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Up, and with W. +Hewer to the New Exchange, and then he and I to the cabinet-shops, to +look out, and did agree, for a cabinet to give my wife for a New-year's +gift; and I did buy one cost me L11, which is very pretty, of walnutt- +tree, and will come home to-morrow. So back to the old Exchange, and +there met my uncle Wight; and there walked, and met with the Houblons, +and talked with them--gentlemen whom I honour mightily: and so to my +uncle's, and met my wife; and there, with W. Hewer, we dined with our +family, and had a very good dinner, and pretty merry and after dinner, +my wife and I with our coach to the King's playhouse, and there in a box +saw "The Mayden Queene." Knepp looked upon us, but I durst not shew her +any countenance; and, as well as I could carry myself, I found my wife +uneasy there, poor wretch! therefore, I shall avoid that house as much +as I can. So back to my aunt's, and there supped and talked, and staid +pretty late, it being dry and moonshine, and so walked home, and to bed +in very good humour. + + + +2nd. Up, at the office all the morning, and at noon home to dinner, +where I find my cabinet come home, and paid for it, and it pleases me and +my wife well. So after dinner busy late at the office, and so home and +to bed. + + + +3rd (Lord's day). Up, and busy all the morning, getting rooms and dinner +ready for my guests, which were my uncle and aunt Wight, and two of their +cousins, and an old woman, and Mr. Mills and his wife; and a good dinner, +and all our plate out, and mighty fine and merry, only I a little vexed +at burning a new table-cloth myself, with one of my trencher-salts. +Dinner done, I out with W. Hewer and Mr. Spong, who by accident come to +dine with me, and good talk with him: to White Hall by coach, and there +left him, and I with my Lord Brouncker to attend the Duke of York, and +then up and down the House till the evening, hearing how the King do +intend this frosty weather, it being this day the first, and very hard +frost, that hath come this year, and very cold it is. So home; and to +supper and read; and there my wife and I treating about coming to an +allowance to my wife for clothes; and there I, out of my natural +backwardness, did hang off, which vexed her, and did occasion some +discontented talk in bed, when we went to bed; and also in the morning, +but I did recover all in the morning. + + + +4th. Lay long, talking with my wife, and did of my own accord come to an +allowance of her of L30 a-year for all expences, clothes and everything, +which she was mightily pleased with, it being more than ever she asked or +expected, and so rose, with much content, and up with W. Hewer to White +Hall, there to speak with Mr. Wren, which I did about several things of +the office entered in my memorandum books, and so about noon, going +homeward with W. Hewer, he and I went in and saw the great tall woman +that is to be seen, who is but twenty-one years old, and I do easily +stand under her arms. Then, going further, The. Turner called me, out of +her coach where her mother, &c., was, and invited me by all means to dine +with them, at my cozen Roger's mistress's, the widow Dickenson! So, I +went to them afterwards, and dined with them, and mighty handsomely +treated, and she a wonderful merry, good-humoured, fat, but plain woman, +but I believe a very good woman, and mighty civil to me. Mrs. Turner, +the mother, and Mrs. Dyke, and The., and Betty was the company, and a +gentleman of their acquaintance. Betty I did long to see, and she is +indifferent pretty, but not what the world did speak of her; but I am +mighty glad to have one so pretty of our kindred. After dinner, I walked +with them, to shew them the great woman, which they admire, as well they +may; and so back with them, and left them; and I to White Hall, where a +Committee of Tangier met, but little to do there, but I did receive an +instance of the Duke of York's kindness to me, and the whole Committee, +that they would not order any thing about the Treasurer for the +Corporation now in establishing, without my assent, and considering +whether it would be to my wrong or no. Thence up and down the house, +and to the Duke of York's side, and there in the Duchess's presence; +and was mightily complimented by my Lady Peterborough, in my Lord +Sandwich's presence, whom she engaged to thank me for my kindness to her +and her Lord. . . . By and by I met my Lord Brouncker; and he and +I to the Duke of York alone, and discoursed over the carriage of the +present Treasurers, in opposition to, or at least independency of, the +Duke of York, or our Board, which the Duke of York is sensible of, and +all remember, I believe; for they do carry themselves very respectlessly +of him and us. We also declared our minds together to the Duke of York +about Sir John Minnes's incapacity to do any service in the Office, and +that it is but to betray the King to have any business of trust committed +to his weakness. So the Duke of York was very sensible of it and +promised to speak to the King about it. That done, I with W. Hewer took +up my wife at Unthank's, and so home, and there with pleasure to read and +talk, and so to supper, and put into writing, in merry terms, our +agreement between my wife and me, about L30 a-year, and so to bed. This +was done under both our hands merrily, and put into W. Hewer's to keep. + + + +5th. Up, and to the office all the morning, the frost and cold +continuing. At noon home with my people to dinner; and so to work at the +office again; in the evening comes Creed to me, and tells me his wife is +at my house. So I in, and spent an hour with them, the first time she +hath been here, or I have seen her, since she was married. She is not +overhandsome, though a good lady, and one I love. So after some pleasant +discourse, they gone, I to the Office again, and there late, and then +home to supper to my wife, who is not very well of those, and so sat +talking till past one in the morning, and then to bed. + + + +6th (Twelfth day). Up, and to look after things against dinner to-day +for my guests, and then to the Office to write down my journall for five +or six days backward, and so home to look after dinner, it being now +almost noon. At noon comes Mrs. Turner and Dyke, and Mrs. Dickenson, +and then comes The. and Betty Turner, the latter of which is a very +pretty girl; and then Creed and his wife, whom I sent for, by my coach. +These were my guests, and Mrs. Turner's friend, whom I saw the other day, +Mr. Wicken, and very merry we were at dinner, and so all the afternoon, +talking, and looking up and down my house; and in the evening I did bring +out my cake--a noble cake, and there cut it into pieces, with wine and +good drink: and after a new fashion, to prevent spoiling the cake, did +put so many titles into a hat, and so drew cuts; and I was the Queene; +and The. Turner, King--Creed, Sir Martin Marr-all; and Betty, Mrs. +Millicent: and so we were mighty merry till it was night; and then, being +moonshine and fine frost, they went home, I lending some of them my coach +to help to carry them, and so my wife and I spent the rest of the evening +in talk and reading, and so with great pleasure to bed. + + + +7th. Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning, and then at. +noon home to dinner, and thence my wife and I to the King's playhouse, +and there saw "The Island Princesse," the first time I ever saw it; and +it is a pretty good play, many good things being in it, and a good scene +of a town on fire. We sat in an upper box, and the jade Nell come and +sat in the next box; a bold merry slut, who lay laughing there upon +people; and with a comrade of hers of the Duke's house, that come in to +see the play. Thence home and to the office to do some business, and so +home to supper and to bed. + + + +8th. Up, and with Colonel Middleton, in his coach, and Mr. Tippets to +White Hall; and there attended the Duke of York with the rest, where the +Duke was mighty plain with the Treasurers, according to the advice my +Lord Brouncker and I did give him the other night, and he did it fully; +and so as, I believe, will make the Treasurers carefull of themselves, +unless they do resolve upon defying the Duke of York. Thence with +W. Hewer home, and to dinner, and so out again, my wife and I and Mr. +Hater to White Hall, where she set us down, and she up and down to buy +things, while we at the Treasury-Chamber, where I alone did manage the +business of "The Leopard" against the whole Committee of the East India +Company, with Mr. Blackburne with them; and to the silencing of them +all, to my no great content. Thence walked to my wife, and so set out +for home in our coach, it being very cold weather, and so to the office +to do a little business, and then home to my wife's chamber, my people +having laid the cloth, and got the rooms all clean above-stairs to-night +for our dinner to-morrow, and therefore I to bed. + + + +9th. Up, and at the office all the morning, and at noon, my Lord +Brouncker, Mr. Wren, Joseph Williamson, and Captain Cocke, dined with me; +and, being newly sat down, comes in, by invitation of Williamson's, the +Lieutenant of the Tower, and he brings in with him young Mr. Whore, whose +father, of the Tower, I know.--And here I had a neat dinner, and all in +so good manner and fashion, and with so good company, and everything to +my mind, as I never had more in my life--the company being to my heart's +content, and they all well pleased. So continued, looking over my books +and closet till the evening, and so I to the Office and did a good deal +of business, and so home to supper and to bed with my mind mightily +pleased with this day's management, as one of the days of my life of +fullest content. + + + +10th (Lord's day). Accidentally talking of our maids before we rose, +I said a little word that did give occasion to my wife to fall out; and +she did most vexatiously, almost all the morning, but ended most perfect +good friends; but the thoughts of the unquiet which her ripping up of old +faults will give me, did make me melancholy all day long. So about noon, +past 12, we rose, and to dinner, and then to read and talk, my wife and I +alone, for Balty was gone, who come to dine with us, and then in the +evening comes Pelting to sit and talk with us, and so to supper and +pretty merry discourse, only my mind a little vexed at the morning's +work, but yet without any appearance. So after supper to bed. + + + +11th. Up, and with W. Hewer, my guard, to White Hall, where no Committee +of Tangier met, so up and down the House talking with this and that man, +and so home, calling at the New Exchange for a book or two to send to Mr. +Shepley and thence home, and thence to the 'Change, and there did a +little business, and so walked home to dinner, and then abroad with my +wife to the King's playhouse, and there saw "The Joviall Crew," but ill +acted to what it was heretofore, in Clun's time, and when Lacy could +dance. Thence to the New Exchange, to buy some things; and, among +others, my wife did give me my pair of gloves, which, by contract, she is +to give me in her L30 a-year. Here Mrs. Smith tells us of the great +murder thereabouts, on Saturday last, of one Captain Bumbridge, by one +Symons, both of her acquaintance; and hectors that were at play, and in +drink: the former is killed, and is kinsman to my Lord of Ormond, which +made him speak of it with so much passion, as I overheard him this +morning, but could not make anything of it till now, but would they would +kill more of them. So home; and there at home all the evening; and made +Tom to prick down some little conceits and notions of mine, in musique, +which do mightily encourage me to spend some more thoughts about it; for +I fancy, upon good reason, that I am in the right way of unfolding the +mystery of this matter, better than ever yet. + + + +12th. Up, and to the Office, where, by occasion of a message from the +Treasurers that their Board found fault with Commissioner Middleton, I +went up from our Board to the Lords of the Treasury to meet our +Treasurers, and did, and there did dispute the business, it being about +the matter of paying a little money to Chatham Yard, wherein I find the +Treasurers mighty supple, and I believe we shall bring them to reason, +though they begun mighty upon us, as if we had no power of directing +them, but they, us. Thence back presently home, to dinner, where I +discern my wife to have been in pain about where I have been, but said +nothing to me, but I believe did send W. Hewer to seek me, but I take no +notice of it, but am vexed. So to dinner with my people, and then to the +Office, where all the afternoon, and did much business, and at it late, +and so home to supper, and to bed. This day, meeting Mr. Pierce at White +Hall, he tells me that his boy hath a great mind to see me, and is going +to school again; and Dr. Clerke, being by, do tell me that he is a fine +boy; but I durst not answer anything, because I durst not invite him to +my house, for fear of my wife; and therefore, to my great trouble, was +forced to neglect that discourse. But here Mr. Pierce, I asking him +whither he was going, told me as a great secret that he was going to his +master's mistress, Mrs. Churchill, with some physic; meaning for the pox +I suppose, or else that she is got with child. This evening I observed +my wife mighty dull, and I myself was not mighty fond, because of some +hard words she did give me at noon, out of a jealousy at my being abroad +this morning, which, God knows, it was upon the business of the Office +unexpectedly: but I to bed, not thinking but she would come after me. +But waking by and by out of a slumber, which I usually fall into +presently after my coming into the bed, I found she did not prepare to +come to bed, but got fresh candles, and more wood for her fire, it being +mighty cold, too. At this being troubled, I after a while prayed her to +come to bed, all my people being gone to bed; so, after an hour or two, +she silent, and I now and then praying her to come to bed, she fell out +into a fury, that I was a rogue, and false to her. But yet I did +perceive that she was to seek what to say, only she invented, I believe, +a business that I was seen in a hackney coach with the glasses up with +Deb., but could not tell the time, nor was sure I was he. I did, as I +might truly, deny it, and was mightily troubled, but all would not serve. +At last, about one o'clock, she come to my side of the bed, and drew my +curtaine open, and with the tongs red hot at the ends, made as if she did +design to pinch me with them, at which, in dismay, I rose up, and with a +few words she laid them down; and did by little and, little, very +sillily, let all the discourse fall; and about two, but with much seeming +difficulty, come to bed, and there lay well all night, and long in bed +talking together, with much pleasure, it being, I know, nothing but her +doubt of my going out yesterday, without telling her of my going, which +did vex her, poor wretch! last night, and I cannot blame her jealousy, +though it do vex me to the heart. + + + +13th. So up and by coach to Sir W. Coventry's, but he gone out, so I to +White Hall, and thence walked out into the Park, all in the snow, with +the Duke of York and the rest, and so home, after visiting my Lady +Peterborough, and there by invitation find Mr. Povy, and there was also +Talbot Pepys, newly come from Impington, and dined with me; and after +dinner and a little talk with Povy about publick matters, he gone, and I +and my wife and Talbot towards the Temple, and there to the King's +playhouse, and there saw, I think, "The Maiden Queene," and so home and +to supper and read, and to bed. This day come home the instrument I have +so long longed for, the Parallelogram. + + + +14th. Up and to the office, where all the morning busy, and so home to +dinner, where Goodgroome with us, and after dinner a song, and then to +the office, where busy till night, and then home to work there with W. +Hewer to get ready some Tangier papers against to-morrow, and so to +supper and to bed. + + + +15th. Up, and by coach to Sir W. Coventry, where with him a good while +in his chamber, talking of one thing or another; among others, he told me +of the great factions at Court at this day, even to the sober engaging of +great persons, and differences, and making the King cheap and ridiculous. +It is about my Lady Harvy's being offended at Doll Common's acting of +Sempronia, to imitate her; for which she got my Lord Chamberlain, her +kinsman, to imprison Doll: when my Lady Castlemayne made the King to +release her, and to order her to act it again, worse than ever, the other +day, where the King himself was: and since it was acted again, and my +Lady Harvy provided people to hiss her and fling oranges at her: but, +it seems the heat is come to a great height, and real troubles at Court +about it. Thence he and I out of doors, but he to Sir J. Duncomb, and +I to White Hall through the Park, where I met the King and the Duke of +York, and so walked with them, and so to White Hall, where the Duke of +York met the office and did a little business; and I did give him thanks +for his favour to me yesterday, at the Committee of Tangier, in my +absence, Mr. Povy having given me advice of it, of the discourse there of +doing something as to the putting the payment of the garrison into some +undertaker's hand, Alderman Backewell, which the Duke of York would not +suffer to go on, without my presence at the debate. And he answered me +just thus: that he ought to have a care of him that do the King's +business in the manner that I do, and words of more force than that. +Then down with Lord Brouncker to Sir R. Murray, into the King's little +elaboratory, under his closet, a pretty place; and there saw a great many +chymical glasses and things, but understood none of them. So I home and +to dinner, and then out again and stop with my wife at my cozen Turner's +where I staid and sat a while, and carried The. and my wife to the Duke +of York's house, to "Macbeth," and myself to White Hall, to the Lords of +the Treasury, about Tangier business; and there was by at much merry +discourse between them and my Lord Anglesey, who made sport of our new +Treasurers, and called them his deputys, and much of that kind. And +having done my own business, I away back, and carried my cozen Turner and +sister Dyke to a friend's house, where they were to sup, in Lincoln's Inn +Fields; and I to the Duke of York's house and saw the last two acts, and +so carried The. thither, and so home with my wife, who read to me late, +and so to supper and to bed. This day The. Turner shewed me at the play +my Lady Portman, who has grown out of my knowledge. + + + +16th. Up, and to the office all the morning, dined at home with my +people, and so all the afternoon till night at the office busy, and so +home to supper and to bed. This morning Creed, and in the afternoon +comes Povy, to advise with me about my answer to the Lords +[Commissioners] of Tangier, about the propositions for the Treasurership +there, which I am not much concerned for. But the latter, talking of +publick things, told me, as Mr. Wren also did, that the Parliament is +likely to meets again, the King being frighted with what the Speaker hath +put him in mind of--his promise not to prorogue, but only to adjourne +them. They speak mighty freely of the folly of the King in this foolish +woman's business, of my Lady Harvy. Povy tells me that Sir W. Coventry +was with the King alone, an hour this day; and that my Lady Castlemayne +is now in a higher command over the King than ever--not as a mistress, +for she scorns him, but as a tyrant, to command him: and says that the +Duchess of York and the Duke of York are mighty great with her, which is +a great interest to my Lord Chancellor's' family; and that they do agree +to hinder all they can the proceedings of the Duke of Buckingham and +Arlington: and so we are in the old mad condition, or rather worse than +any; no man knowing what the French intend to do the next summer. + + + +17th (Lord's day). To church myself after seeing every thing fitted for +dinner, and so, after church, home, and thither comes Mrs. Batelier and +her two daughters to dinner to us; and W. Hewer and his mother, and Mr. +Spong. We were very civilly merry, and Mrs. Batelier a very discreet +woman, but mighty fond in the stories she tells of her son Will. After +dinner, Mr. Spong and I to my closet, there to try my instrument +Parallelogram, which do mighty well, to my full content; but only a +little stiff, as being new. Thence, taking leave of my guests, he and I +and W. Hewer to White Hall, and there parting with Spong, a man that I +mightily love for his plainness and ingenuity, I into the Court, and +there up and down and spoke with my Lords Bellassis and Peterborough +about the business now in dispute, about my deputing a Treasurer to pay +the garrison at Tangier, which I would avoid, and not be accountable, and +they will serve me therein. Here I met Hugh May, and he brings me to the +knowledge of Sir Henry Capell, a Member of Parliament, and brother of my +Lord of Essex, who hath a great value, it seems, for me; and they appoint +a day to come and dine with me, and see my books, and papers of the +Office, which I shall be glad to shew them, and have opportunity to +satisfy them therein. Here all the discourse is, that now the King +is of opinion to have the Parliament called, notwithstanding his late +resolutions for proroguing them; so unstable are his councils, and those +about him. So staying late talking in the Queen's side, I away, with +W. Hewer home, and there to read and talk with my wife, and so to bed. + + + +18th. Up by candlelight, and with W. Hewer walked to the Temple, and +thence took coach and to Sir William Coventry's, and there discoursed the +business of my Treasurer's place, at Tangier, wherein he consents to my +desire, and concurs therein, which I am glad of, that I may not be +accountable for a man so far off. And so I to my Lord Sandwich's, and +there walk with him through the garden, to White Hall, where he tells me +what he had done about this Treasurer's place, and I perceive the whole +thing did proceed from him: that finding it would be best to have the +Governor have nothing to do with the pay of the garrison, he did propose +to the Duke of York alone that a pay-master should be there; and that +being desirous to do a courtesy to Sir Charles Harbord, and to prevent +the Duke of York's looking out for any body else, he did name him to the +Duke of York. That when he come the other day to move this to the Board +of Tangier, the Duke of York, it seems, did readily reply, that it was +fit to have Mr. Pepys satisfied therein first, and that it was not good +to make places for persons. This my Lord in great confidence tells me, +that he do take very ill from the Duke of York, though nobody knew the +meaning of these words but him; and that he did take no notice of them, +but bit his lip, being satisfied that the Duke of York's care of me was +as desirable to him, as it could be to have Sir Charles Harbord: and did +seem industrious to let me see that he was glad that the Duke of York and +he might come to contend who shall be the kindest to me, which I owned as +his great love, and so I hope and believe it is, though my Lord did go a +little too far in this business, to move it so far, without consulting +me. But I took no notice of that, but was glad to see this competition +come about, that my Lord Sandwich is apparently jealous of my thinking +that the Duke of York do mean me more kindness than him. So we walked +together, and I took this occasion to invite him to dinner one day to my +house, and he readily appointed Friday next, which I shall be glad to +have over to his content, he having never yet eat a bit of my bread. +Thence to the Duke of York on the King's side, with our Treasurers of the +Navy, to discourse some business of the Navy, about the pay of the yards, +and there I was taken notice of, many Lords being there in the room, +of the Duke of York's conference with me; and so away, and meeting Mr. +Sidney Montagu and Sheres, a small invitation served their turn to carry +them to London, where I paid Sheres his L100, given him for his pains in +drawing the plate of Tangier fortifications, &c., and so home to my house +to dinner, where I had a pretty handsome sudden dinner, and all well +pleased; and thence we three and my wife to the Duke of York's playhouse, +and there saw "The Witts," a medley of things, but some similes mighty +good, though ill mixed; and thence with my wife to the Exchange and +bought some things, and so home, after I had been at White Hall, and +there in the Queen's withdrawing-room invited my Lord Peterborough to +dine with me, with my Lord Sandwich, who readily accepted it. Thence +back and took up my wife at the 'Change, and so home. This day at noon +I went with my young gentlemen (thereby to get a little time while +W. Hewer went home to bid them get a dinner ready) to the Pope's Head +tavern, there to see the fine painted room which Rogerson told me of, +of his doing; but I do not like it at all, though it be good for such a +publick room. + + + +19th. Up, and at the office all the morning. At noon eat a mouthful, +and so with my wife to Madam Turner's, and find her gone, but The. staid +for us; and so to the King's house, to see "Horace;" this the third day +of its acting--a silly tragedy; but Lacy hath made a farce of several +dances--between each act, one: but his words are but silly, and invention +not extraordinary, as to the dances; only some Dutchmen come out of the +mouth and tail of a Hamburgh sow. Thence, not much pleased with the +play, set them at home in the Strand; and my wife and I home, and there +to do a little business at the Office, and so home to supper and to bed. + + + +20th. Up; and my wife, and I, and W. Hewer to White Hall, where she set +us down; and there I spoke with my Lord Peterborough, to tell him of the +day for his dining with me being altered by my Lord Sandwich from Friday +to Saturday next. And thence heard at the Council-board the City, +by their single counsel Symson, and the company of Strangers Merchants, +a debate the business of water-baylage; a tax demanded upon all goods, +by the City, imported and exported: which these Merchants oppose, and +demanding leave to try the justice of the City's demand by a Quo +Warranto, which the City opposed, the Merchants did quite lay the City on +their backs with great triumph, the City's cause being apparently too +weak: but here I observed Mr. Gold, the merchant, to speak very well, +and very sharply, against the City. Thence to my wife at Unthanke's, +and with her and W. Hewer to Hercules Pillars, calling to do two or three +things by the way, end there dined, and thence to the Duke of York's +house, and saw "Twelfth Night," as it is now revived; but, I think, one +of the weakest plays that ever I saw on the stage. This afternoon, +before the play, I called with my wife at Dancre's, the great landscape- +painter, by Mr. Povy's advice; and have bespoke him to come to take +measure of my dining-room panels, and there I met with the pretty +daughter of the coalseller's, that lived in Cheapside, and now in Covent +Garden, who hath her picture drawn here, but very poorly; but she is a +pretty woman, and now, I perceive, married, a very pretty black woman. +So, the play done, we home, my wife letting fall some words of her +observing my eyes to be mightily employed in the playhouse, meaning upon +women, which did vex me; but, however, when we come home, we were good +friends; and so to read, and to supper, and so to bed. + + + +21st. Up, and walked to the Temple, it being frosty, and there took +coach, my boy Tom with me, and so to White Hall to a Committee of +Tangier, where they met, and by and by and till twelve at noon upon +business, among others mine, where my desire about being eased of +appointing and standing accountable for a Treasurer there was well +accepted, and they will think of some other way. This I was glad of, +finding reason to doubt that I might in this (since my Lord Sandwich made +me understand what he had said to the Duke of York herein) fear to offend +either the Duke of York by denying it, for he seemed on Sunday night +last, when I first made known my desire to him herein to be a little +amused at it, though I knew not then the reason, or else offend my Lord +Sandwich by accepting it, or denying it in a manner that might not +forward his desire for Sir Charles Harbord, but I thank God I did it to +my great content without any offence, I think, to either. Thence in my +own coach home, where I find Madam Turner, Dyke, and The.; and had a good +dinner for them, and merry; and so carried them to the Duke of York's +house, all but Dyke, who went away on other business; and there saw +"The Tempest;" but it is but ill done by Gosnell, in lieu of Moll Davis. +Thence set them at home, and my wife and I to the 'Change, and so home, +where my wife mighty dogged, and I vexed to see it, being mightily +troubled, of late, at her being out of humour, for fear of her +discovering any new matter of offence against me, though I am conscious +of none; but do hate to be unquiet at home. So, late up, silent, and not +supping, but hearing her utter some words of discontent to me with +silence, and so to bed, weeping to myself for grief, which she +discerning, come to bed, and mighty kind, and so with great joy on +both sides to sleep. + + + +22nd. Up, and with W. Hewer to White Hall, and there attended the Duke +of York, and thence to the Exchange, in the way calling at several places +on occasions relating to my feast to-morrow, on which my mind is now set; +as how to get a new looking-glass for my dining-room, and some pewter, +and good wine, against to-morrow; and so home, where I had the looking- +glass set up, cost me L6 7s. 6d. And here at the 'Change I met with Mr. +Dancre, the famous landscape painter, with whom I was on Wednesday; +and he took measure of my panels in my dining-room, where, in the four, +I intend to have the four houses of the King, White Hall, Hampton Court, +Greenwich, and Windsor. He gone, I to dinner with my people, and so to +my office to dispatch a little business, and then home to look after +things against to-morrow, and among other things was mightily pleased +with the fellow that come to lay the cloth, and fold the napkins, which I +like so well, as that I am resolved to give him 40s. to teach my wife to +do it. So to supper, with much kindness between me and my wife, which, +now-a-days, is all my care, and so to bed. + + + +23rd. Up, and again to look after the setting things right against +dinner, which I did to very good content. So to the office, where all +the morning till noon, when word brought me to the Board that my Lord +Sandwich was come; so I presently rose, leaving the Board ready to rise, +and there I found my Lord Sandwich, Peterborough, and Sir Charles +Harbord; and presently after them comes my Lord Hinchingbroke, +Mr. Sidney, and Sir William Godolphin. And after greeting them, +and some time spent in talk, dinner was brought up, one dish after +another, but a dish at a time, but all so good; but, above all things, +the variety of wines, and excellent of their kind, I had for them, and +all in so good order, that they were mightily pleased, and myself full +of content at it: and indeed it was, of a dinner of about six or eight +dishes, as noble as any man need to have, I think; at least, all was done +in the noblest manner that ever I had any, and I have rarely seen in my +life better anywhere else, even at the Court. After dinner, my Lords to +cards, and the rest of us sitting about them and talking, and looking on +my books and pictures, and my wife's drawings, which they commend +mightily; and mighty merry all day long, with exceeding great content, +and so till seven at night; and so took their leaves, it being dark and +foul weather. Thus was this entertainment over, the best of its kind, +and the fullest of honour and content to me, that ever I had in my life: +and shall not easily have so good again. The truth is, I have some fear +that I am more behind-hand in the world for these last two years, since I +have not, or for some time could not, look after my accounts, which do a +little allay my pleasure. But I do trust in God I am pretty well yet, +and resolve, in a very little time, to look into my accounts, and see how +they stand. So to my wife's chamber, and there supped, and got her cut +my hair and look my shirt, for I have itched mightily these 6 or 7 days, +and when all comes to all she finds that I am lousy, having found in my +head and body about twenty lice, little and great, which I wonder at, +being more than I have had I believe these 20 years. I did think I might +have got them from the little boy, but they did presently look him, and +found none. So how they come I know not, but presently did shift myself, +and so shall be rid of them, and cut my hair close to my head, and so +with much content to bed. + + + +24th (Lord's day). An order brought me in bed, for the Principal +Officers to attend the King at my Lord Keeper's this afternoon, it being +resolved late the last night; and, by the warrant, I find my Lord Keeper +did not then know the cause of it, the messenger being ordered to call +upon him, to tell it him by the way, as he come to us. So I up, and to +my Office to set down my Journall for yesterday, and so home, and with my +wife to Church, and then home, and to dinner, and after dinner out with +my wife by coach, to cozen Turner's, where she and The. gone to church, +but I left my wife with Mrs. Dyke and Joyce Norton, whom I have not seen +till now since their coming to town: she is become an old woman, and with +as cunning a look as ever, and thence I to White Hall, and there walked +up and down till the King and Duke of York were ready to go forth; and +here I met Will. Batelier, newly come post from France, his boots all +dirty. He brought letters to the King, and I glad to see him, it having +been reported that he was drowned, for some days past, and then, he being +gone, I to talk with Tom Killigrew, who told me and others, talking about +the playhouse, that he is fain to keep a woman on purpose at 20s. a week +to satisfy 8 or 10 of the young men of his house, whom till he did so he +could never keep to their business, and now he do. By and by the King +comes out, and so I took coach, and followed his coaches to my Lord +Keeper's, at Essex House, where I never was before, since I saw my old +Lord Essex lie in state when he was dead; a large, but ugly house. Here +all the Officers of the Navy attended, and by and by were called in to +the King and Cabinet, where my Lord, who was ill, did lie upon the bed, +as my old Lord Treasurer, or Chancellor, heretofore used to; and the +business was to know in what time all the King's ships might be repaired, +fit for service. The Surveyor answered, in two years, and not sooner. +I did give them hopes that, with supplies of money suitable, we might +have them all fit for sea some part of the summer after this. Then they +demanded in what time we could set out forty ships. It was answered, +as they might be chosen of the newest and most ready, we could, with +money, get forty ready against May. The King seemed mighty full that we +should have money to do all that we desired, and satisfied that, without +it, nothing could be done: and so, without determining any thing, we were +dismissed; and I doubt all will end in some little fleete this year, and +those of hired merchant-men, which would indeed be cheaper to the King, +and have many conveniences attending it, more than to fit out the King's +own; and this, I perceive, is designed, springing from Sir W. Coventry's +counsel; and the King and most of the Lords, I perceive, full of it, +to get the King's fleete all at once in condition for service. Thence +I with Mr. Wren in his coach to my cozen Turner's for discourse sake, +and in our way he told me how the business of the Parliament is wholly +laid aside, it being overruled now, that they shall not meet, but must be +prorogued, upon this argument chiefly, that all the differences between +the two Houses, and things on foot, that were matters of difference and +discontent, may be laid aside, and must begin again, if ever the House +shall have a mind to pursue them. They must begin all anew. Here he set +me down, and I to my cozen Turner, and stayed and talked a little; and so +took my wife, and home, and there to make her read, and then to supper, +and to bed. At supper come W. Batelier and supped with us, and told us +many pretty things of France, and the greatness of the present King. + + + +25th. Up, and to the Committee of Tangier, where little done, and thence +I home by my own coach, and busy after dinner at my office all the +afternoon till late at night, that my eyes were tired. So home, and my +wife shewed me many excellent prints of Nanteuil's and others, which +W. Batelier hath, at my desire, brought me out of France, of the King, +and Colbert, and others, most excellent, to my great content. But he +hath also brought a great many gloves perfumed, of several sorts; but all +too big by half for her, and yet she will have two or three dozen of +them, which vexed me, and made me angry. So she, at last, to please me, +did come to take what alone I thought fit, which pleased me. So, after a +little supper, to bed, my eyes being very bad. + + + +26th. Up, and to the office, where busy sitting all the morning. +Then to the Office again, and then to White Hall, leaving my wife at +Unthanke's; and I to the Secretary's chamber, where I was, by particular +order, this day summoned to attend, as I find Sir D. Gawden also was. +And here was the King and the Cabinet met; and, being called in, among +the rest I find my Lord Privy Seale, whom I never before knew to be in so +much play, as to be of the Cabinet. The business is, that the Algerines +have broke the peace with us, by taking some Spaniards and goods out of +an English ship, which had the Duke of York's pass, of which advice come +this day; and the King is resolved to stop Sir Thomas Allen's fleete from +coming home till he hath amends made him for this affront, and therefore +sent for us to advise about victuals to be sent to that fleete, and some +more ships; wherein I answered them to what they demanded of me, which +was but some few mean things; but I see that on all these occasions they +seem to rely most upon me. And so, this being done, I took coach and +took up my wife and straight home, and there late at the office busy, and +then home, and there I find W. Batelier hath also sent the books which I +made him bring me out of France. Among others, L'Estat, de France, +Marnix, &c., to my great content; and so I was well pleased with them, +and shall take a time to look them over: as also one or two printed +musick-books of songs; but my eyes are now too much out of tune to look +upon them with any pleasure, therefore to supper and to bed. + + + +27th. Up, and with Sir John Minnes in his coach to White Hall, where +first we waited on the Lords of the Treasury about finishing the +Victualling Contract; and there also I was put to it to make good our +letter complaining against my Lord Anglesey's failing us in the payment +of the moneys assigned us upon the Customs, where Mr. Fenn was, and I +know will tell my Lord; but it is no matter, I am over shy already, and +therefore must not fear. Then we up to a Committee of the Council for +the Navy, about a business of Sir D. Gawden's relating to the +Victualling, and thence I by hackney to the Temple to the Auditor's man, +and with him to a tavern to meet with another under-auditor to advise +about the clearing of my Lord Bellasses' accounts without injuring myself +and perplexing my accounts, and so thence away to my cozen Turner's, +where I find Roger Pepys come last night to town, and here is his +mistress, Mrs. Dickenson, and by and by comes in Mr. Turner, a worthy, +sober, serious man--I honour him mightily. And there we dined, having +but an ordinary dinner; and so, after dinner, she, and I, and Roger, and +his mistress, to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "The Five +Hours' Adventure," which hath not been acted a good while before, but +once, and is a most excellent play, I must confess. My wife and The. +come after us, after they had been to buy some things abroad, and so +after the play done we to see them home, and then home ourselves, and my +wife to read to me, and so to supper and to bed. + + + +28th. Up, and to the office, where all the afternoon, also after dinner, +and there late dispatching much business, and then home to supper with my +wife, and to get her to read to me, and here I did find that Mr. Sheres +hath, beyond his promise, not only got me a candlestick made me, after a +form he remembers to have seen in Spain, for keeping the light from one's +eyes, but hath got it done in silver very neat, and designs to give it +me, in thanks for my paying him his L100 in money, for his service at +Tangier, which was ordered him; but I do intend to force him to make me +[pay] for it. But I yet, without his direction, cannot tell how it is to +be made use of. So after a little reading to bed. + + + +29th. Up, and with W. Hewer in Colonel Middleton's coach to White Hall, +and there to the Duke of York, to attend him, where among other things I +did give a severe account of our proceedings, and what we found, in the +business of Sir W. Jenings's demand of Supernumeraries. I thought it a +good occasion to make an example of him, for he is a proud, idle fellow; +and it did meet with the Duke of York's acceptance and well-liking; and +he did call him in, after I had done, and did not only give him a soft +rebuke, but condemns him to pay both their victuals and wages, or right +himself of the purser. This I was glad of, and so were all the rest of +us, though I know I have made myself an immortal enemy by it. Thence +home by hackney, calling Roger Pepys at the Temple gate in the +bookseller's shop, and to the Old Exchange, where I staid a little to +invite my uncle Wight, and so home, and there find my aunt Wight and her +husband come presently, and so to dinner; and after dinner Roger, and I, +and my wife, and aunt, to see Mr. Cole; but he nor his wife was within, +but we looked upon his picture of Cleopatra, which I went principally to +see, being so much commended by my wife and aunt; but I find it a base +copy of a good originall, that vexed me to hear so much commended. +Thence to see Creed's wife, and did so, and staid a while, where both of +them within; and here I met Mr. Bland, newly come from Gales [Cadiz] +after his differences with Norwood. I think him a foolish, light-headed +man; but certainly he hath been abused in this matter by Colonel Norwood. +Here Creed shewed me a copy of some propositions, which Bland and others, +in the name of the Corporation of Tangier, did present to Norwood, for +his opinion in, in order to the King's service, which were drawn up very +humbly, and were really good things; but his answer to them was in the +most shitten proud, carping, insolent, and ironically-prophane stile, +that ever I saw in my life, so as I shall never think the place can do +well, while he is there. Here, after some talk, and Creed's telling us +that he is upon taking the next house to his present lodgings, which is +next to that that my cozen Tom Pepys once lived in, in Newport Street, +in Covent Garden; and is in a good place, and then, I suppose, he will +keep his coach. So, setting Roger down at the Temple, who tells me that +he is now concluded in all matters with his widow, we home, and there +hired my wife to make an end of Boyle's Book of Formes, to-night and +to-morrow; and so fell to read and sup, and then to bed. This day, Mr. +Ned Pickering brought his lady to see my wife, in acknowledgment of a +little present of oranges and olives, which I sent her, for his kindness +to me in the buying of my horses, which was very civil. She is old, but +hath, I believe, been a pretty comely woman: + + + +30th. Lay long in bed, it being a fast-day for the murder of the late +King; and so up and to church, where Dr. Hicks made a dull sermon; and so +home, and there I find W. Batelier and Balty, and they dined with us, and +I spent all the afternoon with my wife and W. Batelier talking, and then +making them read, and particularly made an end of Mr. Boyle's Book of +Formes, which I am glad to have over, and then fell to read a French +discourse, which he hath brought over with him for me, to invite the +people of France to apply themselves to Navigation, which it do very +well, and is certainly their interest, and what will undo us in a few +years, if the King of France goes on to fit up his Navy, and encrease it +and his trade, as he hath begun. At night to supper, and after supper, +and W. Batelier gone, my wife begun another book I lately bought, called +"The State of England," which promises well, and is worth reading, and so +after a while to bed. + + + +31st (Lord's day). Lay long talking with pleasure, and so up and I to +church, and there did hear the Doctor that is lately turned Divine, +I have forgot his name, I met him a while since at Sir D. Gawden's at +dinner, Dr. Waterhouse! He preaches in a devout manner of way, not +elegant nor very persuasive, but seems to mean well, and that he would +preach holily; and was mighty passionate against people that make a scoff +of religion. And, the truth is, I did observe Mrs. Hollworthy smile +often, and many others of the parish, who, I perceive, have known him, +and were in mighty expectation of hearing him preach, but could not +forbear smiling, and she particularly upon me, and I on her. So home to +dinner: and before dinner to my Office, to set down my journal for this +week, and then home to dinner; and after dinner to get my wife and boy, +one after another, to read to me: and so spent the afternoon and the +evening, and so after supper to bed. And thus endeth this month, with +many different days of sadness and mirth, from differences between me and +my wife, from her remembrance of my late unkindness to her with Willet, +she not being able to forget it, but now and then hath her passionate +remembrance of it as often as prompted to it by any occasion; but this +night we are at present very kind. And so ends this month. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +Dine with them, at my cozen Roger's mistress's +Dutchmen come out of the mouth and tail of a Hamburgh sow +Fain to keep a woman on purpose at 20s. a week +Find it a base copy of a good originall, that vexed me +Found in my head and body about twenty lice, little and great +I have itched mightily these 6 or 7 days +I know I have made myself an immortal enemy by it +Lady Castlemayne is now in a higher command over the King +Mighty fond in the stories she tells of her son Will +Observing my eyes to be mightily employed in the playhouse +Proud, carping, insolent, and ironically-prophane stile +She finds that I am lousy +Unquiet which her ripping up of old faults will give me +Up, and with W. Hewer, my guard, to White Hall +Weeping to myself for grief, which she discerning, come to bed + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v80 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + |