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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, May 1668 + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Release Date: December 1, 2004 [EBook #4189] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, MAY 1668 *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY + MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + MAY + 1668 + +May 1st, 1668. Up, and to the office, where all the morning busy. Then +to Westminster Hall, and there met Sir W. Pen, who labours to have his +answer to his impeachment, and sent down from the Lords' House, read by +the House of Commons; but they are so busy on other matters, that he +cannot, and thereby will, as he believes, by design, be prevented from +going to sea this year. Here met my cozen Thomas Pepys of Deptford, and +took some turns with him; who is mightily troubled for this Act now passed +against Conventicles, and in few words, and sober, do lament the condition +we are in, by a negligent Prince and a mad Parliament. Thence I by coach +to the Temple, and there set him down, and then to Sir G. Carteret's to +dine, but he not being at home, I back again to the New Exchange a little, +and thence back again to Hercules Pillars, and there dined all alone, and +then to the King's playhouse, and there saw "The Surprizall;" and a +disorder in the pit by its raining in, from the cupola at top, it being a +very foul day, and cold, so as there are few I believe go to the Park +to-day, if any. Thence to Westminster Hall, and there I understand how +the Houses of Commons and Lords are like to disagree very much, about the +business of the East India Company and one Skinner; to the latter of which +the Lords have awarded L5000 from the former, for some wrong done him +heretofore; and the former appealing to the Commons, the Lords vote their +petition a libell; and so there is like to follow very hot work. Thence +by water, not being able to get a coach, nor boat but a sculler, and that +with company, is being so foul a day, to the Old Swan, and so home, and +there spent the evening, making Balty read to me, and so to supper and to +bed. + +2nd. Up, and at the office all the morning. At noon with Lord Brouncker +in his coach as far as the Temple, and there 'light and to Hercules +Pillars, and there dined, and thence to the Duke of York's playhouse, at a +little past twelve, to get a good place in the pit, against the new play, +and there setting a poor man to keep my place, I out, and spent an hour at +Martin's, my bookseller's, and so back again, where I find the house quite +full. But I had my place, and by and by the King comes and the Duke of +York; and then the play begins, called "The Sullen Lovers; or, The +Impertinents," having many good humours in it, but the play tedious, and +no design at all in it. But a little boy, for a farce, do dance +Polichinelli, the best that ever anything was done in the world, by all +men's report: most pleased with that, beyond anything in the world, and +much beyond all the play. Thence to the King's house to see Knepp, but +the play done; and so I took a hackney alone, and to the park, and there +spent the evening, and to the lodge, and drank new milk. And so home to +the Office, ended my letters, and, to spare my eyes, home, and played on +my pipes, and so to bed. + +3rd (Lord's day). Up, and to church, where I saw Sir A. Rickard, though +he be under the Black Rod, by order of the Lords' House, upon the quarrel +between the East India Company and Skinner, which is like to come to a +very great heat between the two Houses. At noon comes Mr. Mills and his +wife, and Mr. Turner and his wife, by invitation to dinner, and we were +mighty merry, and a very pretty dinner, of my Bridget and Nell's dressing, +very handsome. After dinner to church again . . . . So home and with +Sir W. Pen took a hackney, and he and I to Old Street, to a brew-house +there, to see Sir Thomas Teddiman, who is very ill in bed of a fever, got, +I believe, by the fright the Parliament have put him into, of late. But +he is a good man, a good seaman, and stout. Thence Pen and I to +Islington, and there, at the old house, eat, and drank, and merry, and +there by chance giving two pretty fat boys each of them a cake, they +proved to be Captain Holland's children, whom therefore I pity. So round +by Hackney home, having good discourse, he [Pen] being very open to me in +his talk, how the King ought to dissolve this Parliament, when the Bill of +Money is passed, they being never likely to give him more; how he [the +King] hath great opportunity of making himself popular by stopping this +Act against Conventicles; and how my Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, if the +Parliament continue, will undoubtedly fall, he having managed that place +with so much self-seeking, and disorder, and pleasure, and some great men +are designing to overthrow [him], as, among the rest, my Lord Orrery; and +that this will try the King mightily, he being a firm friend to my Lord +Lieutenant. So home; and to supper a little, and then to bed, having +stepped, after I come home, to Alderman Backewell's about business, and +there talked a while with him and his wife, a fine woman of the country, +and how they had bought an estate at Buckeworth, within four mile of +Brampton. + +4th. Up betimes, and by water to Charing Cross, and so to W. Coventry, +and there talked a little with him, and thence over the Park to White +Hall, and there did a little business at the Treasury, and so to the Duke, +and there present Balty to the Duke of York and a letter from the Board to +him about him, and the Duke of York is mightily pleased with him, and I +doubt not his continuance in employment, which I am glad of. Thence with +Sir H. Cholmly to Westminster Hall talking, and he crying mightily out of +the power the House of Lords usurps in this business of the East India +Company. Thence away home and there did business, and so to dinner, my +sister Michell and I, and thence to the Duke of York's house, and there +saw "The Impertinents" again, and with less pleasure than before, it being +but a very contemptible play, though there are many little witty +expressions in it; and the pit did generally say that of it. Thence, going +out, Mrs. Pierce called me from the gallery, and there I took her and Mrs. +Corbet by coach up and down, and took up Captain Rolt in the street; and +at last, it being too late to go to the Park, I carried them to the Beare +in Drury Lane, and there did treat them with a dish of mackrell, the first +I have seen this year, and another dish, and mighty merry; and so carried +her home, and thence home myself, well pleased with this evening's +pleasure, and so to bed. + +5th. Up, and all the morning at the office. At noon home to dinner and +Creed with me, and after dinner he and I to the Duke of York's playhouse; +and there coming late, he and I up to the balcony-box, where we find my +Lady Castlemayne and several great ladies; and there we sat with them, and +I saw "The Impertinents" once more, now three times, and the three only +days it hath been acted. And to see the folly how the house do this day +cry up the play more than yesterday! and I for that reason like it, I +find, the better, too; by Sir Positive At-all, I understand, is meant Sir +Robert Howard. My Lady [Castlemaine] pretty well pleased with it; but +here I sat close to her fine woman, Willson, who indeed is very handsome, +but, they say, with child by the King. I asked, and she told me this was +the first time her Lady had seen it, I having a mind to say something to +her. One thing of familiarity I observed in my Lady Castlemayne: she +called to one of her women, another that sat by this, for a little patch +off her face, and put it into her mouth and wetted it, and so clapped it +upon her own by the side of her mouth, I suppose she feeling a pimple +rising there. Thence with Creed to Westminster Hall, and there met with +cozen Roger, who tells me of the great conference this day between the +Lords and Commons, about the business of the East India Company, as being +one of the weightiest conferences that hath been, and managed as +weightily. I am heartily sorry I was not there, it being upon a mighty +point of the privileges of the subjects of England, in regard to the +authority of the House of Lords, and their being condemned by them as the +Supreme Court, which, we say, ought not to be, but by appeal from other +Courts. And he tells me that the Commons had much the better of them, in +reason and history there quoted, and believes the Lords will let it fall. +Thence to walk in the Hall, and there hear that Mrs. Martin's child, my +god-daughter, is dead, and so by water to the Old Swan, and thence home, +and there a little at Sir W. Pen's, and so to bed. + +6th. Up, and to the office, and thence to White Hall, but come too late +to see the Duke of York, with whom my business was, and so to Westminster +Hall, where met with several people and talked with them, and among other +things understand that my Lord St. John is meant by Mr. Woodcocke, in "The +Impertinents." + + ["Whilst Positive walks, like Woodcock in the park, + Contriving projects with a brewer's clerk." + + Andrew Marvell's "Instructions to a Painter," part iii., to which is + subjoined the following note: "Sir Robert Howard, and Sir William + Bucknell, the brewer."--Works, ed. by Capt. E. Thompson, vol. + iii., p. 405.--B.] + +Here met with Mrs. Washington, my old acquaintance of the Hall, whose +husband has a place in the Excise at Windsor, and it seems lives well. I +have not seen her these 8 or 9 years, and she begins to grow old, I +perceive, visibly. So time do alter, and do doubtless the like in myself. +This morning the House is upon the City Bill, and they say hath passed it, +though I am sorry that I did not think to put somebody in mind of moving +for the churches to be allotted according to the convenience of the +people, and not to gratify this Bishop, or that College. Thence by water +to the New Exchange, where bought a pair of shoe-strings, and so to Mr. +Pierces, where invited, and there was Knepp and Mrs. Foster and here +dined, but a poor, sluttish dinner, as usual, and so I could not be +heartily merry at it: here saw her girl's picture, but it is mighty far +short of her boy's, and not like her neither; but it makes Hales's +picture of her boy appear a good picture. Thence to White Hall, walked +with Brisband, who dined there also, and thence I back to the King's +playhouse, and there saw "The Virgin Martyr," and heard the musick that I +like so well, and intended to have seen Knepp, but I let her alone; and +having there done, went to Mrs. Pierces back again, where she was, and +there I found her on a pallet in the dark . . . , that is Knepp. And +so to talk; and by and by did eat some curds and cream, and thence away +home, and it being night, I did walk in the dusk up and down, round +through our garden, over Tower Hill, and so through Crutched Friars, three +or four times, and once did meet Mercer and another pretty lady, but being +surprized I could say little to them,, although I had an opportunity of +pleasing myself with them, but left them, and then I did see our Nell, +Payne's daughter, and her je did desire venir after me, and so elle did +see me to, Tower Hill to our back entry there that comes upon the degres +entrant into nostra garden . . . , and so parted, and je home to put up +things against to-morrow's carrier for my wife; and, among others, a very +fine salmon-pie, sent me by Mr. Steventon, W. Hewer's uncle, and so to +bed. + +7th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon home to +dinner, and thither I sent for Mercer to dine with me, and after dinner +she and I called Mrs. Turner, and I carried them to the Duke of York's +house, and there saw "The Man's the Master," which proves, upon my seeing +it again, a very good play. Thence called Knepp from the King's house, +where going in for her, the play being done, I did see Beck Marshall come +dressed, off of the stage, and looks mighty fine, and pretty, and noble: +and also Nell, in her boy's clothes, mighty pretty. But, Lord! their +confidence! and how many men do hover about them as soon as they come off +the stage, and how confident they are in their talk! Here I did kiss the +pretty woman newly come, called Pegg, that was Sir Charles Sidly's +mistress, a mighty pretty woman, and seems, but is not, modest. Here took +up Knepp into our coach, and all of us with her to her lodgings, and +thither comes Bannister with a song of hers, that he hath set in Sir +Charles Sidly's play for her, which is, I think, but very meanly set; but +this he did, before us, teach her, and it being but a slight, silly, short +ayre, she learnt it presently. But I did get him to prick me down the +notes of the Echo in "The Tempest," which pleases me mightily. Here was +also Haynes, the incomparable dancer of the King's house, and a seeming +civil man, and sings pretty well, and they gone, we abroad to Marrowbone, +and there walked in the garden, the first time I ever was there; and a +pretty place it is, and here we eat and drank and stayed till 9 at night, +and so home by moonshine . . . . And so set Mrs. Knepp at her lodging, +and so the rest, and I home talking with a great deal of pleasure, and so +home to bed. + +8th. Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning. Towards noon I +to Westminster and there understand that the Lords' House did sit till +eleven o'clock last night, about the business in difference between them +and the Commons, in the matter of the East India Company. Here took a +turn or two, and up to my Lord Crew's, and there dined; where Mr. Case, +the minister, a dull fellow in his talk, and all in the Presbyterian +manner; a great deal of noise and a kind of religious tone, but very dull. +After dinner my Lord and I together. He tells me he hears that there are +great disputes like to be at Court, between the factions of the two women, +my Lady Castlemayne and Mrs. Stewart, who is now well again, and the King +hath made several public visits to her, and like to come to Court: the +other is to go to Barkeshire-house, which is taken for her, and they say a +Privy-Seal is passed for L5000 for it. He believes all will come to ruin. +Thence I to White Hall, where the Duke of York gone to the Lords' House, +where there is to be a conference on the Lords' side to the Commons this +afternoon, giving in their Reasons, which I would have been at, but could +not; for, going by direction to the Prince's chamber, there Brouncker, W. +Pen, and Mr. Wren, and I, met, and did our business with the Duke of York. +But, Lord! to see how this play of Sir Positive At-all,--["The +Impertinents."]--in abuse of Sir Robert Howard, do take, all the Duke's +and every body's talk being of that, and telling more stories of him, of +the like nature, that it is now the town and country talk, and, they say, +is most exactly true. The Duke of York himself said that of his playing +at trap-ball is true, and told several other stories of him. This being +done, Brouncker, Pen, and I to Brouncker's house, and there sat and +talked, I asking many questions in mathematics to my Lord, which he do me +the pleasure to satisfy me in, and here we drank and so spent an hour, and +so W. Pen and I home, and after being with W. Pen at his house an hour, I +home and to bed. + +9th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning we sat. Here I first +hear that the Queene hath miscarryed of a perfect child, being gone about +ten weeks, which do shew that she can conceive, though it be unfortunate +that she cannot bring forth. Here we are told also that last night the +Duchesse of Monmouth, dancing at her lodgings, hath sprained her thigh. +Here we are told also that the House of Commons sat till five o'clock this +morning, upon the business of the difference between the Lords and them, +resolving to do something therein before they rise, to assert their +privileges. So I at noon by water to Westminster, and there find the King +hath waited in the Prince's chamber these two hours, and the Houses are +not ready for him. The Commons having sent this morning, after their long +debate therein the last night, to the Lords, that they do think the only +expedient left to preserve unity between the two Houses is, that they do +put a stop to any proceedings upon their late judgement against the East +India Company, till their next meeting; to which the Lords returned answer +that they would return answer to them by a messenger of their own, which +they not presently doing, they were all inflamed, and thought it was only +a trick, to keep them in suspense till the King come to adjourne them; +and, so, rather than lose the opportunity of doing themselves right, they +presently with great fury come to this vote: "That whoever should assist +in the execution of the judgement of the Lords against the Company, should +be held betrayers of the liberties of the people of England, and of the +privileges of that House." This the Lords had notice of, and were mad at +it; and so continued debating without any design to yield to the Commons, +till the King come in, and sent for the Commons, where the Speaker made a +short but silly speech, about their giving Him L300,000; and then the +several Bills, their titles were read, and the King's assent signified in +the proper terms, according to the nature of the Bills, of which about +three or four were public Bills, and seven or eight private ones, the +additional Bills for the building of the City and the Bill against +Conventicles being none of them. The King did make a short, silly speech, +which he read, giving them thanks for the money, which now, he said, he +did believe would be sufficient, because there was peace between his +neighbours, which was a kind of a slur, methought, to the Commons; and +that he was sorry for what he heard of difference between the two Houses, +but that he hoped their recesse would put them into a way of +accommodation; and so adjourned them to the 9th of August, and then +recollected himself, and told them the 11th; so imperfect a speaker he is. +So the Commons went to their House, and forthwith adjourned; and the Lords +resumed their House, the King being gone, and sat an hour or two after, +but what they did, I cannot tell; but every body expected they would +commit Sir Andrew Rickard, Sir Samuel Barnardiston, Mr. Boone, and Mr. +Wynne, who were all there, and called in, upon their knees, to the bar of +the House; and Sir John Robinson I left there, endeavouring to prevent +their being committed to the Tower, lest he should thereby be forced to +deny their order, because of this vote of the Commons, whereof he is one, +which is an odde case. + + [This "odd case" was that of Thomas Skinner and the East India + Company. According to Ralph, the Commons had ordered Skinner, the + plaintiff, into the custody of the Serjeant-at-Arms, and the Lords + did the same by Sir Samuel Barnadiston, deputy-governor of the + company, as likewise Sir Andrew Rickard, Mr. Rowland Gwynn, and Mr. + Christopher Boone.--B.] + +Thence I to the Rose Taverne in Covent Garden, and there sent for a pullet +and dined all alone, being to meet Sir W. Pen, who by and by come, and he +and I into the King's house, and there "The Mayd's Tragedy," a good play, +but Knepp not there; and my head and eyes out of order, the first from my +drinking wine at dinner, and the other from my much work in the morning. +Thence parted, and I towards the New Exchange and there bought a pair of +black silk stockings at the hosier's that hath the very pretty woman to +his wife, about ten doors on this side of the 'Change, and she is indeed +very pretty, but I think a notable talking woman by what I heard to others +there. Thence to Westminster Hall, where I hear the Lords are up, but +what they have done I know not, and so walked toward White Hall and thence +by water to the Tower, and so home and there to my letters, and so to Sir +W. Pen's; and there did talk with Mrs. Lowther, who is very kind to me, +more than usual, and I will make use of it. She begins to draw very well, +and I think do as well, if not better, than my wife, if it be true that +she do it herself, what she shews me, and so to bed, and my head akeing +all night with the wine I drank to-day, and my eyes ill. So lay long, my +head pretty well in the morning. + +10th (Lord's day). Up, and to the office, there to do, business till +church time, when Mr. Shepley, newly come to town, come to see me, and we +had some discourse of all matters, and particularly of my Lord Sandwich's +concernments, and here did by the by as he would seem tell me that my +Lady--[Lady Sandwich.]--had it in her thoughts, if she had occasion, to, +borrow L100 of me, which I did not declare any opposition to, though I +doubt it will be so much lost. But, however, I will not deny my Lady, if +she ask it, whatever comes of it, though it be lost; but shall be glad +that it is no bigger sum. And yet it vexes me though, and the more +because it brings into my head some apprehensions what trouble I may here +after be brought to when my Lord comes home, if he should ask me to come +into bonds with him, as I fear he will have occasions to make money, but I +hope I shall have the wit to deny it. He being gone, I to church, and so +home, and there comes W. Hewer and Balty, and by and by I sent for Mercer +to come and dine with me, and pretty merry, and after dinner I fell to +teach her "Canite Jehovae," which she did a great part presently, and so +she away, and I to church, and from church home with my Lady Pen; and, +after being there an hour or so talking, I took her, and Mrs. Lowther, and +old Mrs. Whistler, her mother-in-law, by water with great pleasure as far +as Chelsy, and so back to Spring Garden, at Fox-hall, and there walked, +and eat, and drank, and so to water again, and set down the old woman at +home at Durham Yard:' and it raining all the way, it troubled us; but, +however, my cloak kept us all dry, and so home, and at the Tower wharf +there we did send for a pair of old shoes for Mrs. Lowther, and there I +did pull the others off and put them on, elle being peu shy, but do speak +con mighty kindness to me that she would desire me pour su mari if it were +to be done . . . . . Here staid a little at Sir W. Pen's, who was +gone to bed, it being about eleven at night, and so I home to bed. + +11th. Up, and to my office, where alone all the morning. About noon +comes to me my cousin Sarah, and my aunt Livett, newly come out of +Gloucestershire, good woman, and come to see me; I took them home, and +made them drink, but they would not stay dinner, I being alone. But here +they tell me that they hear that this day Kate Joyce was to be married to +a man called Hollingshed, whom she indeed did once tell me of, and desired +me to enquire after him. But, whatever she said of his being rich, I do +fear, by her doing this without my advice, it is not as it ought to be; +but, as she brews, let her bake. They being gone, I to dinner with Balty +and his wife, who is come to town to-day from Deptford to see us, and +after dinner I out and took a coach, and called Mercer, and she and I to +the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "The Tempest," and between two +acts, I went out to Mr. Harris, and got him to repeat to me the words of +the Echo, while I writ them down, having tried in the play to have wrote +them; but, when I had done it, having done it without looking upon my +paper, I find I could not read the blacklead. But now I have got the words +clear, and, in going in thither, had the pleasure to see the actors in +their several dresses, especially the seamen and monster, which were very +droll: so into the play again. But there happened one thing which vexed +me, which is, that the orange-woman did come in the pit, and challenge me +for twelve oranges, which she delivered by my order at a late play, at +night, to give to some ladies in a box, which was wholly untrue, but yet +she swore it to be true. But, however, I did deny it, and did not pay +her; but, for quiet, did buy 4s. worth of oranges of her, at 6d. a-piece. +Here I saw first my Lord Ormond since his coming from Ireland, which is +now about eight days. After the play done, I took Mercer by water to +Spring Garden; and there with great pleasure walked, and eat, and drank, +and sang, making people come about us, to hear us, and two little children +of one of our neighbours that happened to be there, did come into our +arbour, and we made them dance prettily. So by water, with great +pleasure, down to the Bridge, and there landed, and took water again on +the other side; and so to the Tower, and I saw her home, I myself home to +my chamber, and by and by to bed. + +12th. Up, and to the office, where we sat, and sat all the morning. Here +Lord Anglesey was with us, and in talk about the late difference between +the two Houses, do tell us that he thinks the House of Lords may be in an +error, at least, it is possible they may, in this matter of Skinner; and +he doubts they may, and did declare his judgement in the House of Lords +against their proceedings therein, he having hindered 100 originall causes +being brought into their House, notwithstanding that he was put upon +defending their proceedings: but that he is confident that the House of +Commons are in the wrong, in the method they take to remedy an error of +the Lords, for no vote of theirs can do it; but, in all like cases, the +Commons have done it by petition to the King, sent up to the Lords, and by +them agreed to, and so redressed, as they did in the Petition of Right. +He says that he did tell them indeed, which is talked of, and which did +vex the Commons, that the Lords were "Judices nati et Conciliarii nati;" +but all other judges among us are under salary, and the Commons themselves +served for wages; and therefore the Lords, in reason, were the freer +judges. At noon to dinner at home, and after dinner, where Creed dined +with me, he and I, by water to the Temple, where we parted, and I both to +the King's and Duke of York's playhouses, and there went through the +houses to see what faces I could spy that I knew, and meeting none, I away +by coach to my house, and then to Mrs. Mercer's, where I met with her two +daughters, and a pretty-lady I never knew yet, one Mrs. Susan Gayet, a +very pretty black lady, that speaks French well, and is a Catholick, and +merchant's daughter, by us, and here was also Mrs. Anne Jones, and after +sitting and talking a little, I took them out, and carried them through +Hackney to Kingsland, and there walked to Sir G. Whitmore's house, where I +have not been many a day; and so to the old house at Islington, and eat, +and drank, and sang, and mighty merry; and so by moonshine with infinite +pleasure home, and there sang again in Mercer's garden. And so parted, I +having there seen a mummy in a merchant's warehouse there, all the middle +of the man or woman's body, black and hard. I never saw any before, and, +therefore, it pleased me much, though an ill sight; and he did give me a +little bit, and a bone of an arme, I suppose, and so home, and there to +bed. + +13th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and so to Sir H. Cholmly's, who not +being up I made a short visit to Sir W. Coventry, and he and I through the +Park to White Hall, and thence I back into the Park, and there met Sir H. +Cholmly, and he and I to Sir Stephen Fox's, where we met and considered +the business of the Excise, how far it is charged in reference to the +payment of the Guards and Tangier. Thence he and I walked to Westminster +Hall and there took a turn, it being holyday, and so back again, and I to +the mercer's, and my tailor's about a stuff suit that I am going to make. +Thence, at noon, to Hercules Pillars, and there dined all alone, and so to +White Hall, some of us attended the Duke of York as usual, and so to +attend the Council about the business of Hemskirke's project of building a +ship that sails two feet for one of any other ship, which the Council did +agree to be put in practice, the King to give him, if it proves good, +L5000 in hand, and L15,000 more in seven years, which, for my part, I +think a piece of folly for them to meddle with, because the secret cannot +be long kept. So thence, after Council, having drunk some of the King's +wine and water with Mr. Chevins, my Lord Brouncker, and some others, I by +water to the Old Swan, and there to Michell's, and did see her and drink +there, but he being there je ne baiser la; and so back again by water to +Spring Garden all alone, and walked a little, and so back again home, and +there a little to my viall, and so to bed, Mrs. Turner having sat and +supped with me. This morning I hear that last night Sir Thomas Teddiman, +poor man! did die by a thrush in his mouth: a good man, and stout and +able, and much lamented; though people do make a little mirth, and say, as +I believe it did in good part, that the business of the Parliament did +break his heart, or, at least, put him into this fever and disorder, that +caused his death. + +14th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon +home to dinner with my people, but did not stay to dine out with them, but +rose and straight by water to the Temple, and so to Penny's, my tailor's, +where by and by by agreement Mercer, and she, to my great content, brings +Mrs. Gayet, and I carried them to the King's house; but, coming too soon, +we out again to the Rose taverne, and there I did give them a tankard of +cool drink, the weather being very hot, and then into the playhouse again, +and there saw "The Country Captain," a very dull play, that did give us no +content, and besides, little company there, which made it very unpleasing. +Thence to the waterside, at Strand bridge, and so up by water and to +Fox-hall, where we walked a great while, and pleased mightily with the +pleasure thereof, and the company there, and then in, and eat and drank, +and then out again and walked, and it beginning to be dark, we to a corner +and sang, that everybody got about us to hear us; and so home, where I saw +them both at their doors, and, full of the content of this afternoon's +pleasure, I home and to walk in the garden a little, and so home to bed. + +15th. Up, and betimes to White Hall, and there met with Sir H. Cholmly at +Sir Stephen Fox's, and there was also the Cofferer, and we did there +consider about our money and the condition of the Excise, and after much +dispute agreed upon a state thereof and the manner of our future course of +payments. Thence to the Duke of York, and there did a little navy +business as we used to do, and so to a Committee for Tangier, where God +knows how my Lord Bellasses's accounts passed; understood by nobody but my +Lord Ashly, who, I believe, was mad to let them go as he pleased. But +here Sir H. Cholmly had his propositions read, about a greater price for +his work of the Mole, or to do it upon account, which, being read, he was +bid to withdraw. But, Lord! to see how unlucky a man may be, by chance; +for, making an unfortunate minute when they were almost tired with the +other business, the Duke of York did find fault with it, and that made all +the rest, that I believe he had better have given a great deal, and had +nothing said to it to-day; whereas, I have seen other things more +extravagant passed at first hearing, without any difficulty. Thence I to +my Lord Brouncker's, at Mrs. Williams's, and there dined, and she did shew +me her closet, which I was sorry to see, for fear of her expecting +something from me; and here she took notice of my wife's not once coming +to see her, which I am glad of; for she shall not--a prating, vain, idle +woman. Thence with Lord Brouncker to Loriners'-hall, + + [The Loriners, or Lorimers (bit-makers), of London are by reputation + an ancient mistery, but they were first incorporated by letters + patent of 10 Queen Anne (December 3rd, 1711). Their small hall was + at the corner of Basinghall Street in London Wall. The company has + no hall now.] + +by Mooregate, a hall I never heard of before, to Sir Thomas Teddiman's +burial, where most people belonging to the sea were. And here we had +rings: and here I do hear that some of the last words that he said were, +that he had a very good King, God bless him! but that the Parliament had +very ill rewarded him for all the service he had endeavoured to do them +and his country; so that, for certain, this did go far towards his death. +But, Lord! to see among [the company] the young commanders, and Thomas +Killigrew and others that come, how unlike a burial this was, O'Brian +taking out some ballads out of his pocket, which I read, and the rest come +about me to hear! and there very merry we were all, they being new +ballets. By and by the corpse went; and I, with my Lord Brouncker, and +Dr. Clerke, and Mr. Pierce, as far as the foot of London-bridge; and there +we struck off into Thames Street, the rest going to Redriffe, where he is +to be buried. And we 'light at the Temple, and there parted; and I to the +King's house, and there saw the last act of "The Committee," thinking to +have seen Knepp there, but she did not act. And so to my bookseller's, +and there carried home some books-among others, "Dr. Wilkins's Reall +Character," and thence to Mrs. Turner's, and there went and sat, and she +showed me her house from top to bottom, which I had not seen before, very +handsome, and here supped, and so home, and got Mercer, and she and I in +the garden singing till ten at night, and so home to a little supper, and +then parted, with great content, and to bed. The Duchesse of Monmouth's +hip is, I hear, now set again, after much pain. I am told also that the +Countess of Shrewsbury is brought home by the Duke of Buckingham to his +house, where his Duchess saying that it was not for her and the other to +live together in a house, he answered, Why, Madam, I did think so, and, +therefore, have ordered your coach to be ready, to carry you to your +father's, which was a devilish speech, but, they say, true; and my Lady +Shrewsbury is there, it seems. + +16th. Up; and to the Office, where we sat all the morning; and at noon, +home with my people to dinner; and thence to the Office all the afternoon, +till, my eyes weary, I did go forth by coach to the King's playhouse, and +there saw the best part of "The Sea Voyage," where Knepp I see do her part +of sorrow very well. I afterwards to her house; but she did not come +presently home; and there je did kiss her ancilla, which is so mighty +belle; and I to my tailor's, and to buy me a belt for my new suit against +to-morrow; and so home, and there to my Office, and afterwards late +walking in the garden; and so home to supper, and to bed, after Nell's +cutting of my hair close, the weather being very hot. + +17th (Lord's day). Up, and put on my new stuff-suit, with a +shoulder-belt, according to the new fashion, and the bands of my vest and +tunique laced with silk lace, of the colour of my suit: and so, very +handsome, to Church, where a dull sermon and of a stranger, and so home; +and there I find W. Howe, and a younger brother of his, come to dine with +me; and there comes Mercer, and brings with her Mrs. Gayet, which pleased +me mightily; and here was also W. Hewer, and mighty merry; and after +dinner to sing psalms. But, Lord! to hear what an excellent base this +younger brother of W. Howe's sings, even to my astonishment, and mighty +pleasant. By and by Gayet goes away, being a Catholick, to her devotions, +and Mercer to church; but we continuing an hour or two singing, and so +parted; and I to Sir W. Pen's, and there sent for a hackney-coach; and he +and she [Lady Pen] and I out, to take the gyre. We went to Stepney, and +there stopped at the Trinity House, he to talk with the servants there +against to-morrow, which is a great day for the choice of a new Master, +and thence to Mile End, and there eat and drank, and so home; and I supped +with them--that is, eat some butter and radishes, which is my excuse for +not eating any other of their victuals, which I hate, because of their +sluttery: and so home, and made my boy read to me part of Dr. Wilkins's +new book of the "Real Character;" and so to bed. + +18th. Up, and to my office, where most of the morning doing business and +seeing my window-frames new painted, and then I out by coach to my Lord +Bellasses, at his new house by my late Lord Treasurer's, and there met him +and Mr. Sherwin, Auditor Beale, and Creed, about my Lord's accounts, and +here my Lord shewed me his new house, which, indeed, is mighty noble, and +good pictures--indeed, not one bad one in it. Thence to my tailor's, and +there did find Mercer come with Mrs. Horsfield and Gayet according to my +desire, and there I took them up, it being almost twelve o'clock, or a +little more, and carried them to the King's playhouse, where the doors +were not then open; but presently they did open; and we in, and find many +people already come in, by private ways, into the pit, it being the first +day of Sir Charles Sidly's new play, so long expected, "The Mullberry +Guarden," of whom, being so reputed a wit, all the world do expect great +matters. I having sat here awhile, and eat nothing to-day, did slip out, +getting a boy to keep my place; and to the Rose Tavern, and there got half +a breast of mutton, off of the spit, and dined all alone. And so to the +play again, where the King and Queen, by and by, come, and all the Court; +and the house infinitely full. But the play, when it come, though there +was, here and there, a pretty saying, and that not very many neither, yet +the whole of the play had nothing extraordinary in it, at all, neither of +language nor design; insomuch that the King I did not see laugh, nor +pleased the whole play from the beginning to the end, nor the company; +insomuch that I have not been less pleased at a new play in my life, I +think. And which made it the worse was, that there never was worse musick +played--that is, worse things composed, which made me and Captain Rolt, +who happened to sit near me, mad. So away thence, very little satisfied +with the play, but pleased with my company. I carried them to Kensington, +to the Grotto, and there we sang, to my great content, only vexed, in +going in, to see a son of Sir Heneage Finch's beating of a poor little dog +to death, letting it lie in so much pain that made me mad to see it, till, +by and by, the servants of the house chiding of their young master, one of +them come with a thong, and killed the dog outright presently. Thence to +Westminster palace, and there took boat and to Fox Hall, where we walked, +and eat, and drank, and sang, and very merry. But I find Mrs. Horsfield +one of the veriest citizen's wives in the world, so full of little silly +talk, and now and then a little sillily bawdy, that I believe if you had +her sola a man might hazer all with her. So back by water to Westminster +Palace, and there got a coach which carried us as far as the Minorys, and +there some thing of the traces broke, and we forced to 'light, and walked +to Mrs. Horsfield's house, it being a long and bad way, and dark, and +having there put her in a doors, her husband being in bed, we left her and +so back to our coach, where the coachman had put it in order, but could +not find his whip in the dark a great while, which made us stay long. At +last getting a neighbour to hold a candle out of their window Mercer found +it, and so away we home at almost 12 at night, and setting them both at +their homes, I home and to bed. + +19th. Up, and called on Mr. Pierce, who tells me that after all this ado +Ward is come to town, and hath appeared to the Commissioners of Accounts +and given such answers as he thinks will do every body right, and let the +world see that their great expectations and jealousies have been vain in +this matter of the prizes. The Commissioners were mighty inquisitive +whether he was not instructed by letters or otherwise from hence from my +Lord Sandwich's friends what to say and do, and particularly from me, +which he did wholly deny, as it was true, I not knowing the man that I +know of. He tells me also that, for certain, Mr. Vaughan is made Lord +Chief justice, which I am glad of. He tells me, too; that since my Lord +of Ormond's coming over, the King begins to be mightily reclaimed, and +sups every night with great pleasure with the Queene: and yet, it seems, +he is mighty hot upon the Duchess of Richmond; insomuch that, upon Sunday +was se'nnight, at night, after he had ordered his Guards and coach to be +ready to carry him to the Park, he did, on a sudden, take a pair of oars +or sculler, and all alone, or but one with him, go to Somersett House, and +there, the garden-door not being open, himself clamber over the walls to +make a visit to her, which is a horrid shame. He gone, I to the office, +where we sat all the morning, Sir W. Pen sick of the gout comes not out. +After dinner at home, to White Hall, it being a very rainy day, and there +a Committee for Tangier, where I was mightily pleased to see Sir W. +Coventry fall upon my Lord Bellasses' business of the 3d. in every piece +of it which he would get to himself, making the King pay 4s. 9d, while he +puts them off for 4s. 6d., so that Sir W. Coventry continues still the +same man for the King's good. But here Creed did vex me with saying that +I ought first to have my account past by the Commissioners of Tangier +before in the Exchequer. Thence W. Coventry and I in the Matted gallery, +and there he did talk very well to me about the way to save the credit of +the officers of the Navy, and their places too, by making use of this +interval of Parliament to be found to be mending of matters in the Navy, +and that nothing but this will do it, and gives an instance in themselves +of the Treasury, whereof himself and Sir John Duncombe all the world knows +have enemies, and my Lord Ashly a man obnoxious to most, and Sir Thomas +Clifford one that as a man suddenly rising and a creature of my Lord +Arlington's hath enemies enough (none of them being otherwise but the Duke +of Albemarle), yet with all this fault they hear nothing of the business +of the Treasury, but all well spoken of there. He is for the removal of +Sir John Minnes, thinking that thereby the world will see a greater change +in the hands than now they do; and I will endeavour it, and endeavour to +do some good in the office also. So home by coach, and to the office, +where ended my letters, and then home, and there got Balty to read to me +out of Sorbiere's Observations in his Voyage into England, and then to +bed. + +20th. Up, and with Colonell Middleton, in a new coach he hath made him, +very handsome, to White Hall, where the Duke of York having removed his +lodgings for this year to St. James's, we walked thither; and there find +the Duke of York coming to White Hall, and so back to the Council-chamber, +where the Committee of the Navy sat; and here we discoursed several +things; but, Lord! like fools; so as it was a shame to see things of this +importance managed by a Council that understand nothing of them: and, +among other things, one was about this building of a ship with Hemskirke's +secret, to sail a third faster than any other ship; but he hath got Prince +Rupert on his side, and by that means, I believe, will get his conditions +made better than he would otherwise, or ought indeed. Having done there, I +met with Sir Richard Browne, and he took me to dinner with him to a new +tavern, above Charing Cross, where some clients of his did give him a good +dinner, and good company; among others, one Bovy, a solicitor, and lawyer +and merchant all together, who hath travelled very much, did talk some +things well; but only he is a "Sir Positive:" but the talk of their +travels over the Alps very fine. Thence walked to the King's playhouse, +and saw "The Mulberry Garden" again, and cannot be reconciled to it, but +only to find here and there an independent sentence of wit, and that is +all. Here met with Creed; and took him to Hales's, and there saw the +beginnings of Harris's head which he draws for me, which I do not yet +like. So he and I down to the New Exchange, and there cheapened ribbands +for my wife, and so down to the Whey house and drank some and eat some +curds, which did by and by make my belly ake mightily. So he and I to +White Hall, and walked over the Park to the Mulberry-Garden, + + [On the site of the present Buckingham Palace and gardens. + Originally a garden of mulberry trees, planted by James I. in 1609 + with the intention of cultivating the manufacture of English silks.] + +where I never was before; and find it a very silly place, worse than +Spring-garden, and but little company, and those a rascally, whoring, +roguing sort of people, only a wilderness here, that is somewhat pretty, +but rude. Did not stay to drink, but walked an hour and so away to +Charing Cross, and there took coach and away home, in my way going into +Bishopsgate Street, to bespeak places for myself and boy to go to +Cambridge in the coach this week, and so to Brampton, to see my wife. So +home, and to supper and to bed. + +21st. Up, and busy to send some things into the country, and then to the +Office, where meets me Sir Richard Ford, who among other things +congratulates me, as one or two did yesterday, [on] my great purchase; and +he advises me rather to forbear, if it be not done, as a thing that the +world will envy me in: and what is it but my cozen Tom Pepys's buying of +Martin Abbey, in Surry! which is a mistake I am sorry for, and yet do fear +that it may spread in the world to my prejudice. All the morning at the +office, and at noon my clerks dined with me, and there do hear from them +how all the town is full of the talk of a meteor, or some fire, that did +on Saturday last fly over the City at night, which do put me in mind that, +being then walking in the dark an hour or more myself in the garden, after +I had done writing, I did see a light before me come from behind me, which +made me turn back my head; and I did see a sudden fire or light running in +the sky, as it were towards Cheapside ward, and it vanished very quick, +which did make me bethink myself what holyday it was, and took it for some +rocket, though it was much brighter than any rocket, and so thought no +more of it, but it seems Mr. Hater and Gibson going home that night did +meet with many clusters of people talking of it, and many people of the +towns about the city did see it, and the world do make much discourse of +it, their apprehensions being mighty full of the rest of the City to be +burned, and the Papists to cut our throats. Which God prevent! Thence +after dinner I by coach to the Temple, and there bought a new book of +songs set to musique by one Smith of Oxford, some songs of Mr. Cowley's, +and so to Westminster, and there to walk a little in the Hall, and so to +Mrs. Martin's, and there did hazer cet que je voudrai mit her, and drank +and sat most of the afternoon with her and her sister, and here she +promises me her fine starling, which was the King's, and speaks finely, +which I shall be glad of, and so walked to the Temple, meeting in the +street with my cozen Alcocke, the young man, that is a good sober youth, I +have not seen these four or five years, newly come to town to look for +employment: but I cannot serve him, though I think he deserves well, and +so I took coach and home to my business, and in the evening took Mrs. +Turner and Mercer out to Mile End and drank, and then home, and sang; and +eat a dish of greene pease, the first I have seen this year, given me by +Mr. Gibson, extraordinary young and pretty, and so saw them at home, and +so home to bed. Sir W. Pen continues ill of the gout. + +22nd. Up, and all the morning at the office busy. At noon home with my +people to dinner, where good discourse and merry. After dinner comes Mr. +Martin, the purser, and brings me his wife's starling, which was formerly +the King's bird, that do speak and whistle finely, which I am mighty proud +of and shall take pleasure in it. Thence to the Duke of York's house to a +play, and saw Sir Martin Marr-all, where the house is full; and though I +have seen it, I think, ten times, yet the pleasure I have is yet as great +as ever, and is undoubtedly the best comedy ever was wrote. Thence to my +tailor's and a mercer's for patterns to carry my wife of cloth and silk +for a bed, which I think will please her and me, and so home, and fitted +myself for my journey to-morrow, which I fear will not be pleasant, +because of the wet weather, it raining very hard all this day; but the +less it troubles me because the King and Duke of York and Court are at +this day at Newmarket, at a great horse-race, and proposed great pleasure +for two or three days, but are in the same wet. So from the office home +to supper, and betimes to bed. + +23rd. Up by four o'clock; and, getting my things ready, and recommending +the care of my house to W. Hewer, I with my boy Tom, whom I take with me, +to the Bull, in Bishopsgate Street, and there, about six, took coach, he +and I, and a gentleman and his man, there being another coach also, with +as many more, I think, in it; and so away to Bishop's Stafford, and there +dined, and changed horses and coach, at Mrs. Aynsworth's; but I took no +knowledge of her. Here the gentleman and I to dinner, and in comes +Captain Forster, an acquaintance of his, he that do belong to my Lord +Anglesey, who had been at the late horse-races at Newmarket, where the +King now is, and says that they had fair weather there yesterday, though +we here, and at London, had nothing but rain, insomuch that the ways are +mighty full of water, so as hardly to be passed. Here I hear Mrs. +Aynsworth is going to live at London: but I believe will be mistaken in +it; for it will be found better for her to be chief where she is, than to +have little to do at London. There being many finer than she there. After +dinner away again and come to Cambridge, after much bad way, about nine at +night; and there, at the Rose, I met my father's horses, with a man, +staying for me. But it is so late, and the waters so deep, that I durst +not go to-night; but after supper to bed; and there lay very ill, by +reason of some drunken scholars making a noise all night, and vexed for +fear that the horses should not be taken up from grass, time enough for +the morning. Well pleased all this journey with the conversation of him +that went with me, who I think is a lawyer, and lives about Lynne, but his +name I did not ask. + +24th (Lord's day). I up, at between two and three in the morning, and, +calling up my boy, and father's boy, we set out by three o'clock, it being +high day; end so through the water with very good success, though very +deep almost all the way, and got to Brampton, where most of them in bed, +and so I weary up to my wife's chamber, whom I find in bed, and pretended +a little not well, and indeed she hath those upon her, but fell to talk +and mightily pleased both of us, and upgot the rest, Betty Turner and +Willet and Jane, all whom I was glad to see, and very merry, and got me +ready in my new stuff clothes that I send down before me, and so my wife +and they got ready too, while I to my father, poor man, and walked with +him up and down the house--it raining a little, and the waters all over +Portholme and the meadows, so as no pleasure abroad. Here I saw my +brothers and sister Jackson, she growing fat, and, since being married, I +think looks comelier than before: but a mighty pert woman she is, and I +think proud, he keeping her mighty handsome, and they say mighty fond, and +are going shortly to live at Ellington of themselves, and will keep +malting, and grazing of cattle. At noon comes Mr. Phillips and dines with +us, and a pretty odd-humoured man he seems to be; but good withal, but of +mighty great methods in his eating and drinking, and will not kiss a woman +since his wife's death. After dinner my Lady Sandwich sending to see +whether I was come, I presently took horse, and find her and her family at +chapel; and thither I went in to them, and sat out the sermon, where I +heard Jervas Fullwood, now their chaplain, preach a very good and seraphic +kind of sermon, too good for an ordinary congregation. After sermon, I +with my Lady, and my Lady Hinchingbroke, and Paulina, and Lord +Hinchingbroke, to the dining-room, saluting none of them, and there sat +and talked an hour or two, with great pleasure and satisfaction, to my +Lady, about my Lord's matters; but I think not with that satisfaction to +her, or me, that otherwise would, she knowing that she did design +tomorrow, and I remaining all the while in fear, of being asked to lend +her some money, as I was afterward, when I had taken leave of her, by Mr. +Shepley, L100, which I will not deny my Lady, and am willing to be found +when my Lord comes home to have done something of that kind for them, and +so he riding to Brampton and supping there with me he did desire it of me +from my Lady, and I promised it, though much against my will, for I fear +it is as good as lost. After supper, where very merry, we to bed, myself +very weary and to sleep all night. + +25th. Waked betimes, and lay long . . . . and there fell to talking, +and by and by rose, it being the first fair day, and yet not quite fair, +that we have had some time, and so up, and to walk with my father again in +the garden, consulting what to do with him and this house when Pall and +her husband go away; and I think it will be to let it, and he go live with +her, though I am against letting the house for any long time, because of +having it to retire to, ourselves. So I do intend to think more of it +before I resolve. By and by comes Mr. Cooke to see me and so spent the +morning, and he gone by and by at noon to dinner, where Mr. Shepley come +and we merry, all being in good humour between my wife and her people +about her, and after dinner took horse, I promising to fetch her away +about fourteen days hence, and so calling all of us, we men on horseback, +and the women and my father, at Goody Gorum's, and there in a frolic +drinking I took leave, there going with me and my boy, my two brothers, +and one Browne, whom they call in mirth Colonell, for our guide, and also +Mr. Shepley, to the end of Huntingdon, and another gentleman who +accidentally come thither, one Mr. Castle; and I made them drink at the +Chequers, where I observed the same tapster, Tom, that was there when I +was a little boy and so we, at the end of the town, took leave of Shepley +and the other gentleman, and so we away and got well to Cambridge, about +seven to the Rose, the waters not being now so high as before. And here +'lighting, I took my boy and two brothers, and walked to Magdalene +College: and there into the butterys, as a stranger, and there drank my +bellyfull of their beer, which pleased me, as the best I ever drank: and +hear by the butler's man, who was son to Goody Mulliner over against the +College, that we used to buy stewed prunes of, concerning the College and +persons in it; and find very few, only Mr. Hollins and Pechell, I think, +that were of my time. But I was mightily pleased to come in this +condition to see and ask, and thence, giving the fellow something, away +walked to Chesterton, to see our old walk, and there into the Church, the +bells ringing, and saw the place I used to sit in, and so to the ferry, +and ferried over to the other side, and walked with great pleasure, the +river being mighty high by Barnewell Abbey: and so by Jesus College to the +town, and so to our quarters, and to supper, and then to bed, being very +weary and sleepy and mightily pleased with this night's walk. + +26th. Up by four o'clock; and by the time we were ready, and had eat, we +were called to the coach, where about six o'clock we set out, there being +a man and two women of one company, ordinary people, and one lady alone, +that is tolerably handsome, but mighty well spoken, whom I took great +pleasure in talking to, and did get her to read aloud in a book she was +reading, in the coach, being the King's Meditations;--[The meditations on +death, and prayers used by Charles I. shortly before his execution]--and +then the boy and I to sing, and so about noon come to Bishop's Stafford, +to another house than what we were at the other day, and better used. And +here I paid for the reckoning 11s., we dining together, and pretty merry; +and then set out again, sleeping most part of the way; and got to +Bishopsgate Street before eight o'clock, the waters being now most of them +down, and we avoiding the bad way in the forest by a privy way, which +brought us to Hodsden; and so to Tibalds, that road, which was mighty +pleasant. So home, where we find all well, and brother Balty and his wife +looking to the house, she mighty fine, in a new gold-laced 'just a cour'. +I shifted myself, and so to see Mrs. Turner, and Mercer appearing over the +way, called her in, and sat and talked, and then home to my house by and +by, and there supped and talked mighty merry, and then broke up and to +bed, being a little vexed at what W. Hewer tells me Sir John Shaw did this +day in my absence say at the Board, complaining of my doing of him injury +and the board permitting it, whereas they had more reason to except +against his attributing that to me alone which I could not do but with +their condent and direction, it being to very good service to the King, +and which I shall be proud to have imputed to me alone. The King I hear +come to town last night. + +27th. Up, and to the office, where some time upon Sir D. Gawden's +accounts, and then I by water to Westminster for some Tangier orders, and +so meeting with Mr. Sawyers my old chamber-fellow, he and I by water +together to the Temple, he giving me an account of the base, rude usage, +which he and Sir G. Carteret had lately, before the Commissioners of +Accounts, where he was, as Counsel to Sir G. Carteret, which I was sorry +to hear, they behaving themselves like most insolent and ill-mannered men. +Thence by coach to the Exchange, and there met with Sir H. Cholmly at +Colvill's; and there did give him some orders, and so home, and there to +the office again, where busy till two o'clock, and then with Sir D. Gawden +to his house, with my Lord Brouncker and Sir J. Minnes, to dinner, where +we dined very well, and much good company, among others, a Dr., a fat man, +whom by face I know, as one that uses to sit in our church, that after +dinner did take me out, and walked together, who told me that he had now +newly entered himself into Orders, in the decay of the Church, and did +think it his duty so to do, thereby to do his part toward the support and +reformation thereof; and spoke very soberly, and said that just about the +same age Dr. Donne did enter into Orders. I find him a sober gentleman, +and a man that hath seen much of the world, and I think may do good. +Thence after dinner to the office, and there did a little business, and so +to see Sir W. Pen, who I find still very ill of the goute, sitting in his +great chair, made on purpose for persons sick of that disease, for their +ease; and this very chair, he tells me, was made for my Lady Lambert! +Thence I by coach to my tailor's, there to direct about the making of me +another suit, and so to White Hall, and through St. James's Park to St. +James's, thinking to have met with Mr. Wren, but could not, and so +homeward toward the New Exchange, and meeting Mr. Creed he and I to drink +some whey at the whey-house, and so into the 'Change and took a walk or +two, and so home, and there vexed at my boy's being out of doors till ten +at night, but it was upon my brother Jackson's business, and so I was the +less displeased, and then made the boy to read to me out of Dr. Wilkins +his "Real Character," and particularly about Noah's arke, where he do give +a very good account thereof, shewing how few the number of the several +species of beasts and fowls were that were to be in the arke, and that +there was room enough for them and their food and dung, which do please me +mightily and is much beyond what ever I heard of the subject, and so to +bed. + +28th. Up, to set right some little matters of my Tangier accounts, and so +to the office, where busy all the morning, and then home with my people to +dinner, and after dinner comes about a petition for a poor woman +whose-ticket she would get paid, and so talked a little and did baiser +her, and so to the office, being pleased that this morning my bookseller +brings me home Marcennus's book of musick,' which costs me L3 2s.; but is +a very fine book. So to the office and did some business, and then by +coach to the New Exchange, and there by agreement at my bookseller's shop +met Mercer and Gayet, and took them by water, first to one of the +Neat-houses, where walked in the garden, but nothing but a bottle of wine +to be had, though pleased with seeing the garden; and so to Fox Hall, +where with great pleasure we walked, and then to the upper end of the +further retired walk, and there sat and sang, and brought great many +gallants and fine people about us, and, upon the bench, we did by and by +eat and drink what we had, and very merry: and so with much pleasure to +the Old Swan, and walked with them home, and there left them, and so I +home to my business at the office a little, and so to bed. + +29th. Betimes up, and up to my Tangier accounts, and then by water to the +Council Chamber, and there received some directions from the Duke of York +and the Committee of the Navy there about casting up the charge of the +present summer's fleete, that so they may come within the bounds of the +sum given by the Parliament. But it is pretty to see how Prince Rupert +and other mad, silly people, are for setting out but a little fleete, +there being no occasion for it; and say it will be best to save the money +for better uses. But Sir W. Coventry did declare that, in wisdom, it was +better to do so; but that, in obedience to the Parliament, he was [for] +setting out the fifty sail talked on, though it spent all the money, and +to little purpose; and that this was better than to leave it to the +Parliament to make bad construction of their thrift, if any trouble should +happen. Thus wary the world is grown! Thence back again presently home, +and did business till noon: and then to Sir G. Carteret's to dinner, with +much good company, it being the King's birthday, and many healths drunk: +and here I did receive another letter from my Lord Sandwich, which +troubles me to see how I have neglected him, in not writing, or but once, +all this time of his being abroad; and I see he takes notice, but yet +gently, of it, that it puts me to great trouble, and I know not how to get +out of it, having no good excuse, and too late now to mend, he being +coming home. Thence home, whither, by agreement, by and by comes Mercer +and Gayet, and two gentlemen with them, Mr. Monteith and Pelham, the +former a swaggering young handsome gentleman, the latter a sober citizen +merchant. Both sing, but the latter with great skill-the other, no skill, +but a good voice, and a good basse, but used to sing only tavern tunes; +and so I spent all this evening till eleven at night singing with them, +till I was tired of them, because of the swaggering fellow with the base, +though the girl Mercer did mightily commend him before to me. This night +je had agreed par' alter at Deptford, there par' avoir lain con the moher +de Bagwell, but this company did hinder me. + +30th. Up, and put on a new summer black bombazin suit, and so to the +office; and being come now to an agreement with my barber, to keep my +perriwig in good order at 20s. a-year, I am like to go very spruce, more +than I used to do. All the morning at the office and at noon home to +dinner, and so to the King's playhouse, and there saw "Philaster;" where +it is pretty to see how I could remember almost all along, ever since I +was a boy, Arethusa, the part which I was to have acted at Sir Robert +Cooke's; and it was very pleasant to me, but more to think what a +ridiculous thing it would have been for me to have acted a beautiful +woman. Thence to Mr. Pierces, and there saw Knepp also, and were merry; +and here saw my little Lady Katherine Montagu come to town, about her +eyes, which are sore, and they think the King's evil, poor, pretty lady. +Here I was freed from a fear that Knepp was angry or might take advantage +to declare the essay that je did the other day, quand je was con her +. . . Thence to the New Exchange, and there met Harris and Rolt, and one +Richards, a tailor and great company-keeper, and with these over to Fox +Hall, and there fell into the company of Harry Killigrew, a rogue newly +come back out of France, but still in disgrace at our Court, and young +Newport and others, as very rogues as any in the town, who were ready to +take hold of every woman that come by them. And so to supper in an +arbour: but, Lord! their mad bawdy talk did make my heart ake! And here I +first understood by their talk the meaning of the company that lately were +called Ballets; Harris telling how it was by a meeting of some young +blades, where he was among them, and my Lady Bennet + + [Evidently adopted as a cant expression. The woman here alluded to + was a procuress well known in her day, and described in the "Tatler" + (No. 84) as "the celebrated Madam Bennet." We further learn, from + the "Spectator" (No. 266), that she was the Lady B. to whom + Wycherley addressed his ironical dedication of "The Plain Dealer," + which is considered as a masterpiece of raillery. It is worthy of + remark that the fair sex may justly complain of almost every word in + the English language designating a woman having, at some time or + another, been used as a term of reproach; for we find Mother, Madam, + Mistress, and Miss, all denoting women of bad character; and here + Pepys adds the title of my Lady to the number, and completes the + ungracious catalogue.--B.] + +and her ladies; and their there dancing naked, and all the roguish things +in the world. But, Lord! what loose cursed company was this, that I was +in to-night, though full of wit; and worth a man's being in for once, to +know the nature of it, and their manner of talk, and lives. Thence set +Rolt and some of [them] at the New Exchange, and so I home, and my +business being done at the office, I to bed. + +31st (Lord's day). Up, and to church in the morning. At noon I sent for +Mr. Mills and his wife and daughter to dine, and they dined with me, and +W. Hewer, and very good company, I being in good humour. They gone to +church, comes Mr. Tempest, and he and I sang a psalm or two, and so +parted, and I by water to the New Exchange, and there to Mrs. Pierces, +where Knepp, and she, and W. Howe, and Mr. Pierce, and little Betty, over +to Fox Hall, and there walked and supped with great pleasure. Here was +Mrs. Manuel also, and mighty good company, and good mirth in making W. +Howe spend his six or seven shillings, and so they called him altogether +"Cully." So back, and at Somerset-stairs do understand that a boy is +newly drowned, washing himself there, and they cannot find his body. So +seeing them home, I home by water, W. Howe going with me, and after some +talk he lay at my house, and all to bed. Here I hear that Mrs. Davis is +quite gone from the Duke of York's house, and Gosnell comes in her room, +which I am glad of. At the play at Court the other night, Mrs. Davis was +there; and when she was to come to dance her jigg, the Queene would not +stay to see it, which people do think it was out of displeasure at her +being the King's whore, that she could not bear it. My Lady Castlemayne +is, it seems, now mightily out of request, the King coming little to her, +and thus she mighty melancholy and discontented. + + + + + 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 Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, May 1668, by Samuel Pepys + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, MAY 1668 *** + +***** This file should be named 4189.txt or 4189.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/8/4189/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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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 + diff --git a/old/sp74g10.zip b/old/sp74g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..82b16e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp74g10.zip |