business for the Duke of York, and so +at noon to dinner, and then W. Hewer to write fair what he had writ, and +my wife to read to me all the afternoon, till anon Mr. Gibson come, and +he and I to perfect it to my full mind, and so to supper and to bed, my +mind yet at disquiet that I cannot be informed how poor Deb. stands with +her mistress, but I fear she will put her away, and the truth is, though +it be much against my mind and to my trouble, yet I think that it will be +fit that she should be gone, for my wife's peace and mine, for she cannot +but be offended at the sight of her, my wife having conceived this +jealousy of me with reason, and therefore for that, and other reasons of +expense, it will be best for me to let her go, but I shall love and pity +her. This noon Mr. Povy sent his coach for my wife and I to see, which +we like mightily, and will endeavour to have him get us just such +another. + + + +2nd. Up, and a cold morning, by water through bridge without a cloak, +and there to Mr. Wren at his chamber at White Hall, the first time of his +coming thither this year, the Duchess coming thither tonight, and there +he and I did read over my paper that I have with so much labour drawn up +about the several answers of the officers of this Office to the Duke of +York's reflections, and did debate a little what advice to give the Duke +of York when he comes to town upon it. Here come in Lord Anglesy, and I +perceive he makes nothing of this order for his suspension, resolving to +contend and to bring it to the Council on Wednesday when the King is come +to town to-morrow, and Mr. Wren do join with him mightily in it, and do +look upon the Duke of York as concerned more in it than he. So to visit +Creed at his chamber, but his wife not come thither yet, nor do he tell +me where she is, though she be in town, at Stepney, at Atkins's. So to +Mr. Povy's to talk about a coach, but there I find my Lord Sandwich, and +Peterborough, and Hinchingbroke, Charles Harbord, and Sidney Montagu; +and there I was stopped, and dined mighty nobly at a good table, with one +little dish at a time upon it, but mighty merry. I was glad to see it: +but sorry, methought, to see my Lord have so little reason to be merry, +and yet glad, for his sake, to have him cheerful. After dinner up, and +looked up and down the house, and so to the cellar; and thence I slipt +away, without taking leave, and so to a few places about business, and +among others to my bookseller's in Duck Lane, and so home, where the +house still full of dirt by painters and others, and will not be clean a +good while. So to read and talk with my wife till by and by called to +the office about Sir W. Warren's business, where we met a little, and +then home to supper and to bed. This day I went, by Mr. Povy's +direction, to a coachmaker near him, for a coach just like his, but it +was sold this very morning. + + + +3rd. Up, and all the morning at the Office. At noon to dinner, and then +to the Office, and there busy till 12 at night, without much pain to my +eyes, but I did not use them to read or write, and so did hold out very +well. So home, and there to supper, and I observed my wife to eye my +eyes whether I did ever look upon Deb., which I could not but do now and +then (and to my grief did see the poor wretch look on me and see me look +on her, and then let drop a tear or two, which do make my heart relent at +this minute that I am writing this with great trouble of mind, for she is +indeed my sacrifice, poor girle); and my wife did tell me in bed by the +by of my looking on other people, and that the only way is to put things +out of sight, and this I know she means by Deb., for she tells me that +her Aunt was here on Monday, and she did tell her of her desire of +parting with Deb., but in such kind terms on both sides that my wife is +mightily taken with her. I see it will be, and it is but necessary, and +therefore, though it cannot but grieve me, yet I must bring my mind to +give way to it. We had a great deal of do this day at the Office about +Clutterbucke,--[See note to February 4th, 1663-64]--I declaring my +dissent against the whole Board's proceedings, and I believe I shall go +near to shew W. Pen a very knave in it, whatever I find my Lord +Brouncker. + + + +4th. Up, and by coach to White Hall; and there I find the King and Duke +of York come the last night, and every body's mouth full of my Lord +Anglesey's suspension being sealed; which it was, it seems, yesterday; +so that he is prevented in his remedy at the Council; and, it seems, the +two new Treasurers did kiss the King's hand this morning, brought in by +my Lord Arlington. They walked up and down together the Court this day, +and several people joyed them; but I avoided it, that I might not be seen +to look either way. This day also I hear that my Lord Ormond is to be +declared in Council no more Deputy Governor of Ireland, his commission +being expired: and the King is prevailed with to take it out of his +hands; which people do mightily admire, saying that he is the greatest +subject of any prince in Christendome, and hath more acres of land than +any, and hath done more for his Prince than ever any yet did. But all +will not do; he must down, it seems, the Duke of Buckingham carrying all +before him. But that, that troubles me most is, that they begin to talk +that the Duke of York's regiment is ordered to be disbanded; and more, +that undoubtedly his Admiralty will follow: which do shake me mightily, +and I fear will have ill consequences in the nation, for these counsels +are very mad. The Duke of York do, by all men's report, carry himself +wonderfull submissive to the King, in the most humble manner in the +world; but yet, it seems, nothing must be spared that tends to, the +keeping out of the Chancellor; and that is the reason of all this. The +great discourse now is, that the Parliament shall be dissolved and +another called, which shall give the King the Deane and Chapter lands; +and that will put him out of debt. And it is said that Buckingham do +knownly meet daily with Wildman and other Commonwealth-men; and that when +he is with them, he makes the King believe that he is with his wenches; +and something looks like the Parliament's being dissolved, by Harry +Brouncker's being now come back, and appears this day the first day at +White Hall; but hath not been yet with the King, but is secure that he +shall be well received, I hear. God bless us, when such men as he shall +be restored! But that, that pleases me most is, that several do tell me +that Pen is to be removed; and others, that he hath resigned his place; +and particularly Spragg tells me for certain that he hath resigned it, +and is become a partner with Gawden in the Victualling: in which I think +he hath done a very cunning thing; but I am sure I am glad of it; and it +will be well for the King to have him out of this Office. Thence by +coach, doing several errands, home and there to dinner, and then to the +Office, where all the afternoon till late at night, and so home. Deb. +hath been abroad to-day with her friends, poor girle, I believe toward +the getting of a place. This day a boy is sent me out of the country +from Impington by my cozen Roger Pepys' getting, whom I visited this +morning at his chamber in the Strand and carried him to Westminster Hall, +where I took a turn or two with him and Sir John Talbot, who talks mighty +high for my Lord of Ormond: and I perceive this family of the Talbots +hath been raised by my Lord. When I come home to-night I find Deb. not +come home, and do doubt whether she be not quite gone or no, but my wife +is silent to me in it, and I to her, but fell to other discourse, and +indeed am well satisfied that my house will never be at peace between my +wife and I unless I let her go, though it grieves me to the heart. My +wife and I spent much time this evening talking of our being put out of +the Office, and my going to live at Deptford at her brother's, till I can +clear my accounts, and rid my hands of the town, which will take me a +year or more, and I do think it will be best for me to do so, in order to +our living cheap, and out of sight. + + + +5th. Up, and Willet come home in the morning, and, God forgive me! +I could not conceal my content thereat by smiling, and my wife observed +it, but I said nothing, nor she, but away to the office. Presently up by +water to White Hall, and there all of us to wait on the Duke of York, +which we did, having little to do, and then I up and down the house, till +by and by the Duke of York, who had bid me stay, did come to his closet +again, and there did call in me and Mr. Wren; and there my paper, that I +have lately taken pains to draw up, was read, and the Duke of York +pleased therewith; and we did all along conclude upon answers to my mind +for the Board, and that that, if put in execution, will do the King's +business. But I do now more and more perceive the Duke of York's +trouble, and that he do lie under great weight of mind from the Duke of +Buckingham's carrying things against him; and particularly when I advised +that he would use his interest that a seaman might come into the room of +W. Pen, who is now declared to be gone from us to that of the +Victualling, and did shew how the Office would now be left without one +seaman in it, but the Surveyour and the Controller, who is so old as to +be able to do nothing, he told me plainly that I knew his mind well +enough as to seamen, but that it must be as others will. And Wren did +tell it me as a secret, that when the Duke of York did first tell the +King about Sir W. Pen's leaving of the place, and that when the Duke of +York did move the King that either Captain Cox or Sir Jer. Smith might +succeed him, the King did tell him that that was a matter fit to be +considered of, and would not agree to either presently; and so the Duke +of York could not prevail for either, nor knows who it shall be. The +Duke of York did tell me himself, that if he had not carried it privately +when first he mentioned Pen's leaving his place to the King, it had not +been done; for the Duke of Buckingham and those of his party do cry out +upon it, as a strange thing to trust such a thing into the hands of one +that stands accused in Parliament: and that they have so far prevailed +upon the King that he would not have him named in Council, but only take +his name to the Board; but I think he said that only D. Gawden's name +shall go in the patent; at least, at the time when Sir Richard Browne +asked the King the names of D. Gawden's security, the King told him it +was not yet necessary for him to declare them. And by and by, when the +Duke of York and we had done, and Wren brought into the closet Captain +Cox and James Temple About business of the Guiney Company, and talking +something of the Duke of Buckingham's concernment therein, and says the +Duke of York, "I will give the Devil his due, as they say the Duke of +Buckingham hath paid in his money to the Company," or something of that +kind, wherein he would do right to him. The Duke of York told me how +these people do begin to cast dirt upon the business that passed the +Council lately, touching Supernumeraries, as passed by virtue of his +authority there, there being not liberty for any man to withstand what +the Duke of York advises there; which, he told me, they bring only as an +argument to insinuate the putting of the Admiralty into Commission, which +by all men's discourse is now designed, and I perceive the same by him. +This being done, and going from him, I up and down the house to hear +news: and there every body's mouth full of changes; and, among others, +the Duke of York's regiment of Guards, that was raised during the late +war at sea, is to be disbanded: and also, that this day the King do +intend to declare that the Duke of Ormond is no more Deputy of Ireland, +but that he will put it into Commission. This day our new Treasurers did +kiss the King's hand, who complimented them, as they say, very highly, +that he had for a long time been abused in his Treasurer, and that he was +now safe in their hands. I saw them walk up and down the Court together +all this morning; the first time I ever saw Osborne, who is a comely +gentleman. This day I was told that my Lord Anglesey did deliver a +petition on Wednesday in Council to the King, laying open, that whereas +he had heard that his Majesty had made such a disposal of his place, +which he had formerly granted him for life upon a valuable consideration, +and that, without any thing laid to his charge, and during a Parliament's +sessions, he prayed that his Majesty would be pleased to let his case be +heard before the Council and the judges of the land, who were his proper +counsel in all matters of right: to which, I am told, the King, after my +Lord's being withdrawn, concluded upon his giving him an answer some few +days hence; and so he was called in, and told so, and so it ended. +Having heard all this I took coach and to Mr. Povy's, where I hear he is +gone to the Swedes Resident in Covent Garden, where he is to dine. I +went thither, but he is not come yet, so I to White Hall to look for him, +and up and down walking there I met with Sir Robert Holmes, who asking +news I told him of Sir W. Pen's going from us, who ketched at it so as +that my heart misgives me that he will have a mind to it, which made me +heartily sorry for my words, but he invited me and would have me go to +dine with him at the Treasurer's, Sir Thomas Clifford, where I did go and +eat some oysters; which while we were at, in comes my Lord Keeper and +much company; and so I thought it best to withdraw. And so away, and to +the Swedes Agent's, and there met Mr. Povy; where the Agent would have me +stay and dine, there being only them, and Joseph Williamson, and Sir +Thomas Clayton; but what he is I know not. Here much extraordinary noble +discourse of foreign princes, and particularly the greatness of the King +of France, and of his being fallen into the right way of making the +kingdom great, which [none] of his ancestors ever did before. I was +mightily pleased with this company and their discourse, so as to have +been seldom so much in all my life, and so after dinner up into his upper +room, and there did see a piece of perspective, but much inferior to Mr. +Povy's. Thence with Mr. Povy spent all the afternoon going up and down +among the coachmakers in Cow Lane, and did see several, and at last did +pitch upon a little chariott, whose body was framed, but not covered, at +the widow's, that made Mr. Lowther's fine coach; and we are mightily +pleased with it, it being light, and will be very genteel and sober: to +be covered with leather, and yet will hold four. Being much satisfied +with this, I carried him to White Hall; and so by coach home, where give +my wife a good account of my day's work, and so to the office, and there +late, and so to bed. + + + +6th. Up, and presently my wife up with me, which she professedly now do +every day to dress me, that I may not see Willet, and do eye me, whether +I cast my eye upon her, or no; and do keep me from going into the room +where she is among the upholsters at work in our blue chamber. So abroad +to White Hall by water, and so on for all this day as I have by mistake +set down in the fifth day after this mark. + + [In the margin here is the following: "Look back one leaf + for my mistake."] + +In the room of which I should have said that I was at the office all the +morning, and so to dinner, my wife with me, but so as I durst not look +upon the girle, though, God knows, notwithstanding all my protestations +I could not keep my mind from desiring it. After dinner to the office +again, and there did some business, and then by coach to see Roger Pepys +at his lodgings, next door to Arundell House, a barber's; and there I did +see a book, which my Lord Sandwich hath promised one to me of, +"A Description of the Escuriall in Spain;" which I have a great desire to +have, though I took it for a finer book when he promised it me. With him +to see my cozen Turner and The., and there sat and talked, they being +newly come out of the country; and here pretty merry, and with The. to +shew her a coach at Mr. Povy's man's, she being in want of one, and so +back again with her, and then home by coach, with my mind troubled and +finding no content, my wife being still troubled, nor can be at peace +while the girle is there, which I am troubled at on the other side. +We past the evening together, and then to bed and slept ill, she being +troubled and troubling me in the night with talk and complaints upon the +old business. This is the day's work of the 5th, though it stands under +the 6th, my mind being now so troubled that it is no wonder that I fall +into this mistake more than ever I did in my life before. + + + +7th. Up, and at the office all the morning, and so to it again after +dinner, and there busy late, choosing to employ myself rather than go +home to trouble with my wife, whom, however, I am forced to comply with, +and indeed I do pity her as having cause enough for her grief. So to +bed, and there slept ill because of my wife. This afternoon I did go out +towards Sir D. Gawden's, thinking to have bespoke a place for my coach +and horses, when I have them, at the Victualling Office; but find the way +so bad and long that I returned, and looked up and down for places +elsewhere, in an inne, which I hope to get with more convenience than +there. + + + +8th (Lord's day). Up, and at my chamber all the morning, setting papers +to rights, with my boy; and so to dinner at noon. The girle with us, but +my wife troubled thereat to see her, and do tell me so, which troubles +me, for I love the girle. At my chamber again to work all the afternoon +till night, when Pelling comes, who wonders to find my wife so dull and +melancholy, but God knows she hath too much cause. However, as pleasant +as we can, we supped together, and so made the boy read to me, the poor +girle not appearing at supper, but hid herself in her chamber. So that +I could wish in that respect that she was out of the house, for our peace +is broke to all of us while she is here, and so to bed, where my wife +mighty unquiet all night, so as my bed is become burdensome to me. + + + +9th. Up, and I did by a little note which I flung to Deb. advise her +that I did continue to deny that ever I kissed her, and so she might +govern herself. The truth is that I did adventure upon God's pardoning +me this lie, knowing how heavy a thing it would be for me to the ruin of +the poor girle, and next knowing that if my wife should know all it were +impossible ever for her to be at peace with me again, and so our whole +lives would be uncomfortable. The girl read, and as I bid her returned +me the note, flinging it to me in passing by. And so I abroad by [coach] +to White Hall, and there to the Duke of York to wait on him, who told me +that Sir W. Pen had been with him this morning, to ask whether it would +be fit for him to sit at the Office now, because of his resolution to be +gone, and to become concerned in the Victualling. The Duke of York +answered, "Yes, till his contract was signed:" Thence I to Lord +Sandwich's, and there to see him; but was made to stay so long, as his +best friends are, and when I come to him so little pleasure, his head +being full of his own business, I think, that I have no pleasure [to] go +to him. Thence to White Hall with him, to the Committee of Tangier; a +day appointed for him to give an account of Tangier, and what he did, and +found there, which, though he had admirable matter for it, and his doings +there were good, and would have afforded a noble account, yet he did it +with a mind so low and mean, and delivered in so poor a manner, that it +appeared nothing at all, nor any body seemed to value it; whereas, he +might have shewn himself to have merited extraordinary thanks, and been +held to have done a very great service: whereas now, all that cost the +King hath been at for his journey through Spain thither, seems to be +almost lost. After we were up, Creed and I walked together, and did talk +a good while of the weak report my Lord made, and were troubled for it; +I fearing that either his mind and judgment are depressed, or that he do +it out of his great neglect, and so my fear that he do all the rest of +his affairs accordingly. So I staid about the Court a little while, and +then to look for a dinner, and had it at Hercules-Pillars, very late, all +alone, costing me 10d. And so to the Excise Office, thinking to meet Sir +Stephen Fox and the Cofferer, but the former was gone, and the latter I +met going out, but nothing done, and so I to my bookseller's, and also to +Crow's, and there saw a piece of my bed, and I find it will please us +mightily. So home, and there find my wife troubled, and I sat with her +talking, and so to bed, and there very unquiet all night. + + + +10th. Up, and my wife still every day as ill as she is all night, will +rise to see me out doors, telling me plainly that she dares not let me +see the girle, and so I out to the office, where all the morning, and so +home to dinner, where I found my wife mightily troubled again, more than +ever, and she tells me that it is from her examining the girle and +getting a confession now from her of all . . . . which do mightily +trouble me, as not being able to foresee the consequences of it, as to +our future peace together. So my wife would not go down to dinner, but I +would dine in her chamber with her, and there after mollifying her as +much as I could we were pretty quiet and eat, and by and by comes Mr. +Hollier, and dines there by himself after we had dined, and he being +gone, we to talk again, and she to be troubled, reproaching me with my +unkindness and perjury, I having denied my ever kissing her. As also +with all her old kindnesses to me, and my ill-using of her from the +beginning, and the many temptations she hath refused out of faithfulness +to me, whereof several she was particular in, and especially from my Lord +Sandwich, by the sollicitation of Captain Ferrers, and then afterward the +courtship of my Lord Hinchingbrooke, even to the trouble of his lady. +All which I did acknowledge and was troubled for, and wept, and at last +pretty good friends again, and so I to my office, and there late, and so +home to supper with her, and so to bed, where after half-an-hour's +slumber she wakes me and cries out that she should never sleep more, +and so kept raving till past midnight, that made me cry and weep heartily +all the while for her, and troubled for what she reproached me with as +before, and at last with new vows, and particularly that I would myself +bid the girle be gone, and shew my dislike to her, which I will endeavour +to perform, but with much trouble, and so this appeasing her, we to sleep +as well as we could till morning. + + + +11th. Up, and my wife with me as before, and so to the Office, where, by +a speciall desire, the new Treasurers come, and there did shew their +Patent, and the Great Seal for the suspension of my Lord Anglesey: and +here did sit and discourse of the business of the Office: and brought Mr. +Hutchinson with them, who, I hear, is to be their Paymaster, in the room +of Mr. Waith. For it seems they do turn out every servant that belongs +to the present Treasurer: and so for Fenn, do bring in Mr. Littleton, Sir +Thomas's brother, and oust all the rest. But Mr. Hutchinson do already +see that his work now will be another kind of thing than before, as to +the trouble of it. They gone, and, indeed, they appear, both of them, +very intelligent men, I home to dinner, and there with my people dined, +and so to my wife, who would not dine with [me] that she might not have +the girle come in sight, and there sat and talked a while with her and +pretty quiet, I giving no occasion of offence, and so to the office [and +then by coach to my cozen Roger Pepys, who did, at my last being with him +this day se'nnight, move me as to the supplying him with L500 this term, +and L500 the next, for two years, upon a mortgage, he having that sum to +pay, a debt left him by his father, which I did agree to, trusting to +his honesty and ability, and am resolved to do it for him, that I may not +have all I have lie in the King's hands. Having promised him this I +returned home again, where to the office], and there having done, I home +and to supper and to bed, where, after lying a little while, my wife +starts up, and with expressions of affright and madness, as one frantick, +would rise, and I would not let her, but burst out in tears myself, +and so continued almost half the night, the moon shining so that it was +light, and after much sorrow and reproaches and little ravings (though I +am apt to think they were counterfeit from her), and my promise again to +discharge the girle myself, all was quiet again, and so to sleep. + + + +12th. Up, and she with me as heretofore, and so I to the Office, where +all the morning, and at noon to dinner, and Mr. Wayth, who, being at my +office about business, I took him with me to talk and understand his +matters, who is in mighty trouble from the Committee of Accounts about +his contracting with this Office for sayle-cloth, but no hurt can be laid +at his door in it, but upon us for doing it, if any, though we did it by +the Duke of York's approval, and by him I understand that the new +Treasurers do intend to bring in all new Instruments, and so having dined +we parted, and I to my wife and to sit with her a little, and then called +her and Willet to my chamber, and there did, with tears in my eyes, which +I could not help, discharge her and advise her to be gone as soon as she +could, and never to see me, or let me see her more while she was in the +house, which she took with tears too, but I believe understands me to be +her friend, and I am apt to believe by what my wife hath of late told me +is a cunning girle, if not a slut. Thence, parting kindly with my wife, +I away by coach to my cozen Roger, according as by mistake (which the +trouble of my mind for some days has occasioned, in this and another case +a day or two before) is set down in yesterday's notes, and so back again, +and with Mr. Gibson late at my chamber making an end of my draught of a +letter for the Duke of York, in answer to the answers of this Office, +which I have now done to my mind, so as, if the Duke likes it, will, I +think, put an end to a great deal of the faults of this Office, as well +as my trouble for them. So to bed, and did lie now a little better than +formerly, but with little, and yet with some trouble. + + + +13th. Up, and with Sir W. Pen by coach to White Hall, where to the Duke +of York, and there did our usual business; and thence I to the +Commissioners of the Treasury, where I staid, and heard an excellent case +argued between my Lord Gerard and the Town of Newcastle, about a piece of +ground which that Lord hath got a grant of, under the Exchequer Seal, +which they were endeavouring to get of the King under the Great Seal. +I liked mightily the Counsel for the town, Shaftow, their Recorder, and +Mr. Offly. But I was troubled, and so were the Lords, to hear my Lord +fly out against their great pretence of merit from the King, for their +sufferings and loyalty; telling them that they might thank him for that +repute which they have for their loyalty, for that it was he that forced +them to be so, against their wills, when he was there: and, moreover, did +offer a paper to the Lords to read from the Town, sent in 1648; but the +Lords would not read it; but I believe it was something about bringing +the King to trial, or some such thing, in that year. Thence I to the +Three Tuns Tavern, by Charing Cross, and there dined with W. Pen, Sir +J. Minnes, and Commissioner Middleton; and as merry as my mind could be, +that hath so much trouble upon it at home. And thence to White Hall, +and there staid in Mr. Wren's chamber with him, reading over my draught +of a letter, which Mr. Gibson then attended me with; and there he did +like all, but doubted whether it would be necessary for the Duke to write +in so sharp a style to the Office, as I had drawn it in; which I yield to +him, to consider the present posture of the times and the Duke of York +and whether it were not better to err on that hand than the other. He +told me that he did not think it was necessary for the Duke of York to do +so, and that it would not suit so well with his nature nor greatness; +which last, perhaps, is true, but then do too truly shew the effects of +having Princes in places, where order and discipline should be. I left +it to him to do as the Duke of York pleases; and so fell to other talk, +and with great freedom, of public things; and he told me, upon my several +inquiries to that purpose, that he did believe it was not yet resolved +whether the Parliament should ever meet more or no, the three great +rulers of things now standing thus:--The Duke of Buckingham is +absolutely against their meeting, as moved thereto by his people that he +advises with, the people of the late times, who do never expect to have +any thing done by this Parliament for their religion, and who do propose +that, by the sale of the Church-lands, they shall be able to put the King +out of debt: my Lord Keeper is utterly against putting away this and +choosing another Parliament, lest they prove worse than this, and will +make all the King's friends, and the King himself, in a desperate +condition: my Lord Arlington know not which is best for him, being to +seek whether this or the next will use him worst. He tells me that he +believes that it is intended to call this Parliament, and try them with a +sum of money; and, if they do not like it, then to send them going, and +call another, who will, at the ruin of the Church perhaps, please the +King with what he will for a time. And he tells me, therefore, that he +do believe that this policy will be endeavoured by the Church and their +friends--to seem to promise the King money, when it shall be propounded, +but make the King and these great men buy it dear, before they have it. +He tells me that he is really persuaded that the design of the Duke of +Buckingham is, by bringing the state into such a condition as, if the +King do die without issue, it shall, upon his death, break into pieces +again; and so put by the Duke of York, who they have disobliged, they +know, to that degree, as to despair of his pardon. He tells me that +there is no way to rule the King but by brisknesse, which the Duke of +Buckingham hath above all men; and that the Duke of York having it not, +his best way is what he practices, that is to say, a good temper, which +will support him till the Duke of Buckingham and Lord Arlington fall out, +which cannot be long first, the former knowing that the latter did, in +the time of the Chancellor, endeavour with the Chancellor to hang him at +that time, when he was proclaimed against. And here, by the by, he told +me that the Duke of Buckingham did, by his friends, treat with my Lord +Chancellor, by the mediation of Matt. Wren and Matt. Clifford, to fall +in with my Lord Chancellor; which, he tells me, he did advise my Lord +Chancellor to accept of, as that, that with his own interest and the Duke +of York's, would undoubtedly have assured all to him and his family; but +that my Lord Chancellor was a man not to be advised, thinking himself too +high to be counselled: and so all is come to nothing; for by that means +the Duke of Buckingham became desperate, and was forced to fall in with +Arlington, to his [the Chancellor's] ruin. Thence I home, and there to +talk, with great pleasure all the evening, with my wife, who tells me +that Deb, has been abroad to-day, and is come home and says she has got a +place to go to, so as she will be gone tomorrow morning. This troubled +me, and the truth is, I have a good mind to have the maidenhead of this +girl, which I should not doubt to have if je could get time para be con +her. But she will be gone and I not know whither. Before we went to bed +my wife told me she would not have me to see her or give her her wages, +and so I did give my wife L10 for her year and half a quarter's wages, +which she went into her chamber and paid her, and so to bed, and there, +blessed be God! we did sleep well and with peace, which I had not done in +now almost twenty nights together. This afternoon I went to my +coachmaker and Crow's, and there saw things go on to my great content. +This morning, at the Treasury-chamber, I did meet Jack Fenn, and there he +did shew me my Lord Anglesey's petition and the King's answer: the former +good and stout, as I before did hear it: but the latter short and weak, +saying that he was not, by what the King had done, hindered from taking +the benefit of his laws, and that the reason he had to suspect his +mismanagement of his money in Ireland, did make him think it unfit to +trust him with his Treasury in England, till he was satisfied in the +former. + + + +14th. Up, and had a mighty mind to have seen or given her a little +money, to which purpose I wrapt up 40s. in paper, thinking to have given +her a little money, but my wife rose presently, and would not let me be +out of her sight, and went down before me into the kitchen, and come up +and told me that she was in the kitchen, and therefore would have me go +round the other way; which she repeating and I vexed at it, answered her +a little angrily, upon which she instantly flew out into a rage, calling +me dog and rogue, and that I had a rotten heart; all which, knowing that +I deserved it, I bore with, and word being brought presently up that she +was gone away by coach with her things, my wife was friends, and so all +quiet, and I to the Office, with my heart sad, and find that I cannot +forget the girl, and vexed I know not where to look for her. And more +troubled to see how my wife is by this means likely for ever to have her +hand over me, that I shall for ever be a slave to her--that is to say, +only in matters of pleasure, but in other things she will make [it] her +business, I know, to please me and to keep me right to her, which I will +labour to be indeed, for she deserves it of me, though it will be I fear +a little time before I shall be able to wear Deb, out of my mind. At the +Office all the morning, and merry at noon, at dinner; and after dinner to +the Office, where all the afternoon, doing much business, late. My mind +being free of all troubles, I thank God, but only for my thoughts of this +girl, which hang after her. And so at night home to supper, and then did +sleep with great content with my wife. I must here remember that I have +lain with my moher as a husband more times since this falling out than in +I believe twelve months before. And with more pleasure to her than I +think in all the time of our marriage before. + + + +15th (Lord's day). Up, and after long lying with pleasure talking with +my wife, and then up to look up and down our house, which will when our +upholster hath done be mighty fine, and so to my chamber, and there did +do several things among my papers, and so to the office to write down my +journal for 6 or 7 days, my mind having been so troubled as never to get +the time to do it before, as may appear a little by the mistakes I have +made in this book within these few days. At noon comes Mr. Shepley to +dine with me and W. Howe, and there dined and pretty merry, and so after +dinner W. Howe to tell me what hath happened between him and the +Commissioners of late, who are hot again, more than ever, about my Lord +Sandwich's business of prizes, which I am troubled for, and the more +because of the great security and neglect with which, I think, my Lord do +look upon this matter, that may yet, for aught I know, undo him. They +gone, and Balty being come from the Downs, not very well, is come this +day to see us, I to talk with him, and with some pleasure, hoping that he +will make a good man. I in the evening to my Office again, to make an +end of my journall, and so home to my chamber with W. Hewer to settle +some papers, and so to supper and to bed, with my mind pretty quiet, and +less troubled about Deb. than I was, though yet I am troubled, I must +confess, and would be glad to find her out, though I fear it would be my +ruin. This evening there come to sit with us Mr. Pelling, who wondered +to see my wife and I so dumpish, but yet it went off only as my wife's +not being well, and, poor wretch, she hath no cause to be well, God +knows. + + + +16th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and there at the robe chamber at a +Committee for Tangier, where some of us--my Lord Sandwich, Sir W. +Coventry, and myself, with another or two--met to debate the business of +the Mole, and there drew up reasons for the King's taking of it into his +own hands, and managing of it upon accounts with Sir H. Cholmley. This +being done I away to Holborne, about Whetstone's Park, where I never was +in my life before, where I understand by my wife's discourse that Deb. is +gone, which do trouble me mightily that the poor girle should be in a +desperate condition forced to go thereabouts, and there not hearing of +any such man as Allbon, with whom my wife said she now was, I to the +Strand, and there by sending Drumbleby's boy, my flageolet maker, to +Eagle Court, where my wife also by discourse lately let fall that he did +lately live, I find that this Dr. Allbon is a kind of poor broken fellow +that dare not shew his head nor be known where he is gone, but to +Lincoln's Inn Fields I went to Mr. Povy's, but missed him, and so hearing +only that this Allbon is gone to Fleet Street, I did only call at +Martin's, my bookseller's, and there bought "Cassandra," and some other +French books for my wife's closet, and so home, having eat nothing but +two pennyworths of oysters, opened for me by a woman in the Strand, while +the boy went to and again to inform me about this man, and therefore home +and to dinner, and so all the afternoon at the office, and there late +busy, and so home to supper, and pretty pleasant with my wife to bed, +rested pretty well. + + + +17th. Up, and to the Office all the morning, where the new Treasurers +come, their second time, and before they sat down, did discourse with the +Board, and particularly my Lord Brouncker, about their place, which they +challenge, as having been heretofore due, and given to their predecessor; +which, at last, my Lord did own hath been given him only out of courtesy +to his quality, and that he did not take it as a right at the Board: so +they, for the present, sat down, and did give him the place, but, I +think, with an intent to have the Duke of York's directions about it. +My wife and maids busy now, to make clean the house above stairs, the +upholsters having done there, in her closet and the blue room, and they +are mighty pretty. At my office all the afternoon and at night busy, and +so home to my wife, and pretty pleasant, and at mighty ease in my mind, +being in hopes to find Deb., and without trouble or the knowledge of my +wife. So to supper at night and to bed. + + + +18th. Lay long in bed talking with my wife, she being unwilling to have +me go abroad, saying and declaring herself jealous of my going out for +fear of my going to Deb., which I do deny, for which God forgive me, for +I was no sooner out about noon but I did go by coach directly to Somerset +House, and there enquired among the porters there for Dr. Allbun, and the +first I spoke with told me he knew him, and that he was newly gone into +Lincoln's Inn Fields, but whither he could not tell me, but that one of +his fellows not then in the way did carry a chest of drawers thither with +him, and that when he comes he would ask him. This put me into some +hopes, and I to White Hall, and thence to Mr. Povy's, but he at dinner, +and therefore I away and walked up and down the Strand between the two +turnstiles, hoping to see her out of a window, and then employed a +porter, one Osberton, to find out this Doctor's lodgings thereabouts, who +by appointment comes to me to Hercules pillars, where I dined alone, but +tells me that he cannot find out any such, but will enquire further. +Thence back to White Hall to the Treasury a while, and thence to the +Strand, and towards night did meet with the porter that carried the chest +of drawers with this Doctor, but he would not tell me where he lived, +being his good master, he told me, but if I would have a message to him +he would deliver it. At last I told him my business was not with him, +but a little gentlewoman, one Mrs. Willet, that is with him, and sent him +to see how she did from her friend in London, and no other token. He +goes while I walk in Somerset House, walk there in the Court; at last he +comes back and tells me she is well, and that I may see her if I will, +but no more. So I could not be commanded by my reason, but I must go +this very night, and so by coach, it being now dark, I to her, close by +my tailor's, and she come into the coach to me, and je did baiser her . +. . . I did nevertheless give her the best council I could, to have a +care of her honour, and to fear God, and suffer no man para avoir to do +con her as je have done, which she promised. Je did give her 20s. and +directions para laisser sealed in paper at any time the name of the place +of her being at Herringman's, my bookseller in the 'Change, by which I +might go para her, and so bid her good night with much content to my +mind, and resolution to look after her no more till I heard from her. +And so home, and there told my wife a fair tale, God knows, how I spent +the whole day, with which the poor wretch was satisfied, or at least +seemed so, and so to supper and to bed, she having been mighty busy all +day in getting of her house in order against to-morrow to hang up our new +hangings and furnishing our best chamber. + + + +19th. Up, and at the Office all the morning, with my heart full of joy +to think in what a safe condition all my matters now stand between my +wife and Deb, and me, and at noon running up stairs to see the +upholsters, who are at work upon hanging my best room, and setting up my +new bed, I find my wife sitting sad in the dining room; which enquiring +into the reason of, she begun to call me all the false, rotten-hearted +rogues in the world, letting me understand that I was with Deb. +yesterday, which, thinking it impossible for her ever to understand, +I did a while deny, but at last did, for the ease of my mind and hers, +and for ever to discharge my heart of this wicked business, I did confess +all, and above stairs in our bed chamber there I did endure the sorrow +of her threats and vows and curses all the afternoon, and, what was +worse, she swore by all that was good that she would slit the nose of +this girle, and be gone herself this very night from me, and did there +demand 3 or L400 of me to buy my peace, that she might be gone without +making any noise, or else protested that she would make all the world +know of it. So with most perfect confusion of face and heart, and sorrow +and shame, in the greatest agony in the world I did pass this afternoon, +fearing that it will never have an end; but at last I did call for W. +Hewer, who I was forced to make privy now to all, and the poor fellow did +cry like a child, [and] obtained what I could not, that she would be +pacified upon condition that I would give it under my hand never to see +or speak with Deb, while I live, as I did before with Pierce and Knepp, +and which I did also, God knows, promise for Deb. too, but I have the +confidence to deny it to the perjury of myself. So, before it was late, +there was, beyond my hopes as well as desert, a durable peace; and so to +supper, and pretty kind words, and to bed, and there je did hazer con +eile to her content, and so with some rest spent the night in bed, being +most absolutely resolved, if ever I can master this bout, never to give +her occasion while I live of more trouble of this or any other kind, +there being no curse in the world so great as this of the differences +between myself and her, and therefore I do, by the grace of God, promise +never to offend her more, and did this night begin to pray to God upon my +knees alone in my chamber, which God knows I cannot yet do heartily; but +I hope God will give me the grace more and more every day to fear Him, +and to be true to my poor wife. This night the upholsters did finish the +hanging of my best chamber, but my sorrow and trouble is so great about +this business, that it puts me out of all joy in looking upon it or +minding how it was. + + + +20th. This morning up, with mighty kind words between my poor wife and +I; and so to White Hall by water, W. Hewer with me, who is to go with me +every where, until my wife be in condition to go out along with me +herself; for she do plainly declare that she dares not trust me out +alone, and therefore made it a piece of our league that I should alway +take somebody with me, or her herself, which I am mighty willing to, +being, by the grace of God, resolved never to do her wrong more. We +landed at the Temple, and there I bid him call at my cozen Roger Pepys's +lodgings, and I staid in the street for him, and so took water again at +the Strand stairs; and so to White Hall, in my way I telling him plainly +and truly my resolutions, if I can get over this evil, never to give new +occasion for it. He is, I think, so honest and true a servant to us +both, and one that loves us, that I was not much troubled at his being +privy to all this, but rejoiced in my heart that I had him to assist in +the making us friends, which he did truly and heartily, and with good +success, for I did get him to go to Deb. to tell her that I had told my +wife all of my being with her the other night, that so if my wife should +send she might not make the business worse by denying it. While I was at +White Hall with the Duke of York, doing our ordinary business with him, +here being also the first time the new Treasurers. W. Hewer did go to +her and come back again, and so I took him into St. James's Park, and +there he did tell me he had been with her, and found what I said about +my manner of being with her true, and had given her advice as I desired. +I did there enter into more talk about my wife and myself, and he did +give me great assurance of several particular cases to which my wife had +from time to time made him privy of her loyalty and truth to me after +many and great temptations, and I believe them truly. I did also +discourse the unfitness of my leaving of my employment now in many +respects to go into the country, as my wife desires, but that I would +labour to fit myself for it, which he thoroughly understands, and do +agree with me in it; and so, hoping to get over this trouble, we about +our business to Westminster Hall to meet Roger Pepys, which I did, and +did there discourse of the business of lending him L500 to answer some +occasions of his, which I believe to be safe enough, and so took leave +of him and away by coach home, calling on my coachmaker by the way, +where I like my little coach mightily. But when I come home, hoping for +a further degree of peace and quiet, I find my wife upon her bed in a +horrible rage afresh, calling me all the bitter names, and, rising, did +fall to revile me in the bitterest manner in the world, and could not +refrain to strike me and pull my hair, which I resolved to bear with, and +had good reason to bear it. So I by silence and weeping did prevail with +her a little to be quiet, and she would not eat her dinner without me; +but yet by and by into a raging fit she fell again, worse than before, +that she would slit the girl's nose, and at last W. Hewer come in and +come up, who did allay her fury, I flinging myself, in a sad desperate +condition, upon the bed in the blue room, and there lay while they spoke +together; and at last it come to this, that if I would call Deb. whore +under my hand and write to her that I hated her, and would never see her +more, she would believe me and trust in me, which I did agree to, only as +to the name of whore I would have excused, and therefore wrote to her +sparing that word, which my wife thereupon tore it, and would not be +satisfied till, W. Hewer winking upon me, I did write so with the name of +a whore as that I did fear she might too probably have been prevailed +upon to have been a whore by her carriage to me, and therefore as such I +did resolve never to see her more. This pleased my wife, and she gives +it W. Hewer to carry to her with a sharp message from her. So from that +minute my wife begun to be kind to me, and we to kiss and be friends, +and so continued all the evening, and fell to talk of other matters, +with great comfort, and after supper to bed. This evening comes Mr. +Billup to me, to read over Mr. Wren's alterations of my draught of a +letter for the Duke of York to sign, to the Board; which I like mighty +well, they being not considerable, only in mollifying some hard terms, +which I had thought fit to put in. From this to other discourse; and do +find that the Duke of York and his master, Mr. Wren, do look upon this +service of mine as a very seasonable service to the Duke of York, as that +which he will have to shew to his enemies in his own justification, of +his care of the King's business; and I am sure I am heartily glad of it, +both for the King's sake and the Duke of York's, and my own also; for, if +I continue, my work, by this means, will be the less, and my share in the +blame also. He being gone, I to my wife again, and so spent the evening +with very great joy, and the night also with good sleep and rest, my wife +only troubled in her rest, but less than usual, for which the God of +Heaven be praised. I did this night promise to my wife never to go to +bed without calling upon God upon my knees by prayer, and I begun this +night, and hope I shall never forget to do the like all my life; for I do +find that it is much the best for my soul and body to live pleasing to +God and my poor wife, and will ease me of much care as well as much +expense. + + + +21st. Up, with great joy to my wife and me, and to the office, where W. +Hewer did most honestly bring me back the part of my letter to Deb. +wherein I called her whore, assuring me that he did not shew it her, and +that he did only give her to understand that wherein I did declare my +desire never to see her, and did give her the best Christian counsel he +could, which was mighty well done of him. But by the grace of God, +though I love the poor girl and wish her well, as having gone too far +toward the undoing her, yet I will never enquire after or think of her +more, my peace being certainly to do right to my wife. At the Office all +the morning; and after dinner abroad with W. Hewer to my Lord Ashly's, +where my Lord Barkeley and Sir Thomas Ingram met upon Mr. Povy's account, +where I was in great pain about that part of his account wherein I am +concerned, above L150, I think; and Creed hath declared himself +dissatisfied with it, so far as to desire to cut his "Examinatur" out of +the paper, as the only condition in which he would be silent in it. This +Povy had the wit to yield to; and so when it come to be inquired into, +I did avouch the truth of the account as to that particular, of my own +knowledge, and so it went over as a thing good and just--as, indeed, in +the bottom of it, it is; though in strictness, perhaps, it would not so +well be understood. This Committee rising, I, with my mind much +satisfied herein, away by coach home, setting Creed into Southampton +Buildings, and so home; and there ended my letters, and then home to my +wife, where I find my house clean now, from top to bottom, so as I have +not seen it many a day, and to the full satisfaction of my mind, that I +am now at peace, as to my poor wife, as to the dirtiness of my house, and +as to seeing an end, in a great measure, to my present great +disbursements upon my house, and coach and horses. + + + +22nd (Lord's day). My wife and I lay long, with mighty content; and so +rose, and she spent the whole day making herself clean, after four or +five weeks being in continued dirt; and I knocking up nails, and making +little settlements in my house, till noon, and then eat a bit of meat in +the kitchen, I all alone. And so to the Office, to set down my journall, +for some days leaving it imperfect, the matter being mighty grievous to +me, and my mind, from the nature of it; and so in, to solace myself with +my wife, whom I got to read to me, and so W. Hewer and the boy; and so, +after supper, to bed. This day my boy's livery is come home, the first I +ever had, of greene, lined with red; and it likes me well enough. + + + +23rd. Up, and called upon by W. Howe, who went, with W. Hewer with me, +by water, to the Temple; his business was to have my advice about a place +he is going to buy--the Clerk of the Patent's place, which I understand +not, and so could say little to him, but fell to other talk, and setting +him in at the Temple, we to White Hall, and there I to visit Lord +Sandwich, who is now so reserved, or moped rather, I think, with his own +business, that he bids welcome to no man, I think, to his satisfaction. +However, I bear with it, being willing to give him as little trouble as I +can, and to receive as little from him, wishing only that I had my money +in my purse, that I have lent him; but, however, I shew no discontent at +all. So to White Hall, where a Committee of Tangier expected, but none +met. I met with Mr. Povy, who I discoursed with about publick business, +who tells me that this discourse which I told him of, of the Duke of +Monmouth being made Prince of Wales, hath nothing in it; though he thinks +there are all the endeavours used in the world to overthrow the Duke of +York. He would not have me doubt of my safety in the Navy, which I am +doubtful of from the reports of a general removal; but he will endeavour +to inform me, what he can gather from my Lord Arlington. That he do +think that the Duke of Buckingham hath a mind rather to overthrow all the +kingdom, and bring in a Commonwealth, wherein he may think to be General +of their Army, or to make himself King, which, he believes, he may be led +to, by some advice he hath had with conjurors, which he do affect. +Thence with W. Hewer, who goes up and down with me like a jaylour, but +yet with great love and to my great good liking, it being my desire above +all things to please my wife therein. I took up my wife and boy at +Unthank's, and from there to Hercules Pillars, and there dined, and +thence to our upholster's, about some things more to buy, and so to see +our coach, and so to the looking-glass man's, by the New Exchange, and so +to buy a picture for our blue chamber chimney, and so home; and there I +made my boy to read to me most of the night, to get through the Life of +the Archbishop of Canterbury. At supper comes Mary Batelier, and with us +all the evening, prettily talking, and very innocent company she is; and +she gone, we with much content to bed, and to sleep, with mighty rest all +night. + + + +24th. Up, and at the Office all the morning, and at noon home to dinner, +where Mr. Gentleman, the cook, and an old woman, his third or fourth +wife, come and dined with us, to enquire about a ticket of his son's, +that is dead; and after dinner, I with Mr. Hosier to my closet, to +discourse of the business of balancing Storekeeper's accounts, which he +hath taken great pains in reducing to a method, to my great satisfaction; +and I shall be glad both for the King's sake and his, that the thing may +be put in practice, and will do my part to promote it. That done, he +gone, I to the Office, where busy till night; and then with comfort to +sit with my wife, and get her to read to me, and so to supper, and to +bed, with my mind at mighty ease. + + + +25th. Up, and by coach with W. Hewer to see W. Coventry; but he gone +out, I to White Hall, and there waited on Lord Sandwich, which I have +little encouragement to do, because of the difficulty of seeing him, and +the little he hath to say to me when I do see him, or to any body else, +but his own idle people about him, Sir Charles Harbord, &c. Thence +walked with him to White Hall, where to the Duke of York; and there the +Duke, and Wren, and I, by appointment in his closet, to read over our +letter to the Office, which he heard, and signed it, and it is to my +mind, Mr. Wren having made it somewhat sweeter to the Board, and yet with +all the advice fully, that I did draw it up with. He [the Duke] said +little more to us now, his head being full of other business; but I do +see that he do continue to put a value upon my advice; and so Mr. Wren +and I to his chamber, and there talked: and he seems to hope that these +people, the Duke of Buckingham and Arlington, will run themselves off of +their legs; they being forced to be always putting the King upon one idle +thing or other, against the easiness of his nature, which he will never +be able to bear, nor they to keep him to, and so will lose themselves. +And, for instance of their little progress, he tells me that my Lord of +Ormond is like yet to carry it, and to continue in his command in +Ireland; at least, they cannot get the better of him yet. But he tells +me that the Keeper is wrought upon, as they say, to give his opinion for +the dissolving of the Parliament, which, he thinks, will undo him in the +eyes of the people. He do not seem to own the hearing or fearing of any +thing to be done in the Admiralty, to the lessening of the Duke of York, +though he hears how the town talk's full of it. Thence I by coach home, +and there find my cozen Roger come to dine with me, and to seal his +mortgage for the L500 I lend him; but he and I first walked to the +'Change, there to look for my uncle Wight, and get him to dinner with us. +So home, buying a barrel of oysters at my old oyster-woman's, in Gracious +Street, but over the way to where she kept her shop before. So home, and +there merry at dinner; and the money not being ready, I carried Roger +Pepys to Holborn Conduit, and there left him going to Stradwick's, whom +we avoided to see, because of our long absence, and my wife and I to the +Duke of York's house, to see "The Duchesse of Malfy," a sorry play, and +sat with little pleasure, for fear of my wife's seeing me look about, and +so I was uneasy all the while, though I desire and resolve never to give +her trouble of that kind more. So home, and there busy at the Office a +while, and then home, where my wife to read to me, and so to supper, and +to bed. This evening, to my great content, I got Sir Richard Ford to +give me leave to set my coach in his yard. + + + +26th. Up, and at the Office all the morning, where I was to have +delivered the Duke of York's letter of advice to the Board, in answer to +our several answers to his great letter; but Lord Brouncker not being +there, and doubtful to deliver it before the new Treasurers, I forbore it +to next sitting. So home at noon to dinner, where I find Mr. Pierce and +his wife but I was forced to shew very little pleasure in her being there +because of my vow to my wife; and therefore was glad of a very bad +occasion for my being really troubled, which is, at W. Hewer's losing of +a tally of L1000, which I sent him this day to receive of the +Commissioners of Excise. So that though I hope at the worst I shall be +able to get another, yet I made use of this to get away as soon as I had +dined, and therefore out with him to the Excise Office to make a stop of +its payment, and so away to the coachmaker's and several other places, +and so away home, and there to my business at the office, and thence +home, and there my wife to read to me, and W. Hewer to set some matters +of accounts right at my chamber, to bed. + + + +27th. Up, and with W. Hewer to see W. Coventry again, but missed him +again, by coming too late, the man of [all] the world that I am resolved +to preserve an interest in. Thence to White Hall, and there at our usual +waiting on the Duke of York; and that being done, I away to the +Exchequer, to give a stop, and take some advice about my lost tally, +wherein I shall have some remedy, with trouble, and so home, and there +find Mr. Povy, by appointment, to dine with me; where a pretty good +dinner, but for want of thought in my wife it was but slovenly dressed +up; however, much pleasant discourse with him, and some serious; and he +tells me that he would, by all means, have me get to be a Parliament-man +the next Parliament, which he believes there will be one, which I do +resolve of. By and by comes my cozen Roger, and dines with us; and, +after dinner, did seal his mortgage, wherein I do wholly rely on his +honesty, not having so much as read over what he hath given me for it, +nor minded it, but do trust to his integrity therein. They all gone, I +to the office and there a while, and then home to ease my eyes and make +my wife read to me. + + + +28th. Up, and all the morning at the Office, where, while I was sitting, +one comes and tells me that my coach is come. So I was forced to go out, +and to Sir Richard Ford's, where I spoke to him, and he is very willing +to have it brought in, and stand there; and so I ordered it, to my great +content, it being mighty pretty, only the horses do not please me, and, +therefore, resolve to have better. At noon home to dinner, and so to the +office again all the afternoon, and did a great deal of business, and so +home to supper and to bed, with my mind at pretty good ease, having this +day presented to the Board the Duke of York's letter, which, I perceive, +troubled Sir W. Pen, he declaring himself meant in that part, that +concerned excuse by sickness; but I do not care, but am mightily glad +that it is done, and now I shall begin to be at pretty good ease in the +Office. This morning, to my great content, W. Hewer tells me that a +porter is come, who found my tally in Holborne, and brings it him, for +which he gives him 20s. + + + +29th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed with pleasure with my wife, with whom +I have now a great deal of content, and my mind is in other things also +mightily more at ease, and I do mind my business better than ever and am +more at peace, and trust in God I shall ever be so, though I cannot yet +get my mind off from thinking now and then of Deb., but I do ever since +my promise a while since to my wife pray to God by myself in my chamber +every night, and will endeavour to get my wife to do the like with me ere +long, but am in much fear of what she lately frighted me with about her +being a Catholique; and I dare not, therefore, move her to go to church, +for fear she should deny me; but this morning, of her own accord, she +spoke of going to church the next Sunday, which pleases me mightily. +This morning my coachman's clothes come home; and I like the livery +mightily, and so I all the morning at my chamber, and dined with my wife, +and got her to read to me in the afternoon, till Sir W. Warren, by +appointment, comes to me, who spent two hours, or three, with me, about +his accounts of Gottenburgh, which are so confounded, that I doubt they +will hardly ever pass without my doing something, which he desires of me, +and which, partly from fear, and partly from unwillingness to wrong the +King, and partly from its being of no profit to me, I am backward to give +way to, though the poor man do indeed deserve to be rid of this trouble, +that he hath lain so long under, from the negligence of this Board. We +afterwards fell to other talk, and he tells me, as soon as he saw my +coach yesterday, he wished that the owner might not contract envy by it; +but I told him it was now manifestly for my profit to keep a coach, and +that, after employments like mine for eight years, it were hard if I +could not be justly thought to be able to do that. + + [Though our journalist prided himself not a little upon becoming + possessed of a carriage, the acquisition was regarded with envy and + jealousy by his enemies, as will appear by the following extract + from the scurrilous pamphlet, "A Hue and Cry after P. and H. and + Plain Truth (or a Private Discourse between P. and H.)," in which + Pepys and Hewer are severely handled: "There is one thing more you + must be mightily sorry for with all speed. Your presumption in your + coach, in which you daily ride, as if you had been son and heir to + the great Emperor Neptune, or as if you had been infallibly to have + succeeded him in his government of the Ocean, all which was + presumption in the highest degree. First, you had upon the fore + part of your chariot, tempestuous waves and wrecks of ships; on your + left hand, forts and great guns, and ships a-fighting; on your right + hand was a fair harbour and galleys riding, with their flags and + pennants spread, kindly saluting each other, just like P[epys] and + H[ewer]. Behind it were high curled waves and ships a-sinking, and + here and there an appearance of some bits of land."] + +He gone, my wife and I to supper; and so she to read, and made an end of +the Life of Archbishop Laud, which is worth reading, as informing a man +plainly in the posture of the Church, and how the things of it were +managed with the same self-interest and design that every other thing is, +and have succeeded accordingly. So to bed. + + + +30th. Up betimes, and with W. Hewer, who is my guard, to White Hall, to +a Committee of Tangier, where the business of Mr. Lanyon + + [John Lanyon, agent of the Navy Commissioners at Plymouth. The + cause of complaint appears to have been connected with his contract + for Tangier. In 1668 a charge was made against Lanyon and Thomas + Yeabsley that they had defrauded the king in the freighting of the + ship "Tiger" ("Calendar of State Papers," 1668-69, p. 138).] + +took up all the morning; and where, poor man! he did manage his business +with so much folly, and ill fortune to boot, that the Board, before his +coming in, inclining, of their own accord, to lay his cause aside, and +leave it to the law, but he pressed that we would hear it, and it ended +to the making him appear a very knave, as well as it did to me a fool +also, which I was sorry for. Thence by water, Mr. Povy, Creed, and I, to +Arundell House, and there I did see them choosing their Council, it being +St. Andrew's-day; and I had his Cross + + [The cross of St. Andrew, like that of St. Patrick, is a saltire. + The two, combined with the red cross of St. George, form the Union + flag.] + +set on my hat, as the rest had, and cost me 2s., and so leaving them I +away by coach home to dinner, and my wife, after dinner, went the first +time abroad to take the maidenhead of her coach, calling on Roger Pepys, +and visiting Mrs. Creed, and my cozen Turner, while I at home all the +afternoon and evening, very busy and doing much work, to my great +content. Home at night, and there comes Mrs. Turner and Betty to see us, +and supped with us, and I shewed them a cold civility for fear of +troubling my wife, and after supper, they being gone, we to bed. Thus +ended this month, with very good content, that hath been the most sad to +my heart and the most expenseful to my purse on things of pleasure, +having furnished my wife's closet and the best chamber, and a coach and +horses, that ever I yet knew in the world: and do put me into the +greatest condition of outward state that ever I was in, or hoped ever to +be, or desired: and this at a time when we do daily expect great changes +in this Office: and by all reports we must, all of us, turn out. But my +eyes are come to that condition that I am not able to work: and therefore +that, and my wife's desire, make me have no manner of trouble in my +thoughts about it. So God do his will in it! + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +Calling me dog and rogue, and that I had a rotten heart +Have me get to be a Parliament-man the next Parliament +I have a good mind to have the maidenhead of this girl +Resolve never to give her trouble of that kind more +Should alway take somebody with me, or her herself +There being no curse in the world so great as this + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v77 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + DECEMBER + 1668 + + +December 1st. Up, and to the office, where sat all the morning, and at +noon with my people to dinner, and so to the office, very busy till +night, and then home and made my boy read to me Wilkins's Reall +Character, which do please me mightily, and so after supper to bed with +great pleasure and content with my wife. This day I hear of poor Mr. +Clerke, the solicitor, being dead, of a cold, after being not above two +days ill, which troubles me mightily, poor man! + + + +2nd. Up, and at the office all the morning upon some accounts of Sir D. +Gawden, and at noon abroad with W. Hewer, thinking to have found Mr. Wren +at Captain Cox's, to have spoke something to him about doing a favour for +Will's uncle Steventon, but missed him. And so back home and abroad with +my wife, the first time that ever I rode in my own coach, which do make +my heart rejoice, and praise God, and pray him to bless it to me and +continue it. So she and I to the King's playhouse, and there sat to +avoid seeing Knepp in a box above where Mrs. Williams happened to be, and +there saw "The Usurper;" a pretty good play, in all but what is designed +to resemble Cromwell and Hugh Peters, which is mighty silly. The play +done, we to White Hall; where my wife staid while I up to the Duchesse's +and Queen's side, to speak with the Duke of York: and here saw all the +ladies, and heard the silly discourse of the King, with his people about +him, telling a story of my Lord Rochester's having of his clothes stole, +while he was with a wench; and his gold all gone, but his clothes found +afterwards stuffed into a feather bed by the wench that stole them. I +spoke with the Duke of York, just as he was set down to supper with the +King, about our sending of victuals to Sir Thomas Allen's fleet hence to +Cales [Cadiz] to meet him. And so back to my wife in my coach, and so +with great content and joy home, where I made my boy to make an end of +the Reall Character, which I begun a great while ago, and do please me +infinitely, and indeed is a most worthy labour, and I think mighty easy, +though my eyes make me unable to attempt any thing in it. To-day I hear +that Mr. Ackworth's cause went for him at Guildhall, against his +accusers, which I am well enough pleased with. + + + +3rd. Up betimes, and by water with W. Hewer to White Hall, and there to +Mr. Wren, who gives me but small hopes of the favour I hoped for Mr. +Steventon, Will's uncle, of having leave, being upon the point of death, +to surrender his place, which do trouble me, but I will do what I can. +So back again to the Office, Sir Jer. Smith with me; who is a silly, +prating, talking man; but he tells me what he hears, that Holmes and +Spragg now rule all with the Duke of Buckingham, as to seabusiness, and +will be great men: but he do prophesy what will be the fruit of it; so I +do. So to the Office, where we sat all the morning; and at noon home to +dinner, and then abroad again, with my wife, to the Duke of York's +playhouse, and saw "The Unfortunate Lovers;" a mean play, I think, but +some parts very good, and excellently acted. We sat under the boxes, and +saw the fine ladies; among others, my Lady Kerneguy, a who is most +devilishly painted. And so home, it being mighty pleasure to go alone +with my poor wife, in a coach of our own, to a play, and makes us appear +mighty great, I think, in the world; at least, greater than ever I could, +or my friends for me, have once expected; or, I think, than ever any of +my family ever yet lived, in my memory, but my cozen Pepys in Salisbury +Court. So to the office, and thence home to supper and to bed. + + + +4th. Up, and with W. Hewer by water to White Hall, and there did wait as +usual upon the Duke of York, where, upon discoursing something touching +the Ticket-Office, which by letter the Board did give the Duke of York +their advice, to be put upon Lord Brouncker, Sir J. Minnes did foolishly +rise up and complain of the Office, and his being made nothing of; and +this before Sir Thomas Littleton, who would be glad of this difference +among us, which did trouble me mightily; and therefore I did forbear to +say what I otherwise would have thought fit for me to say on this +occasion, upon so impertinent a speech as this doting fool made--but, +I say, I let it alone, and contented myself that it went as I advised, +as to the Duke of York's judgment, in the thing disputed. And so thence +away, my coach meeting me there and carrying me to several places to do +little jobs, which is a mighty convenience, and so home, where by +invitation I find my aunt Wight, who looked over all our house, and is +mighty pleased with it, and indeed it is now mighty handsome, and rich in +furniture. By and by comes my uncle, and then to dinner, where a venison +pasty and very merry, and after dinner I carried my wife and her to +Smithfield, where they sit in the coach, while Mr. Pickering, who meets +me there, and I, and W. Hewer, and a friend of his, a jockey, did go +about to see several pairs of horses, for my coach; but it was late, and +we agreed on none, but left it to another time: but here I do see +instances of a piece of craft and cunning that I never dreamed of, +concerning the buying and choosing of horses. So Mr. Pickering, to whom +I am much beholden for his kindness herein, and I parted; and I with my +people home, where I left them, and I to the office, to meet about some +business of Sir W. Warren's accounts, where I vexed to see how ill all +the Comptroller's business is likely to go on, so long as ever Sir J. +Minnes lives; and so troubled I was, that I thought it a good occasion +for me to give my thoughts of it in writing, and therefore wrote a letter +at the Board, by the help of a tube, to Lord Brouncker, and did give it +him, which I kept a copy of, and it may be of use to me hereafter to +shew, in this matter. This being done, I home to my aunt, who supped +with us, and my uncle also: and a good-humoured woman she is, so that I +think we shall keep her acquaintance; but mighty proud she is of her +wedding-ring, being lately set with diamonds; cost her about L12: and I +did commend it mightily to her, but do not think it very suitable for one +of our quality. After supper they home, and we to bed. + + + +5th. Up, after a little talk with my wife, which troubled me, she being +ever since our late difference mighty watchful of sleep and dreams, and +will not be persuaded but I do dream of Deb., and do tell me that I speak +in my dreams and that this night I did cry, Huzzy, and it must be she, +and now and then I start otherwise than I used to do, she says, which I +know not, for I do not know that I dream of her more than usual, though I +cannot deny that my thoughts waking do run now and then against my will +and judgment upon her, for that only is wanting to undo me, being now in +every other thing as to my mind most happy, and may still be so but for +my own fault, if I be catched loving any body but my wife again. So up +and to the office, and at noon to dinner, and thence to office, where +late, mighty busy, and despatching much business, settling papers in my +own office, and so home to supper, and to bed. No news stirring, but +that my Lord of Ormond is likely to go to Ireland again, which do shew +that the Duke of Buckingham do not rule all so absolutely; and that, +however, we shall speedily have more changes in the Navy: and it is +certain that the Nonconformists do now preach openly in houses, in many +places, and among others the house that was heretofore Sir G. Carteret's, +in Leadenhall Streete, and have ready access to the King. And now the +great dispute is, whether this Parliament or another; and my great +design, if I continue in the Navy, is to get myself to be a Parliament- +man. + + + +6th (Lord's day). Up, and with my wife to church; which pleases me +mightily, I being full of fear that she would never go to church again, +after she had declared to me that she was a Roman Catholique. But though +I do verily think she fears God, and is truly and sincerely righteous, +yet I do see she is not so strictly so a Catholique as not to go to +church with me, which pleases me mightily. Here Mills made a lazy +sermon, upon Moses's meeknesse, and so home, and my wife and I alone to +dinner, and then she to read a little book concerning speech in general, +a translation late out of French; a most excellent piece as ever I read, +proving a soul in man, and all the ways and secrets by which nature +teaches speech in man, which do please me most infinitely to read. By +and by my wife to church, and I to my Office to complete my Journall for +the last three days, and so home to my chamber to settle some papers, and +so to spend the evening with my wife and W. Hewer talking over the +business of the Office, and particularly my own Office, how I will make +it, and it will become, in a little time, an Office of ease, and not +slavery, as it hath for so many years been. So to supper, and to bed. + + + +7th. Up by candlelight, the first time I have done so this winter, but I +had lost my labour so often to visit Sir W. Coventry, and not visited him +so long, that I was resolved to get time enough, and so up, and with W. +Hewer, it being the first frosty day we have had this winter, did walk +it very well to W. Coventry's, and there alone with him an hour talking +of the Navy, which he pities, but says he hath no more mind to be found +meddling with the Navy, lest it should do it hurt, as well as him, to be +found to meddle with it. So to talk of general things: and telling him +that, with all these doings, he, I thanked God, stood yet; he told me, +Yes, but that he thought his continuing in, did arise from his enemies my +Lord of Buckingham and Arlington's seeing that he cared so little if he +was out; and he do protest to me that he is as weary of the Treasury, as +ever he was of the Navy. He tells me that he do believe that their heat +is over almost, as to the Navy, there being now none left of the old +stock but my Lord Brouncker, J. Minnes, who is ready to leave the world, +and myself. But he tells me that he do foresee very great wants and +great disorders by reason thereof; insomuch, as he is represented to +the King by his enemies as a melancholy man, and one that is still +prophesying ill events, so as the King called him Visionaire, which being +told him, he said he answered the party, that, whatever he foresaw, he +was not afeard as to himself of any thing, nor particularly of my Lord +Arlington, so much as the Duke of Buckingham hath been, nor of the Duke +of Buckingham, so much as my Lord Arlington at this time is. But he +tells me that he hath been always looked upon as a melancholy man; +whereas, others that would please the King do make him believe that all +is safe: and so he hath heard my Lord Chancellor openly say to the King, +that he was now a glorious prince, and in a glorious condition, because +of some one accident that hath happened, or some one rub that hath been +removed; "when," says W. Coventry, "they reckoned their one good meal, +without considering that there was nothing left in the cup board for +to-morrow." After this and other discourse of this kind, I away, and +walked to my Lord Sandwich's, and walked with him to White Hall, and took +a quarter of an hour's walk in the garden with him, which I had not done +for so much time with him since his coming into England; and talking of +his own condition, and particularly of the world's talk of his going to +Tangier. I find, if his conditions can be made profitable and safe as +to money, he would go, but not else; but, however, will seem not averse +to it, because of facilitating his other accounts now depending, which he +finds hard to get through, but yet hath some hopes, the King, he says, +speaking very kindly to him. Thence to a Committee of Tangier, and so +with W. Hewer to Westminster to Sir R. Longs office, and so to the +Temple, but did nothing, the Auditor not being within, and so home to +dinner, and after dinner out again with my wife to the Temple, and up and +down to do a little business, and back again, and so to my office, and +did a little business, and so home, and W. Hewer with me, to read and +talk, and so to supper, and then to bed in mighty good humour. This +afternoon, passing through Queen's Street, I saw pass by our coach on +foot Deb., which, God forgive me, did put me into some new thoughts of +her, and for her, but durst not shew them, and I think my wife did not +see her, but I did get my thoughts free of her soon as I could. + + + +8th. Up, and Sir H. Cholmly betimes with me, about some accounts and +moneys due to him: and he gone, I to the Office, where sat all the +morning; and here, among other things, breaks out the storm W. Hewer and +I have long expected from the Surveyor,--[Colonel Middleton.]-- about +W. Hewer's conspiring to get a contract, to the burdening of the stores +with kerseys and cottons, of which he hath often complained, and lately +more than ever; and now he did it by a most scandalous letter to the +Board, reflecting on my Office: and, by discourse, it fell to such high +words between him and me, as can hardly ever be forgot; I declaring I +would believe W. Hewer as soon as him, and laying the fault, if there be +any, upon himself; he, on the other hand, vilifying of my word and +W. Hewer's, calling him knave, and that if he were his clerk, he should +lose his ears. At last, I closed the business for this morning with +making the thing ridiculous, as it is, and he swearing that the King +should have right in it, or he would lose his place. The Office was +cleared of all but ourselves and W. Hewer; but, however, the world did +by the beginning see what it meant, and it will, I believe, come to high +terms between us, which I am sorry for, to have any blemish laid upon +me or mine, at this time, though never so unduly, for fear of giving +occasion to my real discredit: and therefore I was not only all the rest +of the morning vexed, but so went home to dinner, where my wife tells me +of my Lord Orrery's new play "Tryphon," at the Duke of York's house, +which, however, I would see, and therefore put a bit of meat in our +mouths, and went thither; where, with much ado, at half-past one, we got +into a blind hole in the 18d. place, above stairs, where we could not +hear well, but the house infinite full, but the prologue most silly, and +the play, though admirable, yet no pleasure almost in it, because just +the very same design, and words, and sense, and plot, as every one of his +plays have, any one of which alone would be held admirable, whereas so +many of the same design and fancy do but dull one another; and this, I +perceive, is the sense of every body else, as well as myself, who +therefore showed but little pleasure in it. So home, mighty hot, and my +mind mightily out of order, so as I could not eat any supper, or sleep +almost all night, though I spent till twelve at night with W. Hewer to +consider of our business: and we find it not only most free from any +blame of our side, but so horrid scandalous on the other, to make so +groundless a complaint, and one so shameful to him, that it could not but +let me see that there is no need of my being troubled; but such is the +weakness of my nature, that I could not help it, which vexes me, showing +me how unable I am to live with difficulties. + + + +9th. Up, and to the Office, but did little there, my mind being still +uneasy, though more and more satisfied that there is no occasion for it; +but abroad with my wife to the Temple, where I met with Auditor Wood's +clerk, and did some business with him, and so to see Mr. Spong, and found +him out by Southampton Market, and there carried my wife, and up to his +chamber, a bye place, but with a good prospect of the fields; and there I +had most infinite pleasure, not only with his ingenuity in general, but +in particular with his shewing me the use of the Parallelogram, by which +he drew in a quarter of an hour before me, in little, from a great, +a most neat map of England--that is, all the outlines, which gives me +infinite pleasure, and foresight of pleasure, I shall have with it; and +therefore desire to have that which I have bespoke, made. Many other +pretty things he showed us, and did give me a glass bubble, to try the +strength of liquors with. + + [This seems to refer to the first form of the Hon. Robert Boyle's + hydrometer, which he described in a paper in the "Philosophical + Transactions" for June, 1675, under the title of a "New Essay + instrument." In this paper the author refers to a glass instrument + exhibited many years before by himself, "consisting of a bubble + furnished with a long and slender stem, which was to be put into + several liquors to compare and estimate their specific gravity." + Boyle describes this glass bubble in a paper in "Philosophical + Transactions," vol. iv., No. 50, p. 1001, 1669, entitled, "The + Weights of Water in Water with ordinary Balances and Weights."] + +This done, and having spent 6d. in ale in the coach, at the door of the +Bull Inn, with the innocent master of the house, a Yorkshireman, for his +letting us go through his house, we away to Hercules Pillars, and there +eat a bit of meat: and so, with all speed, back to the Duke of York's +house, where mighty full again; but we come time enough to have a good +place in the pit, and did hear this new play again, where, though I +better understood it than before, yet my sense of it and pleasure was +just the same as yesterday, and no more, nor any body else's about us. +So took our coach and home, having now little pleasure to look about me +to see the fine faces, for fear of displeasing my wife, whom I take great +comfort now, more than ever, in pleasing; and it is a real joy to me. +So home, and to my Office, where spent an hour or two; and so home to +my wife, to supper and talk, and so to bed. + + + +10th. Up, and to the Office, where busy all the morning: Middleton not +there, so no words or looks of him. At noon, home to dinner; and so to +the Office, and there all the afternoon busy; and at night W. Hewer home +with me; and we think we have got matter enough to make Middleton appear +a coxcomb. But it troubled me to have Sir W. Warren meet me at night, +going out of the Office home, and tell me that Middleton do intend to +complain to the Duke of York: but, upon consideration of the business, +I did go to bed, satisfied that it was best for me that he should; and +so my trouble was over, and to bed, and slept well. + + + +11th. Up, and with W. Hewer by water to Somerset House; and there I to +my Lord Brouncker, before he went forth to the Duke of York, and there +told him my confidence that I should make Middleton appear a fool, and +that it was, I thought, best for me to complain of the wrong he hath +done; but brought it about, that my Lord desired me I would forbear, and +promised that he would prevent Middleton till I had given in my answer to +the Board, which I desired: and so away to White Hall, and there did our +usual attendance and no word spoke before the Duke of York by Middleton +at all; at which I was glad to my heart, because by this means I have +time to draw up my answer to my mind. So with W. Hewer by coach to +Smithfield, but met not Mr. Dickering, he being not come, and so he +[Will] and I to a cook's shop, in Aldersgate Street; and dined well for +19 1/2 d., upon roast beef, pleasing ourselves with the infinite strength +we have to prove Middleton a coxcomb; and so, having dined, we back to +Smithfield, and there met Dickering, and up and down all the afternoon +about horses, and did see the knaveries and tricks of jockeys. Here I +met W. Joyce, who troubled me with his impertinencies a great while, and +the like Mr. Knepp, who, it seems, is a kind of a jockey, and would fain +have been doing something for me, but I avoided him, and the more for +fear of being troubled thereby with his wife, whom I desire but dare not +see, for my vow to my wife. At last went away and did nothing, only +concluded upon giving L50 for a fine pair of black horses we saw this day +se'nnight; and so set Mr. Dickering down near his house, whom I am much +beholden to, for his care herein, and he hath admirable skill, +I perceive, in this business, and so home, and spent the evening +talking and merry, my mind at good ease, and so to bed. + + + +12th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon home to +dinner, and so the like mighty busy, late, all the afternoon, that I +might be ready to go to the drawing up of my answer to Middleton +to-morrow, and therefore home to supper and to bed. I hear this day that +there is fallen down a new house, not quite finished, in Lumbard Street, +and that there have been several so, they making use of bad mortar and +bricks; but no hurt yet, as God hath ordered it. This day was brought +home my pair of black coach-horses, the first I ever was master of. +They cost me L50, and are a fine pair. + + + +13th (Lord's day). Up, and with W. Hewer to the Office, where all the +morning, and then home to a little dinner, and presently to it again all +alone till twelve at night, drawing up my answer to Middleton, which I +think I shall do to very good purpose--at least, I satisfy myself +therein; and so to bed, weary with walking in my Office dictating to +him [Hewer]. In the night my wife very ill, vomited, but was well +again by and by. + + + +14th. Up, and by water to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier, where, +among other things, a silly account of a falling out between Norwood, at +Tangier, and Mr. Bland, the mayor, who is fled to Cales [Cadiz]. His +complaint is ill-worded, and the other's defence the most ridiculous that +ever I saw; and so everybody else that was there, thought it; but never +did I see so great an instance of the use of grammar, and knowledge how +to tell a man's tale as this day, Bland having spoiled his business by +ill-telling it, who had work to have made himself notorious by his +mastering Norwood, his enemy, if he had known how to have used it. +Thence calling Smith, the Auditor's clerk at the Temple, I by the +Exchange home, and there looked over my Tangier accounts with him, and so +to dinner, and then set him down again by a hackney, my coachman being +this day about breaking of my horses to the coach, they having never yet +drawn. Left my wife at Unthank's, and I to the Treasury, where we waited +on the Lords Commissioners about Sir D. Gawden's matters, and so took her +up again at night, and home to the office, and so home with W. Hewer, +and to talk about our quarrel with Middleton, and so to supper and to +bed. This day I hear, and am glad, that the King hath prorogued the +Parliament to October next; and, among other reasons, it will give me +time to go to France, I hope. + + + +15th. Up, and to the Office, where sat all the morning, and the new +Treasurers there; and, for my life, I cannot keep Sir J. Minnes and +others of the Board from shewing our weakness, to the dishonour of the +Board, though I am not concerned but it do vex me to the heart to have it +before these people, that would be glad to find out all our weaknesses. +At noon Mrs. Mary Batelier with us, and so, after dinner, I with W. Hewer +all the afternoon till night beginning to draw up our answer to +Middleton, and it proves troublesome, because I have so much in my head +at a time to say, but I must go through with it. So at night to supper +and to bed. + + + +16th. I did the like all day long, only a little at dinner, and so to +work again, and were at it till 2 in the morning, and so W. Hewer, who +was with me all day, home to his lodging, and I to bed, after we had +finished it. + + + +17th. Up, and set my man Gibson and Mr. Fists to work to write it over +fair, while I all the morning at the office sitting. At noon home to +them, and all the afternoon looking over them and examining with W. +Hewer, and so about to at night I to bed, leaving them to finish the +writing it fair, which they did by sitting up most of the night, and so +home to bed. + + + +18th. All the morning at the office about Sir W. Warren's accounts, my +mind full of my business, having before we met gone to Lord Brouncker, +and got him to read over my paper, who owns most absolute content in it, +and the advantage I have in it, and the folly of the Surveyor. At noon +home to dinner; and then again to the office a while, and so by hackney +coach to Brooke House, and there spoke with Colonel Thomson, I by order +carrying them [the Commissioners of Accounts] our Contract-books, from +the beginning to the end of the late war. I found him finding of errors +in a ship's book, where he shewed me many, which must end in the ruin, I +doubt, of the Controller, who found them not out in the pay of the ship, +or the whole Office. But I took little notice of them to concern myself +in them, but so leaving my books I home to the Office, where the office +met, and after some other business done, fell to mine, which the Surveyor +begun to be a little brisk at the beginning; but when I come to the point +to touch him, which I had all the advantages in the world to do, he +become as calm as a lamb, and owned, as the whole Board did, their +satisfaction, and cried excuse: and so all made friends; and their +acknowledgment put into writing, and delivered into Sir J. Minnes's hand, +to be kept there for the use of the Board, or me, when I shall call for +it; they desiring it might be so, that I might not make use of it to the +prejudice of the Surveyor, whom I had an advantage over, by his +extraordinary folly in this matter. But, besides this, I have no small +advantage got by this business, as I have put several things into my +letter which I should otherwise have wanted an opportunity of saying, +which pleases me mightily. So Middleton desiring to be friends, +I forgave him; and all mighty quiet, and fell to talk of other stories, +and there staid, all of us, till nine or ten at night, more than ever we +did in our lives before, together. And so home, where I have a new fight +to fight with my wife, who is under new trouble by some news she hath +heard of Deb.'s being mighty fine, and gives out that she has a friend +that gives her money, and this my wife believes to be me, and, poor +wretch! I cannot blame her, and therefore she run into mighty extremes; +but I did pacify all, and were mighty good friends, and to bed, and I +hope it will be our last struggle from this business, for I am resolved +never to give any new occasion, and great peace I find in my mind by it. +So to supper, she and I to bed. + + + +19th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon, eating +very little dinner, my wife and I by hackney to the King's playhouse, and +there, the pit being full, satin a box above, and saw "Catiline's +Conspiracy," yesterday being the first day: a play of much good sense and +words to read, but that do appear the worst upon the stage, I mean, the +least diverting, that ever I saw any, though most fine in clothes; and a +fine scene of the Senate, and of a fight, that ever I saw in my life. +But the play is only to be read, and therefore home, with no pleasure at +all, but only in sitting next to Betty Hall, that did belong to this +house, and was Sir Philip Howard's mistress; a mighty pretty wench, +though my wife will not think so; and I dare neither commend, nor be seen +to look upon her, or any other now, for fear of offending her. So, our +own coach coming for us, home, and to end letters, and so home, my wife +to read to me out of "The Siege of Rhodes," and so to supper, and to bed. + + + +20th (Lord's day). Up, and with my wife to church, and then home, and +there found W. Joyce come to dine with me, as troublesome a talking +coxcombe as ever he was, and yet once in a year I like him well enough. +In the afternoon my wife and W. Hewer and I to White Hall, where they set +me down and staid till I had been with the Duke of York, with the rest of +us of the Office, and did a little business, and then the Duke of York in +good humour did fall to tell us many fine stories of the wars in +Flanders, and how the Spaniards are the [best] disciplined foot in the +world; will refuse no extraordinary service if commanded, but scorn to be +paid for it, as in other countries, though at the same time they will beg +in the streets: not a soldier will carry you a cloak-bag for money for +the world, though he will beg a penny, and will do the thing, if +commanded by his Commander. That, in the citadel of Antwerp, a soldier +hath not a liberty of begging till he hath served three years. They will +cry out against their King and Commanders and Generals, none like them in +the world, and yet will not hear a stranger say a word of them but he +will cut his throat. That, upon a time, some of the Commanders of their +army exclaiming against their Generals, and particularly the Marquis de +Caranen, the Confessor of the Marquis coming by and hearing them, he +stops and gravely tells them that the three great trades of the world +are, the lawyers, who govern the world; the churchmen, who enjoy the +world; and a sort of fools whom they call souldiers, who make it their +work to defend the world. He told us, too, that Turenne being now become +a Catholique, he is likely to get over the head of Colbert, their +interests being contrary; the latter to promote trade + + [This reminds us of the famous reply, 'Laissez nous affaire', made + to Colbert by the French merchants, whose interests he thought to + promote by laws and regulations.--B.] + +and the sea, which, says the Duke of York, is that that we have most +cause to fear; and Turenne to employ the King and his forces by land, +to encrease his conquests. Thence to the coach to my wife, and so home, +and there with W. Hewer to my office and to do some business, and so set +down my Journall for four or five days, and then home to supper and read +a little, and to bed. W. Hewer tells me to-day that he hears that the +King of France hath declared in print, that he do intend this next summer +to forbid his Commanders to strike--[Strike topsails]--to us, but that +both we and the Dutch shall strike to him; and that he hath made his +captains swear it already, that they will observe it: which is a great +thing if he do it, as I know nothing to hinder him. + + + +21st. My own coach carrying me and my boy Tom, who goes with me in the +room of W. Hewer, who could not, and I dare not go alone, to the Temple, +and there set me down, the first time my fine horses ever carried me, and +I am mighty proud of them, and there took a hackney and to White Hall, +where a Committee of Tangier, but little to do, and so away home, calling +at the Exchange and buying several little things, and so home, and there +dined with my wife and people and then she, and W. Hewer, and I by +appointment out with our coach, but the old horses, not daring yet to use +the others too much, but only to enter them, and to the Temple, there to +call Talbot Pepys, and took him up, and first went into Holborne, and +there saw the woman that is to be seen with a beard. She is a little +plain woman, a Dane: her name, Ursula Dyan; about forty years old; her +voice like a little girl's; with a beard as much as any man I ever saw, +black almost, and grizly; they offered to shew my wife further +satisfaction if she desired it, refusing it to men that desired it there, +but there is no doubt but by her voice she is a woman; it begun to grow +at about seven years old, and was shaved not above seven months ago, +and is now so big as any man's almost that ever I saw; I say, bushy and +thick. It was a strange sight to me, I confess, and what pleased me +mightily. Thence to the Duke's playhouse, and saw "Macbeth." The King +and Court there; and we sat just under them and my Lady Castlemayne, +and close to the woman that comes into the pit, a kind of a loose gossip, +that pretends to be like her, and is so, something. And my wife, by my +troth, appeared, I think, as pretty as any of them; I never thought so +much before; and so did Talbot and W. Hewer, as they said, I heard, to +one another. The King and Duke of York minded me, and smiled upon me, +at the handsome woman near me but it vexed me to see Moll Davis, in the +box over the King's and my Lady Castlemayne's head, look down upon the +King, and he up to her; and so did my Lady Castlemayne once, to see who +it was; but when she saw her, she looked like fire; which troubled me. +The play done, took leave of Talbot, who goes into the country this +Christmas, and so we home, and there I to work at the office late, +and so home to supper and to bed. + + + +22nd. At the office all the morning, and at noon to the 'Change, +thinking to meet with Langford about my father's house in Fleet Streete, +but I come too late, and so home to dinner, and all the afternoon at the +office busy, and at night home to supper and talk, and with mighty +content with my wife, and so to bed. + + + +23rd. Met at the Office all the morning, and at noon to the 'Change, and +there met with Langford and Mr. Franke, the landlord of my father's house +in Fleet Streete, and are come to an arbitration what my father shall +give him to be freed of his lease and building the house again. Walked +up and down the 'Change, and among others discoursed with Sir John +Bankes, who thinks this prorogation will please all but the Parliament +itself, which will, if ever they meet, be vexed at Buckingham, who yet +governs all. He says the Nonconformists are glad of it, and, he +believes, will get the upperhand in a little time, for the King must +trust to them or nobody; and he thinks the King will be forced to it. +He says that Sir D. Gawden is mightily troubled at Pen's being put upon +him, by the Duke of York, and that he believes he will get clear of it, +which, though it will trouble me to have Pen still at the Office, yet I +shall think D. Gawden do well in it, and what I would advise him to, +because I love him. So home to dinner, and then with my wife alone +abroad, with our new horses, the beautifullest almost that ever I saw, +and the first time they ever carried her, and me but once; but we are +mighty proud of them. To her tailor's, and so to the 'Change, and laid +out three or four pounds in lace, for her and me; and so home, and there +I up to my Lord Brouncker, at his lodgings, and sat with him an hour, +on purpose to talk over the wretched state of this Office at present, +according to the present hands it is made up of; wherein he do fully +concur with me, and that it is our part not only to prepare for defending +it and ourselves, against the consequences of it, but to take the best +ways we can, to make it known to the Duke of York; for, till Sir +J. Minnes be removed, and a sufficient man brought into W. Pen's place, +when he is gone, it is impossible for this Office ever to support itself. +So home, and to supper and to bed. + + + +24th. A cold day. Up, and to the Office, where all the morning alone at +the Office, nobody meeting, being the eve of Christmas. At noon home to +dinner, and then to the Office busy, all the afternoon, and at night home +to supper, and it being now very cold, and in hopes of a frost, I begin +this night to put on a waistcoat, it being the first winter in my whole +memory that ever I staid till this day before I did so. So to bed in +mighty good humour with my wife, but sad, in one thing, and that is for +my poor eyes. + + + +25th (Christmas-day). Up, and continued on my waistcoat, the first day +this winter, and I to church, where Alderman Backewell, coming in late, +I beckoned to his lady to come up to us, who did, with another lady; +and after sermon, I led her down through the church to her husband and +coach, a noble, fine woman, and a good one, and one my wife shall be +acquainted with. So home, and to dinner alone with my wife, who, poor +wretch! sat undressed all day, till ten at night, altering and lacing of +a noble petticoat: while I by her, making the boy read to me the Life of +Julius Caesar, and Des Cartes' book of Musick + + ["Musicae Compendium." By Rene Des Cartes, Amsterdam, 1617; + rendered into English, London, 1653, 4to. The translator, whose + name did not appear on the title, was William, Viscount Brouncker, + Pepys's colleague, who proved his knowledge of music by the + performance.] + +--the latter of which I understand not, nor think he did well that writ +it, though a most learned man. Then, after supper, I made the boy play +upon his lute, which I have not done twice before since he come to me; +and so, my mind in mighty content, we to bed. + + + +26th. Lay long with pleasure, prating with my wife, and then up, and I +a little to the Office, and my head busy setting some papers and accounts +to rights, which being long neglected because of my eyes will take me up +much time and care to do, but it must be done. So home at noon to +dinner, and then abroad with my wife to a play, at the Duke of York's +house, the house full of ordinary citizens. The play was "Women +Pleased," which we had never seen before; and, though but indifferent, +yet there is a good design for a good play. So home, and there to talk, +and my wife to read to me, and so to bed. + + + +27th (Lord's day). Walked to White Hall and there saw the King at +chapel; but staid not to hear anything, but went to walk in the Park, +with W. Hewer, who was with me; and there, among others, met with Sir +G. Downing, and walked with him an hour, talking of business, and how the +late war was managed, there being nobody to take care of it, and telling +how, when he was in Holland, what he offered the King to do, if he might +have power, and they would give him power, and then, upon the least word, +perhaps of a woman, to the King, he was contradicted again, and +particularly to the loss of all that we lost in Guinny. He told me that +he had so good spies, that he hath had the keys taken out of De Witt's + + [The celebrated John de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland, who, + a few years afterwards, was massacred, with his brother Cornelius, + by the Dutch mob, enraged at their opposition to the elevation of + William of Orange to the Stadtholdership, when the States were + overrun by the French army, and the Dutch fleets beaten at sea by + the English. The murder of the De Witts forms one of the main + incidents of Alexandre Dumas's "Black Tulip."] + +pocket when he was a-bed, and his closet opened, and papers brought to +him, and left in his hands for an hour, and carried back and laid in the +place again, and keys put into his pocket again. He says that he hath +always had their most private debates, that have been but between two or +three of the chief of them, brought to him in an hour after, and an hour +after that, hath sent word thereof to the King, but nobody here regarded +them. But he tells me the sad news, that he is out of all expectations +that ever the debts of the Navy will be paid, if the Parliament do not +enable the King to do it by money; all they can hope for to do out of the +King's revenue being but to keep our wheels a-going on present services, +and, if they can, to cut off the growing interest: which is a sad story, +and grieves me to the heart. So home, my coach coming for me, and there +find Balty and Mr. How, who dined with me; and there my wife and I fell +out a little about the foulness of the linen of the table, but were +friends presently, but she cried, poor heart! which I was troubled for, +though I did not give her one hard word. Dinner done, she to church, +and W. How and I all the afternoon talking together about my Lord +Sandwich's suffering his business of the prizes to be managed by Sir R. +Cuttance, who is so deep in the business, more than my Lord knows of, +and such a loggerhead, and under such prejudice, that he will, we doubt, +do my Lord much wrong. In the evening, he gone, my wife to read to me +and talk, and spent the evening with much pleasure, and so to supper and +to bed. + + + +28th. Up, called up by drums and trumpets; these things and boxes [??] +having cost me much money this Christmas already, and will do more. My +wife down by water to see her mother, and I with W. Hewer all day +together in my closet making some advance in the settling of my accounts, +which have been so long unevened that it troubles me how to set them +right, having not the use of my eyes to help me. My wife at night home, +and tells me how much her mother prays for me and is troubled for my +eyes; and I am glad to have friendship with them, and believe they are +truly glad to see their daughter come to live so well as she do. So +spent the night in talking, and so to supper and to bed. + + + +29th. Up, and at the Office all the morning, and at noon to dinner, and +there, by a pleasant mistake, find my uncle and aunt Wight, and three +more of their company, come to dine with me to-day, thinking that they +had been invited, which they were not; but yet we did give them a pretty +good dinner, and mighty merry at the mistake. They sat most of the +afternoon with us, and then parted, and my wife and I out, thinking to +have gone to a play, but it was too far begun, and so to the 'Change, and +there she and I bought several things, and so home, with much pleasure +talking, and then to reading, and so to supper and to bed. + + + +30th. Up, and vexed a little to be forced to pay 40s. for a glass of my +coach, which was broke the other day, nobody knows how, within the door, +while it was down; but I do doubt that I did break it myself with my +knees. After dinner, my wife and I to the Duke's playhouse, and there +did see King Harry the Eighth; and was mightily pleased, better than I +ever expected, with the history and shows of it. We happened to sit by +Mr. Andrews, our neighbour, and his wife, who talked so fondly to his +little boy. Thence my wife and I to the 'Change; but, in going, our +neere horse did fling himself, kicking of the coachbox over the pole; and +a great deal of trouble it was to get him right again, and we forced to +'light, and in great fear of spoiling the horse, but there was no hurt. +So to the 'Change, and then home, and there spent the evening talking, +and so to supper and to bed. + + + +31st. Up, and at the Office all the morning. At noon Capt. Ferrers and +Mr. Sheres + + [Henry Sheres accompanied Lord Sandwich in his embassy to Spain, and + returned to England in September, 1667, bearing letters from the + ambassador (see September 8th, 22nd, 27th). He was an officer in + the Ordnance, and served under Lord Dartmouth at the demolition of + the Mole at Tangier in 1683. He was knighted about 1684. He + translated Polybius (2 vols. 8vo., 1693), and also some of the + "Dialogues" of Lucian, included in the translation published in 1711 + (3 vols. 8vo.). Pepys bequeathed him a ring, and he died about + 1713.] + +come to me to dinner, who did, and pretty pleased with their talk of +Spayne; but my wife did not come down, I suppose because she would not, +Captain Ferrers being there, to oblige me by it. They gone, after +dinner, I to the office, and then in the evening home, being the last day +of the year, to endeavour to pay all bills and servants' wages, &c., +which I did almost to L5 that I know that I owe in the world, but to the +publique; and so with great pleasure to supper and to bed, and, blessed +be God! the year ends, after some late very great sorrow with my wife by +my folly, yet ends, I say, with great mutual peace and content, and +likely to last so by my care, who am resolved to enjoy the sweet of it, +which I now possess, by never giving her like cause of trouble. My +greatest trouble is now from the backwardness of my accounts, which I +have not seen the bottom of now near these two years, so that I know not +in what condition I am in the world, but by the grace of God, as far as +my eyes will give me leave, I will do it. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +Craft and cunning concerning the buying and choosing of horses +Did see the knaveries and tricks of jockeys +Hath not a liberty of begging till he hath served three years +He told me that he had so good spies +Laissez nous affaire--Colbert +Nonconformists do now preach openly in houses +Offered to shew my wife further satisfaction if she desired +Seeing that he cared so little if he was out +Tell me that I speak in my dreams + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v78 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + +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 + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v79 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + |