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Minnes to Westminster, and in the Hall +there I met with Harris and Rolt, and carried them to the Rhenish wine- +house, where I have not been in a morning--nor any tavern, I think, these +seven years and more. Here I did get the words of a song of Harris that +I wanted. Here also Mr. Young and Whistler by chance met us, and drank +with us. Thence home, and to prepare business against the afternoon, and +did walk an hour in the garden with Sir W. Warren, who do tell me of the +great difficulty he is under in the business of his accounts with the +Commissioners of Parliament, and I fear some inconveniences and troubles +may be occasioned thereby to me. So to dinner, and then with Sir J. +Minnes to White Hall, and there attended the Lords of the Treasury and +also a committee of Council with the Duke of York about the charge of +this year's fleete, and thence I to Westminster and to Mrs. Martin's, +and did hazer what je would con her, and did once toker la thigh de su +landlady, and thence all alone to Fox Hall, and walked and saw young +Newport, and two more rogues of the town, seize on two ladies, who walked +with them an hour with their masks on; perhaps civil ladies; and there I +left them, and so home, and thence to Mr. Mills's, where I never was +before, and here find, whom I indeed saw go in, and that did make me go +thither, Mrs. Hallworthy and Mrs. Andrews, and here supped, and, +extraordinary merry till one in the morning, Mr. Andrews coming to us: +and mightily pleased with this night's company and mirth I home to bed. +Mrs. Turner, too, was with us. + + + +2nd. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon home to +dinner, and there dined with me, besides my own people, W. Batelier and +Mercer, and we very merry. After dinner, they gone, only Mercer and I to +sing a while, and then parted, and I out and took a coach, and called +Mercer at their back-door, and she brought with her Mrs. Knightly, a +little pretty sober girl, and I carried them to Old Ford, a town by Bow, +where I never was before, and there walked in the fields very pleasant, +and sang: and so back again, and stopped and drank at the Gun, at Mile +End, and so to the Old Exchange door, and did buy them a pound of +cherries, cost me 2s., and so set them down again; and I to my little +mercer's Finch, that lives now in the Minories, where I have left my +cloak, and did here baiser su moher, a belle femme, and there took my +cloak which I had left there, and so by water, it being now about nine +o'clock, down to Deptford, where I have not been many a day, and there it +being dark I did by agreement aller a la house de Bagwell, and there +after a little playing and baisando we did go up in the dark a su camera +. . . . and to my boat again, and against the tide home. Got there +by twelve o'clock, taking into my boat, for company, a man that desired a +passage--a certain western bargeman, with whom I had good sport, talking +of the old woman of Woolwich, and telling him the whole story. + + + +3rd. Up, and to the office, where busy till g o'clock, and then to White +Hall, to the Council-chamber, where I did present the Duke of York with +an account of the charge of the present fleete, to his satisfaction; and +this being done, did ask his leave for my going out of town five or six +days, which he did give me, saying, that my diligence in the King's +business was such, that I ought not to be denied when my own business +called me any whither. Thence with Sir D. Gawden to Westminster, where I +did take a turn or two, and met Roger Pepys, who is mighty earnest for me +to stay from going into the country till he goes, and to bring my people +thither for some time: but I cannot, but will find another time this +summer for it. Thence with him home, and there to the office till noon, +and then with Lord Brouncker, Sir J. Minnes, and Sir G. Carteret, upon +whose accounts they have been this day to the Three Tuns to dinner, and +thence back again home, and after doing a little business I by coach to +the King's house, and there saw good, part of "The Scornfull Lady," and +that done, would have takn out Knepp, but she was engaged, and so to my +Lord Crew's to visit him; from whom I learn nothing but that there hath +been some controversy at the Council-table, about my Lord Sandwich's +signing, where some would not have had him, in the treaty with Portugall; +but all, I think, is over in it. Thence by coach to Westminster to the +Hall, and thence to the Park, where much good company, and many fine +ladies; and in so handsome a hackney I was, that I believe Sir W. +Coventry and others, who looked on me, did take me to be in one of my +own, which I was a little troubled for. So to the lodge, and drank a cup +of new milk, and so home, and there to Mrs. Turner's, and sat and talked +with her, and then home to bed, having laid my business with W. Hewer to +go out of town Friday next, with hopes of a great deal of pleasure. + + + +4th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon home to +dinner, where Mr. Clerke, the solicitor, dined with me and my clerks. +After dinner I carried and set him down at the Temple, he observing to me +how St. Sepulchre's church steeple is repaired already a good deal, and +the Fleet Bridge is contracted for by the City to begin to be built this +summer, which do please me mightily. I to White Hall, and walked through +the Park for a little ayre; and so back to the Council-chamber, to the +Committee of the Navy, about the business of fitting the present fleete, +suitable to the money given, which, as the King orders it, and by what +appears, will be very little; and so as I perceive the Duke of York will +have nothing to command, nor can intend to go abroad. But it is pretty +to see how careful these great men are to do every thing so as they may +answer it to the Parliament, thinking themselves safe in nothing but +where the judges, with whom they often advise, do say the matter is +doubtful; and so they take upon themselves then to be the chief persons +to interpret what is doubtful. Thence home, and all the evening to set +matters in order against my going to Brampton to-morrow, being resolved +upon my journey, and having the Duke of York's leave again to-day; though +I do plainly see that I can very ill be spared now, there being much +business, especially about this, which I have attended the Council about, +and I the man that am alone consulted with; and, besides, my Lord +Brouncker is at this time ill, and Sir W. Pen. So things being put in +order at the Office, I home to do the like there; and so to bed. + + + +5th (Friday). + + [The rough notes for the journal from this time to the 17th of June + are contained on five leaves, inserted in the book; and after them + follow several pages left blank for the fair copy which was never + made.] + +At Barnet, for milk, 6d. On the highway, to menders of the highway, 6d. +Dinner at Stevenage, 5s. 6d. + + + +6th (Saturday). Spent at Huntingdon with Bowles, and Appleyard, and +Shepley, 2s. + + + +7th (Sunday). My father, for money lent, and horse-hire L1 11s. + + + +8th (Monday). Father's servants (father having in the garden told me bad +stories of my wife's ill words), 14s.; one that helped at the horses, +2s.; menders of the highway, 2s. Pleasant country to Bedford, where, +while they stay, I rode through the town; and a good country-town; and +there, drinking, 1s. We on to Newport; and there 'light, and I and +W. Hewer to the Church, and there give the boy 1s. So to Buckingham, a +good old town. Here I to see the Church, which very good, and the leads, +and a school in it: did give the sexton's boy 1s. A fair bridge here, +with many arches: vexed at my people's making me lose so much time; +reckoning, 13s. 4d. Mighty pleased with the pleasure of the ground all +the day. At night to Newport Pagnell; and there a good pleasant country- +town, but few people in it. A very fair--and like a Cathedral--Church; +and I saw the leads, and a vault that goes far under ground, and here lay +with Betty Turner's sparrow: the town, and so most of this country, well +watered. Lay here well, and rose next day by four o'clock: few people in +the town: and so away. Reckoning for supper, 19s. 6d.; poor, 6d. +Mischance to the coach, but no time lost. + + + +9th (Tuesday). When come to Oxford, a very sweet place: paid our guide, +L1 2s. 6d.; barber, 2s. 6d.; book, Stonage, 4s. + + [This must have been either Inigo Jones's "The most notable + Antiquity of Great Britain vulgarly called Stonehenge," printed in + 1655, or "Chorea Gigantum, or the most famous Antiquity of Great + Britain, vulgarly called Stones Heng, standing on Salisbury Plain, + restor'd to the Danes," by Walter Charleton, M.D., and published in + 1663.] + +To dinner; and then out with my wife and people, and landlord: and to him +that showed us the schools and library, 10s.; to him that showed us All +Souls' College, and Chichly's picture, 5s. So to see Christ Church with +my wife, I seeing several others very fine alone, with W. Hewer, before +dinner, and did give the boy that went with me 1s. Strawberries, 1s. 2d. +Dinner and servants, L1 0s. 6d. After come home from the schools, I out +with the landlord to Brazen-nose College;--to the butteries, and in the +cellar find the hand of the Child of Hales, . . . long. Butler, 2s. +Thence with coach and people to Physic-garden, 1s. So to Friar Bacon's +study: I up and saw it, and give the man 1s. Bottle of sack for +landlord, 2s. Oxford mighty fine place; and well seated, and cheap +entertainment. At night come to Abingdon, where had been a fair of +custard; and met many people and scholars going home; and there did get +some pretty good musick, and sang and danced till supper: 5s. + + + +10th (Wednesday). Up, and walked to the Hospitall:--[Christ's Hospital] +--very large and fine; and pictures of founders, and the History' of the +Hospitall; and is said to be worth; L700 per annum; and that Mr. Foly +was here lately to see how their lands were settled; and here, in old +English, the story of the occasion of it, and a rebus at the bottom. +So did give the poor, which they would not take but in their box, 2s. +6d. So to the inn, and paid the reckoning and what not, 13s. So forth +towards Hungerford, led this good way by our landlord, one Heart, an old +but very civil and well-spoken man, more than I ever heard, of his +quality. He gone, we forward; and I vexed at my people's not minding the +way. So come to Hungerford, where very good trouts, eels, and crayfish. +Dinner: a mean town. At dinner there, 12s. Thence set out with a +guide, who saw us to Newmarket-heath, and then left us, 3s. 6d. So all +over the Plain by the sight of the steeple, the Plain high and low, to +Salisbury, by night; but before I come to the town, I saw a great +fortification, and there 'light, and to it and in it; and find it +prodigious, so as to frighten me to be in it all alone at that time of +night, it being dark. I understand, since, it to be that, that is called +Old Sarum. Come to the George Inne, where lay in a silk bed; and very +good diet. To supper; then to bed. + + + +11th (Thursday). Up, and W. Hewer and I up and down the town, and find +it a very brave place. The river goes through every street; and a most +capacious market-place. The city great, I think greater than Hereford. +But the Minster most admirable; as big, I think, and handsomer than +Westminster: and a most large Close about it, and houses for the Officers +thereof, and a fine palace for the Bishop. So to my lodging back, and +took out my wife and people to shew them the town and Church; but they +being at prayers, we could not be shown the Quire. A very good organ; +and I looked in, and saw the Bishop, my friend Dr. Ward. Thence to the +inne; and there not being able to hire coach-horses, and not willing to +use our own, we got saddle-horses, very dear. Boy that went to look for +them, 6d. So the three women behind W. Hewer, Murford, and our guide, +and I single to Stonage; over the Plain and some great hills, even to +fright us. Come thither, and find them as prodigious as any tales I ever +heard of them, and worth going this journey to see. God knows what their +use was! they are hard to tell, but yet maybe told. Give the shepherd- +woman, for leading our horses, 4d. So back by Wilton, my Lord Pembroke's +house, which we could not see, he being just coming to town; but the +situation I do not like, nor the house promise much, it being in a low +but rich valley. So back home; and there being 'light, we to the Church, +and there find them at prayers again, so could not see the Quire; but I +sent the women home, and I did go in, and saw very many fine tombs, and +among the rest some very ancient, of the Montagus. + + [The Montacutes, from whom Lord Sandwich's family claimed descent: + --B.] + +So home to dinner; and, that being done, paid the reckoning, which was so +exorbitant; and particular in rate of my horses, and 7s. 6d. for bread +and beer, that I was mad, and resolve to trouble the master about it, and +get something for the poor; and come away in that humour: L2 5s. 6d. +Servants, 1s. 6d.; poor, 1s.; guide to the Stones, 2s.; poor woman in the +street, 1s.; ribbands, 9d.; washwoman, 1s.; sempstress for W. Hewer, 3s.; +lent W. Hewer, 3s. Thence about six o'clock, and with a guide went over +the smooth Plain indeed till night; and then by a happy mistake, and that +looked like an adventure, we were carried out of our way to a town where +we would lye, since we could not go so far as we would. And there with +great difficulty come about ten at night to a little inn, where we were +fain to go into a room where a pedlar was in bed, and made him rise; and +there wife and I lay, and in a truckle-bed Betty Turner and Willett. But +good beds, and the master of the house a sober, understanding man, and I +had good discourse with him about this country's matters, as wool, and +corne, and other things. And he also merry, and made us mighty merry at +supper, about manning the new ship, at Bristol, with none but men whose +wives do master them; and it seems it is become in reproach to some men +of estate that are such hereabouts, that this is become common talk. By +and by to bed, glad of this mistake, because, it seems, had we gone on as +we intended, we could not have passed with our coach, and must have lain +on the Plain all night. This day from Salisbury I wrote by the post my +excuse for not coming home, which I hope will do, for I am resolved to +see the Bath, and, it may be, Bristol. + + + +12th (Friday). Up, finding our beds good, but lousy; which made us +merry. We set out, the reckoning and servants coming to 9s. 6d.; my +guide thither, 2s.; coachman, advanced, 10s. So rode a very good way, +led to my great content by our landlord to Philips-Norton, with great +pleasure, being now come into Somersetshire; where my wife and Deb. +mightily joyed thereat,--[They were natives of that county.-B.]-- +I commending the country, as indeed it deserves. And the first town we +came to was Brekington, where, we stopping for something for the horses, +we called two or three little boys to us, and pleased ourselves with +their manner of speech, and did make one of them kiss Deb., and another +say the Lord's Prayer (hallowed be thy kingdom come). At Philips-Norton +I walked to the Church, and there saw a very ancient tomb of some Knight +Templar, I think; and here saw the tombstone whereon there were only two +heads cut, which, the story goes, and credibly, were two sisters, called +the Fair Maids of Foscott, that had two bodies upward and one belly, and +there lie buried. Here is also a very fine ring of six bells, and they +mighty tuneable. Having dined very well, 10s., we come before night to +the Bath; where I presently stepped out with my landlord, and saw the +baths, with people in them. They are not so large as I expected, but yet +pleasant; and the town most of stone, and clean, though the streets +generally narrow. I home, and being weary, went to bed without supper; +the rest supping. + + + +13th (Saturday). Up at four o'clock, being by appointment called up to +the Cross Bath, where we were carried one after one another, myself, and +wife, and Betty Turner, Willet, and W. Hewer. And by and by, though we +designed to have done before company come, much company come; very fine +ladies; and the manner pretty enough, only methinks it cannot be clean to +go so many bodies together in the same water. Good conversation among +them that are acquainted here, and stay together. Strange to see how hot +the water is; and in some places, though this is the most temperate bath, +the springs so hot as the feet not able to endure. But strange to see, +when women and men herein, that live all the season in these waters, that +cannot but be parboiled, and look like the creatures of the bath! +Carried away, wrapped in a sheet, and in a chair, home; and there one +after another thus carried, I staying above two hours in the water, home +to bed, sweating for an hour; and by and by, comes musick to play to me, +extraordinary good as ever I heard at London almost, or anywhere: 5s. +Up, to go to Bristol, about eleven o'clock, and paying my landlord that +was our guide from Chiltern, 10s., and the serjeant of the bath, 10s., +and the man that carried us in chairs, 3s. 6d. Set out towards Bristoll, +and come thither (in a coach hired to spare our own horses); the way bad, +but country good, about two o'clock, where set down at the Horse'shoe, +and there, being trimmed by a very handsome fellow, 2s., walked with my +wife and people through the city, which is in every respect another +London, that one can hardly know it, to stand in the country, no more +than that. No carts, it standing generally on vaults, only dog-carts. + + ["They draw all their heavy goods here on sleds, or sledges, which + they call 'gee hoes,' without wheels, which kills a multitude of + horses." Another writer says, "They suffer no carts to be used in + the city, lest, as some say, the shake occasioned by them on the + pavement should affect the Bristol milk (the sherry) in the vaults, + which is certainly had here in the greatest perfection." An order + of Common Council occurs in 1651 to prohibit the use of carts and + waggons-only suffering drays. "Camden in giving our city credit for + its cleanliness in forming 'goutes,' says they use sledges here + instead of carts, lest they destroy the arches beneath which are the + goutes."--Chilcott's New Guide to Bristol, &c.,] + +So to the Three ..Crowns Tavern I was directed; but, when I come in, the +master told me that he had newly given over the selling of wine; it +seems, grown rich; and so went to the Sun; and there Deb. going with +W. Hewer and Betty Turner to see her uncle [Butts], and leaving my wife +with the mistress of the house, I to see the quay, which is a most large +and noble Vlace; and to see the new ship building by Bally, neither he +nor Furzer being in town. It will be a fine ship. Spoke with the +foreman, and did give the boys that kept the cabin 2s. Walked back to +the Sun, where I find Deb. come back, and with her, her uncle, a sober +merchant, very good company, and so like one of our sober, wealthy, +London merchants, as pleased me mightily. Here we dined, and much good +talk with him, 7s. 6d.: a messenger to Sir John Knight, who was not at +home, 6d. Then walked with him [Butts] and my wife and company round the +quay, and to the ship; and he shewed me the Custom-house, and made me +understand many things of the place, and led us through Marsh Street, +where our girl was born. But, Lord! the joy that was among the old poor +people of the place, to see Mrs. Willet's daughter, it seems her mother +being a brave woman and mightily beloved! And so brought us a back way +by surprize to his house, where a substantial good house, and well +furnished; and did give us good entertainment of strawberries, a whole +venison-pasty, cold, and plenty of brave wine, and above all Bristoll +milk, + + [A sort of rum punch (milk punch), which, and turtle, were products + of the trade of Bristol with the West Indies. So Byron says in the + first edition of his "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers" + + "Too much in turtle Bristol's sons delight, + Too much oer bowls of rack prolong the night." + + These lines will not be found in the modern editions; but the + following are substituted: + + "Four turtle feeder's verse must needs he flat, + Though Bristol bloat him with the verdant fat." + + Lord Macaulay says of the collations with which the sugar-refiners + of Bristol regaled their visitors: "The repast was dressed in the + furnace, And was accompanied by a rich brewage made of the best + Spanish wine, and celebrated over the whole kingdom as Bristol milk" + ("Hist. of England," vol. i., p. 335)--B.] + +where comes in another poor woman, who, hearing that Deb. was here, did +come running hither, and with her eyes so lull of tears, and heart so +full of joy, that she could not speak when she come in, that it made me +weep too: I protest that I was not able to speak to her, which I would +have done, to have diverted her tears. His wife a good woman, and so +sober and substantiall as I was never more pleased anywhere. Servant- +maid, 2s. So thence took leave, and he with us through the city, where +in walking I find the city pay him great respect, and he the like to the +meanest, which pleased me mightily. He shewed us the place where the +merchants meet here, and a fine Cross yet standing, like Cheapside. And +so to the Horseshoe, where paid the reckoning, 2s. 6d. We back, and by +moonshine to the Bath again, about ten-o'clock: bad way; and giving the +coachman 1s., went all of us to bed. + + + +14th (Sunday). Up, and walked up and down the town, and saw a pretty +good market-place, and many good streets, and very fair stone-houses. +And so to the great Church, and there saw Bishop Montagu's tomb; + + [James Montagu, Bishop of Bath and Wells in 1608, and of Winchester + in 1616--died 1618. He was uncle to the Earl of Sandwich, whose + mother was Pepys's aunt. Hence Pepys's curiosity respecting the + tomb.--B.] + +and, when placed, did there see many brave people come, and, among +others, two men brought in, in litters, and set down in the chancel to +hear: but I did not know one face. Here a good organ; but a vain, +pragmatical fellow preached a ridiculous, affected sermon, that made me +angry, and some gentlemen that sat next me, and sang well. So home, +walking round the walls of the City, which are good, and the battlements +all whole. The sexton of the church is. So home to dinner, and after +dinner comes Mr. Butts again to see me, and he and I to church, where the +same idle fellow preached; and I slept most of the sermon. Thence home, +and took my wife out and the girls, and come to this church again, to see +it, and look over the monuments, where, among others, Dr. Venner and +Pelting, and a lady of Sir W. Walter's; he lying with his face broken. +So to the fields a little and walked, and then home and had my head +looked [at], and so to supper, and then comes my landlord to me, a sober +understanding man, and did give me a good account of the antiquity of +this town and Wells; and of two Heads, on two pillars, in Wells church. +But he a Catholick. So he gone, I to bed. + + + +15th (Monday). Up, and with Mr. Butts to look into the baths, and find +the King and Queen's full of a mixed sort, of good and bad, and the Cross +only almost for the gentry. So home and did the like with my wife, and +did pay my guides, two women, 5s.; one man, 2s. 6d.; poor, 6d.; woman to +lay my foot-cloth, 1s. So to our inne, and there eat and paid reckoning, +L1 8s. 6d.; servants, 3s.; poor, 1s.; lent the coach man, 10s. Before I +took coach, I went to make a boy dive in the King's bath, 1s. I paid +also for my coach and a horse to Bristol, L1 1s. 6d. Took coach, and +away, without any of the company of the other stage-coaches, that go out +of this town to-day; and rode all day with some trouble, for fear of +being out of our way, over the Downes, where the life of the shepherds +is, in fair weather only, pretty. In the afternoon come to Abebury, +where, seeing great stones like those of Stonage standing up, I stopped, +and took a countryman of that town, and he carried me and shewed me a +place trenched in, like Old Sarum almost, with great stones pitched in +it, some bigger than those at Stonage in figure, to my great admiration: +and he told me that most people of learning, coming by, do come and view +them, and that the King did so: and that the Mount cast hard by is called +Selbury, from one King Seall buried there, as tradition says. I did give +this man 1s. So took coach again, seeing one place with great high +stones pitched round, which, I believe, was once some particular +building, in some measure like that of Stonage. But, about a mile off, +it was prodigious to see how full the Downes are of great stones; and all +along the vallies, stones of considerable bigness, most of them growing +certainly out of the ground so thick as to cover the ground, which makes +me think the less of the wonder of Stonage, for hence they might +undoubtedly supply themselves with stones, as well as those at Abebury. +In my way did give to the poor and menders of the highway 3s. Before +night, come to Marlborough, and lay at the Hart; a good house, and a +pretty fair town for a street or two; and what is most singular is, their +houses on one side having their pent-houses supported with pillars, which +makes it a good walk. My wife pleased with all, this evening reading of +"Mustapha" to me till supper, and then to supper, and had musique whose +innocence pleased me, and I did give them 3s. So to bed, and lay well +all night, and long, so as all the five coaches that come this day from +Bath, as well as we, were gone out of the town before six. + + + +16th (Tuesday). So paying the reckoning, 14s. 4d., and servants, 2s., +poor 1s., set out; and overtook one coach and kept a while company with +it, till one of our horses losing a shoe, we stopped and drank and spent +1s. So on, and passing through a good part of this county of Wiltshire, +saw a good house of Alexander Popham's, and another of my Lord Craven's, +I think in Barkeshire. Come to Newbery, and there dined, which cost me, +and musick, which a song of the old courtier of Queen Elizabeth's, and +how he was changed upon the coming in of the King, did please me +mightily, and I did cause W. Hewer to write it out, 3s. 6d. Then comes +the reckoning, forced to change gold, 8s. 7d.; servants and poor, 1s. +6d. So out, and lost our way, which made me vexed, but come into it +again; and in the evening betimes come to Reading, and there heard my +wife read more of "Mustapha," and then to supper, and then I to walk +about the town, which is a very great one, I think bigger than Salsbury: +a river runs through it, in seven branches, and unite in one, in one part +of the town, and runs into the Thames half-a-mile off one odd sign of the +Broad Face. W. Hewer troubled with the headake we had none of his +company last night, nor all this day nor night to talk. Then to my inn, +and so to bed. + + + +17th (Wednesday). Rose, and paying the reckoning, 12s. 6d.; servants and +poor, 2s. 6d.; musick, the worst we have had, coming to our chamber-door, +but calling us by wrong names, we lay; so set out with one coach in +company, and through Maydenhead, which I never saw before, to Colebrooke +by noon; the way mighty good; and there dined, and fitted ourselves a +little to go through London, anon. Somewhat out of humour all day, +reflecting on my wife's neglect of things, and impertinent humour got by +this liberty of being from me, which she is never to be trusted with; for +she is a fool. Thence pleasant way to London, before night, and find all +very well, to great content; and there to talk with my wife, and saw Sir +W. Pen, who is well again. I hear of the ill news by the great fire at +Barbados. By and by home, and there with my people to supper, all in +pretty good humour, though I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, +that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will +not, for my content-sake, give it. So I to bed, glad to find all so well +here, and slept well. + + [The rough notes end here.] + + + +18th. Up betimes and to the office, there to set my papers in order and +books, my office having been new whited and windows made clean, and so to +sit, where all the morning, and did receive a hint or two from my Lord +Anglesey, as if he thought much of my taking the ayre as I have done; but +I care not a turd; but whatever the matter is, I think he hath some ill- +will to me, or at least an opinion that I am more the servant of the +Board than I am. At noon home to dinner, where my wife still in a +melancholy, fusty humour, and crying, and do not tell me plainly what it +is; but I by little words find that she hath heard of my going to plays, +and carrying people abroad every day, in her absence; and that I cannot +help but the storm will break out, I think, in a little time. After +dinner carried her by coach to St. James's, where she sat in the coach +till I to my Lady Peterborough's, who tells me, among other things, her +Lord's good words to the Duke of York lately, about my Lord Sandwich, and +that the Duke of York is kind to my Lord Sandwich, which I am glad to +hear: my business here was about her Lord's pension from Tangier. Here +met with Povy, who tells me how hard Creed is upon him, though he did +give him, about six months since, I think he said, fifty pieces in gold; +and one thing there is in his accounts that I fear may touch me, but I +shall help it, I hope. So my wife not speaking a word, going nor coming, +nor willing to go to a play, though a new one, I to the Office, and did +much business. At night home, where supped Mr. Turner and his wife, and +Betty and Mercer and Pelling, as merry as the ill, melancholy humour that +my wife was in, would let us, which vexed me; but I took no notice of it, +thinking that will be the best way, and let it wear away itself. After +supper, parted, and to bed; and my wife troubled all night, and about one +o'clock goes out of the bed to the girl's bed, which did trouble me, she +crying and sobbing, without telling the cause. By and by she comes back +to me, and still crying; I then rose, and would have sat up all night, +but she would have me come to bed again; and being pretty well pacified, +we to sleep. + + + +19th. When between two and three in the morning we were waked with my +maids crying out, "Fire, fire, in Markelane!" So I rose and looked out, +and it was dreadful; and strange apprehensions in me, and us all, of +being presently burnt. So we all rose; and my care presently was to +secure my gold, and plate, and papers, and could quickly have done it, +but I went forth to see where it was; and the whole town was presently in +the streets; and I found it in a new-built house that stood alone in +Minchin-lane, over against the Cloth-workers'-hall, which burned +furiously: the house not yet quite finished; and the benefit of brick was +well seen, for it burnt all inward, and fell down within itself; so no +fear of doing more hurt. So homeward, and stopped at Mr. Mills's, where +he and she at the door, and Mrs. Turner, and Betty, and Mrs. Hollworthy, +and there I stayed and talked, and up to the church leads, and saw the +fire, which spent itself, till all fear over. I home, and there we to +bed again, and slept pretty well, and about nine rose, and then my wife +fell into her blubbering again, and at length had a request to make to +me, which was, that she might go into France, and live there, out of +trouble; and then all come out, that I loved pleasure and denied her any, +and a deal of do; and I find that there have been great fallings out +between my father and her, whom, for ever hereafter, I must keep asunder, +for they cannot possibly agree. And I said nothing, but, with very mild +words and few, suffered her humour to spend, till we begun to be very +quiet, and I think all will be over, and friends, and so I to the office, +where all the morning doing business. Yesterday I heard how my Lord +Ashly is like to die, having some imposthume in his breast, that he hath +been fain to be cut into the body. + + ["Such an operation was performed in this year, after a consultation + of medical men, and chiefly by Locke's advice, and the wound was + afterwards always kept open, a silver pipe being inserted. This + saved Lord Ashley's life, and gave him health"--Christie's Life of + the first Earl of Shaftesbury, vol. ii., p. 34. 'Tapski' was a name + given to Shaftesbury in derision, and vile defamers described the + abscess, which had originated in a carriage accident in Holland, as + the result of extreme dissipation. Lines by Duke, a friend and + imitator of Dryden: + + "The working ferment of his active mind, + In his weak body's cask with pain confined, + Would burst the rotten vessel where 'tis pent, + But that 'tis tapt to give the treason vent."] + +At noon home to dinner, and thence by coach to White Hall, where we +attended the Duke of York in his closet, upon our usual business. And +thence out, and did see many of the Knights of the Garter, with the King +and Duke of York, going into the Privychamber, to elect the Elector of +Saxony into that Order, who, I did hear the Duke of York say, was a good +drinker: I know not upon what score this compliment is done him. Thence +with W. Pen, who is in great pain of the gowte, by coach round by +Holborne home, he being at every kennel--[?? D.W.]--full of pain. +Thence home, and by and by comes my wife and Deb. home, have been at the +King's playhouse to-day, thinking to spy me there; and saw the new play, +"Evening Love," of Dryden's, which, though the world commends, she likes +not. So to supper and talk, and all in good humour, and then to bed, +where I slept not well, from my apprehensions of some trouble about some +business of Mr. Povy's he told me of the other day. + + + +20th. Up, and talked with my wife all in good humour, and so to the +office, where all the morning, and then home to dinner, and so she and I +alone to the King's house, and there I saw this new play my wife saw +yesterday, and do not like it, it being very smutty, and nothing so good +as "The Maiden Queen," or "The Indian Emperour," of his making, that I +was troubled at it; and my wife tells me wholly (which he confesses a +little in the epilogue) taken out of the "Illustre Bassa." So she to +Unthanke's and I to Mr. Povy, and there settled some business; and here +talked of things, and he thinks there will be great revolutions, and that +Creed will be a great man, though a rogue, he being a man of the old +strain, which will now be up again. So I took coach, and set Povy down +at Charing Cross, and took my wife up, and calling at the New Exchange at +Smith's shop, and kissed her pretty hand, and so we home, and there able +to do nothing by candlelight, my eyes being now constantly so bad that I +must take present advice or be blind. So to supper, grieved for my eyes, +and to bed. + + + +21st (Lord's day). Up, and to church, and home and dined with my wife +and Deb. alone, but merry and in good humour, which is, when all is done, +the greatest felicity of all, and after dinner she to read in the +"Illustre Bassa" the plot of yesterday's play, which is most exactly the +same, and so to church I alone, and thence to see Sir W. Pen, who is ill +again, and then home, and there get my wife to read to me till supper, +and then to bed. + + + +22nd. Up, and with Balty to St. James's, and there presented him to Mr. +Wren about his being Muster-Master this year, which will be done. So up +to wait on the Duke of York, and thence, with W. Coventry, walked to +White Hall good discourse about the Navy, where want of money undoes us. +Thence to the Harp and Ball I to drink, and so to the Coffee-house in +Covent Garden; but met with nobody but Sir Philip Howard, who shamed me +before the whole house there, in commendation of my speech in Parliament, +and thence I away home to dinner alone, my wife being at her tailor's, +and after dinner comes Creed, whom I hate, to speak with me, and before +him comes Mrs. Daniel about business . . . . She gone, Creed and I to +the King's playhouse, and saw an act or two of the new play ["Evening's +Love"] again, but like it not. Calling this day at Herringman's, he +tells me Dryden do himself call it but a fifth-rate play. Thence with +him to my Lord Brouncker's, where a Council of the Royall Society; and +there heard Mr. Harry Howard's' noble offers about ground for our +College, and his intentions of building his own house there most nobly. +My business was to meet Mr. Boyle, which I did, and discoursed about my +eyes; and he did give me the best advice he could, but refers me to one +Turberville, of Salsbury, lately come to town, which I will go to. + + [Daubigny Turberville, of Oriel College; created M.D. at + Oxford,1660. He was a physician of some eminence, and, dying at + Salisbury on the 21st April, 1696, aged eighty-five, he was buried + in the cathedral, where his monument remains. Cassan, in his "Lives + of the Bishops of Sarum," part iii., p. 103, has reprinted an + interesting account of Turberville, from the "Memoir of Bishop Seth + Ward," published in 1697, by Dr. Walter Pope. Turberville was born + at Wayford, co. Somerset, in 1612, and became an expert oculist; and + probably Pepys received great benefit from his advice, as his vision + does not appear to have failed during the many years that he lived + after discontinuing the Diary. The doctor died rich, and + subsequently to his decease his sister Mary, inheriting all his + prescriptions, and knowing how to use them, practised as an oculist + in London with good reputation.--B.] + +Thence home, where the streets full, at our end of the town, removing +their wine against the Act begins, which will be two days hence, to raise +the price. I did get my store in of Batelier this night. So home to +supper and to bed. + + + +23rd. Up, and all the morning at the office. At noon home to dinner, +and so to the office again all the afternoon, and then to Westminster to +Dr. Turberville about my eyes, whom I met with: and he did discourse, +I thought, learnedly about them; and takes time before he did prescribe +me any thing, to think of it. So I away with my wife and Deb., whom I +left at Unthanke's, and so to Hercules Pillars, and there we three supped +on cold powdered beef, and thence home and in the garden walked a good +while with Deane, talking well of the Navy miscarriages and faults. So +home to bed. + + + +24th. Up, and Creed and Colonell Atkins come to me about sending coals +to Tangier: and upon that most of the morning. Thence Creed and I to +Alderman Backewell's about Tangier business of money, and thence I by +water (calling and drinking, but not baisado, at Michell's) to +Westminster, but it being holyday did no business, only to Martin's . . +. . and so home again by water, and busy till dinner, and then with +wife, Mercer, Deb., and W. Hewer to the Duke of York's playhouse, and +there saw "The Impertinents," a pretty good play; and so by water to +Spring Garden, and there supped, and so home, not very merry, only when +we come home, Mercer and I sat and sung in the garden a good while, and +so to bed. + + + +25th. Up, and to the office all the morning, and after dinner at home to +the office again, and there all the afternoon very busy till night, and +then home to supper and to bed. + + + +26th. All the morning doing business at the office. At noon, with my +Fellow-Officers, to the Dolphin, at Sir G. Carteret's charge, to dinner, +he having some accounts examined this morning. All the afternoon we all +at Sir W. Pen's with him about the Victuallers' accounts, and then in the +evening to Charing Cross, and there took up my wife at her tailor's, and +so home and to walk in the garden, and then to sup and to bed. + + + +27th. At the office all the morning, at noon dined at home, and then my +wife, and Deb., and I to the King's playhouse, and saw "The Indian +Queene," but do not doat upon Nan Marshall's acting therein, as the world +talks of her excellence therein. Thence with my wife to buy some linnen, +L13 worth, for sheets, &c., at the new shop over against the New +Exchange; [and the master, who is] come out of London--[To the Strand.] +--since the fire, says his and other tradesmen's retail trade is so great +here, and better than it was in London, that they believe they shall not +return, nor the city be ever so great for retail as heretofore. So home +and to my business, and to bed. + + + +28th (Lord's day). Up, and to church, and then home to dinner, where +Betty Turner, Mercer, and Captain Deane, and after dinner to sing, Mr. +Pelting coming. Then, they gone, Deane and I all the afternoon till +night to talk of navy matters and ships with great pleasure, and so at +night, he gone, I to supper, Pelling coming again and singing a while, +then to bed. Much talk of the French setting out their fleete afresh; +but I hear nothing that our King is alarmed at it, at all, but rather +making his fleete less. + + + +29th. Called up by my Lady Peterborough's servant about some business of +hers, and so to the office. Thence by and by with Sir J. Minnes toward +St. James's, and I stop at Dr. Turberville's, and there did receive a +direction for some physic, and also a glass of something to drop into my +eyes: who gives me hopes that I may do well. Thence to St. James's, and +thence to White Hall, where I find the Duke of York in the Council- +chamber; where the Officers of the Navy were called in about Navy +business, about calling in of more ships; the King of France having, as +the Duke of York says, ordered his fleete to come in, notwithstanding +what he had lately ordered for their staying abroad. Thence to the +Chapel, it being St. Peter's day, and did hear an anthem of Silas +Taylor's making; a dull, old-fashioned thing, of six and seven parts, +that nobody could understand: and the Duke of York, when he come out, +told me that he was a better store-keeper than anthem-maker, and that was +bad enough, too. This morning Mr. May' shewed me the King's new +buildings at White Hall, very fine; and among other things, his ceilings, +and his houses of office. So home to dinner, and then with my wife to +the King's playhouse--"The Mulberry Garden," which she had not seen. So +by coach to Islington, and round by Hackney home with much pleasure, and +to supper and bed. + + + +30th. Up, and at the Office all the morning: then home to dinner, where +a stinking leg of mutton, the weather being very wet and hot to keep meat +in. Then to the Office again, all the afternoon: we met about the +Victualler's new contract. And so up, and to walk all the evening with +my wife and Mrs. Turner in the garden, till supper, about eleven at +night; and so, after supper, parted, and to bed, my eyes bad, but not +worse, only weary with working. But, however, I very melancholy under +the fear of my eyes being spoiled, and not to be recovered; for I am come +that I am not able to readout a small letter, and yet my sight good for +the little while I can read, as ever they were, I think. + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + JULY + 1668 + + +July 1st. Up; and all the morning we met at the office about the +Victualler's contract. At noon home to dinner, my Cozen Roger, come +newly to town, dined with us, and mighty importunate for our coming down +to Impington, which I think to do, this Sturbridge fair. Thence I set +him down at the Temple, and Commissioner Middleton dining the first time +with me, he and I to White Hall, and so to St. James's, where we met; +and much business with the Duke of York. And I find the Duke of York +very hot for regulations in the Navy; and, I believe, is put on it by +W. Coventry; and I am glad of it; and particularly, he falls heavy on +Chatham-yard,, and is vexed that Lord Anglesey did, the other day, +complain at the Council-table of disorders in the Navy, and not to him. +So I to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier; and there vexed, with the +importunity and clamours of Alderman Backewell, for my acquittance for +money supplied by him to the garrison, before I have any order for paying +it: so home, calling at several places-among others, the 'Change, and on +Cooper, to know when my wife shall come to sit for her picture, which +will be next week, and so home and to walk with my wife, and then to +supper and to bed. + + + +2nd. Called up by a letter from W. Coventry telling me that the +Commissioners of Accounts intend to summons me about Sir W. Warren's +Hamburg contract, and so I up and to W. Coventry's (he and G. Carteret +being the party concerned in it), and after conference with him about it +to satisfaction I home again to the office. At noon home to dinner, and +then all the afternoon busy to prepare an answer to this demand of the +Commissioners of Accounts, and did discourse with Sir W. Warren about it, +and so in the evening with my wife and Deb. by coach to take ayre to +Mile-end, and so home and I to bed, vexed to be put to this frequent +trouble in things we deserve best in. + + + +3rd. Betimes to the office, my head full of this business. Then by +coach to the Commissioners of Accounts at Brooke House, the first time I +was ever there, and there Sir W. Turner in the chair; and present, Lord +Halifax, Thoms[on], Gregory, Dunster, and Osborne. I long with them, +and see them hot set on this matter; but I did give them proper and safe +answers. Halifax, I perceive, was industrious on my side, in behalf of +his uncle Coventry, it being the business of fir W. Warren. Vexed only +at their denial of a copy of what I set my hand to, and swore. Here till +almost two o'clock, and then home to dinner, and set down presently what +I had done and said this day, and so abroad by water to Eagle Court in +the Strand, and there to an alehouse: met Mr. Pierce, the Surgeon, and +Dr. Clerke, Waldron, Turberville, my physician for the eyes, and Lowre, +to dissect several eyes of sheep and oxen, with great pleasure, and to my +great information. But strange that this Turberville should be so great +a man, and yet, to this day, had seen no eyes dissected, or but once, but +desired this Dr. Lowre to give him the opportunity to see him dissect +some. Thence to Unthanke's, to my wife, and carried her home, and there +walked in the garden, and so to supper and to bed.--[Mr. Unthanke was +Mrs. Pepys tailor. D.W.] + + + +4th. Up, and to see Sir W. Coventry, and give him account of my doings +yesterday, which he well liked of, and was told thereof by my Lord +Halifax before; but I do perceive he is much concerned for this business. +Gives me advice to write a smart letter to the Duke of York about the +want of money in the Navy, and desire him to communicate it to the +Commissioners of the Treasury; for he tells me he hath hot work sometimes +to contend with the rest for the Navy, they being all concerned for some +other part of the King's expenses, which they would prefer to this, of +the Navy. He shewed me his closet, with his round table, for him to sit +in the middle, very convenient; and I borrowed several books of him, to +collect things out of the Navy, which I have not, and so home, and there +busy sitting all the morning, and at noon dined, and then all the +afternoon busy, till night, and then to Mile-End with my wife and girl, +and there drank and eat a joie of salmon, at the Rose and Crown, our old +house; and so home to bed. + + + +5th (Lord's day). About four in the morning took four pills of Dr. +Turberville's prescribing, for my eyes, and they wrought pretty well most +of the morning, and I did get my wife to spend the morning reading of +Wilkins's Reall Character. At noon comes W. Hewer and Pelling, and young +Michell and his wife, and dined with us, and most of the afternoon +talking; and then at night my wife to read again, and to supper and to +bed. + + + +6th. Up, and to St. James's, and there attended the Duke of York, and +was there by himself told how angry he was, and did declare to my Lord +Anglesey, about his late complaining of things of the Navy to the King in +Council, and not to him; and I perceive he is mightily concerned at it, +and resolved to reform things therein. Thence with W. Coventry walked in +the Park together a good while, he mighty kind to me. And hear many +pretty stories of my Lord Chancellor's being heretofore made sport of by +Peter Talbot the priest, in his story of the death of Cardinall Bleau; + + [It is probable these stories, in ridicule of Clarendon, are nowhere + recorded. Cardinal Jean Balue was the minister of Louis XI. of + France. The reader will remember him in Sir W. Scott's "Quentin + Durward." He was confined for eleven years in an iron cage invented + by himself in the Chateau de Loches, and died soon after he regained + his liberty.--B.] + +by Lord Cottington, in his 'Dolor de las Tyipas'; + + [Gripes. It was a joke against Lord Cottington that whenever he was + seriously ill he declared himself a Roman Catholic, when he was well + again he returned to the Protestant faith.] + +and Tom Killigrew, in his being bred in Ram Ally, and now bound prentice +to Lord Cottington, going to Spain with L1000, and two suits of clothes. +Thence home to dinner, and thence to Mr. Cooper's, and there met my wife +and W. Hewer and Deb.; and there my wife first sat for her picture: but +he is a most admirable workman, and good company. Here comes Harris, and +first told us how Betterton is come again upon the stage: whereupon my +wife and company to the [Duke's] house to see "Henry the Fifth;" while I +to attend the Duke of York at the Committee of the Navy, at the Council, +where some high dispute between him and W. Coventry about settling +pensions upon all Flag-Officers, while unemployed: W. Coventry against +it, and, I think, with reason. Thence I to the playhouse, and saw a +piece of the play, +and glad to see Betterton; and so with wife and Deb. to Spring-garden, +and eat a lobster, and so home in the evening and to bed. Great doings +at Paris, I hear, with their triumphs for their late conquests! The +Duchesse of Richmond sworn last week of the queen's Bedchamber, and the +King minding little else but what he used to do--about his women. + + + +7th. Up, and to the office, where Kate Joyce come to me about some +tickets of hers, but took no notice to me of her being married, but +seemed mighty pale, and doubtful what to say or do, expecting, I believe, +that I should begin; and not finding me beginning, said nothing, but, +with trouble in her face, went away. At the office all the morning, and +after dinner also all the afternoon, and in the evening with my wife and +Deb. and Betty Turner to Unthanke's, where we are fain to go round by +Newgate, because of Fleet Bridge being under rebuilding. They stayed +there, and I about some business, and then presently back and brought +them home and supped and Mrs. Turner, the mother, comes to us, and there +late, and so to bed. + + + +8th. Betimes by water to Sir W. Coventry, and there discoursed of +several things; and I find him much concerned in the present enquiries +now on foot of the Commissioners of Accounts, though he reckons himself +and the rest very safe, but vexed to see us liable to these troubles, in +things wherein we have laboured to do best. Thence, he being to go out +of town to-morrow, to drink Banbury waters, I to the Duke of York, to +attend him about business of the Office; and find him mighty free to me, +and how he is concerned to mend things in the Navy himself, and not leave +it to other people. So home to dinner; and then with my wife to +Cooper's, and there saw her sit; and he do do extraordinary things +indeed. So to White Hall; and there by and by the Duke of York comes to +the Robe-chamber, and spent with us three hours till night, in hearing +the business of the Master-Attendants of Chatham, and the Store-keeper of +Woolwich; and resolves to displace them all; so hot he is of giving +proofs of his justice at this time, that it is their great fate now, to +come to be questioned at such a time as this. Thence I to Unthanke's, +and took my wife and Deb. home, and to supper and to bed. + + + +9th. Up, and to the office, where sat all the morning, and after noon to +the office again till night, mighty busy getting Mr. Fist to come and +help me, my own clerks all busy, and so in the evening to ease my eyes, +and with my wife and Deb. and Betty Turner, by coach to Unthanke's and +back again, and then to supper and to bed. + + + +10th. Up, and to attend the Council, but all in vain, the Council +spending all the morning upon a business about the printing of the +Critickes, a dispute between the first Printer, one Bee that is dead, +and the Abstractor, who would now print his Abstract, one Poole. So home +to dinner, and thence to Haward's to look upon an Espinette, and I did +come near the buying one, but broke off. I have a mind to have one. +So to Cooper's; and there find my wife and W. Hewer and Deb., sitting, +and painting; and here he do work finely, though I fear it will not be so +like as I expected: but now I understand his great skill in musick, his +playing and setting to the French lute most excellently; and speaks +French, and indeed is an excellent man. Thence, in the evening, with my +people in a glass hackney-coach to the park, but was ashamed to be seen. +So to the lodge, and drank milk, and so home to supper and to bed. + + + +11th. At the office all the morning. After dinner to the King's +playhouse, to see an old play of Shirly's, called "Hide Parker" the first +day acted; where horses are brought upon the stage but it is but a very +moderate play, only an excellent epilogue spoke by Beck Marshall. Thence +home and to my office, and then to supper and to bed, and overnight took +some pills, + + + +12th. Which work with me pretty betimes, being Lord's day, and so I +within all day. Busy all the morning upon some accounts with W. Hewer, +and at noon, an excellent dinner, comes Pelling and W. Howe, and the +latter staid and talked with me all the afternoon, and in the evening +comes Mr. Mills and his wife and supped and talked with me, and so to +bed. This last night Betty Michell about midnight cries out, and my wife +goes to her, and she brings forth a girl, and this afternoon the child is +christened, and my wife godmother again to a Betty. + + + +13th. Up, and to my office, and thence by water to White Hall to attend +the Council, but did not, and so home to dinner, and so out with my wife, +and Deb., and W. Hewer towards Cooper's, but I 'light and walked to Ducke +Lane, and there to the bookseller's; at the Bible, whose moher je have a +mind to, but elle no erat dentro, but I did there look upon and buy some +books, and made way for coming again to the man, which pleases me. +Thence to Reeves's, and there saw some, and bespoke a little perspective, +and was mightily pleased with seeing objects in a dark room. And so to +Cooper's, and spent the afternoon with them; and it will be an excellent +picture. Thence my people all by water to Deptford, to see Balty, while +I to buy my espinette, + + [Espinette is the French term for a small harpsichord, at that time + called in England a spinet. It was named from a fancied resemblance + of its quill plectra to spines or thorns.] + +which I did now agree for, and did at Haward's meet with Mr. Thacker, and +heard him play on the harpsicon, so as I never heard man before, I think. +So home, it being almost night, and there find in the garden Pelling, who +hath brought Tempest, Wallington, and Pelham, to sings and there had most +excellent musick late, in the dark, with great pleasure. Made them drink +and eat; and so with much pleasure to bed, but above all with little +Wallington. This morning I was let blood, and did bleed about fourteen +ounces, towards curing my eyes. + + + +14th. Up, and to my office, where sat all the morning. At noon home to +dinner, and thence all the afternoon hard at the office, we meeting about +the Victualler's new contract; and so into the garden, my Lady Pen, Mrs. +Turner and her daughter, my wife and I, and there supped in the dark and +were merry, and so to bed. This day Bossc finished his copy of my +picture, which I confess I do not admire, though my wife prefers him to +Browne; nor do I think it like. He do it for W. Hewer, who hath my +wife's also, which I like less. This afternoon my Lady Pickering come to +see us: I busy, saw her not. But how natural it is for us to slight +people out of power, and for people out of power to stoop to see those +that while in power they contemned! + + + +15th. Up, and all the morning busy at the office to my great content, +attending to the settling of papers there that I may have the more rest +in winter for my eyes by how much I do the more in the settling of all +things in the summer by daylight. At noon home to dinner, where is +brought home the espinette I bought the other day of Haward; costs me L5. +So to St. James's, where did our ordinary business with the Duke of York. +So to Unthanke's to my wife, and with her and Deb. to visit Mrs. Pierce, +whom I do not now so much affect, since she paints. But stayed here a +while, and understood from her how my Lady Duchesse of Monmouth is still +lame, and likely always to be so, which is a sad chance for a young +[lady] to get, only by trying of tricks in dancing. So home, and there +Captain Deane come and spent the evening with me, to draw some finishing +lines on his fine draught of "The Resolution," the best ship, by all +report, in the world, and so to bed. Wonderful hot all day and night, +and this the first night that I remember in my life that ever I could lie +with only a sheet and one rug. So much I am now stronger than ever I +remember myself, at least since before I had the stone. + + + +16th. Up, and to the office, where Yeabsly and Lanyon come to town and +to speak with me about a matter wherein they are accused of cheating the +King before the Lords' Commissioners of Tangier, and I doubt it true, but +I have no hand in it, but will serve them what I can. All the morning at +the office, and at noon dined at home, and then to the office again, +where we met to finish the draft of the Victualler's contract, and so I +by water with my Lord Brouncker to Arundell House, to the Royall Society, +and there saw an experiment of a dog's being tied through the back, about +the spinal artery, and thereby made void of all motion; and the artery +being loosened again, the dog recovers. Thence to Cooper's, and saw his +advance on my wife's picture, which will be indeed very fine. So with +her to the 'Change, to buy some things, and here I first bought of the +sempstress next my bookseller's, where the pretty young girl is, that +will be a great beauty. So home, and to supper with my wife in the +garden, it being these two days excessively hot, and so to bed. + + + +17th. Up, and fitted myself to discourse before the Council about +business of tickets. So to White Hall, where waited on the Duke of York, +and then the Council about that business; and I did discourse to their +liking, only was too high to assert that nothing could be invented to +secure the King more in the business of tickets than there is; which the +Duke of Buckingham did except against, and I could have answered, but +forbore; but all liked very well. Thence home, and with my wife and Deb. +to the King's House to see a play revived called The ------, a sorry mean +play, that vexed us to sit in so much heat of the weather to hear it. +Thence to see Betty Michell newly lain in, and after a little stay we +took water and to Spring Garden, and there walked, and supped, and staid +late, and with much pleasure, and to bed. The weather excessive hot, so +as we were forced to lie in two beds, and I only with a sheet and rug, +which is colder than ever I remember I could bear. + + + +18th. At the office all the morning. At noon dined at home and Creed +with me, who I do really begin to hate, and do use him with some +reservedness. Here was also my old acquaintance, Will Swan, to see me, +who continues a factious fanatick still, and I do use him civilly, in +expectation that those fellows may grow great again. Thence to the +office, and then with my wife to the 'Change and Unthanke's, after having +been at Cooper's and sat there for her picture, which will be a noble +picture, but yet I think not so like as Hales's is. So home and to my +office, and then to walk in the garden, and home to supper and to bed. +They say the King of France is making a war again, in Flanders, with the +King of Spain; the King of Spain refusing to give him all that he says +was promised him in the treaty. Creed told me this day how when the King +was at my Lord Cornwallis's when he went last to Newmarket, that being +there on a Sunday, the Duke of Buckingham did in the afternoon to please +the King make a bawdy sermon to him out of Canticles, and that my Lord +Cornwallis did endeavour to get the King a whore, and that must be a +pretty girl the daughter of the parson of the place, but that she did get +away, and leaped off of some place and killed herself, which if true is +very sad. + + + +19th (Lord's day). Up, and to my chamber, and there I up and down in the +house spent the morning getting things ready against noon, when come Mr. +Cooper, Hales, Harris, Mr. Butler, that wrote Hudibras, and Mr. Cooper's +cozen Jacke; and by and by comes Mr. Reeves and his wife, whom I never +saw before: and there we dined: a good dinner, and company that pleased +me mightily, being all eminent men in their way. Spent all the afternoon +in talk and mirth, and in the evening parted, and then my wife and I to +walk in the garden, and so home to supper, Mrs. Turner and husband and +daughter with us, and then to bed. + + + +20th. Up, and to the office, where Mrs. Daniel comes. . . . All the +morning at the office. Dined at home, then with Mr. Colvill to the new +Excise Office in Aldersgate Street, and thence back to the Old Exchange, +to see a very noble fine lady I spied as I went through, in coming; and +there took occasion to buy some gloves, and admire her, and a mighty fine +fair lady indeed she was. Thence idling all the afternoon to Duck Lane, +and there saw my bookseller's moher, but get no ground there yet; and +here saw Mrs. Michell's daughter married newly to a bookseller, and she +proves a comely little grave woman. So to visit my Lord Crew, who is +very sick, to great danger, by an irisipulus;--[Erysipelas.]--the first +day I heard of it, and so home, and took occasion to buy a rest for my +espinette at the ironmonger's by Holborn Conduit, where the fair pretty +woman is that I have lately observed there, and she is pretty, and je +credo vain enough. Thence home and busy till night, and so to bed. + + + +21st. Up, and to St. James's, but lost labour, the Duke abroad. So home +to the office, where all the morning, and so to dinner, and then all the +afternoon at the office, only went to my plate-maker's, and there spent +an hour about contriving my little plates, + + [This passage has been frequently quoted as referring to Pepys's. + small bookplate, with his initials S. P. and two anchors and ropes + entwined; but if looked at carefully with the further reference on + the 27th, it will be seen that it merely describes the preparation + of engravings of the four dockyards.] + +for my books of the King's four Yards. At night walked in the garden, +and supped and to bed, my eyes bad. + + + +22nd. All the morning at the office. Dined at home, and then to White +Hall with Symson the joyner, and after attending at the Committee of the +Navy about the old business of tickets, where the only expedient they +have found is to bind the Commanders and Officers by oaths. The Duke of +York told me how the Duke of Buckingham, after the Council the other day, +did make mirth at my position, about the sufficiency of present rules in +the business of tickets; and here I took occasion to desire a private +discourse with the Duke of York, and he granted it to me on Friday next. +So to shew Symson the King's new lodgings for his chimnies, which I +desire to have one built in that mode, and so I home, and with little +supper, to bed. This day a falling out between my wife and Deb., about a +hood lost, which vexed me. + + + +23rd. Up, and all day long, but at dinner, at the Office, at work, till +I was almost blind, which makes my heart sad. + + + +24th. Up, and by water to St. James's, having, by the way, shewn Symson +Sir W. Coventry's chimney-pieces, in order to the making me one; and +there, after the Duke of York was ready, he called me to his closet; and +there I did long and largely show him the weakness of our Office, and did +give him advice to call us to account for our duties, which he did take +mighty well, and desired me to draw up what I would have him write to the +Office. I did lay open the whole failings of the Office, and how it was +his duty to find them, and to find fault with them, as Admiral, +especially at this time, which he agreed to, and seemed much to rely on +what I said. Thence to White Hall, and there waited to attend the +Council, but was not called in, and so home, and after dinner back with +Sir J. Minnes by coach, and there attended, all of us, the Duke of York, +and had the hearing of Mr. Pett's business, the Master-Shipwright at +Chatham, and I believe he will be put out. But here Commissioner. +Middleton did, among others, shew his good-nature and easiness to the +Masters-Attendants, by mitigating their faults, so as, I believe, they +will come in again. So home, and to supper and to bed, the Duke of York +staying with us till almost night. + + + +25th. Up, and at the Office all the morning; and at noon, after dinner, +to Cooper's, it being a very rainy day, and there saw my wife's picture +go on, which will be very fine indeed. And so home again to my letters, +and then to supper and to bed. + + + +26th (Lord's day). Up, and all the morning and after dinner, the +afternoon also, with W. Hewer in my closet, setting right my Tangier +Accounts, which I have let alone these six months and more, but find them +very right, and is my great comfort. So in the evening to walk with my +wife, and to supper and to bed. + + + +27th. Busy all the morning at my office. At noon dined, and then I out +of doors to my bookseller in Duck Lane, but su moher not at home, and it +was pretty here to see a pretty woman pass by with a little wanton look, +and je did sequi her round about the street from Duck Lane to Newgate +Market, and then elle did turn back, and je did lose her. And so to see +my Lord Crew, whom I find up; and did wait on him; but his face sore, but +in hopes to do now very well again. Thence to Cooper's, where my wife's +picture almost done, and mighty fine indeed. So over the water with my +wife, and Deb., and Mercer, to Spring-Garden, and there eat and walked; +and observe how rude some of the young gallants of the town are become, +to go into people's arbours where there are not men, and almost force the +women; which troubled me, to see the confidence of the vice of the age: +and so we away by water, with much pleasure home. This day my plate- +maker comes with my four little plates of the four Yards, cost me L5, +which troubles me, but yet do please me also. + + + +28th. All the morning at the office, and after dinner with my wife and +Deb. to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "The Slighted Maid," +but a mean play; and thence home, there being little pleasure now in a +play, the company being but little. Here we saw Gosnell, who is become +very homely, and sings meanly, I think, to what I thought she did. + + + +29th. Busy all the morning at the office. So home to dinner, where +Mercer, and there comes Mr. Swan, my old acquaintance, and dines with me, +and tells me, for a certainty, that Creed is to marry Betty Pickering, +and that the thing is concluded, which I wonder at, and am vexed for. +So he gone I with my wife and two girls to the King's house, and saw +"The Mad Couple," a mean play altogether, and thence to Hyde Parke, where +but few coaches, and so to the New Exchange, and thence by water home, +with much pleasure, and then to sing in the garden, and so home to bed, +my eyes for these four days being my trouble, and my heart thereby mighty +sad. + + + +30th. Up, and by water to White Hall. There met with Mr. May, who was +giving directions about making a close way for people to go dry from the +gate up into the House, to prevent their going through the galleries; +which will be very good. I staid and talked with him about the state of +the King's Offices in general, and how ill he is served, and do still +find him an excellent person, and so back to the office. So close at my +office all the afternoon till evening, and then out with my wife to the +New Exchange, and so back again. + + + +31st. Up, and at my office all the morning. About noon with Mr. +Ashburnham to the new Excise Office, and there discoursed about our +business, and I made him admire my drawing a thing presently in +shorthand: but, God knows! I have paid dear for it, in my eyes. +Home and to dinner, and then my wife and Deb. and I, with Sir J. Minnes, +to White Hall, she going hence to the New Exchange, and the Duke of York +not being in the way, Sir J. Minnes and I to her and took them two to the +King's house, to see the first day of Lacy's "Monsieur Ragou," now new +acted. The King and Court all there, and mighty merry--a farce. Thence +Sir J. Minnes giving us, like a gentleman, his coach, hearing we had some +business, we to the Park, and so home. Little pleasure there, there +being little company, but mightily taken with a little chariot that we +saw in the street, and which we are resolved to have ours like it. +So home to walk in the garden a little, and then to bed. The month ends +mighty sadly with me, my eyes being now past all use almost; and I am +mighty hot upon trying the late printed experiment of paper tubes. + + [An account of these tubulous spectacles ("An easy help for decayed + sight") is given in "The Philosophical Transactions," No. 37, pp. + 727,731 (Hutton's Abridgment, vol. i., p. 266). See Diary, August + 12th and 23rd, post.] + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +At work, till I was almost blind, which makes my heart sad +Bristol milk (the sherry) in the vaults +But get no ground there yet +Cannot be clean to go so many bodies together in the same water +City pay him great respect, and he the like to the meanest +Cost me L5, which troubles me, but yet do please me also +Espinette is the French term for a small harpsichord +Forced to change gold, 8s. 7d.; servants and poor, 1s. 6d. +Frequent trouble in things we deserve best in +How natural it is for us to slight people out of power +I could have answered, but forbore +Little pleasure now in a play, the company being but little +Made him admire my drawing a thing presently in shorthand +My wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits +My wife's neglect of things, and impertinent humour +So out, and lost our way, which made me vexed +Suffered her humour to spend, till we begun to be very quiet +Troubled me, to see the confidence of the vice of the age +Up, finding our beds good, but lousy; which made us merry +Weather being very wet and hot to keep meat in. +When he was seriously ill he declared himself a Roman Catholic +Where a pedlar was in bed, and made him rise + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v74 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + diff --git a/old/sp75g10.zip b/old/sp75g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..6d7764b --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp75g10.zip |