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diff --git a/4190.txt b/4190.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..04fe20c --- /dev/null +++ b/4190.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1577 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, June/July 1668, by Samuel Pepys + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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, June/July 1668 + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Release Date: December 1, 2004 [EBook #4190] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + + + + +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. + JUNE & JULY + 1668 + +June 1st. Up and with Sir J. Minnes to Westminster, and in the Hall there +I met with Harris and Rolt, and carried them to the Rhenish wine-house, +where I have not been in a morning--nor any tavern, I think, these seven +years and more. Here I did get the words of a song of Harris that I +wanted. Here also Mr. Young and Whistler by chance met us, and drank with +us. Thence home, and to prepare business against the afternoon, and did +walk an hour in the garden with Sir W. Warren, who do tell me of the great +difficulty he is under in the business of his accounts with the +Commissioners of Parliament, and I fear some inconveniences and troubles +may be occasioned thereby to me. So to dinner, and then with Sir J. +Minnes to White Hall, and there attended the Lords of the Treasury and +also a committee of Council with the Duke of York about the charge of this +year's fleete, and thence I to Westminster and to Mrs. Martin's, and did +hazer what je would con her, and did once toker la thigh de su landlady, +and thence all alone to Fox Hall, and walked and saw young Newport, and +two more rogues of the town, seize on two ladies, who walked with them an +hour with their masks on; perhaps civil ladies; and there I left them, and +so home, and thence to Mr. Mills's, where I never was before, and here +find, whom I indeed saw go in, and that did make me go thither, Mrs. +Hallworthy and Mrs. Andrews, and here supped, and, extraordinary merry +till one in the morning, Mr. Andrews coming to us: and mightily pleased +with this night's company and mirth I home to bed. Mrs. Turner, too, was +with us. + +2nd. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon home to +dinner, and there dined with me, besides my own people, W. Batelier and +Mercer, and we very merry. After dinner, they gone, only Mercer and I to +sing a while, and then parted, and I out and took a coach, and called +Mercer at their back-door, and she brought with her Mrs. Knightly, a +little pretty sober girl, and I carried them to Old Ford, a town by Bow, +where I never was before, and there walked in the fields very pleasant, +and sang: and so back again, and stopped and drank at the Gun, at Mile +End, and so to the Old Exchange door, and did buy them a pound of +cherries, cost me 2s., and so set them down again; and I to my little +mercer's Finch, that lives now in the Minories, where I have left my +cloak, and did here baiser su moher, a belle femme, and there took my +cloak which I had left there, and so by water, it being now about nine +o'clock, down to Deptford, where I have not been many a day, and there it +being dark I did by agreement aller a la house de Bagwell, and there after +a little playing and baisando we did go up in the dark a su camera . . . +and to my boat again, and against the tide home. Got there by twelve +o'clock, taking into my boat, for company, a man that desired a passage--a +certain western bargeman, with whom I had good sport, talking of the old +woman of Woolwich, and telling him the whole story. + +3rd. Up, and to the office, where busy till g o'clock, and then to White +Hall, to the Council-chamber, where I did present the Duke of York with an +account of the charge of the present fleete, to his satisfaction; and this +being done, did ask his leave for my going out of town five or six days, +which he did give me, saying, that my diligence in the King's business was +such, that I ought not to be denied when my own business called me any +whither. Thence with Sir D. Gawden to Westminster, where I did take a +turn or two, and met Roger Pepys, who is mighty earnest for me to stay +from going into the country till he goes, and to bring my people thither +for some time: but I cannot, but will find another time this summer for +it. Thence with him home, and there to the office till noon, and then +with Lord Brouncker, Sir J. Minnes, and Sir G. Carteret, upon whose +accounts they have been this day to the Three Tuns to dinner, and thence +back again home, and after doing a little business I by coach to the +King's house, and there saw good, part of "The Scornfull Lady," and that +done, would have takn out Knepp, but she was engaged, and so to my Lord +Crew's to visit him; from whom I learn nothing but that there hath been +some controversy at the Council-table, about my Lord Sandwich's signing, +where some would not have had him, in the treaty with Portugall; but all, +I think, is over in it. Thence by coach to Westminster to the Hall, and +thence to the Park, where much good company, and many fine ladies; and in +so handsome a hackney I was, that I believe Sir W. Coventry and others, +who looked on me, did take me to be in one of my own, which I was a little +troubled for. So to the lodge, and drank a cup of new milk, and so home, +and there to Mrs. Turner's, and sat and talked with her, and then home to +bed, having laid my business with W. Hewer to go out of town Friday next, +with hopes of a great deal of pleasure. + +4th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon home to +dinner, where Mr. Clerke, the solicitor, dined with me and my clerks. +After dinner I carried and set him down at the Temple, he observing to me +how St. Sepulchre's church steeple is repaired already a good deal, and +the Fleet Bridge is contracted for by the City to begin to be built this +summer, which do please me mightily. I to White Hall, and walked through +the Park for a little ayre; and so back to the Council-chamber, to the +Committee of the Navy, about the business of fitting the present fleete, +suitable to the money given, which, as the King orders it, and by what +appears, will be very little; and so as I perceive the Duke of York will +have nothing to command, nor can intend to go abroad. But it is pretty to +see how careful these great men are to do every thing so as they may +answer it to the Parliament, thinking themselves safe in nothing but where +the judges, with whom they often advise, do say the matter is doubtful; +and so they take upon themselves then to be the chief persons to interpret +what is doubtful. Thence home, and all the evening to set matters in +order against my going to Brampton to-morrow, being resolved upon my +journey, and having the Duke of York's leave again to-day; though I do +plainly see that I can very ill be spared now, there being much business, +especially about this, which I have attended the Council about, and I the +man that am alone consulted with; and, besides, my Lord Brouncker is at +this time ill, and Sir W. Pen. So things being put in order at the +Office, I home to do the like there; and so to bed. + +5th (Friday). + + [The rough notes for the journal from this time to the 17th of June + are contained on five leaves, inserted in the book; and after them + follow several pages left blank for the fair copy which was never + made.] + +At Barnet, for milk, 6d. On the highway, to menders of the highway, 6d. +Dinner at Stevenage, 5s. 6d. + +6th (Saturday). Spent at Huntingdon with Bowles, and Appleyard, and +Shepley, 2s. + +7th (Sunday). My father, for money lent, and horse-hire L1 11s. + +8th (Monday). Father's servants (father having in the garden told me bad +stories of my wife's ill words), 14s.; one that helped at the horses, 2s.; +menders of the highway, 2s. Pleasant country to Bedford, where, while +they stay, I rode through the town; and a good country-town; and there, +drinking, 1s. We on to Newport; and there 'light, and I and W. Hewer to +the Church, and there give the boy 1s. So to Buckingham, a good old town. +Here I to see the Church, which very good, and the leads, and a school in +it: did give the sexton's boy 1s. A fair bridge here, with many arches: +vexed at my people's making me lose so much time; reckoning, 13s. 4d. +Mighty pleased with the pleasure of the ground all the day. At night to +Newport Pagnell; and there a good pleasant country-town, but few people in +it. A very fair--and like a Cathedral--Church; and I saw the leads, and a +vault that goes far under ground, and here lay with Betty Turner's +sparrow: the town, and so most of this country, well watered. Lay here +well, and rose next day by four o'clock: few people in the town: and so +away. Reckoning for supper, 19s. 6d.; poor, 6d. Mischance to the coach, +but no time lost. + +9th (Tuesday). When come to Oxford, a very sweet place: paid our guide, +L1 2s. 6d.; barber, 2s. 6d.; book, Stonage, 4s. + + [This must have been either Inigo Jones's "The most notable + Antiquity of Great Britain vulgarly called Stonehenge," printed in + 1655, or "Chorea Gigantum, or the most famous Antiquity of Great + Britain, vulgarly called Stones Heng, standing on Salisbury Plain, + restor'd to the Danes," by Walter Charleton, M.D., and published in + 1663.] + +To dinner; and then out with my wife and people, and landlord: and to him +that showed us the schools and library, 10s.; to him that showed us All +Souls' College, and Chichly's picture, 5s. So to see Christ Church with +my wife, I seeing several others very fine alone, with W. Hewer, before +dinner, and did give the boy that went with me 1s. Strawberries, 1s. 2d. +Dinner and servants, L1 0s. 6d. After come home from the schools, I out +with the landlord to Brazen-nose College;--to the butteries, and in the +cellar find the hand of the Child of Hales, . . . long. Butler, 2s. +Thence with coach and people to Physic-garden, 1s. So to Friar Bacon's +study: I up and saw it, and give the man 1s. Bottle of sack for landlord, +2s. Oxford mighty fine place; and well seated, and cheap entertainment. +At night come to Abingdon, where had been a fair of custard; and met many +people and scholars going home; and there did get some pretty good musick, +and sang and danced till supper: 5s. + +10th (Wednesday). Up, and walked to the Hospitall:--[Christ's +Hospital]--very large and fine; and pictures of founders, and the History' +of the Hospitall; and is said to be worth; L700 per annum; and that Mr. +Foly was here lately to see how their lands were settled; and here, in old +English, the story of the occasion of it, and a rebus at the bottom. So +did give the poor, which they would not take but in their box, 2s. 6d. So +to the inn, and paid the reckoning and what not, 13s. So forth towards +Hungerford, led this good way by our landlord, one Heart, an old but very +civil and well-spoken man, more than I ever heard, of his quality. He +gone, we forward; and I vexed at my people's not minding the way. So come +to Hungerford, where very good trouts, eels, and crayfish. Dinner: a mean +town. At dinner there, 12s. Thence set out with a guide, who saw us to +Newmarket-heath, and then left us, 3s. 6d. So all over the Plain by the +sight of the steeple, the Plain high and low, to Salisbury, by night; but +before I come to the town, I saw a great fortification, and there 'light, +and to it and in it; and find it prodigious, so as to frighten me to be in +it all alone at that time of night, it being dark. I understand, since, +it to be that, that is called Old Sarum. Come to the George Inne, where +lay in a silk bed; and very good diet. To supper; then to bed. + +11th (Thursday). Up, and W. Hewer and I up and down the town, and find it +a very brave place. The river goes through every street; and a most +capacious market-place. The city great, I think greater than Hereford. +But the Minster most admirable; as big, I think, and handsomer than +Westminster: and a most large Close about it, and houses for the Officers +thereof, and a fine palace for the Bishop. So to my lodging back, and +took out my wife and people to shew them the town and Church; but they +being at prayers, we could not be shown the Quire. A very good organ; and +I looked in, and saw the Bishop, my friend Dr. Ward. Thence to the inne; +and there not being able to hire coach-horses, and not willing to use our +own, we got saddle-horses, very dear. Boy that went to look for them, 6d. +So the three women behind W. Hewer, Murford, and our guide, and I single +to Stonage; over the Plain and some great hills, even to fright us. Come +thither, and find them as prodigious as any tales I ever heard of them, +and worth going this journey to see. God knows what their use was! they +are hard to tell, but yet maybe told. Give the shepherd-woman, for +leading our horses, 4d. So back by Wilton, my Lord Pembroke's house, +which we could not see, he being just coming to town; but the situation I +do not like, nor the house promise much, it being in a low but rich +valley. So back home; and there being 'light, we to the Church, and there +find them at prayers again, so could not see the Quire; but I sent the +women home, and I did go in, and saw very many fine tombs, and among the +rest some very ancient, of the Montagus. + + [The Montacutes, from whom Lord Sandwich's family claimed descent: + --B.] + +So home to dinner; and, that being done, paid the reckoning, which was so +exorbitant; and particular in rate of my horses, and 7s. 6d. for bread and +beer, that I was mad, and resolve to trouble the master about it, and get +something for the poor; and come away in that humour: L2 5s. 6d. Servants, +1s. 6d.; poor, 1s.; guide to the Stones, 2s.; poor woman in the street, +1s.; ribbands, 9d.; washwoman, 1s.; sempstress for W. Hewer, 3s.; lent W. +Hewer, 3s. Thence about six o'clock, and with a guide went over the +smooth Plain indeed till night; and then by a happy mistake, and that +looked like an adventure, we were carried out of our way to a town where +we would lye, since we could not go so far as we would. And there with +great difficulty come about ten at night to a little inn, where we were +fain to go into a room where a pedlar was in bed, and made him rise; and +there wife and I lay, and in a truckle-bed Betty Turner and Willett. But +good beds, and the master of the house a sober, understanding man, and I +had good discourse with him about this country's matters, as wool, and +corne, and other things. And he also merry, and made us mighty merry at +supper, about manning the new ship, at Bristol, with none but men whose +wives do master them; and it seems it is become in reproach to some men of +estate that are such hereabouts, that this is become common talk. By and +by to bed, glad of this mistake, because, it seems, had we gone on as we +intended, we could not have passed with our coach, and must have lain on +the Plain all night. This day from Salisbury I wrote by the post my +excuse for not coming home, which I hope will do, for I am resolved to see +the Bath, and, it may be, Bristol. + +12th (Friday). Up, finding our beds good, but lousy; which made us merry. +We set out, the reckoning and servants coming to 9s. 6d.; my guide +thither, 2s.; coachman, advanced, 10s. So rode a very good way, led to my +great content by our landlord to Philips-Norton, with great pleasure, +being now come into Somersetshire; where my wife and Deb. mightily joyed +thereat,--[They were natives of that county.-B.]--I commending the +country, as indeed it deserves. And the first town we came to was +Brekington, where, we stopping for something for the horses, we called two +or three little boys to us, and pleased ourselves with their manner of +speech, and did make one of them kiss Deb., and another say the Lord's +Prayer (hallowed be thy kingdom come). At Philips-Norton I walked to the +Church, and there saw a very ancient tomb of some Knight Templar, I think; +and here saw the tombstone whereon there were only two heads cut, which, +the story goes, and credibly, were two sisters, called the Fair Maids of +Foscott, that had two bodies upward and one belly, and there lie buried. +Here is also a very fine ring of six bells, and they mighty tuneable. +Having dined very well, 10s., we come before night to the Bath; where I +presently stepped out with my landlord, and saw the baths, with people in +them. They are not so large as I expected, but yet pleasant; and the town +most of stone, and clean, though the streets generally narrow. I home, +and being weary, went to bed without supper; the rest supping. + +13th (Saturday). Up at four o'clock, being by appointment called up to +the Cross Bath, where we were carried one after one another, myself, and +wife, and Betty Turner, Willet, and W. Hewer. And by and by, though we +designed to have done before company come, much company come; very fine +ladies; and the manner pretty enough, only methinks it cannot be clean to +go so many bodies together in the same water. Good conversation among +them that are acquainted here, and stay together. Strange to see how hot +the water is; and in some places, though this is the most temperate bath, +the springs so hot as the feet not able to endure. But strange to see, +when women and men herein, that live all the season in these waters, that +cannot but be parboiled, and look like the creatures of the bath! Carried +away, wrapped in a sheet, and in a chair, home; and there one after +another thus carried, I staying above two hours in the water, home to bed, +sweating for an hour; and by and by, comes musick to play to me, +extraordinary good as ever I heard at London almost, or anywhere: 5s. Up, +to go to Bristol, about eleven o'clock, and paying my landlord that was +our guide from Chiltern, 10s., and the serjeant of the bath, 10s., and the +man that carried us in chairs, 3s. 6d. Set out towards Bristoll, and come +thither (in a coach hired to spare our own horses); the way bad, but +country good, about two o'clock, where set down at the Horse'shoe, and +there, being trimmed by a very handsome fellow, 2s., walked with my wife +and people through the city, which is in every respect another London, +that one can hardly know it, to stand in the country, no more than that. +No carts, it standing generally on vaults, only dog-carts. + + ["They draw all their heavy goods here on sleds, or sledges, which + they call 'gee hoes,' without wheels, which kills a multitude of + horses." Another writer says, "They suffer no carts to be used in + the city, lest, as some say, the shake occasioned by them on the + pavement should affect the Bristol milk (the sherry) in the vaults, + which is certainly had here in the greatest perfection." An order + of Common Council occurs in 1651 to prohibit the use of carts and + waggons-only suffering drays. "Camden in giving our city credit for + its cleanliness in forming 'goutes,' says they use sledges here + instead of carts, lest they destroy the arches beneath which are the + goutes."--Chilcott's New Guide to Bristol, &c.,] + +So to the Three ..Crowns Tavern I was directed; but, when I come in, the +master told me that he had newly given over the selling of wine; it seems, +grown rich; and so went to the Sun; and there Deb. going with W. Hewer and +Betty Turner to see her uncle [Butts], and leaving my wife with the +mistress of the house, I to see the quay, which is a most large and noble +Vlace; and to see the new ship building by Bally, neither he nor Furzer +being in town. It will be a fine ship. Spoke with the foreman, and did +give the boys that kept the cabin 2s. Walked back to the Sun, where I +find Deb. come back, and with her, her uncle, a sober merchant, very good +company, and so like one of our sober, wealthy, London merchants, as +pleased me mightily. Here we dined, and much good talk with him, 7s. 6d.: +a messenger to Sir John Knight, who was not at home, 6d. Then walked with +him [Butts] and my wife and company round the quay, and to the ship; and +he shewed me the Custom-house, and made me understand many things of the +place, and led us through Marsh Street, where our girl was born. But, +Lord! the joy that was among the old poor people of the place, to see +Mrs. Willet's daughter, it seems her mother being a brave woman and +mightily beloved! And so brought us a back way by surprize to his house, +where a substantial good house, and well furnished; and did give us good +entertainment of strawberries, a whole venison-pasty, cold, and plenty of +brave wine, and above all Bristoll milk, + + [A sort of rum punch (milk punch), which, and turtle, were products + of the trade of Bristol with the West Indies. So Byron says in the + first edition of his "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers" + + "Too much in turtle Bristol's sons delight, + Too much oer bowls of rack prolong the night." + + These lines will not be found in the modern editions; but the + following are substituted: + + "Four turtle feeder's verse must needs he flat, + Though Bristol bloat him with the verdant fat." + + Lord Macaulay says of the collations with which the sugar-refiners + of Bristol regaled their visitors: "The repast was dressed in the + furnace, And was accompanied by a rich brewage made of the best + Spanish wine, and celebrated over the whole kingdom as Bristol milk" + ("Hist. of England," vol. i., p. 335)--B.] + +where comes in another poor woman, who, hearing that Deb. was here, did +come running hither, and with her eyes so lull of tears, and heart so full +of joy, that she could not speak when she come in, that it made me weep +too: I protest that I was not able to speak to her, which I would have +done, to have diverted her tears. His wife a good woman, and so sober and +substantiall as I was never more pleased anywhere. Servant-maid, 2s. So +thence took leave, and he with us through the city, where in walking I +find the city pay him great respect, and he the like to the meanest, which +pleased me mightily. He shewed us the place where the merchants meet +here, and a fine Cross yet standing, like Cheapside. And so to the +Horseshoe, where paid the reckoning, 2s. 6d. We back, and by moonshine to +the Bath again, about ten-o'clock: bad way; and giving the coachman 1s., +went all of us to bed. + +14th (Sunday). Up, and walked up and down the town, and saw a pretty good +market-place, and many good streets, and very fair stone-houses. And so to +the great Church, and there saw Bishop Montagu's tomb; + + [James Montagu, Bishop of Bath and Wells in 1608, and of Winchester + in 1616--died 1618. He was uncle to the Earl of Sandwich, whose + mother was Pepys's aunt. Hence Pepys's curiosity respecting the + tomb.--B.] + +and, when placed, did there see many brave people come, and, among others, +two men brought in, in litters, and set down in the chancel to hear: but I +did not know one face. Here a good organ; but a vain, pragmatical fellow +preached a ridiculous, affected sermon, that made me angry, and some +gentlemen that sat next me, and sang well. So home, walking round the +walls of the City, which are good, and the battlements all whole. The +sexton of the church is. So home to dinner, and after dinner comes Mr. +Butts again to see me, and he and I to church, where the same idle fellow +preached; and I slept most of the sermon. Thence home, and took my wife +out and the girls, and come to this church again, to see it, and look over +the monuments, where, among others, Dr. Venner and Pelting, and a lady of +Sir W. Walter's; he lying with his face broken. So to the fields a little +and walked, and then home and had my head looked [at], and so to supper, +and then comes my landlord to me, a sober understanding man, and did give +me a good account of the antiquity of this town and Wells; and of two +Heads, on two pillars, in Wells church. But he a Catholick. So he gone, I +to bed. + +15th (Monday). Up, and with Mr. Butts to look into the baths, and find +the King and Queen's full of a mixed sort, of good and bad, and the Cross +only almost for the gentry. So home and did the like with my wife, and +did pay my guides, two women, 5s.; one man, 2s. 6d.; poor, 6d.; woman to +lay my foot-cloth, 1s. So to our inne, and there eat and paid reckoning, +L1 8s. 6d.; servants, 3s.; poor, 1s.; lent the coach man, 10s. Before I +took coach, I went to make a boy dive in the King's bath, 1s. I paid also +for my coach and a horse to Bristol, L1 1s. 6d. Took coach, and away, +without any of the company of the other stage-coaches, that go out of this +town to-day; and rode all day with some trouble, for fear of being out of +our way, over the Downes, where the life of the shepherds is, in fair +weather only, pretty. In the afternoon come to Abebury, where, seeing +great stones like those of Stonage standing up, I stopped, and took a +countryman of that town, and he carried me and shewed me a place trenched +in, like Old Sarum almost, with great stones pitched in it, some bigger +than those at Stonage in figure, to my great admiration: and he told me +that most people of learning, coming by, do come and view them, and that +the King did so: and that the Mount cast hard by is called Selbury, from +one King Seall buried there, as tradition says. I did give this man 1s. +So took coach again, seeing one place with great high stones pitched +round, which, I believe, was once some particular building, in some +measure like that of Stonage. But, about a mile off, it was prodigious to +see how full the Downes are of great stones; and all along the vallies, +stones of considerable bigness, most of them growing certainly out of the +ground so thick as to cover the ground, which makes me think the less of +the wonder of Stonage, for hence they might undoubtedly supply themselves +with stones, as well as those at Abebury. In my way did give to the poor +and menders of the highway 3s. Before night, come to Marlborough, and +lay at the Hart; a good house, and a pretty fair town for a street or two; +and what is most singular is, their houses on one side having their +pent-houses supported with pillars, which makes it a good walk. My wife +pleased with all, this evening reading of "Mustapha" to me till supper, +and then to supper, and had musique whose innocence pleased me, and I did +give them 3s. So to bed, and lay well all night, and long, so as all the +five coaches that come this day from Bath, as well as we, were gone out of +the town before six. + +16th (Tuesday). So paying the reckoning, 14s. 4d., and servants, 2s., +poor 1s., set out; and overtook one coach and kept a while company with +it, till one of our horses losing a shoe, we stopped and drank and spent +1s. So on, and passing through a good part of this county of Wiltshire, +saw a good house of Alexander Popham's, and another of my Lord Craven's, I +think in Barkeshire. Come to Newbery, and there dined, which cost me, and +musick, which a song of the old courtier of Queen Elizabeth's, and how he +was changed upon the coming in of the King, did please me mightily, and I +did cause W. Hewer to write it out, 3s. 6d. Then comes the reckoning, +forced to change gold, 8s. 7d.; servants and poor, 1s. 6d. So out, and +lost our way, which made me vexed, but come into it again; and in the +evening betimes come to Reading, and there heard my wife read more of +"Mustapha," and then to supper, and then I to walk about the town, which +is a very great one, I think bigger than Salsbury: a river runs through +it, in seven branches, and unite in one, in one part of the town, and runs +into the Thames half-a-mile off one odd sign of the Broad Face. W. Hewer +troubled with the headake we had none of his company last night, nor all +this day nor night to talk. Then to my inn, and so to bed. + +17th (Wednesday). Rose, and paying the reckoning, 12s. 6d.; servants and +poor, 2s. 6d.; musick, the worst we have had, coming to our chamber-door, +but calling us by wrong names, we lay; so set out with one coach in +company, and through Maydenhead, which I never saw before, to Colebrooke +by noon; the way mighty good; and there dined, and fitted ourselves a +little to go through London, anon. Somewhat out of humour all day, +reflecting on my wife's neglect of things, and impertinent humour got by +this liberty of being from me, which she is never to be trusted with; for +she is a fool. Thence pleasant way to London, before night, and find all +very well, to great content; and there to talk with my wife, and saw Sir +W. Pen, who is well again. I hear of the ill news by the great fire at +Barbados. By and by home, and there with my people to supper, all in +pretty good humour, though I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, +that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will +not, for my content-sake, give it. So I to bed, glad to find all so well +here, and slept well. + + [The rough notes end here.] + +18th. Up betimes and to the office, there to set my papers in order and +books, my office having been new whited and windows made clean, and so to +sit, where all the morning, and did receive a hint or two from my Lord +Anglesey, as if he thought much of my taking the ayre as I have done; but +I care not a turd; but whatever the matter is, I think he hath some +ill-will to me, or at least an opinion that I am more the servant of the +Board than I am. At noon home to dinner, where my wife still in a +melancholy, fusty humour, and crying, and do not tell me plainly what it +is; but I by little words find that she hath heard of my going to plays, +and carrying people abroad every day, in her absence; and that I cannot +help but the storm will break out, I think, in a little time. After +dinner carried her by coach to St. James's, where she sat in the coach +till I to my Lady Peterborough's, who tells me, among other things, her +Lord's good words to the Duke of York lately, about my Lord Sandwich, and +that the Duke of York is kind to my Lord Sandwich, which I am glad to +hear: my business here was about her Lord's pension from Tangier. Here +met with Povy, who tells me how hard Creed is upon him, though he did give +him, about six months since, I think he said, fifty pieces in gold; and +one thing there is in his accounts that I fear may touch me, but I shall +help it, I hope. So my wife not speaking a word, going nor coming, nor +willing to go to a play, though a new one, I to the Office, and did much +business. At night home, where supped Mr. Turner and his wife, and Betty +and Mercer and Pelling, as merry as the ill, melancholy humour that my +wife was in, would let us, which vexed me; but I took no notice of it, +thinking that will be the best way, and let it wear away itself. After +supper, parted, and to bed; and my wife troubled all night, and about one +o'clock goes out of the bed to the girl's bed, which did trouble me, she +crying and sobbing, without telling the cause. By and by she comes back +to me, and still crying; I then rose, and would have sat up all night, but +she would have me come to bed again; and being pretty well pacified, we to +sleep. + +19th. When between two and three in the morning we were waked with my +maids crying out, "Fire, fire, in Markelane!" So I rose and looked out, +and it was dreadful; and strange apprehensions in me, and us all, of being +presently burnt. So we all rose; and my care presently was to secure my +gold, and plate, and papers, and could quickly have done it, but I went +forth to see where it was; and the whole town was presently in the +streets; and I found it in a new-built house that stood alone in +Minchin-lane, over against the Cloth-workers'-hall, which burned +furiously: the house not yet quite finished; and the benefit of brick was +well seen, for it burnt all inward, and fell down within itself; so no +fear of doing more hurt. So homeward, and stopped at Mr. Mills's, where +he and she at the door, and Mrs. Turner, and Betty, and Mrs. Hollworthy, +and there I stayed and talked, and up to the church leads, and saw the +fire, which spent itself, till all fear over. I home, and there we to bed +again, and slept pretty well, and about nine rose, and then my wife fell +into her blubbering again, and at length had a request to make to me, +which was, that she might go into France, and live there, out of trouble; +and then all come out, that I loved pleasure and denied her any, and a +deal of do; and I find that there have been great fallings out between my +father and her, whom, for ever hereafter, I must keep asunder, for they +cannot possibly agree. And I said nothing, but, with very mild words and +few, suffered her humour to spend, till we begun to be very quiet, and I +think all will be over, and friends, and so I to the office, where all the +morning doing business. Yesterday I heard how my Lord Ashly is like to +die, having some imposthume in his breast, that he hath been fain to be +cut into the body. + + ["Such an operation was performed in this year, after a consultation + of medical men, and chiefly by Locke's advice, and the wound was + afterwards always kept open, a silver pipe being inserted. This + saved Lord Ashley's life, and gave him health"--Christie's Life of + the first Earl of Shaftesbury, vol. ii., p. 34. 'Tapski' was a name + given to Shaftesbury in derision, and vile defamers described the + abscess, which had originated in a carriage accident in Holland, as + the result of extreme dissipation. Lines by Duke, a friend and + imitator of Dryden: + + "The working ferment of his active mind, + In his weak body's cask with pain confined, + Would burst the rotten vessel where 'tis pent, + But that 'tis tapt to give the treason vent."] + +At noon home to dinner, and thence by coach to White Hall, where we +attended the Duke of York in his closet, upon our usual business. And +thence out, and did see many of the Knights of the Garter, with the King +and Duke of York, going into the Privychamber, to elect the Elector of +Saxony into that Order, who, I did hear the Duke of York say, was a good +drinker: I know not upon what score this compliment is done him. Thence +with W. Pen, who is in great pain of the gowte, by coach round by Holborne +home, he being at every kennel full of pain. Thence home, and by and by +comes my wife and Deb. home, have been at the King's playhouse to-day, +thinking to spy me there; and saw the new play, "Evening Love," of +Dryden's, which, though the world commends, she likes not. So to supper +and talk, and all in good humour, and then to bed, where I slept not well, +from my apprehensions of some trouble about some business of Mr. Povy's he +told me of the other day. + +20th. Up, and talked with my wife all in good humour, and so to the +office, where all the morning, and then home to dinner, and so she and I +alone to the King's house, and there I saw this new play my wife saw +yesterday, and do not like it, it being very smutty, and nothing so good +as "The Maiden Queen," or "The Indian Emperour," of his making, that I was +troubled at it; and my wife tells me wholly (which he confesses a little +in the epilogue) taken out of the "Illustre Bassa." So she to Unthanke's +and I to Mr. Povy, and there settled some business; and here talked of +things, and he thinks there will be great revolutions, and that Creed will +be a great man, though a rogue, he being a man of the old strain, which +will now be up again. So I took coach, and set Povy down at Charing +Cross, and took my wife up, and calling at the New Exchange at Smith's +shop, and kissed her pretty hand, and so we home, and there able to do +nothing by candlelight, my eyes being now constantly so bad that I must +take present advice or be blind. So to supper, grieved for my eyes, and +to bed. + +21st (Lord's day). Up, and to church, and home and dined with my wife and +Deb. alone, but merry and in good humour, which is, when all is done, the +greatest felicity of all, and after dinner she to read in the "Illustre +Bassa" the plot of yesterday's play, which is most exactly the same, and +so to church I alone, and thence to see Sir W. Pen, who is ill again, and +then home, and there get my wife to read to me till supper, and then to +bed. + +22nd. Up, and with Balty to St. James's, and there presented him to Mr. +Wren about his being Muster-Master this year, which will be done. So up +to wait on the Duke of York, and thence, with W. Coventry, walked to White +Hall good discourse about the Navy, where want of money undoes us. Thence +to the Harp and Ball I to drink, and so to the Coffee-house in Covent +Garden; but met with nobody but Sir Philip Howard, who shamed me before +the whole house there, in commendation of my speech in Parliament, and +thence I away home to dinner alone, my wife being at her tailor's, and +after dinner comes Creed, whom I hate, to speak with me, and before him +comes Mrs. Daniel about business . . . . She gone, Creed and I to the +King's playhouse, and saw an act or two of the new play ["Evening's Love"] +again, but like it not. Calling this day at Herringman's, he tells me +Dryden do himself call it but a fifth-rate play. Thence with him to my +Lord Brouncker's, where a Council of the Royall Society; and there heard +Mr. Harry Howard's' noble offers about ground for our College, and his +intentions of building his own house there most nobly. My business was to +meet Mr. Boyle, which I did, and discoursed about my eyes; and he did give +me the best advice he could, but refers me to one Turberville, of +Salsbury, lately come to town, which I will go to. + + [Daubigny Turberville, of Oriel College; created M.D. at + Oxford,1660. He was a physician of some eminence, and, dying at + Salisbury on the 21st April, 1696, aged eighty-five, he was buried + in the cathedral, where his monument remains. Cassan, in his "Lives + of the Bishops of Sarum," part iii., p. 103, has reprinted an + interesting account of Turberville, from the "Memoir of Bishop Seth + Ward," published in 1697, by Dr. Walter Pope. Turberville was born + at Wayford, co. Somerset, in 1612, and became an expert oculist; and + probably Pepys received great benefit from his advice, as his vision + does not appear to have failed during the many years that he lived + after discontinuing the Diary. The doctor died rich, and + subsequently to his decease his sister Mary, inheriting all his + prescriptions, and knowing how to use them, practised as an oculist + in London with good reputation.--B.] + +Thence home, where the streets full, at our end of the town, removing +their wine against the Act begins, which will be two days hence, to raise +the price. I did get my store in of Batelier this night. So home to +supper and to bed. + +23rd. Up, and all the morning at the office. At noon home to dinner, and +so to the office again all the afternoon, and then to Westminster to Dr. +Turberville about my eyes, whom I met with: and he did discourse, I +thought, learnedly about them; and takes time before he did prescribe me +any thing, to think of it. So I away with my wife and Deb., whom I left +at Unthanke's, and so to Hercules Pillars, and there we three supped on +cold powdered beef, and thence home and in the garden walked a good while +with Deane, talking well of the Navy miscarriages and faults. So home to +bed. + +24th. Up, and Creed and Colonell Atkins come to me about sending coals to +Tangier: and upon that most of the morning. Thence Creed and I to +Alderman Backewell's about Tangier business of money, and thence I by +water (calling and drinking, but not baisado, at Michell's) to +Westminster, but it being holyday did no business, only to Martin's . . . +and so home again by water, and busy till dinner, and then with wife, +Mercer, Deb., and W. Hewer to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw +"The Impertinents," a pretty good play; and so by water to Spring Garden, +and there supped, and so home, not very merry, only when we come home, +Mercer and I sat and sung in the garden a good while, and so to bed. + +25th. Up, and to the office all the morning, and after dinner at home to +the office again, and there all the afternoon very busy till night, and +then home to supper and to bed. + +26th. All the morning doing business at the office. At noon, with my +Fellow-Officers, to the Dolphin, at Sir G. Carteret's charge, to dinner, +he having some accounts examined this morning. All the afternoon we all +at Sir W. Pen's with him about the Victuallers' accounts, and then in the +evening to Charing Cross, and there took up my wife at her tailor's, and +so home and to walk in the garden, and then to sup and to bed. + +27th. At the office all the morning, at noon dined at home, and then my +wife, and Deb., and I to the King's playhouse, and saw "The Indian +Queene," but do not doat upon Nan Marshall's acting therein, as the world +talks of her excellence therein. Thence with my wife to buy some linnen, +L13 worth, for sheets, &c., at the new shop over against the New Exchange; +[and the master, who is] come out of London--[To the Strand.]--since the +fire, says his and other tradesmen's retail trade is so great here, and +better than it was in London, that they believe they shall not return, nor +the city be ever so great for retail as heretofore. So home and to my +business, and to bed. + +28th (Lord's day). Up, and to church, and then home to dinner, where +Betty Turner, Mercer, and Captain Deane, and after dinner to sing, Mr. +Pelting coming. Then, they gone, Deane and I all the afternoon till night +to talk of navy matters and ships with great pleasure, and so at night, he +gone, I to supper, Pelling coming again and singing a while, then to bed. +Much talk of the French setting out their fleete afresh; but I hear +nothing that our King is alarmed at it, at all, but rather making his +fleete less. + +29th. Called up by my Lady Peterborough's servant about some business of +hers, and so to the office. Thence by and by with Sir J. Minnes toward +St. James's, and I stop at Dr. Turberville's, and there did receive a +direction for some physic, and also a glass of something to drop into my +eyes: who gives me hopes that I may do well. Thence to St. James's, and +thence to White Hall, where I find the Duke of York in the +Council-chamber; where the Officers of the Navy were called in about Navy +business, about calling in of more ships; the King of France having, as +the Duke of York says, ordered his fleete to come in, notwithstanding what +he had lately ordered for their staying abroad. Thence to the Chapel, it +being St. Peter's day, and did hear an anthem of Silas Taylor's making; a +dull, old-fashioned thing, of six and seven parts, that nobody could +understand: and the Duke of York, when he come out, told me that he was a +better store-keeper than anthem-maker, and that was bad enough, too. This +morning Mr. May' shewed me the King's new buildings at White Hall, very +fine; and among other things, his ceilings, and his houses of office. So +home to dinner, and then with my wife to the King's playhouse--"The +Mulberry Garden," which she had not seen. So by coach to Islington, and +round by Hackney home with much pleasure, and to supper and bed. + +30th. Up, and at the Office all the morning: then home to dinner, where a +stinking leg of mutton, the weather being very wet and hot to keep meat +in. Then to the Office again, all the afternoon: we met about the +Victualler's new contract. And so up, and to walk all the evening with my +wife and Mrs. Turner in the garden, till supper, about eleven at night; +and so, after supper, parted, and to bed, my eyes bad, but not worse, only +weary with working. But, however, I very melancholy under the fear of my +eyes being spoiled, and not to be recovered; for I am come that I am not +able to readout a small letter, and yet my sight good for the little while +I can read, as ever they were, I think. + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + JULY + 1668 + +July 1st. Up; and all the morning we met at the office about the +Victualler's contract. At noon home to dinner, my Cozen Roger, come newly +to town, dined with us, and mighty importunate for our coming down to +Impington, which I think to do, this Sturbridge fair. Thence I set him +down at the Temple, and Commissioner Middleton dining the first time with +me, he and I to White Hall, and so to St. James's, where we met; and much +business with the Duke of York. And I find the Duke of York very hot for +regulations in the Navy; and, I believe, is put on it by W. Coventry; and +I am glad of it; and particularly, he falls heavy on Chatham-yard,, and is +vexed that Lord Anglesey did, the other day, complain at the Council-table +of disorders in the Navy, and not to him. So I to White Hall to a +Committee of Tangier; and there vexed, with the importunity and clamours +of Alderman Backewell, for my acquittance for money supplied by him to the +garrison, before I have any order for paying it: so home, calling at +several places-among others, the 'Change, and on Cooper, to know when my +wife shall come to sit for her picture, which will be next week, and so +home and to walk with my wife, and then to supper and to bed. + +2nd. Called up by a letter from W. Coventry telling me that the +Commissioners of Accounts intend to summons me about Sir W. Warren's +Hamburg contract, and so I up and to W. Coventry's (he and G. Carteret +being the party concerned in it), and after conference with him about it +to satisfaction I home again to the office. At noon home to dinner, and +then all the afternoon busy to prepare an answer to this demand of the +Commissioners of Accounts, and did discourse with Sir W. Warren about it, +and so in the evening with my wife and Deb. by coach to take ayre to +Mile-end, and so home and I to bed, vexed to be put to this frequent +trouble in things we deserve best in. + +3rd. Betimes to the office, my head full of this business. Then by coach +to the Commissioners of Accounts at Brooke House, the first time I was +ever there, and there Sir W. Turner in the chair; and present, Lord +Halifax, Thoms[on], Gregory, Dunster, and Osborne. I long with them, and +see them hot set on this matter; but I did give them proper and safe +answers. Halifax, I perceive, was industrious on my side, in behalf of +his uncle Coventry, it being the business of fir W. Warren. Vexed only at +their denial of a copy of what I set my hand to, and swore. Here till +almost two o'clock, and then home to dinner, and set down presently what I +had done and said this day, and so abroad by water to Eagle Court in the +Strand, and there to an alehouse: met Mr. Pierce, the Surgeon, and Dr. +Clerke, Waldron, Turberville, my physician for the eyes, and Lowre, to +dissect several eyes of sheep and oxen, with great pleasure, and to my +great information. But strange that this Turberville should be so great a +man, and yet, to this day, had seen no eyes dissected, or but once, but +desired this Dr. Lowre to give him the opportunity to see him dissect +some. Thence to Unthanke's, to my wife, and carried her home, and there +walked in the garden, and so to supper and to bed. + +4th. Up, and to see Sir W. Coventry, and give him account of my doings +yesterday, which he well liked of, and was told thereof by my Lord Halifax +before; but I do perceive he is much concerned for this business. Gives me +advice to write a smart letter to the Duke of York about the want of money +in the Navy, and desire him to communicate it to the Commissioners of the +Treasury; for he tells me he hath hot work sometimes to contend with the +rest for the Navy, they being all concerned for some other part of the +King's expenses, which they would prefer to this, of the Navy. He shewed +me his closet, with his round table, for him to sit in the middle, very +convenient; and I borrowed several books of him, to collect things out of +the Navy, which I have not, and so home, and there busy sitting all the +morning, and at noon dined, and then all the afternoon busy, till night, +and then to Mile-End with my wife and girl, and there drank and eat a joie +of salmon, at the Rose and Crown, our old house; and so home to bed. + +5th (Lord's day). About four in the morning took four pills of Dr. +Turberville's prescribing, for my eyes, and they wrought pretty well most +of the morning, and I did get my wife to spend the morning reading of +Wilkins's Reall Character. At noon comes W. Hewer and Pelling, and young +Michell and his wife, and dined with us, and most of the afternoon +talking; and then at night my wife to read again, and to supper and to +bed. + +6th. Up, and to St. James's, and there attended the Duke of York, and was +there by himself told how angry he was, and did declare to my Lord +Anglesey, about his late complaining of things of the Navy to the King in +Council, and not to him; and I perceive he is mightily concerned at it, +and resolved to reform things therein. Thence with W. Coventry walked in +the Park together a good while, he mighty kind to me. And hear many +pretty stories of my Lord Chancellor's being heretofore made sport of by +Peter Talbot the priest, in his story of the death of Cardinall Bleau; + + [It is probable these stories, in ridicule of Clarendon, are nowhere + recorded. Cardinal Jean Balue was the minister of Louis XI. of + France. The reader will remember him in Sir W. Scott's "Quentin + Durward." He was confined for eleven years in an iron cage invented + by himself in the Chateau de Loches, and died soon after he regained + his liberty.--B.] + +by Lord Cottington, in his 'Dolor de las Tyipas'; + + [Gripes. It was a joke against Lord Cottington that whenever he was + seriously ill he declared himself a Roman Catholic, when he was well + again he returned to the Protestant faith.] + +and Tom Killigrew, in his being bred in Ram Ally, and now bound prentice +to Lord Cottington, going to Spain with L1000, and two suits of clothes. +Thence home to dinner, and thence to Mr. Cooper's, and there met my wife +and W. Hewer and Deb.; and there my wife first sat for her picture: but he +is a most admirable workman, and good company. Here comes Harris, and +first told us how Betterton is come again upon the stage: whereupon my +wife and company to the [Duke's] house to see "Henry the Fifth;" while I +to attend the Duke of York at the Committee of the Navy, at the Council, +where some high dispute between him and W. Coventry about settling +pensions upon all Flag-Officers, while unemployed: W. Coventry against it, +and, I think, with reason. Thence I to the playhouse, and saw a piece of +the play, and glad to see Betterton; and so with wife and Deb. to +Spring-garden, and eat a lobster, and so home in the evening and to bed. +Great doings at Paris, I hear, with their triumphs for their late +conquests! The Duchesse of Richmond sworn last week of the queen's +Bedchamber, and the King minding little else but what he used to do--about +his women. + +7th. Up, and to the office, where Kate Joyce come to me about some +tickets of hers, but took no notice to me of her being married, but seemed +mighty pale, and doubtful what to say or do, expecting, I believe, that I +should begin; and not finding me beginning, said nothing, but, with +trouble in her face, went away. At the office all the morning, and after +dinner also all the afternoon, and in the evening with my wife and Deb. +and Betty Turner to Unthanke's, where we are fain to go round by Newgate, +because of Fleet Bridge being under rebuilding. They stayed there, and I +about some business, and then presently back and brought them home and +supped and Mrs. Turner, the mother, comes to us, and there late, and so to +bed. + +8th. Betimes by water to Sir W. Coventry, and there discoursed of several +things; and I find him much concerned in the present enquiries now on foot +of the Commissioners of Accounts, though he reckons himself and the rest +very safe, but vexed to see us liable to these troubles, in things wherein +we have laboured to do best. Thence, he being to go out of town +to-morrow, to drink Banbury waters, I to the Duke of York, to attend him +about business of the Office; and find him mighty free to me, and how he +is concerned to mend things in the Navy himself, and not leave it to other +people. So home to dinner; and then with my wife to Cooper's, and there +saw her sit; and he do do extraordinary things indeed. So to White Hall; +and there by and by the Duke of York comes to the Robe-chamber, and spent +with us three hours till night, in hearing the business of the +Master-Attendants of Chatham, and the Store-keeper of Woolwich; and +resolves to displace them all; so hot he is of giving proofs of his +justice at this time, that it is their great fate now, to come to be +questioned at such a time as this. Thence I to Unthanke's, and took my +wife and Deb. home, and to supper and to bed. + +9th. Up, and to the office, where sat all the morning, and after noon to +the office again till night, mighty busy getting Mr. Fist to come and help +me, my own clerks all busy, and so in the evening to ease my eyes, and +with my wife and Deb. and Betty Turner, by coach to Unthanke's and back +again, and then to supper and to bed. + +10th. Up, and to attend the Council, but all in vain, the Council +spending all the morning upon a business about the printing of the +Critickes, a dispute between the first Printer, one Bee that is dead, and +the Abstractor, who would now print his Abstract, one Poole. So home to +dinner, and thence to Haward's to look upon an Espinette, and I did come +near the buying one, but broke off. I have a mind to have one. So to +Cooper's; and there find my wife and W. Hewer and Deb., sitting, and +painting; and here he do work finely, though I fear it will not be so like +as I expected: but now I understand his great skill in musick, his playing +and setting to the French lute most excellently; and speaks French, and +indeed is an excellent man. Thence, in the evening, with my people in a +glass hackney-coach to the park, but was ashamed to be seen. So to the +lodge, and drank milk, and so home to supper and to bed. + +11th. At the office all the morning. After dinner to the King's +playhouse, to see an old play of Shirly's, called "Hide Parker" the first +day acted; where horses are brought upon the stage but it is but a very +moderate play, only an excellent epilogue spoke by Beck Marshall. Thence +home and to my office, and then to supper and to bed, and overnight took +some pills, + +12th. Which work with me pretty betimes, being Lord's day, and so I +within all day. Busy all the morning upon some accounts with W. Hewer, +and at noon, an excellent dinner, comes Pelling and W. Howe, and the +latter staid and talked with me all the afternoon, and in the evening +comes Mr. Mills and his wife and supped and talked with me, and so to bed. +This last night Betty Michell about midnight cries out, and my wife goes +to her, and she brings forth a girl, and this afternoon the child is +christened, and my wife godmother again to a Betty. + +13th. Up, and to my office, and thence by water to White Hall to attend +the Council, but did not, and so home to dinner, and so out with my wife, +and Deb., and W. Hewer towards Cooper's, but I 'light and walked to Ducke +Lane, and there to the bookseller's; at the Bible, whose moher je have a +mind to, but elle no erat dentro, but I did there look upon and buy some +books, and made way for coming again to the man, which pleases me. Thence +to Reeves's, and there saw some, and bespoke a little perspective, and was +mightily pleased with seeing objects in a dark room. And so to Cooper's, +and spent the afternoon with them; and it will be an excellent picture. +Thence my people all by water to Deptford, to see Balty, while I to buy my +espinette, + + [Espinette is the French term for a small harpsichord, at that time + called in England a spinet. It was named from a fancied resemblance + of its quill plectra to spines or thorns.] + +which I did now agree for, and did at Haward's meet with Mr. Thacker, and +heard him play on the harpsicon, so as I never heard man before, I think. +So home, it being almost night, and there find in the garden Pelling, who +hath brought Tempest, Wallington, and Pelham, to sings and there had most +excellent musick late, in the dark, with great pleasure. Made them drink +and eat; and so with much pleasure to bed, but above all with little +Wallington. This morning I was let blood, and did bleed about fourteen +ounces, towards curing my eyes. + +14th. Up, and to my office, where sat all the morning. At noon home to +dinner, and thence all the afternoon hard at the office, we meeting about +the Victualler's new contract; and so into the garden, my Lady Pen, Mrs. +Turner and her daughter, my wife and I, and there supped in the dark and +were merry, and so to bed. This day Bossc finished his copy of my +picture, which I confess I do not admire, though my wife prefers him to +Browne; nor do I think it like. He do it for W. Hewer, who hath my wife's +also, which I like less. This afternoon my Lady Pickering come to see us: +I busy, saw her not. But how natural it is for us to slight people out of +power, and for people out of power to stoop to see those that while in +power they contemned! + +15th. Up, and all the morning busy at the office to my great content, +attending to the settling of papers there that I may have the more rest in +winter for my eyes by how much I do the more in the settling of all things +in the summer by daylight. At noon home to dinner, where is brought home +the espinette I bought the other day of Haward; costs me L5. So to St. +James's, where did our ordinary business with the Duke of York. So to +Unthanke's to my wife, and with her and Deb. to visit Mrs. Pierce, whom I +do not now so much affect, since she paints. But stayed here a while, and +understood from her how my Lady Duchesse of Monmouth is still lame, and +likely always to be so, which is a sad chance for a young [lady] to get, +only by trying of tricks in dancing. So home, and there Captain Deane +come and spent the evening with me, to draw some finishing lines on his +fine draught of "The Resolution," the best ship, by all report, in the +world, and so to bed. Wonderful hot all day and night, and this the first +night that I remember in my life that ever I could lie with only a sheet +and one rug. So much I am now stronger than ever I remember myself, at +least since before I had the stone. + +16th. Up, and to the office, where Yeabsly and Lanyon come to town and to +speak with me about a matter wherein they are accused of cheating the King +before the Lords' Commissioners of Tangier, and I doubt it true, but I +have no hand in it, but will serve them what I can. All the morning at +the office, and at noon dined at home, and then to the office again, where +we met to finish the draft of the Victualler's contract, and so I by water +with my Lord Brouncker to Arundell House, to the Royall Society, and there +saw an experiment of a dog's being tied through the back, about the spinal +artery, and thereby made void of all motion; and the artery being loosened +again, the dog recovers. Thence to Cooper's, and saw his advance on my +wife's picture, which will be indeed very fine. So with her to the +'Change, to buy some things, and here I first bought of the sempstress +next my bookseller's, where the pretty young girl is, that will be a great +beauty. So home, and to supper with my wife in the garden, it being these +two days excessively hot, and so to bed. + +17th. Up, and fitted myself to discourse before the Council about +business of tickets. So to White Hall, where waited on the Duke of York, +and then the Council about that business; and I did discourse to their +liking, only was too high to assert that nothing could be invented to +secure the King more in the business of tickets than there is; which the +Duke of Buckingham did except against, and I could have answered, but +forbore; but all liked very well. Thence home, and with my wife and Deb. +to the King's House to see a play revived called The------, a sorry mean +play, that vexed us to sit in so much heat of the weather to hear it. +Thence to see Betty Michell newly lain in, and after a little stay we took +water and to Spring Garden, and there walked, and supped, and staid late, +and with much pleasure, and to bed. The weather excessive hot, so as we +were forced to lie in two beds, and I only with a sheet and rug, which is +colder than ever I remember I could bear. + +18th. At the office all the morning. At noon dined at home and Creed +with me, who I do really begin to hate, and do use him with some +reservedness. Here was also my old acquaintance, Will Swan, to see me, +who continues a factious fanatick still, and I do use him civilly, in +expectation that those fellows may grow great again. Thence to the +office, and then with my wife to the 'Change and Unthanke's, after having +been at Cooper's and sat there for her picture, which will be a noble +picture, but yet I think not so like as Hales's is. So home and to my +office, and then to walk in the garden, and home to supper and to bed. +They say the King of France is making a war again, in Flanders, with the +King of Spain; the King of Spain refusing to give him all that he says was +promised him in the treaty. Creed told me this day how when the King was +at my Lord Cornwallis's when he went last to Newmarket, that being there +on a Sunday, the Duke of Buckingham did in the afternoon to please the +King make a bawdy sermon to him out of Canticles, and that my Lord +Cornwallis did endeavour to get the King a whore, and that must be a +pretty girl the daughter of the parson of the place, but that she did get +away, and leaped off of some place and killed herself, which if true is +very sad. + +19th (Lord's day). Up, and to my chamber, and there I up and down in the +house spent the morning getting things ready against noon, when come Mr. +Cooper, Hales, Harris, Mr. Butler, that wrote Hudibras, and Mr. Cooper's +cozen Jacke; and by and by comes Mr. Reeves and his wife, whom I never saw +before: and there we dined: a good dinner, and company that pleased me +mightily, being all eminent men in their way. Spent all the afternoon in +talk and mirth, and in the evening parted, and then my wife and I to walk +in the garden, and so home to supper, Mrs. Turner and husband and daughter +with us, and then to bed. + +20th. Up, and to the office, where Mrs. Daniel comes. . . . All the +morning at the office. Dined at home, then with Mr. Colvill to the new +Excise Office in Aldersgate Street, and thence back to the Old Exchange, +to see a very noble fine lady I spied as I went through, in coming; and +there took occasion to buy some gloves, and admire her, and a mighty fine +fair lady indeed she was. Thence idling all the afternoon to Duck Lane, +and there saw my bookseller's moher, but get no ground there yet; and here +saw Mrs. Michell's daughter married newly to a bookseller, and she proves +a comely little grave woman. So to visit my Lord Crew, who is very sick, +to great danger, by an irisipulus;--[Erysipelas.]--the first day I heard +of it, and so home, and took occasion to buy a rest for my espinette at +the ironmonger's by Holborn Conduit, where the fair pretty woman is that I +have lately observed there, and she is pretty, and je credo vain enough. +Thence home and busy till night, and so to bed. + +21st. Up, and to St. James's, but lost labour, the Duke abroad. So home +to the office, where all the morning, and so to dinner, and then all the +afternoon at the office, only went to my plate-maker's, and there spent an +hour about contriving my little plates, + + [This passage has been frequently quoted as referring to Pepys's. + small bookplate, with his initials S. P. and two anchors and ropes + entwined; but if looked at carefully with the further reference on + the 27th, it will be seen that it merely describes the preparation + of engravings of the four dockyards.] + +for my books of the King's four Yards. At night walked in the garden, and +supped and to bed, my eyes bad. + +22nd. All the morning at the office. Dined at home, and then to White +Hall with Symson the joyner, and after attending at the Committee of the +Navy about the old business of tickets, where the only expedient they have +found is to bind the Commanders and Officers by oaths. The Duke of York +told me how the Duke of Buckingham, after the Council the other day, did +make mirth at my position, about the sufficiency of present rules in the +business of tickets; and here I took occasion to desire a private +discourse with the Duke of York, and he granted it to me on Friday next. +So to shew Symson the King's new lodgings for his chimnies, which I desire +to have one built in that mode, and so I home, and with little supper, to +bed. This day a falling out between my wife and Deb., about a hood lost, +which vexed me. + +23rd. Up, and all day long, but at dinner, at the Office, at work, till I +was almost blind, which makes my heart sad. + +24th. Up, and by water to St. James's, having, by the way, shewn Symson +Sir W. Coventry's chimney-pieces, in order to the making me one; and +there, after the Duke of York was ready, he called me to his closet; and +there I did long and largely show him the weakness of our Office, and did +give him advice to call us to account for our duties, which he did take +mighty well, and desired me to draw up what I would have him write to the +Office. I did lay open the whole failings of the Office, and how it was +his duty to find them, and to find fault with them, as Admiral, especially +at this time, which he agreed to, and seemed much to rely on what I said. +Thence to White Hall, and there waited to attend the Council, but was not +called in, and so home, and after dinner back with Sir J. Minnes by coach, +and there attended, all of us, the Duke of York, and had the hearing of +Mr. Pett's business, the Master-Shipwright at Chatham, and I believe he +will be put out. But here Commissioner. Middleton did, among others, shew +his good-nature and easiness to the Masters-Attendants, by mitigating +their faults, so as, I believe, they will come in again. So home, and to +supper and to bed, the Duke of York staying with us till almost night. + +25th. Up, and at the Office all the morning; and at noon, after dinner, +to Cooper's, it being a very rainy day, and there saw my wife's picture go +on, which will be very fine indeed. And so home again to my letters, and +then to supper and to bed. + +26th (Lord's day). Up, and all the morning and after dinner, the +afternoon also, with W. Hewer in my closet, setting right my Tangier +Accounts, which I have let alone these six months and more, but find them +very right, and is my great comfort. So in the evening to walk with my +wife, and to supper and to bed. + +27th. Busy all the morning at my office. At noon dined, and then I out +of doors to my bookseller in Duck Lane, but su moher not at home, and it +was pretty here to see a pretty woman pass by with a little wanton look, +and je did sequi her round about the street from Duck Lane to Newgate +Market, and then elle did turn back, and je did lose her. And so to see +my Lord Crew, whom I find up; and did wait on him; but his face sore, but +in hopes to do now very well again. Thence to Cooper's, where my wife's +picture almost done, and mighty fine indeed. So over the water with my +wife, and Deb., and Mercer, to Spring-Garden, and there eat and walked; +and observe how rude some of the young gallants of the town are become, to +go into people's arbours where there are not men, and almost force the +women; which troubled me, to see the confidence of the vice of the age: +and so we away by water, with much pleasure home. This day my plate-maker +comes with my four little plates of the four Yards, cost me L5, which +troubles me, but yet do please me also. + +28th. All the morning at the office, and after dinner with my wife and +Deb. to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "The Slighted Maid," +but a mean play; and thence home, there being little pleasure now in a +play, the company being but little. Here we saw Gosnell, who is become +very homely, and sings meanly, I think, to what I thought she did. + +29th. Busy all the morning at the office. So home to dinner, where +Mercer, and there comes Mr. Swan, my old acquaintance, and dines with me, +and tells me, for a certainty, that Creed is to marry Betty Pickering, and +that the thing is concluded, which I wonder at, and am vexed for. So he +gone I with my wife and two girls to the King's house, and saw "The Mad +Couple," a mean play altogether, and thence to Hyde Parke, where but few +coaches, and so to the New Exchange, and thence by water home, with much +pleasure, and then to sing in the garden, and so home to bed, my eyes for +these four days being my trouble, and my heart thereby mighty sad. + +30th. Up, and by water to White Hall. There met with Mr. May, who was +giving directions about making a close way for people to go dry from the +gate up into the House, to prevent their going through the galleries; +which will be very good. I staid and talked with him about the state of +the King's Offices in general, and how ill he is served, and do still find +him an excellent person, and so back to the office. So close at my office +all the afternoon till evening, and then out with my wife to the New +Exchange, and so back again. + +31st. Up, and at my office all the morning. About noon with Mr. +Ashburnham to the new Excise Office, and there discoursed about our +business, and I made him admire my drawing a thing presently in shorthand: +but, God knows! I have paid dear for it, in my eyes. Home and to dinner, +and then my wife and Deb. and I, with Sir J. Minnes, to White Hall, she +going hence to the New Exchange, and the Duke of York not being in the +way, Sir J. Minnes and I to her and took them two to the King's house, to +see the first day of Lacy's "Monsieur Ragou," now new acted. The King and +Court all there, and mighty merry--a farce. Thence Sir J. Minnes giving +us, like a gentleman, his coach, hearing we had some business, we to the +Park, and so home. Little pleasure there, there being little company, but +mightily taken with a little chariot that we saw in the street, and which +we are resolved to have ours like it. So home to walk in the garden a +little, and then to bed. The month ends mighty sadly with me, my eyes +being now past all use almost; and I am mighty hot upon trying the late +printed experiment of paper tubes. + + [An account of these tubulous spectacles ("An easy help for decayed + sight") is given in "The Philosophical Transactions," No. 37, pp. + 727,731 (Hutton's Abridgment, vol. i., p. 266). See Diary, August + 12th and 23rd, post.] + + + + + ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + + At work, till I was almost blind, which makes my heart sad + Bristol milk (the sherry) in the vaults + But get no ground there yet + Cannot be clean to go so many bodies together in the same water + City pay him great respect, and he the like to the meanest + Cost me L5, which troubles me, but yet do please me also + Espinette is the French term for a small harpsichord + Forced to change gold, 8s. 7d.; servants and poor, 1s. 6d. + Frequent trouble in things we deserve best in + How natural it is for us to slight people out of power + I could have answered, but forbore + Little pleasure now in a play, the company being but little + Made him admire my drawing a thing presently in shorthand + My wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits + My wife's neglect of things, and impertinent humour + So out, and lost our way, which made me vexed + Suffered her humour to spend, till we begun to be very quiet + Troubled me, to see the confidence of the vice of the age + Up, finding our beds good, but lousy; which made us merry + Weather being very wet and hot to keep meat in. + When he was seriously ill he declared himself a Roman Catholic + Where a pedlar was in bed, and made him rise + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Diary of Samuel Pepys, June/July 1668 +by Samuel Pepys + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + +***** This file should be named 4190.txt or 4190.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/9/4190/ + +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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