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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, September/October 1668 + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Release Date: December 1, 2004 [EBook #4192] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY + MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER + 1668 + +September 1st. Up and all the morning at the office busy, and after +dinner to the office again busy till about four, and then I abroad (my +wife being gone to Hales's about drawing her hand new in her picture) and +I to see Betty Michell, which I did, but su mari was dentro, and no +pleasure. So to the Fair, and there saw several sights; among others, the +mare that tells money, + + [This is not the first learned horse of which we read. Shakespeare, + "Love's Labour's Lost," act i., SC. 2, mentions "the dancing + horse,"' and the commentators have added many particulars of Banks's + bay horse.] + +and many things to admiration; and, among others, come to me, when she was +bid to go to him of the company that most loved a pretty wench in a +corner. And this did cost me 12d. to the horse, which I had flung him +before, and did give me occasion to baiser a mighty belle fille that was +in the house that was exceeding plain, but fort belle. At night going +home I went to my bookseller's in Duck Lane, and find her weeping in the +shop, so as ego could not have any discourse con her nor ask the reason, +so departed and took coach home, and taking coach was set on by a wench +that was naught, and would have gone along with me to her lodging in Shoe +Lane, but ego did donner her a shilling . . . and left her, and home, +where after supper, W. Batelier with us, we to bed. This day Mrs. Martin +come to see us, and dined with us. + +2nd. Fast-day for the burning of London, strictly observed. I at home at +the office all day, forenoon and afternoon, about the Victualler's +contract and other things, and at night home to supper, having had but a +cold dinner, Mr. Gibson with me; and this evening comes Mr. Hill to +discourse with me about Yeabsly and Lanyon's business, wherein they are +troubled, and I fear they have played the knave too far for me to help or +think fit to appear for them. So he gone, and after supper, to bed, being +troubled with a summons, though a kind one, from Mr. Jessop, to attend the +Commissioners of Accounts tomorrow. + +3rd. Up, and to the Office, where busy till it was time to go to the +Commissioners of Accounts, which I did about noon, and there was received +with all possible respect, their business being only to explain the +meaning of one of their late demands to us, which we had not answered in +our answer to them, and, this being done, I away with great content, my +mind being troubled before, and so to the Exchequer and several places, +calling on several businesses, and particularly my bookseller's, among +others, for "Hobbs's Leviathan," + + ["Leviathan: or the matter, forme and power of a Commonwealth + ecclesiasticall and civill," by Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, first + published in 1651. It was reprinted in 1680, with its old date. + Hobbes's complete works, English and Latin, were published by Sir + William Molesworth in sixteen volumes 8vo. between 1839 and 1845.] + +which is now mightily called for; and what was heretofore sold for 8s. I +now give 24s. for, at the second hand, and is sold for 30s., it being a +book the Bishops will not let be printed again, and so home to dinner, and +then to the office all the afternoon, and towards evening by water to the +Commissioners of the Treasury, and presently back again, and there met a +little with W. Pen and the rest about our Prize accounts, and so W. Pen +and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new +draft of the victualler's contract, and so broke up and home to supper and +to bed. + +4th. Up, and met at the Office all the morning; and at noon my wife, and +Deb., and Mercer, and W. Hewer and I to the Fair, and there, at the old +house, did eat a pig, and was pretty merry, but saw no sights, my wife +having a mind to see the play "Bartholomew-Fayre," with puppets. Which we +did, and it is an excellent play; the more I see it, the more I love the +wit of it; only the business of abusing the Puritans begins to grow stale, +and of no use, they being the people that, at last, will be found the +wisest. And here Knepp come to us, and sat with us, and thence took coach +in two coaches, and losing one another, my wife, and Knepp, and I to +Hercules Pillars, and there supped, and I did take from her mouth the +words and notes of her song of "the Larke," which pleases me mightily. And +so set her at home, and away we home, where our company come home before +us. This night Knepp tells us that there is a Spanish woman lately come +over, that pretends to sing as well as Mrs. Knight; both of which I must +endeavour to hear. So, after supper, to bed. + +5th. Up, and at the office all the morning. At noon home to dinner, and +to the office to work all the afternoon again till the evening, and then +by coach to Mr. Hales's new house, where, I find, he hath finished my +wife's hand, which is better than the other; and here I find Harris's +picture, done in his habit of "Henry the Fifth;" mighty like a player, but +I do not think the picture near so good as any yet he hath made for me: +however, it is pretty well, and thence through the fair home, but saw +nothing, it being late, and so home to my business at the office, and +thence to supper and to bed. + +6th (Lord's day). Up betimes, and got myself ready to go by water, and +about nine o'clock took boat with Henry Russell to Gravesend, coming +thither about one, where, at the Ship, I dined; and thither come to me Mr. +Hosier, whom I went to speak with, about several businesses of work that +he is doing, and I would have him do, of writing work, for me. And I did +go with him to his lodging, and there did see his wife, a pretty tolerable +woman, and do find him upon an extraordinary good work of designing a +method of keeping our Storekeeper's Accounts, in the Navy. Here I should +have met with Mr. Wilson, but he is sick, and could not come from Chatham +to me. So, having done with Hosier, I took boat again the beginning of +the flood, and come home by nine at night, with much pleasure, it being a +fine day. Going down I spent reading of the "Five Sermons of Five Several +Styles," worth comparing one with another: but I do think, when all is +done, that, contrary to the design of the book, the Presbyterian style and +the Independent are the best of the five sermons to be preached in; this I +do, by the best of my present judgment think, and coming back I spent +reading of a book of warrants of our office in the first Dutch war, and do +find that my letters and warrants and method will be found another +gate's business than this that the world so much adores, and I am glad for +my own sake to find it so. My boy was with me, and read to me all day, +and we sang a while together, and so home to supper a little, and so to +bed. + +7th. At the office all the morning, we met, and at noon dined at home, +and after dinner carried my wife and Deb. to Unthanke's, and I to White +Hall with Mr. Gibson, where the rest of our officers met us, and to the +Commissioners of the Treasury about the Victualling contract, but staid +not long, but thence, sending Gibson to my wife, I with Lord Brouncker +(who was this day in an unusual manner merry, I believe with drink), J. +Minnes, and W. Pen to Bartholomew-Fair; and there saw the dancing mare +again, which, to-day, I find to act much worse than the other day, she +forgetting many things, which her master beat her for, and was mightily +vexed; and then the dancing of the ropes, and also the little stage-play, +which is very ridiculous, and so home to the office with Lord Brouncker, +W. Pen, and myself (J. Minnes being gone home before not well), and so, +after a little talk together, I home to supper and to bed. + +8th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and to St. James's, there to talk a +little with Mr. Wren about the private business we are upon, in the +Office, where he tells me he finds that they all suspect me to be the +author of the great letter, which I value not, being satisfied that it is +the best thing I could ever do for myself; and so, after some discourse of +this kind more, I back to the Office, where all the morning; and after +dinner to it again, all the afternoon, and very late, and then home to +supper, where met W. Batelier and Betty Turner; and, after some talk with +them, and supper, we to bed. This day, I received so earnest an +invitation again from Roger Pepys, to come to Sturbridge-Fair [at +Cambridge] that I resolve to let my wife go, which she shall do the next +week, and so to bed. This day I received two letters from the Duke of +Richmond about his yacht, which is newly taken into the King's service, +and I am glad of it, hoping hereby to oblige him, and to have occasions of +seeing his noble Duchess, which I admire. + +9th. Up, and to the office, and thence to the Duke of Richmond's lodgings +by his desire, by letter, yesterday. I find him at his lodgings in the +little building in the bowling-green, at White Hall, that was begun to be +built by Captain Rolt. They are fine rooms. I did hope to see his lady, +the beautiful Mrs. Stuart, but she, I hear, is in the country. His +business was about his yacht, and he seems a mighty good-natured man, and +did presently write me a warrant for a doe from Cobham, when the season +comes, bucks season being past. I shall make much of this acquaintance, +that I may live to see his lady near. Thence to Westminster, to Sir R. +Longs Office: and, going, met Mr. George Montagu, who talked and +complimented me mightily; and long discourse I had with him, who, for +news, tells me for certain that Trevor do come to be Secretary at +Michaelmas, and that Morrice goes out, and he believes, without any +compensation. He tells me that now Buckingham does rule all; and the +other day, in the King's journey he is now on, at Bagshot, and that way, +he caused Prince Rupert's horses to be turned out of an inne, and caused +his own to be kept there, which the Prince complained of to the King, and +the Duke of York seconded the complaint; but the King did over-rule it for +Buckingham, by which there are high displeasures among them; and +Buckingham and Arlington rule all. Thence by water home and to dinner, +and after dinner by water again to White Hall, where Brouncker, W. Pen, +and I attended the Commissioners of the Treasury about the +victualling-contract, where high words between Sir Thomas Clifford and us, +and myself more particularly, who told him that something, that he said +was told him about this business, was a flat untruth. However, we went on +to our business in, the examination of the draught, and so parted, and I +vexed at what happened, and Brouncker and W. Pen and I home in a hackney +coach. And I all that night so vexed that I did not sleep almost all +night, which shows how unfit I am for trouble. So, after a little supper, +vexed, and spending a little time melancholy in making a base to the +Lark's song, I to bed. + +10th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and there to Sir W. Coventry's +house, where I staid in his dining-room two hours thinking to speak with +him, but I find Garraway and he are private, which I am glad of, Captain +Cocke bringing them this day together. Cocke come out and talked to me, +but it was too late for me to stay longer, and therefore to the Treasury +chamber, where the rest met, and W. Coventry come presently after. And we +spent the morning in finishing the Victualler's contract, and so I by +water home, and there dined with me Batelier and his wife, and Mercer, and +my people, at a good venison-pasty; and after dinner I and W. Howe, who +come to see me, by water to the Temple, and met our four women, my wife, +M. Batelier, Mercer, and Deb., at the Duke's play-house, and there saw +"The Maid in the Mill," revived--a pretty, harmless old play. Thence to +Unthanke's, and 'Change, where wife did a little business, while Mercer +and I staid in the coach; and, in a quarter of an hour, I taught her the +whole Larke's song perfectly, so excellent an eare she hath. Here we at +Unthanke's 'light, and walked them to White Hall, my wife mighty angry at +it, and did give me ill words before Batelier, which vexed me, but I made +no matter of it, but vexed to myself. So landed them, it being fine +moonshine, at the Bear, and so took water to the other side, and home. I +to the office, where a child is laid at Sir J. Minnes's door, as there was +one heretofore. So being good friends again, my wife seeking, it, by my +being silent I overcoming her, we to bed. + +11th. Up, and at my Office all the morning, and after dinner all the +afternoon in my house with Batelier shut up, drawing up my defence to the +Duke of York upon his great letter, which I have industriously taken this +opportunity of doing for my future use. At it late, and my mind and head +mighty full of it all night. + +12th. At it again in the morning, and then to the Office, where till +noon, and I do see great whispering among my brethren about their replies +to the Duke of York, which vexed me, though I know no reason for it; for I +have no manner of ground to fear them. At noon home to dinner, and, after +dinner, to work all the afternoon again. At home late, and so to bed. + +13th (Lord's day). The like all this morning and afternoon, and finished +it to my mind. So about four o'clock walked to the Temple, and there by +coach to St. James's, and met, to my wish, the Duke of York and Mr. Wren; +and understand the Duke of York hath received answers from Brouncker, W. +Pen, and J. Minnes; and as soon as he saw me, he bid Mr. Wren read them +over with me. So having no opportunity of talk with the Duke of York, and +Mr. Wren some business to do, he put them into my hands like an idle +companion, to, take home with me before himself had read them, which do +give me great opportunity of altering my answer, if there was cause. So +took a hackney and home, and after supper made my wife to read them all +over, wherein she is mighty useful to me; and I find them all evasions, +and in many things false, and in few, to the full purpose. Little said +reflective on me, though W. Pen and J. Minnes do mean me in one or two +places, and J. Minnes a little more plainly would lead the Duke of York to +question the exactness of my keeping my records; but all to no purpose. +My mind is mightily pleased by this, if I can but get time to have a copy +taken of them, for my future use; but I must return them tomorrow. So to +bed. + +14th. Up betimes, and walked to the Temple, and stopped, viewing the +Exchange, and Paul's, and St. Fayth's, where strange how the very sight of +the stones falling from the top of the steeple do make me sea-sick! But no +hurt, I hear, hath yet happened in all this work of the steeple, which is +very much. So from the Temple I by coach to St. James's, where I find Sir +W. Pen and Lord Anglesey, who delivered this morning his answer to the +Duke of York, but I could not see it. But after being above with the Duke +of York, but said nothing, I down with Mr. Wren; and he and I read all +over that I had, and I expounded them to him, and did so order it that I +had them home with me, so that I shall, to my heart's wish, be able to +take a copy of them. After dinner, I by water to, White Hall; and there, +with the Cofferer and Sir Stephen Fox, attended the Commissioners of the +Treasury, about bettering our fund; and are promised it speedily. Thence +by water home, and so all the afternoon and evening late busy at the +office, and then home to supper, and Mrs. Turner comes to see my wife +before her journey to-morrow, but she is in bed, and so sat talking to +little purpose with me a great while, and, she gone, I to bed. + +15th. Up mighty betimes, my wife and people, Mercer lying here all night, +by three o'clock, and I about five; and they before, and I after them, to +the coach in Bishopsgate Street, which was not ready to set out. So took +wife and Mercer and Deb. and W. Hewer (who are all to set out this day for +Cambridge, to cozen Roger Pepys's, to see Sturbridge Fayre); and I shewed +them the Exchange, which is very finely carried on, with good dispatch. +So walked back and saw them gone, there being only one man in the coach +besides them; and so home to the Office, where Mrs. Daniel come and staid +talking to little purpose with me to borrow money, but I did not lend her +any, having not opportunity para hater allo thing mit her. At the office +all the morning, and at noon dined with my people at home, and so to the +office again a while, and so by water to the King's playhouse, to see a +new play, acted but yesterday, a translation out of French by Dryden, +called "The Ladys a la Mode:" so mean a thing as, when they come to say it +would be acted again to-morrow, both he that said it, Beeson, and the pit +fell a-laughing, there being this day not a quarter of the pit full. +Thence to St. James's and White Hall to wait on the Duke of York, but +could not come to speak to him till time to go home, and so by water home, +and there late at the office and my chamber busy, and so after a little +supper to bed. + +16th. Up; and dressing myself I did begin para toker the breasts of my +maid Jane, which elle did give way to more than usual heretofore, so I +have a design to try more when I can bring it to. So to the office, and +thence to St. James's to the Duke of York, walking it to the Temple, and +in my way observe that the Stockes are now pulled quite down; and it will +make the coming into Cornhill and Lumber Street mighty noble. I stopped, +too, at Paul's, and there did go into St. Fayth's Church, and also in the +body of the west part of the Church; and do see a hideous sight of the +walls of the Church ready to fall, that I was in fear as long as I was in +it: and here I saw the great vaults underneath the body of the Church. No +hurt, I hear, is done yet, since their going to pull down the Church and +steeple; but one man, on Monday this week, fell from the top to a piece of +the roof, of the east end, that stands next the steeple, and there broke +himself all to pieces. It is pretty here to see how the late Church was +but a case wrought over the old Church; for you may see the very old +pillars standing whole within the wall of this. When I come to St. +James's, I find the Duke of York gone with the King to see the muster of +the Guards in Hyde Park; and their Colonel, the Duke of Monmouth, to take +his command this day of the King's Life-Guard, by surrender of my Lord +Gerard. So I took a hackney-coach and saw it all: and indeed it was +mighty noble, and their firing mighty fine, and the Duke of Monmouth in +mighty rich clothes; but the well-ordering of the men I understand not. +Here, among a thousand coaches that were there, I saw and spoke to Mrs. +Pierce: and by and by Mr. Wren hunts me out, and gives me my Lord +Anglesey's answer to the Duke of York's letter, where, I perceive, he do +do what he can to hurt me, by bidding the Duke of York call for my books: +but this will do me all the right in the world, and yet I am troubled at +it. So away out of the Park, and home; and there Mr. Gibson and I to +dinner: and all the afternoon with him, writing over anew, and a little +altering, my answer to the Duke of York, which I have not yet delivered, +and so have the opportunity of doing it after seeing all their answers, +though this do give me occasion to alter very little. This done, he to +write it over, and I to the Office, where late, and then home; and he had +finished it; and then he to read to me the life of Archbishop Laud, wrote +by Dr. Heylin; which is a shrewd book, but that which I believe will do +the Bishops in general no great good, but hurt, it pleads for so much +Popish. So after supper to bed. This day my father's letters tell me of +the death of poor Fancy, in the country, big with puppies, which troubles +me, as being one of my oldest acquaintances and servants. Also good +Stankes is dead. + +17th. Up, and all the morning sitting at the office, where every body +grown mighty cautious in what they do, or omit to do, and at noon comes +Knepp, with design to dine with Lord Brouncker, but she being undressed, +and there being: much company, dined with me; and after dinner I out with +her, and carried her to the playhouse; and in the way did give her five +guineas as a fairing, I having given her nothing a great while, and her +coming hither sometimes having been matter of cost to her, and so I to St. +James's, but missed of the Duke of York, and so went back to the King's +playhouse, and saw "Rollo, Duke of Normandy," which, for old acquaintance, +pleased me pretty well, and so home and to my business,. and to read +again, and to bed. This evening Batelier comes to tell me that he was +going down to Cambridge to my company, to see the Fair, which vexed me, +and the more because I fear he do know that Knepp did dine with me +to-day.--[And that he might tell Mrs. Pepys.--B.] + +18th. Up, and to St. James's, and there took a turn or two in the Park; +and then up to the Duke of York, and there had opportunity of delivering +my answer to his late letter, which he did not read, but give to Mr. Wren, +as looking on it as a thing I needed not have done, but only that I might +not give occasion to the rest to suspect my communication with the Duke of +York against them. So now I am at rest in that matter, and shall be more, +when my copies are finished of their answers, which I am now taking with +all speed. Thence to my several booksellers and elsewhere, about several +errands, and so at noon home, and after dinner by coach to White Hall, and +thither comes the Duke of York to us, and by and by met at the robe +chamber upon our usual business, where the Duke of York I find somewhat +sour, and particularly angry with Lord Anglesey for his not being there +now, nor at other times so often as he should be with us. So to the King's +house, and saw a piece of "Henry the Fourth;" at the end of the play, +thinking to have gone abroad with Knepp, but it was too late, and she to +get her part against to-morrow, in "The Silent Woman," and so I only set +her at home, and away home myself, and there to read again and sup with +Gibson, and so to bed. + +19th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning busy, and so dined +with my people at home, and then to the King's playhouse, and there saw +"The Silent Woman;" the best comedy, I think, that ever was wrote; and +sitting by Shadwell the poet, he was big with admiration of it. Here was +my Lord Brouncker and W. Pen and their ladies in the box, being grown +mighty kind of a sudden; but, God knows, it will last but a little while, +I dare swear. Knepp did her part mighty well. And so home straight, and +to work, and particularly to my cozen Roger, who, W. Hewer and my wife +writes me, do use them with mighty plenty and noble entertainment: so home +to supper, and to bed. All the news now is, that Mr. Trevor is for +certain now to be Secretary, in Morrice's place, which the Duke of York +did himself tell me yesterday; and also that Parliament is to be adjourned +to the 1st of March, which do please me well, hoping thereby to get my +things in a little better order than I should have done; and the less +attendances at that end of the town in winter. So home to supper and to +bed. + +20th (Lord's day). Up, and to set some papers to rights in my chamber, +and the like in my office, and so to church, at our own church, and heard +but a dull sermon of one Dr. Hicks, who is a suitor to Mrs. Howell, the +widow of our turner of the Navy; thence home to dinner, staying till past +one o'clock for Harris, whom I invited, and to bring Shadwell the poet +with him; but they come not, and so a good dinner lost, through my own +folly. And so to dinner alone, having since church heard the boy read +over Dryden's Reply to Sir R. Howard's Answer, about his Essay of Poesy, +and a letter in answer to that; the last whereof is mighty silly, in +behalf of Howard. + + [The title of the letter is as follows: "A Letter from a Gentleman + to the Honourable Ed. Howard, Esq., occasioned by a Civiliz'd + Epistle of Mr. Dryden's before his Second Edition of his Indian + Emperour. In the Savoy, printed by Thomas Newcomb, 1668." The + "Civiliz'd Epistle" was a caustic attack on Sir Robert Howard; and + the Letter is signed, "Sir, your faithful and humble servant, R. + F."--i.e., Richard Flecknoe.] + +Thence walked forth and got a coach and to visit Mrs. Pierce, with whom, +and him, I staid a little while, and do hear how the Duchesse of Monmouth +is at this time in great trouble of the shortness of her lame leg, which +is likely to grow shorter and shorter, that she will never recover it. +Thence to St. Margaret's Church, thinking to have seen Betty Michell, but +she was not there. So back, and walked to Gray's Inn walks a while, but +little company; and so over the fields to Clerkenwell, to see whether I +could find that the fair Botelers do live there still, I seeing Frances +the other day in a coach with Cary Dillon, her old servant, but know not +where she lives. So walked home, and there walked in the garden an hour, +it being mighty pleasant weather, and so took my Lady Pen and Mrs. Markham +home with me and sent for Mrs. Turner, and by and by comes Sir W. Pen and +supped with me, a good supper, part of my dinner to-day. They gone, Mrs. +Turner staid an hour talking with me . . . . So parted, and I to bed. + +21st. Up, and betimes Sir D. Gawden with me talking about the Victualling +business, which is now under dispute for a new contract, or whether it +shall be put into a Commission. He gone, comes Mr. Hill to talk with me +about Lanyon's business, and so being in haste I took him to the water +with me, and so to White Hall, and there left him, and I to Sir W. +Coventry, and shewed him my answer to the Duke of York's great letter, +which he likes well. We also discoursed about the Victualling business, +which he thinks there is a design to put into a way of Commission, but do +look upon all things to be managed with faction, and is grieved under it. +So to St. James's, and there the Duke of York did of his own accord come +to me, and tell me that he had read, and do like of, my answers to the +objections which he did give me the other day, about the Navy; and so did +W. Coventry too, who told me that the Duke of York had shown him them: So +to White Hall a little and the Chequer, and then by water home to dinner +with my people, where Tong was also this day with me, whom I shall employ +for a time, and so out again and by water to Somerset House, but when come +thither I turned back and to Southwarke-Fair, very dirty, and there saw +the puppet-show of Whittington, which was pretty to see; and how that idle +thing do work upon people that see it, and even myself too! And thence to +Jacob Hall's dancing on the ropes, where I saw such action as I never saw +before, and mightily worth seeing; and here took acquaintance with a +fellow that carried me to a tavern, whither come the musick of this booth, +and by and by Jacob Hall himself, with whom I had a mind to speak, to hear +whether he had ever any mischief by falls in his time. He told me, "Yes, +many; but never to the breaking of a limb:" he seems a mighty strong man. +So giving them a bottle or two of wine, I away with Payne, the waterman. +He, seeing me at the play, did get a link to light me, and so light me to +the Beare, where Bland, my waterman, waited for me with gold and other +things he kept for me, to the value of L40 and more, which I had about me, +for fear of my pockets being cut. So by link-light through the bridge, it +being mighty dark, but still weather, and so home, where I find my draught +of "The Resolution" come, finished, from Chatham; but will cost me, one +way or other, about L12 or L13, in the board, frame, and garnishing, which +is a little too much, but I will not be beholden to the King's officers +that do it. So to supper, and the boy to read to me, and so to bed. This +day I met Mr. Moore in the New Exchange, and had much talk of my Lord's +concernments. This day also come out first the new five-pieces in gold, +coined by the Guiny Company; and I did get two pieces of Mr. Holder. + + [Guineas took their name from the gold brought from Guinea by the + African Company in 1663, who, as an encouragement to bring over gold + to be coined, were permitted by their charter from Charles II. to + have their stamp of an elephant upon the coin. When first coined + they were valued at 20s., but were worth 30s. in 1695. There were + likewise fivepound pieces, like the guinea, with the inscription + upon the rim.] + +22nd. Up, and to the Office, where sitting all the morning at noon, home +to dinner, with my people, and so to the Office again, where busy all the +afternoon, and in the evening spent my time walking in the dark, in the +garden, to favour my eyes, which I find nothing but ease to help. In the +garden there comes to me my Lady Pen and Mrs. Turner and Markham, and we +sat and talked together, and I carried them home, and there eat a bit of +something, and by and by comes Sir W. Pen, and eat with us, and mighty +merry-in appearance, at least, he being on all occasions glad to be at +friendship with me, though we hate one another, and know it on both sides. +They gone, Mrs. Turner and I to walk in the garden . . . . So led her +home, and I back to bed. This day Mr. Wren did give me, at the Board, +Commissioner Middleton's answer to the Duke of York's great letter; so +that now I have all of them. + +23rd. At my office busy all the morning. At noon comes Mr. Evelyn to me, +about some business with the Office, and there in discourse tells me of +his loss, to the value of F 500, which he hath met with, in a late attempt +of making of bricks + + [At the end of the year 1666 a Dutchman of the Prince of Orange's + party, named Kiviet, came over to England with proposals for + embanking the river from the Temple to the Tower with brick, + and was knighted by the king. He was introduced to Evelyn, whom he + persuaded to join with him in a great undertaking for the making of + bricks. On March 26th, 1667, the two went in search of brick-earth, + and in September articles were drawn up between them for the purpose + of proceeding in the manufacture. In April, 1668, Evelyn subscribed + 50,000 bricks for the building of a college for the Royal Society, + in addition to L50 given previously for the same purpose. No more + information on the subject is given in Evelyn's "Diary."] + +upon an adventure with others, by which he presumed to have got a great +deal of money: so that I see the most ingenious men may sometimes be +mistaken. So to the 'Change a little, and then home to dinner, and then +by water to White Hall, to attend the Commissioners of the Treasury with +Alderman Backewell, about L10,000 he is to lend us for Tangier, and then +up to a Committee of the Council, where was the Duke of York, and they did +give us, the Officers of the Navy, the proposals of the several bidders +for the victualling of the Navy, for us to give our answer to, which is +the best, and whether it be better to victual by commission or contract, +and to bring them our answer by Friday afternoon, which is a great deal of +work. So thence back with Sir J. Minnes home, and come after us Sir W. +Pen and Lord Brouncker, and we fell to the business, and I late when they +were gone to digest something of it, and so to supper and to bed. + +24th. Up betimes and Sir D. Gawden with me, and I told him all, being +very desirous for the King's sake, as well as my own, that he may be kept +in it, and after consulting him I to the Office, where we met again and +spent most of the morning about this business, and no other, and so at +noon home to dinner, and then close with Mr. Gibson till night, drawing up +our answer, which I did the most part by seven at night, and so to Lord +Brouncker and the rest at his lodgings to read it, and they approved of +it. So back home to supper, and made my boy read to me awhile, and then +to bed. + +25th. Up, and Sir D. Gawden with me betimes to confer again about this +business, and he gone I all the morning finishing our answer, which I did +by noon, and so to dinner, and W. Batelier with me, who is lately come +from Impington, beyond which I perceive he went not, whatever his pretence +at first was; and so he tells me how well and merry all are there, and how +nobly used by my cozen. He gone, after dinner I to work again, and Gibson +having wrote our answer fair and got Brouncker and the rest to sign it, I +by coach to White Hall to the Committee of the Council, which met late, +and Brouncker and J. Minnes with me, and there the Duke of York present +(but not W. Coventry, who I perceive do wholly avoid to have to do +publickly in this business, being shy of appearing in any Navy business, +which I telling him the other day that I thought the King might suffer by +it, he told me that the occasion is now so small that it cannot be fatal +to the service, and for the present it is better for him not to appear, +saying that it may fare the worse for his appearing in it as things are +now governed), where our answer was read and debated, and some hot words +between the Duke of York and Sir T. Clifford, the first for and the latter +against Gawden, but the whole put off to to-morrow's Council, for till the +King goes out of town the next week the Council sits every day. So with +the Duke of York and some others to his closet, and Alderman Backewell +about a Committee of Tangier, and there did agree upon a price for pieces +of eight at 4s. 6d. Present the Duke of York, Arlington, Berkeley, Sir J. +Minnes, and myself. They gone, the Duke of York did tell me how hot +Clifford is for Child, and for removing of old Officers, he saying plainly +to-night, that though D. Gawden was a man that had done the best service +that he believed any man, or any ten men, could have done, yet that it was +for the King's interest not to let it lie too long in one hand, lest +nobody should be able to serve him but one. But the Duke of York did +openly tell him that he was not for removing of old servants that have +done well, neither in this place, nor in any other place, which is very +nobly said. It being 7 or 8 at night, I home with Backewell by coach, and +so walked to D. Gawden's, but he not at home, and so back to my chamber, +the boy to read to me, and so to supper and to bed. + +26th. Could sleep but little last night, for my concernments in this +business of the victualling for Sir D. Gawden, so up in the morning and he +comes to me, and there I did tell him all, and give him my advice, and so +he away, and I to the office, where we met and did a little business, and +I left them and by water to attend the Council, which I did all the +morning, but was not called in, but the Council meets again in the +afternoon on purpose about it. So I at noon to Westminster Hall and there +stayed a little, and at the Swan also, thinking to have got Doll Lane +thither, but elle did not understand my signs; and so I away and walked to +Charing Cross, and there into the great new Ordinary, by my Lord +Mulgrave's, being led thither by Mr. Beale, one of Oliver's, and now of +the King's Guards; and he sat with me while I had two grilled pigeons, +very handsome and good meat: and there he and I talked of our old +acquaintances, W. Clerke and others, he being a very civil man, and so +walked to Westminster and there parted, and I to the Swan again, but did +nothing, and so to White Hall, and there attended the King and Council, +who met and heard our answer. I present, and then withdrew; and they sent +two hours at least afterwards about it, and at last rose; and to my great +content, the Duke of York, at coming out, told me that it was carried for +D. Gawden at 6d. 8d., and 8 3/4d.; but with great difficulty, I +understand, both from him and others, so much that Sir Edward Walker told +me that he prays to God he may never live to need to plead his merit, for +D. Gawden's sake; for that it hath stood him in no stead in this business +at all, though both he and all the world that speaks of him, speaks of him +as the most deserving man of any servant of the King's in the whole +nation, and so I think he is: but it is done, and my heart is glad at it. +So I took coach and away, and in Holborne overtook D. Gawden's coach, and +stopped and went home, and Gibson to come after, and to my house, where D. +Gawden did talk a little, and he do mightily acknowledge my kindness to +him, and I know I have done the King and myself good service in it. So he +gone, and myself in mighty great content in what is done, I to the office +a little, and then home to supper, and the boy to read to me, and so to +bed. This noon I went to my Lady Peterborough's house, and talked with +her about the money due to her Lord, and it gives me great trouble, her +importunity and impertinency about it. This afternoon at Court I met with +Lord Hinchingbroke, newly come out of the country, who tells me that +Creed's business with Mrs. Pickering will do, which I am neither troubled +nor glad at. + +27th (Lord's day). Up, and to my office to finish my journall for five +days past, and so abroad and walked to White Hall, calling in at Somerset +House Chapel, and also at the Spanish Embassador's at York House, and +there did hear a little masse: and so to White Hall; and there the King +being gone to Chapel, I to walk all the morning in the Park, where I met +Mr. Wren; and he and I walked together in the Pell-Mell, it being most +summer weather that ever was seen: and here talking of several things: of +the corruption of the Court, and how unfit it is for ingenious men, and +himself particularly, to live in it, where a man cannot live but he must +spend, and cannot get suitably, without breach of his honour: and did +thereupon tell me of the basest thing of my Lord Barkeley, one of the +basest things that ever was heard of of a man, which was this: how the +Duke of York's Commissioners do let his wine-licenses at a bad rate, and +being offered a better, they did persuade the Duke of York to give some +satisfaction to the former to quit it, and let it to the latter, which +being done, my Lord Barkeley did make the bargain for the former to have +L1500 a-year to quit it; whereof, since, it is come to light that they +were to have but L800 and himself L700, which the Duke of York hath ever +since for some years paid, though this second bargain hath been broken, +and the Duke of York lost by it, [half] of what the first was. He told me +that there hath been a seeming accommodation between the Duke of York and +the Duke of Buckingham and Lord Arlington, the two latter desiring it; but +yet that there is not true agreement between them, but they do labour to +bring in all new creatures into play, and the Duke of York do oppose it, +as particularly in this of Sir D. Gawden. Thence, he gone, I to the +Queen's Chapel, and there heard some good singing; and so to White Hall, +and saw the King and Queen at dinner and thence with Sir Stephen Fox to +dinner: and the Cofferer with us; and there mighty kind usage, and good +discourse. Thence spent all the afternoon walking in the Park, and then +in the evening at Court, on the Queen's side; and there met Mr. Godolphin, +who tells me that the news, is true we heard yesterday, of my Lord +Sandwich's being come to Mount's Bay, in Cornwall, and so I heard this +afternoon at Mrs. Pierce's, whom I went to make a short visit to. This +night, in the Queen's drawing-room, my Lord Brouncker told me the +difference that is now between the three Embassadors here, the Venetian, +French, and Spaniard; the third not being willing to make a visit to the +first, because he would not receive him at the door; who is willing to +give him as much respect as he did to the French, who was used no +otherwise, and who refuses now to take more of him, upon being desired +thereto, in order to the making an accommodation in this matter, which is +very pretty. So a boat staying for me all this evening, I home in the +dark about eight at night, and so over the ruins from the Old Swan home +with great trouble, and so to hear my boy read a little, and supper and to +bed. This evening I found at home Pelling and Wallington and one Aldrige, +and we supped and sung. + +28th. Up betimes, and Knepp's maid comes to me, to tell me that the +women's day at the playhouse is to-day, and that therefore I must be +there, to encrease their profit. I did give the pretty maid Betty that +comes to me half-a-crown for coming, and had a baiser or two-elle being +mighty jolie. And so I about my business. By water to St. James's, and +there had good opportunity of speaking with the Duke of York, who desires +me again, talking on that matter, to prepare something for him to do for +the better managing of our Office, telling me that, my Lord Keeper and he +talking about it yesterday, my Lord Keeper did advise him to do so, it +being better to come from him than otherwise, which I have promised to do. +Thence to my Lord Burlington's houses the first time I ever was there, it +being the house built by Sir John Denham, next to Clarendon House; and +here I visited my Lord Hinchingbroke and his lady; Mr. Sidney Montagu +being come last night to town unexpectedly from Mount's Bay, where he left +my Lord well, eight days since, so as we may now hourly expect to hear of +his arrival at Portsmouth. Sidney is mighty grown; and I am glad I am +here to see him at his first coming, though it cost me dear, for here I +come to be necessitated to supply them with L500 for my Lord. He sent him +up with a declaration to his friends, of the necessity of his being +presently supplied with L2000; but I do not think he will get one. +However, I think it becomes my duty to my Lord to do something +extraordinary in this, and the rather because I have been remiss in +writing to him during this voyage, more than ever I did in my life, and +more indeed than was fit for me. By and by comes Sir W. Godolphin to see +Mr. Sidney, who, I perceive, is much dissatisfied that he should come to +town last night, and not yet be with my Lord Arlington, who, and all the +town, hear of his being come to town, and he did, it seems, take notice of +it to Godolphin this morning: so that I perceive this remissness in +affairs do continue in my Lord's managements still, which I am sorry for; +but, above all, to see in what a condition my Lord is for money, that I +dare swear he do not know where to take up L500 of any man in England at +this time, upon his word, but of myself, as I believe by the sequel hereof +it will appear. Here I first saw and saluted my Lady Burlington, a very +fine-speaking lady, and a good woman, but old, and not handsome; but a +brave woman in her parts. Here my Lady Hinchingbroke tells me that she +hath bought most of the wedding-clothes for Mrs. Dickering, so that the +thing is gone through, and will soon be ended; which I wonder at, but let +them do as they will. Here I also, standing by a candle that was brought +for sealing of a letter, do set my periwigg a-fire, which made such an odd +noise, nobody could tell what it was till they saw the flame, my back +being to the candle. Thence to Westminster Hall and there walked a +little, and to the Exchequer, and so home by water, and after eating a bit +I to my vintner's, and there did only look upon su wife, which is mighty +handsome; and so to my glove and ribbon shop, in Fenchurch Street, and did +the like there. And there, stopping against the door of the shop, saw +Mrs. Horsfall, now a late widow, in a coach. I to her, and shook her by +the hand, and so she away; and I by coach towards the King's playhouse, +and meeting W. Howe took him with me, and there saw "The City Match;" not +acted these thirty years, and but a silly play: the King and Court there; +the house, for the women's sake, mighty full. So I to White Hall, and +there all the evening on the Queen's side; and it being a most summerlike +day, and a fine warm evening, the Italians come in a barge under the +leads, before the Queen's drawing-room; and so the Queen and ladies went +out, and heard them, for almost an hour: and it was indeed very good +together; but yet there was but one voice that alone did appear +considerable, and that was Seignor Joanni. This done, by and by they went +in; and here I saw Mr. Sidney Montagu kiss the Queen's hand, who was +mighty kind to him, and the ladies looked mightily on him; and the King +come by and by, and did talk to him. So I away by coach with Alderman +Backewell home, who is mighty kind to me, more than ordinary, in his +expressions. But I do hear this day what troubles me, that Sir W. +Coventry is quite out of play, the King seldom speaking to him; and that +there is a design of making a Lord Treasurer, and that my Lord Arlington +shall be the man; but I cannot believe it. But yet the Duke of Buckingham +hath it in his mind, and those with him, to make a thorough alteration in +things; and, among the rest, Coventry to be out. The Duke of York did +this day tell me how hot the whole party was in the business of Gawden; +and particularly, my Lord Anglesey tells me, the Duke of Buckingham, for +Child against Gawden; but the Duke of York did stand stoutly to it. So +home to read and sup, and to bed. + +29th (Tuesday, Michaelmas day). Up, and to the Office, where all the +morning. + + + + + + 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. + OCTOBER + 1668 + + [In this part of the "Diary" no entry occurs for thirteen days, + though there are several pages left blank. During the interval + Pepys went into the country, as he subsequently mentions his having + been at Saxham, in Suffolk, during the king's visit to Lord Crofts, + which took place at this time (see October 23rd, host). He might + also probably have gone to Impington to fetch his wife. The pages + left blank were never filled up.--B.] + +October 11th (Lord's day'). Up and to church, where I find Parson Mills +come to town and preached, and the church full, most people being now come +home to town, though the season of year is as good as summer in all +respects. At noon dined at home with my wife, all alone, and busy all the +afternoon in my closet, making up some papers with W. Hewer and at night +comes Mr. Turner and his wife, and there they tell me that Mr. Harper is +dead at Deptford, and so now all his and my care is, how to secure his +being Storekeeper in his stead; and here they and their daughter, and a +kinswoman that come along with them, did sup with me, and pretty merry, +and then, they gone, and my wife to read to me, and to bed. + +12th. Up, and with Mr. Turner by water to White Hall, there to think to +enquire when the Duke of York will be in town, in order to Mr. Turner's +going down to Audley Ends about his place; and here I met in St. James's +Park with one that told us that the Duke of York would be in town +to-morrow, and so Turner parted and went home, and I also did stop my +intentions of going to the Court, also this day, about securing Mr. +Turner's place of Petty-purveyor to Mr. Hater. So I to my Lord +Brouncker's, thinking to have gone and spoke to him about it, but he is +gone out to town till night, and so, meeting a gentleman of my Lord +Middleton's looking for me about the payment of the L1000 lately ordered +to his Lord, in advance of his pay, which shall arise upon his going +Governor to Tangier, I did go to his Lord's lodgings, and there spoke the +first time with him, and find him a shrewd man, but a drinking man, I +think, as the world says; but a man that hath seen much of the world, and +is a Scot. I offered him my service, though I can do him little; but he +sends his man home with me, where I made him stay, till I had gone to Sir +W. Pen, to bespeak him about Mr. Hater, who, contrary to my fears, did +appear very friendly, to my great content; for I was afraid of his +appearing for his man Burroughs. But he did not; but did declare to me +afterwards his intentions to desire an excuse in his own business, to be +eased of the business of the Comptroller, his health not giving him power +to stay always in town, but he must go into the country. I did say little +to him but compliment, having no leisure to think of his business, or any +man's but my own, and so away and home, where I find Sir H. Cholmly come +to town; and is come hither to see me: and he is a man that I love +mightily, as being, of a gentleman, the most industrious that ever I saw. +He staid with me awhile talking, and telling me his obligations to my Lord +Sandwich, which I was glad of; and that the Duke of Buckingham is now +chief of all men in this kingdom, which I knew before; and that he do +think the Parliament will hardly ever meet again; which is a great many +men's thoughts, and I shall not be sorry for it. He being gone, I with my +Lord Middleton's servant to Mr. Colvill's, but he was not in town, and so +he parted, and I home, and there to dinner, and Mr. Pelling with us; and +thence my wife and Mercer, and W. Hewer and Deb., to the King's playhouse, +and I afterwards by water with them, and there we did hear the Eunuch +(who, it seems, is a Frenchman, but long bred in Italy) sing, which I +seemed to take as new to me, though I saw him on Saturday last, but said +nothing of it; but such action and singing I could never have imagined to +have heard, and do make good whatever Tom Hill used to tell me. Here we +met with Mr. Batelier and his sister, and so they home with us in two +coaches, and there at my house staid and supped, and this night my +bookseller Shrewsbury comes, and brings my books of Martyrs, and I did pay +him for them, and did this night make the young women before supper to +open all the volumes for me. So to supper, and after supper to read a +ridiculous nonsensical book set out by Will. Pen, for the Quakers; but so +full of nothing but nonsense, that I was ashamed to read in it. So they +gone, we to bed. + + [Penn's first work, entitled, "Truth exalted, in a short but sure + testimony against all those religions, faiths, and worships, that + have been formed and followed, in the darkness of apostacy; and for + that glorious light which is now risen, and shines forth, in the + life and doctrine of the despised Quakers . . . . by W. Penn, + whom divine love constrains, in holy contempt, to trample on Egypt's + glory, not fearing the King's wrath, having beheld the Majesty of + Him who is invisible:" London, 1668.--B.] + +13th. Up, and to the office, and before the office did speak with my Lord +Brouncker, and there did get his ready assent to T. Hater's having of Mr. +Turner's place, and so Sir J. Minnes's also: but when we come to sit down +at the Board, comes to us Mr. Wren this day to town, and tells me that +James Southern do petition the Duke of York for the Storekeeper's place of +Deptford, which did trouble me much, and also the Board, though, upon +discourse, after he was gone, we did resolve to move hard for our Clerks, +and that places of preferment may go according to seniority and merit. +So, the Board up, I home with my people to dinner, and so to the office +again, and there, after doing some business, I with Mr. Turner to the Duke +of Albemarle's at night; and there did speak to him about his appearing to +Mr. Wren a friend to Mr. Turner, which he did take kindly from me; and so +away thence, well pleased with what we had now done, and so I with him +home, stopping at my Lord Brouncker's, and getting his hand to a letter I +wrote to the Duke of York for T. Hater, and also at my Lord Middleton's, +to give him an account of what I had done this day, with his man, at +Alderman Backewell's, about the getting of his L1000 paid; + + [It was probably for this payment that the tally was obtained, the + loss of which caused Pepys so much anxiety. See November 26th, + 1668] + +and here he did take occasion to discourse about the business of the Dutch +war, which, he says, he was always an enemy to; and did discourse very +well of it, I saying little, but pleased to hear him talk; and to see how +some men may by age come to know much, and yet by their drinking and other +pleasures render themselves not very considerable. I did this day find by +discourse with somebody, that this nobleman was the great Major-General +Middleton; that was of the Scots army, in the beginning of the late war +against the King. Thence home and to the office to finish my letters, and +so home and did get my wife to read to me, and then Deb to comb my head . +. . . + +14th. Up, and by water, stopping at Michell's, and there saw Betty, but +could have no discourse with her, but there drank. To White Hall, and +there walked to St. James's, where I find the Court mighty full, it being +the Duke or York's birthday; and he mighty fine, and all the musick, one +after another, to my great content. Here I met with Sir H. Cholmly; and +he and I to walk, and to my Lord Barkeley's new house; there to see a new +experiment of a cart, which; by having two little wheeles fastened to the +axle-tree, is said to make it go with half the ease and more, than another +cart but we did not see the trial made. Thence I home, and after dinner +to St. James's, and there met my brethren; but the Duke of York being gone +out, and to-night being a play there; and a great festival, we would not +stay, but went all of us to the King's playhouse, and there saw "The +Faythful Shepherdess" again, that we might hear the French Eunuch sing, +which we did, to our great content; though I do admire his action as much +as his singing, being both beyond all I ever saw or heard. Thence with W. +Pen home, and there to get my people to read, and to supper, and so to +bed. + +15th. Up, and all the morning at the office, and at home at dinner, +where, after dinner, my wife and I and Deb. out by coach to the upholsters +in Long Lane, Alderman Reeve's, and then to Alderman Crow's, to see +variety of hangings, and were mightily pleased therewith, and spent the +whole afternoon thereupon; and at last I think we shall pitch upon the +best suit of Apostles, where three pieces for my room will come to almost +L80: so home, and to my office, and then home to supper and to bed. This +day at the Board comes unexpected the warrants from the Duke of York for +Mr. Turner and Hater, for the places they desire, which contents me +mightily. + +16th. Up, and busy all the morning at the office, and before noon I took +my wife by coach, and Deb., and shewed her Mr. Wren's hangings and bed, at +St. James's, and Sir W. Coventry's in the Pell Mell, for our satisfaction +in what we are going to buy; and so by Mr. Crow's, home, about his +hangings, and do pitch upon buying his second suit of Apostles-the whole +suit, which comes to L83; and this we think the best for us, having now +the whole suit, to answer any other rooms or service. So home to dinner, +and with Mr. Hater by water to St. James's: there Mr. Hater, to give Mr. +Wren thanks for his kindness about his place that he hath lately granted +him, of Petty Purveyor of petty emptions, upon the removal of Mr. Turner +to be Storekeeper at Deptford, on the death of Harper. And then we all up +to the Duke of York, and there did our usual business, and so I with J. +Minnes home, and there finding my wife gone to my aunt Wight's, to see her +the first time after her coming to town, and indeed the first time, I +think, these two years (we having been great strangers one to the other +for a great while), I to them; and there mighty kindly used, and had a +barrel of oysters, and so to look up and down their house, they having +hung a room since I was there, but with hangings not fit to be seen with +mine, which I find all come home to-night, and here staying an hour or two +we home, and there to supper and to bed. + +17th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning sitting, and at noon +home to dinner, and to the office all the afternoon, and then late home, +and there with much pleasure getting Mr. Gibbs, that writes well, to write +the name upon my new draught of "The Resolution;" and so set it up, and +altered the situation of some of my pictures in my closet, to my +extraordinary content, and at it with much pleasure till almost 12 at +night. Mr. Moore and Seymour were with me this afternoon, who tell me +that my Lord Sandwich was received mighty kindly by the King, and is in +exceeding great esteem with him, and the rest about him; but I doubt it +will be hard for him to please both the King and the Duke of York, which I +shall be sorry for. Mr. Moore tells me the sad condition my Lord is in, +in his estate and debts; and the way he now lives in, so high, and so many +vain servants about him, that he must be ruined, if he do not take up, +which, by the grace of God, I will put him upon, when I come to see him. + +18th (Lord's day). Up, and with my boy Tom all the morning altering the +places of my pictures with great pleasure, and at noon to dinner, and then +comes Mr. Shales to see me, and I with him to recommend him to my Lord +Brouncker's service, which I did at Madam Williams's, and my Lord receives +him. Thence with Brouncker to Lincolne's Inn, and Mr. Ball, to visit Dr. +Wilkins, now newly Bishop of Chester: and he received us mighty kindly; +and had most excellent discourse from him about his Book of Reall +Character: and so I with Lord Brouncker to White Hall, and there saw the +Queen and some ladies, and with Lord Brouncker back, it again being a +rainy evening, and so my Lord forced to lend me his coach till I got a +hackney, which I did, and so home and to supper, and got my wife to read +to me, and so to bed. + +19th. Up, and to my office to set down my Journall for some days past, +and so to other business. At the office all the morning upon some +business of Sir W. Warren's, and at noon home to dinner, and thence out by +coach with my wife and Deb. and Mr. Harman, the upholster, and carried +them to take measure of Mr. Wren's bed at St. James's, I being resolved to +have just such another made me, and thence set him down in the Strand, and +my wife and I to the Duke of York's playhouse; and there saw, the first +time acted, "The Queene of Arragon," an old Blackfriars play, but an +admirable one, so good that I am astonished at it, and wonder where it +hath lain asleep all this while, that I have never heard of it before. +Here met W. Batelier and Mrs. Hunt, Deb.'s aunt; and saw her home--a very +witty woman, and one that knows this play, and understands a play mighty +well. Left her at home in Jewen Street, and we home, and to supper, and +my wife to read to me, and so to bed. + +20th. Up, and to the office all the morning, and then home to dinner, +having this day a new girl come to us in the room of Nell, who is lately, +about four days since, gone away, being grown lazy and proud. This girl +to stay only till we have a boy, which I intend to keep when I have a +coach, which I am now about. At this time my wife and I mighty busy +laying out money in dressing up our best chamber, and thinking of a coach +and coachman and horses, &c.; and the more because of Creed's being now +married to Mrs. Pickering; a thing I could never have expected, but it is +done about seven or ten days since, as I hear out of the country. At noon +home to dinner, and my wife and Harman and girl abroad to buy things, and +I walked out to several places to pay debts, and among other things to +look out for a coach, and saw many; and did light on one for which I bid +L50, which do please me mightily, and I believe I shall have it. So to my +tailor's, and the New Exchange, and so by coach home, and there, having +this day bought "The Queene of Arragon" play, I did get my wife and W. +Batelier to read it over this night by 11 o'clock, and so to bed. + +21st. Lay pretty long talking with content with my wife about our coach +and things, and so to the office, where Sir D. Gawden was to do something +in his accounts. At noon to dinner to Mr. Batelier's, his mother coming +this day a-housewarming to him, and several friends of his, to which he +invited us. Here mighty merry, and his mother the same; I heretofore took +her for a gentlewoman, and understanding. I rose from table before the +rest, because under an obligation to go to my Lord Brouncker's, where to +meet several gentlemen of the Royal Society, to go and make a visit to the +French Embassador Colbert, at Leicester House, he having endeavoured to +make one or two to my Lord Brouncker, as our President, but he was not +within, but I come too late, they being gone before: but I followed to +Leicester House; but they are gore in and up before me; and so I away to +the New Exchange, and there staid for my wife, and she come, we to Cow +Lane, and there I shewed her the coach which I pitch on, and she is out of +herself for joy almost. But the man not within, so did nothing more +towards an agreement, but to Mr. Crow's about a bed, to have his advice, +and so home, and there had my wife to read to me, and so to supper and to +bed. Memorandum: that from Crow's, we went back to Charing Cross, and +there left my people at their tailor's, while I to my Lord Sandwich's +lodgings, who come to town the last night, and is come thither to lye: and +met with him within: and among others my new cozen Creed, who looks mighty +soberly; and he and I saluted one another with mighty gravity, till we +come to a little more freedom of talk about it. But here I hear that Sir +Gilbert Pickering is lately dead, about three days since, which makes some +sorrow there, though not much, because of his being long expected to die, +having been in a lethargy long. So waited on my Lord to Court, and there +staid and saw the ladies awhile: and thence to my wife, and took them up; +and so home, and to supper and bed. + +22nd. Up, and W. Batelier's Frenchman, a perriwigg maker, comes and +brings me a new one, which I liked and paid him for: a mighty genteel +fellow. So to the office, where sat all the morning, and at noon home to +dinner, and thence with wife and Deb. to Crow's, and there did see some +more beds; and we shall, I think, pitch upon a camlott one, when all is +done. Thence sent them home, and I to Arundell House, where the first +time we have met since the vacation, and not much company: but here much +good discourse, and afterwards my Lord and others and I to the Devil +tavern, and there eat and drank, and so late, with Mr. Colwell, home by +coach; and at home took him with me, and there found my uncle Wight and +aunt, and Woolly and his wife, and there supped, and mighty merry. And +anon they gone, and Mrs. Turner staid, who was there also to talk of her +husband's business; and the truth is, I was the less pleased to talk with +her, for that she hath not yet owned, in any fit manner of thanks, my late +and principal service to her husband about his place, which I alone ought +to have the thanks for, if they know as much as I do; but let it go: if +they do not own it, I shall have it in my hand to teach them to do it. So +to bed. This day word come for all the Principal Officers to bring them +[the Commissioners of Accounts] their patents, which I did in the +afternoon, by leaving it at their office, but am troubled at what should +be their design therein. + +23rd. Up, and plasterers at work and painters about my house. +Commissioner Middleton and I to St. James's, where with the rest of our +company we attended on our usual business the Duke of York. Thence I to +White Hall, to my Lord Sandwich's, where I find my Lord within, but busy, +private; and so I staid a little talking with the young gentlemen: and so +away with Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, towards Tyburne, to see the people +executed; but come too late, it being done; two men and a woman hanged, +and so back again and to my coachmaker's, and there did come a little +nearer agreement for the coach, and so to Duck Lane, and there my +bookseller's, and saw his moher, but elle is so big-bellied that elle is +not worth seeing. So home, and there all alone to dinner, my wife and W. +Hewer being gone to Deptford to see her mother, and so I to the office all +the afternoon. In the afternoon comes my cozen, Sidney Pickering, to +bring my wife and me his sister's Favour for her wedding, which is kindly +done, and he gone, I to business again, and in the evening home, made my +wife read till supper time, and so to bed. This day Pierce do tell me, +among other news, the late frolick and debauchery of Sir Charles Sidly and +Buckhurst, running up and down all the night with their arses bare, +through the streets; and at last fighting, and being beat by the watch and +clapped up all night; and how the King takes their parts; and my Lord +Chief Justice Keeling hath laid the constable by the heels to answer it +next Sessions: which is a horrid shame. How the King and these gentlemen +did make the fiddlers of Thetford, this last progress, to sing them all +the bawdy songs they could think of. How Sir W. Coventry was brought the +other day to the Duchesse of York by the Duke, to kiss her hand; who did +acknowledge his unhappiness to occasion her so much sorrow, declaring his +intentions in it, and praying her pardon; which she did give him upon his +promise to make good his pretences of innocence to her family, by his +faithfulness to his master, the Duke of York. That the Duke of Buckingham +is now all in all, and will ruin Coventry, if he can: and that W. Coventry +do now rest wholly upon the Duke of York for his standing, which is a +great turn. He tells me that my Lady Castlemayne, however, is a mortal +enemy to the Duke of Buckingham, which I understand not; but, it seems, +she is disgusted with his greatness, and his ill usage of her. That the +King was drunk at Saxam with Sidly, Buckhurst, &c., the night that my Lord +Arlington come thither, and would not give him audience, or could not +which is true, for it was the night that I was there, and saw the King go +up to his chamber, and was told that the King had been drinking. He tells +me, too, that the Duke of York did the next day chide Bab. May for his +occasioning the King's giving himself up to these gentlemen, to the +neglecting of my Lord Arlington: to which he answered merrily, that, by +God, there was no man in England that had heads to lose, durst do what +they do, every day, with the King, and asked the Duke of York's pardon: +which is a sign of a mad world. God bless us out of it! + +24th. This morning comes to me the coachmaker, and agreed with me for +L53, and stand to the courtesy of what more I should give him upon the +finishing of the coach: he is likely also to fit me with a coachman. There +comes also to me Mr. Shotgrave, the operator of our Royal Society, to show +me his method of making the Tubes for the eyes, which are clouterly done, +so that mine are better, but I have well informed myself in several things +from him, and so am glad of speaking with him. So to the office, where +all the morning, and then to dinner, and so all the afternoon late at the +office, and so home; and my wife to read to me, and then with much content +to bed. This day Lord Brouncker tells me that the making Sir J. Minnes a +bare Commissioner is now in doing, which I am glad of; but he speaks of +two new Commissioners, which I do not believe. + +25th (Lord's day). Up, and discoursing with my wife about our house and +many new things we are doing of, and so to church I, and there find Jack +Fenn come, and his wife, a pretty black woman: I never saw her before, nor +took notice of her now. So home and to dinner, and after dinner all the +afternoon got my wife and boy to read to me, and at night W. Batelier +comes and sups with us; and, after supper, to have my head combed by Deb., +which occasioned the greatest sorrow to me that ever I knew in this world, +for my wife, coming up suddenly, did find me embracing the girl . . . . +I was at a wonderful loss upon it, and the girle also, and I endeavoured +to put it off, but my wife was struck mute and grew angry, and so her +voice come to her, grew quite out of order, and I to say little, but to +bed, and my wife said little also, but could not sleep all night, but +about two in the morning waked me and cried, and fell to tell me as a +great secret that she was a Roman Catholique and had received the Holy +Sacrament, which troubled me, but I took no notice of it, but she went on +from one thing to another till at last it appeared plainly her trouble was +at what she saw, but yet I did not know how much she saw, and therefore +said nothing to her. But after her much crying and reproaching me with +inconstancy and preferring a sorry girl before her, I did give her no +provocation, but did promise all fair usage to her and love, and foreswore +any hurt that I did with her, till at last she seemed to be at ease again, +and so toward morning a little sleep, and so I with some little repose and +rest + +26th. Rose, and up and by water to White Hall, but with my mind mightily +troubled for the poor girle, whom I fear I have undone by this, my [wife] +telling me that she would turn her out of doors. However, I was obliged +to attend the Duke of York, thinking to have had a meeting of Tangier +to-day, but had not; but he did take me and Mr. Wren into his closet, and +there did press me to prepare what I had to say upon the answers of my +fellow-officers to his great letter, which I promised to do against his +coming to town again, the next week; and so to other discourse, finding +plainly that he is in trouble, and apprehensions of the Reformers, and +would be found to do what he can towards reforming, himself. And so +thence to my Lord Sandwich's, where, after long stay, he being in talk +with others privately, I to him; and there he, taking physic and keeping +his chamber, I had an hour's talk with him about the ill posture of things +at this time, while the King gives countenance to Sir Charles Sidly and +Lord Buckhurst, telling him their late story of running up and down the +streets a little while since all night, and their being beaten and clapped +up all night by the constable, who is since chid and imprisoned for his +pains. He tells me that he thinks his matters do stand well with the +King, and hopes to have dispatch to his mind; but I doubt it, and do see +that he do fear it, too. He told me my Lady Carteret's trouble about my +writing of that letter of the Duke of York's lately to the Office, which I +did not own, but declared to be of no injury to G. Carteret, and that I +would write a letter to him to satisfy him therein. But this I am in pain +how to do, without doing myself wrong, and the end I had, of preparing a +justification to myself hereafter, when the faults of the Navy come to be +found out however, I will do it in the best manner I can. Thence by coach +home and to dinner, finding my wife mightily discontented, and the girle +sad, and no words from my wife to her. So after dinner they out with me +about two or three things, and so home again, I all the evening busy, and +my wife full of trouble in her looks, and anon to bed, where about +midnight she wakes me, and there falls foul of me again, affirming that +she saw me hug and kiss the girle; the latter I denied, and truly, the +other I confessed and no more, and upon her pressing me did offer to give +her under my hand that I would never see Mrs. Pierce more nor Knepp, but +did promise her particular demonstrations of my true love to her, owning +some indiscretions in what I did, but that there was no harm in it. She +at last upon these promises was quiet, and very kind we were, and so to +sleep, and + +27th. In the morning up, but my, mind troubled for the poor girle, with +whom I could not get opportunity to speak, but to the office, my mind +mighty full of sorrow for her, to the office, where all the morning, and +to dinner with my people, and to the office all the afternoon, and so at +night home, and there busy to get some things ready against to-morrow's +meeting of Tangier, and that being done, and my clerks gone, my wife did +towards bedtime begin to be in a mighty rage from some new matter that she +had got in her head, and did most part of the night in bed rant at me in +most high terms of threats of publishing my shame, and when I offered to +rise would have rose too, and caused a candle to be light to burn by her +all night in the chimney while she ranted, while the knowing myself to +have given some grounds for it, did make it my business to appease her all +I could possibly, and by good words and fair promises did make her very +quiet, and so rested all night, and rose with perfect good peace, being +heartily afflicted for this folly of mine that did occasion it, but was +forced to be silent about the girle, which I have no mind to part with, +but much less that the poor girle should be undone by my folly. So up with +mighty kindness from my wife and a thorough peace, and being up did by a +note advise the girle what I had done and owned, which note I was in pain +for till she told me she had burned it. This evening Mr. Spong come, and +sat late with me, and first told me of the instrument called +parallelogram, + + [This useful instrument, used for copying maps, plans, drawings, &c. + either of the same size, or larger or smaller than the originals, is + now named a pantograph.] + +which I must have one of, shewing me his practice thereon, by a map of +England. + +28th. So by coach with Mr. Gibson to Chancery Lane, and there made oath +before a Master of Chancery to the Tangier account of fees, and so to +White Hall, where, by and by, a Committee met, my Lord Sandwich there, but +his report was not received, it being late; but only a little business +done, about the supplying the place with victuals. But I did get, to my +great content, my account allowed of fees, with great applause by my Lord +Ashly and Sir W. Pen. Thence home, calling at one or two places; and +there about our workmen, who are at work upon my wife's closet, and other +parts of my house, that we are all in dirt. So after dinner with Mr. +Gibson all the afternoon in my closet, and at night to supper and to bed, +my wife and I at good peace, but yet with some little grudgings of trouble +in her and more in me about the poor girle. + +29th. At the office all the morning, where Mr. Wren first tells us of the +order from the King, came last night to the Duke of York, for signifying +his pleasure to the Sollicitor-General for drawing up a Commission for +suspending of my Lord Anglesey, and putting in Sir Thomas. Littleton and +Sir Thomas Osborne, the former a creature of Arlington's, and the latter +of the Duke of Buckingham's, during the suspension. The Duke of York was +forced to obey, and did grant it, he being to go to Newmarket this day +with the King, and so the King pressed for it. But Mr. Wren do own that +the Duke of York is the most wounded in this, in the world, for it is done +and concluded without his privity, after his appearing for Lord Anglesey, +and that it is plain that they do ayme to bring the Admiralty into +Commission too, and lessen the Duke of York. This do put strange +apprehensions into all our Board; only I think I am the least troubled at +it, for I care not at all for it: but my Lord Brouncker and Pen do seem to +think much of it. So home to dinner, full of this news, and after dinner +to the office, and so home all the afternoon to do business towards my +drawing up an account for the Duke of York of the answers of this office +to his late great letter, and late at it, and so to bed, with great peace +from my wife and quiet, I bless God. + +30th. Up betimes; and Mr. Povy comes to even accounts with me, which we +did, and then fell to other talk. He tells, in short, how the King is +made a child of, by Buckingham and Arlington, to the lessening of the Duke +of York, whom they cannot suffer to be great, for fear of my Lord +Chancellor's return, which, therefore, they make the King violent against. +That he believes it is impossible these two great men can hold together +long: or, at least, that the ambition of the former is so great, that he +will endeavour to master all, and bring into play as many as he can. That +Anglesey will not lose his place easily, but will contend in law with +whoever comes to execute it. That the Duke of York, in all things but in +his cod-piece, is led by the nose by his wife. That W. Coventry is now, +by the Duke of York, made friends with the Duchess; and that he is often +there, and waits on her. That he do believe that these present great men +will break in time, and that W. Coventry will be a great man again; for he +do labour to have nothing to do in matters of the State, and is so usefull +to the side that he is on, that he will stand, though at present he is +quite out of play. That my Lady Castlemayne hates the Duke of Buckingham. +That the Duke of York hath expressed himself very kind to my Lord +Sandwich, which I am mighty glad of. That we are to expect more changes +if these men stand. This done, he and I to talk of my coach, and I got +him to go see it, where he finds most infinite fault with it, both as to +being out of fashion and heavy, with so good reason that I am mightily +glad of his having corrected me in it; and so I do resolve to have one of +his build, and with his advice, both in coach and horses, he being the +fittest man in the world for it, and so he carried me home, and said the +same to my wife. So I to the office and he away, and at noon I home to +dinner, and all the afternoon late with Gibson at my chamber about my +present great business, only a little in the afternoon at the office about +Sir D. Gawden's accounts, and so to bed and slept heartily, my wife and I +at good peace, but my heart troubled and her mind not at ease, I perceive, +she against and I for the girle, to whom I have not said anything these +three days, but resolve to be mighty strange in appearance to her. This +night W. Batelier come and took his leave of us, he setting out for France +to-morrow. + +31st. Up, and at the office all the morning. At noon home to dinner with +my people, and afternoon to the office again, and then to my chamber with +Gibson to do more about my great answer for the Duke of York, and so at +night after supper to bed well pleased with my advance thereon. This day +my Lord Anglesey was at the Office, and do seem to make nothing of this +business of his suspension, resolving to bring it into the Council, where +he seems not to doubt to have right, he standing upon his defence and +patent, and hath put in his caveats to the several Offices: so, as soon as +the King comes back again, which will be on Tuesday next, he will bring it +into the Council. So ends this month with some quiet to my mind, though +not perfect, after the greatest falling out with my poor wife, and through +my folly with the girl, that ever I had, and I have reason to be sorry and +ashamed of it, and more to be troubled for the poor girl's sake, whom I +fear I shall by this means prove the ruin of, though I shall think myself +concerned both to love and be a friend to her. This day Roger Pepys and +his son Talbot, newly come to town, come and dined with me, and mighty +glad I am to see them. + + + + + ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + + A book the Bishops will not let be printed again + All things to be managed with faction + Being the people that, at last, will be found the wisest + Business of abusing the Puritans begins to grow stale + Cannot get suitably, without breach of his honour + Caustic attack on Sir Robert Howard + Doe from Cobham, when the season comes, bucks season being past + Forgetting many things, which her master beat her for + Glad to be at friendship with me, though we hate one another + I away with great content, my mind being troubled before + My wife having a mind to see the play "Bartholomew-Fayre" + My wife, coming up suddenly, did find me embracing the girl + Presbyterian style and the Independent are the best + Ridiculous nonsensical book set out by Will. 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Up and all the morning at the office busy, and after +dinner to the office again busy till about four, and then I abroad (my +wife being gone to Hales's about drawing her hand new in her picture) and +I to see Betty Michell, which I did, but su mari was dentro, and no +pleasure. So to the Fair, and there saw several sights; among others, +the mare that tells money, + + [This is not the first learned horse of which we read. Shakespeare, + "Love's Labour's Lost," act i., SC. 2, mentions "the dancing + horse,"' and the commentators have added many particulars of Banks's + bay horse.] + +and many things to admiration; and, among others, come to me, when she +was bid to go to him of the company that most loved a pretty wench in a +corner. And this did cost me 12d. to the horse, which I had flung him +before, and did give me occasion to baiser a mighty belle fille that was +in the house that was exceeding plain, but fort belle. At night going +home I went to my bookseller's in Duck Lane, and find her weeping in the +shop, so as ego could not have any discourse con her nor ask the reason, +so departed and took coach home, and taking coach was set on by a wench +that was naught, and would have gone along with me to her lodging in Shoe +Lane, but ego did donner her a shilling . . . and left her, and +home, where after supper, W. Batelier with us, we to bed. This day Mrs. +Martin come to see us, and dined with us. + + + +2nd. Fast-day for the burning of London, strictly observed. I at home +at the office all day, forenoon and afternoon, about the Victualler's +contract and other things, and at night home to supper, having had but a +cold dinner, Mr. Gibson with me; and this evening comes Mr. Hill to +discourse with me about Yeabsly and Lanyon's business, wherein they are +troubled, and I fear they have played the knave too far for me to help or +think fit to appear for them. So he gone, and after supper, to bed, +being troubled with a summons, though a kind one, from Mr. Jessop, to +attend the Commissioners of Accounts tomorrow. + + + +3rd. Up, and to the Office, where busy till it was time to go to the +Commissioners of Accounts, which I did about noon, and there was received +with all possible respect, their business being only to explain the +meaning of one of their late demands to us, which we had not answered in +our answer to them, and, this being done, I away with great content, my +mind being troubled before, and so to the Exchequer and several places, +calling on several businesses, and particularly my bookseller's, among +others, for "Hobbs's Leviathan," + + ["Leviathan: or the matter, forme and power of a Commonwealth + ecclesiasticall and civill," by Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, first + published in 1651. It was reprinted in 1680, with its old date. + Hobbes's complete works, English and Latin, were published by Sir + William Molesworth in sixteen volumes 8vo. between 1839 and 1845.] + +which is now mightily called for; and what was heretofore sold for 8s. I +now give 24s. for, at the second hand, and is sold for 30s., it being a +book the Bishops will not let be printed again, and so home to dinner, +and then to the office all the afternoon, and towards evening by water to +the Commissioners of the Treasury, and presently back again, and there +met a little with W. Pen and the rest about our Prize accounts, and so W. +Pen and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over +our new draft of the victualler's contract, and so broke up and home to +supper and to bed. + + + +4th. Up, and met at the Office all the morning; and at noon my wife, and +Deb., and Mercer, and W. Hewer and I to the Fair, and there, at the old +house, did eat a pig, and was pretty merry, but saw no sights, my wife +having a mind to see the play "Bartholomew-Fayre," with puppets. Which +we did, and it is an excellent play; the more I see it, the more I love +the wit of it; only the business of abusing the Puritans begins to grow +stale, and of no use, they being the people that, at last, will be found +the wisest. And here Knepp come to us, and sat with us, and thence took +coach in two coaches, and losing one another, my wife, and Knepp, and I +to Hercules Pillars, and there supped, and I did take from her mouth the +words and notes of her song of "the Larke," which pleases me mightily. +And so set her at home, and away we home, where our company come home +before us. This night Knepp tells us that there is a Spanish woman +lately come over, that pretends to sing as well as Mrs. Knight; both of +which I must endeavour to hear. So, after supper, to bed. + + + +5th. Up, and at the office all the morning. At noon home to dinner, and +to the office to work all the afternoon again till the evening, and then +by coach to Mr. Hales's new house, where, I find, he hath finished my +wife's hand, which is better than the other; and here I find Harris's +picture, done in his habit of "Henry the Fifth;" mighty like a player, +but I do not think the picture near so good as any yet he hath made for +me: however, it is pretty well, and thence through the fair home, but saw +nothing, it being late, and so home to my business at the office, and +thence to supper and to bed. + + + +6th (Lord's day). Up betimes, and got myself ready to go by water, and +about nine o'clock took boat with Henry Russell to Gravesend, coming +thither about one, where, at the Ship, I dined; and thither come to me +Mr. Hosier, whom I went to speak with, about several businesses of work +that he is doing, and I would have him do, of writing work, for me. And +I did go with him to his lodging, and there did see his wife, a pretty +tolerable woman, and do find him upon an extraordinary good work of +designing a method of keeping our Storekeeper's Accounts, in the Navy. +Here I should have met with Mr. Wilson, but he is sick, and could not +come from Chatham to me. So, having done with Hosier, I took boat again +the beginning of the flood, and come home by nine at night, with much +pleasure, it being a fine day. Going down I spent reading of the "Five +Sermons of Five Several Styles," worth comparing one with another: but I +do think, when all is done, that, contrary to the design of the book, the +Presbyterian style and the Independent are the best of the five sermons +to be preached in; this I do, by the best of my present judgment think, +and coming back I spent reading of a book of warrants of our office in +the first Dutch war, and do find that my letters and warrants and method +will be found another gate's--[?? D.W.]--business than this that the +world so much adores, and I am glad for my own sake to find it so. My +boy was with me, and read to me all day, and we sang a while together, +and so home to supper a little, and so to bed. + + + +7th. At the office all the morning, we met, and at noon dined at home, +and after dinner carried my wife and Deb. to Unthanke's, and I to White +Hall with Mr. Gibson, where the rest of our officers met us, and to the +Commissioners of the Treasury about the Victualling contract, but staid +not long, but thence, sending Gibson to my wife, I with Lord Brouncker +(who was this day in an unusual manner merry, I believe with drink), +J. Minnes, and W. Pen to Bartholomew-Fair; and there saw the dancing mare +again, which, to-day, I find to act much worse than the other day, she +forgetting many things, which her master beat her for, and was mightily +vexed; and then the dancing of the ropes, and also the little stage-play, +which is very ridiculous, and so home to the office with Lord Brouncker, +W. Pen, and myself (J. Minnes being gone home before not well), and so, +after a little talk together, I home to supper and to bed. + + + +8th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and to St. James's, there to talk a +little with Mr. Wren about the private business we are upon, in the +Office, where he tells me he finds that they all suspect me to be the +author of the great letter, which I value not, being satisfied that it is +the best thing I could ever do for myself; and so, after some discourse +of this kind more, I back to the Office, where all the morning; and after +dinner to it again, all the afternoon, and very late, and then home to +supper, where met W. Batelier and Betty Turner; and, after some talk with +them, and supper, we to bed. This day, I received so earnest an +invitation again from Roger Pepys, to come to Sturbridge-Fair [at +Cambridge] that I resolve to let my wife go, which she shall do the next +week, and so to bed. This day I received two letters from the Duke of +Richmond about his yacht, which is newly taken into the King's service, +and I am glad of it, hoping hereby to oblige him, and to have occasions +of seeing his noble Duchess, which I admire. + + + +9th. Up, and to the office, and thence to the Duke of Richmond's +lodgings by his desire, by letter, yesterday. I find him at his lodgings +in the little building in the bowling-green, at White Hall, that was +begun to be built by Captain Rolt. They are fine rooms. I did hope to +see his lady, the beautiful Mrs. Stuart, but she, I hear, is in the +country. His business was about his yacht, and he seems a mighty good- +natured man, and did presently write me a warrant for a doe from Cobham, +when the season comes, bucks season being past. I shall make much of +this acquaintance, that I may live to see his lady near. Thence to +Westminster, to Sir R. Longs Office: and, going, met Mr. George Montagu, +who talked and complimented me mightily; and long discourse I had with +him, who, for news, tells me for certain that Trevor do come to be +Secretary at Michaelmas, and that Morrice goes out, and he believes, +without any compensation. He tells me that now Buckingham does rule all; +and the other day, in the King's journey he is now on, at Bagshot, and +that way, he caused Prince Rupert's horses to be turned out of an inne, +and caused his own to be kept there, which the Prince complained of to +the King, and the Duke of York seconded the complaint; but the King did +over-rule it for Buckingham, by which there are high displeasures among +them; and Buckingham and Arlington rule all. Thence by water home and to +dinner, and after dinner by water again to White Hall, where Brouncker, +W. Pen, and I attended the Commissioners of the Treasury about the +victualling-contract, where high words between Sir Thomas Clifford and +us, and myself more particularly, who told him that something, that he +said was told him about this business, was a flat untruth. However, we +went on to our business in, the examination of the draught, and so +parted, and I vexed at what happened, and Brouncker and W. Pen and I home +in a hackney coach. And I all that night so vexed that I did not sleep +almost all night, which shows how unfit I am for trouble. So, after a +little supper, vexed, and spending a little time melancholy in making a +base to the Lark's song, I to bed. + + + +10th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and there to Sir W. Coventry's +house, where I staid in his dining-room two hours thinking to speak with +him, but I find Garraway and he are private, which I am glad of, Captain +Cocke bringing them this day together. Cocke come out and talked to me, +but it was too late for me to stay longer, and therefore to the Treasury +chamber, where the rest met, and W. Coventry come presently after. And +we spent the morning in finishing the Victualler's contract, and so I by +water home, and there dined with me Batelier and his wife, and Mercer, +and my people, at a good venison-pasty; and after dinner I and W. Howe, +who come to see me, by water to the Temple, and met our four women, my +wife, M. Batelier, Mercer, and Deb., at the Duke's play-house, and there +saw "The Maid in the Mill," revived--a pretty, harmless old play. Thence +to Unthanke's, and 'Change, where wife did a little business, while +Mercer and I staid in the coach; and, in a quarter of an hour, I taught +her the whole Larke's song perfectly, so excellent an eare she hath. +Here we at Unthanke's 'light, and walked them to White Hall, my wife +mighty angry at it, and did give me ill words before Batelier, which +vexed me, but I made no matter of it, but vexed to myself. So landed +them, it being fine moonshine, at the Bear, and so took water to the +other side, and home. I to the office, where a child is laid at Sir J. +Minnes's door, as there was one heretofore. So being good friends again, +my wife seeking, it, by my being silent I overcoming her, we to bed. + + + +11th. Up, and at my Office all the morning, and after dinner all the +afternoon in my house with Batelier shut up, drawing up my defence to the +Duke of York upon his great letter, which I have industriously taken this +opportunity of doing for my future use. At it late, and my mind and head +mighty full of it all night. + + + +12th. At it again in the morning, and then to the Office, where till +noon, and I do see great whispering among my brethren about their replies +to the Duke of York, which vexed me, though I know no reason for it; for +I have no manner of ground to fear them. At noon home to dinner, and, +after dinner, to work all the afternoon again. At home late, and so to +bed. + + + +13th (Lord's day). The like all this morning and afternoon, and finished +it to my mind. So about four o'clock walked to the Temple, and there by +coach to St. James's, and met, to my wish, the Duke of York and Mr. Wren; +and understand the Duke of York hath received answers from Brouncker, +W. Pen, and J. Minnes; and as soon as he saw me, he bid Mr. Wren read +them over with me. So having no opportunity of talk with the Duke of +York, and Mr. Wren some business to do, he put them into my hands like an +idle companion, to, take home with me before himself had read them, which +do give me great opportunity of altering my answer, if there was cause. +So took a hackney and home, and after supper made my wife to read them +all over, wherein she is mighty useful to me; and I find them all +evasions, and in many things false, and in few, to the full purpose. +Little said reflective on me, though W. Pen and J. Minnes do mean me in +one or two places, and J. Minnes a little more plainly would lead the +Duke of York to question the exactness of my keeping my records; but all +to no purpose. My mind is mightily pleased by this, if I can but get +time to have a copy taken of them, for my future use; but I must return +them tomorrow. So to bed. + + + +14th. Up betimes, and walked to the Temple, and stopped, viewing the +Exchange, and Paul's, and St. Fayth's, where strange how the very sight +of the stones falling from the top of the steeple do make me sea-sick! +But no hurt, I hear, hath yet happened in all this work of the steeple, +which is very much. So from the Temple I by coach to St. James's, where +I find Sir W. Pen and Lord Anglesey, who delivered this morning his +answer to the Duke of York, but I could not see it. But after being +above with the Duke of York, but said nothing, I down with Mr. Wren; +and he and I read all over that I had, and I expounded them to him, +and did so order it that I had them home with me, so that I shall, +to my heart's wish, be able to take a copy of them. After dinner, +I by water to, White Hall; and there, with the Cofferer and Sir Stephen +Fox, attended the Commissioners of the Treasury, about bettering our +fund; and are promised it speedily. Thence by water home, and so all the +afternoon and evening late busy at the office, and then home to supper, +and Mrs. Turner comes to see my wife before her journey to-morrow, but +she is in bed, and so sat talking to little purpose with me a great +while, and, she gone, I to bed. + + + +15th. Up mighty betimes, my wife and people, Mercer lying here all +night, by three o'clock, and I about five; and they before, and I after +them, to the coach in Bishopsgate Street, which was not ready to set out. +So took wife and Mercer and Deb. and W. Hewer (who are all to set out +this day for Cambridge, to cozen Roger Pepys's, to see Sturbridge Fayre); +and I shewed them the Exchange, which is very finely carried on, with +good dispatch. So walked back and saw them gone, there being only one +man in the coach besides them; and so home to the Office, where Mrs. +Daniel come and staid talking to little purpose with me to borrow money, +but I did not lend her any, having not opportunity para hater allo thing +mit her. + + [Again he brings in some German: here he has lost confidence + in his secret shorthand code: we also see French, Spanish, Italian + and Latin--he slips into these other languages when describing + activities or which he is not over-proud. D.W.] + +At the office all the morning, and at noon dined with my people at home, +and so to the office again a while, and so by water to the King's +playhouse, to see a new play, acted but yesterday, a translation out of +French by Dryden, called "The Ladys a la Mode:" so mean a thing as, when +they come to say it would be acted again to-morrow, both he that said it, +Beeson, and the pit fell a-laughing, there being this day not a quarter +of the pit full. Thence to St. James's and White Hall to wait on the +Duke of York, but could not come to speak to him till time to go home, +and so by water home, and there late at the office and my chamber busy, +and so after a little supper to bed. + + + +16th. Up; and dressing myself I did begin para toker the breasts of my +maid Jane, which elle did give way to more than usual heretofore, +so I have a design to try more when I can bring it to. So to the office, +and thence to St. James's to the Duke of York, walking it to the Temple, +and in my way observe that the Stockes are now pulled quite down; +and it will make the coming into Cornhill and Lumber Street mighty noble. +I stopped, too, at Paul's, and there did go into St. Fayth's Church, +and also in the body of the west part of the Church; and do see a hideous +sight of the walls of the Church ready to fall, that I was in fear as +long as I was in it: and here I saw the great vaults underneath the body +of the Church. No hurt, I hear, is done yet, since their going to pull +down the Church and steeple; but one man, on Monday this week, fell from +the top to a piece of the roof, of the east end, that stands next the +steeple, and there broke himself all to pieces. It is pretty here to see +how the late Church was but a case wrought over the old Church; for you +may see the very old pillars standing whole within the wall of this. +When I come to St. James's, I find the Duke of York gone with the King to +see the muster of the Guards in Hyde Park; and their Colonel, the Duke of +Monmouth, to take his command this day of the King's Life-Guard, by +surrender of my Lord Gerard. So I took a hackney-coach and saw it all: +and indeed it was mighty noble, and their firing mighty fine, and the +Duke of Monmouth in mighty rich clothes; but the well-ordering of the men +I understand not. Here, among a thousand coaches that were there, I saw +and spoke to Mrs. Pierce: and by and by Mr. Wren hunts me out, and gives +me my Lord Anglesey's answer to the Duke of York's letter, where, I +perceive, he do do what he can to hurt me, by bidding the Duke of York +call for my books: but this will do me all the right in the world, and +yet I am troubled at it. So away out of the Park, and home; and there +Mr. Gibson and I to dinner: and all the afternoon with him, writing over +anew, and a little altering, my answer to the Duke of York, which I have +not yet delivered, and so have the opportunity of doing it after seeing +all their answers, though this do give me occasion to alter very little. +This done, he to write it over, and I to the Office, where late, and then +home; and he had finished it; and then he to read to me the life of +Archbishop Laud, wrote by Dr. Heylin; which is a shrewd book, but that +which I believe will do the Bishops in general no great good, but hurt, +it pleads for so much Popish. So after supper to bed. This day my +father's letters tell me of the death of poor Fancy, in the country, big +with puppies, which troubles me, as being one of my oldest acquaintances +and servants. Also good Stankes is dead. + + + +17th. Up, and all the morning sitting at the office, where every body +grown mighty cautious in what they do, or omit to do, and at noon comes +Knepp, with design to dine with Lord Brouncker, but she being undressed, +and there being: much company, dined with me; and after dinner I out with +her, and carried her to the playhouse; and in the way did give her five +guineas as a fairing, I having given her nothing a great while, and her +coming hither sometimes having been matter of cost to her, and so I to +St. James's, but missed of the Duke of York, and so went back to the +King's playhouse, and saw "Rollo, Duke of Normandy," which, for old +acquaintance, pleased me pretty well, and so home and to my business,. +and to read again, and to bed. This evening Batelier comes to tell me +that he was going down to Cambridge to my company, to see the Fair, which +vexed me, and the more because I fear he do know that Knepp did dine with +me to-day.--[And that he might tell Mrs. Pepys.--B.] + + + +18th. Up, and to St. James's, and there took a turn or two in the Park; +and then up to the Duke of York, and there had opportunity of delivering +my answer to his late letter, which he did not read, but give to Mr. +Wren, as looking on it as a thing I needed not have done, but only that I +might not give occasion to the rest to suspect my communication with the +Duke of York against them. So now I am at rest in that matter, and shall +be more, when my copies are finished of their answers, which I am now +taking with all speed. Thence to my several booksellers and elsewhere, +about several errands, and so at noon home, and after dinner by coach to +White Hall, and thither comes the Duke of York to us, and by and by met +at the robe chamber upon our usual business, where the Duke of York I +find somewhat sour, and particularly angry with Lord Anglesey for his +not being there now, nor at other times so often as he should be with us. +So to the King's house, and saw a piece of "Henry the Fourth;" at the end +of the play, thinking to have gone abroad with Knepp, but it was too +late, and she to get her part against to-morrow, in "The Silent Woman," +and so I only set her at home, and away home myself, and there to read +again and sup with Gibson, and so to bed. + + + +19th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning busy, and so dined +with my people at home, and then to the King's playhouse, and there saw +"The Silent Woman;" the best comedy, I think, that ever was wrote; and +sitting by Shadwell the poet, he was big with admiration of it. Here was +my Lord Brouncker and W. Pen and their ladies in the box, being grown +mighty kind of a sudden; but, God knows, it will last but a little while, +I dare swear. Knepp did her part mighty well. And so home straight, and +to work, and particularly to my cozen Roger, who, W. Hewer and my wife +writes me, do use them with mighty plenty and noble entertainment: so +home to supper, and to bed. All the news now is, that Mr. Trevor is for +certain now to be Secretary, in Morrice's place, which the Duke of York +did himself tell me yesterday; and also that Parliament is to be +adjourned to the 1st of March, which do please me well, hoping thereby to +get my things in a little better order than I should have done; and the +less attendances at that end of the town in winter. So home to supper +and to bed. + + + +20th (Lord's day). Up, and to set some papers to rights in my chamber, +and the like in my office, and so to church, at our own church, and heard +but a dull sermon of one Dr. Hicks, who is a suitor to Mrs. Howell, the +widow of our turner of the Navy; thence home to dinner, staying till past +one o'clock for Harris, whom I invited, and to bring Shadwell the poet +with him; but they come not, and so a good dinner lost, through my own +folly. And so to dinner alone, having since church heard the boy read +over Dryden's Reply to Sir R. Howard's Answer, about his Essay of Poesy, +and a letter in answer to that; the last whereof is mighty silly, in +behalf of Howard. + + [The title of the letter is as follows: "A Letter from a Gentleman + to the Honourable Ed. Howard, Esq., occasioned by a Civiliz'd + Epistle of Mr. Dryden's before his Second Edition of his Indian + Emperour. In the Savoy, printed by Thomas Newcomb, 1668." The + "Civiliz'd Epistle" was a caustic attack on Sir Robert Howard; and + the Letter is signed, "Sir, your faithful and humble servant, R. + F."--i.e., Richard Flecknoe.] + +Thence walked forth and got a coach and to visit Mrs. Pierce, with whom, +and him, I staid a little while, and do hear how the Duchesse of Monmouth +is at this time in great trouble of the shortness of her lame leg, which +is likely to grow shorter and shorter, that she will never recover it. +Thence to St. Margaret's Church, thinking to have seen Betty Michell, but +she was not there. So back, and walked to Gray's Inn walks a while, but +little company; and so over the fields to Clerkenwell, to see whether I +could find that the fair Botelers do live there still, +I seeing Frances the other day in a coach with Cary Dillon, her old +servant, but know not where she lives. So walked home, and there walked +in the garden an hour, it being mighty pleasant weather, and so took my +Lady Pen and Mrs. Markham home with me and sent for Mrs. Turner, and by +and by comes Sir W. Pen and supped with me, a good supper, part of my +dinner to-day. They gone, Mrs. Turner staid an hour talking with me . . +. . So parted, and I to bed. + + + +21st. Up, and betimes Sir D. Gawden with me talking about the Victualling +business, which is now under dispute for a new contract, or whether it +shall be put into a Commission. He gone, comes Mr. Hill to talk with me +about Lanyon's business, and so being in haste I took him to the water +with me, and so to White Hall, and there left him, and I to Sir +W. Coventry, and shewed him my answer to the Duke of York's great letter, +which he likes well. We also discoursed about the Victualling business, +which he thinks there is a design to put into a way of Commission, but do +look upon all things to be managed with faction, and is grieved under it. +So to St. James's, and there the Duke of York did of his own accord come +to me, and tell me that he had read, and do like of, my answers to the +objections which he did give me the other day, about the Navy; and so did +W. Coventry too, who told me that the Duke of York had shown him them: So +to White Hall a little and the Chequer, and then by water home to dinner +with my people, where Tong was also this day with me, whom I shall employ +for a time, and so out again and by water to Somerset House, but when +come thither I turned back and to Southwarke-Fair, very dirty, and there +saw the puppet-show of Whittington, which was pretty to see; and how that +idle thing do work upon people that see it, and even myself too! And +thence to Jacob Hall's dancing on the ropes, where I saw such action as I +never saw before, and mightily worth seeing; and here took acquaintance +with a fellow that carried me to a tavern, whither come the musick of +this booth, and by and by Jacob Hall himself, with whom I had a mind to +speak, to hear whether he had ever any mischief by falls in his time. He +told me, "Yes, many; but never to the breaking of a limb:" he seems a +mighty strong man. So giving them a bottle or two of wine, I away with +Payne, the waterman. He, seeing me at the play, did get a link to light +me, and so light me to the Beare, where Bland, my waterman, waited for me +with gold and other things he kept for me, to the value of L40 and more, +which I had about me, for fear of my pockets being cut. So by link-light +through the bridge, it being mighty dark, but still weather, and so home, +where I find my draught of "The Resolution" come, finished, from Chatham; +but will cost me, one way or other, about L12 or L13, in the board, +frame, and garnishing, which is a little too much, but I will not be +beholden to the King's officers that do it. So to supper, and the boy to +read to me, and so to bed. This day I met Mr. Moore in the New Exchange, +and had much talk of my Lord's concernments. This day also come out +first the new five-pieces in gold, coined by the Guiny Company; and I did +get two pieces of Mr. Holder. + + [Guineas took their name from the gold brought from Guinea by the + African Company in 1663, who, as an encouragement to bring over gold + to be coined, were permitted by their charter from Charles II. to + have their stamp of an elephant upon the coin. When first coined + they were valued at 20s., but were worth 30s. in 1695. There were + likewise fivepound pieces, like the guinea, with the inscription + upon the rim.] + + + +22nd. Up, and to the Office, where sitting all the morning at noon, home +to dinner, with my people, and so to the Office again, where busy all the +afternoon, and in the evening spent my time walking in the dark, in the +garden, to favour my eyes, which I find nothing but ease to help. In the +garden there comes to me my Lady Pen and Mrs. Turner and Markham, and we +sat and talked together, and I carried them home, and there eat a bit of +something, and by and by comes Sir W. Pen, and eat with us, and mighty +merry-in appearance, at least, he being on all occasions glad to be at +friendship with me, though we hate one another, and know it on both +sides. They gone, Mrs. Turner and I to walk in the garden . . . . So +led her home, and I back to bed. This day Mr. Wren did give me, at the +Board, Commissioner Middleton's answer to the Duke of York's great +letter; so that now I have all of them. + +23rd. At my office busy all the morning. At noon comes Mr. Evelyn to +me, about some business with the Office, and there in discourse tells me +of his loss, to the value of F 500, which he hath met with, in a late +attempt of making of bricks + + [At the end of the year 1666 a Dutchman of the Prince of Orange's + party, named Kiviet, came over to England with proposals for + embanking the river from the Temple to the Tower with brick, + and was knighted by the king. He was introduced to Evelyn, whom he + persuaded to join with him in a great undertaking for the making of + bricks. On March 26th, 1667, the two went in search of brick-earth, + and in September articles were drawn up between them for the purpose + of proceeding in the manufacture. In April, 1668, Evelyn subscribed + 50,000 bricks for the building of a college for the Royal Society, + in addition to L50 given previously for the same purpose. No more + information on the subject is given in Evelyn's "Diary."] + +upon an adventure with others, by which he presumed to have got a great +deal of money: so that I see the most ingenious men may sometimes be +mistaken. So to the 'Change a little, and then home to dinner, and then +by water to White Hall, to attend the Commissioners of the Treasury with +Alderman Backewell, about L10,000 he is to lend us for Tangier, and then +up to a Committee of the Council, where was the Duke of York, and they +did give us, the Officers of the Navy, the proposals of the several +bidders for the victualling of the Navy, for us to give our answer to, +which is the best, and whether it be better to victual by commission or +contract, and to bring them our answer by Friday afternoon, which is a +great deal of work. So thence back with Sir J. Minnes home, and come +after us Sir W. Pen and Lord Brouncker, and we fell to the business, and +I late when they were gone to digest something of it, and so to supper +and to bed. + + + +24th. Up betimes and Sir D. Gawden with me, and I told him all, being +very desirous for the King's sake, as well as my own, that he may be kept +in it, and after consulting him I to the Office, where we met again and +spent most of the morning about this business, and no other, and so at +noon home to dinner, and then close with Mr. Gibson till night, drawing +up our answer, which I did the most part by seven at night, and so to +Lord Brouncker and the rest at his lodgings to read it, and they approved +of it. So back home to supper, and made my boy read to me awhile, and +then to bed. + + + +25th. Up, and Sir D. Gawden with me betimes to confer again about this +business, and he gone I all the morning finishing our answer, which I did +by noon, and so to dinner, and W. Batelier with me, who is lately come +from Impington, beyond which I perceive he went not, whatever his +pretence at first was; and so he tells me how well and merry all are +there, and how nobly used by my cozen. He gone, after dinner I to work +again, and Gibson having wrote our answer fair and got Brouncker and the +rest to sign it, I by coach to White Hall to the Committee of the +Council, which met late, and Brouncker and J. Minnes with me, and there +the Duke of York present (but not W. Coventry, who I perceive do wholly +avoid to have to do publickly in this business, being shy of appearing in +any Navy business, which I telling him the other day that I thought the +King might suffer by it, he told me that the occasion is now so small +that it cannot be fatal to the service, and for the present it is better +for him not to appear, saying that it may fare the worse for his +appearing in it as things are now governed), where our answer was read +and debated, and some hot words between the Duke of York and Sir T. +Clifford, the first for and the latter against Gawden, but the whole put +off to to-morrow's Council, for till the King goes out of town the next +week the Council sits every day. So with the Duke of York and some +others to his closet, and Alderman Backewell about a Committee of +Tangier, and there did agree upon a price for pieces of eight at 4s. 6d. +Present the Duke of York, Arlington, Berkeley, Sir J. Minnes, and myself. +They gone, the Duke of York did tell me how hot Clifford is for Child, +and for removing of old Officers, he saying plainly to-night, that though +D. Gawden was a man that had done the best service that he believed any +man, or any ten men, could have done, yet that it was for the King's +interest not to let it lie too long in one hand, lest nobody should be +able to serve him but one. But the Duke of York did openly tell him that +he was not for removing of old servants that have done well, neither in +this place, nor in any other place, which is very nobly said. It being +7 or 8 at night, I home with Backewell by coach, and so walked to +D. Gawden's, but he not at home, and so back to my chamber, the boy +to read to me, and so to supper and to bed. + + + +26th. Could sleep but little last night, for my concernments in this +business of the victualling for Sir D. Gawden, so up in the morning and +he comes to me, and there I did tell him all, and give him my advice, and +so he away, and I to the office, where we met and did a little business, +and I left them and by water to attend the Council, which I did all the +morning, but was not called in, but the Council meets again in the +afternoon on purpose about it. So I at noon to Westminster Hall and +there stayed a little, and at the Swan also, thinking to have got Doll +Lane thither, but elle did not understand my signs; and so I away and +walked to Charing Cross, and there into the great new Ordinary, by my +Lord Mulgrave's, being led thither by Mr. Beale, one of Oliver's, and now +of the King's Guards; and he sat with me while I had two grilled pigeons, +very handsome and good meat: and there he and I talked of our old +acquaintances, W. Clerke and others, he being a very civil man, and so +walked to Westminster and there parted, and I to the Swan again, but did +nothing, and so to White Hall, and there attended the King and Council, +who met and heard our answer. I present, and then withdrew; and they +sent two hours at least afterwards about it, and at last rose; and to my +great content, the Duke of York, at coming out, told me that it was +carried for D. Gawden at 6d. 8d., and 8 3/4d.; but with great difficulty, +I understand, both from him and others, so much that Sir Edward Walker +told me that he prays to God he may never live to need to plead his +merit, for D. Gawden's sake; for that it hath stood him in no stead in +this business at all, though both he and all the world that speaks of +him, speaks of him as the most deserving man of any servant of the King's +in the whole nation, and so I think he is: but it is done, and my heart +is glad at it. So I took coach and away, and in Holborne overtook +D. Gawden's coach, and stopped and went home, and Gibson to come after, +and to my house, where D. Gawden did talk a little, and he do mightily +acknowledge my kindness to him, and I know I have done the King and +myself good service in it. So he gone, and myself in mighty great +content in what is done, I to the office a little, and then home to +supper, and the boy to read to me, and so to bed. This noon I went to +my Lady Peterborough's house, and talked with her about the money due to +her Lord, and it gives me great trouble, her importunity and impertinency +about it. This afternoon at Court I met with Lord Hinchingbroke, newly +come out of the country, who tells me that Creed's business with Mrs. +Pickering will do, which I am neither troubled nor glad at. + + + +27th (Lord's day). Up, and to my office to finish my journall for five +days past, and so abroad and walked to White Hall, calling in at Somerset +House Chapel, and also at the Spanish Embassador's at York House, and +there did hear a little masse: and so to White Hall; and there the King +being gone to Chapel, I to walk all the morning in the Park, where I met +Mr. Wren; and he and I walked together in the Pell-Mell, it being most +summer weather that ever was seen: and here talking of several things: +of the corruption of the Court, and how unfit it is for ingenious men, +and himself particularly, to live in it, where a man cannot live but he +must spend, and cannot get suitably, without breach of his honour: and +did thereupon tell me of the basest thing of my Lord Barkeley, one of the +basest things that ever was heard of of a man, which was this: how the +Duke of York's Commissioners do let his wine-licenses at a bad rate, and +being offered a better, they did persuade the Duke of York to give some +satisfaction to the former to quit it, and let it to the latter, which +being done, my Lord Barkeley did make the bargain for the former to have +L1500 a-year to quit it; whereof, since, it is come to light that they +were to have but L800 and himself L700, which the Duke of York hath ever +since for some years paid, though this second bargain hath been broken, +and the Duke of York lost by it, [half] of what the first was. He told +me that there hath been a seeming accommodation between the Duke of York +and the Duke of Buckingham and Lord Arlington, the two latter desiring +it; but yet that there is not true agreement between them, but they do +labour to bring in all new creatures into play, and the Duke of York do +oppose it, as particularly in this of Sir D. Gawden. Thence, he gone, I +to the Queen's Chapel, and there heard some good singing; and so to White +Hall, and saw the King and Queen at dinner and thence with Sir Stephen +Fox to dinner: and the Cofferer with us; and there mighty kind usage, and +good discourse. Thence spent all the afternoon walking in the Park, and +then in the evening at Court, on the Queen's side; and there met Mr. +Godolphin, who tells me that the news, is true we heard yesterday, of my +Lord Sandwich's being come to Mount's Bay, in Cornwall, and so I heard +this afternoon at Mrs. Pierce's, whom I went to make a short visit to. +This night, in the Queen's drawing-room, my Lord Brouncker told me the +difference that is now between the three Embassadors here, the Venetian, +French, and Spaniard; the third not being willing to make a visit to the +first, because he would not receive him at the door; who is willing to +give him as much respect as he did to the French, who was used no +otherwise, and who refuses now to take more of him, upon being desired +thereto, in order to the making an accommodation in this matter, which is +very pretty. So a boat staying for me all this evening, I home in the +dark about eight at night, and so over the ruins from the Old Swan home +with great trouble, and so to hear my boy read a little, and supper and +to bed. This evening I found at home Pelling and Wallington and one +Aldrige, and we supped and sung. + + + +28th. Up betimes, and Knepp's maid comes to me, to tell me that the +women's day at the playhouse is to-day, and that therefore I must be +there, to encrease their profit. I did give the pretty maid Betty that +comes to me half-a-crown for coming, and had a baiser or two-elle being +mighty jolie. And so I about my business. By water to St. James's, and +there had good opportunity of speaking with the Duke of York, who desires +me again, talking on that matter, to prepare something for him to do for +the better managing of our Office, telling me that, my Lord Keeper and he +talking about it yesterday, my Lord Keeper did advise him to do so, +it being better to come from him than otherwise, which I have promised +to do. Thence to my Lord Burlington's houses the first time I ever was +there, it being the house built by Sir John Denham, next to Clarendon +House; and here I visited my Lord Hinchingbroke and his lady; Mr. Sidney +Montagu being come last night to town unexpectedly from Mount's Bay, +where he left my Lord well, eight days since, so as we may now hourly +expect to hear of his arrival at Portsmouth. Sidney is mighty grown; +and I am glad I am here to see him at his first coming, though it cost +me dear, for here I come to be necessitated to supply them with L500 for +my Lord. He sent him up with a declaration to his friends, of the +necessity of his being presently supplied with L2000; but I do not think +he will get one. However, I think it becomes my duty to my Lord to do +something extraordinary in this, and the rather because I have been +remiss in writing to him during this voyage, more than ever I did in my +life, and more indeed than was fit for me. By and by comes Sir W. +Godolphin to see Mr. Sidney, who, I perceive, is much dissatisfied that +he should come to town last night, and not yet be with my Lord Arlington, +who, and all the town, hear of his being come to town, and he did, it +seems, take notice of it to Godolphin this morning: so that I perceive +this remissness in affairs do continue in my Lord's managements still, +which I am sorry for; but, above all, to see in what a condition my Lord +is for money, that I dare swear he do not know where to take up L500 of +any man in England at this time, upon his word, but of myself, as I +believe by the sequel hereof it will appear. Here I first saw and +saluted my Lady Burlington, a very fine-speaking lady, and a good woman, +but old, and not handsome; but a brave woman in her parts. Here my Lady +Hinchingbroke tells me that she hath bought most of the wedding-clothes +for Mrs. Dickering, so that the thing is gone through, and will soon be +ended; which I wonder at, but let them do as they will. Here I also, +standing by a candle that was brought for sealing of a letter, do set my +periwigg a-fire, which made such an odd noise, nobody could tell what it +was till they saw the flame, my back being to the candle. Thence to +Westminster Hall and there walked a little, and to the Exchequer, and so +home by water, and after eating a bit I to my vintner's, and there did +only look upon su wife, which is mighty handsome; and so to my glove and +ribbon shop, in Fenchurch Street, and did the like there. And there, +stopping against the door of the shop, saw Mrs. Horsfall, now a late +widow, in a coach. I to her, and shook her by the hand, and so she away; +and I by coach towards the King's playhouse, and meeting W. Howe took him +with me, and there saw "The City Match;" not acted these thirty years, +and but a silly play: the King and Court there; the house, for the +women's sake, mighty full. So I to White Hall, and there all the evening +on the Queen's side; and it being a most summerlike day, and a fine warm +evening, the Italians come in a barge under the leads, before the Queen's +drawing-room; and so the Queen and ladies went out, and heard them, for +almost an hour: and it was indeed very good together; but yet there was +but one voice that alone did appear considerable, and that was Seignor +Joanni. This done, by and by they went in; and here I saw Mr. Sidney +Montagu kiss the Queen's hand, who was mighty kind to him, and the ladies +looked mightily on him; and the King come by and by, and did talk to him. +So I away by coach with Alderman Backewell home, who is mighty kind to +me, more than ordinary, in his expressions. But I do hear this day what +troubles me, that Sir W. Coventry is quite out of play, the King seldom +speaking to him; and that there is a design of making a Lord Treasurer, +and that my Lord Arlington shall be the man; but I cannot believe it. +But yet the Duke of Buckingham hath it in his mind, and those with him, +to make a thorough alteration in things; and, among the rest, Coventry to +be out. The Duke of York did this day tell me how hot the whole party +was in the business of Gawden; and particularly, my Lord Anglesey tells +me, the Duke of Buckingham, for Child against Gawden; but the Duke of +York did stand stoutly to it. So home to read and sup, and to bed. + + + +29th (Tuesday, Michaelmas day). Up, and to the Office, where all the +morning. + + + + + + + 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. + OCTOBER + 1668 + + + [In this part of the "Diary" no entry occurs for thirteen days, + though there are several pages left blank. During the interval + Pepys went into the country, as he subsequently mentions his having + been at Saxham, in Suffolk, during the king's visit to Lord Crofts, + which took place at this time (see October 23rd, host). He might + also probably have gone to Impington to fetch his wife. The pages + left blank were never filled up.--B.] + + + +October 11th (Lord's day'). Up and to church, where I find Parson Mills +come to town and preached, and the church full, most people being now +come home to town, though the season of year is as good as summer in all +respects. At noon dined at home with my wife, all alone, and busy all +the afternoon in my closet, making up some papers with W. Hewer and at +night comes Mr. Turner and his wife, and there they tell me that Mr. +Harper is dead at Deptford, and so now all his and my care is, how to +secure his being Storekeeper in his stead; and here they and their +daughter, and a kinswoman that come along with them, did sup with me, and +pretty merry, and then, they gone, and my wife to read to me, and to bed. + + + +12th. Up, and with Mr. Turner by water to White Hall, there to think to +enquire when the Duke of York will be in town, in order to Mr. Turner's +going down to Audley Ends about his place; and here I met in St. James's +Park with one that told us that the Duke of York would be in town +to-morrow, and so Turner parted and went home, and I also did stop my +intentions of going to the Court, also this day, about securing Mr. +Turner's place of Petty-purveyor to Mr. Hater. So I to my Lord +Brouncker's, thinking to have gone and spoke to him about it, but he is +gone out to town till night, and so, meeting a gentleman of my Lord +Middleton's looking for me about the payment of the L1000 lately ordered +to his Lord, in advance of his pay, which shall arise upon his going +Governor to Tangier, I did go to his Lord's lodgings, and there spoke the +first time with him, and find him a shrewd man, but a drinking man, I +think, as the world says; but a man that hath seen much of the world, and +is a Scot. I offered him my service, though I can do him little; but he +sends his man home with me, where I made him stay, till I had gone to Sir +W. Pen, to bespeak him about Mr. Hater, who, contrary to my fears, did +appear very friendly, to my great content; for I was afraid of his +appearing for his man Burroughs. But he did not; but did declare to me +afterwards his intentions to desire an excuse in his own business, to be +eased of the business of the Comptroller, his health not giving him power +to stay always in town, but he must go into the country. I did say +little to him but compliment, having no leisure to think of his business, +or any man's but my own, and so away and home, where I find Sir H. +Cholmly come to town; and is come hither to see me: and he is a man that +I love mightily, as being, of a gentleman, the most industrious that ever +I saw. He staid with me awhile talking, and telling me his obligations +to my Lord Sandwich, which I was glad of; and that the Duke of Buckingham +is now chief of all men in this kingdom, which I knew before; and that he +do think the Parliament will hardly ever meet again; which is a great +many men's thoughts, and I shall not be sorry for it. He being gone, I +with my Lord Middleton's servant to Mr. Colvill's, but he was not in +town, and so he parted, and I home, and there to dinner, and Mr. Pelling +with us; and thence my wife and Mercer, and W. Hewer and Deb., to the +King's playhouse, and I afterwards by water with them, and there we did +hear the Eunuch (who, it seems, is a Frenchman, but long bred in Italy) +sing, which I seemed to take as new to me, though I saw him on Saturday +last, but said nothing of it; but such action and singing I could never +have imagined to have heard, and do make good whatever Tom Hill used to +tell me. Here we met with Mr. Batelier and his sister, and so they home +with us in two coaches, and there at my house staid and supped, and this +night my bookseller Shrewsbury comes, and brings my books of Martyrs, and +I did pay him for them, and did this night make the young women before +supper to open all the volumes for me. So to supper, and after supper to +read a ridiculous nonsensical book set out by Will. Pen, for the Quakers; +but so full of nothing but nonsense, that I was ashamed to read in it. +So they gone, we to bed. + + [Penn's first work, entitled, "Truth exalted, in a short but sure + testimony against all those religions, faiths, and worships, that + have been formed and followed, in the darkness of apostacy; and for + that glorious light which is now risen, and shines forth, in the + life and doctrine of the despised Quakers . . . . by W. Penn, + whom divine love constrains, in holy contempt, to trample on Egypt's + glory, not fearing the King's wrath, having beheld the Majesty of + Him who is invisible:" London, 1668.--B.] + + + +13th. Up, and to the office, and before the office did speak with my +Lord Brouncker, and there did get his ready assent to T. Hater's having +of Mr. Turner's place, and so Sir J. Minnes's also: but when we come to +sit down at the Board, comes to us Mr. Wren this day to town, and tells +me that James Southern do petition the Duke of York for the Storekeeper's +place of Deptford, which did trouble me much, and also the Board, though, +upon discourse, after he was gone, we did resolve to move hard for our +Clerks, and that places of preferment may go according to seniority and +merit. So, the Board up, I home with my people to dinner, and so to the +office again, and there, after doing some business, I with Mr. Turner to +the Duke of Albemarle's at night; and there did speak to him about his +appearing to Mr. Wren a friend to Mr. Turner, which he did take kindly +from me; and so away thence, well pleased with what we had now done, and +so I with him home, stopping at my Lord Brouncker's, and getting his hand +to a letter I wrote to the Duke of York for T. Hater, and also at my Lord +Middleton's, to give him an account of what I had done this day, with his +man, at Alderman Backewell's, about the getting of his L1000 paid; + + [It was probably for this payment that the tally was obtained, the + loss of which caused Pepys so much anxiety. See November 26th, + 1668] + +and here he did take occasion to discourse about the business of the +Dutch war, which, he says, he was always an enemy to; and did discourse +very well of it, I saying little, but pleased to hear him talk; and to +see how some men may by age come to know much, and yet by their drinking +and other pleasures render themselves not very considerable. I did this +day find by discourse with somebody, that this nobleman was the great +Major-General Middleton; that was of the Scots army, in the beginning of +the late war against the King. Thence home and to the office to finish +my letters, and so home and did get my wife to read to me, and then Deb +to comb my head . . . . + + + +14th. Up, and by water, stopping at Michell's, and there saw Betty, but +could have no discourse with her, but there drank. To White Hall, and +there walked to St. James's, where I find the Court mighty full, it being +the Duke or York's birthday; and he mighty fine, and all the musick, one +after another, to my great content. Here I met with Sir H. Cholmly; and +he and I to walk, and to my Lord Barkeley's new house; there to see a new +experiment of a cart, which; by having two little wheeles fastened to the +axle-tree, is said to make it go with half the ease and more, than +another cart but we did not see the trial made. Thence I home, and after +dinner to St. James's, and there met my brethren; but the Duke of York +being gone out, and to-night being a play there; and a great festival, we +would not stay, but went all of us to the King's playhouse, and there saw +"The Faythful Shepherdess" again, that we might hear the French Eunuch +sing, which we did, to our great content; though I do admire his action +as much as his singing, being both beyond all I ever saw or heard. +Thence with W. Pen home, and there to get my people to read, and to +supper, and so to bed. + + + +15th. Up, and all the morning at the office, and at home at dinner, +where, after dinner, my wife and I and Deb. out by coach to the +upholsters in Long Lane, Alderman Reeve's, and then to Alderman Crow's, +to see variety of hangings, and were mightily pleased therewith, and +spent the whole afternoon thereupon; and at last I think we shall pitch +upon the best suit of Apostles, where three pieces for my room will come +to almost L80: so home, and to my office, and then home to supper and to +bed. This day at the Board comes unexpected the warrants from the Duke +of York for Mr. Turner and Hater, for the places they desire, which +contents me mightily. + + + +16th. Up, and busy all the morning at the office, and before noon I took +my wife by coach, and Deb., and shewed her Mr. Wren's hangings and bed, +at St. James's, and Sir W. Coventry's in the Pell Mell, for our +satisfaction in what we are going to buy; and so by Mr. Crow's, home, +about his hangings, and do pitch upon buying his second suit of Apostles- +the whole suit, which comes to L83; and this we think the best for us, +having now the whole suit, to answer any other rooms or service. So home +to dinner, and with Mr. Hater by water to St. James's: there Mr. Hater, +to give Mr. Wren thanks for his kindness about his place that he hath +lately granted him, of Petty Purveyor of petty emptions, upon the removal +of Mr. Turner to be Storekeeper at Deptford, on the death of Harper. +And then we all up to the Duke of York, and there did our usual business, +and so I with J. Minnes home, and there finding my wife gone to my aunt +Wight's, to see her the first time after her coming to town, and indeed +the first time, I think, these two years (we having been great strangers +one to the other for a great while), I to them; and there mighty kindly +used, and had a barrel of oysters, and so to look up and down their +house, they having hung a room since I was there, but with hangings not +fit to be seen with mine, which I find all come home to-night, and here +staying an hour or two we home, and there to supper and to bed. + + + +17th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning sitting, and at noon +home to dinner, and to the office all the afternoon, and then late home, +and there with much pleasure getting Mr. Gibbs, that writes well, to +write the name upon my new draught of "The Resolution;" and so set it up, +and altered the situation of some of my pictures in my closet, to my +extraordinary content, and at it with much pleasure till almost 12 at +night. Mr. Moore and Seymour were with me this afternoon, who tell me +that my Lord Sandwich was received mighty kindly by the King, and is in +exceeding great esteem with him, and the rest about him; but I doubt it +will be hard for him to please both the King and the Duke of York, which +I shall be sorry for. Mr. Moore tells me the sad condition my Lord is +in, in his estate and debts; and the way he now lives in, so high, and so +many vain servants about him, that he must be ruined, if he do not take +up, which, by the grace of God, I will put him upon, when I come to see +him. + + + +18th (Lord's day). Up, and with my boy Tom all the morning altering the +places of my pictures with great pleasure, and at noon to dinner, and +then comes Mr. Shales to see me, and I with him to recommend him to my +Lord Brouncker's service, which I did at Madam Williams's, and my Lord +receives him. Thence with Brouncker to Lincolne's Inn, and Mr. Ball, to +visit Dr. Wilkins, now newly Bishop of Chester: and he received us mighty +kindly; and had most excellent discourse from him about his Book of Reall +Character: and so I with Lord Brouncker to White Hall, and there saw the +Queen and some ladies, and with Lord Brouncker back, it again being a +rainy evening, and so my Lord forced to lend me his coach till I got a +hackney, which I did, and so home and to supper, and got my wife to read +to me, and so to bed. + + + +19th. Up, and to my office to set down my Journall for some days past, +and so to other business. At the office all the morning upon some +business of Sir W. Warren's, and at noon home to dinner, and thence out +by coach with my wife and Deb. and Mr. Harman, the upholster, and carried +them to take measure of Mr. Wren's bed at St. James's, I being resolved +to have just such another made me, and thence set him down in the Strand, +and my wife and I to the Duke of York's playhouse; and there saw, +the first time acted, "The Queene of Arragon," an old Blackfriars play, +but an admirable one, so good that I am astonished at it, and wonder +where it hath lain asleep all this while, that I have never heard of it +before. Here met W. Batelier and Mrs. Hunt, Deb.'s aunt; and saw her +home--a very witty woman, and one that knows this play, and understands +a play mighty well. Left her at home in Jewen Street, and we home, +and to supper, and my wife to read to me, and so to bed. + + + +20th. Up, and to the office all the morning, and then home to dinner, +having this day a new girl come to us in the room of Nell, who is lately, +about four days since, gone away, being grown lazy and proud. This girl +to stay only till we have a boy, which I intend to keep when I have a +coach, which I am now about. At this time my wife and I mighty busy +laying out money in dressing up our best chamber, and thinking of a coach +and coachman and horses, &c.; and the more because of Creed's being now +married to Mrs. Pickering; a thing I could never have expected, but it +is done about seven or ten days since, as I hear out of the country. +At noon home to dinner, and my wife and Harman and girl abroad to buy +things, and I walked out to several places to pay debts, and among other +things to look out for a coach, and saw many; and did light on one for +which I bid L50, which do please me mightily, and I believe I shall have +it. So to my tailor's, and the New Exchange, and so by coach home, and +there, having this day bought "The Queene of Arragon" play, I did get my +wife and W. Batelier to read it over this night by 11 o'clock, and so to +bed. + + + +21st. Lay pretty long talking with content with my wife about our coach +and things, and so to the office, where Sir D. Gawden was to do something +in his accounts. At noon to dinner to Mr. Batelier's, his mother coming +this day a-housewarming to him, and several friends of his, to which he +invited us. Here mighty merry, and his mother the same; I heretofore +took her for a gentlewoman, and understanding. I rose from table before +the rest, because under an obligation to go to my Lord Brouncker's, where +to meet several gentlemen of the Royal Society, to go and make a visit to +the French Embassador Colbert, at Leicester House, he having endeavoured +to make one or two to my Lord Brouncker, as our President, but he was not +within, but I come too late, they being gone before: but I followed to +Leicester House; but they are gore in and up before me; and so I away to +the New Exchange, and there staid for my wife, and she come, we to Cow +Lane, and there I shewed her the coach which I pitch on, and she is out +of herself for joy almost. But the man not within, so did nothing more +towards an agreement, but to Mr. Crow's about a bed, to have his advice, +and so home, and there had my wife to read to me, and so to supper and to +bed. Memorandum: that from Crow's, we went back to Charing Cross, and +there left my people at their tailor's, while I to my Lord Sandwich's +lodgings, who come to town the last night, and is come thither to lye: +and met with him within: and among others my new cozen Creed, who looks +mighty soberly; and he and I saluted one another with mighty gravity, +till we come to a little more freedom of talk about it. But here I hear +that Sir Gilbert Pickering is lately dead, about three days since, which +makes some sorrow there, though not much, because of his being long +expected to die, having been in a lethargy long. So waited on my Lord to +Court, and there staid and saw the ladies awhile: and thence to my wife, +and took them up; and so home, and to supper and bed. + + + +22nd. Up, and W. Batelier's Frenchman, a perriwigg maker, comes and +brings me a new one, which I liked and paid him for: a mighty genteel +fellow. So to the office, where sat all the morning, and at noon home to +dinner, and thence with wife and Deb. to Crow's, and there did see some +more beds; and we shall, I think, pitch upon a camlott one, when all is +done. Thence sent them home, and I to Arundell House, where the first +time we have met since the vacation, and not much company: but here much +good discourse, and afterwards my Lord and others and I to the Devil +tavern, and there eat and drank, and so late, with Mr. Colwell, home by +coach; and at home took him with me, and there found my uncle Wight and +aunt, and Woolly and his wife, and there supped, and mighty merry. And +anon they gone, and Mrs. Turner staid, who was there also to talk of her +husband's business; and the truth is, I was the less pleased to talk with +her, for that she hath not yet owned, in any fit manner of thanks, my +late and principal service to her husband about his place, which I alone +ought to have the thanks for, if they know as much as I do; but let it +go: if they do not own it, I shall have it in my hand to teach them to do +it. So to bed. This day word come for all the Principal Officers to +bring them [the Commissioners of Accounts] their patents, which I did in +the afternoon, by leaving it at their office, but am troubled at what +should be their design therein. + + + +23rd. Up, and plasterers at work and painters about my house. +Commissioner Middleton and I to St. James's, where with the rest of our +company we attended on our usual business the Duke of York. Thence I to +White Hall, to my Lord Sandwich's, where I find my Lord within, but busy, +private; and so I staid a little talking with the young gentlemen: and +so away with Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, towards Tyburne, to see the people +executed; but come too late, it being done; two men and a woman hanged, +and so back again and to my coachmaker's, and there did come a little +nearer agreement for the coach, and so to Duck Lane, and there my +bookseller's, and saw his moher, but elle is so big-bellied that elle +is not worth seeing. So home, and there all alone to dinner, my wife and +W. Hewer being gone to Deptford to see her mother, and so I to the office +all the afternoon. In the afternoon comes my cozen, Sidney Pickering, +to bring my wife and me his sister's Favour for her wedding, which is +kindly done, and he gone, I to business again, and in the evening home, +made my wife read till supper time, and so to bed. This day Pierce do +tell me, among other news, the late frolick and debauchery of Sir Charles +Sidly and Buckhurst, running up and down all the night with their arses +bare, through the streets; and at last fighting, and being beat by the +watch and clapped up all night; and how the King takes their parts; and +my Lord Chief Justice Keeling hath laid the constable by the heels to +answer it next Sessions: which is a horrid shame. How the King and these +gentlemen did make the fiddlers of Thetford, this last progress, to sing +them all the bawdy songs they could think of. How Sir W. Coventry was +brought the other day to the Duchesse of York by the Duke, to kiss her +hand; who did acknowledge his unhappiness to occasion her so much sorrow, +declaring his intentions in it, and praying her pardon; which she did +give him upon his promise to make good his pretences of innocence to her +family, by his faithfulness to his master, the Duke of York. That the +Duke of Buckingham is now all in all, and will ruin Coventry, if he can: +and that W. Coventry do now rest wholly upon the Duke of York for his +standing, which is a great turn. He tells me that my Lady Castlemayne, +however, is a mortal enemy to the Duke of Buckingham, which I understand +not; but, it seems, she is disgusted with his greatness, and his ill +usage of her. That the King was drunk at Saxam with Sidly, Buckhurst, +&c., the night that my Lord Arlington come thither, and would not give +him audience, or could not which is true, for it was the night that I was +there, and saw the King go up to his chamber, and was told that the King +had been drinking. He tells me, too, that the Duke of York did the next +day chide Bab. May for his occasioning the King's giving himself up to +these gentlemen, to the neglecting of my Lord Arlington: to which he +answered merrily, that, by God, there was no man in England that had +heads to lose, durst do what they do, every day, with the King, and asked +the Duke of York's pardon: which is a sign of a mad world. God bless us +out of it! + + + +24th. This morning comes to me the coachmaker, and agreed with me for +L53, and stand to the courtesy of what more I should give him upon the +finishing of the coach: he is likely also to fit me with a coachman. +There comes also to me Mr. Shotgrave, the operator of our Royal Society, +to show me his method of making the Tubes for the eyes, which are +clouterly done, so that mine are better, but I have well informed myself +in several things from him, and so am glad of speaking with him. So to +the office, where all the morning, and then to dinner, and so all the +afternoon late at the office, and so home; and my wife to read to me, and +then with much content to bed. This day Lord Brouncker tells me that the +making Sir J. Minnes a bare Commissioner is now in doing, which I am glad +of; but he speaks of two new Commissioners, which I do not believe. + + + +25th (Lord's day). Up, and discoursing with my wife about our house and +many new things we are doing of, and so to church I, and there find Jack +Fenn come, and his wife, a pretty black woman: I never saw her before, +nor took notice of her now. So home and to dinner, and after dinner all +the afternoon got my wife and boy to read to me, and at night W. Batelier +comes and sups with us; and, after supper, to have my head combed by +Deb., which occasioned the greatest sorrow to me that ever I knew in this +world, for my wife, coming up suddenly, did find me embracing the girl . +. . . . I was at a wonderful loss upon it, and the girle also, and I +endeavoured to put it off, but my wife was struck mute and grew angry, +and so her voice come to her, grew quite out of order, and I to say +little, but to bed, and my wife said little also, but could not sleep all +night, but about two in the morning waked me and cried, and fell to tell +me as a great secret that she was a Roman Catholique and had received the +Holy Sacrament, which troubled me, but I took no notice of it, but she +went on from one thing to another till at last it appeared plainly her +trouble was at what she saw, but yet I did not know how much she saw, and +therefore said nothing to her. But after her much crying and reproaching +me with inconstancy and preferring a sorry girl before her, I did give +her no provocation, but did promise all fair usage to her and love, and +foreswore any hurt that I did with her, till at last she seemed to be at +ease again, and so toward morning a little sleep, and so I with some +little repose and rest + + + +26th. Rose, and up and by water to White Hall, but with my mind mightily +troubled for the poor girle, whom I fear I have undone by this, my [wife] +telling me that she would turn her out of doors. However, I was obliged +to attend the Duke of York, thinking to have had a meeting of Tangier +to-day, but had not; but he did take me and Mr. Wren into his closet, and +there did press me to prepare what I had to say upon the answers of my +fellow-officers to his great letter, which I promised to do against his +coming to town again, the next week; and so to other discourse, finding +plainly that he is in trouble, and apprehensions of the Reformers, and +would be found to do what he can towards reforming, himself. And so +thence to my Lord Sandwich's, where, after long stay, he being in talk +with others privately, I to him; and there he, taking physic and keeping +his chamber, I had an hour's talk with him about the ill posture of +things at this time, while the King gives countenance to Sir Charles +Sidly and Lord Buckhurst, telling him their late story of running up and +down the streets a little while since all night, and their being beaten +and clapped up all night by the constable, who is since chid and +imprisoned for his pains. He tells me that he thinks his matters do +stand well with the King, and hopes to have dispatch to his mind; but +I doubt it, and do see that he do fear it, too. He told me my Lady +Carteret's trouble about my writing of that letter of the Duke of York's +lately to the Office, which I did not own, but declared to be of no +injury to G. Carteret, and that I would write a letter to him to satisfy +him therein. But this I am in pain how to do, without doing myself +wrong, and the end I had, of preparing a justification to myself +hereafter, when the faults of the Navy come to be found out however, +I will do it in the best manner I can. Thence by coach home and to +dinner, finding my wife mightily discontented, and the girle sad, and no +words from my wife to her. So after dinner they out with me about two or +three things, and so home again, I all the evening busy, and my wife full +of trouble in her looks, and anon to bed, where about midnight she wakes +me, and there falls foul of me again, affirming that she saw me hug and +kiss the girle; the latter I denied, and truly, the other I confessed and +no more, and upon her pressing me did offer to give her under my hand +that I would never see Mrs. Pierce more nor Knepp, but did promise her +particular demonstrations of my true love to her, owning some +indiscretions in what I did, but that there was no harm in it. She at +last upon these promises was quiet, and very kind we were, and so to +sleep, and + + + +27th. In the morning up, but my, mind troubled for the poor girle, with +whom I could not get opportunity to speak, but to the office, my mind +mighty full of sorrow for her, to the office, where all the morning, and +to dinner with my people, and to the office all the afternoon, and so at +night home, and there busy to get some things ready against to-morrow's +meeting of Tangier, and that being done, and my clerks gone, my wife did +towards bedtime begin to be in a mighty rage from some new matter that +she had got in her head, and did most part of the night in bed rant at me +in most high terms of threats of publishing my shame, and when I offered +to rise would have rose too, and caused a candle to be light to burn by +her all night in the chimney while she ranted, while the knowing myself +to have given some grounds for it, did make it my business to appease her +all I could possibly, and by good words and fair promises did make her +very quiet, and so rested all night, and rose with perfect good peace, +being heartily afflicted for this folly of mine that did occasion it, +but was forced to be silent about the girle, which I have no mind to part +with, but much less that the poor girle should be undone by my folly. +So up with mighty kindness from my wife and a thorough peace, and being +up did by a note advise the girle what I had done and owned, which note I +was in pain for till she told me she had burned it. This evening Mr. +Spong come, and sat late with me, and first told me of the instrument +called parallelogram, + + [This useful instrument, used for copying maps, plans, drawings, &c. + either of the same size, or larger or smaller than the originals, is + now named a pantograph.] + +which I must have one of, shewing me his practice thereon, by a map of +England. + + + +28th. So by coach with Mr. Gibson to Chancery Lane, and there made oath +before a Master of Chancery to the Tangier account of fees, and so to +White Hall, where, by and by, a Committee met, my Lord Sandwich there, +but his report was not received, it being late; but only a little +business done, about the supplying the place with victuals. But I did +get, to my great content, my account allowed of fees, with great applause +by my Lord Ashly and Sir W. Pen. Thence home, calling at one or two +places; and there about our workmen, who are at work upon my wife's +closet, and other parts of my house, that we are all in dirt. So after +dinner with Mr. Gibson all the afternoon in my closet, and at night to +supper and to bed, my wife and I at good peace, but yet with some little +grudgings of trouble in her and more in me about the poor girle. + + + +29th. At the office all the morning, where Mr. Wren first tells us of +the order from the King, came last night to the Duke of York, for +signifying his pleasure to the Sollicitor-General for drawing up a +Commission for suspending of my Lord Anglesey, and putting in Sir Thomas. +Littleton and Sir Thomas Osborne, the former a creature of Arlington's, +and the latter of the Duke of Buckingham's, during the suspension. +The Duke of York was forced to obey, and did grant it, he being to go +to Newmarket this day with the King, and so the King pressed for it. +But Mr. Wren do own that the Duke of York is the most wounded in this, +in the world, for it is done and concluded without his privity, after his +appearing for Lord Anglesey, and that it is plain that they do ayme to +bring the Admiralty into Commission too, and lessen the Duke of York. +This do put strange apprehensions into all our Board; only I think I am +the least troubled at it, for I care not at all for it: but my Lord +Brouncker and Pen do seem to think much of it. So home to dinner, full +of this news, and after dinner to the office, and so home all the +afternoon to do business towards my drawing up an account for the Duke of +York of the answers of this office to his late great letter, and late at +it, and so to bed, with great peace from my wife and quiet, I bless God. + + + +30th. Up betimes; and Mr. Povy comes to even accounts with me, which we +did, and then fell to other talk. He tells, in short, how the King is +made a child of, by Buckingham and Arlington, to the lessening of the +Duke of York, whom they cannot suffer to be great, for fear of my Lord +Chancellor's return, which, therefore, they make the King violent +against. That he believes it is impossible these two great men can hold +together long: or, at least, that the ambition of the former is so great, +that he will endeavour to master all, and bring into play as many as he +can. That Anglesey will not lose his place easily, but will contend in +law with whoever comes to execute it. That the Duke of York, in all +things but in his cod-piece, is led by the nose by his wife. That +W. Coventry is now, by the Duke of York, made friends with the Duchess; +and that he is often there, and waits on her. That he do believe that +these present great men will break in time, and that W. Coventry will be +a great man again; for he do labour to have nothing to do in matters of +the State, and is so usefull to the side that he is on, that he will +stand, though at present he is quite out of play. That my Lady +Castlemayne hates the Duke of Buckingham. That the Duke of York hath +expressed himself very kind to my Lord Sandwich, which I am mighty glad +of. That we are to expect more changes if these men stand. This done, +he and I to talk of my coach, and I got him to go see it, where he finds +most infinite fault with it, both as to being out of fashion and heavy, +with so good reason that I am mightily glad of his having corrected me in +it; and so I do resolve to have one of his build, and with his advice, +both in coach and horses, he being the fittest man in the world for it, +and so he carried me home, and said the same to my wife. So I to the +office and he away, and at noon I home to dinner, and all the afternoon +late with Gibson at my chamber about my present great business, only a +little in the afternoon at the office about Sir D. Gawden's accounts, and +so to bed and slept heartily, my wife and I at good peace, but my heart +troubled and her mind not at ease, I perceive, she against and I for the +girle, to whom I have not said anything these three days, but resolve to +be mighty strange in appearance to her. This night W. Batelier come and +took his leave of us, he setting out for France to-morrow. + + + +31st. Up, and at the office all the morning. At noon home to dinner +with my people, and afternoon to the office again, and then to my chamber +with Gibson to do more about my great answer for the Duke of York, and so +at night after supper to bed well pleased with my advance thereon. This +day my Lord Anglesey was at the Office, and do seem to make nothing of +this business of his suspension, resolving to bring it into the Council, +where he seems not to doubt to have right, he standing upon his defence +and patent, and hath put in his caveats to the several Offices: so, as +soon as the King comes back again, which will be on Tuesday next, he will +bring it into the Council. So ends this month with some quiet to my +mind, though not perfect, after the greatest falling out with my poor +wife, and through my folly with the girl, that ever I had, and I have +reason to be sorry and ashamed of it, and more to be troubled for the +poor girl's sake, whom I fear I shall by this means prove the ruin of, +though I shall think myself concerned both to love and be a friend to +her. This day Roger Pepys and his son Talbot, newly come to town, come +and dined with me, and mighty glad I am to see them. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +A book the Bishops will not let be printed again +All things to be managed with faction +Being the people that, at last, will be found the wisest +Business of abusing the Puritans begins to grow stale +Cannot get suitably, without breach of his honour +Caustic attack on Sir Robert Howard +Doe from Cobham, when the season comes, bucks season being past +Forgetting many things, which her master beat her for +Glad to be at friendship with me, though we hate one another +I away with great content, my mind being troubled before +My wife having a mind to see the play "Bartholomew-Fayre" +My wife, coming up suddenly, did find me embracing the girl +Presbyterian style and the Independent are the best +Ridiculous nonsensical book set out by Will. Pen, for the Quaker +Shows how unfit I am for trouble +Sir, your faithful and humble servant +The most ingenious men may sometimes be mistaken +Their ladies in the box, being grown mighty kind of a sudden +Vexed me, but I made no matter of it, but vexed to myself +With hangings not fit to be seen with mine + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v76 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + diff --git a/old/sp77g10.zip b/old/sp77g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..3ad9aa8 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp77g10.zip |