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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, August 1668 + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Release Date: December 1, 2004 [EBook #4191] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, AUGUST 1668 *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY + MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + AUGUST + 1668 + +August 1st. All the morning at the office. After dinner my wife, and +Deb., and I, to the King's house again, coming too late yesterday to hear +the prologue, and do like the play better now than before; and, indeed, +there is a great deal of true wit in it, more than in the common sort of +plays, and so home to my business, and at night to bed, my eyes making me +sad. + +2nd. (Lord's day). Up and at home all the morning, hanging, and removing +of some pictures, in my study and house. At noon Pelling dined with me. +After dinner, I and Tom, my boy, by water up to Putney, and there heard a +sermon, and many fine people in the church. Thence walked to Barne Elmes, +and there, and going and coming, did make the boy read to me several +things, being now-a-days unable to read myself anything, for above two +lines together, but my eyes grow weary. Home about night, and so to +supper and then to bed. + +3rd. Up, and by water to White Hall and St. James's, where I did much +business, and about noon meeting Dr. Gibbons, carried him to the Sun +taverne, in King Street, and there made him, and some friends of his, +drink; among others, Captain Silas Taylor, and here did get Gibbons to +promise me some things for my flageolets. So to the Old Exchange, and +then home to dinner, and so, Mercer dining with us, I took my wife and her +and Deb. out to Unthanke's, while I to White Hall to the Commissioners of +the Treasury, and so back to them and took them out to Islington, where we +met with W. Joyce and his wife and boy, and there eat and drank, and a +great deal of his idle talk, and so we round by Hackney home, and so to +sing a little in the garden, and then to bed. + +4th. Up, and to my office a little, and then to White Hall about a +Committee for Tangier at my Lord Arlington's, where, by Creed's being out +of town, I have the trouble given me of drawing up answers to the +complaints of the Turks of Algiers, and so I have all the papers put into +my hand. Here till noon, and then back to the Office, where sat a little, +and then to dinner, and presently to the office, where come to me my Lord +Bellassis, Lieutenant-Colonell Fitzgerald, newly come from Tangier, and +Sir Arthur Basset, and there I received their informations, and so, they +being gone, I with my clerks and another of Lord Brouncker's, Seddon, sat +up till two in the morning, drawing up my answers and writing them fair, +which did trouble me mightily to sit up so long, because of my eyes. + +5th. So to bed about two o'clock, and then up about seven and to White +Hall, where read over my report to Lord Arlington and Berkeley, and then +afterward at the Council Board with great good liking, but, Lord! how it +troubled my eyes, though I did not think I could have done it, but did do +it, and was not very bad afterward. So home to dinner, and thence out to +the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "The Guardian;" formerly the +same, I find, that was called "Cutter of Coleman Street;" a silly play. +And thence to Westminster Hall, where I met Fitzgerald; and with him to a +tavern, to consider of the instructions for Sir Thomas Allen, against his +going to Algiers; he and I being designed to go down to Portsmouth by the +Council's order, and by and by he and I went to the Duke of York, who +orders me to go down to-morrow morning. So I away home, and there bespeak +a coach; and so home and to bed, my wife being abroad with the Mercers +walking in the fields, and upon the water. + +6th. Waked betimes, and my wife, at an hour's warning, is resolved to go +with me, which pleases me, her readiness. But, before ready, comes a +letter from Fitzgerald, that he is seized upon last night by an order of +the General's by a file of musqueteers, and kept prisoner in his chamber. +The Duke of York did tell me of it to-day: it is about a quarrel between. +him and Witham, and they fear a challenge: so I to him, and sent my wife +by the coach round to Lambeth. I lost my labour going to his lodgings, +and he in bed: and, staying a great while for him, I at last grew +impatient, and would stay no longer; but to St. James's to Mr. Wren, to +bid him "God be with you!" and so over the water to Fox Hall; and there my +wife and Deb. come and took me up, and we away to Gilford, losing our way +for three or four mile, about Cobham. At Gilford we dined; and, I shewed +them the hospitall there of Bishop Abbot's, and his tomb in the church, +which, and the rest of the tombs there, are kept mighty clean and neat, +with curtains before them. So to coach again, and got to Lippock,2 late +over Hindhead, having an old man, a guide, in the coach with us; but got +thither with great fear of being out of our way, it being ten at night. +Here good, honest people; and after supper, to bed . . . . + +7th. Up, and to coach, and with a guide to Petersfield, where I find Sir +Thomas Allen and Mr. Tippets come; the first about the business, the +latter only in respect to me; as also Fitzgerald, who come post all last +night, and newly arrived here. We four sat down presently to our +business, and in an hour despatched all our talk; and did inform Sir +Thomas Allen well in it, who, I perceive, in serious matters, is a serious +man: and tells me he wishes all we are told be true, in our defence; for +he finds by all, that the Turks have, to this day, been very civil to our +merchant-men everywhere; and, if they would have broke with us, they never +had such an opportunity over our rich merchant-men, as lately, coming out +of the Streights. Then to dinner, and pretty merry: and here was Mr. +Martin, the purser, and dined with us, and wrote some things for us. And +so took coach again back; Fitzgerald with us, whom I was pleased with all +the day, with his discourse of his observations abroad, as being a great +soldier and of long standing abroad: and knows all things and persons +abroad very well--I mean, the great soldiers of France, and Spain, and +Germany; and talks very well. Come at night to Gilford, where the Red Lyon +so full of people, and a wedding, that the master of the house did get us +a lodging over the way, at a private house, his landlord's, mighty neat +and fine; and there supped and talked with the landlord and his wife: and +so to bed with great content, only Fitzgerald lay at the Inne. So to bed. + +8th. Up, and I walked out, and met Uncle Wight, whom I sent to last +night, and Mr. Wight coming to see us, and I walked with them back to see +my aunt at Katherine Hill, and there walked up and down the hill and +places, about: but a dull place, but good ayre, and the house dull. But +here I saw my aunt, after many days not seeing her--I think, a year or +two; and she walked with me to see my wife. And here, at the Red Lyon, we +all dined together, and mighty merry, and then parted: and we home to Fox +Hall, where Fitzgerald and I 'light, and by water to White Hall, where the +Duke of York being abroad, I by coach and met my wife, who went round, and +after doing at the office a little, and finding all well at home, I to +bed. I hear that Colbert, the French Ambassador, is come, and hath been +at Court incognito. When he hath his audience, I know not. + +9th (Lord's day). Up, and walked to Holborne, where got John Powell's +coach at the Black Swan, and he attended me at St. James's, where waited +on the Duke of York: and both by him and several of the Privy-Council, +beyond expectation, I find that my going to Sir Thomas Allen was looked +upon as a thing necessary: and I have got some advantage by it, among +them. Thence to White Hall, and thence to visit Lord Brouncker, and back +to White Hall, where saw the Queen and ladies; and so, with Mr. Slingsby, +to Mrs. Williams's, thinking to dine with Lord Brouncker there, but did +not, having promised my wife to come home, though here I met Knepp, to my +great content. So home; and, after dinner, I took my wife and Deb. round +by Hackney, and up and down to take the ayre; and then home, and made +visits to Mrs. Turner, and Mrs. Mercer, and Sir W. Pen, who is come from +Epsom not well, and Sir J. Minnes, who is not well neither. And so home +to supper, and to set my books a little right, and then to bed. This day +Betty Michell come and dined with us, the first day after her lying in, +whom I was glad to see. + +10th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and thence to Sir W. Coventry, but +he is gone out of town this morning, so thence to my Lord Arlington's +house, the first time I there since he come thither, at Goring House, a +very fine, noble place; and there he received me in sight of several Lords +with great respect. I did give him an account of my journey; and here, +while I waited for him a little, my Lord Orrery took notice of me, and +begun discourse of hangings, and of the improvement of shipping: I not +thinking that he knew me, but did then discover it, with a mighty +compliment of my abilities and ingenuity, which I am mighty proud of; and +he do speak most excellently. Thence to Westminster Hall, and so by coach +to the old Exchange, and there did several businesses, and so home to +dinner, and then abroad to Duck Lane, where I saw my belle femme of the +book vendor, but had no opportunity para hazer con her. So away to +Cooper's, where I spent all the afternoon with my wife and girl, seeing +him-make an end of her picture, which he did Jo my great content, though +not so great as, I confess, I expected, being not satisfied in the +greatness of the resemblance, nor in the blue garment: but it is most +certainly a most rare piece of work, as to the painting. He hath L30 for +his work--and the chrystal, and case, and gold case comes to L8 3s. 4d.; +and which I sent him this night, that I might be out of debt. Thence my +people home, and I to Westminster Hall about a little business, and so by +water home [to] supper, and my wife to read a ridiculous book I bought +today of the History of the Taylors' Company, + + [The title of this book was, "The Honour of the Merchant Taylors." + Wherein is set forth the noble acts, valliant deeds, and heroick + performances of Merchant Taylors in former ages; their honourable + loves, and knightly adventures, their combating of foreign enemies + and glorious successes in honour of the English nation: together + with their pious....] + +and all the while Deb. did comb my head, and I did toker her with my main +para very great pleasure, and so to bed. + +11th. Up, and by water to Sir W. Coventry to visit him, whom I find yet +troubled at the Commissioners of Accounts, about this business of Sir W. +Warren, which is a ridiculous thing, and can come to nothing but contempt, +and thence to Westminster Hall, where the Parliament met enough to +adjourne, which they did, to the 10th of November next, and so by water +home to the office, and so to dinner, and thence at the Office all the +afternoon till night, being mightily pleased with a little trial I have +made of the use of a tube-spectacall of paper, tried with my right eye. +This day I hear that, to the great joy of the Nonconformists, the time is +out of the Act against them, so that they may meet: and they have declared +that they will have a morning lecture + + [During the troubled reign of Charles I., the House of Commons gave + parishioners the right of appointing lecturers at the various + churches without the consent of rector or vicar, and this naturally + gave rise to many quarrels. In the early period of the war between + the king and the parliament, a course of sermons or lectures was + projected in aid of the parliamentary cause. These lectures, which + were preached by eminent Presbyterian divines at seven o'clock on + the Sunday mornings, were commenced in the church of St. Mary + Magdalen in Milk Street, but were soon afterwards removed to St. + Giles's, Cripplegate. After the Restoration the lectures were + collected in four volumes, and published under the title of the + "Cripplegate Morning Exercises," vol. i. in 1661; vol. ii. in 1674; + vol. iii. in 1682; and vol. iv. in 1690. In addition there were two + volumes which form a supplement to the work, viz., "The Morning + Exercises methodized," preached at St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, edited + by the Rev. Thomas Case in 1660, and the "Exercises against Popery," + preached in Southwark, and published in 1675 (see Demon's "Records + of St. Giles's, Crinnlegate," 1883, pp. 55-56).] + +up again, which is pretty strange; and they are connived at by the King +every where, I hear, in City and country. So to visit W. Pen, who is yet +ill, and then home, where W. Batelier and Mrs. Turner come and sat and +supped with us, and so they gone we to bed. This afternoon my wife, and +Mercer, and Deb., went with Pelting to see the gypsies at Lambeth, and +have their fortunes told; but what they did, I did not enquire. + +12th. Up, and all the morning busy at my office. Thence to the Excise +Office, and so to the Temple to take counsel about Major Nicholls's +business for the King. So to several places about business, and among +others to Drumbleby's about the mouths for my paper tubes, and so to the +'Change and home. Met Captain Cocke, who tells me that he hears for +certain the Duke of York will lose the authority of an Admiral, and be +governed by a Committee: and all our Office changed; only they are in +dispute whether I shall continue or no, which puts new thoughts in me, but +I know not whether to be glad or sorry. Home to dinner, where Pelting +dines with us, and brings some partridges, which is very good meat; and, +after dinner, I, and wife, and Mercer, and Deb., to the Duke of York's +house, and saw "Mackbeth," to our great content, and then home, where the +women went to the making of my tubes, and I to the office, and then come +Mrs. Turner and her husband to advise about their son, the Chaplain, who +is turned out of his ship, a sorrow to them, which I am troubled for, and +do give them the best advice I can, and so they gone we to bed. + +13th. Up, and Greeting comes, and there he and I tried some things of Mr. +Locke's for two flageolets, to my great content, and this day my wife +begins again to learn of him; for I have a great mind for her to be able +to play a part with me. Thence I to the Office, where all the afternoon +[morning??], and then to dinner, where W. Howe dined with me, who tells me +for certain that Creed is like to speed in his match with Mrs. Betty +Pickering. Here dined with me also Mr. Hollier, who is mighty vain in his +pretence to talk Latin. So to the Office again all the afternoon till +night, very busy, and so with much content home, and made my wife sing and +play on the flageolet to me till I slept with great pleasure in bed. + +14th. Up, and by water to White Hall and St. James's, and to see Sir W. +Coventry, and discourse about business of our Office, telling him my +trouble there, to see how things are ordered. I told him also what Cocke +told me the other day, but he says there is not much in it, though he do +know that this hath been in the eye of some persons to compass for the +turning all things in the navy, and that it looks so like a popular thing +as that he thinks something may be done in it, but whether so general or +no, as I tell it him, he knows not. Thence to White Hall, and there wait +at the Council-chamber door a good while, talking with one or other, and +so home by water, though but for a little while, because I am to return to +White Hall. At home I find Symson, putting up my new chimney-piece, in +our great chamber, which is very fine, but will cost a great deal of +money, but it is not flung away. So back to White Hall, and after the +council up, I with Mr. Wren, by invitation, to Sir Stephen Fox's to +dinner, where the Cofferer and Sir Edward Savage; where many good stories +of the antiquity and estates of many families at this day in Cheshire, and +that part of the kingdom, more than what is on this side, near London. My +Lady [Fox] dining with us; a very good lady, and a family governed so +nobly and neatly as do me good to see it. Thence the Cofferer, Sir +Stephen, and I to the Commissioners of the Treasury about business: and so +I up to the Duke of York, who enquired for what I had promised him, about +my observations of the miscarriages of our Office; + + [This refers to the letter on the affairs of the office which Pepys + prepared, and respecting which, and the proceedings which grew out + of it, so many references are made in future pages of the Diary.] + +and I told him he should have it next week, being glad he called for it; +for I find he is concerned to do something, and to secure himself thereby, +I believe: for the world is labouring to eclipse him, I doubt; I mean, the +factious part of the Parliament. The Office met this afternoon as usual, +and waited on him; where, among other things, he talked a great while of +his intentions of going to Dover soon, to be sworn as Lord Warden, which +is a matter of great ceremony and state, and so to the Temple with Mr. +Wren, to the Attorney's chamber, about business, but he abroad, and so I +home, and there spent the evening talking with my wife and piping, and +pleased with our chimney-piece, and so to bed. + +15th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning busy, and after dinner +with my wife, Mercer, and Deb., to the King's playhouse, and there saw +"Love's Mistresse" revived, the thing pretty good, but full of variety of +divertisement. So home and to my business at the office, my eyes bad +again, and so to bed. + +16th (Lord's day). All the morning at my Office with W. Hewer, there +drawing up my Report to the Duke of York, as I have promised, about the +faults of this Office, hoping thereby to have opportunity of doing myself +[something]. At noon to dinner, and again with him to work all the +afternoon till night, till I was weary and had despatched a good deal of +business, and so to bed after hearing my wife read a little. + +17th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and so to St. James's, and thence +with Mr. Wren by appointment in his coach to Hampstead, to speak with the +Atturney-general, whom we met in the fields, by his old route and house; +and after a little talk about our business of Ackeworth, went and saw the +Lord Wotton's house and garden, which is wonderfull fine: too good for the +house the gardens are, being, indeed, the most noble that ever I saw, and +brave orange and lemon trees. Thence to Mr. Chichley's by invitation, and +there dined with Sir John, his father not coming home. And while at dinner +comes by the French Embassador Colbert's mules, the first I eversaw, with +their sumpter-clothes mighty rich, and his coaches, he being to have his +entry to-day: but his things, though rich, are not new; supposed to be the +same his brother + + [A mistake of Pepys's. Colbert de Croissy, then in England, had + himself been the French Plenipotentiary at Aix-la-Chapelle.--B.] + +had the other day, at the treaty at Aix-la-Chapelle, in Flanders. Thence +to the Duke of York's house, and there saw "Cupid's Revenge," under the +new name of "Love Despised," that hath something very good in it, though I +like not the whole body of it. This day the first time acted here. Thence +home, and there with Mr. Hater and W. Hewer late, reading over all the +principal officers' instructions in order to my great work upon my hand, +and so to bed, my eyes very ill. + +18th. Up, and to my office about my great business betimes, and so to the +office, where all the morning. At noon dined, and then to the office all +the afternoon also, and in the evening to Sir W. Coventry's, but he not +within, I took coach alone to the Park, to try to meet him there, but did +not; but there were few coaches, but among the few there were in two +coaches our two great beauties, my Lady Castlemayne and Richmond; the +first time I saw the latter since she had the smallpox. I had much +pleasure to see them, but I thought they were strange one to another. +Thence going out I met a coach going, which I thought had Knepp in it, so +I went back, but it was not she. So back to White Hall and there took +water, and so home, and busy late about my great letter to the Duke of +York, and so to supper and to bed . . . . + +19th. Up betimes, and all day and afternoon without going out, busy upon +my great letter to the Duke of York, which goes on to my content. W. Hewer +and Gibson I employ with me in it. This week my people wash, over the +water, and so I little company at home. In the evening, being busy above, +a great cry I hear, and go down; and what should it be but Jane, in a fit +of direct raving, which lasted half-an-hour. Beyond four or five of our +strength to keep her down; and, when all come to all, a fit of jealousy +about Tom, with whom she is in love. So at night, I, and my wife, and W. +Hewer called them to us, and there I did examine all the thing, and them, +in league. She in love, and he hath got her to promise him to marry, and +he is now cold in it, so that I must rid my hands of them, which troubles +me, and the more because my head is now busy upon other greater things. I +am vexed also to be told by W. Hewer that he is summoned to the +Commissioners of Accounts about receiving a present of L30 from Mr. Mason, +the timber merchant, though there be no harm in it, that will appear on +his part, he having done them several lawful kindnesses and never demanded +anything, as they themselves have this day declared to the Commissioners, +they being forced up by the discovery of somebody that they in confidence +had once told it to. So to supper vexed and my head full of care, and so +to bed. + +20th. Betimes at my business again, and so to the office, and dined with +Brouncker and J. Minnes, at Sir W. Pen's at a bad pasty of venison, and so +to work again, and at it till past twelve at night, that I might get my +great letter + + [In the Pepysian Library is a MS. (No. 2242), entitled, "Papers + conteyning my addresse to his Royall Highnesse James Duke of Yorke, + Lord High Admirall of England, &c., by letter dated the 20th of + August, 1668, humbly tendering him my advice touching the present + State of the Office of the Navy, with his Royall Highness's + proceedings upon the same, and their result."] + +to the Duke of York ready against to-morrow, which I shall do, to my great +content. So to bed. + +21st. Up betimes, and with my people again to work, and finished all +before noon: and then I by water to White Hall, and there did tell the +Duke of York that I had done; and he hath to my great content desired me +to come to him at Sunday next in the afternoon, to read it over, by which +I have more time to consider and correct it. So back home and to the +'Change, in my way calling at Morris', my vintner's, where I love to see +su moher, though no acquaintance accostais this day con her. Did several +things at the 'Change, and so home to dinner. After dinner I by coach to +my bookseller's in Duck Lane, and there did spend a little time and +regarder su moher, and so to St. James's, where did a little ordinary +business; and by and by comes Monsieur Colbert, the French Embassador, to +make his first visit to the Duke of York, and then to the Duchess: and I +saw it: a silly piece of ceremony, he saying only a few formal words. A +comely man, and in a black suit and cloak of silk, which is a strange +fashion, now it hath been so long left off: This day I did first see the +Duke of York's room of pictures of some Maids of Honour, done by Lilly: +good, but not like. + + [The set of portraits known as "King Charles's Beauties," formerly + in Windsor Castle, but now at Hampton Court.--B.] + +Thence to Reeves's, and bought a reading-glass, and so to my bookseller's +again, there to buy a Book of Martyrs, + + [The popular name of John Fox's "Acts and Monuments," first + published in 1562-63.] + +which I did agree for; and so, after seeing and beginning acquaintance con +his femme, but very little, away home, and there busy very late at the +correcting my great letter to the Duke of York, and so to bed. + +22nd. Up betimes, at it again with great content, and so to the Office, +where all the morning, and did fall out with W. Pen about his slight +performance of his office, and so home to dinner, fully satisfied that +this Office must sink or the whole Service be undone. To the office all +the afternoon again, and then home to supper and to bed, my mind being +pretty well at ease, my great letter being now finished to my full +content; and I thank God I have opportunity of doing it, though I know it +will set the Office and me by the ears for ever. This morning Captain +Cocke comes, and tells me that he is now assured that it is true, what he +told me the other day, that our whole Office will be turned out, only me, +which, whether he says true or no, I know not, nor am much concerned, +though I should be better contented to have it thus than otherwise. This +afternoon, after I was weary in my business of the office, I went forth to +the 'Change, thinking to have spoke with Captain Cocke, but he was not +within. So I home, and took London-bridge in my way; walking down Fish +Street and Gracious Street, to see how very fine a descent they have now +made down the hill, that it is become very easy and pleasant, and going +through Leaden-Hall, it being market-day, I did see a woman catched, that +had stolen a shoulder of mutton off of a butcher's stall, and carrying it +wrapt up in a cloth, in a basket. The jade was surprised, and did not +deny it, and the woman so silly, as to let her go that took it, only +taking the meat. + +23rd (Lord's day). Up betimes, my head busy in my great letter, and I did +first hang up my new map of Paris in my green room, and changed others in +other places. Then to Captain Cocke's, thinking to have talked more of +what he told me yesterday, but he was not within. So back to church, and +heard a good sermon of Mr. Gifford's at our church, upon "Seek ye first +the kingdom of Heaven and its righteousness, and all these things shall be +added to you." A very excellent and persuasive, good and moral sermon. +Shewed, like a wise man, that righteousness is a surer moral way of being +rich, than sin and villainy. Then home to dinner, where Mr. Pelting, who +brought us a hare, which we had at dinner, and W. Howe. After dinner to +the Office, Mr. Gibson and I, to examine my letter to the Duke of York, +which, to my great joy, I did very well by my paper tube, without pain to +my eyes. And I do mightily like what I have therein done; and did, +according to the Duke of York's order, make haste to St. James's, and +about four o'clock got thither: and there the Duke of York was ready, to +expect me, and did hear it all over with extraordinary content; and did +give me many and hearty thanks, and in words the most expressive tell me +his sense of my good endeavours, and that he would have a care of me on +all occasions; and did, with much inwardness,--[i.e., intimacy.]--tell me +what was doing, suitable almost to what Captain Cocke tells me, of designs +to make alterations in the Navy; and is most open to me in them, and with +utmost confidence desires my further advice on all occasions: and he +resolves to have my letter transcribed, and sent forthwith to the Office. +So, with as much satisfaction as I could possibly, or did hope for, and +obligation on the Duke of York's side professed to me, I away into the +Park, and there met Mr. Pierce and his wife, and sister and brother, and a +little boy, and with them to Mulberry Garden, and spent I 18s. on them, +and there left them, she being again with child, and by it, the least +pretty that ever I saw her. And so I away, and got a coach, and home, and +there with my wife and W. Hewer, talking all the evening, my mind running +on the business of the Office, to see what more I can do to the rendering +myself acceptable and useful to all and to the King. We to supper, and to +bed. + +24th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning upon considerations on +the Victualler's contract, and then home to dinner, where my wife is upon +hanging the long chamber where the girl lies, with the sad stuff that was +in the best chamber, in order to the hanging that with tapestry. So to +dinner, and then to the office again, where all the afternoon till night, +we met to discourse upon the alterations which are propounded to be made +in the draft of the victualler's contract which we did lately make, and +then we being up comes Mr. Child, Papillion and Littleton, his partners, +to discourse upon the matter with me, which I did, and spent all the +evening with them at the office, and so, they being gone, I to supper and +talk with my wife, and so to bed. + +25th. Up, and by water to St. James's, and there, with Mr. Wren, did +discourse about my great letter, which the Duke of York hath given him: +and he hath set it to be transcribed by Billings, his man, whom, as he +tells me, he can most confide in for secresy, and is much pleased with it, +and earnest to have it be; and he and I are like to be much together in +the considering how to reform the Office, and that by the Duke of York's +command. Thence I, mightily pleased with this success, away to the +Office, where all the morning, my head full of this business. And it is +pretty how Lord Brouncker this day did tell me how he hears that a design +is on foot to remove us out of the Office: and proposes that we two do +agree to draw up a form of a new constitution of the Office, there to +provide remedies for the evils we are now under, so that we may be +beforehand with the world, which I agreed to, saying nothing of my design; +and, the truth is, he is the best man of them all, and I would be glad, +next myself, to save him; for, as he deserves best, so I doubt he needs +his place most. So home to dinner at noon, and all the afternoon busy at +the office till night, and then with my mind full of business now in my +head, I to supper and to bed. + +26th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning almost, busy about +business against the afternoon, and we met a little to sign two or three +things at the Board of moment, and thence at noon home to dinner, and so +away to White Hall by water. In my way to the Old Swan, finding a great +many people gathered together in Cannon Street about a man that was +working in the ruins, and the ground did sink under him, and he sunk in, +and was forced to be dug out again, but without hurt. Thence to White +Hall, and it is strange to say with what speed the people employed do pull +down Paul's steeple, and with what ease: it is said that it, and the choir +are to be taken down this year, and another church begun in the room +thereof, the next. At White Hall we met at the Treasury chamber, and +there before the Lords did debate our draft of the victualling contract +with the several bidders for it, which were Sir D. Gawden, Mr. Child and +his fellows, and Mr. Dorrington and his, a poor variety in a business of +this value. There till after candle-lighting, and so home by coach with +Sir D. Gawden, who, by the way, tells me how the City do go on in several +things towards the building of the public places, which I am glad to hear; +and gives hope that in a few years it will be a glorious place; but we met +with several stops and new troubles in the way in the streets, so as makes +it bad to travel in the dark now through the City. So I to Mr. Batelier's +by appointment, where I find my wife, and Deb., and Mercer; Mrs. Pierce +and her husband, son, and daughter; and Knepp and Harris, and W. Batelier, +and his sister Mary, and cozen Gumbleton, a good-humoured, fat young +gentleman, son to the jeweller, that dances well; and here danced all +night long, with a noble supper; and about two in the morning the table +spread again for a noble breakfast beyond all moderation, that put me out +of countenance, so much and so good. Mrs. Pierce and her people went home +betimes, she being big with child; but Knepp and the rest staid till +almost three in the morning, and then broke up. + +27th. Knepp home with us, and I to bed, and rose about six, mightily +pleased with last night's mirth, and away by water to St. James's, and +there, with Mr. Wren, did correct his copy of my letter, which the Duke of +York hath signed in my very words, without alteration of a syllable. + + [A copy of this letter is in the British Museum, Harl. MS. 6003. + See July 24th, ante, and August 29th, Post. In the Pepysian + Collection are the following: An Inquisition, by his Royal Highness + the Duke of York, when Lord High Admiral of England, into the + Management of the Navy, 1668, with his Regulations thereon, fol. + Also Mr. Pepys's Defence of the same upon an Inquisition thereunto + by Parliament, 1669, fol.--B.] + +And so pleased therewith, I to my Lord Brouncker, who I find within, but +hath business, and so comes not to the Office to-day. And so I by water +to the Office, where we sat all the morning; and, just as the Board rises, +comes the Duke of York's letter, which I knowing, and the Board not being +full, and desiring rather to have the Duke of York deliver it himself to +us, I suppressed it for this day, my heart beginning to falsify in this +business, as being doubtful of the trouble it may give me by provoking +them; but, however, I am resolved to go through it, and it is too late to +help it now. At noon to dinner to Captain Cocke's, where I met with Mr. +Wren; my going being to tell him what I have done, which he likes, and to +confer with Cocke about our Office; who tells me that he is confident the +design of removing our Officers do hold, but that he is sure that I am +safe enough. Which pleases me, though I do not much shew it to him, but +as a thing indifferent. So away home, and there met at Sir Richard Ford's +with the Duke of York's Commissioners about our Prizes, with whom we shall +have some trouble before we make an end with them, and hence, staying a +little with them, I with my wife, and W. Batelier, and Deb.; carried them +to Bartholomew Fayre, where we saw the dancing of the ropes and nothing +else, it being late, and so back home to supper and to bed, after having +done at my office. + +28th. Busy at the office till toward 10 o'clock, and then by water to +White Hall, where attending the Council's call all the morning with Lord +Brouncker, W. Pen, and the rest, about the business of supernumeraries in +the fleete, but were not called in. But here the Duke of York did call me +aside, and told me that he must speak with me in the afternoon, with Mr. +Wren, for that now he hath got the paper from my Lord Keeper about the +exceptions taken against the management of the Navy; and so we are to +debate upon answering them. At noon I home with W. Coventry to his house; +and there dined with him, and talked freely with him; and did acquaint him +with what I have done, which he is well pleased with, and glad of: and do +tell me that there are endeavours on foot to bring the Navy into new, but, +he fears, worse hands. After much talk with great content with him, I +walked to the Temple, and staid at Starky's, my bookseller's (looking over +Dr. Heylin's new book of the Life of Bishop Laud, a strange book of the +Church History of his time), till Mr. Wren comes, and by appointment we to +the Atturney General's chamber, and there read and heard the witnesses in +the business of Ackeworth, most troublesome and perplexed by the counter +swearing of the witnesses one against the other, and so with Mr. Wren away +thence to St. [James's] for his papers, and so to White Hall, and after +the Committee was done at the Council chamber about the business of +Supernumeraries, wherein W. Pen was to do all and did, but like an +ignorant illiterate coxcomb, the Duke of York fell to work with us, the +Committee being gone, in the Council-chamber; and there, with his own +hand, did give us his long letter, telling us that he had received several +from us, and now did give us one from him, taking notice of our several +duties and failures, and desired answer to it, as he therein desired; this +pleased me well; and so fell to other business, and then parted. And the +Duke of York, and Wren, and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of +York's closet in White Hall; and there read over this paper of my Lord +Keeper's, wherein are laid down the faults of the Navy, so silly, and the +remedies so ridiculous, or else the same that are now already provided, +that we thought it not to need any answer, the Duke of York being able +himself to do it: that so it makes us admire the confidence of these men +to offer things so silly, in a business of such moment. But it is a most +perfect instance of the complexion of the times! and so the Duke of York +said himself, who, I perceive, is mightily concerned in it, and do, again +and again, recommend it to Mr. Wren and me together, to consider upon +remedies fit to provide for him to propound to the King, before the rest +of the world, and particularly the Commissioners of Accounts, who are men +of understanding and order, to find our faults, and offer remedies of +their own, which I am glad of, and will endeavour to do something in it. +So parted, and with much difficulty, by candle-light, walked over the +Matted Gallery, as it is now with the mats and boards all taken up, so +that we walked over the rafters. But strange to see what hard matter the +plaister of Paris is, that is there taken up, as hard as stone! And pity +to see Holben's work in the ceiling blotted on, and only whited over! +Thence; with much ado, by several coaches home, to supper and to bed. My +wife having been this day with Hales, to sit for her hand to be mended, in +her picture. + +29th. Up, and all the morning at the Office, where the Duke of York's +long letter was read, to their great trouble, and their suspecting me to +have been the writer of it. And at noon comes, by appointment, Harris to +dine with me and after dinner he and I to Chyrurgeon's-hall, where they +are building it new, very fine; and there to see their theatre; which +stood all the fire, and, which was our business, their great picture of +Holben's, thinking to have bought it, by the help of Mr. Pierce, for a +little money: I did think to give L200 for it, it being said to be worth +L1000; but it is so spoiled that I have no mind to it, and is not a +pleasant, though a good picture. Thence carried Harris to his playhouse, +where, though four o'clock, so few people there at "The Impertinents," as +I went out; and do believe they did not act, though there was my Lord +Arlington and his company there. So I out, and met my wife in a coach, +and stopped her going thither to meet me; and took her, and Mercer, and +Deb., to Bartholomew Fair, and there did see a ridiculous, obscene little +stage-play, called "Marry Andrey;" a foolish thing, but seen by every +body; and so to Jacob Hall's dancing of the ropes; a thing worth seeing, +and mightily followed, and so home and to the office, and then to bed. +Writing to my father to-night not to unfurnish our house in the country +for my sister, who is going to her own house, because I think I may have +occasion myself to come thither; and so I do, by our being put out of the +Office, which do not at all trouble me to think of. + +30th (Lord's day). Walked to St. James's and Pell Mell, and read over, +with Sir W. Coventry, my long letter to the Duke of York, and which the +Duke of York hath, from mine, wrote to the Board, wherein he is mightily +pleased, and I perceive do put great value upon me, and did talk very +openly on all matters of State, and how some people have got the bit into +their mouths, meaning the Duke of Buckingham and his party, and would +likely run away with all. But what pleased me mightily was to hear the +good character he did give of my Lord Falmouth for his generosity, +good-nature, desire of public good, and low thoughts of his own wisdom; +his employing his interest in the King to do good offices to all people, +without any other fault than the freedom he, do learn in France of +thinking himself obliged to serve his King in his pleasures: and was W. +Coventry's particular friend: and W. Coventry do tell me very odde +circumstances about the fatality of his death, which are very strange. +Thence to White Hall to chapel, and heard the anthem, and did dine with +the Duke of Albemarle in a dirty manner as ever. All the afternoon, I +sauntered up and down the house and Park. And there was a Committee for +Tangier met, wherein Lord Middleton would, I think, have found fault with +me for want of coles; but I slighted it, and he made nothing of it, but +was thought to be drunk; and I see that he hath a mind to find fault with +me and Creed, neither of us having yet applied ourselves to him about +anything: but do talk of his profits and perquisites taken from him, and +garrison reduced, and that it must be increased, and such things, as; I +fear, he will be just such another as my Lord Tiviott and the rest, to +ruin that place. So I to the Park, and there walk an hour or two; and in +the King's garden, and saw the Queen and ladies walk; and I did steal some +apples off the trees; and here did see my Lady Richmond, who is of a noble +person as ever I saw, but her face worse than it was considerably by the +smallpox: her sister' is also very handsome. Coming into the Park, and +the door kept strictly, I had opportunity of handing in the little, +pretty, squinting girl of the Duke of York's house, but did not make +acquaintance with her; but let her go, and a little girl that was with +her, to walk by themselves. So to White Hall in the evening, to the +Queen's side, and there met the Duke of York; and he did tell me and W. +Coventry, who was with me, how that Lord Anglesey did take notice of our +reading his long and sharp letter to the Board; but that it was the +better, at least he said so. The Duke of York, I perceive, is earnest in +it, and will have good effects of it; telling W. Coventry that it was a +letter that might have come from the Commissioners of Accounts, but it was +better it should come first from him. I met Lord Brouncker, who, I +perceive, and the rest, do smell that it comes from me, but dare not find +fault with it; and I am glad of it, it being my glory and defence that I +did occasion and write it. So by water home, and did spend the evening +with W. Hewer, telling him how we are all like to be turned out, Lord +Brouncker telling me this evening that the Duke of Buckingham did, within +few hours, say that he had enough to turn us all out which I am not sorry +for at all, for I know the world will judge me to go for company; and my +eyes are such as I am not able to do the business of my Office as I used, +and would desire to do, while I am in it. So with full content, declaring +all our content in being released of my employment, my wife and I to bed, +and W. Hewer home, and so all to bed. + +31st. Up, and to my office, there to set my journal for all the last +week, and so by water to Westminster to the Exchequer, and thence to the +Swan, and there drank and did baiser la fille there, and so to the New +Exchange and paid for some things, and so to Hercules Pillars,' and there +dined all alone, while I sent my shoe to have the heel fastened at +Wotton's, and thence to White Hall to the Treasury chamber, where did a +little business, and thence to the Duke of York's playhouse and there met +my wife and Deb. and Mary Mercer and Batelier, where also W. Hewer was, +and saw "Hamlet," which we have not seen this year before, or more; and +mightily pleased with it; but, above all, with Betterton, the best part I +believe, that ever man acted. Thence to the Fayre, and saw +"Polichinelle," and so home, and after a little supper to bed. This night +lay the first night in Deb.'s chamber, which is now hung with that that +hung our great chamber, and is now a very handsome room. This day Mrs. +Batelier did give my wife a mighty pretty Spaniel bitch [Flora], which she +values mightily, and is pretty; but as a new comer, I cannot be fond of +her. + + + + + ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + + And the woman so silly, as to let her go that took it + But what they did, I did not enquire + Family governed so nobly and neatly as do me good to see it + I know not whether to be glad or sorry + My heart beginning to falsify in this business + Pictures of some Maids of Honor: good, but not like + Resolved to go through it, and it is too late to help it now + Saw "Mackbeth," to our great content + The factious part of the Parliament + Though I know it will set the Office and me by the ears for ever + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, August 1668, by Samuel Pepys + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, AUGUST 1668 *** + +***** This file should be named 4191.txt or 4191.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/9/4191/ + +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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After dinner my wife, and +Deb., and I, to the King's house again, coming too late yesterday to hear +the prologue, and do like the play better now than before; and, indeed, +there is a great deal of true wit in it, + + [Alexander Pope definition of 'True Wit': + + "Nature to advantage dress'd, + What has oft' been thought, + But ne'r so well express'd." + + D.W.] + +more than in the common sort of plays, and so home to my business, and at +night to bed, my eyes making me sad. + + + +2nd. (Lord's day). Up and at home all the morning, hanging, and removing +of some pictures, in my study and house. At noon Pelling dined with me. +After dinner, I and Tom, my boy, by water up to Putney, and there heard a +sermon, and many fine people in the church. Thence walked to Barne +Elmes, and there, and going and coming, did make the boy read to me +several things, being now-a-days unable to read myself anything, for +above two lines together, but my eyes grow weary. Home about night, and +so to supper and then to bed. + + + +3rd. Up, and by water to White Hall and St. James's, where I did much +business, and about noon meeting Dr. Gibbons, carried him to the Sun +taverne, in King Street, and there made him, and some friends of his, +drink; among others, Captain Silas Taylor, and here did get Gibbons to +promise me some things for my flageolets. So to the Old Exchange, and +then home to dinner, and so, Mercer dining with us, I took my wife and +her and Deb. out to Unthanke's, while I to White Hall to the +Commissioners of the Treasury, and so back to them and took them out to +Islington, where we met with W. Joyce and his wife and boy, and there eat +and drank, and a great deal of his idle talk, and so we round by Hackney +home, and so to sing a little in the garden, and then to bed. + + + +4th. Up, and to my office a little, and then to White Hall about a +Committee for Tangier at my Lord Arlington's, where, by Creed's being out +of town, I have the trouble given me of drawing up answers to the +complaints of the Turks of Algiers, and so I have all the papers put into +my hand. Here till noon, and then back to the Office, where sat a +little, and then to dinner, and presently to the office, where come to me +my Lord Bellassis, Lieutenant-Colonell Fitzgerald, newly come from +Tangier, and Sir Arthur Basset, and there I received their informations, +and so, they being gone, I with my clerks and another of Lord +Brouncker's, Seddon, sat up till two in the morning, drawing up my +answers and writing them fair, which did trouble me mightily to sit +up so long, because of my eyes. + + + +5th. So to bed about two o'clock, and then up about seven and to White +Hall, where read over my report to Lord Arlington and Berkeley, and then +afterward at the Council Board with great good liking, but, Lord! how it +troubled my eyes, though I did not think I could have done it, but did do +it, and was not very bad afterward. So home to dinner, and thence out to +the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "The Guardian;" formerly the +same, I find, that was called "Cutter of Coleman Street;" a silly play. +And thence to Westminster Hall, where I met Fitzgerald; and with him to +a tavern, to consider of the instructions for Sir Thomas Allen, against +his going to Algiers; he and I being designed to go down to Portsmouth by +the Council's order, and by and by he and I went to the Duke of York, who +orders me to go down to-morrow morning. So I away home, and there +bespeak a coach; and so home and to bed, my wife being abroad with the +Mercers walking in the fields, and upon the water. + + + +6th. Waked betimes, and my wife, at an hour's warning, is resolved to go +with me, which pleases me, her readiness. But, before ready, comes a +letter from Fitzgerald, that he is seized upon last night by an order of +the General's by a file of musqueteers, and kept prisoner in his chamber. +The Duke of York did tell me of it to-day: it is about a quarrel between. +him and Witham, and they fear a challenge: so I to him, and sent my wife +by the coach round to Lambeth. I lost my labour going to his lodgings, +and he in bed: and, staying a great while for him, I at last grew +impatient, and would stay no longer; but to St. James's to Mr. Wren, to +bid him "God be with you!" and so over the water to Fox Hall; and there +my wife and Deb. come and took me up, and we away to Gilford, losing our +way for three or four mile, about Cobham. At Gilford we dined; and, I +shewed them the hospitall there of Bishop Abbot's, and his tomb in the +church, which, and the rest of the tombs there, are kept mighty clean and +neat, with curtains before them. So to coach again, and got to Lippock,2 +late over Hindhead, having an old man, a guide, in the coach with us; but +got thither with great fear of being out of our way, it being ten at +night. Here good, honest people; and after supper, to bed . . . . + + + +7th. Up, and to coach, and with a guide to Petersfield, where I find Sir +Thomas Allen and Mr. Tippets come; the first about the business, the +latter only in respect to me; as also Fitzgerald, who come post all last +night, and newly arrived here. We four sat down presently to our +business, and in an hour despatched all our talk; and did inform Sir +Thomas Allen well in it, who, I perceive, in serious matters, is a +serious man: and tells me he wishes all we are told be true, in our +defence; for he finds by all, that the Turks have, to this day, been +very civil to our merchant-men everywhere; and, if they would have broke +with us, they never had such an opportunity over our rich merchant-men, +as lately, coming out of the Streights. Then to dinner, and pretty +merry: and here was Mr. Martin, the purser, and dined with us, and wrote +some things for us. And so took coach again back; Fitzgerald with us, +whom I was pleased with all the day, with his discourse of his +observations abroad, as being a great soldier and of long standing +abroad: and knows all things and persons abroad very well--I mean, the +great soldiers of France, and Spain, and Germany; and talks very well. +Come at night to Gilford, where the Red Lyon so full of people, and a +wedding, that the master of the house did get us a lodging over the way, +at a private house, his landlord's, mighty neat and fine; and there +supped and talked with the landlord and his wife: and so to bed with +great content, only Fitzgerald lay at the Inne. So to bed. + + + +8th. Up, and I walked out, and met Uncle Wight, whom I sent to last +night, and Mr. Wight coming to see us, and I walked with them back to see +my aunt at Katherine Hill, and there walked up and down the hill and +places, about: but a dull place, but good ayre, and the house dull. But +here I saw my aunt, after many days not seeing her--I think, a year or +two; and she walked with me to see my wife. And here, at the Red Lyon, +we all dined together, and mighty merry, and then parted: and we home to +Fox Hall, where Fitzgerald and I 'light, and by water to White Hall, +where the Duke of York being abroad, I by coach and met my wife, who went +round, and after doing at the office a little, and finding all well at +home, I to bed. I hear that Colbert, + + [Charles Colbert, Marquis de Croissy, brother of Jean Baptiste + Colbert, the great minister.--B.--(Who knew enough not to flaunt + his greatness as did his predecessor Fouguet.--D.W.)] + +the French Ambassador, is come, and hath been at Court incognito. When +he hath his audience, I know not. + + + +9th (Lord's day). Up, and walked to Holborne, where got John Powell's +coach at the Black Swan, and he attended me at St. James's, where waited +on the Duke of York: and both by him and several of the Privy-Council, +beyond expectation, I find that my going to Sir Thomas Allen was looked +upon as a thing necessary: and I have got some advantage by it, among +them. Thence to White Hall, and thence to visit Lord Brouncker, and back +to White Hall, where saw the Queen and ladies; and so, with Mr. Slingsby, +to Mrs. Williams's, thinking to dine with Lord Brouncker there, but did +not, having promised my wife to come home, though here I met Knepp, +to my great content. So home; and, after dinner, I took my wife and Deb. +round by Hackney, and up and down to take the ayre; and then home, and +made visits to Mrs. Turner, and Mrs. Mercer, and Sir W. Pen, who is come +from Epsom not well, and Sir J. Minnes, who is not well neither. And so +home to supper, and to set my books a little right, and then to bed. +This day Betty Michell come and dined with us, the first day after her +lying in, whom I was glad to see. + + + +10th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and thence to Sir W. Coventry, +but he is gone out of town this morning, so thence to my Lord Arlington's +house, the first time I there since he come thither, at Goring House, +a very fine, noble place; and there he received me in sight of several +Lords with great respect. I did give him an account of my journey; and +here, while I waited for him a little, my Lord Orrery took notice of me, +and begun discourse of hangings, and of the improvement of shipping: +I not thinking that he knew me, but did then discover it, with a mighty +compliment of my abilities and ingenuity, which I am mighty proud of; and +he do speak most excellently. Thence to Westminster Hall, and so by +coach to the old Exchange, and there did several businesses, and so home +to dinner, and then abroad to Duck Lane, where I saw my belle femme of +the book vendor, but had no opportunity para hazer con her. So away to +Cooper's, where I spent all the afternoon with my wife and girl, seeing +him-make an end of her picture, which he did Jo my great content, though +not so great as, I confess, I expected, being not satisfied in the +greatness of the resemblance, nor in the blue garment: but it is most +certainly a most rare piece of work, as to the painting. He hath L30 +for his work--and the chrystal, and case, and gold case comes to L8 3s. +4d.; and which I sent him this night, that I might be out of debt. +Thence my people home, and I to Westminster Hall about a little business, +and so by water home [to] supper, and my wife to read a ridiculous book +I bought today of the History of the Taylors' Company, + + [The title of this book was, "The Honour of the Merchant Taylors." + Wherein is set forth the noble acts, valliant deeds, and heroick + performances of Merchant Taylors in former ages; their honourable + loves, and knightly adventures, their combating of foreign enemies + and glorious successes in honour of the English nation: together + with their pious....] + +and all the while Deb. did comb my head, and I did toker her with my main +para very great pleasure, and so to bed. + + + +11th. Up, and by water to Sir W. Coventry to visit him, whom I find yet +troubled at the Commissioners of Accounts, about this business of Sir +W. Warren, which is a ridiculous thing, and can come to nothing but +contempt, and thence to Westminster Hall, where the Parliament met enough +to adjourne, which they did, to the 10th of November next, and so by +water home to the office, and so to dinner, and thence at the Office all +the afternoon till night, being mightily pleased with a little trial I +have made of the use of a tube-spectacall of paper, tried with my right +eye. This day I hear that, to the great joy of the Nonconformists, the +time is out of the Act against them, so that they may meet: and they have +declared that they will have a morning lecture + + [During the troubled reign of Charles I., the House of Commons gave + parishioners the right of appointing lecturers at the various + churches without the consent of rector or vicar, and this naturally + gave rise to many quarrels. In the early period of the war between + the king and the parliament, a course of sermons or lectures was + projected in aid of the parliamentary cause. These lectures, which + were preached by eminent Presbyterian divines at seven o'clock on + the Sunday mornings, were commenced in the church of St. Mary + Magdalen in Milk Street, but were soon afterwards removed to St. + Giles's, Cripplegate. After the Restoration the lectures were + collected in four volumes, and published under the title of the + "Cripplegate Morning Exercises," vol. i. in 1661; vol. ii. in 1674; + vol. iii. in 1682; and vol. iv. in 1690. In addition there were two + volumes which form a supplement to the work, viz., "The Morning + Exercises methodized," preached at St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, edited + by the Rev. Thomas Case in 1660, and the "Exercises against Popery," + preached in Southwark, and published in 1675 (see Demon's "Records + of St. Giles's, Crinnlegate," 1883, pp. 55-56).] + +up again, which is pretty strange; and they are connived at by the King +every where, I hear, in City and country. So to visit W. Pen, who is yet +ill, and then home, where W. Batelier and Mrs. Turner come and sat and +supped with us, and so they gone we to bed. This afternoon my wife, and +Mercer, and Deb., went with Pelting to see the gypsies at Lambeth, and +have their fortunes told; but what they did, I did not enquire. + + + +12th. Up, and all the morning busy at my office. Thence to the Excise +Office, and so to the Temple to take counsel about Major Nicholls's +business for the King. So to several places about business, and among +others to Drumbleby's about the mouths for my paper tubes, and so to the +'Change and home. Met Captain Cocke, who tells me that he hears for +certain the Duke of York will lose the authority of an Admiral, and be +governed by a Committee: and all our Office changed; only they are in +dispute whether I shall continue or no, which puts new thoughts in me, +but I know not whether to be glad or sorry. Home to dinner, where +Pelting dines with us, and brings some partridges, which is very good +meat; and, after dinner, I, and wife, and Mercer, and Deb., to the Duke +of York's house, and saw "Mackbeth," to our great content, and then home, +where the women went to the making of my tubes, and I to the office, and +then come Mrs. Turner and her husband to advise about their son, the +Chaplain, who is turned out of his ship, a sorrow to them, which I am +troubled for, and do give them the best advice I can, and so they gone we +to bed. + + + +13th. Up, and Greeting comes, and there he and I tried some things of +Mr. Locke's for two flageolets, to my great content, and this day my wife +begins again to learn of him; for I have a great mind for her to be able +to play a part with me. Thence I to the Office, where all the afternoon +[morning??], and then to dinner, where W. Howe dined with me, who tells +me for certain that Creed is like to speed in his match with Mrs. Betty +Pickering. Here dined with me also Mr. Hollier, who is mighty vain in +his pretence to talk Latin. So to the Office again all the afternoon +till night, very busy, and so with much content home, and made my wife +sing and play on the flageolet to me till I slept with great pleasure in +bed. + + + +14th. Up, and by water to White Hall and St. James's, and to see Sir W. +Coventry, and discourse about business of our Office, telling him my +trouble there, to see how things are ordered. I told him also what Cocke +told me the other day, but he says there is not much in it, though he do +know that this hath been in the eye of some persons to compass for the +turning all things in the navy, and that it looks so like a popular thing +as that he thinks something may be done in it, but whether so general or +no, as I tell it him, he knows not. Thence to White Hall, and there wait +at the Council-chamber door a good while, talking with one or other, and +so home by water, though but for a little while, because I am to return +to White Hall. At home I find Symson, putting up my new chimney-piece, +in our great chamber, which is very fine, but will cost a great deal of +money, but it is not flung away. So back to White Hall, and after the +council up, I with Mr. Wren, by invitation, to Sir Stephen Fox's to +dinner, where the Cofferer and Sir Edward Savage; where many good stories +of the antiquity and estates of many families at this day in Cheshire, +and that part of the kingdom, more than what is on this side, near +London. My Lady [Fox] dining with us; a very good lady, and a family +governed so nobly and neatly as do me good to see it. Thence the +Cofferer, Sir Stephen, and I to the Commissioners of the Treasury about +business: and so I up to the Duke of York, who enquired for what I had +promised him, about my observations of the miscarriages of our Office; + + [This refers to the letter on the affairs of the office which Pepys + prepared, and respecting which, and the proceedings which grew out + of it, so many references are made in future pages of the Diary.] + +and I told him he should have it next week, being glad he called for it; +for I find he is concerned to do something, and to secure himself +thereby, I believe: for the world is labouring to eclipse him, I doubt; +I mean, the factious part of the Parliament. The Office met this +afternoon as usual, and waited on him; where, among other things, +he talked a great while of his intentions of going to Dover soon, +to be sworn as Lord Warden, which is a matter of great ceremony and +state, and so to the Temple with Mr. Wren, to the Attorney's chamber, +about business, but he abroad, and so I home, and there spent the evening +talking with my wife and piping, and pleased with our chimney-piece, +and so to bed. + + + +15th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning busy, and after +dinner with my wife, Mercer, and Deb., to the King's playhouse, and there +saw "Love's Mistresse" revived, the thing pretty good, but full of +variety of divertisement. So home and to my business at the office, +my eyes bad again, and so to bed. + + + +16th (Lord's day). All the morning at my Office with W. Hewer, there +drawing up my Report to the Duke of York, as I have promised, about the +faults of this Office, hoping thereby to have opportunity of doing myself +[something]. At noon to dinner, and again with him to work all the +afternoon till night, till I was weary and had despatched a good deal of +business, and so to bed after hearing my wife read a little. + + + +17th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and so to St. James's, and thence +with Mr. Wren by appointment in his coach to Hampstead, to speak with the +Atturney-general, whom we met in the fields, by his old route and house; +and after a little talk about our business of Ackeworth, went and saw the +Lord Wotton's house and garden, which is wonderfull fine: too good for +the house the gardens are, being, indeed, the most noble that ever I saw, +and brave orange and lemon trees. Thence to Mr. Chichley's by +invitation, and there dined with Sir John, his father not coming home. +And while at dinner comes by the French Embassador Colbert's mules, the +first I eversaw, with their sumpter-clothes mighty rich, and his coaches, +he being to have his entry to-day: but his things, though rich, are not +new; supposed to be the same his brother + + [A mistake of Pepys's. Colbert de Croissy, then in England, had + himself been the French Plenipotentiary at Aix-la-Chapelle.--B.] + +had the other day, at the treaty at Aix-la-Chapelle, in Flanders. Thence +to the Duke of York's house, and there saw "Cupid's Revenge," under the +new name of "Love Despised," that hath something very good in it, though +I like not the whole body of it. This day the first time acted here. +Thence home, and there with Mr. Hater and W. Hewer late, reading over all +the principal officers' instructions in order to my great work upon my +hand, and so to bed, my eyes very ill. + + + +18th. Up, and to my office about my great business betimes, and so to +the office, where all the morning. At noon dined, and then to the office +all the afternoon also, and in the evening to Sir W. Coventry's, but he +not within, I took coach alone to the Park, to try to meet him there, +but did not; but there were few coaches, but among the few there were +in two coaches our two great beauties, my Lady Castlemayne and Richmond; +the first time I saw the latter since she had the smallpox. I had much +pleasure to see them, but I thought they were strange one to another. +Thence going out I met a coach going, which I thought had Knepp in it, +so I went back, but it was not she. So back to White Hall and there took +water, and so home, and busy late about my great letter to the Duke of +York, and so to supper and to bed . . . . + + + +19th. Up betimes, and all day and afternoon without going out, busy upon +my great letter to the Duke of York, which goes on to my content. +W. Hewer and Gibson I employ with me in it. This week my people wash, +over the water, and so I little company at home. In the evening, being +busy above, a great cry I hear, and go down; and what should it be but +Jane, in a fit of direct raving, which lasted half-an-hour. Beyond four +or five of our strength to keep her down; and, when all come to all, +a fit of jealousy about Tom, with whom she is in love. So at night, +I, and my wife, and W. Hewer called them to us, and there I did examine +all the thing, and them, in league. She in love, and he hath got her to +promise him to marry, and he is now cold in it, so that I must rid my +hands of them, which troubles me, and the more because my head is now +busy upon other greater things. I am vexed also to be told by W. Hewer +that he is summoned to the Commissioners of Accounts about receiving a +present of L30 from Mr. Mason, the timber merchant, though there be no +harm in it, that will appear on his part, he having done them several +lawful kindnesses and never demanded anything, as they themselves have +this day declared to the Commissioners, they being forced up by the +discovery of somebody that they in confidence had once told it to. +So to supper vexed and my head full of care, and so to bed. + + + +20th. Betimes at my business again, and so to the office, and dined with +Brouncker and J. Minnes, at Sir W. Pen's at a bad pasty of venison, and +so to work again, and at it till past twelve at night, that I might get +my great letter + + [In the Pepysian Library is a MS. (No. 2242), entitled, "Papers + conteyning my addresse to his Royall Highnesse James Duke of Yorke, + Lord High Admirall of England, &c., by letter dated the 20th of + August, 1668, humbly tendering him my advice touching the present + State of the Office of the Navy, with his Royall Highness's + proceedings upon the same, and their result."] + +to the Duke of York ready against to-morrow, which I shall do, to my +great content. So to bed. + + + +21st. Up betimes, and with my people again to work, and finished all +before noon: and then I by water to White Hall, and there did tell the +Duke of York that I had done; and he hath to my great content desired me +to come to him at Sunday next in the afternoon, to read it over, by which +I have more time to consider and correct it. So back home and to the +'Change, in my way calling at Morris', my vintner's, where I love to see +su moher, though no acquaintance accostais this day con her. Did several +things at the 'Change, and so home to dinner. After dinner I by coach to +my bookseller's in Duck Lane, and there did spend a little time and +regarder su moher, and so to St. James's, where did a little ordinary +business; and by and by comes Monsieur Colbert, the French Embassador, +to make his first visit to the Duke of York, and then to the Duchess: +and I saw it: a silly piece of ceremony, he saying only a few formal +words. A comely man, and in a black suit and cloak of silk, which is a +strange fashion, now it hath been so long left off: This day I did first +see the Duke of York's room of pictures of some Maids of Honour, done by +Lilly: good, but not like. + + + [The set of portraits known as "King Charles's Beauties," formerly + in Windsor Castle, but now at Hampton Court.--B.] + +Thence to Reeves's, and bought a reading-glass, and so to my bookseller's +again, there to buy a Book of Martyrs, + + [The popular name of John Fox's "Acts and Monuments," first + published in 1562-63.] + +which I did agree for; and so, after seeing and beginning acquaintance +con his femme, but very little, away home, and there busy very late at +the correcting my great letter to the Duke of York, and so to bed. + + + +22nd. Up betimes, at it again with great content, and so to the Office, +where all the morning, and did fall out with W. Pen about his slight +performance of his office, and so home to dinner, fully satisfied that +this Office must sink or the whole Service be undone. To the office all +the afternoon again, and then home to supper and to bed, my mind being +pretty well at ease, my great letter being now finished to my full +content; and I thank God I have opportunity of doing it, though I know it +will set the Office and me by the ears for ever. This morning Captain +Cocke comes, and tells me that he is now assured that it is true, what he +told me the other day, that our whole Office will be turned out, only me, +which, whether he says true or no, I know not, nor am much concerned, +though I should be better contented to have it thus than otherwise. This +afternoon, after I was weary in my business of the office, I went forth +to the 'Change, thinking to have spoke with Captain Cocke, but he was not +within. So I home, and took London-bridge in my way; walking down Fish +Street and Gracious Street, to see how very fine a descent they have now +made down the hill, that it is become very easy and pleasant, and going +through Leaden-Hall, it being market-day, I did see a woman catched, that +had stolen a shoulder of mutton off of a butcher's stall, and carrying it +wrapt up in a cloth, in a basket. The jade was surprised, and did not +deny it, and the woman so silly, as to let her go that took it, only +taking the meat. + + + +23rd (Lord's day). Up betimes, my head busy in my great letter, and I +did first hang up my new map of Paris in my green room, and changed +others in other places. Then to Captain Cocke's, thinking to have talked +more of what he told me yesterday, but he was not within. So back to +church, and heard a good sermon of Mr. Gifford's at our church, upon +"Seek ye first the kingdom of Heaven and its righteousness, and all these +things shall be added to you." A very excellent and persuasive, good and +moral sermon. Shewed, like a wise man, that righteousness is a surer +moral way of being rich, than sin and villainy. Then home to dinner, +where Mr. Pelting, who brought us a hare, which we had at dinner, and W. +Howe. After dinner to the Office, Mr. Gibson and I, to examine my letter +to the Duke of York, which, to my great joy, I did very well by my paper +tube, without pain to my eyes. And I do mightily like what I have +therein done; and did, according to the Duke of York's order, make haste +to St. James's, and about four o'clock got thither: and there the Duke of +York was ready, to expect me, and did hear it all over with extraordinary +content; and did give me many and hearty thanks, and in words the most +expressive tell me his sense of my good endeavours, and that he would +have a care of me on all occasions; and did, with much inwardness,-- +[i.e., intimacy.]--tell me what was doing, suitable almost to what +Captain Cocke tells me, of designs to make alterations in the Navy; and +is most open to me in them, and with utmost confidence desires my further +advice on all occasions: and he resolves to have my letter transcribed, +and sent forthwith to the Office. So, with as much satisfaction as I +could possibly, or did hope for, and obligation on the Duke of York's +side professed to me, I away into the Park, and there met Mr. Pierce and +his wife, and sister and brother, and a little boy, and with them to +Mulberry Garden, and spent I 18s. on them, and there left them, she being +again with child, and by it, the least pretty that ever I saw her. +And so I away, and got a coach, and home, and there with my wife and +W. Hewer, talking all the evening, my mind running on the business of the +Office, to see what more I can do to the rendering myself acceptable and +useful to all and to the King. We to supper, and to bed. + + + +24th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning upon considerations +on the Victualler's contract, and then home to dinner, where my wife is +upon hanging the long chamber where the girl lies, with the sad stuff +that was in the best chamber, in order to the hanging that with tapestry. +So to dinner, and then to the office again, where all the afternoon till +night, we met to discourse upon the alterations which are propounded to +be made in the draft of the victualler's contract which we did lately +make, and then we being up comes Mr. Child, Papillion and Littleton, his +partners, to discourse upon the matter with me, which I did, and spent +all the evening with them at the office, and so, they being gone, I to +supper and talk with my wife, and so to bed. + + + +25th. Up, and by water to St. James's, and there, with Mr. Wren, did +discourse about my great letter, which the Duke of York hath given him: +and he hath set it to be transcribed by Billings, his man, whom, as he +tells me, he can most confide in for secresy, and is much pleased with +it, and earnest to have it be; and he and I are like to be much together +in the considering how to reform the Office, and that by the Duke of +York's command. Thence I, mightily pleased with this success, away to +the Office, where all the morning, my head full of this business. And it +is pretty how Lord Brouncker this day did tell me how he hears that a +design is on foot to remove us out of the Office: and proposes that we +two do agree to draw up a form of a new constitution of the Office, there +to provide remedies for the evils we are now under, so that we may be +beforehand with the world, which I agreed to, saying nothing of my +design; and, the truth is, he is the best man of them all, and I would be +glad, next myself, to save him; for, as he deserves best, so I doubt he +needs his place most. So home to dinner at noon, and all the afternoon +busy at the office till night, and then with my mind full of business now +in my head, I to supper and to bed. + + + +26th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning almost, busy about +business against the afternoon, and we met a little to sign two or three +things at the Board of moment, and thence at noon home to dinner, and so +away to White Hall by water. In my way to the Old Swan, finding a great +many people gathered together in Cannon Street about a man that was +working in the ruins, and the ground did sink under him, and he sunk in, +and was forced to be dug out again, but without hurt. Thence to White +Hall, and it is strange to say with what speed the people employed do +pull down Paul's steeple, and with what ease: it is said that it, and the +choir are to be taken down this year, and another church begun in the +room thereof, the next. At White Hall we met at the Treasury chamber, +and there before the Lords did debate our draft of the victualling +contract with the several bidders for it, which were Sir D. Gawden, Mr. +Child and his fellows, and Mr. Dorrington and his, a poor variety in a +business of this value. There till after candle-lighting, and so home by +coach with Sir D. Gawden, who, by the way, tells me how the City do go on +in several things towards the building of the public places, which I am +glad to hear; and gives hope that in a few years it will be a glorious +place; but we met with several stops and new troubles in the way in the +streets, so as makes it bad to travel in the dark now through the City. +So I to Mr. Batelier's by appointment, where I find my wife, and Deb., +and Mercer; Mrs. Pierce and her husband, son, and daughter; and Knepp and +Harris, and W. Batelier, and his sister Mary, and cozen Gumbleton, a +good-humoured, fat young gentleman, son to the jeweller, that dances +well; and here danced all night long, with a noble supper; and about two +in the morning the table spread again for a noble breakfast beyond all +moderation, that put me out of countenance, so much and so good. Mrs. +Pierce and her people went home betimes, she being big with child; but +Knepp and the rest staid till almost three in the morning, and then broke +up. + + + +27th. Knepp home with us, and I to bed, and rose about six, mightily +pleased with last night's mirth, and away by water to St. James's, and +there, with Mr. Wren, did correct his copy of my letter, which the Duke +of York hath signed in my very words, without alteration of a syllable. + + [A copy of this letter is in the British Museum, Harl. MS. 6003. + See July 24th, ante, and August 29th, Post. In the Pepysian + Collection are the following: An Inquisition, by his Royal Highness + the Duke of York, when Lord High Admiral of England, into the + Management of the Navy, 1668, with his Regulations thereon, fol. + Also Mr. Pepys's Defence of the same upon an Inquisition thereunto + by Parliament, 1669, fol.--B.] + +And so pleased therewith, I to my Lord Brouncker, who I find within, but +hath business, and so comes not to the Office to-day. And so I by water +to the Office, where we sat all the morning; and, just as the Board +rises, comes the Duke of York's letter, which I knowing, and the Board +not being full, and desiring rather to have the Duke of York deliver it +himself to us, I suppressed it for this day, my heart beginning to +falsify in this business, as being doubtful of the trouble it may give me +by provoking them; but, however, I am resolved to go through it, and it +is too late to help it now. At noon to dinner to Captain Cocke's, where +I met with Mr. Wren; my going being to tell him what I have done, which +he likes, and to confer with Cocke about our Office; who tells me that he +is confident the design of removing our Officers do hold, but that he is +sure that I am safe enough. Which pleases me, though I do not much shew +it to him, but as a thing indifferent. So away home, and there met at +Sir Richard Ford's with the Duke of York's Commissioners about our +Prizes, with whom we shall have some trouble before we make an end with +them, and hence, staying a little with them, I with my wife, and W. +Batelier, and Deb.; carried them to Bartholomew Fayre, where we saw the +dancing of the ropes and nothing else, it being late, and so back home to +supper and to bed, after having done at my office. + + + +28th. Busy at the office till toward 10 o'clock, and then by water to +White Hall, where attending the Council's call all the morning with Lord +Brouncker, W. Pen, and the rest, about the business of supernumeraries in +the fleete, but were not called in. But here the Duke of York did call +me aside, and told me that he must speak with me in the afternoon, with +Mr. Wren, for that now he hath got the paper from my Lord Keeper about +the exceptions taken against the management of the Navy; and so we are to +debate upon answering them. At noon I home with W. Coventry to his +house; and there dined with him, and talked freely with him; and did +acquaint him with what I have done, which he is well pleased with, and +glad of: and do tell me that there are endeavours on foot to bring the +Navy into new, but, he fears, worse hands. After much talk with great +content with him, I walked to the Temple, and staid at Starky's, my +bookseller's (looking over Dr. Heylin's new book of the Life of Bishop +Laud, a strange book of the Church History of his time), till Mr. Wren +comes, and by appointment we to the Atturney General's chamber, and there +read and heard the witnesses in the business of Ackeworth, most +troublesome and perplexed by the counter swearing of the witnesses one +against the other, and so with Mr. Wren away thence to St. [James's] for +his papers, and so to White Hall, and after the Committee was done at the +Council chamber about the business of Supernumeraries, wherein W. Pen was +to do all and did, but like an ignorant illiterate coxcomb, the Duke of +York fell to work with us, the Committee being gone, in the Council- +chamber; and there, with his own hand, did give us his long letter, +telling us that he had received several from us, and now did give us one +from him, taking notice of our several duties and failures, and desired +answer to it, as he therein desired; this pleased me well; and so fell to +other business, and then parted. And the Duke of York, and Wren, and I, +it being now candle-light, into the Duke of York's closet in White Hall; +and there read over this paper of my Lord Keeper's, wherein are laid down +the faults of the Navy, so silly, and the remedies so ridiculous, or else +the same that are now already provided, that we thought it not to need +any answer, the Duke of York being able himself to do it: that so it +makes us admire the confidence of these men to offer things so silly, +in a business of such moment. But it is a most perfect instance of the +complexion of the times! and so the Duke of York said himself, who, I +perceive, is mightily concerned in it, and do, again and again, recommend +it to Mr. Wren and me together, to consider upon remedies fit to provide +for him to propound to the King, before the rest of the world, and +particularly the Commissioners of Accounts, who are men of understanding +and order, to find our faults, and offer remedies of their own, which I +am glad of, and will endeavour to do something in it. So parted, and +with much difficulty, by candle-light, walked over the Matted Gallery, as +it is now with the mats and boards all taken up, so that we walked over +the rafters. But strange to see what hard matter the plaister of Paris +is, that is there taken up, as hard as stone! And pity to see Holben's +work in the ceiling blotted on, and only whited over! Thence; with much +ado, by several coaches home, to supper and to bed. My wife having been +this day with Hales, to sit for her hand to be mended, in her picture. + + + +29th. Up, and all the morning at the Office, where the Duke of York's +long letter was read, to their great trouble, and their suspecting me to +have been the writer of it. And at noon comes, by appointment, Harris to +dine with me and after dinner he and I to Chyrurgeon's-hall, where they +are building it new, very fine; and there to see their theatre; which +stood all the fire, and, which was our business, their great picture of +Holben's, thinking to have bought it, by the help of Mr. Pierce, for a +little money: I did think to give L200 for it, it being said to be worth +L1000; but it is so spoiled that I have no mind to it, and is not a +pleasant, though a good picture. Thence carried Harris to his playhouse, +where, though four o'clock, so few people there at "The Impertinents," as +I went out; and do believe they did not act, though there was my Lord +Arlington and his company there. So I out, and met my wife in a coach, +and stopped her going thither to meet me; and took her, and Mercer, and +Deb., to Bartholomew Fair, and there did see a ridiculous, obscene little +stage-play, called "Marry Andrey;" a foolish thing, but seen by every +body; and so to Jacob Hall's dancing of the ropes; a thing worth seeing, +and mightily followed, and so home and to the office, and then to bed. +Writing to my father to-night not to unfurnish our house in the country +for my sister, who is going to her own house, because I think I may have +occasion myself to come thither; and so I do, by our being put out of the +Office, which do not at all trouble me to think of. + + + +30th (Lord's day). Walked to St. James's and Pell Mell, and read over, +with Sir W. Coventry, my long letter to the Duke of York, and which the +Duke of York hath, from mine, wrote to the Board, wherein he is mightily +pleased, and I perceive do put great value upon me, and did talk very +openly on all matters of State, and how some people have got the bit into +their mouths, meaning the Duke of Buckingham and his party, and would +likely run away with all. But what pleased me mightily was to hear the +good character he did give of my Lord Falmouth for his generosity, good- +nature, desire of public good, and low thoughts of his own wisdom; his +employing his interest in the King to do good offices to all people, +without any other fault than the freedom he, do learn in France of +thinking himself obliged to serve his King in his pleasures: and was +W. Coventry's particular friend: and W. Coventry do tell me very odde +circumstances about the fatality of his death, which are very strange. +Thence to White Hall to chapel, and heard the anthem, and did dine with +the Duke of Albemarle in a dirty manner as ever. All the afternoon, +I sauntered up and down the house and Park. And there was a Committee +for Tangier met, wherein Lord Middleton would, I think, have found fault +with me for want of coles; but I slighted it, and he made nothing of it, +but was thought to be drunk; and I see that he hath a mind to find fault +with me and Creed, neither of us having yet applied ourselves to him +about anything: but do talk of his profits and perquisites taken from +him, and garrison reduced, and that it must be increased, and such +things, as; I fear, he will be just such another as my Lord Tiviott and +the rest, to ruin that place. So I to the Park, and there walk an hour +or two; and in the King's garden, and saw the Queen and ladies walk; and +I did steal some apples off the trees; and here did see my Lady Richmond, +who is of a noble person as ever I saw, but her face worse than it was +considerably by the smallpox: her sister' is also very handsome. Coming +into the Park, and the door kept strictly, I had opportunity of handing +in the little, pretty, squinting girl of the Duke of York's house, but +did not make acquaintance with her; but let her go, and a little girl +that was with her, to walk by themselves. So to White Hall in the +evening, to the Queen's side, and there met the Duke of York; and he did +tell me and W. Coventry, who was with me, how that Lord Anglesey did take +notice of our reading his long and sharp letter to the Board; but that it +was the better, at least he said so. The Duke of York, I perceive, is +earnest in it, and will have good effects of it; telling W. Coventry that +it was a letter that might have come from the Commissioners of Accounts, +but it was better it should come first from him. I met Lord Brouncker, +who, I perceive, and the rest, do smell that it comes from me, but dare +not find fault with it; and I am glad of it, it being my glory and +defence that I did occasion and write it. So by water home, and did +spend the evening with W. Hewer, telling him how we are all like to be +turned out, Lord Brouncker telling me this evening that the Duke of +Buckingham did, within few hours, say that he had enough to turn us all +out which I am not sorry for at all, for I know the world will judge me +to go for company; and my eyes are such as I am not able to do the +business of my Office as I used, and would desire to do, while I am in +it. So with full content, declaring all our content in being released of +my employment, my wife and I to bed, and W. Hewer home, and so all to +bed. + + + +31st. Up, and to my office, there to set my journal for all the last +week, and so by water to Westminster to the Exchequer, and thence to the +Swan, and there drank and did baiser la fille there, and so to the New +Exchange and paid for some things, and so to Hercules Pillars,' and there +dined all alone, while I sent my shoe to have the heel fastened at +Wotton's, and thence to White Hall to the Treasury chamber, where did a +little business, and thence to the Duke of York's playhouse and there met +my wife and Deb. and Mary Mercer and Batelier, where also W. Hewer was, +and saw "Hamlet," which we have not seen this year before, or more; and +mightily pleased with it; but, above all, with Betterton, the best part +I believe, that ever man acted. Thence to the Fayre, and saw +"Polichinelle," and so home, and after a little supper to bed. This +night lay the first night in Deb.'s chamber, which is now hung with that +that hung our great chamber, and is now a very handsome room. This day +Mrs. Batelier did give my wife a mighty pretty Spaniel bitch [Flora], +which she values mightily, and is pretty; but as a new comer, I cannot +be fond of her. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +And the woman so silly, as to let her go that took it +But what they did, I did not enquire +Family governed so nobly and neatly as do me good to see it +I know not whether to be glad or sorry +My heart beginning to falsify in this business +Pictures of some Maids of Honor: good, but not like +Resolved to go through it, and it is too late to help it now +Saw "Mackbeth," to our great content +The factious part of the Parliament +Though I know it will set the Office and me by the ears for ever + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v75 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + diff --git a/old/sp76g10.zip b/old/sp76g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..13acb4a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp76g10.zip |